The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 1413 - These Naughty Taylor Swift Images Show The Real Problem

00:00:00.000 The establishment media outlets are collapsing.

00:00:03.180 Mass layoffs, bankruptcy, total humiliation.

00:00:07.400 But rather than rattle off some of the statistics myself,

00:00:11.060 I will allow a liberal Washington Post columnist to do it. 0.94

00:00:15.820 The entire journalism industry is basically in a free fall.

00:00:19.160 Today, the Los Angeles Times laid off 115 employees.

00:00:22.420 They wiped out their entire D.C. bureau in an election year.

00:00:25.780 They laid off pretty much all of their sports teams.

00:00:28.180 They killed their entire tech and business section.

00:00:30.640 They laid off breaking news writers, social media editors.

00:00:33.520 The list goes on.

00:00:34.660 But what's really dark is this is just the latest in months and months and months of layoffs in the media industry.

00:00:41.060 In fact, tens of thousands of journalists have been laid off in the past year.

00:00:45.660 Major media companies like BuzzFeed News have completely shuttered their news operations.

00:00:50.100 Time Magazine also just laid off a ton of people.

00:00:52.440 And, oh, Sports Illustrated basically shut down last week.

00:00:55.020 Pretty much the entire digital media ecosystem that myself and a lot of other millennial journalists came up in

00:01:00.420 has been completely hollowed out.

00:01:02.180 And it's not just digital media sites.

00:01:04.040 Local news has been obliterated.

00:01:06.020 The newspaper industry is cratering.

00:01:09.040 Cratering.

00:01:09.860 For reaction, we turn now to me when I first heard this news.

00:01:14.320 Zip-a-dee-doo-dah, zip-a-dee-yay.

00:01:19.620 My, oh, my, what a wonderful day.

00:01:24.340 Plenty of sunshine in my way.

00:01:28.980 Zip-a-dee-doo-dah, zip-a-dee-yay.

00:01:33.160 That was me.

00:01:33.940 It's the truth.

00:01:34.640 It's actual.

00:01:35.600 Everything is satisfactual.

00:01:37.760 I'm Michael Knowles.

00:01:38.440 This is The Michael Knowles Show.

00:01:39.300 Welcome back to the show.

00:02:00.740 Taylor Swift is preparing to sue after a bunch of creeps made AI porn of her at football games.

00:02:08.360 We will get to that in just a second.

00:02:09.920 First, though, the establishment media are collapsing precisely as we near the brink of civil war.

00:02:17.480 I don't throw that term around lightly.

00:02:20.240 We hear a lot in recent years about how we're about to have civil war.

00:02:24.760 We're going to have a national divorce. 0.94

00:02:25.920 We're going to have this.

00:02:26.420 We're going to have that.

00:02:26.860 We started to actually approach the brink of some kind of constitutional crisis or even potential civil conflict when the Libs started to prosecute Trump, the former president, the leader of the opposition party, now presumptive Republican nominee.

00:02:43.860 Now we've got a situation in which the federal government is allowing an invasion of our country, specifically in Texas, but all along our southern border.

00:02:57.200 6.2 million illegal aliens have poured into the country during the Biden administration.

00:03:01.740 That's three years.

00:03:02.780 That has increased every year.

00:03:04.640 One point something million the first year.

00:03:06.640 Two point something million the next year.

00:03:08.720 We're now over three point something million.

00:03:12.000 So the problem is getting much, much worse.

00:03:14.360 Biden is actively encouraging this invasion of our country, which could permanently change the voting demographics of the country.

00:03:21.940 And that's why the Democrats are doing it, because statistically and historically speaking, that will give them a permanent electoral majority, no matter what wishful thinking the Republicans want to present about that.

00:03:32.780 So Texas comes in and says, hey, forget about your political scheming here, you Democrats, and you think you're going to have a permanent majority.

00:03:40.120 We just need to protect our country from the cartels, from the drugs that are killing our people, from the prostitution, from the crime, from the invasion of our country.

00:03:48.200 We have a right as a state in the United States to protect our border.

00:03:51.940 So they build two and a half miles of razor wire fence.

00:03:55.960 This is nothing.

00:03:56.760 You're talking about a border well over 1,000 miles long, and they build a tiny little bit just at some of the worst places for the crossing.

00:04:05.140 And what happens?

00:04:06.740 Joe Biden sends his thugs in to pull out the razor wire.

00:04:10.800 I feel bad calling them thugs because these are border agents who probably signed up to do a good thing, to help their country, to serve.

00:04:18.500 But the political leaders in Washington, D.C. are weaponizing them and using them as tools not to stop the invasion of our country, but to encourage it.

00:04:27.420 So they start cutting down the border.

00:04:29.920 They say, no, no, no, hold on, guys, we need more invasion.

00:04:31.860 So then Texas sues the Biden administration, goes up to the Supreme Court, and Amy Barrett, a supposedly conservative justice, sides with the liberal justices in a 5-4 decision and says, no, the Biden administration has every right to tear down the modest amount of fencing that Texas put up to protect its border.

00:04:50.120 So Governor Greg Abbott down in Texas, what does he do?

00:04:53.180 He says, okay, Supreme Court can go pound sand. 0.98

00:04:55.900 Same thing goes for Joe Biden.

00:04:57.040 We have not only a moral right, not only a natural right to protect our state, we actually have a constitutional right to do it.

00:05:06.500 It's laid out right there in the Constitution that in the case of an invasion in particular, we have the right to secure our borders.

00:05:13.400 To say nothing of the fact that the states created the federal government, this is not even a matter of states' rights versus federal rights.

00:05:21.200 It goes right back, as Governor Abbott has pointed out, to the supremacy clause, rather.

00:05:27.040 Of our Constitution.

00:05:29.080 So the Constitution is the highest law of the land.

00:05:33.080 It overrides state statutes.

00:05:35.380 It overrides federal statutes.

00:05:36.980 It overrides even federal statutes and policies that pertain to the Biden administration's immigration policy.

00:05:43.040 And the Constitution itself gives Texas the right to build this border fence, as Governor Abbott has said.

00:05:50.220 So he made, I believe, a persuasive argument.

00:05:53.700 And the reason I think it's persuasive, in part, is that half the states at this point roughly agree with him.

00:06:00.060 My own state here of Tennessee, Governor DeSantis down in Florida, he signed on and supported what Governor Abbott is doing.

00:06:08.500 Georgia, Virginia, a bunch of other states now.

00:06:12.760 And then beyond the states, you've got the presumptive Republican nominee, Donald Trump.

00:06:16.800 He just came out and supported Texas.

00:06:19.240 He came out and said, quote, we encourage all willing states to deploy their guards to Texas to prevent the entry of illegals and to remove them back across the border. 0.84

00:06:26.820 So he's saying not only do we support Texas's right to build this fence, not only do we encourage all the other states to support them too.

00:06:34.540 Other states, you should send your guard troops down there to actually remove these illegal aliens. 1.00

00:06:40.940 He goes on, all Americans should support the common sense measures by Texas authorities to protect the safety, security, and sovereignty of Texas and of the American people.

00:06:47.200 When I'm president on day one, instead of fighting Texas, I will work hand in hand with Governor Abbott and other border states to stop the invasion, seal the border, and rapidly begin the largest domestic deportation operation in history.

00:06:58.260 Those Biden has let in should not get comfortable because they will be going home.

00:07:02.000 I hope that's the case.

00:07:02.980 I mean, we'll see if it happens.

00:07:04.480 I'm always somewhat skeptical of these grand plans to stop liberal schemes that have gone on for decades and decades.

00:07:11.720 In any case, though, really, really good stuff.

00:07:14.740 The irony of all this, as was pointed out by Logo Daedalus, a very interesting X account, the ironic part of all this is that Civil War II might start over Texas refusing to allow the unlimited importation of slaves into the United States.

00:07:36.780 It's amazing.

00:07:37.700 You're seeing a breakdown of the country into this coalition of states, many of whom are in the South, though there are some others.

00:07:44.980 And those are the conservative states who want to stop the invasion.

00:07:48.180 And then you've got the liberal states, largely in the North, though geographically it's a little bit all over the place.

00:07:54.620 But in this case, it's the southern states that don't want slavery, and it's the northern states that do want slavery.

00:08:01.760 And Logo Daedalus makes this point, I think, quite well.

00:08:05.220 We don't use that word slavery anymore.

00:08:07.220 We use the term mass migration.

00:08:10.900 But mass illegal migration is actually just human trafficking.

00:08:15.900 I don't mean that to be polemical.

00:08:17.620 I mean, that's just how it works.

00:08:19.060 These people go in, they pay the cartels, and they're smuggled and trafficked across the border. 0.65

00:08:23.140 And when it comes to women, most of the time they're raped or sexually assaulted along the way.

00:08:26.620 And once they get into America, the cartels don't just say, okay, well, nice to meet you.

00:08:32.440 Have a good life.

00:08:33.520 They're often in debt to the cartels, and they'll pay off that debt with service, like running drugs or through prostitution or other kinds of organized crime.

00:08:41.800 Or they'll be on the hook to them as debtors for the foreseeable future, maybe forever.

00:08:48.360 So it's human trafficking.

00:08:50.340 But even that phrase, human trafficking, doesn't get to the heart of what we're really talking about.

00:08:54.040 Human trafficking is just another term for slavery.

00:08:56.660 That's what it's about.

00:08:58.680 Is it exactly identical to chattel slavery from 1858 in America?

00:09:04.100 No.

00:09:04.740 But slavery represents a relatively broad array of coercive labor relationships. 0.99

00:09:10.000 And that's what this is.

00:09:11.800 That's what it is.

00:09:12.860 And when you get the liberals talking about this candidly, I'm not even in a smoke-filled back room.

00:09:20.040 I'm talking about candidly on television.

00:09:21.740 They've said this before.

00:09:22.780 They'll say, well, what do you think?

00:09:24.780 You want Americans to pick those grapes for extremely low wages? 0.99

00:09:28.860 What, you think Americans are going to go clean toilets for pittance, tiny little wages?

00:09:35.500 I don't think so.

00:09:36.240 That's why we need to import a bunch of peasants from the third world to act as our slaves so that they can do jobs. 1.00

00:09:40.900 And we can exploit them for labor.

00:09:44.140 Yo, cool it, man.

00:09:45.760 Excuse me?

00:09:47.400 You're not supposed to say that quiet part out loud.

00:09:49.300 I'm glad they are, though.

00:09:51.360 Because that's what this is about.

00:09:53.840 The libs.

00:09:54.620 The reason the Chamber of Commerce went along with mass migration is for that reason in particular.

00:09:59.680 You can exploit third world peasants for extremely cheap labor, and it drives down labor costs for everybody. 1.00

00:10:06.480 This is the reason that the hardcore socialists in American politics, guys like Bernie Sanders, traditionally opposed mass migration.

00:10:14.140 Because Bernie views himself as a working-class hero, and if you're a working-class hero, then you want wages to remain high, and mass migration directly cuts against that.

00:10:23.100 So that's one of the ways that liberals want to exploit these poor people from the third world.

00:10:27.920 But the other way they want to do it is just through their votes.

00:10:31.140 They recognize that, statistically speaking, illegal aliens and their kids and their grandkids and their great-grandkids are statistically much more likely to identify as Democrats.

00:10:41.460 And so they're going to bring them in for that purpose.

00:10:44.340 And just because it will destable the country, and chaos breeds opportunity, especially for political radicals.

00:10:50.480 So that's what it's about.

00:10:51.720 It is extremely ironic.

00:10:53.460 The best part of what Abbott has done here, though, beyond the justice of it all, is it puts Biden in a horrible spot.

00:10:58.840 We've come up to the deadline.

00:11:00.420 Texas is supposed to comply and let the federal agents in.

00:11:03.240 You've got this huge border, and yet, for some reason, the federal agents really, really need access right now to this one tiny little sliver of it.

00:11:10.400 Why?

00:11:10.660 So that they can open it up and allow the mass invasion to continue unabated.

00:11:16.780 Abbott says no.

00:11:17.900 So Biden has two choices.

00:11:18.960 He can either back down and look super weak, or he can send in federal troops to arrest the Texas National Guard and to open up the border and to roll out the red carpet for a mass migration of criminals who are poisoning our country through drugs and who are bringing in a ton of crime and who are rapists and murderers and some, I assume, are good people, to quote a great man.

00:11:39.260 Neither choice is particularly good for Biden.

00:11:42.940 I'm not sure he even knows that this is going on right now, which is even more damning, that the supposed geniuses running our country in Washington, D.C., the smart set of technocrats think that this is a smart move.

00:11:54.340 Either way, they lose.

00:11:56.660 We'll just see if they lose in a way that is merely unpopular for them but helps to destroy our country even further, or if they lose in a way that is somewhat embarrassing but gives a big win for states' rights, citizens' rights, and sovereignty.

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00:13:26.880 Speaking of unpopular Democrats, Mitt Romney is very, very upset that President Trump has sided with Texas and has stated that all the states should back Texas here and they should fight Joe Biden.

00:13:42.020 According to Senator Romney, Trump has gone further than mere social media posts.

00:13:46.860 He has actually called up Republican senators and told them not to work with the Biden administration here, to stand firm, don't cave, don't give an inch on the illegal immigration issue.

00:13:57.740 Mitt Romney could not be more upset.

00:14:00.300 Former President Trump has indicated to senators that he does not want us to solve the problem at the border.

00:14:06.560 However, he wants to lay the blame for the border at Biden.

00:14:11.320 And the idea that someone running for president would say, please hurt the country so I can blame my opponent and help my politics is a shocking development.

00:14:22.600 Do you think this is what he wants, the issue, Donald Trump?

00:14:26.400 This is what he's doing?

00:14:27.080 I think the border is a very important issue for Donald Trump.

00:14:31.120 And the fact that he would communicate to Republican senators and congresspeople that he doesn't want us to solve the border problem because he wants to blame Biden for it is really appalling.

00:14:44.360 The only thing that's appalling is Mitt Romney's either deception or ignorance of the of the border issue. 0.59

00:14:54.200 I can't tell which I want to be charitable and just assume it's ignorance.

00:14:57.300 But Mitt Romney is a smart guy, so it's difficult for me to believe that. 0.96

00:15:01.920 The entire premise of Mitt Romney's comments are ridiculous here.

00:15:06.540 The Senate has nothing to do with this border issue in Texas.

00:15:10.780 There is no new deal that has to be reached.

00:15:15.040 There is no grand compromise and agreement that that is a delicate negotiation between the Republicans in the Senate and the Biden administration.

00:15:23.980 The law is already very, very clear.

00:15:29.320 Illegal immigration is already illegal.

00:15:32.560 The federal government already has a right and a responsibility to secure the border.

00:15:37.860 Texas already has a right and, as far as I'm concerned, a responsibility to secure its border when the federal government refuses to because it wants to encourage a mass invasion of foreigners. 0.61

00:15:48.460 There's no new law to pass.

00:15:50.420 There's no new compromise to reach.

00:15:52.480 It's already been done.

00:15:54.400 Sometimes there are compromises where the Republicans have to negotiate with the Democrats.

00:15:58.340 But this isn't one of them.

00:15:59.420 The law is on the books.

00:16:00.380 The issue is that the Biden administration refuses to enforce the law because they don't like the law.

00:16:04.760 The Biden administration is the one acting lawlessly.

00:16:08.600 And it would seem to me that the only people here who don't want to actually solve the problem are Republican-squish senators like Mitt Romney who are trying to cave to Joe Biden for no reason whatsoever.

00:16:20.280 We are legally in the right on this topic.

00:16:22.620 We are politically on the winning side of this topic among not only Republicans but among independents and a lot of Democrats, too.

00:16:30.780 We are morally in the right on this topic.

00:16:32.620 There's no—what compromise?

00:16:33.560 The only reason you would compromise when you're right on every single level and politically the winner is to lose a little bit, which I guess is Mitt Romney's inclination.

00:16:45.320 This is why James Carville just two days ago came out and he said, we got to stop normalizing Trump.

00:16:51.320 We got this Trump.

00:16:52.140 We can't normalize him.

00:16:53.040 He's not a normal Republican like Mitt Romney and John McCain.

00:16:56.140 By normal, I guess he means someone who loses, someone who presents the simulacrum of opposition to the liberal establishment, but then at the crucial moment loses.

00:17:09.300 That is what they mean.

00:17:10.260 Well, Trump doesn't want to do it.

00:17:12.880 Greg Abbott doesn't want to do it.

00:17:16.040 Ron DeSantis doesn't want to do it.

00:17:17.600 Glenn Youngkin doesn't want to do it.

00:17:18.840 Bobby Kennedy Jr. is on Texas's side here.

00:17:24.200 The Democrat, whose last name is Kennedy, who actually is a liberal, who's running as an independent candidate for president, he's on Texas's side.

00:17:32.640 Virtually every reasonable person in the country and even most powerful people and institutions are on the stop the invasion side here.

00:17:43.280 No reason to give an inch.

00:17:45.440 Now, speaking of Congress and presidential nominees, cocaine Mitch McConnell has just held reportedly a closed-door session during which we got two very juicy little bits of information.

00:18:01.060 The first one, he says, is we are in a quandary because Trump's campaign is apparently going to be largely focused on immigration.

00:18:14.660 McConnell says the politics here have changed.

00:18:16.880 We can't have infighting on this thing.

00:18:19.320 We don't want to undermine the campaign platform here of Trump.

00:18:24.080 So, well, boy, we're in a real tough spot because this immigration issue is going to be really touchy and there are squished Republicans like Mitt Romney who don't want to actually fix it.

00:18:34.740 That's the first juicy bit of information.

00:18:37.160 Oh, boy, we're in a quandary on immigration here.

00:18:39.560 We got to hold the line a little bit further.

00:18:41.460 But number two, apparently in this conversation, cocaine Mitch McConnell, Republican leader in the Senate, referred to Trump as the nominee.

00:18:53.320 He says Trump is the nominee of our party for all intents and purposes.

00:18:58.420 And so you might love Trump.

00:19:00.320 You know I really like Trump.

00:19:01.620 I've never made any bones about the fact that I really like the guy.

00:19:04.020 You might hate Trump, as Mitch McConnell certainly does, and as a lot of Republicans do, especially Republican politicians.

00:19:12.820 But it's just a fact that he's the nominee.

00:19:15.920 I said this from the beginning of the primary.

00:19:18.600 I really, really like Trump.

00:19:20.960 I really, really like Ron DeSantis.

00:19:23.400 I'm really impressed by him.

00:19:25.320 I really, obviously, I've been friends with Vivek for quite some time.

00:19:28.780 I really, I like Nikki Haley personally.

00:19:30.480 I like a lot of these guys, okay?

00:19:32.780 But Trump's going to be the nominee, so that's that.

00:19:36.780 You know, politics is the art of the real, the art of the possible, all right?

00:19:42.320 It's the art of the second best, as Otto von Bismarck claimed.

00:19:45.780 I'm not saying that Donald Trump is the second best choice here.

00:19:47.960 I'm just saying that politics is about reality.

00:19:52.120 And Trump was always going to be the nominee because we were in this bizarre situation that we haven't seen in over 100 years.

00:19:56.700 So if Mitch McConnell, of all people, can get on board with, okay, it's going to be Trump, then the rest of the GOP probably ought to do that as well.

00:20:05.940 Now, what does that mean in practice?

00:20:08.160 There is a Republican National Committeeman who is proposing right now declaring Trump the presumptive nominee, passing a formal resolution saying we, the Republican National Committee, are going to act as though Trump is the nominee.

00:20:20.600 And Nikki Haley can keep running her campaign, but we are going to just move on and turn to the general election.

00:20:27.680 While I agree with this RNC committeeman's analysis, I don't think this is a good idea.

00:20:33.880 You don't want to make us look like the Democrats here.

00:20:39.000 The Democrats have gone to federal court to defend their right to rig their own election in the case of this one particular suit to rig it against Bernie Sanders.

00:20:52.120 And the courts have said, yeah, you have the right to pick, the parties have the right to pick their nominees.

00:20:56.900 We think of it now as a popular election where the people have the right to select the nominees of the parties.

00:21:01.380 That's not true.

00:21:01.940 The parties have the right to select the nominees, but the parties give the people a large say in it if you're a member of the party.

00:21:07.800 I would let it play out.

00:21:09.040 We've only had two states so far, the Iowa caucuses and New Hampshire.

00:21:13.740 Trump has won decisively in both places.

00:21:16.700 Now the number two guy from Iowa is out of the race.

00:21:19.440 So it's Trump, the far and away winner of Iowa versus the number three candidate.

00:21:23.960 And then the race was a little bit tighter when it just got down to two in New Hampshire.

00:21:27.860 But still, Trump won pretty decisively by, what, six or seven points.

00:21:31.940 And that was Nikki Haley's best shot.

00:21:36.160 Next up is Nevada.

00:21:37.200 She's not even on the ballot there.

00:21:38.360 She's not going to get any delegates. 0.98

00:21:39.640 Then after that is South Carolina.

00:21:40.820 Trump's leading her by 30, 40 points there.

00:21:42.920 And then you get to Michigan.

00:21:44.300 Trump is leading by a landslide.

00:21:46.260 And then you haven't even gotten to Super Tuesday yet.

00:21:49.380 I would just let it play out.

00:21:50.520 I understand the desire to say, all right, let's move on.

00:21:55.820 Nothing's going to change here, barring some lightning bolts.

00:21:58.160 So let's go fight Joe Biden.

00:21:59.440 But I just think the primary actually helps Trump.

00:22:01.720 And it helps people who have legitimate problems with Trump.

00:22:05.220 And people who have illegitimate problems with Trump get through the grieving process and

00:22:10.980 come to grips with reality, which is that this guy, love him or hate him, is the nominee.

00:22:14.960 And he did a good job when he was elected in 2016.

00:22:17.520 And he exceeded everyone's expectations.

00:22:20.540 And he's going to be the nominee again.

00:22:22.280 And he's certainly the best president of my lifetime.

00:22:28.720 We've had a few Republican presidents in my lifetime.

00:22:30.940 He's by far the best one.

00:22:33.400 And so we're going to come to grips with that as we do it.

00:22:37.440 It's kind of like the lawsuits, or rather the prosecutions.

00:22:40.980 The prosecutions, I think, seem like they hurt Trump, but they actually help him because

00:22:44.180 they make his case before the American people.

00:22:46.840 And I kind of feel that way about the primary.

00:22:48.280 Let the voters see a choice between President Trump and Nikki Haley, who has really embraced

00:22:54.640 the more centrist, moderate establishment lane.

00:22:58.040 And let them have the choice and let them vote as they will.

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00:24:11.220 My favorite comment yesterday is from Heint7972, who says, 6.2 million illegal aliens per the

00:24:17.320 Congressional Budget Office means 10 to 12 million illegals in real life.

00:24:21.400 Maybe, I'm not so sure about that, actually.

00:24:23.720 I tend to respect the CBO estimates.

00:24:28.460 I'm not saying they can never be low.

00:24:30.280 I just, I would be surprised if the numbers were much higher over three years.

00:24:37.260 Don't forget, we're talking about over three years.

00:24:42.620 6.2 million in three years is insane, because that's just illegal immigrants. 1.00

00:24:48.420 We then take another million illegal immigrants every single year.

00:24:53.860 So that means 9.2 million people, minimum, have moved into the United States over the past

00:25:01.060 three years.

00:25:01.600 We're a country of only 330, 320 million people.

00:25:04.700 That's crazy.

00:25:08.780 No government, no polity can possibly sustain that amount of migration. 0.69

00:25:17.120 That just leads to social chaos.

00:25:20.120 In the best of circumstances, when there's a lot of pressure to assimilate, there's no

00:25:24.120 pressure to assimilate now.

00:25:25.000 In fact, there's a discouragement from our pop authorities to assimilate.

00:25:30.620 The movement of people into the United States from 1965 until 2015, that's 60 million people.

00:25:39.820 That is the largest movement of human beings in recorded history, all because of the Democrats' 0.85

00:25:46.720 migration bill in the 1960s, further exacerbated by the Democrats refusing to enforce the border.

00:25:53.140 And now, you're 60 million people.

00:25:56.840 Now you've got another more than tenth of that, just in three years, illegally, at least.

00:26:06.240 We don't need to inflate the numbers.

00:26:07.760 The numbers, as they are being reported, are shocking enough.

00:26:11.020 Now I want to turn to a much more politically important question.

00:26:19.360 Forget about the border and whether our country is going to exist.

00:26:22.720 People are much more concerned with Taylor Swift.

00:26:27.300 She's the most popular woman on the planet. 1.00

00:26:30.320 She might well be the most famous woman on the planet at this point. 1.00

00:26:34.560 And creeps are making weird AI porn of her. 1.00

00:26:37.740 However, I'm not going to show the pictures.

00:26:40.620 I haven't seen the pictures.

00:26:41.960 I've seen like tiny little corners blurred out of the pictures, and I'm not even going to show those.

00:26:46.600 Very, very creepy.

00:26:47.940 And reportedly, some of the pictures involve Taylor Swift in degrading sexual acts at football games,

00:26:56.800 because she's dating that football player, and all sorts of other things.

00:27:00.380 But really, really vile, degrading stuff.

00:27:03.480 And Taylor is threatening legal action here, and I hope taking legal action.

00:27:11.720 This is a form of sexual violence.

00:27:14.860 I know I'm going to sound like a huge feminist and a Swifty, I guess. 0.97

00:27:19.800 But it's a deeply conservative perspective that this is not just some funny thing.

00:27:26.200 This is not just harmless.

00:27:28.000 This is not just, oh well, some pranksters on the internet.

00:27:31.240 This is a form of sexual violence.

00:27:32.780 And the reason it's a form of sexual violence is because sex is about more than the body.

00:27:40.860 I guess in recent years, conservatives have adopted a relatively liberal view of sex.

00:27:47.000 Which is, oh, it just doesn't matter.

00:27:48.780 It's whatever.

00:27:49.700 You know, hookup culture is fine.

00:27:52.480 It's just a couple of people bumping uglies.

00:27:54.560 You know, no big deal.

00:27:55.520 We can stay friends.

00:27:56.400 Move along, move along.

00:27:57.520 No, sex is about much more than the body.

00:27:59.240 Sex is also about the soul.

00:28:00.320 Because people are about more than their bodies.

00:28:02.840 People are about their souls.

00:28:03.900 And you can't separate the two.

00:28:07.040 You can't really be a friend with benefits.

00:28:09.940 You can't really have a casual hookup.

00:28:12.700 Because people are more than their bodies.

00:28:15.080 And your soul is always going to be part of it.

00:28:17.180 And you can't do things with your body without that affecting your soul.

00:28:21.800 And vice versa.

00:28:24.680 We're a unified being. 0.99

00:28:27.220 If sex were no big deal, then sexual assault, rape, would not be any worse than just punching someone in the face. 0.99

00:28:37.600 But it is. 0.99

00:28:38.280 We all know that it is.

00:28:40.140 I hope Taylor Swift pursues legal action.

00:28:42.060 I don't know exactly how she'll do it.

00:28:43.620 I guess she could sue over unlicensed use of her image by the AI companies. 1.00

00:28:51.880 You couldn't really sue the randos on the internet.

00:28:54.260 But you probably couldn't even track them down.

00:28:55.900 But you could maybe sue the AI companies for unlicensed use of her likeness in their learning models.

00:29:02.960 But, and if you sued the AI companies, I guess there would be a commercial aspect to it that would permit her to bring a lawsuit.

00:29:14.740 But probably what's going to need to happen, I mean, look, if that's the way in, great.

00:29:18.920 But probably what's going to need to happen is you're just going to have to pass new laws to deal with a new technology that we've never seen before.

00:29:25.740 For the conservatives who say, oh, it's no big deal, or it's kind of funny, or I hate that Taylor Swift shows up at a football game, so she gets what's coming to her.

00:29:32.960 Imagine it's your daughter.

00:29:35.960 Imagine it's your wife.

00:29:39.100 Statistically, it's going to be your daughter someday.

00:29:42.300 As I have been saying from the very beginning of the development of these AI programs, I said, the issue here is not going to be, the big issue is not going to be that someone makes fake porn of Taylor Swift.

00:29:52.520 The issue is that someone's going to make fake porn of that girl in your ninth grade math class.

00:29:57.340 And that's going to be way more heinous.

00:29:59.540 It's going to be manifestly far more criminal.

00:30:05.420 And it's going to be ubiquitous.

00:30:08.460 Going to be ubiquitous.

00:30:09.540 For the people who have the flippant attitude about the Taylor AI porn, oh, whatever, just kids having fun.

00:30:17.020 Yeah, it's gross, but it's kind of like drawing a doodle. 0.88

00:30:18.800 It's not like drawing a doodle.

00:30:19.660 It's like a photorealistic image or video.

00:30:23.220 Certainly, if it's not a video already, it soon will be.

00:30:26.100 But would you have that flippant attitude if some creep in your daughter's ninth grade math class were making that stuff about her? 1.00

00:30:33.200 Because that will happen if it is not happening already.

00:30:37.180 So can we all agree this is not protected speech?

00:30:39.560 Can we all agree that this is not just a you do you laissez-faire, you know, come on, man, live and let live?

00:30:44.940 It's not really hurting anybody.

00:30:46.180 It is hurting people because people are more than their bodies.

00:30:48.600 And even if it weren't, it's an offense against art, nature, and God.

00:30:52.040 It's just intrinsically wrong, and we should ban it and seriously prosecute people.

00:30:58.900 I'm with the Swifties.

00:31:00.200 I'm with Taylor.

00:31:01.640 You go, girl.

00:31:03.020 Take them to court. 0.99

00:31:05.120 Drag them. 1.00

00:31:06.140 Slay, queen. 1.00

00:31:06.980 All right, that's enough.

00:31:08.000 Speaking of violence and women, really, really awful story out from Yahoo News.

00:31:15.680 This is a woman from southern Pennsylvania who's facing multiple counts of aggravated animal cruelty for torturing and killing animals and filming herself doing it and uploading the videos to her YouTube channel.

00:31:32.340 Pretty psycho stuff.

00:31:34.300 Her name is Anagar Monsi.

00:31:36.620 She's 28 years old.

00:31:37.560 Authorities have accused her of producing and distributing at least four videos involving the killing of frogs, a rabbit, a pigeon, and a chicken.

00:31:43.640 She was arrested on Friday.

00:31:45.680 And charged with four counts of aggravated cruelty to animals.

00:31:50.880 Really awful story, huh?

00:31:55.260 How can we punish a woman for this when we permit abortion? 1.00

00:32:02.380 I agree it's wrong.

00:32:03.800 I don't believe in animal rights or anything like that.

00:32:05.580 But I agree this is very wrong.

00:32:06.820 This should be criminal.

00:32:07.620 We should prosecute her for it. 1.00

00:32:09.100 You should not be allowed to torture animals.

00:32:10.580 You should not be allowed to just kill animals willy-nilly outside of a proper use of animals like food or nice leather jackets or something.

00:32:18.880 But certainly not to create this kind of creepy psycho content.

00:32:23.520 But how can we really prosecute her for this?

00:32:25.780 If instead of torturing and killing puppies, she had tortured and killed a baby in her womb, she would not be prosecuted.

00:32:34.480 She would be hailed as a hero of women's rights and liberation.

00:32:37.720 So are we saying puppies matter more than babies?

00:32:43.000 Puppies matter.

00:32:43.740 Animals matter more than human beings.

00:32:45.620 That is what we're saying.

00:32:46.760 But it's completely incoherent.

00:32:50.100 Animals can't reason about these things.

00:32:51.700 Animals can't pass laws and stand trial and have abstract thoughts about morality.

00:32:57.220 Human beings can.

00:32:58.000 We're saying human beings, innocent little babies, are lower than puppies.

00:33:02.860 Yeah, I guess that's what we are saying.

00:33:04.340 It doesn't make any sense.

00:33:05.200 As long as our country tolerates abortion, I just don't see how anyone with two functioning brain cells can, with a straight face, call for laws against the torture and killing of animals.

00:33:20.840 It doesn't make any sense.

00:33:22.220 And the torture part's important, too, there, because surgical abortions involve torturing these kids. 0.96

00:33:31.780 Babies can feel pain, certainly, by 22 weeks, 24 weeks.

00:33:38.520 Liberals once tried to argue it was 26 weeks, but they keep moving those weeks backwards.

00:33:43.260 Might be 20 weeks.

00:33:44.140 Might be before 20 weeks.

00:33:45.960 And it's extremely painful.

00:33:47.940 It's torture. 1.00

00:33:48.620 And then it ends up with killing them. 0.99

00:33:50.440 It doesn't make a whole lot of sense.

00:33:52.820 There are some people, tangentially related to this story, who argue that this woman's videos are free speech.

00:33:58.840 I remember there was a case about 15 years ago, the Supreme Court, I forget the name of it.

00:34:02.740 The court ruled 8 to 1 that pornography involving, I think it was torturing little kittens, was protected.

00:34:14.060 Protected speech.

00:34:14.600 Only Sam Alito said it's obviously not.

00:34:17.360 We need to recognize that this is in no way covered by the First Amendment.

00:34:21.140 A lot of confusion on every aspect of this case.

00:34:26.320 The video part and just the heart of it.

00:34:30.100 Puppies matter more than babies. 0.87

00:34:31.520 Really weird place we're in.

00:34:33.460 You know, America, you may have heard, is currently experiencing an unprecedented invasion with millions of illegal immigrants flooding the border under Joe Biden.

00:34:40.420 As Texas fights the surge, Arizona's governor remains eerily silent.

00:34:46.300 Ben Shapiro traveled to America's southern border to uncover the truth and the depth of the crisis.

00:34:51.340 What he discovered is shocking and criminal.

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00:34:56.360 Take a look at invasion on the southern border.

00:34:58.880 America is currently experiencing an invasion.

00:35:02.240 A lot of people coming in from Uzbekistan, Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria.

00:35:06.900 Is there a fair bit of gang affiliation among them?

00:35:08.580 Although, always.

00:35:09.420 These people are just crossing the border illegally, waving their hands in the air at our cameras, saying, hey, here I am, come get me.

00:35:14.720 We're no longer the border patrol.

00:35:16.280 We're the welcome patrol.

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00:35:57.680 Take it away.

00:35:59.280 Hey, Michael.

00:36:00.260 It's Camille.

00:36:01.280 I have a bit of a moral quandary I would love for you to weigh in on.

00:36:06.700 So I was on Instagram recently and came across an ad looking for egg donors.

00:36:12.160 And according to all the prerequisites, I fit the bill to get $100,000 per egg donor cycle.

00:36:20.080 I'm over 5'8", I'm under 30, I'm educated, and I am athletic in build and not obese.

00:36:28.820 Some might say I have primo eggs apparently.

00:36:31.860 Is this totally immoral?

00:36:34.500 I would love to have $100,000 in cash, but also the thought of having a bunch of little Camilles running around without me being a part of their lives seems a bit odd.

00:36:44.540 Would love to hear your advice and thank you as always.

00:36:48.240 Good question.

00:36:51.900 Let me, before describing all the different moral aspects of this and getting into all the little nuances, let me just, I'm going to bring my mic a little bit closer here so you get my, yes, it's extremely immoral.

00:37:06.000 What's the matter with you?

00:37:07.800 Don't do that. 1.00

00:37:09.060 Do not, under any circumstances, do that, you crazy woman. 1.00

00:37:14.480 Ah, okay. 0.99

00:37:16.480 Good.

00:37:17.520 Sorry.

00:37:17.980 I don't mean to be too harsh here, but I felt that clarity is charity.

00:37:23.360 Your moral intuition that it would be a little odd to have your children running around out there and you totally unaccountable to them.

00:37:32.680 You just made them intentionally so that you could get some money and buy some nice doodads and go to fancy brunches.

00:37:40.200 Yes, that is wrong.

00:37:41.780 Deeply, deeply wrong.

00:37:44.240 Very different situation from, say, adoption.

00:37:48.180 Adoption is a case where a woman finds herself pregnant and rather than murder the baby, she feels that she is not able to raise the child on her own.

00:37:57.660 And so she gives the child to a loving couple.

00:38:00.720 Perhaps she can have some say in what couple is chosen.

00:38:05.200 With the egg donors, you are commoditizing human life.

00:38:09.080 You are selling your children.

00:38:11.140 No different than any other depraved person in all of history who just sold his children out.

00:38:19.140 Except in those cases, sometimes people would sell their children into slavery or sell their children off in a depraved form of marriage because they needed to eat.

00:38:33.020 You know, they didn't have enough money to feed their kids or bread or, you know, they were just totally impoverished.

00:38:38.660 In your case, you say you're fine, you're young, you're educated, and you just want some more money to just buy some nice stuff.

00:38:43.760 Like, you could buy a nice bag or something, you know, or maybe jewelry.

00:38:48.160 Wouldn't that be cool?

00:38:48.940 So you're going to sell your children for jewelry. 0.91

00:38:50.900 Don't do that.

00:38:51.760 Very, very, very wrong.

00:38:54.500 And I know it's tempting because you say, oh, it's $100,000.

00:38:56.380 And $100,000 is a lot of money.

00:38:58.640 From one ankle, $100,000, that's a ton of money.

00:39:04.260 But no, it's not.

00:39:05.960 No, it's not.

00:39:07.040 First of all, $100,000 now buys you, what, like three trips to the grocery store?

00:39:10.600 But also, $100,000, yeah, it's a ton of money.

00:39:14.760 So what?

00:39:17.300 Is it worth a child?

00:39:19.440 No, I don't think so.

00:39:20.620 Don't think so, Camille.

00:39:21.600 Don't do it.

00:39:22.160 Next one.

00:39:23.040 Hey, Michael.

00:39:24.340 So throughout the primary process, you and several others have constantly referred to the election process as candidates having to pick a lane and run with it.

00:39:35.700 But I personally feel like that is too narrow of a description of how elections actually work.

00:39:42.580 I don't see elections as being like a paved road where you can take this lane or that lane to make it to the end.

00:39:51.040 And it's not really about, oh, I'll play to the conservatives, I'll play to the moderates.

00:39:55.160 Because the only way that someone can win is they've got to be able to build a coalition from all the various groups in the party.

00:40:03.520 And so I was hoping you could explain what exactly you mean when you say it's about picking your lane because that really does feel like way too narrow of a way of looking at it.

00:40:15.900 And I personally feel that Trump and Haley are the last two people standing in the primary because they are the only two that didn't see it as picking your lane.

00:40:25.360 No, I think they picked their lanes.

00:40:29.400 But maybe the misunderstanding here is your view that the lane represents something singular.

00:40:36.540 But it doesn't.

00:40:37.200 The lane represents the coalitions you're talking about.

00:40:40.160 Nikki Haley is not running in the Chamber of Commerce lane.

00:40:43.120 She's running in the centrist lane.

00:40:44.620 And the centrist lane includes the Chamber of Commerce and the neoconservatives and the lullbertarians and the never-Trumpers.

00:40:54.560 And so within that lane, there are all sorts of people who disagree with one another.

00:40:59.580 But they all agree that they really hate Trump.

00:41:02.440 And they can all agree on enough to come together and do work.

00:41:05.900 With the Trump lane, he's got the conservatives basically locked up.

00:41:11.680 Now, some conservatives also liked Ron DeSantis.

00:41:15.420 And there's still some bad blood because it was a nasty primary.

00:41:18.580 But he's basically got them locked up.

00:41:20.540 The polling shows that people who liked Ron DeSantis would also vote for Donald Trump.

00:41:25.460 So he's basically got that locked up.

00:41:27.580 And he's got the traditionalists locked up.

00:41:29.480 And he's got the uber-libertarians, the Rand Paul types.

00:41:33.700 And he's got the populists.

00:41:35.940 The populists and the libertarians often don't agree with one another.

00:41:38.320 But they both agree that they don't like the Chamber of Commerce and the neocons and the lullberts and the Nikki Haley side.

00:41:44.020 So they're going to come together with Trump.

00:41:45.540 And so you see the coalitions kind of coming together.

00:41:49.500 The issue for Ron DeSantis, I think, is a perfect example of this is his natural lane to run in was the lane that Trump had.

00:41:58.080 But because Trump already had it, he couldn't really run in that lane.

00:42:01.280 And so he attracted people, at least initially, who were just totally anti-Trump.

00:42:07.800 The neocons and the Chamber of Commerce and the lullberts and the never-Trumpers.

00:42:11.200 But they also didn't really like him because he wasn't a good fit for their lane.

00:42:17.080 And one of the best pitches for him was he was the better version of Trump.

00:42:22.620 But they don't want any version of Trump.

00:42:24.680 So he was left as a man without a home.

00:42:26.520 That's why he collapsed.

00:42:28.160 You know, he wanted to form the broad coalition of the whole party, and he was left with no one.

00:42:33.540 He was left with essentially no voters, whereas Trump and Haley were willing to settle for a clearer part or other part of the party, and they made it to the end.

00:42:42.880 Next one.

00:42:44.420 Hey there, Smokey Mike.

00:42:45.200 This is Bass Cigar Enjoyer.

00:42:46.680 I'm a 22-year-old man, and I've been attempting to live a virtuous and honorable life.

00:42:52.200 I've desisted in my use of pornography.

00:42:54.480 I work out six days a week.

00:42:56.300 I have a career with my family's company, but I have the issue of having an absolute void when it comes to my love life.

00:43:05.800 I've had zero conversations above five minutes with any women my own age, barring perhaps family members.

00:43:15.400 And I was wondering if you had any advice for me in regards to dealing with women and interacting with them.

00:43:23.820 And I might concede to having a bit of fear towards women as a result of having very limited interactions with them, and I was hoping I could get any advice. 0.95

00:43:30.860 Thank you.

00:43:31.360 Good question.

00:43:33.020 Many people in your place.

00:43:35.600 Relax.

00:43:36.720 It's all right.

00:43:37.780 When I was in maybe ninth grade, my biology teacher, he said,

00:43:44.860 you all are worried about the test that you're about to take.

00:43:50.000 You're all afraid that you're going to get a bad grade.

00:43:53.280 Don't worry about losing points on the test.

00:43:55.660 Look at the test as an opportunity to gain points.

00:43:58.540 Oh, it's a great opportunity.

00:44:00.880 Thank you, teacher.

00:44:02.840 Thank you, Mr. So-and-so.

00:44:04.900 I have the opportunity today to gain points.

00:44:07.400 That's how you got to look at love life.

00:44:08.960 Dating is fun.

00:44:09.920 Women are fun. 1.00

00:44:10.660 It's great.

00:44:11.480 Women are fabulous. 1.00

00:44:13.540 You don't want to date forever and become some cad, you know, degenerate, some 50-year-old, you know, lech, 1.00

00:44:22.060 who's just has no intention of getting married ever.

00:44:26.780 But while you're dating with the intent to marry, you can have a good time.

00:44:33.900 It's nice.

00:44:34.980 Girls are nice, you know, kind of fun to talk to, fun to look at. 1.00

00:44:38.780 It's nice to go get drinks with them.

00:44:40.640 It's even more fun that one can have later on.

00:44:42.880 So what should you do to actually meet the girls?

00:44:46.200 Go where they are, I often say.

00:44:49.100 Go where the kind of girls that you want to meet are. 1.00

00:44:51.980 Maybe that involves some digital stuff because people date online.

00:44:55.800 Now, I don't like it, but I never did it.

00:44:57.760 But that's how people do it.

00:44:59.660 So maybe you look there.

00:45:00.720 Maybe you look around your church.

00:45:02.060 Maybe you look around this group or that group or whatever.

00:45:05.360 My broader advice, and maybe more practical, is you can only ever take the next step in front of you.

00:45:11.320 You can't take 20 steps in front of you.

00:45:13.920 You've got to take the very next one, and then the next one, and the next one, and the next one.

00:45:18.500 So if you're saying, I just have no exposure to women, 0.96

00:45:22.460 then what I would do is not think about your perfect ideal woman in outer space.

00:45:26.040 I would say, okay, who do I know who knows a woman who I might like to date?

00:45:32.940 Who do I know?

00:45:33.860 Maybe that's going to be my brother.

00:45:35.580 Maybe that's going to be my co-worker.

00:45:37.860 You've got to be a little careful when it involves work, but maybe it's my co-worker.

00:45:40.320 Maybe it's my friend at church.

00:45:42.720 Maybe it's my whatever.

00:45:45.120 I don't know.

00:45:45.440 Maybe it's my mother, for goodness sakes.

00:45:46.840 Maybe it's my old classmate.

00:45:50.060 Maybe it's my this, that, or the other thing.

00:45:51.580 And I would just go to them and say, hey, I need to date more.

00:45:55.860 I'm not dating enough.

00:45:57.140 And no one's getting—look, it's a crazy time in our culture.

00:45:59.400 It's not all my fault.

00:46:00.520 No one's getting married.

00:46:01.480 No one's having kids.

00:46:03.280 So it's a social problem.

00:46:05.280 But anyway, I want to fix it.

00:46:07.100 So who should I talk to?

00:46:08.600 Who should I meet?

00:46:10.200 And maybe you do the online stuff, too.

00:46:11.540 But that's how you do it.

00:46:12.500 And be excited about it.

00:46:13.800 Don't, I'm shy, I'm nervous, I'm worried.

00:46:15.400 Other girls might—what are they going to do? 1.00

00:46:16.660 They're girls. 1.00

00:46:18.120 We're stronger than them, okay?

00:46:19.360 They're not going to beat you up.

00:46:20.760 It's okay.

00:46:22.100 If you get rejected, it feels bad.

00:46:23.940 But move on.

00:46:24.680 It's okay.

00:46:25.220 It's no big deal.

00:46:27.280 It's fun.

00:46:28.520 Have fun.

00:46:29.280 Next one.

00:46:29.600 Hi, Mike.

00:46:31.780 I work for an architecture firm in central New Hampshire.

00:46:34.440 There's about five people.

00:46:35.480 It's a small business.

00:46:36.480 And we're having to sign a new employee handbook because we're rebranding.

00:46:40.900 And there's a section in the handbook—they've asked us for our input, by the way—there's

00:46:44.800 a section in the handbook that is about gender identity, gender pronouns.

00:46:48.920 And it says that you can pick your gender pronouns that correspond with your gender identity,

00:46:53.560 whatever that means.

00:46:54.160 And I would like to argue that this doesn't need to be there because we are a small business

00:46:59.440 and therefore we're not subject to Title VII's restrictions that are now subject to

00:47:03.760 Biden's executive order that says that transgender people are protected by civil rights.

00:47:08.880 So these are pretty reasonable people.

00:47:11.180 They just don't like conflict.

00:47:12.680 They want to avoid conflict.

00:47:13.820 And I think that's why it's there.

00:47:15.020 On the off chance that we were to hire a trans person or have a trans client, that I'd 0.98

00:47:19.520 have to just say their pronoun.

00:47:21.200 Now, they probably know my position on this.

00:47:22.900 I'm a pretty outspoken conservative.

00:47:24.460 I just make it kind of funny.

00:47:25.560 Like, yeah, I like Trump.

00:47:27.040 And they're okay with it.

00:47:28.180 I would just like you to advise the best way to get this taken out of the handbook, being

00:47:32.580 respectful and just calling out the absurdity.

00:47:35.360 So thank you.

00:47:36.320 Good question.

00:47:38.480 Probably this is just boilerplate HR stuff that they pulled off a website somewhere.

00:47:42.860 I would—from what you're telling me about your company, that's probably what it is.

00:47:45.540 So I would—if you feel comfortable with it and you have a good relationship with it, you

00:47:52.100 might say, hey, guys, this is not really a problem.

00:47:54.600 And also, it's kind of legally thorny to require employees to violate their conscience and say

00:48:02.960 something that they know that isn't true.

00:48:04.340 You know, I'm perfectly happy to be accommodating to my employers. 0.94

00:48:08.760 And, you know, if some weirdo transvestite walks into the room, I could maybe perhaps try to avoid 1.00

00:48:14.920 using pronouns or whatever. 0.98

00:48:16.420 But I can't lie, you know.

00:48:18.520 And so I don't think it's practically a problem at all.

00:48:22.620 And I would just—maybe we clean up that language here. 0.95

00:48:25.960 I think that might be helpful.

00:48:27.820 So you could do that if you feel really comfortable.

00:48:30.440 Or you could just accept the handbook for whatever they hand you the handbook.

00:48:33.800 You say, okay, you put it on your desk.

00:48:35.240 And then you cross that bridge when you get to it.

00:48:38.460 And defer the problem later if you're really confident that the problem is never going to come.

00:48:41.860 Either way, though, you know, I think they're probably just the victims of a pop culture

00:48:48.560 that's pushing this.

00:48:49.300 And they're probably relatively unthinking about it, as are most people.

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