The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 1436 - Cocaine Mitch Makes His Last Stand

00:00:00.000 After nearly 40 years in the Senate, after more than 20 years in Senate leadership,

00:00:05.900 after nearly a decade at the very top, as far as Republicans in the Senate go,

00:00:12.520 cocaine Mitch McConnell has finally announced his intention to step aside.

00:00:16.820 Senator McConnell, in his own words.

00:00:19.320 Do you want to play rough?

00:00:20.660 Okay.

00:00:22.140 Say hello to my new friend.

00:00:26.640 Okay.

00:00:27.860 Do you want to play rough?

00:00:28.860 Okay.

00:00:30.500 Cut! 1.00

00:00:31.560 The other senators, it turns out, did not want to play rough.

00:00:34.540 So, Leader McConnell announced the beginning of the end on a gracious note.

00:00:41.520 So, I stand before you today, Mr. President, and my colleagues,

00:00:45.180 to say this will be my last term as Republican leader of the Senate.

00:00:51.700 I'm not going anywhere anytime soon.

00:00:56.680 However, I'll complete my job.

00:00:58.600 My colleagues are giving me until we select a new leader in November, and they take the helm next January.

00:01:07.640 I'll finish the job that people of Kentucky hired me to do as well, albeit from a different seat.

00:01:16.560 And I'm actually looking forward to that.

00:01:21.360 It's amazing how Senator Cocaine can turn that Cuban accent just on and off. 0.67

00:01:26.460 I'm actually looking forward to that from a different seat.

00:01:30.300 So, he's sort of kind of giving up power in nine months.

00:01:34.360 And then he's sticking around the Senate for a couple more years.

00:01:37.760 Now, I am not as big a McConnell hater as many people on the right.

00:01:42.140 The man held firm on the Supreme Court vacancy after Justice Scalia died, which gave President Trump the opportunity to appoint three Supreme Court justices, who were then able to overturn Roe v. Wade.

00:01:52.940 As far as I'm concerned, Cocaine Mitch deserves a lot of credit for that.

00:01:57.940 On lots of other issues, however, he's been a squish, which I suspect is the real reason he's stepping down. 1.00

00:02:03.920 The man survived a major challenge to his leadership in 2022.

00:02:08.500 But since then, he's lost even more support among conservatives.

00:02:11.580 And his recent health scares have convinced a lot of people on the fence that he's no longer up to the job.

00:02:17.140 Mitch McConnell saw the writing on the wall, and even now, he is attempting to cling to power in a way that is typical, but nonetheless impressive, actually.

00:02:27.340 The longest-serving Senate leader in history is on his way out.

00:02:31.880 Not really because he's tired and not really because he's old, but because he can't hold on to that leadership any longer, because the GOP is no longer his party.

00:02:43.120 I'm Michael Knowles. This is The Michael Knowles Show.

00:02:47.140 I guess I have to react to those white women dancing. 1.00

00:03:07.680 I've put it off for days because I didn't want—there's this video that has tens of millions of views.

00:03:14.440 It's gone viral so quickly, and it's these white women with their Stanley Cups dancing around. 1.00

00:03:18.840 And for some reason, this is a real cultural touchpoint.

00:03:22.060 So, look, I did my best.

00:03:24.560 I didn't want to have to talk about it, but I guess we do have to talk about it.

00:03:27.280 I'll talk about it in just a moment.

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00:04:42.560 Ave at que vale, Cocaine Mitch.

00:04:44.860 The guy's been around for so long.

00:04:47.480 I just have to go back and revisit.

00:04:50.380 This isn't even his earliest speech when Mitch McConnell got elected to the Senate.

00:04:54.520 He got elected in, what, 84?

00:04:56.120 Enters the Senate in 85?

00:04:57.280 This is a speech from Mitch McConnell in 1987.

00:05:01.240 And what's so amazing about it is it shows you how the more things change, the more things stay the same.

00:05:07.040 Because even back in 1987, Cocaine Mitch is talking about Democrats stealing elections through ballot insecurity, through widespread mailings, through fraud.

00:05:20.280 Check it out.

00:05:20.940 Mr. President, it's election day in Kentucky.

00:05:23.360 And I suspect on this election day, as on many election days over the last hundred years or so, in some areas of my state, people are attempting to buy votes, sell votes, intimidate voters, and in general, distort the election process.

00:05:42.360 A lot of the election fraud that occurs in my state, and I suspect in many others, involves the use of absentee ballots.

00:05:49.360 But what the candidates and the public would like to see is an honest election between 6 a.m. and 6 p.m.

00:05:55.000 Now, he could have given that speech today, except it would have been a little bit slower today.

00:05:59.880 He might have been hobbling around a little slower.

00:06:02.720 But the substance of that could be absolutely the same.

00:06:06.040 It's a reminder when the Democrats say, oh, this is a crazy Republican's conspiracy theory pushed by Trump and the ultra-right-wing MAGA Republican, whatever.

00:06:13.460 This has been a problem for a long time.

00:06:14.880 In that very speech, Cocaine Mitch talks about how the Democrats very possibly stole the 1960 election in Illinois through this kind of chicanery. 0.98

00:06:24.060 So it's been a long time.

00:06:26.180 Unfortunately, politics hasn't changed very much.

00:06:28.260 Inasmuch as it has changed, there have been a handful of big wins that Mitch McConnell can take a lot of credit for, like the overruling of Roe v. Wade.

00:06:35.300 A lot of big wins for conservatives, mostly losses for conservatives.

00:06:39.600 Mostly the problems that even Cocaine Mitch could identify in the 80s have gotten worse from our point of view, and they've benefited the Democrats.

00:06:49.900 So the question is, who replaces Mitch McConnell?

00:06:51.980 Right now, there are three big contenders who are being talked about.

00:06:55.880 The three Johns. 0.68

00:06:57.320 That would be John Thune, John Barrasso, and John Cornyn.

00:07:03.180 Now, most people don't really know anything about John Thune or John Barrasso, or maybe you've heard of John Cornyn.

00:07:10.360 If you've heard of John Cornyn, probably all you know about him is that he's the more centrist of the Texas senators.

00:07:17.620 Senator Cruz, definitely more on the right-wing side.

00:07:20.580 Senator Cornyn, a little bit more on the middle.

00:07:24.040 There are other options being floated, though.

00:07:26.620 A lot of people.

00:07:27.320 I tweeted it out yesterday.

00:07:28.520 I said, who do you want to see as Senate Majority Leader?

00:07:30.000 I would say the modal choice, the most frequently recurring choice was Rand Paul, to which I say, look, I love Rand Paul.

00:07:41.200 Because I live in an adjacent state to Rand Paul's state, I see him sometimes on the airplane when we're flying to D.C.

00:07:48.900 I think the guy is great.

00:07:50.340 He has my admiration for so many things.

00:07:54.120 The guy's not going to be Senate Majority Leader, okay?

00:07:56.220 Rand Paul is probably the last guy who's going to be Senate Majority Leader because he is extremely principled.

00:08:01.940 He's got a view of politics that is not particularly popular in Washington or even among the Republican Conference.

00:08:08.080 And the job of the Majority Leader is just to raise money, wrangle votes, whip people into line.

00:08:14.080 And so your favorite senator is not necessarily going to be the best choice for a Majority Leader.

00:08:20.200 Other people have floated Marco Rubio.

00:08:22.920 People have floated Josh Hawley, who definitely would seem more plausible.

00:08:28.500 They're a bit younger.

00:08:29.520 I think, you know, the fact that Senator McConnell now has been in Washington since the 1780s, probably people want a younger leader who maybe is a little bit more vigorous.

00:08:39.060 I say, what if we just go in the other direction?

00:08:40.780 So I would like to make my formal endorsement for Senate Majority Leader, that would be Chuck Grassley, who actually is quite conservative.

00:08:48.820 And he's quite conservative even beyond ideology because he's 90 years old.

00:08:53.540 So everyone says, we don't want any more of these 80-year-old politicians.

00:08:56.780 Yeah, I agree.

00:08:57.420 Let's go 90.

00:08:58.180 Let's do it.

00:08:58.800 With age comes wisdom.

00:08:59.840 Let's go, baby.

00:09:01.100 So, all right, you can all duke it out.

00:09:02.760 Oh, I want Rand Paul because he's really good.

00:09:05.620 Oh, I want Ted Cruz.

00:09:06.520 He's extremely principled and conservative.

00:09:07.820 Oh, I want Mike Lee.

00:09:09.440 He's also extremely principled and conservative.

00:09:10.940 Oh, I want who?

00:09:11.580 Yeah, okay, you can duke that out.

00:09:13.520 I'm a Grassley man, baby.

00:09:15.240 Let's go.

00:09:16.380 90 is the new 80.

00:09:18.680 90 is the new 80, and 80 is the new 50.

00:09:21.200 So let's go.

00:09:21.940 Why not? 0.98

00:09:23.220 Turning to more important matters, women are psychos, according to a new study. 1.00

00:09:28.440 There's this new study out.

00:09:29.900 Where is it?

00:09:31.820 Oh, yes.

00:09:32.600 Okay.

00:09:32.920 I've got all of it written right here.

00:09:34.400 These are the important points.

00:09:35.540 Women, according to a new study from Anglia Ruskin University, conducted by Dr. Clive

00:09:41.800 Boddy, who's an expert in corporate psychopathy, these results are being presented at the Cambridge

00:09:49.840 Festival, shows that women are like five times more likely than we previously thought to be 1.00

00:09:56.580 psychopaths. 0.90

00:09:57.360 Now, we used to think that the vast majority of psychopaths were men, psychopaths meaning

00:10:03.420 people who don't feel empathy, who are extremely cold, who are extremely calculating, who – there

00:10:08.740 are all sorts of definitions of a psychopath versus a sociopath, but you get the idea, the

00:10:13.220 kind of person that Christian Bale played in that great movie in the 80s.

00:10:16.480 There is a difference between male and female psychopaths, according to this new study.

00:10:23.940 So, according to Dr. Boddy, female psychopaths tend to be more manipulative than males, and 0.99

00:10:29.600 they use different techniques to create good impressions and use deceit and sexually seductive

00:10:35.560 behavior to gain social and financial advantages more often than male psychopaths.

00:10:40.280 Stop the presses.

00:10:44.540 Hold on.

00:10:45.520 Pull over.

00:10:46.440 You're telling me that women are more likely to manipulate people based on their sex appeal 1.00

00:10:51.940 than men are?

00:10:53.060 Wow.

00:10:53.720 I'm so glad we have a scientific study to show us that.

00:10:56.200 It goes on.

00:10:57.000 Female psychopaths tend to use their words rather than violence to achieve their aims. 1.00

00:11:02.620 This is very different from how male psychopaths operate.

00:11:04.840 So, you're telling – hold on.

00:11:05.860 Hold on.

00:11:06.580 Slow down, doctor.

00:11:07.380 You're telling me that women, who are much, much physically weaker than men, tend to use 1.00

00:11:12.480 non-physical means of manipulation to achieve their ends compared to men who are more likely

00:11:17.440 to use their brute physical strength?

00:11:19.400 Wow.

00:11:20.220 What are the odds?

00:11:21.760 If female psychopathy expresses differently, then measures designed to capture and identify

00:11:25.940 male criminal psychopaths may be inadequate at identifying female non-criminal psychopaths.

00:11:31.860 Women also, it turns out, are not as severely psychopathic or psychopathic as often as males,

00:11:39.000 but nevertheless have been underestimated in their incidence levels and therefore are

00:11:43.900 more of a potential threat than others previously understand.

00:11:46.900 All of this, all of the scientific language on a kind of saucy, sexy topic like psychopathy,

00:11:52.020 all of that simply boils down to a basic fact that we've all forgotten in recent years, which

00:11:59.140 is that men and women are different.

00:12:01.020 That you could erase everything in the article, in the study, and just say men and women are

00:12:09.040 different.

00:12:09.700 And the scientists previously had underestimated the incidence of female psychopaths because 0.98

00:12:14.240 they made the same mistake that the feminists do. 1.00

00:12:17.040 They made the same mistake that so many modern people do, which is they're judging men and

00:12:23.120 women as if men and women are exactly the same. 0.73

00:12:26.080 So even the feminists, they say, if we really want to be empowered, we need to dress like 1.00

00:12:29.060 men, we got to act like men, we got to talk like men, we got to relate to our personal,

00:12:33.400 intimate lives and our professional lives like men.

00:12:35.300 No, ladies, what are you talking about? 1.00

00:12:36.860 You, women and men are different. 0.96

00:12:39.300 So if women want to really succeed at being women, they're going to do different things than 1.00

00:12:43.780 the men are going to do if they really want to succeed at being men, whether we're talking

00:12:47.320 about happiness in your personal life, whether we're talking about success in whatever kind

00:12:52.080 of vocational life you have, or whether we're talking about psychopathy, it's going to look

00:12:56.040 different for men and women.

00:12:58.180 Now, both men and women should subscribe to my YouTube channel.

00:13:00.980 Just ring that bell, ding the thing, ring the whatever the dude that is, and make sure you

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00:13:07.780 Speaking of women, I got to get to it. 1.00

00:13:09.980 I tried to avoid it.

00:13:11.080 I failed.

00:13:11.560 There's this video of white women in their, I don't know, anywhere from, say, their late 0.94

00:13:17.400 teens to their mid-twenties, dancing around at a gas station for some reason to some modern

00:13:25.700 music, and they've got, well, just take it away.

00:13:30.180 Okay, the women are dancing. 1.00

00:13:33.420 They're not particularly scantily clad.

00:13:35.840 I mean, the clothing is a little tight, you know, but it's not, you know, they're not wearing,

00:13:39.840 they're not belly dancing exactly, I don't know, and they've kind of, they've got their

00:13:43.980 Stanley cups, and they're wearing sweatshirts.

00:13:46.180 And they're not, it's not like exactly that they're bumping and grinding.

00:13:49.400 There aren't any men there.

00:13:51.680 They're jiggling in a way that's not, not quite a waltz.

00:13:55.180 But, okay, they're doing this, and, and what, and what, what the red pill bros are saying,

00:14:07.620 and even some of the really hardcore traditionalists, I'm fairly traditionalist myself, but some of

00:14:12.720 these people, they're saying that this is degenerate, that they're dancing to modern, 0.84

00:14:17.560 filthy, degenerate rap music. 0.98

00:14:19.040 They're jiggling around in a way that is debased and degrading. 0.99

00:14:23.100 This is a sort of a primitive sexual mating dance, that it's grotesque, it's repulsive. 0.98

00:14:30.500 Why would any self-respecting man ever want to even look at those women? 0.88

00:14:35.960 Okay, that's on one side of the debate.

00:14:37.960 Then on the other side of the debate, you have people saying,

00:14:41.020 and probably they are a little more accurate here.

00:14:44.040 Or the other side of the debate is saying, hey, there are just some women having fun. 1.00

00:14:47.700 It's not, you know, it's not that big a deal.

00:14:50.240 But even some of them will go further.

00:14:51.540 They'll say, this is good.

00:14:53.220 This is, there's nothing questionable whatsoever about this.

00:14:56.760 It's totally, I don't know, it's empowering, and it's great.

00:14:59.900 And I don't know, I guess I'm somewhere, I'm probably closer to the latter category on

00:15:06.160 this particular issue, but I'm somewhere in the middle.

00:15:08.180 Because I recognize, as Plato recognized, that music cuts directly into our soul.

00:15:13.300 So it surpasses the reason.

00:15:14.920 And music that is very percussive, music that, you know, has a real driving beat,

00:15:20.440 that can make you irrational.

00:15:23.060 You know, that can, it's just like any nightclub, right?

00:15:24.960 That's why nightclubs are all just like,

00:15:26.820 because it just gets you kind of moving and not thinking too much.

00:15:30.520 Because if people were conscious and rational at nightclubs,

00:15:33.500 they just wouldn't do any of the things that they do there.

00:15:35.780 So yeah, that's a fear.

00:15:37.260 It isn't the most attractive thing.

00:15:38.960 Like if I stumbled onto this scene,

00:15:40.400 my first instinct wouldn't be to just go and sweep one of those women off their feet. 1.00

00:15:44.120 It's fine.

00:15:44.640 I wouldn't, I'm not saying I would hate it.

00:15:47.040 You know, I'd be, I'd start vomiting or something, but I'm not, it's not,

00:15:49.660 I don't find it the most attractive.

00:15:51.160 I don't, it's, but you know where I really land on all of this?

00:15:55.640 I'm basically on the side of the women. 1.00

00:15:57.180 If they want to jiggle around at a gas station,

00:15:59.340 there are worse things to do these days.

00:16:01.820 I basically come down on the side of St. Thomas Aquinas.

00:16:04.780 You'll be shocked to hear.

00:16:06.500 Who writes in the Summa Theologiae

00:16:08.120 that human laws do not forbid all vices.

00:16:13.140 Let's say for a second that this kind of dancing,

00:16:15.580 it's not, you know, it's not the best.

00:16:17.900 It's not the best kind of music.

00:16:19.440 It's not the most elevated kind of dancing.

00:16:21.760 It's not the most conducive to human flourishing and a happy society.

00:16:26.740 But it's not, come on, man.

00:16:28.880 They're not like shooting up fentanyl here, okay? 0.96

00:16:30.960 They're just kind of doing a silly, goofy little dance on camera. 0.92

00:16:35.520 St. Thomas Aquinas reminds us,

00:16:36.760 human laws do not forbid all vices from which the virtuous abstain,

00:16:40.060 but only the more grievous vices from which it is possible for the majority to abstain.

00:16:45.180 Chiefly those that are to the hurt of others

00:16:47.640 without the prohibition of which human society could not be maintained.

00:16:50.920 Thus, human law prohibits murder, theft, and such like.

00:16:54.400 The purpose of human law is to lead men to virtue,

00:16:58.080 not suddenly, but gradually.

00:16:59.200 There's so much contained in the wisdom of St. Thomas Aquinas here,

00:17:03.080 which is, he starts off, St. Thomas Aquinas reacting to this goofy little video

00:17:09.360 of white women dancing with their Stanley Cups.

00:17:11.380 He says, look, look, red pill bros, you don't need to come down so hard on this, okay? 0.54

00:17:16.600 Human law, look, hey, listen, guys, maybe it's kind of a vice, I don't,

00:17:22.400 but human, this is not the sort of vice jiggling around with a Stanley Cup.

00:17:26.260 It's not the sort of vice that human law really has to protect.

00:17:29.480 And so then, all the libs and the libertarians, they'll say, yeah, that's right.

00:17:33.520 I'm so glad that you're on our side, St. Thomas Aquinas.

00:17:35.820 The point of law is not to curb vice.

00:17:38.800 And he says, whoa, whoa, whoa, hold up, liberals and libertarians.

00:17:41.480 Actually, that is the point of law.

00:17:42.920 The point of law is to lead people to virtue, and the point of law is to curb vice.

00:17:48.220 And so then the red pill guys and the ultra super duper trads, they say, yeah, that's right.

00:17:51.740 Thomas Aquinas is on our side.

00:17:52.840 But he says, whoa, whoa, whoa, hold on, guys.

00:17:56.300 Gradually, not suddenly.

00:17:59.040 You don't just ban everything immediately like you're in some Middle Eastern country

00:18:04.120 where they chop your head off if you show your ankle.

00:18:06.840 No, you do it gradually, then suddenly.

00:18:08.820 He goes on.

00:18:09.200 Wherefore, it does not lay upon the multitude of imperfect men the burdens of those who are already virtuous,

00:18:15.640 that they should abstain from all evil.

00:18:17.940 So this is really important because if you've cultivated any bit of virtue,

00:18:21.340 you'll notice that it's easier to do virtuous things, and it's easier to avoid falling into vice.

00:18:27.540 But if you haven't cultivated any virtue, if you're still mired in vice,

00:18:30.980 then it's really, really hard to pull yourself out.

00:18:34.020 It's just like any kind of addiction to drugs or to pornography or to jiggling around on social media with a Stanley Cup.

00:18:41.440 So it's very hard, and the law has to be accommodating of that.

00:18:45.500 And why?

00:18:46.000 Why does the law have to be accommodating?

00:18:48.220 At this point, it's the libs and the libertarians saying, yeah, you're on our side, St. Thomas Aquinas.

00:18:51.860 But he's saying, no, no, no.

00:18:52.660 It has to be accommodating, not because there's some right to do any of these things,

00:18:57.200 but because otherwise, quote, these imperfect ones being unable to bear such precepts would break out into yet greater evils.

00:19:05.660 So if you clamp down too hard, too suddenly on all these sorts of little vices where people are not prepared for them,

00:19:14.880 they're just going to crack, and they're going to go totally nuts.

00:19:17.440 We all can think about this in families.

00:19:21.020 We either have come from a family like this, or we know families like this, where the parents were so super-duper strict,

00:19:28.560 and maybe they didn't used to be strict, but they got super strict over time, that the kids rebel against that.

00:19:34.220 And the kids go way crazier than in the families that had a little bit of a lighter touch on things,

00:19:39.380 that were a little bit more agile in responding to the development of the children.

00:19:43.820 And then Thomas Aquinas concludes here, says, human law does not prohibit everything that is forbidden by the natural law.

00:19:53.360 What does that mean for the jiggling white girls? 1.00

00:19:55.500 It means if their goal is to attract a man, this probably is not going to be the most effective way to do it.

00:20:06.080 It's not the most attractive thing a woman could do. 1.00

00:20:08.220 Now, if the goal here is to just blow off some steam and have some fun,

00:20:14.500 there are actually probably more fun ways to have fun than dancing around to this bad music at a gas station. 0.96

00:20:22.480 But relative to the culture we're living in today, where we're chopping off little kids' genitals, 0.98

00:20:29.440 and there's all sorts of weird satanic orgies going on, 0.99

00:20:32.580 and we have Creepy Petto Island down there in the Caribbean,

00:20:35.000 and just this ugly, people don't even know the words that they're using anymore.

00:20:39.540 And we live in a culture of like Doja Cat and Little Nas X in popular music,

00:20:44.720 pretending to copulate with the very devil himself.

00:20:46.680 In that kind of culture, the white girls with the Stanley Cups, 1.00

00:20:51.860 dancing around in sweatshirts at the gas station,

00:20:55.000 it's probably okay.

00:20:57.840 It's probably okay, all right?

00:20:59.860 Call me a squish.

00:21:00.720 Call me in St. Thomas Aquinas a squish, if you dare. 0.99

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00:24:01.780 Now, speaking of millennials, there's some good news for millennials.

00:24:09.840 You always hear about all this terrible stuff with millennials, like they don't know anything, 1.00

00:24:12.860 and they're a subject to crippling debt, and they're not getting married,

00:24:15.380 they're not having kids, and they're not growing up, and all of that, I guess, is true. 1.00

00:24:18.660 But, at the very least, they're about to become loaded.

00:24:21.780 They are going to get rich, baby.

00:24:23.760 Millennials are on course to become the richest generation in history

00:24:28.420 because their parents and grandparents are dying.

00:24:32.240 So, the generational transfer of wealth, which was largely built up in property,

00:24:37.780 will amount to $90 trillion in the United States alone.

00:24:44.480 I guess this is good news for millennials.

00:24:47.220 Unfortunately, they don't have wives and husbands to share this transfer of property with. 1.00

00:24:52.800 They don't have kids to spend the money on.

00:24:55.280 So, millennials still have a lot of problems, and they better catch up with it. 0.97

00:24:57.480 But, all in all, the millennials who have been bemoaning their lot since,

00:25:02.020 I mean, I'm a millennial, so we've been doing that since high school.

00:25:05.360 And now, all of a sudden, they're about to become the richest generation in history

00:25:09.580 because we live in time and space.

00:25:15.280 So, you remember, especially a couple of years ago,

00:25:17.840 there was all this feisty debate over the boomers versus the millennials.

00:25:24.040 And there was that meme, okay, boomer, and this has been going on for years.

00:25:28.580 The millennials constantly whining about the boomers. 0.85

00:25:31.020 And look, the boomers, they were hippies, and they made a lot of mistakes.

00:25:33.960 But in part, they would say, you boomers, you had everything so easy.

00:25:39.600 College was really cheap when you went to college,

00:25:41.840 and you could buy your first homes for not very much money,

00:25:44.620 and your country was safer, and you had all of these advantages.

00:25:48.520 And we don't have those advantages.

00:25:50.200 We grew up in the financial crisis, and our college costs $150,000 to attend,

00:25:55.360 and we have debt, and we blah, blah, blah, whatever.

00:25:58.340 And all of that's, all of it's true.

00:26:00.520 Everything that they all accuse each other of, it's all true.

00:26:03.540 What people are forgetting is time.

00:26:07.160 So, eventually, the millennials are going to inherit what the boomers had 0.96

00:26:13.340 if the boomers didn't totally squander it. 0.84

00:26:15.900 But it's really hard to, I mean, even if they did squander it,

00:26:17.980 they're going to squander it on stuff that the millennials are going to inherit. 1.00

00:26:22.820 Liberals, modern people, forget about time.

00:26:27.020 It's a strange aspect of liberal modernity,

00:26:30.200 that we just want to take ourselves outside of time.

00:26:32.280 We want to deny that we age.

00:26:33.740 We want to deny that we die.

00:26:34.920 We're going to cure death.

00:26:35.880 We're never going to grow up.

00:26:36.960 We're going to be living in Peter Pan's Neverland forever and ever and ever.

00:26:39.580 But there is time.

00:26:40.880 And there's downsides of time.

00:26:42.360 You wrinkle and you die, I guess.

00:26:43.960 But there's upsides of time, too, which is that you mature.

00:26:47.820 Hopefully, you grow a family.

00:26:49.140 You grow in your skills and your wisdom and your career.

00:26:51.060 And you come into $90 trillion.

00:26:52.800 Now, this raises another unpopular aspect of social life that people always want to deny,

00:26:59.060 which is inheritance.

00:26:59.860 We're talking about inheritance here.

00:27:01.460 And in modern liberal life, we all think that's terrible.

00:27:05.340 We think you ought to just earn everything that you ever get.

00:27:08.080 And we all need to have a totally equal starting place.

00:27:11.800 And we're going to pull ourselves up by our bootstraps.

00:27:13.840 And just all that matters is what I earn for myself, not what I inherit.

00:27:16.940 That's a very modern idea.

00:27:18.980 Yes, you want to be your own man in many ways.

00:27:21.880 You want to achieve your own accomplishments.

00:27:23.660 But we live in a society.

00:27:28.240 We're not just atoms free-floating.

00:27:30.480 And we do inherit a lot, you know, to deny our inheritance.

00:27:36.200 I'm not even talking about a lot of us that didn't grow up with a lot of money.

00:27:40.140 But then some people did grow up with a lot of money, and then they'll inherit that money.

00:27:44.080 But there's an even greater inheritance, which is our cultural inheritance.

00:27:47.040 It's our national inheritance, our patrimony.

00:27:49.300 We inherit that.

00:27:51.660 And when we deny that, when we deny the reality and the good of inheriting stuff, 0.99

00:27:57.060 then all of a sudden, we look like prideful fools. 0.92

00:28:00.680 Because we're standing on the shoulders of giants, and we think that we're flying. 0.88

00:28:04.140 When the modern libs come out today, and they say,

00:28:05.800 we're the most moral, wonderful generation ever, because we're not racist.

00:28:12.400 Or whatever they say.

00:28:13.080 They actually, even by whatever racism means, they are racist.

00:28:15.980 But we are not, we're not colonial, or whatever, whatever nonsense they say.

00:28:23.580 Yeah, where do you get that from?

00:28:24.880 Where did you get that?

00:28:25.440 Where did those ideas, where are the ideas that are in your head come from?

00:28:28.140 They came from the hard work of many, many generations before you.

00:28:32.620 And you just inherited them.

00:28:33.640 You didn't come up with it.

00:28:34.620 You didn't invent this stuff.

00:28:35.960 You did very little on your own, actually.

00:28:38.100 You inherited a lot.

00:28:38.960 And one hopes that with what you have inherited, intellectually, culturally, even financially,

00:28:43.060 that you do good with it.

00:28:44.920 You don't bury your talents underground, but you actually do something with them and grow them.

00:28:50.420 But don't tell me that it was all just you, and you don't have any gratitude to anyone else for giving it to you.

00:28:56.880 That's not how life works.

00:28:59.320 I don't care if you have two pennies to your name.

00:29:01.360 You are the recipient of a great inheritance, which we can either use fruitfully or squander.

00:29:07.700 Speaking of America's future, we have a new candidate.

00:29:12.680 Well, no, we don't.

00:29:13.700 We have an old candidate who's new again in the Democrat race.

00:29:17.340 That would be Marianne Williamson for president. 0.98

00:29:21.760 Hey, I have an important announcement to make.

00:29:24.740 As of today, I am unsuspending my campaign for the presidency of the United States.

00:29:29.480 I had suspended it because I was losing the horse race.

00:29:32.240 But something so much more important than the horse race is at stake here, and we must respond.

00:29:38.300 Right now, we have a fascist standing at the door.

00:29:40.960 Everybody's all upset about it.

00:29:42.260 Well, we should be upset about it.

00:29:43.680 But we're not going to defeat the fascist by, well, by what?

00:29:47.680 What is President Biden offering?

00:29:49.500 He says, let's finish the job.

00:29:51.560 Well, I hope you realize we're talking about millions of voters for whom they can't even survive unless they work at two or three jobs.

00:29:59.380 Okay, so then she goes on.

00:30:01.280 You know, she's sort of a woo-woo new age. 0.95

00:30:03.820 She's a witch, actually. 0.99

00:30:04.840 In the most technical sense of that term, Marianne Williamson is a witch. 0.98

00:30:09.040 But she's a sort of amusing witch, and it's the Democratic Party. 0.92

00:30:12.420 So, you know, that's sort of par for the course there.

00:30:14.620 She's back in the race.

00:30:15.580 Why?

00:30:16.540 She doesn't quite explain herself all that well, does she?

00:30:19.540 She says, look, I dropped out of the race because I was losing.

00:30:23.600 But now I'm back in the race because so much more is at stake.

00:30:31.460 What?

00:30:32.300 There was always a lot at stake.

00:30:33.720 When you entered the race the first time, you thought there wasn't a lot at stake?

00:30:36.400 There's a fascist who might be.

00:30:38.860 Oh, Trump. 1.00

00:30:39.620 Trump's the fascist. 0.99

00:30:40.440 Okay, and now Trump's going to be the Republican nominee. 0.99

00:30:42.080 He was always going to be the Republican nominee.

00:30:43.820 You knew that.

00:30:45.160 So none of that changed.

00:30:47.480 No, what changed is when you dropped out, what changed was you realized you had no path to the nomination.

00:30:54.500 And now you're getting back in because you think you do have a path to the nomination.

00:30:57.460 And you're getting back in, and you think that because of Michigan.

00:31:01.880 So we talked yesterday about the results in Michigan for the Republican primary,

00:31:06.220 where Trump wins almost two-thirds of the vote, and Nikki Haley got somewhere around 30%.

00:31:11.400 And so it was a big win for Trump.

00:31:17.440 Joe Biden in the Democrat primary only got 81% of the vote.

00:31:22.220 Now, no one's really running.

00:31:23.660 There's that guy, I even forget his name, Phillips, something deep, something Phillips is running.

00:31:28.240 But, you know, no one's really voting for him.

00:31:30.080 So Biden gets 81%.

00:31:31.300 Where's the rest of the vote go?

00:31:32.460 In Michigan, 13.3% of the Democrat primary vote went to uncommitted.

00:31:40.220 That's 100,000 votes.

00:31:43.820 The margin of victory in a general election in Michigan could be nothing.

00:31:48.780 I mean, it could be less than that.

00:31:50.000 And 100,000 people are saying, even in a primary that is essentially unopposed, we are going to vote for none of the above with the incumbent president.

00:32:02.280 Biden is weak.

00:32:04.760 Now, I don't think that this sorceress, Marianne Williamson, is going to be the Democrat nominee. 0.99

00:32:10.300 But she could win some votes.

00:32:13.960 She could win some delegates.

00:32:15.340 She could get a lot of airtime.

00:32:17.000 That is how Joe Biden, as an incumbent president who's been in Washington for over 50 years.

00:32:22.900 He first got elected to the Senate in 1972, I believe.

00:32:26.280 He has been vice president of the United States.

00:32:27.700 He's the incumbent.

00:32:28.880 This guy can't even vanquish a kooky witch. 0.96

00:32:33.960 That is how weak the sitting president is.

00:32:36.280 Now, speaking of presidential candidates, Nikki Haley is also sticking in the race.

00:32:42.420 Nikki Haley has done better than a lot of people thought she would.

00:32:45.200 She's done almost exactly as well as I thought she would.

00:32:48.540 Because I do know there is a significant portion of the GOP base that just, or of the GOP, not exactly the rank-and-file voters, but of the GOP coalition broadly, that just hates Trump, just totally despises the guy.

00:33:02.360 And so they would like anyone else but him.

00:33:05.960 And Nikki Haley very wisely ran in the anti-Trump lane in the race, and so she still has that number of people.

00:33:12.540 But still, what is it?

00:33:13.960 20% here.

00:33:15.720 Even you get 30% somewhere else, or much lower in other states.

00:33:20.640 What is the argument for Nikki Haley to stay in the race?

00:33:24.140 She articulates it on CNN.

00:33:26.100 You're seeing the same thing whether you look at all the early states.

00:33:29.420 Donald Trump didn't get 40% of any of the Republican primary vote.

00:33:34.180 It is a problem.

00:33:35.940 He's not bringing people into the party.

00:33:39.100 He's pushing people out of the party.

00:33:41.360 The Republican Party is now not just changing based on tone.

00:33:46.260 It's changing based on policy.

00:33:48.580 Like what?

00:33:49.520 No longer is there any talk about fiscal responsibility.

00:33:53.040 That used to be a pillar for the Republican Party.

00:33:56.560 Yet you've got Donald Trump who put us $8 trillion in debt, more than any other president.

00:34:02.180 You've got Republicans now who opened up earmarks and pet projects again in Congress, passing through 7,000 of them last year.

00:34:09.140 Donald Trump's not talking anything about shrinking government, stopping spending, cutting out the waste, none of that.

00:34:16.420 And then he's changed the whole idea of peace through strength.

00:34:19.620 We used to always talk about the strength of our alliances.

00:34:22.580 Now you've got Donald Trump basically saying he's going to tell Putin to go and invade our allies who stood with us after 9-11.

00:34:30.740 It's all a shift.

00:34:32.660 Okay.

00:34:33.100 So she makes a few claims here. 0.99

00:34:35.540 Some of them.

00:34:36.040 Maybe I misheard her.

00:34:38.340 It sounded like at the beginning she was saying Trump wasn't getting more than 40% in the primaries.

00:34:43.720 And that was true in some of the earlier polls back when there were still other candidates in the primaries.

00:34:48.180 But now when we look at how he's actually performing in these states, he's winning majorities.

00:34:52.500 So most Republicans who are going out to vote are voting for Donald Trump to be the nominee.

00:34:57.120 So yes, most Republicans want Trump to be the nominee in 2024.

00:35:02.280 Then she goes on.

00:35:03.660 She says he's not bringing people into the party.

00:35:06.440 People are leaving the Republican Party.

00:35:07.880 She goes on to say Colorado has fewer registered Republicans now.

00:35:11.100 And you might attribute that to a number of things.

00:35:13.640 I mean, in some ways he appears to be bringing people into the Republican Party.

00:35:16.840 Especially you saw this in 2016.

00:35:18.440 People who had not voted much in the past would come in to vote for Donald Trump.

00:35:22.760 So he's changing who makes up the Republican Party to some degree.

00:35:27.040 Frankly, in a similar way to Ronald Reagan.

00:35:29.780 But it's true.

00:35:30.940 Some people are leaving the Republican Party because they don't like Trump.

00:35:33.140 So that 50-50.

00:35:34.660 Then she goes on.

00:35:35.520 And the most interesting point Nikki is making here is she says it's not just these numbers.

00:35:41.680 Okay.

00:35:41.800 It's not just the electability question.

00:35:44.360 He's changing the policies.

00:35:49.400 It's not just the polls.

00:35:51.400 It's not even just the rhetoric.

00:35:52.520 It's the policies.

00:35:53.780 He's changing the policies advocated by the Republican Party.

00:35:58.500 That is somewhat true.

00:36:02.400 It's not totally true.

00:36:03.580 In some ways, Trump governed like a moderate Republican.

00:36:06.160 But in many ways, Nikki Haley has a point here.

00:36:09.160 She's saying he's not talking about cutting spending.

00:36:10.960 That's true.

00:36:11.340 He's not.

00:36:12.120 Ten years ago, GOP was really big on talking about cutting spending.

00:36:15.900 Twenty years ago, the GOP didn't really talk about cutting spending.

00:36:18.520 And ten years ago, they did talk about cutting spending.

00:36:20.480 And the argument was we need to cut spending.

00:36:22.040 We need to get our fiscal house in order.

00:36:23.220 Then we can deal with the social issues.

00:36:24.880 Until then, we'll have a social truce.

00:36:26.700 None of that worked.

00:36:27.500 We elected the Tea Party, and it didn't work at all.

00:36:29.580 And I think the conclusion from that was you're actually not going to fix the fiscal issues until you get the social issues in line.

00:36:36.040 What even is a social issue?

00:36:37.280 We're talking about politics.

00:36:38.140 Politics is society.

00:36:39.680 So, of course, the social issues.

00:36:41.760 It's just like saying the political issues.

00:36:43.800 The issues that pertain to how individuals relate to one another, how families relate to one another, how people get along in society.

00:36:50.480 You've got to deal with that.

00:36:52.500 You're not going to fix our fiscal house if we've got a blown open southern border.

00:36:56.040 Okay, that's not going to happen.

00:36:58.000 She says, in all of the—he just—he's changed the Republican Party.

00:37:03.740 That is true.

00:37:05.420 That is true.

00:37:06.500 So, the question then you've got to ask yourself is, how was he able to do it?

00:37:10.860 How was this billionaire New York real estate TV reality star who'd been a tabloid celebrity for 40 years,

00:37:19.220 how was this guy able to come in on his first real run for office to win with no prior political experience the highest office in the land

00:37:28.260 and to totally take over the Republican Party, remake the RNC after his image, chase out the establishment guys?

00:37:33.740 How was he able to do it?

00:37:35.520 You might say it's just his unique political talent.

00:37:38.340 Yeah, he is uniquely talented.

00:37:40.020 There's no question.

00:37:41.600 But also, it's because the Republican Party had been so weakened.

00:37:45.460 It was so incoherent.

00:37:46.740 It had changed so much, and it was so dishonest with itself.

00:37:50.340 Even when Nikki Haley says here, he's dismantled peace through strength.

00:37:54.060 I don't agree with that.

00:37:56.360 Donald Trump, I think, was the best peace through strength president in my lifetime.

00:38:00.380 A lot of the so-called Reaganites later on would go on to say,

00:38:03.840 we're the stewards of the Reagan legacy. 0.67

00:38:05.840 Let's go bomb every country on Earth. 0.96

00:38:07.440 That was not Ronald Reagan's idea.

00:38:09.080 Ronald Reagan was downright dovish when it came to foreign policy.

00:38:11.680 Even when you talk about the Beirut barracks bombing, when 250 Americans were killed, American troops,

00:38:16.640 what does Reagan do? 1.00

00:38:17.860 Does he go in and start lighting up the whole Middle East? 0.97

00:38:21.560 No.

00:38:21.900 He pulled his troops out of Lebanon.

00:38:24.620 He was the most dovish president until Donald Trump in recent memory.

00:38:32.580 The peace through strength, the peace part is an important part.

00:38:35.340 And Trump did exercise military strength and aggression.

00:38:39.900 You know, he took out the top Iranian general.

00:38:41.600 He dropped the Moab. 0.82

00:38:42.740 He would do all sorts.

00:38:43.420 But even that, the GOP had just come to so misunderstand itself and the legacy of Ronald Reagan,

00:38:49.740 which it would exalt.

00:38:53.020 That gave the opportunity for Trump.

00:38:54.940 You know, for the GOP, the people who don't like Trump, maybe take a look in the mirror.

00:38:58.360 You know, before you accuse me, take a look at yourself.

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00:39:59.360 Wow.

00:40:00.080 Okay, speaking of old classics, Stephen Tyler, the lead singer of Aerosmith, has just been vindicated in court on a sexual assault claim from 1975.

00:40:15.220 We are now in the year of our Lord, 2024.

00:40:19.840 We are still litigating criminal claims from 1975.

00:40:26.040 A judge has dismissed a sexual assault lawsuit against Stephen Tyler.

00:40:31.400 Former model Jean Bellino claimed that the rocker, 75, groped her twice in 1975 when he was 27 and she was 17.

00:40:42.140 Okay, did Stephen Tyler do this?

00:40:46.640 I don't know if he did it or not.

00:40:48.140 He's a rock star, so like probably he did.

00:40:50.860 I don't really know.

00:40:53.040 But that's not really the point here.

00:40:55.380 The point is, should we be litigating cases 50 years later?

00:41:05.480 Criminal cases, allegations of sexual assault or whether we're talking about groping or anything else.

00:41:13.320 No, we should not.

00:41:15.320 How is any of this happening?

00:41:16.620 During the Me Too movement, remember the Me Too movement when Hollywood pretended all of a sudden to really care about sexual assault, even though Hollywood is the perpetrator of the sexual assault? 0.99

00:41:28.140 Even though it's all these Hollywood executives who are the most degenerate, filthy, lecherous people on planet Earth. 0.90

00:41:33.140 And all of a sudden, they started wearing little pins to the Golden Globes because Harvey Weinstein got caught. 0.94

00:41:40.320 It not even got caught.

00:41:41.260 Everyone knew that Harvey Weinstein was doing creepy stuff, but he finally had to pay some consequences for it because of a confluence of women speaking out and political circumstances. 0.99

00:41:49.620 So all of a sudden, all these other lecherous, degenerate, licentious animals, these satyrs, decided to put on a little button. 0.97

00:41:56.980 Time's up. 0.99

00:41:57.540 Me too.

00:41:58.300 I'm totally going to stop doing all the stuff that I've been doing for the best ever since the beginning of Hollywood.

00:42:03.660 And because of that, there was this mania that took hold in the culture, not just in Hollywood, but in our court systems all over the place, all around the country, to lift statutes of limitations.

00:42:14.360 So it used to be, you know, if you groped a groupie at a rock concert in the 70s, you couldn't be held accountable for it half a century later.

00:42:24.720 In the Me Too mania, they said, yes, you can.

00:42:28.200 Statutes of limitations are good.

00:42:30.500 And statutes of limitations are good because people change, because memories fade, because false memories set in.

00:42:40.580 That happens to so many people, to everyone to some degree.

00:42:44.360 And because society changes, and our understanding of the law changes.

00:42:48.720 You know, we're talking about culture and human law.

00:42:51.300 They change very much.

00:42:52.840 They change every few years.

00:42:54.980 We're talking about the big major shift in the Republican Party.

00:42:57.500 Well, think about the changes in our culture that occur over half of a century.

00:43:01.520 And to the point we were making earlier on the relation between the natural law and the human law, human law is a bit imperfect.

00:43:08.520 It is not synonymous with the eternal natural law.

00:43:11.440 It responds to changing circumstances and changing aspects of character and virtue in time and space among real people.

00:43:20.440 And no one wants to come out and defend statutes of limitations because then it sounds like you're defending, you know, groping or something like that.

00:43:27.160 But you're not.

00:43:28.480 You're defending the law.

00:43:29.980 You're defending the way human society really works.

00:43:34.120 It reminds me of Chesterton's fence.

00:43:35.920 Chesterton had this idea of the fence, which is you walk up, you see a fence in the middle of nowhere.

00:43:41.940 You don't have any idea what it's for.

00:43:43.740 You don't see what purpose it could possibly serve.

00:43:45.760 So you go to tear it down, right?

00:43:47.680 No.

00:43:48.320 Wrong.

00:43:49.020 You don't tear it down.

00:43:50.580 The first thing you ought to do is figure out what the fence was put up for in the first place.

00:43:55.580 Then and only then should you consider tearing it down.

00:44:00.960 Same thing here, folks.

00:44:02.420 Statutes of limitations seem like a pretty wise thing.

00:44:05.160 And rockers, for all their sins, I don't think we ought to be throwing them in jail or holding them to massive civil penalties for things they may or may not have done that people may or may not have remembered 50 years ago.

00:44:16.220 So speaking of a blast from the past, I have the dumbest news story I've seen in days.

00:44:22.440 And it's personal to me because you all know how much I love Dante, the poet.

00:44:27.420 He's my main man.

00:44:28.840 He's one of my main men.

00:44:30.620 Love the guy.

00:44:32.600 He was a Florentine poet and politician who lived around the year 1300 and was exiled.

00:44:40.960 He wrote the Divine Comedy and died in exile.

00:44:43.760 Okay, really exciting story.

00:44:46.420 People were sending this to me.

00:44:47.340 They said, oh, Michael, this should interest you.

00:44:49.460 Headline, meet the man who created our vision of hell.

00:44:52.740 Scientists reconstruct the face of Dante for the first time in more than 700 years.

00:45:00.140 All of a sudden, already, I was thinking, hold on, wait, what?

00:45:03.680 And then the sub-headline, Dante Alighieri was the first to describe the journey into heaven, hell, and purgatory.

00:45:10.240 First of all, I don't think that's quite fair to say.

00:45:12.160 I think, like, St. Paul described some of these things, the Christian mystics.

00:45:17.280 But, of course, we've covered in recent days, journalists don't really know anything about Christianity or history or art.

00:45:23.300 So, okay, he was the first to describe the journey into heaven, whatever.

00:45:26.680 Using his skull, scientists have digitally recreated his appearance for the first time.

00:45:32.220 That isn't true.

00:45:35.960 And I know, really, nobody knows anything about Christianity or history or art or whatever.

00:45:40.020 And really, no one knows anything about Dante.

00:45:42.780 But it just happens to be a niche interest of mine.

00:45:45.440 And so, the reason I know that that claim is false is because we have Dante's death mask.

00:45:51.160 We have, like, a funerary mask.

00:45:53.740 There's a custom in Florence or in Ravenna, where Dante died, of when you die, they'd make a mask out of your face.

00:46:00.520 So, they just kind of know what you look like.

00:46:02.040 And we have that.

00:46:02.900 We have actually several copies of it.

00:46:04.560 And they all look the same because it's his face.

00:46:08.200 That's his face.

00:46:08.740 And that's what it looked like when he died.

00:46:11.800 Not so much as a Google search.

00:46:13.580 And so, why do I mention this?

00:46:15.000 Just because I love Dante?

00:46:16.040 Just because journalists don't know anything?

00:46:17.840 No.

00:46:18.320 This, to me, is the most perfect example of modern science.

00:46:24.400 This is so science-y.

00:46:27.260 Science comes in.

00:46:27.960 And they say, you know, we've conducted a major study, groundbreaking scientific analysis,

00:46:33.420 with experts from Harvard and Yale and Princeton and MIT.

00:46:37.220 And they've all discovered that it turns out men and women are different.

00:46:41.180 Can you imagine?

00:46:42.140 Look at all these statistics and numbers and studies.

00:46:44.980 Science.

00:46:46.380 Can you?

00:46:46.640 Yeah.

00:46:46.960 Wow.

00:46:47.320 That's amazing.

00:46:47.840 Because every illiterate medieval peasant also knew that.

00:46:50.980 And probably knew it better than most of the modern people at all of the fancy universities,

00:46:56.260 many of whom don't actually acknowledge the difference between men and women.

00:46:59.860 Do you know, for the first time, based on the skull that we have found,

00:47:03.100 and we had a computer model based on AI, and then we did this,

00:47:06.120 and now we know what Dante looks like.

00:47:08.800 Oh, yeah.

00:47:09.400 So did medieval peasants, because they could see Dante's, they could see his death mask.

00:47:15.060 Yeah.

00:47:15.420 We think that we've invented everything. 1.00

00:47:18.400 We think that everyone that ever came behind us was just a big, dumb, stupid idiot. 1.00

00:47:23.820 And the irony is, the more that we hold that view, the more inclined we are to believe that, 1.00

00:47:28.440 the dumber and stupider and more idiotic we seem compared to the men who came before us. 1.00

00:47:36.500 Okay. 1.00

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00:47:38.960 I have a guest, a friend of mine is coming in, Isabel Brown.

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