The Michael Knowles Show - March 07, 2024


Ep. 1441 - Nikki Haley Out, Woolly Mammoths In？


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Nikki Haley announces her decision to suspend her campaign, clearing the final hurdle for President Trump to clinch the nomination. But what does that mean for the rest of the 2020 Republican primary race? And what does it mean for 2020?

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00:00:30.000 The 2024 Republican presidential primary is officially over as Nikki Haley suspends her
00:00:36.700 campaign, clearing the last hurdle for President Trump to clinch the nomination.
00:00:42.300 We all knew it was coming, as I mentioned on the show yesterday,
00:00:46.480 and Nikki made her formal announcement just moments after our show wrapped yesterday.
00:00:51.320 But as I said then, the interesting thing about Nikki's concession was never going to be
00:00:55.880 whether or not it happened.
00:00:57.380 It was always going to happen.
00:00:59.160 There just wasn't a path to victory.
00:01:01.180 The interesting aspect was always going to be how she would do it.
00:01:06.720 As I've said from the beginning, I really like Nikki Haley personally, and I think she's a very
00:01:09.720 talented politician.
00:01:11.160 But as Nikki continued to double down, even as the nomination seemed further and further out of reach
00:01:17.860 and the money was running out, the problem for the Haley campaign was that it could not find an off-ramp.
00:01:23.920 It couldn't figure out how to claim any kind of victory and save any kind of face and just end it until yesterday.
00:01:31.460 I am filled with the gratitude for the outpouring of support we've received from all across our great country.
00:01:38.620 But the time has now come to suspend my campaign.
00:01:42.020 I said I wanted Americans to have their voices heard.
00:01:46.180 I have done that.
00:01:48.460 I have no regrets.
00:01:50.660 And although I will no longer be a candidate, I will not stop using my voice for the things I believe in.
00:01:57.740 So that was the reasoning.
00:01:59.360 The reasoning was we promised to give voters a choice, and we did.
00:02:03.220 We made it to Super Tuesday, voters had their choice, and they chose Trump.
00:02:09.360 So then the question for Nikki was, would she follow the voters' decision?
00:02:15.340 Would she adhere to the RNC pledge that she and the other candidates, except for Trump, signed to endorse the eventual nominee?
00:02:24.080 Would she endorse Trump as well?
00:02:27.020 In all likelihood, Donald Trump will be the Republican nominee when our party convention meets in July.
00:02:34.280 I congratulate him and wish him well.
00:02:37.640 I wish anyone well who would be America's president.
00:02:41.400 Our country is too precious to let our differences divide us.
00:02:46.660 I have always been a conservative Republican and always supported the Republican nominee.
00:02:52.200 But on this question, as she did on so many others, Margaret Thatcher provided some good advice when she said, quote,
00:03:02.600 Never just follow the crowd.
00:03:05.320 Always make up your own mind.
00:03:08.260 It is now up to Donald Trump to earn the votes of those in our party and beyond it who did not support him.
00:03:14.900 And I hope he does that.
00:03:16.480 Now, this is the most perfectly political answer I have perhaps ever seen.
00:03:23.760 It's just so crafty.
00:03:27.760 Nikki has always supported the Republican nominee, which means she's supported Trump twice.
00:03:32.980 She's always supported the Republican nominee.
00:03:34.440 She supported Trump in 16.
00:03:35.640 She supported Trump in 20, which should appease the Trump supporters, right?
00:03:39.880 It seems to insinuate that she'll support this time around as well.
00:03:44.320 But she's refusing to endorse Trump outright, which should appease Trump's GOP political opponents.
00:03:53.200 And she's even leaving open the possibility that she could endorse Joe Biden.
00:03:58.080 Probably wouldn't, but maybe she could.
00:03:59.820 Depends.
00:04:00.180 What if Joe Biden offered her some really sweet post in the administration?
00:04:04.740 She could switch parties.
00:04:06.440 It's so perfectly political that everyone will hate it.
00:04:12.940 This answer is so perfectly political that it's supposed to appease everyone, and actually everyone is going to hate it, just like at the end of Trump's other GOP primary in 2016.
00:04:22.900 So the toughest rival to Trump leaves it ambiguous.
00:04:28.060 He will have to earn Republicans' votes.
00:04:32.160 Except he won't.
00:04:33.720 He won't.
00:04:34.760 He'll have to earn the votes of independents.
00:04:37.180 He'll have to earn the votes of some Democrats, maybe.
00:04:40.300 He'll have to motivate the party to show up in November.
00:04:43.200 But he won't have to earn the support of Republicans.
00:04:46.100 That part is over.
00:04:47.940 Trump is the nominee.
00:04:49.480 I'm Michael Knowles.
00:04:50.160 This is The Michael Knowles Show.
00:04:52.900 Welcome back to the show.
00:05:10.940 The funniest clip of the entire Republican presidential primary at this point occurred just a day or so ago when Fox News had to cut away from a local voter, a woman in a diner, saying that she would not, under any circumstances, vote for a woman, period, no matter who that woman was.
00:05:28.520 So we'll get to that in a moment.
00:05:29.720 It was really charming.
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00:05:43.520 We focused on the Republican side.
00:05:45.600 There is a Democrat primary, and I'm not even talking about Bobby Kennedy or Cornel West or the woo-woo new age lady, Marianne Williamson. 0.73
00:05:52.580 There was a Democrat challenger in this race, and that person is Dean Phillips.
00:05:57.680 Of course, you've maybe heard of him on this show.
00:06:01.500 Otherwise, you probably haven't even heard of him.
00:06:04.240 He's a congressman who voted with Biden, I think, actually 100% of the time.
00:06:10.800 So he's a total liberal Democrat, and he was just running as Biden but younger.
00:06:15.500 And most people didn't even know he was running, and he just dropped out.
00:06:19.300 And he dropped out.
00:06:20.220 I can't even read you the whole tweet.
00:06:22.820 The tweet is one, two, three, four, five, six paragraphs long.
00:06:27.680 That is more paragraphs than supporters of his campaign.
00:06:31.420 But it goes on.
00:06:32.060 In 2011, I hosted this and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
00:06:34.880 But here's the meat of his dropping out.
00:06:36.800 He says, I ran for president in 2024 to resist Donald Trump again because Americans were demanding an alternative, and democracy demands options.
00:06:45.500 But it is clear that alternative is not me, and it is clear that Joe Biden is our candidate and our opportunity to demonstrate what type of country America is and intends to be.
00:06:54.120 I ask you to join me in mobilizing, energizing, and doing everything you can to help keep a man of decency and integrity in the White House.
00:07:02.120 That's Joe Biden.
00:07:04.620 Okay.
00:07:05.660 Okay, Dean.
00:07:06.580 Sure.
00:07:07.420 Bye.
00:07:09.260 Who are you again?
00:07:10.900 Okay, yeah.
00:07:12.620 Man of decency.
00:07:13.560 Nothing says decency and integrity like Joe Biden, one of the most callous, nasty liars in American politics.
00:07:22.160 But okay, Dean, that's fine.
00:07:24.220 Bye.
00:07:24.720 There was never much of a primary on the Democrat side.
00:07:28.380 Bobby Kennedy was never going to be the nominee.
00:07:30.420 That's why he realized that.
00:07:31.560 He realized even if he had support, the Democrat Party wouldn't let him.
00:07:35.000 So he's running independent, might run libertarian now.
00:07:37.860 Marianne Williamson going nowhere.
00:07:39.240 Where this guy, you know, the problem for a guy like Dean Phillips is, is the same problem as you saw for a guy like Ron DeSantis.
00:07:48.440 Which is, if your candidacy is, I'm just the better version of this other guy, bigger, better, faster, stronger.
00:07:59.380 And the other guy is in the race.
00:08:02.640 People are going to want the other guy.
00:08:04.180 They're going to, there's no, there's no substitute for the real thing.
00:08:08.180 Okay.
00:08:08.720 And so even if you can make all these arguments, even putting aside the Trump-DeSantis race for a second, Dean Phillips is obviously a better version of Joe Biden in that he still knows what his name is.
00:08:18.720 And he can speak coherently and he's energetic.
00:08:21.120 And so he could do, he's wealthy, he's got all these great traits and he believes all the stuff that Joe Biden believes, which I guess is nothing because I don't think Joe Biden is a particularly convicted politician.
00:08:30.220 But in any case, yeah, sure, he's way better.
00:08:33.420 And so what?
00:08:34.820 Biden's the guy and Trump's the guy and we're getting a rematch.
00:08:39.400 Now, you're going to hear, just like in 2016, you heard one weird trick that could give Bernie Sanders the nomination.
00:08:45.980 You know, no, actually, they might take it away from Trump.
00:08:48.040 No, you're still going to hear, actually, maybe the Democrat nominee will be Michelle Obama.
00:08:56.600 Here's one weird trick to get Biden out of the spot.
00:08:59.900 It's not going to happen.
00:09:00.980 I've said it from the beginning.
00:09:02.420 And now Michelle Obama is saying it too.
00:09:05.280 According to Crystal Carson, the director of communications for the Michelle Obama office, as former first lady Michelle Obama has expressed several times over the years, she will not be running for president.
00:09:16.000 Mrs. Obama supports President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris's re-election campaign.
00:09:21.920 Simple as.
00:09:23.020 All sorts of people, especially on the right, love to get so excited about all these secret theories.
00:09:30.880 Here's what they're going to do.
00:09:32.580 They're going to let Joe keep on pretending to be the nominee.
00:09:35.580 And then at the convention, the five delegates with the superdelegates and the Illuminati and the aliens are going to come down and they're going to swap the bodies of Joe Biden and Michelle Obama.
00:09:47.600 And then they're going to reanimate the corpse of Franklin Roosevelt and the ticket is going to be Grover Cleveland and Thomas Jefferson.
00:09:56.060 No, no, it's not.
00:09:57.680 None of those things are going to happen.
00:09:59.360 Michelle never wanted to run.
00:10:00.340 There was no reason for her to run.
00:10:01.760 She's already had the pleasure of being in the White House.
00:10:05.480 She's already had the pleasure of the fame and the power and the influence. 0.98
00:10:10.100 And now she's making money and living a private life and doesn't have to put up with all the strabats.
00:10:15.220 Running for president is a brutal, brutal experience.
00:10:19.240 I'm not sure there's anything quite so brutal in public life or ever has been.
00:10:23.900 Probably not since antiquity when, you know, the stakes were, you know, if you lost, they'd kill you.
00:10:30.120 And frankly, we seem to be approaching that point again in America.
00:10:34.240 So, no, she never wanted it.
00:10:35.660 There was no reason for her to do it.
00:10:37.780 She's out.
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00:11:54.280 My favorite clip from the entire 2024 Republican presidential primary came just a couple of nights ago on Super Tuesday when Fox News was visiting a diner in Allen, Texas.
00:12:08.860 Nikki Haley was still in the race, and the Fox News host asked one of the diners before an entire Fox News panel that was remote, probably in New York, said, so, you know, who are you voting for?
00:12:22.120 What do you think?
00:12:23.040 What's your view of Nikki Haley?
00:12:24.440 Here's the answer.
00:12:25.760 NBC just reported that Michelle Obama has said she will not run for president.
00:12:30.880 Thank God.
00:12:32.420 Yes.
00:12:33.540 Ainsley said, I would love the reaction from a woman in the crowd. 0.95
00:12:36.880 I wouldn't vote for a woman, and especially, you know, Nikki Haley, I'm just going to say this.
00:12:43.160 She's probably menopausal. 1.00
00:12:44.640 We don't need that.
00:12:46.000 Okay.
00:12:46.500 She said, how about we vote for people regardless of their gender, just the right person for the job for America. 0.86
00:12:51.800 Yeah.
00:12:52.340 Hey, thanks so much, Will.
00:12:53.960 That's kind of interesting.
00:12:56.340 That's not what she said.
00:12:58.040 Hold on.
00:12:58.900 Hold on.
00:12:59.360 You are putting words in her mouth, sir.
00:13:02.000 That's not.
00:13:02.760 Yes, yes.
00:13:03.600 Hold on.
00:13:03.840 Let me translate that for you.
00:13:04.960 She said, we totally love women presidents, and women should definitely be president, as long as they're good for the job. 1.00
00:13:11.320 I didn't say that.
00:13:12.780 I said I would never vote for a woman. 1.00
00:13:14.900 What are you talking about, you man?
00:13:17.600 That typical man erasing the political voice of a woman who wants to articulate her view that a woman should never be president. 0.95
00:13:25.700 So great.
00:13:29.880 I love it.
00:13:30.500 And Fox just can't.
00:13:32.720 Fox just is institutionally incapable of having fun with an answer like that or even permitting a woman to articulate her view that she wants a guy to be president. 0.98
00:13:42.580 The funny thing about it, though, is I know a number of people who would not want a woman to be president. 0.99
00:13:51.840 I know a number of people who have said, I would not vote for a woman to be president because she is a woman. 1.00
00:13:59.460 And the craziest thing about that is that most of those people that I know who feel that way are women. 0.60
00:14:07.880 That woman who Fox interviewed and then regretted interviewing, in my experience, is not the aberration.
00:14:15.640 Most of the people, it's just anecdote, but the plural of anecdote, I suppose, is data.
00:14:22.080 Most of the people who don't want a woman to be president might just be women, okay? 1.00
00:14:28.100 Maybe it's because they know women better than we do. 0.73
00:14:29.720 I don't know.
00:14:30.200 I don't know.
00:14:30.560 I'm not venturing any guesses.
00:14:32.120 I'm not making any statements about that woman's declaration.
00:14:36.580 Just pointing out it's a delightful clip.
00:14:39.160 Washington Post is more somber about Haley's exit in the race.
00:14:44.160 The Washington Post says, Haley exits the race and proves the Reagan GOP is no more.
00:14:55.240 That's it.
00:14:56.900 R.I.P. Ronald Reagan.
00:14:59.800 R.I.P. Ronald Reagan.
00:15:02.620 Ronald Reagan left office 35 years ago.
00:15:06.980 Ronald Reagan was elected president 43 years ago.
00:15:10.940 And he was the oldest president ever at that point.
00:15:14.160 Ronald Reagan first came on the political scene in the 1960s.
00:15:21.660 And then he left office 35 years ago.
00:15:23.780 And then he made his last public appearance 30 years ago.
00:15:26.420 And then he died 20 years ago.
00:15:28.880 I love Ronald Reagan as much as the next guy.
00:15:31.740 Let the man die.
00:15:33.120 Let the man rest in peace.
00:15:34.880 Good grief, you people.
00:15:36.480 You just want to reanimate his corpse.
00:15:38.780 That's what they all want to do.
00:15:40.060 They do the same thing to William F. Buckley Jr.
00:15:41.940 Another man I love.
00:15:43.100 I wrote the foreword, the new introduction to William F. Buckley Jr.'s most famous book, God and Man at Yale.
00:15:49.260 I was the first Buckley Fellow in the inaugural class of Buckley Fellows at Yale.
00:15:54.300 I love the man, okay?
00:15:56.120 This is no knock on Reagan.
00:15:57.660 This is no knock on Buckley.
00:15:59.080 But good grief, let these people die.
00:16:01.860 They did their time.
00:16:02.940 They fought their battles.
00:16:03.800 Now we can deal with ours. 0.52
00:16:06.520 We can fight ours.
00:16:07.580 And frankly, the people today who most ostentatiously claim the mantle of the Reaganites and the Buckleyites,
00:16:17.720 these people are the least like their supposed heroes in American politics.
00:16:28.040 Ronald Reagan was not a Reaganite.
00:16:31.080 Ronald Reagan was a trailblazer.
00:16:32.920 He helped change the Republican Party.
00:16:35.660 Ronald Reagan, he came up with the slogan, make America great again.
00:16:39.860 Ronald Reagan advocated tariffs when they were in the American national interest.
00:16:43.960 Ronald Reagan was seen as heralding a kind of religious revival in America,
00:16:47.880 even though he personally had a somewhat unorthodox kind of religiosity.
00:16:53.580 He was larger than life.
00:16:55.180 He was a big Hollywood star.
00:16:56.660 Sound familiar?
00:16:57.700 Does that sound familiar?
00:16:58.660 Because today what we are told is that the Trump movement or the MAGA movement is a total betrayal of the Reagan movement.
00:17:05.640 It's a total betrayal of the conservative movement of William F. Buckley Jr.
00:17:09.420 I just think it's all ridiculous.
00:17:11.340 And frankly, many of the people who claim to be the Reaganites and the Buckleyites of today, I think that the opposite is true, actually.
00:17:22.700 It's amazing how much a man's legacy can be distorted and perverted over the years.
00:17:27.760 You know, when you hear people inveighing against a new McCarthyism, oh, this new kind of persecution in American politics, this new revanchist right wing.
00:17:40.780 I think, you know, William F. Buckley Jr. wrote a book defending Joe McCarthy, said that McCarthyism is a political movement around which all Americans of strong moral fiber can rally.
00:17:50.120 Okay, give me a break.
00:17:51.820 Ronald Reagan was the one who shook up the Republican Party conservative establishment.
00:17:55.620 The whole premise, I think, is dubious.
00:17:59.260 Even the notion that Donald Trump, he's for a weak American policy.
00:18:05.420 He doesn't want to be terribly involved all around the world.
00:18:07.980 Ronald Reagan, he was the one who would send in the tanks.
00:18:10.640 He just wanted to go bomb every country on earth.
00:18:12.900 That's ridiculous.
00:18:13.780 Even when Americans were attacked in the Beirut barracks bombings, what did Reagan do?
00:18:17.680 He didn't retaliate, and he withdrew all the troops from Beirut.
00:18:21.520 Who better typifies the spirit of Reagan and the spirit of Buckley?
00:18:30.320 Is it the people who claim their mantle today, many of whom are squish, half-lib types like Liz Cheney? 0.83
00:18:36.680 Or is it the conservatives, the ones who have a little bit of a populist streak?
00:18:42.640 Even this notion that the old, the really high-minded conservative movement of William F. Buckley and Ronald Reagan would never have indulged in this sort of populism.
00:18:52.200 William F. Buckley Jr. famously said that he would rather be governed by the first 2,000 people in the Boston phone book than by the faculty of Harvard College.
00:18:59.600 That's the most populist statement I can possibly imagine.
00:19:03.020 Ridiculous.
00:19:05.100 Reagan's GOP is no more.
00:19:06.360 Reagan's GOP is no more because he died 20 years ago and because he left office 35 years ago.
00:19:11.400 But the spirit of Ronald Reagan is, you know, he expressed an aspect of a conservative spirit that long predated him and will survive, I hope, long after him.
00:19:23.260 And if you're asking me which side of the GOP, the more hardcore right-wing side or the squishy side, which better exemplifies that spirit today?
00:19:32.540 I think it's very clearly the former.
00:19:33.960 Now, speaking of things associated with Trump, Diet Coke might be very bad for your health.
00:19:41.840 There's a new study out, a shocking study.
00:19:45.000 If you're driving, pull over.
00:19:45.900 If you're standing up, sit down.
00:19:47.380 Diet drinks with the artificial sweeteners apparently greatly increase your risk of an irregular heartbeat.
00:19:55.460 Drinking two liters or more per liters.
00:19:57.300 I don't know how I feel about it.
00:20:01.060 You know, when I drank Diet Coke, I would drink it by the gallon.
00:20:04.680 But okay, two liters, that's a two-liter bottle, or more per week of artificially sweetened beverages.
00:20:10.360 The equivalent of a medium-sized fast food diet soda a day raised the risk of an irregular heartbeat called atrial fibrillation by 20% when compared to people who drank none, a new study found.
00:20:20.360 Drinking a similar number of added sugar beverages, so, you know, regular soda or, you know, other kind of drinks like that, raised the risk of the condition by 10%, so not quite as much as the diet sodas.
00:20:33.360 And drinking four ounces of pure unsweetened juice, orange juice, vegetable juice, whatever, was associated with an 8% lower risk of atrial fibrillation, according to this study.
00:20:44.260 Why do I even mention it?
00:20:45.800 I remember when I was a kid, truly, I grew up on diet beverages.
00:20:48.420 I drank diet peach Snapple.
00:20:51.520 That was basically my blood type.
00:20:53.540 If we ran out of diet peach Snapple, I drank diet raspberry Snapple.
00:20:57.680 If we ran out of diet raspberry Snapple, I drank Diet Coke.
00:21:00.780 And worst case, I drank Diet Pepsi.
00:21:02.500 It was just diet all the way down.
00:21:04.420 And it was the 90s, that's what everyone did.
00:21:06.440 And I actually do remember I had like, I had a little bit of an irregular heartbeat for a little while.
00:21:11.960 And so I'm not surprised at all, just anecdotally.
00:21:14.520 But we should not be surprised today to read these things.
00:21:19.040 Because outside the realm of soda or drugs or whatever you put into your body, conservatives ought to know, nothing in life is free.
00:21:28.860 There's no such thing as a free lunch.
00:21:30.580 There's no such thing as a free calorie.
00:21:32.080 There's no such thing as a free soda.
00:21:35.780 Everything has a cost.
00:21:39.100 And I know President Covfefe loves the Diet Cokes and the man's apparently just absolutely unbreakable and indestructible.
00:21:48.400 But for everyone else, it's an important political lesson, regardless of what you drink at lunchtime.
00:21:54.700 Everything has a cost.
00:21:55.900 If something seems too good to be true, it probably is too good to be true.
00:21:59.200 And in this case, it's amazing we're finding out 30, 40, 50 years later that just pumping your body full of artificial chemicals that are intended to mimic sugar so that you don't become a little too chubby for having so many Coca-Colas,
00:22:13.140 that that actually might have a deleterious effect on your health.
00:22:17.640 Shocking.
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00:22:56.520 When I was at the clinic, after they told me how far along I was and that the baby had a heartbeat, I cried and they gave me a minute by myself in the room.
00:23:08.500 I broke down and I prayed to God.
00:23:10.780 I asked the Lord to, when I walk out of those doors, to just give me the strength to be able to go through the pregnancy.
00:23:18.380 I made my decision at that time.
00:23:19.880 Treasure I chose because I know that she was a gift from God and she's just going to be a treasure.
00:23:25.520 I'm super grateful that I'm able to go down this journey with my daughter and I'm just super glad that I didn't have abortion.
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00:23:42.580 Speaking of modern science, scientists might bring the woolly mammoth back to life.
00:23:48.920 I've been hearing about this since I was a little kid, that actually in the tundra and in Siberia and in Canada, they've found these fairly well-preserved remains of woolly mammoths, not just fossils, but actually like flesh and meat.
00:24:05.860 There was one scientist who, it was so well-preserved, not only have they taken DNA samples, one scientist actually ate a piece of the mammoth meat that is, you know, many thousands of years old.
00:24:17.240 Pretty gross.
00:24:17.720 Scientists now believe that they are on the cusp of bringing something like the woolly mammoth back to life.
00:24:25.360 And the something like is the key here.
00:24:26.940 Because you, the question is, can you really bring an extinct animal back to life?
00:24:34.720 And from a biological standpoint, what they would have to do here is they would take these elephant stem cells.
00:24:41.220 So they have a line of Asian elephant stem cells, and stem cells are very malleable, so they can be coaxed to transform into other types of cells.
00:24:49.120 So they're going to take the Asian elephant stem cells, and they're going to coax them into behaving like the woolly mammoth cells.
00:24:57.420 And then, because woolly mammoths and elephants are very similar, they're going to try to gestate the woolly mammoth in some kind of elephant womb.
00:25:08.540 And then what?
00:25:11.740 One ethical question.
00:25:13.120 Is it okay?
00:25:13.640 It's the Jurassic Park question.
00:25:14.860 We spent so long asking if we could.
00:25:19.320 We never asked if we should.
00:25:20.800 I'm getting the line a little bit wrong, but that's the question.
00:25:22.640 Should we bring an extinct animal back to life?
00:25:25.760 And two, can we?
00:25:29.440 Let's ask the should first.
00:25:32.160 I really have no problem with it in principle.
00:25:35.260 It's funny because these days, people have no problem on the left, and even in a lot of quarters of the right,
00:25:41.360 they have no problem with tinkering around with the origins and destiny of human life.
00:25:46.260 But they have some ethical qualms about doing it to hairy elephants.
00:25:49.580 They say, oh, with human beings, yeah, we're going to create human beings in a test tube, 0.78
00:25:52.700 and we're going to make them to order.
00:25:54.280 So, you know, you want blonde hair and blue eyes and a certain sex, 0.99
00:25:57.100 and they're going to be bigger, better, faster, stronger, and you're going to pay us $200,000,
00:26:00.440 and we're just going to mix up all these little ingredients in a petri dish,
00:26:03.660 and then we're going to freeze or kill most of the ones that we don't use.
00:26:07.580 But some, we're going to create your designer baby for you.
00:26:09.940 No ethical problem whatsoever.
00:26:11.640 Not only are the Democrats for it, not only are they making this apparently a centerpiece of the 2024 campaign,
00:26:16.940 even a lot of Republicans are saying they're for it.
00:26:18.840 No ethical problems at all.
00:26:21.060 Oh, but hold on.
00:26:21.780 You want to make a hairy elephant? 1.00
00:26:23.480 I don't know.
00:26:24.200 We need to bring the ethicists in, don't we?
00:26:26.220 Oh, I don't know.
00:26:26.880 What's the morality of that?
00:26:28.720 Call me crazy.
00:26:29.360 I care more about the human being, the little human baby, than I do about the hairy elephant.
00:26:35.900 I think the human baby has more moral significance than the hairy Siberian elephant does.
00:26:42.980 In principle, I have no problem with bringing this woolly mammoth back to life,
00:26:47.100 because we are the stewards of creation, and that's the birds and the fish and the plants and the animals.
00:26:53.940 And we do this all the time.
00:26:55.380 We breed animals in a particular way to help us or even just for our amusement.
00:27:00.340 I think of the bulldog, which is a kind of hereditary anomaly that we've created,
00:27:05.040 a kind of ghastly monster who's really, really cute.
00:27:08.260 But that's just a result of a particular kind of breeding that gave them the flat face
00:27:14.140 and the curly little tail and the breathing problems, and they don't move that much.
00:27:18.120 And anyway, I don't have a problem with it.
00:27:20.360 We're the stewards of creation.
00:27:22.240 But then you get to the, can we?
00:27:26.880 And ironically, the scientists say, yes, we definitely can, but I don't think we should.
00:27:31.400 And I'm saying, no, we should, I mean, if we want to, if we do it within relatively moral parameters.
00:27:39.240 But I don't think that we can, because the question becomes,
00:27:43.580 as some scientists are even raising in the reporting here,
00:27:46.680 how is the mammoth going to learn to be a mammoth?
00:27:52.660 Who's going to teach the baby woolly mammoth how to be a woolly mammoth? 1.00
00:27:57.940 The elephant?
00:27:58.820 No, the elephant's going to teach the woolly mammoth how to be an elephant. 0.92
00:28:01.180 But a woolly mammoth is different than an elephant.
00:28:02.880 They have totally different habitats.
00:28:05.040 The Asian elephant's not going to be able to live in Siberia.
00:28:07.340 So how is the woolly mammoth going to learn the behaviors that are appropriate to a woolly mammoth?
00:28:14.760 Elephants and mammoths, presumably, are relatively advanced as far as animals go.
00:28:19.580 They're relatively intelligent as far as animals go.
00:28:23.860 How do you do that?
00:28:25.000 And I think this here is the major problem with bringing an extinct species back to life.
00:28:31.640 You can't actually do it.
00:28:34.880 The very notion that you can just bring an extinct species back to life assumes so many modern liberal premises.
00:28:44.360 It assumes a kind of materialism that just whatever is needed to become a mammoth,
00:28:50.760 to be, to act like a mammoth, and to thrive as a mammoth,
00:28:53.560 it's just going to be in your DNA.
00:28:54.600 It's all DNA.
00:28:55.600 None of this is learned from parents or grandparents, from the herd, from the pack, from the environment.
00:29:01.520 No, no.
00:29:02.160 It's just all in your DNA or something.
00:29:04.900 That, to me, speaks to a very modern materialism.
00:29:08.460 But even more than that, it's this individualism,
00:29:10.480 which is the dominant spirit of our age on the left and on the right,
00:29:15.740 which is this notion that, oh, I'm fundamentally an individual, and I will thrive most.
00:29:21.880 I will be most my true self as an individual.
00:29:24.680 Society, I don't need society.
00:29:26.300 The left says this when it comes to norms and customs and the moral order,
00:29:30.700 and the right says this when it comes to obligations and when it comes to,
00:29:34.580 specifically when it comes to money.
00:29:36.160 They say, I don't owe anything to anybody.
00:29:38.320 I don't need anybody.
00:29:39.580 It takes a village.
00:29:40.600 What are you talking about?
00:29:41.540 Uh-uh.
00:29:41.920 I'm just, I'm me.
00:29:42.900 I'm going to go live on my own in the woods.
00:29:44.640 That's my ideal life.
00:29:45.780 But that's not true.
00:29:48.260 It's not true for humans.
00:29:49.540 It's certainly not true for woolly mammoths.
00:29:51.620 Humans are the political animal.
00:29:53.020 We are the social creature.
00:29:53.860 And that's certainly true of herd animals, of course.
00:29:57.760 Your identity derives from your relation to others.
00:30:04.540 Ultimately, your identity derives from your relation to God.
00:30:07.460 But even at a terrestrial level, your identity is going to come from your family,
00:30:15.160 and the town you grew up in, and your community, and the others around you.
00:30:18.980 We're mimetic creatures.
00:30:20.080 Human beings are mimetic creatures. 1.00
00:30:21.800 We imitate each other.
00:30:23.780 The way that we speak, the way that we behave, even the things that we desire,
00:30:27.400 and even the virtues that we practice, even the vices that we practice,
00:30:30.620 that comes from other people.
00:30:32.440 So if you just create a new individual,
00:30:35.040 whether we're talking about a big hairy elephant or we're talking about a human being,
00:30:38.200 and you just say, okay, here you go.
00:30:40.520 Grow up in isolation somewhere.
00:30:43.800 That thing is not going to be what it's supposed to be.
00:30:48.560 The mammoth is not going to be the mammoth.
00:30:49.800 The human is not going to be a human.
00:30:52.260 You just can't do it.
00:30:55.100 Whatever they do, they'll do some science experiment probably,
00:30:57.760 and they'll create some kind of animal,
00:30:59.260 and who knows if the animal will even be able to live very long.
00:31:02.520 But whatever that animal is, it's not really a woolly mammoth.
00:31:08.620 And a human being who is totally alienated from society,
00:31:12.140 whatever that thing is, probably not going to be a human being.
00:31:16.820 It's not going to be recognizably human, at least.
00:31:20.760 Speaking of extinction, there is a clip of Seth Rogen that is two or three years old at this point,
00:31:26.340 but it's gone viral in recent days because it's really captured the zeitgeist.
00:31:30.980 And it's this clip of Joe Rogan, I think he was on the Howard Stern show,
00:31:35.660 bragging about how wonderful his life is because he does not have children.
00:31:42.380 Take it away.
00:31:42.900 We have so much fun.
00:31:44.540 Like, I don't know anyone who gets as much happiness out of their kids as we get out of our non-kids.
00:31:50.700 Like, we're f***ing psyched all the time.
00:31:54.200 We're laying in bed on Saturday mornings, smoking weed, like, watching movies naked,
00:31:58.580 just being like, if we had kids, we could not be f***ing doing this.
00:32:01.540 Well, like, there is no one whose child is giving them as much joy as we are right now getting
00:32:07.780 because we do not have a kid.
00:32:09.660 Okay, before I get into all the dumb things he just said, I owe an apology to Joe Rogan.
00:32:15.880 I can't believe, because I don't think about Seth Rogen that much,
00:32:18.500 and Joe Rogan is a much more important cultural figure.
00:32:20.820 So I just, I accidentally said Joe Rogan.
00:32:23.520 So Joe Rogan and Seth Rogen are very different people.
00:32:26.460 They both apparently love marijuana, so I guess they do have that in common.
00:32:31.060 But otherwise, Joe is basically a very sensible guy.
00:32:35.460 Seth Rogen, not very sensible at all.
00:32:39.440 And what he said here is certainly not sensible.
00:32:42.520 We have so much fun.
00:32:44.500 I don't know anyone who gets as much happiness out of their kids as we get out of our non-kids.
00:32:48.980 Like, we're f***ing psyched all the time.
00:32:51.780 We're laying in bed on Saturday mornings, smoking weed,
00:32:54.640 watching movies naked.
00:32:56.860 If we had kids, we could not be f***ing doing this.
00:32:59.780 I agree that you should probably not puff the devil's lettuce when you have kids.
00:33:04.520 I know people who do it and who have done it, and I, you know,
00:33:08.340 it can be done, I suppose, probably not advisable.
00:33:11.220 But you can watch movies naked, even if you procreate. 0.56
00:33:17.180 You don't want to do it probably when they're awake.
00:33:19.660 Probably wait until they go to bed or something like that.
00:33:21.360 But you can, it's okay.
00:33:22.460 You can, even if you have children, you know, you can go into your bedroom or into the shower.
00:33:28.560 You can undress.
00:33:29.600 You can still do that.
00:33:30.780 It's not that you have to wear a uniform all the time.
00:33:33.400 You can watch movies.
00:33:36.320 You can watch movies sometimes with your children.
00:33:38.360 Or if you want to watch like an R-rated movie, you can watch that once your children go to bed or take a nap.
00:33:43.280 You can do that.
00:33:45.080 And I know that potheads, who are totally not addicted in any way, it's not addictive at all, and it becomes their whole personality, but they're not addicted.
00:33:53.440 I know it's difficult to believe.
00:33:57.060 I've puffed the devil's lettuce once or twice.
00:33:58.860 I'm not proud of it, you know, but every now and again, back in my wayward youth.
00:34:02.180 And there are better things.
00:34:04.300 Kids actually are better than that sticky, icky, you know, cush, all right?
00:34:12.860 I promise you.
00:34:15.580 The kids, the kids are better.
00:34:19.020 So why, does he really believe this or is he just fooling himself?
00:34:21.740 In the case of Seth Rogen, look, some people just can't have kids.
00:34:26.840 It's terribly sad.
00:34:27.900 It's a very difficult thing.
00:34:29.300 Sometimes people then adopt, or sometimes people just get more involved with their godchildren or their community or whatever.
00:34:35.520 You know, some people are called to religious life.
00:34:37.340 Having kids is not for everybody.
00:34:39.100 But to choose a bong over a child speaks to either a profound degree of denial or just an amazing immaturity and ignorance. 0.95
00:34:54.440 But I kind of get it, because you see it, especially with millennials and with even Zoomers. 1.00
00:34:59.760 There is this reluctance today to have kids.
00:35:03.660 And the reason is people don't feel that they're mature enough to have kids.
00:35:07.620 And in many cases, they're right about that.
00:35:11.460 So they need to get mature.
00:35:13.300 But they don't want to do that.
00:35:14.440 This is why this term adulting has become popular.
00:35:16.920 Because people are just very afraid of growing up.
00:35:20.160 And maybe it's because they weren't educated to grow up.
00:35:22.200 Maybe it's because our public education system failed and because our parents were too soft and because our country is too decadent.
00:35:27.680 I don't know.
00:35:28.020 I mean, you can come up with a million excuses.
00:35:29.840 But just figure it out, guys.
00:35:30.940 It's because it's not whatever propaganda we were fed as children.
00:35:37.500 That, you know, the children are the future.
00:35:40.060 Well, the future is now.
00:35:41.380 Actually, the children, they understand from the voice of babes.
00:35:44.520 We learn the wonders of the world.
00:35:46.440 No, actually.
00:35:47.240 Kids are uneducated by definition.
00:35:49.720 And I guess what we were told, the culture that we grew up in, seemed to be that this is as good as it gets.
00:35:58.960 Don't grow up too fast.
00:35:59.960 This is as good as it gets.
00:36:01.560 Enjoy.
00:36:02.460 Take your time.
00:36:04.660 Don't worry about working too hard.
00:36:06.160 You'll get inflated grades anyway.
00:36:08.180 Don't go to college.
00:36:09.360 Party for four years.
00:36:10.340 It doesn't even matter if you work that hard in college.
00:36:12.020 Just enjoy it.
00:36:13.460 This is as good as it gets.
00:36:14.560 And then life just gets harder and worse and worse.
00:36:16.400 And life does get a little bit harder in the sense that you have more responsibilities, you know, fewer excuses.
00:36:22.960 But life gets better.
00:36:25.580 It gets better, actually.
00:36:26.960 The best is yet to come, and babe, won't that be fine?
00:36:28.980 That's one of my favorite lines from the American Songbook.
00:36:31.320 It was my quote, my yearbook quote, both in high school and college.
00:36:34.540 I love that line.
00:36:35.420 And it's been my experience.
00:36:36.880 It's true.
00:36:37.240 It does get better.
00:36:38.780 But you have to be able to kill the pleasures that you've got now.
00:36:43.500 C.S. Lewis made this point, I forget in which book, when he said,
00:36:45.620 when you're a little kid, you can't imagine there's anything as good as chocolate.
00:36:50.220 And then if you hear about something called sex, you say,
00:36:53.540 oh, there's no way sex is better than chocolate.
00:36:55.240 Unless, sex must involve chocolate, if sex is better.
00:36:59.080 And you say, well, no, it's not supposed to, at least.
00:37:01.600 But you can't, when you're a kid, you just can't imagine that.
00:37:03.900 Then you find out, oh, sex actually is better than chocolate.
00:37:06.340 But that's where most people stop.
00:37:08.280 They say, oh, sex or whatever, just pleasure, smoking pot or whatever.
00:37:12.060 That's as good as it gets.
00:37:12.880 There is something better.
00:37:14.140 But in order to discover that, you have to be willing to sacrifice.
00:37:17.760 You have to be willing to risk the childish pleasures that you have now
00:37:21.120 and put away the things of the child when you become a man.
00:37:25.060 Otherwise, you end up as an overgrown child,
00:37:26.680 smoking pot, naked in bed, watching movies alone.
00:37:29.260 Tonight, watch The Daily Wire's backstage.
00:37:31.700 As Ben Shapiro, Matt Walsh, Andrew Klavan, and Jeremy Boring,
00:37:34.000 watch and react to the 2024 State of the Union live on Daily Wire+.
00:37:38.540 I will hopefully be on the show.
00:37:43.040 But I will not be here because I will be in Washington, D.C.
00:37:46.080 I was invited to the State of the Union.
00:37:47.660 I'm really honored.
00:37:49.640 Congressman Andy Ogles invited me as his guest this year.
00:37:52.100 So I will be in the room with the president and the congressmen
00:37:55.260 and the senators and the Supreme Court and the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
00:37:58.680 And you can try to pick me out on the TV somewhere.
00:38:01.040 I'm not sure where I'll be sitting.
00:38:02.980 But I will try to call in before and afterward.
00:38:05.820 So we'll break down the State of the Union as it happens.
00:38:08.180 And of course, answer your questions live.
00:38:10.080 Watch it tonight at 8.30 p.m. Eastern on the Daily Wire app and dailywire.com.
00:38:14.820 My favorite comment yesterday is from Dr. Pepper Zero,
00:38:18.520 who says,
00:38:19.040 The way Michael says because is iconic.
00:38:21.360 Thank you.
00:38:22.440 Very honored.
00:38:23.360 You found a word.
00:38:25.380 There are only a couple of words that I think give away my place of origin.
00:38:30.540 I, you know, I trained in acting conservatories.
00:38:35.320 I took, I studied the American standard accent.
00:38:39.060 I feel, I don't talk like Fran Drescher from The Nanny, okay?
00:38:42.700 I don't talk like caricatures of New Yorkers.
00:38:46.760 There are two words that I can't extirpate in my pronunciation.
00:38:53.380 Um, because, because, I don't know, because, I said because, because the world is round.
00:39:03.100 No.
00:39:03.820 And then coffee.
00:39:05.000 Coffee is the one.
00:39:07.740 Coffee.
00:39:09.080 Coffee.
00:39:10.020 Like toffee?
00:39:10.840 Like English coffee?
00:39:12.420 I don't know.
00:39:13.080 That's where I sound like a New Yorker.
00:39:14.420 All right.
00:39:15.020 All right.
00:39:15.440 You understand?
00:39:15.960 Forget about it.
00:39:16.740 Forget about it.
00:39:17.500 Speaking of excessive drug use, a German man has received 217 shots of the COVID vaccines.
00:39:32.160 Why has he done that?
00:39:33.720 According to this article, he's done it for personal reasons, whatever that means.
00:39:38.680 Uh, he's, he's had 217 of these and apparently has no side effects.
00:39:44.560 Now, I think we have a, uh, picture of the man.
00:39:47.640 We, so he's, if you're just listening to the show right now, he seems to, I don't know,
00:39:53.100 it looks like he's got some side effects to me, kind of like the drooling plasma coming
00:39:58.040 out of his neck and the, uh, you know, uh, recessed eye sockets that are now just filled
00:40:05.300 with goo and the shrieking kind of nightmarish.
00:40:08.580 Now, I think that's, I haven't, I haven't verified that that is a picture of the German
00:40:12.580 man, uh, but in any case, I would be skeptical of 217 of these, uh, vaccines.
00:40:18.820 He's a 62 year old from Magdeburg, Germany, uh, had no signs of ever being infected with
00:40:25.660 the virus that causes COVID-19.
00:40:28.020 Isn't that just COVID-19?
00:40:30.000 Isn't that, what do you mean the virus that, I'm just reading the report here.
00:40:32.000 It says the virus that causes COVID-19.
00:40:34.100 I don't know.
00:40:34.420 What is that?
00:40:35.300 Uh, had not reported, I guess the flu is probably what it is, had not reported any vaccine related
00:40:39.700 to side effects according to the University of Elangan-Nuremberg.
00:40:44.160 Now, there's only official confirmation for 134 of these vaccines.
00:40:48.420 So, the other, you know, a little under 100, uh, unconfirmed, uh, those are eight different
00:40:55.440 types of vaccines.
00:40:57.180 And they say, the observation that no noticeable side effects were triggered in spite of this
00:41:00.880 extraordinary hyper-vaccination indicates that the drugs have a good degree of tolerability.
00:41:04.580 Okay.
00:41:08.600 My take on this snooze article, that's very convenient.
00:41:13.140 It's very convenient.
00:41:14.040 Because the subheader is, people in the UK will have received a maximum of seven jabs.
00:41:21.820 Oh no, look, this guy had a bazillion jabs and he's totally fine.
00:41:25.600 Who is he?
00:41:26.180 I don't know.
00:41:27.640 I don't think we even know his name.
00:41:29.500 He's just anonymous.
00:41:30.500 But he's had a bazillion and he's totally fine.
00:41:32.720 Take the jab, sheep. 0.96
00:41:34.560 Come on, get more of your jabs there. 1.00
00:41:36.880 It's totally safe.
00:41:37.860 I don't know, because like some women in America had one jab and then they died of blood clots. 1.00
00:41:42.860 And a lot of young people had one or two jabs and then they died either of heart problems
00:41:47.820 or just had nerve damage or myocarditis or pericarditis.
00:41:52.520 So, I don't know.
00:41:53.000 Seems like a little bit of a, this seems a little bit more like a PR operation than a
00:41:58.900 scientific discovery to me.
00:42:00.960 Speaking of the Germans, those krauts, is a very famous image from World War II. 1.00
00:42:06.460 Probably the most famous image.
00:42:08.180 It's the soldiers raising the flag on Iwo Jima, maybe is the most, but actually probably even
00:42:12.400 more famous than that, is the kiss.
00:42:14.860 It's the kiss from Victory Over Japan Day.
00:42:19.740 And it's that sailor who's just in the middle of Times Square and he grabs that nurse and
00:42:24.200 he pulls her back in his arms and gives her a big, big kiss.
00:42:27.400 And it's a lovely photo, really, you know, charming, truly one of the most famous in American
00:42:33.040 history.
00:42:34.040 And the liberals running the Veterans Affairs Department want to shut it down.
00:42:40.900 So, there was a memorandum that went out from the VA.
00:42:47.100 This is from the Assistant Undersecretary for Health Operations, subject removal and replacement
00:42:52.880 of VJ Day in Times Square photographs.
00:42:54.820 Purpose.
00:42:55.920 This memorandum requests the removal of the VJ Day in Times Square photograph from all
00:43:00.600 Veterans Health Administration facilities in alignment with the Department of Veterans
00:43:04.900 Affairs' commitment to maintaining a safe, respectful, and trauma-informed environment.
00:43:08.760 Trauma-informed, what does that mean?
00:43:10.660 This action is promoted by the recognition that the photograph, which depicts a non-consensual
00:43:15.380 act, is inconsistent with the VA's no-tolerance policy towards sexual harassment and assault
00:43:21.680 as outlined in VA handbook, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
00:43:26.060 Okay, it goes on.
00:43:27.100 I mean, there's no ambiguity here whatsoever.
00:43:29.460 There was some pushback to the removal of the photograph, not just from veterans who
00:43:37.620 were a little tougher than all that, but also from the granddaughter of the woman in
00:43:43.120 the picture.
00:43:43.500 So this woman, this young woman says, my grandmother, the woman who was in the picture, who was an
00:43:50.880 Austrian Jew who was a refugee, she fled Europe and she came here to America, said, my grandmother
00:43:57.020 never felt violated or anything like that.
00:43:59.640 She was always very proud of the image and she thought it was two young people celebrating
00:44:03.380 in the street.
00:44:04.480 My grandma signed images of the photo up until she died.
00:44:08.020 She was proud to be an American citizen.
00:44:09.680 She was a refugee from Austria and so the end of the war marked more to her than for
00:44:13.940 everyday people.
00:44:15.280 She never felt it was something inappropriate.
00:44:16.680 It's interesting.
00:44:17.240 They tried to reframe historical events and today's values.
00:44:20.360 I have a picture in my house that my grandma signed and even George Mendonca signed.
00:44:23.760 So George Mendonca seems to be the likeliest claimant to be the guy.
00:44:27.380 In the picture, both of their faces are a little obscured, but the woman almost certainly, I think
00:44:33.660 basically that's indisputed that it was this woman and the guy, it's most likely is this
00:44:38.300 guy, George Mendonca, and they both signed the picture.
00:44:42.020 My grandma stayed in contact with George and she did parades on VJ day with him.
00:44:46.020 She never said it was anything she felt was uncomfortable.
00:44:49.580 And then this young woman, this was the key, this young woman, the granddaughter of the woman
00:44:53.400 in the picture goes on and describes a class she had in college.
00:44:57.800 Not a normal class, like a history class or a philosophy class or math class.
00:45:01.960 No, no, no.
00:45:02.240 It was, of course, a gender studies class.
00:45:03.480 It says, at college, I had a women's and gender studies teacher who showed that image
00:45:09.560 and said, this is sexual assault.
00:45:12.020 I put my hand up and said, that's actually my grandma.
00:45:14.920 She didn't view it that way.
00:45:16.800 And the teacher disagreed with me.
00:45:19.580 I can understand the argument, but for my grandmother, it represented the end of the
00:45:23.000 war and they're celebrating.
00:45:24.300 Okay.
00:45:25.520 The best part of all of this, look, I'm happy to say the actual secretary of the VA came
00:45:32.060 out and he said, no, we're not getting rid of the image.
00:45:33.620 It's here.
00:45:34.160 It's going to be kept in all the facilities.
00:45:35.760 It's the most famous military image probably in American history.
00:45:38.620 We're not getting rid of it because of some woke, ridiculous under secretary of the VA. 0.99
00:45:43.920 But the most interesting part is what that college professor said to the granddaughter.
00:45:49.080 When the granddaughter says, no, no, no, you have a narrative.
00:45:51.440 You say this is sexual assault.
00:45:52.460 But I actually know the woman in the picture and she says it wasn't.
00:45:56.900 And the college professor says, yeah, your grandma's wrong.
00:46:01.660 Who knows what happened to your grandmother better?
00:46:04.400 Me or your grandmother?
00:46:05.420 Me, of course, says the feminist. 1.00
00:46:08.820 This is the Marxist concept which the feminists adopted of false consciousness. 1.00
00:46:15.560 The notion that you don't know your own oppression.
00:46:18.020 You might have heard this statistic on college campuses.
00:46:20.720 They say one in four or one in five women at college will be raped during their time in
00:46:25.580 college, which is just obviously a false statistic because if it were true, no father who did
00:46:32.300 not hate his daughter would ever send his daughter to college.
00:46:36.840 Furthermore, if that statistic were true, no woman would ever go to college in the United 0.79
00:46:40.320 States.
00:46:40.660 If there were a one in four chance that you would be raped at a place, you just wouldn't
00:46:46.100 go.
00:46:47.360 That statistic would mean that Harvard Yard was more dangerous for women than the back alleys 1.00
00:46:53.880 of Botswana, okay?
00:46:55.380 And no one actually believes that.
00:46:57.660 So where do they get this number from?
00:46:59.120 They get this number from a few different surveys, but they all kind of have the same
00:47:02.920 upshot.
00:47:03.320 And it goes all the way back to a Ms. Magazine survey back in the 1970s from the feminists,
00:47:07.720 which asked women, okay, did this happen to you? 1.00
00:47:09.680 Did this happen to you?
00:47:10.400 Did this happen to you?
00:47:11.100 Were you ever raped?
00:47:12.060 And the number of women who said they were raped was relatively low.
00:47:15.600 Not nobody, but it was relatively low.
00:47:17.560 And don't forget, there's even a response bias here.
00:47:20.480 You are more likely to respond if this has happened to you than if it hasn't.
00:47:25.020 But they go out and they say, you know, a number of women answer, yes, I did.
00:47:29.620 Most women say, no, they didn't. 0.99
00:47:31.060 And then the people creating the survey go back and they add a number of people who said
00:47:37.260 that they were not raped.
00:47:38.240 They will add that to the number of people who were raped because they said, these women
00:47:41.440 just didn't know.
00:47:42.800 They were.
00:47:43.820 Given their answers to the other questions, you know, I don't know, did a man ever kiss you
00:47:46.920 in Times Square.
00:47:48.080 Oh, actually, that qualifies as a sexual assault.
00:47:50.440 You don't, you might not think it, you might not know it, but it's because you're laboring
00:47:53.260 under a false consciousness.
00:47:54.560 The feminists did this in the 70s. 1.00
00:47:56.140 The New York radical women's groups in not only New York, but throughout the country would
00:48:01.700 go out.
00:48:02.440 They'd get these happy housewives. 1.00
00:48:03.880 They'd bring them together for wine and cheese soirees, W-H-I-N-E.
00:48:08.660 And the women would go in happy and they'd leave miserable. 1.00
00:48:12.100 And then come out and so they'd say, well, I had no idea how oppressed I am.
00:48:14.840 This woman who says, I'm here.
00:48:16.280 We won the war.
00:48:17.000 This brutal, awful war is over.
00:48:18.800 I'm free.
00:48:19.900 America won. 0.51
00:48:21.000 I'm celebrating with these young men.
00:48:22.480 We're kissing in Times Square.
00:48:23.840 Oh, that's a very terrible thing.
00:48:27.280 That's a very terrible, if only you knew, lady, how terrible this very happy moment in
00:48:33.000 your life actually was.
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