The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 1447 - Kamala Harris Plans For Grotesque Abortion Clinic Photo Opp

00:00:00.000 Hot on the heels of Belgium jailing a former member of parliament for sending spicy memes

00:00:04.960 to a group chat, America's evil top hat is proposing life sentences for tweets.

00:00:11.200 Canada's Online Harms Act, which was introduced last month with the backing of Prime Minister

00:00:16.720 Justin Trudeau, would allow judges to imprison adults for life if they advocate genocide online,

00:00:24.680 and would further allow provincial judges to impose house arrest and fine people if they perceive

00:00:30.860 reasonable grounds that a defendant will commit an offense in the future.

00:00:37.920 Huh. Who do you think is going to be prosecuted as a result of this law? Is it going to be the

00:00:45.140 prominent liberals in media, politics, and academia who regularly call for abolishing whiteness?

00:00:51.560 That sounds pretty directly genocidal. Or is it going to be the conservatives who say that men

00:00:57.820 and women are different and are consequently accused of advocating genocide? Which group do you think

00:01:03.580 is going to be prosecuted here? And what exactly constitutes reasonable grounds that a person

00:01:09.280 will spread hate in the future? Perhaps being found in possession of a leftist here's Tumblr?

00:01:16.820 Is that evidence? Perhaps liking a few too many Jordan Peterson tweets? What's the reasonable

00:01:22.920 grounds in Canada for the future crime of being conservative? The Online Harms Act is designed

00:01:31.880 to protect the Liberal Party from electoral harm from conservatives online. It's about criminalizing

00:01:38.120 conservatives, not only for what they say, but before they even have a chance to say it.

00:01:44.460 I'm Michael Knowles. This is the Michael Knowles Show.

00:02:04.980 Welcome back to the show. The liberal media are continuing to exploit the death of a teenager

00:02:10.980 who identified as non-binary to try to attack conservatives, even though the facts of this 0.72

00:02:17.880 very sad death totally contradict their narrative. We will get into the political lesson from that in

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00:03:28.400 exclusions may apply. Okay. Speaking of neighboring governments descending into tyranny,

00:03:36.120 have you been following what's going on in Haiti? What's going on in Haiti right now is that the

00:03:41.520 government has collapsed. Haiti is officially a failed state, and it is currently being run

00:03:47.140 by a lot of different little gangsters. But the most prominent gangster is a warlord named Barbecue.

00:03:53.280 That's his name. And the gangs in Haiti are going around eating people. It's cannibal gangs

00:04:00.020 now governing the country. Not great. According to New York City Mayor Eric Adams, however,

00:04:08.220 we should have a lot of empathy for what's going on in Haiti because, I'll use his exact words,

00:04:15.500 quote, we call New York City the Port-au Prince of America. We feel the pain of our Haitian neighbors

00:04:22.360 feel as the situation grows dire. To the people of Haiti and our own Haitian community here in New

00:04:28.260 York City, know that we stand with you today and always. So, okay, that's nice to, we stand with

00:04:32.820 you, we support you, whatever. The first sentence, it was a little confusing to me. We call New York City

00:04:38.480 the Port-au Prince of America, capital of Haiti, right? I was born in New York. I grew up in New

00:04:46.880 York, lived in New York for a very long time. I never heard anyone call it the Port-au Prince of

00:04:54.400 America. And there's a great community note that was added to this tweet says, not one person has

00:04:59.700 ever said this before Eric Adams. And then you can check it out. You can Google it, look at it over

00:05:04.600 time. No one had ever said that until the New York City mayor. However, while everyone is mocking

00:05:10.680 Eric Adams for this pandering and ridiculous statement, I want to defend it because while

00:05:15.220 no one has yet, had yet, called New York City the Port-au Prince of America, Eric Adams is doing such 0.77

00:05:23.200 a bad job as mayor, they might soon call it that. We don't yet have cannibal gangs terrorizing New York

00:05:28.740 most of the time, but we might soon. That's how terrible a job Eric Adams has done. And actually,

00:05:34.600 in Eric Adams' defense, it's been imposed on him largely by the Biden administration

00:05:40.260 through this mass influx of illegal aliens, which Adams has called out until he was threatened with

00:05:48.000 a corruption investigation, and then he kind of dropped the issue. This is not good. We don't

00:05:54.640 want failed states in America, even in New York. We don't want failed states in the Caribbean. We don't 0.82

00:06:00.700 want failed states anywhere. There's a lesson from this for conservatives, which is, one,

00:06:07.940 keep a little order here. I mean, let's not allow the voodoo and the gangs and everyone to kind of 1.00

00:06:16.180 run roughshod over your society. Another lesson would be that revolution is usually not that great.

00:06:22.840 I mean, people now are blaming the problems in Haiti on recent government policies. I saw someone

00:06:28.880 preposterously try to argue that the problem in Haiti was DEI policies being imposed. Like,

00:06:36.960 that's it. That's the problem. Haiti had been just terrific until those woke World Economic Forum 0.99

00:06:43.960 liberals went in there with their DEI. No, Haiti has been pretty much hell on earth ever since the slave 1.00

00:06:51.300 revolt that led to the Haitian revolution. There was so much promise. There was so much hope at the

00:06:58.380 moment of that revolution. This is the only successful slave revolt in the history of the world 0.92

00:07:02.940 led to this revolution. But then the hope never paid off because Haiti has been a hellscape ever 1.00

00:07:10.020 since then. The United States had to occupy Haiti for something like 15 years or more in the early 20th

00:07:16.000 century. And every so often they get some dictator who keeps a little bit more peace, but it's always been

00:07:20.960 just absolutely terrible. And now it doesn't even have what little government it once had.

00:07:25.300 The real lesson for conservatives here is not just that revolution is usually terrible,

00:07:30.440 and it's not even just that we probably don't want to import a lot of pathologies from around the

00:07:36.220 world that could create problems in our own country. The lesson to me is government is good.

00:07:44.920 I know conservatives are not supposed to say that. We're supposed to say government is the most

00:07:48.080 evil thing ever, and we want to get rid of the government, and we just want to privatize

00:07:52.200 everything. Government is good in principle. Government can go bad. Government can become

00:07:56.420 too big and overbearing. Government can become too centralized and unresponsive to the real needs

00:08:01.880 of people. But government in principle is good. We are the political animal. We live in society.

00:08:07.420 And when we figure out how to live in society, we call that politics. And part of politics

00:08:13.080 politics is a civil authority. We call that government. And the civil authority does not

00:08:18.640 bear the sword in vain. The civil authority protects people's rights and maintains order

00:08:24.120 and administers justice. And that is not just something that we have to deal with. It's not

00:08:29.840 just a sad fact of life that we individualists have to put up with. That is a good thing. We want

00:08:36.080 justice. None of us wants to live in Haiti. We don't want to live in the Port-au-Prince of America, 1.00

00:08:40.040 and we don't want to live in the Port-au-Prince of Port-au-Prince. Speaking of politically

00:08:45.840 sanctioned violence, Kamala Harris is about to make history by being the first vice president 0.98

00:08:52.440 to ever visit an abortion clinic. This will be the first visit by a vice president or a president

00:08:59.500 to an abortion clinic. She's going to go visit a Planned Parenthood in Minnesota. This is part of her

00:09:05.400 Fight for Reproductive Freedoms tour, which started in January. And the point of it is to promote

00:09:11.840 abortion. I just got back from Madison, Wisconsin. Had a really fun time there. If you missed my speech,

00:09:18.960 it was on this topic. It was on abortion. It's called The Case Against Murder. I lay it out in ways

00:09:26.040 that sometimes are missing from the pro-life movement. So if you want to hear a relatively

00:09:30.960 dispassionate historical and legal and philosophical account of why abortion is bad,

00:09:39.560 I think I laid it out as pithily as I possibly could. But the Q&A was what was really, really fun

00:09:45.800 in Madison because we had a transvestite man, a student come up and object to the things that I

00:09:55.160 have said. And we had a relatively, I think, respectful exchange that's gone a bit viral.

00:09:59.700 Then I had some Looney Tunes gal come up and scream at me about abortion and then call me Matt Walsh. 1.00

00:10:05.240 And so anyway, it was wild. It was all over the place. I guess it came at a good time, though,

00:10:09.520 because the vice president now is not only saying what Democrats used to say, which is,

00:10:17.000 you know, abortion, it's a very sad thing, a very tragic thing. We got to keep it safe, legal,

00:10:22.140 and rare. Now she's saying, oh, it's a good thing. And so when you just think of the mechanics of

00:10:27.780 what's going to happen on this tour, the sitting vice president of the United States is going to

00:10:31.860 go into a place where babies are being murdered, where extremely predatory, evil doctors are taking

00:10:41.020 money from poor women to murder their children. These desperate poor women, many of whom are being 1.00

00:10:47.200 pushed into killing their children by their boyfriends or by their families or by the social

00:10:52.820 expectations. Some of the women want to kill their children and they're happy about it. Most 1.00

00:10:57.020 of them don't, though. Most of it are just being duped into this. Virtually all of them are going

00:11:01.220 to live with a lot of regret and psychological trauma as a result of it. And this psycho vice

00:11:06.440 president, Kamala Harris, is going to go in there smiling. There's a lot of tears in abortion clinics, 0.98

00:11:12.040 okay? And those tears are indicative of the moral repugnance that's going on, the great,

00:11:18.420 great evil that's going on. Lots of babies are actively being murdered in these places.

00:11:23.280 Lots of women are being forced to commit a crime that is just about as horrific a crime as one can 1.00

00:11:31.260 imagine for a human being, the murder of a child by his mother. And this woman's going to go skipping 0.99

00:11:36.120 through there with her Kamala Harris cackle giggling about it, saying it's a positive thing.

00:11:41.760 How did we get here? How did we get to the point where abortion should no longer be safe,

00:11:46.640 legal and rare? But it's a wonderful thing that the vice president's going to go celebrate.

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00:12:28.320 The Democrats had to resolve the tension of safe, legal, and rare. Ideas have a momentum of their own,

00:12:37.780 and we had to reach the conclusion of this. We had to work out the conflict and the contradiction.

00:12:45.960 If abortion is no different than getting your tonsils taken out, then there's no reason that 0.86

00:12:50.380 it should be rare. If abortion is in any way morally similar to murder, then it shouldn't be legal.

00:12:57.220 Period. It's simple as. So the Democrats had to pick one. Which one did they pick?

00:13:03.420 They picked legal, and they picked to give up rare. And so to do that, they have to grit their teeth,

00:13:09.340 even if they're aware of just the profound evil of going into a building, the purpose of which 0.96

00:13:15.220 is to slaughter babies. They got to go in there, and even if they feel uncomfortable with it,

00:13:19.160 they got to grit their teeth and smile. Because the only alternative would be to say,

00:13:23.960 this is barbaric and evil, and we're going to ban it. But they've decided they're the party of

00:13:29.160 abortion at all costs. The vice president's going on a tour about it. And so she's going to go, 0.77

00:13:34.480 and she's going to take that tour all the way to the infanticide factories themselves. 1.00

00:13:39.440 Speaking of taboos, really, really interesting article in Vice. Or not Vice, Vox. I think Vice is

00:13:47.060 gone now. It's the other left-wing outlet, Vox. Vice, at least, sometimes was kind of funny.

00:13:52.740 Vox is just a pure establishment liberal journalism. And the headline is,

00:14:00.960 why the blank does everyone swear all the blanking time?

00:14:06.680 Curse words shift a lot over time. They're in the middle of a big shift right now.

00:14:10.120 You know I'm interested in words and how words change over time. And I wrote a book about this

00:14:14.980 called Speechless, Controlling Words, Controlling Minds. Thank you. And we're plugging a lot of

00:14:18.260 products today, aren't we, on the show. But they're relevant. And this conversation is

00:14:22.500 especially relevant when we're talking about the major political shift that's going on. Major

00:14:26.640 political shifts will coincide with cultural shifts. And cultural shifts will always coincide

00:14:31.380 with standards and norms and taboos changing. So what the Vox author is recognizing is something

00:14:37.920 I've recognized, I'm sure you have too, which is that people swear much more casually these days.

00:14:43.720 It used to be that there were seven words you couldn't say on TV. That was George Carlin's

00:14:47.940 special. It used to be that Lenny Bruce would get arrested for saying what we would today

00:14:51.800 consider very mild curse words if we considered them curse words at all. And now you can say pretty 0.61

00:14:57.400 much anything, anywhere, to the point that it's banal. And so the author here at Vox says that

00:15:05.160 swear words have undergone major shifts. Back in the Middle Ages, when people were religious,

00:15:10.040 the real taboo words were blasphemous. GD or different versions of that, words that we don't

00:15:20.040 even say anymore that reference the wounds of Christ or other religious imagery in a way that

00:15:26.300 would be in vain or sacrilegious. That was really taboo. Now, bodily functions, that wasn't really

00:15:33.000 considered taboo, according to the author of this article, because people didn't have a lot of privacy.

00:15:37.440 They all lived together. They didn't have indoor plumbing in a lot of places. So that didn't

00:15:43.260 really bother people. As you shift later on, especially culminating in the Victorian era,

00:15:49.320 all of a sudden, the bodily functions, that became very taboo. So the F word, the S word,

00:16:00.080 the this word, the that word, all the kinds of things that until pretty recently, you weren't

00:16:03.560 really allowed to say. The C word, it's one of the last words that's still even semi-taboo

00:16:08.820 in that category. That sort of stuff, you couldn't really say. But what about now? What is the swear

00:16:16.000 word now? According to the article, the last one is the C word, which is just another bodily part,

00:16:25.040 you know, refers to certain bodily functions. That's the last one you can't really say. But you kind of

00:16:30.240 can. People use it more flippantly now. I think a lot of this article is smart, but it's missing

00:16:37.140 the point. I can say any of those words on this show if I want to. I don't want to because I think

00:16:44.020 swear words are vulgar and we try to class up the joint a little bit. This is a family show,

00:16:48.620 but I could say that. If I wanted to, I could use all sorts of sacrilegious terms on this show.

00:16:54.580 There would be no cultural taboo today. If I wanted to, I could use all sorts of nasty words

00:17:00.480 to refer to bodily functions and fluids and acts and all sorts of things that were banned from TV

00:17:07.000 for the 20th century. I could do that, no problem. The only words that I truly could not say on this

00:17:13.040 show are racial and sexual epithets. It's the N word and other words like that. I can't do that

00:17:20.360 anymore. Not that I would exactly like to do that on the show, like to class the place up,

00:17:24.560 you know, and this is a family show. I'm just talking about the taboos. There's no real taboo

00:17:30.040 around sacrilege. There's no real taboo around the F word or even the C word. The taboos are around

00:17:35.820 racial and sexual epithets. Why? Because that's now what is considered sacred. In the Middle Ages, 0.74

00:17:42.660 God was sacred. God remained sacred, but God was considered widely to be sacred and off limits for

00:17:49.640 casual conversation. As we got a little bit later on, these kinds of bodily functions,

00:17:56.760 they were considered to be taboo, unmentionable. You can't, they're just fascinating, but you want

00:18:02.160 to keep them in an arm's length. Now it's just race and sex. We have made an idol out of race and sex.

00:18:09.980 This is like when the Libs say, you know, we need to read banned books. You don't really want to read

00:18:15.080 banned books. If you really wanted to read banned books, you would not be reading To Kill a

00:18:19.500 Mockingbird. Okay, To Kill a Mockingbird is not banned. Books that are banned today are like,

00:18:24.440 you know, Mein Kampf, Holocaust Denial. I don't know, you know, like really sort of vicious books.

00:18:32.000 That's what's banned. The Bible actually is banned in schools. That's on a completely,

00:18:37.040 you know, different category of book bans. But it's not To Kill a Mockingbird. It's not even gender

00:18:42.360 queer or any of these books that I would like to ban from schools. That's not really it. You can get 0.96

00:18:48.580 access to these things in, frankly, in most schools over the country, but certainly in most

00:18:52.860 libraries and most bookstores. That's not an argument to say that no books should be banned.

00:18:57.880 I have no problem banning certain books. I have no problem banning certain words. I have no problem

00:19:01.880 having societal standards and taboos. But let's be honest about what those are.

00:19:07.720 The Libs though, what they say like, oh, we're so naughty. You know, we said the F word on TV.

00:19:11.420 There's no taboo around that anymore. That's not how our society functions. Now, speaking of taboos in

00:19:17.640 politics, President Trump is avoiding a major taboo. The third rail of politics, President Trump

00:19:23.920 says he will never do anything to harm social security. He says, quote, I will never do anything

00:19:31.760 that will jeopardize or hurt social security or Medicare. We'll have to do it elsewhere, but we're

00:19:36.520 not going to do anything to hurt them. There's so many things we can do. There's so much cutting and

00:19:41.360 so much waste in many other areas, but I'll never do anything to hurt social security.

00:19:45.560 This brings up a major political battle that has roiled the right for many years now,

00:19:52.880 but DW has come under fire for it because Ben and Matt suggested that social security is going

00:19:58.580 to go bankrupt. And so I mentioned on the show a couple of days ago that Ben and Matt obviously

00:20:04.280 have a financial point. They're observing a fiscal reality. But what Trump is observing here is a

00:20:11.120 political reality. And it's the reality that I think conservatives came to see from the Tea Party

00:20:19.160 era into the Trump era. In the Tea Party era, there were conservatives who said, we need to have a

00:20:25.740 social truce to get our fiscal house in order and deal with our national debt. And the only way to deal

00:20:29.680 with the debt really effectively is to reform the entitlement programs. And then that didn't work.

00:20:34.800 And it didn't work because we live in society. And you can't fix the economic problems without

00:20:42.000 fixing the social problems. It's the other way around. So I totally get it. I understand if you're

00:20:47.480 an actuary or something. I understand if you're an accountant and you're looking at the numbers and

00:20:51.000 you say, well, the easiest place to make the cuts is here because it's the biggest part of the federal

00:20:53.640 budget. I totally get it. I'm not denying that at all. But what Trump is saying is that that's not

00:20:58.520 really how it works. It looks bad optically. It's not going to win over enough voters to actually go

00:21:04.700 in and govern at all. And in principle, it's not true. It also doesn't work in principle because

00:21:09.720 we're not just economic agents moving about trying to maximize our income as our primary goal.

00:21:16.920 We're human beings, flesh and blood, living in society. And so if you want to change the way that we

00:21:23.300 treat money, if you want to change the way that we treat our inheritance,

00:21:27.480 if you want to change the way that we treat our wealth, you've got to change the way that we treat

00:21:32.460 all these other aspects of culture. Are we going to have kids? Are we going to get married? Are we

00:21:37.960 going to be responsible in other ways? Are we going to have a stable functioning border? Are we going to

00:21:42.700 care for the common good rather than our own private interest? You've got to transform all of that

00:21:48.120 before you ever even have a hope of dealing with the fiscal situation. Trump, I believe,

00:21:54.100 gets it. Whether it's conscious or not, he's come to the right answer.

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00:23:26.860 who says, it's not identity politics. It's anti-whiteism. They're not dividing and pitting

00:23:31.540 us against each other. They're uniting all other groups against white people. You're partly right, 1.00

00:23:36.920 CoolPapaJMagic, but you're not totally right. It's true. The libs hate white people. I'm not

00:23:42.160 denying that at all. They have campaigns to abolish whiteness, as I mentioned at the top 1.00

00:23:46.240 of the show. But they also hate men, and they also hate Christians, and they also hate people 0.98

00:23:52.780 of normal sexual behavior who engage in traditional customs. So it's not as simple as all that. 0.97

00:23:58.760 I agree. In as far as the liberals' identity politics are racial, and they are largely racial,

00:24:05.500 than it is directed against white people. No doubt about it. You and I both agree. 0.98

00:24:10.320 But there's more to it. And at the heart of it, really, is religion. All human conflict is not

00:24:17.020 ultimately racial. Race can play a role in it. But all human conflict ultimately is theological.

00:24:22.460 It gets down to how we view ourselves and our place vis-a-vis other people, and all of our place

00:24:29.140 in the creation relative to our creator. It gets down to that fundamental point. And I don't think

00:24:35.180 there's any question that the secular libs hate Christianity and are trying to take it out of

00:24:41.340 public life. Speaking of electoral politics, Zoomer Democrats are worried. They are worried

00:24:49.120 that Joe Biden's TikTok ban, or that the Republicans' TikTok ban in coalition with the Democrats,

00:24:56.960 unclear if Biden will support it, could hurt Joe Biden's re-election chances. According to

00:25:02.160 Representative Maxwell Frost, Democrat from Florida, who is the first Zoomer member of Congress, 0.97

00:25:06.540 he says, this legislation, I think, is a mistake. We need to regulate social media, not just TikTok,

00:25:11.280 but all of it. And so he voted against the bill. He said it should be a political concern for Democrats

00:25:15.940 because the Democrats need to not exactly win over the young voters. They already have a lot of young

00:25:21.040 voters, but they need to convince them to show up to the polls. And the way that they do that is to

00:25:24.680 get in their faces where the Zoomer eyeballs are, and the Zoomer eyeballs are on TikTok.

00:25:30.740 TikTok is used by two-thirds of Americans under the age of 30. So there's another Democrat strategist

00:25:36.140 who was speaking to the liberal media who said, these voters are not going to say, this is my guy.

00:25:44.580 They're not going to all of a sudden become Trump voters overnight. But they might also not say that

00:25:51.460 Biden is my guy. If they're not getting constant Democrat talking points and Biden propaganda,

00:25:56.060 they might just remain somewhat disillusioned and stay home. And if they do that, Trump wins,

00:26:01.680 which is probably true. This gets to my basic suspicion that the TikTok ban is a fine idea.

00:26:12.440 But there's one hesitation I have with the TikTok ban. It's not government overreach. It's not that

00:26:18.700 they're going to come after the other social media platforms. Quite the opposite, actually.

00:26:23.140 My fear is that the direct beneficiary of the TikTok ban will be Mark Zuckerberg.

00:26:31.980 My fear is that the direct beneficiary of the TikTok ban will be the other woke, radical,

00:26:38.980 big tech CEOs who are far more responsible for rigging our elections and manipulating the American

00:26:46.280 population to do bad things than TikTok and the CCP are.

00:26:53.520 Mark Zuckerberg spent a lot of money in 2020 putting it into left-wing groups specifically

00:27:00.400 to change voting laws and practices such that Zuckerberg pretty directly was responsible

00:27:07.500 for installing lots of ballot drop boxes, in some cases illegally, far away from county clerk offices.

00:27:13.700 This guy rigged the election. And he admitted it. Before he ever did it, he said, I am going to

00:27:19.140 spend a ton of money, a ton of money to kick Trump out of the White House. So legislation does not

00:27:26.360 happen in Washington, D.C. because of some pie-in-the-sky idealism. It happens because of

00:27:32.500 bare-knuckle, often monetary interests. You got to ask yourself when you're looking at a piece of

00:27:39.300 legislation. Who benefits? Who benefits here? As far as I can tell, it's Facebook and it's Google.

00:27:47.160 Maybe Elon and X benefit too. I guess that would be good. I would be fine with that.

00:27:51.920 But Zuckerberg and Google, that's not good news. Now, does that weigh out the benefits that

00:27:59.100 conservatives get, which is that you're killing the main social media channel that the Zoomers are on? 0.86

00:28:04.820 Maybe it does. Or maybe those Zoomers just go to Instagram reels and they get even more propaganda 1.00

00:28:10.480 controlled even more tightly by American liberals in the lead up to 2024. However you consider this

00:28:17.400 legislation, I wouldn't consider it as just a pie-in-the-sky ideological matter. Ask yourself,

00:28:22.460 what's this going to mean practically in American politics? Now, speaking of Zoomers, I mentioned this 1.00

00:28:27.680 story yesterday, so I won't go into too much detail on the lead up to this conversation. But next,

00:28:37.520 Benedict was a teenager who identified as a non-binary and this teenager died. And we were told

00:28:46.440 by the liberal media initially that, I think that she was a girl, that she was beaten up by awful,

00:28:55.080 terrible bullies. And it was the fault of all the evil right-wing transphobes and specifically 0.96

00:28:58.340 libs of TikTok. And then that turned out not to be true. The medical examiner's report is out and

00:29:05.400 she died of a drug overdose. And this has probably been a suicide. All tragic, everything about this

00:29:13.840 is just terribly sad. But it isn't what the liberal media told us it was. This wasn't caused by libs of

00:29:21.500 TikTok or the evil right-wingers or even the gang of people that was beating up this girl or whatever

00:29:28.020 was reported. It was a drug overdose, likely a suicide. Some of us suspected that that would be the case

00:29:35.820 or something like that would be the case. How did we get it right? And the liberal media and the liberal 0.96

00:29:40.940 media consumers, even more so, got it wrong? Because of a simple rule in politics. This is just a little

00:29:48.300 rule of thumb. And before you call me a hypocrite, before you accuse me of having double standards,

00:29:52.980 just hear me out. When a story, when a news story favors liberals, you can assume that the story is at

00:30:02.860 least somewhat false. When a news story favors conservatives, you can assume that the story is true.

00:30:15.740 Why is that? Because the liberals control the media, simple as. So it's not, sometimes the liberals

00:30:24.860 will accuse us of saying, well, hold on, when the news is good for you, you believe it. When the news is

00:30:29.640 bad for you, you don't believe it. Right. Because the Democrats have every incentive to paint Republicans

00:30:35.760 and conservatives in a terrible light. So when, on a very rare occasion, a news story paints

00:30:41.540 conservatives in a good light, it means they just couldn't do it. There was just absolutely

00:30:46.040 nothing that they could even sort of possibly try to twist to make us look bad. So it means that that

00:30:51.800 story is very likely reliable. Whereas, when it comes to stories that promote the libs,

00:30:56.300 there's really no reason to believe it's true because they have all these kind of crazy puff

00:31:01.400 pieces all the time. And then when their lies to build themselves up are proven, they retract the

00:31:06.760 story, you know, three months later on page Z 2000 of the newspaper. That's why it's not hypocrisy.

00:31:12.840 It's not a double standard. It's not picking and choosing. It's not saying, oh, you just want to

00:31:17.260 believe the news that's positive for you. No, I'm, I am just objectively looking at the news media and

00:31:23.780 realizing it's all libs and recognizing the incentives and the patterns and how the stories

00:31:28.080 come and then coming to a rule of thumb because of that. And I, Ann Coulter has a similar version

00:31:32.980 of this. She says, when there is a mass shooting, the longer the media don't report on the race of

00:31:41.580 the criminal, the more likely the criminal is not white. The more, you know, if it goes two days, 0.78

00:31:47.980 you don't know what the race of the shooter is, that shooter is not white every time. When the

00:31:53.400 shooter is white, they report it immediately. When the shooter is a straight man, they report

00:31:59.180 it immediately. When the shooter is a trans identifying person, they cover up that story 0.65

00:32:03.100 for years. We're still waiting to get the full story on the Nashville trans shooter. Of course, 0.92

00:32:09.560 if the shooter is black, it's, you know, a youth or an individual or a young man or whatever. 0.95

00:32:15.860 When the shooter is white or even not white, when a killer is Hispanic, like the case of George 0.98

00:32:21.920 Zimmerman, who killed Trayvon Martin, George Zimmerman looks extremely Hispanic, but he had 0.99

00:32:26.700 a name that sounded almost like it could kind of plausibly be white. So the news media, they said,

00:32:30.600 he's a white guy. They got him. He's a white guy. Then they found out he's not a white guy.

00:32:33.240 And so they didn't want to totally walk it back. They said, he's a white Hispanic. He's a white Hispanic.

00:32:39.300 What is he? He wasn't even all that white. Anyway, that's the rule of thumb. And Ann Coulter's

00:32:43.700 version of it is right. And I think this version at a general level is right too.

00:32:47.540 Now, speaking of libs and women, this is a story I wanted to get to last week. I do want to touch

00:32:53.200 on it now. Kyrsten Sinema is out of the Senate at the end of this year. Sinema has announced this.

00:33:01.840 And if you don't know who Sinema is, she was a Democrat, but she's kind of moderate and she's been

00:33:06.360 relatively independent in the Senate. And it's been a big problem for the liberal Democrats who want to

00:33:12.120 ram through their agenda. Here she is saying she's out.

00:33:16.060 Through listening, understanding and compromise, we deliver tangible results that make America safer,

00:33:23.260 stronger and more prosperous. Yet, despite modernizing our infrastructure, ensuring clean

00:33:29.760 water, delivering good jobs and safer communities, Americans still choose to retreat farther to their

00:33:36.040 partisan corners. These solutions are considered failures, either because they're too much or not

00:33:42.020 nearly enough. It's all or nothing. The outcome, less important than beating the other guy.

00:33:48.820 The only political victories that matter these days are symbolic. Attacking your opponents on cable

00:33:53.860 news or social media. Compromise is a dirty word. We've arrived at that crossroad and we chose anger

00:34:01.800 and division. I believe in my approach, but it's not what America wants right now. I love Arizona and I am so

00:34:10.620 proud of what we've delivered. Because I chose civility, understanding, listening, working together

00:34:17.440 to get stuff done. I will leave the Senate at the end of this year. She's out. Okay. Sinema's out.

00:34:24.260 That's sort of unfortunate because she was one of the two even semi-reasonable Democrats in the Senate,

00:34:30.200 the other one being Joe Manchin. But in a way, it's not the worst thing because it raises the stakes.

00:34:35.960 Not only are we looking at the presidency being up this year, but this raises the stakes for 2024

00:34:43.160 considerably. The one of the two kind of moderates in the Senate, she is gone. So now the race is going

00:34:50.280 to be between Carrie Lake, the Republican, and Ruben Gallego, who's the Democrat. The election could 0.96

00:34:56.300 determine which party controls the Senate. Now we're going to see who controls the White House,

00:35:01.860 who controls the Senate. Who knows? We've got a razor thin majority in the House. The whole 0.99

00:35:07.440 government is up for grabs. This could potentially be the biggest swing election in our lifetimes at a

00:35:15.780 time when the Democrats have become extraordinarily partisan, openly encouraging an invasion across our

00:35:22.460 southern border, visiting abortion mills, and celebrating infanticide. They are as plain and 0.98

00:35:29.320 out in the open as it possibly comes. Republicans finding their voice, too, finding a little bit

00:35:33.980 more of a coherent vision, too. What's it going to be? One hopes it'll be a fair election. At the

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00:36:23.660 get to hear from you in the mailbag. Our mailbag is sponsored by Pure Talk. Go to puretalk.com slash

00:36:28.460 Knowles, K-N-A-W-L-E-S, to get an additional 50% off your first month.

00:36:34.300 Hey, Michael. My sister's now fiancé finally proposed after about a year and a half of dating.

00:36:40.860 He is very smart and very sweet and kind, but he considers himself a Democrat. I think it is

00:36:47.000 because he is very kind and non-confrontational. Maybe he doesn't like the thought of imposing

00:36:51.420 moral standards on people. I have tried talking to him about how things like gender confusion are not

00:36:56.960 good for society and he doesn't disagree, but he still identifies as a Democrat. I haven't found

00:37:03.320 the root of his political leanings, but I'm not too concerned because his dad is a Republican and he

00:37:09.240 is going through the RCIA program. My sister and my family are already Catholic. Plus, as he gets older

00:37:16.060 and has kids, I think he'll lean more right. My question is, can you recommend a good book for me

00:37:22.320 to get for him for baptism and confirmation present? I'm looking for something that will be

00:37:27.460 appropriately religious for the occasion, but something that would also help shape his political

00:37:32.400 views. Thank you for your advice and I appreciate all that you do. Absolutely. Marvelous question. I'm

00:37:38.500 glad. I was a little nervous at the beginning. Then you said, okay, he's in RCIA, so he's becoming

00:37:45.060 Catholic. He's taking that kind of seriously. I mean, if you're Catholic, practically speaking,

00:37:50.360 you just can't really be a Democrat today because the abortion issue is non-negotiable and the nature

00:37:57.380 of the human person, the nature of sex, you know, the so-called transgender ideology, that's a 0.91

00:38:03.280 non-negotiable. And many more bioethical issues just basically prohibit a faithful Catholic from

00:38:13.840 practically being a Democrat. So hopefully he'll come to that conclusion. You could get him the

00:38:17.380 Catechism of St. Pius X. It's a pretty good catechism. In terms of political books, I would say

00:38:22.380 here maybe lean a little toward Chesterton, you know, Chesterton's Orthodoxy. He actually wrote it

00:38:28.340 before he was Catholic, I think, but it's quite Christian, obviously religious, but it gets to

00:38:34.080 much, gets to a lot of political issues. Maybe some Hilaire-Bellock books could be good. Lewis is

00:38:41.640 always fine, though. I would maybe lean toward Chesterton or Belloc for the occasion and then

00:38:48.220 just kind of slowly push him a little bit more and more and more. If he's going to raise his kids

00:38:53.760 as faithful, you know, to the church, practically he's going to have to, he's going to have to ditch

00:39:01.500 that Democrat stuff. That's good. Okay. Next question.

00:39:04.640 Hey, Mr. Knows. My name is Eli. I'm 21. And you are my favorite out of the Daily Wire cast because of

00:39:10.220 how well-spoken you are. Every sentence you speak is laced with philosophy, history, theology,

00:39:15.520 and virtue. Truly the Holy Spirit lives in you. My question is, how can I get like you? Well-spoken,

00:39:21.540 educated with wisdom. I am a Christian. I know wisdom comes from the fear of the Lord.

00:39:26.200 So I go to church, listen to sermons, and seek guidance from my church elders. I read when I

00:39:31.300 have free time, perhaps a book list from you your fans would appreciate. I'm considering going back to

00:39:36.760 school. I had dropped out to learn a trade so I could always have a skill in demand. I know your

00:39:41.260 view college is to educate yourself and not to get a job. So I'm not sure what major is best for me and

00:39:47.180 if it's the best choice because of how crazy expensive it is. But I'm thinking the education

00:39:52.360 will pay itself off. Any advice? Thank you. Well, thanks, man. Really nice. Appreciate that. You forgot

00:39:58.760 how handsome I am, but that's all right. The other ones were very nice. It seems like what you're

00:40:03.420 focused on in particular is trying to cultivate your ability to speak, which expresses some of

00:40:12.440 the other things that you've touched on there. If you can speak well, if you can argue well,

00:40:18.920 especially if you can write well, what that implies is you've probably read a fair number of books and

00:40:24.760 you thought about things and you've taken education at least somewhat seriously, and that's what you're

00:40:29.040 asking, right? So what I would recommend is I don't need to give, I mean, I can maybe give you a book

00:40:34.820 list, but you can even look, Harold Bloom, the late literary critic, has a great book list. It's huge,

00:40:40.140 and it's a list of great books. Going back to antiquity all the way to the present, I would go

00:40:46.640 through that. I wouldn't go through it in any particular order. Maybe if you want to start at

00:40:50.860 the beginning, I'd read a little Plato and Aristotle first, and then maybe I'd throw in, I'd read a little

00:40:56.580 Homer, you know, so you get your philosophy, Plato's going to be a little saucier than Aristotle,

00:41:01.160 Aristotle's going to be a little more nuts and bolts than Plato, and then you're going to get your

00:41:04.920 blood and gore and guts and poetry with the Iliad and the Odyssey, maybe the Aeneid too, which is sort of

00:41:11.400 the Bible of empire as Dante considered it, and then maybe you jump to the Middle Ages, you read some of

00:41:17.460 those tracts, obviously, you know, speaking of Dante, I'm a big Dante fan, you toss in some great, you skip

00:41:23.920 it way ahead, you toss in some great novels there, maybe the Russian novelists. What I'm saying is you

00:41:28.120 don't need to go in any particular order. Follow your desire, and then as you read, as you educate

00:41:33.740 yourself, your desires will become more finely tuned. They'll be pointing even more in the right

00:41:41.220 direction, and so I wouldn't make it just so rigorous that you have to start at the beginning

00:41:46.020 of the Western tradition and finish at the end, because you'll just get tired of it and probably give

00:41:50.540 up. Desire is a very important part of education that we downplay now. In terms of going back to

00:41:55.300 school or whatever, I don't know how old you are, I don't know your circumstances, so use your prudence

00:41:59.660 here. I wouldn't take out a lot of debt if you're not in a position to do that right now, to get a

00:42:04.860 degree that maybe you won't be able even to use in your leisure time. Don't forget, you know, a liberal

00:42:11.280 education is about cultivating your ability for leisure, ultimately, because it's not about learning a

00:42:17.380 trade. You go to trade school to learn a trade, or you get an apprenticeship, or you just start working

00:42:20.740 and train at your job. So there, I would just use prudence. And then if you are working, you say, in

00:42:26.400 between this time, I can read a little bit. I would listen to Spencer Claven's podcast. I would listen

00:42:31.000 to, I have a book show over at PragerU. You can listen to that. I would listen to lots of free lectures.

00:42:36.300 You can get them open. Courses are great. And I would follow your desire, then practice it.

00:42:43.820 Formulate your arguments. Say those arguments out loud. Bring them up in conversations with your

00:42:48.280 friends. And then find other friends who are interested in this, too, because education is a

00:42:53.260 group activity. Next question. Hey, Smokey Mike. It's Isaac, a long-time listener and huge fan. Back in

00:43:02.360 July, I was involved in a hit-and-run motorcycle accident that left me paralyzed. And I was hoping that

00:43:10.860 you would consider asking the creme de la creme, who are believers in Christ, to please pray for my

00:43:18.240 healing. Appreciate everything you do, man. Bye.

00:43:22.200 I certainly can. Simple enough. Very sorry to hear of the trouble you've gone through.

00:43:28.420 We were just talking today. A friend of ours, mine and Sweet Little Elisa's, underwent a kind of a

00:43:35.300 trauma, real tragedy. And we asked how she was doing. And she said, oh, you know, there's just

00:43:41.140 been so many graces, and it's been wonderful to suffer along with Christ. I thought, wow, that's

00:43:45.440 an amazing, saintly way of dealing with things that are so horrible. So you're dealing with a lot of

00:43:53.440 suffering. And really, the only consolation that can possibly come from that is binding it up,

00:44:02.600 drawing you closer to God and binding you closer to our Lord who suffers the utmost. And then we can

00:44:08.240 also pray for your healing. Absolutely. So I encourage everyone to do that. Next question.

00:44:13.360 Hello, Michael. I'm a fellow Roman Catholic. I love your show. On one of your recent shows,

00:44:18.300 you brought up an informal rule of thumb that if everyone who supports a given X tends to be wrong

00:44:26.340 about everything else, then there's a good chance that there's something wrong about X too.

00:44:31.280 And I bring this up because in my hobby, Dungeons and Dragons, I have very much struggled to get any

00:44:40.300 interest from my Catholic friends. And when I kind of go into the D&D community, everyone is left-wing

00:44:47.760 and the weird sex stuff, you know, big libs, etc. So my question is, why is it that it seems sometimes

00:44:56.660 that Christians hate and distrust fantasy? And how does your rule about if everyone that supports

00:45:04.400 this tends to be wrong about everything else, they're probably wrong about this too? How does

00:45:10.300 that play out in the current rejection of fantasy by Christians? Thank you very much. I love your show.

00:45:17.620 Thank you very much. I don't think Christians reject fantasy. I kind of do. I don't really like 1.00

00:45:24.140 fantasy stories and, you know, it's just a taste of mine. But Christians don't. I mean, the most famous 1.00

00:45:29.760 fantasy story of the last several hundred years is a deeply Christian story written by a devout Catholic

00:45:36.240 named Tolkien, right? The Lord of the Rings is extremely Christian. Same with Narnia, right, 1.00

00:45:43.800 written by Tolkien's buddy, who's another obviously extremely prominent Christian. The very genre of

00:45:51.300 fantasy, we see, you know, its origins. Well, the Pendragon cycle, we're making that here at Daily

00:45:56.300 Wire. And then those early Arthurian legends, Shretien de Troyes, you know, all of these, all of the

00:46:02.260 medieval literary tradition, which is obviously very Christian. So I don't think it's that Christians 1.00

00:46:06.840 don't like it. But maybe Christians don't like Dungeons and Dragons. I don't know. I don't know

00:46:09.860 anything about Dungeons and Dragons. So I'll have to defer to some other experts. But if you're

00:46:15.660 noticing, even within fantasy, that the Christians who like fantasy like all these other parts of 0.96

00:46:20.600 fantasy, but they don't necessarily love D&D, then yeah, I don't know, maybe something about D&D

00:46:28.360 is just not, just doesn't totally jive with the sort of things Christians want to do. And in that 0.97

00:46:35.480 case, I don't know. I mean, look, I'm not telling you you got to quit your Dungeons and Dragons club,

00:46:38.800 but in that case, probably just naturally over time, you might lose interest in it. That's just

00:46:44.700 how these things go. Okay. We have a mailbag question from Alex. Michael, so many are determined

00:46:51.880 to get the Michael Lowe stamp of approval for a divorce. Here is my attempt. My wife watches

00:46:57.940 Love is Blind and won't watch Die Hard. Should I cut my losses? Thanks.

00:47:03.220 You know, sometimes people have suggested there might be an exception to the hard and fast Christian

00:47:11.400 prohibition on divorce. And if there were to be, I'm no theologian, what do I, but if there were to be,

00:47:20.240 love is blind. That's, oh, yikes. There's much more mailbag to get to.

00:47:24.680 You probably shouldn't divorce your wife. I don't, I mean, you know, look, I'm, this is going to occupy

00:47:31.020 me. I'm going to, as we transition into the member block, I'm going to have to give this even

00:47:34.260 greater thought. And then we will have even more mailbag questions. And then we will have

00:47:37.940 Fake Headline Friday. Head on over. If you are not a member, go to dailywire.com right now. Use

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