The Michael Knowles Show


Ep. 1455 - Cannibal Eats Severed Leg In California


Summary

A man is arrested in California for stealing and eating a severed human leg that he found on a train track. AOC says that Trump ordered a terror attack on January 6th. And the Smells and Bells candle is going away.


Transcript

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00:00:37.820 A man has been arrested in California for stealing and eating a severed human leg that he found on a train track.
00:00:45.200 I'm not sure from where, but he came this way, and he walked all through here, and he was waving a person's leg.
00:00:51.520 And he started chewing on it over there, and he was biting it, and then he was hitting it against the wall and everything.
00:00:57.780 It was a typical Friday for the construction workers laying down concrete outside the Amtrak station in Wasco until they saw a horrifying sight.
00:01:08.680 He's eating it!
00:01:09.280 You are looking at what a witness says is a man eating a detached leg.
00:01:17.980 The detached leg came from a person hit by a train near the Wasco Amtrak station earlier that morning.
00:01:25.220 On the leg, the skin was hanging.
00:01:27.020 You can see the bone.
00:01:28.420 Jose Ibarra tells Eyewitness News that when the man walked past him with the leg, he believed him to be homeless.
00:01:34.720 Yes, Ibarra is unsure where the man came from.
00:01:38.140 He says Kern County Sheriff's deputies stopped the man after people from the Amtrak station called the police.
00:01:47.620 Having lived in California for seven years, I can say that the only thing surprising about this story is that someone called the police,
00:01:57.740 and then that the police showed up, and then that the police actually arrested the indigent cannibal.
00:02:03.440 Presumably, the DA has already let the cannibal out on bond.
00:02:07.820 The story is very, very horrifying, but it is not surprising.
00:02:11.660 California lets addicts and lunatics live on the street where they do whatever they want,
00:02:17.000 which usually involves extremely disordered acts that harm themselves and others.
00:02:22.280 The scene yesterday was something out of Haiti, ever since that warlord barbecue took over Haiti.
00:02:28.400 It was something out of the third world, but the people who run California, they admire the third world.
00:02:34.560 They tout the advantages, the benefits of the third world.
00:02:37.940 They import the people of the third world.
00:02:39.920 They copy the policies of the third world, and then they're shocked and horrified when our nation starts to look like the third world.
00:02:48.960 But that's what happens.
00:02:51.100 You can't legislate one way and then expect to live in an entirely different way.
00:02:57.600 We can't expect to live differently than our leaders govern.
00:03:01.680 That is a fact of democracy.
00:03:03.520 It's a fact of government.
00:03:04.860 It's a fact of reality.
00:03:07.020 We cannot have our legs and eat them too.
00:03:10.760 I'm Michael Knowles.
00:03:11.780 This is The Michael Knowles Show.
00:03:12.800 They can't get Trump.
00:03:33.980 They can't get him on the civil judgment.
00:03:37.180 They can't get him on the documents.
00:03:40.200 They can't get him on the RICO.
00:03:41.900 They can't get him on this, that, or the other thing.
00:03:43.560 So now they're trying out a new line, which is an old line.
00:03:46.300 AOC is saying that Trump ordered a terror attack on January 6th.
00:03:53.260 So it's just, I guess, the final conclusion of the January 6th narrative.
00:03:59.320 It was a riot.
00:04:00.840 It was criminal.
00:04:02.500 It was an insurrection.
00:04:04.280 Nearly a coup d'etat.
00:04:05.700 A terror attack.
00:04:07.080 Okay, we'll get into that in just a second.
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00:04:46.680 Speaking of gory things, there is a major case before the Supreme Court on abortion.
00:04:56.160 Now, you know the court famously, a couple years ago, overruled Roe v. Wade, which had been this ridiculous case that pretended there was a right to an abortion in the Constitution.
00:05:05.680 The Dobbs decision says, nope, no more.
00:05:08.040 That's not there.
00:05:09.040 States make their own rules.
00:05:09.980 Since that time, there has been a major shift in the way abortion is performed in the U.S., which is that even five years ago, most abortions were surgical.
00:05:21.740 Today, most abortions are the result of a pill.
00:05:25.180 Women take a poison pill, usually mifepristone, and that poisons their child, and then the baby is killed and delivered.
00:05:36.720 Initially, this drug was highly, highly regulated.
00:05:39.980 The FDA has tried to deregulate that drug, and now a group of concerned doctors, the Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine, the Hippocratic Oath, saying, first, do no harm.
00:05:54.680 Obviously, abortionists first do a lot of harm.
00:05:57.960 This group of pro-life doctors has come and brought a case against the FDA to try to regulate the abortion pill.
00:06:05.760 So the order of what's happened here is that the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled in August that this abortion poison should not be distributed through the mail or prescribed via telemedicine.
00:06:19.460 They're not even saying that it can't ever be prescribed, but that you can't just, like, go on Amazon and buy this abortion drug and kill your kid totally unregulated in your home.
00:06:28.020 This drug is now used, and I think it's something like 60% of the abortions, and several studies have shown that this thing is harmful.
00:06:36.320 Yeah, you don't say a woman takes a very powerful poison designed to kill the child growing inside of her.
00:06:42.940 Yeah, that might have some side effects.
00:06:44.580 There are several studies which show that.
00:06:45.940 But curiously, all of those studies were retracted just a couple of months ago in February, years after these studies were published.
00:06:55.920 They were all retracted, and that was due to a single review.
00:06:59.740 That was due to a single reader complaint.
00:07:02.040 It was obviously totally politically motivated and a reaction to the Dobbs decision and the way the abortion industry now works.
00:07:08.300 Okay, you are caught up.
00:07:10.300 So the Supreme Court was hearing arguments as to why this drug should or should not be further regulated.
00:07:19.160 Justice Sam Alito, my man, I love a lot of the conservatives.
00:07:23.680 Obviously, you know I love Clarence Thomas.
00:07:25.940 I like some of the others, too.
00:07:27.140 Kavanaugh, sometimes Gorsuch, sometimes Amy Barrett.
00:07:29.620 But Sam Alito is the man.
00:07:31.500 He's probably the justice whose jurisprudence I most align with.
00:07:35.580 Here is him grilling the lawyers.
00:07:40.220 I gather your injury is that you think you're going to sell more if the restrictions that previously were in place were lifted.
00:07:49.040 Yes.
00:07:49.560 So you're going to make more money.
00:07:51.380 The injury is that we are prevented from selling our product in line with FDA's scientific judgment about the safe and efficacious use of the drug.
00:08:00.040 And you're going to be harmed because you're going to sell more.
00:08:02.400 I think that certainly a company's ability to market its product is a part of how it considers the regulatory scheme that governs its conduct.
00:08:11.860 Do you think the FDA is infallible?
00:08:14.440 No, Your Honor.
00:08:15.120 We don't think that at all.
00:08:16.040 And we don't think that question is really teed up in any way in this case.
00:08:20.040 Has the FDA ever approved a drug and then pulled it after experience showed that it had a lot of really serious adverse consequences?
00:08:28.280 It has certainly done that.
00:08:30.260 There is no drug on the market today under any REMS that requires the kind of reporting that the plaintiffs are saying should be reimposed here.
00:08:38.320 So why would that be a bad thing?
00:08:40.220 Wouldn't your company, I mean, you don't want to sell a product that causes very serious harm to the people who take your product relying on your tests and the FDA's tests.
00:08:52.380 Wouldn't you want that data?
00:08:54.080 Wouldn't you want that?
00:08:55.900 No, we don't because we want to sell more poison to kill more kids because that's our business, baby.
00:09:00.080 That's it.
00:09:00.600 Don't forget, this case is not about outlawing the abortion drug.
00:09:04.400 I wish it would be outlawed.
00:09:06.020 That would be great.
00:09:07.320 But that's not what this case is about.
00:09:08.860 It's simply about whether or not this thing can just be, you know, mailed out willy-nilly anywhere in the country, prescribed via telemedicine.
00:09:18.340 You know, some kind of joke consultation.
00:09:20.300 Oh, yeah, you're a woman.
00:09:21.120 You want to kill your kid?
00:09:21.920 All right.
00:09:22.680 Well, doctor, I wouldn't say even Dr. Feelgood, Dr. Doobad.
00:09:26.780 Dr. Doobad over here is going to send you some poison.
00:09:29.000 You can kill your kid.
00:09:30.320 It's about regulating that sort of thing.
00:09:31.980 And so what Alito does here is really lovely in that, one, he points out just how horrific this industry is.
00:09:40.980 He goes, well, the harm you fear by greater regulation is that you're not going to be able to poison as many kids because your product, your business grows if you poison more kids.
00:09:53.500 So what you're saying is this is a great new market opportunity.
00:09:57.000 You're going to be able to poison way more kids if you can prescribe this via telemedicine or send it out in the mail.
00:10:04.660 And so that would be a harm that would be imposed by greater restriction.
00:10:07.820 But you don't want to harm the women here, do you?
00:10:11.520 You don't want to harm your customer.
00:10:12.880 And there are studies which seem to show that this drug does pose serious side effects to the customer.
00:10:19.480 So is that – you're going to rely on this one seemingly kind of out-of-nowhere FDA ruling?
00:10:25.300 Don't you think you ought to err on the side of caution here?
00:10:28.220 And, of course, the lawyer's sticking to her story.
00:10:30.880 She's saying, no, no, well, obviously we want to kill all the kids.
00:10:33.420 And the women, they'll be fine.
00:10:35.180 They probably – you know, I'm not too worried.
00:10:36.820 And if, like, one or two of them die, it's no big deal.
00:10:38.640 We're going to sell more poison.
00:10:40.040 Then, in – I only have the transcript of this.
00:10:43.160 I haven't heard the clip.
00:10:45.480 Justice Alito gets to how they would regulate the abortion pill.
00:10:51.160 He says, shouldn't the FDA have at least considered the application of 18 U.S.C. 1461?
00:10:56.120 And he uses that jargon.
00:11:00.020 He uses that numerical title of the section of the U.S. Code
00:11:05.440 because he wants to sidestep an issue that the libs are furious about
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00:11:44.940 What the liberals are really worried about in this case
00:11:48.480 and so many other cases that have been cropping up
00:11:51.540 up to and including the Dobbs decision that overruled Roe v. Wade,
00:11:55.160 something called the Comstock laws.
00:11:57.280 So when Alito says, what about this section of the U.S. code?
00:12:02.200 The lawyer knows exactly what Alito is talking about and says,
00:12:08.280 so I think that the Comstock provisions don't fall within FDA's lane.
00:12:12.340 FDA under FDCA can only maintain restrictions under REMS, blah, blah, blah, legal jargon, blah, blah, blah.
00:12:17.740 We don't need to worry about the Comstock laws.
00:12:19.700 The Comstock provisions are laws that date back now, what, a century and a half?
00:12:27.280 Which regulate things like obscenity, regulate things like mailing out pornography,
00:12:34.540 have regulated things like artificial contraception,
00:12:37.500 have regulated things like abortifacient drugs, drugs that cause babies in the womb to die.
00:12:43.980 And the libs hate this because, and they really took aim at it during the sexual revolution
00:12:49.460 and were able to really weaken the enforcement of the Comstock laws.
00:12:55.200 But they're still on the books.
00:12:57.520 And I think this is what would really be the mechanism for returning to something like a conservative culture.
00:13:05.840 Obviously, to stop kids from being killed through mail order poison,
00:13:08.540 but also to stop the proliferation of other social ills that conservatives have sometimes pointed out in recent years.
00:13:15.620 Notably, pornography, the spread of the sexual revolution, and all sorts of vice and degeneracy.
00:13:20.960 It's the Comstock laws.
00:13:22.780 And the libs know this, so they keep trying to bring this up in the Supreme Court arguments.
00:13:28.400 And the wiser conservatives, I think, know this.
00:13:32.400 But the kind of squishier or a little bit more libertarian types or you-do-you men,
00:13:36.740 they don't want to defend those because those seem really old and preachy, you know,
00:13:41.120 and they don't want to seem like fuddy-duddies.
00:13:44.860 But this is it.
00:13:45.780 So we are either going to, I'm not saying we're going to, you know, impose Sharia law or something here.
00:13:50.220 Okay, it's not going to be the American Taliban.
00:13:51.780 I'm just saying if we enforce the laws that are already on the books,
00:13:56.520 that have been on the books for 150 years, albeit somewhat weakened by liberal court decisions,
00:14:00.600 if we enforce laws to any degree against obscenity, against appeals to the prurian interest,
00:14:08.960 against the sexual revolution and the hookup culture and drugs like this that you can just order on Amazon and then kill your kid.
00:14:16.500 If we just start to enforce those laws a little bit, what we will establish is the fact that we are allowed to have standards.
00:14:23.460 We are allowed to say that this is the kind of society we want to live in and we don't want it to just be a barbaric society
00:14:32.740 where, forget about, you know, a lunatic in California living on the street eating a severed human leg,
00:14:40.320 where people also can't buy a drug in the mail to kill their kids.
00:14:45.740 We look at one of those things and we say, this is so barbaric.
00:14:48.540 This is so gory.
00:14:50.740 What are you talking about?
00:14:51.700 Being able to order a poison drug to kill your kids on amazon.com is way more barbaric.
00:14:57.340 It's way gorier than the stray homeless man eating a severed leg off an Amtrak.
00:15:03.520 Okay, but we don't want to acknowledge that.
00:15:06.880 We've been told that we can't ever enforce community standards in recent years.
00:15:09.920 Alito's on the right track.
00:15:11.080 Probably, unfortunately, the FDA is going to win here.
00:15:14.180 Court's probably likely to side with them.
00:15:15.600 But I hope at the very least, I hope that the pro-life doctors are successful.
00:15:22.460 But even if they're not, I hope that this opens up a little bit more of a conversation
00:15:26.300 to talk about how to avoid becoming a truly barbaric country.
00:15:32.120 Now, meanwhile, speaking of standards and religiously motivated issues, Trump is being attacked.
00:15:39.320 And he's being attacked for selling a Bible.
00:15:43.860 In the end, we do not answer to bureaucrats in Washington.
00:15:50.020 We answer to God in heaven.
00:15:52.540 Christians are under siege.
00:15:54.860 We must protect content that is pro-God.
00:15:58.480 We love God.
00:15:59.760 And we have to protect anything that is pro-God.
00:16:03.520 We must defend God in the public square and not allow the media or the left-wing groups
00:16:09.220 to silence, censor, or discriminate against us.
00:16:13.120 We have to bring Christianity back into our lives and back into what will be, again, a great nation.
00:16:20.620 Our founding fathers did a tremendous thing when they built America on Judeo-Christian values.
00:16:27.160 Now that foundation is under attack, perhaps as never before.
00:16:32.100 What can we do?
00:16:34.000 Stand up, speak out, and pray that God will bless America again.
00:16:38.120 I'm proud to endorse and encourage you to get this Bible.
00:16:42.360 We must make America pray again.
00:16:46.100 Pray, get educated, get motivated, and stand with me and the legions of Americans asking God
00:16:52.920 to bless our great nation, to bring our great nation back, and to make America great again.
00:16:58.360 A lot of conservatives don't like this.
00:17:04.440 I was watching some of the commentary on social media.
00:17:07.360 Trump announced this on Truth Social, which has now made him even more of a billionaire than he
00:17:11.960 already was.
00:17:12.500 That happened yesterday.
00:17:13.820 We mentioned at the end of the show that the stock price was expected to be somewhere around
00:17:17.880 $14 a share.
00:17:18.880 Shot up to, I think, $72 a share.
00:17:22.520 Settled last night around $65 a share.
00:17:25.920 Anyway, he announces it on social media.
00:17:27.680 I'm looking at some of the commentary, and it's conservatives saying, ah, this feels icky.
00:17:32.380 I don't like the idea of someone selling a Bible to fund their political campaign.
00:17:37.040 Now, on that point, it appears that that's not what Trump is doing.
00:17:41.400 There's a disclaimer here.
00:17:42.640 Trump has licensed out his name and image, but this is not to fund his campaign.
00:17:47.420 This is not to fund his, you know, sales of the Bible are not going to fund the Trump organization
00:17:53.100 or any of his businesses.
00:17:55.460 Still, though, some people say, I don't know, it's yucky.
00:17:57.780 I don't want this kind of melding of politics and business and religion.
00:18:03.100 I guess I had the opposite approach.
00:18:04.980 I'm not saying that I'm going to rush out and buy this particular edition of the Bible.
00:18:12.660 But I like that Trump is talking about the Bible.
00:18:15.660 I like that Trump is promoting the Bible.
00:18:17.720 I like that the Bible is getting a greater role in public life.
00:18:21.200 For the past 60 years, the move by our culture has been to remove the Bible from public life,
00:18:29.500 from the classrooms, from government buildings, from public processions.
00:18:35.620 They just want to take it away because the libs are insisting on secularizing
00:18:39.280 and creating a functionally atheist country.
00:18:44.880 And Trump comes out, and Trump speaks sometimes in a clumsy way.
00:18:49.480 I find that charming.
00:18:50.820 He's very blunt.
00:18:51.780 He tells you what he thinks.
00:18:52.740 There's not always a ton of nuance to his rhetoric.
00:18:55.380 That's why it is effective.
00:18:56.860 And so if Trump is going to come out and say, hey, I endorse this Bible, I think that's great.
00:19:02.060 I think it's actually a great thing.
00:19:04.140 Some people might say, well, we shouldn't have to pay for the Bible.
00:19:06.440 You can get the Bible online, for instance.
00:19:08.160 Yeah, you can.
00:19:08.700 Go read the Bible online.
00:19:09.560 That's probably where I read the Bible most.
00:19:11.560 When I'm looking up a verse or a chapter or some other kind of passage, I will look it up online.
00:19:17.360 Or I'll read it in my missal, in my weekly missal when I go to church.
00:19:20.820 Or I don't know.
00:19:21.800 I have any number of Bibles at home that I will open up.
00:19:25.080 But I like the fact that we have a president.
00:19:28.220 And they'll say that Trump, he doesn't go to church that often.
00:19:31.480 He's a lapsed Presbyterian.
00:19:33.120 He's not serious.
00:19:34.280 Yeah, all right.
00:19:34.860 And we're told that our baby-murdering President Joe Biden is a devout Catholic.
00:19:38.960 But he certainly doesn't seem to practice what he supposedly preaches.
00:19:44.840 He certainly doesn't seem to live out his faith in public life.
00:19:48.280 And Donald Trump, whether you want to accuse him of having a sincere, true faith or not,
00:19:53.060 in public, that man holds the Bible.
00:19:55.100 Remember when the Libs attacked the church right near the White House?
00:20:00.100 And Trump marches down there, and he holds that Bible high.
00:20:03.240 I think that's a good thing.
00:20:05.460 I think it's good to have a greater role for religion, specifically the religion that built
00:20:12.980 our country and civilization, Christianity, in public life.
00:20:16.720 And Trump's the guy to do it.
00:20:17.860 And maybe you'd use a few different words.
00:20:19.340 And maybe, I think in this Bible, it includes the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution.
00:20:23.880 I'm not sure that those totally go together.
00:20:26.300 I'd probably just keep it to the Bible itself.
00:20:28.040 But whatever, man.
00:20:30.160 You know, we can all criticize, and we can all nitpick here and there.
00:20:35.280 I like, between the two presidential candidates, I'm for the one with the Bible, okay?
00:20:39.420 The one who holds up the Bible and seems to advance biblical principles and seems to listen
00:20:46.180 to people who are of faith and who want to return to a more traditional society that was animated
00:20:55.720 by Christianity.
00:20:57.000 I'm with that guy, okay?
00:20:59.080 And if it means that I think, I think actually Lee Greenwood is somehow associated with this Bible.
00:21:03.800 If it means some company that's producing the Bible that isn't even really associated with
00:21:08.800 Trump makes a little money doing it, fine by me.
00:21:12.360 Absolutely fine by me.
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00:23:11.920 You can record it on an analog audio cassette or on a vinyl record.
00:23:15.560 I don't really care.
00:23:16.500 But what you're going to do is then once you record it, you get that file.
00:23:20.120 Keep it to a minute, please, so that I can put it on the air.
00:23:22.680 Then you just attach it to the email.
00:23:24.700 You click send.
00:23:25.600 Boom.
00:23:26.000 Done.
00:23:26.360 And then I get to talk to you on Friday.
00:23:29.820 Speaking of Trump's Republican Party,
00:23:31.520 I hate to say I told you so.
00:23:34.300 It wasn't my most ambitious Nolstradamus prediction.
00:23:37.580 But Ronna McDaniel, who had been hired after leaving the Republican National Committee, hired by NBC as a political commentator, she has been fired after two days.
00:23:50.300 According to NBC Universal News Group chairman, Cesar Conde, quote,
00:23:56.140 No organization, particularly a newsroom, can succeed unless it is cohesive and aligned.
00:24:02.360 Over the last few days, it has become clear that this appointment undermines that goal.
00:24:06.380 I want to personally apologize to our team members who felt we let them down.
00:24:11.000 While this was a collective recommendation by some members of our leadership team, I approved it.
00:24:15.660 I take full responsibility for it.
00:24:18.000 What is he referring to here?
00:24:19.120 We played one little clip from Meet the Press and Chuck Todd yesterday, but it was basically all the hosts on MSNBC and NBC coming out on Ronna McDaniel's first day on the job to say that the former head of the RNC is not welcome at NBC News.
00:24:40.680 The fact that Ms. McDaniel is on the payroll at NBC News, to me, that is inexplicable.
00:24:48.040 I have some thoughts about Ronna McDaniel and the normalization of the dangerous damned lies from the Republican Party.
00:24:55.440 She is a co-conspirator and an enabler.
00:24:57.920 An anti-democracy election denier.
00:25:00.660 She lied to the American people to further the autocratic movement that is Trumpism.
00:25:04.760 She dropped the Romney from her name, apparently, because Donald Trump hates Mitt Romney.
00:25:08.140 How does that feel?
00:25:10.060 To change your name to curry favor with a madman?
00:25:13.700 We weren't asked our opinion of the hiring, but if we were, we would have strongly objected to it.
00:25:18.360 And I hope they will reverse their decision.
00:25:20.340 We hope NBC will reconsider its decision.
00:25:24.140 And they did, because all the hosts said we can't have the head of the RNC, the former head of the RNC, come onto our network.
00:25:30.860 A reminder of something that I may have observed for about eight years now.
00:25:38.700 The Libs say that this is not about Republicans.
00:25:43.200 This is not about conservatives.
00:25:44.880 It's just Trump in particular who is evil.
00:25:48.560 They want open debate.
00:25:49.760 They want a strong Republican Party.
00:25:51.440 We need that in a democracy.
00:25:52.760 But it's just this Trump.
00:25:55.360 He's the evil one.
00:25:57.360 He must be expelled from politics.
00:25:59.380 But it's not about the Republican voters.
00:26:02.120 It's not about the other Republican elected officials or the party.
00:26:07.240 Except it is.
00:26:09.600 It's not just that they think Trump is illegitimate and the rest of us are fine.
00:26:13.280 They think every Republican who in any way advances the platform of the Republican Party is illegitimate.
00:26:21.820 Not a desirable participant in our sacred democracy.
00:26:29.060 For the Libs, the way to preserve our sacred democracy is to disenfranchise half the people.
00:26:36.560 And only allow them to have a say in how the government works.
00:26:40.220 That way, we will have a flourishing democracy.
00:26:43.160 And I remember back in the early days of Trump, there were the squishes.
00:26:47.920 The squishes, the never-Trumpers, the, you know, the.
00:26:51.020 And I understood to some degree why people were so offended by Trump.
00:26:55.700 He changed Republican positions.
00:26:57.920 He actually reverted a lot of Republican policy positions back to the more traditional view on things like tariffs,
00:27:05.380 on things like immigration, on things like foreign war, and so on.
00:27:09.460 But I understand. It upended decades of Republican Party orthodoxy.
00:27:13.380 And people said, oh, this man's different.
00:27:14.880 They're going after Trump because this man is different.
00:27:17.280 They won't come after us.
00:27:18.600 They don't think we're illegitimate.
00:27:19.880 No, they do.
00:27:21.840 It was the meme that Trump tweeted out in 2020 where he said,
00:27:24.660 they're not trying to get me.
00:27:26.320 They're trying to get you, and I just happen to be in the way.
00:27:28.980 And it was a very effective meme.
00:27:30.320 It was a very effective campaign line.
00:27:31.900 And NBC News is proving it truer and truer every day.
00:27:34.380 Ronna McDaniel, who I like well enough, she seems perfectly nice, she ran the RNC.
00:27:43.500 This is a Beltway Establishment GOP institution.
00:27:48.080 And even she is too right-wing because she supported the Republican president who won on at least one occasion.
00:27:54.500 Can't have that.
00:27:57.000 That's what this is all about.
00:27:59.800 You are not legitimate.
00:28:01.660 If you try to participate in our democracy, you're undermining the democracy by your very presence.
00:28:09.100 Now, speaking of how Republican politics undermines our democracy,
00:28:13.740 AOC is now ratcheting up the rhetoric to say that Republicans doing politics is tantamount to terrorism.
00:28:22.680 Has there ever been a president, Republican or Democrat,
00:28:28.420 that has been subject to this level of criminal charges, indictments and investigations?
00:28:36.920 This is not about party.
00:28:38.940 This is not about politics.
00:28:40.620 This is about corruption and criminality.
00:28:42.900 We're talking about an individual who ordered essentially a terrorist attack on the capital of the United States in order to retain power.
00:28:53.760 That is not about being a Republican.
00:28:56.180 It is not about being a Democrat.
00:28:58.660 It's about being an unethical individual who is subject and prone to criminality.
00:29:06.040 And, unfortunately, this is the state that we're in.
00:29:11.600 And I actually think that the fact that it's happening in so many places and so many jurisdictions cuts in the face of that.
00:29:17.500 This is not just New York.
00:29:18.800 This is Georgia.
00:29:20.080 This is federal courts as well.
00:29:22.940 So, if AOC is going to accuse Trump of ordering a terror attack, you would think,
00:29:29.420 I mean, that's a pretty significant charge, you would think that she would provide any evidence for that.
00:29:34.520 She might quote him.
00:29:35.760 She might cite a date or an action.
00:29:38.140 But she, of course, does not do that.
00:29:40.380 She says it also ends January 6th.
00:29:42.340 She can't quite tell you when exactly Trump ordered the terror attack because, of course, he did not.
00:29:47.340 He said many times, be peaceful.
00:29:49.680 If you demonstrate, make sure that you're very peaceful.
00:29:52.520 Then, when things started to get a little rowdy, he said, go home, go home, don't do this.
00:29:57.480 But, in the left's mind, none of that matters.
00:30:01.440 It was a terror attack that threatens our democracy.
00:30:04.820 It's an existential threat.
00:30:06.500 Our whole country might die.
00:30:09.280 Do you remember net neutrality?
00:30:12.360 Do you remember the repeal?
00:30:13.920 I forget.
00:30:14.300 It was 2017.
00:30:16.200 There was this provision of federal communications law that was slightly changed under the Trump administration.
00:30:26.400 And they called it the repeal of net neutrality, which just, it just changed the way that internet service providers were regulated to some degree.
00:30:33.080 And we were told at that time that that would destroy the internet.
00:30:38.480 We were told that you would now have to pay for every tweet that you posted.
00:30:43.200 We were told that people would die by prominent left-wing public figures.
00:30:49.980 People would die because of net neutrality repeal.
00:30:54.500 And you all survived.
00:30:55.640 I'm happy to say that I survived.
00:30:57.660 It's very difficult for the left to maintain this degree of histrionics.
00:31:06.180 Very, very difficult.
00:31:07.580 Especially for eight years now or something like that.
00:31:10.340 So, when AOC comes out and says, he ordered a terror attack, nobody believes it.
00:31:15.380 The host of the liberal program doesn't believe it.
00:31:17.480 Nobody seriously thinks of it as a terror attack.
00:31:19.820 And fewer people even think of January 6th as an insurrection or a riot.
00:31:29.500 And this is not just my own gut feeling here.
00:31:33.540 This is borne out in surveys on the matter.
00:31:35.860 When you surveyed people in 2021, was January 6th terrible, awful, deadly, a terror attack, a coup d'etat, an insurrection, a significant portion, especially if Democrats said yes, that same survey last year, so two years afterward, every group, including the Democrats, fewer people were likely to believe the January 6th narrative.
00:32:00.200 People buy it less and less.
00:32:02.700 When AOC says, can you think of a president who's been charged with so many crimes?
00:32:09.000 No, but that's also undercutting her argument.
00:32:12.040 Again, not just my gut feeling.
00:32:13.440 This is virtually every survey on the subject.
00:32:17.000 People think, most people think, and think correctly, that the prosecutions of Trump are just politically motivated.
00:32:23.440 The fact that he's being threatened with 700 years in prison, the Democrats think that's going to convince the American people that this guy's really bad.
00:32:31.860 If it were just 600 years in prison, we might say 50-50 that he's guilty.
00:32:36.500 But 700 years, oh, he must be guilty.
00:32:38.760 No, it's the opposite.
00:32:40.780 The fact that he's being prosecuted in four different places for totally unrelated quote-unquote crimes and having a civil judgment levied against him and now being accused of a terror attack.
00:32:51.260 And every day they insinuate that he's super-duper mega-Hitler 3.0.
00:32:55.160 It has the effect of undermining their argument, especially when they come out and they say, yeah, also, the other Republicans can't come on our TV networks too.
00:33:05.340 Also, Ronna McDaniel, a perfectly amiable, relatively establishment Republican figure, she can't speak on these matters either.
00:33:14.420 Oh, so your problem is just that sometimes the Republicans have won.
00:33:19.240 Trump is being prosecuted for winning in 2016.
00:33:22.220 And other conservatives around the country are being investigated and in some cases prosecuted for ever succeeding at anything in public life.
00:33:30.200 Okay.
00:33:31.880 Who's the terrorist here?
00:33:33.480 Who are the real terrorists?
00:33:34.260 Now, AOC, I think it's fair to say, suffers from something of at least an educational deficit, if not an intellectual, at least an educational deficit.
00:33:47.220 And speaking of educational deficits, there is a big story going viral from Barry Weiss's outlet.
00:33:56.380 It's called The Free Press, I think.
00:33:58.480 And the headline is, Inside the New Wave of Old School Education.
00:34:03.060 I made growing claims that schools indoctrinate students.
00:34:06.760 Classical education, which teaches kids to think critically and master old books, is making a comeback.
00:34:12.660 And this article was going everywhere yesterday.
00:34:15.600 I saw it linked on Drudge.
00:34:16.920 It's going all around social media.
00:34:18.620 I'm just going to read a very little bit of it because I really want to love this article.
00:34:23.180 And I'm generally happy about the phenomenon that it's describing.
00:34:26.320 But ironically, an article talking about the rise of classical education is actually showing us just how difficult it will be to reform education.
00:34:38.440 Opens up.
00:34:39.020 Menlo Park, California, on a rainy evening last January, a group of girls in long pleated skirts and boys in jackets and ties were sitting around a mahogany table in an old house discussing Homer's Iliad.
00:34:47.620 It was Parents' Night at Chesterton Academy of St. James, a private school in Silicon Valley, a fertile crescent of innovation.
00:34:55.320 Students were free to argue anything, about the text at least, as long as it was well-reasoned.
00:34:59.480 And as a 21-year-old, now the writer's talking about herself, as a 21-year-old who was taught what to think, not how to think, at my supposedly top-tier private school in Los Angeles, it felt liberating.
00:35:11.640 Lily was being trained in what parents and educators across the country are calling classical education, teaching kids to think critically in master-old books, which are often written by dead white males in the past.
00:35:21.140 This used to just be called education.
00:35:22.500 Okay, it goes on for a long time, but this is the point that's unfortunate.
00:35:26.360 She says, well, I love this classical education because it doesn't teach students what to think.
00:35:31.520 It teaches them how to think.
00:35:35.180 No, it doesn't.
00:35:37.520 Classical education is great.
00:35:38.980 It's a good thing that it's being revived, where it's being revived.
00:35:42.140 But classical education very much teaches students what to think.
00:35:47.400 In fact, all education necessarily teaches students what to think.
00:35:51.120 Some education just lies about it.
00:35:53.240 So, ironically, it's modern liberal education which purports not to teach students what to think, only how to think.
00:36:00.280 But that's not possible because you can't know how to think about mathematics without knowing that 2 plus 2 equals 4.
00:36:05.840 You can't know how to think about the development of nation states without learning that the Treaty of Augsburg was signed, and then the Peace of Westphalia was signed.
00:36:16.400 You have to learn stuff with dates and facts that you can get wrong, where it's not just all open to interpretation and opinion.
00:36:23.340 So, the nice thing here is that people are yearning for a classical education.
00:36:30.100 They realize that modern education, I mean, this dumb phrase, we've got to teach students how to think, not what to think.
00:36:35.440 That is a line from the cultural anthropologist Margaret Mead in the 20th century.
00:36:40.580 Margaret Mead was a huge lib, okay?
00:36:42.820 And yet now it's the conservatives who are pretending that that's some kind of conservative principle.
00:36:47.040 It's certainly not.
00:36:47.820 But while we love this longing for the classical education, people realize something's going wrong.
00:36:55.540 What's so distressing here is even the proponents of classical education don't know what it is.
00:37:02.640 And that is because when a thing goes extinct, it is very, very difficult to revive that thing.
00:37:16.140 And we ought to be a lot more careful about preserving things from extinction.
00:37:21.240 Because we think, oh, well, we'll reanimate it years in the future.
00:37:24.660 Oh, yeah, the woolly mammoth went extinct.
00:37:26.540 Well, we're going to reanimate it now all these many years on.
00:37:30.140 And, well, there's a problem with that because even if you did create a woolly mammoth in a laboratory, you wouldn't know how to teach it to be a woolly mammoth.
00:37:39.460 It's not just about the DNA.
00:37:41.560 It's not just about the material stuff.
00:37:43.240 It's about the culture.
00:37:44.340 How does the, you learn how to be the thing that you are from your parents, from your community, from your culture.
00:37:50.800 That's true of animals, to some animals at least too, as it is true of human beings.
00:37:56.260 How do we learn what a classical education is?
00:37:58.000 Education is relational.
00:37:59.240 It's about leading people.
00:38:01.800 Like Duke, you know, is the root there.
00:38:04.540 It's about leading people out of ignorance.
00:38:06.980 It's a relationship that's really a relationship of love between a teacher and a student to cultivate desires to learn, to immerse oneself in the greatest that one's culture has to offer.
00:38:20.900 And the libs have largely succeeded at killing that.
00:38:23.120 I'm not saying it's a totally impossible effort to revive that, but it's going to be a huge uphill battle.
00:38:30.300 It's going to be such an uphill battle that even the greatest defenders of classical education around today are still operating from within the context of a liberal pedagogy.
00:38:41.820 Now, Russia has been making the headlines in recent weeks due to the actions of Vladimir Putin.
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00:38:54.280 In the new season of what we saw at Empire of Terror, host Bill Whittle unmasks communism by taking a closer look at the history of the Soviet Union.
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00:39:29.600 My favorite comment yesterday is from Rockman7503, who says,
00:39:34.360 Yes, Dr. King's most famous inspirational quote, we are coming to get our check.
00:39:40.780 That's true.
00:39:41.320 That kind of raised an eyebrow yesterday when the race hustlers said,
00:39:45.840 We want $15 billion from the white churches in the city to quote the great Dr. Martin Luther King.
00:39:50.860 We're coming to get our check.
00:39:52.180 And I don't, maybe he said that.
00:39:53.500 I don't know.
00:39:54.040 Different people wrote different speeches of Martin Luther King.
00:39:56.720 And sometimes he was a little bit more commie and demanding than at other times he sounded more Christian and, you know, spiritual than purely material.
00:40:09.200 But I don't remember the line, we're coming to get our check.
00:40:12.540 If so, man, the libs have really gone far afield there.
00:40:16.260 Forget about I have a dream and whatever.
00:40:18.460 That's done.
00:40:18.900 That's totally done.
00:40:20.540 Give me my money.
00:40:21.640 Look, at least it's more direct.
00:40:25.000 At least I guess it's more honest.
00:40:27.400 Now, speaking of not understanding things, former Senator Claire McCaskill has gone on MSNBC, which has now banished the Republicans.
00:40:38.380 And she has gone on to admit something that should be embarrassing and humiliating for her.
00:40:43.980 But it's not because it's an opinion shared by everyone at MSNBC.
00:40:48.280 She can't understand.
00:40:52.340 She still, eight years on, can't understand how Trump got elected.
00:40:58.000 You know, I, it is hard.
00:41:02.420 I struggle with grasping the reality that our country elected this man in the first place.
00:41:10.020 Then J6 happened.
00:41:13.280 And everything that went along with that.
00:41:18.320 And he can, and then he's indicted repeatedly and investigated and indicted again repeatedly.
00:41:26.780 Then he does this, which is so despicable and such a spit in the face of anyone who loves our Constitution and the rule of law.
00:41:38.320 And I think the people that I served with, the Republicans, are taking a grave risk.
00:41:46.180 Yes, they're taking a grave, grave risk here after J6 and the terror attack.
00:41:50.500 And yeah, whatever, blah, blah, blah.
00:41:51.520 We've heard that before.
00:41:52.580 The first part is what interests me.
00:41:54.900 I still can't understand how Americans elected Donald Trump.
00:42:00.140 I know you can't.
00:42:01.260 I know you can't.
00:42:01.920 You don't understand a lot of things, Claire McCaskill and MSNBC and liberals broadly.
00:42:06.960 You don't get it.
00:42:08.320 And that's unfortunate for you.
00:42:10.780 And that's probably, if there is a grave risk to democracy, that's probably the gravest one.
00:42:14.900 The fact that you don't understand the most basic aspects of the political vision of half the country.
00:42:21.820 Yeah, that is a great, that's a grave threat to democracy.
00:42:24.720 I understand how people voted for Obama.
00:42:30.160 I didn't like Obama.
00:42:31.800 Still don't really like Obama.
00:42:33.160 He's a terrible president.
00:42:34.560 But I get why they voted for him.
00:42:36.680 They voted for him because he was the first black president.
00:42:40.160 That's the main reason that people voted for him.
00:42:42.940 They voted for him in 2008 to prove that America's not racist.
00:42:46.540 And they reelected him in 2012 for much the same reason.
00:42:49.720 Because had they rejected the first black president, that would make America even more racist than we were, perhaps, before we elected him in the first place.
00:42:57.460 That's the main reason Obama got elected.
00:42:59.520 Again, I think that's a dumb reason to vote for someone.
00:43:01.780 But it does motivate liberals.
00:43:04.080 And they elected him because he was quite progressive.
00:43:07.860 They elected him because he opposed the Iraq War when his opponent in the Democrat primary, Hillary Clinton, supported the Iraq War.
00:43:16.340 That was one differentiating factor.
00:43:18.080 Hillary had what was once considered an advantage and then became some baggage, which is that Bill Clinton was a moderate.
00:43:25.780 You know, I'm a new Democrat.
00:43:27.240 I understand everybody.
00:43:29.300 I feel everybody's pain.
00:43:31.640 Everybody loves Bill.
00:43:33.300 Bill loves everybody, too.
00:43:35.600 So that's why they were the moderate Democrats.
00:43:39.480 And by 2008, people didn't want moderation on the progressive side.
00:43:43.880 They wanted a more full-throated progressivism.
00:43:46.760 And that's why Howard Dean became the head of the Democratic National Committee.
00:43:51.260 And until he started screeching on the campaign trail, he actually was doing a decent job of winning a nomination himself as a Democrat for president.
00:44:00.520 So Obama was more progressive.
00:44:02.100 Anyway, I totally get that.
00:44:04.360 All terrible reasons.
00:44:05.660 And the libs are wrong about it.
00:44:06.780 But I get it.
00:44:07.240 The libs don't understand why Donald Trump was elected because they don't understand what really motivates conservatives.
00:44:15.280 They've just been told their whole lives that conservatives are motivated by hatred for other races and hatred of women and hatred of this and that and hatred.
00:44:26.000 Just hatred, I guess.
00:44:26.800 And I guess that's an okay campaign line.
00:44:30.180 And if the liberals dominate the entire culture and you're a liberal voter, then you never really have to confront any alternative to that.
00:44:38.100 But if you're a conservative, you do because you don't control any of the institutions.
00:44:41.360 So you have to know what the liberals think because they tell you 24 hours a day and your view is not.
00:44:48.260 So ironically here, it is the liberal hegemony, the liberal political hegemony in virtually every institution in America that is threatening democracy.
00:44:59.660 It's Claire McCaskill, far more than Donald Trump or Ronna McDaniel.
00:45:03.200 It's Claire McCaskill and AOC who are threatening our supposedly sacred democracy.
00:45:09.640 Now, speaking of candidates in our sacred democracy, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who is running as a third-party candidate, he has just picked his vice president.
00:45:21.300 And I'm not going to say I told you so.
00:45:24.960 I am.
00:45:25.720 I am going to say I told you so because I did.
00:45:27.100 A lot of conservatives were very afraid when Bobby Kennedy came out and said he was running for president.
00:45:33.500 They said, oh, actually, he might pull more votes from Trump than from Biden.
00:45:38.720 The Democrats are all unified.
00:45:40.640 But the Republican Party is divided up because there's this nasty primary here.
00:45:46.400 And Bobby Kennedy was right on COVID and vaccines.
00:45:49.300 And Trump actually promoted the vaccines.
00:45:51.800 And he defended Dr. Fauci and blah, blah, blah, whatever.
00:45:54.380 He said, first of all, people's memories are very, very short.
00:45:59.640 If COVID were the big issue in 2024, Ron DeSantis probably would be the nominee.
00:46:03.940 But it's not, and he ain't.
00:46:06.440 Second of all, RFK hates vaccines, so he agrees with a lot of conservatives on that front.
00:46:12.480 But he's a huge lib on every other issue.
00:46:14.800 So he's going to pull from Biden much more than from Trump.
00:46:18.900 People said I was crazy.
00:46:19.980 Well, he's just picked his vice presidential running mate.
00:46:23.740 And he has picked a woman, according to the New York Times.
00:46:26.900 I don't think it's official yet, but it's being reported everywhere.
00:46:30.320 The woman who is leading the pack is Nicole Shanahan.
00:46:33.940 She is the ex-wife of Google's co-founder, Sergey Brin.
00:46:38.820 Okay, so already he's picking a Google, someone very intimately involved in Google.
00:46:43.800 Okay.
00:46:45.020 Nicole Shanahan has a history of donating to the Democratic Party.
00:46:48.380 She isn't even, you know, a long time ago former Democrat who had an awakening.
00:46:53.020 She donated to Biden in 2020.
00:46:57.300 Then this year she's given to RFK's campaign, but she donated to Bobby Kennedy when he was running as a Democrat.
00:47:06.160 She's a major criminal justice reform advocate.
00:47:08.740 So, you know, more lunatics eating severed legs on the streets.
00:47:12.440 You know, that's pretty much what criminal justice reform is.
00:47:14.940 I don't mean any of this to knock his potential VP candidate or to knock Bobby Kennedy.
00:47:19.500 I'm actually thrilled by all of this.
00:47:21.660 I'm thrilled that RFK Jr. is in the race.
00:47:23.980 I am thrilled that he's picking this woman to be his VP, a solid liberal Democrat.
00:47:28.760 RFK, he's a liberal dem.
00:47:30.060 I like him, actually, in that he's a basically honest and somewhat more reasonable liberal Democrat.
00:47:34.680 But he's a big liberal dem, okay?
00:47:37.240 And the Kennedy ticket, the Kennedy name being royalty in the Democratic Party, and the Kennedy ticket, especially with this woman, that's pulling votes from Biden.
00:47:45.960 That's not pulling votes from Trump.
00:47:48.300 And it could even potentially be decisive in 2024.
00:47:51.560 We got some polls on that, but we are out of time.
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