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00:00:37.700 Amazon has just announced that it is ditching its just walkout technology for retail stores just six years after launching it.

00:00:46.320 For those who never made it into one of these stores, the technology was amazing.

00:00:51.940 There were no employees.

00:00:53.700 There were no cashiers.

00:00:54.580 You just walked in, picked some items off the shelf, and walked out.

00:01:00.540 That was it.

00:01:01.560 And somehow Amazon knew what you bought and charged you for it.

00:01:05.260 How did the tech giant do it?

00:01:08.400 According to Amazon, this technological feat was accomplished through a system of cameras, sensors, and AI.

00:01:15.740 But buried in the reporting on Amazon's pivot away from just walkout is a little tidbit about how the program actually worked.

00:01:24.940 Apparently, just walkout relied on more than 1,000 Indians watching and labeling videos all day long.

00:01:33.040 It turns out AI actually stood for a lot of Indians.

00:01:38.420 In the words of Gizmodo, the cashiers were simply moved off-site, and they watched you as you shopped.

00:01:46.960 Apparently, the Indians were not meticulous or inexpensive enough. 0.99

00:01:50.700 So Amazon is phasing out the technology, and I love this story.

00:01:56.660 I love it because one of the most cutting-edge companies in history is affirming, is proving all of my conservative intuitions.

00:02:08.320 In an age totally enthralled to science and technology, we discover that so many supposed wonders are defective, even deceitful.

00:02:19.960 Nothing more than a facade held up by lots of little Indian wizards of Oz. 1.00

00:02:24.840 In an age that worships novelty, we find out that things have not really changed all that much.

00:02:31.560 Clerks still operate the shops that sell us things, same as they always have everywhere on Earth. 1.00

00:02:38.900 And in an age of unprecedented centralizing corporate power, the everything store cannot reliably charge you for a box of cereal.

00:02:49.480 We have not really progressed so much, which means there's hope yet.

00:02:55.940 I'm Michael Knowles. This is The Michael Knowles Show.

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00:04:47.600 Now, speaking of ethnic people, it's a little bit of a clunky transition from the AI Indians. 1.00

00:04:54.820 But this is a story I don't want to miss out on.

00:04:57.540 I meant to get to it on Easter Monday, but I really want to get to it because

00:05:01.980 it's both a ridiculous story and also kind of an important story.

00:05:07.800 And it comes from CNN.

00:05:08.560 And the headline is, this is from Easter Sunday, was Jesus a man of color?

00:05:16.440 Why this question matters more than ever.

00:05:20.140 And I think when it comes to this question about whether or not Jesus was a man of color

00:05:28.420 or what Jesus looked like or looks like, I suppose, I would say, or even what Jesus' body

00:05:37.800 appears to be, there's an IQ bell curve, I think.

00:05:43.120 You know the IQ bell curve meme where the dumb guy thinks one thing, then the midwit guy 0.93

00:05:48.480 thinks the opposite thing, and then the really smart guy agrees with the dumb guy?

00:05:51.160 I think that's kind of what's going on here with the what did Jesus look like when he walked

00:05:57.960 to the earth.

00:06:00.000 The really dumb CNN point of view is that it really matters what Jesus looks like.

00:06:07.460 And then the kind of middle point of view is it doesn't matter at all what Jesus looks

00:06:10.860 like.

00:06:11.580 And then the smart point of view is, well, it kind of matters, actually, what Jesus looks

00:06:16.460 like.

00:06:16.660 And it kind of matters not because we care all that much what shade of skin he has or whatever,

00:06:22.400 but it matters because the central fact of the faith is the incarnation.

00:06:31.840 The central mystery of Christianity is the trinity. 0.60

00:06:34.820 The central fact of Christianity is the incarnation, that the second person of the trinity becomes 0.94

00:06:39.900 man, that he takes on flesh and dwells among us and really lives on earth and is really crucified

00:06:46.020 and really is resurrected from the dead.

00:06:48.560 So the body matters.

00:06:50.440 To quote Tertullian, the ancient Christian writer, the flesh is the hinge of salvation.

00:06:57.220 It matters because the Christian religion is historical.

00:07:03.540 It's not just poetry or something.

00:07:07.340 It's not just philosophy or something.

00:07:10.020 It's a real thing that happens.

00:07:12.360 The gospels aren't either poetry or philosophy exactly.

00:07:16.940 They're journalism.

00:07:17.880 It's about a man who is born in a specific place at a specific time in the fullness of

00:07:24.680 time and then institutes a visible church that unfolds throughout history.

00:07:28.640 So it does kind of matter.

00:07:32.300 Obviously, when our Lord is resurrected, his friends don't immediately recognize him some

00:07:39.200 of the time.

00:07:39.680 So his glorified body is a little bit different from the body that he had when he was in his

00:07:49.480 first 33 years before the crucifixion and the resurrection.

00:07:52.740 But the physical stuff matters.

00:07:54.500 I mean, after the resurrection, after Easter Sunday, the first thing we see our Lord do is

00:08:01.540 broil fish, cook breakfast for his friends on the beach.

00:08:04.520 And then they eat fish.

00:08:05.920 They really eat it.

00:08:07.580 And then Thomas the apostle, doubting Thomas, doesn't believe in the resurrection.

00:08:14.940 And so he physically touches the wounds.

00:08:17.900 The story on the road to Emmaus, our Lord is walking with these two guys and they're discussing

00:08:25.380 scripture.

00:08:26.080 But they don't recognize him.

00:08:27.020 And only when they sit down to eat and he breaks the bread, they recognize who he is.

00:08:30.580 They see him.

00:08:31.920 So the physicality of it all really matters.

00:08:35.320 And it especially matters for us because we are the meeting of the physical and the metaphysical.

00:08:44.400 Man is kind of like the horizon.

00:08:48.220 Man alone among the created things has two natures.

00:08:52.120 We have a corruptible nature, which is our body, and our incorruptible nature, which is

00:08:55.920 our soul.

00:08:56.360 And they're joined together in a hylomorphic union.

00:09:00.580 And so as the kind of horizon between those things, that intersection between the temporal

00:09:08.060 and the eternal, that intersection between the physical and the metaphysical really, really

00:09:11.960 matters.

00:09:12.680 And so much of modern religion is kind of Gnostic and says, oh, history doesn't matter. 0.57

00:09:17.180 Physicality doesn't matter.

00:09:18.360 We're all just kind of, you know, a bodiless consciousness just floating in outer space

00:09:26.160 or something.

00:09:26.540 That is not true.

00:09:28.060 I hate to give CNN a point, but it actually does matter.

00:09:31.140 All right.

00:09:32.560 Enough of that.

00:09:34.160 It's Wednesday.

00:09:36.940 Easter is over.

00:09:38.820 The Trans Day of Visibility is over. 0.62

00:09:41.200 But is the Trans Day of Visibility ever really over?

00:09:44.180 Is it?

00:09:44.540 Because I still see a lot of the rainbow stuff going on.

00:09:47.840 I still see a lot of the trans activism going on.

00:09:50.040 We're still talking about this ridiculous Trans Day of Visibility. 1.00

00:09:52.680 We're about to head into Pride Month, one of the multiple months devoted to strange sex 1.00

00:09:58.940 stuff that there was also October.

00:10:00.900 There will be other months.

00:10:04.840 But you're seeing a visible expression of this in the world on Trans Day of Visibility. 0.78

00:10:10.860 I mentioned this on Monday.

00:10:12.940 The governor of New York, Kathy Hochul, big lib, big Democrat, ordered that the New York

00:10:16.900 landmarks would be lit up with trans colors.

00:10:22.460 So that included the Empire State Building, that included the World Trade Center, that included

00:10:25.920 Niagara Falls, for goodness sakes.

00:10:27.420 Now, the conservative response to this is, so far, has been, we don't need to elevate this

00:10:39.540 crazy left-wing ideology in our physical spaces.

00:10:42.440 That's ridiculous.

00:10:43.540 You know, get that stuff.

00:10:44.520 What does that have to do with the government?

00:10:46.620 What does that have to do with public life?

00:10:48.960 And I feel you, but I think conservatives need to go a little bit further.

00:10:52.620 There's a picture that makes the rounds every few years of Easter Sunday, 1956, and it's

00:10:59.360 a picture of some of these same landmarks, the Empire State Building, at least, three big

00:11:04.760 buildings on the New York skyline on Easter, and they have their walls lit up with a cross.

00:11:13.460 They would turn the lights on in the office to be in the shape of a cross.

00:11:16.780 You have three crosses, just like on Calvary.

00:11:19.360 That wasn't all that long ago.

00:11:23.600 This was 1956.

00:11:26.300 What changed?

00:11:27.940 In this case, you have one of the very same buildings now, gets rid of the cross, probably 1.00

00:11:32.500 there would be a public outcry, or an outcry from our political elite.

00:11:36.480 The people would probably like it very much.

00:11:38.040 If you put a cross on there, now it's got to be the weird trans sex stuff. 1.00

00:11:41.900 But what changed?

00:11:43.000 What changed is not that we used to have no religion, and now we have a religion, or we

00:11:50.720 used to have religion, but now we have no religion.

00:11:52.780 What just changed is the nature of the state religion.

00:11:54.980 But states always have religions, and the government is always going to have some recourse 1.00

00:11:59.860 to morality and to religion.

00:12:02.160 And not so long ago, we recognized that we're a Christian nation.

00:12:05.280 Even liberal New York is a Christian city, and that's the animating spirit of the country, 1.00

00:12:10.340 and every country's got to have one.

00:12:11.500 We talked about Richard Dawkins yesterday, probably the most famous living atheist, who

00:12:16.840 said that he's now a cultural Christian.

00:12:19.020 He doesn't believe in Christianity, but he really likes the cathedrals and the parishes,

00:12:22.280 and he wants there to be parades, and he wants there to be a public recognition of Christianity,

00:12:26.200 even though he doesn't believe it.

00:12:27.560 Okay, well, that's better than 20 years ago when Dawkins and the other new atheists were 0.98

00:12:34.500 lamenting any kind of religious aspect to public life.

00:12:39.420 But it's not enough.

00:12:42.260 It's not enough to play pretend.

00:12:43.760 You got to actually believe it.

00:12:45.680 And then in the physical world, you got to do stuff about it because we're creatures of

00:12:50.220 habit.

00:12:50.720 We're physical.

00:12:51.800 We got flesh, man.

00:12:53.960 We can't erase the flesh.

00:12:55.480 Not even Amazon can erase the importance of the physical body and replace us all with robots

00:13:00.620 and algorithms.

00:13:01.280 Even one of the most advanced technical companies in the world needs to get like a thousand warm

00:13:07.940 bodies in a room to actually do things because we're people, and we're still the agents in this

00:13:15.320 world.

00:13:17.060 Okay, speaking of New York, really disturbing story coming out of New York.

00:13:22.260 A week ago, we talked about a new law passed in Florida, which gets rid of so-called squatter's

00:13:29.160 rights.

00:13:29.880 A lot of people saw that story, and they said, squatter's rights?

00:13:33.220 What even is that?

00:13:34.080 Is that a real problem that DeSantis is correcting here?

00:13:36.780 And the answer is yes.

00:13:38.100 It's a problem, especially in liberal cities, where these squatters, these vagrants, often 1.00

00:13:43.160 criminals, usually criminals, I guess by definition criminals because they're taking people's property,

00:13:47.920 they'll go in to a house or an apartment, and they'll just start living there.

00:13:51.760 And then the owner will come back and say, hey, what are you doing?

00:13:54.700 Get out of my apartment.

00:13:55.980 And the squatters will say, no, it's my apartment now.

00:13:59.660 And the crazy part is then the owners go to court and they say, hey, this guy's stole my

00:14:05.360 property and he's in my apartment.

00:14:06.520 And the court will say, well, you know, he actually has rights to your property.

00:14:10.580 And this is really happening in New York, so much so that the local liberal news affiliates

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00:15:42.980 How are squatters doing in New York?

00:15:46.620 Last Wednesday, when police got a call about a man with a gun just footsteps away from

00:15:52.600 a school across the street.

00:15:54.000 When they arrived, they chased 24-year-old Hector de Sousa Villalta, believed to be from

00:15:59.900 Venezuela, into the basement of the home here at 3259 Hull Avenue.

00:16:04.880 Well, that's where cops arrested him, along with seven others.

00:16:08.480 Another man, 22-year-old Javier Elborno, tried to get away from the apartment with another

00:16:14.460 weapon before he was also arrested.

00:16:17.100 Now, when a search warrant was in place, investigators recovered two more loaded guns, three loaded

00:16:22.520 extended magazines, and a box of ammunition with a bag of ketamine mixed with cocaine.

00:16:28.660 Now, de Sousa Villalta and eight others were charged with criminal possession of a weapon,

00:16:33.760 criminal possession of controlled substance, and acting in a manner injurious to a child.

00:16:39.360 All but two were released without bail.

00:16:41.900 Now, de Sousa Villalta was arrested with attempted murder for shooting someone else in the leg.

00:16:47.320 Now, this was all from another dispute that happened over in Yonkers.

00:16:50.700 As for these other suspects, they are also being investigated in terms of another robbery pattern

00:16:55.300 that they're seeing in Bergen County.

00:16:58.560 Sure, but like, other than that, you know, what did they, come on, these are poor, beleaguered,

00:17:04.020 asylum-seeking, dreamer, undocumented, future American dreamers, and you heartless conservatives, 0.90

00:17:14.060 you want to arrest them just because they steal another man's home and bring in a bunch of guns

00:17:22.340 and illegal guns and magazines and, okay, a little bit of cocaine mixed with ketamine,

00:17:28.260 and they endanger a seven-year-old child while they're wanted for murder.

00:17:31.700 And that's it? What happened to judge not lest ye be judged, conservatives? Huh?

00:17:38.600 Come on. Come on, man.

00:17:41.700 This is New York. This is a local New York news affiliate.

00:17:45.140 This is not some right-wing outlet reporting on this.

00:17:47.620 They're giving you just the facts, probably with as much of a liberal spin as they could possibly put on it,

00:17:53.340 and still, it's obviously completely indefensible.

00:17:56.300 The owner of this residence knew that these criminals were living there, doing all sorts of terrible stuff,

00:18:04.540 but the owner was not able to evict them because we now live in a society that prefers criminality to following the law.

00:18:16.460 Simple as that.

00:18:17.220 We now live in a society where we will take the side of the criminals, even really bad criminals,

00:18:22.060 even like murderers and people who endanger little kids and stuff.

00:18:24.900 We will take their side over the people who actually follow the law because of a very perverse sense of right and wrong,

00:18:36.320 an inverted sense of right and wrong.

00:18:38.400 We now assume, I shouldn't say we, if you're listening to the show, you probably don't assume this,

00:18:44.840 but the liberals now assume that if you are doing something wrong,

00:18:49.880 it is necessarily because something wrong was done to you that would justify it.

00:18:56.020 Society failed you.

00:18:58.060 You grew up in a war-torn, crime-ridden country,

00:19:04.560 probably the result of American imperialism, where, when, I don't exactly know,

00:19:10.280 but it's that, if you break into our country, it's our fault. 0.66

00:19:14.420 And if you steal some guy's house, it's his fault.

00:19:17.960 How did he get that house?

00:19:19.420 Probably some unjust way.

00:19:22.000 And if you mix your cocaine with ketamine, it's, well, it's,

00:19:26.440 well, that's also society's fault.

00:19:28.380 And you endanger little kids and you murder people. 0.52

00:19:30.380 It's the worse you behave, the more of a victim you are.

00:19:38.560 It's prima facie evidence that you have somehow been victimized

00:19:41.940 according to this very perverse way of doing things.

00:19:45.420 And if you follow the law and you get married and you have a family and you thrive

00:19:50.640 and you just kind of live a life that is in accordance with the moral and intellectual virtues

00:19:56.520 and you flourish as a result, this is taken to be evidence

00:20:00.100 that you are the beneficiary of some unjust privilege.

00:20:05.480 Because that's the only explanation.

00:20:08.600 It's got, it has to, why are you thriving when these gangbangers from Central America, 1.00

00:20:15.040 drug dealers, murderers, and child endangerers are not thriving, huh? 0.61

00:20:20.100 Something, it doesn't make sense.

00:20:21.640 The only, because we're all exactly the same when we're born.

00:20:25.800 We're all, there's no difference between cultures, obviously.

00:20:29.540 There's no difference between religions or anything like that. 0.89

00:20:33.500 And so the only explanation is that you benefited somehow in an unjust way.

00:20:40.340 And that's why the gangbangers need to take your house, period. 1.00

00:20:43.600 Now, speaking of the migration crisis, the RNC has just launched a new website,

00:20:51.140 bidenbloodbath.com.

00:20:54.640 And this is obviously playing off of a clip that Trump went viral for

00:21:02.280 when he used the phrase bloodbath in a speech and the media went nuts.

00:21:08.160 And the media said that Trump was threatening political violence.

00:21:11.260 Trump was calling for a civil war and another insurrection and blah, blah, blah.

00:21:15.320 So the RNC appropriate, reappropriates this word, says, yeah, there is a bloodbath under Biden.

00:21:22.540 But what's really curious is the website is referring to Joe Biden's immigration crisis.

00:21:30.900 When Trump gave the speech where he used the word bloodbath,

00:21:35.500 that, that was not what he was referring to.

00:21:38.620 And you're not going to be able to sell those guys.

00:21:40.500 If I get elected now, if I don't get elected, it's going to be a bloodbath for the whole.

00:21:46.340 That's going to be the least of it.

00:21:47.820 It's going to be a bloodbath for the country.

00:21:49.580 That'll be the least of it.

00:21:51.040 But they're not going to sell those cars.

00:21:52.860 They're building massive factories.

00:21:54.580 So there it is.

00:21:55.340 You actually don't need any more context than that.

00:21:57.440 Trump is giving a speech in or around Detroit.

00:21:59.960 And he's talking about car manufacturing, which is a very important issue in and around Detroit.

00:22:04.200 And he says, look, right now, China's trying to move in. 0.99

00:22:07.980 They're trying to steal our car business.

00:22:09.680 And I'm telling you, if I'm elected, we are going to take that car business back from China.

00:22:15.280 Now, if I'm not elected, it's going to be a total bloodbath.

00:22:17.720 All right.

00:22:18.060 But I'm going to be elected, and China's not going to sell those cars.

00:22:23.660 The media then ran with this and said he was talking about violence and actual bloodshed.

00:22:28.520 But one of the definitions of bloodbath is economic turmoil and economic catastrophe.

00:22:35.180 That is obviously the context in which Trump is using that word.

00:22:38.120 He's talking specifically about the car industry and losing profits and losing wages from the car industry and how he's going to fix that.

00:22:48.720 The word bloodbath was sandwiched in between a discussion specifically about car manufacturing in the United States.

00:22:56.460 Then the media run with that, and they say he's talking about shedding literal blood and killing people.

00:23:02.700 And what's amazing then is the RNC ran with that.

00:23:07.200 Donald Trump ran with that.

00:23:09.580 It shows you the way that memes and language transform in culture, which we'll get to in one second.

00:23:16.460 First, I want to tell you about crossing the line.

00:23:19.960 You've got to check out the latest episode of Cross the Line, University of Wisconsin-Madison.

00:23:25.280 Check out this clip.

00:23:27.020 Hundreds of people came in.

00:23:28.300 They filled all the seats, and they were polite for almost the whole time.

00:23:33.060 I'm standing here now, a biological male wearing a dress with a pair of leggings.

00:23:37.200 Do you sincerely believe that I should be subject to punitive justice on the basis of what I'm wearing?

00:23:41.720 And if so, are you willing to turn yourself in for wearing women's panties in your gay college film?

00:23:45.500 I say almost the whole time because a couple students, one who called himself transgender and another who called herself non-binary, became a bit more pointed during the Q&A.

00:23:59.240 I was happy to answer their questions.

00:24:01.260 So happy, in fact, that we all decided to sit down and have a conversation after the event.

00:24:06.580 This series is about finding one or two students who are not only going to scream and shriek and burn me in effigy when I give these speeches,

00:24:15.660 but who oppose my views and are willing to sit down and have a discussion face-to-face.

00:24:20.360 Watch the full episode now on YouTube.

00:24:21.560 If you are planning to come protest my YAF speech at the University of Utah next week and you want to discuss our difference in viewpoints,

00:24:29.200 just find producer Mr. Ben Davies and yell at him, simple as.

00:24:34.120 So Trump starts out, he uses bloodbath to mean economic turmoil.

00:24:38.020 The RNC now launches this website, Biden bloodbath, talking about the migrant crisis.

00:24:43.080 Trump then runs with that version of bloodbath.

00:24:47.820 I stand before you today to declare the Joe Biden's border bloodbath, and that's what it is.

00:24:52.640 It's a bloodbath.

00:24:53.720 They tried to use that term incorrectly on me two weeks ago.

00:24:57.120 You know, it's all about misinformation.

00:24:59.240 That's all they do is cheat on elections and disinformation, misinformation, fairly closely related, those two words.

00:25:06.500 But they basically mean that it's all talk.

00:25:10.380 But it's a border bloodbath, and it's destroying our country. 0.99

00:25:14.100 It's a very bad thing happening.

00:25:16.900 It's going to end on the day that I take office, which will be January 20th.

00:25:23.640 It'll end.

00:25:24.060 Now, I think this is a great idea.

00:25:27.740 Classic Trump.

00:25:29.080 He says something.

00:25:30.600 The libs unjustly attack him for it.

00:25:33.140 He doubles down.

00:25:34.620 He actually builds on what the libs have done, and he turns that what should be an attack on him into an even stronger piece of rhetoric.

00:25:43.440 He does that.

00:25:43.980 But it is amazing that Trump is now using the word bloodbath to mean something closer to how the libs misinterpreted the word than it is to his original meaning of the word.

00:25:56.920 That is—and very few people are going to notice this.

00:26:00.200 But it is how politics and rhetoric and memes change and move over time.

00:26:08.460 A word could mean something three years ago and mean something totally different today.

00:26:14.680 And so when we're arguing about it, very often we're just arguing past one another.

00:26:18.200 The libs did this, too.

00:26:18.920 Remember, in 2016, the libs were the ones who introduced this phrase fake news to the national political discourse.

00:26:27.260 And they did it.

00:26:28.140 People forget this.

00:26:28.900 They did it specifically with regard to us at The Daily Wire.

00:26:32.280 They called us and a number of other conservative websites and networks fake news.

00:26:37.560 There was a list that was published.

00:26:39.500 It was going viral around the internet.

00:26:41.920 Some liberal activists said, here is a list of fake news sites.

00:26:45.040 Don't believe them when they're reporting on the election or Hillary Clinton or whatever.

00:26:51.680 Trump then took that phrase and pushed it back on them.

00:26:55.240 And he said, no, no, no.

00:26:56.960 The Daily Wire, Breitbart, Fox, Daily Caller, those aren't the fake news sites.

00:27:02.640 You guys are the fake news sites.

00:27:04.260 CNN, ABC, NBC, The New York Times.

00:27:06.420 You're the fake news.

00:27:07.760 The right-wing media, they're much realer news than you guys are.

00:27:12.800 And then the libs got all angry.

00:27:14.600 And they said, how dare Donald Trump?

00:27:16.980 He's attacking the freedom of the press.

00:27:19.180 He's calling the journalists, the brave, intrepid journalists, fake news.

00:27:23.240 No, guys, you started it.

00:27:24.940 You called us journalists fake news.

00:27:27.720 And then Trump just flipped it on its head.

00:27:29.420 And now you're using the term in the way that he used the term, which is the opposite of the way that you used the term.

00:27:33.180 And this does lie at the heart of a lot of our political miscommunication.

00:27:38.160 But it's inevitable.

00:27:39.460 This is what happens in politics.

00:27:41.520 And you've got to keep up.

00:27:43.060 Because if you don't keep up, you're going to get stuck in the tired and dead, unpersuasive rhetoric of the past.

00:27:53.120 This is why politicians who were really hot stuff 10 years ago, I'm thinking of Paul Ryan, for instance.

00:27:58.300 It's hard to remember this now.

00:28:00.100 Paul Ryan was hot stuff during the Tea Party days.

00:28:02.960 And he didn't grow with the times.

00:28:10.120 He just kind of, he picked his rhetoric, and it was locked in in about 2011.

00:28:14.940 And he didn't adapt to new challenges, new problems that arose, the failures of certain policy prescriptions that his team was pushing for at that time.

00:28:23.760 And so he just gets stuck there, and now his rhetoric has no persuasive power.

00:28:29.340 This happens to a lot of politicians, even really good politicians.

00:28:34.220 I like Mike Pence, for instance.

00:28:36.100 I like him personally.

00:28:37.300 He's probably made some missteps in his public advocacy.

00:28:41.100 Obviously, the 2024 presidential campaign didn't work out very well.

00:28:44.860 But he seems like a nice guy.

00:28:46.220 He seems like a good guy.

00:28:47.180 But his rhetoric does not have anywhere near the persuasive power that it did 10 years ago, when he was a fairly well-known member of Congress, governor of Indiana.

00:29:02.840 It's lost some of that.

00:29:03.980 You see this especially, forget about immigration and the economy for a second.

00:29:07.760 You see this when he's talking about the war in the Middle East, the Israel-Palestine conflict, specifically with regard to a potential invasion of Gaza.

00:29:16.060 Here's what Mike Pence has to say.

00:29:18.320 Whatever position the current administration or voices in my own party take, here's the reality.

00:29:25.160 Israel has no choice but to invade Rafa and hunt down and destroy Hamas once and for all.

00:29:37.380 The war should end when Israel's military goals are achieved and every hostage is home. 0.98

00:29:43.920 And not a moment sooner.

00:29:47.940 And I believe the American people will stand with Israel in that fight.

00:29:52.580 Instead of demanding arbitrary limitations on Israel's military response,

00:29:59.180 I believe our president should make it clear that Iran will pay a steep price as well. 0.86

00:30:03.420 I'm telling you this as a guy who likes Mike Pence.

00:30:10.580 I'm telling you this as a guy who is broadly sympathetic to the plight of the state of Israel.

00:30:17.800 Pretty much nothing he said there is true.

00:30:21.880 Let's work our way backwards.

00:30:23.940 He says, I'm confident that the American people will defend Israel in this fight.

00:30:28.200 Why? Why are you confident of that?

00:30:32.100 I'm not confident of that.

00:30:33.180 You know why I'm not confident?

00:30:34.200 Because every public opinion poll, every survey right now shows that the American people have turned against the state of Israel in this war.

00:30:41.660 They think the war has gone on too long.

00:30:43.740 They don't see any likelihood that Israel will achieve its military objectives.

00:30:48.800 This is not just true among the radical left or even the fringe right.

00:30:51.860 It's just broadly the American people.

00:30:53.920 It is simply a fact they do not, no longer do they support the state of Israel in this war.

00:30:59.800 Maybe you wish they did.

00:31:01.540 Maybe it would be good if they did, but they don't.

00:31:04.680 So when Mike Pence says this, it doesn't resonate.

00:31:08.740 It's not persuasive.

00:31:10.860 He might sincerely believe it.

00:31:12.480 He might sincerely desire it, but it doesn't resonate.

00:31:14.780 Because while that might have been true five years ago, while that might have been true five months ago, it was true five months ago.

00:31:21.180 It isn't true today.

00:31:24.780 Then rewind a little bit further.

00:31:26.600 He says, Israel needs to do every single thing it can to achieve its military objectives.

00:31:32.560 Yeah, sure, okay.

00:31:34.220 I think most people, certainly most reasonable people, would say that Israel was justified in going to war after the October 7th massacre. 0.97

00:31:43.060 But that was six months ago.

00:31:45.660 And there's a difference between justice in going to war and justice in conducting war.

00:31:49.840 And when we're talking about the military objectives, we now have reports out from Israeli intelligence, anonymously and on the record,

00:31:57.060 saying that they no longer believe that they will be able to achieve their chief military objective, which is the eradication of Hamas as the governing body in Gaza.

00:32:07.020 So this is according to one anonymous intelligence source telling the Telegraph, a month ago I would have definitely said Israel can eliminate Hamas, but not now that the U.S. has turned its back on Israel.

00:32:19.200 So you see, contingent on changing circumstances, namely public support in the United States for the Israeli war effort, because the United States funds the Israeli military.

00:32:28.260 Contingent on that fact, the Israeli intelligence source has changed his assessment of whether or not the state of Israel can achieve its military goals.

00:32:38.520 Then, according to an Israeli political analyst, Mitchell Barak, says Israel's twin aims of destroying Hamas and saving the Israeli hostages, which Mike Pence conflates here, quote, are clashing with each other and both can't happen.

00:32:51.560 That is an on-the-record comment from an Israeli political analyst speaking to the Wall Street Journal.

00:32:55.800 So you might say, well, but they should be able to defeat Hamas. 0.61

00:32:59.900 Yeah, but they're saying they can't.

00:33:02.820 So then, this gets back to the first claim that Mike Pence makes here, which is Israel has no choice but to invade Rafa.

00:33:10.520 Rafa is this small town at the southern tip of Gaza, right near Egypt.

00:33:16.380 And, of course, Israel has a choice. 0.81

00:33:19.820 Of course, an invading army has the choice whether or not to invade.

00:33:24.420 Now, Mike Pence might mean something broader, something different than what he's literally saying.

00:33:31.940 He might mean, well, Israel can't tolerate Hamas. 0.95

00:33:34.680 Israel can't tolerate the security risk. 0.74

00:33:36.480 Yeah, sure.

00:33:37.220 I totally agree with that.

00:33:40.380 But when it comes to Israel has no option but to invade, of course, any army has a choice to invade or not to invade. 0.74

00:33:46.620 And in this case, given what we have already established, and it's not just we who have established it.

00:33:52.920 It's Israeli intelligence that has apparently established this, according to off and on, anonymous and on-the-record comment to the media.

00:34:03.520 According to them, the invasion of Rafa would not be justified because in order to justify actions in war, you need to satisfy criteria of the long-established just war theory,

00:34:20.380 which was developed, obviously, by the church in large part by scholastics.

00:34:26.260 But there have been plenty of modern, non-Christian philosophers who have contributed to this.

00:34:31.000 And it predates the church.

00:34:32.080 There are ancient pagan philosophers who have contributed to this.

00:34:34.740 This is a universally recognized principle of war.

00:34:38.100 And when we're talking about just war theory, in this particular case, we ought to focus specifically on proportionality, whether the violence being used is not excessive vis-a-vis the aims of the war and the reasonable probability of success.

00:34:54.320 So in this case, you've got Mike Pence saying one thing, and you've got Israeli intelligence saying a totally different thing.

00:35:00.780 Who are you going to believe when it comes to the Israeli military position?

00:35:03.660 Probably the latter.

00:35:04.480 I really don't mean to beat up on Mike Pence here, and I actually don't even really mean to focus so much on the Israel-Palestine conflict.

00:35:12.120 That's really more an example to prove a broader point.

00:35:18.260 One needs to adapt one's rhetoric and strategies and entire thought process in politics to changing circumstances.

00:35:28.740 Because politics is not just eternal principles.

00:35:31.680 There are some really shallow-thinking, whiny, prissy people in politics, who a lot of the squishes often do this, who seem to believe that politics is about eternal principles, and that's that.

00:35:47.960 And often their eternal principles are just some slogans from 15 years ago.

00:35:51.740 And they're not actually all that eternal, and they don't seem all that principled.

00:35:54.660 But in principle, even, that isn't what politics is.

00:35:59.220 Politics has to do with certain eternal principles, truths that will stand the test of time, but also changing circumstances.

00:36:08.020 This is why so many people who got really comfortable with the rhetoric and circumstances of, I don't know, 2011 or 2008 or 1995 or whatever, why they couldn't understand the rise of Donald Trump.

00:36:25.140 Donald Trump rose in the Republican Party because the leaders of the Republican Party were not meeting the moment.

00:36:32.780 They were not meeting the challenges of the moment.

00:36:34.460 They were not responsive to the Republican voters.

00:36:36.580 They weren't even aware that circumstances had changed.

00:36:39.760 And if they were, they didn't care because they all had nice, cushy sinecures at Beltway think tanks, and they didn't want their nice lifestyle, their comfort, either material comfort or even intellectual and political comfort,

00:36:54.120 to be disrupted by that.

00:36:56.400 It's not going to work, though.

00:36:57.540 That stuff goes stale, and then the persuasive power goes away.

00:37:00.260 And then people who are a little more of the moment take that power.

00:37:07.980 Now, speaking of radically changing circumstances and the next generation, there is an extremely distressing story coming out of the Netherlands.

00:37:17.940 And it's a story that will probably find its way to America soon if it hasn't already.

00:37:21.580 It's a story about young people.

00:37:23.840 I mean young people.

00:37:24.720 I'm talking about people in their 20s who are killing themselves with the approval, with the endorsement of the political authorities and even the medical community because they just kind of feel the sads.

00:37:37.540 Not because they have some terminal illness.

00:37:39.640 Not because they're in some immense pain that will inevitably lead to their imminent death.

00:37:47.820 They just feel kind of sad, and so they're killing themselves, and the political order is permitting, facilitating, and celebrating it.

00:37:55.620 We'll get to that in one second.

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00:38:44.880 My favorite comment yesterday is from Balthazar Cardwellis, who says,

00:38:50.400 Picking and choosing is the definition of heresy.

00:38:52.780 Heresis means choice.

00:38:54.180 So true.

00:38:54.640 I assume this refers to Cardinal Gregory's observation yesterday.

00:38:59.600 This is a liberal cardinal who said, Joe Biden might be sincere in his faith, but he's a cafeteria Catholic.

00:39:05.360 He picks and chooses what he wants, and therefore he's not particularly faithful.

00:39:09.920 And that's so true.

00:39:10.960 There's an observation from Chesterton, too, which is that the modern world is not evil because it's so bad.

00:39:20.200 In part, it's evil because it's so good.

00:39:23.060 It's too good.

00:39:23.700 It's not that the modern world promotes vice so much as it promotes one virtue to the exclusion of the other virtues.

00:39:31.860 It picks and chooses.

00:39:33.360 And so the virtues don't work together as a coherent whole to lead to our flourishing.

00:39:38.400 They just kind of go off, and they all go mad on their own way.

00:39:41.280 And then we end up, we think, as a consequence of following our charity, we need to open up our border and let a bunch of gangbangers come in here or something like that.

00:39:51.280 Or as a consequence of following our moderation, we need to negotiate with people who want to slaughter little babies, for instance.

00:39:58.000 Or as a consequence of our humility, we need to throw up our hands and embrace a radical skepticism to say that we no longer even know what a woman is.

00:40:05.580 I mean, there's a kernel of a virtue in there, but because they're all disconnected, they go totally crazy, and we live in an age that is certainly heretical and very, very disordered. 0.65

00:40:17.400 Turning to the Netherlands, which is even more disordered than America is right now, really, really distressing story. 0.99

00:40:24.800 It's published here in the Free Press, Barry Weiss's paper.

00:40:28.260 Headline, I'm 28, and I'm scheduled to die in May.

00:40:30.960 Some right-to-die activists want everyone to have access to euthanasia, which means good death, even though it's ironic because it means the opposite of a good death.

00:40:39.180 It's the worst kind of death, which is a suicide.

00:40:41.480 Even young people with mental illness, are they making suicide contagious?

00:40:44.500 The answer is obviously yes.

00:40:45.560 Here's the story.

00:40:46.100 I'll just read a few sections.

00:40:47.200 It's a good article, though, and you should read the whole thing.

00:40:49.600 Zariah Terbeek, 28 years old, expects to be euthanized in early May.

00:40:52.900 Her plan, she said, is to be cremated.

00:40:54.540 I did not want to burden my partner with having to keep the grave tidy, Terbeek texted me.

00:40:59.460 We've not picked an urn yet, but that will be my new house.

00:41:02.420 And then she added an urn emoji after house.

00:41:06.500 Very depressing.

00:41:07.400 First thing that stands out, this woman has a boyfriend.

00:41:11.300 But she doesn't want her boyfriend to have to go visit her, her grave, her remains.

00:41:18.400 Her boyfriend can just forget about her.

00:41:20.920 And then she makes this dark kind of joke.

00:41:22.780 Teeheehee, that'll be my new house. 0.90

00:41:23.820 She said she was hobbled by her depression and autism and borderline personality disorder.

00:41:29.340 Now she was tired of living, despite, she said, being in love with her boyfriend.

00:41:32.740 Of course, she's not in love with her boyfriend.

00:41:35.120 Something that struck me about suicide is it's a breaking up with everyone that you love.

00:41:43.860 If one were to commit suicide, it would be like going up to every single person that you love or like

00:41:50.560 or even have a passing affection for and saying, hey, I hate you.

00:41:54.700 I hate you.

00:41:56.160 So, I hate you, mom.

00:41:57.460 I hate you, dad.

00:41:58.140 I hate you, husband.

00:41:58.920 I hate you, wife. 0.98

00:41:59.500 I hate you.

00:42:00.840 I don't want to be with you anymore.

00:42:03.600 Go away.

00:42:04.140 I'm going to remove myself from the situation by killing myself.

00:42:07.240 She says, oh, I love my boyfriend.

00:42:08.340 Obviously, she doesn't.

00:42:08.860 She doesn't, or she feels her boyfriend doesn't love her back, or her intellect and her will

00:42:16.900 are totally muddled up by psychiatric and almost certainly spiritual problems.

00:42:23.300 They're living in a nice house with their two cats.

00:42:25.400 She recalled her psychiatrist telling her that they tried everything and there's nothing more

00:42:29.340 we can do for you.

00:42:29.960 It's never going to get any better.

00:42:30.780 If that's true, that means this woman has been failed by her psychologist who has a very

00:42:38.040 perverse, if the psychologist believes that suicide is in any way acceptable, that is

00:42:41.920 a very perverse psychologist who is not living up to the Hippocratic Oath.

00:42:46.680 She's been failed by the other physicians who are allowing her to do this, who are violating

00:42:49.820 the Hippocratic Oath.

00:42:50.580 She's been failed by her political community, which is now embracing something totally, totally

00:42:55.940 contrary to the natural law.

00:42:58.540 She's been failed by her boyfriend.

00:43:00.780 Why aren't they married?

00:43:01.640 Why are they living together, but they're not married?

00:43:03.180 That's a failure of her boyfriend. 0.90

00:43:04.280 And she's been failed by her boyfriend and her whole community in the political order

00:43:08.500 because they've got cats instead of kids. 0.89

00:43:10.080 They should probably get married and have kids. 0.52

00:43:11.380 That would probably be a little bit more fulfilling.

00:43:13.880 It goes on.

00:43:15.200 The doctor really takes her time.

00:43:16.560 It's not that they walk in and say, lay down, please.

00:43:18.360 Most of the time, it is first a cup of coffee to settle the nerves and create a soft atmosphere.

00:43:22.140 Then she asks if I'm ready.

00:43:23.600 I will take my place on the couch.

00:43:24.840 She will once again ask if I'm sure, and she will start out the procedure and wish me a good

00:43:28.720 journey, or in my case, a nice nap because I hate it if people say safe journey.

00:43:31.880 I'm not going anywhere.

00:43:32.600 Then the doctor will administer a sedative followed by a drug that will stop Terbeek's

00:43:36.520 heart.

00:43:36.960 This is the most ghastly scene.

00:43:39.240 Maybe not the most ghastly scene I can imagine because abortion clinics exist, but it's pretty 1.00

00:43:44.760 close to the most ghastly scene I can imagine.

00:43:47.040 In a way, it's more ghastly because at least in abortion clinics, sometimes the mothers don't 0.94

00:43:51.660 realize what they're doing.

00:43:53.460 Even maybe sometimes the doctors don't realize what they're doing.

00:43:55.820 In this case, everyone is so totally conscious of it.

00:43:58.340 And the doctor who took an oath to help people and to cure people is going in to murder people

00:44:05.340 and to exploit and prey upon people's depression and sadness and despair.

00:44:13.500 She has asked her boyfriend to be with her to the very end.

00:44:17.520 There won't be any funeral.

00:44:18.660 She doesn't have much family.

00:44:20.980 There again, failed by the community, failed by family, failed by the boyfriend.

00:44:25.060 She doesn't think her friends will feel like going.

00:44:27.040 Failed.

00:44:27.320 She doesn't seem to have friends.

00:44:29.480 She is despairing of that.

00:44:30.720 Failed by her friends.

00:44:31.760 Instead, her boyfriend will scatter her ashes in a nice spot in the woods that they've chosen

00:44:34.820 together, she said.

00:44:36.120 Okay, really gory, awful stuff.

00:44:39.980 The story comes up on the seven-year anniversary of a Netflix show that promoted suicide.

00:44:47.600 I won't even promote the show by saying what the name of the show is, but it was a show

00:44:50.980 that promoted suicide specifically for teenagers.

00:44:53.060 That show, launching, was associated with an increase in suicide rates among U.S. children,

00:45:04.320 U.S. kids ages 10 to 17, and not just a little increase.

00:45:10.640 That show comes out and suicide rates among kids and teenagers jumps 28.9%, almost a 30% increase.

00:45:19.620 That is, by the way, accounting for ongoing trends in suicide rates.

00:45:25.560 So, even if you say, well, the suicide rate was already ticking up.

00:45:28.160 Yeah, accounting for that.

00:45:30.080 That show coming out seven years ago ticked the kids' suicide rates up almost 30%.

00:45:36.780 This is according to a study published just this week in the Journal of the American Academy

00:45:41.160 of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry.

00:45:42.700 And there are still people on the left and on the right who, when you mention a social

00:45:52.200 problem, a strange new social pathology, will say, yeah, but how does it affect you?

00:45:59.840 How does it affect you if we allow people to do a bunch of drugs?

00:46:05.780 How does it affect you if we, as a matter of law, encourage deviant sexual behaviors that

00:46:11.380 will probably lead to more depression and anxiety and suicidality?

00:46:16.120 I'm specifically talking, obviously, of course, of the trans issue.

00:46:18.280 But how does it affect you?

00:46:20.020 How does it affect you if we legalize suicide?

00:46:22.300 It doesn't affect you.

00:46:22.920 It's just someone else.

00:46:25.460 It affects me because I'm a social creature.

00:46:28.220 I'm the political animal like everyone knew for all of history until we lost our minds five

00:46:32.860 minutes ago, and we are all susceptible to trends.

00:46:37.120 Virtually every behavior is vulnerable to social trends.

00:46:41.460 Even the ones that we're told are totally innate and cannot possibly change.

00:46:45.560 They're totally immutable.

00:46:46.460 Like I just mentioned the transgender issue, which always seems to crop up because it's 1.00

00:46:50.040 so novel and bizarre.

00:46:52.600 The rates of trans identification are up many multiples in recent years, specifically among

00:46:58.980 young people who are the most impressionable, who have the most malleable minds. 1.00

00:47:02.860 Is it because there's something in the water?

00:47:06.000 Is it because there's some genetic defect going on?

00:47:10.220 Or is it because virtually every behavior is subject to social trends?

00:47:17.700 There's two kinds of virtues.

00:47:19.100 I mentioned them earlier, the intellectual virtues and the moral virtues.

00:47:22.720 Intellectual virtues you can gather through book learning, through teaching, which is great.

00:47:27.600 You need to do that.

00:47:28.920 Science, wisdom, that's great.

00:47:30.500 That's wonderful, too.

00:47:33.500 But the moral virtues you can only gain through habit, through behavior.

00:47:38.540 And we learn our habits, and we cultivate our habits, rather, through interactions with

00:47:43.720 other people because we're a social creature.

00:47:45.260 And by imitating other people and by living in society.

00:47:48.040 And we copy what other people are doing.

00:47:49.580 We copy what we see.

00:47:50.460 And then that just becomes part of our identity, among the most important parts of our identity.

00:47:58.000 And so if our culture becomes totally selfish and says, do whatever you want, forget about it, and ignores specifically the moral virtues, then a lot more people are going to kill themselves, depressed 28-year-olds, and even kids watching a TV show.

00:48:13.200 Okay, before we go, Hillary Clinton is, she's doing her best to campaign for the Democrats. 1.00

00:48:22.760 But it's very hard because Joe Biden is a terrible president who is personally very embarrassing and who hasn't achieved anything.

00:48:30.940 So young voters are coming out.

00:48:34.500 They don't really like him.

00:48:35.260 He's not doing well with young voters.

00:48:37.140 Here is Hillary's message to the young voters.

00:48:40.040 It's Biden versus Trump.

00:48:41.580 We know that.

00:48:42.360 Yes, it is.

00:48:42.840 It is.

00:48:43.600 What do you say to voters who are upset that those are the two choices?

00:48:47.600 Get over yourself.

00:48:48.820 Those are the two choices.

00:48:49.980 Yeah, I love that.

00:48:50.680 Right, and, you know, it's kind of like one is old and effective and compassionate, has a heart, and really cares about people, and one is old and has been charged with 91 felonies.

00:49:08.580 Yeah, okay.

00:49:09.640 I mean.

00:49:10.400 Okay, interesting.

00:49:12.040 Okay, first of all, the fact that a former president, current leader of the opposition, is being charged with any felonies,

00:49:17.720 the higher the number, actually, the more I think it proves my point.

00:49:22.900 The fact that that is happening to a former president, current leader of the opposition, is evidence to most Americans, according to surveys, that he is being persecuted for his political views.

00:49:36.600 If it were one felony, maybe you could say, well, it may be committed a crime.

00:49:40.980 The fact that it's 91 only reinforces that belief that it's just a political persecution.

00:49:45.780 So that part doesn't really work.

00:49:48.080 And what her argument is, it's the principal Skinner argument.

00:49:52.180 Hillary's argument for why young people need to get on board with Joe Biden comes to us by way of The Simpsons.

00:50:00.000 Boy, there are no children here at the 4-H club either.

00:50:02.860 Am I so out of touch?

00:50:05.440 No, it's the children who are wrong.

00:50:07.860 It's the children who are wrong.

00:50:09.420 No, it can't be.

00:50:10.860 The people don't like us, and we're not doing well in the polls, and especially the young people really don't like what we're doing.

00:50:16.100 Is it possible that we, the Democrat Party, the progressive party, where the median age of its leaders is about 152, where we haven't changed our rhetoric in quite some time?

00:50:27.240 And inasmuch as we have changed our rhetoric, it's to adopt views that are completely absurd and repugnant to most of the American people.

00:50:35.420 The notion that a big man should go into a little girl's bathroom, for instance. 0.97

00:50:38.420 Is it possible that we're out of touch?

00:50:41.360 No, the children must be wrong.

00:50:45.660 Not very persuasive, if you ask me.

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The Michael Knowles Show - April 03, 2024

Ep. 1460 - Amazon Spies Are Watching You Buy Food

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