Ep. 1462 - This Just Destroyed The Democrats' Black Vote
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The Democratic advantage with black voters has cratered to its lowest point since 1960, according to a new analysis from the Financial Times. And on top of that, the FDA is moving forward with a ban on menthol cigarettes, which could hurt the economy.
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31st, 2025. TD. Ready for you. Democrats' advantage with black voters has now cratered
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to its lowest point since 1960, according to new analysis from the chief data reporter at the
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Financial Times. This analysis backs up similar findings in February by Gallup polling, which
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found that Democrats' lead over Republicans among black voters has shrunk 20 points in just three
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years. And according to a New York Times-Siena College poll last month, if the election were
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held today, nearly one in four black voters would vote for Donald Trump. Now, I have generally been
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skeptical of claims that black voters, 90% of whom have been liberal Democrats for decades,
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are suddenly going to become conservative Republicans overnight. I've heard this almost every year of my
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life, and it's never happened. But for the first time in my life, the signs really are there.
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And to top it all off, the cherry on top of this electoral Sunday for Republicans,
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the Democrats are about to ban menthol cigarettes, which means, frankly, as far as I'm concerned,
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it's time to start planning the Trump inauguration. I'm Michael Knowles. This is the Michael Knowles Show.
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Welcome back to the show. People are turning away from the sauce. I'm talking about young people
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in particular, Zoomers. They don't like booze. Non-alcoholic drinks are all the rage, which sounds
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nice enough. I guess it's good not to be a drunkard all the time. But there's a dark undercurrent to
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the move away from booze. We'll get to that in a moment. First, though, I want to talk about
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cigarettes. I'm only half joking. I don't even know if I'm half joking about the menthol thing
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being terrible for Democrats among black voters. Black people love menthol cigarettes. A lot of people
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like menthol cigarettes. I've never been a cigarette guy. I've loved cigars since I was 15.
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Obviously, I have a cigar company called Mayflower Cigars, based on a cigar that I got,
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actually, when I was a teenager. And that's a story for another time. But on the rare occasions
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when I've had a cigarette, I've had a menthol cigarette every now and again. And I get it.
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I get why. I guess I'm not quite sure why black people in particular love it, but it's just a fact.
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There's nothing racist about it. It's just data, man. A little over one in five black men
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smoke cigarettes. The number is a little bit lower for black people overall because black women are
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less likely to smoke cigarettes than black men. I think the total number for black people is around
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17% of black people smoke cigarettes. 80% of black smokers smoke menthols. That is a crazy number.
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White people don't really like menthols. Asians, Hispanics don't really. But black people love
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them. And this became a big political issue because in 2009, Barack Obama, the first black president,
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I guess. Some people call Bill Clinton the first black president. But Obama,
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certainly physically the first black president, he comes in and he says that he's going to ban
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flavored cigarettes and tobacco products. And the reason for this is they're marketed to kids.
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So at least that was the argument from the FDA. So they're going to go in and they ban all of them
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except for menthols. And I'm not joking. The reason that Obama wouldn't ban the menthols is because it
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would have hurt him too much with the black vote. So that was the one exception. The most addictive,
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most popular flavored cigarette. That's the one they allowed to stick around. That was in 2009.
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Then, fast forward, the FDA finally comes out and says in the early Biden administration,
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okay, we're going to finally ban the menthols now. There have been delays. There have been
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delays. There's now a lawsuit. An anti-smoking group is suing to make the FDA do it. And the
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Biden administration is moving forward. Now, if this goes through, it's going to really hurt
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convenience stores. Banning menthol cigarettes would reduce non-tobacco sundry sales by $72,000
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a year for the average convenience store and tobacco sales by $160,000 a year for the average
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convenience store. That means that convenience stores overall are going to lose $2.16 billion
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in sales. But that's not even why. It's a kind of interesting regulatory issue, especially because
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it's such a popular product. But what interests me most about this political issue is the whole issue
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revolves around black people and allegations of racism. That's the whole politics of this regulation
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from day one has been about how to frame it as not anti-black and as pro-black.
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So in 2009, the pro-menthol forces came out and they said, hey, this is racism. You're banning
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the cigarettes that black people most enjoy. And that carried the day. Now the argument is,
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well, actually, these specific cigarettes are killing black people. And so it's racist to keep
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them on the market. It's part of a broader campaign to kill black people. But regardless of the cigs and
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regardless of this particular regulation, it shows you where American politics is, you have to be
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able to frame every single issue as a matter of the oppression Olympics, specifically with regard to the
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left's favored groups and probably most especially with regard to black people. This comes at a pivotal
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time when, as far as we can tell from all of the surveys, black people do seem to be in some measure
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moving away from the Democrat party. Whether that materializes in November remains to be seen.
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Speaking of racial issues, McKinsey, some time ago, the big consulting firm, came out with a study
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that all the libs glommed onto. And the study showed that DEI, diversity, equity, and inclusion policies,
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are actually great for business. Now, the moment this study came out, I knew it was totally bogus.
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And the way that I knew, and maybe you knew that it was totally bogus, is that if the DEI policies were
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really, really great for business, then the government wouldn't have to cram it down everyone's
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throats. This is the same way I knew that the so-called gender wage gap was bogus. If companies
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could really get the same work out of one group of people paying them 25% less than they pay the
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other group of people, they would only hire the first group of people. The businesses would only
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ever hire women. But obviously, the women weren't only being paid 75 cents for the same work as men.
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That's preposterous. There aren't enough misogynists in the world, certainly not on the boards of
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corporations, to unnecessarily raise their labor costs by such a margin. Well, same thing with DEI.
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If the DEI policies were so great, they would just be implemented naturally as the companies
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tried to increase their efficiency and save money. Nevertheless, the McKinsey study, because it's got
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this big liberal establishment stamp of approval on it from one of the big consulting shops, it's adopted
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everywhere, including at the Pentagon. Okay, even our national security is relying on this woke nonsense
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that everybody just intuitively knows is BS. So that the Department of Defense under Joe Biden leans on
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this nonsense McKinsey study as the justification to install affirmative action in our military.
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What did the studies say? The studies said that the implementation of DEI led to increased
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profitability for corporations. Specifically, the companies became more profitable as their
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executive levels became more diverse. You know, the thing that was holding back Ford Motor Company is
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they didn't have enough transvestites in the ranks. But the moment that you hire more of the people of
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the favored minority groups, then the profits are going to go up, right? No. There's a study from
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Econ Journal Watch that found that the studies were deeply, deeply flawed. And in fact, they weren't
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even measuring the things that they said they were measuring. They would measure a company's
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profitability leading up to the point at which the DEI policies were initiated. So that the growth in
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profits leading up to that point obviously had nothing to do with the DEI policies, which came in
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at the end, among other problems with the studies. But it doesn't really matter because the notion
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that DEI is really good for companies, it's really good for profitability, it's just a smart business
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decision. That wasn't the conclusion of any study. That was the premise. That was the starting
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assumption. Okay. And just as liberalism does to so many other aspects of society, it just flips
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everything on its head. So McKinsey obviously didn't begin with a thesis that it then tested
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to arrive at a conclusion. It began with the conclusion and it worked its way back from there.
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The conclusion that one has to reach is that diversity, equity, and inclusion is good because
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that's the state religion. That's the new euphemism for the state religion, which is a radical form
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of liberalism, sometimes called in its uniquely American manifestation political correctness.
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Now we call it wokeism. It's all the same thing. That's the state religion. And its conclusions are
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assumed. If we question those conclusions, we are going to have to question so much of our political
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order. So this study gets debunked. The Pentagon's not going to change the policy. Corporations aren't
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going to change the policy. The jurists and the legislators are not going to change the law.
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We will live. We will live as one nation under God or one nation under DEI. It's even kind of funny
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that DEI is the Latin word for gods. It's the genitive form of the Latin word for God, singular. It would be
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the singular genitive form in Latin for the language and grammar nerds out there. And I don't think it's
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any mere coincidence. There's no such thing as a mere coincidence in a world governed by providence.
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We've substituted one nation under the true God for one nation under this false god. And it's the
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false god of liberalism, which ultimately is a worship of the self and of the individual irrational
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and inclusion, I have just seen the saddest and most infuriating video that I have ever come across
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in my entire life, and it was going viral yesterday. It is a video of an egg donor making the,
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making her annual video message or FaceTime call to her daughter. This is the daughter,
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obviously, that was produced with this woman's egg, but she sold her egg to two homosexual men
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who purchased the egg and then purchased a child and then intentionally created that child to deprive
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that child of her mother. And then the mother, once a year, makes a little call. And here's what
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the daughter says at the end of it. I wanted to wish you a happy birthday, and so does Malik.
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He says happy birthday also. I hope you had a wonderful fourth birthday. I really love looking
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at all your pictures on Instagram, and you're growing up to be such a beautiful and creative
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sparkling light. And I know your daddies love you so much. So happy birthday, baby girl,
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Okay, you can say that to her. What do you want to say?
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We blurred out the girl's face, because she's undergone enough abuse at the hands of these psychopaths.
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It's intellectually, tamping down one's emotion. One can remove oneself and look at this as a matter
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of reason and conclude that obviously this is extremely evil, and the entire industry of surrogacy,
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purchasing children, allowing two men in particular or two women to create a child with the intention
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of depriving that child of his mother or father. This is obviously very, very evil, and should be
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illegal, of course. Selling one's eggs, selling one's sperm, this obviously should be illegal. But
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if one has any degree of intellectual removed from this, one can say, okay, I understand.
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They know not what, forgive them, Lord, they know not what they do. They don't understand.
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They are blinded by their own selfish desires. They sincerely believe that men and women are not
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different. They maybe sincerely believe that a child doesn't need his or her mommy or daddy.
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They just don't know. They just don't know. I think that's probably true. And so one could extend
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a little bit of grace there. That would be the reaction when you don't watch that video.
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That would be the reaction when you just kind of think about it in the abstract, and you recognize
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that people are very confused, and we have a very fallen world and culture, and they just don't
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know the grave evil that they're committing. But then you watch the video. And it's a little more
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difficult to extend that kind of grace because you hear the little girl saying, I love you, mommy. I
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love you, mommy. But mommy doesn't love her. And mommy sold her to two homosexuals who intentionally
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bought her, created her, to deprive her of one of the most important connections that a human being
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can ever possibly have, which is the connection between a mother and a baby. And the degree of
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trauma that that is inflicting on the little child is not only common sense and self-evident,
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but you can then hear it in the girl's voice. And when you see that, you conclude that every single
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adult involved in this should be imprisoned for life at least. That's just the natural reaction
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that one has to this grave, grave child abuse that our culture tolerates now for the last five minutes
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and in fact celebrates. And so it's important sometimes, I think. We want a culture and a
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political order that is based on reason, okay? We don't want to be just blown away on passions.
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But we're human beings and pulling at the heartstrings sometimes helps us to see the reality
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of a situation. This is gravely, gravely evil. Everyone involved, the egg donor, the people
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purchasing the child, the people intentionally depriving the child of a natural mother and
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father, they are all committing, whether they know it or not, they probably don't know it,
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most of them. They are committing a grave, grave evil. And if it has already happened,
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grave evils happen all the time. People kill 800,000 babies a year in this country,
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to use just the one example of abortion. If it's already happened, we do our best to just move on
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and make the best of a bad situation. But this process, the surrogacy industry, the purchasing of
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children on the open market and the abuse of children to satisfy the selfish and irrational desires of
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adults and to satisfy the fantasies and absurdities of even politicians who redefine natural institutions,
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including the most basic political structure, that's only growing. This problem only stands to
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get much, much worse. There are already a lot of victims of it, but it's going to get much, much worse.
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And so it would seem to me perfectly reasonable. And the sort of thing that any, certainly any
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Republican or conservative politician, but really any politician who isn't just like an outright
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Satanist, who isn't just like the most low down, dirty, rotten, completely out of his mind politician
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there is, everyone should recognize this evil and oppose it. And it's just got to stop. And it's just got to
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stop immediately. And that's that. I've seen, you cover the news, you see so many videos of war and
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killings and this, and then they're all, all very, very disturbing. That's the most disturbing video
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I've ever seen in my whole life. This woman pops in once a year. Hey, hey, daughter that I sold
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to a couple of selfish homosexuals. Happy birthday. I love you, mommy. Yep. Sorry. Hang up.
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That's not, that's not just one example. That's not, that's not, that's not, not one unrepresentative
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example. That's a major public policy that the president of the United States is actively
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encouraging right now. And that many Republicans are fine with too. Absolutely revolting.
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Speaking of the difference between men and women on a, on a lighter note, there's a girl,
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a young woman who's gone viral, a little bit of a palate cleanser after so upsetting a video.
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There's a girl who's gone viral for expressing her frustration that her boyfriend does not,
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just doesn't get her. And we live in a culture now that, that denies the difference between men and
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women. So we're all basically as confused as she is, but, but her observation of the difference
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between men and women, I find beautifully delightful. Girls, tell me if I'm right about this, but
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whenever I talk about something to my boyfriend and I have something to rant about and something
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just did not go well, all I want to hear is like, yes, you did well. Good job. They wronged you.
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They were wrong. Like, I just want my height, you know, woman, height man. But every single time I
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tell my boyfriend, he's like, this is the logical way to solve this. And here's a solution. And I'm
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like, no, I don't want you to fix my problems. I just want you to tell me that I did good.
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I don't know if she's doing a parody or not. If it's a parody though, it's very close to the truth
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because this is how every single woman thinks and has for all of history. And of course,
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vive la différence. Some people look at that and they say, you women, why are you different from
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men? I hate you women for me. I like that women are different from men. I don't, you know, I enjoy
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women. Nevertheless though, if sweet little Elisa were to come to me and say, Mac, I don't want you
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to solve my problem. I just want you to, you know, agree with me, whatever. I'd say, well,
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I'm not the right guy for that because you came to me, your husband, and I'm going to respond like
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a man would. So you can go to a girlfriend. That's what women could go to. If women want that,
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it was just to be affirmed and told how great they are and how everyone else is wrong. And then
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that happens. That happens to every single woman. Then they should go to their girlfriends. It's
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like, yeah, oh yeah, he's terrible. Yeah, she's bad. I know. Can you be, you've never done anything
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wrong. You totally blah, blah, blah, whatever. That's like girl talk, you know, but that's not guy talk.
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And so the only real confusion, I know every woman has been frustrated for all of history because
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they, the women go to the men, they want this kind of reaction, but then the men won't give
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them this reaction. They get kind of frustrated. That's true. It's just a category error. The
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category error is you thought you were going to get a woman reaction from a man. And these days,
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you know, I guess that's not surprising, but you're, but you're not. And women, they can get a lot of
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great stuff from men, but they're not going to get that because men and women, it turns
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1155, who says, they want to limit travel. That is why they don't have a problem. Oh, this is in
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response to Biden trying to kill the gas car and promote electric cars. So he sends Mayor Pete
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out there to talk about how great electric cars are. That's why they don't have a problem with the
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short distance that electric cars will go between charges. Gas cars allow too much freedom.
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Yeah, I think that is part of it. It's a lot easier. Electricity is a lot easier to control.
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I think it's not just a bunch of people in the back room, you know, like,
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mwahaha cooking up a conspiracy. But that is part of it, why just even intuitively the libs prefer
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the electric cars. The gas cars do provide a degree of freedom that the electric cars never
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really could. Now, speaking of boys and girls again, and then we can move on from the transvestites
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and we'll get back to anti-black racism. There is a trans activist, apparently,
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fella by the name of Hunter Schaefer, who is a guy who pretends to be a woman. And I guess he's an
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actor. I don't know what roles he's been in, but apparently he's a Hollywood guy. And he just came
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out and he said that he is sick and tired of playing trans roles. You see, this guy, just because he's a
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dude who happens to look kind of like a chick, because he's intentionally made himself look kind
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of like a chick, he gets cast in roles of guys who think that they're chicks. Isn't that crazy?
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So he says, it has not just happened naturally by any means. If I let it happen, it would still be
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giving transsexual actresses before every article ever. It would still be giving. That's a kind of
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Zoomer idiom. It would still be giving, but it's not happening naturally. I'm being
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typecast. Okay, I'm being pigeonholed. As soon as I say it, it gets blasted off. It took a while
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to learn that. And it also took a while to learn that I don't want to be reduced to that. And I find
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it ultimately demeaning to me and what I want to do, especially after high school. I was sick of
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talking about it. I worked so hard to get where I am, past these really hard points in my transition.
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And now I just want to be a girl and finally move on. I don't want to be the trans guy. I don't want
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to be an activist. I don't want to be cast as a man who thinks he's a woman. I have transitioned.
00:25:53.040
I want to be a girl. I've gotten offered tons of trans roles, he says, and I just don't want to do
00:25:58.840
it. I don't want to talk about it. This is really funny because we've just spent the last three or
00:26:05.200
four years in the Hollywood discourse, hearing about how if you're a straight guy, you should not
00:26:10.500
be cast in a gay role. That if you're a cisgender, you should not be cast in a trans role. This is
00:26:18.320
very wrong. If you're in any way a white guy, you should not be cast in any kind of other racial
00:26:24.840
role. It's wrong. We've been told for the last three years in Hollywood, you should only play the
00:26:31.780
roles that perfectly suit your actual self, which of course is the opposite of acting. Acting is where
00:26:37.440
you pretend to be somebody else. The actors would say you live truthfully within imaginary
00:26:43.980
circumstances, but the end result is the same. You are portraying someone that you are not.
00:26:49.620
And we've been told you can't do that anymore. Now acting is the opposite of that because the
00:26:54.840
libs invert every single thing. So they say, yeah, now acting is reality. And reality actually is
00:27:00.900
acting now because we all go around pretending to be people we're not. White people pretend to be
00:27:04.940
black people and Rachel Dolezal and men pretend to be women like, well, Dylan Mulvaney or any number
00:27:12.040
of them like this person. But then the people in the favored victim groups, they say, actually,
00:27:19.260
hold on, I want the opposite of this again. So I want to go back to the first one.
00:27:22.580
I don't want to, not only do I not want to be typecast, not only do I want to play the thing
00:27:26.520
that I actually am, that is to say a man who thinks he's a woman, I explicitly don't want to play
00:27:31.100
that. I want to play the opposite of that. But if the straight guy wants to play a gay guy,
00:27:38.040
that is not allowed. And if the cisgender wants to play the transgender, that's not allowed.
00:27:43.440
And if a white guy wants to do anything in this world, he's not allowed to do that either.
00:27:47.780
But I get to do whatever I want. And that's really all it, that's, that is all it comes down
00:27:51.200
to. All it comes down to is there's no principle, there's no set of rules. It is a preference with
00:28:02.040
regard to categories of people. If you are trans identifying, if you are gay, if you are any kind
00:28:10.720
of racial minority, if you are a woman, you do whatever you want. And if you're a straight white
00:28:16.760
man who knows he's a man, you, you can't really do anything unless the libs give you permission to
00:28:22.720
do that. It comes down to much more of a power politics. The notion that politics really is not
00:28:28.280
about reason or a set of rules, but simply the distinction between friend and enemy. And the
00:28:34.100
disfavored group, the enemy group are the, you know, the straight white guys who, who know that
00:28:38.780
there are other categories. Christians, you know, are obviously disfavored in the popular culture and
00:28:43.520
other groups as well. Uh, but, but that's all it comes down to. Mr. Schaefer, Hunter Schaefer gets
00:28:50.160
to do whatever he wants. And you don't, you don't get to do anything you want. Now, speaking of
00:28:54.980
activism, this one raised my eyebrow last night. It's just kind of making the rounds now, even though
00:29:02.440
this began last fall, the university of Maryland has a new academic department or, or a subsection of
00:29:13.460
a department. The, um, the university of Maryland now offers a minor in anti-black racism, which
00:29:22.820
it's in the Africana studies department. And so it, I, I imagine I'm certain it's some big lib thing
00:29:32.300
about how white people are evil and black people are great. And but it's just the kind of the way
00:29:36.100
it sounds to me is say, what did you study in school? Oh, well, I got my major in English and
00:29:43.280
I minored in anti-black racism. Yeah. We'd go out there with our tiki torches. Oh yeah. We had a lot
00:29:49.280
of practical exams. We'd go burn across somewhere. So you say, hold on, whoa, wait, what? Why would you
00:29:53.320
study that? Don't, that's not the kind of thing I want to learn. I don't, I don't want to, I don't
00:29:59.980
want to learn cruelty to any group of people. You stay. Yeah. I trained real hard in anti-black
00:30:04.920
racism first, you know, for anti-black racism, one-on-one, they made me shave my head. And then
00:30:09.880
for anti-black racism, number two, they made me, you know, burn across. And then for anti, whoa, man,
00:30:15.480
that's not, that's not good. But, but then you look into it and you say, obviously this is some
00:30:20.720
unfortunate, uh, phrasing from, you know, liberal academics who probably are functionally illiterate
00:30:26.960
anyway. So I'm not surprised they misuse the English language. Uh, but then you think, okay,
00:30:30.320
well, what do they really teach? And what they really teach is anti-white racism. That's what
00:30:34.620
this all comes down to. All of the, the, uh, racial grievance politics comes down not to promoting
00:30:41.600
even, not even to focusing on the virtues of one race compared to another race. It's to focus on,
00:30:48.820
on the vice of the opposite race, that white supremacy is everywhere and we need to abolish
00:30:55.000
whiteness. And I mean, these are just terms that are, that are regularly used in, in faculty lounges
00:30:59.900
and in classrooms all across the country, not even just the university of Maryland.
00:31:04.080
It, it's ironic, but I guess it just, it does play into our theme here, which is that the libs
00:31:09.740
invert, they totally flip everything on their head. And so they have a minor in anti-black racism when
00:31:14.820
in fact, what you're really being trained in is anti-white racism. No surprise. And that's not a UMD
00:31:20.720
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of young people, new report out that I had a little bit of a hard time believing, at least
00:32:07.280
at first, young people are not drinking anymore. Millennials and zoomers in particular, they're
00:32:14.220
given up booze. A headline from CNN, no longer drinking. There are options for you. Few little
00:32:22.160
pieces from the article. The number of people choosing to opt out of alcohol, whether temporarily
00:32:26.140
or permanently has grown. And with it, the normalization of being alcohol free restaurants
00:32:31.160
have expanded mocktail lists. Sober bars are on the rise and non-alcoholic bottle shops are
00:32:36.400
popping up in most major cities. These aren't thoughtless alcohol replacements with a level of
00:32:40.920
care and craft, often with a price point matching their alcoholic counterparts. These substitutions
00:32:46.300
are much more than a Shirley Temple. First off, I like a good Shirley Temple. I've liked a Shirley
00:32:50.820
Temple since I was five years old. I don't know. Let's not knock the Shirley Temples. They're very
00:32:55.300
tasty. But second of all, they're not even really talking about, you know, people who really struggle
00:33:00.960
with drinking. I don't even think this is really about alcoholics. I have friends who are alcoholics who
00:33:05.840
go to AA meetings and who really can't have a single sip or they'll go off the edge. I know a
00:33:12.120
number of people like that. Norm Macdonald once had an insightful observation about this.
00:33:19.860
It's kind of how I feel about it. I like wine. I like scotch. I like cognac and port and things.
00:33:26.000
But I don't, I'm not really that drawn to it. I'll leave half my drink on the table sometimes if I'm
00:33:33.160
done. My alcoholic friends think that's completely insane. They can't even begin to fathom that.
00:33:38.440
But Norm Macdonald had this observation. He said, hey, you know, my friend Adam Egett,
00:33:42.260
he's an alcoholic. He, that means he really, really likes alcohol. Me, I don't really like alcohol.
00:33:49.400
I'll have it, take it, or I'll leave it. So because Adam Egett really, really likes alcohol,
00:33:56.640
he can never have any of it. But because I don't really like alcohol, I can have as much as I want.
00:34:02.060
Life's funny that way. And it is kind of funny that way. But that's not what they're talking
00:34:05.660
about here. It's really good. People who have a struggle with being addiction to alcohol,
00:34:10.040
very, very good for them to lay off. It's good that there are new mocktails and things like that
00:34:13.720
for them. But that's not really what's going on here. This is people who will just drink a little
00:34:18.120
bit less. They'll have one drink maybe, but then they'll switch over to some weird kind of fruity
00:34:24.180
drink or whatever. And they'll all night, it's a little different. So then I looked into it. And here's the
00:34:29.380
catch to these mostly hipster, kind of Brooklynite, non-alcoholic bars. It's just people doing a
00:34:37.840
bunch of pot. What they say is some spirits replace the alcohol with adaptogens. Things like reishi
00:34:45.440
mushrooms or ashwagandha, whatever that is. It's used to reduce stress or increase energy. So whatever
00:34:51.920
those are, I'm assuming those are not magic mushrooms. They're just a little stress reliever.
00:34:55.760
Clearly, there's some drug effect to it. And then others contain varying doses of THC. So there it
00:35:01.560
is. There's the Haitian oregano. Eric Flavin owns Marigold, a non-alcoholic bottle shop in
00:35:05.920
Minneapolis, Minnesota, that also sells legal cannabis. Marigold serves a diverse clientele.
00:35:12.000
The cannabis products appeal to both these young and old as it can help with sleep, while others
00:35:17.920
prefer the adaptogenic drinks and non-alcoholic drinks. Okay, so what it really is, the real story
00:35:22.020
here is not, people are getting healthier by reducing the amount they drink, which could be
00:35:26.680
perfectly good. It's that people are just switching from booze to become potheads. And the potheads say
00:35:34.000
that that's really good. I don't think that's really good. I'm not saying booze is great, and if you have
00:35:38.600
a problem with it, you should definitely cool it with the booze. But booze makes you a little more
00:35:44.580
sociable. If you're going to pick a drug and you don't have a real dependency or problem with it,
00:35:49.160
booze makes you a little more sociable, a little more talkative. It's kind of a social lubricant,
00:35:53.740
as we say. Pot makes you quiet and less funny, though you think things are much funnier, but you
00:36:00.680
become less funny and less sociable and quieter. And sometimes you go completely nuts and lose your
00:36:06.620
drive. And I've seen it happen to a lot of my pothead friends. That's not a great, they put this
00:36:11.880
nice patina of how wonderful, how beautiful, we're getting healthy, we're getting fit. No, we're just
00:36:17.080
switching from being drunks to being potheads. And if I had to choose one, I'd rather not be
00:36:21.660
either. But if I had to choose one drug for our civil, I'd probably stick with the one that's
00:36:25.920
longstanding in our civilization, that it helps us be more sociable. We live in a very anti-social
00:36:31.040
age where sociopathy is on the rise, social alienation and isolation is on the rise.
00:36:35.500
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Morning, Mr. Knowles. This is actually a nice one for Tee Hee Tuesday. What's the difference between
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Riyadh and Abu Dhabi? Well, in Riyadh, they do not like the Flintstones, but Abu Dhabi,
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Abu Dhabi-doo. Thank you. Love your show. Bye-bye.
00:39:23.780
It's my favorite mailbag question I've ever received. That's really great. I like that there
00:39:29.740
was no question to it, but I'm going to use that. What's the difference between Riyadh
00:39:32.900
and Abu Dhabi? In Riyadh, they don't like the Flintstones, but Abu Dhabi-doo.
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Okay. All right. Get it together, Michael. Next question.
00:39:43.540
Good morning, Michael. This is Arun. I'm sure you've noticed that in the past several months,
00:39:48.740
the so-called dissident right has called on an end to American support for the state of Israel
00:39:52.940
on the basis that Jews are not God's chosen people. Now, as a Hindu, I also do not believe
00:39:58.560
that Jews are God's chosen people, but this is more a corollary to the fact that Hinduism
00:40:02.940
does not recognize the idea of divine covenants, and therefore the very notion of God choosing any
00:40:08.180
people is foreign to us. I do, however, have an affinity for Jews due to their religion's often
00:40:13.940
unknown and unappreciated theological similarities to my own, as well as to the generally pro-Western
00:40:20.660
bias of Jewish culture. And, of course, there are Professor Jacob's many epic and based takedowns
00:40:27.300
of Hamas simps on Twitter. Therefore, I'd like to construct a rationale for American support of the
00:40:32.580
state of Israel that is not predicated on any biblically defined divine right to Judea and
00:40:38.400
Samaria. You have mentioned that, per your theology, God's chosen people consists of Jewish and Gentile
00:40:44.140
believers in Jesus, i.e. Christians. Thus, I would observe that you find yourself in a rare agreement
00:40:49.460
with us Hindus on the matter of Israel. Could you suggest an argument for American support of Israel
00:40:55.000
that does not depend on any claim of divine right? Do you think that such an argument might even
00:41:00.920
appeal to the dissident right? Thank you, as always, for your wisdom.
00:41:06.080
Absolutely, Arun, as always. Just a really brilliant question. Yes, you're absolutely right that I,
00:41:16.840
and I've been arguing this for some months now, I don't think that the theological and even some of
00:41:24.000
the historical arguments for the state of Israel are going to be very persuasive. And I seem to have
00:41:28.900
been proven right, actually, if you look at public opinion surveys and you look at statements even of
00:41:33.280
the Israeli government observing that America is diminishing its support for Israel. It's because
00:41:38.980
the arguments that have traditionally propped it up are not all that persuasive, to a lot of people,
00:41:44.280
at least. So, I totally agree with you. Whatever incipient, I guess it's mostly on the left,
00:41:50.680
but there's a little bit on the right, a real antipathy for a certain ancient nomadic tribe.
00:41:54.760
I don't share that. I quite like the Jews, actually. I don't wake up every morning and
00:42:01.080
just, you know, pull my hair out and say, the Jews, oh, those Jews, dastardly Jews. But I think,
00:42:06.740
in part, one way that you could make a stronger argument for the state of Israel and against this
00:42:13.920
kind of nascent anti-Jewish activism is to acknowledge the, you know, the kind of silliness
00:42:25.060
of the supposed revelations of the people who are feeling this way. You know, these people, they say,
00:42:31.060
they say, oh my goodness, you know what I just learned? You know what I just found out? I just
00:42:34.340
found out that Jews and Christians are different. Yes, that's true. And do you know, you know what I
00:42:39.840
just learned? I just found this out going down the internet. Apparently, Jews and Christians
00:42:42.860
have different beliefs. Yes, that's true. They do, in fact, have. And do you know,
00:42:47.800
they might even occasionally have different political interests. I suppose that is true.
00:42:52.240
Yes, different groups sometimes do have different political interests. And you know what else I learned
00:42:55.820
somewhere in the corners of the internet? I found out that the state of Israel is a different country
00:43:01.660
from America. Uh-huh. Yep. And it, sometimes nations have different interests and those interests
00:43:07.940
contradict. Even if they ally on certain things, they contradict each other on other. Yeah, yes,
00:43:12.060
that's true. It's all true, man. Yeah, sure. Of course. Yeah. Jews and Christians believe different
00:43:17.240
things. There's some overlap, but there's some distinctions. And sometimes there are different
00:43:22.080
interests. And Israel and the United States sometimes overlap in their interests. Sometimes they have
00:43:25.920
different interests. Yeah, that's all true. You think that isn't true for the Palestine
00:43:31.280
liberation organization? You think that isn't true? Believe it or not, Christians and Muslims also
00:43:36.760
believe different things. And there's some overlap, and there are some things that we believe in
00:43:39.640
common. And there are some political interests that we share and some that we don't share. And
00:43:43.880
there's also a history there as well. One thing I would point out is say, yeah, at the most basic
00:43:51.060
level, some of your observations about distinctions between the state of Israel and the United States
00:43:54.320
are obviously true. But, you know, we have been in a state of regular war with the
00:44:01.040
Islamic world for like 1,400 years, right? You know that? No knock on Muslims. I have a great deal
00:44:06.740
of respect for my Muslim friends. But there is a civilizational conflict there as well. Let's not
00:44:11.600
forget that the Muslim world invaded the Levant, first of all, in the 7th century. It's not like
00:44:16.600
the Middle East was always Arab. That was an invasion that occurred after the founding of Islam.
00:44:21.720
And then they nearly invaded Paris. They almost took over all of Europe at the Battle of Poitiers in
00:44:26.280
732. And then the Battle of Lepanto, once again, the Muslim world almost conquered all of Europe.
00:44:30.880
And then at the Battle of Vienna, the largest cavalry charge in history, the Muslim world also
00:44:35.460
almost conquered Europe. Now we're just inviting them to conquer Europe. But in any case, you know,
00:44:40.260
I think that would probably tamp down some of the bizarre enthusiasm for the Palestine liberation
00:44:46.140
movement. I have a great deal of sympathy for the people who are living in, you know, what was once
00:44:50.200
known as mandatory Palestine. And I agree that one has to adhere by just war. And I agree that the
00:44:56.540
American interest in any war in the Middle East is going to be different than that of the direct
00:45:00.280
belligerence in the region. But like, how about a little perspective here, folks? Don't you,
00:45:04.620
these people just swing from one side to the other. So what would be an argument for the state of
00:45:08.980
Israel? You know, if I would throw out some of the theological, you know, and historical and any
00:45:15.580
other kind of dubious claim and just say, hey, they conquered it. They conquered it. They fought
00:45:19.760
a war and they conquered it. And maybe you don't approve of that, but it did happen with a lot of
00:45:25.380
international support. And so what's going to happen now? Just as I think the ethnic cleansing
00:45:30.440
of Gaza and the Palestinian territories would be morally unacceptable, and I think the international
00:45:35.040
community agrees, so too, I think we would agree that the river to the sea wipe out all the Jews is
00:45:40.360
also obviously morally unacceptable, certainly to the United States. I think most of the
00:45:45.400
international community and from just a broader ethical perspective. So, you know, that would
00:45:52.920
be it. I know I have the least popular view on the conflict of all, which is, it seems to me that
00:45:58.100
what is in America's interest and what is the most ethically defensible is something kind of akin to a
00:46:02.680
status quo because the rational interest for both belligerents and the conflict would be the ethnic
00:46:07.520
cleansing of the other. Yeah, I know that that's going to not make anybody happy, but, you know,
00:46:13.180
guys, have a little perspective here. These people, it's like they woke up for the first time and they
00:46:17.620
realize that different groups are different. They sometimes have different interests. Yeah,
00:46:21.180
you don't say. Now what? Now let's get to step two, guys. You know, they don't really,
00:46:26.720
they don't quite do that all the time. So anyway, Arun, that would be my advice. Next question.
00:46:30.980
Hi there, Michael. My name's Katie. I hope this message finds you well.
00:46:34.820
My husband has endured a considerable amount of abuse at the hands of his mom over the past 45 years.
00:46:40.240
In recent years, he has been able to accept the situation and really limits his interactions with
00:46:45.580
her, lest he or her family be caught in the line of fire. He has really found peace with this decision
00:46:52.520
as he spent many years attempting to work within boundaries to no avail. So my question, in your
00:47:00.040
view, what are the responsibilities of an adult child of a toxic, mentally ill, elderly parent?
00:47:06.720
Specifically, the responsibilities of an adult child who requires no contact in order to preserve
00:47:12.520
his and his family's well-being. I look forward to your response. I hope you answer. And I also just
00:47:18.940
wanted to say thank you. Your show has helped me so much on my spiritual journey and I am better off
00:47:24.320
for it. Thanks again. Bye. Very kind. Thank you so much. I've seen this happen. So I know it happens.
00:47:31.180
Not my experience. I've really just had marvelous relationships with the women in my life and the
00:47:36.960
men in my life, but my great relationship with my mother and my grandmothers, my wife, the mother of
00:47:42.480
my children. So I don't have a direct experience of this. And so it's a little hard for me to totally
00:47:50.000
relate, but I have seen it happen somewhat up close. And what I would recommend is remembering
00:47:56.980
that you do have, one has certain obligations to one's parents to, uh, respect one's mother and
00:48:04.080
father. And, uh, we have obligations to, you know, make sure that they are cared for in their
00:48:10.600
dotage to make sure that they're, you know, not, um, going hungry or in a dangerous situation or
00:48:16.680
anything like that. We, we have, um, but, but even beyond that, you will, if you just kind of
00:48:23.960
disconnect from your mother or your father, it will harm you. You will regret it someday.
00:48:30.540
You will regret when, when your loved ones die, especially if it's a mother, someone like
00:48:35.100
that, every harsh word you ever said, you will regret. And so even just from the perspective
00:48:40.800
of self-interest, I would, I would say your husband ought to do whatever he can. He has a
00:48:44.880
responsibility, you know, most closely to his family, you and the kids, but he ought to, he
00:48:51.680
ought to basically push himself just before the limit that he can with his mother and to fulfill
00:48:57.040
his rightful obligations to her to make sure she's, you know, not, not thrown out onto the street in
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her old age. Um, but, but some, but I would go a little further, even emotionally as well.
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And, and that is for your mother-in-law's good just as much as it is for his good. Cause he,
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he will regret it. If he does, he will be haunted if he treats his mother in a way that seems
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