The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 1474 - Are They Trying To Get President Trump Killed？

00:00:00.000 I've mentioned a few times over the past few months that as the Democrats' plans to foil Trump 0.91

00:00:05.540 keep failing, sooner or later, they might even try to kill him. Spying on his campaign didn't work.

00:00:13.260 Impeaching him didn't work. They might still imprison him, but after that, there's pretty

00:00:18.700 much only one option left. Well, you know, I hate to say I told you so. It seems that I have been

00:00:25.440 proven right even sooner than I thought, thanks to Congressman Benny Thompson, a Democrat from

00:00:32.440 Mississippi who led the January 6th committee, who is now attempting to strip President Trump of his

00:00:40.920 Secret Service protection. Since 1901, the Secret Service has protected every U.S. president.

00:00:47.740 And since 1965, just after President Kennedy was assassinated, that protection has been extended

00:00:54.000 to former presidents and their wives for the rest of their lives. The reason we have extended that

00:01:00.540 courtesy to presidents and former presidents is that lots of people want to murder them.

00:01:06.460 According to the FBI, there is currently an Iranian assassin on American soil recruiting

00:01:11.800 co-conspirators to murder Trump as revenge for Trump's killing of an Iranian general.

00:01:17.920 And for every Iranian hitman, there are probably a hundred, maybe a thousand deranged leftists 0.95

00:01:23.700 trying to murder Trump every single day. If that were not enough, Benny Thompson specifically wants 0.75

00:01:31.220 to deprive Trump of Secret Service protection if he is convicted in any one of the Democrats' kangaroo

00:01:37.380 courts and sentenced to prison. Because no one's ever murdered in prison, right? A Democrat congressman

00:01:44.500 is currently proposing to strip a former president of his security detail for the first time in almost 60

00:01:51.760 years at precisely the moment that he is most likely to be murdered. Which means that Trump is not on

00:02:01.080 trial for whatever hodgepodge of financial and political crimes the Democrats are preposterously

00:02:07.180 alleging. The libs are not just threatening him with life in prison. They're threatening him with the

00:02:13.460 death penalty. President Trump is currently on trial for a capital offense. The capital offense of

00:02:20.140 beating the Democrats in 2016. I'm Michael Knowles. This is The Michael Knowles Show.

00:02:39.300 Welcome back to the show. California Governor Gavin Newsom is running a new ad about young women who

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00:04:23.300 The libs never give up on pummeling their enemies. They never give up. You would think the libs might have

00:04:31.460 been deterred after spying on Trump failed, after imprisoning his associates failed, after impeaching

00:04:38.900 him failed, after trying to impeach him again failed, after so on and so forth. They just keep

00:04:44.700 pummeling. It's not only true in regards to Trump. It's not only true in the United States. We're seeing

00:04:52.000 this right now in Finland, all the way over in happy Finland. The Supreme Court of Finland

00:04:57.720 will hear a case of a member of parliament who is being prosecuted for sharing a Bible verse.

00:05:07.320 This MP is Paivi Razanen. I don't know how to do it. Seems like a nice lady. Facing charges related to 0.98

00:05:16.280 her sharing a 2019 tweet that included pictures of a Bible verse and a pamphlet on marriage that she

00:05:27.540 wrote in 2004, which is obviously very politically incorrect now, because back in 2004, people still

00:05:33.180 believed things about marriage that everyone had always believed everywhere forever, which is

00:05:39.380 different than right now when we are not allowed to believe anything about marriage that anyone

00:05:43.360 believed anywhere ever before, say, 2015. The charges had been dismissed by the district court

00:05:50.360 and the Helsinki Court of Appeal. Doesn't matter. They just, the state prosecutors are just still

00:05:55.840 going after this woman. They want to pummel her. They want to punish her for sharing a Bible verse 0.97

00:06:01.080 and for articulating the view of marriage that statistically everyone held forever. They want to

00:06:07.560 fine her tens of thousands of euro, and they want to censor her. She, another person, a bishop,

00:06:15.420 Johanna Pohola, not sure bishop of what church, will be tried at the same time on similar charges.

00:06:24.020 The charges were brought publicly or were brought first after Razanen, again, please apologies to the

00:06:33.080 MP for my poor Finnish pronunciation, after she publicly questioned why the church that she is a part of

00:06:40.760 was sponsoring an LGBT pride celebration. So for the crime, this was the inciting incident,

00:06:47.760 the crime of asking why a church is celebrating not only disordered sexual acts, which are condemned

00:06:58.080 and prohibited many times in the Bible, and of course, throughout the entire history of Christianity

00:07:04.040 and the church. But furthermore, even put the weird sex stuff aside for a second. Pride. She's asking,

00:07:11.920 why is the church celebrating pride? Pride is the queen of all vices. My friend Andrew Klavan points 0.99

00:07:18.100 out it's now the vice of all queens. And also, it's the primordial sin. If you believe that there is such

00:07:25.960 a thing as sin, which is kind of an important concept for churches, then pride is a pretty big

00:07:34.480 one. Some would call it the original sin, from which all the other sins spring. So she says,

00:07:42.600 isn't it kind of weird that a church is sponsoring something having to do with pride? And for this,

00:07:48.340 she is prosecuted. She was accused of, quote, agitation against a minority group. And where

00:07:55.200 is this supposed offense listed? It's listed under a section of, quote, quote, war crimes and crimes

00:08:02.420 against humanity in the Finnish law. If you ask, hey, isn't it kind of weird that a church would

00:08:09.060 celebrate the original sin and the queen of all vice? You are committing a war crime or some other crime 0.90

00:08:17.180 against humanity, according to the libs. The case will carry on. I hope this woman and I hope the

00:08:24.460 bishop or bishopress or whoever this is, I hope they're all acquitted. It's obviously insane. 0.76

00:08:30.760 The libs don't stop punishing their enemies. The only takeaway from the story is that, well,

00:08:37.040 two takeaways. One, they hate Christianity. They hate the animating spirit of our civilization. They 0.64

00:08:42.080 hate the truth. They really hate that, and they specifically want to punish you for believing in that.

00:08:48.120 But in a way, that's almost secondary to the political observation in this story. The libs

00:08:53.240 never stop. We stop. We stop. We go after the Clintons. We don't like the Clintons. We even try

00:08:58.740 to impeach Bill Clinton, which we succeed at, but we don't convict him. And then we kind of just let

00:09:03.000 him off the hook. Then Hillary runs for Senate. We kind of just let her have it. Then she runs for 1.00

00:09:07.900 president. And we oppose her. She didn't even get the nomination. We let her off the hook. Then they raise 1.00

00:09:13.420 tons and tons of money by selling American influence abroad. And they take money from

00:09:19.560 all sorts of shady characters around the world. We don't really go after her for it. In the 2016

00:09:23.800 race, Trump says, oh, we're going to lock her up. If I'm president, you're going to be in jail. 0.97

00:09:27.780 We don't really follow through. We just kind of let it go. We let it go. That's what we do. And maybe

00:09:31.640 that's a good thing. I, for one, think it's bad to imprison our presidential candidates and former

00:09:36.980 president. So maybe it speaks well of our character that we let it go. But the libs don't

00:09:43.060 let it go. The libs will just, will just pursue you to the very ends of the earth. There is no

00:09:49.440 limit to their wrath or their, their desire for revenge. Now, this is a bad thing because revenge

00:09:55.320 is mine, say it, the Lord and I will repay and their foot shall slide in due time. And, you know,

00:09:58.820 we don't want to, we don't want to be like the libs, but, but we might consider acknowledging

00:10:06.160 the political reality. You know, we might say, look, I don't really care about politics,

00:10:12.100 but politics cares about us. We might say, oh, you know what? I'm going to leave the libs alone. 1.00

00:10:17.020 The libs are going to leave me alone. Well, you might leave them alone. They won't leave you alone.

00:10:20.960 We have to be willing to act and wield political power, if not to punish our enemies at the very least

00:10:28.260 to circumscribe their ability to punish us because they are not going to stop. Now,

00:10:35.040 the libs will not stop pursuing their enemies, but the one thing the libs are stopping increasingly

00:10:39.900 is transing the kids. This is really great news. Scotland has just announced that they are going 1.00

00:10:47.080 to follow the broader British national health service, and they're going to stop transing the

00:10:52.280 kids. This is after similar announcements have come out of France and other places around the world.

00:10:58.260 Scotland has stopped all new prescriptions of trans-affirming medication. I'm putting this

00:11:05.560 all in quotes because there's no such thing as transgenderism, and the medications are horrific 1.00

00:11:10.240 abuses that harm the patient rather than help the patient. They're stopping puberty blockers for the

00:11:16.380 trans-identifying kids. They're stopping cross-sex hormones for minors. There's only one gender 0.99

00:11:23.620 clinic, youth gender clinic in Scotland, Sandiford in Glasgow, and it's operated by the Scotland NHS,

00:11:31.280 and they said they're going to cut it out. Even liberal Scotland recognizes that this is barbaric.

00:11:36.680 It's totally unsupportable. It does not play in Peoria or whatever the Scottish version of Peoria is.

00:11:43.420 The people are really opposed to castrating little kids and giving them bone problems and shortening

00:11:48.240 their life and not helping any of their psychiatric conditions and just lying about human nature and

00:11:52.940 pretending a boy can be a girl. It turns out that people don't like that, and they're not getting

00:11:56.560 on board, so even liberal Scotland is going to stop it. Meanwhile, America, full steam ahead.

00:12:03.580 Meanwhile, the president of the United States, supposedly moderate Joe Biden, full steam ahead,

00:12:08.500 signing laws to expand the trans so-called therapies for little kids, signing these executive

00:12:15.480 orders, while flanked by sexually confused kids. Really gross, really weird, really creepy, 0.95

00:12:22.520 but this proves America is the outlier here, kind of like on abortion. On abortion, even places we

00:12:30.400 consider more liberal than we are, places like France, they have much stricter abortion laws

00:12:34.540 than we do in America, certainly before Roe v. Wade was overruled, even today. America is in the

00:12:40.340 category of barbaric abortion that includes Canada, America's evil top hat, and also China and North 0.62

00:12:46.960 Korea. We are a far extreme outlier on the pro-abortion front, which we'll get to in a moment

00:12:52.040 with Gavin Newsom trying to make us even more extreme. Why is it? Why is America the outlier

00:12:57.240 on this issue, on the abortion issue, but also especially on the transgender issue?

00:13:03.580 We seem to be the only country that's not either dismissing this crazy ideology out of hand or at

00:13:12.480 least restricting it a little bit, preventing kids from falling into it too quickly. Why is this

00:13:18.080 an American problem? I gave a speech recently on transgenderism, America's problem. I forget which 1.00

00:13:24.940 school that was at, but if you just Google that speech title, you can find it on YouTube. It was in

00:13:29.060 the past few weeks. I think it's because of the American ideology. Love America. It's a great

00:13:36.660 country. It really is a land of opportunity. But great virtues can become vices if they're taken out

00:13:43.160 of context, if they're removed from all of the other virtues and they're left to wander freely and

00:13:48.420 madly. And I think that's what's happened here. There's an idea, because of America's unique

00:13:52.900 founding, America's exceptional founding and development, that gives us the sense that we

00:13:59.320 really can do and be anything we want in America. It's true. We have a lot of opportunity, but we

00:14:03.960 can't contradict nature. We can't contradict logic. We can't contradict reality. A kid who was born poor

00:14:11.600 to drug-addled parents with tough circumstances in the ghetto can, in principle, become the CEO of a big

00:14:19.580 company, can become a U.S. senator, can become the president of the United States. That can happen in

00:14:24.760 America. It can't happen in every country in the world. But no man can ever become a woman. 1.00

00:14:31.640 Because it is not contrary to nature that a poor kid becomes a big success. It's not contrary even to

00:14:39.880 the political tradition and institutions of America that a kid from bad circumstances makes something of

00:14:46.200 himself. It is contrary to nature and reality that a man can become a woman. It can't happen. But we've 0.99

00:14:51.720 taken that ideology that you can be whatever you want here, and we've taken it to an absurd extreme

00:14:56.840 beyond the confines and the limits of logic. And the results of that are tragic. And the national

00:15:05.960 results of that are that we look like complete lunatics on the international stage. Because even some of 0.80

00:15:12.200 the biggest lib countries in the world recognize this is crazy. There is so much more to say. First

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00:16:24.560 description and go check out The Ballad of Davy Crockett. Speaking of the trans mania,

00:16:29.640 really disturbing story. By the way, I should say, we have recently been informed that a certain

00:16:39.520 social media and video platform has been suppressing our content, and it's because they don't want us

00:16:46.660 talking about certain politically incorrect types of stories. So it might be the case that a fair bit

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00:17:20.920 check it out on X if you follow at M Knowles show, but you won't be able to get some of those stories on

00:17:28.460 one of the big video platforms. Let's leave it at that. Really disturbing story. There is a patient

00:17:36.060 from Florida who I don't, I actually don't know this person's sex.

00:17:44.100 He, I mean, he is the gender neutral pronoun, so we'll just say he. He calls himself non-binary.

00:17:50.920 So he goes to a surgeon in Texas, a, not even a normally depraved gender clinic, as all of them are 1.00

00:18:02.660 pretty much, but an especially depraved one that does all kinds of crazy Frankenstein surgeries. 1.00

00:18:09.420 And I mean, it's been, it's actually been called Frankenstein's lab in Texas. And this person

00:18:14.560 had all of his genitals removed. So it's, it's called the Barbie surgery. And I think you can 0.90

00:18:21.000 probably use your imagination. It means that you're just kind of flat. You just become flat like a Barbie

00:18:27.740 doll. This procedure costs $10,000 up front. It's, it's described as a body modification journey that

00:18:36.280 this individual host will transform him into a non-normative human. Okay. And, and the Frankenstein

00:18:43.120 lab is more than happy to take the money because that's their whole shtick is they just do these

00:18:48.860 freak show sorts of surgeries, the sorts of things that, that doctors who have any kind of ethics

00:18:54.760 whatsoever, who in any way seek to uphold the Hippocratic oath that they have to take before

00:18:59.540 they start practicing medicine, they won't touch this stuff. So you got to go to the freak show

00:19:03.900 Frankenstein lab in Texas to have it done. This person did it. These, these predatory doctors took 0.95

00:19:10.080 this person's money and then they chopped his genitals off. My question for this, about this 0.98

00:19:17.220 politically is, will the adults can do whatever they want crowd object to this? I'm not worried

00:19:24.820 about the libs. The libs obviously support this because they support all sorts of perverse and

00:19:29.980 downright demonic attacks on humanity and human nature. I'm asking about the so-called political right.

00:19:35.520 I'm asking about the so-called conservatives or the libertarians because I hold the view on this

00:19:43.620 stuff that statistically everyone everywhere held for all of human history. I, I use that phrase a lot

00:19:48.600 because I don't mean to overuse it or make it cliche, but I think it's precise. The view I hold on this

00:19:54.800 is that a man can't really become a woman and that it's wrong to start just chopping people up 0.87

00:19:59.340 and harming them under the, uh, guise of medical care. That is an opinion that until about 10 years

00:20:07.380 ago, basically everyone in the whole world held forever. And yet I am called an extremist now

00:20:13.740 because I continue to hold that view. The, the, the more moderate position now is considered to be,

00:20:22.560 look, we shouldn't do this to little kids, but once they turn 18, it's okay. Or even once they turn 16,

00:20:28.220 it's okay. Or who knows where that scale is going to end up. So the lib position, the left-wing

00:20:34.340 position is perform the Barbie surgery on any lunatic who wants it. The, the conservative position 0.93

00:20:43.740 is, Hey, don't do that until you turn nine. You know, Hey, that's wrong to do if you're in third

00:20:50.860 grade, but maybe in fourth or fifth grade, it's okay. And then I don't know, I guess my position's

00:20:54.860 far right-wing extremist authoritarian fascist, whatever, whatever nonsense word they want to 0.96

00:20:59.560 use. Because I say we shouldn't do this to anyone because it's harmful to the patient and totally 0.72

00:21:06.900 contrary to medicine and to health and to reason and to logic. And so my view, which was held by

00:21:13.720 everyone forever until recently, uh, that's totally fringe and extreme. Well, where do you fall on it?

00:21:18.780 This is a little bit of a gut check on your conservatism, because if you recognize that

00:21:23.700 this is obviously awful and harmful to the patient and predatory by the doctors and just contrary to

00:21:29.940 the common good and to all sorts of charity, then you got to say that we need to ban

00:21:35.520 transgenderism from public life entirely. Then you have to say the point that I was pilloried for

00:21:42.520 at CPAC two years ago where, where I was defamed by the liberal media and they tried to cancel me.

00:21:48.000 And fortunately, because, uh, I think most people agree with me and also because there were some

00:21:52.740 courageous politicians and public figures who defended me, they weren't able to succeed at

00:21:56.920 canceling me. But that's the conclusion I think you got to come to. If the Barbie surgery at the

00:22:03.280 Frankenstein lab in Texas is wrong, then it means that transgenderism is not just a problem when it's 0.95

00:22:08.560 done to kids. It's, it's wrong for everyone. It's harmful to everyone involved in it. And so for

00:22:15.000 the good of society, and especially for the good of the poor people who fall on prey to this confusion,

00:22:18.360 transgenderism must be eradicated from public life entirely. It seems to me that is the inescapable 1.00

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00:25:20.240 the content of this advertising. Okay. So totally checks out everything you would expect from this

00:25:28.700 ad. The good people are racially diverse, uh, neutral accent, having a lib, lib dressed

00:25:37.880 young women who could be from California. Then the villain is a white man with a Southern accent.

00:25:45.840 The most evil villainous sort of person ever walked the earth. Just the most odious creature. Could you 0.99

00:25:53.620 imagine a Southern white man? Oh, the horror, the nightmares, such a thought gives me classic 0.94

00:26:02.060 lib, California, Hollywood framing here. And then before we get into the political implications of

00:26:09.620 this, I, I, I have to put, maybe I view, I guess I view this ad differently than the libs do.

00:26:14.020 They're driving. And the one girl says, we're almost there. Oh, good. We're almost, oh, I'm just so happy.

00:26:23.020 They're driving to go murder her child. 0.93

00:26:25.320 We remember that, right? That's the, the, the, the action that is being undertaken by the characters

00:26:34.600 in this ad is that these two women are going to murder one of the women's children. That's not, 1.00

00:26:42.120 am I, am I the only one who looks at this and says, uh, actually that lady's not the hero. And then,

00:26:47.420 but then, then it gets really crazy black mirror, you know, uh, uh, uh, what's the old version of

00:26:54.600 black mirror twilight zone kind of show where the cop pulls the girls over and says, you need to step

00:27:00.680 out of the car, ma'am and take a pregnancy test. Uh, so my question is who is proposing this? 0.97

00:27:10.500 Who is proposing that cops be armed with guns and pepper spray and billy clubs and pregnancy tests? 0.74

00:27:20.340 Has anyone proposed that? Has anyone, has anyone suggested that? No, not one person in the whole

00:27:26.780 country has suggested that. Furthermore, who is proposing and trying to advance legislation that

00:27:35.180 would punish women for having abortions? You, you might say, well, you know, it's murdering a child 0.81

00:27:42.260 and therefore it makes sense that it was no one, no prominent Republican in the whole country is

00:27:51.600 advancing legislation to punish women for having abortions. In fact, the pro-life movement has taken a,

00:27:58.580 uh, decisive and explicit stance against such a proposal. The pro-life movement seeks to punish

00:28:06.280 abortionists, seeks to punish the abortion industry, but the pro-life movement actually

00:28:11.840 gives a lot of care and a lot of charity to women who find themselves pregnant,

00:28:16.980 even to women who have just had abortions. Any pregnancy center you go to in America,

00:28:21.220 according to a pro-life pregnancy center, not the abortion mills like Planned Parenthood,

00:28:23.740 you go to anyone, they will have resources on hand for women who have, who have just killed 1.00

00:28:29.440 their babies, who've just had abortion because they, they actually live up to their reputation

00:28:34.220 of caring for babies and their mothers. Even mothers who have done something egregious and awful,

00:28:41.020 wittingly or unwillingly, wittingly with full knowledge or without full knowledge,

00:28:44.620 with full consent or without full consent of killing their kids. Every single one. I traveled to a fair 0.99

00:28:50.880 number of these organizations, every single one. I've, I've yet to come across one that does not

00:28:56.380 do such a thing. So the Democrats here are fear-mongering over something that is not happening

00:29:03.520 that no one is proposing. Meanwhile, Republicans fear-monger too. We have our own scare ads,

00:29:11.840 but you'll notice we fear-monger over things that the Democrats are actually doing currently.

00:29:17.320 Republicans have advertisements about how the Democrats are trying to trans your kids 0.97

00:29:23.120 and put gay porn in the elementary schools and take away your guns and do things that the 0.96

00:29:28.580 Democrats are actively doing right and defund the police and open up the border and destroy the 0.99

00:29:32.500 economy. All of our fear-mongering is not only grounded in things that plausibly could happen

00:29:39.360 that the Democrats are proposing. Our fear-mongering is pointing out things that are occurring right now

00:29:44.920 that are undeniable and the Democrats still attempt to deny it. So why do the Democrats have to fear-monger

00:29:50.680 on this ridiculous issue? It's, it's a laughable advertisement that no one is doing and no one is 0.89

00:29:57.280 even proposing because they got nothing else. What are they going to attack? Democrats have all the

00:30:02.140 political power. The country's going to pot. Everyone knows it. No one thinks that very few people

00:30:08.400 think the country is going in the right direction. So they just have to make stuff up. That's what it

00:30:11.640 comes down to. And it tells you a lot about the relative position and accomplishments of the two

00:30:18.520 parties. That when Republicans want to hit Democrats, we hit them for things that they are currently

00:30:23.320 doing. And when Democrats want to hit Republicans, they just make up a bunch of stuff that no one is

00:30:27.420 even suggesting in the future. Speaking of dumb stuff, did you know that IQ is dropping for the first 0.97

00:30:35.820 time in a century? We haven't measured IQ all that long, but it's dropping. One of the strange facts 0.97

00:30:43.360 about IQ, the intelligence quotient is that it's been rising for, well, for a century now. Doesn't

00:30:50.560 matter the geography, doesn't matter the races that are being measured, doesn't matter. There are,

00:30:54.940 there are disparities in IQ between different groups and different places and different backgrounds.

00:30:59.540 But everyone's IQ had been increasing. Now IQ is dropping. Why? Well, this is a report on Daily

00:31:07.820 Mail, which has reviewed some studies on this, including reporting from Psychology Today. And

00:31:15.540 the culprit, at least according to the experts who study this, is technology. Technology is making us

00:31:24.080 dumber. Specifically, one innovation that they're pointing to is the loss of handwriting from 0.94

00:31:30.420 classrooms. Kids are, or until very recently, had not been taught to write by hand for 10 or 15 years.

00:31:36.960 That was just dropped out of the curriculum around 2010. Remember when you were in school,

00:31:40.580 you'd learn how to write in print, and then you'd learn how to write in cursive or longhand. And then,

00:31:44.620 then they kind of dropped cursive a little bit. Now, I don't even think people write by,

00:31:48.600 in print so much because they just have computers and tablets and smartphones. And so they just,

00:31:53.000 they type more. And this is apparently causing deficiencies in learning. Because when you write

00:32:00.800 by hand, the consequence of that is not just a note card or a sheet of paper. The consequence of

00:32:06.600 that is your brain is working in a specific way. You're forming neural connections that will help

00:32:12.280 your brain to develop and will help you to think better as you grow older. Not just about how to make

00:32:17.480 the really difficult Z letter in cursive or something, but how to think generally. And now

00:32:23.020 that's gone. So now, all of a sudden, there are new bills in places like California and New York

00:32:29.140 requiring students to learn cursive writing. Some other states are hesitant to revert back,

00:32:36.280 but the educators seem unanimous on this. The loss of basic skills, like a fine motor skill,

00:32:43.460 such as handwriting, is causing kids to get dumber. And you're seeing this reflected in broader IQ 0.91

00:32:49.420 trends. Pull it out of the classroom for a second. Extrapolate it beyond the cursive lessons.

00:32:57.460 This is a warning about what happens when you outsource your brain. When you outsource your brain,

00:33:04.800 you diminish yourself. It's like the difference between watching a movie and doing a thing.

00:33:10.680 If you, it's fun to go watch a movie every so often, but if you just watch movies all day long,

00:33:17.120 you're just sitting there eating popcorn, watching movies, letting the glittering images in front of

00:33:20.560 you just happen, you will ultimately feel worse. You will atrophy. Your brain will atrophy. Your

00:33:26.560 physical muscles will atrophy because you will be living in a way that is passive and not active.

00:33:32.740 The extreme of this, speaking of movies, is the matrix where we just, if we live in the matrix world,

00:33:38.820 we just plug our brains in to some computer and we just passively receive pleasure, but we don't

00:33:44.260 actually do anything. And so you don't really have any skills. That is not going to make you happy in

00:33:50.100 the long run. It's certainly not going to make you smart or productive in the long run. Now,

00:33:54.000 there have been fears about technology such as this since antiquity. Even the fears in ancient Greece

00:34:00.100 that the development of writing and scrolls would diminish people's ability to memorize,

00:34:08.120 which is true, actually. It probably did diminish people's ability to memorize. And that's true with

00:34:13.460 the development of technology like scrolls and books. And so, does that mean we shouldn't have

00:34:17.380 scrolls and books? No, not exactly. But we have to figure out some way to be active, to live in the

00:34:22.180 world in accordance with reality, which means the physical world. This is the real day. It's not

00:34:28.840 that computers are just bad per se and we should throw them out, though I would like to spend less

00:34:32.540 time on computers and screens. It's that we have, there's just a fact that we have bodies and the

00:34:37.080 world is physical and we move through time and space and history. So you got to engage that. And if

00:34:41.440 you just let your body atrophy, I'm one to talk. I never exercise. I probably should. If you let your

00:34:48.340 body atrophy, you ignore the physical world, that is not going to conduce to your flourishing. Do not

00:34:54.900 outsource your brain. Now, speaking of work and sitting at a computer all day, there is a guy who's

00:35:00.600 gone viral. And there's actually a series of videos that have gone viral demonstrating normal life and

00:35:10.320 causing people to recoil in horror. Here is one such video. He's a guy, got a mustache. It's his life

00:35:18.940 after college, 28-year-old with a 9 to 5. Drives to work, gets out of the elevator. He says 9 to 5 is

00:35:25.140 really 7 to 4. Spends mornings checking his email, then he takes lunch at 11. Gets his lunch, some

00:35:34.600 quesadillas. Takes it back to his desk. Sits there, has a little break. Washes his hands.

00:35:43.760 Goes and does some more spreadsheets. Then he, you know, gets some water. He's got a mug. It says

00:35:49.660 normalize the norm. Then he leaves, goes to his car, picks up some groceries. Grocery store on the way

00:35:59.180 home. Some fruits, milk, you know. Cliff bars. I can't really get into that. Goes back home. Changes

00:36:05.460 into workout gear. Says normalize the norm. Then he goes and works out outside.

00:36:12.580 Then he makes one of these protein shakes that the, you know, the athlete type guys do.

00:36:17.580 And then he goes and walks his dog.

00:36:18.780 And the commentary on social media, mostly from spoiled little children, is that this is

00:36:28.000 horrifying. This is the worst way to live. Could you imagine this awful existence? A life of quiet

00:36:33.340 desperation, as some have said. Seems fine. Now, when the Zoomers and some of the catastrophists are 0.59

00:36:46.420 looking at this and they're saying, this is horrible. This is a life of quiet desperation.

00:36:49.540 What a boring, awful way to live. I side with the boomers and Gen X and the millennials who say, 0.84

00:36:57.580 you know, listen, kid, you know, go to work and quit your belly aching. I understand their point,

00:37:03.160 and I do agree with that. But the Zoomers have a point. The people who are looking at that video 0.99

00:37:07.020 and saying, this is awful. What a terrible life. I don't want to do that. It looks so boring. It looks

00:37:11.200 so soulless. I sympathize with them. I empathize with them. I've had kind of a crazy career. So I

00:37:17.760 actually did reject that sort of life of predictability and normality. Though I've later

00:37:25.160 on come into it because I've come to learn that normality is a good thing. The point that the

00:37:30.840 Zoomers and the critics of this video have is that life must be about more than this.

00:37:36.040 And the point that the millennials and the Gen X and the Zoomers and the boomers rather have is 0.98

00:37:41.940 life, a life that looks like that at work can also be about more than that. Because what's missing in

00:37:49.300 that video is the guy's wife. I think, I think he's got a wedding ring on it in the video. So he's

00:37:53.260 married. It's just not in there. The thing that's missing is kids. The thing that's missing is the

00:37:57.500 family reunion. The thing that's missing is his civic association that he joins. The thing that's

00:38:02.580 missing is his going to church. The thing that's missing is his going to the school board meeting.

00:38:06.560 The thing that's missing is his taking a drive through the country. The thing that's missing is

00:38:10.820 all the rest of the stuff of life. This is just a narrow little sliver of what this guy does.

00:38:17.820 The spoiled Zoomers who are criticizing this, the reason they're criticizing it is because they don't 1.00

00:38:23.560 have much sense that you need material prosperity in order to serve the basic necessities of life.

00:38:29.920 But you do need that. You got to work. And work is work sometimes. Even if you have a really fun

00:38:34.520 job, I have a fun job. But sometimes work is work. Even for me, even if you're doing the thing that

00:38:39.440 you totally want to be doing, sometimes you just got to grind through it and work. But if that is all

00:38:44.360 your life is, which is presently, unfortunately, in a lot of people's minds, that life is just about

00:38:49.820 going to work and getting stuff and then going home and being alone and not having family and just

00:38:56.900 then you wake up and do it again, then your life will be miserable. Then that will be a desperate

00:39:00.680 life. Not because you're working a stable job that provides you a decent income, but because you have

00:39:04.980 no idea what to do with that income and you have no idea to do with the leisure time that that

00:39:08.560 ultimately will afford you. Ladies and gents, this is your official summons. If you have not yet tuned 0.97

00:39:15.700 into the new Daily Wire Plus series, Judged by Matt Walsh, now is the time to start watching.

00:39:20.480 Court is officially back in session with episode four of our Reality Courtroom Comedy Series,

00:39:23.840 premiering tonight at 8 p.m. Eastern, exclusively on Daily Wire Plus. Matt Walsh is fully embodying

00:39:29.760 the judge role, dining in the robe, wielding the gavel, and deciding the fates of the brave souls

00:39:33.480 who dare to stand before him. And yes, his rulings are indeed legally binding. Do not miss episode four

00:39:39.760 of Judged by Matt Walsh tonight at 8 p.m. Eastern, only on Daily Wire Plus. If you are not yet a Daily

00:39:43.920 Wire Plus member, today is your last chance to get 35% off your annual membership. Use the promo code

00:39:49.580 judged at dailywireplus.com. My favorite comment yesterday is from the Drummer's Workshop Norm's

00:39:54.540 Music. I don't look at the names of the commenters. I just pick the comment. It just happens. The

00:39:59.440 Drummer's Workshop Norm's Music, he pops up a lot. To quote Joe Biden's uncle, Joey, it's simple.

00:40:06.080 Those men were hungry. It's a great comment. For those of you who don't, they always say nothing's

00:40:11.680 funnier than explaining a joke. You might recall Joe Biden made up some story about how he, when he's in

00:40:16.740 1950s Delaware or Scranton, he's driving up, he sees a couple of dudes making out with each other

00:40:22.320 in the middle of the street. And Joe Biden's father, Joe Biden was born in the 1940s. Joe Biden's father

00:40:26.980 born, what, in the 19-teens or something, supposedly turns to Biden and says, Joey, those men, they just

00:40:33.660 love each other. Joey, it's simple. They just love each other. Now, that story did not happen. If we're

00:40:39.800 actually talking about 1940s Delaware, Joe Biden's, you know, blue-collar Irish father probably would

00:40:45.160 have run the men over. Okay, I don't mean to besmirch the memory of Joe Biden's father, but

00:40:49.480 give me a break. Okay, Joey, they just love each other. Uh-uh. So, you're right. That's the sequel.

00:40:55.220 Joe Biden's uncle gets eaten by New Guinea cannibals. Joey, Joey, those men, they were just hungry.

00:41:00.860 They were just, come on, Joey, you got to see things from their point of view.

00:41:04.700 Joe Biden was raised by Atticus Finch, I think. Speaking of the youths and working, millennials,

00:41:12.280 millennials, according to a new poll, are supporting a four-day work week. Okay, I amend

00:41:16.880 my previous point. The grouches who say, quit your bellyaching and just work, I guess that's

00:41:23.020 just the boomers and Gen X. I guess the millennials are on Team Zoomer whining about doing any actual 0.82

00:41:28.380 work. But they kind of have a point, too. They kind of have a point, okay? I'm sorry. I can't

00:41:36.500 just identify with the boomers and the Gen X because they're missing a really important gripe 1.00

00:41:42.900 that the Zoomers and the millennials have. The Zoomers are expressing this by the horror of 0.99

00:41:47.880 mundane living, absent the things that make life really, really special and worthwhile.

00:41:54.600 The millennials are expressing their dismay with work by calling for a four-day work week.

00:42:00.760 There's a recent poll conducted for Newsweek by Redfield and Wilton Strategies,

00:42:04.260 found that of all people, of all generations, millennials are most in favor of reducing

00:42:10.040 their weekly work hours. Apparently, the poll found that 63% of voters support transitioning

00:42:20.460 to a four-day work week. 46% believe it will make workers more productive. So a clear majority of

00:42:27.080 people want to work less. Less than half of them say it will actually make workers more productive.

00:42:33.980 But they just want to work less. Now, millennials, of all the groups,

00:42:39.740 nearly three-quarters of them say that they want to reduce their working hours.

00:42:44.040 44% are strongly in favor of that shorter work week. An additional 30% generally support the idea.

00:42:49.480 Only 8% of millennials oppose the idea of this four-day work week. Okay, so what do we think

00:42:53.580 about it? The grouch boomers and Gen X will say, you spoiled brats, you should be working seven days 1.00

00:43:01.500 a week. When I was a young man, I walked uphill in the snow both ways to go to work. And I worked

00:43:07.660 26 hours a day to provide for my family. The millennials and the Zoomers say, I don't want 1.00

00:43:14.880 to work. I don't want to work. What do I think about this? I support the four-day work week in

00:43:21.920 principle. In principle, I support it. Well, we used to have a six-day work week. Then in recent

00:43:30.420 decades, or at least the last century, we got a five-day work week. We could have a four-day work

00:43:36.700 week. I guess we could have a six-day work week again. I don't know. It's somewhat arbitrary.

00:43:40.420 It's social norms. We could have a seven-day work week if we want to ignore the Sabbath.

00:43:44.240 So we could. Yeah, you could move it. In principle, I support it. In practice, I do not.

00:43:50.620 In practice, I don't think that the problem in America right now is that we're all working too

00:43:55.540 hard. I don't really. There is a problem that we don't know what to do with our leisure time.

00:44:04.240 But that's not for lack of time. That's for lack of education. The point of education

00:44:08.540 is not to train you to do a job. The point of education is to train you to make good use of

00:44:15.080 your leisure time. It's not vocational training. It's training for leisure. It's to cultivate

00:44:20.620 interests and habits and culture. It's for culture, right? So that you can make sense of

00:44:26.940 your freedom. That's why we call it liberal arts. People don't have that now. People have free time.

00:44:34.300 Even when I'm working a crazy week, there's a little bit of free time somewhere.

00:44:41.200 And even I, what do I do with my free time? I'm someone who takes this really seriously. I really

00:44:45.760 have tried to cultivate interests to make good use of my leisure time. And yet, what am I doing most

00:44:50.520 of the time? Probably doom scrolling. That's what I'm doing. I'm probably squandering that leisure time.

00:44:56.520 Americans are much less likely to get married now. We're having many fewer children. We're less

00:45:02.420 involved in our communities. We're politically very disengaged. And this is more and more pronounced

00:45:07.000 the younger you look. We're religiously increasingly disengaged. We're not. So what are we going to do

00:45:14.340 with those three days off? We're not even making good use of the two days off right now. That's a big

00:45:21.220 problem. Because idle hands are the devil's playground. So I have no problem with people

00:45:25.040 working a little bit less. If we're going to make good use of that time, if that's going to serve the

00:45:29.460 community, if that's going to help individuals to prosper and flourish and become the best version

00:45:34.420 of themselves. But I see no evidence that that's the case. Probably right now, if you gave people

00:45:38.820 an extra day off, what they would do is doom scroll more, look at porn, and blow money on frivolous

00:45:45.980 brunches. Probably is what would happen. Now, the brunch would be the most productive and defensible

00:45:50.460 thing that people would do. So I'm totally happy to have a conversation about a four-day workweek.

00:45:57.640 But first, we need to make sure that that would actually help people and lead to their personal

00:46:03.320 growth and flourishing and the growth of strong families and strong communities rather than harm

00:46:07.220 them, which I suspect exactly what would happen now. Speaking of making bad use of your free time,

00:46:12.960 there was a major protest at Columbia University led by, I guess, the Hamas faction of the student

00:46:23.040 Democrats. This anti-Jewish protest that took place in New York City on the Columbia campus.

00:46:30.140 Well, here's the sort of things they were saying.

00:46:35.280 Uncultured, A-S-S-B-I-T-C-H-E-S, go back to Europe. 1.00

00:46:38.380 You have no culture.

00:46:42.180 All you do is colonize.

00:46:43.820 All you do is colonize.

00:46:46.360 They're waving the Palestine flag.

00:46:48.940 They're wearing keffias around their heads. 0.93

00:46:51.180 Like the Palestinian keffia. 0.99

00:46:53.600 They're screaming Yehudi at the Jews. 1.00

00:46:57.700 Stop killing children. 1.00

00:46:59.480 Stop killing children. 0.96

00:47:06.460 Go back to Poland. 1.00

00:47:07.700 I think was one of the lines.

00:47:10.600 And so, I don't know.

00:47:11.320 I guess the Jewish kids go back. 1.00

00:47:14.320 And then they chant, O Hamas, O loved one.

00:47:19.220 And that's the translation. 0.85

00:47:20.200 Yah Hamas, Yah Habib, hit and strike Tel Aviv. 0.94

00:47:24.200 Oh, man. 0.96

00:47:26.960 That's not great.

00:47:28.480 Now, this protest should interest even non-Jews. 0.98

00:47:33.980 Because maybe you don't really care about the Jews.

00:47:36.160 Maybe you don't really care about the state of Israel.

00:47:37.800 Maybe you don't care about anything other than yourself.

00:47:40.080 I don't know.

00:47:41.360 Like, I suspect you have broader interests and charity and stuff like that.

00:47:44.980 But let's say you're a non-Jewish white guy. 0.63

00:47:48.420 And you don't care about any of this stuff.

00:47:50.120 You only care about yourself.

00:47:51.200 One cannot help but notice that all of the attacks that the Hamas faction of Columbia University are levying against the Jews are the same attacks that they throw at non-Jewish white people. 0.96

00:48:05.240 You're a colonizer. 0.96

00:48:07.900 Go back to Europe. 0.87

00:48:09.620 You're oppressing people.

00:48:12.280 This is our land.

00:48:14.160 Go, you know, all sorts of insulting names.

00:48:18.340 This is the same stuff.

00:48:19.720 You might have all sorts of reasons why you don't like Israel or you question the actions of Israel or whatever.

00:48:27.120 And fine, all well and good.

00:48:28.620 Whatever, you know, conversation you want to have about that, we can have that at some point too.

00:48:33.020 But it is simply a fact, much of the vitriol against the state of Israel right now, much of the reasoning as to why we got to stop supporting the state of Israel is being levied by the political left along the exact same lines of logic and argumentation that they attack non-Jewish white people, that they attack Europe, that they attack the United States.

00:49:03.020 We're settler colonizers. 0.77

00:49:07.680 We're racist. 1.00

00:49:08.980 We're evil. 0.99

00:49:09.700 We're privileged.

00:49:10.500 We're this.

00:49:10.900 We're that.

00:49:12.960 One ignores that at one's own peril.

00:49:15.540 And it wasn't just Columbia.

00:49:17.460 You got to see what they did at Yale University.

00:49:20.180 We've run out of time.

00:49:21.420 That's my tease.

00:49:22.820 We'll get to my own beloved alma mater descending into, you know.

00:49:28.100 I know Yale some years ago launched a satellite campus in Singapore.

00:49:33.160 I don't know.

00:49:33.560 Perhaps we'll launch a satellite campus now in Raqqa or something.

00:49:36.400 I don't know.

00:49:37.200 We'll launch.

00:49:38.260 We'll do a split with, you know, the University of Hezbollah or something.

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