The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 1476 - You Need An Ivy League Education To Be This Ignorant

00:00:00.000 Amid the wave of campus protests in support of the Palestine Liberation Movement,

00:00:04.920 one intrepid reporter decided to ask an NYU student protester just what exactly she was 0.99

00:00:12.660 protesting. Here is her response. What would you say is the main goal with tonight's protest?

00:00:18.920 I think the goal is just showing our support for Palestine and demanding that NYU stops.

00:00:23.800 I honestly don't know all of what NYU is doing. Is there something that NYU is doing?

00:00:27.860 I really don't know. I'm pretty sure they're, do you know what NYU is doing?

00:00:31.320 About what?

00:00:32.140 About Israel. Why are we protesting here?

00:00:35.080 Palestine will be free.

00:00:37.120 I wish I was more educated.

00:00:38.460 I'm not either.

00:00:39.320 I came from Columbia. I was there up at Columbia and we came down and said NYU should make some

00:00:45.420 support. So I came down, I heard there's lots of cops. Some people were saying it was getting

00:00:50.240 dangerous.

00:00:51.900 What are we protesting? I'm glad that this girl clarified that she is not an NYU

00:00:57.460 student. She is only visiting NYU to protest after traveling downtown from Columbia because it

00:01:03.840 takes an Ivy League education to be that ignorant. As is usually the case, most of these people are 0.99

00:01:10.200 not protesting anything in particular. They're just sort of protesting as they do more and more

00:01:16.840 these days. But the protests demonstrate more than merely the ignorance of the protesters.

00:01:22.620 We are seeing ever more of these demonstrations over ever more confusing grievances because the

00:01:29.540 political order here is fraying. People feel rightly or wrongly that the governing powers are

00:01:35.320 unaccountable. They feel that the political order is unintelligible. They can't make sense of it and

00:01:41.580 they can't do anything about it. So they yell and scream until they are dragged away or more likely

00:01:46.740 just get tired and go home. Move on to the next thing. I'm Michael Knowles. This is the Michael

00:01:51.700 Knowles Show.

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00:02:53.440 The bull ring on that girl. Never a good sign. For those of you who are only listening,

00:02:57.920 that student protester from Columbia, she had a nose ring, but it wasn't even the little nose ring 1.00

00:03:02.940 on the side of your nose, which if it's a little dot or even the ring itself, it can sometimes be kind

00:03:08.860 of cute. It's not, you know, not, it's, it's okay. Sometimes it's okay. But the one that is truly

00:03:14.380 never a good sign is the ring right in the middle of the nose, like a bull, like bulls have, you know,

00:03:21.020 and I notice the real leftists, the real angry, lost, wayward, down the path to misery kind of

00:03:29.760 leftist girls, they have the middle nose ring and not good. Like there's something about it that's kind 1.00

00:03:35.520 of demonic seeming to me. I'm not saying there, I just, they look like bulls, like bulls being

00:03:43.440 dragged around by their slave masters. Not, not a good sign. And then she opened her mouth and proved

00:03:49.780 that prejudice correct. Now, speaking of America and the world, there was a poll out, I teased it 1.00

00:03:57.780 yesterday at the end of the show, that asks voters what percentage of them think that the U.S.

00:04:03.500 has control over its borders. And just think what number that might be. If the number were 50%,

00:04:10.840 that is, even that is not great news for Joe Biden. 50% say that he as president won't even

00:04:18.660 enforce the most basic laws of a country. Ooh, that's not good, but it's not 20% and it's not 40

00:04:23.700 and it's not 30. Just 20% of eligible voters think that the United States has control over its borders.

00:04:30.320 This according to a survey taken by Redfield and Wilton Strategies on behalf of Newsweek.

00:04:36.960 Bad news. There is no way for Democrats to make up that gap. The border is a big issue. It's a,

00:04:44.620 it's a top toward the top of the priority list for a lot of people. And there's no way between now and

00:04:50.660 November to go from 20% think we have control over the borders to 60%. It just can't happen.

00:04:56.040 So the only strategy for Democrats is to focus on other issues. This is something that I have

00:05:02.300 encouraged my Republican friends and fellow conservatives to take note of. Democrats are

00:05:08.940 very good at politics. They're very crafty and they don't fight hopeless battles and they don't tilt at

00:05:15.000 windmills. Generally, they recognize if they're, if they're weak on something, if they have a major

00:05:19.560 vulnerability, like on the border, you're not going to, you're not going to win by doubling down and

00:05:24.480 explaining why actually it's really good to have a totally open border or actually the millions of

00:05:29.720 foreigners pouring into our country each year or don't really exist. That's not really happening.

00:05:33.620 These are not the droids you're looking for or actually, actually, actually, they don't do that.

00:05:37.260 They just focus on other things. They point over there. They say, look at, look at that butterfly.

00:05:42.260 Look at the, look at abortion. Hey, everybody go look at abortion. Hey, everybody go look at Donald

00:05:47.260 Trump's going to prison. Hey, everybody look, there was an insurrection or whatever. They just,

00:05:51.620 they know when to hold them, know when to fold them, know when to walk away, know when to run.

00:05:56.800 So this is an issue that the Republicans should be pummeling. If we have any sense,

00:06:00.300 we know this issue matters to people. We know the Democrats are basically could not be in a worse

00:06:04.880 position on the issue. The only way they can get out of it is by turning people's attention away from

00:06:10.820 it. Unfortunately, a lot of Republicans and conservatives are going to let them do it.

00:06:15.100 Don't let them do it. Keep that attention on the border. Now, speaking of the border,

00:06:19.720 new report out from the Boston Globe, several illegal aliens who were flown by Florida Governor

00:06:25.560 Ryan DeSantis up to Martha's Vineyard. You remember that last year? All the illegal aliens pouring into

00:06:30.600 the country, DeSantis and Governor Abbott in Texas decide, okay, well, we're going to make the

00:06:35.660 Democrats feel the pain of illegal immigration. We're going to send them to not just New York and 0.97

00:06:40.100 Chicago. We're going to send them to Martha's Vineyard. Actually, before Governor DeSantis or Governor

00:06:44.540 Abbott did this, years ago, Senator Ted Cruz was calling for this. He said, I want to fly,

00:06:49.580 these illegal aliens to Martha's Vineyard, to Cape Cod, to Rehoboth Beach, Delaware, which is where Joe

00:06:56.640 Biden lives. The Democrats don't need to feel the negative social consequences of illegal immigration 0.53

00:07:03.180 most of the time. You got to make them feel it. So DeSantis and Abbott do it as governors.

00:07:09.580 And now we find out that several of these illegal aliens have been granted crime visas. 0.83

00:07:15.240 So they've been granted visas. They're allowed to stay here. And specifically, they've been

00:07:20.680 granted crime visas, which I guess makes sense because they committed crimes and now they get 0.98

00:07:24.480 visas. That's how crime visas work in America, I guess. The way that the liberal establishment

00:07:30.080 tells us crime visas work is if you are here and a crime is committed against you, you can get a 0.75

00:07:36.880 special visa because of that. It's technically called a U visa. Typically, quote, set aside for

00:07:44.040 victims of certain crimes who have suffered mental or physical abuse and are helpful to law enforcement

00:07:48.420 or government officials in the investigation or prosecution of criminal activity. 0.90

00:07:54.860 Totally, totally ridiculous. The suggestion here is that they've suffered abuse. They've suffered some 0.94

00:08:00.620 crime because what? Because Ron DeSantis chartered an airplane and sent them to one of the nicest places

00:08:07.440 in America with some of the highest property values? No. No, they're getting these special visas 0.96

00:08:13.200 just after they leave the really nice areas, right? Those Democrats who are welcoming the illegal aliens 1.00

00:08:19.280 across the border, they got them out of Martha's Vineyard within 48 hours. Oh, we love you. Please come

00:08:24.940 give us your poor huddled masses. Not here. No, no, no. Not here. Over there. Come, please. We want

00:08:31.340 you. You're welcome. No human being is illegal. Over there. Over there. About maybe like 10 miles down

00:08:38.180 the road from my beach house, but not here. Not on the beach. I'm going to call the cops. I'm going to

00:08:42.660 throw you into the ocean, actually, if you come anywhere near my beach house. But now that you're over

00:08:46.820 there, now that you're far away and others, especially red state and purple state governors have to deal

00:08:53.240 with you. Yeah. Now you get your visa. That's what they do. And they're going to keep doing it. And

00:08:58.840 they're going to use every little trick in the book, including now the U visas, the crime visas for

00:09:04.360 the, they suffered the crime of law enforcement trying to enforce the law. Speaking of not having

00:09:11.320 control over our political order, another study out from the media research center showing with detail

00:09:19.820 all of the times that just Facebook alone has interfered in US elections. So I've mentioned

00:09:25.660 this before. I mean, all the liberal clap trap about how the Russians are meddling in the election

00:09:32.740 to help Donald Trump with all the meddling in the election rigging and blah, blah, blah. It's the libs

00:09:38.120 who do it. And far more than the Russians have ever meddled in the election. What did they do? They spent

00:09:41.900 $100,000 or $200,000 in Facebook ads in the 2016 election. Facebook itself spent $400 million in

00:09:49.640 the 2020 election and invested that in left-wing groups that then took really tangible steps to

00:09:55.940 rig the election, including moving ballot drop boxes, in some cases illegally far away from county

00:10:02.060 clerk offices. And just, I mean, in Mark Zuckerberg's own words, really putting the thumb on the scales

00:10:09.120 of the election to make sure Trump did not get re-elected. So we know that this happens. We have

00:10:14.200 some examples come to mind, like in 2020 when Facebook dumped hundreds of millions of dollars

00:10:17.980 into it. But now the media research center is giving us the goods. 39 distinct times Facebook

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00:11:48.140 In 2012, Facebook suspended a veteran political action committee because they posted a meme drawing

00:11:56.580 attention to the attack on Benghazi that the Obama administration mishandled, totally flubbed,

00:12:03.660 allowed to happen, I guess, and then lied about. And so a veteran PAC posted a meme, just a little

00:12:11.520 meme about it. They suspended that PAC. 2016, Facebook censored Bernie Sanders. Then a, you know,

00:12:19.560 something of a real challenge to Hillary Clinton for the Democrat nomination for president. 1.00

00:12:22.740 Just censored him outright, censored conservative topics and news. I was here at the time. That was

00:12:27.660 right around the time Daily Wire started up. We experienced this. I mean, I saw this part really

00:12:32.540 firsthand. And it hurt not only conservatives, but it hurt any opponent to the liberal establishment,

00:12:37.660 including Bernie Sanders. 2018, Facebook censored multiple candidates for Congress and state

00:12:43.060 legislatures. Removing ads for my own senator here, Marsha Blackburn, for Matt Rosendale in Montana,

00:12:50.180 for Michigan State Senate Republican candidate, for President Trump, and on and on. 2020, we know

00:12:59.480 what happened in 2020. Obviously, the censorship went through the roof. And then separately, Mark

00:13:04.060 Zuckerberg was spending a ton of money to rig the election. In 2022, Facebook censored lots of

00:13:09.320 gubernatorial candidates and candidates for U.S. Congress. Were they, you know, 50-50 Republicans and

00:13:13.620 Democrats? No, they were focusing on Republicans. And on and on. Go check it out. There are 39 really

00:13:19.880 good examples here. The takeaway for conservatives and Republicans is that power does not go away.

00:13:28.160 You can't make power go away. There are some people, especially who are a little more

00:13:32.140 libertarian-minded, who just, they say, we got to take this power away from the government.

00:13:37.820 We got to stop these powerful actors from putting their thumbs on the scales. Power doesn't go away.

00:13:45.520 Power is conserved. You know, like in physics, you learn that energy is always conserved.

00:13:50.840 Power is always conserved. The question is just, where is it going to go? So when we limit what

00:13:57.600 government and what candidates can do, the power doesn't just disappear. You hear the libertarian

00:14:05.080 harangues against big government. When we talk about government, by the way, we should talk about

00:14:08.640 governments. There's the federal government or the state governments, county governments,

00:14:12.360 overlapping sorts of layers of government, different branches of government. When we limit

00:14:18.480 what those governments can do and what the candidates can do and how much money the candidate

00:14:22.160 political action committees can raise and how they can spend that money, the power just goes somewhere

00:14:26.880 else. In this case, the power, when you take the power away from the candidate political action

00:14:31.360 committees, just goes to super PACs. And the super PACs are technically not allowed to coordinate with the

00:14:36.880 candidates. They kind of do. I mean, they try not to. They try to stay on the good side of the law,

00:14:40.600 but it's very, very blurry and ambiguous rules. It goes there. And then the power goes to private

00:14:46.320 corporations. So we say, okay, good. The government can't be too involved in these elections. Oh, good.

00:14:53.240 And those politicians, they can't be taking too many donations. Okay, well, now Mark Zuckerberg is going

00:14:58.200 to control our elections. Is that better? I don't think that's better. Mark Zuckerberg is just about

00:15:03.460 as liberal as our liberal established government order, and he's much less accountable.

00:15:09.740 And he's one guy. That's a lot of concentrated power. If we're going to have a monarch, at least

00:15:15.300 give us a monarch. At least give us a guy with some dignity, who's trained for this, who has a sense of,

00:15:20.960 you know, I don't know, God and the moral order and the political tradition and history. Don't give us

00:15:25.240 some nerd from Silicon Valley who's made himself emperor of the country. There's going to be power.

00:15:31.700 There's going to be power. Stop. This is kind of like the argument we were all having over free

00:15:38.480 speech a few years ago. You got to just recognize that the fight is, it's not even on the same axis

00:15:44.900 that you're looking at. People always thought the fight over free speech was between free speech and

00:15:50.880 censorship. It's not. The point of my book, Speechless, was to say, actually, just look at a

00:15:54.160 different axis. Thank you. It's a fight between one set of standards and norms and another set of

00:15:59.900 standards and norms. The same is true here. The battle for our political order is not between

00:16:03.620 a really powerful political order and a weaker political order, more conducive to liberty.

00:16:11.200 The amount of power that there is, is static at any discrete moment. The question is,

00:16:17.240 where's the power going to go? You got to look at a different axis here. Is it going to be in the

00:16:21.480 hands of the government? Is it going to be in the hands of private corporations? Is it going to be in

00:16:24.700 the hands of political candidates? Is it going to be in the hands of outside political consultants?

00:16:28.480 Where's it going to be? You've got to strike whatever the right balance is. And right now,

00:16:34.080 it's totally off balance and it favors the libs. Speaking of this kind of anti-Trump activism,

00:16:40.720 Fox News, Fox News, ostensibly conservative right-wing cable news channel, at least it was

00:16:45.780 considered that way for many years, probably not considered so much that anymore. Fox just aired an ad

00:16:50.600 attacking Donald Trump.

00:16:52.740 I was wondering if you guys are hiring right now. I was thinking about applying for a job.

00:17:01.580 I was thinking about applying for a job here. I'm currently facing 88 felonies. I'm currently

00:17:06.800 facing 88 felonies for detention of classified information. If you all take people that have

00:17:11.900 been found liable for sexual assault, trying to overturn the 2020 election, falsifying business

00:17:17.240 records, I was wondering if that was going to be a be a problem.

00:17:22.220 They're working with diamonds and jewelry.

00:17:24.920 They're going to do a background check.

00:17:26.400 Yeah.

00:17:26.840 So that's the only.

00:17:28.080 So probably not.

00:17:29.000 Yeah.

00:17:29.800 So did you guys hire people that have been found liable for sexual assault or?

00:17:34.020 We want to phone background.

00:17:35.600 Okay.

00:17:36.400 No, we don't.

00:17:37.600 I don't think so.

00:17:38.560 Okay.

00:17:38.900 Donald Trump has been charged with 88 felonies and found liable for sexual assault.

00:17:45.680 If Trump is too big of a liability to get a job at your local mall, he is too big of a

00:17:50.340 liability to be president of the United States.

00:17:53.220 Republican Accountability Pack is responsible for the content of this advertising.

00:17:57.920 Really insidious ad and ironic for a few reasons.

00:18:01.660 First of all, at the same time that the libs are running this ad, they are simultaneously saying

00:18:07.820 that we need to prevent employers from discriminating against criminals, convicted criminals in their

00:18:13.700 hiring process.

00:18:14.560 At the very same time, we covered a story on this, I think, two days ago on the show.

00:18:19.060 The libs are saying it's discriminatory.

00:18:21.180 There's a disparate negative impact on minorities, people of color.

00:18:26.200 However, if you take into account the criminal record of job applicants, it's wrong, it's

00:18:32.140 discriminatory, it's evil.

00:18:33.180 We can't do that, even though they've been convicted of all sorts of crimes.

00:18:36.400 Oh, but Donald Trump's been charged with 80 bazillion crimes by every Democrat politician

00:18:40.640 in America.

00:18:42.140 Cast him to St. Helena.

00:18:44.280 To Elba goes he.

00:18:48.520 It's not a question of how we treat criminals in our society.

00:18:52.480 It's that when the criminals are not Donald Trump, when the criminals are liberal rather

00:18:58.420 than conservative, we let them off the hook. 0.71

00:19:00.680 When the criminals are black, brown, and all sorts of colors and not white or orange, I 0.66

00:19:06.880 suppose, in this case, we just let them off the hook. 0.87

00:19:09.200 When the criminals are women or sexually confused rather than straight men, we let them off the 0.99

00:19:14.620 hook.

00:19:14.820 It has nothing to do with the crime itself.

00:19:17.700 But furthermore, they say Trump has been charged with these crimes.

00:19:21.740 He hasn't been convicted of anything.

00:19:24.620 He hasn't been convicted of a single crime.

00:19:27.620 Well, yeah, but we wouldn't hire him to work at the Diamond store.

00:19:31.940 We wouldn't hire him to work at the restaurant.

00:19:33.320 Okay.

00:19:34.260 Well, explain something to me.

00:19:36.220 Why is Donald Trump still polling roughly on par with, according to some polls, even a

00:19:40.180 little higher than the current president of the United States?

00:19:43.720 Why?

00:19:44.060 If this is so bad, if Donald Trump is really this awful criminal and we would never hire him

00:19:50.240 to mop the floor at a restaurant, why is he still a major challenge to Joe Biden?

00:19:56.200 Why does it look like he could be reelected?

00:19:58.980 Because that huge number of charges, of felonies that he's accused of helps him.

00:20:06.300 As I've said from the beginning, it's bad, it's sad, it's awful that our political order

00:20:11.500 has been made to look like this and the Democrats are responsible for it.

00:20:14.660 It's very sad.

00:20:16.000 The number helps him.

00:20:17.640 If he were only charged with one crime, maybe it would stick.

00:20:21.520 Two crimes, maybe they would stick.

00:20:24.060 88 felonies.

00:20:25.120 It just looks like a witch hunt, which it is.

00:20:30.180 For prosecutions across all these different layers of government, all around the country

00:20:34.540 for what?

00:20:36.640 For crimes no one even can really understand, the things that we knew about.

00:20:40.300 He made an in-kind contribution to his own campaign and paid off a porn star allegedly,

00:20:46.360 even though she said that he didn't.

00:20:49.360 What?

00:20:50.400 Huh?

00:20:50.760 That, yeah, so we can't, we wouldn't hire him for any, it's just so obviously disingenuous.

00:20:57.900 And when polling on this question has been done, a clear majority of Americans, the vast

00:21:02.400 majority of Americans recognize this is a political persecution.

00:21:05.960 So I hope they keep running these ads.

00:21:08.760 Call attention to it.

00:21:10.480 Call attention, we were talking earlier about how when you're in a political fight, it's

00:21:14.980 not only about your substantive views on the issues, but it's even about which issues

00:21:18.660 you're talking about, focusing on the trials and tribulations of Donald Trump, the criminal

00:21:24.920 prosecutions, which are really a political persecution, that helps Trump.

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00:23:21.480 Speaking of large numbers, Andrew Tate.

00:23:25.880 Andrew Tate, you know Andrew Tate.

00:23:28.060 He's this guy who, he became wealthy running a webcam porn business,

00:23:34.040 and he's charged with sex crimes in Romania because, according to prosecutors,

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00:24:03.320 And so, he's a very, very polarizing figure.

00:24:06.440 He converted to Islam.

00:24:08.220 So, people have all sorts of views on Andrew Tate.

00:24:11.600 My main takeaway from Andrew Tate is he's a very impressive internet influencer.

00:24:19.200 Forget about all of the other, the awful sex stuff and the charges and the materialism and Islam and all. 1.00

00:24:25.880 He just is really good at keeping people's attention.

00:24:29.680 He's really good at getting people to, even if they hate 99% of the things that he says and does,

00:24:35.240 the 1% they'll agree with and then another group he'll irritate and he just keeps people's attention.

00:24:39.760 Well, he got people's attention yesterday. 0.70

00:24:41.020 Anyway, when he made a tweet that aroused a lot of ire, he said, sex is for making children. 0.99

00:24:49.180 Any man who has sex with women because it, quote, feels good is gay. 0.98

00:24:54.180 Oh, my, I'll clean up some of the language, make it a little more elevated for this family show. 0.99

00:24:58.740 Oh, my, phallus feels good.

00:25:00.320 This is great. 1.00

00:25:00.860 In fact, if you are 40 with less than five children, you're probably gay. 1.00

00:25:04.980 All that feel-good phallus sex and hardly any genetic legacy. 0.99

00:25:12.620 And then, actually, readers added a comment. 0.99

00:25:14.600 They said, having sex with women is straight. 0.96

00:25:16.540 Actually, I hate to disagree with community notes. 0.89

00:25:19.020 I hate to have to agree with Andrew Tate over the, you know, cumulative wisdom of Twitter here.

00:25:25.940 Tate is pretty much right, I think.

00:25:27.840 This is a view that has been articulated in the past by great philosophers and ethicists, including the late great philosopher, Norm Macdonald.

00:25:40.260 In regular life, that's why sex is so tough to get going, because it's so shameful and filthy and obviously meant only for procreation. 0.97

00:25:50.800 And so, when you get...

00:25:51.660 You know, it kind of, it's 20% exaggerated, 20% hyperbolic.

00:25:58.820 Bring me back to the Andrew Tate tweet.

00:26:01.060 I want to see the exact wording here.

00:26:03.440 It's very precise. 0.82

00:26:06.600 Sex is for making children. 1.00

00:26:08.080 Fact check, true. 0.73

00:26:08.860 That's what it's for.

00:26:09.980 That's what marriage is for. 0.97

00:26:12.040 It's for the begetting and education of children.

00:26:14.580 So, it's not enough just to make them.

00:26:16.420 You also have to raise them, which is why children have a right to be the product of the specific conjugal act of his parents, of their parents, who are joined together in holy matrimony, which is a union for life.

00:26:27.500 The union oriented toward the education and begetting of children, and also, as a secondary aspect, the mutual support of the spouses.

00:26:36.400 Now, Andrew Tate might not have fit all of that into the 280-character limit, but he says sex is for making children.

00:26:41.360 That's true.

00:26:42.440 That's what it's for.

00:26:43.240 It's a very Aristotelian view.

00:26:44.680 That's the telos of the sexual act.

00:26:47.960 There are incidental aspects to it.

00:26:50.260 Oh, it feels good.

00:26:51.440 Oh, you know, it's a way to pass the time when the cable goes out.

00:26:53.860 Oh, it's this, it's that, it's the other thing.

00:26:55.540 But that's what it's for.

00:26:57.340 You know a thing by what it's for.

00:26:58.340 The Leftist Tears Tumblr is for bringing delicious leftist tears into my body. 0.94

00:27:02.520 The microphone is for transmitting my mellifluous dulcet tones to your ears, and sex is for making children. 1.00

00:27:08.640 Totally true. 1.00

00:27:09.500 Any man who has sex with women because it, quote, feels good is gay. 0.99

00:27:12.860 He's obviously making a joke here, and it's kind of hyperbolic. 0.98

00:27:16.620 But the point he's making here is a point I actually made quite earnestly on the Iced Coffee Hour podcast some months ago.

00:27:26.140 And the hosts, who are lovely guys, but they were kind of shocked by what I said.

00:27:29.940 They took issue with my use of the term gay and the point that I was making.

00:27:34.900 But I said, no, I'm using the term specifically because I'm using it in the sense that sterile sexual relations are gay. 0.97

00:27:46.660 And gay relations are sterile. 1.00

00:27:49.420 I don't mean it in any, you know, judgy way or even to be needlessly provocative.

00:27:54.740 I'm just saying that's what distinguishes normal, healthy sexual relations that are ordered toward their natural ends from all the other kinds.

00:28:06.540 Whether you're talking about, you know, a couple of dudes, a couple of chicks, three dudes and a billy goat, a whole village, some bacchanal in ancient Rome or whatever.

00:28:12.900 Sure. That's the difference.

00:28:15.220 One is fruitful, or at least it's a fallen world, so, you know, people suffer infertility. 0.93

00:28:20.160 But it's either inclined toward fruitfulness or it's just sterile and for pleasure.

00:28:24.860 And the former is good and natural and oriented toward family and marriage. 0.99

00:28:31.640 And the other is gay. 0.97

00:28:33.360 Yeah, that's true. 0.99

00:28:34.580 Then he kind of mocks this idea, oh, you know, my genitals feel good. 0.98

00:28:39.780 This is great. 0.97

00:28:40.440 Yeah, that's true.

00:28:40.980 If you just live for your own personal pleasure, your base appetites, that's going to be shameful.

00:28:51.240 That's not going to satisfy you in the long run.

00:28:53.360 It's not going to be very productive and edifying. 0.99

00:28:55.540 He goes, if you're 40 with less than five children, you're probably gay.

00:28:58.660 It's a funny line in that I don't think statistically that's literally true, but we used to have a lot of kids, and now we don't.

00:29:08.980 And that shift is a shift away from giving of oneself totally to one's spouse and totally to one's commonwealth and totally to the common good and totally to one's society because we're the social animal.

00:29:20.760 And turning away from that toward just making everything about your own personal pleasure, which is decadent.

00:29:26.100 That's a decadent thing to do.

00:29:27.300 No genetic legacy.

00:29:29.480 Well, it's even more than a genetic legacy.

00:29:31.040 The genetics is the physical representation of the legacy, but there's more.

00:29:34.660 There's a cultural legacy.

00:29:35.940 There are the memories passed across the generations of a family.

00:29:39.740 There are the family heirlooms.

00:29:41.900 There's a tradition.

00:29:43.000 There's all of that.

00:29:44.000 Absolutely.

00:29:44.940 Between Community Notes and Andrew Tate, Tate is not 100% correct, but he's about 97% correct here.

00:29:51.160 Now, speaking of controversial views on sex, Kanye West, according to reports, might start a porn company.

00:29:59.620 That is very unfortunate.

00:30:02.040 There's a report out now.

00:30:03.280 Here's a report from Marka.

00:30:05.040 We'll see if it happens.

00:30:08.160 This studio will be titled Yeezy Porn, according to reports.

00:30:13.500 Why does this matter?

00:30:15.280 Well, it's in the news in part because he has his sights set on this guy, Mike Mose, who's the ex-husband of Stormy Daniels, who is the porn performer who's at the heart of one of the Trump criminal prosecutions.

00:30:26.860 He wants that guy to help run the porn studio, but it makes news, not because some hip-hop mogul is involved in weird, depraved sex stuff.

00:30:37.360 It's because Kanye seemed like he wasn't going to do that. 0.81

00:30:40.000 Remember, some years ago, he came out with this album, Jesus is King.

00:30:44.560 I'm not a huge fan of this kind of music generally, but of all the Kanye music, Jesus is King had some good bops on it, man.

00:30:52.180 And then he was hosting these Sunday services, which were eccentric and a little bit weird, but they were at least about God.

00:31:01.120 They were at least religious in their tenor, and they brought a lot of people together.

00:31:05.120 And it just seemed much better and more edifying, if not even sanctifying, than so much of what's out there in the pop culture.

00:31:14.620 And then it looked like he was fighting to save his marriage, and he was, according to one report, while he was making an album, he said no one can fornicate on the set.

00:31:25.100 And he was reading the Bible a lot, and I don't even think it was just a performance.

00:31:30.820 I have a number of mutual friends with Kanye West, and I heard across actually all sorts of different areas of my life.

00:31:39.320 For some reason, I keep overlapping with Kanye West, and I heard that the guy was sincere about it, and now this, and now this.

00:31:47.080 Which reminds me of a very important fact that you should keep in mind, is the sower who went forth to sow.

00:31:55.340 And while he soweth, some fell by the wayside, and the birds of the air came and ate them up.

00:32:01.580 And other, some fell upon stony ground, where they had not much earth, and they sprung up immediately, because they had no deepness of earth.

00:32:07.960 And when the sun was up, they were scorched, and because they had not root, they withered away.

00:32:12.640 And others fell among thorns, and the thorns grew up and choked them, and others fell upon good ground, and they brought forth fruit, some 100-fold, some 60-fold, and some 30-fold.

00:32:21.820 The parable of the sower, really, really important here.

00:32:24.940 Kanye is a troubled guy.

00:32:26.680 He's been pretty open about some of his troubles, so it's unfortunate to see this.

00:32:31.480 The guy who 15, more than 15 years ago now, probably, had Jesus Walks.

00:32:38.080 Jesus Walks. 0.70

00:32:40.560 Big song.

00:32:41.780 And then he kind of went away into more degenerate art for a while.

00:32:44.800 And then he comes back with Jesus as King, and he's reading the Bible, and that's great.

00:32:48.660 And now, the prospect of a porn studio, speaking openly on podcasts about how God didn't answer his prayers in exactly the way that he demanded that God answer them.

00:32:59.340 And so, he was kind of turning away from religion.

00:33:02.700 It's unfortunate.

00:33:03.740 It's unfortunate, because it's a reminder.

00:33:06.380 A lot of people think you live in the wrong way, and then you repent, and you see the right, and you respond to God's grace, and great, now everything's totally rosy.

00:33:16.080 Everything can be totally rosy, but when that happens, the devil is going to come after you with 10 times the strength that he had, 100 times the strength that he had previously.

00:33:25.840 And if you stumble, and you fall unrepentantly, and you continue to stumble, you're going to be worse off than when you started.

00:33:34.700 You're going to be worse off than before you turned your mind and responded to God's grace and started going down the right way.

00:33:41.440 Now, what you can do right now is subscribe to the Michael Knowles Show YouTube channel, smash the like button, and ring that bell, baby.

00:33:50.600 Turning away from the depraved life to the trad life, the libs are still furious over the phenomenon of the trad wife. 1.00

00:34:00.060 You've heard this term. 0.95

00:34:01.000 I think a lot of these terms are just kind of silly. 0.95

00:34:04.740 Hear this term now, trad wife. 0.78

00:34:06.700 What is trad wife? 1.00

00:34:07.380 It means a normal woman from 30 years ago. 1.00

00:34:10.520 Now that's a bizarre category.

00:34:12.260 Or even I've heard this phrase pop up, trad cons.

00:34:14.940 What's it?

00:34:15.400 All the time, people ask, Michael, what's your political ideology?

00:34:20.200 Are you a paleo, neo, populist, libertarian, anarcho, trad, classical?

00:34:27.600 What are, and I think, I'm a conservative man.

00:34:31.980 Grow up.

00:34:32.960 Grow up.

00:34:33.740 That's what I am.

00:34:35.200 I'm a conservative.

00:34:36.240 I want to conserve things.

00:34:38.060 I like, I want good stuff.

00:34:39.400 I want more good stuff.

00:34:40.380 I want less bad stuff.

00:34:41.320 That's my political ideology.

00:34:43.220 I guess it's kind of an anti-ideology.

00:34:45.900 Grow up.

00:34:46.620 But they do this now.

00:34:47.840 The libs try to take these terms, and they use them to, well, again, to quote Norm Macdonald,

00:34:56.780 to marginalize normal people.

00:34:59.080 One time when Norm was asked the meaning of the term cisgender, he said,

00:35:02.340 cisgender is a term used now to marginalize normal people.

00:35:06.600 That's true here.

00:35:07.380 The trad wife.

00:35:08.580 The rise of the trad wife.

00:35:11.200 Why some women say they are opting out of work. 0.98

00:35:13.820 Key points.

00:35:14.360 TikTok's latest trad wife and stay-at-home girlfriend trend shows an idealized view of 0.91

00:35:20.580 adhering to very traditional gender roles.

00:35:24.380 Staying at home necessitates a degree of privilege that fewer young adults have these days.

00:35:28.460 If anything, women are working more, not less, and foregoing paid labor comes at a steep economic cost. 1.00

00:35:33.900 Some men are scaling back at work, a recent study shows.

00:35:35.800 Okay.

00:35:37.540 Sure.

00:35:38.020 Stay-at-home girlfriend is not a great idea. 0.92

00:35:39.560 You should just get married.

00:35:40.480 Stay-at-home girlfriend is called a concubine. 0.99

00:35:42.820 TikTok's latest trad wife trends show an idealized view of adhering to traditional gender roles. 0.93

00:35:49.480 Sure.

00:35:50.060 I guess that's true.

00:35:52.120 Wouldn't you say, though, that the last century and a half of feminism shows an idealized view 1.00

00:35:58.040 of rejecting gender roles?

00:35:59.760 Because we've been told women reject gender roles. 0.98

00:36:02.080 Woman needs a man like a fish, needs a bicycle. 1.00

00:36:03.520 Don't get married.

00:36:04.060 Don't have kids.

00:36:04.660 Don't just go work in the widget factory. 0.91

00:36:05.980 Get used by a hundred guys sexually and then be cast to the side.

00:36:09.340 And that'll make you really happy and empowered.

00:36:12.340 It doesn't.

00:36:13.360 Does it?

00:36:14.320 So isn't, which is the more idealized view?

00:36:17.320 The trad wife phenomenon, meaning people just going back and doing the things that everyone 0.88

00:36:21.200 did forever?

00:36:21.860 Or the feminist view, which keeps promising utopia, never quite pays off. 1.00

00:36:27.600 What to say on this?

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00:37:00.440 Eastern and leave your thoughts in the live chat.

00:37:03.480 My favorite comment yesterday is from a return after a while to the favorite comment, slap

00:37:08.800 my base, 3825, who says, you don't need AI to tell someone's political affiliation.

00:37:14.200 You can do that just as easily by their clothes, hairstyles, and especially the bumper stickers

00:37:18.000 on their cars.

00:37:18.740 Yes, that's true.

00:37:19.480 I was just talking with a friend of mine about this last night.

00:37:23.400 I covered the story yesterday that, wow, AI can predict your political views just by looking

00:37:28.060 at you.

00:37:28.600 I thought, yeah, I can do that too because I have eyes and I'm willing to acknowledge patterns.

00:37:34.220 But it's even funnier than that.

00:37:37.100 AI is pattern recognition.

00:37:40.000 That's pretty much all AI is.

00:37:42.100 AI is trained to recognize patterns and then based on those patterns to recognize other

00:37:47.660 patterns.

00:37:48.260 And that's all it is.

00:37:48.880 It doesn't have a soul.

00:37:49.720 It doesn't have free will.

00:37:50.580 It's pattern recognition.

00:37:52.160 But political correctness and wokeness, we call it now, says you're not allowed to recognize

00:37:56.620 patterns.

00:37:57.080 That if you recognize patterns and acknowledge them, that that's prejudice.

00:38:00.880 So at the same time that the libs are pushing AI, this is so great.

00:38:04.680 It's progress.

00:38:05.240 It's the future.

00:38:06.200 They build all the AI and then they get really angry that the AI does what it is built to do.

00:38:10.180 So then they have to go in and install their own political views to say, stop recognizing

00:38:14.180 patterns.

00:38:15.300 Don't.

00:38:15.820 That's very prejudiced and awful if you recognize patterns.

00:38:18.620 Well, in defense of the AI, what else is it supposed to do?

00:38:21.580 That's all it does.

00:38:22.880 It's like saying, hey, here is a cup of coffee.

00:38:29.620 I've just made this cup of coffee and here it is.

00:38:32.380 I'm going to make ever more the perfect cup of coffee.

00:38:34.940 And then one tries the cup of coffee and says, oh, no, this is hot and full of caffeine.

00:38:40.400 Oh, this is terrible.

00:38:42.240 You can't, we can't have a cup of coffee that's hot and full of caffeine.

00:38:45.700 And they say, okay, well, we'll make the perfect cup of coffee, but we're, it's not

00:38:48.560 going to be hot and it's not going to have caffeine and it's not going to be liquid.

00:38:51.460 And while at a certain point you're not, you're fighting against yourself.

00:38:56.200 You can't, you got to, do you want to do the thing or do you not want to do the thing?

00:38:59.400 The trad wife phenomenon, the libs are so furious about it. 0.82

00:39:04.840 They've been pushing these articles every few weeks now for months and months.

00:39:09.720 Here's another warning.

00:39:11.060 Staying at home necessitates a degree of privilege that fewer young adults have these days.

00:39:16.580 It is tough in a tough economy to stay at home.

00:39:19.500 That's true.

00:39:20.940 You know, our grandparents, they were able to buy a house when they were young and our

00:39:24.820 grandparents, they were able to have a stay at home mother.

00:39:26.920 And it's true, there have been changes to the political economy that make it harder.

00:39:30.840 Now that women are expected to work, that changes the way that wages work in this country. 1.00

00:39:37.160 Now that we have mass migration, for instance, wages are lowered by mass migration.

00:39:41.280 And so it makes it harder.

00:39:42.860 But also we have a much higher standard of living than our grandparents had at our age.

00:39:48.240 Our houses are bigger when we have houses, our apartments, you know, or houses even that

00:39:52.640 you could rent, our food, our luxuries, our travel, our technology.

00:39:57.700 It's, we have a much higher standard of living.

00:40:00.080 A lot of people could do it.

00:40:02.500 You could live the trad life.

00:40:04.140 You can't, you can't really live the trad life in midtown Manhattan.

00:40:08.260 You might have to move a little further away from the city.

00:40:11.780 You might not be able to have two cars.

00:40:14.320 You might not be able to go to brunch all the time.

00:40:16.640 You might not be able to have the fanciest clothes or all the latest gizmos and gadgets.

00:40:20.200 And you, you might have to live at a, everything in life has a cost.

00:40:24.460 Well, it just requires a degree of privilege.

00:40:27.800 Yeah.

00:40:28.400 What do you mean a degree of privilege?

00:40:30.580 There's a cost.

00:40:31.480 There's a cost when, when your wife doesn't work that you, you obviously get much less 0.99

00:40:36.620 income and that's going to affect maybe your standard of living as true.

00:40:39.620 But everything in life has a cost.

00:40:41.060 That's nothing new about that.

00:40:42.360 If anything, women are working more, not less. 1.00

00:40:44.320 And foregoing paid labor comes at a steep economic cost.

00:40:46.760 Yeah.

00:40:47.040 Forgo.

00:40:47.980 What does that even, that's just a truism.

00:40:49.420 So if, if a woman doesn't get paid by an employer in the formal economy, in the commercial 1.00

00:40:55.420 economy, then she's not going to get a paycheck in the commercial economy. 1.00

00:40:59.640 Yeah, you're right.

00:41:00.320 Exactly.

00:41:00.780 She's making a choice to do something else. 0.80

00:41:02.500 Some men are scaling back at work.

00:41:04.200 Yeah, it's true.

00:41:04.660 If the, if the wife stays home, guess what? 0.96

00:41:06.720 The guy's going to have to work more probably because it's expensive.

00:41:09.940 That's true.

00:41:11.200 Why are they so afraid that, why are the libs so afraid of people desiring to return to the

00:41:18.120 trad life?

00:41:18.760 And what's the trad life?

00:41:19.500 It's just how people lived for most of history.

00:41:21.880 Well, because it threatens their power.

00:41:26.440 Industrialization really helped the libs.

00:41:28.240 Klaus Schwab at the head of the World Economic Forum, he talks about multiple industrial

00:41:33.660 revolutions.

00:41:34.580 He talks about now we are in the fourth industrial revolution.

00:41:37.680 The first industrial revolution is mechanization.

00:41:40.460 The second industrial revolution is the assembly line and electrification.

00:41:44.340 The third industrial revolution is the rise of computing.

00:41:47.920 And now the fourth industrial revolution is supposedly the melding of computers and biology.

00:41:55.780 You know, we're going to, we're going to become cyborgs and we're going to, we're going to make

00:41:59.900 everything electronic and not just electronic, but connected to the internet and smart and,

00:42:05.440 you know, constantly processing data.

00:42:07.820 And that's, that's the fourth industrial revolution.

00:42:09.580 You know, we probably are in the midst of that.

00:42:11.780 Sure.

00:42:12.760 And there are downsides to that.

00:42:14.960 The liberals on the left and on the right, the classical liberals, the libertarians, they'll

00:42:19.360 tell you industrial revolution has been totally great.

00:42:21.720 It's been wonderful.

00:42:22.620 There's no, but you're beginning to see creep up on the right.

00:42:25.880 Once again, a criticism of that.

00:42:28.980 Tucker notably has been on that train, but Tucker didn't start that.

00:42:31.940 That has been a theme of American conservatism for many, many decades now.

00:42:37.060 In fact, it goes back much further than that.

00:42:38.560 I think of the poem Jerusalem by, by William Blake, who not saying William Blake was some

00:42:45.240 doctrinaire conservative, but, but he expressed the kind of uneasiness that many conservatives

00:42:50.480 have, even with the first industrial revolution, you know, and did his feet in ancient time walk

00:42:54.480 upon England's mountains green and did the Holy lamb and was the Holy lamb of God and England's

00:42:59.560 verdant pastures seen.

00:43:00.620 I'm probably getting some of the words wrong, but, but there's a line in there where he refers

00:43:04.340 to these dark satanic mills.

00:43:07.500 We, we will have Jerusalem builded here among these dark satanic mills. 1.00

00:43:13.020 The dark satanic mills were the mills of industrialization, which was, which was viewed

00:43:17.980 as a kind of symbol of hell, a coming of hell on earth, a dehumanization.

00:43:22.360 No longer were humans full, fully people who are doing all sorts of different tasks throughout

00:43:27.460 the day, but no, they were being reduced to nothing more than cogs in a machine to punch

00:43:31.860 in and punch out on the clock.

00:43:35.000 And, uh, there's been a lot of material prosperity that's come out of that, but there's been a

00:43:39.180 dehumanization too.

00:43:40.360 And immediately afterward, you, you saw effects on family size.

00:43:44.920 All of a sudden family size gets cut down.

00:43:47.580 As that process continues, you, you see the, the political strength, even of the family,

00:43:53.140 the building block of society begin to diminish.

00:43:55.940 And people are looking at that and they say, oh, I don't like that.

00:43:58.120 I actually want the families to be strong again.

00:43:59.720 I want to have a lot of kids.

00:44:00.780 There's more to life than money.

00:44:02.240 I, I, I don't think we're all just interchangeable cogs in a machine.

00:44:06.080 I think we're different.

00:44:06.940 We're vibrant.

00:44:07.720 We're different.

00:44:08.080 Different peoples are different.

00:44:09.760 They have their own, uh, distinctions that add spice to life and variety and men and

00:44:15.400 women especially are different and we're complimentary and we should celebrate that and recognize 0.73

00:44:19.220 that I want a wife and I want a trad life and I want more kids.

00:44:24.300 And that is a threat, not just to Joe Biden or the Democrats or the progressives or something.

00:44:28.620 That is a threat to the, the whole liberal project of the last, I don't know, 150 years.

00:44:36.680 Rant completed.

00:44:37.820 Speaking of Joe Biden though, we'll get back to Joe Biden now.

00:44:42.280 Really disgusting stuff from Joe Biden in the last few days.

00:44:46.000 Joe Biden was just at a campaign event, uh, where, uh, in Florida, uh, the, the libs are

00:44:53.000 making a big deal about Ron DeSantis's defense of unborn life.

00:44:56.700 And Joe Biden was standing there listening to them harangue, uh, Ron DeSantis for protecting

00:45:02.380 babies in the womb.

00:45:04.100 And then he did something shocking.

00:45:07.080 And then we come back here to state of Florida where Ron DeSantis felt like he needed to run

00:45:12.340 for president.

00:45:12.880 And so 15 weeks wasn't good enough.

00:45:15.160 We had to go to six weeks.

00:45:16.600 15 weeks wasn't good enough.

00:45:20.520 We had to go to six weeks.

00:45:21.820 And Joe Biden, for those of you who are only listening, he made the sign of the cross.

00:45:26.940 I can't, I'm trying to see exactly when he starts it.

00:45:29.460 The most charitable read on this I could say is he made the sign of the cross.

00:45:32.420 Uh, when she mentioned that, that DeSantis ran for president as if to say, oh, RIP his 0.77

00:45:39.020 presidential campaign, which is flippant and glib and kind of taking, you know, the, the

00:45:44.520 central fact and the central mystery of the Christian faith in a, in a vain and flippant

00:45:49.880 way, because the sign of the cross is an articulation of the Trinity.

00:45:54.480 That's the central mystery of the Christian faith, but also the, it's a representation of

00:45:59.200 the crucifixion, which is, you know, when our Lord is sacrificed to redeem mankind, this

00:46:03.620 is the, the pivot of history, the cross being the axis on which the whole cosmos turns.

00:46:10.060 And so that's the most charitable view of it.

00:46:12.760 What most people are taking from this is that he's making the sign of the cross about how

00:46:18.580 awful Ron DeSantis' pro-life law is.

00:46:21.460 15 weeks wasn't good enough.

00:46:22.960 They have to reduce it to six weeks.

00:46:24.080 He makes the sign of the cross.

00:46:25.660 That, if that's what he's doing, that is as blasphemous as it gets.

00:46:29.200 He's invoking religion, the, the central expression of the religion to, to what?

00:46:40.020 To advocate for the murder of babies, which is, we don't even need to, you know, form our

00:46:45.620 own conclusions here, which his church says with authority, dogmatic authority or, or magisterial

00:46:52.220 authority for 2000 years says is evil.

00:46:56.360 I, I, I, I can't make sense of it.

00:47:01.840 Now I'd, I'd, I'd be inclined to take the charitable view, except Biden has a pattern of this at

00:47:06.200 another recent campaign event, also in Tampa, Florida.

00:47:08.880 He starts mocking the Bible.

00:47:12.720 Bragged how proud he was to get rid of Roe v. Wade over it.

00:47:17.180 He took credit for it.

00:47:18.620 He said, there has to be punishment for women exercising the reproductive freedom. 0.58

00:47:23.980 His words, not mine.

00:47:25.980 He described the job decision as a miracle.

00:47:29.980 Maybe it's coming from that Bible.

00:47:31.360 He's trying to sell.

00:47:36.000 Whoa.

00:47:37.720 I almost wanted to buy one to see what the hell's in it.

00:47:43.260 Folks.

00:47:44.100 It was no miracle.

00:47:45.700 It was a political deal to get rid of Roe v. 0.99

00:47:48.720 A deal.

00:47:49.660 Political deal.

00:47:50.380 He made with the evangelical base of the Republican party to look past his moral.

00:47:56.020 If they look past his moral and character flaws in exchange for his commitment to appoint

00:48:01.140 justice to the Supreme Court, would overturn Roe.

00:48:04.660 So there it is.

00:48:05.680 Don't tell me that I'm being unfair and I'm misreading what Joe Biden is doing there when

00:48:09.320 he makes the sign of the cross during an invective against the cause of life and in defense

00:48:16.060 of abortion.

00:48:16.880 Here he is.

00:48:17.440 He says, he's advocating for abortion. 1.00

00:48:21.080 He's advocating for killing babies in the womb. 1.00

00:48:22.760 Then he makes fun of Trump. 1.00

00:48:24.060 He says, you know, he's selling that Bible.

00:48:25.540 He probably figured out that he's going to support unborn babies.

00:48:30.040 He doesn't want to murder him because he's reading that Bible of his.

00:48:33.300 Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha.

00:48:34.280 They're all laughing.

00:48:34.960 Ha, ha, ha.

00:48:35.360 He goes, I almost bought one of them Bibles.

00:48:37.300 I just wanted to see what's in it.

00:48:39.740 You guys hear about this?

00:48:40.760 You hear about this?

00:48:41.340 What's the deal with these Bibles? 0.98

00:48:42.420 Huh?

00:48:42.540 When you guys hear about this?

00:48:44.040 Doing a comedy routine up there about the Bible.

00:48:47.100 But what's he mocking?

00:48:48.680 His defenders will say, well, he's just mocking Trump.

00:48:51.280 He's mocking Trump's Bible.

00:48:54.320 Trump's just selling the Bible.

00:48:55.540 It's just the Bible.

00:48:56.780 He didn't write a new one.

00:48:58.480 He didn't do it.

00:48:59.320 It's not the new Trump translation.

00:49:01.080 He's just selling the Bible.

00:49:03.380 A lot of people sell Bibles.

00:49:05.260 That's good to have.

00:49:06.160 You should buy multiple copies of the Bible if you can.

00:49:09.760 So that's what he's mocking.

00:49:11.220 He's mocking the Bible.

00:49:12.840 And he's mocking religion.

00:49:15.080 He's mocking the Trinity.

00:49:16.120 He's mocking God.

00:49:17.040 That's his shtick.

00:49:19.820 And he's specifically doing it when it comes to protecting babies in the womb, which is a non-negotiable issue for his putative faith, which he mocks.

00:49:30.980 And he mocks it because it's not really his faith.

00:49:33.540 When his putative faith comes into conflict with liberalism, he picks liberalism.

00:49:40.100 Simple as.

00:49:41.080 All right.

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The Michael Knowles Show - April 25, 2024

Ep. 1476 - You Need An Ivy League Education To Be This Ignorant

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