Ep. 1482 - Libs Shocked After 2,000 Woke Campus Protestors Arrested
Summary
A day after police across the country arrested some 2,000 of the so-called "queer jihadis of the campus intifada," President Joe Biden is ready to take a stand on a major political crisis that s already over.
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A day after police across the country arrested some 2,000 gender queer jihadis of the campus
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intifada, President Joe Biden is ready to take a stand on the major political crisis that's already
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over. In fact, peaceful protest is in the best tradition of how Americans respond to consequential
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issues. But, but, neither are we a lawless country. We are a civil society. An order must prevail.
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Throughout our history, we've often faced moments like this because we are a big, diverse,
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free-thinking, and freedom-loving nation. And moments like this are always those who rush
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in to score political points. But this isn't a moment for politics. It's a moment for clarity.
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So let me be clear. Peaceful protest in America, violent protest is not protected. Peaceful protest
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is. It's against the law when violence occurs. Destroying property is not a peaceful protest.
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It's against the law. Vandalism, trespassing, breaking windows, shutting down campuses,
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forcing the cancellation of classes and graduations. None of this is a peaceful protest.
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Threatening people, intimidating people, instilling fear in people is not a peaceful protest.
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It's against the law. My favorite line, this is not a time for politics. It's a time for clarity.
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Usually, my politics is about obfuscation. Usually, my politics is about avoiding the issue. But,
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but now it's time for clarity. It's not time. Protest is not about politics. What are you talking about?
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Now, to give the dotard his due, this is probably the best way Biden could have handled it.
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Wait until it looks like everything is resolved. Then prevaricate with a special wink to the
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political establishment. You know, oh, both sides are great, but I'm more on the side of the
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establishment. And then hope everyone moves on. It is downright Clintonian. But the problem is
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that Joe Biden is not Bill Clinton. And 2024 is not the relatively peaceful, cohesive 1990s.
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And even after thousands of arrests, perhaps because of thousands of arrests, I strongly suspect
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the keffia-clad Democrat protesters aren't going anywhere. And that is a big headache
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for Joe Biden. I'm Michael Knowles. This is The Michael Knowles Show.
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The protests are a big threat to Joe Biden. If you didn't know that before yesterday,
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I think the impromptu presidential address probably should have called that to your attention.
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This is not just some weirdos on college. It is weirdos on college campuses,
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but it's not just weirdos on college campuses. This is a nationwide campus protest that represents
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a major fissure on the American left. It comes from a major wedge issue, which is this Israel-Gaza war,
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because the leftist base fanatically hates the state of Israel, and the leftist donor class and
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political establishment generally likes the state of Israel, and the American people generally like
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the state of Israel. So it creates a big political problem, and the activists, the base, which the
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Democrats need, they're probably not going anywhere. Even if you arrest 2,000 of them, there's a good
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chance they come back, and that could have effects on Biden, not just for the election season,
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not even just for four years. It could be a generational effect, at least if you listen to
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It's hard to imagine that this imagery of the NYPD storming Colombia in this moment is not going to
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reverberate in ways that we cannot yet see across the political divide.
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Well, and I think that we should remember what the kind of images of protest disorder did in the
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late 60s, because even as the Vietnam War became increasingly unpopular, so did the anti-war protests.
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And it was in part the backlash to that, as well as to urban crime, that gave us not just Richard
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Nixon, but, you know, kind of, except for the four-year oasis of Jimmy Carter, kind of unbroken
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Republican rule until Bill Clinton. You know, and so I would expect that, and we're already seeing
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the backlash to this, but I would expect it to be ferocious.
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Yeah, the late 70s were a period of retrenchment, and then 1980s saw Ronald Reagan and a conservative
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agenda that was fiercer, more focused, and more effective than maybe any other conservative agenda
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in ways that we're still grappling with to this day.
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That's right. That's right. I like the honest history here. I pretty much totally agree with
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these MSNBC analysts. The revisionist history that we're all taught is the 1960s was an age of
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Aquarius, and, you know, America was on the brink of cultural revolution, and in fact, the libs did
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manage to score a lot of victories. It wasn't in the direct political institutions. They scored a lot
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of victories in academia. They scored a lot. We're seeing the flowering of that in academia today
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at Columbia and NYU and UCLA. They scored a lot of victories in Hollywood. They scored a lot of
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victories in journalism. But in the direct political order, the actual government institutions,
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they got totally creamed because after the radical, largely campus-focused protests of the late
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1960s, we got Richard Nixon, the president that was elected with a more significant majority than,
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I guess, basically any president before him, just totally swept the country. And then the deep state
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threw him out. Then she says, well, we got this four-year oasis of Jimmy Carter. So you had Nixon,
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then his VP, Ford, who no one voted for. Then you get Jimmy Carter for four years, and then you get
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Reagan. And I'd go even further. She says, you have more or less unbroken Republican rule from the
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election of Richard Nixon to the election of Bill Clinton. But even Bill Clinton was kind of
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conservative. Bill Clinton ran as, I'm a Democrat, but not that kind of Democrat. He ran as a dino.
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You know, we have the rhinos. They had the dinos. He ran as a new Democrat. And he was awful in many
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ways, but he was a more moderate, more conservative Democrat. And then you get George
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Bush. So it's true. The reaction to the insanity of leftist politics in the late 60s gave us a
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quarter century, at least, of basically moderate conservative rule. It at least stymied the radical
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plans of the leftists. Could these campus protests have the same effect? Seems to me it's quite possible.
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These are, we often hear about how this Trump MAGA Republican Party, it's not your grandpa's
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Republican Party. Yeah, well, I think the Democrats wearing keffias screaming death to America. I don't
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think that's your grandpa's Democrat Party either, is it? I don't think the, you know, gender bending
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lunatics waving the Palestine flag. I don't think that's exactly your grandpa's Democrat Party.
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That is where the extremism is. And the normal people who are in the middle who aren't all that
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political, the kind of people who were really put off by the 1960s radical protests, I think those
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people are going to be just as put off by the campus intifada. Now, speaking of conservative
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politics, one of my absolute favorite right-wing leaders in the world, Naib Bukele, is the leader of
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El Salvador. He cleaned up crime. He took that country from being the most dangerous country in
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the world to being one of the safest countries in the Western Hemisphere. Naib Bukele just called
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his cabinet together, and he made a big, important announcement that American conservatives could
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learn from. I will translate. President Bukele says, in fact, you can see that everyone here is
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from the executive branch, from the executive branch that I oversee, except for one person,
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the attorney general. He's not part of the executive branch. He's here for a simple reason.
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It's because I want to ask him publicly to investigate everyone sitting here retroactively and into the
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future. I imagine that there should be no problem with that. Someone once asked me,
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are you afraid of death? I said, of course, no one wants to die. I don't want to die.
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But I know that I'll die someday, like everyone else. Death is the one thing we can't escape. But
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if there's one thing I fear, it's leaving a bad legacy. For one president, President Duterte,
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there was a sort of promise, the president isn't a thief. They said he's surrounded by thieves. That
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won't happen to me. That won't happen to me. So I'm investigating all of you. My closest advisors,
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I'm going to investigate all of you. That's so, so important for conservatives to think of,
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especially as we look forward to 2025. President Trump, best Republican president,
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best president period of my lifetime. But he had some clunkers in the executive branch. It was tough.
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No one wanted to work for him. They were so afraid of being investigated, of being thrown in jail,
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of being persecuted by the liberal establishment. The Trump administration had a hard time hiring
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people. And so they had some really good people in the executive branch under Trump, but they had
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some clunkers too. And this is why it's so, so important that the Trump transition begin right now,
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because personnel is policy. We're talking about politics here. And we live in a modern liberal age
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where we, where we think that people are just machines. And we think that computers run the
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world and personality doesn't matter. Soul and spirit don't matter. We're all just kind of
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algorithms, beep booping and computing. And we're not, we're not. White papers don't mean a whole lot.
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The formal text of some regulation or statute, even that doesn't matter all that much. The letter
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killeth and the spirit giveth life. Okay. And personnel is policy. So if you got crooks and losers
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in your administration, you're done. It doesn't, this is true even of the elected officials.
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We vote for these guys who say the right thing. They have the right hair. They, you know, they,
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but then the minute they get to Congress, they squish. They don't, they don't have the judgment.
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They don't have the courage to stand up for what we want. Personnel is policy. It's all about people.
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Okay. Politics is all about people. And one of the greatest conservative leaders in the world right
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now gets it. We should get that too. So you want, this is why I don't really knock Trump when he makes
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some errant comment about public policy while he's trying to, you know, hit the right line to continue
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to win votes without selling out conservative principles. I think that that's kind of a
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distraction to me. You know, did you see the latest Trump truth social post? Did you hear
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the latest Trump? I don't really care. You know what I care? What actually gets done. And you know
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what determines what actually gets done? The people that Trump puts in charge. We hear, oh, Donald Trump
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won't pick good judges because, you know, he, he didn't attend federalist society dinners or something
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like that. Uh, yeah, maybe, but you know, Trump, Trump's not picking the judges himself. Donald
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Trump has advisors who picked the judges and he picked in the case of the judges, he picked a good
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advisor and then he got good judges. And that's how it works, man. You got to make sure you're
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surrounded by smart people, people who are not corrupt. You got to keep, keep a good eye on them.
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And you got to remember personnel is policy. There's so much more to say first though, you know,
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beloved movie actor Jeff Goldblum, has just announced that, you know, he's somewhat aged. He's
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something of an elderly father. He's got younger kids than men his age typically would. And so he's
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thinking about the future, what happens when he's gone, and he says he's not going to leave his
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kids any money. Now that I'm raising kids, I'm no, you know, conventionalist, but I know the system
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that we're in, and I think sooner than later, but I don't want to scare them. They should figure out,
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I mean, I love the creative life. It saved my life. But also this idea that, hey, you know,
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you got to row your own boat. Yeah. So I'm not going to, I'm not going to teach kids. Most people
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don't. Right. Right. I mean, I'm not going to do it for you and you're not going to want me to do it
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for you. You got to figure out how to find out what's wanted and needed and where that intersects
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with your love and passion and what you can do. And even if it doesn't, you might have to do that
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anyway. Yeah. Okay. I think we all hear this advice and we think, good on Jeff Goldblum.
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Very American. You know, kids, I've made a zillion dollars, but you got to cut your own path.
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You're not just going to rest on daddy's money. You're not getting daddy's money. You got to figure
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things out yourself, pull yourself up by your bootstraps. And there's, there's some wisdom to
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this because many of us know rich kids who just inherited some money and wasted their lives and
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it didn't make them happy and they didn't flourish. And okay, sure. So we say, go out there, cut your
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own path. That's good. But, but that can be taken to an extreme too. That is, I think, a consequence
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of liberalism. That, because what is liberalism about? Liberalism is about the individual. It's
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about forgetting about tradition, forgetting about legacy, doing what you want, being innovative,
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creative destruction, individual effort, individual everything. And that, that isn't really how society
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has worked for all of history. And it's not really how human nature works as we talk about on this show a
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lot. So Jeff Goldblum, it seems to me, is going way too far in the other direction to say, I'm not
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giving my kids any money and they just have to figure everything out themselves because otherwise
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they'll become wastrels. Well, what if they don't? What if, yes, you teach your kids to, to cultivate
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good desires and to work really hard and to be diligent and to find things that turn them on and
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get them excited to get out of bed in the morning and also give them your money and also give them a
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financial legacy and also give them some generational wealth? How about instead of saying, I've got to
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keep this wealth from you because you might squander it and, and thereby ruin your life. What if we say,
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hey, I'm going to teach my kids to be good stewards of their inheritance? That, that I think is missing
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from the American ethos right now on the left and on the right. And I think it's a consequence of
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liberalism, which ignores the past, which says we don't need anything to do with our forebears.
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They were probably racist and stupid and we're so brilliant. We're going to do everything on our own.
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But, but generational wealth is a good thing. And I'm not just talking about money. I'm talking about
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generational wisdom. That's an important thing. Generational homes. You know, there was, there was a
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home, I think it burned down in the nineties, but there was a Knowles family home in New Hampshire.
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It wasn't a particularly nice home. It's not like they, the Knowles family had any,
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any particular amount of money, but it had just been standing on this plot of land since the 17th
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century. It had just been there since like 1635 or something like that. And they made some additions
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to it, but it was, it was a visible expression of a family legacy. Without much money, without much
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fanfare, it was just there. And you could say, oh, that's cool. That, that was my family.
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Oh, there, there's some history there. There's a tie to the land and to the culture. And that part
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is really missing. That's the, that's the problem with the individualism that the right has embraced
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in recent decades is, you know, we're conservatives guys. We want to conserve stuff. I, I think it was
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Jim Mattis who, you know, General Mattis, before he fell out of favor on the right, there were all
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those great quotes of his going around where he'd, you know, go up to a bunch of terrorists and say,
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I'm going to kill all of you if you don't do exactly what I say. But one of them,
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one of the quotes that was going around was about how he loves to read books. And he said,
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he loves to read books because he wants other people to make his mistakes for him. He doesn't
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want to make his own mistakes. He wants to learn from other people's mistakes. That's a kind of
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inheritance. That's a kind of generational wisdom. And, and I think the conservative movement
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in America is moving more in this direction. It's much more in the classical direction, which is,
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hey, we want to conserve stuff. And that means conserving traditions, conserving ways of life,
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conserving institutions, conserving buildings, conserving borders, conserving laws, and yes,
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conserving money. You know, being conservative with your money, it means kind of saving it and
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spending it prudently first on the ones that we love and those to whom we have the nearest obligation.
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And then to others outside of that, the liberals always flip this on its head though. And the
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liberals bleeding heart is basically to ignore, I don't mean to beat up too much on Jeff Goldblum.
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I'm using him as a point of departure to talk about this broader political problem,
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but to say, forget about the people around me, forget about the people in my community.
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I'm going to care about humanity in the abstract. So I'm going to leave my money to some charity that,
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you know, does something in Djibouti and ignore the, the actual, the community around me that I,
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I engage with every single day. Very, very backwards. There, there are priorities of
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charity. There's an order of charity begins with those to whom you have the nearest obligation and
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out from there and out from there and out from there, just as the, the nation state is, you know,
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patriotism is an extension of filial piety, the love that you would have for your parents,
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the love that you would have for your family. We want to be conservative with that,
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but we're not conservative anymore, especially with our money. The conservative, the conservative
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so-called just want to spend, spend, spend all their money on a bunch of nonsense, sending their
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money overseas. For goodness sakes, we saw it this week, sending our money. We'll send our money to
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Ukraine. We'll send our money to Taiwan. We'll send our money to Israel. We'll send our money
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everywhere else. Uh, well, you, you can't, you're not going to conserve very much if you have that kind
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of a flippant attitude toward your inheritance. Whether we're talking about financial one,
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we're talking about a cultural one or religious inheritance or, or, uh, or a family inheritance.
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Now, my favorite comment yesterday is from Elizabeth Harris, 317, who says clearly the
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Republicans have not learned the lesson from Napoleon in his saying, if your enemy is making
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a mistake, don't interrupt him. Yes. I don't know if Napoleon, there are all these quotes that are
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attributed to Napoleon and Churchill and especially Napoleon. There are a lot of erroneous quotes,
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but whether it was Napoleon or just some guy on the, on the back of a Cracker Jack prize or
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something, it's very true. When your enemy's making mistakes, do not interrupt. What you should do is
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subscribe to the Michael Knowles show YouTube channel, smash and subscribe, ring that bell,
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ding that dong, hit that button. Let's go. Speaking of spending money, fourth circuit court of appeals says
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that, uh, the state must fund transgender surgeries. This is from a federal appeals court.
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Eight Democrat judges just made this order. I think it was in, was it in North Carolina?
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I forget. It doesn't even really matter which state this applies to because it's coming to a state near
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you. Uh, they forced a transgender surgery into the realm now, basically of being a constitutional right
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the, uh, this decision. And people are really shocked about this. I was talking to Megan Kelly
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about this on her show a few days ago. And she said, ah, this is just so crazy. Why do we have to
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pay for it? Why do we, you know, if you want to get a trans surgery, I, I don't know, I guess you can do
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that, but why do we have to pay for it? And the reason we have to pay for it is because we live in a
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society and we have, uh, certain communal medical obligations. We pay our taxes. Our taxes go towards
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certain medical programs at the very least for the poor through Medicaid and for the elderly through
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Medicare. I don't know how many 90 year olds are, you know, having their, uh, their family jewels
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chopped off, but who knows? I guess it could happen in principle. And then you've got to make a hard
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decision, which is, do we, do we do the surgery or do we not? It's being paid for by the public.
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So the decision is not, uh, you know, should, should the public pay for, for medical care?
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We have that. We've had that for many decades in this country. The quest you, you have to deal
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with the substantive question is transgenderism real. And should people who are confused about
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their sex, be able to go into a doctor and have their appendages chopped off. You, you can't just
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rest on this liberal procedurism of proceduralism rather of, uh, you know, well, you can get this
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one, but you got to pay for it privately and, or you can get this kind of surgery, but it'll be paid
00:24:34.680
for by the state or this surgery will be somewhat subsidized. No, we, we subsidize medical care.
00:24:40.160
And even if we didn't, we live in a society and we set medical regulations and we determine how the
00:24:44.940
Hippocratic oath is expressed visibly in medical clinics. And we tell doctors what they can do
00:24:50.640
and what they can't do. And right now, if you go into a medical clinic and you've got body
00:24:54.800
integrity identity disorder, which is for now a rare disorder where people go in and they say,
00:25:00.560
you know, I've got, I've got two healthy arms, but I, on the inside, I feel like someone who only
00:25:04.560
has one healthy arm. So chop off my right arm doc. If you go into at least most medical clinics in
00:25:11.260
America and you say, I've got body integrity identity disorder. This is a clinically
00:25:14.620
recognized disorder. The doc will say, Oh, I'm, I'm sorry for you, but you know, you got two arms.
00:25:18.940
I'm not chopping off a healthy limb. And you got to go talk to a psychologist and maybe a,
00:25:23.060
ideally a priest and maybe an exorcist, but they're not going to chop off your healthy limb.
00:25:27.620
However, if you go in with the exact same condition, albeit pertaining to your genitals,
00:25:34.040
you go in and the docs will chop you up and they'll charge either you or they'll charge the state
00:25:38.220
a lot of money for it. We're already funding this stuff. So the only question is if that is valid
00:25:47.120
medical treatment as the libs all the way up to Joe Biden insists that it is, if it is valid
00:25:52.500
medical treatment for a, you know, a little kid to go into a doctor and say, I feel uncomfortable in
00:25:56.780
my body. So I want you to sterilize me. I want you to chop off my healthy limbs. I want you to give me
00:26:03.240
bone problems and reduce my life expectancy. The question is, will we tolerate that?
00:26:11.540
Or will we say no? Because if we say no, we're cutting against liberalism. We're cutting against
00:26:17.580
individualism. We're cutting against you do you. We're cutting against America is the place where
00:26:23.540
you can do and be anything you want. I mean, the liberal ideology is so deeply embedded that even
00:26:28.500
many things that we like, you know, this is a free country. We say this is a free country in America.
00:26:32.500
In America, a man can be whatever he wants. Well, can he really be whatever? Can he be a woman?
00:26:37.540
Oh, he can't be a woman because that's illogical. It's contrary to reality. Okay. Then we have to
00:26:41.000
acknowledge a man can't really be anything he wants. He can be anything he wants in accord with
00:26:47.200
nature and reality. Okay. Well, that's a real limit. Do we have the guts? Do we have the wisdom
00:26:52.520
to impose those kinds of limits? No. Okay. If we don't today, I think maybe in the long run,
00:26:58.600
maybe we do because people are going to wake up and reality will prevail in the end. But today,
00:27:03.440
if we don't have that wisdom, then you're not just going to tolerate it, you're going to pay for it.
00:27:08.060
And you are going to have a little bit of blood on your hands, folks, because we live in a society.
00:27:13.040
Speaking of sexually confused kids, there's a disturbing report out. New survey from the Trevor
00:27:18.840
Project, which is an LGBT organization, says that more than 1 in 10 LGBTQ youth attempted suicide last
00:27:27.380
year. This is really, really disturbing. 12% of LGBT identifying youth between the ages of 13 and 24
00:27:40.800
say that they attempted suicide last year. 39% of that group said that they seriously considered
00:27:47.760
attempting suicide within the last year. And then when you look just specifically at the
00:27:52.900
trans identifying and the non-binary, the other version of trans youth, 46% of these people said
00:27:59.320
that they seriously considered attempting suicide. Really, really disturbing. But the policy implication
00:28:07.260
of this report, I think is probably the opposite of what the LGBT activists think it is. The policy
00:28:15.900
implication that the LGBT activists take from this is, we need to normalize LGBT ideology. Can you see
00:28:22.960
these young people who are afflicted by this LGBT ideology, who have this identity, that they are really
00:28:30.540
unhappy. And so we need to promote the ideology more. We need to encourage it. We need to normalize it.
00:28:37.400
Because in recent years, the rate of anxiety, depression, and suicide among LGBT identifying youth has not
00:28:56.020
shrunk. If anything, it's gotten worse. 12% of people, if anything, it's, if anything that has gotten worse in
00:29:04.580
recent years. But the number of LGBT identifying youth has vastly expanded. The numbers are completely
00:29:12.860
crazy. I mean, there's a, here's a headline. What's behind the explosive growth in LGBTQ youth
00:29:19.360
numbers? The number of LGBTQ identifying youth 20 years ago would have been something like two to
00:29:26.060
three percent. Now the number is over 20 percent, according to a recent survey. 20 percent, one in
00:29:33.780
five. What's, so the, the, the identity has exploded. That the normalization has exploded. The
00:29:40.960
encouragement of this ideology and identity has exploded. And what we were promised was, if you
00:29:46.080
normalize it, if you, if you encourage it, if you teach it in elementary school classrooms, then that's
00:29:51.300
going to make the people who identify this way feel much better about themselves and their anxiety is going
00:29:55.540
to decline and their depression is going to decline and they're going to stop committing suicide. But
00:29:58.440
that hasn't happened. None of that has happened. There is no evidence whatsoever that normalizing
00:30:03.000
disordered sexual identities and behaviors makes anybody feel better. If anything, it makes them feel
00:30:10.360
worse, according to their own numbers, according to their own advocacy organizations. So it seemed to me,
00:30:18.200
if you see these numbers, you should say, there is an identity that gives you a greater than one in
00:30:23.340
ten chance of wanting to kill yourself. It, it would seem to me the logical conclusion is we should
00:30:30.800
discourage this identity. Now the LGBT advocates would say, well, the identity is immutable. It's
00:30:39.060
just in you from birth. You can't possibly change it or ameliorate your whatever desires or anything.
00:30:45.240
Maybe not. Maybe, maybe certain desires do come from nature. I don't know. But what I do know is
00:30:53.040
the numbers of this identity went from 2% to 20% in a matter of, of a small number of years.
00:31:00.180
So unless Alex Jones is right and there's something in the water turning, not only the freaking frogs gay,
00:31:04.380
but also the zoomers gay and LG and trans and questioning and non-binary and whatever,
00:31:09.980
then obviously this is a social fad that can be encouraged or discouraged. The identity can
00:31:16.200
increase or decrease. And if the suicide rate and depression and anxiety isn't really changing,
00:31:22.180
or if anything, if it's getting a little worse, that's very clear. The number that you can change
00:31:26.300
is the identity. You can discourage that identity. You can stop castrating little kids in your gender
00:31:33.380
clinics. And at the very, at the very least, you can stop encouraging identity. We're heading into
00:31:37.340
pride month, the first of, I think now we have pride half of the year. And there are all these
00:31:43.300
sorts of liturgical rituals that go along with this, the coming out day. I remember when I was
00:31:47.340
in college, they had, it was like, you'd walk through a, a fake little door on the campus.
00:31:53.360
And it was the coming out, coming out of the closet and all of these rituals and all of this
00:31:57.940
celebration. But if it's, if it's not helping anyone, if it's actually only making more and more
00:32:03.780
people miserable, and if it's, if it's only leading more and more people into depression,
00:32:08.400
anxiety, and suicide, shouldn't we try the opposite approach? Shouldn't we believe what
00:32:12.760
the LGBT organizations tell us? And then in order to help them and everyone else and to have a
00:32:19.640
society that lives in accord with reality, which is a prerequisite for flourishing, shouldn't we say,
00:32:25.160
hey, let's take a pause here. Let's skip pride month this year. Let's just see how it goes.
00:32:30.020
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I know a lot of people, including some Christians, who say you shouldn't shelter your kids because
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it doesn't prepare them for the quote-unquote real world.
00:36:20.060
The argument is basically that you shelter your kids from a very young age, and then when
00:36:25.460
they grow into adulthood and move away from the home, they don't have the proper tools
00:36:29.820
and principles to deal with life's difficulties and evils that every person has to face throughout
00:36:39.940
Now, I'm in favor of sheltering your kids, but it has made me question whether or not
00:36:46.580
there's a right and wrong way to shelter your kids.
00:36:49.420
So I was wondering if you have had this experience with your own kids and learning the right way
00:36:55.160
to shelter your kids so that they grow up to be virtuous, good people who are able and
00:37:01.020
equipped to deal with the difficulties of life, but so that they're not so sheltered that
00:37:10.720
Yes, you're just talking about building up an immune system.
00:37:14.100
So you can't shelter your kids forever, and if you don't expose them to anything that
00:37:19.660
threatens their virtue, then when they are shoved into the real world and they leave the home,
00:37:27.320
Also, if you expose them to things that threaten their virtue at a too young age, then that
00:37:33.400
could also poison them and destroy them and make it very difficult to undo because kids
00:37:38.320
Well, it's just like building up an immune system.
00:37:43.220
When your kids are very, very young and could die from the flu or something, you really take
00:37:51.240
a lot of extra steps to protect them from that stuff.
00:37:53.460
Then, as they get a little bit older, they're, I don't know, seven, eight years old now.
00:37:59.140
Maybe then, when chickenpox comes around, I guess no one gets chickenpox anymore because
00:38:02.980
there's a shot for it, but now no one takes Vaxes anymore, so maybe they're going to get
00:38:07.440
In any case, when they're old enough that chickenpox won't be a huge threat to them,
00:38:13.000
Then maybe it's okay to expose them to that a little bit.
00:38:20.740
I'm happy to say I've never had a problem with drinking.
00:38:28.780
I've had friends who really have had problems with that, and they become addicts, and they
00:38:32.580
have to go to rehab, and it really messes up their life.
00:38:35.440
I like to have a drink, but I don't, you know, if there's a, if I have half a whiskey, and
00:38:40.720
then I'm ready to go to bed, I just, I can leave the glass of whiskey.
00:38:46.000
Because my mother, especially coming from an Italian family, she exposed me to a little
00:38:59.840
And then I remember when I was 16, I said, Michael, we're on vacation.
00:39:02.700
She goes, Michael, you're going to go to college soon.
00:39:06.720
So you should, you should have a beer on vacation.
00:39:11.240
It's okay, but you're going to kind of learn how to do it and learn your limits and boundaries
00:39:18.000
And then, you know, when I went to college, a lot of my friends ended up in the hospital
00:39:22.880
or the health clinic because they drank too much.
00:39:26.260
It was kind of nice because I learned my limits and the real world didn't totally knock me down.
00:39:33.060
And so it's, it's not so much a question of what you expose your kids to.
00:39:38.340
Your kids are going to learn about transgenderism at some point.
00:39:40.940
Wish they didn't have to, you know, it's like, it's awful that we've normalized that ideology,
00:39:47.900
So what you have to do is take the steps in the schools that you choose for your kids or
00:39:53.420
homeschooling, in the church you attend, in the community that you engage with and the
00:40:00.140
people that you see to make sure that when they're forming their ideas about what sex
00:40:08.240
But then, you know, before they go off to college or before they go get a job,
00:40:12.620
they recognize that there is such a thing as transvestitism.
00:40:16.520
And so they're not shocked when they see, you know, Husky Hank wearing a dress at day one on
00:40:21.500
And you've got to make sure that they've built up the ethical and anthropological framework to
00:40:26.960
even understand what that is and recognize that it's a fallen world and we have charity for people.
00:40:31.140
And, you know, we don't just emulate every behavior we see because it can be very harmful.
00:40:37.560
Just like with a pathogen, just like with any behavior.
00:40:47.540
I'm very curious what you think about the student protests and to what extent you think that
00:40:52.780
the police actions against them is giving them a larger platform or if it's just something
00:41:04.480
It has to be done in the sense that the liberal elite donors to these schools are demanding that
00:41:15.240
It doesn't have to be done as a matter of law and order because we know that our system of law and
00:41:23.120
So if we had a really robust and healthy system of law and order, they would have shut that BLM
00:41:30.900
Instead, it raged for eight months coast to coast.
00:41:34.180
So no, it wasn't just that our justice system realized this is too dangerous.
00:41:40.000
No, no, they don't care about that when it serves their liberal political interests.
00:41:43.320
The reason that the police were called in and they arrested 2,000 people is because the liberal
00:41:49.300
donors didn't like the protests because it made them look bad and it threatened their interests.
00:41:58.420
Obviously, I feel bad for the students who weren't able to go to class.
00:42:01.340
I feel bad specifically for the Jewish students who were being really directly targeted by the
00:42:06.280
I feel bad for the people who live around these neighborhoods with these schools and they have
00:42:14.280
But as a political matter, I get a real kick out of it because it's just left on left violence.
00:42:19.720
It is just an internal contradiction within the American left working itself out in a
00:42:24.900
very painful way that's very repellent to moderate, normal voters.
00:42:30.240
And so I don't think that the cops coming in with a heavy hand is going to put an end
00:42:35.880
But as long as the Gaza war goes on, as long as the IDF might invade Rafah, as long as there
00:42:46.480
is a prospect that this is going to continue, frankly, as long as the Palestinian people don't
00:42:53.140
But certainly, as long as the war is hot, the libs are going to be furious about this
00:42:59.040
because the young leftists view it as just an extension, maybe even the apotheosis of
00:43:11.720
And so they call the state of Israel an apartheid state, just like they did to South Africa in
00:43:16.320
They accuse the state of Israel of oppressive, white settler colonialism of an oppressed brown
00:43:24.120
people, just like they do to Americans and Europeans.
00:43:27.300
And this has just been beaten into them since they were little kids, and they are not going
00:43:34.520
And one does not want to acknowledge schadenfreude.
00:43:41.000
But the fact that these university administrators have been pushing this stuff, and the liberal
00:43:47.240
donors, and the whole liberal establishment has been pushing this stuff for decades, now
00:43:52.520
that they're seeing the fruit of their efforts, I don't want to interrupt them.
00:44:06.000
I was just wondering, what is your significant scent?
00:44:12.940
I think there was some novel language in there.
00:44:17.520
Fragrance Max, because you Luxemax, that's when you work out, you get nice clothing and
00:44:23.000
So if you want to fragrance Max, it means you want to put on a certain type of cologne.
00:44:33.480
When I was really young, I was given a bottle of a cologne called Pheromone.
00:44:40.300
It's a very like kind of old man, like 80s kind of thing.
00:44:43.980
Then in the 2000s, I wore Armani Code, like a good Italian boy from New York.
00:44:51.360
Then when I got to college, I started checking out Old Bay, you know, St. John's kinds of
00:44:55.960
a little bit waspier, maybe a little bit subtler.
00:45:05.280
But there was my favorite cologne I've ever worn.
00:45:13.520
But kind of like a reasonable liberal, very, very amiable.
00:45:16.360
And at one time, one of his clients gave him an $800 bottle of cologne from Arabia called
00:45:26.880
And this, you just take the lid off of this cologne.
00:45:31.640
And you feel like you are swimming in a Persian used car lot in, you know, Glendale or something,
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It's gone now, and I'm too cheap to buy another bottle.
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Really takes me back to my days as a desert shake.
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