The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 1495 - Zelensky Refuses To Give Up Power In Ukraine

00:00:00.000 Remember Ukraine? That was the most important nation in the world. The last battleground for

00:00:06.980 democracy to stop super Hitler 2.0 Vladimir Putin. Less freedom perish from the earth.

00:00:14.040 Remember that? And then we all just kind of forgot about it until, of course, our regularly

00:00:18.620 scheduled payments to the Zelensky administration cropped up. Well, something strange happened a

00:00:24.240 couple days ago. A couple days ago, President Zelensky's term as president of Ukraine ended,

00:00:31.400 but Zelensky is refusing to give up power. Here is how Zelensky explained the situation to Reuters.

00:00:38.560 Quote, my five-year term is not over yet. It is continuing due to martial law.

00:00:45.960 Oh, okay. All right. That's fine. You see, you see. Had Zelensky not declared martial law,

00:00:54.240 and made himself dictator indefinitely, elections would have been held in March,

00:00:59.020 after which he would have left office on May 20th. But since he did do those things,

00:01:03.780 he did declare the martial law, he is going to be the leader of Ukraine for the foreseeable future.

00:01:09.700 Which is why it's so important, you see, to keep giving a blank check to Ukraine. 0.72

00:01:15.020 Because if we don't, they might lose their democracy and rule of law.

00:01:20.540 I'm Michael Knowles. This is the Michael Knowles Show.

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00:03:28.880 I think I would be more vociferously pro-Ukraine if we just dropped all the propaganda, 0.63

00:03:36.620 all the silly buzzwords. It's about democracy. It's about the rule of law. 0.76

00:03:42.680 If we could just be honest and say we are geopolitical adversaries with Russia for 100 0.59

00:03:49.240 years and Russia is getting a little aggressive in Ukraine. We've gotten a little bit aggressive in

00:03:54.240 Eastern Europe too with the expansion of NATO, but we have contrary interests. And so in response to

00:04:00.580 Russian aggression, we're propping up our own little dictator in our client state, Ukraine. 0.87

00:04:04.720 If we just put it that way, I would be much more inclined to support funding Ukraine.

00:04:09.820 What drives me crazy is all of the nonsense propaganda, but this is the last stand for democracy.

00:04:17.820 Hitler is about to invade Czechoslovakia and we need to stand firm. The powers of freedom and

00:04:24.740 no, we got, he's our little dictator there and there is no rule of law and there is no democracy.

00:04:31.240 And Ukraine is one of the most corrupt countries in the civilized world and has been for a very long 1.00

00:04:36.080 time, but, but there are corrupt little country and, and we're using them as a way to counter Russia. 0.68

00:04:43.200 And that's why we're sending them money. If they put it that way, I probably still wouldn't be in

00:04:47.740 favor of the blank check to Ukraine, but, but at least I could understand it. At least it wouldn't 0.78

00:04:52.320 be totally incoherent. The globalists though, they're on the move. They are shaking things up a

00:04:58.300 little bit. Biggest example in the last 24 hours, Klaus Schwab, the villainous James Bond villain sounding

00:05:09.060 head of the world economic forum. The, the man who promoted the great reset from his perch at the

00:05:17.460 world economic forum, you will own nothing and be happy. Klaus has just announced that he will step

00:05:25.700 down or he hasn't publicly announced it, but he has privately leaked that he will step down as the

00:05:32.180 chairman of the world economic forum. According to a WEF spokesman, the forum will change its governance

00:05:38.980 structure. As a result, Schwab will transition from executive chairman to chairman of the board of

00:05:46.180 trustees by the start of next year. So he's not really giving up power totally, but he's probably

00:05:51.720 going to be in a less active role within the WEF. What does this mean? Well, it's the end of an era.

00:05:59.160 Certainly Schwab has been the head of the world economic forum since he founded the thing in the

00:06:03.040 70s. So, you know, there is no world economic forum without Klaus Schwab. Whether or not the WEF can

00:06:10.160 continue after he leaves remains to be seen. Most people have no idea what the world economic forum

00:06:16.740 is. In fact, I've spent a lot of time studying the world economic forum and I'm still not totally sure

00:06:21.780 what it is, but my best conclusion that I've drawn from it is that the world economic forum is a fun

00:06:30.980 ski vacation for prominent people in business, media, and politics. That's what it is. There are all sorts

00:06:39.760 of theories about how the world economic forum is the shadowy cabal in the middle of Davos that is

00:06:46.160 secretly running the entire world and they subvert governments and they undermine the will of various

00:06:52.740 peoples. And they're pulling the marionette strings of all of our global leaders, many of whom have

00:06:59.780 taken positions and little fellowships and little guest appearances with the world economic forum.

00:07:06.280 I think that's all totally fake. It's not that the WEF is not dastardly. It's not that the WEF

00:07:12.880 doesn't represent something very bad about our politics. But the people who really think that

00:07:20.840 Klaus Schwab is running the world are people who are confusing the symbol for the thing that it

00:07:27.120 symbolizes. Klaus Schwab, I don't think, really has all that much power. He throws a really great party

00:07:32.620 in the Swiss Alps every year and a lot of really rich, powerful people come and they have fun and they

00:07:39.020 sip their hot cocoa and they go skiing and they hobnob and they network and they definitely cut

00:07:44.600 some shady deals and they conspire and they collude and they do all of that. But Klaus Schwab is not the

00:07:51.940 reason that we live under a globalist liberal political order. The real problems are just being

00:08:00.600 represented by the WEF. But the WEF isn't driving the problems. The real problems are the privatization

00:08:08.500 of everything that allows business leaders and the heads of NGOs to fill the roles that were

00:08:14.840 traditionally held by the civil authority. And therefore, to take power and sovereignty away

00:08:21.360 from the people. The fact that Google effectively controls our public square, controls discourse in a

00:08:26.900 republic where speech is how you're supposed to govern yourselves. The fact that Google, a private

00:08:33.740 company, a sort of a private company, controls that. That's a big problem. The fetishization of

00:08:40.220 free trade. I like trade. I like the fact that our GDP goes a little higher and we can all be a little

00:08:45.080 richer. I like that. But not at the cost of losing your way of life, your traditions, and your national

00:08:51.500 sovereignty. The fact that we have a fetishization of free trade means that there are going to have

00:08:56.820 to be international, supranational institutions that govern those trade regimes that are going to

00:09:01.560 take political power away from the nations. The problem is the internet. The fact that the internet

00:09:07.060 kind of flattened the whole world and eroded cultural and geographic boundaries. The fact that we

00:09:14.060 have a Westphalian system. This goes back some centuries now. The fact that we have a system of world

00:09:20.160 order that cracked up Christendom, what had previously been our civilization, gets cracked up

00:09:26.820 beginning really with the Protestant revolution. No knock on the Protestants. It's just how it 0.88

00:09:33.220 worked. You had a unified Europe. You had a unified Christendom. And then the wars of religion

00:09:37.460 cracked that up a little bit. And then the negotiation to stop the wars of religion

00:09:42.600 was expressed in the Treaty of Augsburg and the Peace of Westphalia, which said

00:09:48.220 cuius regio eius religio, whose reign his religion, which established a radical subjectivism and a

00:09:57.280 radical relativism, which said there is no religious truth. There is no unifying moral reality

00:10:05.440 for our civilization. It's just based on each little nation. Whatever your nation wants to do,

00:10:11.380 that's totally fine. Don't yuck my yum. Well, if that's the case, then we forfeit any serious claims

00:10:21.880 about truth, about human nature, about how countries ought to be run. The problem is liberalism. That's

00:10:30.460 really what the problem is. And so the WEF is an expression of liberalism, political liberalism,

00:10:35.760 not just modern liberalism, but classical liberalism, intermediate liberalism, future liberalism,

00:10:39.540 all the liberalism. That's the problem. And so the WEF is an expression of that. But you get rid

00:10:44.160 of Klaus Schwab, some new Klaus Schwab's going to pop up. You get rid of the World Economic Forum,

00:10:47.840 some new World Economic Forum's going to pop up. Because rich people who exploit the weaknesses of 0.59

00:10:53.260 our liberal political order are always going to want to cut new deals and gain more power and go on

00:10:59.480 fun ski vacations. And that is just going to continue to happen, whether Klaus is here or not.

00:11:05.840 But people don't like that. People broadly do not like liberal globalism. Greatest piece of evidence

00:11:10.220 of this recently, a new poll from Reuters and Ipsos, which shows that 61% of Americans support the mass

00:11:19.780 deportation of illegal aliens. It's not that 61% say we need to secure our border. It's not even that 61%

00:11:29.060 say we need to maybe restrict immigration broadly. 61% support loading up illegal aliens on planes,

00:11:37.620 trains, and automobiles and shipping them out of the country, millions or tens of millions at a time.

00:11:43.000 This poll surprised me because I often thought Americans' views on immigration were kind of like

00:11:50.900 their views on Congress. Everyone hates Congress, but they love their congressmen.

00:11:55.100 Congress always has a very low approval rating, but individual members of Congress within their

00:12:01.220 districts often have high approval ratings. And so if all of the individual members of Congress

00:12:05.760 have high approval ratings, then effectively Congress has a high approval rating.

00:12:09.720 I've assumed it was that way with illegal immigration. Everyone hates illegal immigration.

00:12:14.680 We all know it's terribly wrong and unjust. But you like the illegal alien girl in your class from 1.00

00:12:21.360 Ecuador. You like your babysitter who probably does not have a green card. You like the individuals in

00:12:29.040 your life who are illegal aliens. So I'm still skeptical that once the planes, trains, and automobiles 1.00

00:12:34.640 started rolling with the tens of millions of illegals out of the country, that Americans would 1.00

00:12:38.800 support that. I don't think that would be a political winner. But if you ask Americans today,

00:12:44.320 this is a big, big shift, they're saying, yeah, load them up. Big shift. Because what that represents

00:12:52.580 is that Americans increasingly realize the only way to restore something like our traditional way of

00:12:59.080 life, which a lot of people miss because the modern political order is fraying economically, socially,

00:13:06.920 culturally, internationally, that they recognize that the only way to restore something like our

00:13:15.460 traditional way of life is going to have to be drastic. It's not going to be just maybe we limit,

00:13:21.260 you know, border crossings a little bit. No, it's going to have to be drastic. The hour is very,

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00:14:13.140 Mr. Davies. I'm here. This is the holiday of my day. Okay. Are you, I'm going to say that you think

00:14:18.440 it was murder. Yeah, it was a little sus. A little sus. What about my answer? What do you think my answer

00:14:25.420 is? I don't think you do. I'd say no. You're correct. I previously did. I previously was

00:14:33.340 certain it was murder. But if you look into the details of it, I think it was probably just an

00:14:41.680 accident. The driver was drinking at the bar. Eyewitnesses saw that. The paparazzi were chasing

00:14:46.980 them. They crash in this dark tunnel. Like you say, well, what are the odds that they've crashed in

00:14:52.660 this tunnel where there are no cameras? I don't know. It's like really dark and hard to drive in

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00:14:59.320 I think part of the reason that there were all these conspiracy theories is because the dad of

00:15:03.640 Dodi Fayed, the sort of boyfriend who got killed there, he pushed a lot of them probably because he

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00:15:22.660 People do not like losing our sovereignty. And so we lose our sovereignty to the multinational

00:15:30.320 trade organizations. We lose our sovereignty to the NGOs and the humanitarian organizations.

00:15:37.260 And we lose our sovereignty to international courts, courts like the ICC, which just

00:15:44.320 issued an arrest warrant for Bibi Netanyahu and other top Israeli officials.

00:15:50.720 Now, it's not exactly that I predicted this some weeks ago because I think everyone could have

00:15:56.540 seen this coming. But I did technically, I guess, predict this. And I said it won't really matter

00:16:02.500 because the United States and Israel do not acknowledge the jurisdiction of the International

00:16:07.580 Criminal Court. Put Israel out of it for a second. For the US to recognize the jurisdiction of the 0.55

00:16:14.120 International Criminal Court would require the United States to permit an international body to

00:16:20.000 prosecute Americans for crimes committed on American soil, which is unconstitutional.

00:16:24.740 So we just can't. It's totally ridiculous. Israel said, we're not giving up our prosecutorial power to 0.98

00:16:31.700 some international body. Well, now the ICC has said we have arrest warrants out for Netanyahu and the

00:16:37.580 other Israeli officials. Here is what Joe Biden has to say about it.

00:16:41.340 Let me be clear. We reject the ICC's application for arrest warrants against Israeli leaders.

00:16:50.080 Whatever these warrants may imply, there is no equivalence between Israel and Hamas.

00:16:57.680 And it's clear, Israel wants to do all it can to ensure civilian protection. But let me be clear,

00:17:04.360 contrary to allegations against Israel made by the International Court of Justice,

00:17:07.680 what's happening is not genocide. We reject that. We will always stand with Israel and the threats 1.00

00:17:16.520 against its security. There he is. How dare you, International Criminal Court,

00:17:22.420 issue these warrants? But how did the ICC come to issue those arrest warrants?

00:17:27.580 Because of Joe Biden, because of what Biden did. When the ICC first came to prominence back during

00:17:35.960 the Bush administration, Bush rejected it, said, nah, we're not doing that. We're not going to be

00:17:40.780 part of the ICC. Then you had a liberal president, Obama, cozies up a little bit more to these

00:17:46.920 international bodies. Then you have Trump. Trump issues a June 2020 executive order putting

00:17:54.280 sanctions on the ICC. Why did Trump sanction the ICC? For attempting to investigate American soldiers

00:18:01.000 and allied soldiers for supposed crimes, even though American and allied soldiers are not

00:18:06.700 subject to the jurisdiction of the ICC. So Trump goes out and he not only says,

00:18:11.480 we're not going to play ball with this ridiculous body. He says, we're going to sanction you. 0.98

00:18:15.420 We're going to impose penalties on you. And then Biden gets into office. What does he do? He says,

00:18:19.380 we want to play nice with the ICC. He's insinuating that we recognize the authority of the ICC,

00:18:24.500 even though legally we do not. And then what happens? The ICC comes back and does something

00:18:29.720 Biden doesn't like. And he says, how did this happen? How did this happen? Because you did it,

00:18:33.600 man. You did it. That's how. Why was Putin invading Ukraine? Because you took sanctions off Russia.

00:18:39.540 That's what Zelensky himself had said. How's this happening? That's so weird. Why is Iran using 0.99

00:18:47.120 proxies to go to war with Israel right now? Because you went soft on Iran. That's why. 0.78

00:18:51.900 And you undermine Trump's effective policy in the Middle East. You, you're the reason, man.

00:18:56.460 And then he's shocked that there are consequences for his actions. Now, he says something here,

00:19:01.440 very important. He says, we reject that what the state of Israel is doing is genocide.

00:19:06.880 And I've noticed just in my own commentary on the intractable conflict in the Middle East,

00:19:12.740 that people have misunderstood something that I've said. Because I've pointed out that this is the

00:19:18.560 intractable conflict. And you have partisans on one side, the blue-haired people screaming,

00:19:24.860 saying, from the river to the sea, we need Palestine to be free. They're out there protesting

00:19:30.080 for Hamas or whatever. And they say the way this ends is with a recognition either of a Palestinian

00:19:38.240 state or just the eradication of Israel. Then on the other side, you have the people saying,

00:19:42.860 no, absolutely not. The way this ends is when Israel totally destroys Hamas. And okay, 0.79

00:19:50.260 but how's that really going to happen? You're not going to have a two-state solution. You're going

00:19:54.140 to have to, what then? Are you going to occupy Gaza? Are you going to move people around? What are 0.88

00:19:59.040 you going to do? The reason that it's intractable is because, as I've said, the rational strategic

00:20:05.780 objective for both parties is the ethnic cleansing of the other side. Some people have misinterpreted

00:20:12.860 this to suggest that I have said the rational objective is the genocide of the other side. 0.98

00:20:19.480 Ethnic cleansing and genocide are not the same thing. Genocide is when you obliterate a group of

00:20:25.260 people, when you kill them all. Ethnic cleansing is when you move people out of an area. 0.95

00:20:29.700 And so it seems clear to me, certain Israeli officials have actually said this on the record

00:20:37.300 that they support ethnic cleansing of certain Palestinians from certain areas. And it also just,

00:20:43.060 if you were the prime minister of Israel, this would have to be your strategic objective

00:20:46.780 because you've got this political issue, Gaza, right there on your border. After October 7th,

00:20:54.820 you realize they pose an unacceptable security risk. And so what are you going to do? I guess you could

00:20:59.280 say, we're going to go in and get rid of Hamas. It's not about the Palestinian people. It's about 0.59

00:21:04.700 getting rid of Hamas. But the Palestinian people elected Hamas. It's not like Hamas just came in

00:21:11.560 and imposed their will on the Palestinian people. They elected, the Palestinians elected this group.

00:21:18.000 So you've got the people broadly supportive of the terror group. You can't neatly draw a distinction

00:21:23.000 between the people and the representatives of those people. So the objective for the state of Israel

00:21:29.120 is ethnic cleansing. At least that would be the rational objective. And then at least the same 1.00

00:21:36.460 would be true for the Palestinians. You might go even further because there are Hamas officials on

00:21:40.860 the record saying we basically want to just wipe out all the Jews. So I guess they would go further 1.00

00:21:44.740 for Hamas and say perhaps their end goal actually is genocide. But notice the ICC focused only on the

00:21:55.340 state of Israel here, which Biden is rightly rejecting. I just wish he would have rejected

00:21:59.720 this globalist political order from the beginning rather than try to play nice with these groups

00:22:04.480 that erode our sovereignty. Now, speaking of Joe Biden's failures, Joe Biden is set to release oil

00:22:13.180 from more American oil reserves. So Biden is set to release one million barrels of gasoline

00:22:23.340 from not from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve, but from a Northeast Reserve that was established to

00:22:30.240 reduce prices just ahead of the election. So we got the elections in what, six months? Coincidentally,

00:22:37.880 Joe Biden says, OK, right now I'm going to start releasing oil from this Northeast Reserve so the

00:22:43.980 gas prices can come down so that you don't totally throw me out of office. The Biden-Harris

00:22:51.080 administration, says Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm, is laser focused on lowering prices at

00:22:57.240 the pump for American families, especially as drivers hit the road for the summer driving season.

00:23:01.980 By strategically releasing this reserve in between Memorial Day and July 4th,

00:23:05.560 we are ensuring sufficient supply flows to the tri-state and Northeast at a time hardworking

00:23:10.680 Americans need it most. OK, so great. I'm glad gas prices are going to go down a tiny little bit.

00:23:17.260 Why don't you just drill for more oil? The Biden administration is really good at draining

00:23:22.560 our reserves of oil, but they can't admit that we need the oil. So they can't green light more

00:23:30.400 drilling of oil. So instead, we're still getting the oil. We're still damaging the environment.

00:23:36.600 We're still polluting the air. We're still doing all that stuff that the libs pretend they don't

00:23:39.580 want to do. But we are also strategically much less safe. If you look, forget about this Northeast

00:23:46.200 Reserve for a second. If you look at what Biden has done to the Strategic Petroleum Reserve, this is a

00:23:51.800 reserve of oil that we have for our national security. If you look at what he does, you see,

00:23:59.540 OK, 1982, they're filling it up, up, up, up, up, up. Here we go. Then, OK, it kind of plateaus

00:24:06.660 in 1989. Here we go. Then it spikes up a little bit again, really after 9-11. Plateaus, plateaus,

00:24:16.200 dips a little bit under Obama. And then 2022, Joe Biden just drains this thing because he wants to

00:24:26.720 have his cake and eat it too. He wants contrary objectives. He wants more oil, but less oil at

00:24:34.340 the same time. More oil for the purposes of gas prices, less oil for the purposes of appeasing the

00:24:38.840 sun monster. And because his political views are incoherent, he ends up with the worst policy of

00:24:46.940 all, which is keep up all the same pollution, but make us less safe at the same time. There's so much

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00:26:01.440 We will still stick on the subject, however, of people who were elected under dubious circumstances,

00:26:08.420 because the Board of Elections supervisor in Baltimore has come under fire recently for

00:26:16.820 potential instances of votes being counted multiple times.

00:26:22.820 Can you explain what the human error was last week that we heard from the State Board of Elections?

00:26:27.260 That's a good question. I'm waiting to hear myself. Well, you're the director. Well, I am the

00:26:33.340 director. The explanation that I've received in writing right now is not clear and not acceptable.

00:26:42.720 What do you mean, not acceptable? Well, I know what the system can do and what it's not supposed to do.

00:26:49.160 So until we get clarification from the state, I'm going to leave it there.

00:26:54.640 There are reports of concerns about a flash drive with votes on it. Bates on Jones' response is,

00:27:00.440 it's unclear if the state believes a flash drive was read by a tabulator more than once.

00:27:05.620 So what happened with the flash drive?

00:27:07.700 Well, let me just say this. A flash drive, according to the system, can only be inserted once.

00:27:15.940 And once it's put in, it cannot duplicate.

00:27:18.180 Is that what happened?

00:27:19.780 I don't know that yet. I'm a little leery about saying human error if something can't be done but once.

00:27:26.240 Okay. So all of this insinuation of how this election last week went totally wrong.

00:27:33.740 Was it that a flash drive counted the votes multiple times? Well, he says that can't happen.

00:27:40.340 Was it intentional? Was it someone just going in and changing the system? Was it a hack?

00:27:46.480 Was it human error? He seems skeptical it was human error. It might have been intentionally

00:27:50.320 a human going in and trying to rig the election. In any case, we know that election workers were

00:28:00.120 caught last week over counting the number of votes cast. We know that elections are rigged all the

00:28:08.920 time. So what do we do with that information? He goes on, this supervisor goes on, and he admits,

00:28:15.240 he says, look, these elections, there's always problems in elections, but we try to keep it,

00:28:19.820 you know, relatively contained. I'm glad to hear a liberal admit that because in 2020,

00:28:24.120 we were told that the election was totally, completely legit. There were no problems. Not

00:28:29.120 one vote was miscounted. Oh, how dare you? If you suggest as much, you're an insurrectionist,

00:28:35.240 anti-American traitor. But we know there's always little problems with elections. So what do we do 0.75

00:28:41.260 with that information? The only reliable way to conduct an election is with paper ballots that are

00:28:49.760 counted by hand. Ballots that have been turned in by people who have to prove that they are who they

00:28:56.440 say they are. That is the, that is by far the most reliable way to conduct an election. When you start

00:29:03.360 introducing computers, when you start diminishing the opportunities for ballot watchers to supervise the

00:29:12.320 counting, when you stop requiring people to prove that they are eligible voters, the credibility of the

00:29:20.620 election plummets. That's a fact. We all know it. Even the libs know it. So pay attention to who

00:29:29.400 opposes those basic election integrity features. The people who oppose paper ballots

00:29:35.740 want to rig the elections. They want the elections to be riggable. What they'll say is, oh, it's much

00:29:44.060 more efficient to count on a computer. I don't think that's true. All over the world, people conduct

00:29:48.360 elections with paper ballots. For most of American history, we've conducted elections with paper ballots.

00:29:52.920 We can get the results on election night. Ever since we switched to computers, it takes days and

00:29:57.260 weeks and months, doesn't it? It's really weird. It doesn't seem very, very efficient to me.

00:30:00.680 Paper ballots counted by hand with ballot supervisors. Ballots that have been submitted

00:30:09.520 by people who show proof of identification. That's how you conduct an election. Anybody who opposes

00:30:16.780 any of those, what, three basic measures wants to rig the election, or at the real least wants the

00:30:25.400 election to be riggable? What are we going to do? Now, speaking of people who were elected

00:30:33.980 and affirmed and guided by the Holy Spirit, Pope Francis had that long interview. We covered a lot

00:30:42.160 of it yesterday. There was one clip of the interview, though, that for some reason, maybe I just missed it

00:30:46.960 when I watched the whole interview. Maybe it wasn't released at the same time, but it did start going

00:30:51.060 viral a little bit yesterday. I do want to cover this as a little coda to the Pope Francis interview.

00:30:56.980 He was asked if we would ever see female priests or deacons in the Catholic church, priestesses or

00:31:05.440 deaconesses. Here's his answer. For a little girl growing up Catholic today, will she ever have the

00:31:12.840 opportunity to be a deacon and participate as a clergy member in the church?

00:31:19.480 No.

00:31:22.760 No. Any questions? Can we just play that one more time? I really like that. It's very blunt. This woman 0.96

00:31:30.140 leading up, now listen, listen, Papa Francesco, come on, we're reasonable people here. Don't you think we

00:31:36.880 need to have priestesses and bishopresses and popresses and deaconesses in the church? What do you say, 0.94

00:31:42.040 Holy Father? For a little girl growing up Catholic today, will she ever have the opportunity to be a 0.82

00:31:50.560 deacon and participate as a clergy member in the church? No. No. No, of course not. What was her

00:32:00.020 follow-up question? Pope Francis, for a little boy growing up in the Catholic church, will he ever have

00:32:08.680 an opportunity to be a nun? No. He also won't, because men and women are different. The Holy 0.93

00:32:14.780 Father's answer here is just to say men and women are different. That's it. There have never been

00:32:21.720 lady priests. In some breakaway sects over the past 50 years, there have been lady priests. It's

00:32:29.680 preposterous. When the Anglicans started doing it, you had a lot of people, a lot of Anglican priests

00:32:37.000 just say, okay, I'm done with this. And they left, and they entered, often they entered the

00:32:40.840 ordinary, which was this way for Anglican priests to join the Catholic church. Because they said,

00:32:45.400 no, priestesses, it's totally ridiculous. Totally ridiculous. There are plenty of roles for women in 1.00

00:32:51.260 the Catholic church. Sometimes the Catholic church is pilloried for being too pro-woman.

00:32:56.420 You know, we're quite fond of women, the great saints whom we venerate, our lady. We're certainly

00:33:03.200 quite fond of our lady. But men and women are different, and the libs can't stand that. 1.00

00:33:10.420 Some people have asked, with this woman's question, if you want to be a priestess,

00:33:17.420 why not just join any of the many breakaway groups that have priestesses? Why not become

00:33:25.320 Episcopalian? They have priestesses. Why not? I assume the Methodists do now. The Methodists have

00:33:29.960 gone a little bit lavender. You know, they've gone a little bit rainbow. I assume they have, though.

00:33:33.880 There are plenty of Christian denominations and groups that have priestesses. Why not join one of 0.99

00:33:43.000 them? Because the desire, the demand that the Catholic church do something which she cannot do,

00:33:51.920 which is pretend that women can be priests, the demand is much less about becoming something as 0.95

00:33:58.580 it is about destroying something. If these people want to become priestesses, they can join any number

00:34:04.120 of denominations. But there's a real draw here to the Catholic church. The Catholic church, whether you

00:34:10.120 are Catholic, whether you like the Catholic church, whether you hate the Catholic church,

00:34:14.740 I think you have to admit it's kind of the OG. You know, Catholic church, been around a long time.

00:34:20.960 It is the dominant institution in our civilization, for better or worse, even if you really don't like

00:34:29.480 the Catholic church. It is the institution that has shaped our entire civilization. It is the only

00:34:35.900 institution in our civilization that dates back to antiquity. And if you're a liberal, you got to

00:34:42.580 get it. You got to destroy that institution. You have to. This is what so much of the liberal

00:34:49.120 revolutionary politics has been about. It is not a coincidence that when the French revolution took

00:34:54.540 off, who did they go after the hardest? It was the church. When the Bolshevik revolution took off in

00:35:00.400 Russia, who did they go after? The church. In that case, the Eastern church. When the communists tried

00:35:06.480 to take over Spain, what did they do? They killed nuns. They raped nuns. They killed priests. They 0.92

00:35:11.780 attacked the church. Because the church is this institution that will not yield to the fashions

00:35:22.900 of modernity and the exaltation of the self, the idolatry of the self that defines liberalism.

00:35:27.380 The church will not permit it. And thus far, I think the track record has been pretty clear and

00:35:35.020 pretty great about the gates of hell not prevailing against the church, despite all odds, despite the 0.98

00:35:40.120 navish imbecility with which the church has often been led at the human level. And so that's why. 1.00

00:35:47.620 These people don't want to become Episcopalian priestesses or Methodists or whatever. 0.98

00:35:52.740 They want to finally bring that Catholic, that dirty run, those Catholics. They've got to heal 1.00

00:36:00.620 to liberalism. They have to. And the libs will not rest until that happens. That's not going to

00:36:07.020 happen. That's the problem for them. Now, speaking of celibacy, Julia Fox, do you remember her? She was 0.97

00:36:12.540 Kanye West's girlfriend, I think, for a while. Julia Fox, and maybe she's an actress or a model or

00:36:18.000 something like that. Julia Fox has just come out on some show and said that she is celibate. 1.00

00:36:27.280 She is chaste, but she's taking it further because she's not married. She says, I'm celibate. I don't

00:36:33.960 have sex. In order to take back control in the wake of the Dobbs decision overruling Roe v. Wade.

00:36:41.420 Julia, Rachel A. texted, what's your reasoning behind being celibate? And in what ways do you

00:36:47.620 believe it has improved your life? Well, I just think nothing good comes from having sex,

00:36:54.780 including children. No, I'm just kidding. But, you know, I think with the overturning of Roe v. Wade and,

00:37:03.360 you know, our rights being stripped away from us, this is a way that I can take back the control. And

00:37:08.340 it just sucks that it has to be in that way. But I just don't feel comfortable until things change.

00:37:13.180 Wow.

00:37:18.200 Do you have an end date to this?

00:37:21.260 Oh, I honestly, I it was like six months and it was a year. And I'm like, oh, my God,

00:37:25.860 it's almost two and a half years and it's still going. And I don't know.

00:37:28.840 Do you miss it?

00:37:29.560 Do you miss it?

00:37:30.660 In the beginning? Yes. But I think it's just like getting over anything, smoking,

00:37:34.040 drugs, whatever it may be. Eventually, you just forget. And then all that energy that you were

00:37:38.280 putting toward sex, you can put it toward other things.

00:37:41.240 Can I ask you a personal question?

00:37:43.220 Woo. Yeah. You go, girl. You go, girl. You show those conservatives who overruled Roe v. Wade.

00:37:52.020 You show them and you take back control by behaving in the way that we would encourage you to behave.

00:37:57.400 That is, woo. I'm not being facetious. Woo. I think it's great. Because very often,

00:38:04.240 culture is downstream of politics and the law is a teacher. When you change laws,

00:38:10.300 you change people's behavior. And there have been some squishes who have said, no,

00:38:16.540 you can't change the law and then wait for the law to change people's behavior. That would,

00:38:21.620 one, be tyrannical or at least two, be totally ineffective because you got to just base the

00:38:27.760 laws on how people are already behaving. Nah, not necessarily. The law is a teacher.

00:38:32.160 And so when you, when you say, Hey, if you have promiscuous sex, you won't be able to murder 0.97

00:38:36.740 your child. And then people are going to rationally conclude that if they don't want to have another 0.85

00:38:42.300 child, they probably shouldn't have promiscuous sex, which is going to be good for her. Look, 0.88

00:38:48.020 she seems happier than I've ever seen her in any interview or any, not that I'm a huge Julia Fox

00:38:53.020 aficionado, but she seems actually relatively well-balanced. She goes, yeah, I'm just, I'm kind of

00:38:57.660 doing me. I'm not having sex outside of marriage. I'm not, not fornicating. I'm just kind of,

00:39:01.080 you know, and it's good. I took back my power and yes, you're right. You did. And you did that

00:39:06.060 because conservatives changed a law and then the law changed your behavior. And now everyone's

00:39:10.660 happier. Babies aren't being murdered quite as much or in the same way. Unfortunately,

00:39:16.320 it's, we still have to work on that. And, and your behavior is better and more conducive to your

00:39:20.920 own flourishing and to flourishing of society. Get ready for something special tonight. Join me

00:39:27.040 along with Ben Shapiro, Matt Walsh, Andrew Klavan, and Jeremy Boring backstage, 7 p.m. Eastern,

00:39:31.420 6 p.m. Central streaming live and free on Daily Wire Plus. We are taking you behind the scenes and

00:39:36.180 beyond the headlines at the Daily Wire. We are being told that Jeremy has a special announcement

00:39:40.960 that you will hear first during backstage. We've been busy. It has been way too long since we've all

00:39:46.520 been together. There's a ton to discuss. This is your chance to hear all about it. Do not miss out.

00:39:50.740 Watch live and free Daily Wire Plus tonight, 7 p.m. Eastern, 6 p.m. Central. My favorite comment

00:39:58.020 yesterday is from Frank S111, who says, so the Democrat star witness committed the exact

00:40:04.720 crime that they claim Trump committed. Spectacular. No, no, it's crazier than that.

00:40:10.360 The Democrat star witness in this New York case, Michael Cohen, committed a much more serious crime

00:40:16.220 than the crime that they're accusing Trump of having committed. And they're not prosecuting

00:40:21.700 their star witness for that crime. They are prosecuting, probably when they don't even

00:40:26.820 really have jurisdiction over it, this much, much more trivial crime because they got to get that

00:40:33.660 Trump. They got to get him. Otherwise, he might get reelected. And then if the people vote for the

00:40:37.580 guy that they want to vote for, then democracy will perish forever. Hey, stop stressing over your

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00:41:04.880 back to the discussion. Speaking of cause and effect, there's a new report out that millennials

00:41:15.240 are not taking time off. They're not taking their PTO, but they are going on vacation. And the way

00:41:22.660 they're going on vacation is quiet vacationing, where they go on vacation, but they don't really

00:41:27.240 tell their bosses. They just don't quite work as much. And even though they've got paid time off,

00:41:31.300 they won't register their paid time off. They'll just, they'll pretend that they're working,

00:41:36.520 but they'll actually be on vacation. Why is that? This is based on a new Harris Poll survey.

00:41:45.500 78% of US workers say they don't take all of their PTO days. That is highest among Gen Z and millennials,

00:41:52.740 but they do take their vacation through what they call a giant workaround culture.

00:41:59.300 Okay. It pains me to defend my fellow millennials. And the Zoomers, I think are a little bit more 1.00

00:42:09.040 rounded in reality than the millennials, but the millennials, this is my generation,

00:42:14.600 the Obama generation, wrong about so many things. Here, I totally get it. I totally get why they're

00:42:20.200 not taking official PTO and why they are just kind of quietly going on vacation. The reason is not just

00:42:27.260 that they're dishonest. The reason is not just that they're suck ups and they don't want, they want 0.99

00:42:31.120 it to seem like they're always working. And the reason is that there is no such thing as time off 0.97

00:42:35.980 anymore. There is no such thing as time off because of the smartphone and because of tablets and laptops

00:42:41.560 because people are expected to be working 24 seven. This is especially true if you have a white collar

00:42:48.220 job. If you have a blue collar job where your, your body is more important in, in the performance of

00:42:55.480 the job, then, then it's hard for you to be working all the time because the, the masters of the

00:43:01.480 universe who control our economy, haven't figured out how to bring a tractor, you know, in your pocket

00:43:05.100 yet. Once they do though, you'll be working all the time too. But especially for white collar jobs,

00:43:09.220 laptop jobs, phone jobs, you're just, you have your office in your pocket all the time. And so if you go

00:43:15.380 on vacation, you're going to get calls, you're going to get emails, you're going to, and you're going to

00:43:19.720 be expected to respond to at least some of them. So it seems to me what the millennials are doing

00:43:25.240 and the zoomers are doing is they're just adapting to that fact. And they're saying, okay, I will, 1.00

00:43:30.920 I will never get a formal vacation, but I'll at least be able to slack off a little bit for a week

00:43:36.020 or two at a time, which I get. And, and frankly, that is, that is worse for them and probably better

00:43:43.980 for the company than if they just took their time off. But this is what we do in, in modernity.

00:43:51.980 We erase all boundaries. There used to be a very firm boundary between work and home.

00:43:59.020 It used to be a very firm boundary between work and vacation. And maybe you'd make a call from your

00:44:05.280 hotel room to check in at the office once, but probably you wouldn't. Now there's no boundary.

00:44:10.660 There used to be a very firm boundary between nation and other nation. Now we're kind of erasing

00:44:16.500 those borders. There used to be a very firm boundary between men and women. Now we're erasing

00:44:21.200 those borders. So much of modernity is just about jumbling everything up, just mixing it all up into

00:44:29.800 this kind of gray hodgepodge of goop. That's what it is. So you're never on vacation and you're never

00:44:37.060 really at work. You're never at home. You're never really at the office. You're just always just in

00:44:40.760 this kind of gooey middle ground. And in part, not to go too down the rabbit hole here, this is

00:44:50.980 because modernity and liberalism denies time and history. And just, you're kind of in this eternal

00:45:00.080 present. This is why the libs are always talking about how we're going to upload our brains to the

00:45:03.680 cloud. And this is why the libs and the moderns are so focused on never aging and never growing up

00:45:09.580 and never getting married, never having kids and never do it. Cause you just want to stay the same

00:45:12.680 forever. You just want to live in this gray middle ground forever. Not good. Not going to make people

00:45:18.740 happy, but don't blame the millennials for it. They're just, they're just reacting to the changing

00:45:23.620 political circumstances. Now, speaking of changing culture, AMC, the movie channel has just added a

00:45:31.480 trigger warning to one of my favorite movies, Goodfellas. The trigger warning says this film

00:45:38.900 includes language and or cultural stereotypes that are inconsistent with today's standards

00:45:46.320 of inclusion and tolerance and may offend some viewers. Goodfellas is based on a true story.

00:45:54.040 This movie is absolutely unacceptable. It depicts stereotypes that have no place in our society.

00:46:03.720 I mean, it's true. It actually happened. These people are real and they did behave this way,

00:46:09.040 but just cause it's true doesn't mean it's not racist. That's what it is. And it's about my

00:46:14.060 ancestral people, the Italians, but it's about a certain Italian American subculture that is real.

00:46:20.960 There really were mobsters. There really were five families in New York and other mob organizations

00:46:25.340 that Goodfellas is based on a book from 1985. It's a nonfiction book called Wise Guy by Nicholas

00:46:31.740 Pelleggi. It's the story of Henry Hill, who's a real guy who always wanted to be a gangster.

00:46:40.580 This is very, very funny. This to me, this trigger warning is very, very funny. Funny how you might ask

00:46:46.340 funny, like I'm a clown, like I amuse you, like I make you laugh, like I'm here to amuse you.

00:46:50.540 How are you funny? What's so funny about me, huh? You might be thinking that. I find it very,

00:46:56.280 very funny. But it's, it's the funniest part of it is that it's true. It is, this is a stereotype.

00:47:04.260 And such stereotypes are unacceptable in today's age, according to the cultural elites.

00:47:10.680 And it's also true because all stereotypes are true. Maybe that's the line that finally gets me

00:47:20.100 canceled. All, all stereotypes are true. That is how they became stereotypes. Stereotypes do not

00:47:27.900 necessarily apply to every single individual in a, in a certain group. Of course not, but it's a type.

00:47:34.960 That's a, it's a type. It's not, it's not an individual descriptor. It's a type. And they're

00:47:40.880 all true. That is how they obtain. That is how, that's how they gain cultural currency because people

00:47:47.220 recognize them to be true. I love the Italian people. I have no shame about my ethnic heritage

00:47:56.360 down my mother's side, but you know, they did cultivate a certain subculture in America and there

00:48:03.000 was a little bit of crime associated with it. And it's true. Okay. It's true. Now, speaking of

00:48:07.340 mobsters, Michael Cohen, New York, that rat, Trump's old fixer, who's now turned state's witness, 0.96

00:48:14.800 who's admitted to lying and stealing and all this. He's had some real credibility problems in recent 0.96

00:48:20.340 days. Certainly the fact that he's a liar, an admitted liar, but, but then what really shocked 0.98

00:48:27.480 people in the headlines yesterday, two days ago was that he admitted to stealing a lot of money. 0.96

00:48:33.300 We don't even know the total amount of money that he stole from Trump in the transaction that is at

00:48:37.780 the heart of the case. Michael Cohen's lawyer is now arguing that the fact that he's admitting to

00:48:44.500 be a liar and a thief actually bolsters his credibility. All of this has been, again, part and

00:48:51.960 parcel of Michael Cohen providing information, trying to be cooperative, meeting with the DA's

00:48:58.400 office dozens of times as he testified to. And so I think all of this is very much in keeping with,

00:49:05.780 you know, the, the, the top line and the takeaway here is that he has made his peace with his,

00:49:12.560 his admittedly checkered past and has decided to turn his loyalties away from Mr. Trump and towards

00:49:21.100 his family, his country, and to, and to be cooperative and to be truthful as of the time

00:49:26.540 he made that decision. And he was also truthful about the many lies and mistakes he's made along

00:49:30.960 the way. That's good. I'm glad Mr. Cohen, that you are finally admitting to some of your lies

00:49:36.480 that does not bolster your credibility. He's been very truthful about what a liar he is. Okay. He's 0.95

00:49:42.100 been a liar his whole life, but now he's being really truthful. Yeah, no, it, it, if Cohen is being 0.75

00:49:48.340 truthful now and I'm a little skeptical because he's a dirty rat, liar, cheat, thief, if he's being 0.99

00:49:57.060 truthful now, good, that's very good for his individual soul. I still wouldn't, wouldn't elect 0.99

00:50:04.440 the guy. I wouldn't have him babysit my kids. Okay. I wouldn't trust him as far as I can throw him.

00:50:10.480 It's no, it's so good and admirable that he's telling the truth about being a liar. Yeah. Maybe it

00:50:14.800 is personally. Politically though, as a public matter, uh, no, this means that your star witness

00:50:22.960 has no credibility. The rest of the show continues now. We, we are going to be interviewing someone

00:50:29.760 who is much more credible and dignified than Michael Cohen. You don't want to miss it. Become

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Ep. 1495 - Zelensky Refuses To Give Up Power In Ukraine

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