The Michael Knowles Show

00:00:00.000 President Trump showed up to the Libertarian National Convention over the weekend to make

00:00:04.800 his case as to why the Libertarian Party should nominate him for president.

00:00:10.460 Now, when I say libertarian, we are not talking about your cool uncle with a lot of guns and a

00:00:15.640 Gadsden flag on his truck. We are talking about capital L libertarians. We're talking about

00:00:22.200 members of the Libertarian Party. We are talking about neckbeards and pro-porn activists and

00:00:29.880 streakers. So when the Libertarians inevitably started booing Trump, Trump decided to roast them.

00:00:37.620 The Libertarian Party should nominate Trump for president of the United States.

00:00:43.100 Whoa, that's nice. That's nice.

00:00:51.820 Only if you want to win. Only if you want to win. Maybe you don't want to win.

00:00:56.760 Maybe you don't want to win.

00:01:01.820 Thank you, D-Roy.

00:01:04.380 Thank you. No, only do that if you want to win. If you want to lose, don't do that.

00:01:09.920 Keep getting your 3% every four years.

00:01:12.680 The reasons for doing so, policy and politics are as solid as the hope diamond.

00:01:22.560 Keep getting your 3% weirdos. I couldn't possibly care less.

00:01:27.720 So Trump is not getting the Libertarian Party nomination. Instead, the LP decided to nominate a

00:01:35.300 huge lib, which doesn't really matter. Because your cool uncle Libertarian with the guns and the

00:01:40.740 Gadsden flag is going to vote for Trump. And the serious libs are going to vote for Biden. And nothing

00:01:46.720 whatsoever will change. Just another 3% every four years. Good luck. I'm Michael Knowles. This is the

00:01:53.220 Michael Knowles Show. Welcome back to the show. A husband and a wife have been bickering on TikTok.

00:02:19.700 And I don't just mean bickering like you didn't wash the dishes kind of bickering. I mean bickering

00:02:24.300 like the wife sobbing over her deadbeat husband. And then the husband pointing out that she doesn't

00:02:30.920 even really see the children all that much because he has custody and she won't pay child support.

00:02:35.660 And people have taken sides in this private drama that's become public. I have many thoughts on it.

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00:03:14.040 Daily Wire to ensure your title is still in your name. When I say the Libertarians nominated

00:03:18.860 a weirdo, a big lib, I am not exaggerating in any way. They nominated a guy named Chase Oliver.

00:03:28.000 Now, Trump, he was too much of a compromise candidate for those Libertarians. They can't

00:03:33.880 possibly support someone like Donald Trump. No, no. They are small government, disciplined,

00:03:40.480 individualist Libertarians. And that's why they nominated a guy who supports employer vaccine

00:03:47.520 mandates, who, this is all according to the excellent group America 2100, supports open

00:03:53.820 borders, a guy who supports transing the kids. Okay, those last two there, I can sort of see the

00:04:01.860 Libertarian argument for it. I can almost see the Libertarian argument for letting corporations

00:04:05.960 take away your freedom. It seems weird, but, you know, there are some inconsistencies in the

00:04:12.320 ideology broadly. But then here's the big one. They nominated a guy who fundraised for Barack Obama

00:04:18.080 after he passed Obamacare. That's the one I don't. I understand how Libertarians who take

00:04:28.520 this ideology of individualism and allow it to just be perverted and corrupted and they follow it to all

00:04:35.060 sorts of illogical places. How they could get to, your boss can make you take this experimental jab.

00:04:43.140 We, nations aren't allowed to have borders. We need to trans and castrate little kids. I see how

00:04:49.680 you get there because it's an unstable and incoherent ideology. But how do you get, if you're the

00:04:54.300 principled Libertarian, how do you get to, we need to fundraise for Barack Obama after he passed Obamacare

00:05:00.200 and used the power of the state to force you to buy a product from a private company? How do you

00:05:06.360 get there? The only way you get there is if your political party is a total joke, which the

00:05:11.340 Libertarian party is. There is much to recommend Libertarianism lowercase l. I'm not a Libertarian.

00:05:17.220 I think it's a problematic ideology. But there's much to recommend some of the intimations of

00:05:23.960 Libertarianism. But the LP, the Libertarian party is a complete joke. As Austin Peterson showed,

00:05:30.020 Austin Peterson, I think may have been the LP nominee for president. I think I'm right about

00:05:34.800 that some years ago. But he's a great guy, you know, all over political media. And Austin Peterson,

00:05:41.880 AP for Liberty on Twitter, decided to interview this guy, Chase Oliver, and completely destroyed

00:05:47.780 him in 98 seconds. Why do you think that the drag queens, why do you think that the drag queens

00:05:53.060 want to read to children? Because I think that they are performance artists, and they want to be

00:05:59.180 able to have different levels of performance art. It's the same reason as why do the Wiggles sing to

00:06:03.800 children? Because they want to have a marketplace to kids. Chase, they want to be able to, they want

00:06:08.220 to be able to. The Wiggles, the Wiggles is, is made for children. It's, it's obviously family

00:06:12.880 friendly, friendly, uh, um, material. Drag queens are not what you call family friendly kind of

00:06:19.620 entertainment. But a man in a dress is what drag is, right? I mean, let's just be real. A man in a

00:06:25.760 dress or a woman in a suit is what drag is. That is not inherently sexual. There is inherently sexual

00:06:32.300 drag. And you're not going to convince me. I mean, I'm not going to defend otherwise. There absolutely

00:06:36.500 is. But there's also, there's also the ability to perform as a man in a wig without being sexual.

00:06:44.820 And that is what this is. Would you drop your kids off at a drag queen story hour and come back

00:06:50.080 an hour later? Uh, I mean, would you drop your kids off in a movie? Yeah. Okay. All right. Okay.

00:06:59.200 Mr. Oliver, you can drop your kids off with the creep transvestites who feel a need to read and

00:07:07.980 dance and jiggle for little children at the library. You can do that. I don't, I actually

00:07:11.900 don't really think you should be able to do that. I think that's child abuse. But if you do that,

00:07:16.500 you do your own thing, man, you do your own thing, man, have your freedom. But normal people would not

00:07:23.000 go along with that. Once again, we see the Libertarian Party squander an opportunity. Had

00:07:28.800 they endorsed someone like Trump, they might have some say in the Trump campaign. They might have

00:07:33.560 some say in politics, but they don't. They nominate this joker and he's going to get less than 3%.

00:07:38.580 And it's another reminder, another reminder that capital L, LP libertarianism is not a third way of

00:07:48.060 politics. That's how the professional libertarians promote themselves. They say, no, we're not

00:07:56.200 Democrats. We're not Republicans. We're not left. We're not right. We're this third way, man. And

00:08:01.740 this is what's going to bring everyone together. Even though when you look at the political compass

00:08:05.040 test where people's views line up, you know, is, are you more authoritarian or more individualist?

00:08:10.840 Are you more left-wing? Are you more right-wing? The quadrant that typifies the libertarians has

00:08:15.640 basically no one in it. No one really agrees with their platform. But it's, it's not a third way of

00:08:22.120 politics. It's a rejection of politics is really what it is. It's a way to say, look, I'm kind of

00:08:28.840 right-wing, but I'm not that kind of right-winger. I'm okay. It's, it's like when you're in college and

00:08:33.760 you want to date the liberal girl, but you're somewhat normal. And you say, well, you know,

00:08:38.280 like I'm a conservative, but I'm not that kind of conservative. I think gay stuff and transvestites

00:08:44.220 are totally cool, man. You do you. I would never infringe on your preferences and appetites.

00:08:50.800 It's a way to seem above it all. But these people aren't above it all. They're just not

00:08:55.200 participating in politics. They have absolutely no effect whatsoever on politics. If you are a

00:09:02.500 card-carrying LP member, you might as well be, I would say you might as well be a member of a

00:09:08.260 Rotary Club or a Lions Club, but that's actually not fair. The Rotary Club and the Lions Club do have

00:09:11.740 an effect on politics and the Libertarian Party does not. It is a joke. Now, Trump is not the only

00:09:17.340 presidential candidate who showed up to the Libertarian National Convention. The vague also

00:09:23.980 showed up. And the reason that these guys showed up is because while the LP might be a complete joke,

00:09:30.280 they recognize that conservatives need more than just rock-ribbed conservatives to win an election.

00:09:36.140 There simply aren't enough conservatives. So who are you going to bring in? Vivek proposes

00:09:41.880 an alliance, an alliance between nationalists and Libertarians.

00:09:48.060 I believe the future is combining that strand of the America First movement that speaks to me.

00:09:54.960 National pride, pride in this country, pride in who we are, restoring purpose for people who lack it,

00:10:00.400 and say that we pledge allegiance to the United States of America because of what it represents,

00:10:03.820 not because it's a geographic space, but because there are certain ideals enshrined in our

00:10:08.340 Declaration of Independence and our Constitution, to combine that with the policy vision that 98%

00:10:14.880 of us agree on in this room right here. That's the opportunity sitting in front of us.

00:10:19.620 And I think that if we go the direction of just, hey, saying that this is a separate silo and we view

00:10:24.460 that as oppositional, you will not have the influence of shaping it. I think it will be an opportunity to

00:10:30.440 shape the future direction of this country by joining, fusing those libertarian and positive

00:10:37.620 national pride-oriented nationalist instincts that actually make our country the best version of

00:10:42.480 itself.

00:10:43.640 Okay, so Vivek is calling for a fusion. And this word is really important because the old new right,

00:10:53.820 the new right of the 1950s and 60s that was put together by William F. Buckley Jr. and Frank Meyer

00:11:01.640 and National Review was a fusion. The philosophy put forward by Frank Meyer and promoted by National

00:11:09.240 Review was called fusionism. And it fused together the traditionalists with the libertarians. And it

00:11:17.400 created this three-legged stool of traditionalists and religious conservatives. That was one leg.

00:11:25.780 And then foreign policy hawks, including a number of Democrats who just wanted to go get the Soviet

00:11:31.240 Union, was another leg. And then the economic libertarians was the third leg. And they called

00:11:35.760 this the three legs of the stool. And in recent years, we've said, okay, that National Review stuff,

00:11:40.840 that fusionism, it hasn't worked. It's fallen out of favor. It's allowed the country to move very far to

00:11:46.040 the left. So we need some new kind of coalition. And what Vivek is proposing is a new fusion,

00:11:51.460 not of libertarians and traditionalists, but of libertarians and nationalists.

00:11:58.400 And it's kind of funny because people are going to say, hold on, you say fusionism was bad,

00:12:03.520 but now we're just calling for a new fusionism that's similar. Actually, Vivek's fusionism makes

00:12:09.280 a fair bit more sense than the old fusionism of Buckley and Meyer. And the reason for that is

00:12:15.460 the old fusionism was half conservative, half liberal. Libertarianism has liberal

00:12:22.100 fundamentals and traditionalism is conservative. It's not really liberal. Whereas nationalism and

00:12:31.460 libertarian are both fundamentally liberal, albeit of the classical variety. I don't mean this in any

00:12:37.720 way as a knock on Vivek. His view is legitimately more coherent. Now, a lot of conservatives are going

00:12:43.180 to hear that and say, well, hold on. We went from something that was half conservative to something

00:12:46.360 that's not really conservative at all. Yeah. But what's the coalition? What's the coalition? I think

00:12:52.040 some other people are going to say, hold on, what do you mean nationalism is liberal? What I mean,

00:12:55.320 when I say nationalism is liberal, what I mean is nationalism is a product of the Treaty of Augsburg

00:13:00.940 and the Peace of Westphalia, which put an end to the religious wars that broke out in the 16th

00:13:05.800 century when the political unity of Christendom was cracked up. So the Peace of Westphalia especially

00:13:12.740 says, whose reign his religion? We're going to have a growing sense of nationalism. And within the

00:13:20.040 borders of the principality or the nation, you get to do pretty much whatever you want.

00:13:25.880 The explosion of this happens in 1848. 1848 is the year of revolution. You have all of these

00:13:32.120 nationalist revolutions toppling the old monarchies, attacking empire and declaring nationalism and

00:13:40.060 liberal politics, liberal governments. The two go hand in hand because if you make an idol out of

00:13:47.460 the nation state, then you're denying the solidity of the moral order. If you make an idol out of the

00:13:55.420 nation state, if you really believe whose reign his religion, then you're saying that nothing is

00:13:59.540 universally true, that there is no solid moral order that we can access. It's just kind of whatever

00:14:04.740 the king wants or whatever the president wants or whatever the prime minister wants, which is

00:14:09.440 liberal, albeit of a more classical variety. So it's not my preference. I would like us to become

00:14:17.300 more conservative. I would like us to become more right-wing, not more liberal and more left-wing.

00:14:22.260 But to Vivek's point, and frankly, even to Trump's. Trump went to the LP convention.

00:14:28.840 Where's the coalition? There aren't that many rock-ribbed conservatives to the right of Attila

00:14:32.780 the Hun and Genghis Khan, who would make Franco blush or something. So who are we going to pick up?

00:14:39.260 What's the coalition going to be? That has been the political question for 70 years now.

00:14:45.800 Okay. And so it's very easy to knock William F. Buckley Jr. or Ronald Reagan and say,

00:14:51.660 they got this wrong, they got that wrong. Well, okay. Well, we're in the exact same predicament

00:14:55.600 now. Where are the conservatives? How are we going to turn things around?

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00:16:08.240 Now, speaking of a third way, the libertarians, they say, we're the third way. No. The third way

00:16:16.760 in politics is not going to be found in ideology. It is going to be found in institutions, chief among

00:16:22.600 them, the church. You know, Pope Francis, politically, he's been on a roll lately. A lot of people view Pope

00:16:29.440 Francis as rather liberal politically, and yet he's had some real zingers that we've covered on the show

00:16:35.820 last week. Well, he's got another one over the weekend, and I will translate this one for those

00:16:40.900 of you who do not read and speak Italian. This is a headline in La Repubblica. La Repubblica has quoted

00:16:48.860 the Holy Father many times over the years. It's a center-left newspaper in Italy, and the headline is,

00:16:54.640 When I saw this headline, I did a double take. I said, what? Hold on. Wait, that can't mean what

00:17:06.540 I think it means. So the translation is, please forgive my language. I hope we don't have to

00:17:12.560 bleep this because I don't know how else to explain it. The headline is, there is already too much

00:17:19.240 faggotry. Pope Francis invites the Italian bishops to not admit gay seminarians. And you can go through

00:17:31.700 the whole thing. It says it's raised some eyebrows among the bishops. I'll just sort of translate on

00:17:38.220 the fly. In a meeting behind closed doors, Bergoglio, Pope Francis uttered this comment that left more than

00:17:47.380 one prelate surprised. But that's his take on it. A little too much lavender in the seminaries.

00:17:56.740 Pretty based. Whatever you think about Pope Francis, most people think he's very liberal.

00:18:05.340 Some people, even when he says these conservative things, they say, well, this is just an example of

00:18:09.120 Peronism, like Juan Peron in Argentina, who would appease the conservatives sometimes, and he would then

00:18:14.520 appease the leftists, but he was always advancing leftism. So that's one lens of viewing this. You

00:18:19.560 say, well, it's just Peronism. Whatever it is, though, there's something else going on.

00:18:25.620 The church has been around for 2,000 years. Okay. I happen to believe that the church has the

00:18:33.920 protection of the Holy Spirit, which will preserve her, and the gates of hell will not prevail against

00:18:39.060 the church. But for those who don't believe in the church that way, at the very least, you can look

00:18:44.340 and say, this institution's been around for 2,000 years. And it's really hard to revolutionize a 2,000

00:18:51.880 year institution overnight. This is going to be the third way. In politics, if you're a conservative

00:19:00.320 and you're competing in ideology, you're losing. Ideology is intrinsically left-wing. Ideology

00:19:10.360 intrinsically benefits the libs because ideology divorces politics from ways of life and traditions

00:19:18.120 and families and peoples and borders and institutions and more basic habits and characteristics of political

00:19:26.700 life. If you're competing on the level of ideology, actually, my five-bullet-point manifesto says that

00:19:32.520 freedom and equality actually mean this, and that's why we're going to totally—you're going to lose.

00:19:37.800 Okay. You've got—you're not going to win playing their game. If you want to win, you've got to focus on

00:19:44.540 institutions, way of life, peoples, family, habits, culture, borders, countries. Okay. Something that's a

00:19:55.280 little bit deeper, which is why even those who want to say, oh, the church has gone so left, oh, the Pope

00:20:01.440 has gone so left. Well, read that. I don't know. Pretty right-wing to me. Even—I'll move on from the

00:20:05.940 Pope, but there was even another line. This was on Friday. I meant to get to it. Didn't have time.

00:20:10.480 Pope Francis met with some plastic surgeons, and in his meeting with plastic surgeons, he attacks plastic

00:20:17.860 surgery. He says, I welcome you with a smile on our lips, natural, not remodeled. Even on our lips.

00:20:27.400 Is he using the royal we? The royal we, which is how monarchs have spoken. I don't know. I'm only

00:20:32.400 reading an English translation, so I don't know. But the Pope says, with a smile on our lips. That's

00:20:38.520 a pretty trad, pretty base, because he's speaking for the institution, for the whole people, not just

00:20:45.920 personally. I welcome you with a smile on our lips, natural, not remodeled. Then he talks about how

00:20:53.820 beauty is not subject to, quote, the planned trends of the fashion business, the business of culture,

00:20:58.660 the culture of appearances, but which connects to the truth of humanity, to the most intimate being,

00:21:03.400 which we cannot disfigure. Our faces are destined to reflect a beauty that goes beyond what can be

00:21:08.380 perceived with the eyes of the body. I love this. Totally love this. I am very anti-plastic surgery.

00:21:14.120 I recognize in certain cases, in order to repair something that has been disfigured through accident

00:21:20.440 or the fallenness of this world, you know, I understand there can be some good uses of plastic

00:21:24.160 surgery. That's not how it's usually used. It's usually used by insecure women and men who, you know,

00:21:30.240 want to, who think they know better than God and who make an idol out of their physical appearances

00:21:35.720 and who end up usually almost always looking much worse as a result of it. This is a great line.

00:21:42.000 This is a great line. That this natural beauty, we don't want to subject it to the whims and passing

00:21:48.860 fashions. You got to, we talk about radical self-acceptance in this modern world. And yet

00:21:55.220 those very same people are the ones demanding cosmetic surgery. So radical cosmetic surgery as to

00:22:00.780 include men who think they're women to chop themselves up to look more like women. No, if you,

00:22:04.720 if we want to sort of radical self-acceptance, recognize that natural beauty has a lot more

00:22:11.140 to recommend it than man's, man's artifice. And, uh, that there's more to the world than just

00:22:20.160 thinking about ourselves. When we, when we put our minds on something else, they are our beauty

00:22:23.800 really shines. All right, folks, today's Tuesday. You know what that means? It means a brand new

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00:22:53.520 prevails over illusion. My favorite comment yesterday is from the Drummer's Workshop, Norm's

00:22:59.560 Music, who says, wow, another one from the Drummer's Workshop, Norm's Music. I'm telling you guys,

00:23:04.480 I'm not looking at the name. I just keep picking the Drummer's Workshop, Norm's Music's comment.

00:23:09.480 It says, Biden visiting the Bronx would go something like this.

00:23:13.020 I would like to thank everyone for being here. Where's Babe? I think Babe Ruth is here today.

00:23:20.680 Where's Babe? This is so true. Where's Whitey? Whitey didn't get along with Corn Pop back in

00:23:25.500 Scranton. You know what I'm talking about? Where's Yogi Berra, smartest man I ever knew?

00:23:31.080 So true. That's probably why he won't go to the Bronx. Speaking of unnatural things, this is the most

00:23:37.720 disturbing story on TikTok these days. Sweet little Alisa called my attention to this one.

00:23:44.100 I don't even know if I have TikTok on my phone. I'm certainly not logged in if I do. I don't think

00:23:48.580 Alisa uses it, but sometimes you see the TikToks on the Instagram and she uses that more. So she sees

00:23:53.560 this and it goes totally viral. It's a mother making her own birthday cupcakes. Very sad. This woman is

00:24:03.300 crying. She's baking cupcakes. It says, being a single mom is making your own birthday cake on your

00:24:08.180 birthday so that your babies can feel happy. They are singing to you. Okay. Now this story, just on its

00:24:16.320 face, is very sad. You don't want to think of anyone being alone or having to, you know,

00:24:24.580 suffer cruelty and, you know, so anyway, she's doing this. Now, if you don't just get sucked into

00:24:34.820 the narrative right away, you do ask this question. Why is she filming this? Why, when I, when I cry,

00:24:42.700 which is a very rare sort of thing, you know, a man is permitted to cry when he is looking wistfully

00:24:49.620 at a sunset, maybe once every two years, or, you know, if his dog dies or something, you're allowed

00:24:54.100 to shed one tear privately. I certainly wouldn't make it public. Even women who are a little more

00:25:02.800 prone to the waterworks, they generally try to keep it private, right? They certainly should.

00:25:09.780 So why is this woman filming this really sad thing? This is really, really sad. Why is she filming that?

00:25:14.320 Well, there's a wrinkle because then a man stitches, that's where you do a video on the

00:25:20.760 video, stitches this video. And he says, Hey, hold on, I'm going to correct the record.

00:25:25.700 So I've been sent this video a lot over the last few days. People asking my thoughts and my comments

00:25:30.200 on it. And before anyone says, Oh, you don't know her situation or, you know, you don't know what

00:25:34.980 she's going through. Well, I do because I lived it. I'm her ex-husband. And right now I have full

00:25:42.120 custody of our kids. This is our parent agreement. As you can see, I have all weekdays and weekends,

00:25:48.680 time sharing with the kids, all at holiday academic breaks.

00:25:57.360 And for her to get any rights back to the kids, these are the things that she needs to do.

00:26:02.620 And yes, child support. She owes that. It's up to over $21,000. So she's a mother and

00:26:09.780 doesn't pay child support.

00:26:14.900 She was done arrested for check fraud. And during that hearing, it turned out that it was found

00:26:19.720 that she stole almost a million dollars from another guy. And also she faked cancer in the past.

00:26:25.480 These are scans that she would send and post on her page before.

00:26:28.340 Okay. It, it goes on. I think there's another. No, there, I think we have it. Okay. All right.

00:26:37.240 This is only one more, only one more, but I can't stop watching. I watch the first video. Then I have

00:26:43.060 to watch the second video. The second video that I have, she responds to her ex-husband after he

00:26:48.640 responds to her crying while baking the cupcakes, whatever you're saying about me on the internet.

00:26:53.460 But, uh, there are other women that have filed restraining orders against him. And if anyone

00:27:01.700 took the time to go look, look him up as well, that's what you would see. Instead, you see everything

00:27:08.540 you've looked me up, which is essentially coming from one man who is out to destroy my life.

00:27:12.420 That is in the nature of being a silentologist. That is what they do. And if you know anything

00:27:16.040 about them, you would know that. All right. Enough, enough. Okay. We went from sad,

00:27:23.600 oh, you know, single mother, bad circumstances has to bake her own birthday cakes where kids

00:27:27.700 enjoy it to actually she's, she passes bad checks. She stole a million dollars. She fakes cancer.

00:27:35.760 She owes me money because I take care of the kids the whole time to actually he's a Scientologist and

00:27:41.160 he's evil. He wants to ruin my life. Enough, enough people, shut up, shut up, shut your mouths

00:27:47.300 and put your phone away and stop talking. What is wrong with you people? What is wrong with you?

00:27:55.180 That you, it's not just that you're beginning to kind of live in a little bit of a black mirror

00:28:02.080 episode where you're like diving head first into the black mirror. You want to live in this dystopian

00:28:07.480 future? Who does this? Do you remember private life? Do you remember that? There used to be,

00:28:12.440 maybe the kids in the audience don't remember this. There used to be a thing called private life

00:28:16.700 where you wouldn't air every time you wanted to cry or every time you got into a fight with your

00:28:21.240 husband or wife or ex-husband or ex-wife or this, you didn't air all your dirty laundry and grievances

00:28:26.400 for the entire world to get what? To get clicks, to get clicks from strangers on the internet.

00:28:31.400 This is so deeply demonic and evil. What is wrong? What about these people's kids? Neither of them

00:28:39.320 seems to care much about their kids at all. If you're going to go out and post this kind of stuff

00:28:44.580 all over the internet, your kids are props for your TikTok channel. What is wrong with you people?

00:28:50.680 Good grief. Just, ah, I don't have much more of a take on it other than 97% of the time when you are

00:29:03.280 torn between do something publicly and just kind of keep it to yourself, whether that's whining about

00:29:11.480 your ex, whether that's having an emotional outburst, whether that's talking about your

00:29:16.560 sexual preferences. Well, boy, that's a big one these days, whether that's screaming or ranting

00:29:20.440 or raving. I know I'm ranting and raving right now, but at least I've got a show on it. There's

00:29:24.140 kind of some formality and limits placed on it. I'm not just yelling into my phone.

00:29:29.440 97% of the time, just don't. Just don't do it. And you know what? You'll never regret not doing it.

00:29:37.000 Private life is good. We think that fame is really good. So we just relentlessly pursue fame

00:29:43.680 to the point that we're not. I know, I get that there's kind of an irony because I'm talking into

00:29:47.340 a camera right now, but I'm not in my bedroom. I'm not in my kitchen. I enjoy private life. Private

00:29:52.480 life is great. Private life is really, really valuable. Okay. And what we've done is we've

00:29:57.300 said private life has no value. Public life is everything. The love and cohesion of my family,

00:30:03.200 totally pointless, doesn't matter at all, not going to fulfill me. The clicks and likes from strangers,

00:30:08.440 that's what's really going to gratify me. I'm going to be lying on my deathbed. I'm going to say,

00:30:12.500 oh, I wish I had more time to get clicks and likes from strangers. No, no, man. You want to get back

00:30:19.740 to anything resembling a normal, flourishing life? Next time you want to aim that phone at yourself

00:30:28.240 and engage in whatever properly private activity for the public, just put that phone down. Grab your arm.

00:30:37.760 You're going to want to take that, and you pry that arm away from your phone. Good grief.

00:30:45.260 We are so, Black Mirror is like passe now. Black Mirror, we're going to look back on Black Mirror

00:30:50.740 with nostalgia in a few months. We're going to say, oh, you remember when life was so simple,

00:30:55.380 like in Black Mirror, like in the Twilight Zone? You remember that? Boy, I long for those days,

00:31:00.000 well past the dystopian prophecies. Speaking of private life encroaching on public life,

00:31:07.900 speaking of women crying at inappropriate times, Sonia Sotomayor, the justice, liberal justice on

00:31:14.960 the Supreme Court, just gave a speech at Harvard, and she admitted to crying after conservative court

00:31:22.460 decisions. Here's the quote. Harvard usually doesn't allow filming of its speeches. One reason I was not

00:31:28.380 able to speak there last semester, but yes, it was last semester I think I was supposed to go,

00:31:35.100 and I was not going to give a speech like Sonia Sotomayor did, who reportedly said,

00:31:41.240 there are days that I've come to my office after an announcement of a case and closed my door and

00:31:46.840 cried. There have been those days, and there are likely to be more. So what's she talking about?

00:31:54.180 If she's crying after any big conservative victories, presumably she's talking about the

00:32:00.840 biggest one by far. I have to assume she's talking about the Dobbs decision here. It was the most

00:32:07.800 contentious court decision. It was the one where all the liberals were losing their minds.

00:32:12.480 Biggest conservative victory, which means that this woman, this judge, gets back to her office,

00:32:17.820 and she sits down, and she just melts into a little puddle, and she says,

00:32:20.960 fewer babies might be murdered now. I just want to murder more of them, and they won't let me.

00:32:31.280 They're just this Alito. Alito, you won't let me murder all the babies I want to.

00:32:39.180 This is a graduate of the Ivy League. I think she went to Yale Law School. Could be wrong. Maybe

00:32:49.820 it was Harvard. I think it was Yale Law School. And she is a justice on the Supreme Court,

00:32:55.180 and she can't rein in the waterworks when a conservative judge says there's no right in

00:33:02.340 the Constitution to just slaughter a million babies a year, which, again, I haven't seen that

00:33:07.180 text in the Constitution. The liberals pretended it was there, I think, in Invisible Inc. for about

00:33:11.260 50 years. But the judges didn't even say you can't murder babies anymore. They said you have to have

00:33:18.080 laws within states that determine how many babies you can murder, and even that was too much,

00:33:25.020 and the waterworks go off. This woman is completely unqualified to be a judge.

00:33:31.560 She's qualified to be a member of Congress, is what she is. No knock on members of Congress.

00:33:36.020 Some of my best friends are members of Congress, okay? But the government is supposed to

00:33:42.380 correspond to the tripartite soul. It seems a little like pie in the sky, but that's actually

00:33:49.620 some of the thought behind our system of government. We have the legislature and the executive

00:33:55.060 and the judicial branch, and they're supposed to correspond to the three elements of our soul.

00:34:00.240 The legislature is supposed to be the more passionate element, the more appetitive element,

00:34:05.400 responsive to the passions and whims of the people. That's why they get elected every two years in

00:34:10.920 the House and every six years in the Senate, though the Senate really was supposed to be elected by the

00:34:15.360 states. Then you have the executive branch. That's the spirited element, the thematic element of the

00:34:22.840 soul, okay? Spirit and energy. And then you get the judicial branch. That's supposed to be the logical

00:34:28.980 part of the soul. No passions, no crying, no sobbing because fewer babies will die. That's why the judges

00:34:38.180 are supposed to be disinterested. That's where they wear these robes. That's why they wear robes in part to

00:34:45.900 diminish their personality. It's not about their personality. It's about the law, Lady Justice wearing a

00:34:52.060 blindfold. That's why they sit in a giant temple. That's why the Supreme Court is such a huge,

00:34:57.360 impressive temple of a building. It's supposed to be much bigger than you. This is why courtrooms

00:35:03.680 that are very small and look like little office spaces are very bad for justice because they

00:35:07.820 diminish the perception of the weight of the law and how this is not about the individual. We're

00:35:14.840 supposed to be a nation of laws. You remember in a league of their own, there's no crying in baseball.

00:35:19.480 There's no crying in jurisprudence. There's not supposed to. We hear calls all the time from

00:35:24.360 the libs for Alito or Thomas to step down from the court because they're conservative and they're

00:35:30.000 not liberal and that's very bad. Well, at least they don't sob in the chambers, okay? At least

00:35:35.180 they conduct themselves in a way befitting a judge. Same cannot be said, at least of Sotomayor.

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00:36:14.340 Speaking of unqualified liberals, Pete Buttigieg, Mayor Pete, just went on a liberal news show.

00:36:22.640 CBS face the nation. Mayor Pete is the transportation secretary for Joe Biden.

00:36:29.400 They've made electric vehicles a major initiative of the Biden administration,

00:36:33.780 which is kind of awkward because they're at war with Elon Musk. So while they are pushing

00:36:38.800 electric vehicles, they refuse to work with really the only electric vehicle manufacturer in the

00:36:44.140 country. Ford, you know, some of the other, they kind of have EVs a little bit, but it's really Tesla.

00:36:50.220 So unsurprisingly, the electric vehicle initiatives have not panned out all that well.

00:36:55.920 And so Pete Buttigieg has to answer why. Three years in, they've only built seven or eight

00:37:03.340 electric vehicle charging stations. The Federal Highway Administration says only seven or eight

00:37:09.120 charging stations have been produced with a seven and a half billion investment that taxpayers made

00:37:14.320 back in 2021. Why isn't that happening more quickly? So the president's goal is to have half a

00:37:19.420 million chargers up by the end of this decade. Now, in order to do a charger, it's more than just

00:37:24.060 plunking a small device into the ground. There's utility work. And this is also really a new

00:37:29.800 category of federal investment. But we've been working with each of the 50 states. Every one of

00:37:34.940 them is getting formula dollars to do this work, engaging them. And the first handful, again, by 2030,

00:37:40.980 500,000 chargers and the very first handful of chargers are now already being physically built.

00:37:46.940 I love that this woman laughs at Pete. This woman on a liberal news network,

00:37:51.720 they exist to be the propaganda arm for the liberal establishment. And she goes, huh,

00:37:57.180 seven and a half billion dollars and you built seven or eight charging stations. So by my math,

00:38:03.900 I didn't really get far out of calculus. That would be about a billion dollars per charging station.

00:38:11.220 He goes, well, yeah, actually, haha, that's sure. But by 2030, a little bit in the future,

00:38:16.540 day after tomorrow, we're going to build all of them. And she laughs because it's a total joke.

00:38:20.900 Because it's proof that the whole electric vehicle craze from the government. It's just

00:38:28.480 patronage for Democrats. Billion dollars per charging station. That's pretty good. That's a

00:38:34.600 pretty good payoff if you're a Democrat flack. The libs are not serious about this.

00:38:41.800 They are not serious about the EVs. Joe Biden can't possibly build all of these electric charging

00:38:48.380 stations. He's too busy draining oil from our strategic reserves. He doesn't have time to

00:38:53.980 promote electric cars. He's too busy draining the strategic petroleum reserve, draining that reserve

00:39:01.520 in the Northeast because he knows that people want to drive cars. And he knows that solar power or wind

00:39:08.940 power or whatever is not actually going to provide a lot of energy anytime soon, probably not ever.

00:39:15.300 So he knows that it's really about oil. But he needs to mollify his base, which has a cult-like

00:39:23.880 devotion to the sun monster and the religion of climate change. And he knows that he's got to pay

00:39:30.020 off his cronies. And a great way to pay them off, and this is going back to the Obama administration.

00:39:34.280 Remember the Solyndra scandal? There was this green energy company, Solyndra, which was just

00:39:39.740 a patronage slush fund for Dems to send federal dollars to pay off their cronies. Same thing is

00:39:46.860 going on now. You judge the tree by its fruit. If the libs were serious about this, there would be

00:39:51.580 EV charging stations all over the country. They're not. There's a lot of green dollar bills in Democrat

00:39:57.280 pockets. There's a lot of that. There are a lot of oil prices spiking because of Biden's

00:40:04.220 stupid energy policy on the oil front. But you judge the tree by its fruit. There's no fruit here.

00:40:11.980 There's no fruit from the green movement. Just a lot of backs slapped and pockets greased.

00:40:18.760 Speaking of election troubles for Joe Biden, RFK Jr. might make that presidential debate in June.

00:40:26.540 Listen, this is a little bit of a curveball. It's not a guarantee that he'll make it. But you remember

00:40:34.100 when Biden challenges Trump, he says, I want to do a debate, but let's not do the presidential

00:40:38.900 commission on debates. Let's do a debate on CNN and I forget the other one, maybe ABC. And let's

00:40:46.500 start it in June. Much earlier than the September debates that we're used to. Why? Because in part,

00:40:51.720 the Democrats changed the rules and they allow people to vote much earlier now. Two, because

00:40:57.000 Biden wants to get well again is good. So that if the debate goes horribly, they can try to memory

00:41:01.980 hold out through the media. But right after that was announced, Trump said, okay, I'm in. Bobby

00:41:06.540 Kennedy Jr. said, and I'm in too, but no one invited Bobby Kennedy Jr. So they all kind of laughed about

00:41:10.760 it. Well, apparently Bobby Kennedy Jr. might make the stage. He would be the first independent

00:41:17.540 candidate for president to make the debate stage in 32 years. Last one, some of you listening are

00:41:23.580 old enough to remember, Ross Perot. Ross Perot back in 92, who helped to cost George H.W. Bush the

00:41:33.220 election. So if passed as precedent, having a Democrat on stage this year with a Democrat incumbent might

00:41:40.420 be a little bit of a Ross Perot effect, might further weaken Biden. I've said from the beginning,

00:41:44.520 I think Kennedy's candidacy hurts Biden a lot more than it hurts Trump.

00:41:50.500 The time is short here, but Kennedy needs 15% in four national polls. He already got 16%

00:41:58.880 in two polls from last month. That would be CNN, SSRS, and a Quinnipiac poll. He then just drew 17%

00:42:07.740 in a Marquette Law School poll of registered voters out last week. That's another CNN-approved poll.

00:42:12.720 That means he needs only one more poll. So he's in the debate, right? Not so fast because the

00:42:18.900 Democrats never do anything without at least a little bit of corruption. So he needs the numbers.

00:42:25.080 It looks like he's got the numbers. He also needs to be on the ballot in enough states, according to

00:42:30.500 CNN, to make the stage. Well, he's already filed his petitions to be on the ballot in those states,

00:42:37.140 and it looks like he's good. But the secretaries of state have to approve his petitions.

00:42:44.100 When you're a candidate for public office, to appear on a ballot, you have to get a bunch of

00:42:49.480 people to sign a petition saying that you should be on a ballot. And you need to get many more

00:42:53.120 signatures than the requirement because the opponents will go through and they'll say,

00:42:57.540 okay, well, this address isn't right or this signature doesn't look right or whatever. So

00:43:00.700 they'll try to take off as many signatures as they can. And hopefully you have enough left over.

00:43:06.380 But there's a process for this and it has to be approved by the secretary of state.

00:43:10.540 So if Biden really doesn't want Kennedy on that debate stage, maybe Joe Biden makes a phone call.

00:43:16.200 I know Republican presidents are not allowed to call secretaries of state

00:43:19.440 in the various states. Then they could be prosecuted for that, as we're seeing with Donald Trump.

00:43:23.620 But I bet Joe Biden could do it. And he might just say, hey, sure it'd be a shame if you slow

00:43:29.540 rolled the Bobby Kennedy petitions. And so through sheer delay, you could see a world in which

00:43:38.300 Democrat secretaries of state deny Bobby Kennedy the opportunity to get on that stage. It's within

00:43:44.180 their power. It would be very corrupt, but it's within their power. If you see that happening,

00:43:47.980 it's because they know, just as we know, that Bobby Kennedy is a bigger threat to Biden than to

00:43:54.040 Trump. So what are the issues they're going to talk about? They're going to talk about the economy.

00:43:58.620 Biden's going to talk about January 6th, the worst day ever in history. He's going to try to focus on

00:44:03.700 all that nonsense. And there was a porn star 30 years ago in New York, and there was this,

00:44:08.140 and there was that, and blah, blah, blah. One big issue that's going to come up, it ranks toward the top

00:44:14.140 of everybody's lists, is migration. And one of the potential Trump running mate options,

00:44:21.520 he's not probably on the short list, he's not one of the favorites, but he's a real possibility,

00:44:26.380 is Byron Donald, a member of Congress, who just went on Fox News Sunday and called for

00:44:31.720 not only a restriction of immigration, but the mass deportation of illegal aliens.

00:44:38.060 Donald Trump had his border secured when he was president of the United States.

00:44:42.040 When Joe Biden came in, the first thing he did was rip up Trump's border policies simply because

00:44:47.660 they were put in place by Donald Trump. It was a very stupid decision by Joe Biden.

00:44:51.920 The country has suffered as a result. So now what we're going to do is go back to

00:44:55.900 ending catch and release, go back and go back to remain in Mexico. We are going to have to deport

00:45:01.160 millions of people who should not be here because our cities and states simply cannot handle the flow

00:45:06.860 of all these illegal migrants. Now you got people who are going, Jordanians going,

00:45:11.160 trying to breach Quantico under Joe Biden. You saw what happened on the southern border in

00:45:15.980 California the other day where they're trying to scale the wall in California, get over that wall

00:45:20.180 there. So what President Trump is going to do is put back the policies that actually had our country

00:45:25.320 secure. We are going to deport millions of people. It needs to be done.

00:45:28.820 Okay. I'm skeptical that it will happen. As I've said from the beginning, people might say they want

00:45:36.120 mass deportation. When the planes, trains, and automobiles start rolling, I'm not convinced

00:45:40.160 that they actually want it. But at the very least, you have people talking about it, calling for it

00:45:46.020 openly. Now we hear tough rhetoric on immigration every election year. Is anything going to change?

00:45:52.320 The only way it changes is if the fundamentals of the politics, of the political order change.

00:45:57.740 We elect Democrats, we elect Republicans, we get more migration. That's just what happens.

00:46:01.740 Something more fundamental than this candidate or that running mate or this person or that person,

00:46:07.300 something more fundamental has to happen for the political order for this to happen.

00:46:10.600 There appears to be an appetite there for it. But the difference between the appetite and what

00:46:14.480 actually goes into effect in policy is going to hinge on what institutions, what structures are in

00:46:20.700 place to actually govern. Okay. It is Music Tuesday. Music Tuesday. It's not, what was Music

00:46:28.600 Tuesday? Well, Monday was off for Memorial Day when we were remembering all of the great men and women

00:46:33.560 who have given their lives for our country. Very good reason, if there ever was a good reason,

00:46:37.940 to take off from the show. But I want to get to Music Monday anyway. So the rest of the show

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Ep. 1498 - Trump Roasts Crowd At The Libertarian National Convention

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