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00:00:00.000 24-Hour Fitness, which my producers have informed me as a gym, has just sent out a new dress code

00:00:06.020 to employees. A conservative named Carlos Torcios got a copy of this policy, which states,

00:00:13.420 currently approved movements and or social causes, along with approved expressions are

00:00:20.340 Black Lives Matter, BLM, the words, Pride, or the Pride rainbow logo, the Juneteenth logos

00:00:28.800 symbol or date on Juneteenth. So other days of the year, no Juneteenth. You got to just wear the BLM

00:00:35.760 clothing on the rest of the days. And then a flag or United States logo, so this is just the American

00:00:43.360 flag, on holidays such as Memorial Day, Flag Day, July 4th, Veterans Day, Patriots Day, etc. On those

00:00:49.240 days, you're allowed to wear the American flag at a gym in America every other day. The American flag

00:00:55.320 is prohibited. Can't do it. You can wear the Pride flag any day of the week. You can wear the BLM

00:01:03.240 symbols whenever you want. The American flag, that's a handful of days a year. Each Pride month,

00:01:09.520 there's a fact that seems stranger and stranger. Put the gym aside for a second. If you serve your

00:01:17.320 country in the military, you are celebrated for one day. If you give your life serving

00:01:25.240 your country, you are celebrated for one day. But if you do weird sex stuff, you are celebrated for a

00:01:34.980 whole month. Now the situation is even more disturbing. At this particular gym and at an increasing number

00:01:41.740 of other institutions, schools, businesses, public spaces, you've seen them. If you simply support your

00:01:49.060 country, you just like, you just wave a flag. Maybe you wear a flag sweater or something. You're allowed to

00:01:56.680 express that a few days each year. If you support street violence and buggery, you can express it 24-7, 365.

00:02:04.660 But the craziest part is the policy actually makes perfect sense because flags are symbols. They represent

00:02:13.240 things. In this case, they represent two countries, two different kinds of country that are fundamentally

00:02:18.420 opposed to each other. And things that are fundamentally opposed to each other can't

00:02:22.320 simultaneously be true. They can't simultaneously occupy the same space. As flag enthusiast and Supreme

00:02:29.880 Court Justice Sam Alito recently observed, one side or the other is going to win.

00:02:35.400 As go the gyms and the schools and the businesses and the public spaces, so goes the nation.

00:02:41.940 I'm Michael Knowles. This is the Michael Knowles Show.

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00:04:26.180 Before I get to anything else, speaking of changing symbols, there's a very, very important story.

00:04:33.700 A white girl has gone viral for saying the N-word, sort of. And she's gone viral, and everybody on

00:04:42.260 the internet is talking about her, and I can't avoid commenting on her. But I have a little bit of

00:04:47.780 a different take than most people I've seen. Here is the commentary in question.

00:04:52.600 Everybody I know who's married right now, they're married to broke-ass f***s, and they don't care.

00:05:01.620 We don't give a f*** about your money. I couldn't care less about your f***ing money, okay?

00:05:05.880 There it is. There's the N-word. Did we bleep the N-word? Do we have to bleep? We have to bleep

00:05:13.300 the N-word. So I guess we're, you got the guh, though. Okay, we got the guh. It's the soft R,

00:05:19.400 as they say. And for this, this woman's going to be totally canceled, I assume. Except that

00:05:24.840 her recitation of the N-word here doesn't seem like the most problematic part of the video.

00:05:33.560 Obviously, in this context, the N-word with the soft R, the guh, doesn't even refer to black people.

00:05:45.300 She's saying her friends who are married are married to broke-A-Ns. But the Ns,

00:05:53.760 unless all of her friends, husbands are black guys, it just refers to fellas. That's basically

00:06:01.000 what the word means in the colloquial vulgar speech. In fact, when I'm singing along to rap

00:06:07.360 songs, if I don't want to be canceled, I'll just replace that word with fella. Oop-de-woop, fella

00:06:12.100 what? I'm the D-O-double-G. So that's what she, that's what the word means here. That's what the

00:06:18.020 signifier is signifying. Even so, she could go out and talk about guidos, right? That's a slur for

00:06:25.160 Italians. And even, unlike in this case, even if that word were referring to the specific racial group

00:06:30.420 that it's most commonly associated with, she wouldn't get canceled for that. She could go

00:06:34.580 out, she could refer to, I don't know, wetbacks, mix. There are all sorts of other racial slurs.

00:06:41.100 I'm sure that I'll be pilloried for reciting here. But she wouldn't be canceled for it.

00:06:47.120 It's that word in particular. And yet, what about the F word? What about the ASS? What about,

00:06:55.280 that kind of vulgar speech, I think, is far more problematic here. Because

00:07:01.160 it's just not the sort of thing we like to do in public. It's just not, if we're talking as she is

00:07:09.220 about the relation between men and women, call me old fashioned. I don't like to hear ladies speak

00:07:16.620 that way. And I try not to speak that way in front of ladies. I think that's wrong for men to do that

00:07:23.020 too. I think it's wrong for men to do it all the time. I think it's a venial sin. But occasionally

00:07:27.940 at the bar, you know, guys talking, sometimes a loose word comes out. But we try not to do that.

00:07:34.720 We make an extra special effort not to do that in front of women. Why? Because men and women are

00:07:39.780 different. Because of the point that this girl is making and the point that conservatives have been

00:07:44.240 trying to make for 10 years now. That men and women are different. And if we really believe that,

00:07:48.960 don't we need to reflect that in our speech? Speech is what distinguishes us from the

00:07:52.800 lower animals. Speech is the distinction that human beings have. So if we really believe this

00:08:02.260 stuff, if we really believe in a traditional society, and we really believe in a moral order,

00:08:06.860 and we really believe even just in the difference between men and women, and we really believe in

00:08:10.840 conserving something worth conserving, those are the words you got to watch out for.

00:08:15.360 A little vulgar term that comes up that's not even referring, being used as a racial epithet.

00:08:24.820 That's a relatively minor. Okay, speaking of broke people, Kevin Spacey is just broken down

00:08:32.940 on the Piers Morgan show because he doesn't have any money anymore.

00:08:37.660 Where do you live now?

00:08:47.120 Well, it's funny you ask that question. Because this week, where I have been living in Baltimore,

00:08:55.880 is being foreclosed on it. My house is being sold at auction.

00:08:58.980 Really? So I have to go back to Baltimore and put all my things in storage. Really?

00:09:06.700 So the answer to that question is, I'm not quite sure where I'm going to live now,

00:09:11.340 but I've been in Baltimore for, since we started shooting House of Cards there.

00:09:16.680 Are you facing bankruptcy?

00:09:18.780 It's been a couple of times when I thought I was going to file, but we've managed to sort of

00:09:27.660 dodge it, at least as of today. How much money do you have?

00:09:38.780 None.

00:09:40.260 None. Kevin Spacey, one of the greatest actors of his generation, is totally bankrupt.

00:09:44.380 And I feel sorry for him, but I feel sorry in a very particular way. I feel pity for Kevin Spacey

00:09:51.540 in the way that Dante feels pity for the sinners in hell. I don't feel pity for Kevin Spacey

00:09:56.680 in a way that denies the justice of what he's going through. I think what he's going through

00:10:04.780 is absolutely just. I feel pity for him because he just didn't really know and he kind of thought

00:10:11.480 he could get away with it. Kevin Spacey is facing the just consequences of his evil actions.

00:10:19.380 He did lots of very bad things that are very public. He behaved in a way that one is not

00:10:24.560 supposed to behave and had a reputation apparently for doing so.

00:10:30.280 Now he is being persecuted for doing those bad things and he's crying about it.

00:10:35.900 If Kevin Spacey were being persecuted for doing the right thing,

00:10:41.560 I strongly suspect he wouldn't be crying about it. When people undergo persecution for goodness

00:10:50.000 and justice, for God, for the faith when they're martyred. You think of the Christians in the

00:10:56.040 Coliseum, they're dancing as they're about to be fed to lions because they know that what they're

00:10:59.120 doing is right and they understand that it is for the greater glory of God and it's a good thing

00:11:03.920 and they don't have anything to fear. Ultimately, you know, the princes of this world can threaten

00:11:10.220 you and try to make you scream, but ultimately there is a higher power than those princes and

00:11:17.300 you're on the right side. Kevin Spacey is crying because he's being persecuted for doing all sorts

00:11:24.040 of bad things and this is common in our culture. I don't even mean to pick on Kevin Spacey, but Kevin

00:11:29.400 Spacey was told, hey, you can do all sorts of weird sex stuff, you know, like that a lot of

00:11:36.100 people are talking about in this month of June and you can sleep with people that you're working with

00:11:41.860 and you can pick up young guys on movie sets and you can do this, that, and the other thing. And

00:11:48.260 it's cool. It's Hollywood. It doesn't matter. And this is what Harvey Weinstein was told. This is

00:11:53.060 what every, you know, those two guys had become figures of the Me Too movement, but it's like

00:11:58.680 everybody in Hollywood, not, not actually everybody, but statistically everybody, 99.9% of people

00:12:06.520 engage in this kind of stuff. And it seems normal, not normal according to actual moral standards,

00:12:12.840 but normal according to common behavior. And so they're all told, oh, it's fine, man. Love is love,

00:12:17.440 Kevin Spacey. Feel free to go, you know, grope the PA on some movie set or whatever. Yeah, it's cool,

00:12:22.340 man. It's whatever. It's Hollywood. You're the man. You're a star. You can do whatever you want,

00:12:25.920 right? And, but in reality, according to the real moral order, that isn't true.

00:12:32.860 And so the problem is when you, when you wed yourself to the spirit of the age, as Fulton

00:12:36.780 Sheen tells us, you find yourself a widow in the next, these passing fashions, these passing norms

00:12:41.440 and standards that aren't rooted in anything real, they're going to come and go. And then one day

00:12:45.680 Hollywood's going to come up and say, oh, hey, all that behavior that we've been encouraging for 50

00:12:49.760 years. Yeah, that's over now. And we're going to throw you in jail. If we don't like

00:12:52.280 you because of it. And so he's facing, he said, no, but you, you told me it was okay. Yeah. But

00:12:56.940 those people who told you that were liars and they weren't actually grounded in the proper and real

00:13:01.700 moral order. So he's, he's weeping like a, like a figure in Dante's Inferno. You know, he's saying,

00:13:07.800 oh no, I, I'm, this is awful. What misery I'm in. And it's, it's a special kind of misery that

00:13:15.760 actually provokes tears because it's the misery that I suspect deep down Kevin Spacey knows

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00:14:36.500 Speaking of consequences, Hunter Biden is found guilty on all charges. Hunter Biden only had three

00:14:46.840 charges brought against him. They all related to buying a gun while he was a crackhead. And so the

00:14:51.940 charges pretty much amounted to lying on a form while he was buying a gun. There are many other

00:14:56.760 crimes that Hunter Biden committed. This is pretty much the least of it. Many, many more serious crimes

00:15:02.360 and importantly, many more crimes that implicate his father that he wasn't prosecuted for. So

00:15:08.680 they try to let him off the hook completely. Biden's corrupt DOJ gives him even less than a

00:15:14.580 slap on the wrist, tries to make the whole thing be brushed under the rug. A judge says, no, this is

00:15:19.960 too ridiculous. You actually have to prosecute him at least a little bit. So they prosecute him on the

00:15:24.440 lowest level possible. The jury deliberates for three hours. We know he did it. We've got pictures and

00:15:29.340 videos and emails and texts. And it's, you know, the guy documented every second of every crime he

00:15:34.960 committed just about. So, okay, now he faces 25 years in prison and a quarter million dollar

00:15:39.440 fine. Joe Biden has said he will not pardon his son because no one's above the law and justice,

00:15:44.940 lady justice is blind. But I said, and you know, I hate to say I told you so. I said at the time,

00:15:50.440 this is bogus. Notice what Biden doesn't say. He doesn't say that he won't commute the sentence

00:15:56.100 of Hunter Biden. So he might be lying. He might pardon him outright. But even if he doesn't

00:16:00.900 pardon him outright, he'll almost certainly commute the sentence. So Hunter Biden will never

00:16:04.740 see a day in jail. So Corrine Jean-Pierre, the president's press secretary, was just asked about

00:16:08.400 this directly. Here's her non-answer. He has said that he was, he has ruled out pardoning his son,

00:16:17.760 but I wondered about a commutation, whether that would be something that would be on the table,

00:16:21.900 a commutation. So look, as I stated at the top, I don't have anything to say beyond to your first

00:16:29.240 question, beyond what the president's statement was yesterday. He's been very clear. We've been very

00:16:36.460 clear. You know, he, he loves his son. Yeah. Okay. So of course, of course he would at least

00:16:42.840 commute his son's sentence and probably would pardon him. And I don't blame him. I don't blame him at

00:16:48.580 all. If it were my kid, I certainly would at least commute his sentence. God forbid that it would be

00:16:54.360 my kid who went that far down a terrible path. God forbid. But if it were absolutely. And I were

00:16:59.480 in that position, you bet I would a hundred percent. What's the alternative? The alternative

00:17:04.460 is you let your son rot in prison to score political points. And I don't think there's anything

00:17:09.140 good or noble or virtuous about that at all. And, and so that's what Biden wants to do,

00:17:13.820 but he can't say that because it looks really bad politically. And you know, if you, if you are

00:17:19.240 willing to forego the political points to do something that you feel is right for your son,

00:17:26.100 well, then you got to forego the political points and that might cost you an election.

00:17:29.180 And Joe Biden doesn't want it to cost him an election. So now he's just mumbling and

00:17:34.620 prevaricating and sending his spokesman out to give non answers to questions for which we know the

00:17:41.140 obvious answer. Yes. Joe Biden will make sure that his son never sees a day in jail. That's,

00:17:46.240 that's pretty much, I think where, where all the smart money is now, speaking of how much I hate to

00:17:52.000 say, I told you so. And speaking of the Hunter Biden conviction, this verdict is a distraction.

00:18:00.480 There were a lot of conservatives who were celebrating, ha ha, we got Hunter Biden. I said,

00:18:04.940 no guys, we're getting played here. First of all, he's probably not going to face actual punishments,

00:18:09.120 but second of all, this is a very inexpensive way politically for Democrats to justify the Trump

00:18:17.740 conviction. Donald Trump was convicted in an unprecedented way. First time ever that a former

00:18:23.700 president has been prosecuted. And certainly the first time ever that a former president and current

00:18:30.400 Republican party nominee has been prosecuted, let alone convicted for crimes that aren't even crimes.

00:18:37.900 Don't forget in New York, the crime for which he was convicted, the supposed 34 felonies wasn't

00:18:44.200 actually a felony. I'm not even convinced it was a misdemeanor. It was, according to prosecutors,

00:18:51.240 misfiling some paperwork, categorizing a payoff in a political campaign as a legal expense. As far as

00:18:59.680 I'm concerned, that is a legal expense. What are you supposed to categorize it as? He told his lawyer,

00:19:03.780 take care of some of these problems, which are publicity problems, but they also involve

00:19:09.120 aspects of the law. Just go take care of it. You pay your fixer to do that. Your fixer's a lawyer.

00:19:13.160 That's a legal expense. But even let's say it doesn't qualify as a legal expense. That's a

00:19:17.860 misdemeanor. The misdemeanor would have run out in 2019. So they had to elevate it to a felony.

00:19:22.800 The way they elevated to a felony to prosecute Trump is they say, well, the misdemeanor was committed

00:19:27.180 in the service of some underlying crime. They never established that Trump committed any underlying

00:19:32.100 crime. In fact, the judge explicitly told the jury, you don't need to agree on what the underlying

00:19:37.320 crime was. Just convict him. Say he did something bad, convict him. And by the way, the underlying

00:19:41.920 crime, in this case, the closest thing to maybe an underlying crime would be an FEC violation,

00:19:47.100 an election commission violation, which would have to be at the federal level, not at the state level

00:19:52.700 in New York. And by the way, the federal government looked into it and they didn't prosecute.

00:19:55.840 So the whole thing is just totally bogus. The Trump conviction, Trump is facing a zillion years

00:20:02.060 in prison for a crime he didn't commit, which isn't even a crime. Hunter Biden is facing practically

00:20:08.740 no days in prison for a small fraction of the crimes that we know for a fact he committed.

00:20:16.680 There's no comparison here. Donald Trump, politically extraordinarily relevant,

00:20:21.220 we're talking about a fundamental reordering of our political system if this guy puts on an orange

00:20:27.280 jumpsuit. Even the fact that he's been convicted already reorders our political system. Hunter Biden

00:20:31.200 is just some schmuck. Hunter Biden is just the president's son. And so, anyway, that's what I said.

00:20:38.000 And apparently the Trump campaign agrees with me, because the Trump campaign is quite wise.

00:20:42.440 Statement is, this is from Carolyn Leavitt, the Trump national press secretary.

00:20:49.520 This trial has been nothing more than a distraction from the real crimes of the Biden crime family,

00:20:53.800 which has raked in tens of millions of dollars from China, Russia, and Ukraine.

00:20:58.260 Crooked Joe Biden's reign over the Biden family criminal empire is all coming to an end. And on

00:21:03.420 November 5th, never again will a Biden sell government access for personal profit. Yeah, this is it.

00:21:10.440 Do not be distracted, folks. Trump campaign, they get it. That's good. I'm glad the Trump campaign gets

00:21:18.040 it. Very, very good news. Now, we will turn to real political issues in one moment. First, though,

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00:23:37.200 great news coming out of the Congress. The House of Representatives, still controlled by

00:23:43.500 the Republicans, has voted to hold Merrick Garland, Joe Biden's attorney general, in contempt of

00:23:50.960 Congress. This is important because Steve Bannon, former chief White House strategist for Trump,

00:23:57.220 has just been ordered to go to jail because he was found in criminal contempt of Congress.

00:24:02.980 pretty shocking. Steve Bannon is, to my knowledge, only the second senior presidential advisor ever

00:24:12.000 to go to jail for contempt of Congress. Do you know who the first one was? Peter Navarro,

00:24:18.400 another Trump advisor, Trump's trade advisor, who is currently sitting in jail for criminal

00:24:23.120 contempt of Congress. First time ever. When you think about Democrats imprisoning their political

00:24:28.980 opponents, recognize it's not just Trump. They're doing it to the associates around Trump. Also in

00:24:35.540 ways that are unprecedented, that upend our political order. So why? Why did Bannon and Navarro

00:24:42.460 get sentenced to jail? Because they ignored a congressional subpoena. Okay, well, can't help but

00:24:48.080 notice Merrick Garland also ignored a congressional subpoena. He did the same thing. And now he was found

00:24:56.600 in criminal contempt of Congress. And now, is he going to go to jail? No chance. What Garland says

00:25:02.740 is, it's deeply disappointing that this House of Representatives has turned a serious congressional

00:25:07.800 authority into a partisan weapon. Today's vote disregards the constitutional separation of powers,

00:25:12.080 the Justice Department's need to protect its investigations, and the substantial amount of

00:25:15.460 information we have provided to the committees. I will always stand up for the department,

00:25:18.920 its employees, and its vital mission to defend our democracy. Oh yeah, yeah, today's vote

00:25:23.280 disregards the constitutional separation of powers. Does it now?

00:25:29.840 How about when U-Libs sent two top presidential advisers to prison? Does that violate the separation

00:25:38.000 of powers? Well, no, it's different. How's it different? The reason that Navarro and Steve Bannon

00:25:43.220 weren't going to play ball with Congress is because that would have constituted a kind of

00:25:48.980 congressional supremacy over the executive, because it would have denied executive privilege,

00:25:53.440 because it would have compromised the constitutional separation of powers, the exact same argument

00:25:57.860 Merrick Garland's making. Well, no, but that's different. They're Republicans. They can rot in jail.

00:26:02.940 You want to talk about the upending or system of norms and the separation of powers? You're trying

00:26:07.980 to imprison the president. You, Merrick Garland, are trying to imprison the president. You,

00:26:12.360 because you're the head of the Justice Department. Well, no, that's different. He's a Republican.

00:26:16.320 He's a great threat to democracy. If we let people vote for the candidate they want to vote for,

00:26:20.320 that would be the end of democracy. So what do we do? He's not going to go to jail. And they're

00:26:24.800 going to say, no, he's a sitting attorney general. There's no way. One thing conservatives might

00:26:28.500 consider doing in the House is we might remember that there was another attorney general who was

00:26:34.040 held in criminal contempt of Congress, not for Joe Biden, but for Barack Obama. That would be Eric

00:26:38.760 Holder. So Eric Holder did pretty much the same thing and Congress held him in contempt and Holder

00:26:47.240 made a big fuss about it, but he never faced any actual consequences for it. How about we put him

00:26:52.560 in an orange jumpsuit? If, if the argument, I don't even know what the argument is at this point. I'm

00:26:57.060 not sure the liberals who are making the arguments know what the argument is, but if the argument is,

00:27:01.120 well, no, you can't imprison the sitting attorney general, that would constitute a grave violation of

00:27:05.420 the separation of powers. Well, what about the old attorney general? He was held in contempt of

00:27:09.960 Congress and we have a Republican Congress again that would probably affirm that finding.

00:27:17.720 Why don't we throw Eric Holder in jail? If this is what we do now, if we just jail our political

00:27:23.220 opponents, throw him in jail. Why not? Why not? Well, well, Michael, because if we wield the law and

00:27:30.880 the government and the, in the way that the liberals do, then we'll be no different than

00:27:35.660 them. No, it will be quite different from them because we have different political aims and we're

00:27:39.520 different people motivated by a different first principles and we have a different vision for the

00:27:43.540 country. Or we can do nothing, which is what the squishes want to do. And then we can, we can claim

00:27:50.720 the moral high ground though. We would have demonstrated such cowardice. I don't think we can claim the

00:27:54.760 moral high ground and we can say, well, can you imagine if the shoe were on the other foot?

00:27:58.220 Just you wait. Hypothetically in the future, we might do something to you. I mean, we won't,

00:28:05.240 but hypothetically we could. Not a bad idea. You're not going to get Garland. Go after Holder.

00:28:10.600 Now, Congress did something else that was worthwhile yesterday. Very pleased to see this.

00:28:16.480 Thanks to Congressman Jim Banks, who you might recall sent a letter to me and to a number of other

00:28:22.120 mainstream conservatives to inform us that we're on a Ukrainian hit list, a Ukrainian hit list of

00:28:28.180 Ukrainian organization that was actually founded by a guy who was trained by the State Department,

00:28:33.200 the U.S. State Department. So I appreciated Congressman Banks informing me of this. And

00:28:37.920 he also wrote to the Appropriations Committee chairman and wrote to others in Congress and said,

00:28:41.440 hey, we should probably defund this group. We're funding this group that's threatening and

00:28:47.380 endangering American citizens. We should probably defund that, right? So happy to say Republicans on the

00:28:53.300 Appropriations Committee have voted to defund that group, the Data Journalism Agency, known by its

00:29:00.880 nickname Texty. The Data Journalism Agency, founded by Anatoly Bondarenko, who is an instructor for the

00:29:08.700 State Department's Tech Camp program. Okay. I'm glad. Obviously, we need to defund a group that is

00:29:16.260 putting American citizens and journalists and civilians, private citizens on hit lists for sure.

00:29:23.780 Also, we need to ban this lunatic from the country. I never want this animal, Anatoly Bondarenko,

00:29:30.320 ever to be permitted to set foot in America anymore. Put him on every list there is. Put him on a list.

00:29:35.840 How about that? We need to go much further than this. I'm very grateful to Congressman Banks and the

00:29:40.800 House Appropriations Committee. Obviously, it's a great first step. Got to defund this group.

00:29:44.880 I think we need to defund a lot of groups, and I think that we need to bar a lot of these people

00:29:51.320 from our country, from having anything to do with our country, especially when these people were trained

00:29:56.860 by the U.S. State Department. Yikes. Talk about the weaponization of government against ordinary

00:30:02.580 American citizens. The U.S. State Department training and funding people who put American

00:30:08.400 citizens on hit lists. We got to do a lot more than defund one little group. I said yes to

00:30:14.860 I was in principle. I have no problem with helping Ukraine. I have no particular affection for Putin

00:30:19.240 or the Russian Federation. But can't help but notice in this war between Ukraine and Russia,

00:30:24.300 only one side has put me on a hit list. So as far as I'm concerned, if something doesn't change here,

00:30:28.840 not only should we defund Ukraine, we should start funding Russia. That's how sick I am of the

00:30:34.300 the utter vile corruption in our government. Now, speaking of people who are getting fed up with

00:30:41.780 libs, Bill Burr has just made some headlines for saying that he hates liberals, sort of.

00:30:50.260 Bill Burr, according to the San Francisco Gate, was just doing a stand-up set. We don't have audio or

00:30:55.020 video of it, but here's what he said. We have quotes. I effing hate liberals.

00:30:59.500 liberals. But he said his issue was not even just with liberals. It was specifically with

00:31:04.120 white liberals because of their hypocrisy. And he pointed out the hypocrisy of the white liberals

00:31:10.840 holding up Black Lives Matter signs, but not doing the real work to break down the systems of oppression

00:31:18.620 that led to the Black Lives Matter movement. He said, that's like if I told you my great-grandmother

00:31:23.260 in Germany had a knock-it-off Nazis sign. I'm sure it elicited many chuckles from the crowd.

00:31:29.500 And then he goes on. He says, if you run into a white person who says that they're an empath,

00:31:33.820 run the other way. He said, these white empaths, these are people who like making other people

00:31:38.700 suffering about themselves, those white people, those white liberals. I like Bill Burr well enough.

00:31:46.620 Some of his stuff is funny. I really don't mean to pick on Bill Burr, but this ain't it, man.

00:31:51.320 This ain't it. This is such cautious comedy. This is so safe because, yeah, it's a criticism of

00:32:01.400 liberals from within the framework of liberalism. I'm sick of criticizing liberal white women.

00:32:09.720 I'm sick of it. I know it's funny. I know liberal white women do and say crazy things sometimes,

00:32:13.960 but I'm sick of it because it's cheap, easy comedy because that's the group you're allowed

00:32:18.060 to attack because they're white. You can't do jokes about black liberal women. Oh, that would

00:32:22.340 be very racist or any other racial group. Can't do it. The whites, it's okay. Why? Because that's

00:32:28.040 what liberalism tells us. Liberalism tells us white people bad, fair season. You actually should,

00:32:32.700 you should insult white people. You should attack white people. And so even women, you know,

00:32:37.480 women get a few more victim points than the men, but if they're white women, you can make fun of

00:32:41.740 them, those stupid Karens. Yeah, you hear this all the time. Oh, my least favorite people in the

00:32:45.440 country is the white liberal women, or even there's that term for them, awful, affluent,

00:32:50.820 white, female, liberal. It's kind of funny. They're awful, right? Ha ha ha. But no one would

00:32:54.580 ever, no mainstream people would ever make those jokes about other racial groups because it's not,

00:32:59.020 it's not safe. You could be canceled for doing that. And then here, Bill Burr goes even further.

00:33:04.980 He says his problem with the BLM movement is it doesn't take on the real scourge of white supremacy.

00:33:10.240 So it's affirming, saying BLM is right. BLM is totally right about everything, but the BLM

00:33:15.740 movement doesn't go far enough. That's the, that's the punchline of the joke.

00:33:21.120 And that the, the white liberals who are advancing all of this stuff that's destroying our country,

00:33:25.200 they don't, they don't really mean it. That's the point. It's so tedious. I hate to pick on Bill

00:33:31.200 Burr because he's like a, generally a funny guy. I haven't been that into standup comedy since Norm

00:33:36.300 died. There's no, there's no number two. It's just Norm and then everybody else. But this ain't

00:33:41.080 it, man. Come on, Burr. Take some risks. Good. Come on. Come on, man. Now you want to see where

00:33:49.420 you're seeing real criticism of liberalism. Turn over to Europe. Great surveys coming out of Europe,

00:33:54.520 specifically with regard to the Utes. Usually in Europe, the Utes are the ones who support all the

00:34:01.980 lib stuff. That's been the story for the last 20 years or more. So this is why all the libs in

00:34:07.340 Europe said, we need to, we need to lower the voting age. We need to get more young people

00:34:11.200 involved in politics. The same kind of nonsense you hear in America. Oh yeah. Let's get all,

00:34:14.900 because those young people, they care about climate change and they want more migration and diversity

00:34:19.520 and rainbow stuff. And yeah, let the children are the future. Yeah. Uh, they ain't saying that

00:34:24.820 anymore. Now I think they want to raise that voting age to 50 because surveys show that the young

00:34:28.800 voters in Europe are pretty right wing, like not even, not cut your taxes right wing. We're talking

00:34:36.280 like deport the migrants right wing. Surveys show voters in this 18 to 24 year old bracket,

00:34:43.480 uh, are now in, in these recent European elections voting for hard right parties, the alternative for

00:34:52.800 Deutschland in Germany, the, uh, the exit polls are showing what is the topic that is motivating them.

00:35:00.420 It's immigration. Immigration is moving voters of all ages to the right in Europe and in America.

00:35:08.180 But you look at Portugal, Italy, Sweden, France, the Netherlands, Germany, the youngest voters

00:35:16.800 are throwing their support behind the most right wing parties. And it's specifically because of

00:35:22.860 immigration. Even the New York times is admitting this. We have seen the largest movement of peoples

00:35:27.700 ever into the West, the largest movement of peoples ever full stop. And those peoples are moving into

00:35:34.740 the West over the last 10, 20, 30, 40 years in America goes back 60, 70 years actually. And people

00:35:41.660 are sick of it. Not because we don't like the icky foreigners necessarily. I guess some people don't like

00:35:46.300 the icky foreigners. I don't have a problem with the icky foreigners in principle, and many of them

00:35:49.980 are not icky. But the problem is you can't just throw open the borders to your country and expect

00:35:55.460 everything to be simpatico. It really damages the labor market in, in ways to the working class.

00:36:00.400 It helps the wealthier classes, but it damages the economy for the, for the working classes. And it

00:36:06.960 just jumbles up your culture because you have people who don't speak your language, who don't have

00:36:09.980 your customs, who don't, who don't do the basic things that make a polity, a polity.

00:36:14.580 Young people noticing that. Even the New York Times noticing that. You know what I say?

00:36:20.780 The kids are all right. My favorite comment yesterday is from the doorman. Oh no, it's not,

00:36:27.040 there's no R in there. It's just like a term for excrement. Man, 40, 26, who says,

00:36:33.420 when a society is really cooking, Michael talking like Zoomers. It's funny that that is Zoomer talk,

00:36:38.520 right? They say, well, let him cook. He's cooking. But it's also old slang. It's like,

00:36:43.120 oh man, we're cooking now, baby. Let's go. We're really cooking, huh? And so it reminds me that

00:36:47.600 slang comes back sometimes. It just comes back. And so I'm, not only am I looking forward to the

00:36:54.220 slang of my youth coming back, you know, bomb.com, oh snap, that's fat. That's what, what's up dog?

00:37:02.400 I don't know, whatever. Not even just that. I want the really old slang to come. I want the hundred

00:37:06.480 year old slang, 23 skidoo. That's what, 23 skidoo kids for real, for real. Now, speaking of

00:37:13.980 punishment, talking all about punishment, the punishment of the liberal political order,

00:37:22.380 the punishment of the enemies of the liberal political order. Let's talk about people who

00:37:25.220 I think everybody agrees should be punished. And that is sexual predators. One mode of punishing

00:37:31.380 them that has been suggested in recent years has been chemical castration. And Chris Hansen,

00:37:42.460 who is the star of To Catch a Predator, remember that old show, like, oh, sit down right over here.

00:37:46.620 What are you doing here? You get all these pedos who are trying to meet up with 12 year olds or

00:37:49.600 something. He's just come out and said, actually, chemical castration is a bad idea.

00:37:54.420 I understand the frustration and the need to crack down on child predators. I come face to face with

00:38:01.380 them all the time. And our new investigation is called Takedown on my streaming crime network,

00:38:06.180 True Blue. I think the problem with the ideal of surgical castration is, does it act as a deterrence?

00:38:15.500 These guys could get out of prison. And even though they've had this done to them,

00:38:18.920 they could still prey on victims in other ways. A predator is a predator. And I'm not so sure that

00:38:26.080 this is the right thing to do. I'd rather see stricter prison sentences. I'd rather see

00:38:33.520 treatment and therapy available to men who fear they may become predators, who have a predilection for

00:38:41.700 this activity, who need help. I don't think constitutionally they're going to be allowed to

00:38:48.140 get away with surgical castration because what's next? Do they then cut off the hands of thieves?

00:38:54.640 So Chris Hansen making the point, not only does this conversation pertain to chemical castration,

00:39:01.040 some are even talking about surgical castration. And I have to say, I think he's onto something.

00:39:07.440 It sounds like Chris Hansen is going easy on the pedos. I don't think he is. I think actually he's just

00:39:13.240 speaking in a way that is more ethically sound and in some ways is harsher on the pedos, but is

00:39:18.820 better for society and for the pedos. Because the problem with castrating these people, it's not

00:39:26.300 that they don't deserve this. No, they deserve what they get. I mean, there would be no problem

00:39:29.860 in principle with executing them as long as they were found guilty by the state and they were all

00:39:33.960 carried out in a civil way. But there are practical problems. Like one reason that you don't want to

00:39:39.180 kill sexual predators, even the worst sexual predators, is you want to give an incentive to

00:39:46.140 them not to kill their victims. If it's the same punishment, whether you kill the victims or not,

00:39:50.680 then there's no incentive for them not to. So just from a prudential standpoint, it's sometimes better

00:39:54.740 not to. And then when it comes to castration, it's morally pretty dubious, ethically pretty dubious,

00:40:01.800 because you're now really attacking the integrity of the human person. Castration is intrinsically

00:40:10.160 wrong. It alters something, it damages something about us that makes us human.

00:40:19.840 And the purpose of the justice system is it's kind of like a medicine. Plato writes about this,

00:40:28.540 St. Thomas Aquinas writes about this, that you want to protect the common good and you do want

00:40:34.540 to rehabilitate the criminals. The cause of it is retributive, meaning the reason that you go into

00:40:41.860 the criminal justice system is because you have done something wrong. It's not merely because you

00:40:45.340 could use some rehabilitation. It's because you've committed an action that is wrong. But then what it

00:40:50.900 aims at is a kind of medicine for society, for the victims, and for the perpetrator here. And so

00:40:58.080 it seems to me, rather than, you know, you catch these guys who've done awful things and then you

00:41:02.020 just give them a drug or something that changes their body chemistry and really attacks their

00:41:07.820 humanity, I'd probably just lock them up a lot longer. And I probably would put them in pretty

00:41:11.700 rigorous therapies. And ironically, you know, today the rainbow movement has banned anything that even

00:41:17.420 has the whiff of a conversion therapy, which is ironic in part because all therapy is conversion

00:41:23.040 therapy because you were trying to change someone's mind. You were trying to convert them

00:41:27.220 from a distorted psyche to an ordered psyche. That is the basic point of therapy. But then when it

00:41:35.820 comes to certain sexual predilections, they say you're not allowed to do it. But in any case,

00:41:39.100 that kind of a therapy would probably be much more conducive to the flourishing of society and to

00:41:50.080 these deeply troubled individuals, especially coupled with pretty harsh punishments in prison

00:41:55.720 time. Now, though, we live in this modern society where we don't want to deal with questions of

00:42:00.040 justice, where we don't want to ignore aspects of psychology that people have known about for a very

00:42:04.740 long time, where we don't want to even really deal with the moral order. We just want to give

00:42:07.320 someone a pill or we just want to do a little snip snip. And even if that alters our humanity,

00:42:11.620 we like that actually. We're living in an age that gets excited by transhumanism, the notion that

00:42:15.660 we're going to cease to be homo sapiens and we're going to transform into something else and make

00:42:20.280 ourselves into gods and become cyborgs and plug into the matrix. So yeah, we love that. Oh, just take

00:42:24.800 a pill. That'll fix it. Pills don't fix everything. And the deep problems in life, the pills actually

00:42:29.780 don't fix. I think Chris Hansen, who has a lot of experience in this line of work that probably many of us

00:42:34.820 watched on that ridiculous show as kids. I think he's onto something. Now, speaking of

00:42:41.480 dastardly people living in the shadows among us, are aliens living underneath the earth?

00:42:51.740 Theory posited not by late night talk radio, not by the conspiracy theorists with the tinfoil hats,

00:42:59.380 but by Harvard researchers. There is a paper out. I encourage you to read it or at least to read the

00:43:08.100 abstract of it, which is available on ResearchGate. This comes from researchers at Montana Technological

00:43:13.540 University and Harvard suggests that UAP, which is the new term for UFOs, unidentified anomalous

00:43:21.660 phenomena or aerial phenomena instead of unidentified flying objects. Those, the source of those things

00:43:27.540 could be underground. Some theories from the paper, a remnant form of ancient civilization

00:43:34.040 remains on earth, albeit hidden. An intelligent species evolved separately from humans and now

00:43:44.000 stays hidden, like Bigfoot or something, except Bigfoot's kind of a dummy and these guys would be

00:43:48.100 really smart. Crypto-terrestrials traveled from another time period or planet, and they live among us,

00:43:59.640 but we don't really see them a lot because they're underground a lot. And then finally,

00:44:05.240 this research posits that the unidentified creatures are of supernatural origin, likened to

00:44:11.100 earthbound angels. And I'll translate that from Harvard speak, research speak into the way you've

00:44:19.480 probably heard that last theory before. They're interdimensional demons. That last one, that just

00:44:25.900 is the Alex Jones theory. And in fact, there's a little bit of Alex Jones theories to a number of

00:44:31.940 those possibilities. I really like this. Some of these I think are kind of silly, but the last one,

00:44:40.080 the notion that the unidentified creatures are of supernatural origin, meaning they're spirits or

00:44:46.460 apparitions, seems to me, look, they're probably illusions a lot of the time, probably just hallucinations

00:44:54.060 a lot of the time. But the notions that these things, which defy the laws of gravity,

00:45:00.280 or more broadly, the laws of physics, might be spiritual. That is a view held by every

00:45:08.380 civilization ever for all of human history. And it seems like there's maybe some wisdom there.

00:45:12.400 And now even fancy Harvard researchers with their tweed coats and their spectacles

00:45:16.900 in tortoise shell, they're saying the same thing. And the thing I love about the story

00:45:21.040 is not that it sheds light on the UFOs or demons or angels or crypto-terrestrials underneath lakes and

00:45:28.420 volcanoes. The thing I love about it, and I didn't even get to read the abstract from the paper,

00:45:33.600 but they say, in the spirit of epistemic humility and openness, these views deserve genuine

00:45:38.920 consideration. The thing I love is that in the year of our Lord, 2024, Harvard scientists are now

00:45:45.220 finally suspecting what illiterate ancient shepherds knew instinctively and intuitively.

00:45:52.440 Yeah, there's some weird stuff in this world. And there's some weird, it seems like ancient

00:46:01.020 civilizations where we don't really know a lot about this world. And there's a spiritual component

00:46:08.300 to the world, and there's angels and demons and stuff. That illiterate Palestinian shepherds in the

00:46:14.320 first century understood that, just as a matter of course. And then it's just, you know, it's the IQ

00:46:21.560 bell curve meme. They say, oh, it's probably like demons and stuff. And then the midwits, they say,

00:46:27.060 no, it's got to be, actually, it might be from planet Zebulon 7, the thing and the butt and the

00:46:34.260 doop and the dee. And then you get up to the highest part of the IQ bell curve and say, yeah,

00:46:37.120 it's probably just interdimensional demons. Yeah, that's true. Okay. We are now entering the

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Ep. 1510 - A White Girl Said The ＂N-Word＂ And This Happened Next

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