The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 1540 - Disgusting Olympic Ceremony Mocks Christians

00:00:00.000 You know how much I hate to say I told you so. I have never been more vindicated in not watching

00:00:07.360 the Olympics than I was on Friday night when the Olympic ceremony kicked off in Paris by mocking

00:00:12.540 God. The ceremony culminated in a parody of the Last Supper, replacing the Incarnate Lord with 0.69

00:00:19.140 some sort of astral witch and replacing the Apostles with a bunch of drag queens and similar 1.00

00:00:24.580 deviants, one of whom had his genitals hanging below his costume next to a child. Unlike the 0.98

00:00:30.740 television networks, I have decided to blur this image because it's sacrilegious and also just

00:00:37.160 generally revolting. The homosexual leftist who put the display together, Thomas Jolly, denies that 0.60

00:00:43.240 the tableau was meant to evoke the Last Supper. Instead, we are now told by the scene's apologists

00:00:49.060 it was meant to call to mind the Feast of the Gods by the 17th century Dutch painter Jan van

00:00:57.060 Billiart. Or else it was meant to call to mind preparations for the wedding banquet of Cupid

00:01:03.460 and Psyche by the 16th century Italian engraver Diana Scultori. These alternative interpretations

00:01:09.840 are pretty weak. One, because no ordinary person would recognize those paintings, whereas everyone

00:01:18.900 recognizes the Last Supper. But two, because the tableau clearly bears greater resemblance to the

00:01:24.180 Last Supper. One of the most distinctive features of which is that the dinner guests are all seated,

00:01:29.360 like in the tableau, but unlike in those other works, on one side of the table. The fact that the

00:01:34.460 tableau's defenders can't even agree on which work it was supposedly based on tells you the whole

00:01:39.840 defense is disingenuous. Now, the sacrilegious depiction certainly was pagan. The Olympics is

00:01:46.940 a late 19th century revival of ancient pagan games, and it includes lots of pagan imagery. As I mentioned

00:01:53.480 last week, the Olympic torch relay begins with a reenactment of vestal virgins worshiping at the

00:01:58.900 temple of Hera. But this modern pagan imagery is sacrilegious in a way that ancient paganism wasn't,

00:02:06.960 because modern paganism has to grapple with Christianity. Ancient paganism, at its worst,

00:02:14.180 was fables and demon worship. But at its best, the paganism of Plato and Aristotle, for instance,

00:02:20.280 it was a kind of vague intuition of Christianity, a deduction through natural reason of the one true

00:02:26.400 God. Modern religion can't ignore Christianity. The incarnation is the central event in history.

00:02:34.360 Whether you think that's good or bad, whether you believe in the meaning of the incarnation,

00:02:40.640 it just is the central event. It changes everything. Islam grapples with Christianity. 1.00

00:02:46.320 Christ is mentioned in the Quran. Even Judaism, which seems to have come before Christianity,

00:02:51.660 grapples with the person of Christ in the Talmud. France was Christian by the end of the 5th century.

00:02:57.460 It's the home of countless saints and cathedrals. It's been known as the eldest daughter of the church.

00:03:02.460 Ancient Athens can innocently, or at least ignorantly, celebrate the pagan gods. Modern

00:03:09.420 France can only do so by rejecting the true God. I, for one, think we ought to leave pagan worship to 0.99

00:03:16.960 the past. And I am inclined to leave the Olympics there, too. I'm Michael Knowles. This is the Michael Knowles Show.

00:03:32.460 Welcome back to the show. You know I was at the Bitcoin conference last week. The audio on the show

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00:05:29.620 code Knowles for 15% off. The sacrilegious tableau was my least favorite part of the opening ceremonies

00:05:36.720 of the Olympics, but there was other insane stuff too. We also had, as part of the French Olympics,

00:05:42.820 a depiction of the beheading of France's queen, Marie-Antoinette.

00:05:48.700 Marie-Antoinette.

00:05:52.700 So you have the queen holding her head, followed by fire blasting out of the ground,

00:06:01.680 and heavy metal musicians playing devilish-sounding music while the French celebrate beheading their 1.00

00:06:11.160 queen. This too, by the way, has a religious aspect to it. So what do we know about the

00:06:17.440 organizer, the artistic director of these ceremonies? We know that he's a touch light in

00:06:23.160 the loafers. We know that he's a leftist. But, you know, it's France, so doesn't that describe

00:06:29.380 everybody? We know that the scene was meant to call to mind. In fairness, I think this part is true.

00:06:35.940 It was meant to call to mind the pagan basis of the Olympic Games. But because it's happening in 0.99

00:06:43.600 2024 rather than, I don't know, you know, 24 BC or centuries earlier BC, we know that it's,

00:06:52.800 in order to be pagan, it's got to reject millennia of development, specifically after the incarnation.

00:06:59.580 So it's a rejection of Christ. It's a rejection in that tableau of the Last Supper. It's a rejection

00:07:05.960 of the Christian civilization that once was France. You know, it's a celebration of the 0.99

00:07:12.680 French Revolution, which beheaded Queen Marie-Antoinette, and which has religious overtones to

00:07:17.680 that too. The beheading of the queen, one of the worst events in the history of Europe. I mean,

00:07:27.300 the French Revolution was a kind of return of paganism, a rejection of Christianity. They 0.78

00:07:32.820 went into Notre Dame, turned it into a temple to reason. They remade everything after secularism 0.71

00:07:39.340 and atheism and tried to destroy the last vestiges of Christianity in France. But one of the most famous

00:07:46.980 descriptions of all this came from Edmund Burke, an Englishman, in his book, Reflections on the

00:07:51.040 Revolution in France. And the most famous passage of that work refers to Marie-Antoinette.

00:07:57.300 There was a time when I knew this by heart, but I'll make sure I don't miss a word here.

00:08:00.660 Burke writes,

00:08:01.660 It is now 16 or 17 years since I saw the Queen of France, then the Dauphinus at Versailles,

00:08:06.360 and surely never lighted on this orb, which she hardly seemed to touch, a more delightful vision.

00:08:11.140 I saw her just above the horizon, decorating and cheering the elevated sphere she just began to move 1.00

00:08:16.120 in, glittering like the morning star, full of life and splendor and joy. Oh, what a revolution,

00:08:22.000 or what a heart must I have to contemplate without emotion and elevation, that elevation and that fall.

00:08:28.540 Little did I dream that, when she added titles of veneration to those of enthusiastic, distant,

00:08:33.840 respectful love, that she should ever be obliged to carry the sharp antidote against disgrace concealed

00:08:39.440 in that bosom. Little did I dream that I should have lived to see such disasters fallen upon her 0.98

00:08:45.460 in a nation of gallant men, in a nation of men of honor and of cavaliers. I thought 10,000 swords

00:08:51.820 must have leaped from their scabbards to avenge even a look that threatened her with insult.

00:08:57.680 But the age of chivalry is gone. It goes on to the even more famous parts of that passage.

00:09:02.200 I read all of this because he's obviously not just writing about Queen Marie Antoinette here.

00:09:08.840 There's something deeper going on. This passage has been mocked, even at the time,

00:09:13.340 as being so over the top. The Queen of France was a nice lady, but why is it over the top?

00:09:18.400 Because obviously, he is referring literally to Queen Marie Antoinette, but he's referring by way

00:09:25.560 of allegory to Mary, the Queen of Heaven. Mary, Mary. One's the Queen of France, one's the Queen of Heaven.

00:09:32.860 Listen to this language. Yes, the most delightful vision. She hardly seemed to touch the earth.

00:09:42.380 She's glittering like the morning star, full of life, splendor and joy. This is the language of prayer.

00:09:49.580 Hail Mary, full of grace. The Lord is with thee. What a revolution. She added titles of veneration.

00:09:54.480 Of course, we traditionally and famously venerate Mary.

00:09:58.580 And you would imagine that 10,000 swords would leap from their scabbards to avenge even an insulting

00:10:05.020 look. What is France? Paris is the city of Notre-Dame de Paris, Our Lady of Paris. It's

00:10:11.760 the most famous church there. So the French Revolution was so evil in part because of the 0.67

00:10:19.060 literal action of beheading the Queen, but also in the figurative action, in what that means by way

00:10:27.460 of allegory, that it was an overthrow of Christianity in favor of atheism, in favor of a new kind of

00:10:33.440 paganism. The worship in Notre-Dame de Paris of the goddess Reason, a statue of the goddess Reason.

00:10:41.320 That new paganism is even worse than the old paganism. You think of the new pagan cults like the new age 1.00

00:10:46.640 cults. They refer to Christ. They refer to Christianity. They're a perversion of Christianity. 0.73

00:10:52.000 Modern liberalism is a perversion of Christendom. The civilization that gave rise to liberalism was

00:11:00.080 Christendom. And then liberalism attacks that which begat it. It's a violation of it, as you see in the

00:11:10.200 French Revolution. Very much in keeping with France's modern history. The Olympics has always been super

00:11:19.000 lib. That's one of the reasons I never really watched it. It's this very kumbaya. We have to

00:11:24.220 pretend that all the nations of the earth are equal. And even though all the best athletes just

00:11:29.180 train in America, and then we let them go back to their countries and compete against us. And 0.99

00:11:32.780 you know, it's all, you know, we are the world kind of nonsense. You know, it even comes about the

00:11:38.520 modern games at the end of the 19th century. This age of advancing liberalism. And it's the libs.

00:11:44.980 I know some conservatives like the Olympics too, but it's generally libs who like the idea of the

00:11:50.000 Olympics. Well, now we're seeing the darker meaning of that liberalism, which is that it is explicitly,

00:11:54.880 overtly a rejection of Christianity. That's always been what it is. Now, speaking of belligerent 0.90

00:12:00.520 liberalism, I got some tea to spill. Get your saucers out. I got tea to spill. The Murdoch family is at war

00:12:08.880 with itself. Because Rupert Murdoch, the billionaire tycoon behind Wall Street Journal and the New York

00:12:16.340 Post and especially Fox News, is going to war with his family to keep Fox News right wing. Some of us

00:12:24.940 would say Fox has moved a little bit to the left in recent years, but Rupert wants to stop that,

00:12:30.200 according to a report out of the New York Times. Because Rupert Murdoch is a man of a certain age.

00:12:36.500 I think he's 93 now or something. He knows that time is short. And one of his kids seems pretty

00:12:44.080 conservative, Lachlan Murdoch. The rest of the Murdoch kids seem pretty liberal. And so Murdoch

00:12:49.020 is trying to go in and change a trust that was established years ago, 25 years ago or so,

00:12:54.980 to make Lachlan the head of Fox News, the head of News Corp, so that he can keep Fox News right wing.

00:13:01.480 And his argument is this will benefit all of the heirs. The other kids are still going to get

00:13:05.740 their piece of the pie. They're just not going to have control because Rupert fears that they're

00:13:09.900 going to make Fox News even more liberal than it's become in recent years. Now, will this work? The

00:13:16.120 trust was supposed to be totally unchangeable, but a Nevada probate commissioner has found that Murdoch

00:13:21.360 would be able to edit the trust if he can prove that he's acting in good faith and for the sole

00:13:25.760 benefit of his heirs. So he's got to prove, and I think he can prove this, that keeping Fox News

00:13:33.800 right wing is in the financial benefit of these shareholders, of these beneficiaries, which is

00:13:40.500 obviously true. If Fox News goes left, it's going to lose its audience and it's not going to be any

00:13:47.180 good to anybody. But the family is still fighting Rupert Murdoch on this point. They don't want him

00:13:54.040 to take the steps necessary to keep Fox News right wing, meaning the Fox News heirs, the Murdoch

00:14:02.640 kids, the other Murdoch kids, are actively working in court against their own financial interest.

00:14:09.460 That is how much pressure there is to be liberal in the elite spheres of our society. They would

00:14:15.820 rather lose money. They would rather lose their inheritance than be scorned at cocktail parties.

00:14:24.040 Then be considered a right winger, heaven forfend a Trumper. That's the pressure in our culture. 1.00

00:14:32.000 Even when billions of dollars are on the line, people who move in the elite circles of our culture

00:14:38.100 would still rather be on the side of the liberals and forego their inheritance.

00:14:45.060 So much so that the tycoon, the paterfamilias, has to go to court

00:14:49.240 to protect the financial well-being of his progeny. That's where we are. You think it's tough

00:14:58.600 to be a conservative in this culture? You think it's tough to score some cultural wins? Yeah. Yeah,

00:15:04.700 you're right. People would forego billions for it. So yes, you, all of us, we're going to have to

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00:16:21.500 Bitcoin conference. Here's what he had to say. You need tremendous amounts of electricity.

00:16:27.860 You need double the electricity of the entire electricity that we have right now in the United

00:16:34.200 States to dominate, and we'll get that done. Who would think we can get that done? But we're

00:16:40.260 going to get it done. We'll be having power plants built at the sites. We'll be releasing people from

00:16:47.420 certain ridiculous requirements, and we'll be using fossil fuel to make electricity because we're going

00:16:54.820 to have to. We'll be using nuclear. We'll be doing it in an environmentally friendly way. But we will be

00:17:00.720 creating so much electricity that you'll be saying, please, please, President, we don't want any more

00:17:06.900 electricity. We can't stand it. You'll be begging me, no more electricity, sir. We have enough. We have

00:17:13.560 enough. This afternoon, I'm laying out my plan to ensure that the United States will be the crypto

00:17:19.660 capital of the planet and the Bitcoin superpower of the world, and we'll get it done.

00:17:25.040 I love that President Trump has like five lines, and he just applies them to different

00:17:32.020 circumstances. So here we see the application of the, you're going to win so much, you're going to

00:17:36.760 say, please, I'm tired of winning. We don't want to win anymore. So he's saying, look, crypto requires

00:17:41.880 a lot of electricity. That's one of the reasons that the libs are against crypto, and you need a lot

00:17:46.240 of electricity. We're going to give you electricity. We're going to give you so much, you're going to

00:17:49.960 say, please, no more. I've got too much electricity. I love it. I love it. And the crowd goes wild

00:17:55.880 there. Now, President Trump stopped short. He made all sorts of promises about crypto. He said

00:18:02.120 that he's going to establish a presidential Bitcoin advisory council. He said he was going to keep all

00:18:08.240 the Bitcoin jobs in the United States. He said that there would be no central bank digital currency,

00:18:14.580 which would be a way for the government to go in and gut Bitcoin while he was president.

00:18:20.000 He stepped a little bit short of a promise that was made on his behalf the day before

00:18:24.140 by Bobby Kennedy Jr., who also addressed the Bitcoin conference.

00:18:28.540 Has the potential to return monetary discipline to the Fed and to restore the dollar as the

00:18:34.140 unchallenged global reserve currency. And just as Bitcoin can fortify the dollar,

00:18:39.460 it can also secure America's position in cyberspace. I understand that tomorrow President Trump may

00:18:47.820 announce his plan to build a Bitcoin Fort Knox and authorize the U.S. government to buy a million

00:18:55.520 Bitcoin as a strategic reserve asset. And I applaud that announcement and we should all applaud it.

00:19:02.100 Now, Trump didn't actually do that. So what's going on here? Is Bobby Kennedy Jr., who is running

00:19:14.180 against President Trump, is he trying to take the wind out of Trump's sails by claiming this

00:19:20.720 announcement for himself? Is he working on behalf of Trump to float this idea, see how it plays,

00:19:28.100 not just in the room, but how it plays in the markets and the broader public opinion?

00:19:32.100 I don't know exactly what he's up to. We know that Trump stopped short of that,

00:19:36.400 but Trump did go pretty far to say, look, I'm going to do everything that I can to support Bitcoin

00:19:42.120 and crypto digital currencies. And Bobby Kennedy, also running, so now we've got two of the three

00:19:48.480 who are running for president. He says, I too am going to support Bitcoin as much as I can.

00:19:53.820 The Democrats are quite opposed to Bitcoin. Kamala Harris maybe was going to show up to the 1.00

00:20:02.100 there was a rumor she was going to make it. And then at the last minute, she did not make it. 0.81

00:20:05.900 At first, I thought that she declined to show up because she didn't want to be booed back into

00:20:10.760 Kentucky. The people in that room were not the most favorable to her. I heard some scuttlebutt on

00:20:16.060 the floor of the Bitcoin conference that Kamala Harris didn't show up because she was disinvited,

00:20:20.860 because she wouldn't agree to certain terms laid out by the Bitcoin organizers. So I don't know.

00:20:25.660 I don't know where the reality of that really lies. I do know that Trump has made this a point

00:20:30.480 to see his light. The Dems have come out strongly against Bitcoin.

00:20:37.740 Trump has said, okay, Bitcoiners, hey, all you people who are fanatically passionate about your

00:20:43.420 subject and who have a ton of money, you're welcome in my party. Yeah, come on over here. 0.84

00:20:48.460 Send that Bitcoin over here, baby. That's I'm for you. And this is actually scaring the Democrats. 0.99

00:20:54.060 So Democrats just came out. A number of Democrat lawmakers sent a letter to prospective presidential

00:21:01.200 candidates and to the chairman of the Democrat National Committee asking that the party change

00:21:06.680 its position on Bitcoin. We respectfully call on you, they write, to include pro-digital asset

00:21:12.640 language in the party's platform. It's imperative that the party's platform reflects the potential

00:21:17.040 benefits of digital assets and blockchain technology. Select a VP candidate sophisticated in digital

00:21:21.720 asset policy. Select a pro-innovation SEC chair. So for the Securities and Exchange Commission,

00:21:26.720 not someone who's going to be reflexively anti-Bitcoin and crypto, but who's going to be

00:21:30.780 open to it. And engage with industry experts. What all these people, we're talking about Congressman

00:21:35.340 Colin Allred, Nikki Budzinski, Angie Craig, Don Davis, Dan Goldman, the Ro Khanna's list goes on and 1.00

00:21:42.400 on and on. A lot of Democrat lawmakers here saying, hey guys, you're missing the boat. We need you to be

00:21:49.540 pro-crypto. But the DNC is not. That's why they have to write this letter. The Democratic Party is the

00:21:56.940 anti-Bitcoin party. It's the anti-crypto party. And the Republican Party is the pro-Bitcoin party and the

00:22:02.140 pro-crypto party. And what do I think about Bitcoin? I don't think very much about Bitcoin. I went to the

00:22:06.320 conference. I still don't really totally get what it is. It owes more to my ignorance and, you know,

00:22:13.120 nature as a stunad than to Bitcoin necessarily. But all I know is, from a political perspective,

00:22:21.840 this makes the Republicans look like the party of the future. And this makes the Democrats look like

00:22:27.100 the party of the past. And that didn't used to be the case. It used to look like the Republicans

00:22:32.600 were the party of the past. We just want to go back to the 1950s or something. And the

00:22:36.220 Democrats are the party of the future. But for the past at least three or four years,

00:22:41.660 and maybe more than that, maybe eight or nine years now, the Republicans have looked like the

00:22:46.100 party of innovation. Trump shaking up the party platform, looking ahead, shaking up foreign policy.

00:22:51.200 There was a foreign policy under Bush. It was pretty much the same foreign policy under Obama.

00:22:54.860 Trump shakes that up. There was a trade policy under Bush. It was pretty much the same trade policy

00:22:58.920 under Obama. Trump shakes that up. And then, obviously, the Democrats have a presidential

00:23:03.240 candidate, then president, who was a walking cadaver. That didn't make them look like the

00:23:07.560 party of the future. Even now, they have a younger candidate. Trump is chronologically older than she

00:23:13.380 is. But he seems to have younger ideas. He seems more vibrant. With Kamala, because she's an empty

00:23:18.420 suit, she just regurgitates whatever the Democrat party platform is. And the party platform is out of 1.00

00:23:23.240 date. Whatever you think of Bitcoin, whatever you think of crypto, it is exciting, and I think

00:23:28.220 politically wise for Republicans, where they can, without sacrificing their principles,

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00:24:40.160 The libs are not looking good right now. Their policies are not popular generally. Their record

00:24:47.700 over the past three years is really unpopular. Their nominee until a couple of weeks ago was

00:24:53.660 really unpopular so much so that they had to ditch him, and they get this new lady who's also not

00:24:57.300 popular. So the best they can do right now is lie. I don't mean that as a cheap political shot.

00:25:04.420 I'll give you an example of it, a pretty clear one. CBS News. Trump falsely accuses VP Harris of

00:25:13.520 donating to the Minnesota Freedom Fund. What's the Minnesota Freedom Fund? The Minnesota Freedom Fund

00:25:20.680 is this jailbreak organization that came to prominence during the George Floyd riots.

00:25:26.960 So Trump has mentioned this. He's mentioned that Kamala Harris has been supportive of this

00:25:31.020 organization that bails out violent criminals. And just here's the headline. I'm not going to go into

00:25:37.000 the nitty-gritty details of the article or the video or even the subheader that contradict the

00:25:42.860 headline. This is the headline. This is what most people are going to see. Trump falsely accuses

00:25:47.400 VP Harris of donating to Minnesota Freedom Fund. I'm going to show you a tweet from VP Harris.

00:25:55.860 June 1st, 2020. If you're able to, chip in now to the Minnesota Freedom Fund to help post bail for

00:26:05.000 those protesting on the ground in Minnesota with a link to donate. The link comes from Act Blue,

00:26:11.380 which is probably the most prominent left-wing organization in the country.

00:26:19.260 Trump falsely accuses VP of donating to Minnesota Freedom Fund. Please donate now to Minnesota Freedom

00:26:24.360 Fund. Now, I guess you could say, hold on, let me see. I guess you could try to say

00:26:29.500 that Kamala Harris, while she encouraged others to donate to the millions of people 0.95

00:26:35.880 whom that tweet reached, she encouraged them to donate, but she was hypocritical. She didn't 1.00

00:26:40.280 really donate herself. I guess you could say that. But even so, I don't think that gets her off the

00:26:44.980 hook. If I'm a political bundler and I host a dinner for all my rich friends, and I bundle $5 million

00:26:56.140 for a presidential candidate, but I don't really give money myself other than my work,

00:27:02.700 other than my effort, other than an in-kind contribution, like Kamala's tweet, which would

00:27:07.000 constitute an in-kind contribution. She's turning her political apparatus to raise money for this 1.00

00:27:11.940 group. But other than the in-kind, even if I don't explicitly write a check, am I not a donor to

00:27:16.440 that candidate? I just raised him $5 million. I'd probably be appointed the ambassador to the

00:27:20.660 court of St. James. You're telling me I'm not really a donor in that case? That's the kind of

00:27:25.020 sophistry that the left is trying to engage in right now. To lie, because this woman is extremely 0.99

00:27:33.840 radical. She raised money to bail out very violent, nasty, evil people who committed all sorts of 0.82

00:27:40.600 crimes. She wanted to bail them out of jail. She was the most left-wing Democrat. Well, obviously, 0.98

00:27:46.860 if you're the most left-wing Democrat senator, you're the most left-wing senator while she was in the 0.93

00:27:51.280 Senate, she has a terrible, terrible record. And we've got 98 days till the election or something 1.00

00:27:59.960 like that. So the best the libs can do is just lie. They're going to look you right in the eye 1.00

00:28:04.940 and they're going to lie to you about all of the unfortunate aspects of her record. And there are

00:28:09.780 many of those. They're going to lie to you about a lot of other stuff too. Remember last week,

00:28:14.300 Christopher Wray, the director of the FBI, appears before a congressional committee.

00:28:19.860 And Chris Wray floats a conspiracy theory that Trump was not actually shot by a bullet.

00:28:25.640 Where did all eight bullets go is, I guess, my question.

00:28:30.480 I don't have that in front of me. I'm happy to circle back and get that to you. It's assuming

00:28:35.840 we have that information yet. As I said, I think with respect to former President Trump,

00:28:44.400 there's some question about whether or not it's a bullet or shrapnel that hit his ear.

00:28:51.060 So it's conceivable. Although, as I sit here right now, I don't know whether that bullet

00:28:54.820 in addition to causing the grazing could have also landed somewhere else. But I believe we've

00:29:01.680 accounted for all of the shots and the cartridges. So let us get that in circle.

00:29:05.740 It's my understanding that the very first one was the one that hit the president. Is that

00:29:09.240 the very first shot or is that not accurate?

00:29:12.200 I don't, as I sit here right now, I don't know the answer to that. I believe we know the answer

00:29:15.860 to that. I just don't have it in front of me.

00:29:17.420 Okay. Yeah, it's just, it's a little unclear. You know, when that guy, after we spent, you know,

00:29:23.360 we in the liberal establishment spent the last eight years calling Trump Hitler and an existential

00:29:28.320 threat to democracy. And then that guy went out and tried to blow his head off and came within a

00:29:32.460 hair's breadth just a nanosecond earlier, Trump moved his head about 20 degrees. And it really,

00:29:37.240 the clearest explanation is that it was a miracle because natural explanations fail. Yeah,

00:29:42.260 I just don't know if it was really a bullet. You know, it's like, is it really a big deal?

00:29:46.420 Yes. I just don't know. I'm the director of the FBI. Why am I supposed to know anything? I don't

00:29:49.520 know anything. Huh? Is it a bullet? So the FBI clarified this, by the way, the FBI issued a

00:29:55.200 statement said, quote, what struck former president Trump in the ear was a bullet. Christopher Wray,

00:30:04.700 whether whole or fragmented into smaller pieces fired from the deceased subjects rifle.

00:30:09.060 No, no blue anon, no tinfoil hat FBI director. No, it wasn't, it wasn't a piece of a, I don't know,

00:30:20.140 a teleprompter or something. It was, it was a bullet that hit him, buddy. That was the FBI that

00:30:24.560 acknowledged that Trump had a field day with this dishonesty. In fact, my chart that I looked over to

00:30:32.480 the right, that chart, you know, the famous chart that showed we had the best numbers in history,

00:30:38.080 at least recorded history on the border. That chart probably saved my life. Can you believe it?

00:30:44.720 Because I looked over. If I didn't look over, I got a problem.

00:30:52.860 Wasn't too good anyway. Did you see the FBI today apologize? They said, well,

00:30:58.020 it might've been a bullet, but it might've been glass. Oh really? Where did the glass come from?

00:31:01.780 Or it might've been shrapnel. Where did the shrapnel come from? No. They then said it was a

00:31:08.760 bullet. They just try and do it. It just never ends with these people. They raid Mar-a-Lago. They

00:31:13.420 do things so bad, so bad. Our country is so sick, but they apologize. We accept their apology.

00:31:19.900 I love everyone. But look, we accept their apology, okay? This is what they're going to do.

00:31:27.320 The FBI director is going to, with a straight face, he's going to look Jim Jordan in the eye and say,

00:31:33.920 yeah, well, we don't know if it was a bullet. I mean, you all saw the bullet go through his ear

00:31:37.800 and very nearly through the back of Trump's head. Yeah, we don't know though. Don't believe your

00:31:41.460 lying eyes. CBS News is going to look at you and say, oh, Kamala, she never raised a lot of money for 1.00

00:31:46.580 this jailbreak fund to bail violent criminals out of jail, who then would go on to commit

00:31:52.740 more violent crime. No, she never did that. That tweet she sent, she didn't really send that.

00:31:58.140 You're not reading that tweet. That's not real. Don't believe your lying eyes. Put your fingers

00:32:02.940 in your ear and go, la, la, la, la, la. That's what they're going to do. What's their alternative?

00:32:09.220 They can't gin up any more scandals about Trump. I've pretty much exhausted that, I think,

00:32:14.220 over the last eight or nine years. They can't point to the good stuff that Kamala's done. She 0.78

00:32:18.780 has not accomplished anything. The things she has done have been failures. The borders are. She

00:32:28.320 was put in charge of the borders. She failed on that. She failed on every other assignment that

00:32:32.260 she was given. We'll get to that in a moment. And the policies she's advocated are deeply unpopular 0.98

00:32:38.760 and extremely left wing. So they just have to distract from her. The way they're going to do

00:32:45.440 that is just, they're just going to lie. I just mentioned Kamala has failed on everything she was 1.00

00:32:52.480 put in charge of. So we know that Biden put her in charge of the border. I read his words verbatim

00:32:59.340 from the White House transcript on the show and on Piers Morgan's show when a Democrat columnist

00:33:04.480 was desperately trying to deflect attention from Kamala's role as the borders are. 0.80

00:33:11.440 But that's not the only area of White House policy she was put in charge of. Kamala was also 0.95

00:33:16.880 put in charge of connecting people in rural areas with high-speed internet.

00:33:22.040 So here's Biden's own words. Again, I'm not putting any words in Biden's mouth. Here's Biden at the

00:33:27.900 2021 State of the Union address, giving a task to Kamala Harris.

00:33:32.860 And the process will create thousands and thousands of good-paying jobs.

00:33:39.400 It creates jobs connecting every American with high-speed internet, including 35 percent

00:33:45.400 of the rural America that still doesn't have it. It's going to help our kids and our businesses

00:33:52.780 succeed in the 21st century economy. And I'm asking the Vice President to lead this effort,

00:33:59.660 if she would. Because I know it'll get done.

00:34:03.940 How many people do you think Kamala Harris connected with high-speed internet? 0.99

00:34:10.220 Biden, he turns to her. During the State of the Union, she responds. She goes, yes, of course.

00:34:14.320 Of course I'll do it. I know it'll get done if I put Kamala Harris in charge of this. 0.99

00:34:18.340 Guess how many people were connected with high-speed internet, thanks to Kamala Harris?

00:34:26.000 None. Not a single person. Not one.

00:34:30.020 $42.5 billion from this supposed infrastructure bill. It was not an infrastructure bill.

00:34:37.420 Not one person was connected with high-speed internet as a result of this.

00:34:43.020 Kamala Harris did not get the job done. She didn't get even one iota of one fraction 1.00

00:34:47.780 of one tiny, teensy, weenie little percent of the job done. She did nothing.

00:34:53.640 Her record is absolutely terrible.

00:34:59.120 The Kamala Harris campaign, I guess is what we would call it now, tweeted out yesterday, 0.94

00:35:03.860 said, you know, all of these attacks on Kamala, they're so disgusting. She's an historically 1.00

00:35:08.120 accomplished Vice President. But in that social media post, they didn't name any accomplishments.

00:35:14.940 I don't want to be overly tough on Vice President Harris. So I'd ask her supporters.

00:35:24.320 What has she accomplished? You have the floor. You got the comments section here on all the

00:35:31.520 different platforms that this show will be broadcast on. What? Name me one thing she did.

00:35:37.620 She prosecuted people, some people that were worth prosecuting, many people who she should not have 0.99

00:35:43.660 prosecuted when she was AG of California. Okay, that's something. Probably doesn't play very well

00:35:49.440 in the Democratic Party. She did the bare elements of her job, usually poorly when she was the Attorney

00:35:55.480 General of California. What did she accomplish as a member of the U.S. Senate? Give me one thing.

00:36:00.860 What did she accomplish as the Vice President of the United States? Name me one thing. What did she 1.00

00:36:05.500 accomplish in her czar roles, the specific areas of public policy that she was put in charge of by

00:36:10.520 the President of the United States very publicly? What did she accomplish? Nothing. She didn't accomplish

00:36:18.560 anything. She's been things. One thing that she has been, and this has gone under the radar,

00:36:27.300 but my friend Steve Guest pointed this out to me the other day. She's the daughter of a Marxist

00:36:33.020 professor, and I'm beginning to notice a pattern here of people in the Biden administration who are

00:36:39.440 the children of Marxist professors. We'll get to that in one second. First, though, my favorite comment

00:36:43.820 yesterday or Friday is from Diana Arcee. No one is above the law, says Kamala Harris in her new campaign ad, 1.00

00:36:52.120 except people who are here illegally. Yeah, it's kind of a funny one. It's funny that the libs, 1.00

00:36:57.400 while they're trying to prosecute Trump on unprecedented and obviously trumped up charges,

00:37:03.320 they will simultaneously argue that no human being is illegal, and it's not a crime to enter the

00:37:09.080 country illegally. Well, hold on. And they'll try to ban use of the term illegal alien. If you're

00:37:13.580 watching this show on a certain video social media platform right now, probably my audio is dipping out

00:37:19.040 when I use the technical phrase illegal alien. I have been told by my producers that we are no

00:37:27.400 longer permitted by one of these big tech platforms to use the phrase illegal alien. Illegal alien is 0.83

00:37:32.940 technical language advised for a very long time by the federal government. It just means a foreign

00:37:39.960 national who is in the United States criminally illegal alien. It doesn't mean someone from the planet

00:37:47.320 Neptune. I mean, you know, it just means a foreigner who's here against the law. You're not allowed to 1.00

00:37:53.240 use that phrase. No one is above the law except for about 11 to 20 million people who either themselves

00:38:01.180 or at least their children will likely vote for Democrats. Those guys, they are in fact above the

00:38:06.100 law. Who is Kamala Harris? My friend Steve Guest, very observant man in politics, pointed out

00:38:13.960 her father is a Marxist professor. And I knew, I think I knew that her father was some kind of

00:38:19.860 economist or professor. So his name is Donald J. Harris. It's kind of funny that the first part of

00:38:24.140 his name is Donald J. Donald J. Harris. He's a Marxist economist who for many decades taught at

00:38:31.300 Stanford. When I say he's a Marxist economist, I don't just mean that as some term of derision.

00:38:37.620 I mean that as a technical term. This is the same language that is used by left-wing outlets to

00:38:42.980 describe him, by the New Yorker, by the economist. That's just what he is. He's an economist in the

00:38:48.780 tradition of Karl Marx. That got me thinking, okay, so the VP for Biden, who was one of the

00:38:55.640 presidential candidates who ran against him in 2020, she's the daughter of a Marxist professor.

00:39:02.280 Kind of like the transportation secretary, Pete Buttigieg. Pete Buttigieg's dad was a very,

00:39:07.420 very famous Marxist literary scholar, Joseph Buttigieg. I encountered Joseph Buttigieg because

00:39:13.520 in my book, Speechless Controlling Words, Controlling Minds, I devote, thank you, I devote a fair bit of

00:39:18.240 time to Antonio Gramsci, who is an Italian Marxist philosopher and political activist. Really important.

00:39:26.260 A lot of his work inspired leftists in the United States. And happily, I can read Italian. 0.92

00:39:35.180 There aren't many practical applications of reading Italian in the world. It's not like

00:39:39.380 French or Spanish. But one of them is you can read these Italian communists from the 20th century.

00:39:44.520 A lot of people in the West were not able for a long time to, at least to read the whole corpus of

00:39:51.620 Gramsci until Joseph Buttigieg, Pete Buttigieg's dad, translated the prison notebooks into English.

00:39:59.340 He was, I think he was the president of the Gramsci Society. This guy was a hardcore committed Marxist.

00:40:08.860 And he was, he was a literary scholar at Notre Dame. So what does this mean? So some grand conspiracy?

00:40:16.400 Well, in a way it is, it's a, it's a really broad conspiracy, which is this, we are now seeing the

00:40:21.420 fruit of the left's long march through the institutions. Another Marxist who, who inspired

00:40:28.840 the left-wing campus movements, Rudy Dutschke, you coined that phrase, the long march through

00:40:35.220 the institutions. And it was obviously a viewing the West's leftward march in light of Mao's cultural

00:40:43.700 revolution in long march. So the work of people, well, not, not just Gramsci, but people like

00:40:51.360 Herbert Marcuse, the scholars of the Frankfurt school, and then their, their followers and the

00:40:57.740 left-wing activists, they said, we're going to, we're going to take the long view of how to transform

00:41:02.420 American. We're going to do it not just by winning elections. We'll win some elections, but we're going

00:41:06.920 to take over the classrooms. We're going to take over the entertainment media. We're going to take over

00:41:11.920 the news media. We're going to tilt everything very far to the left. And then the fruit of that is going

00:41:16.640 to be a political order in which the, the frame of the debate is set by us. So people, it's not just

00:41:26.160 that we're going to win the arguments for leftism. We're going to exclude alternative views. So the only

00:41:33.580 way that people can think is in a fundamentally liberal and even more than liberal leftist socialist

00:41:41.020 Marx-tinged way. We're seeing the fruit of that. Now, the kids of these two Marxist scholars are

00:41:48.680 serving at some of the highest levels of government. Now, one of them is the presidential nominee for

00:41:53.360 the Democratic Party. The long march through the institutions works. It's, the conservatives get

00:41:59.980 impatient. Sometimes we want to see immediate results or we lose interest and move on. The left

00:42:04.820 doesn't move on. The left, whatever virtues they lack, I think they lack most of them, they are patient.

00:42:09.960 And they are persistent. And now we're seeing the fruit of that. Now, speaking of progeny,

00:42:16.940 weird story just hit the news. A sperm donor has just won over custody of his child from a couple

00:42:24.100 of lesbians. And actually it was the sperm donor and the lesbian girlfriend who's not the biological 0.99

00:42:30.780 mother of the kid. The two of them have won the rights over the biological mother of the child. 0.62

00:42:36.800 What does all of this mean? A ruling was just handed down by the Federal Circuit and Family

00:42:41.960 Court of Australia. And it pertains to a nine-year-old boy, this poor little boy. How did

00:42:48.440 this poor little boy end up in this predicament? He was conceived via IVF. Of course, he was conceived

00:42:54.600 by commoditizing human life, establishing the domination of technology over the origin and destiny of human

00:43:01.440 life and establishing the legal space for baby stores. So he was purchased at the baby store,

00:43:08.420 conceived at the baby store. And the female couple, these two lesbians, chose donor eggs 0.99

00:43:14.260 and donor sperm. So I guess in that way, you wouldn't even say the biological mother was the

00:43:20.040 biological mother, though it does appear that she carried. So she was at least, I guess, the surrogate

00:43:24.300 mother. All the parties were known to each other. That's what makes this a little bit weird. The eggs

00:43:28.660 were donated by a mutual friend of the birth mother, though not the biological mother, and her

00:43:34.540 then-lesbian partner. And the sperm donation was by a man that the boy refers to as daddy and the man

00:43:40.460 who donated his sperm with the agreement that he would have a role in the boy's life, albeit not

00:43:47.660 the role of a proper father living at home with a mother and raising the kid in a family. But he would

00:43:53.920 still be involved somehow. Okay. The birth mother lost her parental rights. Presumably, she was 0.95

00:44:01.300 involved in all sorts of terrible things. And she wanted sole responsibility of the child. But now it's

00:44:05.620 the lesbian ex-girlfriend and the sperm donor get the kid, which I guess is, I guess it's a relatively 0.82

00:44:12.360 better outcome here. But I don't know. The whole thing is really sad. And it fills one both with

00:44:19.720 sadness for the boy and anger at these extremely selfish degenerate people who insisted on a

00:44:27.780 commoditizing human life and purchasing a child at the baby store. It's even dark creating a child

00:44:34.440 at the baby store. But it's a reminder that we have to pay close attention to our language here.

00:44:41.160 That was the whole point of my book, Speechless Controlling Words, Controlling Minds. And we got to

00:44:44.880 thank you. We have to focus on this a lot because the left sets the boundaries of debate by controlling

00:44:50.980 language, by setting the terms of language. If an illegal alien, if you can't say illegal alien

00:44:55.380 anymore, as I'm apparently not allowed to say on certain big tech platforms, then we have to use

00:45:01.120 what phrases like undocumented American. Well, undocumented Americans should get to stay in 1.00

00:45:05.760 America. They're Americans after all. They just don't have some documents. Illegal aliens have no right 1.00

00:45:09.840 to stay in America. Depending on how you describe that person, you will be able to persuade people

00:45:18.700 much more easily of your own position. So what's the operative phrase here? Sperm donor. That's the

00:45:25.800 operative phrase. There's no such thing as a sperm donor. That's not real. There are only fathers.

00:45:32.100 There are fathers and mothers. And there are good fathers and bad fathers. And there are some fathers who

00:45:36.880 do the right thing and get married and raise their kids and act like fathers. And there are some fathers

00:45:42.380 who go to a store and get paid money to do intrinsically evil and depraved actions into a cup

00:45:49.480 or something, and then have no responsibility for the child. And I guess this guy lies somewhere in

00:45:55.320 the middle. He's kind of a good father in the sense that he wants to be involved in the kid's life and

00:45:59.820 in some ways protect the kid. But he's certainly a bad father in that he abandoned the child and allowed

00:46:04.360 the child to be raised in this very disordered way with these two ladies. Regardless, he's a father.

00:46:12.300 I remember when I was in college, I remember hearing that one could make $1,000 a week

00:46:18.320 donating sperm or whatever, selling sperm, I guess. And I'd be lying to you if I said the thought didn't

00:46:25.200 cross my mind. I was an atheist. I was a libertarian. I wasn't seriously inclined to do it,

00:46:30.280 but I thought $1,000 a week. Say I do it 50 weeks a year. Maybe I'll take a little vacation

00:46:38.260 two weeks. Maybe I don't do it. And that could be, what, $200,000 over the course of four years.

00:46:47.380 And actually, it might have been more than $1,000 a week. Because in my recollection, I did the math

00:46:51.740 and I could have made about $400,000 over the course of my time in college. So I don't know,

00:46:56.080 let's say it was $2,000 a week, whatever it was. I'm obviously very glad I didn't do that because

00:47:01.260 I would have all these children that I would have abandoned. My own flesh and blood who I would have

00:47:05.640 abandoned. And when you look at something like the sperm donation or whatever, you're abandoning them

00:47:10.280 to people who are at the very bottom of the list of those who should be parents. Because it's people

00:47:15.940 who would commoditize human life by buying them at the baby store. Often in very disordered

00:47:22.160 kinds of relationships or single parents who are intentionally creating a child for that

00:47:28.440 environment that is not conducive to their flourishing. Really, really bad stuff. There's

00:47:34.100 no such thing as that though. There's mothers and there's fathers. No matter how we want to change

00:47:37.420 the language, no matter how we want to redefine marriage or redefine human life, we actually don't

00:47:43.120 have the power to do that with our words. We only have the power to lie and deceive. Very often lie

00:47:47.940 and deceive ourselves. Not good. Not going to give you a good political society if you're

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