Ep. 1559 - Taylor Swift & Beyoncé SHAFT Kamala Harris？
Summary
Kamala Harris's speech at the Democratic National Convention was...totally unremarkable, which is exactly what the party was going for. She's just a warm body babbling vague encomia to freedom, and also, she isn't Donald Trump.
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Kamala Harris spoke last night at the DNC, and it was completely unremarkable.
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I don't have a single clip of note to play from her speech. I got plenty of clips from the other
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speakers. If I had to find highlights from Kamala's speech, she called her husband her partner,
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as if they were lesbians or owned an accounting firm or something like that.
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She promoted infanticide, and she was vaguely supportive of Palestine.
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And she wore a masculine suit jacket. That's it. Those are the most remarkable takeaways.
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Otherwise, Kamala's big speech was completely bland. Which was the point? Kamala isn't running
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for president. The Democrat machine is. As far as the party is concerned, Kamala doesn't have policy
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views. The views that she actually holds on policy are unpopular, freebies for illegals and transing
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the kids, for instance. And Kamala's record on policy, inflation, immigration, etc., is a litany
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of failure. So she won't talk about policy. She doesn't have a political record, unless you happen
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to like it. And then they'll say she does. She isn't part of the current administration, unless
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somehow you like the current administration, in which case she's responsible for everything.
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She also doesn't have a particular platform. She is just a warm body babbling vague encomia to freedom.
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And also, she isn't Donald Trump. I'm Michael Knowles. This is The Michael Knowles Show.
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Welcome back to the show. CNN says that Kamala's running mate, Tim Walls, and her husband,
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Doug Emhoff, speak to men who aren't testosterone laden. Nothing I've said about either of those two
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cents. Thecandleclub.com. Kamala's speech, totally unremarkable. It's not that it was terrible. It
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wasn't terrible. It was fine. It wasn't great. It was just, it was totally fine, which was exactly
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what they were going for. The other speeches were less than fine. We kept waiting all night for a big
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surprise. It was reported by TMZ, and then it was being promoted by all sorts of other people
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that Beyonce was going to appear. So we were waiting. Daily Wire had Michael Knowles doing
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the live stream, and the DNC was going to have Beyonce Knowles doing the big performance. So
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it was going to be a really Knowles-filled DNC, and then Beyonce didn't show up. People were
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speculating, will Taylor Swift show up? We were waiting. Taylor Swift didn't show up. Some people
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wondered if George W. Bush was going to show up. His spokesman quickly put that rumor to rest.
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The big surprise of the night, I guess, was that two-bit, barely-in-Washington Congressman
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Adam Kinzinger, who is a squish-fake Republican whose most notable achievement was sobbing while
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discussing January suits and opposing Donald Trump. Well, he went out there to explain why
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he, a true principled conservative Republican, is now embracing the most radically left-wing
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Democrat ever to run for president. The Republican Party is no longer conservative.
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It has switched its allegiance from the principles that gave it purpose to a man whose only purpose
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is himself. Donald Trump is a weak man pretending to be strong. He is a small man pretending to be big.
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He's a faithless man pretending to be righteous. He's a perpetrator who can't stop playing the victim.
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He puts on, listen, he puts on quite a show, but there is no real strength there. Tarnished by a man
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too fragile, too vain, and too weak to accept defeat. How can a party claim to be patriotic
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if it idolizes a man who tried to overthrow a free and fair election? How can a party claim to stand
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for liberty if it sees a fight for freedom in Ukraine? An attack pitting tyranny against democracy,
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a challenge to everything our nation claims to be. And it retreats.
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Everything our nation claims to be, Ukraine. I don't know when we became Ukraine. We hold these
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truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal and we are Ukraine. So wrote Thomas Jefferson.
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This was a really silly speech, but what's the claim? At the very top of it, he says,
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the Republican Party is no longer conservative. It's abandoned. It's conservative principles. I'm
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the last principled conservative. What principles has the Republican Party abandoned? The GOP is still
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pro-life. We got Roe v. Wade over. Actually, Trump got Roe v. Wade overruled. It's pretty big.
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It's the biggest pro-life win in half a century. The conservative party is still in favor of supporting
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American business and American workers. The Republican Party is still in favor of enforcing
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our borders, unlike the Democrats. The Republican Party is still in favor of supporting American
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families. The Republican Party is still in favor of most things that it's been in favor of since I
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was a kid. In some ways, it's changed. It's a little bit more protective of American workers and
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American manufacturing. But I don't know. That's really more a return to the tradition of the Republican
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Party. It went a little bit awry in the 90s and 2000s. But the Republican Party is a little bit
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more restrained when it comes to foreign policy. We're seeking peace through strength. But that's
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really a return to the foreign policy of Ronald Reagan. The foreign policy of George W. Bush went a
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little bit more adventurous abroad. But really, it's a return. Otherwise, what principles has the GOP
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abandoned for this one man, Donald Trump? As far as I can tell, I mean, look, we like Trump. Trump's
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great. But I don't think we've abandoned really any principle. We've strengthened some principles
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under Trump. I don't view politics as about one man. The irony is Adam Kinzinger does. That whole
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speech was about one guy. It was all about Donald Trump. He never explains how he, the principled
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conservative, would show up to speak at a Democrat National Convention that has been consecrated in the
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blood of innocent little babies in the abortion van outside. He never explains the conservative
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principle of supporting transing the kids, which the DNC openly supports, the conservative principle
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of left-wing identity politics, the conservative principle of an increasingly socialist economic policy.
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Kamala Harris, the daughter of a Marxist economist who supports socialist health care,
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including for illegal aliens. Tim Walls, who says socialism is just another word for neighborliness.
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Tim Walls, who's had a fascination with communist China, visited many times and described it to his
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high school students as a place where everyone shares and everyone has food, extolling the virtues
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of Chinese communism. What's the conservative virtue of that? No, for the Republicans, politics is not
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about one man. We have a great nominee, and that's Donald Trump, and he's the best president of my
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lifetime. And so in as much as we nominate a person, I guess there's a guy that you can point
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to. But politics is not about one man. For Trump's critics, politics is entirely about one man,
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especially Trump's critics who are supposedly on the right. That guy, Adam Kinzinger, and all those
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never-Trump Republicans sold out every single actually conservative principle that they have ever
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purported to believe in just to oppose the mango Mussolini whom they hate so much because he sends
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mean tweets. Next up, we had Oprah. Oprah actually spoke not last night but the night before. I really
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want to get to her, though, because Oprah addressed this joke that J.D. Vance told some time ago where
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he pointed out that our country is run by this caricature of the childless cat lady. He's not
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talking about people who suffer from infertility. He's not talking about people who are not called
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to parenthood who have some other vocation in life. He's talking about a caricature, and we all know the
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type. We saw a lot of that type at the DNC. We're talking about the people who are hostile to family,
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who are hostile to human flourishing, the kind of people who would have an abortion van outside their
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political convention. So Oprah seizes on this comment, and it inadvertently became the funniest
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moment of the DNC. Here's what she said. To a childless cat lady.
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Then the camera just cuts to some random woman, and you see the woman. She's just a woman sitting
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there. How many thousands of people are in that arena? And it cuts to her, and then she kind of
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looks around. She goes, wait, what? Hold on. Wait, why are you looking? Can we play the clip again,
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And the camera cuts to this bored. Nice, nice enough looking lady in a blue dress. She's kind
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of looking down. And then she, I don't know, people, maybe they're cheering around her. She
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looks up. She goes, wait, what? Why are you looking at me? This is the real life version
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of an old Key and Peele sketch about politics, where a politician is given a town hall, and then
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it keeps cutting to one guy who doesn't want the camera on him.
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I will work for everyone. Whether you are young, whether you are old, whether you are Asian or
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Hispanic, whether you are straight, or whether you are gay, I will work for all of you. And
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Folks don't choose to be gay any more than I choose to be straight.
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Could you imagine if someone told you that you couldn't marry the person that you loved?
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I'm sorry. I think gays are people too. Gays are not different.
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He looks at the camera. Hey, no, wait, cut it out, man.
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Puts his arm around a woman. That was the lady. Oprah did the thing. The Democrats are doing the
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Key and Peele sketch when they talk about the childless cat lady. They're doing the Monty Python
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sketch when they talk about transgenderism. Old Monty Python sketch. I say,
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I want to be a lady. I want to have babies. Now that's the actual platform of the DNC is that men
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should be allowed to do that. Really delightful. It's delightful because it's absurd. And what makes
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it distressing is that that absurdity actually governs our country. And absurdity in power can be a
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really nasty, ugly thing. One of the most lunatic leaders famously and infamously in all of history
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is Nero. And he caused a lot of suffering. He was really into weird sex stuff too. That, you know,
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story for another time. It would be funny if these people didn't have power. They do.
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And so it focuses us on the stakes in November. Oprah then hit a darker point than just calling
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some poor woman in the audience a childless cat lady. She vigorously defended killing babies.
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If you do not have autonomy over this, over this, if you cannot control when and how you choose
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to bring your children into this world and how they are raised and supported, there is no American
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dream. Unless you can kill your kid, there's no American dream. We hold these truths to be self
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evident that all men are created equal and endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights.
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Among these, life, except for babies, liberty, the pursuit of happiness, and the right to murder
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your baby. That's why I had the exception in the first right, the life one. That's why I excluded
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the babies from it. So wrote Thomas Jefferson way back in 1776. I don't think so. I think,
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call me old-fashioned, call me crazy, I think there is an American dream, even if you can't murder your
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kid. But this is what they're pushing. It reminded me, this speech reminded me of just how awful
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Oprah is and has always been. Because Oprah is not merely a political figure. She's even become a kind
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of religious figure. She pushes all that weird new-agey nonsense and the secret, you know,
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and all of it. And she pushes a view of morality, a view of anthropology. She's really transcended the
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merely political. And everything she believes is hideously wrong. So much so that she would articulate
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what the Democrats already acted out at the DNC, which is that murdering kids is the central
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sacrament of modern liberalism. Peter Kreeft, I think it was, the philosopher, observed how satanic
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this is. Because he said that even the phrases that they use are a satanic parody of Christianity.
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You know, in Christianity, at the consecration of the Eucharist, of the Holy Communion, you know,
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the priest will say, reading the words of Christ, this is my body, which will be given up for you.
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This is my body. And abortion, as the satanic parody of the sacrifice of the mass,
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uses the exact same words, right? This is my body. This is my body, but to an entirely inverted meaning.
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But that was basically it for the DNC. There was one more dumb argument I really want to take on
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before we move on from a relatively uneventful party convention. And this was the argument
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from Josh Shapiro, who is the jilted would-be running mate for Kamala Harris. He's the governor
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of Pennsylvania. He was not picked to be her running mate, even though he would have probably
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brought a lot more to the ticket than that wacko Tim Walls over in Minnesota. You know,
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Pennsylvania is a must-wing state for Democrats. Some have speculated that Shapiro was passed over
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because he's a member of a certain ancient nomadic tribe that many of the Democrats don't like very
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much right now, and that his last name is the reason he couldn't do it. But I don't know,
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actually, because after you listen to this guy speak, you realize that he's pretty weak.
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Josh Shapiro used his time at the DNC to invade against Republicans for making the audacious
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suggestion that little kids shouldn't read gay porn in schools.
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It's not freedom to tell our children what books they're allowed to read.
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You know, they made the theme freedom. Freedom previously was democracy. But because Kamala was
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not democratically nominated because there was actually a coup within the Democratic Party,
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and they took the nomination from Biden, who was democratically nominated, they can't use
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democracy as much anymore. So now it's all about freedom. And Shapiro says, it's not freedom
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to tell our kids in schools, presumably, what books they can read. Tim Walls made basically the same
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argument. We're banning books from their schools. We were banishing hunger from ours.
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You hear that? These Republicans are banning books from schools, and there's no freedom in
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banning books. And so this is a big charge the Dems are making. And the Republicans are totally
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taking the bait, and I think reacting in a way that is really stupid, and it's only going to help the Dems.
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The Republicans are reacting. We're saying, we're not banning books. We're not banning books from
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schools. Why would you suggest that? Yes, we are. But the Democrats are banning books too.
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Everyone has to ban books from schools in the sense that there is only so much time in a given
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semester. There are only so many books you can teach. Every book you add into the curriculum
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means there's some book that you're not going to teach in the curriculum.
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And all societies have standards. We all exclude certain things. I don't think any,
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even the Democrats, I don't think are going to argue that we should have a Playboy section
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in the elementary school library. So everybody wants to ban certain books.
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The question is, which books do the Democrats want to ban and for whom?
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Republicans want to ban gay porn from public schools. I think, again, call me old-fashioned and
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crazy. I think we should ban gay porn from public schools K through 12, the whole way through.
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Many Republicans are merely arguing that we ought to ban gay porn from the elementary schools. And even
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that is far too much for the Democrats. They want genderqueer and all sorts of other gay porn in
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kindergarten and first grade and second grade. But that's it. The books we want to ban pretty much
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is gay porn in schools. The Democrats want to ban the Bible. And they have successfully banned the
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Bible. In the middle of the 20th century, the libs were able to get a preposterous court ruling that
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said that you can't have students read the Bible in schools. Now, the Bible, even if you're an
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atheist, a non-Christian certainly, but even if you're an atheist, you think all religion is bunk,
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you would have to admit the Bible is the most important book ever written. It's the most influential
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book ever written. You can't really understand almost anything of Western civilization without having
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read the Bible. As my friend Spencer Clavin pointed out the other day during the member block,
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you can't be an educated person if you haven't read the Bible. That book totally banned from schools.
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Democrats totally in favor of banning that. But they will get up in arms if you suggest that maybe
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we shouldn't have gay porn in the fourth grade classroom. So if Josh Shapiro really means what he
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says, if Tim Walls really means what he says, can't ban books in schools. Cool. We can have the Bible
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back in schools. Is that what you mean? No, that's not what they mean. And this is the way to argue
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it, I think. This is going to be much more convincing than adopting a liberal premise that
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you can never circumscribe any kind of reading material, even in an elementary school classroom,
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something that not even the liberals believe. Yeah, both sides are trying to ban books.
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We want to ban gay porn in the schools and the libs want to ban the Bible. Which side are you on?
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tripled. My favorite comment yesterday is from SoldierOfChrist4545, who says,
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that poetry, I assume you mean the slam poetry from Amanda, what's her name, Amanda Gorman?
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I think it's Gorman or Gordon at the DNC. That poetry was definitely unburdened by what has been.
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That's true. Namely, culture, English grammar, art, artistry. That is, it was very much unburdened
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by what has been. Speaking further about education, the New York Times is up in arms
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because last year, the Supreme Court ruled that colleges can no longer discriminate on the basis
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of race in admissions. For decades now, the Supreme Court has discriminated on the basis of race when it
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comes to admissions. They discriminate against Asians, they discriminate against whites,
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and they discriminate in favor of Hispanics and black people and Native American Indians and
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any other number of small minority ethnic groups. This is just a matter of law for decades. And so
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the Supreme Court said, oh, actually, you're not really allowed to do that. That's actually
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unconstitutional. Here's how the New York Times is reporting what has happened since.
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At MIT, black and Latino enrollment drops sharply after affirmative action ban.
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That would be expected. If those two groups are having their qualifications artificially inflated
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just on the basis of their race, and other groups are having their qualifications suppressed,
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then once you reinstitute a more merit-based admission system, just looking at test scores,
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preparedness for the curriculum at MIT, etc., then yeah, you would expect the group that was
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artificially inflated to deflate a little bit and the group that was artificially suppressed to
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increase a little bit. Then the sub-headline, Asian American students made up almost half of the
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2028 class. So the big beneficiaries aren't really white people. The big beneficiaries are Asians,
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which is the only reason we're even allowed to talk about this, by the way. If the affirmative
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action policies merely discriminated against white people, they would still be on the books today
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because we live not just in a legal system that discriminates against white people, but in a culture
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that encourages that discrimination against white people. If you ever suggest that perhaps we should
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not, as a matter of law, discriminate against white people, you will be called a racist for that,
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especially if you're a white person. You'll be called every name in the book to the point that
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most people, and especially most white people, won't even raise an objection to the legal discrimination
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that they face. But because the Democrats made a big mistake and they also discriminated against
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Asians, their own dominant liberal identity politics were able to be used against them.
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So they could claim that Asians are an oppressed minority group, non-white, don't partake of white
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supremacy, and therefore that's why the policy was wrong. And now Asians are making up half of the
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class since the end of affirmative action. Okay, that's true. How else, though, could we report on
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this? You know, the New York Times is obviously furious about it. The New York Times wants fewer
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Asians and fewer whites at MIT, even if those kids are qualified, and they want more blacks and Latinos
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at MIT. But think about the kids. It wasn't so long ago that I was applying to college,
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and I was applying to a very competitive school. Imagine that you're the kid who has worked really
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hard his whole life. And in this case, let's say you're not just an Asian American student,
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but you're an Asian American immigrant. I know plenty of these kids whose families came here with
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nothing. The parents worked very, very hard. And, you know, tiger moms drilled academic discipline
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into their kids. And these kids, you know, give up other opportunities to go out and hang out with
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friends, to, you know, to do extracurricular activities. You know, they're really focusing on
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their academics doing a lot of test prep. They work really, really hard. And they do better than
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other students. And they've put in their all, and they're ready for the curriculum. But because
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they're Asian, or dare we say, because they're white, they don't get to go. And so they go to a
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school that is less prestigious. That's going to have effects for the rest of their lives, very possibly.
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It's not always the case. You know, there are plenty of people who go to Harvard and Yale,
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and they're just total flunkies, and it doesn't help at all. But it can help. It can help you get
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into that really big law firm. It can help you get into that big consulting firm, or investment bank,
00:26:49.140
or, you know, it can be the difference between millions and millions of dollars over the course
00:26:54.220
of your life. Doors opening for you, the graduate school you get into. And you don't get that
00:27:00.840
because you're Asian, or because you're white. Isn't that really, shouldn't we, rather than being
00:27:07.440
sorry for the black and Hispanic kids who didn't do as well on the tests, who didn't do as well in
00:27:13.260
school, who now won't be going to MIT, and they'll be going to some other school, or plenty of other
00:27:16.900
schools that will be happy to have them? Shouldn't we be happy for the kids who did do well on the test,
00:27:22.080
and did do well in school, and who are getting in now? The whole way that the Libs are framing this
00:27:29.520
issue, and the whole way they frame politics, really, is purely from the perspective of one
00:27:35.500
group, whatever their preferred group in that case happens to be. But when we think about politics,
00:27:42.160
we're supposed to be thinking of the common good. Don't the Libs tell us, we've got to think about
00:27:45.380
everybody. We've got to include everybody. But they're not. The only way that this racial
00:27:49.060
discrimination was ever justifiable was if you say that whites and Asians don't really count.
00:27:55.120
They're not really people. Screw them. They don't have any feelings. They don't deserve anything.
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They don't have any rights. That's the only way that it ever made sense.
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Furthermore, there were really negative academic consequences to it. Antonin Scalia wrote about
00:28:07.540
this, and he got in big trouble for writing about it. But there is the problem of mismatch.
00:28:11.260
If a kid has his grades artificially inflated or his test scores artificially inflated to get him
00:28:15.740
into a school simply on the basis of his race, one of two things is going to happen. Either the school
00:28:21.840
is going to lower its standards to meet the students, which is really why you have all of these
00:28:25.560
grievance studies departments proliferating. It's because students who are not really able
00:28:30.220
to hack it at these schools can't take the serious academic disciplines. So they've got to take gay
00:28:35.160
studies or something like that. And they'll get an easy A in it, but they won't really learn anything.
00:28:40.120
So either the academic standards will decline or the kids will flunk out. And maybe the kids have
00:28:45.060
taken out some loans to go to these schools. Certainly the kids would have wasted time if they spent a
00:28:49.680
semester or two semesters at these schools. And then they flunk out. They're set a year back.
00:28:53.860
They've got nothing to show for it. It actually hurts their resume because they've been expelled
00:28:59.060
from a school. That's called the mismatch theory of higher education. And it happens. That's very
00:29:06.520
real. So it's not even good for the supposedly favored racial groups that these policies are
00:29:12.360
supposed to benefit. The New York Times is crying. I think this is really, really good stuff that
00:29:17.740
we're eliminating racial discrimination in college admissions. Now, speaking of great
00:29:23.840
court decisions, this is a big one. And this is really going to matter when it comes to the
00:29:28.140
election. The Supreme Court has just ruled that Arizona must reject state voter registration forms
00:29:34.020
without proof of citizenship. This just came out yesterday. This follows an emergency appeal
00:29:39.380
from the Republican National Convention. Arizona was trying to sneak these voter registration forms
00:29:45.580
through without proof of U.S. citizenship. The libs recognize if this is going to be a close election,
00:29:51.620
they're going to need to use every trick in the book. And one of those tricks is just getting a lot
00:29:55.720
of ineligible people to be registered as voters. Supreme Court just said no. The only reason that
00:30:03.820
anyone would throw a hissy fit about this is if they were trying to rig the election. And take a look
00:30:10.520
at who's throwing a hissy fit. Before we get to the mailbag, which I'm very excited about as always,
00:30:16.000
I do have to get to this one clip from CNN where CNN, Dana Bash, made the cruelest remark that I've
00:30:25.500
heard yet from anyone about Tim Walls and Kamala's husband, Doug Emhoff.
00:30:30.560
It has been noteworthy to see how they are learning about what to do and how to confront
00:30:38.600
Donald Trump as the opponent to a woman. 2016 and now, very different campaigns,
00:30:44.060
very different female candidates. But they are doing so in trying to put forward male figures,
00:30:53.080
Tim Walls being one of them, Doug Emhoff last night, who can speak to men out there who
00:31:01.280
might not be the sort of testosterone-laden, you know, gun-toting kind of guy.
00:31:10.280
Yeah, they speak to men who are not, there's not so much like, oh, I have a Y chromosome.
00:31:17.560
Oh, I identify as a man. They speak to a different kind of man, you know?
00:31:23.380
What do we call them? Arnold Schwarzenegger called them girly men. CNN. Hey, that wasn't Daily
00:31:28.940
Wire. That wasn't The Blaze. That wasn't Fox News. That was CNN saying that Walls and Emhoff
00:31:35.600
appeal to girly men. Very, very rough. But it's true. You know, part of the reason I think that
00:31:42.200
Kamala picked a male running mate is she recognizes that her being a woman is a vulnerability. Forget
00:31:49.500
about the Democrat identity politics. We've never had a woman president. There's probably a reason
00:31:55.060
throughout history that most political leaders have been men. Not all, but most have been.
00:31:59.640
There might just be something in human nature that inclines us toward male political leaders,
00:32:03.100
and so she's trying to balance that out. This is why she wore a big masculine blazer last night
00:32:07.800
with big, wide, sturdy shoulders in it, single-breasted, big, wide peak lapel, big pants. She's
00:32:14.420
trying to lean into a more masculine image. I think picking a male running mate was supposed to
00:32:20.460
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You know, our friend, Dr. Jordan B. Peterson, has completed yet another extraordinary five-part
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Dun, dun, da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da. I sing that every day. Michael Knowles, you are an English
00:33:39.880
major. You analyze everything like a brilliant English major. I will be teaching English 2030 this semester,
00:33:53.380
and I was wondering if you could teach any novel, any drama play, any poem, and any short story. What would
00:34:09.320
One correction. I was actually not an English major. I, you know, I do write in English, and I spend most of
00:34:15.960
my time in the English language, but my majors were history and Italian, Italian literature specifically,
00:34:21.120
because I knew Italian going into school. So, uh, but it's kind of funny, but I'm happy to answer
00:34:25.440
the question anyway. Uh, my, the novel I would recommend, the novel, the, if I could pick one,
00:34:31.560
this teaching in high school, I assume that I would probably pick Crime and Punishment,
00:34:38.920
Dostoyevsky. I, it's, it, it, it might be the greatest novel ever written. I'm not sure,
00:34:44.780
I'm not sure it's the greatest novel ever written, but it's, it's maybe the greatest novel that a high
00:34:49.520
schooler can appreciate. So, I would do that in terms of the play that I would teach. I would teach
00:34:55.600
Hamlet, probably. Uh, if I, if I only get to pick one, I'd probably pick Hamlet. In terms of the poem I
00:35:02.600
would teach, at a high school level, hmm, maybe The Wasteland by T.S. Eliot. It might be a little
00:35:13.760
advanced, but then that way you get, you know, you, you're covering modernism, but you're also,
00:35:18.700
he's a traditionalist and you're, you're getting a lot in there. So, probably that's, that's what
00:35:25.620
I would go for. And, uh, for short story, I guess, what would I say? Maybe like The Raven or
00:35:32.960
something, you know? Well, that, no, I mean, I guess that would, that would, uh, maybe fit in with
00:35:36.920
poetry. Uh, I'll, I'll give a hat tip to my friend Andrew Clavin here. And I would say maybe The Great
00:35:41.640
Good Place by Henry James would be a good short story to read. It's really good. I mean, people
00:35:46.820
probably in high school, you'd be more inclined towards something from Hemingway or something,
00:35:50.420
but, uh, The Great Good Place by Henry James would be, would be a good one. And it would teach them
00:35:55.180
more important, true things than, uh, Hemingway probably would. Next question.
00:36:01.600
Hello, Mr. Knowles. Uh, thank you for talking about the difficulties that you and sweet little Lisa had
00:36:06.160
when you were trying to conceive children. Me and my wife, we've been married for just two or five years now,
00:36:10.820
and you gave me a lot of hope. Um, we currently have a six month old, incredibly beautiful baby
00:36:16.940
daughter. And I want to thank you for that. Uh, two quick questions. First, uh, when sweet little
00:36:23.420
Lisa gives you a mortadella, um, is she giving you the mortadella with pistachios in it or is she giving
00:36:30.340
you the bad stuff? Uh, secondly, um, when you are enjoying your delectable and aromatic Mayflower
00:36:37.860
cigars, uh, do you hide that from your children? Um, or is it just after they go to bed? Um, I mean,
00:36:47.360
obviously it's not something that's shameful, but it's certainly not for children. Uh, must be 21 to
00:36:52.520
buy restrictions and exclusion supply. Uh, but how do, how do you approach that? I mean, I guess the same
00:37:00.000
thing could be said about having a couple of Coca-Colas. Um, thank you for your feedback.
00:37:04.500
Great. I'll run through. So glad to hear that you got a kid and I'm very happy to hear, maybe in a way
00:37:11.060
more happy to hear that my mentioning that it took us a little while to get our first kid, uh, you know,
00:37:15.860
got you through that difficulty. Cause when people are struggling with infertility, uh, you know,
00:37:20.060
I've seen it, it, uh, it, it really can drive you crazy. So that's, uh, that's all great news.
00:37:25.140
Terms of the mortadella, I'm actually trying to remember, I think it would, it might be the
00:37:31.240
pistachio kind. I agree. The pistachio kind's better. I'm just trying to remember cause we,
00:37:35.240
you know, we're not in New York anymore. So we got to get the package stuff and, but it's a,
00:37:39.280
it's a decent packaged mortadella. And, uh, then on the stogies, I usually just out of habit,
00:37:48.060
I usually have a cigar when the kids are asleep because that's the only time I get to sit outside
00:37:53.740
and do some work or read a book. And that's usually when I would have a cigar. So it's usually
00:37:57.860
when they're napping or in bed, but I don't hide the cigars from them. I've had cigars with them,
00:38:01.880
not like, like they're not smoking, you know, they're, they're a little bit too young. Uh,
00:38:05.320
but if we're, you know, if we're sitting outside or if I'm, we're going for a walk or something,
00:38:08.940
I might have a cigar. I don't hide it. I don't, as you say, I don't think it's anything to be ashamed
00:38:12.420
of. Um, you know, if I were like chain smoking cigarettes and it were an impeditive kind of action,
00:38:17.740
then you might not want to do that, but they're aware of that. You know, they see this cigar.
00:38:22.180
I got cigar boxes all over the house. They put their little cars in different boxes,
00:38:25.160
little Mayflower boxes and things like that. So, uh, yeah, I don't, I don't think it's anything
00:38:29.360
to hide from them. And then my children will say, they say, they does that your cigar. I'll say,
00:38:34.000
that is my cigar. I'll say, but I can't have that. I'm too young. I said, that's right. You are too
00:38:37.920
young. Yeah. Not until we're older. And then sometimes this is really, this makes my heart just,
00:38:43.040
you know, beat out of my chest. Someday we can have one together when I'm grown up. And I say,
00:38:49.680
yes, we can, buddy. Same thing with wine. If I'm having a glass of wine and say, they does that wine?
00:38:53.120
I say, yeah, it is wine. I say, oh, I can't have that. I'm too young. You are too young. That's
00:38:57.520
right. But someday when I'm grown up, we can have a glass together. I said that we absolutely can,
00:39:01.780
buddy. You're right. Love that. It's a beautiful thing. So they kind of get it. I don't,
00:39:05.860
I don't see my toddlers busting into my humidor. Next question.
00:39:11.380
Good morning, Michael Knowles. I've been thinking about if as Christians, there are Bible verses and
00:39:17.160
explicitly New Testament Bible verses we can use to justify utilizing political power to wield
00:39:23.000
the state's power of the sort to compel non-Christians to do what is right. One such
00:39:28.220
example would be creating and enforcing laws that compel people to take such actions. Thank you for
00:39:34.160
your help. Have a good weekend. Yeah, you can point to that in the Bible, but it's not, you don't,
00:39:40.100
you don't even really need the Bible to do that. You know, obviously St. Paul says that
00:39:44.580
the civil authority does not bear the sword in vain and that the civil authority is there for our
00:39:49.480
good. So that's, that would be a verse of the Bible. Our Lord says, give to Caesar what is Caesar's
00:39:55.640
and give to God what is God's. But, but when you say, you know, can we as Christians wield the state
00:40:02.820
to make non-Christians do good things? You don't really need to bring the Bible or religion into that
00:40:09.080
at all. It's, that's just a question of justice. Really, really the question is just, can we do
00:40:16.580
politics? You know, can we be in political power and, uh, enact ordinances of justice, namely laws,
00:40:25.060
and then enforce them? But yes, of course, of course we can. And, you know, that's just,
00:40:28.780
that's just what politics is. Politics is, uh, an enactment of justice. Law is an ordinance of
00:40:36.040
reason. It's not an ordinance of revelation necessarily. It's an ordinance of reason
00:40:39.960
for the common good by him who has care of the community and promulgated. So, you know, you don't,
00:40:45.820
you really don't need to bring in revelation at all there. I mean, if you're asking me,
00:40:51.180
should Christians wield the power of the state to force people to convert to Christianity or
00:40:55.440
something? Certainly not. I mean, that's never been the position of the church. Um, there, there've
00:41:00.480
only been a couple of times in history when that's even really happened. I'm thinking of, uh, Charlemagne
00:41:06.640
and the Spanish Inquisition were too, and even when it comes to Charlemagne, his theological advisor,
00:41:11.500
Alcuin of York told him not to do that, that you really can't, uh, compel people to, to be baptized.
00:41:16.660
That's not how it works. Um, but, but other, other than that, uh, I don't even think that's really
00:41:22.060
what you're asking. I think you're just saying, can, can the state, you know, wield its authority to
00:41:26.200
encourage people to do good and discourage people from doing bad? Yeah. That's just the law. That's
00:41:30.480
just what justice is. You can, you can, you know, take your particular religious views out of it.
00:41:37.460
Uh, next question. Hi, Michael. Um, I wanted to leave a message. I'm not sure if you can play this.
00:41:47.780
Um, I'm in my fifties. This is about abortion. I'm in my fifties. So when I was, uh, 40,
00:41:56.200
one, I got pregnant and this is embarrassing, but I was addicted to, uh, addicted to drugs.
00:42:06.420
And my doctor said, how dare you bring a baby into this world when you're addicted to drugs? It's
00:42:14.780
going to be damaged or neurologically damaged. And, um, I felt so bad. He was so angry. So I,
00:42:24.920
um, asked if I could go to detox and he said that that was out of his purview. So I got really upset
00:42:35.780
and I had an abortion, but when I had the abortion, I told the doctor that I wanted to stay awake
00:42:43.460
and he thought that was crazy, but he said, okay. And, um, he said, why? And I said, so I never do this
00:42:52.260
again. And, um, um, I was awake for the whole thing. And I think, and there was a red medical trash can
00:43:06.720
and I watched him throw my baby in the trash. And it was the most painful experience of my life.
00:43:18.080
And there were, you know, they heard you into this waiting room and they shut the door
00:43:25.220
and you can't go out. Um, you have to go through the procedure room and all the girls, they're really
00:43:33.940
young and they were crying. They're crying. And, um, the place put boxes of tissue out.
00:43:42.220
And now I look back and how disgusting that was that they knew how hard it was. And they put boxes of
00:43:49.540
tissue out. Anyway, so now I'm older and I could never have children again, and I don't have
00:43:57.280
grandchildren. So people don't tell you about that, that you regret not having grandchildren.
00:44:06.900
Oh, man. Uh, really, really sorry to hear all of that, uh, from the horrible advice from the doctor
00:44:15.040
to the drug addiction, to this awful decision, to, you know, all of it. So even your, your sense that
00:44:22.020
you, you knew it was so wrong. That's why you, you know, stayed awake during it. And really just,
00:44:26.660
uh, totally heart-wrenching to then even the notion of in the, in the waiting room, all these girls are
00:44:32.280
crying. Why are they crying? It's not tears of joy, obviously. And it's just so, so dark. Uh,
00:44:39.460
there was no question in your story, you know, I appreciate your, your telling, telling us that,
00:44:43.460
uh, if, if there were a question of, you know, what do I do or how do I think about it? I, I would
00:44:48.620
recommend, um, sacramental confession would, would be my, uh, spiritual recommendation here.
00:44:56.360
Since, you know, there's, there's nothing that God can't forgive, uh, if you're, if you're seeking
00:45:00.820
forgiveness. Uh, and I, I, you know, uh, if one were to look at all for the kind of silver lining in
00:45:09.180
the storm cloud, I think it's this, what you've just told to a lot of people, many, many people
00:45:14.280
listening to this show on the podcast, on YouTube, on terrestrial radio and all over the world, even,
00:45:20.960
uh, a lot of people haven't heard that. A lot of people don't hear that part. They hear about how
00:45:26.400
it's abortion's freedom and you're going to feel really great. And you need this. This is, Oprah's
00:45:30.020
going to tell you, this is the American dream. That's the American, it sounds like an American
00:45:32.600
nightmare to me. And this is, uh, the sort of thing that you say is so, so gravely damaged your
00:45:39.440
life to say nothing about the life of your child. And, uh, there's a van pushing this at the DNC.
00:45:47.500
This is the side that you're not going to hear. They want it to, the liberals want to talk about
00:45:52.440
banning books and suppressing information. They're suppressing a lot of this information,
00:45:56.760
aren't they? So at the very least, I think it's a very, uh, helpful to others as a, as a warning.
00:46:02.600
So thank you for that. Okay. That's our show. Uh, we've got a lot more coming up. The
00:46:06.580
Membrum Segmentum is here. I'm Michael Knowles. This is the Michael Knowles Show.
00:46:20.660
Republicans or Nazis, you cannot separate yourselves from the bad white people.
00:46:25.560
Growing up, I never thought much about race. Never really seemed to matter that much. At least
00:46:29.540
not to me. Am I racist? I would really appreciate it if you love. I'm trying to learn. I'm on this
00:46:33.700
journey. I'm going to sort this out. I need to go deeper undercover.
00:46:39.100
They don't say I'm racist. Joining us now is Matt, certified DEI expert. Here's my certifications.
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What you're doing is you're stretching out of your whiteness. This is more for you than this
00:46:48.500
for you. Is America inherently racist? The word inherent is challenging there. I want to rename the
00:46:52.880
George Washington Monument to the George Floyd Monument. America is racist to its bones.
00:46:57.020
So inherently. Yeah. This country is a piece of...
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White. Folks. White. Trash. White supremacy. White woman. White boy. Is there a black person
00:47:05.640
around here? What's a black person right here? Does he not exist? They don't say I'm racist.
00:47:09.880
Hi, Robin. Hi. What's your name? I'm Matt. I just had to ask who you are because you have to be careful.
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