Ep. 1564 - First Kamala Harris Interview EXPLAINED In 2 Mins
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Sen. Kamala Harris (D-California) sits down for her first interview since stealing the Democratic presidential nomination from Joe Biden. In it, she answers some of the most basic questions that any presidential candidate could be asked. And then, she doesn t answer them.
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Kamala Harris sat down for her first interview since stealing the Democrat presidential nomination
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from Joe Biden. The purpose of the interview was to demonstrate that she's steady, she's stable,
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she's ready to lead. Kamala's values do not change. The most important and most significant
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aspect of my policy perspective and decisions is my values have not changed. Cool, cool,
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great news. So Kamala, where do you stand on the important issues like, say, energy?
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When you were in Congress, you supported the Green New Deal. And in 2019, you said, quote,
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there is no question I'm in favor of banning fracking. Fracking, as you know, is a pretty big
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issue, particularly in your must-win state of Pennsylvania. Do you still want to ban fracking?
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No, and I made that clear on the debate stage in 2020.
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Kamala's values do not change. Well, except for that one. Except, and this is where her answer
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gets even weirder. Kudos to Matt Whitlock for digging up this clip. Except, Kamala didn't even
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change her values, even when she said she did. Do you still want to ban fracking?
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No, and I made that clear on the debate stage in 2020, that I would not ban fracking.
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There's no question I'm in favor of banning fracking. So yeah, so it changed in that campaign?
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In 2020, I made very clear where I stand. We are in 2024, and I've not changed that position,
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nor will I going forward. I kept my word, and I will keep my word. There's no question I'm in
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favor of banning fracking. Kamala's values do not change. Yes, she changed her values on energy,
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on a really key energy question. But listen, don't worry. She's not changing them now.
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She changed her values in 2020. Except when you go back and look at the debate stage in 2020,
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she actually didn't change her values then. She's changed her values now. Kamala
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did not inspire confidence. And the interview did not get any better from there.
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Kamala was asked a lot of very easy questions. You saw there was a pretense of asking her tough
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questions. You've changed your views on fracking. Will, what do you say about that? It's not the
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hardest way to phrase that. It's the minimum that Dana Bash, the CNN journalist, could do to even
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remotely seem like a serious reporter. Kamala should have had answers to all of these questions prepared,
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and she didn't. On the fracking question, she lied. And then on probably the most basic question that
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any presidential candidate could be asked in an interview. Incredibly, she didn't have an answer.
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You have less time to make your case to voters than any candidate in modern American history.
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The voters are really eager to hear what your plans are. If you are elected, what would you do on day
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one in the White House? Well, there are a number of things. I will tell you, first and foremost,
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one of my highest priorities is to do what we can to support and strengthen the middle class.
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When I look at the aspirations, the goals, the ambitions of the American people,
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I think that people are ready for a new way forward
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in a way that generations of Americans have been fueled by hope and by optimism.
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I think, sadly, in the last decade, we have had in the former president someone who has
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really been pushing an agenda and an environment that is about diminishing the character and the
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strength of who we are as Americans, really dividing our nation. And I think people are
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ready to turn the page on that. So what would you do day one?
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Right. But what about my question that I asked you? What are you going to do on day one?
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She doesn't have an answer. Day one, I'm going to repeal this executive order. Day one,
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I'm going to walk over to the EPA and do this thing. Day one, I'm going to propose this piece of
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legislation. It's not difficult. Every president has that. Kamala Harris never thought about what
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she's going to do on day one. And then she goes on this rambling diatribe about, well,
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I will strengthen the middle class. That's not a day one thing. That's a whole administration thing.
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That's a grand vision. But how are you going to do that? Well, because we're going to be fueled by
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hope and optimism. This is a woman who has never grown past BS essays in the seventh grade. In the
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seventh grade, when you don't read the book and you're told to write an essay about it and you just
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try to use flowery language to get around your lack of knowledge and lack of a thesis, that doesn't
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cut it in middle school. This woman thinks it's going to cut it at 1600 Pennsylvania.
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She memorized, whatever that gobbledygook was, she memorized it. She's used that kind of, that's,
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you know, we're going to be unburdened by what has been. Think of yellow school buses. So that's,
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that's campaign fluff. What's most appalling to me here is that she didn't even anticipate this basic
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question. What are you going to do on day one? That is, that is presidential campaigning 101.
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She didn't even prepare an answer, that she's that unprepared. She didn't even prepare an answer
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to that basic question. Now, Tim Wall's got some questions too. Here is Tim Wall's receiving a
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question on his stolen valor. The country is just starting to get to know you. I want to ask you
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a question about how you've described your service in the National Guard. You said that you carried
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weapons in war, but you have never deployed actually in a war zone. A campaign official
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said that you misspoke. Did you? Well, first of all, I'm incredibly proud. I've done 24 years of
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wearing the uniform of this country. Equally proud of my service in a public school classroom,
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whether it's Congress or, or the governor. My record speaks for itself, but I think people are
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coming to get to know me. I speak like they do. Um, I speak candidly. I wear my emotions on my
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sleeves and, uh, I speak, uh, especially passionately about, uh, about our children being shot in schools
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and around, around guns. So, uh, I think people know me, they know who I am. They know where, uh,
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where my heart is. And again, my record has been out there for over 40 years to speak for itself.
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And, uh, the, the idea that you said that you were in war, did you misspeak as the campaign has said?
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Yeah, I said, we were talking about, in this case, this was after a school shooting, the ideas of
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carrying these weapons of war. And, uh, my wife, the English, she told me my grammar is not always
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correct. My grammar is not always correct. These are the weapons I carried in war. Oh, oopsie daisy.
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I just got my syntax wrong. I, what I meant to say was I've never served in war ever, but, uh, you know,
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me, duh, Tim Walls. Ooh, I guess I didn't study my English textbook so well. Got to go back to
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Strunk and White. This is my favorite new euphemism for a lie. Oh yes. Um, I don't always use the right
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grammar. Reach into the cookie jar, eat a cookie, have chocolate all over my face. Mama comes into
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the room. Michael, did you steal a cookie from the cookie jar? No, I did not. Mama, Michael, I have
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proof that you took that cookie. Oh, sorry, mama. I just don't always use the right grammar.
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I meant to say, yes, I did. Are you kidding me? Are you kidding me? And then it's another,
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there are two great excuses for lying here. One, I don't always use the right grammar. And two,
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oh, look, I speak like ordinary Americans do. You know, ordinary Americans who lie about their
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military service all the time. You know, all those ordinary Americans who steal valor every day.
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Yeah. I'm just like them. I don't know. I know a lot of ordinary Americans and they don't talk
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like that. Actually, he's, he's still lying about his military service in this answer.
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What does he say? He says, I wore the uniform for 24 years. He served in the national guard,
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though he quit immediately before he would have had to deploy to a war zone, but he,
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he did serve in the national guard. That's great. That's fabulous. Love it when people do that,
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but that's not wearing the uniform for 24 years. That's wearing the uniform.
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What about once a month? And then a couple of weeks during, during the course of the year.
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I have friends in the national guard. I think it's fabulous. Wonderful patriotic service. I think
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it's great. I really applaud everyone who does it, but you know, my, my grandfather was a Navy
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captain. He served in the Navy for 30 years. He wore a uniform for 30 years, meaning consistently
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for 30 years, that was his job. Tim Walls was, has been called to something else. He was a public
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school teacher. Then he was a terrible governor and he was a terrible member of Congress. Okay.
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So he, he was called to do other things and he stole valor. And he said, I carried weapons in war
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and he got caught lying about it. And as J.D. Vance has pointed out, he retired immediately as
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soon as he found out he might have to deploy to a war zone. And so, okay, people are raising all
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sorts of questions about that, but he shows no regret whatsoever for lying about his, his actual
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military service. He's trying to sneak out of it and he continues to lie. There's so much more to say.
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Kamala interview, still, it worked. I hate to say I told you so. This one though was pretty easily
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predicted. I said, the Kamala interview is not going to help her. It might hurt her a little bit
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for people who are paying attention. You know, she's not going to, she's not going to sound good. She's not
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good at talking. Speaking is the one skill you have to have if you're a politician and she's not
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good at it. So even with a soft interviewer on a friendly network, she's, she's not going to do
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great. She might hurt herself a little, but overall it'll be fine. She just has to show up and check the
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box. And that's true. The Associated Press has this headline, the interview, Kamala Harris's
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inaugural sit-down was most notable for seeming, dot, dot, dot, ordinary. That was it. I'm sure
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they wrote that headline before the interview ever took place. That was the point of the interview.
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Oh yes, of course. Oh, Kamala's not avoiding the press. Kamala hasn't consistently avoided the press
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and sitting down for an interview since she stole the nomination from Biden. No, no, no. No, it's,
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this is all just so ordinary. No, there wasn't a palace coup. Kamala didn't become the Democrat
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nominee without winning a single vote in the primary. No, it's just, it's so ordinary.
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No, no, this is all normal. Yeah. Don't watch. You don't need to watch the interview,
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but it wasn't disastrous. And anyway, it's just so, it's just so ordinary. Okay. Okay. You want to see
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media bias? Let's turn away from the Associated Press. Let's turn away from CNN. Let's turn to NBC.
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Here is Anna Cabrera of NBC News reporting on the exact same policy from Trump versus Kamala. This
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by way of the excellent video editor, Mays. It's not even something that all Republicans agree with,
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this idea of not taxing tips, Susan. In fact, several Republicans telling NBC News that they're
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skeptical of the idea, citing the rising national debt and questioning whether this would be fair
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to earners who don't make tips. So do you think it is realistic or is this something Susan more akin to
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Trump saying he's going to build the wall? Last part, Trump previously announced a similar plan when
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it comes to taxing hospitality workers and their tips specifically. Obviously that one policy that
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Trump had put out there was pretty popular, Brendan, and Trump still leads on the economy,
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but a series of recent polls show that gap is narrow. Yeah. And look, obviously it's really,
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really popular now that Kamala supports it. Back when Trump supported it, it was really unpopular
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and stupid and terrible and unjust. But now that look, Kamala, look, she's just, yeah, of course,
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it's a popular policy and she's going to do it a lot better than Trump anyway. So, you know,
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you want to see another example of this? So Time Magazine runs a piece. This is January 9th of last
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year. Headline, why ultra processed foods are so bad for you. January 9th of last year. Then
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August 27th, so just a few days ago, Time Magazine runs another piece. Why ultra processed foods,
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what if ultra processed foods are not as bad as you think? Same magazine, about a year,
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a year and a half apart. What changed? Well, January 9th, 2023 to about a week or so ago,
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nothing really changed. So you got, you know, why ultra processed foods are so bad for you.
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Then August 23rd, Bobby Kennedy Jr. endorses Trump and he endorses Trump specifically on a platform of
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making America healthy again. He called out specifically the dangers of ultra processed foods
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and other aspects of big agriculture and big pharma that are contrary to Americans' health.
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And then four days later, no, ultra processed foods are good again. Because back when opposition to
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ultra processed foods was a left-wing thing, that was good and wonderful and important. Now that
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opposition to ultra processed foods is a right-wing crunchy thing, well, now that's actually, no,
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that's stupid. That's dumb. That's ignorant. It might even be dangerous. Ultra processed foods are
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great. Eat McDonald's and Twinkies for every single meal. We can't have anyone thinking that Bobby
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Kennedy might know something. No, sir, we can't have anyone in any way inclined to vote for Donald
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Trump. It doesn't matter. I hope conservatives take this conclusion from all the media stuff.
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It is always wrong if the Republicans say it. That's it. I'm not pointing out the media bias just
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to, you know, bemoan the hypocrisy and say, if the shoe were on the other foot, can you imagine or
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whatever? That's, that way lies the death of conservatism. I show it to remind you that when
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Republicans receive criticism from the establishment media over various policies, over various running
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mate choices, over various neckties, for anything, the media are never criticizing the conservatives
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because what the conservatives have said and done is objectively wrong. Sometimes Republicans say and
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do things that are objectively wrong. We'll get to that in a moment. But, but it's, that's not why the
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media are criticizing them. It's the other way around. Whatever the Republicans say and do must be
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wrong because they are Republicans. That is how the left, that is how the media, but I repeat myself,
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is going to report on it. Now, speaking of public health matters and right and wrong,
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President Trump just unveiled a new policy yesterday. His, his promise is to not only support IVF,
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in vitro fertilization, not only to make it legal, perhaps even wider spread, but to involve the
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government in it, to have the government through taxpayer dollars support IVF. And furthermore,
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to mandate that private insurers cover IVF, meaning Trump's policy proposal, his promise is to mandate
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that every single American through their taxpayer dollars and through their private health insurance
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premiums support IVF. I'm announcing today in a major statement that under the Trump administration,
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your government will pay for, or your insurance company will be mandated to pay for all costs associated
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with IVF treatment. Because we want more babies to put it very nicely. And for this same reason,
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we will also allow new parents to deduct major newborn expenses from their taxes so that parents
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that have a beautiful baby will be able. So we're pro-family. Nobody's ever said that before.
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You know, I love the guy. You know, I love the guy. I have supported Trump since 2016. Consistently,
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I love him. So this observation comes very much from a place of love and wanting to help President
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Trump. You can tell sometimes when President Trump's speaking, he's just going off the cuff. He's,
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you know, kind of moving around. He's looking everywhere. In this case, he's reading this
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directly from the teleprompter, which leads me to conclude that this policy promise is coming from
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some staff members, some advisors on the campaign. I would just observe the two largest religious
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groups in America, the Catholics and the Southern Baptists, both formally oppose IVF. The Southern
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Baptists declared their opposition quite recently, actually, just two months ago. Catholics are politically
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split between the Republicans and the Democrats. Southern Baptists are not. Southern Baptists are
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overwhelmingly Republicans, about 64% Republican, only 26% Democrat. It would seem ill-advised for a
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political campaign to mandate that the two largest religious groups in the country, to say nothing of
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the many other Americans who are not Catholic, not Southern Baptists, but who nevertheless have some
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moral objections to in vitro fertilization, to mandate that they support it. It's difficult to
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see what the political upside is here. Some people have asked, what could be the opposition to IVF?
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Because IVF is great. Couples who want to have a baby and who are struggling, it allows them sometimes,
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actually, not nearly as effective as the IVF industry would tell you. Sometimes it allows them,
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though, to have a biological child. Or they'll say, well, more babies is always a good thing. So, what could
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the opposition be? The broadest opposition to IVF is that, practically speaking, the vast majority of
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persons who are created through IVF are destroyed or frozen indefinitely to be destroyed at a later date. The
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vast, vast majority. That's probably the broadest opposition to IVF. Other moral reasons to oppose
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IVF are, one, it establishes the domination of science and technology over the origin and destiny
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of human life. This is why you're seeing all sorts of lawsuits because, you know, scientists swap the
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test tube. So, they create a human being with the sperm from one couple and the egg from another couple,
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and oopsie-daisy, mom and dad have never met each other. They don't know each other. Whose baby is it?
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Which leads to a kind of commoditization of human life because now there will be some lawsuit over
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a product. You know, you go and, I mean, it's an industry. And so, there's a question of, do we want
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human beings to be the product of an industry? Like, you go to the, you know, that's one opposition to
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it. Some other reasons to oppose it is that it separates the unitive from the procreative act.
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Some other reasons to oppose it is it asserts a perverse right to a child, as though people have a
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right to a baby. But of course, we don't, you can't have a right to another person. It's the same
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reason we don't support slavery, you know, because people are not objects to be owned and traded and
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purchased, but are proper subjects with rights in themselves. You might agree with one of those
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objections. You might agree with all of those objections. You might agree with none of those
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objections. I'm just making the political observation here that this is an extraordinarily
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fraught, novel kind of bioethical issue where increasingly you're seeing people coming out
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against it. The opposition to IVF is growing. If you look at, you know, the Catholics have been
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opposed to it for a very long time, but the Southern Baptists have just come along to it. The
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largest Protestant denomination in the country. That maybe there's no political upside here.
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This is an issue on which the Catholics, the Southern Baptists, the traditionalists, even the
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libertarians who don't want federal government mandatory funding for this sort of thing, can all
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agree. What's the upside? To say nothing of the fact that if this policy were to go into effect,
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it would then mandate that people pay for IVF for homosexual couples. I think a lot of people are
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going to have some opposition to that. That's just under our current law, following our current
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jurisprudence, following Obergefell and the logic of the Bostock decision at the Supreme Court.
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It would probably mandate that single individuals, unmarried individuals, have the right to create
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a child paid for by you with all of those other problems. It just, it raises a lot of questions.
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And so I get, I totally get why people support IVF. I have a rather firmly established opposition
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and religious opposition to IVF. Sweet little Lisa and I struggled for two years with our first
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child. I was tempted by it. I totally get, I get why people support it. I get why politicians do not
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oppose IVF. I don't think the Republican party should be running on a platform against IVF as a top
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of the ticket issue. I think probably Republicans shouldn't even mention IVF, certainly in this
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election and probably for the foreseeable future. I grant all of that. And therefore, at the same time,
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it seems to me prudent, seems to me politically advantageous to say nothing of being morally
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advantageous to just kind of let, let the issue go, hold off a little bit and debate it as it
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remains a very hot issue. Can anyone explain to me the political upside here of, of President Trump
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mandating that some of, some of his biggest supporters engage in something that they consider
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to be gravely immoral? I don't, what's, what new voters is this policy going to win over by
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mandating this at the government and the private level? It's, I say this totally from a place of
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love because I've supported, I've got pretty good bona fides on supporting Trump here. I've done it for
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his entire presidential political career since 2015. I guess maybe even earlier since he, since he was
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running, this probably is ill-advised. And if he's reading this so closely off the teleprompter that
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maybe this is something that was cooked up in a committee of advisors, maybe those advisors
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ought to be reconsidered. There's so much more to say. First though, go to PragerU.com. Is America
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do the thirst mutilator, who says they've been suing to keep RFK Jr. off the ballot.
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Now they are forcing him to stay on the ballot. That's true. It's almost as though
00:27:33.020
the machinations against Bobby Kennedy Jr. have nothing to do with the law or election procedures
00:27:40.940
and everything to do with who he seems to be helping at any given moment. That's almost as
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though that were the case. Speaking of things that are ill-advised, the acolyte has been canceled.
00:27:53.340
What is the acolyte? The acolyte is the Star Wars show that is extremely expensive,
00:27:57.920
comes from after Disney bought Star Wars. Star Wars is some of the most expensive intellectual
00:28:02.120
property in the world. I, of course, have not watched the acolyte. I've not watched Star Wars
00:28:05.780
in some time. I liked it when I was a kid. I haven't watched it much recently. But my associate
00:28:10.380
producer, Professor Jacob, is a huge nerd. So he gave me the skimmy on it. How did this thing get
00:28:16.180
canceled? Well, the tomato reader, if you look on Rotten Tomatoes, puts the acolyte at about 78%.
00:28:24.080
So you say, well, that's not bad. It's a C plus. Not great. Not a B or an A or an A plus. But okay,
00:28:30.180
you know, it's not 78%. But that's the critics rating. The audience rating is 18%. The audience
00:28:36.900
hated this show. Huge flop. Disney spent 180 million bucks on the show. If you break that down
00:28:42.880
according to the length of the episodes, that's about $630,000 per minute of screen time.
00:28:49.260
Disney and all of these other lib outlets kept insisting for the duration of this season
00:28:57.420
that the viewership was great. And forget about Rotten Tomatoes. Forget about the audience numbers
00:29:02.480
because this was just being flooded by right-wing trolls who hate to see strong people of color
00:29:10.160
spouting brave left-wing ideology on the screen. And don't believe your lion eyes. People love the show.
00:29:17.020
It's got strong viewership. Well, okay, if it really had strong viewership, why would they cancel it?
00:29:22.260
Doesn't make a lot of sense. Just to get, you don't even need to watch The Acolyte if you just want
00:29:28.100
to get a sense of the people who are working on The Acolyte. Here's the lead actress, Amanda Stenberg,
00:29:33.920
who released a diss track against the fans of the show. Here's what she had to say.
00:29:38.960
Trevor asked what I want the people to know. I said white people cry. What's the call?
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If the truth is the power, keep an eye out for you silly racists.
00:29:50.040
We so bored don't have video discourse, which is kind of jiggling around like she's doing some kind of
00:29:59.620
All you people are racist. I want white people to cry. That's my goal. You people are silly racists.
00:30:07.520
I've been oppressed for 400 years. I, some young Hollywood starlet. Yeah, can't believe it didn't
00:30:13.620
work, huh? Can you imagine? Can you even imagine? They tried it. Rolling Stone posted a piece. This
00:30:21.140
was just a few days ago. Can the best of Star Wars survive the worst of its fans? It's the fans' fault.
00:30:27.220
It's like Principal Skinner in The Simpsons. Is it possible that I'm out of touch? No,
00:30:31.340
it's the children who must be wrong. Of course. This is all good news. Maybe not good news for
00:30:37.900
a nerd like Professor Jacob who wanted to watch more lightsaber people, you know,
00:30:41.960
swinging the sword at each other. But this is good news for conservatives in the culture.
00:30:47.060
The good news here, whether you like Star Wars or don't like Star Wars or whatever,
00:30:50.940
the good news is it reminds us that ultimately the libs can't take over things. The libs can't just
00:30:59.540
appropriate things and take it as their own and succeed with it. The libs can destroy things.
00:31:06.220
They're very good at destroying things. The libs were given Star Wars, some of the most valuable
00:31:12.140
intellectual property in Hollywood on a silver platter. They said, here you are. You've got this
00:31:17.320
built-in fanatical fan base, this beloved franchise for half a century now. Here you are.
00:31:23.040
And they blew it. They blew it in one season of this stupid show.
00:31:27.780
They can't, because the audience understood that what they were doing was not Star Wars.
00:31:33.440
They weren't giving, they took Star Wars. They took Star Wars and like Han Solo with that tauntaun on
00:31:39.860
hoth. They cut open its guts. They spilled out all of its innards. Then they crawled inside of the
00:31:47.340
tauntaun like Luke Skywalker did when he was half asleep. But the libs were very much awake. They
00:31:52.280
were woke, I guess you might say. And they kind of danced around wearing the skin suit of Star Wars and
00:31:57.120
said, oh, Wookiee Wookiee, Jabba Jabba, we're Star Wars. Vote for Joe Biden or Kamala Harris or whatever.
00:32:03.000
White people are terrible. Make them cry. Waka Waka. Mishigushi Gashi, Jar Jar Binks or whatever. I don't know,
00:32:08.260
whatever they say. And the audience didn't buy it. The audience said, wait, this isn't Star Wars.
00:32:14.100
This is just some stupid left-wing political lecture. This is just they-thems and LGBT
00:32:19.640
ideology and politically correct racial grievance. We don't want this. We're going to give it low
00:32:27.240
ratings on Rotten Tomatoes. We're not going to watch. And we're going to make you blow 180 million bucks.
00:32:31.540
Sorry. Give us Star Wars. We'll watch Star Wars. But the left can't do Star Wars. The reason that
00:32:39.700
Star Wars worked in the 70s and continued to work throughout subsequent decades is because it's a
00:32:45.080
story about the fight between good and evil. And good ultimately is going to triumph over evil,
00:32:50.740
even though evil can be very tempting sometimes. And often it looks like evil is going to win.
00:32:54.820
But the good is ultimately going to win. That's a good story. It's a traditional story. That's not a
00:32:59.140
story the libs like. The libs say there's no difference between good and evil. The libs say,
00:33:03.600
we got to play with this yin and yang, man. We got to embrace sometimes the evil within us, man. It's
00:33:07.580
all blurry. We're non-binary. Come on, man. And that doesn't work. So good news, bad news for Star
00:33:15.920
Wars fans in the short term, but good news for the culture in the long term. The libs can't continue
00:33:23.180
to be libs and take away beloved stories. Now, speaking of institutions that the libs are
00:33:31.080
destroying, I mentioned last week on the show that the Young America's Foundation called to my
00:33:36.340
attention that the University at Buffalo, this is a public university in New York,
00:33:42.260
devoted a considerable amount of space on one of their academic department homepages to denouncing me.
00:33:48.520
The second paragraph on the University at Buffalo Media Study Department homepage was dedicated to
00:33:56.100
me. It was three or four sentences denouncing me and accusing me of calling for genocide and inciting
00:34:02.440
violence and all sorts of crazy things. I mentioned I'm not a graduate of the University
00:34:06.460
of Buffalo. I've never been employed by the University of Buffalo. I gave one speech there on
00:34:10.580
a different topic. It had nothing to do with transgenderism. I mean, it had something to do with
00:34:14.600
transgenderism in as much as it had to do with feminism, but it wasn't even specifically on
00:34:19.380
that topic. And they had this permanent denouncement of me on the homepage for a different speech I gave
00:34:26.580
more than two years ago in a totally different location, not even on a campus. It was really,
00:34:30.580
really weird. So we were all laughing about this, but I pointed out this was defamation of me.
00:34:35.820
And I also pointed out that this was actionable defamation. They were lying about me. I obviously
00:34:41.060
have never called for genocide. I'm not a huge genocide kind of guy. So the media study department
00:34:48.480
here, I discovered, has removed me from the homepage. And I can't help but notice, it was up there for
00:34:55.920
almost 18 months. And then I tagged the chairman of the department. And I observed that what they had
00:35:01.920
up there on this public school's homepage was defamatory and actionable. People might be legally
00:35:07.440
liable for that. And then I don't know. Less than 48 hours later, they took it away. Maybe they got a
00:35:15.480
call from their lawyers. I don't know what it was. I do know that we won. I do know that these libs at
00:35:21.160
the University of Buffalo folded like a cheap suit. And I didn't even send them a letter. Okay, I just
00:35:27.440
posted a tweet with a vague legal threat and they folded. This is a reminder to the right.
00:35:33.600
There is still something akin to the rule of law in America. Lawfare does work. These people,
00:35:41.840
they pretend to be very strong and serious. They don't have logic or reason on their side.
00:35:47.300
Often, they don't even have the politics, the support of the people at least on their side. And
00:35:52.880
frequently, they don't have the courts on their side. If we fight back at all, at all, even the
00:35:59.020
slightest little inkling of fighting back, we can win. The libs are not omnipotent.
00:36:05.280
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Finally, finally, we've arrived at my favorite time of the week when I get to hear from you in
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the mailbag. Our mailbag is sponsored by PureTalk on puretalk.com slash Knowles today. Switch to a
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Hello, Michael. My name is Jordan. I live in Little Rock, Arkansas, and my question today concerns the
00:36:51.400
three branches of government. I find it fascinating that the three branches are all simultaneously
00:36:57.760
making radically different decisions. You have an executive branch run by radical people,
00:37:05.680
super hyper-liberal people, heading in a very dangerous direction. And yet, at the same time,
00:37:11.840
you have the judicial branch that is making some fairly conservative decisions, like dropping some
00:37:16.360
cases against Trump, overturning Roe v. Wade, things like that. And then, of course, in the
00:37:21.800
legislative branch, you have kind of a mixed bag. My question then is, how do you explain all of
00:37:28.280
these radically different decisions being made all at the same time? Thank you, Michael. Have a
00:37:33.720
wonderful day, and God bless you. Thank you so much. Really good question. The way that that is
00:37:39.160
possible is because we have a system of government in which there is a triple sovereignty. So we call
00:37:46.340
it the separation of powers. There are checks and balances, but it means that there is real
00:37:51.760
sovereignty established within each of the branches. None is really supposed to be subservient to the
00:37:58.880
others. Right now, the legislature and the executive are trying to make the judiciary
00:38:02.040
subsidiary to at least the legislature and probably the executive too. This is the court packing threats,
00:38:10.380
the insistence on a new code of conduct, erasing life tenure for the justices. So they're trying to
00:38:15.100
destroy that triple sovereignty, but it nevertheless, for now at least, remains. The reason we have this
00:38:22.100
triple sovereignty comes from Montesquieu. Montesquieu, the 18th century writer who probably had a far
00:38:28.880
more significant effect on the American Revolution and the form of government we got afterward than,
00:38:34.080
say, John Locke, who was given a lot more credit for it. So Montesquieu divided, in the spirit of the
00:38:39.780
law, is the government between the executive, the legislature, and the judiciary. And this has worked
00:38:46.920
out relatively well for us for more than a couple centuries now. It's unclear, though, if this is the ideal
00:38:53.460
form of government in that—I was reading a good essay on this somewhat recently on a blog. I think
00:38:59.100
the blog's called Throne and Altar or something like that. But it points out that St. Augustine,
00:39:06.620
when he's thinking of the Trinity, he compares it to the mind, the mind which has three aspects.
00:39:12.080
You think of your mind as it's a unitary thing, but it also has three aspects, which is memory,
00:39:17.000
intelligence, and will. All three of those things are functions of the mind, but they're different.
00:39:24.940
They're distinct from one another. And so you can understand a government as embodying these three
00:39:31.520
things. The memory, you could imagine the memory embodied in a monarchy. You know, King Charles in
00:39:36.460
the United Kingdom is a symbol of memory, of tradition. He, in his very person, is an expression
00:39:44.240
of historical political memory. Then you've got intelligence. That would be in the legislature,
00:39:51.840
probably. You know, the understanding in the legislature that's crafting all the laws and
00:39:55.740
deliberating. And then you would have the will, which in other forms of government would be
00:40:00.980
in the bureaucracy, say, in the administrative part of the government.
00:40:07.340
In America's government, it's a little more confused. The memory is not really—the executive is
00:40:12.480
kind of like the American monarch, but he's the head of state. But actually, the memory is more in
00:40:16.880
the judiciary, not really in the executive. And the intelligence is also probably in the
00:40:21.840
judiciary. I mean, maybe you could say it's in Congress. I don't know. And the will, the will is
00:40:26.200
in the executive through the administrative agency. So it's a little bit confusing. But in any case,
00:40:32.820
that's a long-winded answer to a relatively simple question. It's because our sovereign is really
00:40:39.960
divided into three. All sovereign. Next question.
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Mr. Michael Knowles, I'm calling regarding your opinion in a matter of judicial judgment
00:40:51.100
regarding my family's reading through of the Bible. We've been reading a chapter of the Bible
00:40:55.720
every night at prayer for years. And that was fine until we turned the page and realized the next book
00:41:01.620
was the Canticle of Canticles. Now, my children are aged two to 13. And while my husband and I
00:41:08.320
appreciate and understand the beautiful allegory about God's love for his people,
00:41:12.440
I'm afraid my children might find it a little salacious. My question is, should we skip this
00:41:19.980
book? And if we do skip it, what can we say to our children to help them understand when we haven't
00:41:26.000
skipped anything else in the Bible up until this point? Thank you so much for your opinion. Have a
00:41:30.640
great day. You can skip it if you like. I don't think you have to skip it. You know, I think you can
00:41:36.120
read Song of Songs, Song of Solomon, Canticle of Canticles. There's a lot of names for this
00:41:41.020
rather evocative and even erotic book of the Bible. You know, I would recommend reading the Bible
00:41:49.420
liturgically. So rather than straight through, I've started reading it many times going straight
00:41:55.040
through. I find reading it liturgically is a little better. So that way you see the figures
00:41:59.100
in the Old Testament that are fulfilled in the New Testament, you know, with relevant Psalms in there.
00:42:05.740
But I think you're okay if you wanted to read Song of Songs to your kids. I mean, the parts of the
00:42:12.640
Bible you would have already read do include episodes of rape, incest, murder. There's a lot
00:42:20.940
of pretty saucy stuff in there too. But the Bible is not obscene in any way. So, you know, if the Song
00:42:27.320
of Songs appealed to the prurian interest or something, you know, that would be one thing. But
00:42:30.560
God forbid, I mean, that, you know, we're talking about the Word of God here. So that's not how it
00:42:34.180
works. Next question. Hi, Michael. My husband and I are huge fans of your show. We are also
00:42:40.940
mackerel snapping papists and are invigorated by how you speak about the Catholic faith. We would love
00:42:47.020
your help navigating the following. About one year ago, my sister married my husband's cousin. They dated
00:42:54.140
for around two years prior to getting married and have known each other for a while through mine and
00:42:59.240
my husband's relationship. My husband's cousin is in the army and my sister unfortunately has a
00:43:05.440
chronic illness and cannot work, but worked previously in fashion. After only three months
00:43:11.320
of living together, he has asked her for a divorce. It has been awful for my sister and for our families.
00:43:18.380
My sister does not believe in divorce and thought that he shared this belief as well, as they are both
00:43:24.200
Catholic. The reason he gives is that they do not value money the same way and he believes she should
00:43:30.500
be working and isn't contributing unless she is, even though he knew about her condition and not working
00:43:37.100
since day one of their relationship. He unfortunately wasn't willing to try longer or participate in more
00:43:44.500
than a few sessions of counselling before ending it. Although many conversations have been had between us
00:43:51.240
with him, no change of mind has occurred and a divorce settlement is proceeding. We have found
00:43:58.340
this very disturbing to witness and want to do our best to support my sister and advise my husband's
00:44:05.120
cousin while also standing by our beliefs. Thank you, Michael. Keep up the good fight.
00:44:11.640
Really, really sorry to hear all that. What a disgusting reprobate. He sounds just absolutely
00:44:16.080
awful. And if he were my family, I'd probably take him, take him up back and have a tough conversation
00:44:21.900
with him, you know, maybe, maybe a real tough conversation with him. That is completely disgusting
00:44:26.920
and derelict behavior. So I don't know what to do. I mean, I'd tell him, I'd probably shake him a little
00:44:34.480
bit and tell him to act like a man and stop sounding like a whiny feminist cock, you know. But if he's not
00:44:41.420
going to do that, if he's going to insist on divorce, it shows that he obviously did not
00:44:46.760
understand, especially if you're, you know, you guys are mackerel snapping papists, you're Catholics.
00:44:50.180
I mean, we don't, we don't permit divorce. We don't, we don't acknowledge any sacramental reality
00:44:55.000
to divorce. So, you know, I suppose the consolation here would be, this might be cause at the real
00:45:00.940
least for an annulment inquiry to, you know, I would speak to a priest about it and say, you know,
00:45:05.600
was, was this man withholding something at the, at the wedding? Did he, was there something that
00:45:11.300
invalidated the sacrament before? Cause that, you know, it's, wouldn't be a divorce. You can't get
00:45:16.600
divorced if you're Catholic, but you, it's unclear if maybe if this was a valid marriage in the first
00:45:23.160
place, if he's going to behave this way. But I, you know, I suppose ideally what you do is just tell
00:45:28.100
him that he sounds just like a complete modernist, feminist, whiny cuck. I mean, just, you know,
00:45:36.340
it's an important term. I know the term, the, that word, which is short for cuckold has become
00:45:41.480
popular in recent years. But for those of us who are children of the Mezzogiorno Cornuto,
00:45:45.640
that word cuckold is a very old insult. And I think it's apt here. I mean, this is just,
00:45:51.140
he's willing to just give his wife away and live in adultery. What a completely disgusting thing.
00:45:57.360
So anyway, maybe show him this clip, you know, tell him to shoot me a message if he wants any
00:46:02.360
advice. And otherwise I'd talk to a priest about an annulment inquiry. I'm not, I don't know. I'm not
00:46:08.340
qualified to say that an annulment would be merited here, but I'd at least look into it.
00:46:13.680
Okay. It is Fake Headline Friday. I have more voice mailbag to get to. I have written mailbag to get to
00:46:19.340
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annual plans. Republicans are Nazis. You cannot separate yourselves from the bad white people.
00:46:46.240
Growing up, I never thought much about race. Never really seemed to matter that much. At least not to
00:46:50.560
me. Am I racist? I would really appreciate it if you love. I'm trying to learn. I'm on this journey.
00:46:54.660
I'm going to sort this out. I need to go deeper undercover.
00:47:00.900
Joining us now is Matt, certified DEI expert. Here's my certification. And what you're doing
00:47:06.080
is you're stretching out of your whiteness. This is more for you than this for you. Is America
00:47:09.860
inherently racist? The word inherent is challenging there. I want to rename the George Washington
00:47:14.060
Monument to the George Floyd Monument. America is racist to its bones. So inherently. Yeah,
00:47:18.960
this country is a piece of... White. Folks. White. Trash. White. Supremacy. White woman. White boy.
00:47:25.300
Is there a black person around? What's a black person right here? Does he not exist? They don't say
00:47:28.920
I'm racist. Hi, Robin. Hi. What's your name? I'm Matt. I just had to ask who you are because you have
00:47:34.700
to be careful. Never be too careful. They gonna say you racist. Buy your tickets now in theaters September 13th.