The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 1567 - LEAKED Taylor Swift & Travis Kelce ＂Love Contract＂ EXPLAINED

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00:00:30.460 Forget about the presidential race.

00:00:32.740 Forget about the DOJ

00:00:34.040 indicting two Russians

00:00:35.440 for allegedly funding right-wing media personalities.

00:00:38.460 We'll get to it. Don't worry.

00:00:40.360 I want to focus on a far more

00:00:42.740 culturally significant story

00:00:44.560 than any of that stuff.

00:00:48.540 A person on the internet

00:00:50.420 has posted an alleged PR strategy document

00:00:54.160 outlining plans for Taylor Swift

00:00:56.640 and Travis Kelsey's breakup

00:00:58.740 later this month.

00:01:01.040 Is it true?

00:01:02.920 I don't know.

00:01:04.340 Probably not.

00:01:05.360 But maybe.

00:01:06.800 Travis Kelsey's publicist,

00:01:08.420 Jack Kitosian,

00:01:10.660 has admitted to orchestrating showmances

00:01:12.960 in the past.

00:01:13.700 Five years ago,

00:01:14.700 he told an Australian podcast

00:01:16.060 that Hollywood routinely

00:01:17.520 stages fake romances

00:01:19.280 to promote projects

00:01:20.500 or to turn the tide on bad publicity.

00:01:22.460 And the whole Taylor-Travis story

00:01:24.500 has been a conspicuously blockbuster affair

00:01:27.860 with the most popular singer in the world

00:01:30.540 dating an All-American football star

00:01:33.060 who won the Super Bowl

00:01:34.040 the year they started dating.

00:01:35.680 In this case,

00:01:37.340 everyone involved

00:01:38.580 is denying the report

00:01:39.740 and lawyering up.

00:01:40.740 But I would like to suggest

00:01:42.460 an easy way

00:01:43.940 that Taylor and Travis

00:01:45.520 could put the rumors to rest.

00:01:47.100 get married.

00:01:51.260 I'm not anti-Taylor.

00:01:52.980 I am not anti-Travis.

00:01:54.920 I know that some conservatives are

00:01:56.820 because Taylor Swift

00:01:58.100 is sort of liberal

00:01:59.140 in the generally inoffensive

00:02:01.420 and even somewhat charming way

00:02:02.880 that virtually all young,

00:02:04.680 single white women are liberal. 0.99

00:02:06.620 And they usually get more conservative

00:02:08.060 once they're married,

00:02:08.940 which is another good reason

00:02:09.900 for her to get married.

00:02:10.920 But also,

00:02:12.040 they're both 34.

00:02:14.080 Marriage and kids

00:02:14.760 are better and more gratifying

00:02:16.480 than any amount

00:02:17.300 of professional success.

00:02:18.720 And serial purposeless flings

00:02:20.440 get depressing real quick.

00:02:23.140 For the good of their own lives,

00:02:25.060 for the good of society,

00:02:26.620 for the good of their personal brands,

00:02:28.640 now is the time.

00:02:30.560 Travis should propose.

00:02:32.840 Taylor should accept.

00:02:34.960 The fanatical army of Swifties 0.99

00:02:36.780 should follow suit.

00:02:38.020 They should all have a bunch of kids. 0.84

00:02:39.740 And America should have a future.

00:02:41.340 I'm Michael Knowles.

00:02:42.000 This is The Michael Knowles Show.

00:02:46.480 Welcome back to the show.

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00:03:51.040 I mentioned there in the open

00:03:52.360 that the DOJ

00:03:54.000 has indicted two Russians

00:03:55.840 for allegedly funneling

00:03:58.820 millions and millions

00:03:59.840 of dollars

00:04:00.340 into right-wing media personalities

00:04:02.520 over the past year or so,

00:04:05.320 a little more than a year.

00:04:07.100 So my first reaction

00:04:09.040 to this story is,

00:04:11.240 where's my money?

00:04:13.240 Huh?

00:04:13.720 How come the Russians 1.00

00:04:14.460 never want to offer me money?

00:04:16.320 Not that I'm not requesting

00:04:17.420 money from Russia.

00:04:18.180 Please don't miss it.

00:04:18.880 I'm not, you're right.

00:04:19.740 I actually wouldn't,

00:04:21.600 it probably wouldn't make sense

00:04:22.980 for the Russians to fund me

00:04:24.320 because I'm not obsequious

00:04:26.180 about Russia

00:04:26.720 or anything like that.

00:04:27.740 But what about Liechtenstein?

00:04:30.400 If anyone from the Liechtenstein

00:04:32.360 government is listening right now,

00:04:33.680 I want it to be very clear

00:04:35.620 if you legally fund me,

00:04:38.620 there is no end

00:04:40.140 to the amount of

00:04:40.800 Jacobite propaganda

00:04:41.720 that I will promote.

00:04:43.440 I will talk about

00:04:44.320 the Bonnie Prince Charlie.

00:04:45.440 I will talk about

00:04:46.240 the House of Wittelsbach,

00:04:48.140 the real Stuart line

00:04:49.220 of succession

00:04:49.740 from King James II of England.

00:04:51.840 I'll do,

00:04:52.200 I will do it.

00:04:52.960 I will play Jacobite songs

00:04:54.220 on the show.

00:04:54.860 I will also do all of that

00:04:56.140 if Liechtenstein does not fund me.

00:04:58.240 So I guess this is,

00:04:59.040 this is why the other guys

00:04:59.920 make the big bucks.

00:05:01.760 And over here,

00:05:02.560 I got to keep selling cigars,

00:05:04.560 you know,

00:05:04.700 keep the lights on.

00:05:05.640 What is the DOJ

00:05:07.200 alleging exactly?

00:05:09.240 Merrick Garland said

00:05:10.180 that

00:05:11.340 two Russians

00:05:13.440 who worked for Russia Today,

00:05:16.420 which was a Russian state

00:05:18.720 TV channel

00:05:19.560 that did operate

00:05:20.640 in the United States,

00:05:21.520 but then with the outbreak

00:05:22.540 of the war in Ukraine

00:05:23.380 was sanctioned

00:05:24.800 and was booted out of the U.S.,

00:05:26.000 that they secretly funneled money

00:05:27.980 to a company

00:05:29.120 called Tenet Media.

00:05:30.940 And the company

00:05:31.960 hired a bunch of personalities,

00:05:33.700 many of whom

00:05:34.300 have come out

00:05:34.880 and talked about this

00:05:35.900 since this indictment dropped.

00:05:37.400 The way the indictment

00:05:38.120 is written,

00:05:38.820 it just says,

00:05:39.440 you know,

00:05:39.700 founder one,

00:05:40.520 founder two,

00:05:41.820 commentator one,

00:05:42.700 commentator two.

00:05:44.120 So they hide a lot

00:05:45.100 of the names

00:05:45.480 because the only people

00:05:47.040 who have formerly

00:05:47.600 been indicted

00:05:48.200 are the Russians.

00:05:50.340 But people like

00:05:51.520 my friend Tim Pool,

00:05:52.620 Benny Johnson,

00:05:54.200 a number of people

00:05:54.700 have come out

00:05:55.240 and explained

00:05:56.860 their role

00:06:00.700 in being paid

00:06:01.500 by this company.

00:06:02.560 And they said,

00:06:02.920 look,

00:06:03.060 we were duped.

00:06:04.200 They lied to us

00:06:05.980 about who was funding it.

00:06:06.920 Obviously,

00:06:07.460 we didn't think

00:06:08.100 the money was coming

00:06:08.640 from Russia

00:06:09.080 or anything like that.

00:06:11.540 The DOJ comes out

00:06:12.940 and it really seems

00:06:14.960 to suggest

00:06:15.440 in the indictment itself

00:06:16.760 that the commentators

00:06:18.220 on the right,

00:06:18.740 there were a handful of them,

00:06:19.720 Dave Rubin,

00:06:20.720 there were a handful

00:06:21.840 of them

00:06:22.240 that they didn't know,

00:06:24.240 that they got duped.

00:06:25.700 The company,

00:06:27.220 the tenant media,

00:06:28.240 did know,

00:06:29.260 according to the indictment,

00:06:30.980 and the amount of money

00:06:33.100 that came in

00:06:33.640 was a little under

00:06:34.440 $10 million,

00:06:36.000 which is a good

00:06:37.240 chunk of change.

00:06:39.340 However,

00:06:40.220 if you look at the views

00:06:42.620 that this generated,

00:06:44.560 I think it's something

00:06:45.600 like 16 million views.

00:06:47.580 So you got the Russians 0.99

00:06:49.040 paying,

00:06:51.340 what, 62,

00:06:52.980 63 cents a view,

00:06:54.340 basically.

00:06:54.660 That's pretty expensive.

00:06:56.460 That's over a whole

00:06:57.460 nine-month period.

00:06:58.600 It's not,

00:06:59.000 that's really not a lot

00:06:59.920 of views

00:07:00.480 for a media company.

00:07:03.740 The talent

00:07:04.740 that were being paid

00:07:05.740 were already

00:07:06.640 well-established

00:07:07.640 and had their platforms

00:07:08.720 elsewhere,

00:07:09.480 you know,

00:07:09.660 people like Tim Pool

00:07:10.480 and Benny Johnson

00:07:11.160 and Dave Rubin.

00:07:13.660 The company itself,

00:07:16.500 some were pro-Trump,

00:07:17.660 some were anti-Trump,

00:07:18.860 but there wasn't really

00:07:20.160 a uniform message

00:07:21.180 as even the DOJ

00:07:22.380 admits.

00:07:23.400 So what's the upshot

00:07:25.320 of all of this?

00:07:26.680 You have

00:07:27.120 a small number

00:07:29.980 of right-wing media

00:07:30.800 personalities

00:07:31.380 and sort of

00:07:32.960 independent,

00:07:34.200 let's just say

00:07:34.800 not left-wing media

00:07:35.800 personalities

00:07:36.360 who were

00:07:37.820 unwittingly

00:07:39.520 receiving

00:07:40.240 a decent amount,

00:07:42.560 but not an insane

00:07:43.160 amount of money

00:07:43.600 from the Russians.

00:07:44.300 they don't appear

00:07:48.240 to have changed

00:07:48.780 their editorial

00:07:49.520 stance

00:07:50.180 at the direction

00:07:50.900 of the Russians.

00:07:51.460 They were just

00:07:51.860 doing shows

00:07:52.360 that they were

00:07:52.660 already kind of

00:07:53.080 doing anyway

00:07:53.820 and producing

00:07:55.140 the same sort

00:07:55.840 of content

00:07:56.180 that they were

00:07:56.580 producing anyway.

00:07:57.800 And it didn't

00:07:59.040 really generate

00:08:00.540 all that much buzz,

00:08:02.080 but most people

00:08:02.740 even on the right

00:08:03.460 have never heard

00:08:04.000 of this company,

00:08:05.280 Tenet Media.

00:08:05.920 If the indictment

00:08:09.240 is totally true,

00:08:10.760 some shady

00:08:11.700 illegal stuff

00:08:12.600 definitely went on

00:08:13.500 at the company.

00:08:16.100 But what's the

00:08:16.940 upshot of all of it?

00:08:18.720 Well, the upshot

00:08:19.440 is the left

00:08:21.420 is going to say

00:08:21.980 that the entire

00:08:22.580 right is being

00:08:24.440 paid by the Russians 0.91

00:08:25.340 or something,

00:08:25.900 which is the same

00:08:26.480 line of attack

00:08:27.040 that they were

00:08:27.400 trying to use

00:08:27.840 in 2016.

00:08:30.100 The upshot of it

00:08:31.100 is this indictment

00:08:32.420 is coming out now.

00:08:34.160 Why is it coming

00:08:34.620 out right now?

00:08:35.380 Why is it coming

00:08:35.800 out just days

00:08:37.200 after a very

00:08:39.140 prominent Democrat

00:08:39.980 in the state

00:08:40.460 of New York

00:08:40.960 was allegedly

00:08:41.760 caught working

00:08:42.960 as an influence

00:08:44.280 peddler for the

00:08:44.940 Chinese government,

00:08:45.960 the Chinese

00:08:46.760 Communist Party,

00:08:48.140 working in the

00:08:49.380 Democrat governor

00:08:50.060 of New York's office.

00:08:50.940 Why is it coming

00:08:51.500 out just weeks

00:08:53.100 before a

00:08:54.640 presidential election?

00:08:55.600 Might it have

00:08:57.980 something to do

00:08:58.720 with the fact

00:08:59.220 that Democrats

00:09:00.420 launched their

00:09:02.380 first salvo

00:09:04.060 against Donald

00:09:04.680 Trump all the

00:09:05.280 way back in

00:09:05.680 2016 by saying

00:09:07.060 Donald Trump

00:09:08.000 is a tool

00:09:08.900 of the Russians?

00:09:10.520 It's Russia, 0.96

00:09:11.440 Russia,

00:09:11.760 Russia.

00:09:12.260 He colluded

00:09:12.860 with the Russians.

00:09:13.760 And then that

00:09:14.400 completely fell apart.

00:09:15.380 There was an

00:09:15.660 investigation.

00:09:16.780 There was the

00:09:17.620 Mueller investigation,

00:09:19.420 special counsel,

00:09:20.240 all of it came

00:09:20.900 up with nothing.

00:09:23.380 Then they tried

00:09:25.040 colluding with

00:09:27.580 the Ukrainians.

00:09:28.240 They called him

00:09:28.680 an insurrectionist.

00:09:29.600 They tried to

00:09:29.960 kick him off the 1.00

00:09:30.480 ballot.

00:09:30.920 They tried to

00:09:31.260 throw him in jail.

00:09:32.320 They established

00:09:32.900 the justification

00:09:33.700 to assassinate him

00:09:34.840 and he nearly

00:09:35.600 was assassinated.

00:09:36.840 And now I think

00:09:38.460 they're just back

00:09:38.980 to Russia,

00:09:39.480 Russia,

00:09:39.780 Russia.

00:09:40.740 So the timing

00:09:42.020 is obviously

00:09:42.840 to damage Trump.

00:09:43.760 And the irony

00:09:44.220 is the person

00:09:45.280 running Tenet Media

00:09:46.840 had been

00:09:48.320 discouraging people

00:09:49.480 from voting for

00:09:50.100 Trump.

00:09:50.420 So if you start

00:09:51.960 to look into

00:09:52.860 this story at

00:09:53.640 all,

00:09:54.760 that's not to

00:09:55.220 say that there

00:09:55.620 wasn't dodgy

00:09:56.320 stuff going on.

00:09:56.900 There definitely

00:09:57.200 was dodgy

00:09:57.680 stuff going on

00:09:58.220 if the

00:09:58.500 indictment's

00:09:58.920 true.

00:09:59.840 But if you

00:10:00.440 start to

00:10:00.820 scratch and

00:10:01.240 you look for

00:10:01.520 the actual

00:10:01.840 political

00:10:02.300 significance of

00:10:03.020 this,

00:10:03.520 it's basically

00:10:04.400 nothing.

00:10:06.780 A small

00:10:07.740 number of

00:10:08.820 right-wing and

00:10:09.580 independent content

00:10:10.260 creators were

00:10:12.140 paid to

00:10:13.180 continue producing

00:10:14.080 the same kind

00:10:14.620 of content

00:10:15.040 they were

00:10:15.460 producing and

00:10:16.480 being paid

00:10:16.800 much more

00:10:17.140 money for

00:10:17.680 elsewhere.

00:10:19.040 and the

00:10:20.940 content got

00:10:21.580 a relatively

00:10:22.140 small number

00:10:23.000 of views

00:10:23.680 and the

00:10:25.860 top of the

00:10:26.700 company was

00:10:28.160 against Trump.

00:10:29.140 That's basically

00:10:30.140 the takeaway.

00:10:32.340 It's not that

00:10:33.840 necessarily this

00:10:35.120 is an unjust

00:10:35.800 prosecution.

00:10:36.660 It might perfectly

00:10:37.940 well be a just

00:10:38.640 prosecution.

00:10:41.140 But the timing

00:10:42.180 of it is not

00:10:42.820 about justice.

00:10:44.060 It's not about

00:10:45.020 stopping governments

00:10:47.400 from influencing

00:10:48.040 elections.

00:10:48.700 All sorts of

00:10:49.240 governments try

00:10:49.740 to influence

00:10:50.220 U.S.

00:10:50.560 elections.

00:10:51.140 And the U.S.

00:10:52.000 influences all

00:10:52.560 sorts of

00:10:52.880 foreign elections.

00:10:55.980 It seems to

00:10:56.860 me the DOJ is

00:10:57.760 going after this

00:10:58.580 company with

00:11:00.300 ties to that

00:11:01.440 country right

00:11:02.880 at this moment

00:11:03.860 because this is

00:11:05.020 a highly

00:11:05.560 politicized DOJ.

00:11:06.920 Merrick Garland

00:11:07.460 is a political

00:11:08.640 operator and a

00:11:10.680 henchman for

00:11:11.620 Joe Biden.

00:11:12.960 And it seems to

00:11:13.920 me they're trying

00:11:14.260 to influence the

00:11:14.780 presidential election.

00:11:15.720 I don't see how

00:11:16.340 you could include

00:11:17.880 anything else.

00:11:19.200 Now, speaking of

00:11:20.520 contrarian takes in

00:11:22.940 independent right-wing

00:11:23.820 media, Tucker Carlson

00:11:25.700 has gotten a ton of

00:11:26.360 attention recently.

00:11:27.760 He's gotten a ton of

00:11:28.420 attention for many

00:11:29.000 years because he's an

00:11:29.660 extremely prominent

00:11:30.480 right-wing thinker and

00:11:32.360 speaker and communicator.

00:11:33.860 But he recently got

00:11:35.220 attention because on his

00:11:36.440 podcast he hosted a guy

00:11:38.160 named Daryl Cooper.

00:11:39.340 And Daryl Cooper is a

00:11:41.400 popular historian and

00:11:43.400 writer and podcaster and

00:11:45.120 all that.

00:11:45.320 He goes by the handle

00:11:46.740 martyr made on Twitter

00:11:48.700 and Daryl Cooper came

00:11:51.080 out with this

00:11:51.580 provocative statement

00:11:54.640 declaration that

00:11:56.060 Winston Churchill was the

00:11:57.960 chief villain of World

00:11:59.340 War II.

00:12:00.480 I thought Churchill was

00:12:01.240 the chief villain of the

00:12:02.380 Second World War.

00:12:03.640 Now, he didn't kill the

00:12:04.680 most people.

00:12:05.560 He didn't commit the

00:12:07.280 most atrocities.

00:12:08.520 But I believe and I

00:12:10.380 don't really think I

00:12:11.120 think when you really get

00:12:12.080 into it and tell the

00:12:12.880 story right and don't

00:12:15.180 leave anything out, you

00:12:16.620 see that he was

00:12:17.160 primarily responsible for

00:12:18.520 that war becoming what

00:12:19.580 it did, becoming something

00:12:21.060 other than an invasion of

00:12:22.580 Poland.

00:12:23.260 You know, Germany, look, 0.58

00:12:25.340 they put themselves into a

00:12:27.240 position and Adolf Hitler

00:12:29.380 is chiefly responsible for

00:12:30.560 this, but his whole regime

00:12:31.580 is responsible for it, that

00:12:32.800 when they went into the

00:12:34.260 East in 1941, they

00:12:37.760 launched a war where they

00:12:39.800 were completely unprepared

00:12:41.260 to deal with the millions

00:12:43.460 and millions of prisoners

00:12:45.500 of war, of local political

00:12:48.040 prisoners and so forth, that

00:12:49.840 they were going to have to

00:12:50.760 handle.

00:12:51.080 They went in with no plan

00:12:51.940 for that.

00:12:52.780 And they just threw these

00:12:54.160 people into camps and

00:12:55.900 millions of people ended up

00:12:57.180 dead.

00:12:57.680 Okay.

00:12:58.740 A lot of people are offended

00:13:00.660 by this interview.

00:13:01.980 You would say, Churchill is

00:13:03.780 the chief villain of World

00:13:04.720 War II.

00:13:05.480 Obviously, the chief villain

00:13:06.640 has to be Hitler or maybe 0.60

00:13:08.640 Stalin, but you can't, you'd 0.99

00:13:09.880 put Churchill, he's the hero

00:13:10.940 of World War II.

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00:14:31.080 I haven't listened to the whole

00:14:32.480 interview.

00:14:32.760 You have listened to parts of

00:14:33.620 it.

00:14:34.620 I've followed.

00:14:35.080 Well, obviously, I've followed

00:14:35.840 Tucker for years and I've

00:14:37.080 followed Daryl Cooper's work for

00:14:38.700 years to a little bit.

00:14:39.520 You know, follow him on

00:14:40.100 Twitter.

00:14:40.500 I don't I haven't delved into

00:14:42.440 his podcasts or anything, but

00:14:43.700 I've seen little comments here

00:14:44.920 or there.

00:14:45.360 Kind of interesting.

00:14:46.040 If you if you like contrarian

00:14:48.460 takes, this will certainly be a

00:14:50.160 very interesting interview for

00:14:52.000 you.

00:14:52.680 I think Mr.

00:14:54.500 Cooper goes a little soft on the

00:14:56.160 mustache man in his take.

00:14:58.900 But of course, it's a contrarian

00:14:59.920 take.

00:15:00.160 So so he's going to be

00:15:01.520 emphasizing the alleged

00:15:03.020 perfidy of of Churchill and

00:15:05.360 deemphasizing people like

00:15:08.160 Hitler and Stalin Mussolini.

00:15:10.800 There's a really important

00:15:11.980 point that he makes here.

00:15:13.720 And I think this is what's this

00:15:15.580 is the underlying reason why

00:15:17.380 people find this kind of take

00:15:18.800 interesting, which is that the

00:15:21.400 Second World War.

00:15:22.460 gives us a lot of the the modern

00:15:28.200 myth mythology of the West.

00:15:32.500 You know, we war is very often

00:15:34.820 make up the core of civic

00:15:37.440 mythologies going all the way back

00:15:39.200 to the Trojan War.

00:15:41.320 The first great myth in the West

00:15:44.780 is the Iliad.

00:15:46.080 And the Iliad is this legendary

00:15:48.020 account by Homer of the Trojan War.

00:15:50.500 The Trojan War is almost

00:15:52.220 certainly a real event.

00:15:53.580 Troy is a real city.

00:15:54.560 The Trojan War was a real event.

00:15:56.100 But then the Homeric epic is a

00:15:58.820 legendary, fantastical,

00:16:01.360 mythological reading of that

00:16:04.040 event.

00:16:04.360 And it and it forms the core of

00:16:06.960 the Greek mythology.

00:16:08.740 But there are there are other

00:16:09.860 wars that have formed part of

00:16:11.280 this mythology.

00:16:11.880 I think of the Punic Wars in 0.97

00:16:13.520 ancient Rome.

00:16:15.420 And, you know, Cato, the elder

00:16:17.280 saying, Carthago Delenda Est,

00:16:19.540 Carthage must be destroyed.

00:16:20.880 And Rome goes in there and

00:16:21.720 completely obliterates Carthage.

00:16:23.940 Carthage was had sacrificed

00:16:26.600 infants and done all sorts of

00:16:28.240 terrible things and also was an

00:16:30.220 economic rival power to Rome,

00:16:31.620 which is another reason they went

00:16:33.080 in there to get them.

00:16:34.620 Other wars make up big parts of

00:16:35.960 mythology.

00:16:37.160 I think in the West of, well,

00:16:39.580 the Crusades, certainly.

00:16:41.500 It's a big, maybe the, at the

00:16:44.660 height of Western civilization and

00:16:47.320 Christendom strength, the uniting

00:16:50.780 action was the Crusades, going back

00:16:52.840 to retake the Holy Land and

00:16:54.100 protect Christians in the Holy Land

00:16:56.020 from the Muslims who had invaded. 1.00

00:16:58.540 I think of, well, speaking of, the

00:17:00.360 Battle of Poitiers in 732, where

00:17:02.260 Charles Martel, grandfathered

00:17:03.540 Charlemagne, Charles the Hammer,

00:17:04.860 goes in and turns the

00:17:06.220 invading Muslims back 150 miles 1.00

00:17:08.100 outside of Paris, just a century

00:17:10.620 after Islam had begun. 0.76

00:17:13.380 Or I think of the Battle of

00:17:14.620 Lepanto, 1571, when the Holy

00:17:17.400 League was vastly outnumbered by

00:17:19.500 the Ottoman Turks and the Pope

00:17:22.660 prayed the rosary and it was

00:17:26.220 understood that Our Lady

00:17:27.320 interceded for us.

00:17:29.360 And this is where you get the

00:17:30.840 feast, certainly in the Catholic 0.86

00:17:32.020 Church, of Our Lady of Victory,

00:17:33.380 Our Lady of the Rosary.

00:17:35.020 The Battle of Vienna, largest

00:17:36.140 cavalry charge in history.

00:17:37.400 You get these important wars.

00:17:39.520 And in modern times, World War II

00:17:41.760 is the war.

00:17:42.540 It's the greatest war ever. 0.83

00:17:43.900 Clear good guys, clear bad guys.

00:17:45.840 We haven't had such clear wars

00:17:47.260 since then.

00:17:47.860 Vietnam, Korea, Iraq.

00:17:49.760 But World War II, that was the one. 0.98

00:17:51.340 And this guy, Daryl Cooper, is

00:17:53.940 questioning that mythology.

00:17:55.020 And he would say, right, that's the

00:17:57.420 point.

00:17:58.240 We have to cut through this

00:17:59.840 mythology because this mythology

00:18:01.640 isn't historically accurate.

00:18:04.980 Now, whether or not the myth is

00:18:08.400 historically accurate, I think it's an

00:18:13.360 interesting point they're making.

00:18:14.540 That's why people are talking about

00:18:15.540 it.

00:18:15.780 But I think there's a big mistake

00:18:17.460 that people are falling into here,

00:18:18.780 which is myths develop, myths change.

00:18:25.300 When I say myth, by the way, I'm not

00:18:26.400 saying something that isn't true.

00:18:27.700 There are true myths.

00:18:30.200 There are literally true myths.

00:18:31.340 There are figuratively true myths.

00:18:32.660 I mean a story that constitutes a

00:18:37.560 basis of cultural identity.

00:18:41.400 And so there's a modern impulse to

00:18:45.160 debunk myths.

00:18:47.020 And usually that's on the left.

00:18:48.780 The left has been making all sorts of

00:18:50.380 these arguments against Churchill for

00:18:52.080 many decades now.

00:18:53.360 He wasn't a good guy.

00:18:54.140 He was a bad guy.

00:18:55.280 I like him because he wore bow ties

00:18:56.820 and smoked cigars.

00:18:57.720 But all these sorts of ways to debunk

00:19:00.300 the heroism of Churchill.

00:19:01.360 In the same way that we debunk the 0.98

00:19:02.700 heroism of, I don't know, the

00:19:05.140 founding fathers or the debunk the

00:19:06.940 heroism of Christopher Columbus or

00:19:09.260 of the conquistadors or whatever, the

00:19:13.020 pilgrims.

00:19:14.560 There's this movement to debunk the

00:19:17.360 myth.

00:19:18.640 But we need myths.

00:19:20.160 So some new myth is just going to

00:19:21.320 come in.

00:19:22.480 You get rid of the mythos and the

00:19:25.940 heroism of George Washington, you're

00:19:27.360 going to get the mythos and heroism of

00:19:28.580 George Floyd.

00:19:29.540 But there's going to be some kind

00:19:31.340 myth here.

00:19:32.760 So what happens if people

00:19:36.080 successfully debunk or get people to

00:19:38.940 turn against the myth that in part

00:19:41.520 developed out of the Second World

00:19:42.440 War, what's going to replace it? 0.94

00:19:45.320 Probably what many of these guys

00:19:46.700 would say is, well, we have to

00:19:47.500 debunk it because that myth has led

00:19:48.800 to some liberal policies.

00:19:50.520 And there's this really problematic

00:19:52.360 part in the myth, which is that we

00:19:53.720 teamed up with the communists.

00:19:55.460 So you can say Hitler, evil, 0.91

00:19:57.040 extremely evil.

00:19:58.740 In modern parlance, in the kind of

00:20:00.700 mythological speaking about it,

00:20:04.320 Hitler is considered to be the absolute

00:20:06.360 incarnation of evil.

00:20:08.040 So today, if you want to call someone the

00:20:09.780 most evil that one can possibly be, you

00:20:11.440 don't call him the devil.

00:20:12.320 You don't call him Satan.

00:20:13.280 Our culture no longer believes in the

00:20:14.700 devil.

00:20:15.380 You call him Hitler.

00:20:16.860 Hitler is the devil for all intents and 0.94

00:20:18.560 purposes in the mythology.

00:20:20.000 And so, and Hitler was an extraordinarily 0.92

00:20:23.320 evil person.

00:20:24.160 So how do you make sense of the fact

00:20:26.360 that we teamed up with the communists?

00:20:27.680 Stalin was also extraordinarily evil. 0.54

00:20:29.700 And what does it all mean?

00:20:31.640 Well, the cultural mythologies are going

00:20:35.400 to develop over time.

00:20:36.540 You know, they've developed since the

00:20:38.060 Iliad and through the Punic Wars and

00:20:40.100 through the Crusades and all the rest.

00:20:41.300 It's going to continue to change.

00:20:42.700 But where I fear the right is being

00:20:45.680 imprudent and could be and needs to be

00:20:47.760 more cautious is, however the mythology

00:20:50.480 changes, we have to be on our own side.

00:20:54.560 We have to take our own side.

00:20:56.160 It seems to me inhuman and quite liberal

00:20:58.520 to try to put yourself above your own

00:21:01.380 country, above your own nation.

00:21:03.520 To say, well, actually this other country

00:21:05.640 was right, or actually these other guys

00:21:07.360 were the good guys.

00:21:08.080 I think, you know, it's a very simplistic

00:21:11.680 way to look at history to say, here are

00:21:13.940 the good guys, here are the bad guys.

00:21:15.100 And then people who have more

00:21:17.460 sophistication, they say, well, there are

00:21:20.420 no good guys and bad guys.

00:21:22.180 But I think the people who have the most

00:21:23.600 sophistication here observe, we must be

00:21:26.640 the good guys.

00:21:28.200 Whatever the, however the mythos is going

00:21:30.660 to develop, we have to be the good guys.

00:21:34.600 We have to be the protagonists in our own

00:21:36.840 story.

00:21:37.460 If we are not, there will be a

00:21:40.120 civilizational suicide.

00:21:41.360 That's what that amounts to.

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00:22:57.880 Speaking of the future of civilization,

00:23:01.000 Pope Francis coming out with a very important observation in Indonesia.

00:23:06.120 He has praised Indonesians for having babies.

00:23:10.040 The Holy Father says,

00:23:12.360 Your country has families with three, four, or five children

00:23:15.480 that keep moving forward.

00:23:16.440 This is reflected in the age levels of the country.

00:23:18.840 Keep it up.

00:23:19.320 You're an example for everyone.

00:23:20.680 For all the countries that may be,

00:23:22.080 and this might sound funny,

00:23:23.460 where these families prefer to have a cat

00:23:25.340 or a little dog instead of a child.

00:23:27.540 So the left has just spent

00:23:28.780 how long attacking J.D. Vance

00:23:32.800 for criticizing the caricature of a childless cat lady?

00:23:37.860 Pope Francis just did the exact same thing.

00:23:41.960 Not to be cruel to the people who want to have kids,

00:23:45.240 but they can't have kids.

00:23:46.200 Or people who maybe wanted to get married,

00:23:48.380 but were not able to get married for whatever reason.

00:23:50.540 Not people who like the companionship of a cat or something.

00:23:53.680 But for the people who choose animals over children.

00:23:58.640 Who want to replace children with animals.

00:24:01.520 Who don't want to involve themselves with people.

00:24:06.140 Who prefer fur babies to human beings.

00:24:11.020 This echoes comments the Pope made earlier this year in Rome.

00:24:13.180 The Pope said in May,

00:24:15.700 Homes are filled with objects and emptied of children.

00:24:18.460 Becoming very sad places.

00:24:20.300 There is no shortage of little dogs, cats.

00:24:22.200 These are not lacking.

00:24:23.060 There is a lack of children.

00:24:25.380 Very true.

00:24:26.300 Very, very true.

00:24:27.160 Not everyone is called to have children.

00:24:28.760 Some people are called to religious life.

00:24:30.040 Some people are called to a consecrated celibacy.

00:24:31.900 But most people are called to have children.

00:24:34.340 And you're supposed to have children.

00:24:36.000 For most people.

00:24:36.760 Those who are not called to have children.

00:24:39.900 Or those who through circumstance are unable to have children.

00:24:42.780 Because of infertility perhaps.

00:24:44.800 Or you know, not getting married.

00:24:46.800 Or for whatever reason.

00:24:48.380 Nevertheless, everyone is obligated to involve themselves with people.

00:24:53.220 We are obligated as a matter of moral duty.

00:24:56.040 We're also, we should be eager to do this.

00:24:59.920 Because it is good for us.

00:25:01.200 And it makes us happier.

00:25:02.220 And it makes us more fully human.

00:25:03.300 Because we are the social creature.

00:25:05.300 And we exist within society.

00:25:07.600 We are most fully ourselves.

00:25:08.820 We are most flourishing as individuals.

00:25:10.740 When we are with other people.

00:25:12.280 We become most perfectly individuals in relation to other people.

00:25:16.120 We can't know our real identities absent that.

00:25:20.440 We need, it's really good to have kids.

00:25:25.080 And if you can't, or for whatever reason you're not called to,

00:25:27.900 you should endeavor to be a godfather or a godmother.

00:25:32.220 You should involve yourself in the community.

00:25:34.500 You should spend time with people.

00:25:36.620 And helping people.

00:25:37.540 And sacrificing yourself for people.

00:25:39.780 It will make you happier.

00:25:41.380 And it is the only way that the society can prevent its own death.

00:25:46.640 Now, speaking of good long lives, there's a new study out.

00:25:49.120 Out of China, actually.

00:25:51.140 Showing that mental resilience is more important even than diet for living longer.

00:25:58.220 The seed oils, the trans fats, the carb, carbs, whatever.

00:26:05.680 It doesn't, no.

00:26:06.660 Mental resilience is more important than any of that stuff.

00:26:10.320 This is published in BMJ Mental Health.

00:26:13.820 Research from Sun Yat-sen University and the Karolinska Institute in Sweden.

00:26:19.780 This examined data from a ton of people.

00:26:21.620 10,000 Americans, 50 and older, who participated in this study between 2006-2008.

00:26:28.760 Followed these individuals for an average of almost 12 years.

00:26:31.860 Looked at their health outcomes.

00:26:32.860 They found individuals in the highest quartile of resilience, of mental resilience,

00:26:38.060 had a 53% lower risk of death from any cause compared to those in the lowest quartile.

00:26:44.660 If you're tough, if you're not, if you don't have meltdowns all the time, if, you know,

00:26:50.460 minor inconveniences don't cause you to have, you know, a total despair, then you're much

00:26:55.700 more likely to live a long time.

00:26:56.960 Of course, this should be common sense, but I'm glad the science backs it up.

00:27:00.980 And here's my question.

00:27:04.120 Do our schools, does our popular culture, does our society today train for mental resilience

00:27:11.340 or mental weakness, safe spaces, do safe spaces make you more mentally resilient or mentally

00:27:20.140 weaker?

00:27:21.900 The hate speech laws, do they make us more mentally resilient or mentally weaker?

00:27:30.080 The affirmation of delusion.

00:27:33.100 If you don't call a dude in a dress, she, you know, that he can bring you up with the DEI office

00:27:41.280 or HR and can, or I don't know, might even get physically violent with you and might be justified

00:27:47.060 by the culture in that.

00:27:48.520 Does that sort of thing make you more mentally resilient or mentally weaker?

00:27:53.120 Our whole society is training people to be less mentally resilient today.

00:27:59.180 And we are, we are being told that this is good for everyone's mental health, but the science

00:28:05.580 says otherwise.

00:28:06.660 If you, the left always loves talking about, we need a conversation.

00:28:09.360 We need a conversation about mental health.

00:28:11.720 You know, we just, we don't focus enough on mental health.

00:28:14.760 I agree.

00:28:15.100 We don't focus enough on mental health.

00:28:16.320 We certainly don't focus enough on spiritual health, but mental health too.

00:28:19.220 You're right.

00:28:19.780 We need a conversation.

00:28:20.620 That's why we need to affirm people in their transgender identity.

00:28:23.580 That's why we need to affirm people's inclinations and orientations and this and that.

00:28:32.160 Well, no, apparently that's bad for your mental health.

00:28:35.780 If you try to protect people from legitimate criticism, if you try to protect people from

00:28:39.840 reality, it seems like that harms their mental health, their overall health, and it will likely

00:28:47.680 lead them to an earlier death.

00:28:50.800 Love this.

00:28:51.620 Love this study.

00:28:52.300 Let's train for some mental resilience.

00:28:54.860 Toughen up.

00:28:56.100 Buttercup should be the order of the day.

00:28:59.660 Speaking of a lack of mental resilience, President Biden is back, I guess.

00:29:03.660 The lights are on.

00:29:04.260 I'm not sure anyone's home.

00:29:05.680 He's back from his two-week vacation.

00:29:08.220 He just gave some kind of press conference, but he didn't answer any questions from the press.

00:29:14.800 Here's how it ended.

00:29:15.840 May God protect our troops.

00:29:17.200 May the president, what more than that would he be doing, sir?

00:29:22.300 So he looks around confused at first.

00:29:25.100 Then he puts on that vacant smile.

00:29:28.780 He licks his finger to try to very slowly pick up a piece of paper, put it in a binder.

00:29:35.160 He's looking down, looking very confused.

00:29:37.760 He slowly looks at his handler.

00:29:39.560 The handler's trying to push the press out like a bunch of cattle.

00:29:47.700 Biden's there.

00:29:48.300 He's kind of laughing.

00:29:49.480 Why are all these people talking to me?

00:29:50.980 What are they asking about?

00:29:52.400 Huh?

00:29:53.780 Important political issues?

00:29:55.780 Hey, Johnny, where's my ice cream?

00:29:58.240 Did I do a good job, Johnny?

00:30:00.260 Can I have my ice cream now?

00:30:03.640 Totally ignoring the press.

00:30:08.200 He's not even doing the usual Biden thing of kind of glad handing them or winking at them.

00:30:13.640 He's not even looking at them.

00:30:15.860 He's being let off stage, kind of very slow, stiff gait.

00:30:23.320 Who's the president?

00:30:24.840 Who is the president right now?

00:30:28.700 This guy is not making any decisions.

00:30:30.700 He hasn't been in office for two weeks.

00:30:32.540 He's just been on the beach in Delaware.

00:30:34.800 Who is making the decisions right now?

00:30:39.640 If it's Kamala, that's bad news for her because things are not going well in the country.

00:30:44.680 If it's not Kamala, who is it?

00:30:51.000 Just a kind of blob, just a kind of machine.

00:30:52.940 This is what happened at the end of the Soviet Union.

00:30:55.240 You had all these really old general secretaries of the Communist Party, the head of state in the Soviet Union.

00:31:02.540 And they were all like 1,000 years old, and they all die within 18 months.

00:31:06.360 And really, what was running the country was just this bureaucracy of communism.

00:31:13.080 And we win the Cold War, we destroy the Soviet Union, and then it looks like we've become what we destroyed. 0.91

00:31:19.020 How's that for historical irony?

00:31:20.500 Now, in Biden's absence, Kamala is looking for inspiration, it would appear, from the Republicans.

00:31:29.720 This is an amazing story.

00:31:31.980 Breitbart noted this.

00:31:34.120 Kamala Harris proposes a small business tax break that House Republicans passed and Trump supported six years ago.

00:31:42.080 So we know that Kamala has already come out and stolen Trump's proposal to get rid of taxes on tips. 0.99

00:31:50.820 We know that Kamala has come out and stolen Trump's proposal to enhance the child tax credit. 0.74

00:31:57.780 Initially, Trump and Vance come out.

00:32:00.720 We want this big child tax credit.

00:32:02.300 The media attacks it.

00:32:04.000 Then Kamala says she likes it, too, and the media says it's a good idea.

00:32:08.020 Initially, Trump says no taxes on tips.

00:32:09.860 The media attack it.

00:32:11.600 And Kamala endorses it.

00:32:12.680 The media say it's a great idea.

00:32:14.040 Well, now we have this small business tax break.

00:32:17.280 And it's going to be a great thing.

00:32:20.680 I can't wait for Kamala Harris to endorse Project 2025. 0.97

00:32:24.480 That's going to be the funniest one.

00:32:25.620 When Kamala's just looking over Trump's shoulder.

00:32:27.400 Trump doesn't even like Project 2025.

00:32:29.020 But, you know, if he, I don't know, she gets her answers wrong.

00:32:31.960 She comes out after months of being told that Project 2025 is the super-duper evil mega Hitler 2.0 plan to destroy the whole world.

00:32:40.660 Kamala's going to come out and she'll say,

00:32:41.520 I, listen, I didn't fall out of a coconut tree, okay?

00:32:46.900 I'm a product of my circumstances.

00:32:48.680 And that's why I endorse Project 2025.

00:32:52.360 And the whole media are going to say Project 2025 is the greatest thing.

00:32:55.320 She, though, she's going to try to do one better than Trump.

00:32:57.480 So she'll say, yeah, I call it Project 2026.

00:33:02.040 And it's just got a little more Tabasco sauce in it.

00:33:05.020 And the media are going to say it's great.

00:33:07.000 Other than infanticide, the only novel, clear policies that the Kamala Harris campaign is promoting are policies she stole from Trump. 1.00

00:33:22.040 Love it.

00:33:23.500 Maybe that explains why a supposed Republican like Liz Cheney has endorsed her. 0.96

00:33:29.640 Liz Cheney just gave some remarks at Duke University.

00:33:33.720 She said, Kamala Harris is a radical liberal.

00:33:36.120 Oh, I'm sorry.

00:33:36.820 That's what she said in 2020.

00:33:38.400 Well, I'll finish reading it.

00:33:39.760 Just so you.

00:33:40.900 Liz Cheney said in 2020, Kamala Harris is a radical liberal who would raise taxes, take away guns and health insurance, and explode the size and power of the federal government. 1.00

00:33:48.360 She wants to recreate America in the image of what's happening on the streets of Portland and Seattle.

00:33:53.040 We won't give her the chance.

00:33:54.280 Well, okay.

00:33:54.840 All right.

00:33:55.100 That was back in 2020.

00:33:56.980 But let's hear.

00:33:57.740 What is Liz Cheney saying about Kamala Harris now? 0.95

00:34:01.420 In one fell swoop here, he has put somebody on the ticket whose voting record in the Senate is to the left of Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren.

00:34:10.000 So I think that, you know, the American people are going to look at the substance of this.

00:34:13.720 They're going to look at what she stood for in the past.

00:34:15.860 They're going to look at what she said during the primary election.

00:34:19.500 And it's very clear.

00:34:20.560 She is a radical liberal.

00:34:22.440 She's somebody that has said we ought to spend $32 trillion on Medicare for all.

00:34:27.220 If you look at her record as well in California, she did, in fact, essentially ban gun sales with executive action.

00:34:35.620 And she threatened during the primaries to do the same thing if she's elected. 1.00

00:34:40.260 Okay.

00:34:41.520 Well, I guess that was 2022.

00:34:43.620 Okay.

00:34:43.820 So 2020, Liz Cheney says this woman is awful. 1.00

00:34:47.020 She's the most radical.

00:34:47.880 She's the most liberal.

00:34:48.760 She's bad for the country. 1.00

00:34:49.660 Fast forward four years.

00:34:53.660 Here is what she just said.

00:34:56.660 As a conservative, as someone who believes in and cares about the Constitution, I have thought deeply about this because of the danger that Donald Trump poses.

00:35:03.080 Not only am I not voting for Donald Trump, but I will be voting for Kamala Harris.

00:35:07.260 Hmm.

00:35:08.440 Of course.

00:35:10.780 What danger, what threat does Trump pose?

00:35:13.420 He's already been the president.

00:35:15.500 Did the world fall apart?

00:35:16.840 Did the country fall apart?

00:35:17.860 Did the economy tank?

00:35:19.540 Did the world order crumble?

00:35:21.420 No.

00:35:22.300 The economy was better than it's been under Biden.

00:35:24.600 The world order was much stronger than it's been under Biden.

00:35:27.120 The invasion at our southern border was far less pronounced than it's been under Biden.

00:35:31.420 Everything was better.

00:35:33.300 But Donald Trump has insulted Liz Cheney a lot. 0.97

00:35:38.100 And he's, I think, really exposed her to be the squish and the shield that she is. 0.98

00:35:45.340 Trump ruined her career, I guess.

00:35:47.420 Trump ruined Liz Cheney's career.

00:35:49.340 And so for that reason, this principled conservative Liz Cheney, just like all those other principled conservative never Trumpers, is willing to support the most radically leftist presidential candidate probably ever, certainly major party presidential candidate ever, just to stick it to him.

00:36:07.160 Because of the principle of having wounded pride.

00:36:11.300 That's the principle of these never Trumpers, wounded pride and revenge.

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00:36:45.840 Now, if you missed it in the headlines, I'm not sure how you would have.

00:36:50.420 Matt Walsh pulled off the troll of the century at the 2024 DNC.

00:36:55.080 Matt strolled through a sea of confused libs, handing out cards for Project2025.com.

00:37:00.220 It wasn't what they thought.

00:37:01.880 Walsh actually got Don Lemon to promote Project2025.com on camera.

00:37:06.340 Imagine Don Lemon's face when he realized that he just gave free publicity to Matt Walsh's new movie, Am I Racist?

00:37:12.220 Speaking of which, Am I Racist hits theaters in eight days, September 13th.

00:37:16.260 Head to Am I Racist.com for tickets and showtimes.

00:37:19.760 My favorite comment, yesterday's from Nate Butler Music, says,

00:37:23.560 the windows are the windows to your home, says Michael Knowles.

00:37:27.140 Yes, that's true.

00:37:27.680 It's one of my favorite quotes.

00:37:29.680 I want that to be on an inspirational poster.

00:37:34.200 So the Squish is, like Liz Cheney, they say, look, Kamala, I'm not saying she's perfect, 0.98

00:37:40.560 but she's the best option available for conservatives because of this unique threat posed by Trump. 0.93

00:37:47.520 Okay, so how is best option available conservatism going at the White House?

00:37:52.560 What does the White House make of recent elite colleges like MIT, Amherst, and Tufts

00:37:58.320 reporting sharp declines in Black and Latino enrollment and increases in white enrollment

00:38:03.940 since the affirmative action ruling from the Supreme Court?

00:38:06.600 Where the president and the Department of Education released guidance and resources to campuses

00:38:11.780 to continue diversity on college campuses?

00:38:15.180 Obviously, this data suggested that that isn't necessarily working.

00:38:19.220 Does the White House believe there is more it can do to prevent this trend from happening

00:38:23.680 in other college campuses?

00:38:24.420 So, a couple of things, and this is really very important because we call that out,

00:38:29.520 that this could potentially happen when the Supreme Court made that decision.

00:38:33.820 Their decision moved the nation backwards, as you're laying out in what we're seeing right now,

00:38:40.080 in unpended decades of precedent that allowed America's colleges and universities

00:38:44.280 to build vibrant, diverse environments.

00:38:47.700 This is really bad.

00:38:49.200 It's really, really disturbing.

00:38:51.480 It's really, we warned that this would happen,

00:38:53.960 and now it's happening.

00:38:55.200 It's a terrible tragedy that white teenagers aren't being discriminated against

00:39:02.600 because of their race in college admissions.

00:39:07.340 That's the great tragedy.

00:39:11.420 White people are being allowed into colleges.

00:39:18.140 That's awful.

00:39:19.680 Isn't that terrible?

00:39:21.260 That moves America backward.

00:39:22.880 If we don't actively discriminate against white kids, 0.98

00:39:27.240 why America can never progress, that's progress?

00:39:31.060 I don't find that to be progress.

00:39:34.060 The irony of this, too, is that while certain black and Hispanic people 0.77

00:39:40.120 probably did benefit professionally or as a matter of their finances from affirmative action,

00:39:47.160 and as white and Asian students were discriminated against

00:39:50.680 and were financially and professionally and, as a matter of education,

00:39:56.360 just harmed by these policies,

00:39:59.220 many black and Hispanic students were also harmed by these policies.

00:40:03.820 As the late, great Justice Antonin Scalia pointed out in writing on affirmative action,

00:40:09.980 there are all sorts of problems that go along with elevating students who would otherwise not be admitted into a university,

00:40:18.320 who are otherwise not qualified to go to a certain university.

00:40:21.820 The first being mismatch.

00:40:24.220 But if a student is academically underperforms, but then gets an artificial boost to get him into a more difficult university,

00:40:34.240 he might not be able to keep up.

00:40:37.380 He might do poorly in his classes.

00:40:40.360 He might take out student loans just to go to the school.

00:40:43.400 And then he might flunk out.

00:40:45.660 So now he's saddled with debt.

00:40:47.400 He's wasted a year, maybe two years of his life.

00:40:50.460 For what?

00:40:50.840 And then he goes to a college that he otherwise would be qualified for and does better there.

00:40:55.860 That's one problem.

00:40:57.120 The other thing that could happen if students are artificially promoted into these colleges,

00:41:01.920 even if they don't have the academic chops,

00:41:04.260 the only other thing that can happen is that the schools lower their academic standards

00:41:07.400 or they create a bunch of fake departments for the kids who can't hack it in real academic departments.

00:41:12.780 I'm thinking of the departments like gender studies and all those kind of studies departments.

00:41:18.340 So you either harm the kids you're intending to help,

00:41:22.880 you damage the university and the education of all the students,

00:41:26.740 and you certainly harm two races of kids who, through no fault of their own,

00:41:34.280 won't be able to go to the good college because their skin isn't the right color. 1.00

00:41:38.800 That's what the White House is really upset about.

00:41:40.860 That now, the discrimination is going to come to an end.

00:41:45.740 Really?

00:41:46.600 Any Republican, any principled conservative, any moderate,

00:41:52.420 even any center-left person who could vote for this disgusting, incompetent, radical,

00:42:00.860 contemptuous administration,

00:42:04.240 the Biden-Harris administration has lost it or has been so blinded by a nasty ideology

00:42:14.640 that they're willing to put up with all manner of failure and injustice.

00:42:20.420 So, speaking of racial benefits and bonuses,

00:42:25.300 there's a bill that just passed out of the California State Assembly

00:42:29.520 that makes illegal aliens eligible for $150,000 in home loans.

00:42:38.780 It's very difficult to buy a home right now.

00:42:40.840 It's often difficult to buy your first home, but it's especially difficult right now.

00:42:48.080 AB 1840 expands eligibility in the state's down payment assistance program

00:42:52.940 to illegal aliens, foreign nationals, illegally in this country.

00:42:57.880 It has passed the Assembly.

00:43:01.320 It's on its way to Gavin Newsom.

00:43:05.420 My question is, why would Newsom not sign this?

00:43:08.320 Why would he not sign this?

00:43:10.080 It's outrageous.

00:43:11.320 It's offensive.

00:43:12.420 Many Americans are feeling like foreign nationals who break our laws

00:43:15.480 are getting more benefits than ordinary Americans

00:43:18.640 who were born here or who came here legally

00:43:20.480 and who work hard and pay their taxes

00:43:22.620 and don't commit three-quarters of the crimes in midtown Manhattan

00:43:25.140 and are just following the rules and doing the best they can.

00:43:28.260 They feel that illegal aliens and criminals

00:43:30.980 are getting treated much better than they are.

00:43:32.900 They're getting all sorts of government benefits.

00:43:34.740 They're getting nice hotel rooms at the Roosevelt Hotel in New York.

00:43:38.020 And now they're getting $150,000 for home loans.

00:43:41.320 And that's really outrageous.

00:43:43.720 But why would Newsom not sign it?

00:43:45.620 I get why someone in Tennessee would be offended by this,

00:43:48.560 even kind of normal, sensible New Yorkers.

00:43:51.580 But if you're a liberal, if you're a true liberal,

00:43:56.660 then you probably believe or are at least inclined to favor the view

00:44:03.500 that national borders, they're not really important.

00:44:07.740 They're not really meaningful.

00:44:08.680 And actually, you know, look, America,

00:44:10.500 this country was founded on stolen land.

00:44:12.100 We took the land from the Indians. 1.00

00:44:13.380 And the whole country was built by slaves. 0.97

00:44:16.740 And it's really unjust.

00:44:18.980 And, you know, we need to pay some reparations

00:44:22.340 to all the wonderful indigenous, much better people than we,

00:44:27.080 who we've harmed.

00:44:28.800 And so really, whatever they want, come on in.

00:44:30.540 Who are we?

00:44:30.900 We have no moral authority.

00:44:32.100 We're not the good guys.

00:44:33.920 This is an important...

00:44:34.740 We spent a bit of the show talking about these questions

00:44:37.860 about the national mythology.

00:44:39.120 Well, as it develops, how about we focus in

00:44:47.840 on the, I think, historically justifiable,

00:44:53.340 literally true aspects,

00:44:55.000 but also important figurative images and stories

00:45:01.820 that remind us that we're on our own side.

00:45:06.660 We're trying to do good.

00:45:07.640 We must be the good guys.

00:45:09.840 We want to be the good guys.

00:45:10.960 We have certain rights.

00:45:13.660 If we are to remain a political community,

00:45:15.800 we've got to assert our rights.

00:45:18.340 We've got to have some confidence.

00:45:19.480 We've got to believe in ourselves.

00:45:20.780 We've got to recognize that there is a distinction

00:45:22.600 between us and all the other countries of the world,

00:45:25.240 between our civilization and other kinds of civilizations.

00:45:28.560 We've got to be on our own side

00:45:30.620 and not just constantly attack ourselves,

00:45:35.200 diminish ourselves,

00:45:36.440 give away our whole country to everybody else. 0.97

00:45:41.660 That's what we're doing now.

00:45:42.940 That is the consequence of how we view ourselves now.

00:45:45.320 And it is an urgent matter of practical politics

00:45:48.240 that we change that story.

00:45:50.140 The rest of the show continues now.

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00:45:55.880 Republicans are Nazis.

00:46:09.000 You cannot separate yourselves from the bad white people. 1.00

00:46:12.580 Growing up, I never thought much about race.

00:46:14.520 It never really seemed to matter that much.

00:46:16.360 At least not to me.

00:46:17.180 Am I racist?

00:46:18.360 I would really appreciate it if you left.

00:46:19.640 I'm trying to learn.

00:46:20.340 I'm on this journey.

00:46:21.620 If I'm going to sort this out,

00:46:22.680 I need to go deeper undercover.

00:46:26.100 They don't say I'm racist.

00:46:27.400 Joining us now is Matt,

00:46:28.660 certified DEI expert.

00:46:30.860 Here's my certification.

00:46:31.900 What you're doing is you're stretching

00:46:33.120 out of your whiteness.

00:46:34.740 This is more for you than this for you.

00:46:35.700 Is America inherently racist?

00:46:37.280 The word inherent is challenging there.

00:46:39.240 I want to rename the George Washington Monument

00:46:40.780 to the George Floyd Monument.

00:46:42.400 America is racist to its bones.

00:46:44.280 So inherently.

00:46:45.120 Yeah.

00:46:45.520 This country is a piece of...

00:46:46.680 White. 0.81

00:46:48.780 Folks.

00:46:49.280 White. 0.81

00:46:49.420 Trash.

00:46:49.760 White supremacy.

00:46:50.560 White woman. 1.00

00:46:51.120 White boy.

00:46:51.540 Is there a black person around here?

00:46:52.940 There's a black person right here.

00:46:54.300 Does he not exist?

00:46:55.140 They don't say I'm racist.

00:46:57.040 Hi, Robin.

00:46:57.620 Hi.

00:46:57.960 What's your name?

00:46:58.900 I'm Matt.

00:46:59.420 I just had to ask who you are

00:47:00.440 because you have to be careful.

00:47:02.000 Never be too careful.

00:47:02.900 They gonna say you racist.

00:47:03.840 Buy your tickets now

00:47:04.840 in theaters September 13th.

00:47:06.240 Rated PG-13.

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