The Michael Knowles Show - September 06, 2024


Ep. 1568 - Putin Endorses Comrade Kamala For President


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Vladimir Putin endorses Sen. Kamala Harris. What does that have to do with the 2020 Democratic primary race? And why does it matter who she backs? To learn more about that and more, check out this episode of The Michael Knowles Show.

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00:00:37.680 White Dudes for Harris gained its most prominent member yet yesterday
00:00:41.980 when Kamala received the endorsement of Russian President Vladimir Putin.
00:00:46.280 If we can name a favorite candidate, it used to be Joe Biden,
00:00:52.840 but now he is not participating in the election campaign,
00:00:58.000 and he recommended to all his allies to support Ms. Harris.
00:01:03.760 So that is what we are going to do.
00:01:06.660 So it was, well, he said that we should, that is why we should also do that.
00:01:11.100 Well, her laugh, she's laughing, her laugh is so fascinating.
00:01:18.580 It means that everything is good, and if everything is good,
00:01:24.020 it means that, for instance, if we're speaking about Joe Biden,
00:01:33.480 there are so many sanctions against Russia introduced,
00:01:37.260 and if everything is good with Ms. Harris,
00:01:40.480 maybe she'll refrain herself from such measures, 0.71
00:01:44.360 or maybe she'll change them.
00:01:46.000 So in the end, it will be the choice of the U.S. people,
00:01:50.820 and we will respect this choice.
00:01:53.920 So he endorses Kamala.
00:01:55.560 The establishment media, of course, immediately sought to downplay the endorsement.
00:01:59.640 Bloomberg News gave a representative reaction when it wrote,
00:02:02.320 quote, Putin's comments effectively amounted to presidential trolling.
00:02:07.340 But then Bloomberg accidentally undercut its point in the very next paragraph
00:02:11.200 when it pointed out, quote, Putin said Biden was predictable
00:02:15.060 when he told state television in February that he'd prefer him over Trump in the White House.
00:02:21.320 Putin's line about Kamala's fascinating laugh was obviously tongue-in-cheek,
00:02:26.800 but the endorsement wasn't.
00:02:28.920 The proof is that Putin supported Trump in 2016.
00:02:32.320 Putin publicly stated that he supported Trump because he thought Trump might be a little softer on it,
00:02:39.380 might be a little more amenable to closer bilateral relations.
00:02:43.080 Then Putin turned on Trump because Trump was unpredictable.
00:02:47.360 All of this was widely reported even in the liberal press.
00:02:50.420 Trump reportedly told Putin that he would bomb Moscow if Putin invaded Ukraine.
00:02:54.720 And because Trump was so unpredictable, Putin didn't take the chance.
00:02:59.400 Even if it was only a 5% chance that Trump was telling the truth and not bluffing, Putin couldn't risk it.
00:03:05.100 Trump's presidency was the only one of the past four during which Putin did not launch a new invasion.
00:03:12.360 Then in 2020, Putin endorsed Biden, again, explicitly for Biden's predictability.
00:03:17.640 And now he's doing the same for Kamala.
00:03:20.320 It's funny that Putin has endorsed Kamala Harris.
00:03:24.440 It's funny that anyone would endorse Kamala Harris.
00:03:28.200 But in the case of Putin, it also makes perfect sense.
00:03:31.420 If you're the leader of America's most prominent geopolitical foe for the past 80 years,
00:03:36.540 who do you want to face down?
00:03:38.340 Trump or Kamala?
00:03:39.940 It does not take Metternich, okay?
00:03:42.980 It does not take a geopolitical mastermind to come up with the obvious answer.
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00:06:04.440 You got a Putin endorsement for Kamala.
00:06:08.160 Unfortunately, another geopolitical mastermind is also weighing in in Kamala's favor.
00:06:14.120 That would be Alan Lichtman.
00:06:15.540 Alan Lichtman is a controversial figure in political prognostication because this guy has correctly predicted almost every presidential election since 1984.
00:06:27.500 The exception is the year 2000.
00:06:30.460 And Lichtman kind of writes that one off because there was so much controversy.
00:06:33.740 It was a disputed election.
00:06:35.020 And he holds Gore, still kind of won it.
00:06:37.280 But the courts intervened and blah, blah, blah.
00:06:39.240 Okay.
00:06:39.520 He's got a very good track record.
00:06:41.960 Statisticians hate him.
00:06:43.000 The real serious political scientists don't like him very much because his method of prediction does not involve sophisticated statistical analysis or polls or looking at the battleground states.
00:06:57.880 It just includes 13 keys like, is this candidate charismatic?
00:07:02.160 Is the economy doing well?
00:07:03.960 Is there peace abroad?
00:07:06.680 You know, kind of simpler criteria.
00:07:10.320 But he's got a pretty good track record.
00:07:11.540 And he says Kamala's going to win.
00:07:13.720 According to Lichtman, who's a professor at American University, as of right now, even if foreign policy falls to hell, even if certain events break against Kamala, it's too late.
00:07:30.740 Basically, Trump is totally, totally screwed.
00:07:33.700 I really hope this guy is proven wrong again.
00:07:37.980 I mean, don't forget, when everyone touts the Lichtman prediction right now, they're going to say he's predicted every single election since Reagan, too.
00:07:47.440 However, he did get one of those wrong.
00:07:49.260 He got the year 2000 wrong.
00:07:50.480 And the argument there is, well, the year 2000 was unusual.
00:07:55.700 You know, it was a disputed election.
00:07:57.120 There were controversial election measures, just balloting measures in Florida.
00:08:03.300 And yeah, that's true.
00:08:03.940 But wouldn't you say that 2024 is an unusual election?
00:08:07.860 Probably would, you know, trying to put a candidate in jail, then having his head almost blown off.
00:08:12.420 And then, you know, coming after COVID where they changed all the election rules.
00:08:15.480 So, I don't think we need to all despair, doom and gloom, black pill right now.
00:08:22.340 But it's a reminder, Republicans are going to have to fight tooth and nail, even on a, under the best of circumstances, we would have to fight tooth and nail.
00:08:31.140 Right now, the odds are against us for many, many reasons.
00:08:34.920 But we have to fight tooth and nail.
00:08:36.020 We have to register every voter we can.
00:08:37.420 We have to get out there, pull every single vote we can.
00:08:39.680 We need every poll watcher in the room.
00:08:41.780 We can't let pipes burst in the middle of the night.
00:08:43.840 We can't let the recount go on for six, seven days.
00:08:47.020 We've got to fight.
00:08:49.620 Don't forget what happened in 2020.
00:08:52.100 2020, we go to bed on election night.
00:08:54.260 Trump looks like he's winning.
00:08:55.300 We wake up.
00:08:55.980 Some voting, some ballot counting has stopped in the middle of the night.
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00:09:01.880 And some mail-ins come in.
00:09:03.440 We don't even know what the dates are on the mail-in ballots.
00:09:05.780 And there are legal battles over whether to count them.
00:09:08.320 But what do you know?
00:09:08.960 In the end, Biden comes out victorious.
00:09:11.180 And Trump, of course, disputed this election.
00:09:12.780 He said, I won.
00:09:15.600 They stole it from me.
00:09:17.440 We need to stop the certification of the election.
00:09:22.060 We're going to have alternate spates of electors who are going to come in. 0.99
00:09:27.340 And we're going to resolve this thing in Congress, as they did in 1876.
00:09:32.180 Well, President Trump made a huge pivot yesterday, 180-degree pivot, on his take on the 2020 election.
00:09:38.700 He came out on the Lex Friedman podcast and said that he lost.
00:09:45.720 I think it's the first time he said he lost the 2020 election by a whisker.
00:09:51.560 How do you think you'll do in the debate coming up in a few days?
00:09:54.420 So I've done a lot of debating, only as a politician.
00:09:58.020 I never debated.
00:09:58.920 My first debate was the Rosie O'Donnell debate, right?
00:10:01.840 The famous Rosie O'Donnell debate, the answer.
00:10:05.780 But I've done well with debates.
00:10:07.400 I mean, I became president.
00:10:08.660 Then the second time, I got millions more votes than I got the first time.
00:10:12.560 I was told, if I got 63 million, which is what I got the first time, you would win.
00:10:18.940 You can't not win.
00:10:21.120 And I got millions of more votes than that, and lost by a whisker.
00:10:28.080 But, and look what happened to the world with all of the wars and all of the problems.
00:10:33.340 Okay.
00:10:34.260 So you read the headlines.
00:10:35.800 Trump admits that he lost.
00:10:37.420 But then you watch the video.
00:10:38.820 It doesn't seem to me that Trump is admitting he lost.
00:10:41.520 The way he says it, you can tell he's grinding his teeth on this.
00:10:45.660 It seems like there's some irony to his statement.
00:10:48.720 And then what happened?
00:10:49.480 And then, hmm, I lost by a whisker, I guess.
00:10:55.960 Is that what you, it seems to me that he's in a really terrible spot right now.
00:11:02.580 I, because he wants to win over moderate and centrist voters.
00:11:08.480 The small number of voters who are independent, who are not totally tuned in politically.
00:11:12.920 He doesn't want to turn them off by appearing extreme and radical and as though he's doubting
00:11:17.660 the results of an election, like the Democrats have done many, many times over the past several
00:11:21.900 decades.
00:11:22.780 So he has to, in that way, suggest that he lost.
00:11:26.100 But of course, if he acknowledges that he lost the 2020 election, well, then he, he would
00:11:32.560 appear to be culpable for telling people that he didn't lose the election for, you know,
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00:11:50.680 If Trump seriously believes that the 2020 election wasn't rigged, well, then what was it all for?
00:11:59.500 Now, I, some, some Trump critics, including Trump critics on the right are saying, you
00:12:05.280 know, this is, this is awful.
00:12:06.480 This is Trump admitting that he's, you know, he was lying the whole time or something.
00:12:10.000 But again, that's not my read.
00:12:11.600 You just listened to it.
00:12:12.440 You just watched it.
00:12:13.340 Does that sound like a man who sincerely believes that he fair and square lost the election?
00:12:18.760 No.
00:12:19.200 And most reasonable people don't honestly believe that because the libs changed all the
00:12:24.000 election rules in some cases unconstitutionally in the, in the weeks and months before the
00:12:28.580 2020 election.
00:12:30.380 So he's, he's in this brutal spot, but, but because he said this, he now has to have an answer
00:12:38.600 for the debate.
00:12:39.540 You know, this is going to come up at the debate.
00:12:41.740 Probably the, the moderators are going to bring it up.
00:12:43.900 But if not Kamala would be insane, not to bring it up. 0.95
00:12:48.820 Donald, you admitted that you lost the 2020 election.
00:12:53.180 You admitted it publicly.
00:12:55.020 So why did you lie to your supporters?
00:12:57.620 Why did you try to subvert American democracy on claims that you knew were a lie?
00:13:02.540 Donald, that's going to be the guarantee.
00:13:04.200 That's a question.
00:13:06.280 Unless he can immediately come up with a really good answer and, and get this out of the news.
00:13:10.880 That is going to be a question.
00:13:12.120 So he at the very least needs a good answer at the debate.
00:13:14.620 Now, what he could say is, well, COVID was the excuse to, to lock down the whole country
00:13:21.860 and change all the rules.
00:13:22.860 The problem that he has with that answer is he was president during COVID.
00:13:25.980 And I, I don't really blame him for most of the COVID measures because I think in many
00:13:29.920 ways they were, they were undertaken against his will, but he was still the president.
00:13:34.920 So in as much as there were federal measures, he, he bears responsibility for that.
00:13:38.260 So how can he get out of this?
00:13:39.520 It looks like he's totally in a corner.
00:13:41.840 The answer is he can blame the rigging of the 2020 election on the corruption of Democrat
00:13:49.140 governors and Democrat secretaries of state who are in charge of elections.
00:13:53.900 That's the answer.
00:13:55.700 He can't blame the federal COVID measures because he was responsible for those.
00:13:59.540 He can't, he, he can't say that he's really the president, you know, like he's, uh, Charles
00:14:08.220 Stewart, you know, the, the prince over the water, the king over the water or something,
00:14:11.740 you know, the pretender president.
00:14:12.960 No, he's saying, look, I'm not the president right now, but.
00:14:16.680 Oh yeah.
00:14:17.240 I lost, you know, he can keep winking at that as he is in this interview, but I think he's
00:14:21.420 got to say the Democrat governors, usually Democrat governors, I guess you might, he might blame
00:14:28.640 some Republican governors to used COVID as an excuse to rig the election against him.
00:14:35.800 And it was wrong and it was illegal and unconstitutional in some cases, and we're not going to let it
00:14:40.900 happen again.
00:14:42.320 I think that's the best way he can have his cake and eat it too, but he needs an answer.
00:14:47.840 If this should be priority number one in debate preparation for the Trump campaign, because
00:14:53.120 you know, the Harris team is just what they see this as an underhand softball and they are ready
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00:16:11.520 On Tuesday, September 10th, President Trump and Kamala Harris are set to face off for 1.00
00:16:16.760 the aforementioned presidential debate.
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00:16:37.800 Now, this interview with Lex Friedman was quite a good one.
00:16:41.060 During that same interview, Trump made a really, really important point.
00:16:47.080 And the point was even more profound, perhaps, than he intended for it to be.
00:16:51.140 One of the tragic things about life is that it ends.
00:16:54.900 How often do you think about your death?
00:16:56.820 Are you afraid of it?
00:16:58.420 I have a friend who's very, very successful, and he's in his 80s, mid-80s, and he asked
00:17:07.000 me the exact same question.
00:17:09.200 I said, I turned it around.
00:17:10.680 I said, well, what about you?
00:17:12.460 He said, I think about it every minute of every day.
00:17:15.820 And then a week later, he called me to tell me something, and he starts off the conversation
00:17:21.120 by going, tick, tock, tick, tock.
00:17:25.180 Now, this is a dark person, you know, in a sense, but it is what it is. 0.82
00:17:31.920 I mean, you know, if you're religious, you have, I think, a better feeling toward it.
00:17:37.780 You know, you're supposed to go to heaven, ideally not hell, but you're supposed to go
00:17:42.360 to heaven if you're good.
00:17:43.740 I said, I think our country's missing a lot of religion.
00:17:46.820 I think it really was a much better place with religion.
00:17:50.000 It was almost a guide, you know, to a certain extent, it was a guide.
00:17:54.320 You want to be good to people.
00:17:56.140 Without religion, there's no real, there are no guardrails. 1.00
00:17:59.920 I'd love to see us get back to religion, more religion in this country.
00:18:06.060 This is a profound answer on so many levels.
00:18:10.400 First off, he talks about his friend who says he thinks about death all the time.
00:18:14.760 I, too, think about death all the time.
00:18:18.260 It sounds kind of depressing, but it's really not depressing.
00:18:20.380 I think about death all of the time, in part because, you know, if you've ever had any
00:18:24.740 experience of death, a family member or a close friend, it really calls your attention
00:18:29.340 to it, and all of us will have an experience of that at some point or other.
00:18:34.560 But also because it reminds you that that's where we're all going.
00:18:39.120 That is the end, and you know the nature of a thing by its end, by what it's for, and we
00:18:46.720 are going to die. 0.95
00:18:48.460 So that tells us something about us, and it raises all sorts of questions.
00:18:52.180 Trump says, you know, and if you're religious, maybe that you like, you feel a little bit
00:18:56.600 better about it.
00:18:57.180 Maybe you do, but you at least feel more intentional about it.
00:19:00.820 You want to make sure that you are in a state of grace, that you're not in a state of mortal
00:19:04.200 sin.
00:19:04.860 You've got to make sure that you are availing yourself of the graces that are available
00:19:09.520 to us to avoid a permanent death, you know, and damnation.
00:19:13.760 And, you know, there are all sorts of questions that come from that.
00:19:17.500 But we think about that all the time.
00:19:22.060 And as Trump says, if you're religious, right, he seems to be excluding himself from that.
00:19:27.320 And I think probably most Americans would exclude themselves from that.
00:19:30.100 Even if they say, oh, you know, I'm Christian, or I'm Jewish, but they don't, you know, maybe
00:19:35.220 they don't take it very seriously.
00:19:36.500 Oh, yeah, I know, I'm not that really, I'm not too religious.
00:19:40.940 Okay, well then, what do you think about it?
00:19:43.960 He says, we need to get back to religion. 0.98
00:19:45.880 And why does he say we need to get back to religion?
00:19:48.220 He's not, he's not here, but he's not a Bible thumper, right? 1.00
00:19:50.760 That's kind of what's so refreshing about Trump, is he's this figure that is representing a popular
00:19:59.100 recognition that we have to return to Christianity, that we have to return to kind of normal society, 0.97
00:20:05.740 the way we used to live when our civilization was at its height.
00:20:09.000 But he, he is so open about being an imperfect vessel.
00:20:14.100 You know, he said, look at me, even when he jokes about how he doesn't drink, oh, could
00:20:17.460 you imagine if I, the only good thing you can say about me is I don't drink.
00:20:19.860 If I drank, I'd be the worst.
00:20:20.960 You know, he's, he's, there's a refreshing humility, ironically, to Trump.
00:20:26.900 And he says, we got to get back to religion.
00:20:30.360 Because when we had religion, we had guardrails. 0.99
00:20:33.360 And I love this term guardrails.
00:20:35.020 It reminds me of a homily that my priest preached recently.
00:20:39.000 Which was about the nature of sin.
00:20:41.860 You know, most people think sin is just breaking the rules.
00:20:44.960 But it's not breaking the rules.
00:20:46.580 That's a childish understanding of sin.
00:20:49.640 Sin is, as he pointed out, the violation of a relationship of grace.
00:20:55.560 And the rules are there as guardrails.
00:20:58.920 The rules are there to show us when, when we're maybe more likely to violate that relationship
00:21:03.140 of grace.
00:21:03.620 But that's, sin is not just like, oh, well, oops, yeah, your toe is that far over the line.
00:21:08.320 And, you know, blow the whistle, you're, you're out.
00:21:10.920 That's not what it is.
00:21:11.780 It's the violation of a relationship of grace.
00:21:13.800 And guardrails are important, not just in our individual lives or in our individual relationships
00:21:18.360 to God, but they're important politically.
00:21:21.280 You know, when you, when you transgress in the body politic, you, you, I don't know, you
00:21:27.100 commit a crime or you engage in some kind of corruption.
00:21:30.420 It's not just that you broke a rule.
00:21:32.840 It's that you violated a relationship, a relationship that is supposed to be one of love and charity
00:21:39.680 and common concern and a relationship that is oriented toward the common good.
00:21:45.160 That's, that's what we're all doing together in politics.
00:21:50.040 When, when societies get really litigious, when societies get really legalistic, something
00:21:56.440 has already started to rot in the core of that society.
00:22:00.620 In communities that are tightly bound, that are, that are brought together, united in purpose,
00:22:05.880 that have a shared sense of identity and a clear perception of the common good, they tend
00:22:11.180 not to be quite so legalistic.
00:22:12.880 They don't, they don't always lawyer up about every issue.
00:22:15.380 They, they work it out in a way that is organic and charitable and gracious.
00:22:21.240 That's, even if you don't think about God much at all, even if you don't think about theology
00:22:26.880 or the, the deeper aspects of religion at all, just from a political perspective, we have
00:22:33.640 to restore that kind of sense, the sense of, of sharing a relationship of grace and a relationship
00:22:40.400 of charity and a politics that is grounded much more in that than it is on breaking some
00:22:45.580 stupid rule.
00:22:46.200 Because if it's all just about breaking some stupid rule, you can indict a ham sandwich
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00:24:07.600 My favorite comment yesterday is from George Will Amin.
00:24:12.320 It's probably not George Will, the commentators, the columnist rather.
00:24:15.460 It's George Will Amin, 4170, who says,
00:24:18.480 A Taylor breakup would be a travesty.
00:24:21.260 I laughed.
00:24:26.900 I laughed when I first saw it.
00:24:27.900 I'm a sucker for a good pun.
00:24:29.780 Speaking of guardrails falling away, we have a Daily Wire exclusive.
00:24:32.380 This here from our friend Mary Margaret Olihan.
00:24:35.920 This is a school district in Colorado that had kids bunk and shower with members of the
00:24:44.640 opposite sex.
00:24:45.400 This is Jefferson County School District.
00:24:48.800 Jefferson County School District had a transgender students policy that all students on overnight
00:24:55.300 visits are to be roomed by their gender identity, not by their actual sex, but by their gender
00:25:01.400 identity.
00:25:01.960 This was true, not just among the students, but even among the chaperones.
00:25:10.040 So, in one instance, the district assigned an 11-year-old girl to bunk with a trans-identifying
00:25:15.800 boy.
00:25:16.380 What could go wrong?
00:25:17.280 Just prepubescent, and perhaps because of all the chemicals and everything, pubescent boy
00:25:25.180 and girl, bunking together.
00:25:27.900 What could go wrong?
00:25:29.940 Perhaps even against the girl's will.
00:25:33.240 It's not like they asked the girl's opinion.
00:25:34.820 They just have this transgender policy, so they're going to put a boy to bunk with her. 1.00
00:25:39.380 So, in another instance, it placed a trans-identifying 18-year-old female student, so recently trans
00:25:47.300 that just a week earlier she identified as female, but then the week later she identifies
00:25:51.740 as male, puts that 18-year-old student in a cabin with 11 and 12-year-old boys, where
00:25:56.360 she allegedly supervised their changing and showering.
00:26:00.220 This is according to a lawsuit that is being handled by the Alliance Defending Freedom.
00:26:03.640 Do you support this?
00:26:07.860 If this were your kid, would you support this?
00:26:11.000 Let me add another fact onto this.
00:26:13.100 I mean, it's a really good story.
00:26:14.300 You should read it.
00:26:14.940 It's by Mary Margaret over at dailywire.com.
00:26:18.480 But let me add another little fact to this.
00:26:20.380 I was looking at Sex Matters, which is an advocacy group that takes on the gender ideology,
00:26:26.520 which observed that males who identify as trans are five times more likely than other
00:26:33.640 males to be imprisoned for sexual offenses. 0.96
00:26:36.940 This is according to Sex Matters.
00:26:38.420 So, we know that men are many, many multiples, probably we would say an order of magnitude at
00:26:44.800 least, or maybe multiple orders of magnitude, more likely than women to be imprisoned for 1.00
00:26:52.200 sexual offenses. 0.92
00:26:53.300 Well, males who identify as trans are five times more likely, even than the other males, to be 0.97
00:26:58.760 imprisoned for sexual offenses.
00:27:01.160 Which is obviously the case.
00:27:03.560 If you're watching the show on YouTube right now, expect for my next statement to be blurred out.
00:27:09.100 These people are, by definition, perverted.
00:27:12.440 They're perverts.
00:27:14.720 I'm not even throwing bombs.
00:27:16.300 That's just, I think, a pretty technical, clinical definition of their sexual views and behaviors and desires.
00:27:23.600 They're perverted.
00:27:24.840 They're distorted.
00:27:26.460 They're disordered.
00:27:27.520 They're turned off where they're supposed to be.
00:27:31.600 These people, by definition, think about sex way more than normal people do.
00:27:37.720 Because they've made it the core aspect of their identity.
00:27:40.820 Surprise, surprise, they do weird sex stuff, including criminal weird sex stuff, more frequently.
00:27:48.340 At the real least, they're imprisoned for it.
00:27:50.120 Let me, I'll make a more cautious observation based on this report from Sex Matters.
00:27:55.460 Yeah, no, you don't say, wow, doesn't take a Sherlock Holmes, does it?
00:27:59.880 So then the question for you is this.
00:28:02.140 If you're a parent, and you've got to figure out who to vote for in this election, you've got
00:28:05.780 Kamala Harris, who supports full-on trans the kids, 100% from the White House.
00:28:13.260 We must implement pro-trans policies everywhere at every level.
00:28:18.240 And you've got Donald Trump who says, hey, man, this seems a little bit weird, right?
00:28:21.260 Maybe we should not do this.
00:28:24.360 Are you willing to sacrifice your children to protect the sexual perversion of adults?
00:28:30.020 Are you?
00:28:30.720 Maybe you, maybe broadly you support protecting the sexual perversion of adults.
00:28:39.380 Oh, you know, if a 25-year-old fellow wants to put on a dress and go to some seedy club
00:28:44.320 downtown, well, that's his right.
00:28:46.680 Maybe you even, oh, if a 25-year-old fellow wants to put on a dress and go into the girl's 0.80
00:28:51.080 bathroom, that's his right.
00:28:52.440 Okay.
00:28:53.040 Even if there's, what if there's a little girl, like younger girls in there?
00:28:55.840 Okay.
00:28:56.080 If an 11-year-old boy wants to bunk with my 11-year-old girl, well, that's his right.
00:29:03.000 You willing to do that?
00:29:03.900 If an 18-year-old, an 18-year-old wants to identify as the opposite sex and then watch 0.97
00:29:11.900 members of that, little children members of that sex shower, that's his or her right?
00:29:17.380 Are you willing to say that?
00:29:18.700 How far are you willing to take it?
00:29:19.780 Well, 99% of people, if they have any even remotely functioning faculty of reason, would
00:29:26.100 say no.
00:29:27.300 No, man.
00:29:28.400 Even if I kind of live and let live, I will not sacrifice my children on the altar of adult
00:29:35.540 sexual fantasies.
00:29:36.680 I ain't going to do it.
00:29:38.500 Well, okay.
00:29:39.600 And if that's the case, where do we land?
00:29:43.700 We land with a statement that got me in trouble a couple years ago when I said it at CPAC, but
00:29:48.360 it's simply the logical conclusion of that obvious inclination that every single normal
00:29:53.880 person feels, which is that for the good of society and especially for the good of the
00:29:58.160 poor people who fall in prey to this confusion, transgenderism must be eradicated from public 1.00
00:30:02.220 life entirely, the whole preposterous ideology at every level.
00:30:05.640 If you acknowledge its validity or pretend it's not valid, so if you pretend that it is valid
00:30:13.900 at any level, then you are implicitly accepting it at every level.
00:30:21.060 And then some 18-year-old is going to watch your kid shower.
00:30:23.800 Some 18-year-old of the opposite sex is going to watch your kid shower. 1.00
00:30:26.560 And some 11, 12, 13-year-old boy is going to bunk with your 11, 12, 13-year-old daughter
00:30:32.080 at school.
00:30:32.620 That's the logical conclusion of this.
00:30:35.500 And statistically speaking, very, very bad things are much more likely to happen to your
00:30:41.600 kid.
00:30:41.760 Speaking of transvestites, Will Ferrell is making a movie with Netflix. 0.95
00:30:46.200 Not a comedy movie, though he's a comedian.
00:30:47.840 He's making a serious movie about transgenderism.
00:30:52.640 And eventually became the head writer of SNL.
00:30:55.460 And over the years, he became one of my closest friends.
00:30:59.360 And then one day, I got this email.
00:31:02.400 Hey, Will, something I need you to know.
00:31:05.360 I'll be transitioning to live as a woman.
00:31:08.260 I don't doubt that Will is my friend, but I'm not Andrew Steele anymore.
00:31:16.700 It was just, whoa.
00:31:20.140 I love this country so much.
00:31:22.260 I just don't know if it loves me back right now.
00:31:24.880 Were you a little worried about how to talk to me when I came out to you?
00:31:29.180 Yeah, probably a little nervous.
00:31:31.260 I'm not really afraid of these people.
00:31:36.520 I'm afraid of hating myself.
00:31:39.560 There it is.
00:31:41.140 Okay, there's a much longer trailer, but there it is.
00:31:44.700 Will Ferrell is buddies with this guy.
00:31:46.500 This guy is a comedian, comedy writer, worked for SNL.
00:31:50.820 So already, you know, probably, I think virtually everyone who works in show business and certainly
00:31:55.980 every comedian's got a little bit of a screw loose.
00:31:57.980 That's, I think that's not just an occupational hazard, but a requirement.
00:32:02.280 And then Will Ferrell finds out later, this guy now wants to pretend to be a woman.
00:32:08.240 So what does the guy say?
00:32:09.940 He says, I love this country so much.
00:32:11.560 I just don't think it loves me right now.
00:32:13.100 I'm so oppressed because of my true identity.
00:32:15.500 I'm coming out as a woman.
00:32:18.940 I wasn't a woman for most of my, I didn't think I was a woman most of my life, but now
00:32:22.340 I'm coming out.
00:32:23.020 I'm a woman now.
00:32:23.560 And this country doesn't like me because of its bigotry.
00:32:26.480 But then he admits the real story later on.
00:32:29.740 He said, I'm not afraid of these people.
00:32:33.200 Who are these?
00:32:34.060 I guess I'm these people.
00:32:35.140 I get Matt, Matt Walsh is these people.
00:32:37.160 I guess the conservatives are these people who don't believe in transgenderism because it's 0.98
00:32:42.560 obviously false and don't want to support it because it's harmful to everyone.
00:32:47.560 He says, I'm not afraid of these people.
00:32:49.560 Actually, back when I was talking about how the country doesn't like me and when we talk
00:32:53.740 about how the phobias and the great threats to trans, that's not real.
00:32:58.000 What I'm really afraid of is hating myself.
00:33:02.220 Right, right.
00:33:03.580 That's what it's about.
00:33:05.260 That's exactly what it's about.
00:33:06.600 And why does he have that fear?
00:33:10.100 Because he knows that what he's saying and the way that he's living is not true.
00:33:16.020 It's not rational.
00:33:18.080 It doesn't accord with reality.
00:33:20.460 That's what it's about.
00:33:21.760 Two views of the transgender issue.
00:33:24.300 The lib view is that transgenderism is real and a man can really be born in the wrong body 0.92
00:33:32.460 or something, and the only reason that these people have anxiety and depression and commit
00:33:37.780 suicide at extraordinarily high rates is because society won't accept them.
00:33:43.080 The other take is, no, even when society does accept them, they're still very anxious and
00:33:48.640 very depressed and very likely to commit suicide.
00:33:52.060 And actually, it doesn't matter how the society reacts.
00:33:56.140 The problem seems to be, the killer seems to be inside the house.
00:34:02.460 So this guy is admitting the latter is true.
00:34:05.340 The first part is cope.
00:34:06.520 The first part is calumny against conservatives and just normal people who know men can't
00:34:10.560 become women.
00:34:11.880 The second part is the real thing.
00:34:14.040 I'm afraid of hating myself.
00:34:15.120 Okay.
00:34:16.740 Then that means, that is a vindication.
00:34:18.480 I hate, you know, I don't want to do an end zone dance or beat a dead horse here,
00:34:22.820 but that means my CPAC speech is totally vindicated.
00:34:26.600 Because that is an implicit acknowledgement that the affirmation of this ideology
00:34:33.720 doesn't solve the problem and perhaps even makes the problem worse.
00:34:40.680 This is a vindication of every conservative who said, no, we're not going to do the transgender 0.99
00:34:44.280 stuff in schools for every conservative who says, we're not going to accept this anywhere
00:34:47.120 because it's not going to, it's not true.
00:34:50.000 And therefore it's not going to help anybody.
00:34:53.480 I almost, it almost makes me want to watch this Will Ferrell movie, almost.
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00:35:34.780 I used to be a white woman, an unsuccessful one, for many decades, and it was a miserable 0.99
00:35:40.020 experience.
00:35:40.940 And really, the hatred of yourselves and each other is like the most, the not seeing your
00:35:46.900 power, the being afraid.
00:35:48.420 Like, all you do is talk shit about each other, talk shit about yourself.
00:35:51.460 Oh my God, I'm so fat.
00:35:52.880 That's all they do.
00:35:54.400 I'm telling you.
00:35:55.200 These white women? 1.00
00:35:56.800 But it's, it's, that's it.
00:35:58.880 It's, I'm so fat, I'm so stupid, I'm blah, blah, blah.
00:36:03.480 Sorry.
00:36:03.880 Your kids are watching you, and they're watching you talking shit about each other, you know,
00:36:15.520 raging against the machine, or being silent, or whatever the hell it is that you're doing 0.58
00:36:18.960 or not doing, and they know that you're not doing shit for them. 0.83
00:36:21.680 That's so important.
00:36:22.560 That is so important what you just said.
00:36:26.720 It's, it's really important.
00:36:29.560 That's all.
00:36:30.000 You may have to add Gene to our team.
00:36:31.860 Oh, I would love to take a seat and join you.
00:36:34.180 No, you're not allowed to.
00:36:35.680 Okay.
00:36:36.040 Definitely not allowed.
00:36:37.140 Okay.
00:36:37.540 I do have my, I have my DEI certification that I, that I got.
00:36:41.940 So, not saying I'm an expert, but I'm also not a novice, so, okay.
00:36:48.220 White people are starved for these conversations. 0.97
00:36:50.260 We are.
00:36:50.600 We're so starving.
00:36:51.500 Yeah.
00:36:52.040 We are so starving for this.
00:36:54.320 Anyone else want to say anything?
00:36:57.720 I'll just say one thing.
00:36:58.600 I'm so glad we can have these conversations, and I'll, and I'll be done.
00:37:01.120 But, uh, I'm just so glad that we could all get together and have these conversations.
00:37:06.120 That's all I wanted to say.
00:37:07.300 Is he an actor?
00:37:08.400 Are you an actor?
00:37:10.140 Oh, no.
00:37:10.500 Can you let us, we're trying to listen and trying to have this conversation.
00:37:13.960 Okay.
00:37:13.980 You know, we're all acting all the time in our lives.
00:37:17.300 And, uh, and I think that that's part of the problem.
00:37:20.320 You know?
00:37:22.300 That it's like we're all trying to play a part rather than just being real and having these
00:37:25.600 uncomfortable conversations.
00:37:26.580 And that's what I'm always trying to tell people, especially, you know, white women.
00:37:30.580 No offense, but.
00:37:31.560 No, but see, like, you're a white dude.
00:37:33.680 There's power positions.
00:37:35.380 And, uh, you know, it's, pointing, pointing, white people pointing fingers at each other
00:37:41.840 is not helpful.
00:37:42.600 You know, I've been on this journey for so long.
00:37:44.560 And just to see you guys at the table having this conversation has been really enlightening
00:37:49.880 for me.
00:37:51.000 Anyway, I got the DEI certification.
00:37:54.400 And I'm just on the journey.
00:37:57.380 All right.
00:37:58.000 You ladies have a great day. 0.85
00:37:58.780 Decolonize yourself.
00:38:06.880 Do your own white supremacy dismantling.
00:38:12.400 And then you can start to bring in other people.
00:38:15.740 Can I just say one last thing?
00:38:17.180 Can I just propose a toast?
00:38:18.200 Just, uh, I mean, just raise a glass if you're racist.
00:38:22.920 And that's the thing.
00:38:25.680 Oh, I'm not racist.
00:38:27.080 Let me do that.
00:38:27.620 Well, all the rest of it.
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00:38:34.460 They gonna say you racist.
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00:39:17.680 Hi, Michael.
00:39:18.680 My name is Kelsey, and I'm a big fan of your show.
00:39:21.540 I am 24, and my younger sister is turning 15 next month.
00:39:26.220 She recently mentioned to me about how she doesn't feel that Christianity and God are
00:39:31.520 quote-unquote for her.
00:39:33.540 Like she doesn't believe God is a thing.
00:39:35.700 I asked her to elaborate a bit, and she explained to me that back when she was going to a private
00:39:41.160 Christian elementary school, life felt gray and she hated herself, and she felt like she was never good enough.
00:39:49.780 But as soon as she became agnostic, she felt like the world had color again.
00:39:54.060 We have divorced parents, so I really worry about her, especially without the attention she should have from our dad and seeks out from other sources.
00:40:04.040 I want her to find God as I did in high school, but I know that it can't be forced.
00:40:10.540 Do you have any advice or insight on the situation?
00:40:14.080 Thank you, and again, love the show.
00:40:16.900 Okay, really good question.
00:40:18.360 Sorry to hear the trouble for you, sister.
00:40:20.680 The divorce explains it.
00:40:22.840 Not to be too reductive or get into too much psychobabble, but you seem to intuit that as well, that the divorce does help to explain it.
00:40:30.900 So she says, she's, you know, in this kind of funk, and she says, well, the world is gray according to Christianity.
00:40:41.260 But the moment that I throw out Christianity, wow, it all seems really colorful. 1.00
00:40:45.380 It kind of reminds me of when Pinocchio goes to Pleasure Island.
00:40:49.280 You know, and it all seems really fun at first, but then they all turn into jackasses.
00:40:53.080 And it's like taking a drug, you know, you say, oh, man, I dropped acid, and I could hear a color, man.
00:40:58.660 You know, yeah, sure, it can seem really vibrant, and it's very intoxicating for a short period of time.
00:41:06.600 But I promise you, you'll have gray in perpetuity once the high wears off.
00:41:12.080 So she's obviously, the issue would appear to be circumstantial and emotional rather than rational for her.
00:41:22.980 The question you've got to figure out is how you can most easily appeal to her.
00:41:28.660 When I was an atheist, I became an atheist at 13, and I got out of it some years later, starting in college and then finally after college.
00:41:35.680 But I became an atheist because I was a, well, I'm sure for lots of reasons, but one of which was that I was precocious and kind of a punk kid who thought I was much smarter than I was.
00:41:44.920 And Christopher Hitchens was appealing to that exact audience at the time, all the new atheists, you know, Richard Dawkins and all the rest. 0.77
00:41:51.800 So the way that I got out of it was when I met people who were smarter than me, making arguments that were smarter than the Christopher Hitchens arguments that convinced me that appealed to my intellectual hubris.
00:42:04.520 It probably is not the same for your little sister.
00:42:07.820 You've got to figure out where exactly the hang-up is and then counter that hang-up.
00:42:14.480 Meet her there, and then the rest of it can follow.
00:42:19.100 Next question.
00:42:21.680 Hi, Michael.
00:42:22.800 It's the Shuckmeister. 0.87
00:42:24.200 IVF has been a real sticking point in the news recently, and some vocal Catholics, especially online, are completely opposed to voting for any candidate who supports it in any capacity.
00:42:34.580 Many have used the phrase, the ends never justify the means, taken straight from the catechism of the Catholic Church, to opt out of voting in this election.
00:42:42.960 While I very much disagree with this stance, it is seemingly completely consistent with the Church's teachings.
00:42:49.140 So how would you rationalize with a person who takes this stance?
00:42:52.400 I would think it's a matter of prudence to make the choice that gives the most glory to God.
00:42:56.280 But what do you think?
00:42:57.240 Love the show.
00:42:58.020 Thanks.
00:42:58.960 Okay.
00:42:59.860 Great question, Mr. Shuckmeister.
00:43:01.700 Good to hear you back on the show after some time not landing in the mailbag.
00:43:06.440 Look, a lot of people, not just Catholics, Southern Baptists, other people who have moral problems with IVF are dealing with this question.
00:43:15.140 Though it's the same issue that broadly pro-life people have dealt with for many years, with Republicans who sometimes go a little bit squishy on the issue, while the opponents are radically in favor of abortion and IVF and all the rest of it.
00:43:28.740 So it seems to me that we would be easily justified in voting for Trump over Kamala here because Kamala is so radically in favor of these horrible things.
00:43:41.520 And Trump, at least while he was in office, has the most pro-life record of any president in my lifetime.
00:43:47.820 One further consolation that we might have is that Trump is saying things and campaigning in a more aggressive manner to win over votes in the middle than is reflective of how he would actually govern.
00:44:03.680 You know, Kamala is outright lying. 1.00
00:44:05.200 Kamala is saying, I want to close the border.
00:44:07.060 I want to stop the migrant crisis. 1.00
00:44:08.960 She's currently in charge of it. 0.99
00:44:10.180 So she's obviously lying.
00:44:11.280 If she wanted to do that, she could do it today.
00:44:12.860 When it comes to Trump, Trump might seriously want to enact some policy to protect IVF.
00:44:20.540 But when he gets in, he might not be able to pull over enough Republican members of Congress and the Senate to actually get that done.
00:44:27.400 And is that really at the top of Trump's list?
00:44:29.520 Probably not.
00:44:31.360 Trump might be speaking in a way that's a little squishier on abortion right now.
00:44:35.240 But Trump's also said many times, look, we just have to get elected, is, you know, enshrining some right to an abortion at the top of Trump's list.
00:44:43.960 And even if it were, would Congress and the Senate go along?
00:44:47.100 Probably not.
00:44:47.700 And would he care that they don't go along?
00:44:49.400 Probably not too much on that either.
00:44:51.140 So that would be one way of consoling yourself.
00:44:54.520 But, you know, politics is the art of the possible and, you know, the art of inclusion.
00:44:59.260 And if you had a squishier Democrat, if you had a more moderate Democrat, that might make it more difficult.
00:45:06.260 But here, you've just got the most radically pro-abortion, pro-IVF, pro-trans your kids candidate that we've ever had in our nation's history.
00:45:14.080 And with Trump, you have a significantly more, as a matter of record, pro-life, you know, pro, I don't know, consistent traditional sexual ethic candidate, given our present times, you know, than probably would be likely.
00:45:33.020 So, to me, that's not a difficult choice.
00:45:35.180 Next question.
00:45:36.780 Hi, Michael.
00:45:37.420 Congratulations on your third child.
00:45:39.480 I'm currently 37 weeks pregnant with our third child.
00:45:43.000 Our first two are three in a year and a half, and they're both boys.
00:45:47.460 This one we found out was a girl, and we are so excited.
00:45:51.040 We have had some weird encounters with people at church and Bible studies and just randomly out in our community that will tell me when I tell them I'm having a girl, that raising a girl is really no differently than raising a boy, and that they would never raise their daughters or treat their daughters differently than they would treat their sons.
00:46:08.540 How would you respond to this?
00:46:10.080 And if you ever have a girl, how would you treat her differently or raise her differently than your sons?
00:46:14.960 We believe in gender roles, and I'm a stay-at-home mom.
00:46:18.720 We're planning on homeschooling.
00:46:20.120 So, I really want to show my daughter what it is like to be a more traditional woman.
00:46:27.180 Well, you probably have the answer to your question.
00:46:31.260 Given that addendum at the end, I think you have the answer to the question you're asking me.
00:46:35.580 But I suppose what I would say, if someone came up to me and said, oh, I would never treat my sons any differently than I treat my daughters.
00:46:44.320 I would never, you know, absolutely not.
00:46:46.360 I think the sexes are exactly the same. 0.98
00:46:48.240 I would probably turn to them, and in my best African accent, I would say, why are you gay? 1.00
00:46:55.080 You are gay. 1.00
00:46:56.740 You are transgender.
00:46:58.520 And I wouldn't be doing it as well as that African anchor did on air, but I'd do a reasonably okay impression. 1.00
00:47:04.960 Because that's what they're talking about.
00:47:08.720 If you think that the two sexes are indiscernible and substitutable one for the other, then you're establishing a gay anthropology or a trans anthropology. 0.83
00:47:21.300 It's all kind of the same.
00:47:23.160 But I, like you, think that men and women really are different.
00:47:26.740 And I think that men are terrific, can be terrific, and women can be terrific.
00:47:32.900 But men can't be terrific when they act like women, and women can't be terrific when they act like men. 0.99
00:47:38.160 They can't be most fully themselves because they're a little bit different.
00:47:41.860 So how would I treat them differently?
00:47:43.640 Well, I probably wouldn't sign my daughter up for boxing lessons. 1.00
00:47:48.320 Maybe my son, I don't know, I'd definitely get my son involved in certain sports.
00:47:51.980 Maybe, it's unlikely that a Knowles would end up playing football. 0.82
00:47:54.460 But if he wanted to play football, I don't know, maybe sign him up for football.
00:47:57.240 My daughter, I probably wouldn't sign up for football.
00:47:59.240 I'd more likely sign her up for ballet. 0.85
00:48:01.800 But maybe tennis or something.
00:48:03.140 I don't know, maybe some other sport that she gets into. 1.00
00:48:06.620 They could both be involved in the arts.
00:48:08.980 I think that's music, even theater, they could do.
00:48:13.640 But I would probably be a little bit more protective of my daughter when she started dating. 0.94
00:48:19.160 I'd probably be a little bit tougher on my sons when they started dating.
00:48:22.900 Because in dating, men pursue and women are pursued. 0.78
00:48:27.600 And men can get girls into trouble and girls can get into trouble because of men. 0.98
00:48:32.820 And that's just a fact.
00:48:34.120 And that's going to imply different responsibility and all sorts of different issues.
00:48:38.240 So that's what I would do.
00:48:39.980 I would just be normal about it, which I highly recommend.
00:48:42.500 I'll get to one written mailbag before we get to the member segment.
00:48:45.460 From Elena.
00:48:46.640 Michael, love your show.
00:48:48.640 I listen every day.
00:48:49.440 I've been hearing so much about Project 2025 lately.
00:48:51.420 But I haven't heard anyone really explain what it is.
00:48:54.740 What exactly is the infamous Project 2025?
00:48:56.640 Okay, the real answer is Project 2025 is a database of potential White House staffers
00:49:06.600 put together by the Heritage Foundation.
00:49:10.320 That's all it is.
00:49:11.560 That's all it is.
00:49:13.220 Project 2025 is just pulling together the names and information of people who could fill the many,
00:49:23.460 many thousands of roles that will become available if a Republican wins the White House.
00:49:29.400 Because it was difficult for Trump in 2016 to staff the administration.
00:49:35.040 And personnel is policy.
00:49:36.540 So if you don't have the people to enact your policies, then you don't really have political power.
00:49:40.040 That's all it is.
00:49:40.660 And it's not even a guarantee that you get the job.
00:49:42.740 It's just a database of people who can be suggested to staff a potential Republican administration,
00:49:50.820 which in this case would be a Trump administration because he won the nomination.
00:49:53.560 That's all it is.
00:49:55.080 And the libs have turned it into this dastardly,
00:49:58.120 dastardly plan to get rid of the infield fly rule in Major League Baseball.
00:50:03.120 This plan to outlaw Cholula sauce so that all your tacos taste bland now or whatever they want to say it is.
00:50:10.720 It's just a way to make it a little bit easier for the transition team to make sure they have people to work for an administration.
00:50:16.780 That's all it is.
00:50:18.880 It's fine.
00:50:19.600 It's cool, man.
00:50:20.420 Don't worry about it.
00:50:21.800 All those headlines about Project 2025 are fake.
00:50:23.940 And we will have some fake headlines in the Membrum segment.
00:50:26.340 The show continues now.
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00:50:45.020 Republicans or Nazis, you cannot separate yourselves from the bad white people. 0.90
00:50:49.920 Growing up, I never thought much about race.
00:50:51.860 Never really seemed to matter that much.
00:50:53.700 At least not to me.
00:50:54.520 Am I racist?
00:50:55.700 I would really appreciate it if you left.
00:50:56.980 I'm trying to learn.
00:50:57.700 I'm on this journey.
00:50:58.980 I'm going to sort this out.
00:51:00.260 I need to go deeper undercover.
00:51:03.220 They don't say I'm racist.
00:51:04.740 Joining us now is Matt, certified DEI expert.
00:51:08.200 Here's my certification.
00:51:09.220 What you're doing is you're stretching out of your whiteness. 0.71
00:51:12.080 This is more for you than this for you.
00:51:13.060 Is America inherently racist?
00:51:14.620 The word inherent is challenging there.
00:51:16.580 I want to rename the George Washington Monument to the George Floyd Monument.
00:51:19.740 America is racist to its bones.
00:51:21.600 So inherently.
00:51:22.460 Yeah.
00:51:22.860 This country is a piece of...
00:51:23.920 White folks. 0.76
00:51:26.620 White trash. 1.00
00:51:27.020 White supremacy.
00:51:27.740 White woman. 1.00
00:51:28.460 White boy.
00:51:29.000 Is there a black person around here?
00:51:30.280 There's a black person right here.
00:51:31.620 Does he not exist?
00:51:34.200 Hi, Robin.
00:51:34.960 Hi.
00:51:35.320 What's your name?
00:51:36.260 I'm Matt.
00:51:36.760 I just had to ask who you are because you have to be careful.
00:51:39.360 Never be too careful.
00:51:40.260 They gonna say you racist.
00:51:41.140 Buy your tickets now.
00:51:42.260 In theaters September 13th.
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