The Michael Knowles Show - October 11, 2024


Ep. 1593 - Lib Governor Mouth-Feeds Journalist In Gross Anti-Christian TikTok

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Gretchen Whitmer TikTok video abortion election
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Donald Trump Joe Biden Sam Harris Matthew Iglesias Ron DeSantis Benjamin Netanyahu Gretchen Whitmer Download Hallow C.S. Lewis Dorito Joe Manchin JD Vance Pure Talk Milton Jacob John Stuart Mill Christopher Derrick Alistair McIntyre Harvard Kennedy Jeffrey Dahmer and 27 more
Ep. 1592 - Hurricane Victims Can't Get The $750 From Kamala US Senators Left Speechless by Hilarious Questions ｜ YES or NO： Tim Scott & Bill Hagerty

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Democrat Governor of Michigan Gretchen Whitmer makes a blasphemous, vaguely pornographic video with a prominent liberal journalist, Joe Biden calls on the Prime Minister of Israel to help with the hurricane in Florida, and Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker is a clone?

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00:00:00.000 Democrat Governor of Michigan Gretchen Whitmer makes a blasphemous,
00:00:03.560 vaguely pornographic video with a prominent liberal journalist.
00:00:08.080 Joe Biden calls on the Prime Minister of Israel to help with the hurricane in Florida.
00:00:13.700 And Star Wars Trance is a clone. I'm Michael Knowles. This is the Michael Knowles Show.
00:00:30.000 Welcome back to the show. As if all that weren't enough, if we have time,
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00:02:43.840 free trial of all 10,000 plus prayers and meditations. I saw the weirdest video I've
00:02:49.780 ever seen in politics yesterday. I don't know how else to put it. You probably saw it too.
00:02:56.240 This video went everywhere. I'm not being hyperbolic. I'm not exaggerating. I'm not
00:03:04.260 falling into the error of believing that things happen now or for any reason more extraordinary
00:03:11.020 than things that have happened in the past. This is the weirdest video that any politician
00:03:17.080 has ever put out in my lifetime or your lifetime. It is a video of Democrat Governor Gretchen Whitmer
00:03:25.540 sensually, and I think blasphemously, feeding Doritos to a prominent liberal journalist who has
00:03:36.460 made programs with Vox Media, with NBC News. This is not even some random fringe TikToker,
00:03:42.340 like a regular, pretty mainstream, left-wing journalist. If you are only listening on podcast
00:03:50.660 or radio, I will narrate this brief, bizarre video for you.
00:03:56.300 Lib Giorno on her knees, opens her mouth, sticks her tongue out, smiles, rolls her eyes in the back of 1.00
00:04:01.760 her head. And then there's Gretchen Whitmer, stone-faced, wearing a Harris Walls camo hat,
00:04:10.080 standing above her, feeding her a Dorito.
00:04:15.500 And J.D. Vance is weird. Don't forget that. Don't forget. Because J.D. Vance thinks it's good
00:04:21.740 to have families. So he's a huge weirdo. Pay no attention to the sacrilegious dominatrix
00:04:29.420 softcore porn video that the sitting Democrat Governor of Michigan, a swing state in the 2024
00:04:36.800 election, just put out. A lot of people scratching their heads. And I'm trying not to just jump to
00:04:44.860 one conclusion above others. But any conclusion I draw about this seems weird, seems bizarre,
00:04:55.200 seems inappropriate. Some have suggested that the TikTok video is just a play on this meme that has
00:05:05.860 gone around, where some lady, some dominatrix-looking lady, is feeding milk to a lady on the ground. 0.85
00:05:12.460 So it's a meme about porn. Not directly pornographic, but it's a meme about porn. 0.83
00:05:17.500 So that's one explanation that people have come up with. And unfortunately, that's the most charitable
00:05:23.980 explanation. That's the most gracious explanation to whatever Gretchen Whitmer is doing here. 1.00
00:05:27.860 Because I think the more likely explanation is that this is a mockery of Holy Communion of the
00:05:34.180 Eucharist. For non-Catholics out there, or even Catholics who are really modern, who are not familiar
00:05:39.520 with the traditional liturgy, they might miss what's going on here. But when a Catholic at the Holy
00:05:44.760 Mass receives communion, traditionally, one does so on one's knees, on the tongue, not receiving in the
00:05:54.420 hand. And the priest is standing, and he administers the Holy Sacrament. That does appear to be what's
00:06:04.780 going on here. Except in this case, the host, the body, blood, soul, and divinity of our Lord Jesus
00:06:11.760 Christ is replaced with a Dorito. So it's a kind of mockery of the Eucharist. And a Dorito, I think,
00:06:17.300 because Kamala Harris has said that's her guilty pleasure. Even the fact that we're talking about
00:06:22.480 guilt, or shame, or sin, I guess, I think plays a role in this scene. I don't think I'm looking too
00:06:30.220 deeply into it. Because I don't know how to look into it in a more shallow way. I don't know what's the
00:06:37.180 innocent explanation. It's either porn, it's either alluding to porn, or mocking Christ. 0.89
00:06:48.840 And specifically, Catholics. 0.99
00:06:54.280 What is that? Especially, you know, the Democrats really need to win Catholics, 0.98
00:06:58.760 especially in Pennsylvania right now. And the race is really tightened up. And a lot of places
00:07:03.300 are putting Trump ahead of Kamala right now. We'll get to that in just a moment.
00:07:09.800 Who thought this was a good idea? Well, it's a meme. It'll go viral. It'll get attention.
00:07:15.860 Yeah, not all attention is good, though. You know what I mean? Like,
00:07:19.100 Jeffrey Dahmer got a lot of attention. Why are they doing this? I'll tell you why they're doing this.
00:07:27.200 Any explanation you come up with? No, it's a porn thing. No, it's a sacrilege thing. No, it's a...
00:07:32.120 This is who the Democrats are. This is who they are. I think it was Peter Kreeft who pointed out
00:07:39.500 that the Democrats have exalted abortion in recent decades, not merely to the sort of
00:07:46.900 unfortunate, necessary evil that should be safe, legal, and rare, but to a positively good thing.
00:07:54.100 They've elevated it to the level of a sacrament, and they do so by satanically inverting the language
00:08:00.820 of the sacrament. When the host is consecrated in the Holy Mass, the priest says, reciting the words
00:08:10.480 of our Lord, this is my body. This is my body, which will be given up for you. This is my body.
00:08:16.120 And the sacrament of abortion, which does not give life but takes life, uses the exact same phrase.
00:08:22.200 This is my body. My body, my body, my choice. And so this sacrilege, this attack on the faith,
00:08:32.300 this attack on God is baked into the left from the beginning. That when the terms left and right
00:08:38.340 come to be applied to politics, it is in the context of the French Revolution at the National
00:08:42.160 Assembly when the Christians are on the right side of the aisle and the secularists and the atheists 0.52
00:08:48.280 and the levelers are on the left side of the aisle. So that's always baked in there.
00:08:54.540 As for the sex stuff, well, the libs can never stop talking about the sex stuff. And what's ironic
00:08:58.840 is they accuse the right of having an obsession with sex. But of course, we're not the aggressors
00:09:03.160 in the culture war. The right would be perfectly happy never to talk about weird sex stuff again.
00:09:08.000 The only reason we talk about it is because the left initiates the conversations. The left is the
00:09:13.900 group that insists upon pornography being legalized. The left is the group that insists on prurient
00:09:20.800 content all over the internet and even on billboards and on television. The left is the group that wants
00:09:26.720 to talk about this stuff in front of your kids. The left is the group that wants to abolish sexual
00:09:31.800 distinctions in bathrooms and locker rooms, say. The left is the group that wants to relax public
00:09:36.880 indecency laws. So it's the left that's pushing all this stuff. Because why? Why? There is an
00:09:42.640 ideological reason. There is a reason that comes from their view of liberation. Also just because
00:09:47.240 it's their sex freaks, man. I don't know what to tell you. That's why they are sex freaks. And they 0.99
00:09:53.860 like doing weird sex stuff. And it's not all that much more complicated than that. So it's who they
00:09:59.460 are. This is who they are. And even if it's going to hurt them among Catholics, their intellect is so
00:10:05.780 clouded and their will is so compromised that they just do it anyway. This is something that people
00:10:11.000 kind of forget about sin and specifically about serious sin. It not only compromises your will.
00:10:18.960 If you're a religious person, you would understand that it might compromise your salvation. And it has 0.95
00:10:26.020 all these spiritual effects that are really bad. But it also clouds your intellect. And even if you're
00:10:31.160 a secular person or you're agnostic, you should probably recognize this too. When a person engages
00:10:37.220 in persistent sin, like it does a bunch of drugs or scams people or robs people or does weird sex stuff
00:10:45.060 or just in any way engages in persistent sin, it clouds your intellect. You're not thinking straight.
00:10:52.300 Think of the drug addict is a perfect example. You're not the kind of person who thinks straight.
00:10:55.980 You do things that are irrational. People who become real dirty, rotten, filthy, degenerate sinners, 1.00
00:11:01.700 they do things that are evil and wicked and vicious, but they also do things that are just stupid and 1.00
00:11:07.460 irrational and contrary to their own interests. That's because sin is irrational and it clouds 1.00
00:11:13.120 your intellect. That's what's going on here as well. Now, speaking of Michigan, we've got some good
00:11:17.520 news. While the libs are making sacrilegious dominatrix videos with their sitting governor, 1.00
00:11:22.860 Trump is pulling ahead in Michigan. The real clear polling average now has Trump winning Michigan,
00:11:29.560 which means that if Trump wins Michigan, it's got him winning Arizona, got him winning Pennsylvania.
00:11:40.660 That means that Trump vans 296 electoral votes to Harris Walls' 242. The only poll that matters is on
00:11:49.360 election day. Do not get complacent. A friend of mine just asked me as I was walking into work this
00:11:55.680 morning said, hey, Michael, I got a relative in Texas, but this relative is not going to be in
00:12:01.600 Texas for the election. But I don't know. I've got all sorts of questions about the mail-in ballots.
00:12:06.320 And so is it better not to vote or is it better to send in the mail-in? Send in the mail-in. I'm not
00:12:11.380 saying there's no risk that something bad happens with the mail-in, but send in the mail-in. The libs are
00:12:16.480 hoping that they suppress your desire to vote with all of the shenanigans they pull. Send in that mail-in.
00:12:22.980 Vote now. Vote early. Verify your vote often. There's nothing we can do about shenanigans that
00:12:31.800 have been permitted to take place, but we can fight real hard. Right now, things are looking up.
00:12:37.260 And the proof that things are looking up for Trump, it's not just what the RealClearPolitics
00:12:40.500 average is showing. It's not just because of the weird sacrilegious porn that the governor of Michigan
00:12:46.340 is posting. It's because Kamala Harris herself is looking increasingly desperate. There's so much 0.52
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00:13:00.300 going as far as supporting free abortions at the DNC. Kamala's extreme radical stance for abortion
00:13:06.560 is clear in her running mate. As first things reported, Tim Wall supports the right to infanticide.
00:13:11.800 That's true of abortion broadly, but it's especially clear when we talk about taking the
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00:14:06.340 what you can. Preborn.com slash Knowles. Kamala seems to want another debate. That's how desperate 0.99
00:14:13.580 she's getting, okay? The people are already voting, and they say, no, let's do another debate. Let's do
00:14:17.460 another debate. Trump has put the kibosh on this, I suspect for the final time, in a beautifully written,
00:14:23.880 this is poetic diction, truth social post, of course, in all caps. I'm going to read you this post in its
00:14:31.160 entirety, so there's no question about what Trump means and how he interprets Kamala's actions.
00:14:38.360 All caps, so I'm not going to scream, but you can imagine. I won the last two debates, one with
00:14:43.500 Crooked Joe, the other with Lyon Kamala. I accepted the Fox News invitation to debate Kamala on September
00:14:48.620 4th, but she turned it down. J.D. Vance easily won his debate with Tampon Tim Walls, who called himself
00:14:53.460 a knucklehead. I'm also leading in the polls, with the lead getting bigger by the day, and leading in all
00:14:59.980 swing states, the first thing a prize fighter does when he loses a fight is say that he demands a
00:15:03.960 rematch. It is very late in the process. Voting has already begun. There will be no rematch. Besides,
00:15:08.720 Kamala stated clearly yesterday that she would not do anything different than Joe Biden, so there's
00:15:13.940 nothing to debate. Thank you for your attention to this matter, exclamation point. Donald J. Trump.
00:15:21.620 When Trump first came out after his debate with Kamala and said, I won, you know, prize fighter wants
00:15:27.700 a rematch. I don't want a rematch. I thought, okay, that's good spin. I don't, does he really believe
00:15:34.020 this? Might there still be a second debate? I don't know. I mean, we'll see, but that's good,
00:15:38.660 good spin. Now I'm convinced he's totally right in his read of the situation. Kamala is obviously 0.64
00:15:44.460 desperate. This is the reason that her campaign is allowing her and actually forcing her to do media 1.00
00:15:50.760 interviews, all of which are disastrous, but they have to force her to do it because Kamala needs 0.96
00:15:55.840 something, something to shake up the race at this late stage. She might've been able to get that 0.52
00:16:01.720 from a debate with Donald Trump. Who knows? Those things are kind of unpredictable. And the libs would
00:16:06.540 try to rig it as they rigged the first and only debate between Trump and Kamala. But otherwise,
00:16:12.220 the only thing Kamala can do to try to shake it up now is go on and do these interviews herself, 0.80
00:16:16.760 like that 60 Minutes interview, which was terrible for her and terrible for her campaign. 0.64
00:16:20.780 So if I'm Trump, I'm thinking, oh, great. She's on the ropes. She's flailing around. 0.90
00:16:26.220 She's in a bad position because every single thing that she can do right now to improve her 1.00
00:16:31.000 position, other than debate me, which I wisely won't do, every single thing she can do has a
00:16:37.320 great risk of also hurting her. And so far, every time she's done it, it has hurt her,
00:16:42.400 which is good. That makes me feel that I'm not saying the Republicans are going to win it.
00:16:46.100 It's far from in the bag, but it means Republicans could win it. Meanwhile,
00:16:53.280 while Trump is trying to get the job back, while Kamala is trying to get the job for the first time
00:16:57.380 as the sitting vice president, there is this question, which is who is currently the president?
00:17:03.660 The official answer is Joe Biden. Joe Biden seems a little confused about that though,
00:17:08.120 because Biden responding to some taunt from President Trump just came out and had this to say
00:17:14.120 about the man that I think we all thought was the former president.
00:17:17.620 Have you spoken before President Trump at all?
00:17:21.120 Are you kidding me?
00:17:25.300 Mr. President Trump, former President Trump, get a life, man. Help these people.
00:17:30.400 Will you hold him accountable? You said you were going to hold those accountable.
00:17:33.420 I'll put the hold of account. You better impress hold of account because you know the truth.
00:17:39.620 Will you plan to speak with former President Trump?
00:17:42.320 No. 0.98
00:17:44.180 He's just walking off in that, really, I don't mean to make fun of his stiff gay because it's 1.00
00:17:48.380 obviously a medical condition, but he's walking off like the characteristic grandpa just storming 0.94
00:17:54.700 out of a room, kind of unclear where he's even going. Just, no, it's grumpy. You know,
00:17:58.960 no, I don't want to. Because he just said this thing that didn't make any sense. He said,
00:18:03.200 my message, Donald Trump, Mr. President Trump. Wait, is he the president? No, hold on. He's
00:18:08.680 the former president. Mr. Mr. Former President Trump, help these people, meaning the victims of
00:18:15.020 the hurricane. How is Trump supposed to help those people if he's not the president?
00:18:22.760 Joe Biden. This is like Kamala Harris pretending that she's the president and complaining that 1.00
00:18:29.840 Ron DeSantis won't take her call. But Ron DeSantis says, look, I'm the governor of Florida. I've
00:18:35.460 worked on a lot of hurricanes. Kamala Harris has never called me once. She has no role in this
00:18:39.520 process whatsoever. I'm speaking to the president. The president is Joe Biden. But then Joe Biden is
00:18:43.620 asked if he's talked to Donald Trump. He said, absolutely not. But Mr. President Trump,
00:18:47.520 you need to help these people. But how can he help these people when he's not the president?
00:18:51.220 Joe Biden clearly doesn't think he's the president. Kamala Harris isn't the president.
00:18:55.240 Ron DeSantis is not the president, though he's doing a very good job in Florida.
00:18:58.280 Who's the president? It does not appear to be Joe Biden. When you look at Joe Biden,
00:19:04.180 increasingly, everything this guy says, it is clear that the lights are on, but no one's home.
00:19:11.240 Joe Biden was just asked again about the hurricane. He was giving his status update,
00:19:16.500 the hurricane response. And he somehow managed to tie Bibi Netanyahu, the prime minister of Israel,
00:19:26.560 to the hurricane in Florida.
00:19:28.800 Mr. President, what did you, what did Prime Minister Netanyahu tell you about his plans
00:19:33.720 of releasing to retaliation?
00:19:35.620 He's coming over to help with a storm.
00:19:37.160 Now, you, I was trying to figure out, you know, it's kind of like the Gretchen Whitmer video. I was
00:19:43.900 trying to figure, is there anything I'm missing here? And then I thought, well, okay, if you go
00:19:47.360 really deep into the lore, I guess Biden is saying maybe they, they really do control the weather.
00:19:56.340 Is that, I don't, I don't think they do control the weather. So I don't really know what Biden is
00:20:02.640 talking about here, but is he, he was asked a question about, obviously about Netanyahu's
00:20:08.780 next moves vis-a-vis Iran or Lebanon or even Gaza. And he says, he, Benjamin Netanyahu PM of Israel is
00:20:19.420 coming over to help with the storm, which would be very nice of him if he did that. Netanyahu's got
00:20:24.360 some other things on his plate right now. So I'd be surprised if he came over to clear trees and
00:20:28.080 branches away, this guy, Joe Biden, not Netanyahu, not the reporter, Joe Biden is not, he's not
00:20:38.760 there. He's not in control. We have a country without a president right now. I'm not saying
00:20:45.580 we have a country without a political order. We obviously have a political order. In fact,
00:20:48.560 we have a political order that exerts a lot of control even over the president when there is an
00:20:52.640 active president. And we call that the administrative state or the deep state or the blob or whatever.
00:20:57.480 So that still exists, but we don't actually have an executive right now, it appears. Now,
00:21:02.320 turning back to DeSantis and talking about this storm, the libs have this stupid talking point 1.00
00:21:06.820 that the storm is being caused by global warming. And this is evidence that Republicans need to 0.99
00:21:15.200 take global warming seriously because Republicans are really responsible for this storm.
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00:22:49.460 Bardan, 782, who says, if it quacks like a duck and it walks like a duck, keep it away from Ohio.
00:22:57.500 Very, very good advice. Some Lib reporter just tried to set up Governor DeSantis with a question about
00:23:06.660 how the hurricanes are caused by global warming, how they're really Republicans' fault because
00:23:12.320 Republicans don't support communism or whatever. They don't want to nationalize industries.
00:23:18.560 Ron DeSantis gave a perfect response.
00:23:25.840 Tornadoes?
00:23:26.300 Yeah, there's an increase in tornadoes.
00:23:27.580 I think you could go back and find tornadoes for all of human history, for sure. And especially,
00:23:33.460 you know, Florida, you know, how does this storm rate in kind of the history of storms?
00:23:41.020 I think it hit with a barometric pressure of, what was it, about 950 millibars when it hit?
00:23:48.400 Which I think if you go back to 1851, there's probably been 27 hurricanes that have had lower
00:23:56.720 barometric pressure. So the lower the barometric pressure, the stronger it is. I think there have
00:24:00.400 been about 27 hurricanes that have had lower barometric pressure on landfall than Milton did.
00:24:06.440 And of those, 17 occurred, I think, prior to 1960. And the most powerful hurricane on record since the
00:24:15.680 1850s in the state of Florida occurred in the 1930s, the Labor Day hurricane. Barometric pressure on that
00:24:22.680 was 892 millibars. It totally wiped out the keys. We've never seen anything like it. And that remains
00:24:30.840 head and shoulders above any powerful hurricane that we've ever had in the state of Florida.
00:24:37.160 The most deadly hurricane we've ever had was in 1928. The Okeechobee hurricane killed over 4,000
00:24:44.260 people. Fortunately, we aren't going to have anything close to that on this hurricane. But even ones like
00:24:51.460 Ian, where you had, you know, wasn't even close to that. So I just think people should put this in
00:24:57.360 perspective. They're absolutely destroyed with facts and logic. I love it. Because DeSantis has
00:25:05.640 this great ability to speak, just kind of like a regular guy who's a baseball player. And it probably
00:25:12.540 hurt him a little bit in the presidential race because he doesn't have that Ronald Reagan kind
00:25:16.800 of, well, you and I have a rendezvous with destiny. He doesn't have that soaring rhetoric. It's not
00:25:22.960 not Lincolnian exactly. He doesn't have Trump's ability to do stand-up comedy wherever he goes.
00:25:30.380 But DeSantis has what earlier political observers have called the charisma of competence.
00:25:41.180 So sometimes during the presidential, people knocked his charisma. They said he didn't have
00:25:44.600 enough riz to, but he has the charisma of competence, which, and, you know, I think he's also a
00:25:51.120 charming man in his own way, a friendly man in his own way. But this is where he shines.
00:25:56.240 This is it. Because Ron DeSantis is extremely intelligent. And he can speak in a way that is
00:26:03.440 understandable, that is simple for normal people who are not as intelligent as Ron DeSantis to
00:26:11.380 understand. Yeah, so I think pretty much tornadoes have existed before industrialization. I think
00:26:20.320 there's been tornadoes before. And so if you look, you know, around like 1850, you're probably going
00:26:25.480 to see about 27, you know, and you know, he, you know, he had these statistics crystal clear in his
00:26:32.780 head. But he's, you know, he's just kind of talking in a folksy way. And then you're going to see this,
00:26:37.120 this many with this kind of barometric pressure and this number here. And since 1922, it was this and
00:26:42.300 that, and it just, the, the effect of it, of the sum total of his speech is to just completely
00:26:47.700 destroy this narrative that climate change or global warming or whatever is responsible
00:26:54.100 for hurricanes. That is how you do it. Absolute masterclass. Now, speaking of climate and climate
00:27:00.620 change, the liberal reporter, Matt Iglesias, just had a speech that he was giving interrupted by some
00:27:07.720 of these climate lunatics who climbed on stage and started yelling about the sun monster.
00:27:12.680 All right, Matt Iglesias, we're here to call you on your stance on fracking, 0.55
00:27:17.400 dangerous fossil fuel funded lie. The fracking of methane is the future for our world. How do you
00:27:24.800 move things between two of the worst hurricanes as Milton is on the doorstep? We cannot afford this.
00:27:30.820 So what do you say? How do you mean economic needs? When we have disasters that cost tens of
00:27:39.380 billions of dollars and it's only getting worse. You see, if you're not watching, you see all these
00:27:45.260 kind of weirdos with the sign. And then Matt Iglesias just kind of smiling with an amused look
00:27:52.120 on his face. The main instigator wonk it off the stage. So Matt Iglesias just gets up, kind of walks
00:28:03.760 off stage with security. You have a son. Won't you send out a future? I don't support hitting women 1.00
00:28:11.900 under any circumstances, but a woman yelling at me about my son, that might tempt me. Okay. But
00:28:16.800 Iglesias doesn't do it. Iglesias doesn't yell at them. He doesn't become visibly angry. He just
00:28:21.640 kind of laughs, sits down. And as they're still surrounding him and yelling at him, he says,
00:28:26.500 this is, well, would you like to read an article? And that's kind of funny, but it reminded me
00:28:30.780 of a similar stunt that was pulled on a West Virginia moderate Democrat Senator Joe Manchin
00:28:38.960 up at the Harvard Kennedy school back in March. I think it was some of these climate wackos come in, 1.00
00:28:44.100 they pull the same stunt. Notice how Manchin's response is different than Matt Iglesias's response.
00:28:51.640 And then security throws this guy on the floor. He gets out of the room. That's a better response.
00:29:07.320 I thought Matt Iglesias did fine. He didn't really allow them to intimidate him. He just kind of laughed,
00:29:12.700 you know, and then they walked him off stage. He could have engaged them a little bit more,
00:29:16.260 but he was fine. I'm not, you know, he's a super lib journalist who sometimes attacks his own side.
00:29:23.240 He's kind of like a neoliberal, a little bit more establishment than some of the far leftists.
00:29:28.420 It was okay. Manchin's response was better though. Somebody starts talking about your kid.
00:29:34.500 Somebody starts, in this case with Manchin, starts using profanity, calling you all sorts of nasty
00:29:39.380 names. One ought to turn the other cheek, sure, but one ought never to cower. One needs to turn the other
00:29:51.200 cheek, not to discard one's dignity, but to preserve one's dignity, in fact. So what does Manchin do?
00:29:58.320 He squares right up on this guy. Manchin was a football player. He's a pretty big guy. But then,
00:30:02.660 even if you're not a big Joe Manchin, then security comes up in between them and just takes this kid
00:30:08.340 who was interrupting this little seminar and who was yelling profanity at a sitting U.S. senator.
00:30:16.560 The security takes this kid, picks him up, and hurls him out of the room onto the ground.
00:30:21.720 That's the correct response. I know that some of the free speech absolutists on the left and the right
00:30:28.180 might not support that kind of action, but that's the right kind of move. It is good to enforce
00:30:35.960 civilization. We don't need these mouthy little brats behaving in a way that is contrary to 1.00
00:30:41.900 civilization, that is contrary to standards and norms and decency, running their lips. We don't need 0.90
00:30:48.300 that. Nobody really benefits from that. Certainly not interrupting a private event at a serious place
00:30:56.020 or an ostensibly serious place, the Harvard Kennedy School, with a sitting U.S. senator. We don't need
00:31:02.580 to put up with that. Don't need to put up with that at all. We don't need to cede the stage to
00:31:06.900 these people because of some false notion of free speech. It's good when security throws these guys
00:31:14.960 to the ground, when they are obscene and getting up in the face of sitting senators. Now, there's a story
00:31:21.700 I have to get to. Really important story, and I've promised my nerd associate producer that I would
00:31:28.540 get to it because people are drawing all the wrong conclusions from this. Star Wars apparently still
00:31:36.200 exists. You thought that Disney had just taken this popular franchise out in the backyard like old
00:31:41.320 yeller and put a bullet in its head, but no, it's still limping on. Star Wars has just transed a clone
00:31:50.520 trooper. What is a clone trooper? I had to ask Professor Jacob about this, and he gave me his
00:31:56.660 apparently expensive model clone trooper helmet. It's different than a storm trooper, which are in
00:32:02.980 the original movies, but it looks kind of like the storm trooper. But the difference, I'm going to put
00:32:07.700 this nerd relic down here. The difference is the clone trooper in the lore all descend from one
00:32:16.180 person. It's clones of this guy, Jango Fett, whose son, Boba Fett, is like a bounty hunter or I don't
00:32:23.140 know, whatever. So this is important to transing a character because they're all genetically exactly 0.99
00:32:30.480 the same, all of these clone troopers. So how is it the case that in this new book, which is a canon
00:32:35.940 book, it's not just fan fiction, it's a canon book, Star Wars, The Secrets of the Clone Troopers,
00:32:39.780 it is revealed that there's this trans clone trooper. Captain Rex describes the trans clone
00:32:46.040 this way, quote, when one of our kind expressed her gender identity differently than her fellow
00:32:51.660 troopers, she feared she'd have to hide who she truly was inside. Fortunately, her brothers in the
00:32:56.420 Seven Sky Corps gave her the name Sister as a constant reminder that she belonged. Okay, so it's silly to
00:33:01.400 inject this modern gender ideology in a galaxy far, far away. But Star Wars is just a, you know,
00:33:06.400 it's a myth, right? And myths tell us something not just about a distant past that may or may not
00:33:11.260 have literally existed, but they tell us about our own times. That's what they, what's the, what
00:33:14.960 they're for. So Professor Jacob, my nerd producer, observed, it's kind of silly that the, this clone
00:33:23.420 trooper has the trans flag on his helmet because it's a galaxy far, far away, you know, a long, long 0.99
00:33:29.180 time ago. And so how do they have the exact same trans colors as we have now? That's the least of it, 1.00
00:33:33.880 guys. This is actually kind of based, this is actually pretty right wing. Because by transing 1.00
00:33:41.020 a clone, Star Wars, wittingly or unwittingly, is admitting that transgenderism is not biological.
00:33:49.540 Star Wars is admitting that transgenderism is a social phenomenon. It's, it's a product of 1.00
00:33:56.220 environment and a defect of the will, but it's not biological. If Star Wars had transed any other 0.99
00:34:02.880 character in the entire universe, they would have been preserving pretty much all of the
00:34:10.260 transgender ideology by transing a clone, a character that is biologically of necessity, 1.00
00:34:17.080 identical to all the other clone troopers. Star Wars is asserting that transgenderism is not 0.98
00:34:25.840 biological, is not natural, is not innate, is not, that transgenderism is a social fad and a social 0.98
00:34:33.620 phenomenon brought about by environmental factors and the individual will. And I totally agree.
00:34:41.280 Accidentally, sometimes artists tell the truth, even when they, when they're trying not to.
00:34:48.660 You know, Kamala Harris has raised over $1 billion since she entered the race in late July. Even 0.97
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00:35:35.900 Hey, Michael. Hey, Mr. Nostradamus. As an aspiring 14-year-old who wants to be deeply involved in
00:35:41.520 politics in the future, and as someone who is currently writing a book about politics and about
00:35:47.460 how the radical left have destroyed this country and destroyed its Christian and traditional
00:35:53.760 values that it was initially built upon, I was just going to ask exactly how do you write a book
00:36:01.500 about politics? How do you form a book about politics? And since I know you have a lot of
00:36:06.340 experience with writing books about politics, I wanted to ask you that. Okay, thank you, Michael.
00:36:12.440 Thank you for all that you do in saving this country from the radical left. Thank you.
00:36:17.520 Very kind. Good question. You're obviously intelligent and precocious and ambitious and
00:36:24.820 serious. So that's all good stuff. That's why you want to write a book. And that is why you should not
00:36:29.720 write a book. Eventually, you can write a book. You should not write a book at 14. No 14-year-old should 0.92
00:36:36.040 write a book. The reason for that is you have not read enough books to write a book. You have not
00:36:45.460 lived enough life to have the experiences that are helpful in writing a book. Your brain has not
00:36:53.320 developed to the point that you are at your prime powers to write a book. And you probably don't have
00:37:00.080 a sufficient command of grammar and syntax and English composition to write a book. There's no
00:37:07.100 knock on you. No 14-year-old does. I think even of John Stuart Mill, who I think he spoke Latin by
00:37:15.080 three and ancient Greek by five. This is one of the last really almost perfectly educated men in the
00:37:24.080 West. He had a glaring omission in his education because he never learned anything about religion,
00:37:29.340 which is why his philosophy was bunk. But still, otherwise, a pretty well-educated guy. Even he
00:37:35.420 should not write a book at 14. Nobody should write a book at 14. So what could you do? You should read
00:37:41.520 a lot. You should read books that are challenging, that are books that maybe an 18-year-old or a 22-year-old
00:37:48.000 should read. If you're this precocious, you should read, I don't know, just off the top of my head,
00:37:51.800 The Closing the American Mind by Alan Bloom. After Virtue by Alistair McIntyre. Even, I don't know,
00:37:59.260 Escape from Skepticism by Christopher Derrick. These are just books that are coming to mind.
00:38:03.800 You should read those. C.S. Lewis is really good for a 14-year-old to read because his ideas are
00:38:08.860 really profound, but he's writing in a way that is somewhat accessible. Read all that stuff.
00:38:15.180 If you want to write, write an essay. Learn how to write essays. Most books should be essays. Most
00:38:19.340 essays should never be written. So try that. Write an essay. Write a letter. Work on your composition.
00:38:24.900 This is a good time to work on your command of the English language. Buy Strunk and White,
00:38:29.120 Buy the Elements of Style. Read that. Sometimes I get a little, I'm a little tough on my colleagues
00:38:35.540 because they don't, they haven't read like the basics of English composition. These are books
00:38:42.140 that it's not even their fault. They're not really taught in school as much anymore. But if you read
00:38:46.120 the Strunk and White's Elements of Style, which is like 50 pages or something, if you read that,
00:38:50.380 you will be better at writing than most adults today. But do all that stuff now. 14 is not the
00:38:56.060 time to write a book. 14 is the time to read books. Next question. Hey there, Michael. I'm
00:39:01.320 Catherine and I'm new to your show. Thank you for all you do. I wanted to ask you a quick question.
00:39:06.660 I am in the Pentecostal, charismatic, evangelical space. I go to a fairly large church and I'm
00:39:14.800 noticing a trend that is, and I'm single by the way, and I'm noticing a trend that's very weird.
00:39:21.680 I'm noticing married men that don't wear wedding rings and it's weird. What's the deal with that?
00:39:30.700 You know, as somebody who's single in her upper thirties, I want to be at church and find somebody
00:39:37.040 who is, you know, similar in values and all the things. And then these guys show up to church and
00:39:43.480 they're attractive and, you know, kind, and it looks like they have a brain cell. And, um,
00:39:50.580 then they find out they're married because they didn't have their wedding ring on. What's the deal
00:39:53.480 with that? Uh, help me out. Thanks. Bye. So this is actually not a new thing. This is a very old
00:39:58.280 thing. Traditionally, men would not wear wedding rings. It's, it's a relatively recent vintage that
00:40:04.560 men, men wear wedding rings. I wear a wedding ring. You know, I'm quite traditionalist, but I,
00:40:08.540 I wear a wedding ring as a practical matter because if I'm out somewhere, I, I don't want a woman coming 1.00
00:40:15.820 up and hitting on me. And, you know, listen, you boy, sometimes, sometimes ladies talk. Okay. I'm 0.90
00:40:20.960 really, I'm not, I'm not saying it's all the time. I'm not saying I'm Brad Pitt, but it happens. And I,
00:40:25.520 I don't want that to happen. I don't want to create a scandal. I don't want even the appearance
00:40:31.280 of something untoward. So I wear the wedding ring for, for that reason. So a lot of guys don't like
00:40:36.020 wearing jewelry, a lot of guys, and, and also just traditionally men did not wear the ring. So
00:40:39.700 that might be why, however, you know, uh, symbols and signs change over time. Now, uh, this is a
00:40:48.900 sign that one is married man or woman. So I do think men as a practical matter probably should wear them,
00:40:55.500 but I don't think they're, they're not wearing their rings because they're cads or something like
00:40:59.020 that. Traditionally, men did not wear them. If we lived in a different time, I don't know that I
00:41:02.840 would wear one, but because we live in the time we do now, uh, I, I would, and I would encourage
00:41:07.180 other guys to as well. Next question. Hello, Michael. My name is Aaron. I'm 35. Uh, my wife
00:41:15.140 of 11 years passed away from stage four breast cancer at 34, just over a year ago. I just wanted
00:41:20.940 your opinion. When do you think it's an appropriate time to move on and get back into the game and get
00:41:26.760 back out there? I don't feel ready yet, but what are your thoughts? Thanks for taking my question
00:41:32.900 and God bless. So sorry. So sorry to hear about that. That is truly the stuff of nightmares.
00:41:38.700 Really, really awful. Um, so I hope, you know, hope you're doing okay. And you know, time is healing
00:41:44.480 wounds and all that there, there is a, an answer like an actual answer from etiquette, which is that
00:41:50.940 the mourning period would traditionally be about a year. So you would, you know, you would not certainly
00:41:56.740 not date for a year. You would not, you know, maybe you would wear some black clothing or something
00:42:00.960 like that. There, there were in the past have been more formal mourning rituals. Most of those are
00:42:05.580 gone now, if not all of them are gone, but that would be the answer as a matter of etiquette. It
00:42:09.780 would be like a year. Um, but, but it's however long you like, if you say you're not ready, then don't
00:42:14.280 date. Then, then don't, you know, I mean, maybe, maybe you never want to get remarried. I think it was
00:42:19.120 Hilaire Belloc, who I've mentioned recently. I was just reading a book of Hilaire Belloc's, uh, but he,
00:42:23.520 I think when his wife died, I don't think he ever remarried. I think he would like kiss her bedroom
00:42:28.400 door every time he walked by, you know, he, he, uh, he just, he said, you know, I got, I had the
00:42:33.400 best. Why do I need the rest? Uh, so you could do that too. I think that's, that's totally, uh,
00:42:39.620 totally fine. But if you're lonely and you, you know, man is a coupling creature and you want to,
00:42:44.660 you do want to remarry, uh, I'd say after a year, you're, you're basically, you're good. So sorry,
00:42:51.300 though. We can certainly pray for you. Uh, next question. Hello, Mr. Knowles. I've never been to
00:42:57.720 a Latin mass before, but it's something I'm very interested in attending. I'm curious as to what
00:43:02.300 your first Latin mass experience was like, as I think I would feel a little out of my element.
00:43:06.700 Of course there is the language change, but I did study Latin for six years. So I'm looking forward
00:43:10.880 to that part of it. Uh, just don't get me started on the Italian influenced accent. Here we go. Uh,
00:43:16.140 the whole Pacem, Pacem debate, but that aside, I'm, I'm also excited for the smells and bells. Um,
00:43:22.100 I, outside of that, I do have a bit of trepidation though. You previously answered a question of mine
00:43:27.120 where I stated I have a six month old, incredibly beautiful baby daughter. She is now an eight
00:43:32.260 month old, incredibly beautiful baby daughter. And I'm concerned about bringing her. The closest Latin 1.00
00:43:37.740 mass to where I live is about 45 minutes to an hour away. And I'm, my concern is that it will be
00:43:44.320 too much for her with the travel. Uh, I'd love to hear your thoughts on this and even how you and
00:43:49.480 sweet little Lisa handle bringing your, your own boys to mass. Um, also in regards to the smells
00:43:54.480 and bells listeners, go get your Wiseman candle at the candle club.com. Don't forget the the use
00:43:58.960 promo code Eric's incredibly beautiful baby daughter for no discount. Thank you, Michael. And God bless.
00:44:07.280 Really good stuff. All good questions and concerns. Take your kid to the Latin mass. It's it's, 1.00
00:44:13.020 it'll be fine. Don't worry. I, I find I have three under four. My kids do better at the Latin mass,
00:44:21.580 the traditional Latin mass than they do at the modern mass. Even though the traditional Latin mass
00:44:26.060 as a matter of minutes and seconds is longer, it feels shorter. Whereas the modern mass, which
00:44:33.280 according to your watch is shorter, it feels longer. It's just in the liturgy. Now, is your kid
00:44:38.140 going to fuss and cry and yell? Yup. Totally. Let the kid cry. It's okay. If the church ain't crying,
00:44:44.120 it's dying. You know, man, let the kid cry. It's all right. You want there to be babies. It's a good
00:44:48.420 sound in a church. It augments the smells and the bells. Then as for the drive. Yeah. You know,
00:44:57.360 you hope your kid doesn't, doesn't mess up the nap or whatever. Yeah. It's, I know it's a real,
00:45:01.060 it's a hassle, man. It is a hassle, but it's good for your kids to have that traditional liturgy in,
00:45:06.280 in my humble opinion. It'll be good for everybody. And, and you're, I'm sure your Latin is much,
00:45:11.160 much better than mine. Today is fake headline Friday. I need your help, but you can only do
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