The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 1627 - The Hunter Biden Pardon EXPLAINED In 5 Mins

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00:01:39.820 administration said that there was no chance that he would pardon his son Hunter over the many crimes

00:01:47.900 that Hunter not only committed, but filmed himself committed and wrote messages to other people and

00:01:54.380 for himself about having committed? Crimes that we have an entire hard drive full of evidence

00:02:00.100 that he committed. If you do not remember that, I will refresh your memory. I will take you back to

00:02:05.940 July 28th, 2023. Here is the White House Press Secretary.

00:02:10.000 Let me go back to the first question of the briefing. I know you said not a lot's changed since yesterday

00:02:13.820 and that it's a personal matter, but from a presidential perspective, is there any possibility

00:02:18.420 that the president would end up pardoning his son? No. I just said no. I just answered. Go ahead.

00:02:25.820 Go ahead. Yesterday, Joe Biden released this statement from the White House.

00:02:31.520 Today, I signed a pardon for my son Hunter. There is no chance. Full stop. No exceptions.

00:02:38.560 Joe Biden will not pardon his son. Fast forward a little over a year. Today,

00:02:43.340 I signed a pardon for my son Hunter. He goes on. From the day I took office, I said I would not

00:02:47.680 interfere with the Justice Department's decision making, and I kept my word, even as I have watched

00:02:52.200 my son being selectively and unfairly prosecuted. Give me a break. I've kept my word until now,

00:02:57.500 but now I'm going to interfere. It is clear that Hunter was treated differently, Joe Biden says.

00:03:03.040 That's true. That is 100% true. Hunter was treated differently. Anyone else who committed the crimes

00:03:09.500 that Hunter Biden committed would have been prosecuted 10 years ago for those crimes? Because

00:03:16.100 the crimes that Hunter Biden would appear to have committed and that we would appear to have written

00:03:21.180 and even video evidence in some cases of his having committed are not only sex crimes and drug crimes

00:03:27.640 and petty street level crimes, but also selling state influence, also raising money from unsavory

00:03:38.700 characters and peddling the introduction to his father, who was then the vice president of the

00:03:44.900 United States, acting as bag man for the Biden family, apparently money laundering. We're talking

00:03:51.080 to the tune of millions and millions of dollars. In addition to all the other stuff, and what was he

00:03:55.940 ever prosecuted for? He was prosecuted for some low-level gun crime. He filled out a gun purchase

00:04:01.320 form wrong and for filing his taxes incorrectly. They didn't even go after the really serious tax

00:04:07.420 crimes. It was a joke. He was treated differently. He was given much more lenient treatment than anyone

00:04:13.740 else would have been, anyone else who did not have the last name Biden. In any case, Biden goes on.

00:04:20.520 Here's the actual meat of the pardon. A full and unconditional pardon for those offenses against the

00:04:25.460 United States, which he has committed or may have committed or taken part in during the period

00:04:31.240 from January 1st, 2014 through December 1st, 2024. Hold on. Wait. If you're telling me that Joe is

00:04:43.420 pardoning Hunter for some tax issues and for filling out a gun form incorrectly, why wouldn't he date it

00:04:50.240 exactly to the day that he filled out the gun form, for instance? Why cover this whole decade-long,

00:04:54.620 more than a decade-long period? That doesn't make, oh, right, because that's the period during which

00:05:00.500 Hunter Biden served on the board of Burisma, the Ukrainian oil and gas company. Burisma, a company

00:05:07.020 that had no reason to hire Hunter Biden other than Biden's connection to Joe Biden, the then vice

00:05:11.960 president of the United States, who was the point man on Ukraine policy. Ukraine, one of the most

00:05:16.620 corrupt countries in the even semi-civilized world paid off the Biden family. Hunter does not speak

00:05:25.240 Ukrainian, does not have any particular knowledge of oil or natural gas. There was no reason to put

00:05:30.600 him on the board other than that. So it's covering any crimes that he might have committed, in addition

00:05:35.520 to all the crazy sex stuff and all the crazy drug stuff and all the rest of it. How are the liberal

00:05:41.100 media covering this? Politico does the meme. Politico reports, Republicans pounce on Biden,

00:05:49.780 pardoning his son Hunter. That's the story, of course. The story is not that the White House lied,

00:05:54.040 just lied directly to the American people, said Joe will not pardon Hunter Biden. Oh, yeah,

00:05:58.440 he pardoned Hunter Biden. The story is Republicans criticized him pardoning Hunter Biden for all the

00:06:02.840 crimes he committed. But I have a deeply unpopular take. Do you want to hear it or do you want to,

00:06:08.360 I don't even know if you want to hear it. My deeply unpopular take is, yeah, okay, whatever,

00:06:14.860 good on Joe. Whatever. He pardoned his son. There are two, listen, there are two takes you're going

00:06:20.040 to hear about this. The first one is going to say, it's wonderful that Joe Biden pardoned his son.

00:06:27.640 He's such a good, doting, wonderful father. This is an example of great virtue. How dare you ever

00:06:34.400 criticize Biden? That's what you're going to hear from the Democrats. From the Republicans,

00:06:37.820 you're going to hear, Joe Biden's a terrible father. This has nothing to do with his care for

00:06:42.360 his only surviving son, Hunter. This is only because Hunter was the bag man for the Biden family.

00:06:47.540 And so Joe's really just protecting himself. Because if Hunter goes down, Hunter's going to

00:06:53.140 take Joe with him because Hunter was paying at least 10% to the big guy, maybe half of all of his

00:06:57.280 earnings to the big guy, depending on what you believe in the Hunter Biden laptop.

00:07:00.160 My view is, yeah, of course he's going to pardon his son. And in a way, I do think there's a certain

00:07:08.620 virtue to being loyal to your family and pardoning your son, even taking away the individual personal

00:07:13.720 ways in which Joe Biden is going to benefit from that. Yeah, okay, of course. I guess my reaction is

00:07:18.540 just, yes, of course that's going to happen. That was always going to happen. Oh, Joe Biden lied?

00:07:24.480 Oh, wow. One of the most prolific liars in American politics of the last half century, 0.97

00:07:30.620 he lied again? Wow. Stop the presses. You're kidding me. Yeah, of course he was going to 0.95

00:07:37.700 pardon his son. And I think it's actually, sometimes it's good to look at for your boy.

00:07:42.220 I think that's good. If we really believe in family, you know, listen, Fredo, you're my brother

00:07:46.360 and I love you, but never take sides against the family again. If you really believe in that stuff,

00:07:49.500 yeah, okay, it's good to use what authority you have to maybe extend a little grace to your boy.

00:07:54.800 There is a world in which, let's say your kid gets busted for drugs. He's 18 years old or

00:08:00.880 something, and you make him sleep it off in jail. There is an argument that it is good for people

00:08:06.680 to face the consequences of their actions. It's actually helpful to them. It's almost medicinal.

00:08:11.740 This is the argument that Plato makes in Gorgias, in the mouth of Socrates. And sure, that's true. 0.97

00:08:17.480 In this case, though, one, is Hunter really going to reform any more than he has? Probably not.

00:08:21.420 Two, was this always in the cards? Three, is Biden looking out for himself? Yeah, sure.

00:08:28.320 I just think it was always, Hunter was never even prosecuted for the serious crimes,

00:08:31.620 as I mentioned before. And I guess the other reason why I'm not pulling my hair out over this

00:08:37.040 pardon is not only because I always expected it would happen. I think anyone with two brain

00:08:42.560 cells to rub together had to know this was going to happen. I guess the consolation about it for me is

00:08:47.400 this exposes the Democrats as being crooked, self-dealing, and sanctimonious liars. 0.99

00:08:56.460 There is no argument they can make. They've been running for years now on how no one is above the 0.98

00:09:01.300 law. Joe Biden tweeted that out. No one's above the law except for my son and me, maybe,

00:09:05.820 because I'm implicated in his crimes. No one's above the law. We shouldn't be doling out patronage.

00:09:12.200 We shouldn't be nepotistic. Well, Joe Biden is all of these things. This was a final shiv to the

00:09:17.940 Democrat Party. Had Kamala won, probably Kamala would have pardoned Hunter. There would have been 0.98

00:09:22.920 a lot of pressure for Kamala to pardon Hunter. If the Democrat Party had not totally stabbed Joe

00:09:27.800 Biden in the back and overthrown him, maybe Joe would have taken some lesser action, maybe not given

00:09:32.460 a full pardon, but just commuted his sentence or something like that. But in this case, he says,

00:09:38.120 no, forget about it. If you're going to send me down, I'm going to bring down the whole Democrat

00:09:41.780 Party with me. Forget you guys. This will help Republicans, at least in the midterms. People's

00:09:47.460 memories aren't all that long, so maybe it doesn't help them in 28. It will help them in the midterms.

00:09:52.340 But then there's one more question, practically speaking. If you are President Trump, if you are

00:09:56.980 the DOJ coming in under President Trump, the question is this. Can Joe Biden offer this kind of

00:10:04.180 pardon to his son? This isn't just a pardon for the crimes that Hunter was convicted of.

00:10:09.400 This is a pardon spanning a decade for any crime, any federal crime that Hunter Biden might have

00:10:17.340 committed. Does the president have that authority? It's happened one time. Well, not this kind of

00:10:24.340 pardon has not happened ever. But one time, you did have a president pardoning someone for a crime

00:10:31.860 that he might have committed but wasn't indicted for. There have actually been a few times, but one

00:10:37.680 that was really notable, and that was Jerry Ford pardoning Richard Nixon. Richard Nixon was about

00:10:43.080 to be impeached. He resigns the presidency, and Jerry Ford gives him a pardon. And it was controversial

00:10:49.000 at the time because Richard Nixon never accepted guilt for the crime of duct taping a door the wrong

00:10:54.560 way or whatever nonsense the deep state used to run him out of office. One of the most popularly

00:10:57.820 elected presidents ever. I digress. So we've had it at moments of particular national crisis.

00:11:05.280 We've had it in ways. Jimmy Carter pardoning the draft dodgers from Vietnam. Okay, there weren't a 1.00

00:11:12.480 ton of prosecutions that were even really getting geared up for there. I don't, can he do this? I don't

00:11:18.940 know. It seems constitutionally dubious at least. So if the Trump DOJ does want to go after Biden,

00:11:25.620 not just Hunter, he's the street level guy. You want to go after the actual Biden family,

00:11:30.420 the people who were ostensibly selling state secrets, who were benefiting, who were getting

00:11:34.460 that 10% to 50% off the top. If there is appetite there to prosecute, I think you probably still could.

00:11:42.920 I think Joe Biden is clearly overstepping his authority here. But this brings us back to the

00:11:49.020 political reality as I spill my drink all over my studio. I'm just so fired up about this.

00:11:52.680 This brings us back to the political reality, which is this was going to happen. There was no

00:11:59.360 appetite to prosecute Hunter, even if, even if Joe Biden had not done this, there's really no

00:12:05.600 appetite to go after Joe Biden. Trump is saying, let's let bygones be bygones. Let's move, move on.

00:12:10.240 Let's, let's, you know, let's let the dead past bury the dead. Joe Biden probably voted for Donald

00:12:15.780 Trump at this point. So I just don't think it was going to happen anyway. It's unsatisfying to

00:12:19.620 people who view politics primarily as an ideal, idealist project with all sorts of purity,

00:12:26.540 but that's not how it works. So I think, oh, this news comes out, Joe Biden's Hunter. Yeah. Duh.

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00:13:10.960 Now, speaking of family, there are a lot of women who are really angry at Donald Trump,

00:13:17.920 and they're so angry at Donald Trump that according to Newsweek, they are sterilizing themselves.

00:13:25.740 First paragraph. It's not a procedure you would expect a 28-year-old to be planning,

00:13:30.340 but for Lydia Eccles from Texas, having her fallopian tubes removed is the price she's willing 1.00

00:13:36.220 to pay to ensure her reproductive rights. Listen to that Orwellian sentence. Listen to that complete 1.00

00:13:45.060 Alice in Wonderland nonsensical sentence. Having her fallopian tubes removed is the price she's willing 1.00

00:13:54.260 to pay to ensure her reproductive rights. To ensure her reproductive rights, she is going to ensure that 1.00

00:13:59.040 she can never reproduce. That's the world of leftism. That's the world of political correctness 0.82

00:14:06.200 and wokeism. That's the world of Alice in Wonderland. Newsweek spoke to five women who've

00:14:11.360 either undergone sterilization procedures or planned to in the wake of President-elect Donald Trump's

00:14:15.320 victory on November 5th. They all expressed fear that their reproductive choices will be taken from

00:14:20.740 them under Trump's administration. If I am denied any rights in the next four or more years, I will

00:14:25.460 not give them up without a fight, Eccles said. Newsweek contacted the Trump team and they didn't

00:14:31.200 respond to these lunatic women. Okay, that'll show them. That'll show them, huh? Trump's probably losing 0.97

00:14:37.540 sleep over this. Leftist women, insane leftist women are sterilizing themselves to really show that 1.00

00:14:45.780 mean old Donald Trump. To show daddy Trump. I'm sorry, wait, did I say that? I'm just to show 0.99

00:14:50.200 Donald Trump that he is mean and nasty. Women do this thing all the time. Women engage in self-destructive 1.00

00:14:59.400 behavior in order to get back at men and often their fathers all the time. This is classic behavior.

00:15:09.820 This is pretty extreme. This is a pretty, usually women, when they're angry at their dad, 1.00

00:15:15.240 they just get some like ugly tattoo or something. You, or they chop all their hair off or something

00:15:20.600 like that. This is pretty extreme to sterilize yourself. But this is further evidence that all

00:15:26.960 liberalism comes down to screw you dad. That's not an original insight. This was a friend of mine in LA 0.96

00:15:33.160 pointed this out to me some years ago. It seems to be truer and truer. It, it, it all comes down to

00:15:39.860 screw you dad. I'm going to harm myself and that will somehow really get back at you. And I don't 1.00

00:15:46.020 think Trump is even going to read that article. Meanwhile, some other lib women are taking their 1.00

00:15:52.760 anger out on their conservative family members by refusing to dine with them at Thanksgiving.

00:15:57.500 Hold on. Let me check my notes. Ah, yes. Don't want to have turkey dinner with the people screaming

00:16:03.860 your body, my choice. Make your own dinner, MAGA. Make your own sandwiches, wipe your own tears,

00:16:10.020 troll amongst yourselves with Elon and leave us alone. You got your heart's desire, the president

00:16:14.940 you dreamed of and worship instead of Jesus. And this time you didn't even have to storm the Capitol,

00:16:20.400 smash the windows or try to kill police officers or issue death threats to poll workers. See,

00:16:24.740 you did it just by voting this time. Congrats. You got your way. And he even got away with breaking

00:16:31.000 the law. Yay. But if you expect the 73 million who voted for the prosecutor, not the felon,

00:16:37.580 and particularly the 92% of black women who voted for Kamala to give you a cookie for your vote, 0.95

00:16:43.020 a trophy, a hug, a high five, you might be asking too much. If we want to eat with you, we will.

00:16:49.800 But if we just want some peace over the holidays and we don't want to put up with your trolling while

00:16:54.100 we eat our tofurkey, get over it. Stop acting like we owe you. And for God's sakes, stop whining.

00:17:00.140 It's embarrassing. Our Thanksgiving, our choice. Our Thanksgiving, our choice.

00:17:08.760 Just as incorrect as the line that Joy Reid is aping here, which is our body, our choice. 0.99

00:17:16.800 The notion that you have a right to kill your child or something. Both of those statements are

00:17:21.400 incorrect. Thanksgiving is not about your choice. Some of you, I suspect, had contentious conversations

00:17:28.660 with your liberal family members over Thanksgiving. Some of you might not have been invited to

00:17:33.300 Thanksgiving. Or some of you might have had liberal family members decline to come to Thanksgiving.

00:17:39.080 I've heard it happen personally. It seems particularly bad this year.

00:17:45.040 Even the gate agent, I was speaking to a gate agent when I was at the airport flying to go visit my

00:17:51.180 family. And the gate agent said, yeah, fewer people seem to be traveling for Thanksgiving this

00:17:56.540 year. And when they travel, they're going on vacation. They're not going to see their family

00:17:59.520 members. It's very strange. Thanksgiving doesn't seem to be what it once was. That's what the gate

00:18:03.700 agent told me. And I think it's because of this error, that fundamental error. Are Thanksgiving

00:18:09.340 our choice? No. Holidays are not about individual autonomy. You don't go to visit your family at

00:18:19.080 Thanksgiving or Christmas or whenever because that is the thing that is most pleasing to you,

00:18:25.760 the individual. It would probably be more pleasing to you, the individual, to go get a drink with your

00:18:30.640 friends or to not travel with lots of children or to not see that cousin that you don't like.

00:18:37.620 That would probably be more pleasing to you individually. You go to holidays with your

00:18:45.020 family because family is good. And family is the bedrock political unit. And the demands of family

00:18:53.600 supersede your individual preferences at least some of the time. That's why you go. That last sentence

00:19:02.600 there tells you the whole story. Our Thanksgiving, our choice. If we want to eat with you, we will.

00:19:10.920 But if we want some peace, get over it. Stop acting like we owe you. No, no, no. You do owe your family

00:19:14.940 things. You owe it to your family. You have obligations. It's not just all about you, honey.

00:19:19.280 It's not all about you, sister. It's not all about the individual. This is why, though, there is no point

00:19:26.460 in arguing with family members who don't want to have Thanksgiving with you. With the joy reads of your

00:19:30.560 family, there's no point in arguing with them. You're going to be tempted to argue with them.

00:19:34.380 You're going to be tempted to say, no, actually, you don't understand. Trump's immigration policy

00:19:38.140 is actually the just and lawful immigration policy. Or, no, you don't understand. Actually,

00:19:43.560 we don't want to trans the kids because we think it's also bad for the kids and because of this and 1.00

00:19:48.100 that and the other thing. It's a losing argument. There's no point in arguing these things because

00:19:53.980 you and the joy reads of your family fundamentally disagree over family. That's the issue. It's not

00:20:01.300 any of the individual political issues that you might disagree on. It's the more basic issue. What

00:20:05.760 is family? What are the demands of family? What is the good of family? Is family good? That's what

00:20:12.180 you're disagreeing over. And you're not going to, maybe it's a much longer conversation to try to

00:20:18.300 persuade this family member that family is good, but it's a much deeper, more fundamental issue.

00:20:22.800 And if they say, screw it, I don't care about family. All I care about is me and my own

00:20:27.180 preferences and my own comfort at any given time. And then the exercise of my own autonomy,

00:20:31.920 and that's the highest good for me. Okay. That's their, that's their first principle that they're

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00:21:09.860 Now, speaking of, you know, holidays come from holy day and speaking of holy things, potentially,

00:21:18.300 I just sat down with a guy, a guy named Blake Healy, who claims to be able to see spiritual

00:21:25.820 realities. We just had a very long conversation on my series, Michael and here's what he had to say.

00:21:32.120 I'd seen angels and demons in about equal measure. There was this sense of separation. And even though I

00:21:37.520 could identify that's something that might be scary, there wasn't any sense of immediate danger.

00:21:41.680 I looked up and instead of my mom, I saw this just kind of shadow. As soon as I looked at it,

00:21:45.820 it's kind of slunked into the crack, walked around to the edge of my bed. It kind of had these milky

00:21:50.840 white eyes. Its eyes flashed. And I felt this overwhelming sense of fear. Absolute panic was

00:21:58.780 just going through my body. It happened night after night after night for three and a half years.

00:22:04.140 You have this question, which is, am I a highly functioning schizophrenic?

00:22:09.160 They talked to me about this concept that I hadn't heard of before that they called seeing

00:22:13.240 in the spirit. Something in that recipe of expanding the options from either I'm going crazy or the

00:22:20.220 devil's decided to ruin my life to this third option of maybe I have a gift that I just haven't

00:22:25.000 learned how to manage yet. This is your daily experience. It is. Do you see these things now?

00:22:30.400 Like right now. Why are we talking at this very moment? What do you see? Right now,

00:22:34.760 I can see your personal angel standing right behind you, just behind your left shoulder.

00:22:47.180 Pretty spooky, huh? Well, maybe, maybe, maybe not. Some people are going to say there's no way this

00:22:53.100 is true. There's no, this is crazy. However, in principle, if you believe that there is such a

00:22:57.500 thing as the spiritual world, if you believe that there is metaphysics, for instance, then if you

00:23:02.920 believe in principle that someone might have the charism of reading souls, well, maybe he's telling

00:23:08.160 the truth. Only, only one way to find out or the best way to find out is to go check it out on the

00:23:11.760 Michael Knowles YouTube channel or on Daily Wire Plus, Michael and the Seer. Speaking of family,

00:23:18.960 British politicians just voted to kill their grandparents. The UK parliament has just approved 0.99

00:23:24.160 assisted suicide by a vote of 330 to 275. Really dark stuff. Coming to America, it's already in some

00:23:34.640 American states. There's going to be a push for this nationally. It's, this has been a, a deeply

00:23:40.540 wicked pathology that has been spreading in the West for some decades now. A priest friend of mine

00:23:45.760 pointed out once that the Hemlock Society, which is rebranded. Now, now the pro-suicide society has some

00:23:51.800 fancy or nice sounding death with dignity or something like that, but they, they had books

00:23:56.300 on killing yourself and that bookstores would put it in the self-help section. Seems a little ironic.

00:24:02.780 This has been spreading for some time and, and the proponents of assisted suicide justify it

00:24:09.660 in the name of dignity. It seems like a rather dubious dignity to me for one's last act on earth

00:24:17.380 to be an act essentially of despair, of, of killing one's own self, of, of casting away the gift of

00:24:24.560 life that you did not create for yourself that was actually given to you by God. However, at the purely

00:24:30.780 political level, pay attention to these debates because the proponents of assisted suicide are

00:24:35.580 going to justify it in the name of this dubious dignity that just coincidentally will save the state

00:24:42.260 a ton of money. It purely coincidence, but especially in the UK, which has socialist health care,

00:24:48.380 the NHS spends a ton of money on end of life care. Any country spends most of its medical

00:24:56.380 expenditures at the very tail end of life. So if you can end life sooner, maybe a few months or even

00:25:03.380 a few years, or in some cases with assisted suicide, even a few decades sooner than you otherwise would,

00:25:08.800 you are going to save the state a ton of money. Now they're not going to make that argument because

00:25:13.180 it exposes how dark the assisted suicide program really is, but that does always seem to accompany

00:25:20.040 these bills. The New Atlantis has just reported on Canadian assisted suicide. They already have

00:25:26.160 assisted suicide. They call it medical aid in dying made in Canada. Ontario's euthanasia regulators

00:25:32.780 have tracked 428 cases of possible criminal violations here. So of people being pressured

00:25:39.760 into this, of people, of doctors not doing their due diligence, of doctors prescribing suicide in cases

00:25:47.200 that would not merit it, even according to this wicked and expansive law. 428 cases of possible criminal

00:25:55.920 violations. Ontario's euthanasia regulators have not referred a single case to law enforcement,

00:26:01.160 according to leaked documents reported by the New Atlantis. So this is rife with abuse. They call it

00:26:07.380 euthanasia. That alone is a wicked, wicked euphemism. Euthanasia means a good death. But in the classical and

00:26:15.100 medieval understanding of a good death, this is the worst kind of death possible. Traditionally in our

00:26:19.200 culture, we consider a good death to be a death where we know ahead of time that we're going to die, where we

00:26:23.500 have some longer type of illness, where we are able to prepare our souls for death, for what comes after we

00:26:30.260 shuffle off this mortal coil, where we are surrounded perhaps by loved ones and family members, where we

00:26:36.200 demonstrate some courage and strength in the face of the fate that meets all of us on this earth, and

00:26:42.100 where we demonstrate the theological virtue of hope for the life of the world to come. That's what was

00:26:47.640 traditionally considered a good death. Now a good death is when someone bludgeons you over the back

00:26:51.420 of the head, or puts you out like Lenny put out George, or George put out Lenny, and you don't even

00:26:57.620 see it coming. Or now in this case, you just get into a pod, fill it up with nitrogen, and asphyxiate.

00:27:07.680 Is it only going to be these poor people who are suffering with crippling kinds of pain? No. In

00:27:13.440 fact, it's almost never. It's almost never for them. This is what you hear for assisted suicide

00:27:18.080 proponents, that it's really just about people who are in such crippling, brutal pain at the very end of

00:27:22.800 their life, and they're going to shorten their life by five minutes, and it's going to put them out of

00:27:26.060 pain, and isn't that a mercy? If there is one thing our society is good at, it is managing pain.

00:27:34.160 We have made more technological advancements in palliative care, in numbing pain, than in probably

00:27:41.100 any other field of science, of practical science. Okay, there is no concern about managing care,

00:27:49.000 or managing pain at the end of our lives. And this does not just affect the 107-year-old with

00:27:54.840 crippling pain. There is a case in the Netherlands, and in Belgium, of physically healthy young women 1.00

00:28:03.900 who had depression. So these are women in their 20s who say, I have depression, and it's just so

00:28:09.400 hard. Anorexics, women who have different psychiatric conditions, but even just kind of being a little 0.73

00:28:13.340 bit glum. And they say, okay, please kill me. Life is full of suffering, and so I want to die in my 20s. 1.00

00:28:18.300 They have no physical ailments, psychological ailments, spiritual ailments, and the doctors 1.00

00:28:24.960 will prescribe them death, and they will kill themselves. In the Netherlands, in Belgium. 0.98

00:28:29.180 There was a case in the Netherlands of an elderly woman who was suffering from dementia,

00:28:32.900 who was held down by her family while her doctor forcibly poisoned her. She was trying to smack the 0.97

00:28:37.600 cup of poison out of his hand. She was resisting. She was shouting. She said, no, no, no. And the doctor,

00:28:42.380 with the help of the family, killed her anyway. You're going to hear a lot of good arguments.

00:28:47.880 You're going to hear a lot of arguments against assisted suicide, and they're going to focus on

00:28:51.460 cases like that. And they're going to focus on the slippery slope, and they're going to say, look,

00:28:54.940 this is going to take people who are already on the margins, people who worry that they're a burden

00:28:59.460 to their family, people who suffer from depression, people who are already so vulnerable, they're going

00:29:04.080 to be led to kill themselves because of this legal regime, and that's really bad. And sure, all of that

00:29:09.440 is true. But Adrian Vermeule, excellent philosopher and scholar at Harvard, points out, opposing this

00:29:18.260 policy, opposing assisted suicide on the grounds of a slippery slope is insufficient because the left

00:29:25.460 is just going to say, okay, well, we'll put some more regulations on it. We'll put some more

00:29:28.760 safeguards. We'll make sure that the Belgian woman or the Dutch woman isn't actually held down and 0.99

00:29:33.280 poisoned by her family. And don't worry, the court's already said that was a bad thing anyway. So don't

00:29:37.140 worry, we'll put more regulations and it'll be fine. And then the opponents of assisted suicide

00:29:40.900 have no argument. If all we do is argue about the slippery slope, what we have to do is argue

00:29:47.400 in principle, fundamentally, why has suicide been illegal basically everywhere for the history of

00:29:51.900 our civilization? Why is suicide illegal in most of America today? Because we have no right to kill

00:29:58.940 ourselves. Because life is not something that we make for ourselves. Life is a gift that we receive.

00:30:04.140 We have an obligation to be good stewards of that life. Suicide is a crime not only against God and

00:30:11.480 not only against the individual person, but against society. It's deeply scandalous. It leads to the

00:30:17.920 spread of suicide throughout families and communities. And it removes a member of the body politic.

00:30:25.880 It is contrary to the common good. It's just evil. It's just in itself unjust.

00:30:31.640 And we have laws against all sorts of things that are in themselves unjust.

00:30:36.920 And this should be one of them. This is the literal suicide of the West.

00:30:42.480 My friend, Father George Rutler, made a really good point. I was reading in a collection of his

00:30:46.260 writings last night on my flight back from New York. He pointed out that in the end, if we have a

00:30:54.560 society that is opposed to reality, reality is going to win. If we have a society, just take the case,

00:31:01.060 even forget about assisted suicide, killing yourself toward the end of your life. Forget even about

00:31:07.160 abortion, killing babies in the womb. Go all the way to contraception, the contraceptive mentality 0.83

00:31:13.640 that has come about since the 1960s. Contraception is contrary to nature, and it's contrary to 0.82

00:31:21.280 reality. We are social creatures. We are coupling beings. Love and marriage, love and marriage go

00:31:29.140 together like a horse in carriage, and pretty soon you're going to have a baby. This is a natural

00:31:36.920 thing. If we oppose that, we will not suddenly dominate all of society and reality. Our society

00:31:43.340 will just die. Ever since contraception has become widespread, our society has been dying.

00:31:48.420 This is true not just in our society. It's been true in all sorts of societies. So, okay, great.

00:31:53.480 Now everyone gets to have sterile sex, and our country can be run, in the case of Europe, by 0.99

00:31:59.020 the Muslims who take over, and in the case of America, by other foreigners who take over, 0.98

00:32:03.980 largely from Latin America, but from all sorts of other places, who don't practice contraception. 0.71

00:32:09.200 Okay, that's fine. You want to oppose reality? Reality is going to win. In this case, you want

00:32:14.660 to oppose the reality that life is a gift, and we actually have obligations, and there's a transcendent

00:32:18.300 moral order, and you can't actually change that. You can't, through the tyranny of your own will,

00:32:22.120 you can't rewrite morality. Okay, okay, you want to oppose all that? Sure, I guess you can. But if you do

00:32:27.660 that, your civilization will die. And the civilizations that will live and endure will be the ones that

00:32:34.240 don't kill themselves. That's how it's going to work. We have to oppose these things on principle,

00:32:40.480 and the principles that we have to embrace and exalt are the principles that cohere with reality.

00:32:47.960 The left wants to call us meanies because we say things that are just true. We say that marriage is

00:32:53.560 about men and women together, that you can't have a marriage between two men or two women or three

00:32:57.800 dudes and a billy goat. You just can't. It's not, listen, I've spent my life in New York and LA,

00:33:02.060 and I went to the gayest university in the world. I have no personal animus against anyone who has

00:33:07.160 eccentric desires or whatever, but it's just contrary to reality, and reality is going to win out in the

00:33:13.600 end. I'm sure people who are suffering from terminal illnesses or depression, I'm sure they have a

00:33:20.260 really tough go of it. They're suffering in all sorts of parts of life, and some people suffer a

00:33:24.040 lot more than others. I'm not denying that. But that doesn't give you the right to kill yourself.

00:33:30.500 When young women become pregnant by some dirtbag who runs off and they feel like they've got no 0.97

00:33:35.660 ability to raise their kids, I'm sure that's extremely scary. It's scary when a woman gets 1.00

00:33:39.520 pregnant and she's married and her husband has a good income and they have every material resource

00:33:44.120 they need. Pregnancy is very scary. I don't deny that. That doesn't give you the right to kill your

00:33:49.960 kid. Don't call me the meanie because I'm stating the obvious, okay? And please don't call yourself 0.98

00:33:58.520 good and forward-thinking because you are living in denial of reality and in contradiction of reality

00:34:04.400 because to persist in that as a matter of public policy is going to kill the whole country.

00:34:09.740 Now, speaking of radicalism in the Commonwealth and weird sex stuff, a Canadian town without a flagpole 0.94

00:34:15.620 has just been fined for not flying a gay flag. This is the town of Emo. It's being, it's population 0.96

00:34:24.180 1,333. Small little town. It's being ordered by the Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario to pay damages

00:34:30.780 after failing to proclaim Pride Month as it was instructed to do in 2020. The town refused, the

00:34:37.760 mayor refused. The tribunal ruled that Borderland Pride, this radical sex group, must be given 15

00:34:44.240 grand, 10 of it coming from the township, 5 of it coming from the Emo mayor, Harold McQuaker.

00:34:50.380 McQuaker and Emo's chief administrative officer are required to engage in a re-education camp

00:34:56.140 called Human Rights 101 and provide proof of completion to this weird sex group, Borderland Pride, 0.59

00:35:02.740 and they also need to pay the fee. A reminder, even if you don't have a flagpole, they're not going to

00:35:11.060 let you off the hook. Okay, there's no playing nice and keeping your head down. The rainbow flag

00:35:17.240 thing, the weird sex stuff, and really just extreme liberalism, the denial of reality and the

00:35:23.240 exaltation of individual autonomy and subjective preference over reality and over objective truth

00:35:30.600 and over the moral order and obligation. That is the official religion of our pervert political

00:35:36.520 elite, and they will make you bend the knee just as surely as any ancient Roman tyrant demanded that 0.91

00:35:41.980 a Christian sacrifice to the false gods of the Roman Empire, lest they be eaten by lions. Your pervert 1.00

00:35:48.400 political elite will make you do the same. Unless we stand firm for principle, we do it in a way that is

00:35:56.140 just and sanctifying. We pray to God for deliverance as he gives us more often than we deserve.

00:36:01.940 Don't, I would not put your faith in these princes. This is going on in America's evil

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00:37:20.580 Join us now. Go to dailywire.com slash cybermonday. My favorite comment is from

00:37:25.740 Fea Productions, 4630, who says, congrats on breaking X with that skit, Michael.

00:37:32.200 Thank you so much. If you didn't catch it, it's the second episode, the sequel to

00:37:37.380 The Conservative Uncle at Thanksgiving. And I posted it to, you know, I got, I don't know,

00:37:42.520 almost a couple million views on Instagram and whatever other platforms we put it on.

00:37:45.920 But then Elon posted it shortly after I uploaded it. And so it got, it's gotten over 100 million

00:37:51.660 views on X. It's pretty funny. I did not write the sketch. My producers didn't mostly write the

00:37:57.780 sketch. It was a member of my household who wrote the sketch, actually. Speaking of weird sex stuff,

00:38:04.200 there is a fella, goes by the name of Michaela J.A. Rodriguez. I don't know who this guy is. 0.94

00:38:10.920 He pretends to be a woman. And he claims that trans actors playing cis roles is no longer even a

00:38:21.080 question in Hollywood. Let me try to translate that into English. It is now taken as a fait accompli

00:38:28.460 that a man who thinks that he's a woman can play a woman in a movie or a TV show or a play.

00:38:37.000 And that's perfectly fine. And there's nothing unusual about that. He says, I think we've

00:38:43.200 definitely grown into a space where that is not a question. It's definitely a topic of discussion,

00:38:48.180 but it's not, not in the actor's space. I'll tell you that much. I think what we're working

00:38:51.860 toward is more agency and more open spaces for trans voices and trans people to obviously have

00:38:56.760 more parts and have more space to express different types of characters, just like any

00:39:00.880 other person on this planet. We've been asking for it for a long time. It's something that we've

00:39:04.520 always been able to do. We understand the experience of women. So they don't. These men 1.00

00:39:12.260 who pretend to be women, they don't, they do not understand the experience of women. 0.57

00:39:15.700 They understand women in the way that I understand women, which is that they, well,

00:39:20.060 they don't have functioning rational faculties. I have at least a somewhat functioning rational

00:39:24.040 faculty. And so I can understand it in the way that I can understand anything else that I don't

00:39:29.580 have experience. I can understand the game of football, more or less, even though I don't play

00:39:33.360 football. However, you can't intimately know the personal experiences that attend to being a woman

00:39:41.820 if you're a fellow. So they don't know that. And he says, you know, and that's why we can play women,

00:39:47.340 but they can't actually, they can't. They, they might think they can, they might be lying to

00:39:54.520 themselves and everyone else, or they might look, they have obviously a defect of perception and

00:39:58.580 judgment. So they might think that they can convincingly portray women, but they can't.

00:40:05.740 You have never met a transvestite in your life that you didn't know was a transvestite.

00:40:11.580 Basically, no one has. Even with a lot of extreme surgeries, it's pretty obvious. And for most of the

00:40:18.040 transvestites, it's really obvious. They're big, hulking, butch dudes. And they, just like an 1.00

00:40:25.420 anorexic looks in the mirror and sees a fat girl, they look in the mirror and see a woman,

00:40:30.520 but, but no one else sees that. So the question then becomes, what is the movie about? If it's

00:40:38.200 totally, if now we're going to see a bunch more transvestites playing women, earnestly playing 0.96

00:40:42.500 women in movies, the question is, what's the movie about? Is the movie about the whims and fancies 1.00

00:40:49.560 and fetishes and preferences of the actors? Or is the movie about the audiences? Is the movie about

00:40:56.620 conveying a story, telling a story to audiences? We used to say it was obviously the latter.

00:41:05.440 But all of acting, even with the advent of method acting and the Stanislavski system and

00:41:09.720 the more psychological type of acting that has now totally dominated theater and film,

00:41:15.140 even as the actors get so much in their own heads, it, it's still about telling the story. That's the,

00:41:20.700 that's the point of acting. That's the point of a play or a movie, or at least it was, but now it's

00:41:26.760 just all, it's all about them. It's not about us. And this, it's, it's a further break from reality,

00:41:34.280 I suppose, because they can do this. These fellas can go out there, the Hollywood studios,

00:41:40.260 afraid of being canceled by the LGBT Gestapo, the Gay Gestapo. They can cast the men as playing women 0.98

00:41:47.900 and in a way that's supposed to be earnest and not merely comedic. And, and okay, they can make

00:41:53.380 those movies. People won't see them because no one will be able to suspend disbelief because you

00:41:58.660 can't, the tyranny of your will will not ever defeat reality. So fine, that's okay. I don't care

00:42:06.220 for Hollywood. I don't see most movies that come out. I don't really care. So fine. Great.

00:42:11.380 Michaela, Michaela, J, whatever, you know, please play all the women and all the movies fine by me.

00:42:17.180 Speaking of radical leftists, if you were watching the Mesa's Thanksgiving Day Parade,

00:42:21.880 you might have noticed that pro-Palestine protesters disrupted one of the great American traditions.

00:42:30.180 I like Ronald McDonald just hovering behind them, waiting to like snuff them out with his pillow or

00:42:54.060 whatever he's holding. American capitalism is coming for you, you pro-Palestine leftists.

00:43:02.860 He's going to snuff them out. It looks like a heart-shaped pillow, even funnier. Okay,

00:43:05.560 I think I get the point with them. I think we get the point. This is the chief reason I can't get

00:43:12.180 behind the pro-Palestine activism. This is the chief reason these guys are not on my side.

00:43:19.780 These guys think and behave in ways that are totally contradictory to the ways that a conservative

00:43:27.360 or normal person thinks and behaves. And they are totally identical with the ways that radical

00:43:33.460 leftists who are wrong about statistically everything think and behave. So I just can't

00:43:38.340 get on their side. It's not that I don't think the Middle East is a complex question. It's not that

00:43:43.180 I don't care about persecuted Christians in the Middle East. I really care about persecuted 1.00

00:43:45.860 Christians in the Middle East. But it's not that I don't even have an interest in the Arab-Israeli

00:43:50.640 conflict that's been going on for 70 years or more. It's just that those guys aren't on my side.

00:43:58.300 So I'm not on their side. Is that the transitive property? I think it might be. Okay. 1.00

00:44:06.440 One last story I have to get to before we go. Speaking of crazy leftists putting on a show, 0.94

00:44:10.620 Wicked has become a movie. You know Wicked? I remember I saw it when it was on Broadway back 0.88

00:44:15.040 20 years ago. And it was a big phenomenon and it was a popular kind of new musical. And so 20 years

00:44:20.740 later, they make it into a movie with some odd looking sort of white woman and some odd looking 1.00

00:44:27.140 sort of black woman. But one of them is, what are their, who is it? One is Aribo, Cynthia Aribo,

00:44:32.480 I think. Is that right? Ariana Grande. I always confuse Ariana Grande and Selena Gomez and a few

00:44:41.300 of those girls from that era. But in any case, they're both sitting on a couch doing an interview

00:44:46.140 without magazine. These two women are holding hands and here's what they had to say about Wicked.

00:44:52.620 I've seen this week people are taking the lyrics of Defying Gravity and really holding space with that

00:44:59.680 and feeling power in that. I didn't know that that was happening. I've seen it, yeah. That's

00:45:06.260 really powerful. That's what I wanted. I don't think that's happening. I've seen it on a couple

00:45:18.240 posts. I don't know how widespread, but you know, I am in queer media, so that's my, you know. That's

00:45:23.700 really cool. Yeah. But yeah, it's happening. I think that it's really important for her in that

00:45:28.860 moment to not allow the things that have hurt her, that have stripped her of her humanity to keep her

00:45:41.120 down. Yeah. I just think they're holding hands. Wow. Yeah. Wow. Yeah. It's like, I think people are

00:45:49.260 using the lyrics of Defying Gravity to, you know, told space. Yeah. I mean, I don't know if that's true.

00:45:55.160 I just saw a couple posts on like Twitter or something, but yeah. Wow. Yeah. Oh, wow. They're

00:46:00.760 holding hands and they, you, you will not defy gravity. You will not defy gravity. The left wants

00:46:10.680 you to try to defy gravity. Actually, let me correct myself. There's, cause there's an irony here.

00:46:15.480 You can defy gravity. You can survive death. You can do things that seem impossible. We have a natural

00:46:27.000 longing for that. We're mortal creatures with immortal longings. You won't do it on your own

00:46:33.020 and you won't do it contrary to nature and you won't do it through your own power.

00:46:39.000 Now, God can help, God can help you do that. If you want to defeat death, it won't be in some

00:46:47.320 laboratory in Silicon Valley. If you want to defeat death, it will because, it will be because the

00:46:52.780 eternal God was incarnate, suffered death under Pontius Pilate, was crucified, died, and was buried,

00:46:57.540 and on the third day rose again and ascended into heaven. That's, that's how you'll, if there is any

00:47:02.140 chance you're going to defeat death, that's how you're going to do it. You can do, you, in, in that sense,

00:47:07.020 you actually can define, defy gravity. But if you try to do it by just running your head up against

00:47:14.940 the wall of, of indifferent nature, you are going to fail. If you are, if, if you devote your life to

00:47:22.480 opposing reality and, and, and opposing the creator of reality, you are going to fail. You will not defy

00:47:33.120 gravity. It's Music Monday. The rest of the show continues now. You do not want to miss it. Become a

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