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00:00:48.720 slash cyberweek before it is too late. With Defense Secretary nominee Pete Hegseth on the ropes,

00:00:54.320 Democrats are already setting their sights on taking down Tulsi Gabbard, with dozens of

00:00:59.800 intelligence officials coming out warning of her allegiance to foreign powers. Seems to me I've 0.81

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00:02:52.260 The libs and the squishes are coming for Pete Hegseth. They want that man to go down. They do

00:02:58.340 not want to see him at the Pentagon. This goes back to the moment that his candidacy was announced.

00:03:04.680 There was a big Politico piece that said that defense industry lobbyists didn't like him,

00:03:10.240 which is frankly one of the great recommendations of Pete Hegseth's nomination. Then, of course,

00:03:14.960 the Democrats were all upset about him. Most Republicans really like the guy. He obviously has

00:03:20.060 a great record of service in the military. He also has degrees from Princeton and Harvard,

00:03:26.060 Kennedy School of Public Policy. So, he checks off all those boxes. Very good communicator on TV.

00:03:32.560 However, there are a few holdouts right now, including one senator who reportedly wants the

00:03:37.760 job for herself. In any case, Pete is fighting back as he demonstrated yesterday.

00:03:43.060 I'm proud of what I fought for. I'm not going to back down from them one bit. I will answer all

00:03:47.960 of these senators' questions. But this will not be a process tried in the media. I don't answer to

00:03:53.480 anyone in this group. None of you. Not to that camera at all. I answer to President Trump,

00:03:59.580 who received 76 million votes on behalf and a mandate for change. I answer to the 50,

00:04:05.980 the 100 senators who are a part of this process and those in the committee.

00:04:09.140 I answer to my Lord and Savior and my wife and my family. I'm proud to be here. And as long as

00:04:15.200 Donald Trump wants me in this fight, I'm going to be standing right here in this fight, fighting

00:04:19.480 to bring our Pentagon back to what it needs to be. Good answer. I think that that will be impressive

00:04:26.840 down in Palm Beach. I think that's the kind of thing President Trump loves to see. That's the kind

00:04:31.260 of thing Republican senators love to see, too. You know, I understand that not every nominee is going

00:04:37.820 to get through in a contentious process, especially when there's fighting going on,

00:04:41.700 not just between the Republicans and the Democrats, but even more importantly, within the Republican

00:04:45.500 Party. Frankly, even within the MAGA movement, even down at Palm Beach, there are factions within

00:04:51.360 the Trump campaign fighting and vying for influence and settling scores. So I get it.

00:04:58.180 But there is a real risk here if Pete Hegseth goes down. Matt Gaetz already went down. He didn't have

00:05:04.320 the votes. He didn't have anything close to the votes. So he went down. In a way, it benefited

00:05:09.480 him because it got him out of Congress before a damaging ethics report was released. But in any

00:05:13.540 case, that put a little blood in the water on these nominations. Now, the Democrats are trying

00:05:20.140 to pounce on that like sharks. They're just starting to show up. They're circling the boat.

00:05:24.740 Ooh, is Hegseth going to go down, too? Ooh, Hegseth's been married multiple times. Ooh, Hegseth used to be

00:05:30.760 kind of a Casanova. Ooh, now they're making crazy accusations against him. They're saying because

00:05:36.020 he had a whiskey during a film shoot in which whiskey was a prop and a set piece that he's

00:05:43.400 somehow, you know, like a full-blown alcoholic or something. The guy did morning TV for how many

00:05:47.480 years? No one ever saw him drunk on TV once. Just kind of throwing everything at him. They're going

00:05:52.520 to throw the kitchen sink at him. And there are going to be some squishes who go soft, and they're

00:05:57.380 going to be cynical Republicans who don't want him in that position because maybe they want that

00:06:01.780 position for themselves. Maybe they want that position for one of their allies. Whatever the

00:06:05.860 reason, though, if Hegseth goes down, you can say goodbye to Bobby Kennedy at HHS. If Hegseth goes

00:06:12.060 down, say goodbye to Tulsi Gabbard as the director of national intelligence. I was talking about this

00:06:19.440 with Megyn Kelly yesterday. Megyn made the point that if they're going to take Pete Hegseth down because

00:06:25.520 he was a little bit of a Casanova, well, Bobby Kennedy makes Pete Hegseth look like a priest.

00:06:32.100 Okay, Bobby Kennedy has a far longer and far more checkered romantic history. So he's done. His

00:06:37.420 nomination's done then, too. They're already going after Tulsi Gabbard. In fact, this was,

00:06:42.300 you know how much I hate to brag.

00:06:46.100 Noel Stradamus strikes again. Yesterday on Megyn Kelly's show, I broke a personal record for the

00:06:52.040 quickest that a prediction that I have made has ever come true. I was chatting with Megyn about

00:06:56.000 this very topic, and I said, I said this. You know the letter is already being written.

00:07:03.000 51 former and present intelligence officials know that Tulsi Gabbard is a secret KGB agent and the

00:07:10.360 leader of ISIS. And we have proof because this whole charge came to us first from Hillary Clinton.

00:07:16.980 People forget that. Yes.

00:07:17.880 Tulsi is a Russian asset nonsense. That was just a line from Hillary Clinton in 2020.

00:07:23.580 It's totally, well, I suppose the Russia hoax against Trump was also a line from Hillary Clinton

00:07:28.360 in 2016. It was.

00:07:29.880 When she was, ironically enough, colluding with the Russians to get that Steele dossier.

00:07:33.920 So it's just such bunk, Megyn, and it's not going to stop. By the way, it's not going to stop with

00:07:39.760 Tulsi Gabbard. Whoever the next person they put up, that person's going to have a whole dossier 1.00

00:07:44.480 of mostly nonsense thrown at them, too. Not one hour after I made that prediction on

00:07:51.460 Megyn Kelly's show, we got this from dozens of intelligence officials past and present

00:07:57.720 to Chuck Schumer, current leader of the Senate, and John Thude, the incoming leader of the Senate.

00:08:03.780 As senior national security professionals who have served in both Republican and Democratic

00:08:08.080 administrations, we welcome president-elect's intention to nominate Marco Rubio. They love Rubio.

00:08:14.000 They love Elise Stefanik. They love the more moderate nominations from Trump.

00:08:20.420 However, we are alarmed by the announcement that the president-elect intends to nominate

00:08:25.380 Tulsi Gabbard to be director of national intelligence. Then they go on and on to talk about how much

00:08:31.660 she loves the Russians and the Syrians and the dictators. I said, I can't, I am impressed 0.97

00:08:38.860 with my own prescience. I said, you know, the letter is currently being written. And then

00:08:47.420 about an hour later, the letter comes out. They may have been writing this letter while Megan and I

00:08:52.920 were speaking. Maybe they watched the Megyn Kelly show. I don't know what it is. In any case,

00:08:56.280 only proves the point. That's not just a point about Tulsi. It really goes all the way back to Pete.

00:09:00.280 You want to get rid of Matt Gaetz? Okay, I get it. He had a lot of baggage that he wasn't going to

00:09:08.180 come anywhere close to the threshold of votes needed in the Senate. Here though, it looks like

00:09:12.740 Pete is pretty close. Right now, it looks like the holdouts are who? Lindsey Graham reportedly

00:09:17.940 doesn't like him. Mitch McConnell reportedly doesn't like him. Murkowski and Collins, unsurprisingly,

00:09:24.800 liberal Republicans. Joni Ernst, there is some reporting that Joni Ernst might be vying for the 0.98

00:09:30.660 defense secretary position herself. Okay, so now we're talking about people who just have little

00:09:35.040 quibbles with, I don't know, Pete's not my favorite choice. Or, oh, I don't know, maybe I want that job

00:09:40.180 for me. I would just issue this little warning to any Republican senators who want to play games

00:09:48.740 about Pete Hegseth. I don't think Republican primary voters are going to take very

00:09:54.540 kindly to Republican senators who giddily vote for Joe Biden's defense secretary nominees,

00:10:03.240 giddily vote for Lloyd Austin, who has not been a good defense secretary, who disappeared for three

00:10:07.520 days, didn't even tell the president, who giddily vote for the Democrat nominees, but refuse to give

00:10:12.480 President Trump, their own party's president, his nominees. I don't think they're going to take,

00:10:18.840 now you might say, our Republican primary voters, they have a short memory. Yeah, maybe.

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00:10:51.140 who think they're going to play games here and who want to take not just the defense secretary

00:10:54.800 nomination, but potentially all of President Trump's actual shakeup, semi-controversial populist

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00:13:26.000 Speaking of threats to our government, some transvestites decided to hold an insurrection

00:13:33.120 at the Capitol yesterday. You didn't hear about this because like the vast majority of insurrections

00:13:39.300 that have taken place at the U.S. Capitol over U.S. history, this was from the left, not from the

00:13:44.960 right. And it was far more egregious, if you ask me, than anything the Hornhat people did on January 6th. 0.99

00:13:52.580 Because in this case, a bunch of transvestites decided to barge into the women's bathroom 1.00

00:13:57.920 on Capitol Hill. 0.99

00:13:58.920 Nancy Mays! Speaker Johnson, Nancy Mays!

00:14:02.900 Our genders are no debate! 1.00

00:14:04.760 All right. I think I've got, I've heard enough of this. These people, they don't have all that

00:14:31.820 much to say. So they just repeat their slogans. One of the people who barged into the women's room 0.99

00:14:36.740 is Bradley Manning, who is a criminal who was, had a sentence commuted by Barack Obama.

00:14:42.180 And now he thinks that he's a woman and he calls himself Chelsea. This, I'm not speaking with

00:14:47.900 hyperbole when I say this is more serious, more egregious than anything the Hornhap people did. 1.00

00:14:52.200 Because, well, some of the Capitol Hill eccentrics from January 6th were a little untoward and a

00:14:59.860 little uncivilized, you know, messing up papers on desks and moving lecterns and things like that.

00:15:06.880 These people are committing what would have been considered a crime until five minutes ago,

00:15:12.160 a pretty serious crime. They're fellas barging into women in various states of undress in their 0.99

00:15:19.980 bathrooms. Those are rooms that men are in principle not permitted to go into. But the perverts who run

00:15:26.900 our government have decided to force women to be in various states of undress, surrounded by men. 0.97

00:15:33.860 This is classic stuff. Deeply unjust, so we should stop it. We should arrest these people.

00:15:39.320 Obviously, we should enforce the law and protections for women. However, from a political perspective, 0.99

00:15:46.180 I think this is pretty good. I think the transgender issue plays perfectly for Republicans. 0.98

00:15:52.700 And the Democrats can't pull away from it. Some reasonable, semi-reasonable Democrats

00:15:59.400 want to pull away from the trans issue because they realize it cost them Virginia in the Glenn

00:16:03.560 Youngkin race. It hurt them in Florida. It hurt them in the presidential election. They realize

00:16:08.300 it's a really bad look. But they can't pull away from it. That's the problem.

00:16:14.020 In some ways, the far-left radical Dems who want to keep pushing transgenderism and transing the kids,

00:16:20.920 in some ways, they're actually more reasonable than the moderate Dems who don't want to go all

00:16:25.460 the way with transgenderism. And the reason is that transgenderism follows naturally from the 0.90

00:16:31.260 premises that the Democrats have been talking about for half a century, going back to feminism at 0.67

00:16:35.900 least, to say that if a man and a woman are practically the same, then what follows from that is

00:16:40.980 the gay rights movement. What follows from that is so-called gay marriage, inevitably. And what 0.92

00:16:46.800 follows from that is transgenderism. And what follows from that is transing the kids. 0.92

00:16:51.420 If men and women are really the same, indiscernible, interchangeable, then that's true for everyone, 1.00

00:16:57.400 including adults, including little kids. It's true when it comes to marriage. It's true when it comes to

00:17:01.680 the law. It's true when it comes to biology. Now, most people find this very off-putting.

00:17:10.820 There are some people, though, who, for whatever clouding of their intellect, they really buy into

00:17:17.520 it. And I think another reason that people are really embracing not only transgenderism,

00:17:21.860 but transing the kids, is because it makes them feel special, because it makes them feel

00:17:26.200 interesting. And you don't have to take my word for it. There was a mother of a so-called trans child 0.85

00:17:31.060 who had this to say in Washington, D.C., not far from the Supreme Court, as the oral arguments were

00:17:36.620 being heard in the case of U.S. versus Scrimetti.

00:17:39.940 I think the greatest gift of my life is to have kids. And to have a transgender child

00:17:48.020 has made me so much more interesting. So much more wise.

00:17:54.840 That sums it up. That woman accidentally revealed, I think, what's at the heart of a lot of the trans

00:18:03.400 kids movement. Kids, by definition, can't consent to things. Decisions are made for kids by their

00:18:12.440 parents. Kids are very impressionable. A little look on your face, a little raising of your eyebrow,

00:18:18.840 your kids are going to notice that. They're going to absorb that. They're going to react to that.

00:18:22.060 Anyone who's ever had kids knows this is true. Toddlers, they mimic everything that you do,

00:18:27.840 every thought that enters into your head. And so now it is socially beneficial. There is a social

00:18:36.940 cachet to having a trans kid. As that woman says, it just made me so much more interesting.

00:18:44.080 This is why the Hollywood celebrities all have like 50 trans kids. That's weird. Statistically,

00:18:49.460 that wouldn't make any sense. But this is a continuation. Back in the 90s and 2000s,

00:18:55.800 it carried social cachet to have a gay kid. So you had a flurry of gay kids, especially in the coasts

00:19:03.740 and in liberal and affluent areas. You saw this flourish in the 90s and 2000s. There was no such

00:19:10.980 thing as a trans kid in the 90s. There was certainly no such thing as a trans kid in the 80s or the 70s.

00:19:16.100 Now you see a lot of trans kids. You're seeing the, what is it, 30% of Gen Z identifying as LGBTQ

00:19:23.300 up orders of magnitude in just a matter of a few decades. Why does that happen? Either it's because

00:19:32.520 they're putting something in the water, turning the frogs gay, which in part is true. Or it's because 1.00

00:19:38.140 parents, whether through ignorance or through their own perverse desires and envy of the interesting

00:19:51.020 aspects of other people, they're leading their kids into this. They're affirming them in delusions.

00:19:56.820 Maybe they're even planting the seeds of those delusions by raising children in a liberal environment

00:20:01.580 and establishing for them the first principle that a man really can be a woman.

00:20:07.160 But hey, it makes them so much more interesting. It makes them seem so much more wise.

00:20:11.400 Speaking of children, David Hogg, you remember David Hogg? David Hogg is this kid who was present

00:20:16.660 at the Parkland school when there was a school shooting and he really capitalized on it and he

00:20:20.960 made himself a celebrity off of this tragedy that happened at his school. Now he's, I think, 52 or

00:20:26.720 something. You know, he's not quite, but he's in his mid-20s. And David Hogg, I think he was accepted

00:20:33.180 to Harvard just because he got on CNN a lot after this shooting. He has not demonstrated much academic

00:20:39.200 or intellectual acumen or even the ability to spell words. But he got into Harvard and it's, once you're

00:20:46.220 into these schools, it's very easy to graduate. So I guess he graduated and now he's still getting

00:20:50.940 himself on CNN all the time. And he wants to run for the leadership of the Democrat party.

00:20:56.720 David, good morning. I'm so grateful to have you.

00:20:58.840 Good morning. Happy to be here.

00:20:59.920 So tell us a little bit about this. Are you thinking about running for this leadership post

00:21:04.020 and why?

00:21:05.240 Well, honestly, I'm considering it because I think that, one, obviously I think we need a

00:21:10.280 new generation in the DNC if this election has taught us nothing else. I think we need an

00:21:14.120 intergenerational coalition as a party. But I've spent the past two years or so traveling around

00:21:19.120 the country working to elect young people and talking to everyday people, knocking on doors in

00:21:23.860 every swing state that you can imagine. And some very red states as well, from starting

00:21:28.700 out in Alabama to places like Texas and Virginia and everywhere in between. And the thing that

00:21:33.620 I've realized more than anything is that we have a number of problems in the party. But

00:21:38.580 I think the main one overall is that we would rather live in a comfortable delusion than an

00:21:42.400 uncomfortable reality. And I think what the party needs to do is open its eyes and take

00:21:46.500 its fingers out of its ears, basically.

00:21:48.680 What is, when you say delusion, what is the delusion?

00:21:52.060 I think it's that we can just surround ourselves with people that agree with us a lot of the

00:21:56.520 time in terms of the party leadership and also within the party itself and think that's just

00:22:00.760 who we need to be talking to constantly.

00:22:03.440 Yeah, yeah. So because David Hogg thinks that the Democrats need to be less elitist, less caught

00:22:10.740 up in their own bubble, more in touch with the common man, that's why David Hogg should be

00:22:16.980 leading the Democrat Party. One of the most radical, strident, condescending, insulting,

00:22:26.120 apparently arrogant Democrats on the public scene. That guy should be leading the party.

00:22:33.420 He has my endorsement. I would like to take this opportunity. I 100% support David Hogg for chairman

00:22:41.940 of the Democrat National Committee. I would be happy to donate to his campaign. Please let me know

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00:25:29.280 intends to bed within the span of 24 hours. Apparently, in the bedding markets, people are

00:25:36.840 taking odds on how many she'll get to. This woman has apparently already, during one of her trial runs, 0.98

00:25:44.820 made it over 100 men in one day. She next says she is going to endeavor to work up to 300 men

00:25:51.460 and then eventually she'll go for 1,000 to break the world record. I believe the world record is 919 men.

00:25:59.720 Yeah. Well, palate cleanser after that, that series of facts. I did the math. It is possible.

00:26:08.560 Even if you have, you want to build in a little buffer, I don't know, to eat lunch or something,

00:26:14.720 maybe seven hours potentially to sleep or just because of, you know, people taking a moment or two

00:26:19.780 to reset themselves or whatever. It's about a fella per minute for an entire day. Then you get an extra

00:26:26.760 seven hours to work with as buffer. Pretty, pretty gross. Now, I was trying to think of all the ways

00:26:37.700 in which this obviously should be illegal or otherwise circumscribed by the culture and the

00:26:43.260 law. One, prostitution should be illegal. I'm not saying that it has to be completely banished

00:26:53.000 everywhere and totally enforced at all times. And the reason I'm not saying that is an insight of

00:26:58.960 St. Thomas Aquinas. Even St. Thomas Aquinas says that, following St. Augustine, that you don't

00:27:04.260 necessarily want to totally obliterate prostitution in a society. Prostitution exists in every society. 1.00

00:27:09.980 And one of the reasons you don't want to totally obliterate it is that not everyone is equally

00:27:14.060 advanced in virtue. And in some cases, if we don't meet people where they are, they'll just crack.

00:27:20.360 So you can't have unrealistically high ideals and standards and norms in a society, especially

00:27:26.960 as society is decadent as ours, lest the society become convulsed with lust and become even worse.

00:27:33.420 So there's a place for prudence here. However, pretty clearly to me, pornography and prostitution 0.99

00:27:40.740 need to be severely curtailed. The libs and the libertarians are arguing that it should be

00:27:46.380 liberalized. Both of those should be liberalized or decriminalized. Seems to me, if you got some

00:27:51.580 young girl, how old is that girl? She looks like she's 22 or something, trying to bet a thousand guys 1.00

00:27:56.860 in one day. That would be an example of, we need to curtail these things on the consumption side 0.99

00:28:02.720 and on the production side. We need to arrest pornographers. We need to arrest pimps. We were

00:28:08.460 doing this relatively recently. George W. Bush, at the end of his administration, arrested and

00:28:13.260 imprisoned a pornographer for obscenity. So it can happen. Then there obviously ought to be public

00:28:21.360 health ordinances against this. You should not be able to bet a thousand people in a day. That's so

00:28:26.220 profoundly disgusting and should be illegal. But that might infringe on people's rights to have

00:28:35.600 orgies and throuples and quadruples. That's true. But we would have had laws against all of these things

00:28:40.980 for most of American history before the sexual revolution. No one would have thought that anyone

00:28:45.040 has a right to that. So that should be illegal. You're not allowed to go to granny's funeral during

00:28:51.440 COVID. You have to stand six feet away and you have to cancel Christmas. But this lady's allowed to 1.00

00:28:56.320 bag a thousand fellas? Doesn't seem to make a lot of sense to me. Then something tells me that woman 0.99

00:29:03.700 doesn't have a great relationship with her father. We should probably discourage divorce. We should 0.98

00:29:09.560 probably encourage people getting married. We should probably discourage contraception, which 1.00

00:29:15.380 promotes a promiscuous culture of hookups and sterility and selfish relations between the sexes,

00:29:22.560 really just using the opposite sex for one's own immediate gratification. That seems like a good 1.00

00:29:26.820 idea. Sometimes you'll hear the libs and the libertarians say, you know, well, how does my personal

00:29:32.580 behavior affect you? As if to say, hey, how does the complete degradation of society and the upending of

00:29:38.840 mores and the changing of language and the way we even understand the world affect you? Oh, it affects

00:29:45.180 me because I'm a citizen and we live in society and I'm a human being. It affects me because this is how

00:29:53.480 human beings have always interacted. We're not just atoms, you know, we're floating in the ether. We're

00:29:59.060 not just coconuts that fell out of the coconut tree, to quote Kamala Harris. So even that, if you had a

00:30:05.940 culture which discouraged divorce, which discouraged promiscuity, which discouraged abortion, one of

00:30:11.720 the greatest evils in the world because it tells you not to have any care for your children, if a

00:30:15.940 mother can kill her own child, as Mother Teresa tells us, then there's no limit to what anyone can do

00:30:19.780 to anyone. If you just had that, would this woman really be doing this? You listen to any interview with

00:30:29.460 any person in pornography. They never have good relationships with their parents. Their parents

00:30:34.460 are almost always divorced. So that, the social pathology of divorce lies at the heart of this too.

00:30:40.180 You can't really disconnect these things. And sterility also. If we had a culture that recognized

00:30:46.300 the natural consequences of actions, if we had a culture that recognized telos and the purpose of

00:30:51.520 things, the leftist ears tumbler is for my leftist ears. The microphone is to communicate my

00:30:57.240 mellifluous voice to you. Sex is for the procreation of children. If we had this, then the 1.00

00:31:02.360 woman wouldn't get anywhere near a thousand fellas because she'd wind up pregnant, at least within the 1.00

00:31:10.140 first few. We just wouldn't view sex in the way that we view it today. It's not just that the porn

00:31:17.440 should be illegal. Part of it is, yes, we should severely circumscribe porn. But there were so many

00:31:22.580 deeper issues and they're inseparable one from another. And the problems have come about because

00:31:28.440 of the cultural and sexual revolution in particular. And then we look like the weirdos when we say, hey,

00:31:34.180 you know, maybe there are going to be negative consequences to living out of accord with reality.

00:31:41.560 Now, speaking of lascivious performers, the Call Her Daddy podcast is mocking Kamala Harris for,

00:31:48.240 according to election forms, spending $100,000 to be interviewed by the Call Her Daddy podcast.

00:31:56.680 There's a little bit of controversy about that podcast because you didn't. Do you know about

00:32:00.820 this? No, what? Because in D.C. This interview happened in D.C. Yeah. In a hotel. Yeah, not in a

00:32:07.740 hotel. It was like a random house. It was like random house. But apparently, you can tell me,

00:32:14.200 they spent, the Harris campaign spent like $100,000. I did. Do you know about this? It's

00:32:20.860 hilarious. To build the studio. Yeah, that's not true. Not true. To make it look like it was the

00:32:25.740 studio that you used in L.A. My studio that is gorgeous in Los Angeles doesn't even cost six

00:32:33.960 figures. So I don't know how cardboard walls could cost six figures. But do you think they did that?

00:32:40.860 I mean, you saw it. Absolutely not. With love to them. Oh, my God. It was gorgeous. But like,

00:32:45.680 it wasn't that nice. It wasn't like gorgeous marble. Like, no, that was not six figures.

00:32:52.400 Okay. Now, this woman is saying Kamala Harris's election forms say that she spent six figures on

00:32:59.080 this set. But how on earth could she have done that? My nice set. I mean, this may be the nicest set

00:33:04.980 in media. I'm not to brag. I didn't have very much to do with it. But I have a really,

00:33:08.800 really nice set with all sorts of layers and beautiful design and pretty high quality materials.

00:33:14.020 And it didn't cost $100,000. So she's saying, how on earth could this temporary cardboard set

00:33:20.180 that Kamala made cost $100,000? What a waste of money. There's no way. Right. That's the point.

00:33:27.720 A lot of these contributions that you're seeing come up in Kamala's forms that put her $20 million

00:33:33.060 in the hole that blew over $1 billion, whatever it cost. That was graft. That was payoffs. That was

00:33:39.580 corruption. I'm not accusing the Call Her Daddy podcast of taking a payoff. This woman is feigning 1.00

00:33:46.900 ignorance here. Or maybe she really is ignorant. I don't know. How on earth could she have racked up 1.00

00:33:50.400 that kind of a bill? That didn't cost that. But what about Oprah? Remember, Kamala Harris did the 1.00

00:33:55.800 same thing to Oprah. She did an interview with Oprah. And it was a big scandal for Oprah because

00:34:00.260 Oprah's production company took a million dollars from Kamala Harris.

00:34:05.260 What? Did she take a bribe? No, no, no. Oprah said no. It was to build the set. It was to 0.99

00:34:09.240 set the cameras. It was because the production people had to be paid. They had to be paid a

00:34:13.980 million dollars for a temporary set? No. That was a payoff. That was a way of laundering money in

00:34:20.920 and buying support. The clearest example of this in the media was when Kamala Harris paid half a 0.98

00:34:26.380 million dollars to Al Sharpton. Al Sharpton, who's been openly, transparently on the take for decades.

00:34:32.580 Al Sharpton gets hundreds of thousand dollars from Kamala Harris. And then he plays a little

00:34:39.740 birthday message from her on his show. And then he says nice things about her. And then he gets some

00:34:44.900 more money. And then he conducts a fawning interview with Kamala Harris. Apparently, according to news

00:34:51.440 reports, even the other MSNBC hosts are a little miffed that Al Sharpton got half a mil from Kamala.

00:34:56.640 What was it? Was it for production costs? Was it because Kamala all of a sudden just really cares 1.00

00:35:02.120 out of the goodness of her heart to support the National Action Network, which is Al Sharpton's

00:35:06.880 slush fund? No, it was a payoff. It was corruption. And it just didn't work. That's it. That's how she 0.99

00:35:13.200 ended up 20 million dollars in the hole. She bribed a ton of people, but she didn't bribe the right 1.00

00:35:17.480 people. She didn't bribe them in the right way. It didn't work. And now she's caught holding this

00:35:21.940 bag. I guess she's holding an empty bag. And she has to explain 500,000 here, 100,000 here,

00:35:28.220 a million dollars here. And she can't quite explain it because the only answer is either

00:35:33.520 total incompetence, which I didn't even think it was, or corruption. And if you've ever thought

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00:35:59.400 Finally, finally, it's time for my favorite part of the week, the mailbag, which is sponsored by

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00:36:10.860 Hi, Michael. I'm a senior in high school, and I recently shared with my mother that I'm a

00:36:17.200 conservative and voted for Donald Trump. My mother, being a lesbian Democrat and an avid 0.77

00:36:23.500 listener of MSNBC, feels that my views contradict everything that she stands for. Additionally,

00:36:31.280 I've been exploring the idea of converting to Catholicism from Presbyterianism, but she has

00:36:37.500 strongly opposed this as well, simply because nobody in our family has been Catholic. Except,

00:36:44.680 of course, my biological father, of which I have no idea who he is, because I was conceived via

00:36:51.380 artificial insemination. How can I stay true to my political and religious beliefs while still

00:36:57.800 honoring and respecting my mother and her values? Thanks for answering, Philip.

00:37:03.240 Tough situation you're in, kid. I feel for you. And a good question that you're asking.

00:37:12.080 Say, how can I still honor my mother? You do have to honor your mother, even though she has

00:37:17.200 manifestly made poor choices that have hurt you. Now she made the choice to give you life, which at

00:37:25.600 least, which was aiming at a good, just as all actions are aiming at some good, real or imagined.

00:37:30.480 But the way in which she did it has harmed you. For instance, depriving you of knowing your natural

00:37:36.440 father, etc. So you're in a tough situation because what you're essentially saying, the reason your

00:37:43.240 mother is understandably reacting against you, voting for Trump, just like most Americans did,

00:37:49.300 while your mother is reacting against you, considering conversion to Catholicism, because you're

00:37:54.760 following your lights and your conscience and what you believe to be clear in scripture and the

00:37:58.880 2000-year history of the church, moving away from a Calvinist theology toward a more traditional and

00:38:04.980 some would say orthodox theology, is she's saying, you're rejecting everything I've tried to teach

00:38:12.400 you. Maybe you're rejecting me. That's why she's reacting so negatively against it, ultimately.

00:38:18.820 And so I think what you need to make clear to your mother is, I'm not rejecting you.

00:38:22.580 I don't agree with you on certain ethical matters, moral matters, theological matters. But it's not

00:38:30.460 because I don't, it's not that I don't like you, mom. You know, I recognize that the actions that you

00:38:36.880 have taken were aiming at some good. All action is aiming at some good. It's just sometimes our

00:38:44.480 intellects are clouded, our wills are distorted. And so the goods that you were aiming at sometimes are

00:38:51.660 a little bit off. They're a little off kilter, okay? And so I'm not, I'm not judging you or your

00:38:57.660 intentions. I'm grateful for everything you've given me. Love you to death, mom. But I just think

00:39:03.120 you're a little wrong about this. And we're all a little bit wrong sometimes. And maybe, you know,

00:39:07.400 maybe I can even get you to see things my way. And who knows, maybe your mother will cease to believe

00:39:14.800 certain things about her own identity. And who knows, maybe your mother will end up Catholic. But you've

00:39:19.040 got to make clear from the beginning, you're not rejecting your mother. You're having a disagreement

00:39:24.700 because sometimes people are led astray. But it doesn't mean they weren't aiming at some good. It

00:39:30.480 just means, like all of us sometimes, people go a little off the path. Next one.

00:39:38.000 Conservatives often argue about the relationship between politics and culture. And you have thankfully

00:39:42.340 been able to provide more detail to this discussion. However, I think there's even more detail that I'm not

00:39:47.320 hearing anyone acknowledge, namely the fact that not all cultural formats create the same impact.

00:39:51.920 For example, The Daily Wire is putting out great content in the realm of feature-length films.

00:39:55.980 But feature films are a commercial format. And as such, respond to culture more often than creating it.

00:40:01.700 If we want to create it, in my opinion, we should be involved in the high arts. Because the arts create

00:40:06.060 the culture that trickles down to entertainment. We should be funding institutions that promote

00:40:10.060 Shakespeare, Beethoven, Duke Ellington, and current artists that aim to reinvigorate traditional

00:40:14.480 aesthetic standards. This seems like an obvious tactic for conservatives, but I haven't heard of

00:40:19.160 many that have interest in it. I understand the fear presented by the apparent lack of demand,

00:40:23.180 but that doesn't stop liberals from doing it. And although conservatism has slowly started to find

00:40:27.400 its way into mainstream content, the left still control the high arts with absolutely no challenge.

00:40:32.000 What are your thoughts?

00:40:33.320 Well, the one problem with your diagnosis is that you point to Shakespeare and Duke Ellington as examples of

00:40:39.680 high non-commercial art. But Shakespeare and Duke Ellington were commercially viable artists.

00:40:46.080 People bought tickets to Shakespeare's plays. He was a very popular artist. Duke Ellington,

00:40:50.980 one of the most popular musicians of the 20th century. So I think that your contrast between

00:40:57.140 commercial art and high art is, maybe there's a little bit of a blurrier middle ground there than

00:41:03.420 you're admitting. But broadly speaking, I do agree that we ought to focus on the high arts.

00:41:10.960 I think that's really important. We can do that through political power. One great example of this

00:41:17.980 from the 20th century is Jackson Pollock, who's a nonsense painter. You know, he just splatters

00:41:22.220 paint on a canvas and anyone can do it. Who was it? Norman. Who's the famous, I can't believe his name

00:41:31.320 escapes me right now. The great mid-century Americana painter, Norman. Oh, it's going to,

00:41:37.020 it'll drive me crazy and someone will correct me in the chat. But anyway, he has a great painting

00:41:41.180 called The Connoisseur, which is a painting of a man holding his fedora behind him, wearing a suit

00:41:45.520 and tie, staring up at a Jackson Pollock painting. And what he's proving is that anyone can do the

00:41:51.940 Jackson Pollock painting and he, on top of that, can do real painting as well. But so how did Jackson

00:41:57.000 Pollock become such a big deal? In part, it was because the CIA backed him.

00:42:00.880 Because the federal government during the Cold War used modern art, specifically the art of Jackson

00:42:06.820 Pollock, as a way to subvert the Soviet Union. The modern art is so deeply subversive that they 0.99

00:42:13.240 smuggled it in like a weapon of mass destruction into communist countries. So I use that example not 0.93

00:42:20.300 just to criticize the CIA or anything, but actually to point to a lesson for us, which is that we can use

00:42:27.200 the government, perhaps even things like the National Endowment for the Arts or whatever,

00:42:31.220 to fund not just disgusting, degraded works of pseudo art or anti-art, but to actually fund good

00:42:37.100 art. And this is something the Trump administration could do. It would be in line with his executive

00:42:40.840 order from the first term to make federal buildings beautiful again, to promote classical

00:42:46.360 architecture and federal buildings. We could do that with high art as well. The libertarians will 0.79

00:42:51.200 hate that because they will prefer commercial art. But of course, you think of some of the great

00:42:56.340 masters of the Renaissance or the late Middle Ages, they were not commercial artists. They just had

00:43:02.360 patrons. And their patrons, often the church, would fund really good art. So it actually did come from

00:43:07.720 a central authority or from a handful of rich people who were not seeking to make a profit. And I think

00:43:12.580 that's all a really good thing. And we can use the government for that end. And maybe we should,

00:43:16.360 as you suggest. Next question. Norman Rockwell. I can't believe I've heard Rockwell, one of the most

00:43:21.580 famous popular painters in American history. It's been a long week, folks. Next one.

00:43:27.820 Hey, Michael. I wanted to get your thoughts on the philosophy of musical liturgy. We have discussed

00:43:32.780 this in a previous mailbag a long time ago, but recently this came up in a discussion between me and

00:43:38.020 one of the music directors at my church. We started out with the agreement that we need

00:43:42.540 to get more young people to come back into the church. But my philosophy is that we should have

00:43:47.180 people be excited about coming to church. And my generation looks more into lively forms of media

00:43:53.120 as opposed to the traditional monotone forms of music that come from the church. My music director

00:43:59.120 argues that we should not stray from tradition and sing traditional hymns with just an organist and a

00:44:03.840 cantor. However, in my experience, I encourage the congregation to clap along to the music

00:44:09.140 and sing more modern tunes while also not drawing attention away from the ceremony,

00:44:14.140 similar to something you would see in Sister Act, which is the only thing I will say Whoopi Goldberg did

00:44:18.860 well in her dumpster fire of a career. And in the end, we have people coming up to us afterwards and

00:44:24.360 saying how they love the music and look forward to it every week. So my question to you is, if we are

00:44:30.060 certain that traditional styles of hymns will bring in more people to the church, then why are the

00:44:35.720 pews still empty? If you are ever in my neck of the woods, I would love to see you, Mr. Davies and

00:44:41.460 Professor Jacob at a Mass, followed by a cigar. Thanks. A really good question. I can't tell.

00:44:49.100 Since you say it's a Mass, I think you might be Catholic here, though you might be referring to an

00:44:54.380 Episcopalian Mass service or something else like that, especially if you're mentioning all the

00:44:59.740 happy-clappy stuff. The difference, though, when Protestant friends have brought this up to me,

00:45:06.080 is many people, especially Protestants, view the organ as being the traditional kind of hymn.

00:45:12.720 But I, being a Catholic, view the organ as actually relatively modern, because the Catholic church is

00:45:18.120 2,000 years old. And so I view the traditional form of singing in the liturgy as being Gregorian

00:45:23.940 chant. You know, all monophonic. And sometimes in a misa cantata it can be polyphonic, but still it's,

00:45:33.380 you know,

00:45:34.220 And there's wonderful variation in this throughout the liturgical year. But I find that your observation

00:45:45.980 to be false. You say that the pews are filling up in the really modern happy-clappy liturgies,

00:45:52.580 not in the old traditional ones. That's not my experience, at least as a Catholic. The ones with 0.99

00:45:57.620 the sappy 1970s, you know, pop songs, the ballads, those parishes have like three people in them,

00:46:05.700 and they're all over the age of 80. If you want to find young people, if you want to find the pews 0.99

00:46:10.060 filled, it's at the traditional Latin masses with the Gregorian chant, where everything's packed to the

00:46:14.900 ills. So I don't know that that's true. Perhaps in the Protestant traditions, I think you get a little

00:46:20.900 bit more of young people wanting to go to rock concert kinds of services. So I'm not really even

00:46:26.800 weighing in on that. Just in my experience, for people who want to go to the mass and who want a

00:46:31.120 liturgy, I don't know. I think that the real traditional stuff is more compelling. And it's for

00:46:37.580 one reason. When you're chanting, it's not about you. It's not about your emotion. Plato talks about

00:46:47.460 this, that music, more than any other art, just cuts right to the soul. It bypasses reason, and it

00:46:52.680 can lead you astray as a result of that. This is why I think the gospel readings ought to be chanted,

00:46:59.580 because it takes the personality out of it. I don't go to mass for the personality of individuals.

00:47:06.240 I don't go to mass to express my individuality. I don't go to mass to experience more of the world.

00:47:13.860 I go to mass for the contrast and the perfection of the world. I go to mass to focus on God,

00:47:19.220 not on myself. And so I don't need a tambourine to do that. In fact, a tambourine gets in my way.

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The Michael Knowles Show - December 06, 2024

Ep. 1631 - This Should Be Illegal： 1,000 Bodies In 24 Hours

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