The Justice Department inspector general has just proven once and for all that there were 26 FBI informants present during the tumult at the Capitol on January 6th, the worst day in the history of the Serenity Republic. Which explains, of course, why the liberal media are uniformly reporting that the FBI had nothing to do with it.
00:10:17.740He ended up going down because he was a kleptomaniac who got caught multiple times stealing women's expensive luggage at multiple airports.
00:11:00.460But now any time any Republican ever engages in any kind of romantic activity that did not immediately result in the birth of a child with one's wife, all of a sudden now that's front page news.
00:11:17.100It seems intentional, but it seems selective.
00:11:20.780And there's a conclusion to draw from this.
00:11:23.060One, the libs are being completely disingenuous and hypocritical on the sex scandals, which is why judging by the standards of the day, it's really difficult for me to get riled up about them because there's not a uniform standard for everyone, at least in the popular culture.
00:11:38.160But two, it is a reminder to behave yourself.
00:11:44.240It's a reminder to avoid temptations to this weird sex stuff.
00:11:49.200And because while everyone might say, oh, it's totally fine, it's cool, you're actually weird if you only want to get married and have children.
00:12:01.980Yes, you know, they'll say that at one moment, but then the moment they want to take you down, they'll use all of that behavior.
00:12:07.900It's compromise is really what they're getting.
00:12:10.920I think this is why the liberal establishment is so keen on getting everyone hooked on porn and all this kind of weird sex stuff is because then people have embarrassing information about them.
00:12:21.080And then they can use it against you when you step out of line.
00:12:27.160So as a general rule, you know, stick on the right side of things, like behave yourself.
00:12:32.920But when we're talking about these confirmation battles, I don't think any Republican senator should for one moment consider voting against one of these appointees because they engaged in, even in sexual behavior that is legitimately kind of off or weird or could be.
00:12:50.000Even if some of these allegations are true, that is not the standard by which political appointees are judged.
00:12:55.740And the libs are not bringing these accusations in good faith.
00:13:00.300And if the culture has been telling people to do this stuff for 60 years, you know, I think we kind of have to offer a little bit of grace on that.
00:13:06.320And then we should fix the culture and have the culture stop encouraging it.
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00:14:16.580All right, one last bit on weird sex stuff.
00:14:18.400There's a story out of South Jersey, the area, coincidentally, where I was conceived.
00:14:24.720South Jersey has just turned to the ABC News investigative team because she says she was the target of a malicious online attack.
00:14:33.080Some guy created fake pornography about her.
00:14:35.700So some guy, using artificial intelligence, created all of these pictures and perhaps even videos, judging by some of the things he's said, of her engaging in degrading, obscene actions that she never engaged in.
00:14:49.060And she's rightly upset about this and wants this guy to be held to justice.
00:14:55.900She learned the images were likely being created by a guy she'd befriended on a social dating app.
00:15:00.140The same guy she told our investigative team had also had access to her Facebook photos.
00:15:05.260One thing that really stuck with me in the screenshot she sent me is that he said, I made so many clips of what that B-I-T-C-H would do.
00:15:26.360He didn't secretly record her or anything like that.
00:15:28.900He took publicly available images of her.
00:15:32.500Maybe it's a warning for women not to post all their pictures online.
00:15:35.020But he took publicly available pictures of her, then plugged it into a robot and asked the robot to create a depiction of her doing all this weird stuff.
00:15:47.600An obscene artistic depiction, but it's not an actual photograph.
00:15:50.800I thought, how is this different from the guy if he had a crush on this woman and just spent hours at night doing an oil painting of this woman in all sorts of obscene positions?
00:16:16.080Plugging something into Grok or ChatGPT does not require skill.
00:16:19.780But furthermore, the way it's different is if the guy were spending hours and hours every night making oil portraits of some woman that he barely knows in obscene sorts of positions,
00:16:35.960that guy would be considered the creepiest predator, a true psycho who should probably be locked up in a padded cell, totally ostracized from society.
00:16:49.320But because he's doing the same thing, just plugging in some pictures into a robot, it's considered somewhat normal.
00:17:19.600The only thing you can do is you can try to put some limits on the technology, which would be a good thing to do.
00:17:25.060Libertarians might not like it, but that's a good thing to do.
00:17:27.640And you need to pass laws criminalizing this stuff, which the libertarians also might not like.
00:17:32.740And the liberals might not like, but you have to do that.
00:17:35.120And I know that the sophomoric response to that from the libs is going to be, well, who's it hurting?
00:17:42.980You know, what does it matter what you do in the privacy of your own?
00:17:45.020Well, it's hurting this person who's being depicted, I think.
00:17:51.120I think the person who's being depicted ought to have some legal recourse and not have these realistic-looking images of herself out there.
00:17:57.820It's hurting the individual who's looking at this stuff because it's turning him into like a little demon, you know, into a little pervert demon and warping his soul and warping, turning his brain into mush and just making him into a little creepy golem.
00:18:11.560And I believe as a society, we ought to create incentives that lead people toward flourishing, and we ought to have disincentives for things that turn you into creepy little pervert golems.
00:18:23.900And it's bad for society because the individual participates in society.
00:18:28.560So if you have a society of perverts, you're not going to have a good country.
00:18:32.440And you have an obligation, not only to yourself, not only to your God, but also to your neighbors, to not be a creepy little golem pervert, okay?
00:18:42.740So for all of those reasons and more, we've got to cut this stuff out.
00:18:48.760And you have to do it at the private level, at the business level, you know, the corporate level, but also as a matter of the law.
00:18:54.360There need to be severe punishments for this stuff, to discourage people from getting involved in it, so that we don't all turn into a society of little creeps.
00:19:03.640Now, speaking of young women, Caitlin Clark, the lady basketball player, has just been named the Time Athlete of the Year.
00:19:13.900And I know there are a lot of conservatives who are placing some hope in Caitlin Clark.
00:19:25.340Some have even suggested maybe she's kind of conservative.
00:19:29.480Well, this interview she just gave to Time Magazine seems to pour a little bit of water on that idea because she seems to be talking like a big lib.
00:19:41.760I feel like I always have had really good perspective on everything that's kind of happened in my life, whether that's been good, whether that's been bad.
00:19:48.000And then, obviously, coming to the WNBA, like I've said, I feel like I've earned every single thing that's happened to me over the course of my career.
00:19:54.800But also, I grew up a fan of this league from a very young age.
00:19:58.060Like, my favorite player was Maya Moore.
00:19:59.680Like, I know what this league was about.
00:20:01.700And like I said, like, it's only been around 25-plus years.
00:20:04.500So, I know there's been so many amazing black women that have been in this league and continuing to uplift them, I think, is very important.
00:20:11.160And that's something I'm very aware of.
00:20:13.700And like I said, like, I try to just be real and authentic and, you know, share my truth.
00:20:26.920She gets the applause, but she's getting the applause speaking in a pretty liberal way.
00:20:31.840Even the notion that one can have his own truth or her own truth, my truth and your truth, rather than the truth, the truth by its nature being objective.
00:22:20.520Which is why it's so important to create conservative institutions.
00:22:24.280Which is why it's so important to uphold standards and norms for a conservative culture.
00:22:28.320You cannot be in a place and take on the habits of a place and speak in the language of a place without, well, without becoming as people are in that place.
00:22:42.960You know, it's not, no one should be surprised when that happens.
00:22:47.620We just need to make sure that all of that assimilation and acculturation that takes place makes people better, more inclined toward flourishing, or more right-wing.
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00:24:12.340My favorite comment yesterday is from the Drummer's Workshop, Norm's Music.
00:24:16.140It says, if Luigi were at one end, were the one at the golf course, rather, hiding in the bushes, the left would have reacted the same way.
00:24:26.900The left would have loved him even more.
00:24:29.020In this case, the Libs love Luigi because he allegedly murdered a healthcare executive.
00:24:33.660Had Luigi murdered the Mango Mussolini, then Luigi would be a national hero, an international hero to the left.
00:24:40.240It wouldn't be a hero to most Americans, most of whom support Trump.
00:24:45.220But, oh man, if he'd gone after Trump, they'd love him even more.
00:24:49.920Now, speaking of death, assisted suicide is now the cause of one in 20 deaths in Canada.
00:24:56.5005% of Canadians who die, die by their own hand, or by their own hand with the help of a doctor, or a nurse, or some other ghoul, helping to snuff out their life.
00:25:10.200Most of the recipients are older adults, 96%, with a median age of 77.
00:25:47.240We're getting these numbers from an annual report by the Canadian government showing that ever since euthanasia, a preposterously titled euphemism, euthanasia means a good death.
00:26:22.580Now we consider a good death to be one that you don't see coming or one at your own hand, both of which would have been considered the worst kinds of death when our civilization was healthy.
00:26:31.300The number just keeps growing, doesn't it?
00:26:35.460Since the establishment of MAID, medical assistance in dying in Canada, that was in 2016, more than 60,000 people have killed themselves.
00:26:44.780More people have killed themselves in other ways, but they've killed themselves through MAID.
00:26:49.1204.7%, about 1 in 20 of all deaths in the country.
00:26:53.280This is one of the real moral hazards of assisted suicide.
00:26:56.500Assisted suicide or any kind of suicide is wrong because it violates the natural law.
00:27:03.940It creates a duality in man where none ought to exist, where you become your own murderer, where you are the victim of yourself, which is contrary to the unity of the person.
00:27:16.400It's contrary to the most basic aspect of the natural law, which is to do good and avoid evil.
00:27:20.880It's an offense to God because God gave you your life.
00:27:23.640Even if you don't believe in God, you have to admit you didn't make your own life.
00:27:26.960You're not responsible for your own life.
00:27:31.640It is a gift that was given to you, and you don't get to keep it forever.
00:27:35.100You are a steward of your life, and it's offensive to the person who gave you your life, to the one God who gave you your life.
00:27:42.680This is one of the many moral hazards, though, of assisted suicide, even beyond why it's intrinsically wrong.
00:27:49.800People say, when they think about assisted suicide, they think that it's some 99-year-old person suffering from immense pain that cannot receive any palliative care whatsoever.
00:28:09.020Now, not perfect, but we're pretty good at that.
00:28:12.420But it's not the 99-year-old with the pain that can't be controlled at all, who's just going to be snuffed out five minutes before death, a mercy killing.
00:28:24.280The problem with assisted suicide, one of the problems with assisted suicide is not that a few people are going to kill themselves every year.
00:28:34.800It's that everyone's going to kill themselves eventually.
00:28:38.120The problem, one of the problems with assisted, I have to keep saying one of the problems because there are many problems with it.
00:28:42.120But one of the problems with assisted suicide, one of the mistakes we make when we think about it, is we think it's going to be some really small percentage of the population that uses it.
00:28:51.240No, that number is still growing in Canada.
00:28:53.300It's only been around a handful of years.
00:28:55.520The problem is, eventually, as it is normalized, you're going to see more and more, at a certain point, maybe most people dying in this way.
00:29:15.760And then people who fear that they're a burden to their families, which is almost every elderly person, people who fall into a little bit of a depression.
00:29:22.120And this particular political climate, it's understandable why people would be a little depressed.
00:29:29.100People who live in a culture of despair and a culture of death increasingly are going to be inclined to kill themselves.
00:29:34.300And that's going to be the way we do it.
00:29:35.300We're going to kill ourselves if this keeps up.
00:29:39.200We often talk about the suicide of the West.
00:29:41.100This will be the literal instantiation of it.
00:29:43.920Speaking of despair, Rosie O'Donnell is blaming Donald Trump for giving her herpes.
00:29:49.080Well, hey, everybody, it's Friday all day, as my Nana would say.
00:36:22.780And one of the reasons that you don't want to call the girl by the boy's name is not just to stand on your high horse or even just to maintain your principles, which is an important thing to do.
00:36:33.220But it's also, you don't want to be guilty of scandal by affirming this poor, confused girl of a delusion that is really harmful to her.
00:36:43.160So I think you actually would be harming her and you would be harming a lot of other people if you were to call them by some fake name, the name of the opposite sex.
00:36:53.820Certainly, you wouldn't use the pronouns.
00:37:18.780This is why this is one of those issues that's so polarized and polarizing is you can't even speak about it.
00:37:27.620When you speak about it, you are taking a side.
00:37:31.240I remember some years ago, a friend of mine, one of a handful of friends who have really written me off because she's very, very liberal, very, very liberal.
00:37:41.240But we were chatting and we were talking about Bruce Jenner or something like that.
00:37:47.080And we were having a conversation and she referred to Caitlyn Jenner and she, she and her and Caitlyn Jenner, and I was referring to Bruce Jenner and he and him.
00:38:24.720I believe it's deeply mortally sinful in union with the catechism.
00:38:28.220However, a little known Catholic poet you might have heard of called Dante has a bit of a nuanced take.
00:38:34.220The first man that Dante and Virgil meet in Purgatorio is Cato the Younger, the famed Roman statesman who chose to unalive himself rather than compromise to Caesar.
00:38:42.860He's not condemned to the circle of violence against self.
00:38:46.040In some ways, he's venerated by Dante, guarding the foot of Mount Purgatory.
00:38:50.120This is especially confusing because Dante has a strong respect to Caesar in his writings.
00:40:50.600But because of fertility issues, we are unable to conceive naturally.
00:40:54.800Secondly, for life to begin, you require the egg, the sperm, and the womb.
00:40:59.980Without the womb, it is not yet alive.
00:41:01.860The embryo will not continue to grow on its own without an incubation in the mother's womb, meaning that it is morally okay to dispose of unused embryos.
00:41:12.460I think this would not include the possible scenario in the future where scientists are able to grow the baby in an incubator outside the mother's womb, since the womb provides for much more than just an incubator.
00:41:24.640What do you think of this perspective from a comparative religious view?
00:43:16.920So that would complicate the ethics there.
00:43:18.620But let's say you actually did get a husband and a wife and the sperm and the egg together.
00:43:21.960But you say, look, I'm going to deny this baby.
00:43:24.480I've conceived this baby outside the womb, which is naturally impossible.
00:43:27.540But using a little wizardry, we did it.
00:43:29.900But I'm going to deny the baby the womb so it's okay to kill the baby.
00:43:32.580Well, you could just fast forward nine months and observe that in order for a baby to grow, a newborn baby, to grow, the baby needs a home.
00:43:40.680If the baby is left exposed on the street, the baby is going to die within a matter of hours at most.
00:43:45.760So is it okay then to leave the baby on the street, a newborn baby?
00:43:50.180You have a newborn baby, but you're going to deny the baby the home just as you would deny the embryo, the womb.
00:43:54.500You're going to leave them out there and look, nature's going to run its course.
00:43:57.420Are you not morally culpable for that?
00:44:51.200This seems to be a massive goal shift to me.
00:44:53.360And I would like you to define what you mean by short-term pain because to me, in the realm of politics, short-term means more than four years at least.
00:45:03.660Are we going to be experiencing a situation where Democrats are going to have justification for saying, look how bad the economy was under Trump, which is going to run counter to our electoral goals?
00:45:14.400And if that's going to run counter to our electoral goals, the fight for long-term sustainability is going to be moot point anyway.
00:45:31.600Trump says he's going to deport 10 million people.
00:45:35.620You deport 10 million people, that is going to cause labor costs to rise, especially 10 million people, many of whom are practically indentured servants.
00:45:41.900That is going to cause labor costs to rise.
00:45:43.760It doesn't take an economist to realize that.
00:45:47.820If Trump ran on tariffs, he said, I'm going to slap tariffs.
00:45:51.200He was very open about tariffs, and he used tariffs in the first term.
00:45:54.020That is going to cause the costs of certain goods to rise, though it's also going to create an incentive for goods to be manufactured at home, which would be at lower cost.
00:46:02.340So I don't think he's hit the ball at all.
00:46:05.580The difference here is that the Democrats brought us inflation because of their irresponsibility.
00:46:15.680Trump has plenty of economic measures that will reduce certain costs in the short term, like unleashing American energy, just to use one important example.
00:46:24.800But he has other economic programs that might increase certain costs in the short term in certain areas, but in the long term will bring costs down and make us more secure nationally.
00:46:36.280So you have the Democrats, short-term bad, long-term worse because of their irresponsibility.
00:46:44.340For Trump, you have short-term, maybe it's a mixed bag, long-term better because of his responsibility.