The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 1636 - BREAKING： 26 Feds Involved In January 6th Riot

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00:00:37.780 The Justice Department Inspector General has just proven once and for all

00:00:41.740 that there were 26 FBI informants present during the tumult at the Capitol on January 6th,

00:00:50.540 the worst day in the history of the Serenity Republic,

00:00:51.920 which explains, of course, why the liberal media are uniformly reporting

00:00:57.020 that the FBI had nothing to do with January 6th.

00:01:01.940 I'm Michael Knowles.

00:01:02.680 This is The Michael Knowles Show.

00:01:03.460 Welcome back to the show.

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00:03:07.260 Okay, big news.

00:03:09.560 The DOJ inspector general admits that there were FBI informants at the Capitol on January 6th.

00:03:18.300 There were dozens of them.

00:03:19.500 There were 26 of them.

00:03:21.840 So how does Politico report on this?

00:03:24.260 This is the headline.

00:03:25.900 FBI did not deploy undercover agents on January 6th, watchdog report finds.

00:03:31.360 It says, undercutting conspiracy theories.

00:03:35.240 Wait, what?

00:03:36.940 Hold on.

00:03:37.500 I thought, I saw that the FBI had 26 informants at January 6th,

00:03:43.540 but this Politico headline says FBI did not deploy undercover agents on January.

00:03:46.900 Hold on.

00:03:47.240 Let me read the article, at least.

00:03:48.660 What are they saying?

00:03:50.760 A Justice Department watchdog found no evidence that the FBI deployed undercover agents

00:03:53.840 to the Capitol or nearby protests on January 6th, 2021,

00:03:57.760 further undercutting debunked conspiracy theories about the riot

00:04:00.780 being instigated by law enforcement.

00:04:03.860 The report throws cold water on theories that have become gospel

00:04:08.500 among some segments of Donald Trump supporters

00:04:11.300 who accused the FBI of fomenting violence, blah, blah, blah.

00:04:15.640 But hold on.

00:04:16.480 And this is an interesting paragraph.

00:04:19.300 Horowitz also found that among the tens of thousands of Trump supporters

00:04:23.080 who flooded Washington that day, 26 were people who had served as informants for the FBI.

00:04:27.020 Wait, hold on.

00:04:29.720 FBI didn't deploy.

00:04:30.680 Oh, oh, now I get it.

00:04:32.620 They didn't deploy undercover agents.

00:04:35.740 They just had informants there.

00:04:38.160 An undercover agent is different from a, I don't know,

00:04:41.580 an out-in-the-open office worker is different from an informant or an asset.

00:04:44.960 Okay.

00:04:45.240 So they did have 26 people who served as informants.

00:04:48.560 Those informants known as confidential human sources or CHSs are not government employees,

00:04:53.920 but occasionally, they occasionally provide intelligence to the Bureau.

00:04:58.960 Next paragraph.

00:04:59.900 Of those 26 informants, only three had been specifically tasked by the FBI

00:05:05.220 to track individuals they suspected of potential domestic terrorism activity.

00:05:08.500 And the other 23, you know, they were just, they were just kind of there.

00:05:13.160 Though some of them, it's amazing.

00:05:15.680 Some of them proactively contacted the FBI amid the riot to report potential crimes.

00:05:21.180 And just four of the 26 informants went into the Capitol

00:05:24.020 and nine others trespassed on the FBI grounds.

00:05:26.880 Hold on.

00:05:27.400 Hold on.

00:05:28.500 Wait.

00:05:29.440 So the headline is FBI didn't deploy undercover agents,

00:05:32.480 but the actual facts of the article are the FBI had 26 informants at the January 6th riot.

00:05:40.500 They specifically tasked three of them with working for them at the riot.

00:05:48.320 And then in addition to the three who were specifically tasked with that,

00:05:51.660 the other ones who were there proactively, some of them, not all of them,

00:05:55.140 proactively contacted the FBI during the riot to snitch on people.

00:05:59.580 And your headline Politico is FBI didn't deploy undercover agents debunking conspiracy theories.

00:06:06.520 What are you talking?

00:06:06.940 This totally validates all of the theories.

00:06:10.540 The FBI had a bunch of people there and they were during the riot,

00:06:15.320 they were reporting and snitching on people who were there.

00:06:17.860 And some of them were specifically tasked with being there and following people.

00:06:21.760 This is why nobody trusts Politico and nobody anymore seems to trust the mainstream news networks

00:06:32.780 and nobody seems to trust the New York Times or the Washington Post

00:06:35.000 because the purpose of this headline is to deceive.

00:06:39.940 That's the purpose.

00:06:40.720 Technically, the headline is accurate.

00:06:42.560 The FBI didn't deploy undercover agents.

00:06:46.600 But is our accusation that the FBI deployed a specific kind of employee,

00:06:53.560 this one specific kind of employee only on January 6th?

00:06:56.720 No, our argument was, seems kind of like there were some feds there. 0.65

00:07:00.900 You know, it seems kind of like the FBI was involved in this in some way.

00:07:05.000 It kind of glows a little bit, man, wouldn't you say?

00:07:07.280 And the Inspector General report proves that beyond a shadow of a doubt.

00:07:13.340 But the headline, and it's not, I'm beating up on Politico.

00:07:15.680 It's not just Politico.

00:07:16.560 It's all of the liberal news sources are saying new IG report debunks claims.

00:07:22.100 But if you actually read the meat of the report, it completely validates the claims.

00:07:28.400 This is a prime example of fake news.

00:07:33.040 And for the people who do actually read into it now, we can see the FBI was involved in January 6th.

00:07:40.440 On the ground, in the moment, live reporting, involved.

00:07:46.440 No surprise there.

00:07:48.040 Meanwhile, the libs are trying to undercut the incoming Trump administration.

00:07:55.180 They obviously were trying to undercut President Trump in 2020.

00:07:58.120 But they're doing it again in 2024, even after Trump's landslide win, even after he won the popular vote.

00:08:04.160 They're trying to undercut the administration with sex scandals. 0.95

00:08:07.120 And this is kind of ironic.

00:08:09.280 The latest one, the latest one comes from or against Kimberly Guilfoyle.

00:08:17.080 Kimberly Guilfoyle, longtime Fox News host, conservative activist and commentator.

00:08:23.120 She has been in a relationship with Don Jr.

00:08:26.380 She's now been appointed or nominated for the ambassador to Greece.

00:08:31.260 Great, great for her.

00:08:32.440 Fabulous.

00:08:33.100 Congratulations.

00:08:33.740 Except now the libs want to take her down because of a sex scandal. 1.00

00:08:36.620 I won't even get into all the ridiculous charges. 0.95

00:08:39.360 But this is actually old news.

00:08:42.240 There was a report about this some years ago.

00:08:44.440 It was during the Me Too movement.

00:08:47.000 And it was some assistant saying that, you know, she spoke in improper ways to me or whatever. 0.99

00:08:52.260 You know, who cares?

00:08:53.120 My interest in this is not about the libs dredging up some long ago supposed sex scandal. 0.53

00:09:02.000 My interest in this is in the audacity of the libs to make sex scandals a thing at all. 1.00

00:09:08.820 Because, correct me if I'm wrong, the liberal culture has told everyone for 60 years now, more than 60 years, that sex is no big deal.

00:09:20.660 For 60 years, the libs have encouraged everyone to stop being so uptight about sex.

00:09:25.940 The libs have encouraged everyone to have the weirdest kind of sex they can possibly imagine. 0.97

00:09:30.260 They have parades for weird sex. 0.99

00:09:32.020 They fly flags for weird sex. 0.99

00:09:33.860 They put those flags for weird sex in kindergarten classrooms with other weird sex propaganda. 0.99

00:09:39.220 They are really, really pro-weird, eccentric, bizarro sex. 0.98

00:09:45.020 And then they have the gall to try to take down President Trump's nominees on sex scandals. 0.95

00:09:52.540 Successfully in the case of Matt Gaetz.

00:09:54.300 It would seem unsuccessfully in the case of Pete Hegseth.

00:09:56.960 But they're going after everyone this way.

00:09:58.520 They'll certainly go after Bobby Kennedy.

00:10:00.060 They'll go after everyone.

00:10:00.860 Trump himself.

00:10:02.340 Now Kim Guilfoyle.

00:10:03.380 That's kind of odd, isn't it?

00:10:07.200 Now they never go after the libs for their manifest sex scandals. 1.00

00:10:10.760 Remember when Joe Biden had that bald-headed cross-dresser in his administration? 0.99

00:10:15.280 He was the nuclear waste official.

00:10:17.740 He ended up going down because he was a kleptomaniac who got caught multiple times stealing women's expensive luggage at multiple airports.

00:10:23.780 So that had him out.

00:10:24.960 But when he was just a cross-dresser gallivanting, pictures of him dragging men along on leashes with leather costumes on.

00:10:32.500 Joe Biden had that monkey pox saw.

00:10:34.700 I guess that's sort of fitting.

00:10:35.640 But he was a guy. 0.95

00:10:36.500 He was a very open homosexual wearing pentagram leather harnesses doing all. 1.00

00:10:42.780 We're not even talking about just like kind of keep it to yourself stuff. 0.80

00:10:48.080 We're talking like flaunt it out in the open.

00:10:50.580 Post all over social media.

00:10:52.860 We're queer.

00:10:53.720 We're here.

00:10:54.420 Get used to it. 0.98

00:10:56.160 Weirdo sex stuff.

00:10:57.380 That was never a scandal.

00:11:00.460 But 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.

00:11:14.180 So it seems really arbitrary.

00:11:16.240 Well, not arbitrary.

00:11:17.100 It seems intentional, but it seems selective.

00:11:20.780 And there's a conclusion to draw from this.

00:11:23.060 One, 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. 0.68

00:11:38.160 But two, it is a reminder to behave yourself. 0.84

00:11:44.240 It's a reminder to avoid temptations to this weird sex stuff.

00:11:49.200 And 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.

00:11:58.540 No, come on. 0.85

00:11:59.160 You need to loosen up, man.

00:12:00.820 It's the age of Aquarius.

00:12:01.980 Yes, 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.

00:12:07.900 It's compromise is really what they're getting.

00:12:10.920 I 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.

00:12:21.080 And then they can use it against you when you step out of line.

00:12:25.300 It's compromise, plain and simple.

00:12:27.160 So as a general rule, you know, stick on the right side of things, like behave yourself.

00:12:32.920 But 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.

00:12:50.000 Even if some of these allegations are true, that is not the standard by which political appointees are judged.

00:12:55.740 And the libs are not bringing these accusations in good faith.

00:13:00.300 And 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.

00:13:06.320 And then we should fix the culture and have the culture stop encouraging it.

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00:14:16.580 All right, one last bit on weird sex stuff.

00:14:18.400 There's a story out of South Jersey, the area, coincidentally, where I was conceived.

00:14:24.720 South Jersey has just turned to the ABC News investigative team because she says she was the target of a malicious online attack.

00:14:33.080 Some guy created fake pornography about her. 1.00

00:14:35.700 So 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.

00:14:49.060 And she's rightly upset about this and wants this guy to be held to justice.

00:14:55.900 She learned the images were likely being created by a guy she'd befriended on a social dating app.

00:15:00.140 The same guy she told our investigative team had also had access to her Facebook photos.

00:15:05.260 One 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. 1.00

00:15:14.860 Like, it's disgusting. 0.81

00:15:16.140 Like, how dare you? 0.98

00:15:18.180 This is very, very disgusting.

00:15:20.420 But then it got me thinking, okay, what exactly is the crime here?

00:15:23.960 Because he didn't take photos of her.

00:15:26.360 He didn't secretly record her or anything like that.

00:15:28.900 He took publicly available images of her.

00:15:32.500 Maybe it's a warning for women not to post all their pictures online. 0.68

00:15:35.020 But 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.

00:15:43.520 But it's just an artistic depiction.

00:15:47.600 An obscene artistic depiction, but it's not an actual photograph.

00:15:50.800 I 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?

00:16:03.620 How would it be different?

00:16:04.820 It's just an artistic rendering of something from his imagination based on a real person.

00:16:09.200 How is it different?

00:16:09.860 And so, a few ways that they're different.

00:16:12.020 One, oil painting requires skill.

00:16:16.080 Plugging something into Grok or ChatGPT does not require skill.

00:16:19.780 But 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,

00:16:35.960 that guy would be considered the creepiest predator, a true psycho who should probably be locked up in a padded cell, totally ostracized from society.

00:16:49.320 But because he's doing the same thing, just plugging in some pictures into a robot, it's considered somewhat normal.

00:16:59.620 Some people throw their hands up.

00:17:01.040 They say, oh, there's nothing we can do about this.

00:17:02.360 Oh, well, that's just how it works.

00:17:03.460 That is really spooky.

00:17:07.960 That is really creepy that we could normalize this kind of behavior.

00:17:11.820 And deepfake pornography is now a ubiquitous problem.

00:17:15.360 For years, law enforcement has been warning about this.

00:17:18.020 So what do you do about it?

00:17:19.600 The only thing you can do is you can try to put some limits on the technology, which would be a good thing to do.

00:17:25.060 Libertarians might not like it, but that's a good thing to do. 0.97

00:17:27.640 And you need to pass laws criminalizing this stuff, which the libertarians also might not like.

00:17:32.740 And the liberals might not like, but you have to do that.

00:17:35.120 And I know that the sophomoric response to that from the libs is going to be, well, who's it hurting?

00:17:42.980 You know, what does it matter what you do in the privacy of your own?

00:17:45.020 Well, it's hurting this person who's being depicted, I think.

00:17:51.120 I think the person who's being depicted ought to have some legal recourse and not have these realistic-looking images of herself out there. 0.94

00:17:57.820 It'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.

00:18:10.540 You know, that's bad for him. 0.89

00:18:11.560 And 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.

00:18:21.260 That's just my view.

00:18:22.320 Call me old-fashioned.

00:18:23.900 And it's bad for society because the individual participates in society. 0.55

00:18:28.560 So if you have a society of perverts, you're not going to have a good country. 0.94

00:18:32.440 And 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? 1.00

00:18:42.740 So for all of those reasons and more, we've got to cut this stuff out.

00:18:48.760 And 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.

00:18:54.360 There 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.

00:19:03.640 Now, speaking of young women, Caitlin Clark, the lady basketball player, has just been named the Time Athlete of the Year.

00:19:13.900 And I know there are a lot of conservatives who are placing some hope in Caitlin Clark.

00:19:18.980 Seems like a nice girl.

00:19:20.560 I believe she was Jesuit educated.

00:19:22.040 Seems perfectly lovely.

00:19:25.340 Some have even suggested maybe she's kind of conservative. 0.96

00:19:29.480 Well, 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.

00:19:41.760 I 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.

00:19:48.000 And 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.

00:19:54.800 But also, I grew up a fan of this league from a very young age.

00:19:58.060 Like, my favorite player was Maya Moore.

00:19:59.680 Like, I know what this league was about.

00:20:01.700 And like I said, like, it's only been around 25-plus years.

00:20:04.500 So, 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.

00:20:11.160 And that's something I'm very aware of.

00:20:13.700 And like I said, like, I try to just be real and authentic and, you know, share my truth.

00:20:18.040 And I think that's very easy for me.

00:20:19.420 Like, I'm very comfortable in my own skin.

00:20:21.000 And that's kind of been how it is my entire life.

00:20:25.120 Yes.

00:20:26.920 She gets the applause, but she's getting the applause speaking in a pretty liberal way.

00:20:31.840 Even 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.

00:20:41.960 That's pretty lib.

00:20:43.360 Elsewhere, in Time Magazine, it says, Clark is cognizant of the racial underpinnings of her stardom.

00:20:48.900 I want to say I've earned every single thing, but as a white person, there is privilege.

00:20:53.440 A lot of those players in the league that have been really good have been black players.

00:20:56.840 This league has been built on them, you know, all this stuff.

00:20:58.500 We need to elevate black women, black good, white bad, all this seems kind of lib. 1.00

00:21:01.920 Now, you might say, look, she's speaking the language, paese ki vai uzanzi ki trovi, you know, you've got to be all things to all men.

00:21:11.200 But at a certain point, where does that leave you?

00:21:15.520 She's using the language of libs.

00:21:17.160 She's spending all her time around libs. 0.70

00:21:19.020 She's in a field that is intrinsically liberal.

00:21:23.680 It's probably going to leave you a lib.

00:21:26.180 And this is a broader observation that I think is important for everyone to consider.

00:21:31.460 If you spend your life in and around libs all the time, you are most likely going to end up a lib.

00:21:37.920 Or a conservative, if you spend your time all around conservatives.

00:21:42.300 Or a Zoroastrian, if you spend your time all around Zoroastrians. 1.00

00:21:46.020 Human beings are mimetic. 0.97

00:21:47.300 We imitate each other.

00:21:48.140 We imitate each other's behaviors and desires and beliefs.

00:21:54.140 And we're mimetic creatures.

00:21:56.360 This is also why sometimes you have a real firebrand politician.

00:22:00.440 Goes to Washington, D.C. to change Washington.

00:22:02.780 What happens?

00:22:03.420 Washington changes the politician.

00:22:04.900 A tale as old as time.

00:22:06.500 A tale as old as the country, at least.

00:22:08.660 Well, what happened?

00:22:09.720 You were changed.

00:22:10.660 Yeah, that's what happens.

00:22:13.760 Inevitably, actually.

00:22:15.460 You just acclimate to your environments.

00:22:20.200 That's true.

00:22:20.520 Which is why it's so important to create conservative institutions.

00:22:24.280 Which is why it's so important to uphold standards and norms for a conservative culture.

00:22:28.320 You 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.

00:22:42.960 You know, it's not, no one should be surprised when that happens.

00:22:47.620 We 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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00:24:12.340 My favorite comment yesterday is from the Drummer's Workshop, Norm's Music.

00:24:16.140 It 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.

00:24:24.920 Well, no, that's not true.

00:24:26.900 The left would have loved him even more.

00:24:29.020 In this case, the Libs love Luigi because he allegedly murdered a healthcare executive.

00:24:33.660 Had Luigi murdered the Mango Mussolini, then Luigi would be a national hero, an international hero to the left. 0.87

00:24:40.240 It wouldn't be a hero to most Americans, most of whom support Trump.

00:24:45.220 But, oh man, if he'd gone after Trump, they'd love him even more.

00:24:49.920 Now, speaking of death, assisted suicide is now the cause of one in 20 deaths in Canada.

00:24:56.500 5% 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.

00:25:10.200 Most of the recipients are older adults, 96%, with a median age of 77.

00:25:16.580 Well, hold on.

00:25:18.360 Median age of 77, that's really actually not all that high.

00:25:21.460 These days, people live into their 80s, sometimes 90s or 100.

00:25:26.740 77, that's actually younger than I would have expected.

00:25:29.400 And that's the median, which means half of them are younger.

00:25:33.740 Half of the older adults are younger.

00:25:37.480 Well, what about the 4% who were not older adults with a median age of 77?

00:25:41.960 How old were they?

00:25:42.900 50, 40, 30, 25?

00:25:46.800 Yikes.

00:25:47.240 We'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.

00:26:00.000 It's the opposite.

00:26:00.620 It's the worst kind of death.

00:26:01.880 It is the single worst kind of death you can suffer, a death at your own hand, a vile, evil way to die.

00:26:08.260 A good death is a death where you have some notice, where you can prepare your soul, prepare to meet your maker, surrounded by loved ones.

00:26:17.960 That's a good death.

00:26:18.700 That's what our civilization has considered a good death for many, many centuries.

00:26:22.080 Not anymore.

00:26:22.580 Now 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.

00:26:31.300 The number just keeps growing, doesn't it?

00:26:35.460 Since the establishment of MAID, medical assistance in dying in Canada, that was in 2016, more than 60,000 people have killed themselves.

00:26:44.780 More people have killed themselves in other ways, but they've killed themselves through MAID.

00:26:49.120 4.7%, about 1 in 20 of all deaths in the country.

00:26:53.280 This is one of the real moral hazards of assisted suicide.

00:26:56.500 Assisted suicide or any kind of suicide is wrong because it violates the natural law.

00:27:01.300 It is contrary to one's own good.

00:27:03.940 It 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.

00:27:16.400 It's contrary to the most basic aspect of the natural law, which is to do good and avoid evil.

00:27:20.880 It's an offense to God because God gave you your life.

00:27:23.640 Even if you don't believe in God, you have to admit you didn't make your own life.

00:27:26.960 You're not responsible for your own life.

00:27:29.300 You don't own your own life.

00:27:31.640 It is a gift that was given to you, and you don't get to keep it forever.

00:27:35.100 You 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.

00:27:42.680 This is one of the many moral hazards, though, of assisted suicide, even beyond why it's intrinsically wrong.

00:27:49.800 People 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.

00:27:59.540 Now, this person doesn't exist.

00:28:01.940 If there's one thing modern medical science has figured out, it's how to manage pain.

00:28:06.040 We're pretty good at that.

00:28:09.020 Now, not perfect, but we're pretty good at that.

00:28:12.420 But 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.

00:28:21.700 No, no, that's not it at all.

00:28:23.200 Not the numbers we're seeing.

00:28:24.280 The problem with assisted suicide, one of the problems with assisted suicide is not that a few people are going to kill themselves every year.

00:28:34.800 It's that everyone's going to kill themselves eventually.

00:28:38.120 The problem, one of the problems with assisted, I have to keep saying one of the problems because there are many problems with it.

00:28:42.120 But 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.

00:28:51.240 No, that number is still growing in Canada.

00:28:53.300 It's only been around a handful of years.

00:28:55.520 The 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.

00:29:06.060 This is like The Giver.

00:29:07.740 If you've ever read the book, The Giver, everyone just kind of gets killed by a doctor in the end.

00:29:13.740 It's so normalized, it's expected.

00:29:15.760 And 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.

00:29:22.120 And this particular political climate, it's understandable why people would be a little depressed.

00:29:29.100 People who live in a culture of despair and a culture of death increasingly are going to be inclined to kill themselves.

00:29:34.300 And that's going to be the way we do it. 0.88

00:29:35.300 We're going to kill ourselves if this keeps up. 0.89

00:29:39.200 We often talk about the suicide of the West. 0.97

00:29:41.100 This will be the literal instantiation of it.

00:29:43.920 Speaking of despair, Rosie O'Donnell is blaming Donald Trump for giving her herpes.

00:29:49.080 Well, hey, everybody, it's Friday all day, as my Nana would say.

00:29:55.400 And look what I have on my lip.

00:29:57.560 Everybody's been saying, you have herpes, you have herpes, all this time.

00:30:00.840 And I never had a cold sore in my life.

00:30:03.200 And now I have a cold sore.

00:30:05.020 And it makes me think that perhaps this weird pimple that had a tiny little head was a cold sore, too. 0.52

00:30:11.060 And so I talked to my doctor today, and I did a video telehealth.

00:30:16.620 And they said that it's not a cold sore.

00:30:22.160 It's some reaction to the sun.

00:30:23.940 Now, I did sit in the sun yesterday, but I had sunscreen on.

00:30:27.480 So I don't know.

00:30:28.360 I will let you know tomorrow if I do, in fact, have herpes as some of the taunting from the MAGA people in the last couple of weeks.

00:30:39.140 Hasn't it been fun, ladies and gentlemen, to be standing in direct opposition to everything he is and represents?

00:30:48.320 And always have been.

00:30:50.580 And always will be.

00:30:54.300 Okay, hold on.

00:30:55.040 It was a little bit difficult to track her logic there at the end.

00:30:57.840 So I don't think she's saying that Trump and the MAGA people gave her herpes.

00:31:03.500 Though if it's some kind of reaction to stress or anxiety, I guess then she could blame it on Trump.

00:31:09.140 But she might just be blaming Trump and the MAGA people for the mockery that she's receiving at the prospect that she might have herpes.

00:31:19.160 Or I don't know.

00:31:19.700 It's hard to track.

00:31:20.560 But I do know she started out talking about how she has a blister on her lip. 0.94

00:31:24.160 And she ended up talking about how much she hates Trump.

00:31:28.700 And frankly, I think she could have started out talking about any topic.

00:31:32.720 I think she could have started out talking about the New York Mets or gingerbread cookies.

00:31:38.320 And she still would have ended her monologue talking about how much she hates Trump.

00:31:43.620 Because, especially for Rosie O'Donnell, who's feuded with Trump for 20 years now. 0.99

00:31:47.480 But really for the libs broadly.

00:31:49.820 He lives rent-free in their minds.

00:31:53.560 They just keep coming back to Trump.

00:31:55.660 It's just every, it's about him.

00:31:58.280 Everything's about him.

00:31:59.460 The political narrative of the past decade almost now has really been about this guy.

00:32:04.120 Sometimes your politicians say, it's not about me.

00:32:06.400 It's about the people.

00:32:07.140 It's not about me.

00:32:08.000 It's about the climate.

00:32:09.160 It's about this.

00:32:09.740 No.

00:32:10.060 With Trump, it really is just about him.

00:32:12.500 It is about him.

00:32:13.560 That man lives rent-free in their minds.

00:32:18.340 I really like Trump.

00:32:19.400 Obviously, I'm a big supporter of Trump from 2016, 2020, 2024.

00:32:23.260 But I don't think about Trump nearly as much as these people do.

00:32:27.900 I host a political talk show and have for eight or nine years or something at this point.

00:32:34.780 And I still don't think, every day I do my show, I still don't think about Trump as much as these libs do.

00:32:41.820 Astounding.

00:32:42.220 Now, speaking of conservatism, there's a story that I, look, I really wanted to get to it.

00:32:51.060 I really, really wanted to.

00:32:52.400 I said I was going to talk about it.

00:32:54.520 Yesterday, I said I was going to talk about it tomorrow.

00:32:56.680 And it was about Yale Law School launching the Center for Academic Freedom and Free Speech.

00:33:00.420 And all the conservatives are excited, but they shouldn't be because neither of those things are conservative.

00:33:03.960 But you know what?

00:33:06.000 I've run out of time again.

00:33:07.640 I've run out of time again, and I want to get to the mailbag.

00:33:09.600 It's more important for me to get to the mailbag than to talk about Yale.

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00:35:21.340 Hey, Michael.

00:35:22.040 I'm Josiah and I'm 17.

00:35:23.600 I'm Dominic and I'm 17.

00:35:25.180 And we're really big fans of the show, but we just had a question.

00:35:27.720 We were talking with some friends and we have a friend in class who is a female but pretends to be a male.

00:35:34.780 We don't want to call her by her fake name, but we don't know what her real name is.

00:35:39.280 And we definitely don't want to call her by the false pronouns.

00:35:41.960 But is it all right to call her by her fake name, Miles?

00:35:46.100 What would be an alternative if we didn't want to call her by her fake name?

00:35:49.960 Anyway, thank you.

00:35:50.660 We really appreciate it.

00:35:51.580 Yeah, thank you.

00:35:52.040 God bless you.

00:35:53.240 Thank you.

00:35:53.740 Really good question, guys.

00:35:54.760 And one that doesn't have an easy answer because you don't know her real name.

00:36:00.700 I guess what I would do if I were in your shoes.

00:36:05.380 It would be very difficult for me to use the fake name Miles.

00:36:09.300 If she were going by Skyler or something, maybe you could because some names are ambiguous.

00:36:16.240 Even like Evelyn or Evelyn, you know, Evelyn Wall.

00:36:19.260 But Miles, that's a fellow's name.

00:36:21.660 There's no doubt about that.

00:36:22.780 And 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.

00:36:33.220 But 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.

00:36:43.160 So 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.

00:36:53.820 Certainly, you wouldn't use the pronouns.

00:36:54.960 So what would you do?

00:36:57.160 If it were me, I would avoid using the name.

00:37:03.780 Or I would, I don't know, maybe use the last name if you can.

00:37:10.640 I don't know if her name is Millie Smith or something. 0.96

00:37:14.180 You'd say, oh, yes, the lovely Smith over there, you know, or something. 0.71

00:37:17.100 It's very difficult.

00:37:18.160 It's very awkward.

00:37:18.780 This is why this is one of those issues that's so polarized and polarizing is you can't even speak about it.

00:37:27.620 When you speak about it, you are taking a side.

00:37:31.240 I 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.

00:37:41.240 But we were chatting and we were talking about Bruce Jenner or something like that.

00:37:47.080 And 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.

00:37:55.560 It was very awkward.

00:37:56.440 You actually can't speak.

00:37:59.120 And whichever one gives up first on the name and the pronouns is implicitly conceding the debate.

00:38:06.000 So I would, in charity, but in justice also, I would avoid the name.

00:38:11.520 Hey, you.

00:38:12.540 Next one.

00:38:13.920 Hi, Michael.

00:38:14.460 It's the Shuckmeister. 0.87

00:38:15.960 Since assisted suicide is being pushed, I would like to ask if it's at all possible to have a death with dignity by your own hand.

00:38:23.460 Now, I'm a Catholic.

00:38:24.720 I believe it's deeply mortally sinful in union with the catechism.

00:38:28.220 However, a little known Catholic poet you might have heard of called Dante has a bit of a nuanced take.

00:38:34.220 The 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.

00:38:42.860 He's not condemned to the circle of violence against self.

00:38:46.040 In some ways, he's venerated by Dante, guarding the foot of Mount Purgatory.

00:38:50.120 This is especially confusing because Dante has a strong respect to Caesar in his writings.

00:38:55.160 Why do you think it is?

00:38:56.320 And did people like Cato or even Socrates die with dignity by their own hand?

00:39:00.840 It's a very, very good question.

00:39:04.100 A very challenging question.

00:39:05.740 But my answer is, I think Dante used a little poetic license here.

00:39:11.140 The issue is Dante puts the suicides in hell very clearly.

00:39:14.400 And their skin has been cast off.

00:39:17.460 And it's on all these gross like trees.

00:39:19.640 And because they just get, they had no care for their bodies in life.

00:39:22.500 But he puts Cato, who is an exemplar of liberty for Dante, in purgatory.

00:39:28.360 He's guarding Mount Purgatory.

00:39:29.700 And Cato also killed himself rather than see the total collapse of the Roman Republic.

00:39:34.600 So what do we make sense of that?

00:39:35.560 Well, Dante is focusing on an aspect of Cato, his defense of liberty.

00:39:40.600 And he's not really answering for the suicide.

00:39:44.080 You know, St. Augustine deals with this issue too.

00:39:47.080 Is Cato, is it good?

00:39:48.360 Is it defensible that he kills himself in defense of liberty?

00:39:50.500 Or is it disreputable?

00:39:53.680 And Augustine's very clear.

00:39:55.200 He says, no, it's bad.

00:39:56.580 Don't defend him for killing himself.

00:39:58.040 That's wrong.

00:39:59.200 But St. Augustine is writing a work of theology.

00:40:01.300 Dante is writing an epic poem that contains a lot of theology.

00:40:03.980 But it's about more than theology.

00:40:05.420 And so I would say it's poetic license.

00:40:07.740 And not in any way defense of suicide.

00:40:10.400 Next question.

00:40:12.100 Hi, Michael.

00:40:12.640 My name is Josephine.

00:40:13.640 And I'm a Jew living in Romania.

00:40:15.640 My husband and I are currently going through IVF.

00:40:18.260 And I've been struggling with the bioethical dilemmas of the disposal of unused embryos.

00:40:22.980 Correct me if I'm wrong.

00:40:24.940 But Christians believe that since life begins at conception, the disposal of unused embryos is tantamount to murder.

00:40:31.640 Us Jews have a different perspective.

00:40:33.260 And I'm curious to hear your opinion.

00:40:35.540 In Judaism, we believe that IVF is okay, provided that the sperm and the egg be from the husband and wife. 0.95

00:40:41.060 And thus they frown upon surrogates, egg, and sperm donors.

00:40:45.220 Thank God that's not something my husband and I are doing.

00:40:48.220 We are using my egg and his sperm. 0.81

00:40:50.600 But because of fertility issues, we are unable to conceive naturally.

00:40:54.800 Secondly, for life to begin, you require the egg, the sperm, and the womb. 0.98

00:40:59.980 Without the womb, it is not yet alive.

00:41:01.860 The 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.

00:41:12.460 I 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.

00:41:24.640 What do you think of this perspective from a comparative religious view?

00:41:28.240 Thanks for all that you do.

00:41:29.400 Love the show.

00:41:29.960 Really good question.

00:41:31.400 Sorry to hear about your fertility struggles.

00:41:34.140 I don't think that argument quite holds up.

00:41:37.720 You rightly recognize that there are bioethical issues for IVF.

00:41:42.360 I know it's tempting.

00:41:44.120 I would discourage you from doing IVF.

00:41:46.800 I would encourage you to try other methods.

00:41:48.900 They tried to sell my wife and me IVF for two years.

00:41:52.700 And they really push it, and they make it seem like that's the only option.

00:41:55.780 And it's not.

00:41:56.360 Two years in, we got our first kid.

00:41:59.640 Now we've had a couple more since then, and it was through other methods.

00:42:04.380 For my wife, she ended up taking a shot for a week, a self-administered shot, and that was it.

00:42:08.360 So I'm not saying that will work for you, but this is how they lure you in.

00:42:12.000 They say, it's the only way.

00:42:12.740 You won't have a kid.

00:42:13.640 No big deal.

00:42:14.420 Yeah, there are some bioethical problems, but who cares?

00:42:17.460 The ends justify the means, and it's all sorts of moral reasoning that is weak.

00:42:21.160 But the weakness of your comparison here is you say, look, in order for a child to grow, you need the sperm and the egg.

00:42:28.780 But you need a womb. 1.00

00:42:29.840 You need an environment for the baby to grow in.

00:42:32.520 So if you create the child outside the womb, if you deny the womb to the child, then you have no obligation to keep the child alive.

00:42:41.440 Now, there are other problems here.

00:42:43.340 Because in order to procure the sperm, you might need your husband to engage in an intrinsically evil action.

00:42:51.420 So that would complicate the ethics here, right?

00:42:56.000 And you would have to undergo some invasive surgery.

00:42:58.120 You say that the sperm and the egg have to be joined from a husband and a wife. 0.81

00:43:01.560 But there are mix-ups at the IVF factory all the time.

00:43:05.140 Happens frequently.

00:43:06.840 So, you know, you might end up in a case where you've got a kid who has a mother and a father who don't even know each other.

00:43:12.340 Or where you have a baby who's been implanted in the wrong woman.

00:43:14.640 These things happen.

00:43:15.220 They're in court right now.

00:43:16.920 So that would complicate the ethics there.

00:43:18.620 But let's say you actually did get a husband and a wife and the sperm and the egg together.

00:43:21.960 But you say, look, I'm going to deny this baby.

00:43:24.480 I've conceived this baby outside the womb, which is naturally impossible.

00:43:27.540 But using a little wizardry, we did it. 0.99

00:43:29.900 But I'm going to deny the baby the womb so it's okay to kill the baby. 1.00

00:43:32.580 Well, 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.

00:43:40.680 If the baby is left exposed on the street, the baby is going to die within a matter of hours at most.

00:43:45.760 So is it okay then to leave the baby on the street, a newborn baby?

00:43:50.180 You have a newborn baby, but you're going to deny the baby the home just as you would deny the embryo, the womb.

00:43:54.500 You're going to leave them out there and look, nature's going to run its course.

00:43:57.420 Are you not morally culpable for that?

00:43:58.880 Of course you would be.

00:43:59.900 If you'd left a little baby out to die of exposure, of course you would be.

00:44:02.940 So I don't mean for my advice to be in any way harsh, but I think that the – I've never heard a compelling ethical argument for IVF.

00:44:13.280 And I've heard many, many good arguments as to why it's not acceptable.

00:44:16.960 And the only arguments I've heard for it are that it's – people want it.

00:44:20.800 They really want a kid, which is a natural longing.

00:44:23.100 But I don't think that an end – no matter how good the end is, I don't think that justifies immoral means.

00:44:28.460 Next question.

00:44:29.980 For the last few years, conservatives have been saying, look at how bad the inflation is under Joe Biden.

00:44:34.700 Think about how much worse it could get under Kamala Harris. 0.97

00:44:37.220 That's why we need Donald Trump in the White House.

00:44:39.800 But now all of a sudden conservatives like yourself are saying, oh, it's not about the prices.

00:44:44.480 They're going to get worse under Trump, of course, because of the tariffs.

00:44:47.380 But he's going to create long-term sustainability.

00:44:49.640 Ah, long-term sustainability.

00:44:51.200 This seems to be a massive goal shift to me.

00:44:53.360 And 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.

00:45:03.660 Are 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?

00:45:14.400 And if that's going to run counter to our electoral goals, the fight for long-term sustainability is going to be moot point anyway.

00:45:21.720 So which is it?

00:45:22.640 What should we be arguing for?

00:45:24.220 Thanks.

00:45:24.960 I don't think there's any contradiction at all here.

00:45:26.880 I don't think Trump has hit the ball on this at all.

00:45:29.000 Just consider the deportations.

00:45:31.600 Trump says he's going to deport 10 million people.

00:45:35.620 You deport 10 million people, that is going to cause labor costs to rise, especially 10 million people, many of whom are practically indentured servants.

00:45:41.900 That is going to cause labor costs to rise. 0.96

00:45:43.760 It doesn't take an economist to realize that.

00:45:45.860 So those costs were going to go up.

00:45:47.820 If Trump ran on tariffs, he said, I'm going to slap tariffs.

00:45:51.200 He was very open about tariffs, and he used tariffs in the first term.

00:45:54.020 That 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.

00:46:02.340 So I don't think he's hit the ball at all.

00:46:05.580 The difference here is that the Democrats brought us inflation because of their irresponsibility.

00:46:11.920 Short-term loss and long-term loss.

00:46:15.680 Trump has plenty of economic measures that will reduce certain costs in the short term, like unleashing American energy, just to use one important example.

00:46:24.800 But 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.

00:46:36.280 So you have the Democrats, short-term bad, long-term worse because of their irresponsibility.

00:46:44.340 For Trump, you have short-term, maybe it's a mixed bag, long-term better because of his responsibility.

00:46:50.440 Those are not the same things.

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The Michael Knowles Show - December 13, 2024

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