The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 1639 - Biggest Lie Of The Year

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00:00:37.680 As we wrap up the strangest year in recent political history, maybe in all of American political history,

00:00:44.280 unidentified drones spread to more major American cities, Disney abandons transgenderism,

00:00:50.580 and a financial asset called Fartcoin has hit an $800 million market cap.

00:00:57.800 I'm Michael Knowles.

00:00:58.420 This is The Michael Knowles Show.

00:00:59.220 Welcome back to the show.

00:01:19.400 There's a new poll out asked young Americans whether or not they think the assassination

00:01:23.500 of the UnitedHealthcare CEO was justified, and more people said yes than said no.

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00:02:03.000 As we wrap up the year, PolitiFact has given out its award for the lie of the year, and

00:02:08.660 there were some real doozies in 2024.

00:02:11.200 I'm sure you could list off the top of your head 10 of the biggest lies easily, and PolitiFact

00:02:17.560 didn't pick any of them.

00:02:18.600 Do you know what PolitiFact chose for the lie of the year?

00:02:23.900 A lie marked a town and its residence in the name of campaign rage.

00:02:29.320 It was absurd.

00:02:31.020 It was consequential.

00:02:33.620 Our lie of the year goes to Donald Trump and J.D. Vance for false claims that Haitian

00:02:40.460 immigrants in Springfield, Ohio, were eating pet dogs and cats. 1.00

00:02:46.080 That's the lie of the year.

00:02:47.120 Now, gotta love Community Notes, which came in after Elon purchased Twitter.

00:02:53.920 Community Notes points out, back in March of 2024, residents of Springfield were complaining

00:03:00.680 about missing pets.

00:03:02.420 There were 911 calls about missing pets.

00:03:05.380 Furthermore, this isn't even in the Community Notes.

00:03:07.480 A woman was arrested in Ohio for eating a cat.

00:03:11.680 When she was arrested, she had fur on her mouth. 0.98

00:03:14.780 So maybe it wasn't a totally, maybe it wasn't a precise claim.

00:03:18.340 Maybe it was.

00:03:19.160 I don't, but you tell me regardless.

00:03:20.700 That's the lie of the year?

00:03:24.680 That's the defining lie or the most egregious lie?

00:03:27.660 I don't know.

00:03:28.320 I've got some other contenders.

00:03:30.660 Do you remember, for instance, when Joe Scarborough on MSNBC, echoing the entire liberal establishment

00:03:36.100 all the way up to the White House, said this about Joe Biden?

00:03:39.240 Start your tape right now, because I'm about to tell you the truth.

00:03:44.000 And F you if you can't handle the truth.

00:03:47.760 This version of Biden, intellectually, analytically, is the best Biden ever.

00:03:56.680 Not a close second.

00:03:57.920 And I've known him for years.

00:03:59.560 The Brzezinskis have known him for 50 years.

00:04:01.980 If it weren't the truth, I wouldn't say it.

00:04:04.640 Joe Scarborough said that four months before Joe Biden dropped out of the presidential race

00:04:09.820 because of his dementia.

00:04:11.380 So that would be a pretty good one.

00:04:14.420 It wasn't just Scarborough.

00:04:16.180 It was the whole liberal media.

00:04:17.420 It was the whole Democrat establishment.

00:04:18.840 It was Kamala.

00:04:19.460 It went all the way up to the White House.

00:04:21.300 Scarborough just put himself out on that limb the furthest, I guess.

00:04:25.960 Four months later, Biden steps down because his brain doesn't work anymore.

00:04:29.160 OK, that might be the lie of the year.

00:04:30.500 Hey, I got another contender.

00:04:31.620 Here's another contender for the lie of the year.

00:04:33.760 This one from Joe Biden himself.

00:04:36.620 As we sit here in Normandy, your son Hunter is on trial.

00:04:40.540 And I know that you cannot speak about an ongoing federal prosecution.

00:04:45.760 But let me ask you, will you accept the jury's outcome, their verdict, no matter what it is?

00:04:51.520 Yes.

00:04:52.500 And have you ruled out a pardon for your son?

00:04:54.920 Yes.

00:04:56.020 Yes.

00:04:57.140 I have ruled out a pardon for my son.

00:04:59.400 And that was six months before Joe Biden gave Hunter Biden the most sweeping, comprehensive pardon in American presidential history.

00:05:08.740 Seems like that could be a contender for lie of the year, wouldn't you say?

00:05:12.060 But no, no.

00:05:13.940 Trump and Vance mentioned police reports that had come up in a town in Ohio.

00:05:20.060 That might have been true, seemed like they very well could have been true.

00:05:25.520 We know that that exact crime actually did occur in Ohio around that time.

00:05:30.800 Hmm.

00:05:31.140 I would put those ahead.

00:05:35.080 I don't know.

00:05:35.760 I don't think it's just my partisanship.

00:05:37.720 In fact, I think it's probably PolitiFact's partisanship.

00:05:40.860 Now, there's another big story coming out.

00:05:45.260 Another big whopper, actually, I guess.

00:05:46.900 This was a story out of Aurora, Colorado.

00:05:51.540 Police have arrested 14 people in an apartment complex that is run by the Trende Aragua Venezuelan gang.

00:05:57.820 And if you want to go through the lies of the year, you might go back a little bit to when Martha Raddatz on ABC News was interviewing then-vice presidential candidate J.D. Vance.

00:06:07.340 J.D. Vance pointed out that this Venezuelan gang had taken over a town in Colorado.

00:06:12.520 Martha Raddatz said, hey, cut it out, fact check, 10 billion Pinocchios, no big deal. 1.00

00:06:19.280 How dare you suggest that, J.D. Vance?

00:06:21.980 What we're hearing, of course, Martha, is that people are terrified by what has happened with some of these Venezuelan gangs.

00:06:28.220 Senator Vance, I'm going to stop you because I know exactly what happened.

00:06:31.460 I'm going to stop you.

00:06:32.420 The incidents were limited to a handful of apartment complexes.

00:06:37.780 It's apartment complexes, and the mayor said our dedicated police officers have acted on those concerns.

00:06:44.240 A handful of problems.

00:06:47.220 Only, Martha, do you hear yourself?

00:06:49.840 Only a handful of apartment complexes in America were taken over by Venezuelan gangs, and Donald Trump is the problem and not Kamala Harris's open border.

00:06:58.940 Americans are so fed up with what's going on, and they have every right to be.

00:07:03.180 I love J.D.'s reaction here.

00:07:04.900 Martha, do you hear yourself?

00:07:06.480 But that was it.

00:07:07.000 I'm going to stop you there.

00:07:08.900 I'm going to stop you there, J.D.

00:07:10.620 Okay, a very small number of apartment complexes.

00:07:13.180 Maybe we're briefly taken over by Venezuelan gangs and everything. 1.00

00:07:16.080 But the police have totally taken care of it.

00:07:18.160 It's no big deal.

00:07:18.860 It's not a problem.

00:07:19.520 It doesn't exist.

00:07:20.220 Move along, move along.

00:07:21.060 That's how it started.

00:07:21.860 Then, yesterday, police arrested 14 people in one of the apartment complexes that had reports of armed Venezuelan gangsters marauding through the hallways.

00:07:34.500 They were responding to an armed home invasion in one of the apartments in which the victims were kidnapped and then held hostage, and one of them was stabbed by, allegedly, the Venezuelan gangsters.

00:07:48.100 So, I don't think that's the top lie of the year, Martha Raddatz and the libs denying that Kamala Harris' open border had allowed a Venezuelan gang to take over a town.

00:07:58.840 But it's a good runner-up.

00:08:01.340 I think the first two winners belong to Joe Biden and the people around Joe Biden.

00:08:06.780 It does not help Democrats when their lies become implausible.

00:08:12.520 Democrats lie.

00:08:13.480 I think they lie more often and more egregiously than Republicans.

00:08:16.360 But Republicans lie sometimes, too.

00:08:18.040 It's politics.

00:08:18.720 People spin.

00:08:19.320 People stretch the truth.

00:08:20.440 I get it.

00:08:22.060 That can be effective if your lies are plausible.

00:08:26.920 That is not effective when your lies become implausible.

00:08:31.020 When you go out there and you say, my policy is going to help the American economy, and even if it doesn't, even if inflation goes up or even if GDP goes down a little bit, you could at least still maybe make the argument and say, no, it's actually working to help fix the deficit.

00:08:45.480 Or, I don't know, this tax credit helped you in this particular way.

00:08:48.820 There are ways to spin it where you can convince the American people that something is true, even if it isn't.

00:08:53.620 But when you go up to the American people and you say, hey, the guy who can't speak, who's drooling, who's about 150 years old, oh, he's as sharp as ever.

00:09:02.660 This is intellectually the best version of this politician we've ever seen.

00:09:05.900 That is not plausible.

00:09:07.860 You are insulting people's intelligence.

00:09:10.060 The people are going to conclude either that you have no idea what you're talking about or that you're lying to them.

00:09:15.960 Either way, they're going to say, you have very poor judgment, and I'm not going to trust you anymore.

00:09:19.740 That's what happened.

00:09:21.720 That's the big conclusion.

00:09:23.580 That's how you know the Democrats are responsible for the lie of the year.

00:09:26.240 They're really responsible for the lie of the year because they got clobbered, okay?

00:09:33.660 The people were sick of those lies, all the way down to the basic lie of a man can become a woman, which was a culture war issue that really played in Republicans' favor this year.

00:09:43.160 It was all just evidence that the Dems had lost the common sense.

00:09:47.640 You saw this at Disney.

00:09:49.920 Disney just came out with a huge culture-shaking story yesterday, and I feel a lot of people did not actually pay attention to it.

00:09:58.120 Disney has this new original series.

00:10:00.800 It's Pixar's first-ever original series.

00:10:03.100 It's called Win or Lose.

00:10:04.800 And Win or Lose, according to Variety, the trade paper, had a trans storyline in it.

00:10:11.760 This from Variety.

00:10:13.080 Win or Lose was originally set to feature a transgender storyline that ended up being cut by Disney, Variety has learned.

00:10:20.920 And what did a spokesman for Disney say?

00:10:22.700 This is on the record.

00:10:24.460 When it comes to animated content for a younger audience, we recognize that many parents would prefer to discuss certain subjects with their children on their own terms and timeline.

00:10:35.060 Since when?

00:10:36.360 Since when did you realize that?

00:10:37.960 We have been saying that to you, Disney, for years.

00:10:40.860 We've been saying that to you, public elementary schools, for years.

00:10:44.820 We've been saying that to you, libraries and the whole liberal culture, for years. 0.99

00:10:49.400 And you've said, no, you dirty, rotten parents don't have a right to raise your kids how you want to. 0.99

00:10:53.940 No, you're going to scar them. 1.00

00:10:56.520 You're this kind of phobe. 0.98

00:10:57.960 You're that kind of phobe. 0.98

00:10:58.820 We're going to force all this weird LGBT stuff on your kids from the youngest age possible. 1.00

00:11:03.140 And if your kid wants to start pretending to be the opposite sex, we're going to affirm him in those delusions. 1.00

00:11:07.680 And sometimes we're not even going to tell you about it.

00:11:10.540 Forget about you, parents.

00:11:11.540 You have no right to raise your kids.

00:11:12.860 That was until November.

00:11:14.420 And then in November, there were a whole lot of reasons that Republicans won unified government in a landslide.

00:11:20.220 But one of them, and a lot of people didn't believe me, I said, one of the big reasons is the transgender ideology issue.

00:11:27.500 An issue that I've been paying attention to for quite a while, and I've pointed out must be eradicated from public life entirely, the whole ideology at every level.

00:11:33.420 The reason for that is that the trans issue smuggles in so many premises. 0.99

00:11:40.440 The trans issue is such a political nuclear bomb that if we accept the transgender ideology, then we totally blow up the foundation of our politics. 1.00

00:11:52.140 Our perceptions can no longer be trusted.

00:11:54.860 Our reason can no longer be trusted.

00:11:57.380 We can no longer make any distinctions, including the most natural distinction between a man and a woman. 0.88

00:12:02.620 We lose everything.

00:12:04.280 That's why the libs are so gung-ho about it, is it allows them to toss reason out of politics altogether and turn politics into a manner of sheer interest and the tyranny of one's will, kind of voluntarist politics.

00:12:18.640 That's why they like it so much, but they lost.

00:12:22.520 Okay, the American people broadly rejected that, and now even Disney, as its stock prices has cratered in recent years, even Disney has to say, okay, you know what?

00:12:30.360 We went too far.

00:12:31.940 You're right.

00:12:33.060 We'll throw the trans ideology overboard. 1.00

00:12:35.320 We'll throw the trans activists overboard. 1.00

00:12:37.880 We are not going to win.

00:12:39.120 We're not going to win in the marketplace.

00:12:40.280 We're not going to win at the ballot box if we keep this up.

00:12:44.460 We libs have lost the common sense.

00:12:46.620 The conservatives have it.

00:12:48.420 We need to try to gain it back.

00:12:50.340 There's so much more to say.

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00:14:02.740 Speaking of the culture, Fartcoin now has an $800 million market cap.

00:14:09.760 The value of a new cryptocurrency, which is a meme coin, which is called, and I'm displeased that I have to even say it, but it's the name of this supposed asset.

00:14:22.260 It's Fartcoin.

00:14:24.260 $800 million.

00:14:25.100 NBC News points out an $800 million market cap is about equal to Office Depot, to Guess Jeanswear, Guess Jeans that you would buy at the shopping mall.

00:14:39.720 It's about equal to the parent company of Steak and Shake, a major long-standing food company.

00:14:47.320 Now among those mighty companies, we have Fartcoin.

00:14:53.080 How did this happen?

00:14:55.160 It's just a meme.

00:14:57.740 The coin not only doesn't have any value.

00:15:00.660 People think it has value, so in a sense, I mean, if you own some of it, you could trade it.

00:15:04.680 You could cash out before the whole thing collapses, and I guess you'd get some U.S. dollar for it.

00:15:09.920 You'd get some greenbacks, and that way it has value. 1.00

00:15:11.680 But it doesn't have any actual underlying value.

00:15:13.880 How has it jumped so much?

00:15:15.360 Well, it's jumped in part because Bitcoin, the most established cryptocurrency, I don't even know that it's exactly a currency, but it's certainly a type of a digital asset.

00:15:25.900 Bitcoin has jumped 130% this year.

00:15:28.240 More importantly, Bitcoin has jumped 50% in value, in price, I should say, since Trump was elected.

00:15:39.000 The Trump election alone saw Bitcoin shoot up 50%.

00:15:43.980 There's another coin in addition to Bitcoin and all that.

00:15:48.240 I don't really invest in these things all that much, but I was persuaded to buy some LGB coin years ago.

00:15:55.220 Still waiting for that return to come in.

00:15:57.060 Then I put a relatively modest amount of money into Let's Go Brandon coin.

00:16:01.740 I guess LGB could stand for a number of things, but it was Let's Go Brandon, and I was about to become a trillionaire on that, and I put a small amount of money in, and I seem to have lost all of it.

00:16:10.740 That's what happens with meme coins.

00:16:12.940 Maybe that's what will happen with crypto broadly.

00:16:15.340 But there are others.

00:16:15.960 There was one Hawk coin.

00:16:18.220 Not the bird.

00:16:19.200 It refers to Hawk Tua, that girl, Hayley Welch, who went viral for making a lewd comment.

00:16:23.680 Over the course of 24 hours, the Hawk Tua coin market cap hit $500 million, but then it cratered down to $28 million, and people lost basically all their money.

00:16:36.660 And the girl, Hayley Welch, is now being accused of insider trading, although she's denied it.

00:16:41.180 And I kind of believe her.

00:16:42.080 I don't think that Hayley Welch is some financial evil mastermind. 1.00

00:16:48.780 I don't know.

00:16:50.240 Maybe I'm going a little too soft on her.

00:16:51.800 But in any case, the coin was a pump and dump.

00:16:55.020 Whether she knew about it or not, it was a pump and dump.

00:16:57.240 The SEC is right to look into this thing.

00:16:58.920 It raises questions about all sorts of meme coins and crypto broadly.

00:17:04.460 Regardless, though, let's say you've made a ton of money on Bitcoin.

00:17:07.180 There are plenty of people listening to this show who've made an insane amount of money on Bitcoin.

00:17:10.640 I wish I'd made a little bit of that money on Bitcoin.

00:17:13.400 But I'm not losing sleep over it because a lot of the crypto investing, it just feels like gambling.

00:17:21.140 The fact that Bitcoin jumped 50% after Trump's election, to me, is not a great sign about the health of crypto, about the health of the economy, and about the health of the American political order.

00:17:37.020 That's the sort of thing that happens in kleptocracies. 0.98

00:17:39.480 That's the sort of thing that happens in banana republics, where the supposed value of assets, of companies, of investments, jumps or collapses based on jokes, based on memes, and based on elections.

00:17:55.860 That's not how things are supposed to work.

00:17:57.500 The way it's supposed to work is the price, the market cap, is increased because there is an actual increase in the value of the underlying asset.

00:18:10.440 The widget company stock price goes up because the widget company is making and selling more widgets.

00:18:16.940 And there's a long-term strategy for it to make and sell even more widgets.

00:18:22.680 And it employs real people, and it produces real products, and it has real effects in the world.

00:18:30.040 HawkToa coin, Fartcoin, all these other little meme assets, supposed assets, don't have any underlying value.

00:18:38.120 It's just gambling.

00:18:40.220 And that's fine.

00:18:41.280 There's a role for gambling.

00:18:42.600 Gambling has existed in all societies forever.

00:18:45.400 But you don't want these kinds of huge swings.

00:18:48.820 You don't want people, you don't want major financial institutions, just gambling.

00:18:52.380 That's not good.

00:18:53.360 As some friends of mine have pointed out for years now, luck is not a business model.

00:18:57.840 And right now, it seems to me, with our country, we've gone from sober, deep strategic planning in our law, in our political order, in our economy.

00:19:09.020 We've gone from that kind of long-term, sober, serious thinking into just kind of random gambling and making it all up as we go.

00:19:16.820 So that's probably not a good sign for the health of the country.

00:19:20.240 Now, speaking of going bankrupt.

00:19:23.040 There's a news report out.

00:19:24.960 This is from the Irish Star.

00:19:26.100 Now, the Vatican is on the brink of bankruptcy.

00:19:29.160 This, due to a dramatic decline in global donations during the course of this pontificate.

00:19:36.060 Now, the Vatican, even, the enduring institution of our entire civilization, been around for 2,000 years now, still going strong.

00:19:48.080 The gates of hell will not prevail.

00:19:49.440 You know, our Lord will always be with the church, I certainly believe.

00:19:52.160 It doesn't mean the church is immune to the same kind of economic ups and downs that present themselves to all of us.

00:20:00.120 That happens.

00:20:01.560 But this seems a little bit steeper.

00:20:03.100 This seems more than just ripples in the stock market.

00:20:06.760 People are donating a lot less, consistently less, and donating less even than people are expecting.

00:20:13.620 Why is that?

00:20:16.540 Some are going to point fingers.

00:20:17.740 They're going to say it's because of Pope Francis.

00:20:19.580 That's what this article is doing.

00:20:21.220 Some are going to say it's this problem or that problem.

00:20:23.320 They're going to point to all sorts of hobby horses.

00:20:26.260 It seems to me, as a mackerel-snapping papist myself, there is a strange tension right now.

00:20:32.140 It has been for some years between certain elder prelates in the church who are often radical and iconoclastic and even innovative.

00:20:42.840 The kind of people who really celebrated the degradation of the liturgy and the intrusion of electric guitars and maracas and, I don't know, whatever, balloons into the holy liturgy.

00:20:56.120 And the laity, the laity which is younger, at least the really tuned-in laity, younger, which wants orthodoxy and tradition and reverence.

00:21:07.140 I just see it.

00:21:08.220 I go around to churches all around the country.

00:21:10.180 Sometimes I'm traveling on a Sunday or a holy day, and I go in, and I go to traditional Latin mass churches.

00:21:16.280 I go to churches that have the new mass, the mass of Pope Paul VI, but in a more reverent way, ad orientum with chanting, with some more Latin, fewer electric guitars, fewer jokes and vaudeville shows.

00:21:30.180 So I go into those, and then I sometimes go to parishes that are really kind of modern and casual and engage in all sorts of liturgical abuses.

00:21:40.800 And I can't help but notice, the more traditional reverent parishes, they're full of young people, and they're full of really young people, meaning the young people who attend have a lot of kids.

00:21:50.300 They're vibrant.

00:21:51.160 They're crying.

00:21:52.040 You know, if a church isn't crying, it's dying.

00:21:53.680 And I go into the more innovative, modern, hippy-dippy ones, the median age is about 106, and they aren't having kids.

00:22:01.980 And so there's a financial issue here that is raising a broader and inevitable political point.

00:22:11.120 The future of the church, seems to me, will be traditional.

00:22:15.460 One, because the church has the deposit of faith that is sacred scripture with sacred tradition, as St. Paul tells us.

00:22:21.820 But also because the more traditional people, the people who want orthodoxy and truth and beauty and reverence, they're the ones having the kids.

00:22:32.080 So I'm not even just wishcasting here.

00:22:33.760 I'm just saying the future of the church is going to be that, because the other people are not producing the future of the church.

00:22:42.480 So I guess there are two ways it could go.

00:22:43.620 The churches will either become more reverent, more orthodox, more traditional, more beautiful, more of what they are over the course of two millennia, or those churches are going to become mosques or coffee shops, because there aren't going to be Christians to go into them. 0.98

00:23:00.100 Those are the two options.

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00:24:23.120 Speaking of deeply held beliefs, there is a new platform, a new tech platform, for real estate that will show you the political leanings of neighborhoods.

00:24:35.920 And this is going to be really helpful to a lot of people.

00:24:40.400 And you might pretend.

00:24:42.260 You might say, I don't care about the political leanings of my neighbors, but I think you kind of do.

00:24:46.780 I certainly do.

00:24:47.760 I'm not saying I don't want any Democrats on my street, but I want to live in a place where people want to live the way that I want to live.

00:24:57.300 Isn't that why we move to a neighborhood?

00:24:59.140 Isn't that the very essence of community?

00:25:02.060 It's people living in common, having something to do with each other.

00:25:05.660 It takes a village to raise a child.

00:25:06.980 Well, you better make sure you're living in the right village.

00:25:09.440 It really does take a village to raise a child.

00:25:11.320 So make sure you're not living in a village that is totally opposed to your beliefs, that is totally opposed to what you want for your children.

00:25:17.120 Because your kids are not going to turn out the way you hope that they will.

00:25:20.800 This tool is being launched by OISI.

00:25:24.460 Looks like it should be Odyssey, but it says OISI.

00:25:27.160 OISI?

00:25:27.660 I don't know.

00:25:28.020 Whatever.

00:25:28.320 It's some tech startup.

00:25:29.440 It's in South Florida and New York.

00:25:30.800 This is being reported by Axios.

00:25:32.840 Users will be able to see consumer and political data for each block.

00:25:36.760 This will be taken from campaign and election results, campaign contributions, licensable commercial data.

00:25:44.680 You know, we give our data out all the time on our phones, on our computers.

00:25:47.660 So it can get those data, and it can tell you what the neighborhood looks like.

00:25:52.840 This is useful.

00:25:54.420 If I were in the market to buy a house, I'd probably check it out.

00:25:58.500 You want to live with people who want to live the same way as you.

00:26:01.600 Now, you're going to hear people say,

00:26:02.820 well, what do you want to do?

00:26:04.620 You want to live in a kind of segregated community?

00:26:07.420 They're going to use the S word.

00:26:09.080 But in this case, pertaining to politics rather than race or religion or something like that.

00:26:14.800 And why is that?

00:26:15.740 It's because the distinctive characteristic of our age,

00:26:19.680 the really significant characteristic of our age, is politics.

00:26:24.420 It's not really race.

00:26:25.420 In every country around the world, for all of history, there have been racial divisions.

00:26:31.560 Because racial distinctions are real. 0.90

00:26:33.960 But in America today, it's not the most important thing.

00:26:37.160 There have been times when it's been more important.

00:26:38.480 Today, it's not as significant as it once was.

00:26:41.700 Even religion.

00:26:43.180 There have been times in every country around the world, for all of history,

00:26:45.540 where religion was a big dividing line.

00:26:48.080 Today, not so much.

00:26:49.180 I grew up in Westchester, New York.

00:26:51.300 In Westchester, New York, you had a lot of Jews.

00:26:54.320 You had a lot of Catholics. 0.82

00:26:55.480 You had some old wasps.

00:26:57.260 But really, you know what everyone was just about?

00:26:59.960 It was just kind of liberal and basically secular.

00:27:03.180 I'm not denying that there were some people who really practiced the faith, but not much.

00:27:10.260 The Catholics were kind of squishy. 1.00

00:27:12.540 The Jews were reform. 0.86

00:27:14.460 The wasps, I don't, I mean, I don't know.

00:27:16.120 Have the mainstream Protestant churches believed anything in 100 years?

00:27:19.180 I'm not so sure that they have.

00:27:20.960 Everyone did kind of believe the same thing.

00:27:23.160 Even if they, on paper, they had different religious differences.

00:27:26.220 Those distinctions didn't matter that much.

00:27:30.100 So, when people self-segregate in the homes in which they live,

00:27:38.200 the distinctive characteristic will be whatever is most significant at that time.

00:27:42.860 And today, that is politics.

00:27:44.800 It's not really race.

00:27:46.140 It's not really religion.

00:27:47.520 It's not really any of the other factors.

00:27:50.060 It's going to be politics.

00:27:51.920 No wonder this kind of app is going to come out.

00:27:54.340 That's just human nature.

00:27:56.120 There's no, you might say, that's prejudice.

00:27:57.900 That's this, that's that.

00:27:58.900 You can call it whatever you want.

00:28:00.560 That has recurred everywhere for all of human history.

00:28:03.120 It will continue into the future.

00:28:04.720 And it tells us something about what we believe, about how we view ourselves, our relation to the world, our relation to maybe beyond the world, that today the most important thing to people is electoral politics.

00:28:19.380 Now, speaking of shifting political attitudes, there's a poll out from Emerson College, a little bit disturbing.

00:28:26.500 More young Americans believe that the UnitedHealthcare CEO who was assassinated, more young Americans believe that his assassination was justified, then believe it wasn't justified.

00:28:37.660 They polled 18 to 29-year-olds, 41% of them say the murder was either somewhat or completely acceptable.

00:28:46.260 A full 24% of them say it was somewhat acceptable.

00:28:50.640 And then 17% say it was completely acceptable.

00:28:53.660 One in six, almost one in five, young people polled, say that the murder of the healthcare CEO was completely acceptable, simply because, this is a husband and a father, simply because he was the CEO of a healthcare company.

00:29:12.460 I don't even think he was a rich kid growing up.

00:29:14.000 I think he was, in many ways, a self-made man.

00:29:17.320 40% say that the murder was completely or somewhat unacceptable.

00:29:21.720 33% say somewhat unacceptable.

00:29:24.940 Just 7% of young people say that the murder of a health insurance company CEO was completely unacceptable.

00:29:33.200 This should not be surprising at all.

00:29:36.100 It should not be surprising, certainly on the left.

00:29:38.720 Shouldn't even really be surprising on the right.

00:29:41.500 Especially that we're talking about young people here, shouldn't be surprising at all.

00:29:44.820 If you are educated on Karl Marx, if you're educated on Friedrich Nietzsche,

00:29:51.720 if you're educated just on plain old liberalism,

00:29:54.940 then how would you have the moral and ethical architecture to understand why it's wrong to murder this guy just because he runs a company you don't like?

00:30:06.100 Those are the kinds of people that young people are educated on today.

00:30:10.300 They're educated on Marx and his heirs.

00:30:14.780 They're educated on Nietzsche and his heirs. 0.57

00:30:17.020 God is dead.

00:30:17.620 We're going beyond good and evil.

00:30:18.820 There's the Superman.

00:30:19.800 You have to violate the supposed moral norms in order to fulfill your full potential.

00:30:24.040 The tyranny of the will.

00:30:25.100 You're supposed to...

00:30:26.300 And then just plain old liberalism, which is all about me, me, me, me, me.

00:30:31.300 It's all about my rights and my entitlements and the social compact that I've entered into because I'm fundamentally an individual and it's all about me.

00:30:41.320 All right, if that's what you're raised on, why is this wrong?

00:30:45.840 This has been mainstream thinking since the French Revolution, which we are taught today was a great event.

00:30:52.260 The French Revolution is one of the most evil events in the history of the world. 0.98

00:30:55.800 The French Revolution, when these nasty revolutionaries came in, murdered their king and queen, overturned the whole society, spilled zillions of gallons of blood, ultimately ate their own, killed the revolutionaries too, destroyed so much beauty, so much tradition, harassed and murdered so many innocent people.

00:31:21.640 We're told that was good. 0.59

00:31:22.700 Why?

00:31:22.980 Well, because they were after revolution.

00:31:27.000 They had a good end in sight and the good end justified the immoral means.

00:31:32.240 That is universally the moral teaching that we get today in the mainstream culture.

00:31:39.000 Okay, well, if that's all true, if you can behead the queen of France because you think she said something that you don't like, she didn't even say it, you know, let them eat bread or let them eat cake rather.

00:31:53.400 If you can behead the queen of France purely because of envy and recklessness and wrath and pride and all of the deadly sins. 0.90

00:32:03.900 If that's justified, surely killing the CEO of a health insurance company would be justified.

00:32:08.760 Sure, if there's no morality and we're beyond good and evil and we're going to become the Superman and everything we think about the transcendent moral order is just a bunch of bunk and illusions and fairy tales that we tell kids so they're not afraid of the dark.

00:32:20.940 Then why wouldn't you kill the health care CEO if you don't like him?

00:32:26.360 Frankly, I'm proud.

00:32:28.860 I'm gratified to see that 7% of young people still understand that this is always immoral.

00:32:34.460 Wow, in a culture so poorly educated as ours, so confused as ours, a culture after virtue, 7% still understand the truth?

00:32:43.760 That's pretty good.

00:32:45.360 I'm looking at the glass half full.

00:32:46.840 But we've got our work cut out for us.

00:32:49.560 Speaking of harming people through politics, horrible story out of Canada.

00:32:53.920 Another horrible story out of America's Evil Top Hat.

00:32:56.480 Should this be a daily segment on the show?

00:32:58.500 What's going on in America's Evil Top Hat?

00:33:00.380 It seems to get worse by the day.

00:33:01.580 A Canadian woman, woman of a certain age, Roseanne Milburn, 61 years old, needed knee replacement surgery.

00:33:10.920 This is a relatively common surgery.

00:33:14.220 She needed that surgery.

00:33:16.260 She needed it six years ago.

00:33:18.420 But because Canada has a socialist health care system, she had to wait and wait and wait and wait and wait.

00:33:25.360 And her injury got worse and worse and worse.

00:33:28.080 Eventually, her number comes up in the lottery.

00:33:31.720 She gets to have her knee replaced. 1.00

00:33:34.780 And there was dead tissue.

00:33:36.200 Things had started to turn a little bit because the health care system made her wait so long.

00:33:40.220 The government made her wait so long.

00:33:41.680 So they found some dead tissue.

00:33:43.040 They removed the dead tissue.

00:33:44.160 And it was okay.

00:33:44.760 It was a successful surgery.

00:33:45.940 And then they just needed to send her to one more specialist to stitch her up. 0.97

00:33:49.160 They were going to do that later that day.

00:33:50.800 Problem was, she could not be transferred to that specialist who was at the Winnipeg Health Sciences Center

00:33:56.300 because the Winnipeg HSC didn't have any beds available.

00:34:02.560 All the beds were full.

00:34:04.400 So they removed the dead tissue.

00:34:06.300 The surgery had gone pretty well.

00:34:08.120 But this woman had an open wound. 0.99

00:34:11.180 She hadn't been properly stitched up.

00:34:14.520 So they had to wait for a bed.

00:34:16.220 And she waited and she waited and she waited.

00:34:17.680 She waited for eight days at Concordia Hospital where the first part of the procedure was done.

00:34:23.080 Eight days with an open wound in Canada, not in Cuba, not in Madagascar, not in some far-flung third world country.

00:34:38.740 No, no, no, in Canada.

00:34:40.600 Finally, they bring her to the HSC to have her wound stitched up.

00:34:45.200 But it's too late.

00:34:46.620 Now you've got more rotting flesh.

00:34:48.500 And she had to have her leg amputated. 0.98

00:34:50.000 This woman, who was scheduled to have what is considered these days to be a relatively routine procedure six years ago,

00:34:56.720 had to lose her leg because the government just dragged its feet. 1.00

00:35:01.360 The bureaucrats couldn't get her in in time. 0.88

00:35:03.280 Even after they were able to do most of the job, they just didn't, they couldn't find a bed for her. 0.51

00:35:08.820 So she had to lose her leg.

00:35:11.560 This is socialist health care.

00:35:13.980 This is the reality of socialist health care.

00:35:15.560 There are all sorts of complaints about the American health care system.

00:35:19.820 There's all sorts of excuses for murdering the head of an American health insurance company.

00:35:24.960 The U.S. health care is expensive.

00:35:26.320 It's Byzantine.

00:35:27.240 It's got all these sorts of problems.

00:35:29.560 It is much better than that.

00:35:31.940 Even still in America, you don't lose your leg because you're waiting six years for a procedure.

00:35:37.600 You might amass a ton of medical debt.

00:35:40.400 You might have to wait in the emergency room for a little bit.

00:35:43.020 You might, but you're not going to lose your leg over this.

00:35:46.440 And U.S. health care was much better before Barack Obama.

00:35:50.260 Before Obama said he was going to bring premiums down, increase coverage for everyone,

00:35:54.300 and he implemented a health care system much closer to Canada's.

00:35:57.500 Before all that, before that, those big lies of the year,

00:36:01.240 when health care rates actually skyrocketed and American health care is still terrible,

00:36:05.260 so terrible that people are justifying the murder of a health care insurance CEO

00:36:08.060 even after Barack Obama.

00:36:10.860 What is it, 15 years now after Obamacare.

00:36:13.300 But U.S. health care was even better before Obamacare.

00:36:16.340 It's not perfect.

00:36:17.400 There's still plenty of things to complain about, but it's better than this.

00:36:19.560 Why?

00:36:20.120 Why doesn't socialist health care work?

00:36:22.480 Why?

00:36:22.900 Why are there still all these problems?

00:36:24.640 Because there is no avoiding the finitude of resources in time and space.

00:36:30.160 We live in time and space.

00:36:31.340 We pretend we don't.

00:36:32.040 We pretend we're Gnostic spirits floating through the ether or something.

00:36:34.220 We're not.

00:36:34.620 We live in time and space.

00:36:36.040 There is a finitude of resources.

00:36:38.940 So the question is, how do you allocate these resources in a way that is efficient,

00:36:43.680 that gets the job done, and we don't turn into this evil top hat up there called Canada?

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00:37:34.080 Now, my favorite comment yesterday is from that person, 6110, who's referring to a favorite quote, apparently, from me.

00:37:42.280 It's my new favorite MK quote.

00:37:44.780 It is normal for politicians to have an interest in theater because the skills are so similar.

00:37:48.860 You know, it's funny.

00:37:49.560 I guess that sounds funny, but I didn't mean for that to be funny.

00:37:54.700 It's just a fact.

00:37:55.600 The skills actually are similar.

00:37:56.780 When you're in politics and when you're in the theater, you need to be able to communicate well.

00:38:02.980 You need to be able to understand people.

00:38:05.780 You need to have an interest in people.

00:38:08.200 At the best levels of theater and politics, you have to care about the truth.

00:38:11.900 In the theater, living truthfully in imaginary circumstances.

00:38:14.460 In politics, caring about political truths, social truths, economic truths.

00:38:20.300 So I wasn't joking.

00:38:21.600 It sounds funny because it makes politicians sound like vain liars, which at the low end, they are. 0.96

00:38:26.180 Just like bad actors are vain liars. 0.89

00:38:28.300 But I wasn't really joking.

00:38:29.540 There is a reason that many, if not most, politicians have some background in the theater.

00:38:37.000 It's just they're similar skills, you know?

00:38:39.440 All the world's a stage, I guess.

00:38:41.360 Now, speaking of the government, there's an update on the drones.

00:38:46.660 You know the drones that are flying all over the country, especially in New Jersey?

00:38:51.040 Well, now drones have been spotted way above the clouds in Detroit.

00:38:56.180 Reportedly.

00:38:56.780 You can see this was uploaded to YouTube by Easily Amused EE.

00:39:03.040 And it's someone flying on a commercial flight above the clouds.

00:39:05.920 And there are these little shiny dots.

00:39:09.400 Now, part of me would say, okay, maybe you see one of those.

00:39:12.180 You say, oh, it's probably just another airplane.

00:39:14.080 I don't know.

00:39:14.380 There are five pretty close together.

00:39:16.760 Maybe it's a reflection off the glass in the window.

00:39:18.840 However, people are coming out saying, no, it wasn't a reflection off the glass.

00:39:23.400 It didn't behave like a reflection in the glass.

00:39:25.600 So it could be drones.

00:39:27.560 This was a flight from Chicago O'Hare heading to Newark.

00:39:32.800 Showed at least four glowing objects above the clouds.

00:39:35.440 So the cloud layer was supposed to be at 8,000 feet, maybe as high as 12,000 feet.

00:39:41.360 According to the Express, that is higher than any commercially available drone would be able to hold station at this altitude.

00:39:50.980 And the drone seemed significantly higher than the cloud layer.

00:39:54.520 So then you ask, okay, well, is it another airplane?

00:39:57.220 Flight radar data show that there were no commercial flights in that region at that time.

00:40:03.580 So now the plot thickens.

00:40:06.280 Now we say, okay, it's not just around this port in New Jersey.

00:40:08.820 It's all the way closer to Detroit.

00:40:11.380 You can't say it's airplanes.

00:40:14.020 Maybe you could say it's just an illusion off the glass.

00:40:16.120 It doesn't look like that, though, from the camera footage.

00:40:20.440 Kirby, the national security spokesman at the White House, says,

00:40:23.180 we assess that the sightings to date include a combination of lawful commercial drones,

00:40:28.400 hobbyist drones, and law enforcement drones,

00:40:29.920 as well as manned fixed-wing aircraft, helicopters, and even stars that were mistakenly reported as drones.

00:40:34.140 We have not identified anything anomalous or any national security or public safety risk

00:40:37.540 over the civilian airspace in New Jersey or other states in the Northeast.

00:40:41.020 But, you know, the work continues.

00:40:42.360 Move along, move along.

00:40:43.320 Okay, so there was a non-answer.

00:40:44.380 Well, no, look, it's something up there, but don't worry.

00:40:46.600 Don't freak out, but it's something.

00:40:48.140 But don't worry, stop asking me.

00:40:49.320 President Trump gave a more straightforward answer on this.

00:40:54.940 He says that the administration and the military know exactly what those aircraft are.

00:41:01.900 The government knows what is happening.

00:41:05.440 Look, our military knows where they took off from.

00:41:10.040 If it's a garage, they can go right into that garage.

00:41:13.220 They know where it came from and where it went.

00:41:15.960 And for some reason, they don't want to comment.

00:41:19.680 And I think they'd be better off saying what it is.

00:41:21.940 Our military knows and our president knows.

00:41:25.400 And for some reason, they want to keep people in suspense.

00:41:28.400 I can't imagine it's the enemy because if it was the enemy, they'd blast it out.

00:41:32.660 Even if they were late, they'd blast it.

00:41:36.000 Something strange is going on.

00:41:37.520 For some reason, they don't want to tell the people.

00:41:39.300 And they should because the people are really, I mean, they happen to be over Bedminster.

00:41:44.240 We should come.

00:41:45.280 They're very close to Bedminster.

00:41:48.700 I think maybe I won't spend the weekend in Bedminster.

00:41:51.580 I've decided to cancel my trip.

00:41:53.980 Have you received an intelligence briefing on the drones?

00:41:56.220 I don't want to comment on that.

00:41:57.560 Okay, so there's the answer.

00:42:01.000 Once again, for people who say Trump, he's brash.

00:42:03.380 He shoots from the hip. 1.00

00:42:04.180 He's crazy. 0.99

00:42:04.920 He's being extremely controlled, responsible in his rhetoric, raising legitimate concerns. 0.97

00:42:11.200 He's being more direct with the American people than Kirby is or than Joe Biden is.

00:42:16.480 And what's he saying?

00:42:18.360 He says, the military knows what this is.

00:42:20.940 Biden knows and the military know what this is.

00:42:24.520 And he's asked, well, are you receiving intelligence briefings?

00:42:26.920 And he says, I don't want to comment.

00:42:28.780 Of course, he's receiving intelligence briefings.

00:42:31.520 He's the president elect.

00:42:33.580 He was permitted to receive intelligence briefings during the campaign.

00:42:37.340 He chose not to because he said, I received these intelligence briefings.

00:42:42.340 And then I don't say a word about it.

00:42:43.980 And then someone probably from the administration leaks the information.

00:42:47.700 And then they blame it on me because I received the intelligence briefings.

00:42:51.300 So he said, I don't even want to receive them.

00:42:52.560 And then you can't blame it on me.

00:42:54.200 Now, this is a setup.

00:42:55.700 But Trump won the election.

00:42:57.000 In a landslide, he has unified government.

00:42:58.920 He's about to become the president a month from now.

00:43:02.420 Of course, he's receiving intelligence briefings.

00:43:05.140 And if he says they know what they are, the administration, the military, then he knows what

00:43:10.160 they are.

00:43:11.320 But he's saying, look, it's really not my place.

00:43:13.240 I am presently not the president.

00:43:14.700 But I really wish the president would just come out and say what it is.

00:43:18.700 Reading between the lines of what Trump is saying here and of what John Kirby is saying

00:43:21.720 here, it seems to me my gut instinct was totally 100% correct, which is I suspect these are our

00:43:29.820 vehicles.

00:43:31.320 Maybe they're trying to suggest they're commercial vehicles that are American, but probably it's

00:43:37.020 our military.

00:43:37.840 At least this is all going up with the acquiescence of our military.

00:43:40.780 I don't think it's UFOs.

00:43:44.380 I don't think it's Iran.

00:43:45.400 I don't think it's any of that stuff.

00:43:47.780 Now, why the drones are up there, why the Biden administration won't be straight with

00:43:54.260 the American people, I don't know.

00:43:56.320 Why Trump doesn't want to stay at Bedminster because the drones are hovering overhead, that

00:44:00.060 I do know.

00:44:00.460 I mean, he was almost murdered twice, and this administration has justified his assassination.

00:44:06.480 So I get that part.

00:44:09.300 But people are going off on all of these kind of crazy theories.

00:44:14.640 Some in New Jersey and New York are claiming that they're getting sick from drones.

00:44:21.880 This is now being reported.

00:44:24.620 Residents in New Jersey say they've become mysteriously ill after seeing drones in the

00:44:28.300 sky.

00:44:29.000 After witnessing or reading about the devices, residents revealed how they started coughing,

00:44:33.640 suffering from a blocked or runny nose, or experienced puffy, watery eyes.

00:44:38.600 One woman in New Jersey said she became so sick it felt like she was coughing up my lung,

00:44:42.640 while a second in New York City said her blocked sinuses must be because of drones over Staten

00:44:47.300 Island.

00:44:47.660 So people are getting sick during flu season, and now I guess we'd call it COVID season,

00:44:53.700 and they're saying it's because they looked at a drone.

00:44:55.860 Now, I haven't seen any drones in the sky.

00:44:57.740 I also have been coughing, and I've had a runny nose and itchy and watery eyes.

00:45:01.200 So I don't know.

00:45:02.020 That would seem to me a little far-fetched.

00:45:04.200 Seems a little bit like mass hysteria.

00:45:06.300 Then, this video was going viral of a woman driving down the street.

00:45:10.520 She sees Tesla cars with their lights flashing.

00:45:13.140 She said the drones are taking over the electric cars.

00:45:15.960 Oh, my God.

00:45:17.220 What are these Teslas doing?

00:45:21.100 Oh, my God.

00:45:22.480 My phone's making funny, weird noises, too.

00:45:26.560 Oh, no.

00:45:27.220 They're hacking my system.

00:45:28.340 Oh, my.

00:45:29.040 Ah!

00:45:29.220 So the woman, I think, is joking here.

00:45:32.640 But the video was making the rounds and going viral.

00:45:34.940 See, you know, the drones are affecting the electric cars, which that's just what Teslas

00:45:38.480 do when they get updated.

00:45:40.180 And Elon updates these Teslas all the time.

00:45:42.300 So that would appear to be some mass hysteria.

00:45:47.140 But I predicted two things, one of which seems to have been proven to already.

00:45:52.320 First thing about the drones I predicted is, I think they're ours.

00:45:55.320 At the very least, we know exactly what they are, and it's not that big a deal.

00:45:59.220 That would seem, Trump seems to be holding that view or implying that view.

00:46:05.360 The second thing I predicted is, whatever the drones are, it will be the lamest possible

00:46:11.560 explanation.

00:46:12.820 Everyone's really excited for it to be an alien invasion.

00:46:16.780 It won't be.

00:46:17.880 Whatever they are, it will be the lamest possible explanation you can imagine.

00:46:23.000 This is part of a theory that has become a meme on the internet, which is that nothing

00:46:27.260 ever happens.

00:46:28.500 And it's not exactly true that in history nothing ever happens, but most of the time

00:46:32.660 nothing happens.

00:46:33.600 And I think this would be an example of that.

00:46:35.600 Now, speaking of people getting sick, this is, there's a story out.

00:46:40.500 I'm just going to tease it.

00:46:41.440 You know me.

00:46:41.920 I'm a big tease.

00:46:42.560 There's a poll out of University of Michigan that shows that friendship after the age of

00:46:49.800 50 can be a matter of life and death, which is scary because people over the age of 50

00:46:56.500 often don't have very many friends, if any friends.

00:46:59.580 These days, even young people don't seem to have very many friends.

00:47:02.640 Rates of loneliness and social isolation have skyrocketed in recent decades, and that's

00:47:07.520 especially true for people over 50, and that's especially true for men over 50.

00:47:11.020 But this study is showing that people who don't have close social connections, people

00:47:16.500 who don't have friends over the age of 50, are more likely to be sick, are more likely

00:47:21.640 to die than people who do have friends.

00:47:24.160 And there is a significant correlation between these things, and this shouldn't be surprising.

00:47:27.680 This wouldn't be surprising to classical philosophers in politics.

00:47:31.860 This would not be surprising to anyone with a modicum of common sense 200 years ago.

00:47:36.800 But in our individualistic age, this is really shocking and scary.

00:47:40.580 Perhaps we'll get into it tomorrow.

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The Michael Knowles Show - December 18, 2024

Ep. 1639 - Biggest Lie Of The Year

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