The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 1685 - BREAKING： Trump Cuts Off Ukraine

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00:00:19.240 Watch with us tonight, 8.30 p.m. Eastern on Daily Wire+. Three years after Vladimir Putin's

00:00:25.560 invasion of eastern Ukraine, 11 years after the initial outbreak of war, President Trump has

00:00:31.760 officially paused all military aid to Ukraine. I'm Michael Knowles. This is The Michael Knowles Show.

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00:03:13.360 The U.S., after years of threatening this, mostly from the Republican side, the U.S. has finally

00:03:22.880 paused military aid to Ukraine. This war has been going on now for what, three years? Really,

00:03:30.760 the war's been going on for 14 years. It goes all the way back to 2014. U.S. has been involved from

00:03:35.400 the very beginning. This is a seismic shift in American geopolitical strategy. Now, what is the

00:03:45.260 White House saying? According to reporting from CNN, a White House official said, quote,

00:03:49.180 the president has been clear that he's focused on peace. We need our partners to be committed to that

00:03:53.740 goal as well. We are pausing and reviewing our aid to ensure that it is contributing to a solution.

00:03:58.660 There are going to be a lot of people who are cheering loud, echoing through the hilltops that

00:04:05.100 Ukraine aid is being paused. There are going to be some people who think that Ukraine aid should not

00:04:09.620 be paused because even if they don't like Ukraine, they think it's politically important as a matter

00:04:14.160 of U.S. grand strategy, and they don't want to give some of that country to Putin, and they have

00:04:19.880 their reasons, and they can make very good arguments. However, the reasoning here that the White 0.97

00:04:24.900 House is giving is sound reasoning. The White House is saying is, we're pausing and reviewing

00:04:30.420 our aid to ensure that it is contributing to a solution. It's the same moral reasoning that goes

00:04:36.300 into whether or not you're going to give a homeless person five bucks. When a homeless guy comes up to

00:04:42.160 you, especially if you're a Christian, you're going to feel tempted to just give him whatever money,

00:04:46.040 you know, ask, and whenever you're asked, you know, just give. However, you also need to take

00:04:52.880 some moral reasoning in here. If you know for a fact that that homeless person is going to take

00:04:57.640 your five bucks, go buy a bunch of fentanyl, and overdose on the street, then you are not helping him

00:05:03.240 by giving him that money. So the moral reasoning that the White House is engaging in here is,

00:05:09.140 is this military aid actually contributing to a solution to the most significant war to break

00:05:16.880 out in Europe since World War II? That's the moral reasoning. You could say, and there are going to 0.89

00:05:22.360 be people even on the right who say that the White House has defective reasoning on this, or that

00:05:27.900 actually they're not considering all of the context, and actually they should give the military aid.

00:05:33.260 I understand, probably many more people are going to say they should not give the military aid, but

00:05:36.760 I understand how you can arrive at that conclusion. However, that is the moral reasoning that the

00:05:42.340 White House is engaging in, and that moral principle is a sound moral principle, and it's why you

00:05:47.780 shouldn't give the obvious heroin addict on the street 20 bucks, because that won't actually help 0.67

00:05:52.100 him. Now, Democrats are furious about this. Democrats reacting to the new Trump administration

00:06:01.280 as the sort of thing that is transitioning our country from a democracy to a kleptocracy.

00:06:07.780 Chris Murphy, Democrat from Connecticut, made this argument a little while ago.

00:06:12.700 Everyone who signs up to work for Donald Trump is signing up for one single project, and that is the

00:06:18.940 transition of American democracy to a kind of kleptocratic oligarchy in which the billionaires rule,

00:06:26.360 in which they get to steal from regular Americans. And if that's the domestic project, then the way 0.68

00:06:32.460 that you normalize that kind of government is to associate yourself with similar governments abroad,

00:06:38.960 like the Kremlin. So it's all part of one big domestic project. The foreign policy, the affection

00:06:44.660 for dictatorships abroad is, in effect, a means towards transitioning our democracy to something

00:06:52.500 very, very different, something we've never, ever seen before in this country.

00:06:55.920 So the Democrats are furious about the ending of the Ukraine aid. And you see here Chris Murphy

00:07:00.120 saying that he regrets voting for Marco Rubio. That's the chyron on the screen, because he thought

00:07:06.300 that he was going to get stable leadership on the world stage, and that's not what he got. And Trump

00:07:09.780 is transitioning our country from a democracy to a kleptocratic oligarchy, giving the power to the

00:07:14.160 billionaires. Let me ask you a question. Most billionaires in America, do they support the

00:07:18.880 Republicans or the Democrats? Over the last, call it 20, 30 years, have most, even today,

00:07:26.020 do most billionaires support Trump or the Democrats? The Democrats, obviously. Mark Zuckerberg

00:07:34.640 helped to steal the election from Trump in 2020, okay? At the very least, he helped to rig the

00:07:40.100 election against President Trump in 2020. And he was open about it. He said he was going to do that.

00:07:44.460 Do you really think the billionaires behind Google? You think Sundar Pichai? You think Tim Cook? These

00:07:51.660 are all huge fans of Trump. These are MAGA right-wing Republicans. Give me a break. George Soros,

00:07:56.840 is he a big MAGA Republican? Please. What Chris Murphy is whining about here is the transitioning of 0.58

00:08:05.740 America. But it's not the transitioning from a democracy to an oligarchic kleptocracy.

00:08:12.160 For goodness sake, Trump won the popular vote. And he campaigned on all these things. He campaigned

00:08:17.460 on not having an endless war in Ukraine. He campaigned on having Elon Musk come in and

00:08:21.320 clean up the government. He campaigned on having RFK Jr. go in and clean up healthcare. He did not

00:08:26.520 hide the ball on anything. The Trump election was a vindication of democracy. There is no doubt that

00:08:34.200 the MAGA movement is much more lowercase d democratic than the left right now. But there is a transition

00:08:39.680 that's going on. And the real transition that Chris Murphy and the Democrats are complaining about

00:08:43.460 is the transition of America from a global liberal empire into something else. And we don't know exactly

00:08:52.040 what that something else is right now. There are two options right now. One option is the transition

00:08:58.920 of America from a global liberal empire that controls the entire world, that gets involved in every

00:09:05.020 conflict, that that is just this the sole hegemon undisputed. But that that uses its power to advance

00:09:13.600 abortion, to advance weird gay stuff, to to just push liberalism. That's that's what our empire has 0.98

00:09:20.460 been. Will we transition from that kind of empire to a normal nation state? That's what some people

00:09:25.500 want, where we're really not involved all over the world. And we kind of keep to ourselves and we

00:09:29.140 rebuild our own country. And we focus on America first, you know, and we just don't don't get

00:09:33.600 involved overseas. And we're a little bit more isolationist. Or do we transition from a global

00:09:38.140 liberal empire into a more traditional conservative American empire, which is also kind of America

00:09:44.900 first. That's the America first of we're going to acquire Greenland. We're going to go conquer 0.96

00:09:49.160 Canada. We're going to build the Trump casino in Gaza. That's that's the America first of we're

00:09:55.660 going to flex our muscles and and advance our interests all over the world. But we're going to advance

00:10:00.560 our interests. Those are the two options. And we don't really know what we're getting within the

00:10:05.240 the MAGA coalition. There are people who strongly advocate for both. But the one thing we can all

00:10:11.080 agree on is we don't like this liberalist liberal globalist empire. Some people derisively refer to it

00:10:18.800 as the the globalist American empire or gay because it does. It advances that rainbow flag everywhere 0.81

00:10:25.160 around the world and abortion and all sorts of nasty things that people don't want. 0.59

00:10:31.260 That's the one thing that we can agree on. That's what's going away. That's what people voted against.

00:10:34.960 And that's what has Chris Murphy so angry. But the irony of it, of course, is that most voters voted

00:10:40.660 against that thing. Even if they can't agree on what they want next, they did vote against that.

00:10:46.420 Oh, we're becoming a kleptocracy. Give me a break. Specifically on Ukraine, you're going to make 0.95

00:10:50.920 that argument. When this war started, Ukraine was bribing the Biden family, was paying off Hunter 0.55

00:10:59.920 Biden to the tune of many hundreds of thousands of dollars to buy American influence when Joe Biden,

00:11:06.480 the vice president at the time, was the point man on Ukraine. Are you kidding me? The Democrats are

00:11:11.800 going to argue about oligarchy and kleptocracy? No, no, no. They're seeing their empire crumbling.

00:11:16.980 The question is, what are we going to have to replace it? Are we going to give up the American 0.84

00:11:20.020 empire and become a traditional nation state again? Or are we going to be a more conservative

00:11:27.420 empire as we have been in the past? What kind of America first are we talking about? There's so

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00:12:53.060 Speaking of transitions, there's a study just came out of Oxford. Trans surgeries are associated

00:13:02.420 with a higher risk of suicidal ideation. This information, this new scientific study,

00:13:09.460 should surprise precisely no one who has listened to this show for more than five minutes.

00:13:15.460 But it will surprise most people who listen to the establishment media or the academic

00:13:20.860 establishment or even the medical establishment. Because for years now, we have been told that

00:13:27.780 gender-affirming care, so-called, these mutilations, hormonal and surgical,

00:13:33.020 including of kids, are necessary to preserve the health of kids. In fact, there's a young man

00:13:40.420 who previously suffered from sexual confusion. And he just testified in front of New Hampshire

00:13:46.980 legislators that when he was a kid, his doctors recklessly, irresponsibly, immorally encouraged the 0.68

00:13:56.140 so-called gender transition and told his father that if he didn't trans his kid, his kid would kill

00:14:03.160 himself.

00:14:03.540 Today, I had to sit in front of you as a 20-year-old man, but for three years, I thought I was a girl.

00:14:09.980 I received my bachelor's degree in music last December with additional coursework at Harvard

00:14:14.040 University in statistics. I remember being 14. I was sitting in my pediatrician's office explaining

00:14:20.140 to him that I was transgender and that my father wasn't affirming my new identity. So my pediatrician

00:14:25.720 asked my father, would you like a dead son or a living daughter? I was in the room when he asked this

00:14:32.340 question. There is no other situation when a doctor is allowed to suggest suicide like this to a

00:14:37.440 patient. And quite frankly, it's medical malpractice. If you ask parents of trans-identified kids and

00:14:42.840 other detransitioners, you'll discover that this is a common line used to manipulate parents into 1.00

00:14:47.580 consenting to these procedures. Despite being referred to my local gender clinic three times by

00:14:52.940 three separate doctors, the emotional blackmail and my gender dysphoria diagnosis, my father refused

00:14:58.660 me to take, refused to take me to be medicalized. And I hated him for it at the time. But now I am

00:15:05.560 deeply grateful. Of course, many such cases, you know, we've interviewed a lot of people who have

00:15:10.260 detransitioned, who had socially transitioned, or even who had medically started the transition,

00:15:16.260 a ridiculous euphemism to it to mean poisoned oneself, mutilated oneself, did all sorts of terrible

00:15:21.900 things that really damaged their lives. So this kid says, you know, my father would not engage

00:15:26.800 in the medical surgical stuff. And I'm so grateful to that now. What is the study?

00:15:32.740 Study was published in the Oxford Academic Journal of Sexual Medicine. Study of over 107,000 patients

00:15:38.840 with gender dysphoria over the age of 18 concluded that those who undergo the transgender surgeries

00:15:44.560 are at greater risk for mental health problems, including depression, suicidal ideation, anxiety,

00:15:51.540 and others. You know, I was just on the Jubilee podcast, Surrounders Me, surrounded by 20 or 25

00:15:56.340 LGBT activists. Came out a few weeks ago. You can still catch it now on Jubilee. It's gone a bit

00:16:02.460 viral. And I made this point on the show. And they denied it, denied it. And I pointed to the largest

00:16:08.960 data set that we have published in the American Journal of Psychiatry, which showed that not only

00:16:13.060 do the transgender procedures not help anxiety, suicide, and depression, but actually on at least 0.84

00:16:19.720 one count on anxiety, they seem to make it worse. Well, that observation from then the largest data set

00:16:25.700 backed up by this major study of 107,000 patients, both bottom and top surgeries, so-called, you know,

00:16:34.620 well, you can use your imagination. You understand what that means. Are, quote, associated with increased

00:16:39.200 risk of mental health issues. Doesn't make the mental health issues better. It's associated with

00:16:43.380 an increased risk of mental health issues. The study says, quote, our analysis reveals a significantly

00:16:49.320 elevated risk of mental health disorders, including depression, anxiety, suicidal ideation,

00:16:53.760 and substance use disorder post-surgery among individuals with a prior diagnosis of gender

00:16:59.960 dysphoria. So males who had had the surgery showed a higher prevalence of depression at 25.4% versus

00:17:08.660 11.5% among people who had not had the surgery, and a higher prevalence of anxiety, 12.8% instead of

00:17:17.380 2.6% among the people who had not had the surgery, and females had similar trends with elevated

00:17:23.140 depression, 22.9% among the girls who had the surgery, 14.6% among those who had not, and anxiety,

00:17:29.840 10.5% versus 7.1%. Final line I'll quote from the study. The heightened risk of mental health issues

00:17:37.640 post-surgery was particularly pronounced among individuals undergoing feminizing transition

00:17:42.260 compared to masculinizing transition. So particularly among the men, this was pronounced, but you saw

00:17:47.240 it in the women too. Of course, we don't need a study to prove this, though the studies do show this 0.99

00:17:54.640 consistently for many, many years now. And this is the controversial part, but it's true, and one has

00:18:02.820 to point it out, it's not just the T in the LGBT LMNOP. This is true across the LGBT and so on spectrum.

00:18:16.020 Living in these identities, choosing these identities, and pursuing these paths is associated

00:18:24.800 with a much higher risk of anxiety, depression, suicidal ideation, and a whole host of other

00:18:32.620 emotional and social problems. Why is that? It's not just the T. The T is the most obvious,

00:18:38.920 but it's the L, G, B, and all the other letters too. Why is that? What the liberals will tell you is

00:18:44.740 it's because of phobias, you know, because society is just so cruel to LGBT people.

00:18:51.380 Well, maybe you could plausibly make that argument 20 or 30 years ago. Can you really make that argument

00:18:58.040 now? Can you really make that argument 27 years after Will and Grace? Can you really make that

00:19:04.020 argument after Obama and Biden light the White House up in rainbows? Can you really make that argument

00:19:10.480 after the Supreme Court preposterously tries to redefine marriage in Obergefell? Can you really make

00:19:15.380 that argument after the conservative justice on the Supreme Court, Neil Gorsuch, enshrines

00:19:20.820 transgender identity into civil rights law in the Bostock decision? Can you really make that

00:19:25.700 argument when everything is super gay all the time? And we have a whole month, we actually have two 0.93

00:19:31.060 months now to celebrate LGBT, and it's pushed in school as a positive good, and it's pushed in

00:19:36.760 corporate America, and everyone is officially so pro-LGBT that to question that sexual ideology

00:19:45.740 could get you punished, expelled, fired. Who knows? I mean, in certain countries, not so much

00:19:51.520 in America yet, but in other countries in the West, you could be arrested for questioning that

00:19:55.740 ideology. And you're telling me it's because of phobia and social stigma? That doesn't hold up.

00:20:02.420 I don't think that's why. If the cause of increased anxiety, depression, suicidality,

00:20:08.100 all the rest of it, across the LGBT spectrum, were caused by social pressure and ostracism or something,

00:20:15.780 then you would expect those rates to have declined precipitously over the past two or three decades,

00:20:21.380 and that hasn't really happened. My humble suggestion is the reason that there are elevated

00:20:28.300 rates of anxiety, depression, suicidality among people who identify as LGBT, LMNOP, and all the rest of it, 0.96

00:20:34.220 is because of the identity itself. Because the identity itself is contrary to nature.

00:20:42.820 I think that's the problem. I think people are just recognizing there's something a bit odd in it.

00:20:46.740 I'm not knocking anybody for having disordered sexual desires or sexual confusion in identity

00:20:50.820 or anything like that. I don't know exactly what causes it. Environmental factors that some have

00:20:56.860 suggested a genetic factor, though no one's identified that gene, but whatever it is, I'm not

00:21:00.820 knocking anybody, man. As I've said for many years, I grew up in New York. I lived in LA. I went to the

00:21:05.360 gayest university in the world. So I have a disproportionate number of friends who have 1.00

00:21:09.960 engaged in these things. I'm not attacking anybody, but it is simply a fact. For instance,

00:21:17.420 if you're a guy and you don't like girls and you do stuff with guys, and then even if the Supreme

00:21:23.220 Court gives you the so-called right to gay marriage, you're still going to have a natural desire to have 1.00

00:21:29.000 a child, which is not possible, obviously, between two men. So you can try to work up all these

00:21:34.580 different ways where you go to the baby store and you buy a woman's egg and you rent another woman's 0.55

00:21:38.780 womb and you do it. But deep down, you know, because the natural law is inscribed on every human

00:21:44.860 heart, that there's something that's just kind of wrong about that. That's not ideal. That's not

00:21:48.840 really what people want. That's the cause, okay? And grappling with that reality is crucial, not just

00:21:57.400 for the sexual revolution or these kinds of cultural issues, but for all of politics. Because

00:22:03.360 when it comes down to it, if you live your life in accord with reality, you're going to have a better

00:22:10.960 time. And if you live your life in discord with reality, in contradiction of reality, in various

00:22:18.700 forms of fantasy, which we all do, and to some degree, it's certain points, you're going to have

00:22:23.200 a worse time, okay? That's true at the level of the individual. That's also true at the level of

00:22:28.140 the nation. And so this is actually the connection between the stories we've been talking about today.

00:22:32.880 The personal story on the LGBT study and the big geopolitical story, America's alliance is how

00:22:38.800 we're going to engage with the world. If you engage with the world in accordance with reality,

00:22:44.740 eternal political principles, the kind of things that make human beings tick, you're going to have

00:22:49.620 a better time. If, on the other hand, you follow utopian fantasies, if, as President Kennedy quoted

00:22:57.660 George Bernard Shaw as having written into the mouth of the serpent tempting even the Garden of Eden,

00:23:02.580 if instead of seeing things that are and saying why, you see things that you imagine things that

00:23:06.480 never were and say why not, you are going to have a worse time. That's just a fact. Don't shoot the

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00:25:01.840 answers. All of that will be on Friday. Now, speaking of getting back to normal,

00:25:10.500 the Zoomers are offering hope. I said this yesterday in response to Timothy Chalamet's 0.99

00:25:16.500 speech at the SAG Awards where he said, I want to pursue greatness. I'm not there yet,

00:25:24.220 but I want to be really good. And I want to, I want to be the best that I can be. And I want to

00:25:28.780 be strong and I want to be great. And I'm not going to be apathetic and I'm not going to speak

00:25:32.060 in glottal fry and I'm not going to be indifferent. No, sir. I want to be a great man. I want to make

00:25:36.920 America great again. That's the, he was giving the Hollywood version of that. I said, these Zoomers 1.00

00:25:41.200 are offering me hope. Technically, Timothy Chalamet is a millennial, but he's a border case and he was 1.00

00:25:45.180 born in 95 or 96. It's right there on the border. And he, he's a represent, you know,

00:25:50.880 you always kind of look up a little bit in age to people, you know, in media and popular culture.

00:25:55.840 So anyway, he's a spiritual Zoomer, even if maybe he's technically a millennial. And this is a 0.55

00:26:00.940 generational shift. And you're seeing this backed up by a new study of Zoomers' views on marriage.

00:26:07.180 Zoomers are much, much more pro-marriage than millennials were. And, and then Gen X was actually. 0.57

00:26:14.700 Zoomers are more pro-marriage than their parents. According to the Times Generation Z study,

00:26:20.880 only a fifth of 18 to 27 year olds think that marriage is irrelevant. A third said it was

00:26:29.160 better for a couple to be married before having kids. That seems like damning with faint praise.

00:26:34.140 You say, hold on, wait, a third said it was better for a couple to be married. But compared to recent

00:26:37.720 years, this is actually coming back into accord with normal views of marriage. So only 28% of

00:26:46.460 millennials, my generation said that they were single, according to a recent Coupon Bird survey.

00:26:53.060 46% of Gen Z says that they're single. So this is interesting. Gen Z more likely than millennials to

00:26:59.460 support marriage. Gen Z less likely than millennials to actually be in a romantic relationship.

00:27:08.040 Millennials, I say this as a, I'm a millennial, okay? Though I don't, maybe I'm a spiritual Zoomer.

00:27:13.700 I don't know. I don't know. But the millennials have carried a lot of responsibility for the 1.00

00:27:19.400 decline in marriage rates because my generation has not gotten married. If they have gotten married,

00:27:23.700 it's been generally later and they're just, they're blowing it. Now, maybe it's because they

00:27:28.620 were raised in a liberal society that told them not to value marriage, right? It's not all the

00:27:31.920 millennials' fault. But at a certain point, we have to take responsibility for our actions. 0.97

00:27:35.760 Over the last half century, marriage rates have dropped by about 60%. Complete collapse in the

00:27:44.200 institution of marriage. That's according to the National Center for Marriage and Family Research.

00:27:50.780 Zoomers finally saying, actually, we kind of like marriage. Actually, we think marriage might be a

00:27:55.780 good thing. Actually, we don't think it's irrelevant. Little bit of hope that they're bucking that trend.

00:28:00.440 And this is true more broadly on cultural issues. Only 23%, this is a shocking statistic,

00:28:08.620 only 23% of 18 to 27-year-olds, of Zoomers, said that their friends commonly had one-night stands.

00:28:16.660 Some will say that's still too high, but you're talking about less than a quarter of Zoomers say

00:28:20.580 that their friends commonly had one-night stands. Do you know what percentage of millennials

00:28:25.460 20 years ago said that their friends regularly had one-night stands? 78%. 78%.

00:28:35.580 And look, man, I'm a millennial. I was there. I was part of it, you know? I remember. I don't need

00:28:44.340 to look at surveys to tell me that. I remember that. 78% to 23%. That is an amazingly encouraging sign.

00:28:55.460 And we conservatives were always saying that the West has declined and billions must die and,

00:29:01.100 you know, it's all over and the earth is about to explode. But that's very encouraging. And I've

00:29:06.760 been pro-Zoomer for a long time. I saw lots of signs of hope in those Zoomers going back 10 years 1.00

00:29:13.080 and it's starting to pay off. And I love to say that I told you so. Speaking of love and marriage,

00:29:17.580 Kieran Culkin. Kieran Culkin, brother of Macaulay Culkin of Home Alone fame and Kieran Culkin,

00:29:24.520 who was in Succession, he just won an Oscar for some role. I don't even know what the movie was.

00:29:30.420 And he gave one of the great Oscar speeches, maybe of all time. It was kind of, well, he's a

00:29:38.520 millennial. So it was still kind of like weak and a little bit, you know, it's not, he ain't Gary

00:29:43.240 Cooper. But the content of his speech was extremely right wing and based.

00:29:51.700 A year ago I was on a stage like this and I very stupidly publicly said that I won a third kid from

00:29:56.040 her because she said if I won the award, she would give me the kid. It turns out she said that because

00:30:01.620 she didn't think I was going to win. But after, and people came up to her and were like, you know,

00:30:08.240 really annoying her. I think, I think it got to her. But anyway, after the show, we're walking

00:30:13.380 through a parking lot. She's holding the Emmy. We're trying to find our car. Emily, you were

00:30:16.120 there. So you're a witness. And she goes, oh God, I did say that. I guess I owe you a third kid.

00:30:20.720 And I turned to her and I said, really, I want four. And she turned to me, I swear to God,

00:30:26.400 this happened. It was just over a year ago. She said, I will give you four when you win an Oscar.

00:30:33.820 I held my hand out. She shook it. And I have not brought it up once until just now.

00:30:38.860 You remember that, honey? You do? Okay. Then I just have this to say to you, Jazz.

00:30:42.520 Love of my life. Ye of little faith. No pressure. I love you. I'm really sorry I did this again.

00:30:53.400 And let's get cracking on those kids. What do you say?

00:30:55.340 Yeah, let's go, baby. Oh, I love it so much. That is great, man. That is,

00:31:01.780 especially on the heels of that Timothee Chalamet speech, this was much better. I mean,

00:31:06.220 this was one of the great Oscar speeches of all time. Comes up there, successful. He's doing his

00:31:14.660 thing. He's, you know, at the top of his field, he's got this beautiful wife. He's in Tinseltown with

00:31:22.440 all these decadent libs. And what does he say? The chief thing that he wants is another kid with

00:31:29.680 his wife. Oh, even he really, he wants two more kids. I don't know if they ever ended up having the

00:31:37.580 third, but that's what he wants. And that's what he should want. And that is what it is natural to

00:31:41.140 want. That is what it is good to want. And when you're really rich and you're really famous and

00:31:46.500 you're really successful, sometimes you get distracted by all of these other ephemeral goods.

00:31:51.320 And I told my wife, you know, when I get an Oscar, I want to buy a Patek Philippe watch. Or I want to

00:31:58.300 buy a Ferrari. Or I want to go to the Caribbean. Or is it? No. Because those goods, I mean, they're good

00:32:06.420 in a certain way, but they, they fade. They don't, they're not, they're not really serving your end in

00:32:12.580 anywhere close to the same way as having a kid. That's, that's really, really good. With his wife.

00:32:21.760 Oh man. You know what it is? I'll just leave the story on this. It's a vibe shift is what it is.

00:32:30.960 It's a vibe shift. It's, it's good. And I hope it encourages more good stuff, but it's a sign of

00:32:39.520 the times, man. And I, I'm seeing so many data points here that are telling me that something

00:32:46.980 is really shifting. Okay. Just, just off the top of my head, Trump wins the popular vote. Obviously

00:32:51.680 that's a big one. The decline of Christianity levels off in America. It's been stable for six 0.95

00:32:56.100 years. You've got Hollywood stars, not whining about politics so much, but actually talking about

00:33:01.240 just being great at their craft again and doing their job. You've got zoomers absolutely cratering 1.00

00:33:07.760 in their support of promiscuous sex and encouraging marriage. Again, you've got a major Hollywood star

00:33:14.780 in his Oscar acceptance speech, telling his wife, she will give him another child because she agreed to

00:33:19.560 it. And that's her duty. So let's get cooking in the boudoir lady. Oh man. How many more data 1.00

00:33:25.820 points do I need? You've got a shift in voter identification, a major shift to the right

00:33:31.780 among virtually every demographic, black guys, Hispanics, women, young people.

00:33:40.060 It's a vibe shift. That's what it is. We're, we are living through the most notable vibe shift

00:33:47.220 of my lifetime. And I know vibe is like new agey, weird hippie language, but that's all right. It's all

00:33:54.520 right. We're reappropriating it. We're taking it. It's ours now. Now we're going to get rid of that

00:34:00.500 word and we're just going to be, I don't know, man. I think we might, we might be able to be great

00:34:05.460 again. There is, there is a chance. I'm not saying it's like, I'm just saying there's a chance

00:34:09.420 that we might be able to be great again. Now, speaking of babies, should you vaccinate your 0.86

00:34:18.200 children? A major question, especially with the measles outbreak right now that many parents are

00:34:25.820 discussing and there's a big headline. RFK Jr., chief opponent of vaccines of the past quarter

00:34:33.000 century. RFK Jr. flip-flops on the measles vaccine, but does he? We'll get to what he really said in a

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00:35:24.100 My favorite comment yesterday is from the Drummer's Workshop, Norm's Music, a great, great account

00:35:27.860 who says, right now, John Fetterman is thinking, that Solinsky is a sharp dresser. So true. So true.

00:35:34.900 I'm sure that's exactly what he was thinking. Has RFK Jr. flip-flopped on vaccines?

00:35:41.300 Here's the headline.

00:35:43.880 This is from Fox News, foxnews.com. Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Measles outbreak is a call to

00:35:50.940 action for all of us. MMR vaccine is crucial to avoiding potentially deadly disease. Whoa!

00:35:58.720 This is Bobby Kennedy. Bobby Kennedy who campaigned for years saying that vaccines cause autism and

00:36:03.080 because they have this thimerosal and because they have unsafe levels of toxins. And this is Bobby

00:36:08.940 Kennedy is saying measles outbreak is a call to action for all of us. I guess that's kind of vague.

00:36:14.800 So an MMR vaccine is crucial to avoiding potentially deadly disease. Did he really say that? No, he didn't.

00:36:23.580 This thing you got to remember, a lot of people don't know this who haven't worked in journalism.

00:36:26.940 The author of the columns writes the body copy. The editors write the headlines and the subheader.

00:36:37.400 Bobby Kennedy, I read the op-ed. Bobby Kennedy does not say that the MMR vaccine is crucial

00:36:44.540 to your avoiding this potentially deadly disease. He doesn't say. What does he really say?

00:36:49.920 He says, parents play a pivotal role in safeguarding their children's health. All parents should consult

00:36:57.140 with their healthcare providers to understand their options to get the MMR vaccine. The decision

00:37:04.640 to vaccinate is a personal one. Vaccines not only protect individual children from measles,

00:37:09.220 but also contribute to community immunity, protecting those who are unable to be vaccinated

00:37:13.360 due to medical reasons. So he says, yeah, no, vaccines protect in principle individuals and

00:37:21.520 communities. That is how they operate in principle. And then Kennedy says, tens of thousands died with

00:37:29.100 or of measles annually in the 19th century. By 1960, before the vaccine's introduction, improvements

00:37:35.080 in sanitation and nutrition had eliminated 98% of measles deaths. Good nutrition remains a best defense

00:37:41.540 against most chronic and infectious illnesses. It's amazing. Even the language here remains a

00:37:48.080 best defense. I imagine that that's grammatically doesn't make any sense. I imagine what happened is

00:37:54.480 they wrote remains in the best defense. And then someone wanted to soften it and say, no,

00:37:59.160 you can't say it's the best defense. Say it's a good defense, but then they left the word in there.

00:38:02.820 So it's a best defense. You can't have a best of the best or a good, a best defense against most

00:38:09.540 chronic and infectious illnesses. Vitamins A, C, and D, and foods rich in vitamins B12, C, and E should

00:38:15.040 be part of a balanced diet. This guy hates vaccines. Okay. Bobby Kennedy hates vaccines.

00:38:23.460 He nowhere in this column really encourages people to get any vaccines, including the measles vaccine.

00:38:31.720 But the headline makes it seem like he did. Very interesting. There's obviously a political

00:38:37.300 battle here going on between either the editors at foxnews.com and their author, Bobby Kennedy,

00:38:46.460 or there's a little protection going on here because everyone knows that Kennedy is against

00:38:55.140 vaccines. There is a measles outbreak. If people start getting really sick or even dying from measles,

00:39:01.960 it's going to look really bad for Kennedy. It's going to look really bad for the White House.

00:39:05.180 So is this a little hedging their bets? They can always say, look, no, we sort of encouraged people

00:39:10.740 to get the measles vaccine. Oh, see, there's the headline right there. I'm not even really

00:39:15.960 blaming foxnews.com or the editors here. Frankly, even the discrepancy might have been encouraged by

00:39:22.140 HHS and the White House because you got the headline. No, we can point to the headline. See,

00:39:27.160 we encourage people to get the measles vaccine. But if people are vaccine injured,

00:39:31.120 they can point to the body copy of the column and say, no, but actually,

00:39:34.500 we didn't really encourage people to get the vaccine. So what are you going to do?

00:39:38.520 I don't know. No, what are you supposed to do? It used to be when I was a kid,

00:39:42.340 it used to be that the anti-vax people were all on the political left and the pro-vax people were on

00:39:47.000 the right. And now that's flipped and the anti-vaxxers are almost entirely on the right and the

00:39:52.880 ordinarily pro-vaxxers are on the left. And so I don't know. When I was a kid,

00:39:58.000 Bobby Kennedy was on the left. So I don't know. I don't know. I'm not making any comment on

00:40:03.800 vaccines. I don't feel particularly strongly about vaccines. I don't possess sufficient

00:40:07.540 knowledge about vaccine safety and efficacy to encourage or discourage people from getting

00:40:12.840 them. It does seem weird that little kids get all these vaccines now. Many, many more than we

00:40:18.120 ever got when we were a kid all at the same time when they're so little. I don't know. That seems a

00:40:21.100 little crazy to me. But that's really as far as I'm willing to go. I don't know anything about

00:40:24.780 vaccines. But it is curious. This is the first test. This is the first test of the shift in

00:40:31.800 public policy from everyone get as many vaccines as possible, as young as possible, to maybe vaccines

00:40:38.400 have some problems. This is the first big test, this measles outbreak. Will a lot of little kids

00:40:45.220 get really, really sick? Will, God forbid, kids die? Remains to be seen. But you're seeing some

00:40:50.900 bet hedging going on now from the White House. Okay. Some good news. Some more good news. There's

00:40:58.460 been a lot of good news coming out of the Trump White House. Illegal crossings have dropped to

00:41:02.180 their lowest level since about 25 years ago. This is also from CBS News. This is not even from

00:41:10.500 some right-wing website. Amid Trump crackdown, illegal border crossings plunge to levels not seen

00:41:16.500 in decades. Very good news. And a reminder, there are secondary effects of policies. So

00:41:27.300 there are a lot of conservatives who are frustrated because there have not been enough deportations.

00:41:34.860 You know, and the White House has not continued to report the daily deportation numbers because

00:41:38.340 they're not as high as some people would like. And right now, the White House is probably on track

00:41:42.200 to deport, or the admin is probably on track to deport 450,000 to maybe 500,000 people this year.

00:41:48.480 Now, they might ramp it up significantly. It's only been about a month. You know, you got to give them

00:41:51.380 a little slack. They're doing a lot right now. However, some people are saying, we need to deport

00:41:56.560 more people. It's not enough. You know, you could only, you might end up deporting at best 2 million

00:42:00.300 people in four years, but we have 11 to 16 million people living in this country, maybe more illegal 0.86

00:42:04.560 aliens living in this country. It's just not enough. Well, a little bit of good news here is 1.00

00:42:09.840 there are secondary effects to these policies. The fact that Trump is beginning the deportations

00:42:15.800 has dropped new crossings to the lowest level in a quarter century. Remember, we were told at the end

00:42:22.800 of the Biden administration that Joe Biden needed a new law passed by Congress in order to

00:42:27.760 stop the illegal crossings. Well, now we know for a fact that was not true. I'm willing to call it a lie

00:42:34.920 because I don't think Biden or the White House were that stupid back just six months ago. 1.00

00:42:41.100 But they didn't need that. In fact, if you just start deporting even a moderate number of people, 0.99

00:42:47.060 you will discourage the criminal cartels that control the southern border from sending more

00:42:51.920 people over. Secondary effects. Okay. So I sympathize. I empathize. I wish the deportation

00:42:59.460 numbers were significantly higher too. However, I hope that they will increase substantially. But this

00:43:04.100 is a win. There are secondary effects to these kinds of policies. Okay. Now, speaking of people

00:43:11.860 who a lot of people would like to deport, this story really came out of left field for me. Do you

00:43:18.580 remember Casey Anthony? Casey Anthony is this woman who was accused of murdering her two-year-old daughter

00:43:26.800 and then disposing of the body and the trunk of her car and the woods and then going out and

00:43:33.540 partying for a month and not reporting her daughter being missing. And then finally, when the daughter

00:43:37.200 was reported missing, she acted really weird and the parents acted weird and Casey Anthony's parents

00:43:44.320 acted weird and the whole thing was just really horrifying. And she got off because the state did

00:43:48.780 not prove beyond a reasonable doubt in the minds of most jurors that she had in fact murdered her

00:43:55.780 daughter and how she had murdered her daughter. But most people left that trial even after she was

00:44:00.480 technically acquitted. Most people left that trial still thinking she probably murdered her daughter

00:44:05.220 or was involved in it. So anyway, this is not a popular person in America. And now she's decided to

00:44:13.780 become an influencer. For those of you who don't know, my name is Casey Anthony. My daughter is

00:44:20.600 Kaylee Anthony. My parents are George and Cindy Anthony. This is not about them. This is not in

00:44:25.640 response to anything that they have said or done. That's not to say that I'm not going to respond at some

00:44:30.420 point to some of the things that they have said and done. The whole point of this is for me to begin to

00:44:35.640 reintroduce myself. I'm doing this both personally for me, but in a professional capacity as a proponent

00:44:43.480 for the LGBTQ community, for our legal community, women's rights. I feel that it's important that

00:44:51.760 I use this platform that was thrust upon me and now look at as a blessing as opposed to the curse that

00:44:58.580 it has been since 2008. With that, these aren't going to be perfect. They're not going to be edited

00:45:05.120 most of the time. They're not going to be short, but I am proverbially standing in the light,

00:45:13.280 embracing this piece, still going to keep my privacy intact. So you will get very comfortable

00:45:20.160 with my car and I will explain in great detail why it's so important for people to protect their

00:45:28.380 privacy. She's going to protect her privacy by becoming famous, more infamous, more, 1.00

00:45:36.100 more infamous than she already is. We've reached peak influencer. How many people say, I just want

00:45:41.340 privacy. You know, I just, I really just want to be left alone and have privacy. It's the Meghan

00:45:46.800 Markle effect. Please, I'm going on every TV show in the world so that I can plead for privacy.

00:45:53.140 privacy. I don't think they want privacy. A lot of people do that. We have a lot of influencers

00:45:58.800 these days. I don't know. I don't know exactly what an influencer is. In a way, I guess I'm

00:46:02.380 technically an influencer. I don't, am I an influencer? Do I count as an influencer? I don't

00:46:07.220 do dances on TikTok or anything and I do occasionally write. But I, I don't know. I might, but this is

00:46:13.340 too far. When Casey Anthony becomes an influencer, that, that is too far. But she's saying it's her

00:46:18.580 professional capacity. I don't know. Maybe she needs the money. And she thinks it's an easy way 0.80

00:46:24.200 to make a buck by, by taking her infamy and, and trying to monetize it. But what is she going to

00:46:30.600 be influencing on behalf of? Well, she says, I want to be speaking out for LGBT and this and that. And

00:46:37.460 women's rights. And what is meant by women's rights? When people on the political left, people

00:46:43.320 who are on the side of whatever, LGBT activism and this and that, when they talk about women's rights,

00:46:47.680 what are they talking about? They're talking about one thing. They're talking about abortion.

00:46:52.440 They're talking about killing their own kids. It's whatever you want to say about Casey Anthony.

00:46:57.220 I think most people who followed this case still suspect that she murdered her daughter.

00:47:02.960 She was acquitted. So it's just an allegation, an accusation, a hunch. It's not, she was,

00:47:07.760 she was acquitted. She was, she was not acquitted. She was convicted of, of lying to authorities.

00:47:13.380 But, but people still suspect, okay, they say this woman, she might be one of the worst people in

00:47:18.840 America. And yet, what Casey Anthony was accused of doing is pretty much exactly the same as what

00:47:28.760 abortionists and their customers do. There is no real difference. There is no real difference

00:47:33.220 between what Casey Anthony did, allegedly, and what abortionists in this country do every day and 0.51

00:47:38.520 what the customers of abortionists do every day. What's the difference? Well, Casey Anthony's

00:47:44.920 daughter was like 26 months older. That's the difference. Well, allegedly, what Casey Anthony did

00:47:55.200 was illegal. I don't know. I mean, sure. Abortion's illegal in some places. I don't, you know, but we're

00:48:01.860 not, we're just talking about the actual act, the act itself. Forget about the positive law for

00:48:06.280 saying it's just the act. I don't know. Yeah. I mean, I, I think Casey Anthony deserves all the

00:48:10.700 scoring she gets. Of course. I mean, you know, those of us who suspect she, uh, that the jury came

00:48:16.260 to the wrong conclusion, uh, we're, we're not, and no one's pulling their punches on Casey Anthony, but

00:48:21.800 yeah, it's fitting that she's, uh, an abortion activist now because abortion is the same thing 0.71

00:48:27.720 that Casey Anthony did. Allegedly. Today's Teehee Tuesday on that happy note. The rest of the show

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