As President Trump makes good on his campaign promise to abolish the Department of Education, Benighted Congressman Eric Swalwell is raising the alarm. The literal and figurative airbag Democrat warned on Friday, that Education Secretary McMahon just delivered a WWE-style smackdown to you and your kids' dreams of affordable college.
00:02:44.280But it seems to me that if we want to make college affordable again, the very first thing that we should do is abolish the Department of Education.
00:02:54.920Why has college cost increased so much since the Department of Ed was founded?
00:02:59.700Might it be because the Department of Ed just gave a blank check to colleges, said we'll pay for basically anything, or at least we'll entrap students in cycles of endless debt so that they can pay for anything?
00:03:10.780And then, obviously, the costs rise with that.
00:03:13.640So, I'm very grateful to President Trump for following through on his promise.
00:03:18.820I'm also especially grateful to Congressman Swalwell for accidentally undermining the entire Democrat argument against it.
00:04:03.420I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America that was made right here in America by the good folks at Allegiance Flag Supply.
00:04:10.500There's no better way to show your love of country, love for our troops, and love for freedom than by flying your American flag.
00:04:16.440Don't get a cheap, flimsy one that was made overseas.
00:11:29.560I'm not accusing anybody of anything, but all these little influencers, many if not most of whom make money by taking association and endorsement deals from various entities,
00:11:43.860all of a sudden started promoting big soda, right when it's a crucial moment in policy decisions.
00:11:50.980Maybe there was a little lobbying going on.
00:12:17.560Some people are not as well off as other people.
00:12:19.640We actually do have a great wealth disparity in America.
00:12:22.560And so if people who really don't make money, who are really kind of down and out financially, if they want to have a Coca-Cola, like an actual Coca-Cola, I'm not even using that as a euphemism for booze.
00:12:33.600If they want to have a soda, you know, who begrudges them that, right?
00:13:00.900In fact, most of like the rich, fancy people that I know never drink soda.
00:13:05.500They drink fruity little seltzers, and they drink, I don't know, they drink kombucha or something, whatever, I don't know, whatever like rich people.
00:13:17.680And so, and I kind of come down on this side.
00:13:20.100I am totally sympathetic to the argument that if we're going to have any kinds of welfare programs, we should allow people certain luxuries.
00:13:53.860I know, even if the soda companies are spending zillions of dollars to lobby the online influencers, I'm with Kennedy on this.
00:14:00.660I'm with the Trump administration on this.
00:14:03.000I don't want, I don't want my tax dollars funding soda that I don't even consider a luxury.
00:14:07.540If we're going to, if we're going to have our taxpayer dollars funding luxuries for people who are a little bit financially down and out, have it fund Mayflower Cigars.
00:18:24.360Really, it's just Elon and Trump, actually, I think.
00:18:26.240And then some of the other corporate billionaires are trying to suck up to Trump now that Trump won and won the popular vote.
00:18:31.100But that means that some billionaires are for the libs.
00:18:33.360Some billionaires are for the conservatives.
00:18:35.060In the middle class, where most of us are, we certainly know that many in the middle class are for the libs, especially the upper middle class.
00:18:44.580Many in the middle class, especially the lower middle class, are for the conservatives.
00:18:48.220And then among the lower economic classes, we know a ton of them are for the libs.
00:18:54.520All those blue cities in the inner urban areas.
00:19:00.680But many of the lower economic classes are for the conservatives, the deplorables, the irredeemables, all the people that Hillary Clinton invades against.
00:19:10.260In other words, it's not merely an economic issue.
00:19:12.900Furthermore, every political movement has elites, must have elites.
00:19:20.280This is obviously a very conservative insight.
00:20:02.820I'm against the elite schools that we have today that aren't giving people a proper liberal education, that aren't teaching them anything of value at all, that are actually just screwing up their heads and arousing their base passions and leaving them more ignorant that they came in.
00:20:16.380Ossoff is trying to blur all of these distinctions.
00:20:19.500He says they're literally the elites that they claim to hate.
00:20:42.520But while Mark Zuckerberg and Facebook were suppressing conservative speech and trying to destroy conservative media businesses, including ours, Elon Musk bought Twitter for the express purpose of increasing conservative speech, allowing conservative media companies to flourish.
00:32:22.060Also, ideologically, he is very left wing.
00:32:25.760Remember, Gavin Newsom was permitting so-called same-sex marriage in San Francisco when he was mayor there in 2004, 11 years before Obergefell.
00:32:36.420When same-sex marriage, which just doesn't exist because it's, it's an incoherent concept.
00:32:40.800When it was explicitly illegal, he was permitting such weddings.
00:32:46.780Furthermore, though, here's one a lot of people don't know about.
00:32:48.940This is from a New Yorker profile in 2018.
00:32:52.160Gavin Newsom helped his mother kill herself.
00:32:56.300Gavin Newsom helped his mother commit suicide.
00:32:57.920I'm just reading from the New Yorker profile.
00:32:59.960Not exactly a right wing profile, right?
00:33:01.740This is a left wing sympathetic profile.
00:33:03.600In May 2002, his mother decided to end her life through assisted suicide.
00:33:07.320Newsom recalled, she left me a message because I was too busy.
00:34:16.240This isn't just some weird quirk of the Newsom family.
00:34:19.060This is a political movement on the very, very far left to normalize and encourage suicide based on a deeper leftist philosophical premise.
00:34:29.760Really kind of a utilitarian premise that the greatest evil to be avoided is suffering.
00:34:38.200And, and that contrary to the classical and Christian conception of life, which is that we are endeavoring for happiness,
00:34:48.660eudaimonia in Aristotle's term, to engage in rational activity in an excellent way in accordance with virtue.
00:34:55.900And contrary to the Christian notion that our life is from God, we didn't create our lives.
00:36:25.700He not only allowed one of his greatest cities to burn to the ground because of his incompetence.
00:36:29.500He's also just ideologically so extreme that the things he believes are deeply, deeply evil and would greatly accelerate the destruction of our country.
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00:37:10.980My favorite comment on Friday is from Aaron Guzman, 7940.
00:37:17.620We were talking about hobbies at the end of the show.
00:37:20.420Aaron Guzman says, my favorite hobby is listening to The Michael Knowles Show.
00:38:09.940Good way to have a conversation with friends.
00:38:11.180Doesn't really alter your state of mind other than in the way a cup of coffee does.
00:38:16.380Well, pot does alter your state of mind.
00:38:18.340Now, unlike alcohol, which has been with us for the entire history of our civilization,
00:38:23.200our Lord's first public miracle is turning water into wine for people who have been drinking for a very long time.
00:38:28.340Marijuana is a foreign kind of thing, novel to our culture.
00:38:32.760Whereas alcohol is a social lubricant, in moderation, it can help ease and facilitate socializing, which is good and part of our human nature.
00:38:44.660It draws you further into yourself, and it makes you kind of dumber and hungrier and makes you less funny, even though it makes other things seem funnier to you.
00:38:51.820Anyway, I'll end my diatribe about why I'm not encouraging of the old sin spinach here.
00:38:58.300There's a study out published in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology.
00:39:03.200Young potheads are six times more likely to have a heart attack than non-marijuana enthusiasts.
00:39:10.860Six times more likely to have a heart attack.
00:39:14.480Potheads under 50, I'll try to use nicer language.
00:39:18.140People who use marijuana under the age of 50 are 6.2 times more likely to experience a heart attack.
00:39:27.900They are 4.3 times more likely to experience an ischemic stroke.
00:39:31.800And they are twice as likely to experience heart failure, according to this study.
00:39:36.240Now, you might say, well, this might be a small sample size.
00:39:38.960How could you find all those pot smokers?
00:40:23.340I'm not even just inveighing against marijuana.
00:40:25.860I know the comments are going to be full of people who tell me they love marijuana.
00:40:28.580Okay, I'm not even really arguing with you.
00:40:29.960I guess what irritates me most about the pro-marijuana political campaigning is the claim that I've heard from many, many pro-pot people that marijuana has no downsides.
00:40:45.920This is what bothers me, more than the drug itself, more than even the conversation about legalizing drugs.
00:40:52.380It's this preposterous claim that there can be a substance that you light on fire and inhale into your lungs or else cook in a brownie and eat.
00:41:20.240I am skeptical of anything that is said not to have downsides.
00:41:27.320And this political point is something that a lot more people are waking up to than were in the truly utopian, starry-eyed 1990s and early 2000s,
00:41:38.940where we thought that there were no limitations to our politics.
00:42:34.440And if you're making some no-limits utopian argument to me, just know I'm immediately going to reject your argument.
00:42:40.000Now, speaking of disordered behavior, there's a Wall Street Journal report out, quite troubling, that American women are giving up on marriage.
00:42:52.220Just read a little bit from the report.
00:42:54.520Women are doing comparatively well when it comes to education and their early years in the labor force.
00:42:59.700And men are doing comparatively badly, says Brad Wilcox, a fellow at Family Studies and a sociology professor at UVA.
00:43:06.560This creates a mismatch because people prefer to date in terms of comparable education or outcome.
00:43:20.080In high school, everyone's kind of equal.
00:43:21.440And you're all in, if you're not in the same math class, it's your, you know, someone's in the honors math class, someone's in the regular math class.
00:43:30.860And some kids are on the football team, and some kids do the plays, and some kids do student government, some kids are in the marching band.
00:43:35.660But you're all, you're within three or four years of each other, you're all kind of the same.
00:43:40.760When you get out into the real world, you know, the working world, all of a sudden, when the blonde girl that was attracted to the, you know, football player at senior year of college, all of a sudden, now she might be attracted to the guy who's five, ten years older, who's way advanced in his career, who's rich, who's got a nice car, who's, she might start dating that guy.
00:44:05.600And the guy that, the guy who was like the cool giga-chad football player just the year prior, now he's at the bottom of the totem pole in the working world, and he's not making as much money, and he's not, and so, and just, you just don't see as many people in your age cohort.
00:44:19.120You go from being on a campus that has hundreds or thousands of people around your age, now you're working in an office, maybe you're around five or ten people who are around your age.
00:44:27.580I don't know, you're working at some job, you're working in a store, maybe there are two or three people who are around your age.
00:44:31.840It just really shrinks your possibilities, your opportunities, rather.
00:44:35.600So, Brad Wilcox further pointed out on Twitter that as people have been delaying marriage, as some women are giving up on marriage altogether, when you look at happiness here, the Institute for Family Studies has this chart out, it remains the case that the happiest group of women is married moms with children.
00:44:59.860The least happy group, the least happy group, single women without children.
00:45:04.920Even in our modern age, with all these changes, all of the consequences of feminism, you see the breakdown, it's quite clear.
00:45:22.440It's inscribed in every human heart, it's true throughout every culture that's ever existed.
00:45:27.140It's just like the first principles of practical reason, the stuff that we just kind of know intuitively, we don't really have to reason about, the things that we have to know actually in order to reason.
00:45:35.180We know that man is a social creature.
00:45:39.040We don't fall off a coconut tree like Kamala Harris tells us.
00:45:42.080That was the one smart thing Kamala's ever said.
00:45:44.760We're a social creature, we're a coupling creature.
00:46:08.920Even with liberalism, even with modernism, even with feminism, married moms with kids are going to be happier than single moms, single women without children.
00:46:17.040Which means, as a general rule, marry your high school sweetheart.
00:46:22.680However, when you take all the consequences of this study into consideration, the lack of dating opportunity when you get out into the professional world and the kind of stratification and the specialization and the blah, blah, blah, and you take into account the happiness surveys of all the women, the inescapable conclusion is that shared experience, growing together, becoming one flesh, are important in marriage.
00:46:49.120That the inescapable conclusion is that the inescapable conclusion is you should marry someone kind of basically sort of like your high school sweetheart.
00:46:56.680In other words, the conclusion of all of our learning and all of our science and all of our investigations is that the things that we've pretty much always known are true, are true.