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00:00:50.780Another liberal judge has been arrested, again, for assisting illegal aliens in their crimes.
00:00:56.540President Trump is yet again under fire, this time for the single dumbest non-traversy of his entire
00:01:03.160political career. And another associate of Jeffrey Epstein has died by suicide, allegedly.
00:01:10.140Lots of death, mystery, and crime today. I'm Michael Knowles. This is the Michael Knowles Show.
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00:01:38.660than ever. Not on this show, though. We don't go blue on this show as a rule, okay? This is a
00:01:44.120respectable, family-friendly show most of the time. Politicians in both parties, though,
00:01:49.940they're going blue, and I think I actually know why. There's a lot more to say on that in one moment.
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00:03:08.500The FBI has arrested Judge Hannah Dugan, Wisconsin judge. She's a judge out of Milwaukee.
00:03:16.180She's been arrested on charges of obstruction because this judge allegedly
00:03:21.540got an illegal alien off the hook as the illegal alien was about to be arrested last week.
00:03:28.800According to Kash Patel, FBI director, quote, we believe Judge Dugan intentionally misdirected
00:03:35.780federal agents away from the subject to be arrested in her courthouse. Eduardo Flores Ruiz allowing the
00:03:42.800subject an illegal alien to evade arrest. I know this is confusing because it sounds like I'm just
00:03:49.680repeating the story I told you last week. That isn't true. Last week, a judge and his wife were
00:03:55.520arrested for housing illegal alien gang members. That is to say, domestic terrorists. Well, I guess
00:04:03.840foreign terrorists who are now domestic because they've crossed into our country illegally in their
00:04:07.900homes. That's a totally different case. In this case, there's a judge who had an illegal alien,
00:04:15.620clearly guilty, dead to rights. And this judge, as the guy's about to be arrested, the judge basically
00:04:21.040lets him out the back door, which is a crime. Now, we have to say allegedly, we don't know that the
00:04:28.440judge actually did it. You know, everyone's entitled to due process. However, this judge
00:04:31.720appears to have rather left-wing sympathies. You can see the judge wearing a mask in some
00:04:38.580photo that's going around virally now. In 2019, another judge, Massachusetts Judge Shelley
00:04:43.680Richmond Joseph was charged with obstruction of justice for doing the same exact thing
00:04:48.880after helping an illegal migrant avoid ICE in her building. She was then suspended for three years
00:04:55.860and then charges were dropped by Joe Biden. So if you're a judge, if you're a liberal judge today,
00:05:01.900you could see why you'd be tempted to open up the back door, let the illegal out before
00:05:05.580law enforcement comes in to arrest him. Because you say, well, the last regime let judges get away
00:05:11.120with this kind of thing. Well, there's a new sheriff in town. So no, if you do that,
00:05:17.120you're committing a crime. And now, finally, you're going to be held accountable for your crime. And
00:05:22.660the libs are losing their minds on this. They're saying, they're arresting judges. I saw all these
00:05:29.160liberal accounts, Aaron Rupar, all these people. They're the Trump administration. They're arresting
00:05:35.340judges. First of all, it was not so long ago that the liberals were trying to murder judges. Do you
00:05:44.180remember a few years ago when the then Senate majority leader, Chuck Schumer, walked in front
00:05:50.240of the Supreme Court, said, we're coming for you, Justice Kavanaugh. We're coming for you, Justice
00:05:53.460Court, since you've unleashed the whirlwind. You're going to reap the results. And then shortly thereafter,
00:05:58.160a leftist traveled from California to Washington, D.C. to murder Justice Kavanaugh at his home,
00:06:02.500possibly murder his entire family. And threatened all these other justices. Alito had to move out
00:06:07.860of his house. Remember that? So not so long ago, the left was celebrating the possibility of murdering
00:06:16.180federal judges. Seems like arresting a judge would be relatively modest in comparison. But it was also
00:06:21.720not so long ago that the libs were saying no one is above the law. Remember? Remember when the libs were
00:06:26.580arresting Donald Trump multiple times over nothing, arresting Trump for having some documents in his
00:06:35.740home. Joe Biden had more documents in less secure areas of his home. Joe Biden got off the hook
00:06:40.640without question. Donald Trump needs to have his home raided. He needs to be arrested. He needs to
00:06:45.040prosecuted four times for various non-traverses. That was totally fine. That was not a threat to the rule
00:06:50.780of law. But arresting judges for clearly committing crimes, harboring terrorists in their homes,
00:06:57.540and obstructing law enforcement, that's somehow beyond the pale. It doesn't make a lot of sense to
00:07:03.680me. They're arresting judges now. Right. And we're going to arrest a lot more judges if the judges keep
00:07:10.020committing crimes. So word to the wise, judges, cut it out. Keep the doors locked. Now, the biggest
00:07:18.780non-traversy that I've ever seen in Donald Trump's entire political career, and there have been a lot
00:07:24.620of them, occurred at the Pope's funeral. I mean, there are going to be a lot of funeral events,
00:07:33.500and there's going to be a lot of public mourning for Pope Francis. Trump flew in for it, and the libs
00:07:39.080are up in arms because Donald Trump wore a blue suit with a blue tie. You can see Melania wearing a
00:07:47.080beautiful mantilla, black, and Trump is wearing blue. And the libs lose their mind on it. Here's
00:07:53.100the New York Times. Trump's blue suit at Pope's funeral draws attention. President Trump's choice
00:08:00.380stood out in a sea of world leaders and famous faces who were dressed in customary black.
00:08:05.500Now, I'm looking at the picture, even the picture the New York Times is using. And it's true,
00:08:10.080his suit's a little bit lighter than the others. The guy behind him is wearing a navy blue suit.
00:08:14.600The guy, a few rows behind him, is wearing a blue shirt, looks like. The guy right behind him is
00:08:23.220wearing, like straight back behind him, behind the guy in the turban there, is wearing a rather
00:08:28.640bright blue tie. There's a red tie over here. There's another red tie. But then, the way you know this is
00:08:36.800the most ridiculous non-traversy, the biggest fake news story ever involving Trump. Forget about Russia.
00:08:43.420Forget about the phone call to Ukraine. Forget about January 6th. Forget about all this nonsense.
00:08:48.900The way you can just, I'm so grateful for this story because it shows you not to have any faith
00:08:55.560in the establishment media. Joe Biden wore basically the same suit to the Pope's funeral.
00:09:02.920Analogous role, two presidents, one Republican, one Democrat. Same event, same suit. Trump's was
00:09:15.740maybe a smidge lighter in color. They were both blue suits, both with blue ties. And no one wrote
00:09:23.160about Biden's suit. And everyone wrote about Trump's suit and the great faux pas of wearing a blue suit.
00:09:28.500It's an admission, an implicit admission from the New York Times, from the establishment media
00:09:36.460generally. They don't care for the truth. They don't care for objectivity. This is,
00:09:42.620you could not have a more perfect comparison. And when Biden does it, it's fine because Biden's a
00:09:49.200Democrat. When Trump does it, it's not fine because he's Trump. One final point on this. I wear black to
00:09:55.000funerals. I think it is good to wear black to funerals. I think you should wear black to
00:09:57.940funerals. I have heard from liberals for like 20 years now or more that, or I think longer actually,
00:10:08.760that it is passe. It is outdated to wear black to funerals. That these days you can wear blue or
00:10:17.060any color really. You don't have to do it anymore. Not one single liberal who is criticizing Trump for
00:10:24.380wearing a blue suit to the Pope's funeral. Actually wears black to funerals. It is so, it is so
00:10:31.000deeply disingenuous. And if, if they want to defend themselves, show me the article about the
00:10:37.380great offense that Joe Biden wore the blue suit. You're not going to find it. Now, turning from
00:10:43.340alleged fashion crimes to actual crimes, one of Jeffrey Epstein's most prominent associates and
00:10:52.860accusers has just killed herself, allegedly. This is Virginia Jufri. She was certainly the most famous
00:11:02.460of Jeffrey Epstein's girls, a young girl when she started working with him, alleges that he and Ghislaine
00:11:08.640Maxwell made her sleep with all sorts of rich, powerful guys. And Ghislaine Maxwell is in jail
00:11:15.420in large part because of this woman's testimony. She allegedly killed herself. And people are
00:11:20.780skeptical of this because she sent out a tweet back in 2019. She said, I'm making it publicly known that
00:11:26.460in no way, shape or form, am I suicidal. I have made this known to my therapist and general practitioner.
00:11:31.860If something happens to me in this, in the sake of my family, if she meant for the sake of my family,
00:11:38.180do not let this go away and help me to protect them. Too many evil people want to see me quieted.
00:11:44.680Then she kills herself. People on the internet are saying, well, this is evidence. It's just like
00:11:49.180Jeffrey Epstein. He didn't kill himself and she didn't kill herself either. Here are just the facts.
00:11:55.020This woman, Virginia Jufri, took legal action against Epstein a decade ago, back in 2015,
00:12:02.400back when very few of us were even talking about the Jeffrey Epstein story, even though there was
00:12:06.120stuff bubbling out there about it. The establishment media weren't touching it. Virginia Jufri takes
00:12:11.920legal action against him. Fast forward to just about a month ago, Virginia Jufri claims to have been hit
00:12:19.420by a bus. And she posted this picture of herself really bruised up, especially in the face, not so much
00:12:24.600on the rest of her body, but in the face, she's got cuts and black and blue. And the bus driver in this
00:12:31.680case disputed her characterization of it. She said, you know, I kind of clipped a car a little bit. I got
00:12:36.620out, made sure everyone was okay. The driver was a 70 plus year old woman. The driver was fine. I didn't even
00:12:41.580really pay attention that there was a passenger in the car. I don't think those bruises are from my bus
00:12:47.880clipping the car. Then a few days later, there is a news article that's released, uh, that Jufri has
00:12:55.420been beaten by her husband. Allegedly, uh, Jufri claimed that she suffered years of physical abuse
00:13:01.080at the hands of her husband. The couple had just recently split up after being married for more
00:13:05.320than two decades. She wrote back in March, my beautiful babies have no clue how much I love them
00:13:10.100and they're being poisoned with lies. I miss them so very much. So I guess her kids were taken away
00:13:14.100from her, maybe with the husband or something. She goes, I've been through hell and back in my 41
00:13:19.120years, but this is incredibly hurting me worse than anything else. Hurt me, abuse me, but don't
00:13:23.480take my babies. My heart is shattered and every day that passes my sadness only deepens. So you really
00:13:28.960feel for this woman. She's had a rotten life and she was exposed to lots of terrible things as a young
00:13:35.320gal. And you just feel for her. You feel she's suffered a lot. She's a troubled woman. I think she
00:13:41.820killed herself. We should pray for her. We should pray for the repose of her soul. I think she killed
00:13:47.320herself. I think if you examine the evidence, there's no reason that the people who want to
00:13:53.800shut up the Epstein story would have killed her now. They would have killed her in 2015. For 10
00:13:59.600years, she's been spilling the beans. Ghislaine Maxwell is in prison because of this woman.
00:14:03.360So if they were going to get her, she's kind of spilled it all. You know, there's not,
00:14:06.420there's really not much reason to get her now. On top of that, she said she wouldn't
00:14:12.200kill herself, but that was a while ago. That was six years ago. A lot can change. Like
00:14:16.180your husband, who you're accusing of beating you, leaves you and takes your kids. You say,
00:14:22.000my heart's broken. This is the worst pain I've ever gone through. My heart is shattered.
00:14:24.880She posted after this bus crash that allegedly left her with the bruises, though it might've
00:14:30.540been the husband who left her with the bruises. It might've been something else. She says,
00:14:33.160I only have four days to live. I think she killed herself. I'm not saying Jeffrey Epstein killed
00:14:38.500himself. I'm saying that I think she killed herself. And the reason that this matters
00:14:42.760politically, and it's not just a gossipy story about this, you know, bizarre sex ring.
00:14:49.460The reason it matters politically is it's important for us to remember, we who consume the news,
00:14:54.280we who are trying to make sense of political events in a time when there are legitimate conspiracies
00:14:59.400that are taking place. The juiciest conspiracy theory is not always the truth. That's not always
00:15:08.900the correct narrative. Sometimes it is. Conspiracies happen. People collude and conspire.
00:15:17.120That happens. But it's not always the truth. There are some people who adopt a pose of,
00:15:24.000you know, realism, cynicism, but they call it realism. And they say, oh, you think you know how,
00:15:29.740oh, actually, the world is much worse than you even think it is. And they believe that this kind
00:15:36.360of deep pessimism passes for wisdom. But I think it's naivete, a lot of the time at least.
00:15:42.520The evidence here to me is a troubled woman who lived a really rough life killed herself, probably.
00:15:52.820And I think that actually tells you more about the human condition,
00:15:55.880even than the Jeffrey Epstein sex ring. There's still tons of questions. Who was funding Jeffrey
00:16:01.320Epstein? Where did he get his money? Where was his career from? Why all the spying? What was the
00:16:05.980purpose? Whose interests did this serve? Who are the rich guys who have been protected here? There are all
00:16:10.680sorts of questions about Epstein. I am in no way diminishing that. But also sometimes people do
00:16:19.420kill themselves. And that's a dark reality about the human condition that we also have to confront.
00:16:25.340And just going to the juiciest, most TikTok-y viral theory, it doesn't, that might get you clicks on
00:16:31.380the internet, but that doesn't really reveal the truth of situations. It doesn't really help you
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00:18:16.220is a Republican candidate for Lieutenant Governor of Virginia. He is a self-identified gay guy.
00:18:23.440He has been caught in something of a sex scandal. It's specifically a pornographic picture scandal.
00:18:30.980So I'll try to speak of this in relatively euphemistic ways so that, you know, we try to keep
00:18:37.440the show above board here. We try not to get it. We don't go blue, as I mentioned at the top of the
00:18:41.340show. This guy, John Reed, had this to say after photographs leaked purporting to be from one of this
00:18:49.320guys' social media accounts. He says it's not from his social media accounts, but it would appear to
00:18:53.560be pictures of him in compromising positions, shall we say. Here's his response.
00:18:58.700I haven't publicly performed or publicly posted anything pornographic. Have I seen porn? Yes.
00:19:07.400Have I had one-night stands? Yes. Are my exes all still in love with me? No. What more can I
00:19:15.740possibly tell you? And why am I the candidate who has to answer these questions on this topic?
00:19:23.060Okay, this is not a good defense. The word publicly here stands out to me as a big problem. He says,
00:19:33.180I haven't publicly performed or publicly posted anything pornographic, which means he has privately
00:19:43.340performed and privately posted things that are pornographic. That's probably disqualifying,
00:19:50.600just generally. I'm not saying the guy can't have taken some kind of saucy pictures. But if we're
00:20:01.540talking about actual pornography, come on, man. You should not be performing privately or publicly in
00:20:09.660that if you want to hold public office. Or if you have, you should. I've interviewed former
00:20:15.180pornographic performers. You need to have a real about face. You need to really turn your life around.
00:20:20.600In a marked way that I'm not, I don't know that he has. Just from the way he's talking about this.
00:20:25.360I haven't publicly posted. What do you mean you've privately posted? To like a group text or something?
00:20:30.120That's not good. Have I seen porn? Okay, well, statistically, what? 99.9% of men have seen
00:20:37.140pornography. So again, I don't know if this is the way you should talk about it if you're running for
00:20:40.220office. But okay, fine. Have I had one-night stands? I wouldn't be, this is not good stuff. You
00:20:44.840should not be talking about this. Are my exes all still in love with me? Okay. So he's saying,
00:20:50.140he's saying without saying, yeah, the pictures are real, but I didn't post them.
00:20:53.980Glenn Youngkin, governor of Virginia, has asked him to drop out.
00:20:58.080Now, I look at a guy like this, and I think there's really no excuse for his behavior.
00:21:04.980This guy, I think, is in his mid-50s. And I don't know that these incidents had occurred all that long
00:21:11.400ago. I mean, this technology didn't even exist to do this kind of stuff all that long ago.
00:21:15.660So I think there's really no excuse. He certainly should have known better.
00:21:19.860This isn't like some teenager who got caught sending a racy picture on Snapchat, and now his or her life
00:21:27.280is ruined. This is a grown man who is in his 50s. Like, come on, give me a break. However,
00:21:32.980it did get me thinking. Forget about this guy. I mean, I don't know. He's running essentially
00:21:36.860unopposed. He's got the Republican nomination more or less locked up. So I don't know what's
00:21:42.900going to happen to the lieutenant governor's race in Virginia. But it did get me thinking.
00:21:47.940What about the people who did send racy pictures on Snapchat when they were teenagers?
00:21:53.420People who are maybe a little bit younger than me, but not Zoomers, basically. Just Zoom. What
00:21:58.420happens when the Zoomers are politicians? Because we've already seen this with the millennials.
00:22:03.200Because digital cameras and then smartphones took off when millennials were still in high
00:22:08.240school, you're seeing just a ton of stuff. For the Zoomers, what percentage of Zoomers have
00:22:20.380not sent a racy picture to a boyfriend or girlfriend at some point in their lives?
00:22:25.040Like 10%, 20%. It's just so many people have done that already, that we are going to have to
00:22:33.700grapple with the fact that there is going to—this is legitimately scandalous. Probably this should
00:22:38.840tank this guy's campaign now. But in his defense, in 10 or 20 years, this is going to be ubiquitous.
00:22:48.780This is going to be—there will be, somewhere out in the ether, on some server somewhere owned by
00:22:54.780Meta or Google or somewhere, there will be racy pictures of every Zoomer politician in the country.
00:23:02.260And how are we going to react to that? Are we going to degrade our standards and say,
00:23:07.040well, this is just how it is now? Is this going to cause a reaction, a restoration of standards,
00:23:12.660a new Victorian era? Actually, I have some predictions on this.
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00:25:05.520Southern Republicans moving from Virginia to South Carolina, this clip went viral last week. I want to
00:25:11.240touch on it briefly. Nancy Mace was accosted by a trans-identifying fella, a guy who says that he's
00:25:17.980a woman. They got into a bit of a shouting match before the trans-identifying fella made as though he
00:25:25.400were about to throw a potted plant at Nancy Mace's head.
00:25:30.060Does your husband call you, babe? I'm not there. Okay, so even better. And I don't, I don't care. Okay, so I would like
00:25:39.060for you to apologize, but this is derogatory then, but second to follow. Is tranny derogatory then? Well, no. Yeah. So, tranny, yeah, tranny, tranny, tranny.
00:25:51.060Okay, so you see, I guess it's a guy? Picks up the potted plant. You think, is he about to smash this in
00:26:02.720Nancy Mace's face? And then he, but he walks away. And there's Nancy Mace. She goes, tranny is
00:26:08.900derogatory? Well, tranny, tranny, tranny. And there's something kind of funny about it, but the whole thing,
00:26:14.520this whole exchange just feels so tired, doesn't it? I've been, I've been at the forefront of the
00:26:24.880transgender battles of the last five or 10 years. And even to me, I just think this whole thing is
00:26:31.880so tired. It's over. It's over. Transgenderism is right now on track to be eradicated from public
00:26:40.720life entirely. Everyone's sick of this. The Republicans are sick of this. The Democrats are
00:26:46.200sick of this. The Republicans are sick of it because it's revolting. The Democrats are sick of it because
00:26:50.620it keeps costing them elections. The women are sick of this because it takes away their rights. The men
00:26:55.940are sick of this because it is repulsive to pretend to be the opposite sex. It just is. Everyone knows
00:27:01.840there's something wrong with it. We're now beginning to learn more about some of the causes and
00:27:06.860incentives behind transgenderism. They're being rectified. Scientists are sick of it.
00:27:14.160The Cass Review is sick of it. Governments are sick of it. The UK is, it's just, I think it's over.
00:27:20.640I think it's, and so this is the last little gasp of it. Stop calling me tranny. You're a tranny.
00:27:25.700Stop calling me tranny. But it's just, everyone finds the whole thing tedious. I think it's, I think it's
00:27:30.580over. I'm declaring that we are on the brink of transgenderism being eradicated from public life
00:27:36.040entirely. Not a moment too soon. Now, speaking of debates over what is or is not vulgar,
00:27:42.440there's a, there's a survey out that shows that politicians today are more vulgar than ever.
00:27:47.820This according to GovPredict. GovPredict has data out showing that obscene language,
00:27:53.980not including S-H-I-T and F-U-C-K, but all other obscene language has been used at an all-time high
00:28:02.220by politicians. And they're counting, they have different metrics to figure out the frequency
00:28:09.860of these words. But just to use X, 1,225 instances on X so far this year, compared with just 833
00:28:18.020instances by politicians back in 2018. That's a pretty marked increase. But you can see it all
00:28:25.820around here. So, the black is all the words other than S-H-I-T and F-U-C-K. And back in 2014,
00:28:35.920you're looking, just on Twitter, you're looking at instances, 58 instances. 2015, 98. 2016, 127.
00:28:42.8202017, 825. 2018, only a little bit higher, 833. 2019, 1225. So, and it cuts off here, but it's
00:28:53.420obviously getting much higher. But you're seeing this with all sorts of other words too.
00:28:58.920Even S-H-I-T jumped up a lot in 2018. It's gone down a little bit since then. F-U-C-K peaked in 2018.
00:29:07.560It's gone down a little bit since then. And that actually backs up my thesis on all of this. Some
00:29:12.280people are going to look at this and say, oh no, the West is doomed. It's all decay from here. And
00:29:16.960we're just going to get more and more vulgar and more and more obscene. And there's no way to stop it.
00:29:20.900And there's no end in sight. I don't think so. I think actually we're reaching peak vulgarity.
00:29:30.000And we're seeing peak vulgarity specifically among Gen X and millennial politicians.
00:29:36.800Beto O'Rourke. This is just one example used in some of the news coverage here.
00:29:40.040Beto O'Rourke, who, remember him? He ran for Senate, lost to Ted Cruz, ran for president,
00:29:44.660lost to everyone. He kept just trying to run for office and he kept losing.
00:29:48.260He was asked by reporters what Trump would do in response to a mass shooting back in 2020. He said,
00:29:56.180he's been calling Mexican immigrants, rapists and criminals, members of the press. What the F?
00:30:00.720He said the real word. What the F? I remember Chris Murphy, the Democrat senator from Connecticut.
00:30:07.040He tweeted out the other day, it was a really hard effing day.
00:30:11.920I want to hear this from you. You're a man. Shut up. Don't whine about your day.
00:30:16.640It's very, it's womanish. It's very, it's not, it's fine when you want women to behave like women,
00:30:22.800but when men behave like women, that's not womanly, that's womanish. That's, what are you doing?
00:30:26.940I don't, and I don't want you to be vulgar, period. I don't, oh, it's really hard effing day.
00:30:30.580What the F? This is, this is a Gen X and millennial phenomenon.
00:30:36.620And it's because Gen X is the cynical latchkey generation, right? They're the latchkey kids.
00:30:44.360They're cynical and they don't really believe in anything, man. They're grunge. They're cool.
00:30:47.780They're whatever. They're gonna, Kurt Cobain's gonna kill himself because things are too good.
00:30:52.080You know, it's just like, uh, speaking of suicide, there's a lot, a lot of death in the show today,
00:30:57.120but it's just, that's the generation, uh, whatever. Nothing means anything. Come on. Don't be
00:31:00.960enthusiastic, man. We're just gonna be cynical. You know, we're the latchkey kids. We're not
00:31:04.600supervised. We're gonna be, we're cool. The millennials are different from Gen X. I'm a
00:31:09.320millennial. I'm a millennial, but I see my own generation with clear eyes. The millennials were
00:31:14.680the opposite of latchkey. The millennials were helicopter parented and the millennials tend
00:31:19.380to be a little bit spoiled and a little bit entitled and extremely sensitive. The snowflake
00:31:24.580generation. And, and, and this also leads to a kind of vulgarity, this entitlement, this lack of
00:31:30.720decorum, this hypersensitivity. The, to me, the video of the millennials took place at Yale 2014
00:31:38.380or 2015 when shrieking girls screamed at professor Nicholas Christakis, a preeminent liberal academic
00:31:46.160who was the master of Suleman college. And there was this whole scandal. Some of you might remember
00:31:52.400it where some DEI type administrator sent out an email to Yale students said, Halloween's coming up.
00:31:58.340Make sure you don't put on any offensive costumes. And professor Christakis' wife sent out an email
00:32:04.240to her students and said, Hey, you know, you're 20 year old Yale students. You could probably dress
00:32:08.760yourselves. Okay. Just, you know, you have judgment. And this led to a campus uproar. And the shrieking
00:32:14.660girl said, this is not about creating an intellectual space. This is about making a place of comfort and
00:32:19.880home here. And they start shrieking profanity at their professor. It's a similar behavior to Gen X,
00:32:26.720but motivated by different things. So, okay. You get Kristen Gillibrand using naughty words. You get
00:32:33.860Beto, you get Chris Murphy, you get the squad, you get a Jasmine Crockett, the new, the new AOC,
00:32:39.720another millennial using all, so it's a nasty language. I am confident that the zoomers will
00:32:46.880restore the norms. Okay. I think the boomers, even though they were kind of hippies, they
00:32:54.640generally don't do this. The silent generation didn't do this. The greatest generation didn't do
00:33:00.360this. The Gen X started to loosen up the norms. Millennials took it to an extreme.
00:33:08.200Then the zoomers, they're reacting against that. I see in the zoomer, I think I might be a spiritual
00:33:15.140zoomer. The zoomers are trad. They are helping to lead the return to religion. Some millennials do.
00:33:25.360The return to religion, the return to orthodoxy, the return to norms. They want the trad wife and
00:33:29.640the trad life and they want to have kids and they want to live in a normal society because society has
00:33:33.220become so bizarre. We have so obviously begun to live in clown world that there is a reaction against
00:33:38.080that. So, okay. Enjoy, enjoy it while it lasts. Gen X and millennials. You can even see, you really can
00:33:44.540see it. Not with the, all of the other words, but especially with S-H-I-T and F-U-C-K. I'm just even
00:33:50.840noticing this now after I had formed my thesis. I'm glad it affirms it. You're seeing it. It's beginning
00:33:55.140to decrease. The zoomers might well be the new Victorians. That will be a surprise to some of them,
00:34:01.160but I think it's true. I think it's true, man. Speaking of generational shifts, last Saturday
00:34:07.080marked an anniversary that not a lot of people talked about. Last Saturday marked the 250th
00:34:14.620anniversary of the outbreak of the American Revolution. Did you know that? The battle of
00:34:19.780Lexington and Concord. The 250th anniversary was last Saturday. Now, you know, I have a personal
00:34:25.420connection to the American Revolution because two of my direct ancestors fought in it. One of whom,
00:34:30.020John Knowles died of his wounds later on from Bunker Hill. Simon Knowles, though,
00:34:34.220fought from Bunker Hill all the way across the Delaware, fought at all the, most of the big
00:34:38.560battles, fought with Washington for a lot of it was at Yorktown, ended up being discharged
00:34:42.420honorably with Washington up at Newburgh at the end of the war, 1783. I have a real personal
00:34:51.580love of the revolutionary era. And it was a long time ago. 250 years. I think of it like a family
00:35:02.820connection, but it was 250 years. Okay. Empires don't often last much longer than that.
00:35:12.660In some ways, we're such a young country, but in some ways, we're a rather old country.
00:35:16.160And I think this helps us to understand a lot of our politics right now. There is a 20th century
00:35:22.800political scientist, Rain Tagepera. I think I'm probably mispronouncing his name. I think it's
00:35:29.120Rain Tagepera, who argued that empires last 250 years. Uh-oh. That's not good news after last Saturday.
00:35:38.720Paul Kennedy, great intellectual and scholar. He didn't explicitly claim that empires last 250
00:35:46.780years, but the trends that he pointed out don't look great for us. You know, he has a famous study
00:35:51.560from 40 years ago, the rise and fall of great powers. Economic change and military conflict
00:35:57.280from 1500 to 2000. It points out that great empires have this almost impossible balancing act.
00:36:05.860They have to balance their wealth and their economic base and their military power and their
00:36:13.720strategic commitments. Right now, you've got Americans arguing and saying, hey, we don't want
00:36:18.680to just be a tax farm for an overseas empire that benefits everyone but us. You know, that was a big
00:36:23.100theme in the 2024 election. Exactly what Kennedy's talking about. So there's this constant tension
00:36:29.460between what we consume and what we spend and invest and how we defend ourselves and there's
00:36:36.100all this tension. Some empires last longer. Rome lasted for 500 years. The Byzantine Empire lasted
00:36:44.8201,100 years. Some are shorter. The Mongol Empire was under 200 years and it was like 160 years.
00:36:52.380And the Umayyad, I always mispronounce that, caliphate, that was less than a century.
00:36:59.600Bringing it back to earth, we always hear that we're living in unprecedented times. You hear this
00:37:06.540from the libs, there's unprecedented times. Donald Trump is upending the order of the United States.
00:37:12.020No, it's not unprecedented times. These kinds of political trends that we're seeing right now
00:37:20.260have happened many times throughout history. The cycle of regimes has happened many times
00:37:24.960throughout history. We're living in very precedented times. We should not, however,
00:37:33.460allow this to leave us complacent. If political scientists are correct, big if, we're kind of
00:37:42.540living on borrowed time as an empire. And so the goals that President Trump needs to affect,
00:37:51.480the stuff he has to do right now, they're extremely, extremely difficult. And if the United
00:37:59.880States did continue on the course of decline that the liberals have set us on, that wouldn't be all
00:38:07.120that surprising. It would be, the more surprising thing would be if President Trump can manage to
00:38:12.340succeed at making America great again. If anybody can do it, he can do it. The guy is a world historic
00:38:16.160figure. But don't just look at the Trump presidency in the vacuum of the last three or four
00:38:24.180presidencies. Don't just look at this moment in American history in the vacuum of even the last 50
00:38:29.080or 100 years. Look at America compared to other empires. Look at America, not so much from the
00:38:37.820perspective of exceptionalism, but just look at how politics usually works. We're in a privileged
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00:39:50.220yesterday is from Samantha Rawson, 4216, who says, I wish Trump could run for a third time
00:39:55.460so that he could yet again beat a woman in the presidential race.
00:40:00.380Samantha, you seem to be betting on AOC as the Democrat nominee, speaking of vulgar and
00:40:06.600common-sounding politicians. And you might be right. You might be right about that.
00:40:13.640Okay, quickly looking at imperial matters. Mr. Zelensky has just rejected President Trump's
00:40:20.680peace deal. And Putin has just been pounding Ukraine. So Trump ran into Zelensky at the Pope's
00:40:30.560funeral, and they had a little meeting off to the side. I don't think it really went anywhere.
00:40:33.880Because Zelensky said that Trump's proposal to recognize Russia's re-annexation of Crimea
00:40:41.800is unacceptable. It's not that Ukraine isn't going to give up the eastern provinces that Russia took.
00:40:49.780It's not that Ukraine is not going to give up a ton of its territory. Ukraine will not even
00:40:56.800recognize Russia's claim to Crimea. Crimea, which historically has been a big part of Russia,
00:41:02.280but then which was given to Ukraine, and it's now contested. And then Putin invaded and took Crimea
00:41:06.800back. Zelensky is saying even Crimea is not on the table. Okay. Meanwhile, Putin just starts
00:41:15.000pummeling Kiev, not even pummeling the eastern provinces. He's pummeling Kiev. So much so that
00:41:19.780President Trump posts on Truth Socialist, says, Vladimir, stop. What are you doing? All caps.
00:41:25.120What are you doing, Vladimir? I'm trying to broker a peace. Neither party wants peace.
00:41:31.880Neither the Ukrainians nor the Russians want peace. So Trump is great at brokering deals. He's a master
00:41:40.180of the art of the deal. But if neither party in this conflict wants peace, I guess it's just going
00:41:48.020to keep going on. Both sides are so deeply dug in. Neither has insinuated at all that he would accept
00:41:57.960a peace deal. At a certain point, Trump probably has to make good on his threat to just walk away
00:42:02.560from the negotiating table. Okay. Keep pummeling each other some more. Keep killing Putin or Trump
00:42:08.060rather pointed out that 5,000 soldiers a week are dying. Okay. If both of these world leaders want to
00:42:14.220keep sacrificing their men in this totally intractable conflict, there's not really all that much that
00:42:21.500we can do. At least one party needs to want peace for the deal to work. Meanwhile, there was a massive
00:42:28.860explosion in Iran. At least 25 dead, at least 800 wounded. Yet the Iranian news agency, the minute I saw
00:42:36.160this headline, I said, oh no, here we go. It's starting. Either we bombed Iran or Israel bombed Iran
00:42:41.660or somebody bombed Iran. Saudi, I don't know who bombed Iran. But I don't know, here we go. We're
00:42:46.380going to get a war in Iran. But Iran, sorry, I don't want to pronounce it the Barack Obama way.
00:42:51.720Iran. Iran, and I'll pronounce it good American way. Iran is arguing that it was just an accident,
00:42:59.940likely set off by containers of chemicals. No one really knows why they detonated, why there was this
00:43:05.200massive explosion. But Iran has not said that it was sabotage or a deliberate attack. Now that might be
00:43:10.620strategic, it might have been an attack, but they don't want to admit it because that would escalate
00:43:13.800things further. In any case, Trump is directly threatening Iran. Trump says in an interview
00:43:18.460with Time Magazine, if we don't make a deal, I will be leading the pack to fight in Iran. You asked if
00:43:27.140Netanyahu would drag me in, like I'd go on willingly? No, I may go in very willingly. If we can't get a deal,
00:43:34.620I think we're going to make a deal with Iran. Nobody else could do that.
00:43:36.940Now, some people who really don't want to go to war with Iran, which is most of America,
00:43:42.800they're going to be pulling their hair out here. They're going to be saying,
00:43:45.000oh no, why is Trump talking this way? Stop it, Trump. We don't want to go to war with Iran.
00:43:51.860There are two different ways to talk tough on Iran. The one way is the way that the real war hawks talk,
00:43:58.300the ones who really do want to go and bomb Iran. The way that they talk tough on Iran is they build a
00:44:04.060moral case against Iran. These mullahs have abused their power. They're an illegitimate government.
00:44:08.760They oppress women. They oppress gays. They are a great threat to America. They are not only a threat
00:44:14.320to Israel. They're going to come over here and bomb us too if we don't stop them. And they're the
00:44:18.040greatest evil in the world. And we got to bomb them. That's the way that they talk tough on Iran.
00:44:23.500That's not how Trump is talking about Iran. The way Trump is talking about Iran is he's saying,
00:44:28.760oh, Netanyahu doesn't need to drag me in. I'm going to go there. I'm going to pound on myself.
00:44:31.980I'm going to fly over there in an F-35. I'm going to walk up to the mullah. I'm going to punch him
00:44:35.420in his fat, stupid face. If he doesn't do what I want him to do, give me a deal. Yeah, that's right.
00:44:39.800I'm going to carry a Molotov cocktail myself and throw it at the palace. Those jerks. Watch it.
00:44:45.140You see me? You think I'm funny? I'm funny how? Funny like I'm a clown, like I amuse you,
00:44:49.400I make you laugh. I'm here to amuse you. That's a different kind of tough talk.
00:44:54.360There's no moral argument being made there. He's just saying, give me what I want or I'll blow
00:44:59.040you to smithereens, which is the tough talk of a guy who wants a deal. When you build the moral
00:45:06.900argument against the mullahs, they're illegitimate, they're oppressing their people, then you're
00:45:11.180actually boxing yourself into a corner where you need regime change because you're saying the only
00:45:14.940moral thing to do is have regime change. You're building the case to facilitate war. Here, Trump is
00:45:20.640building a case to facilitate peace. Not one moral argument in his speech here. All he's saying is,
00:45:31.420I will do it. Trust me, I'll do it. I killed your top general. I will do it. Do not test me,
00:45:37.360but give me peace, which I think is the right course of action and should be something of a relief to the
00:45:44.060people who do not want to go to war in Iran. I want to get to one of my very favorite things the
00:45:50.700White House has done. I'm going to have to get to it tomorrow. It involves Christopher Columbus. We'll
00:45:53.340get to it then because I have to mention today a clip going around from CBS News. Tony DeCupol.
00:46:01.600We were talking about a little weird matters of the heart, weird sex stuff earlier today,
00:46:07.340Jeffrey Epstein and all the rest of it. Bill Belichick, the greatest coach in the history of
00:46:13.860football, just did an interview on CBS that hinged a little bit on his 24-year-old girlfriend.
00:46:22.820Bill Belichick is something like 73 years old. The girlfriend is 24. It's raised some eyebrows.
00:46:29.800And the girlfriend decided to sit in the room for the interview and actually interrupt
00:46:32.800when Bill Belichick was getting questions she didn't like. Here's just a little clip from Tony
00:46:39.380conducting the interview. Jordan was a constant presence during our interview. You have Jordan
00:46:47.040right over there. Everybody in the world seems to be following this relationship. They've got an
00:46:52.340opinion about your private life. It's got nothing to do with them, but they're invested in it.
00:46:57.040How do you deal with that? Never been too worried about what everybody else thinks. Just try to do
00:47:02.220what I feel like is best for me and what's right. How did you guys meet? Not talking about this.
00:47:08.080No? No. It's a topic neither one of them is comfortable commenting on.
00:47:14.320Okay. So, and, but by the way, the interview was more than fair. Tony did a fabulous job here. He
00:47:20.340doesn't hit it too hard. He says, but you know what he's really interested in is touchdowns and stuff,
00:47:24.060you know? So it's not like it was a, this was not a gotcha question. Okay. If you're,
00:47:28.420if you're a 73 year old guy and your 24 year old girlfriend insists on sitting eight feet away from
00:47:33.980a, from a network news interview that's taking place, expect a question or two about it. And
00:47:39.340then this woman interrupts, says, we're not, we're not talking about this. No, no, no. Poor Bill
00:47:44.320Belichick there. He looks, you feel bad for Bill Belichick. And I took a note to myself. If by some
00:47:52.580chance I ever become the greatest coach in the history of the NFL, I need to resist the temptation
00:48:00.220to date a 24 year old girl. This is, these interviews, this is really the whole story of
00:48:06.360Bill Belichick saga where they don't want to talk about how they met and it's a little sus and the
00:48:10.480whole thing's a little, little dubious. It's a reminder that you, you can't escape the moral order.
00:48:16.840You can't escape it. You think once you're rich and famous and established enough and people like
00:48:22.520you enough that you can take some shortcuts. You can be a little indulgent. You can be a little
00:48:27.380selfish. It's okay. You've built up so much. You can survive it. Bill Belichick is obviously
00:48:33.220embarrassed in this interview as he should be. It is, this is embarrassing. The whole thing is
00:48:41.080embarrassing. You, one feels pity. How do you feel pity for the winningest football coach ever?
00:48:45.900Because you just do. Because it's just, it's just wrong, man. You can't, the, the moral order
00:48:53.880remains undefeated. The natural law of people's consciences remain broadly undefeated. You can't,
00:49:02.880when you start behaving in a way that is indulgent and irresponsible and maybe a little selfish and a
00:49:11.300little, a little degen, you know, a little touch of degen. It, it, I don't care how many football
00:49:19.020games you want. I don't care how rich you are. I don't care how much goodwill you have. You're
00:49:22.020going to look bad. Okay. And you can have the nicest, most accommodating interviewer asking you
00:49:28.520the nicest questions about it. It's not a good look, man. Not a good, that's not, is it worth it?
00:49:34.380Is it worth it? No. They're even the most hardened, cynical dudes at the grizzled old
00:49:41.260misogynist out there saying, I think it's worth it for that hot young thing. No, you don't believe
00:49:45.700that. Not worth it. Not worth it. Your integrity and your virtue are worth more. Okay. It's Music
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