Former White House Press Secretary Corrine Jean Pierre (KJP) is leaving the Democratic Party. She tells us why she left the party in a tell-all book and why she thinks it s time to move on from Joe Biden.
00:01:17.000It does not have to do, they have nothing to do with his health.
00:01:20.000Nothing, absolutely nothing to do with his health.
00:01:22.000Joe Biden had both dementia and cancer when she said that.
00:01:25.000So, KJP, not exactly the most prolific truth teller in the country.
00:01:30.000Now, much like her fellow Democrat Jake Tapper, she wants to come clean in a tell-all book with, I'm sure, a very hefty advance that comes along with it.
00:01:41.000She wants to tell the truth long after any of it would have mattered.
00:01:46.000Now, I'm not a sailor, but I have been told when a ship is capsizing, the rats all scurry to the deck to try to escape.
00:01:59.000I predict a lot more scurrying as that Democrat ocean liner continues to go down.
00:02:07.000I'm Michael Knowles, this is the Michael Knowles Show.
00:02:28.000The Chinese National was caught trying to smuggle a toxic fungus that could have obliterated our food supply onto an American university campus.
00:02:36.000Actually, to his girlfriend who was already working at the university and seems like the CCP is up to its usual shenanigans.
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00:03:35.000I guess that's the politically interesting question.
00:03:38.000On what grounds is she leaving the Democrat Party?
00:03:41.000Is she leaving the Democrat Party because she was so disgusted with what she saw and really what she participated in in the Biden White House?
00:03:49.000Or is she disgusted with the Democrat Party because of something going on today?
00:03:54.000Well, she tells us in the book's press release.
00:03:56.000Until January 20th, I was responsible for speaking on behalf of the President of the United States.
00:04:00.000At noon on that day, I became a private citizen who, like all Americans and many of our allies around the world, had to contend with what comes next for our country.
00:04:07.000I determined that the danger we face as a country requires freeing ourselves of boxes.
00:04:13.000We need to be willing to exercise the ability to think creatively and plan strategically.
00:04:34.000Political parties clarify our political order.
00:04:37.000And there is a kind of coherence to the beliefs and policies advocated by each party.
00:04:43.000If you're a big lib, that's going to signify something for you on abortion, on immigration, on the economy, on environmental policy, on war, on all of these things.
00:04:54.000They seem disconnected, but there is a kind of coherence to it.
00:04:57.000And there's a kind of coherence on the right side, too.
00:04:59.000So is it because KJP's had a big change of heart?
00:05:10.000She's just upset that her boss didn't get to run again and she didn't get to keep her job.
00:05:14.000She says, this is in the book's press release, Green Jean-Pierre takes us through the three weeks that led to Biden's abandoning his bid for a second term and the betrayal by the Democratic Party that led to his decision.
00:05:54.000So it's not that KJP's beliefs have changed.
00:05:57.000It's not even that her loyalties have changed.
00:05:59.000She's just irritated that she lost her job.
00:06:01.000And politically, what's crucial is she realizes that the Democrat brand is toxic.
00:06:07.000This is the same sort of thing that you see from Republicans if they're in really Democrat areas and they want to fit in and they want to be cool and they want to get invited to parties and go on dates and stuff.
00:06:18.000They say, oh, me, I'm kind of independent, you know, on Tinder.
00:06:22.000I've never been on Tinder, but I'm told from many of my friends who've been on Tinder.
00:06:26.000If someone lists his or her political views as independent, it means Republican.
00:06:31.000But it's just when you're dating, Democrats are so vindictive they might swipe left on you if if they see that you're a Republican.
00:09:12.000And it's this line that I've mentioned a little more frequently in recent weeks from H.L. Mencken, that democracy is the theory that the common man knows what he wants and deserves to get it good and hard.
00:09:23.000If you just go through, take the prices aside for a second.
00:09:26.000You just go through every policy, every funding priority that's in the big, beautiful bill.
00:09:32.000The Trump voting coalition, which is to say the popular vote, would say, yeah, I want all of that.
00:09:51.000So again, I don't mean to just flack for the Trump administration here, but what do you want the guy to do?
00:09:58.000He, he and the Republicans in the House and the Senate are giving the people what they wanted.
00:10:06.000And it turns out that what the people want involves a ton of spending.
00:10:10.000And if the people don't want a ton of spending, then they're going to have to lose some of their priorities.
00:10:16.000It's not, you know, there, there is something of a disconnect between the elites that run our country and the people, but it's not as great as many people think.
00:10:26.000One of the challenges to our country as we fall into decadence and decay and overspending and mortgaging our future is, is kind of what the people want.
00:10:36.000Politicians generally are kind of cowardly and they will pretty much just give the people what they want.
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00:16:12.000So there's really, it'd be easy for the Democrats if they could say, all right, we're going to spend 20 million bucks, get this survey, and then we're going to tell our politicians to stop being so nasty to men.
00:16:23.000It's not that easy because their view of human nature requires them to view men and women as in a competition, as hostile one to the other.
00:16:35.000And they've got to pick one or the other.
00:16:37.000I don't think they're going to become misogynist, so they're going to be misandrists.
00:16:40.000And they're going to continue to repel young men, which is happy enough for me.
00:16:45.000We in the Republican Party are happy to take you.
00:16:47.000Now, speaking of what the young men want, there's a Democrat activist, Olivia Juliana, very prominent on social media, young whippersnapper trying to gather all the young votes for Dems.
00:17:00.000I got to give a hat tip to libs of TikTok here.
00:17:03.000She found this clip of this prominent young Democrat activist explaining how to appeal to men in rhetorical terms.
00:17:12.000I spent a lot of time on college campuses and I spent a lot of time with young men.
00:18:02.000I'm skeptical even the conservative ones.
00:18:04.000But plenty of young college guys are open to abortion, either because they want to be able to have promiscuous sex and not be accountable for it, or because they want to flatter young women, some of whom are rabidly pro-abortion, and they're willing to sacrifice their integrity in order to sleep with them.
00:18:32.000Even when I was a young man in college, at a very gay university, at the height of all the super gay stuff, I think that peaked somewhere in the early to mid-20-teens.
00:18:44.000Even then, like, nah, the frat guys were not.
00:18:55.000You think the way that you're going to win over fraternity brothers for the Democrat party is to go over there and start talking about St. George Floyd and the supposed lynching of, what was his name?
00:19:09.000Michael Brown, the criminal who charged the cop and grabbed his gun, and then the Democrats lied about it for two years?
00:19:15.000You think that's how you're going to get young frat guys talking about black power and solidarity and America's evil and take a knee at the football games?
00:19:23.000And so, why even listen to this woman?
00:19:27.000Because, one, it makes me feel more comfortable for the midterms and the 2028 election.
00:19:32.000But two, it shows you, she's so wrong on her substantive view of things, but it shows you even the young Democrats, even the radical Democrats, know that Democrats have this existential problem with men.
00:19:48.000Even the most diehard true blue believers, young, inflexible, sticking to their guns, even they realize the Democrat ship is capsizing right now.
00:20:03.000And the end, they just have no idea how to do it.
00:20:07.000This woman sincerely believes that the way to attract young, normal, conservative men back to the Democrat Party is to brag about killing babies, be super gay, and exalt George Floyd.
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00:20:57.740Now, speaking of how to win over the liberals, speaking of the makeup of the Democrat Party, Nate Silver has an interesting survey out.
00:21:10.640Nate Silver, you know, the pollster from FiveThirtyEight, one of the most prominent political observers and pollsters and statisticians of our time.
00:21:19.760Nate Silver says that actually there's a fundamental psychological difference between the libs and the conservatives, namely that the libs are crazy.
00:21:31.020This is Nate Silver, who's kind of a lib himself.
00:21:32.860He observes that liberals are more than twice as likely to say they have poor mental health.
00:21:40.460Conservatives are more than twice as likely than the liberals to say their mental well-being is excellent.
00:21:45.620This comes from data that was collected in the 2022 Cooperative Election Study.
00:21:52.420This is from Tufts, reported by Nate Silver.
00:21:56.780Among voters who said that they had poor mental health, 45% identified as liberal, 19% as conservatives.
00:22:06.660Among those who say they had excellent mental health, the majority of them, 51%, identified as conservative, only 20% were liberal.
00:22:18.260It's like, oh, those libs, they're crazy, aren't they?
00:22:19.940I mean, this is backed up in survey after survey that people who are more anxious, more depressed, more neurotic, more likely to have these psychological conditions are much more likely to be liberal.
00:22:31.820So this is not exactly a man bites dog story.
00:22:40.800I think this, too, comes down to the essence of the political ideology.
00:22:46.200Because liberalism comes about in the Enlightenment, really solidifies in the French Revolution, develops in all its various ways into classical liberalism, libertarianism, progressive liberalism, socialism and communism are kind of cousins to liberalism or even offshoots of it.
00:23:05.080But something they all share is that all of these ideologies seek to change the world in a fundamental way.
00:23:17.740Classical liberalism at least says that it wants to understand the world and work in accord with nature.
00:23:24.400Though in practice, a lot of classical liberalism involved eradicating old institutions, eradicating tradition and old ways of life.
00:23:32.660But at least classical liberalism recognizes that fundamentally transforming the world is unlikely to work, even though liberalism does endeavor to do that.
00:23:40.060The other forms, libertarianism, progressive liberalism, socialism, communism, they all pretty explicitly seek fundamentally to change the world.
00:24:06.540And what you should do is seek to understand the world and live in accord with nature and to cooperate with supernatural grace so that you can be transformed.
00:24:15.520So that the love that created the world can transform you.
00:24:54.900Whereas if you live in a resigned acceptance of reality as it is, and you endeavor to do your best within the confines of reality, you're much more likely to be happy.
00:25:08.380Now, speaking of health, we turn from mental health to, well, all of our health, public health.
00:25:16.680Chinese nationals are trying to poison our food through our universities.
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00:26:55.300Yun Ching-chan, 33 years old, and Sun Yong-lu, 34 years old, have been charged with conspiracy, smuggling goods into the United States, false statements, and visa fraud.
00:27:09.120Because Yun Ching-chan was working at a university, and her boyfriend, Sun Yong-lu, was smuggling in toxic fungus that could poison the U.S. food supply.
00:27:25.780And apparently, what they were going to do was work on these pathogens at the university, this is the University of Michigan, and they might have already been working on it.
00:27:37.120At least Lou, no, Jan is the girl, and Lou is the guy.
00:27:43.880I'll try to remember that, because they both sound like men's names, John and Lou, but in any case, John was the girl.
00:27:51.100She might have already been working on it.
00:27:52.400Lou, when he tried to come into the country, was turned around at the Detroit airport.
00:27:55.640He was just sent back, and they abandoned his poor girlfriend.
00:27:58.320His poor girlfriend, I guess, has been arrested.
00:28:02.740Why are the Chinese sending students to bring toxic fungus to American university campuses?
00:28:09.880First of all, most things on university campuses are toxic today, so had the fungus made it, it would have fit in just fine.
00:28:17.320But the reason that the CCP is trying to bring fungus to the campuses is to work on it, to investigate it.
00:28:25.860You know, there are a lot of scientific instruments available to them to work on this, and presumably, in case they need to use it.
00:28:35.560These guys have ties to the Chinese Communist Party, as do many students of Chinese origin who are at American universities, which is why Marco Rubio is going to revoke a lot of their visas.
00:28:50.680Because the CCP understands something that American liberals have understood for many decades at this point, and that conservatives need to figure out, which is that the campuses matter.
00:29:20.000And the conservative view, and I've heard many conservatives say this, and I've heard relatively few state the opposite opinion, which is they'll say, oh, who cares about the stupid campuses?
00:30:02.360We need to make sure, as President Trump is demonstrating beautifully in the case of Harvard and other schools, but especially Harvard, we need to make sure that the mission of the university is ideally in line with our national and political mission, but at the very least, not totally contrary to it.
00:30:19.420This is not, the toxic fungus is not the first time the Chinese have tried to take over American universities.
00:31:14.980Because young people, many if not most of whom have been raised without religion or without conscious religion, want something solid.
00:31:24.580And I don't care if you're the most anti-Catholic person out there and you disagree with the veneration of saints and you don't believe in transubstantiation and you hate the Pope or what I'm not.
00:31:37.880Even the most anti-Catholic person has to admit the Catholic Church is pretty solid.
00:31:43.300It's the only institution in the West that has persisted from classical antiquity from roughly the year 33 AD all the way up to the present.
00:31:56.380There are no other institutions in the West that have done that.
00:32:37.120And in part, this is because the church, with the weight of the magisterium, can't just start changing stuff.
00:32:44.020Can't just start inventing new doctrines.
00:32:46.240We just had a relatively very liberal pope.
00:32:49.780And even that pope, Pope Francis, was constrained.
00:32:53.040Even if he had wanted to be a radical innovator, he was really constrained.
00:32:57.480And some of the things that he wanted to do, some of the things, he was a little unclear about whether or not cohabitating people are effectively married.
00:33:05.460That was one issue that it sounded like Pope Francis was saying that people who aren't married but who are living together in a state of grave mortal sin are, like, basically married.
00:33:14.100And it just was reported in the news that Pope Leo XIV has come out and kind of clarified, no, no, no, that's not how it works.
00:33:19.920In case you misunderstood, that's not how it works.
00:33:22.800So I think the solidity is part of the reason why people are converting, especially young people.
00:33:27.080But the other thing is, we've just come out of the trans nonsense, and I think that's over.
00:33:32.880I think transgenderism is well on its way to being eradicated from public life entirely.
00:34:08.380We're not any of these ancient heresies that kind of minimize the role of the body.
00:34:13.740We are body and soul, and the body matters.
00:34:16.880And the body has something to do with my identity.
00:34:18.400And if I want to worship in a real way, I'm not just going to go sit in my little room and close my eyes and not engage with my body at all.
00:34:24.980Because, for goodness, the body matters so much that our Lord becomes flesh and dwells among us, is born to a woman in Bethlehem.
00:38:43.840And like many liberal opinions, it's not true.
00:38:46.520We have had blasphemy laws in America for most of our nation's history.
00:38:50.560Even just since the founding in the late 18th century, if you include America going back to the early 17th century, that is Jamestown and Plymouth and all of the early settlements, then we've had blasphemy laws in America for the vast majority of American history.
00:39:08.180But even still, even if you just go back to the late 18th century, we've had blasphemy laws in America for most of our history.
00:42:25.420Well, if you think that, you believe that, then we can't have a government because government exists to distinguish between good and bad and to promote good and to discourage bad.
00:42:39.120That is the basic charge of government.
00:42:42.180And it is the first precept of the natural law that good is to be done and evil avoided.
00:42:48.240So, I know there are going to be many people on the right who say, Michael, this is too far defending blasphemy laws.
00:42:53.120Well, no, I guess you got to ask yourself this question.
00:42:55.560Why did everyone just about think blasphemy laws were totally fine until the middle of the 20th century at the earliest and really until much later?
00:43:09.780Why did Pennsylvanians in 1977 think that blasphemy laws were fine?
00:43:13.800Why did that law only get overturned in 2010, 15 years ago?
00:43:19.100Maybe it's not that all those people are totally crazy.
00:43:22.200Maybe we're the ones who have gone a little bit crazy in pretending that we can't distinguish between good and bad.
00:43:28.280Maybe that's a little crazy for a country that fancies itself as self-government.
00:43:31.380Now, speaking of modern religious standards, there's a story.