The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 176 - “ǝpɐM ˙ʌ ǝoɹ” ？

00:00:00.000 My head is throbbing. I haven't felt this dehydrated since my bachelor party because

00:00:06.360 it turns out that salty, delicious leftist tears are a diuretic, and I believe I overdid

00:00:13.280 it a little bit yesterday. The left is very, very angry. They're tweeting all sorts of

00:00:18.160 profanity at me, at other conservatives, Trump voters. They're hysterical. They're even more

00:00:23.260 profane than usual because the new, slightly more originalist Supreme Court majority could

00:00:28.760 deal a blow to the fake constitutional right to abortion. Well, to them I say, sticks and stones 0.61

00:00:35.100 may break my bones, but we're going to overturn Roe v. Wade. We will analyze the probability of

00:00:42.040 restoring constitutional governance. In other news, racist Democrats' racism finally starts to bite

00:00:47.780 them back, and then I call out Matt Walsh's globalism. Finally, the mailbag. I'm Michael

00:00:52.780 Knowles, and this is The Michael Knowles Show.

00:00:58.760 I can't, uh, I can't, I can't do it anymore with the Globes. I'm sick of the Globes. I can't,

00:01:08.460 no more Globes.

00:01:16.100 Okay. Matt Walsh is responsible for this. This is Matt Walsh's fault. Look, I'm not opposed to

00:01:22.320 stupid schtick on my show. I actually love it. It makes up about three quarters of my show, 1.00

00:01:27.320 but I'm sick of the Globes. I am not a globalist. Okay. The, the globalism is a false song and we're

00:01:33.980 rid of it now because of this administration and president Trump. If you haven't seen the Matt

00:01:39.440 Walsh show is responsible for the, just play the clip. And for good reason, because a globe,

00:01:47.880 when you add a globe into the situation, it immediately makes everything classier and more

00:01:52.820 professional and more intelligent. So even though I don't have a real studio or a real set,

00:01:58.740 I do have the globe. And the point that I made was, well, yeah, the other guys at the Daily Wire,

00:02:03.020 they've got a studio, they've got a set. They don't have a globe though, do they?

00:02:08.240 So who really has the most professional show at the Daily Wire? That, that was, that was my argument

00:02:14.380 anyway. But after the show, a lot of people informed me that actually Klavan does have a globe on his

00:02:20.700 set. I never noticed it before, but I went back and I, and I watched and yeah, there is kind of off

00:02:25.860 in the corner. It's not displayed prominently like my globe, but he does have a globe. So this is what

00:02:31.220 I'm going to do. I didn't want to have to do this, but I'm going to add a second globe. And so now I have

00:02:38.800 the most globes, both in terms of globe quantity and also total globage volume. And if it's really

00:02:45.960 necessary for me to pull out the big guns and I, and I'm kind of hesitant here because I, I, I don't

00:02:51.980 mean to show off, but if I really need to, um, I, I also have this and I could do the entire show

00:02:57.820 with this globe as well. And what would look more professional or more intelligent than that?

00:03:03.660 Okay. Um, but I won't, I won't yet unless it's really necessary.

00:03:11.380 So look, like a usual, I'm watching the Matt Walsh show and I found this argument sort of

00:03:17.220 convincing because I'll, I'll tune into the Matt Walsh show whenever I can't just talk to Paul

00:03:22.040 Bois. I will, I will tune into his doppelganger, Matt Walsh, and I will hear exactly the same voice

00:03:28.020 and the same, you know, points of view, but with more globes. So I thought this was kind of

00:03:31.780 compelling. I mean, I've been into a lot of sort of pretentious, uh, homes and offices

00:03:35.940 and they do, they have night globes and everything. So, but then I, there was something about the

00:03:39.680 globes that I didn't want to be outdone. You know, I added the globes to my set. There's

00:03:43.240 something I didn't like about them. I realized what it was. Do you know what this looks like?

00:03:48.600 Yeah. Yeah. It looks like a soccer ball. That's what it looks like. And it reminded me that basically

00:03:54.640 on this globe, every single place on here, except for, oh, we're, oh, except for right, uh, there,

00:04:02.760 every place on that globe likes soccer, except for that nice little spot right there. You know,

00:04:07.280 that hope of, uh, that, that beacon of freedom and hope for the entire world that protects everybody

00:04:11.880 from chaos and death. That one right there doesn't like soccer. So I'm done with the globes. The false

00:04:15.960 song of globalism is over. Matt Walsh can keep his globes. I'm done. Uh, we've got a lot to talk

00:04:21.300 about today. Uh, we've got so much to talk about this, uh, replacement for justice Kennedy.

00:04:26.960 We've got the New York times attacking the New York times, which is a beautiful thing,

00:04:30.500 a lot to, uh, celebrate why the Democrats are finally reaping the rewards of the awful racism

00:04:37.420 that they've sown for a long time. All of this is coming to a head in this Supreme court fight.

00:04:41.620 We're going to see who should be on, who should be on the list. Who shouldn't be,

00:04:44.920 who should get the nomination? Who shouldn't? A lot of people up for it right now. Uh, Mike Lee,

00:04:49.540 the great Senator Mike Lee is up for it. Some conservatives are applauding that. I'm a little,

00:04:53.800 I don't know if we should appoint a Senator. We will discuss all of that before we do that.

00:04:57.100 We've got to make a little money, honey, but you think these globes are free. We got to pay

00:05:00.340 our production budget is now completely blown out because of this stupid Matt Walsh gag. Uh, 1.00

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00:07:48.520 we get to the court and the real decisions here over who's going to replace Justice Kennedy,

00:07:52.060 I've, I've got to mention this, this, I, I almost, I had to double down on my hangover 0.97

00:07:57.560 because, uh, now New York times editors are admitting that their paper is just pure garbage. 0.82

00:08:03.160 So Jill Abramson, former editor of the New York times, she tweets out, she says, it kind 0.94

00:08:08.400 of pisses me off that the New York times is still asking who is Ocasio Cortez. That was

00:08:14.580 the socialist who won the, the Congress primary in Queens the other night when it should have

00:08:20.500 covered her campaign. Missing her rise is akin to not seeing Trump's win coming in 2016,

00:08:26.280 which by the way, is obviously a dig at the New York times because the New York times didn't

00:08:30.480 see Trump's win coming. They didn't think it was even possible that Trump would win in

00:08:34.220 2016. They're lashing out at this and it, it confirms something that we've been talking

00:08:38.380 about for a long time. Jill Abramson is no conservative Republican, but far from it, but she's noticing

00:08:44.420 the extreme drop in quality at the New York times. I think I said this yesterday, the New York

00:08:49.400 times right now and occupy Democrats, Facebook page are basically of the same quality. I don't

00:08:55.620 know the difference when it pops up in my newsfeed, a New York times headline or, or some radical

00:09:01.640 left meme. I don't know which is which the New York times now is funding this cartoon series

00:09:08.140 of like fat cartoons of Donald Trump looks like Ren and Stimpy making out with Vladimir Putin

00:09:14.180 and really graphic visuals. In many ways, the occupy Democrats, Facebook page has better

00:09:19.380 taste and more class than, than the New York times does these days. They're there. It isn't

00:09:25.200 just conservatives pointing this out. And this isn't just the normal tug and pull of left and

00:09:29.280 right. The left is finally recognizing that they themselves have hollowed out their institutions.

00:09:36.320 So what the left does is it comes into institutions and it destroys them. We're seeing it at my dear

00:09:40.700 old alma mater. Yale is like the prime example at the universities. The left goes into universities,

00:09:45.440 destroys them. It did this to all of the mainstream media outlets. And even the New York times, it is

00:09:50.700 recognizing that that happened to itself. It is a shadow of what it once was. It, it doesn't do,

00:09:57.100 it doesn't serve its function in politics and society that it used to, but don't take my word

00:10:01.440 for it. Take Jill Abramson's word for it. So now this will play in a little later with this court fight. 1.00

00:10:05.900 Let's get to the court. The left is so angsty right now. Uh, they're so upset about, uh, Kennedy who is

00:10:14.200 going to replace Kennedy. Uh, before we get into that, I do have to point out a little conspiracy

00:10:21.920 theory of mine. I, it was one of the best memes that was going on around Twitter yesterday. So

00:10:28.140 Mitch McConnell is key here, right? Mitch McConnell is the key. A couple nights ago, a group of

00:10:34.520 protesters came up to Mitch McConnell and his wife, another administration official. And, uh, they

00:10:41.120 started heckling him and yelling. And Mitch McConnell's wife, uh, told them, stop messing

00:10:45.500 with my husband. Here's the clip.

00:10:47.540 So the next day after a bunch of lefty protesters, uh, harass, uh,

00:11:16.920 Mitch McConnell and his wife, the swing vote on the Supreme court retires and Trump is going

00:11:22.360 to appoint an originalist. That cocaine Mitch baby that you don't mess with cocaine Mitch. 0.98

00:11:29.740 That's where he got, you know, Don Blankenship was that guy. He was running sort of against

00:11:33.820 Mitch McConnell. He was running this campaign against Senate leadership and against Mitch.

00:11:38.440 He called him cocaine Mitch. And then when that guy lost, uh, Mitch put a picture of himself

00:11:43.260 as Pablo Escobar. He said, thanks for playing this guy, man. Don't mess with Mitch McConnell.

00:11:49.640 You know, I love this video of him kind of just sitting there and then, then he just slowly looks

00:11:54.760 up and smiles just that, that little McConnell smile. And that's called a McConnelling. Now this

00:11:59.920 is the sort of stuff don't mess with. I don't know if he like made a deal with the devil for his powers

00:12:05.200 or something, but man, that guy seems to just control the universe with his finger.

00:12:10.280 So Democrats are threatening all sorts of stuff. Now they're saying, we're going to, you know,

00:12:14.540 you and this and you, and cause you remember Mitch McConnell is the reason that, uh, we got

00:12:19.980 Neil Gorsuch. Mitch McConnell is the reason that, uh, Merrick Garland, Barack Obama's nominee to the

00:12:25.660 court didn't make it onto the Supreme court. He said, Nope, we're not going to sit him. And so the

00:12:30.340 Democrats are saying, we're going to do that to you and you're, and now you're going to see this and

00:12:33.380 doing now, but you know what you can do Democrats? Nothing. You're totally, totally screwed.

00:12:38.860 They can't do, they have nothing at their disposal right now to stop this nomination and Democrat. 0.99

00:12:44.560 I I'm only rubbing their face in it because they have nobody to blame, but themselves.

00:12:49.020 This was caused by Democrats in 2013 when Harry Reid invoked the nuclear option. So the nuclear option

00:12:56.100 was saying you no longer need, uh, uh, more than a simple majority to confirm judicial nominees.

00:13:01.900 And Mitch McConnell warned about this. He actually, there he is. Cocaine Mitch warned. He said,

00:13:06.900 you are going to regret this. Here's Mitch McConnell. Once again, Senate Democrats are

00:13:11.440 threatening to break the rules of the Senate, break the rules of the Senate in order to change the

00:13:18.300 rules of the Senate and over what, over what, over a court that doesn't even have enough work to do.

00:13:27.760 The majority leader promised. He promised over and over again that he wouldn't break the rules of the

00:13:37.180 Senate in order to change them. If you want to play games, set yet another precedent that you'll no doubt

00:13:45.460 come to regret. Say to my friends on the other side of the aisle, you'll regret this. And you may regret it

00:13:51.180 a lot sooner than you think. Sitting there like Tony Soprano or something, you know, like I think

00:13:58.700 you're going to regret this. Uh, if it was me, I wouldn't do it. I wouldn't do it, Harry. I, I don't

00:14:04.520 think. And so what they did, Harry Reid pushes the nuclear option and that, uh, made it such that you

00:14:10.900 only need a simple majority to get through judicial nominees except for the Supreme court. This didn't

00:14:15.880 include the Supreme court. But of course, at this point, after he's gone to the nuclear option,

00:14:21.100 it's now up to Merrick Garland and Harry Reid no longer has control of the Senate. What is Mitch

00:14:26.680 McConnell going to do? Mitch McConnell, now the leader of the Senate, he is a, he totally railroads,

00:14:33.220 uh, Merrick Garland. He says, we're not going to do it. It's an election year and you can't make us do

00:14:37.360 it. So now, uh, we've got this, uh, you know, we still have the majority in the Senate and I got to

00:14:43.420 tell you something. They're saying it's going to be really hard to get Trump's nominee through

00:14:46.280 because, uh, Susan Collins and other, uh, left wing Republicans, uh, are going to stop it. You

00:14:52.320 know, liberal Republicans squishes. They don't want an originalist judge. I don't know about that.

00:14:57.240 There are a lot of Democrats who are in States with a lot of Trump voters and Trump is very popular

00:15:02.900 right now. And his policies are very, very popular right now. I'm not so sure that they'll be able to

00:15:07.000 railroad him on a party line vote. What about Joe Manchin, Joe Manchin in West Virginia? Is he really

00:15:11.880 reliable to, to not support, uh, Trump's nominee? Joe, Joe Manchin needs those Trump voters,

00:15:18.180 Claire McCaskill in Missouri, uh, John Tester, Montana. They're in a really tough spot. So it's

00:15:23.280 true. We've had a deal with Susan Collins and our squishes, but what about their guys? I don't know.

00:15:27.820 Trump is very popular right now. There's a, by the way, he's like, we're talking about almost record

00:15:32.080 levels of popularity. There's a new study out from Harvard caps and Harris. Trump's approval rating

00:15:38.220 is at 47%. This is up two points, uh, from last month. So think about what's been happening in

00:15:44.480 the last month. In the last month, the mainstream media shows pictures of babies crying. They're

00:15:48.880 totally made up pictures, by the way, but you know, babies being ripped from their mother,

00:15:52.480 uh, utter fiction. And they put it on the cover of the time magazine with Photoshop. And you know,

00:15:57.700 there's, it's so awful. Isn't that terrible? And what happens to Trump's popularity? It ticks up

00:16:01.620 two points. And that, by the way, that it's not like it went up with the Republicans a lot and down a

00:16:06.160 little bit with the Democrats. It went up six points among Republican voters. It went up three

00:16:10.640 points among Democrat voters, and it went up 10 points among Hispanics. So you would think this

00:16:16.500 is the moment. Yeah, we're going to demagogue. Democrats are going to make this all about race

00:16:20.200 and blah, blah, blah. It's going to kill them with the Hispanic vote. Uh, uh, it went up 10 points. 1.00

00:16:25.040 So what are these guys going to do? These Senate Democrats, are they really going to say, no,

00:16:28.740 no Trump. We're going to obstruct the whole way. Okay, good. Enjoy your reelection campaigns,

00:16:33.540 guys. Good. Keep that up. That, that, that'll probably work. Uh, and this other, this poll

00:16:38.400 also showed 59% of Americans approved Donald Trump's handling of North Korea and 75% approve

00:16:45.560 the Kim meeting. Three quarters of Americans approve him meeting with Kim Jong-un. So, okay,

00:16:50.500 guys, run against Trump, obstruct Donald Trump, be my guest, see how that works out for you.

00:16:54.740 The left is furious about this position they're in, not just the retirement of Kennedy, not just

00:17:00.380 that we're going to get another originalist on the court. They're furious because they can't do

00:17:03.820 anything about it. Here's Chris Matthews. Well, I don't think we're looking at the most,

00:17:08.460 the fresher history here of this five, four court. Of course, as John mentioned, John Meacham just

00:17:13.300 mentioned, they were the ones who throw the election, threw the election, took it out of the

00:17:16.380 hands of the, uh, the Supreme court down in Florida and gave it to a George W. Bush. And then of course

00:17:21.100 they gave the gun people what they wanted in the Howard decision. Then they gave the money people

00:17:25.360 the decision they wanted in the United citizens United. And then of course, just yesterday,

00:17:29.360 they gave the anti-immigrant people what they, this, uh, this Supreme court, this five, four court

00:17:34.000 has been pro Republican, pro gun, pro money and against immigration, anti-immigrant, anti-immigrant,

00:17:40.320 if you will. And I think the Democrats, as I said a few moments ago, have to fight this tooth and

00:17:44.920 nail. They have to use every process opportunity. They have to stop this until next year when we have a 0.93

00:17:50.320 new Senate. We don't know where the next year's Senate will be Republican or Democratic dominated,

00:17:54.640 dominated, but to give this to the Republicans when they control the Senate, basically 51 or 50 to 49,

00:18:00.880 really with John McCain, perhaps not voting again, to give them this last chance to pack the court,

00:18:07.200 five, four again, hard conservative. I, again, I say this, the base will attack the leadership for this

00:18:13.360 if they allow it to happen. And they should, because this is time for vengeance for what happened two

00:18:18.640 years ago. And if they don't wreak the vengeance now with four and a half weeks, four and a half months

00:18:22.560 to go before the election, they will not look very strong to their base. And I think they'll be

00:18:26.320 under attack. Vengeance. That's, that is the left wing agenda right now, because listen to how he

00:18:33.280 talks. Well, first of all, it's very hard because he just kind of mumbles and makes up the immigrant 1.00

00:18:37.360 people and the money people and the blah, blah, blah. No, the, this court has ruled in favor of the

00:18:42.320 constitution. Usually it's ruled in favor of the constitution. It's, it's, it's ruled in favor of,

00:18:47.760 of, of the gun advocates. Right. Because the constitution is a gun advocate. The constitution

00:18:53.600 protects your individual right to keep and bear arms. It's ruled in favor of, of, you know,

00:18:58.560 being able to donate money to political candidates. Right. Because the first amendment allows you to

00:19:02.260 donate money to political candidates because you have free political speech. Yeah, of course. Duh,

00:19:07.160 duh. But he, look, what they're, they're, as I said yesterday, they're kind of coming clean here,

00:19:11.060 right? They're saying, yeah, we oppose the constitution. We oppose. They say, he says that the,

00:19:15.460 the court is anti-immigrant. It's not anti-immigrant. It's pro-constitution. The

00:19:19.400 constitution allows the legislature to legislate and the, the executive to execute, to execute those

00:19:24.480 laws. So they're, but they're being honest. They're saying we're anti-constitution. You're

00:19:28.160 right. The left base is anti-constitution, anti-American. And, and he says the base is going

00:19:33.740 to be really angry if the Democrats don't try to shut this down. Yeah, they will. But you know,

00:19:39.240 who's really unpopular in America right now? The Democrat base, the left, that far left base,

00:19:44.640 which is holding the Democrat party hostage is very unpopular. So good. Do it. Put them on

00:19:49.600 display. Put them all over TV. That's great. Can't wait to see in November. That'll be,

00:19:53.020 that's a great idea. Uh, other, other Democrats are pretty upset about this too. Uh, U.S. rep

00:19:58.700 Brendan Boyle said, quote, the GOP theft of a Supreme court seat by blocking Merrick Garland

00:20:04.640 is possibly the single most consequential political act of this decade. The, it is,

00:20:10.320 it is the most consequential political act, by the way. Uh, uh, it's not a theft, of course.

00:20:15.000 We'll get to that in a second. But Mitch McConnell was asked about this. He said, uh, he said, you

00:20:19.420 know, what in your career, Mitch McConnell's been in government since I think 1628, uh, in

00:20:24.920 your career, what's, what's the most important thing you've ever done? He said, holding up the

00:20:29.240 nomination of Merrick Garland is the most consequential act of my career. And that's absolutely

00:20:33.840 true because it, we get, we got to give this guy credit for it. He, uh, uh, made it such that the

00:20:41.340 conservative base was ready and raring to go to elect president Trump to deal, you know, maybe some

00:20:46.900 people were skeptical of him. He didn't have much of a political record, but they went because it's,

00:20:50.860 it's so, so mattered. Plus it gave us this court, which has given us wonderful pro constitution,

00:20:56.600 pro American decisions, uh, decisions on free speech, religious liberty on life. I mean,

00:21:02.160 really, really good stuff poised to be another one. You know, if the, if the conservatives who

00:21:06.860 didn't want to vote for Trump had gotten their way, we'd have two justices right now. We'd have a

00:21:11.500 six, three, uh, uh, left wing majority on the court. What would happen to your gun rights? Well,

00:21:17.620 we know Hillary Clinton told us they'd go away. What would happen to your first amendment rights?

00:21:21.240 Hillary Clinton told us they'd go away. The left, I mean, and by the way, the left isn't even hiding

00:21:25.120 this anymore. Op-ed after op-ed, politician after politician saying we need to censor speech. This is a

00:21:30.020 great win. And, uh, we got to thank, uh, Mitch for that, but to call it theft, they're saying he stole

00:21:36.960 it. It was unfair. He stole it. It's theft. He, where, I wonder where Mitch McConnell got that idea

00:21:42.840 from. I threatened you. I told you I would play this clip. Take it away. Joe Biden.

00:21:47.760 It is my view that if a Supreme court justice resigns tomorrow or within the next several weeks

00:21:54.280 or resigns at the end of the summer, president Bush should consider following the practice of a

00:22:02.740 majority of his predecessors and not, and not name a nominee until after the November election is

00:22:12.580 completed. Oh, that's awkward, isn't it? The once and future candidate, he's going to run again,

00:22:18.000 by the way, Joe Biden. He just, as someone asked me, say, are you going to run for president in 2020?

00:22:22.480 And he said, I really don't want to, I really don't want to. I've seen how terrible it is. I

00:22:27.180 don't, you don't want to, you've been running for president since the eighties. Of course you,

00:22:30.640 are you kidding me? That's the job you've held in your life is trying to be president. Oh, I don't

00:22:35.340 want to. That's what disingenuous politicians who have run for office, who have already run for

00:22:39.780 president multiple times. They say, I don't want to, of course you want to, you've just said you want

00:22:43.400 to, you've, you've wanted to for 30 years. Yeah. So, but it's a little awkward because that guy is the

00:22:48.700 one who created the premise for Mitch McConnell to hold up that nomination. Now, look, obviously

00:22:54.320 this is just politics. If you have the ability to stop that nomination, if you have the political

00:22:59.320 capital to do it and get your guy in, you're going to do that. That's just politics. Now the left is

00:23:05.580 trying to use this. They're trying to flip it right and say, oh, well, we've got an election coming up. 0.63

00:23:10.000 It's a midterm election. It's not a presidential election, but whatever. Oh yeah, we have a mid,

00:23:13.840 so, you know, Ezra Klein is saying it's hypocritical for Republicans to want this

00:23:17.940 nomination to go through before the election. Cory Booker is saying the same thing. He's saying,

00:23:23.580 come on, you've got to, you've got to do it. Yeah. Okay. That's a stretch. That is a real

00:23:27.540 stretch, fellas. I'm sorry. You know, the only way that this works, that the Joe Biden's speech or

00:23:33.480 Mitch McConnell, the way that they're able to hold up these nominations is if they have the political

00:23:37.700 capital to do it. If there's a Senate majority and they can stretch that political capital long 0.52

00:23:42.720 enough to get through the election, then they're going to do it. Democrats don't have that right 1.00

00:23:46.920 now. They don't have the majority in the house. They don't have the majority in the Senate. They're

00:23:50.240 not very popular. The president is very popular. It's not a presidential election. It's a midterm

00:23:54.460 election. Sorry, you lose. Too bad. The other aspect here, by the way, when you hear people

00:23:59.980 preening about this, because I've noticed sometimes the rank and file on the left are doing this too. 0.98

00:24:05.420 I think they're genuinely outraged because they're ignorant. So they say, what? McConnell did this 0.91

00:24:10.700 and we should do it, right? So I basically favor David Mayhew, the political scientist,

00:24:16.700 David Mayhew. I side with him here. This guy, one of the major accomplishments of his career that he

00:24:22.820 demonstrated is something very simple, but very profound, which is that members of Congress are

00:24:28.280 motivated basically solely by reelection. Every single decision that a member of Congress makes

00:24:34.520 is made with regard to how it affects his chances at reelection. That, that, you know, it, it basically

00:24:42.120 with a few exceptions, I'm actually friends with some people who have served in Congress and there

00:24:46.060 are exceptions that prove the rule, but the rule broadly is that the people who go there are 0.94

00:24:50.760 sociopaths. They're just sociopaths, uh, egotists trying to, uh, make sure that they stay in power.

00:24:57.520 Uh, Madison, James Madison wrote about this in Federalist 51, very clearly. He said,

00:25:02.640 ambition must be made to counteract ambition, meaning we're going to put all of the crazy 0.97

00:25:07.540 sociopaths who want to take over the country. We're going to put them in a room and have them 0.99

00:25:10.860 fight each other. And therefore their ambition is going to counter one another. That's what you see

00:25:15.640 here, but it is a total farce. I mean, it is naked politics and that's fine. They can preen all they

00:25:21.420 want. That's kind of the purpose of the Senate and the Congress as the Federalist lays out. But for

00:25:27.780 people who are like regular people in the world, you shouldn't fall for that. You shouldn't take that

00:25:32.240 seriously. It's naked politics and, uh, and the Democrats don't have it right now. They can't do

00:25:37.960 it. I suppose Joe Biden wanted them to hold it up in 92. Maybe they could have had the political

00:25:41.820 capital done. They don't have it now. And we did have it in the 2016 election. And thank goodness we

00:25:47.160 did because it preserved American liberty and it just knocked away a lot of nonsense that will give

00:25:52.180 us the opportunity possibly to, to maintain liberty in America, at least for a little while.

00:25:56.920 So the question on everybody's mind, it's the title today. The title today is just,

00:26:00.900 I took Roe v. Wade and I flipped it upside down. I overturned it. Hmm. Is, are we going to overturn

00:26:06.400 Roe v. Wade? The famous decision decades old now, 19, early 1970s, the, the decades old decision

00:26:14.140 that pretended that there's some constitutional right to abortion, which obviously there is not

00:26:19.400 there. Yeah. You know, I, uh, sometimes reference, I got to meet Scalia twice and he answered like

00:26:24.080 every legal question I've ever had. So I, I've, I've referenced this a lot, but that, you know,

00:26:29.660 if you want a law allowing abortion, that's fine. I mean, it's wrong and evil and immoral and you'll 1.00

00:26:35.460 probably burn in hell, but it, but I suppose it's as a matter of Republican politics, it's fine,

00:26:40.040 but you have to go and convince your fellow citizens, your neighbors to agree with you and 0.77

00:26:45.400 then you can pass a law and then you can have abortion. What's really wrong to do, the really 0.91

00:26:50.940 legally wrong thing to do is to pretend that it's in the constitution somewhere. Look in the

00:26:55.720 constitution and show me the right to abortion. Look in the constitution and show me the redefinition

00:27:00.400 of marriage to include, uh, but only include, uh, same sex unions in addition to, uh, traditional

00:27:06.400 unions to same sex monogamous unions of two people. Find me that in the constitution, but not

00:27:11.680 polygamous unions because that's not in there because they're just reading things. They're inventing

00:27:15.280 it in the constitution. Uh, there is no right to abortion in the constitution. Roe v. Wade is one 1.00

00:27:21.140 of the worst decisions, if not the worst decision ever made by the Supreme court. And the question

00:27:25.080 is now that we have the squish Kennedy gone, who's sort of conservative a lot of the time,

00:27:30.000 but crucially sometimes he's pretty, he sides with the left. Will we be able to overturn Roe v. Wade?

00:27:36.060 If there's an abortion case that comes up to the court, will we be able to overturn it? The question

00:27:41.060 is Roberts. Roberts clearly has an institutional view of the court. He's worried about the

00:27:46.120 institution of the Supreme court. If the people get too angry, they could just do away with it

00:27:50.080 someday. So he sided with the, the liberals on the, on Obamacare, for instance, when it was

00:27:56.820 obviously unconstitutional. Would he do that on Roe v. Wade? I don't know. I mean, he's a, he's a

00:28:01.600 conservative, but he does have that institutional view and it might, a wrong view of the institutional

00:28:08.100 view could lead him down the path of not wanting to overturn it. There is the question of story

00:28:12.180 decisis, the, the legal idea that precedent matters, you know, that if something was decided

00:28:17.420 a long time ago or has been reaffirmed, that you have to give that some credit, even, even if

00:28:23.220 perhaps it's on shaky legal grounds. Are we going to overturn, you know, I mean, I guess the question

00:28:31.740 on story decisis, we asked this to Scalia too, is how do you judge that? You know, I mean, uh,

00:28:38.320 justice Thomas, Clarence Thomas doesn't seem to care very much about story decisis in a way that

00:28:42.780 Scalia did. And, you know, without story decisis, you just have chaos, you know, very important

00:28:48.180 rulings could just be totally upended left and right. So you do have to have some view of the

00:28:52.360 tradition and of legal precedent. But we asked him, we said, what about Roe v. Wade? And he said,

00:28:56.860 you know, some decisions are so egregious that they have to be overturned, even if that upset

00:29:02.960 story decisis. And some come to mind, you know, the Dred Scott decision saying that, uh, that black

00:29:08.400 people can never be citizens in the United States. When I, you know, I actually sort of defend that 1.00

00:29:13.580 decision because it, not for the effect of it, but what it did was it showed the American, uh,

00:29:19.900 law to be as it was. It showed the absurdity of the question of, of racial basis for slavery.

00:29:25.200 And, uh, so it spurred, uh, a revision of that. Uh, what, but, you know, obviously on its face,

00:29:31.800 just, just awful consequences from that decision. How about, uh, uh, Plessy v. Ferguson, the, that

00:29:37.520 maintained separate but equal, but of course those separate things were not equal. Some cases are so

00:29:43.000 egregious that you have to flip them. And more than any, you could point to Roe v. Wade, which has

00:29:48.160 resulted in the deaths of millions and millions of babies. And we kill a million babies a year because of

00:29:53.640 Roe v. Wade. Now, if Roe v. Wade were overturned, that doesn't mean that abortion's illegal. It means

00:29:57.680 that states would decide. It means that, you know, the New York and California, if you want to keep

00:30:02.540 killing your babies, you pass a law. It doesn't, it doesn't say that there's a constitutional, uh,

00:30:08.620 protection against abortion, but it just says there's no constitutional right to abortion.

00:30:13.560 Uh, now another consideration is Susan Collins. Is she going to make us, uh, just get another Kennedy, 0.99

00:30:18.820 basically another squishy, non-originalist justice. Maybe, but as I said earlier, I'm not certain of

00:30:23.800 that. Uh, I, I am certain of this. Whoever is nominated by Donald Trump for the Supreme Court

00:30:30.340 needs to go into those hearings. And when asked about Roe v. Wade, which he will be countless times

00:30:36.260 say Roe v. Wade has defined the law of the land. It is the law of the land. It is Roe v. Wade is settled.

00:30:43.800 And that's all he should say about it. Because that's all true. It is settled. It was settled

00:30:48.500 40 years ago. Uh, it is true that it's defined the law of the land. All true. Until we overturn it.

00:30:56.720 And, and then it won't be settled. Well, it'll be unsettled. And then we'll have a new settlement.

00:31:00.480 Then we'll have a new law of the land. But that's all that that person should say.

00:31:03.920 Obviously, we don't want someone to get borked because they've got, they're pro-lifers or what,

00:31:08.280 you know, they went to Catholic mass one time, so they're clearly too pro-life or they've read

00:31:12.480 the constitution, right? Go in there. You say, uh, Roe v. Wade is the settled law of the land.

00:31:19.500 And you get a little smirk in there. What was that smirks? Excuse me, uh, Judge Pryor. What

00:31:24.300 was that smirk? Oh, nothing. What, what smirk? What do you think about Roe v. Wade? Oh,

00:31:29.220 Roe v. Wade is the settled law of the land. I saw that again. No, you didn't see anything.

00:31:34.740 That's what we need to do. So the question is, before we get to the mailbag now, uh, who,

00:31:38.760 who should we get? Who, there are good judges on the short list. I'm not going to pretend that I

00:31:43.360 know everything about all these judges at all. Um, but I will talk about the ones who are getting a

00:31:47.340 lot of, uh, discussion in the mainstream media. Mike Lee, terrific Senator, uh, very conservative,

00:31:53.520 one of the best members of the U S Senate, a terrific politician in America. I don't know that

00:31:58.520 he should go to the Supreme court. I don't know that he should. I don't know that in this

00:32:01.880 particularly polarized time, while conservatives are struggling to explain to Democrats that,

00:32:07.280 and to explain to the left broadly that the Supreme court is supposed to be nonpartisan,

00:32:11.560 that we favor originalists and textualists because they, uh, respect the letter of the law

00:32:17.600 of the constitution, regardless of our political preferences that we're not nominating conservatives

00:32:22.200 or Republicans. We're nominating originalists. And here is an example of a difference. A conservative

00:32:27.280 justice would say that abortion is illegal because we want to protect life. An originalist justice would

00:32:32.840 say there is no protection. There's no right to an abortion. Doesn't mean that abortion

00:32:37.100 is necessarily illegal then does it? There are laws against murder. You need a law against abortion. 1.00

00:32:41.700 That would be a difference between that kind of jurisprudence. Uh, as we're trying to convince

00:32:47.060 them of this difference, as we're trying to maintain the integrity of the court, I don't know that it

00:32:50.620 looks good to appoint a Senator, a conservative Republican Senator, not nothing against Mike Lee.

00:32:56.720 Mike Lee would be terrific on the court, but we haven't had a Senator, uh, serve on the Supreme

00:33:02.480 Court since 1971, since Hugo Black. And, uh, that was the last year that we had a Senator on the court.

00:33:08.580 And Hugo Black was terrible. I mean, he was a member of the Klan, Democrat, which is, that's, um, 0.87

00:33:13.720 I'm repeating myself, a New Dealer. Uh, he voted for some of the worst decisions.

00:33:19.240 Wickard v. Filburn, totally expanded federal power. As a Senator, he vehemently opposed

00:33:23.800 anti-lynching legislation. You know, just absolutely terrible. So I guess Mike Lee could be our,

00:33:28.400 our version of that. He's like the good version of a Senator on the court. But I just don't, in this

00:33:32.580 very partisan, uh, ideological moment, I don't know that we can do it. Uh, obviously Howard Taft,

00:33:38.420 William Howard Taft was, uh, both president and chief justice of the court. He was president first

00:33:43.480 and then until, uh, 20, or 1913. And then he was chief justice for the 1920s basically. Uh, so I

00:33:51.020 don't know. I'm, I'm a little dubious on putting a Senator on the court. The, the leading contender

00:33:55.020 right now is William Pryor from the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals. Listen, Republican presidents

00:34:00.060 have gotten burned before by judicial nominees. I, we need someone who is, uh, who we know about,

00:34:05.720 who we know a lot about, and we can sort of rely on. Pryor is that sort of rock ribbed originalist,

00:34:10.560 I think, from everything I know about him. I also like that he's Catholic and I'll, and it's not just

00:34:15.200 my own Catholic bias coming out here. Catholics make great justices. Uh, uh, Scalia, Alito, uh,

00:34:23.400 Thomas converted to Catholicism, reverted to Catholicism. Uh, Gorsuch is a cradle Catholic.

00:34:31.500 I think now he goes to a Protestant church, an Episcopal church, twice the liturgy, half the

00:34:36.080 guilt, but still has that kind of Catholic upbringing. The reason Catholic, there are other 0.99

00:34:39.600 Catholics too. Uh, the reason that Catholics are good on the court is because it's a real 0.89

00:34:46.240 institution that looks at tradition and, you know, is a parses logic very, very tightly.

00:34:51.660 And Catholics are known for this. Catholics have been doing this for 2000 years. You know, 0.82

00:34:56.040 the Thomas Aquinas is a good example here. Longstanding institutions, seriousness, uh,

00:35:01.580 uh, you know, bringing, uh, ancient, uh, understandings of logic through into the modern

00:35:06.500 world. So they're very good at this. And I, so I do favor Catholics in that way. Plus Catholics like

00:35:10.840 to wear weird long robes and stuff and go into a kind of old building. So they're good at that.

00:35:15.400 Another one is being talked about is Amul Thapar. Uh, he is a little younger than Pryor. Pryor is

00:35:21.000 56. Thapar is under 50 and, uh, he's on the sixth circuit court of appeals. He's really tight with

00:35:26.860 Mitch McConnell who I've been extolling the virtues of the last couple of days. We know a little less

00:35:31.520 about him. So I don't know. He could be terrific. He could be great. He's not a Catholic, but I won't 1.00

00:35:36.220 hold it against him. I won't totally hold it against him. Mike Lee is not a Catholic either.

00:35:39.740 I won't hold it against him, but, uh, but I don't know. We know a little less about him. So I'm,

00:35:44.280 I'm a little worried because we've been burned before. Uh, we'll, we'll just have to see what happens,

00:35:48.740 but it would be terrific. The Democrats really shot down Pryor last time, uh, cause they said

00:35:53.760 he was too rock ribbed a constitutionalist. Would be really nice to drink up those tears if we got

00:35:59.500 him this time, wouldn't it? Now it'd be, I'd, I'd have to get like two ice packs next time.

00:36:04.140 Um, before we get to the mailbag, I know we're running out of time a little bit here

00:36:07.020 as we're talking about demographics, got to talk about that Democrat tribalism biting them. 0.92

00:36:11.560 Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, uh, his, his campaigned on the slogan, basically women like me aren't supposed 1.00

00:36:18.120 to run for office. She was, you know, the socialist who won in Queens. And what was she

00:36:22.180 talking about? A left winger? I don't think she was talking about that. I think she's talking about

00:36:25.580 her race and her gender and her demographics or her, you know, sort of physical demographics.

00:36:30.800 She's 28 years old. She's Hispanic. And apparently this endows you with superpowers. Now, if you're a 1.00

00:36:36.420 Democrat, you know, just your sort of ethnicity, your race, your gender. We saw this with Sotomayor,

00:36:41.880 speaking of the court, when, uh, Sonia Sotomayor was nominated by Obama. She said,

00:36:46.300 you know, you need a wise Latina woman on the court as though, you know, that, so that, that, 1.00

00:36:51.380 that, you know, Antonin Scalia says you need someone who understands the constitution. And

00:36:54.980 Sotomayor says you need a wise Latina woman. Yeah. Okay. But what's great about this, we're seeing

00:36:59.000 this in a lot of races around the country, not just in Queens at the Catskills, uh, this guy,

00:37:03.660 Antonio Delgado, uh, who's this Harvard and Oxford grad. He's a black candidate. He beat out six white 0.72

00:37:09.780 Democrat candidates, uh, recently, uh, Maryland Democrats nominated, uh, Ben Jealous for governor,

00:37:15.580 a hundred 51 women so far in this cycle have won house Democrat primaries. That's twice as many as 1.00

00:37:22.440 at this point in 2016. What that's showing us is that they're really digging into this racial

00:37:28.120 and, uh, gender, uh, intersectionality. You know, we're going to, now look, some, some of these people

00:37:34.440 are, are good candidates. The, the Harvard Oxford guy is obviously, you know, uh, credentialed and

00:37:39.700 qualified, but the, I, it does seem that there's a real uptick in, in those considerations. And it

00:37:46.080 shows the end of, uh, I, I think in some ways the end of the Democrat party, because they're saying

00:37:51.380 we're going to privilege race and gender, uh, you know, people who aren't white men, we're going to

00:37:56.440 privilege that over, uh, other, you know, other characteristics such as ideology. You know, it

00:38:02.080 doesn't seem like that race in the Catskills doesn't look like ideology played much of a role in

00:38:05.940 that. You know, it's, it's, they're really digging into not the thought process, but just the, the

00:38:11.440 looks, the looks of things. We're in a time that has passed logic. We talked about after World War 0.71

00:38:16.360 One, this breakdown of logic and sense and art. And now we're in this just like grunting tribalism

00:38:21.760 and the Democrats are digging in more than anybody. It looks like it's going to bite them though,

00:38:24.940 because that's not a, that's not a serious and logical way to make decisions. You want to, uh,

00:38:30.140 you want to pick a candidate, not because of the color of their skin, but because of the content of

00:38:34.100 their character and their logic and their, their platform on what they're going to run on. So

00:38:38.080 we'll see. And I can't imagine it's going to help them. We got to get to the mailbag before I get to

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00:39:33.080 We've got about six minutes here at the end. So I'm going to try to get a lot of mailbag questions

00:39:37.280 in. First question from Paul, why does the Catholic church insist that only men can be priests?

00:39:44.620 It's because the thuribles are very heavy. They're very heavy. It's hard to pick them up. The smells

00:39:49.340 in the bells. You need a lot of muscles for that to work. Uh, there's some other, there's some other

00:39:54.260 reasons too. Uh, but this, this question actually does come up a lot. Why, uh, why can't women be 1.00

00:40:01.080 priests? I think you're looking at it backwards. First of all, priestesses have been common to a

00:40:05.940 lot of religions in antiquity and in the modern era of, you know, before, during, and after the

00:40:12.080 incarnation. It's not like this was unheard of and only, only we blessed moderns realize that women

00:40:17.460 can do things. That isn't what happened. Uh, but Judaism rejected that. And, uh, it seems that,

00:40:23.620 uh, Christ in establishing the church did not want women to be priests either. How do we know that?

00:40:28.920 Well, uh, if he did, uh, the Virgin Mary would have been an ideal candidate to be a priest, right?

00:40:35.660 At the sacrament of, uh, at the blessed sacrament at the Eucharist, she could have quite literally said,

00:40:40.440 this is my body. This is my blood, right? It comes from, from her, uh, Christ comes from her,

00:40:46.740 from her womb. But women and men have different roles in the church. Doesn't mean that women are 0.99

00:40:52.200 lesser. You'll remember who was the, who were the first people to spread the gospel of the

00:40:55.780 resurrection was women. Women realized that, uh, that Christ was resurrected. Uh, but are they given 1.00

00:41:03.000 a teaching function in the church? No, we know that from St. Paul's epistles, from first Corinthians,

00:41:07.220 from first Timothy, uh, they have different function. We have nuns, we have priests, we

00:41:10.940 have, you know, in, uh, and, and women teach in Catholic schools. It's not like they can't 1.00

00:41:15.620 teach ever, you know, uh, but in the church, there is a different role to them, uh, of the

00:41:20.320 apostles. The apostles are men. The apostles, there are plenty of female disciples of Jesus

00:41:25.000 who are very close to him. And the closest to Jesus is his mother, obviously a woman. Uh, 0.99

00:41:30.680 when, when, uh, Judas betrayed Christ and, and in acts, they, uh, the apostles elected a new,

00:41:36.580 uh, apostle, you know, which was just where we get apostolic succession from. It was men. And I

00:41:42.100 think there's a reason for that. If you ask the question, well, why can't women? I think you're 1.00

00:41:45.260 looking at it from different ways. You know, when you're a priest, you're serving the church and

00:41:49.580 you're serving the bridegroom of the church, Christ. It is a service. It's something you do.

00:41:54.540 It's not about the personal will and showing off and having a flashy title or something. It's about

00:41:59.260 service. And so if you're saying, well, I, I want that glory, you're, you're doing it wrong. In the

00:42:03.880 1970s, the, uh, the church of England started to ordain women priests. It was the beginning of the

00:42:08.640 end of the church of England. I don't know if anybody goes there anymore. It's like a husk of

00:42:12.200 a husk now, you know, and it was, there was a big split. There was a lot of Anglo Catholicism that

00:42:16.120 came out of that. Uh, the reason that women aren't priests in the church is that women aren't priests 1.00

00:42:21.260 in the church. And, uh, if someone is really enraged by this, it probably says more about you than

00:42:27.660 about the church. And maybe you'll have to think where that rage comes from, from Alicia. Hi,

00:42:31.800 Mikey. Hey, Alicia. I have enjoyed your comments on the Catholic church and practices on a spectrum

00:42:38.460 of one to 10, one being guitar group, modern and 10 being Gregorian chant. What type of church do

00:42:44.900 you prefer? Alicia 11 from Brandon, Michael, you're nearing your prophesied 200th episode.

00:42:52.580 What steps have you taken to avoid your homeless dumpster living calamity? You're married now.

00:42:57.740 Where will that poor woman live? You have to think about these things. It has been weighing

00:43:01.620 on me. Uh, you know, I love, I love reading like Odysseus, uh, the Odyssey and the Iliad.

00:43:07.500 Sometimes the fates really can conspire against you. The more you try to change your fate,

00:43:12.680 the, the more you lead yourself into it. I'm working on it. It is true that 200th episode

00:43:17.100 where I'm bearded and living in a dumpster, it is coming up. I'm, I'm sleeping with one

00:43:21.880 eye open at night. I'm doing my bed. If you have any thoughts, please tweet them at me. I've had

00:43:25.260 to avoid that, that terrible, terrible fate. Uh, from, we got a few more minutes from Corey.

00:43:31.020 Dear sweet little old Michael, you said yesterday that the philosophical premise of owning your own

00:43:35.600 body leads to modernism. Well, uh, I said that is part and parcel of modernism. That's actually

00:43:41.280 the, the philosophical premises of modernism are what leads you to think ridiculous things like 0.74

00:43:47.240 you have your own body. I'll continue with the question. Even with libertarians, 0.73

00:43:50.740 how does this lead libertarians to asking for consent to change a diaper? Who owns your body?

00:43:55.720 If not yourself, God, which one? There are several different interpretations of God at the daily

00:44:00.220 wire. Can I just pick my favorite? It seems like a lottery ticket that is usually picked out for you

00:44:05.180 by your parents, your cellmate or your favorite conservative commentator cough, clave and cough.

00:44:11.000 Real nice buddy. Uh, these are genuine questions. No sarcasm. Corey, first question. Who owns your body?

00:44:18.060 If not you, God, yes, God, you didn't make your body. You're not responsible for creating your body.

00:44:24.880 You are not, you do not belong to yourself. It is just a total fiction and a fantasy to believe that

00:44:29.420 you belong to yourself. You have a will, but your will is, has a telos. It has a purpose. There's a

00:44:35.940 purpose for your life and you don't just get to make it out of nothing and pick it out of thin air.

00:44:40.220 You can, but your life won't turn out very well. You, uh, you are, do not own yourself. That,

00:44:45.560 this is why suicide is a sin because you don't own yourself. You didn't create yourself. You have no

00:44:50.560 legitimate right to say, I own myself and I can do with myself as I please, including disregarding

00:44:56.280 the moral order. As for which God to choose from, how do you choose which God? Very carefully,

00:45:03.200 very carefully. That's how you choose which God. Uh, you say that there are many interpretations of

00:45:08.920 versions of God at the daily wire. I don't think that's true. I suppose, uh, uh, Ben would disagree

00:45:14.520 with Drew and I over the nature of the incarnation and the resurrection. Sure. That the second person

00:45:19.440 of the Trinity, maybe the third person too. But, uh, if we were to describe God, the father,

00:45:24.120 I don't know that we would describe him terribly differently. Would we? The, that the first person

00:45:28.440 of the blessed Trinity, I don't know if we were to describe the moral order that comes out of

00:45:32.320 God that, uh, I don't know that we would describe it terribly differently. Would we? A lot of

00:45:36.960 people who want to justify atheism, they, they say, Oh, there are so many different versions of God.

00:45:43.420 How can we know they're all people have different ideas? Not really, not really. I mean, there are

00:45:48.580 certainly heresies that people spout, but I don't, uh, if you look at, uh, sort of the, the myths,

00:45:55.000 the ancient myths and sort of the, the ancient conversations that are happening between pagans

00:45:59.480 and between, uh, people who believe in God, I'm not so sure that there are different gods that come

00:46:05.000 out. Even in, even in the polytheistic pagan religions, I'm not sure that an image of God

00:46:10.100 isn't at least, uh, lightly manifested that you can sort of see through the fog. I don't really

00:46:16.600 believe that. It's why moral systems around the world are so similar. Uh, you know, I, I've never

00:46:21.800 heard a really a good argument for atheism. I've never heard a serious person give a serious argument

00:46:27.200 for atheism because they don't really exist. So you might say, well, that's not clear. I want an answer.

00:46:33.200 I want it to be so clear and obvious, which, uh, religion I should believe in and which God I

00:46:38.300 should worship. All shallows are clear. You know, are you, can you do, um, I don't know,

00:46:44.500 multivariable calculus? Are you really good at that? Or stochastic analysis or some sort of difficult,

00:46:49.280 you know, higher end math? Are you really good at, are you perfect at that? No, probably not. You

00:46:53.760 probably don't know very much about that beyond algebra if you're like the average American. So, uh,

00:46:58.880 if you don't know about that, what, why on earth would you think that you can grasp the nature of

00:47:05.680 God just, just cause, just cause. There's a great story about St. Augustine was trying to explain

00:47:10.800 the, uh, Trinity. This is a legend that comes from St. Augustine, although who knows, maybe it

00:47:15.360 happened. And he, he was really racking his brain and, uh, he was walking along the beach and he saw a

00:47:20.600 little kid, uh, pouring water with a seashell into a hole. And he said to the kid, what are you doing?

00:47:26.100 And he said, oh, I'm, uh, I'm going to pour the whole ocean into this hole. He said, that's great.

00:47:30.980 You can't fit the whole ocean into that hole. And then the, uh, kid, uh, turns to him and he says,

00:47:36.580 that's right. And you can't fit the, the mystery of the Trinity into that finite head of yours. And

00:47:42.300 then all of a sudden, you know, the child is transfigured and disappears. Uh, I think it's a

00:47:47.360 good, you know, it's a, it's a legend about St. Augustine, but it's a, it's a good story. You can't

00:47:51.440 fit all of that into your head, but just because you have finite intelligence,

00:47:55.220 just because you can't understand something doesn't mean that, uh, that it doesn't exist.

00:48:00.400 Uh, you know, uh, most of the things in the world, none of us can't understand. We, we have such a,

00:48:05.720 such a finite intelligence. Do we have time for one more? We got to go. We got to go. Okay. Sorry,

00:48:10.260 folks. We had some really good questions to talk about. I will see you next week. We had some really

00:48:15.080 good guests coming up. I don't want to spoil it right yet, but we've got a lot to talk about today.

00:48:19.140 So, uh, we've got a lot to talk about next week with them. In the meantime, I hope that you guys

00:48:24.400 can cure all of your leftist tears hangovers. Make sure you get the Tumblr. I'm Michael Knowles.

00:48:28.880 This is the Michael Knowles Show. I'll see you Monday.

00:48:30.580 This is the Michael Knowles Show.

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The Michael Knowles Show - June 28, 2018

Ep. 176 - “ǝpɐM ˙ʌ ǝoɹ” ？

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