The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 1782 - Caught on Camera— Viral Jazz Festival Attacker Was Out On Bond

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00:05:28.140 A little update to a story.

00:05:29.660 We talked yesterday about this mob of, 0.95

00:05:32.680 either yesterday or on, I forget, I don't know.

00:05:34.740 All the days are blurring together.

00:05:35.920 Mostly because I had my teeth ripped out of me

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00:05:39.140 We talked, though, in recent days

00:05:41.040 about this jazz festival in Cincinnati

00:05:43.500 where afterward, a group of black people

00:05:47.520 went out and attacked a white guy

00:05:50.160 and a white lady. 1.00

00:05:51.000 I don't think they were there together,

00:05:52.640 but knocked them out.

00:05:54.640 The white lady was bleeding from her mouth 1.00

00:05:57.300 and there were arrests.

00:05:59.120 And there's a racial component to this too,

00:06:00.800 which we talked about the other day on the show.

00:06:03.280 The criminals, the perps, have been arrested.

00:06:07.120 Now, according to Fox 19,

00:06:09.500 the two suspects are DeKyra Vernon, 24 years old, 0.91

00:06:14.120 and Montianas Merriweather, 34 years old.

00:06:16.560 So initially this was reported

00:06:17.480 there was a group of teenagers.

00:06:18.760 Obviously it wasn't just teenagers.

00:06:20.960 Each of these people is facing felonious assault

00:06:23.260 and aggravated riot charges.

00:06:25.700 According to the Fraternal Order of Police,

00:06:29.280 Merriweather was indicted for receiving stolen property,

00:06:33.860 previously indicted for receiving stolen property,

00:06:36.020 weapons under disability,

00:06:36.940 improper transportation of a firearm,

00:06:38.680 and carrying a concealed weapon.

00:06:40.100 That's before all of this.

00:06:41.660 The judge, in this case,

00:06:43.120 according to the Fraternal Order of Police,

00:06:45.200 gave Merriweather a $4,000 bond at 10%,

00:06:49.520 meaning that he only had to pay $400 to post bond.

00:06:54.640 And what is the consequence?

00:06:56.980 What happens when you arrest

00:06:59.180 obviously dangerous, violent criminals,

00:07:01.620 and then you let them out basically for free?

00:07:04.960 Guess what happens?

00:07:05.920 They go out and commit more crimes,

00:07:07.500 and then single mothers are lying on the ground 0.97

00:07:09.580 with blood coming out of their mouths,

00:07:11.080 and tourist guys are getting kicked in the streets.

00:07:14.140 We have the video of it.

00:07:14.920 In case you didn't catch this video somehow,

00:07:16.860 this is what happened the other night

00:07:18.080 at the jazz festival.

00:07:26.440 Just a whole group.

00:07:27.640 I mean, what is it?

00:07:28.220 Six, seven people?

00:07:29.460 Women, men, women,

00:07:30.800 some older, some younger,

00:07:32.420 just kicking these people in the head. 0.83

00:07:37.960 Then beating this woman.

00:07:39.500 Knocks her right out. 1.00

00:07:40.200 This way, all right.

00:07:40.740 That's enough.

00:07:41.080 They blurred her face.

00:07:42.560 This is a single mother, apparently.

00:07:45.140 And so I said the other day

00:07:46.080 when we covered it on the show,

00:07:46.900 I said, look, the only thing you can do

00:07:48.720 is ruthlessly enforce the law.

00:07:53.720 Because we all know

00:07:54.900 there's a racial component to the story,

00:07:56.300 and we all know that the most tired,

00:07:58.240 awful, tedious commentary is,

00:07:59.820 well, you know,

00:08:00.200 imagine if the roles were reversed here.

00:08:02.380 But you don't have to imagine.

00:08:03.760 Everyone can imagine that.

00:08:04.680 No one cares.

00:08:05.400 It doesn't matter.

00:08:06.280 That observation doesn't change a thing.

00:08:08.360 We don't need another CNN

00:08:09.460 national conversation about race.

00:08:11.200 The only thing that you can do

00:08:12.940 to improve the situation in Cincinnati,

00:08:14.760 cities around the country,

00:08:16.220 the only thing that you can do

00:08:17.740 to improve the situation

00:08:18.940 for white people and black people,

00:08:22.240 victims and perpetrators,

00:08:23.640 the only thing that you can do,

00:08:25.340 this has been advice given to us,

00:08:27.060 going all the way back to Plato's Gorgias

00:08:29.240 and the person of Socrates,

00:08:30.960 is enforce the law

00:08:32.660 and punish the evildoers 0.98

00:08:34.180 for the good of society

00:08:36.020 and for the good of the protection

00:08:37.940 of the victims

00:08:38.320 and even for the good of the protection

00:08:39.640 of the souls of the perps.

00:08:42.380 And that's not what happened here.

00:08:43.660 You know what happened?

00:08:45.700 People are already being let off

00:08:47.660 and had already been let off

00:08:49.340 with a slap on the wrist.

00:08:50.760 That seems to be in part

00:08:52.280 how we got to this moment.

00:08:53.840 And the lady police chief

00:08:55.340 is trying to blame everybody

00:08:56.720 and everything

00:08:58.180 to spread the blame away

00:09:00.760 from the victim,

00:09:01.600 from the perpetrators.

00:09:03.980 Let me be clear.

00:09:05.140 Anyone, anyone who put their hands

00:09:12.020 on another individual

00:09:13.660 during this incident

00:09:15.060 in an attempt to cause harm

00:09:17.800 will face consequences.

00:09:22.140 I don't care which side of the incident

00:09:24.740 or the fight they were on.

00:09:27.400 If they place their hands on somebody

00:09:29.860 in an attempt to cause harm,

00:09:32.140 that is unacceptable.

00:09:35.960 What?

00:09:36.460 This is still an open investigation

00:09:38.320 and all potential charges

00:09:41.260 are being investigated

00:09:42.840 for everyone involved.

00:09:46.860 All investigative tools

00:09:49.800 and techniques are on the table,

00:09:53.700 including were some of these individuals

00:09:57.460 over-served

00:09:58.580 at some local establishments.

00:10:01.960 It is clear to us

00:10:03.560 that alcohol played a part,

00:10:05.880 a significant part,

00:10:07.220 in this incident.

00:10:09.560 So you understand,

00:10:11.140 it wasn't necessarily

00:10:13.560 just the criminal's fault.

00:10:15.840 It wasn't the people

00:10:16.460 kicking the single mother in the head 1.00

00:10:17.820 and making her bleed from her mouth. 0.55

00:10:19.580 Really,

00:10:20.500 when you really think about it,

00:10:22.800 it was the bartender's fault.

00:10:24.120 I think it was Jack Daniels' fault,

00:10:25.920 frankly.

00:10:26.260 You know,

00:10:27.880 Jim Beam,

00:10:29.140 go arrest Jim Beam.

00:10:31.940 This woman,

00:10:33.160 this woman is a police chief. 0.95

00:10:37.060 A topic for another time.

00:10:39.020 This woman gets out there, 1.00

00:10:40.180 she says,

00:10:40.600 you know,

00:10:41.360 we're not going to let

00:10:42.300 those bartenders off the hook 1.00

00:10:43.820 because we want to let

00:10:46.220 the criminals off the hook.

00:10:47.640 And the only way

00:10:48.500 that we can go soft

00:10:49.600 on the criminals

00:10:50.360 is if we go hard

00:10:51.500 on everyone else,

00:10:52.320 even to the point

00:10:53.160 that you hear

00:10:54.120 she is implicitly blaming

00:10:56.120 the victim.

00:10:57.320 She obviously doesn't know

00:10:58.520 a damn thing

00:10:59.420 about being a police officer

00:11:00.480 because the first thing

00:11:01.900 she says is false.

00:11:03.180 It's false as a matter

00:11:03.920 of law and morality.

00:11:05.660 She says,

00:11:06.320 in this case,

00:11:07.720 we're going to hold you accountable.

00:11:09.120 We're going to make you

00:11:09.820 face consequences.

00:11:11.120 If you put your hands

00:11:12.920 on someone

00:11:13.580 with the intent

00:11:14.120 to cause harm,

00:11:15.560 whether you're on

00:11:17.540 one side of the fight

00:11:18.360 or the other,

00:11:20.740 drawing an equivalence

00:11:22.580 between the perpetrator

00:11:23.440 and the victim,

00:11:23.800 that principle

00:11:24.320 is obviously not true.

00:11:25.860 If someone breaks

00:11:26.760 into my home

00:11:27.380 to rob me

00:11:28.080 and kill my children 0.97

00:11:28.960 and I punch that person

00:11:31.280 or I shoot that person

00:11:33.440 or I bash that person's brains

00:11:36.900 against the concrete,

00:11:38.080 I would not be committing a crime.

00:11:41.520 I would be causing harm

00:11:43.260 to that person.

00:11:44.840 I would even be intending

00:11:47.180 to cause harm.

00:11:47.860 I guess you could say

00:11:48.540 that it's a double effect.

00:11:49.800 I'm intending to protect

00:11:50.800 my property and my family

00:11:52.020 and the unintended consequence

00:11:53.920 of that is I have to kill

00:11:55.000 this marauder

00:11:57.000 who's coming into my home.

00:11:58.560 But in the colloquial way

00:12:00.680 that this lady is speaking,

00:12:02.140 it's much the same thing.

00:12:04.020 I would be causing harm

00:12:05.500 to that person.

00:12:06.080 I would be laying hands

00:12:06.880 on that person,

00:12:08.460 possibly killing that person

00:12:10.020 and I would not be doing

00:12:11.100 anything wrong.

00:12:12.000 In fact,

00:12:12.340 I would be doing something

00:12:13.220 that is positively right.

00:12:15.880 So take it to this incident here.

00:12:17.680 some gang of feral creatures

00:12:20.840 comes up

00:12:21.680 and starts attacking

00:12:22.800 the single mother.

00:12:23.860 If this single mother 0.97

00:12:25.200 were to have swung

00:12:27.380 and laid a punch

00:12:28.300 on one of these people,

00:12:29.260 if the single mother

00:12:30.400 had pulled out a gun

00:12:31.240 and shot every single one

00:12:32.300 of them dead in their tracks,

00:12:33.660 that woman wouldn't have 1.00

00:12:34.740 done anything wrong.

00:12:37.180 The aggressors

00:12:38.460 would have done something wrong.

00:12:39.940 The criminals would have

00:12:40.980 done something wrong.

00:12:41.960 The person defending himself

00:12:43.580 or herself would not

00:12:44.480 have done anything wrong.

00:12:45.740 That lady needs to go back 1.00

00:12:46.860 to police school.

00:12:48.280 Something tells me

00:12:49.600 she didn't get the highest

00:12:50.360 grades at the academy.

00:12:51.460 How did she become

00:12:52.280 a police chief?

00:12:55.320 This woman,

00:12:56.120 I don't know,

00:12:56.460 she needs to go study

00:12:57.200 criminology again.

00:12:58.240 If she thinks that

00:12:59.140 gang attacks

00:13:00.140 on single mothers

00:13:01.260 are caused by Jack Daniels

00:13:02.600 and Jim Beam,

00:13:04.460 I think she might have

00:13:05.780 failed that class

00:13:06.600 at the academy.

00:13:08.720 Or maybe not.

00:13:09.740 Maybe it's even

00:13:10.300 a little darker than that.

00:13:11.340 Maybe it's

00:13:12.200 that even our law enforcement

00:13:15.820 and especially

00:13:16.380 the political

00:13:16.880 apparatchiks

00:13:17.540 that run

00:13:17.980 law enforcement.

00:13:19.440 Even they

00:13:20.100 are not permitted

00:13:21.160 to enact justice

00:13:23.460 or have no interest

00:13:24.460 in enacting justice.

00:13:25.600 They're just trying

00:13:26.440 to manage

00:13:26.900 a political situation.

00:13:29.040 And in so doing,

00:13:30.800 they give

00:13:32.500 inordinate mercy

00:13:34.060 to the guilty.

00:13:35.340 They don't care

00:13:36.180 a whit for the innocent.

00:13:37.900 They let criminals

00:13:39.220 out on $400 bonds

00:13:40.980 when they got them

00:13:41.460 on pretty serious crimes.

00:13:42.560 And then guess

00:13:43.520 what the criminals

00:13:44.100 go do?

00:13:45.120 They go and commit

00:13:46.280 more crimes.

00:13:47.760 And the blood

00:13:48.640 coming out of that

00:13:49.180 lady's mouth 0.99

00:13:49.720 is on the hands

00:13:51.220 of the corrupt

00:13:53.720 and incompetent 0.76

00:13:55.700 justice system

00:13:56.760 that we've got

00:13:57.220 in Cincinnati

00:13:57.740 and elsewhere

00:13:58.560 around the country.

00:13:59.940 Absolutely pathetic.

00:14:01.580 This is that,

00:14:02.380 this is proof

00:14:02.940 that when you go wrong

00:14:03.860 in principle,

00:14:04.780 you come to terribly,

00:14:06.580 terribly mistaken outcomes.

00:14:08.240 When you get something

00:14:09.200 a little bit wrong

00:14:09.960 in the beginning,

00:14:10.980 when you try to cut

00:14:11.820 corners in the beginning,

00:14:12.600 we're not going to,

00:14:13.540 we're not going to

00:14:15.180 enact justice.

00:14:16.140 We're going to,

00:14:16.440 it's so sad,

00:14:17.960 this criminal.

00:14:18.680 I don't want him

00:14:19.200 to inconvenience himself

00:14:20.700 by having to wait

00:14:21.420 in prison.

00:14:22.000 Let's let him out

00:14:22.560 on basically

00:14:23.100 a free bond.

00:14:25.760 Let's,

00:14:26.060 let's not,

00:14:28.020 let's not blame him

00:14:29.420 for his actions.

00:14:30.420 Let's,

00:14:30.800 come on,

00:14:32.000 let's just,

00:14:32.920 well,

00:14:33.520 this is what you get.

00:14:35.420 And you're going

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00:16:13.780 There was this horrible shooting

00:16:14.960 in New York

00:16:15.420 in Midtown East.

00:16:17.200 This guy,

00:16:17.820 who was not from New York,

00:16:18.800 he's from Nevada,

00:16:19.920 shows up with a rifle

00:16:21.060 in an office building,

00:16:23.180 kills multiple people,

00:16:24.400 injures a bunch more,

00:16:25.560 kills a New York City

00:16:26.380 police officer,

00:16:27.680 and then he kills himself.

00:16:28.820 That's the happiest part

00:16:29.600 of the whole story.

00:16:31.000 Kathy Hochul goes on TV.

00:16:32.220 Who does she blame? 0.93

00:16:33.600 What does she blame?

00:16:34.280 You know the answer.

00:16:35.000 The blame lies

00:16:38.160 with the gun

00:16:39.080 and with the Republican politicians

00:16:41.680 who refuse to ban guns

00:16:43.740 in contravention

00:16:44.420 of our Second Amendment.

00:16:46.560 And we've heard that argument

00:16:48.680 for many decades.

00:16:49.980 She's somehow made it

00:16:51.480 even less persuasive

00:16:53.080 than it's been

00:16:54.100 all these years.

00:16:54.700 This goes to the difference

00:16:57.140 between states' laws

00:16:58.380 related to gun ownership.

00:17:00.780 In the state of New York,

00:17:02.840 you cannot buy one of these.

00:17:04.640 You have to be over age 18. 0.93

00:17:06.040 You cannot have access.

00:17:08.140 I mean, he had a concealed carry permit

00:17:10.320 which allowed him

00:17:11.140 to have this weapon.

00:17:12.420 Much looser laws

00:17:13.680 in the state of Nevada

00:17:14.580 than we have here.

00:17:16.080 And so our argument is this.

00:17:17.820 Like, if every state

00:17:19.360 had the same laws uniformly,

00:17:21.300 you could not have a situation

00:17:22.680 where we fight really hard

00:17:24.100 in the state of New York

00:17:25.220 to make sure that

00:17:26.020 we have the toughest gun laws

00:17:27.560 in the nation.

00:17:28.180 Okay, so she's making

00:17:30.960 two claims here.

00:17:32.560 Claims about other states' laws

00:17:35.060 and therefore the need

00:17:36.760 for national laws.

00:17:38.300 And then she's referring

00:17:40.800 to New York's own laws.

00:17:41.840 Can you play that clip again?

00:17:42.860 Because her argument's 0.89

00:17:44.100 getting a little blurry.

00:17:46.300 This is a ghost of the difference

00:17:47.500 between states' laws

00:17:48.760 related to gun ownership.

00:17:51.180 In the state of New York,

00:17:53.180 you cannot buy one of these.

00:17:55.000 You have to be over age 18. 0.93

00:17:56.140 You cannot have access.

00:17:58.500 I mean, he had a concealed carry permit

00:18:00.660 which allowed him

00:18:01.480 to have this weapon.

00:18:02.760 Much looser laws

00:18:04.020 in the state of Nevada

00:18:04.940 than we have here.

00:18:06.420 And so our argument is this.

00:18:08.560 Like, if every state

00:18:09.680 had the same law uniformly.

00:18:10.320 Okay, I think I got it.

00:18:10.340 I think I got the point.

00:18:11.340 She's saying,

00:18:12.300 in New York,

00:18:13.600 you couldn't buy this rifle.

00:18:14.960 This is one of the most popular

00:18:16.020 types of rifle

00:18:16.640 in the entire country.

00:18:18.220 So unless you actually

00:18:19.640 repealed the Second Amendment,

00:18:21.520 there's no way

00:18:22.020 you could get rid of this rifle.

00:18:24.160 Then,

00:18:24.560 she says,

00:18:26.800 well, he had a concealed carry.

00:18:27.960 That's what allowed him

00:18:28.620 to carry this rifle

00:18:29.320 into an office building.

00:18:30.540 Did you catch the problem

00:18:31.640 with that argument?

00:18:34.360 Any gun owners out there?

00:18:36.220 Probably a lot of gun owners

00:18:37.280 listening to this show.

00:18:40.520 Conceal carry permits

00:18:41.860 don't in any way

00:18:43.980 pertain to rifles.

00:18:46.000 Unless you're,

00:18:46.840 I don't know,

00:18:47.600 12 foot 5,

00:18:48.720 unless you're a Nephilim,

00:18:50.340 you're probably not concealing

00:18:51.560 concealing an AR-15

00:18:53.040 in your pocket.

00:18:54.120 Are you in your waistband?

00:18:56.080 Maybe in your sock?

00:18:57.480 Is that

00:18:57.840 conceal carry permits

00:19:00.060 relate to handguns.

00:19:02.200 That's the kind of gun

00:19:03.180 you can conceal.

00:19:04.580 You can't conceal one of those.

00:19:06.380 By the way,

00:19:07.160 he wasn't concealing that gun.

00:19:08.940 He was just walking

00:19:10.100 down the street into it.

00:19:11.600 How he was able to walk

00:19:12.960 right into a building

00:19:14.240 carrying this gun

00:19:15.320 is beyond me.

00:19:17.860 That's a question

00:19:18.660 for law enforcement.

00:19:19.440 That's a question

00:19:20.180 for the incompetence

00:19:21.380 of New York's government.

00:19:22.360 That's a question

00:19:22.860 for all sorts.

00:19:23.720 But it's not an indictment

00:19:26.000 of conceal carry laws.

00:19:27.900 Furthermore,

00:19:28.360 she then says,

00:19:29.120 and the conceal carry laws

00:19:30.280 allowed him to get this gun.

00:19:31.760 What on earth

00:19:32.220 are you talking about, lady?

00:19:33.180 There are plenty of places

00:19:34.100 that do not readily

00:19:36.080 issue conceal carry

00:19:36.920 where you can buy those guns.

00:19:38.040 In fact,

00:19:38.640 when I was in Los Angeles,

00:19:41.040 I bought a similar rifle.

00:19:42.840 L.A. County,

00:19:43.460 you cannot get a conceal carry.

00:19:44.840 It's basically impossible.

00:19:46.600 You can get one

00:19:47.400 of those rifles.

00:19:48.180 Even with all of California's

00:19:49.680 gun control laws,

00:19:50.640 you can get a rifle.

00:19:51.760 It's one of the most

00:19:52.220 popular rifles in the country.

00:19:54.700 So she has no idea

00:19:56.020 what conceal carry is.

00:19:57.200 She has no idea

00:19:57.900 what kind of gun that is.

00:19:59.160 She has no idea

00:20:00.040 how the laws would

00:20:01.220 affect the purchase

00:20:03.780 of that gun.

00:20:04.760 She has no idea

00:20:05.700 how those laws

00:20:06.880 could have stopped the gun

00:20:07.980 from getting into the building

00:20:08.880 in the first place.

00:20:09.660 And she has no idea

00:20:10.520 how to repeal

00:20:11.180 the federal law

00:20:12.780 or the federal right,

00:20:13.900 the Second Amendment,

00:20:14.720 that allows those guns

00:20:15.900 to be purchased elsewhere

00:20:16.760 in the first place.

00:20:17.440 And she wants New York State 1.00

00:20:19.160 to write the gun laws

00:20:20.440 for every state

00:20:21.100 in the country.

00:20:21.660 She has no idea

00:20:22.280 how federalism works.

00:20:23.460 And she can't even

00:20:24.480 make the argument

00:20:25.160 over what kind of law

00:20:26.820 would have stopped

00:20:27.620 the shooting,

00:20:28.160 which no Democrat

00:20:28.940 has been able to do

00:20:30.020 in my lifetime.

00:20:33.840 How is it?

00:20:35.260 Why can I probably explain it?

00:20:37.260 Because it does seem weird

00:20:38.240 that the Democrats

00:20:38.860 made better gun control

00:20:39.940 arguments 20 years ago

00:20:40.940 than they do today.

00:20:41.580 But I guess the reason

00:20:43.000 for that is,

00:20:44.720 one,

00:20:45.680 the arguments

00:20:46.820 were not good even then,

00:20:48.240 and they didn't work,

00:20:49.000 and they didn't persuade people.

00:20:50.340 So you've got to try

00:20:51.120 something new,

00:20:51.740 and if those were the best

00:20:52.600 they were going to make,

00:20:53.160 now I guess the arguments

00:20:53.820 are worse.

00:20:54.660 Number two,

00:20:55.980 people like their rights.

00:20:57.560 People like their guns.

00:20:58.460 People recognize that we have

00:20:59.720 not only a constitutional right,

00:21:01.440 but even a natural right,

00:21:03.060 an ability that we can derive

00:21:05.280 from the natural law

00:21:05.920 to protect ourselves.

00:21:07.040 And this doesn't mean

00:21:07.680 that you can have tanks

00:21:08.720 and bazookas necessarily,

00:21:10.120 but it does mean

00:21:10.940 that you can have

00:21:11.540 reasonable protection

00:21:12.780 with common weapons

00:21:13.600 to protect yourself.

00:21:14.440 And in America,

00:21:15.160 which has more guns

00:21:15.840 than people,

00:21:16.560 in America where these kinds

00:21:17.640 of rifles are extraordinarily common,

00:21:20.700 you get to have them.

00:21:22.420 And by the way,

00:21:23.180 none of the laws

00:21:23.840 to ban that kind of gun

00:21:24.920 or any other kind of gun

00:21:26.000 or change concealed carry permits,

00:21:27.520 none of those laws

00:21:28.640 would have stopped that shooting.

00:21:31.180 Here's the proof.

00:21:33.000 New York already bans

00:21:34.000 all that stuff,

00:21:35.140 and this guy got in.

00:21:37.320 Really, really weak stuff.

00:21:39.120 Governor Hochul.

00:21:39.920 Good grief.

00:21:41.220 It's like a comedy of errors,

00:21:42.820 these New York governors.

00:21:44.000 Some of you don't remember this.

00:21:45.160 We had a good governor

00:21:46.080 in New York 30 years ago

00:21:48.500 or more.

00:21:49.960 George Pataki.

00:21:50.780 We had this good governor

00:21:51.720 in New York,

00:21:52.800 George Pataki.

00:21:53.440 He was a Republican.

00:21:55.060 And then we've only had

00:21:56.740 losers and jokers ever since.

00:21:59.620 Who have we had since?

00:22:00.380 We had Elliot Spitzer.

00:22:01.460 He got pinched on hookers. 1.00

00:22:03.540 He goes down.

00:22:04.280 Then we had Patterson,

00:22:06.260 David Patterson.

00:22:07.300 Was that his name?

00:22:08.280 This guy also super crooked.

00:22:10.020 I don't think he ran for re-election.

00:22:11.800 Then we had Andy Cuomo.

00:22:13.160 He was a complete disaster.

00:22:14.320 He resigned in disgrace,

00:22:15.460 ostensibly over a sex scandal,

00:22:16.780 but it was really

00:22:17.200 because he killed granny 1.00

00:22:17.960 during COVID.

00:22:18.960 And then we got this lady. 1.00

00:22:20.400 She's like the best one

00:22:21.140 we've had in 30 years.

00:22:22.460 Really, really pathetic.

00:22:24.120 The race of New York governors

00:22:26.540 is not improving over time.

00:22:28.620 Now, the science of improving the race 0.99

00:22:31.220 is called eugenics.

00:22:33.080 And that word, the E word,

00:22:35.540 the U word is being used

00:22:37.580 to describe that Sidney Sweeney

00:22:39.080 jeans ad for American Eagle.

00:22:41.720 ABC News, so offended

00:22:43.760 that a hot normal lady 1.00

00:22:46.040 is selling jeans again,

00:22:47.840 which has been part of marketing

00:22:49.180 for a very long time,

00:22:51.160 albeit with a break

00:22:52.620 in the middle

00:22:53.120 of the last 10 years

00:22:54.800 so that we could promote

00:22:56.000 androgynous weirdos to sell.

00:22:57.600 Now we're back.

00:22:58.520 Now we're back.

00:22:59.100 We're back to the normality

00:23:00.220 of the 90s.

00:23:01.100 Anyway, ABC is referring

00:23:02.860 to this as eugenics.

00:23:05.560 And they kind of have a point.

00:23:07.180 We'll get to that in one second.

00:23:07.980 First, though,

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00:24:33.240 Over there right now.

00:24:34.020 is the Sidney Sweeney

00:24:37.040 American Eagle jeans ad

00:24:39.880 eugenics.

00:24:44.580 Time to check the pulse.

00:24:46.520 We begin with the backlash

00:24:47.360 over a new ad campaign

00:24:48.480 featuring actress

00:24:49.340 Sidney Sweeney.

00:24:50.340 Yeah, the ads are for

00:24:51.180 American Eagle

00:24:51.900 and the tagline is

00:24:53.060 Sidney Sweeney

00:24:53.780 has great jeans.

00:24:55.140 Now, in one ad,

00:24:56.320 the blonde-haired,

00:24:56.860 blue-eyed actress

00:24:57.520 talks about jeans

00:24:58.480 as in DNA

00:24:59.480 being passed down

00:25:00.440 from her parents.

00:25:01.240 The play on words

00:25:02.440 is being compared

00:25:03.680 to Nazi propaganda

00:25:05.920 with racial undertones.

00:25:08.840 The pun,

00:25:10.120 good jeans,

00:25:11.580 activates troubling

00:25:13.040 historical associations

00:25:14.920 for this country.

00:25:16.740 The American eugenics movement 0.64

00:25:18.480 in its prime

00:25:19.460 between like 1900

00:25:20.640 and 1940

00:25:21.680 weaponized the idea

00:25:23.720 of good jeans

00:25:24.720 just to justify

00:25:26.580 white supremacism.

00:25:28.620 Okay, got it.

00:25:29.860 Okay.

00:25:30.060 Now,

00:25:32.040 there's something

00:25:33.680 really funny here

00:25:34.520 and this is an irony

00:25:35.320 that many people

00:25:36.260 have already observed.

00:25:37.480 So, I'll get that

00:25:38.100 out of the way first

00:25:38.820 before we get to

00:25:39.360 the deeper point.

00:25:40.200 The irony that many people

00:25:41.360 have already observed

00:25:42.140 is that

00:25:43.140 the eugenics movement

00:25:44.640 was very, very popular

00:25:45.720 on the left

00:25:46.740 and in fact,

00:25:48.260 the founder of

00:25:49.020 Planned Parenthood

00:25:49.860 was deeply entwined

00:25:51.140 with the eugenics movement

00:25:52.100 and in fact,

00:25:53.200 the founding of

00:25:54.140 Planned Parenthood

00:25:55.000 was part and parcel

00:25:57.120 of the eugenics movement

00:25:58.440 to improve the race

00:26:00.140 by killing

00:26:01.280 and preventing

00:26:03.320 the conception

00:26:04.060 of undesired races

00:26:06.520 and people

00:26:07.900 who were thought

00:26:08.400 to be mentally deficient 0.93

00:26:09.680 and all the rest of them.

00:26:11.380 So,

00:26:12.560 the Libs,

00:26:13.200 absolute favorite

00:26:14.500 non-governmental organization,

00:26:17.420 is the last living

00:26:19.940 remnant

00:26:20.860 of that eugenics movement 0.91

00:26:22.440 from the 1920s and 30s.

00:26:24.220 They love it.

00:26:24.720 Margaret Sanger,

00:26:25.440 one of the great saints

00:26:26.160 of the left,

00:26:27.400 she was a eugenicist.

00:26:28.700 They love eugenics, 1.00

00:26:29.900 but they only like

00:26:31.480 their eugenics.

00:26:32.440 They don't like it

00:26:33.600 when the exact same ideas

00:26:35.280 and movement

00:26:36.420 was adopted by people

00:26:37.800 like Hitler or whatever.

00:26:38.680 Okay,

00:26:39.000 that's the irony.

00:26:40.180 That's what everyone's observing.

00:26:41.900 There's a deeper point though.

00:26:43.420 There's a deeper point,

00:26:44.920 which is,

00:26:46.980 sometimes you'll have people

00:26:47.840 on the right say,

00:26:48.680 eugenics is terrible. 1.00

00:26:51.220 It can be terrible.

00:26:52.620 But,

00:26:53.100 the Libs have a point here too. 0.93

00:26:56.200 The Sidney Sweeney ad

00:26:57.180 kind of is about eugenics

00:26:58.660 in the sense that,

00:26:59.740 hold on,

00:27:00.180 hear me out,

00:27:00.860 hear me out.

00:27:02.060 It kind of is in the sense that

00:27:03.700 Sidney Sweeney is very beautiful.

00:27:06.420 She's a very beautiful girl.

00:27:08.020 And,

00:27:08.420 part of that is how she has lived.

00:27:10.800 Part of that is that

00:27:11.600 she probably works out 1.00

00:27:12.760 and she probably eats 1.00

00:27:13.460 relatively healthily

00:27:14.340 and she doesn't get face tattoos 1.00

00:27:15.440 and she doesn't abuse her body. 1.00

00:27:17.500 So,

00:27:17.780 some of that is just her behavior.

00:27:19.680 But,

00:27:19.960 a lot of it is good genes.

00:27:22.500 A lot of it is good genes.

00:27:23.700 She's just pretty. 0.92

00:27:24.820 She has a pretty 0.72

00:27:25.400 facial structure.

00:27:28.300 She has other

00:27:29.140 attractive aspects of her body

00:27:31.140 which have been

00:27:31.660 much discussed

00:27:32.460 on television and elsewhere.

00:27:34.200 And,

00:27:34.660 she's just,

00:27:35.720 she's beautiful.

00:27:37.100 And,

00:27:37.380 some people

00:27:37.920 are

00:27:38.940 very beautiful

00:27:40.740 just as a matter of birth,

00:27:42.500 as a matter of their genes.

00:27:43.720 And,

00:27:43.940 some people are physically

00:27:44.920 a little bit uglier

00:27:45.740 as a matter of birth

00:27:46.840 and a matter of their genes.

00:27:47.960 Their face is a little more

00:27:49.000 lopsided.

00:27:50.220 They're,

00:27:50.560 I don't know,

00:27:51.080 they're kind of,

00:27:52.060 they just,

00:27:52.400 they just don't look as good.

00:27:54.680 That doesn't mean

00:27:55.900 that the really good looking people

00:27:57.220 are morally great people

00:27:59.640 or spiritually great people.

00:28:01.420 Doesn't mean that the physically

00:28:02.480 ugly people

00:28:03.140 are morally

00:28:04.080 or spiritually degraded people.

00:28:06.180 Doesn't,

00:28:06.740 but,

00:28:07.020 there is such a thing

00:28:08.300 as physical beauty

00:28:09.140 and physical beauty

00:28:10.280 is largely a matter

00:28:12.000 of good genes.

00:28:12.940 And,

00:28:13.120 that's just a fact.

00:28:14.760 Okay?

00:28:15.300 And,

00:28:15.660 not only is that a fact,

00:28:18.740 everyone acknowledges that fact.

00:28:21.120 And,

00:28:21.640 not only does everyone

00:28:22.320 acknowledge that fact,

00:28:23.580 everyone acts on that fact.

00:28:25.800 And,

00:28:26.260 in so doing,

00:28:27.060 by a broad understanding

00:28:28.220 of eugenics,

00:28:28.920 by like,

00:28:29.360 the most literal definition

00:28:30.720 of eugenics,

00:28:31.860 you,

00:28:32.260 meaning good,

00:28:33.800 genics,

00:28:34.800 referring to,

00:28:35.600 you know,

00:28:35.800 the breeding,

00:28:36.760 referring to the,

00:28:37.760 the race or the stock,

00:28:39.200 everyone engages in eugenics 0.95

00:28:42.240 to some degree.

00:28:43.320 In,

00:28:43.600 in as much as,

00:28:45.640 you go out on a date.

00:28:47.000 You could,

00:28:47.760 you could go out on a date

00:28:48.660 with five people.

00:28:49.780 A really hot person,

00:28:51.940 a few,

00:28:52.880 a few kind of mid-looking people

00:28:54.760 and a really ugly person.

00:28:57.700 All personalities being equal,

00:28:59.800 all virtue being equal,

00:29:01.680 you're going to go out

00:29:02.760 with the hot person.

00:29:04.020 Right?

00:29:04.880 Probably.

00:29:06.440 When you marry

00:29:07.620 and have children with

00:29:09.040 a hot person

00:29:10.240 rather than an ugly person,

00:29:12.940 you are practicing eugenics.

00:29:16.180 You're practicing eugenics 1.00

00:29:17.560 in a defensible

00:29:18.640 and natural

00:29:19.440 and perfectly fine way.

00:29:20.780 There is a,

00:29:21.620 a very evil way

00:29:22.440 to practice eugenics.

00:29:24.100 The evil way

00:29:24.980 to practice eugenics 0.93

00:29:25.860 would be to,

00:29:26.540 for instance,

00:29:27.300 kill mentally retarded people. 1.00

00:29:30.220 It would be to,

00:29:31.480 I don't know,

00:29:32.360 exterminate whole races 1.00

00:29:33.600 of people

00:29:34.120 because of,

00:29:35.460 uh,

00:29:36.300 their supposed

00:29:37.640 undesirability.

00:29:39.040 There's an evil way

00:29:40.420 to practice eugenics,

00:29:41.800 which is the way

00:29:42.260 Margaret Sanger did

00:29:43.120 or Adolf Hitler did.

00:29:44.400 Uh,

00:29:44.680 but,

00:29:44.980 but just wanting

00:29:46.880 your kids

00:29:48.360 to be,

00:29:48.900 like,

00:29:50.040 good-looking

00:29:50.580 and smart 0.77

00:29:51.440 and healthy

00:29:52.260 and sturdy

00:29:53.100 and all that,

00:29:54.420 that's not only defensible,

00:29:56.140 that's something

00:29:56.680 that everybody

00:29:57.440 naturally wants.

00:29:58.700 That's a,

00:29:59.080 that's a good thing

00:29:59.820 for people.

00:30:00.260 And that,

00:30:02.000 I don't know

00:30:02.920 if the,

00:30:03.320 the right is ready

00:30:04.160 for that conversation

00:30:04.960 because we're so used

00:30:05.760 to our talking points

00:30:06.720 from the past

00:30:07.320 40 years or so.

00:30:09.780 We just,

00:30:10.460 we hear that word

00:30:11.140 eugenics.

00:30:11.820 We say,

00:30:12.140 well,

00:30:12.220 that's a terribly,

00:30:13.040 yes,

00:30:13.280 the political movement

00:30:14.440 in the early 20th century

00:30:15.400 was mostly evil

00:30:16.820 and the,

00:30:18.140 the,

00:30:18.520 uh,

00:30:19.100 remnants of that

00:30:19.820 political movement

00:30:20.400 today are,

00:30:21.000 are quite evil.

00:30:22.260 But,

00:30:22.860 there's nothing wrong

00:30:24.260 with wanting your kids

00:30:24.900 to be healthy,

00:30:25.440 which is,

00:30:26.580 which is kind of

00:30:27.480 at the literal core

00:30:28.560 of it.

00:30:30.000 And,

00:30:30.540 and the,

00:30:30.920 the libs here,

00:30:31.840 I mean,

00:30:31.980 I think the reason

00:30:32.660 the libs are really upset

00:30:33.720 about the Sidney Sweeney ad

00:30:34.700 is because she is,

00:30:37.320 she is quite pretty.

00:30:38.360 She's quite beautiful,

00:30:39.180 actually.

00:30:39.920 And,

00:30:41.100 the,

00:30:41.800 the return of beauty

00:30:45.620 in advertising

00:30:46.560 is offensive to them

00:30:47.800 because for the last

00:30:48.880 10 years,

00:30:49.700 at least,

00:30:50.320 but to a lesser degree

00:30:51.280 for many decades,

00:30:52.880 the left has tried

00:30:53.800 to replace beauty

00:30:55.120 with grotesquerie,

00:30:56.700 with ugliness.

00:30:57.480 with horrors

00:30:58.660 that are novel,

00:31:00.240 if,

00:31:00.680 if nothing else.

00:31:02.080 That's what they want.

00:31:03.320 And,

00:31:03.820 it's part of a broader campaign

00:31:05.000 to invert

00:31:05.800 all of the transcendentals.

00:31:07.040 The transcendentals

00:31:07.700 of being,

00:31:08.060 being truth,

00:31:08.940 goodness,

00:31:09.300 and beauty.

00:31:10.380 And so,

00:31:10.800 there's been a consistent effort

00:31:12.500 to replace truth

00:31:13.760 with falsehood,

00:31:15.340 constant,

00:31:15.980 not only telling lies,

00:31:17.360 but forcing all the rest of us

00:31:18.340 to tell lies,

00:31:19.060 to replace goodness

00:31:19.940 with evil,

00:31:21.460 not only falling away

00:31:22.800 from the moral order,

00:31:23.560 but trying to invert

00:31:24.300 the moral order.

00:31:25.380 The things that we've always

00:31:26.160 considered evil

00:31:26.800 now are considered

00:31:27.480 to be virtues.

00:31:28.800 Things that we've always

00:31:29.540 considered to be virtues

00:31:30.460 are now considered

00:31:31.100 to be repressive

00:31:31.760 and awful and evil.

00:31:33.380 And,

00:31:33.960 replacing beauty

00:31:35.060 with grotesquerie.

00:31:38.080 So,

00:31:38.800 the criticism

00:31:39.560 of the Sidney Sweeney ad

00:31:40.800 is that

00:31:42.100 we don't want to be

00:31:44.040 selling products

00:31:45.380 by inciting lust,

00:31:46.540 that that's always bad.

00:31:47.440 Even if the person

00:31:48.140 is really hot

00:31:49.360 or traditionally beautiful

00:31:50.260 or whatever,

00:31:50.880 you still want

00:31:52.240 some modesty,

00:31:52.980 you don't want

00:31:53.580 to be appealing

00:31:54.160 to the Prairian interest,

00:31:55.280 which is why I've said

00:31:56.080 from the beginning,

00:31:56.580 two cheers 0.87

00:31:56.940 for the Sidney Sweeney ad.

00:31:58.400 It's great that we've

00:32:00.140 moved away

00:32:00.700 from the high watermark

00:32:02.140 of wokeness in 2020.

00:32:03.240 We've moved back

00:32:03.760 to 1998.

00:32:04.400 That's great.

00:32:05.040 But 1998 wasn't

00:32:06.120 all that great,

00:32:06.680 actually,

00:32:06.960 and we need to go

00:32:07.560 a little further.

00:32:09.020 But that's what

00:32:09.820 this is about.

00:32:10.700 And so,

00:32:11.040 even the suggestion

00:32:13.240 that putting a hot chick 1.00

00:32:15.180 in a jeans ad

00:32:16.060 is akin to Hitler propaganda,

00:32:19.340 it's really an attack

00:32:22.860 on beauty.

00:32:23.920 Not all that different

00:32:24.920 from attacks

00:32:25.840 that we've seen

00:32:26.420 in recent years.

00:32:27.620 On truth and goodness

00:32:28.500 as well.

00:32:30.460 It says nothing

00:32:31.280 about the jeans,

00:32:32.740 of course.

00:32:33.520 But, you know,

00:32:34.640 in terms of the advertisement,

00:32:36.160 it's a step

00:32:36.540 in the right direction.

00:32:37.180 Now we have to keep moving.

00:32:39.160 Now we need,

00:32:40.100 let's keep,

00:32:41.060 good,

00:32:41.440 we've got the beauty part

00:32:42.440 largely down.

00:32:43.480 Okay,

00:32:43.640 now let's move

00:32:44.220 into the goodness part,

00:32:47.380 into the truth part,

00:32:48.740 and then we can be

00:32:49.480 really free.

00:32:50.080 And that's what it's about.

00:32:51.480 Now,

00:32:51.740 speaking of women 1.00

00:32:53.640 and sex appeal,

00:32:55.000 I guess,

00:32:56.160 biggest sex scandal

00:32:57.460 that we've had

00:32:58.140 maybe in my lifetime

00:32:59.480 other than Bill Clinton's

00:33:01.140 Oval Office dalliances.

00:33:02.860 Bill Clinton,

00:33:03.680 though,

00:33:03.880 was friends with these people,

00:33:04.940 so I guess it all relates.

00:33:06.180 Ghislaine Maxwell

00:33:07.100 might be called

00:33:09.180 to testify

00:33:09.760 before Congress

00:33:11.180 for years now.

00:33:14.660 We've been calling

00:33:15.300 for the release

00:33:15.820 of the Epstein files.

00:33:17.700 And we have a lot

00:33:18.300 of the Epstein files,

00:33:19.080 but it doesn't give us

00:33:20.040 that much juicy info.

00:33:21.280 And we say,

00:33:21.800 we want the Epstein client list.

00:33:24.420 What is the Epstein,

00:33:25.040 the government says

00:33:25.800 there is no client list.

00:33:26.700 Well,

00:33:26.840 there were clients,

00:33:27.600 there were associates,

00:33:28.860 or at least the people

00:33:29.360 accused of palling around

00:33:30.400 with him,

00:33:30.720 people on the flight logs.

00:33:32.740 Shouldn't we investigate that?

00:33:33.920 Well,

00:33:34.500 we don't,

00:33:34.940 I don't know,

00:33:35.340 it's the,

00:33:35.860 the information is a little murky,

00:33:37.640 it's a little dubious.

00:33:38.280 Okay.

00:33:39.280 Well,

00:33:39.540 can we interview Jeffrey Epstein?

00:33:40.720 No,

00:33:41.080 because he's dead.

00:33:41.700 Had he died,

00:33:42.340 don't worry about it.

00:33:43.040 Can we interview the guards

00:33:44.720 that were on duty

00:33:46.500 when Epstein was killed

00:33:48.640 or killed himself?

00:33:49.340 Oh,

00:33:49.540 they were,

00:33:49.860 they were using the john.

00:33:51.380 Sorry,

00:33:51.740 they weren't there at the moment.

00:33:52.900 It doesn't seem like

00:33:53.540 we can get answers

00:33:54.100 from anybody.

00:33:55.620 But there is one woman 0.87

00:33:56.920 who has all the dirt.

00:34:00.460 The woman who was closest

00:34:02.000 to Epstein

00:34:02.840 for years and years and years.

00:34:04.520 Ghislaine Maxwell

00:34:05.200 still in prison.

00:34:07.220 Some Republicans

00:34:07.900 want her to testify.

00:34:08.900 In fact,

00:34:10.580 James Comer

00:34:11.140 of the House Oversight Committee

00:34:13.480 has subpoenaed

00:34:14.680 Ghislaine Maxwell

00:34:15.320 for a deposition

00:34:16.140 and Ghislaine Maxwell

00:34:18.100 has responded.

00:34:19.200 Will she talk?

00:34:20.120 Won't she talk?

00:34:20.880 She has given

00:34:21.560 the smartest answer

00:34:23.080 she could possibly have given.

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00:34:55.940 today.

00:34:57.860 My favorite comment yesterday

00:34:58.720 is from KlauJuv7092.

00:35:01.640 What CNN meant to say

00:35:03.140 was hopefully.

00:35:04.060 Oh, this refers to

00:35:04.820 after the horrible

00:35:06.300 shooting in New York,

00:35:07.800 the CNN analysts

00:35:08.960 go on.

00:35:09.380 They say,

00:35:09.620 okay,

00:35:10.440 the shooter

00:35:11.700 used a rifle

00:35:13.120 and was from

00:35:15.520 out of state

00:35:16.920 and he was probably white.

00:35:19.740 And you look at him,

00:35:20.500 he's like the least

00:35:21.440 white person

00:35:21.980 who's ever walked

00:35:22.500 the face of the earth.

00:35:23.260 He is,

00:35:23.440 I don't know,

00:35:23.940 he could be multiple races,

00:35:25.320 but he sure ain't white.

00:35:27.640 And you're right.

00:35:28.460 It wasn't probably right.

00:35:29.920 What they meant to say

00:35:30.480 is hopefully.

00:35:31.860 Hopefully.

00:35:32.260 Please.

00:35:33.320 Please let him be white. 0.97

00:35:34.740 Please let him be white. 0.97

00:35:35.980 Let him be Christian.

00:35:36.720 Let him be straight.

00:35:37.520 Please,

00:35:37.840 please,

00:35:38.100 please let him be my enemy.

00:35:39.460 That's the kind of analysis

00:35:40.440 you get on.

00:35:41.720 It's not just CNN.

00:35:42.760 It's all the liberal news channels.

00:35:44.420 Okay.

00:35:45.900 Elaine Maxwell

00:35:46.540 asked to testify before Congress.

00:35:48.320 Here's what her lawyers write.

00:35:50.280 Our initial reaction

00:35:51.460 was that Ms. Maxwell

00:35:53.000 would invoke

00:35:54.240 her Fifth Amendment rights 0.96

00:35:55.580 and decline to testify

00:35:57.000 at this time.

00:35:57.540 This is according to her attorney,

00:35:58.640 David Oscar Marcus.

00:36:00.840 So see,

00:36:01.540 the Congress can subpoena

00:36:02.760 Elaine Maxwell

00:36:03.540 and she can say,

00:36:04.200 I plead the Fifth

00:36:04.680 against self-incrimination.

00:36:06.300 So she has every right 0.99

00:36:07.620 not to give up anything.

00:36:11.420 However,

00:36:12.320 the attorney writes,

00:36:14.120 after further reflection,

00:36:15.580 we would like to find a way

00:36:16.780 to cooperate with Congress

00:36:18.140 if a fair

00:36:19.580 and safe path forward

00:36:21.420 can be established.

00:36:23.420 Now,

00:36:23.920 what else does this say?

00:36:25.400 It's,

00:36:25.800 the letter says

00:36:26.720 that they're going to request

00:36:27.740 a delay in the testimony

00:36:28.900 until after the Supreme Court

00:36:30.880 rules on her appeal

00:36:31.760 and

00:36:33.220 the letter says

00:36:34.820 that if she receives

00:36:35.660 clemency from Trump,

00:36:37.740 a commutation of her sentence,

00:36:39.140 for instance,

00:36:40.220 then she'll testify.

00:36:42.000 And the layers

00:36:43.160 of this political chess move

00:36:45.260 are so brilliant.

00:36:48.320 First off,

00:36:49.860 why is Elaine Maxwell 1.00

00:36:50.940 being subpoenaed?

00:36:53.080 Because

00:36:53.600 the people,

00:36:55.440 a large portion

00:36:56.460 of the Republican base

00:36:57.700 wants an answer

00:36:59.060 on the Epstein story.

00:37:00.620 And they're not getting

00:37:01.500 an answer from,

00:37:02.860 they certainly didn't get it

00:37:03.680 from the government

00:37:04.220 under Joe Biden.

00:37:05.980 And they're not really getting

00:37:07.440 all that much of an answer

00:37:08.640 under this government.

00:37:10.320 So now,

00:37:11.640 the executive branch,

00:37:13.400 President Trump,

00:37:13.900 doesn't want to have to deal

00:37:14.520 with this issue,

00:37:15.060 which long predates him.

00:37:16.220 So he tries to kick it

00:37:17.240 to the judiciary.

00:37:18.900 He says,

00:37:19.360 okay,

00:37:19.500 I've directed the DOJ

00:37:20.700 to ask the judges

00:37:23.020 to unseal

00:37:23.740 the grand jury testimony.

00:37:24.720 Because the DOJ

00:37:25.380 can't just unseal

00:37:26.060 the grand jury testimony

00:37:26.960 in the Epstein case.

00:37:27.720 They've got to go

00:37:28.320 to the judges.

00:37:29.000 So, okay,

00:37:29.700 hot potato,

00:37:30.140 hot potato.

00:37:30.700 It's out of the executive branch.

00:37:32.180 It's out of the White House.

00:37:32.860 It's over at the courts.

00:37:34.520 And the courts have it.

00:37:35.620 And the courts say,

00:37:36.560 hot potato,

00:37:37.260 hot potato.

00:37:38.120 We don't want to unseal

00:37:40.400 the grand jury testimony

00:37:42.100 because there's no

00:37:44.000 compelling reason to

00:37:45.000 and it could cause

00:37:45.860 all sorts of problems.

00:37:46.400 Hot potato,

00:37:46.740 hot potato.

00:37:47.660 So now it's up in the air.

00:37:48.840 So then the people

00:37:49.520 have only one branch

00:37:50.200 of government left

00:37:50.720 they can turn to.

00:37:51.400 They turn to Congress.

00:37:53.700 And they say,

00:37:54.620 okay,

00:37:54.940 now you got the hot potato

00:37:56.000 of Jeffrey Epstein.

00:37:56.860 And the Congress says,

00:37:57.560 ah, shoot, 0.89

00:37:58.100 hot potato,

00:37:58.460 hot potato.

00:37:58.800 Okay,

00:37:59.100 well,

00:37:59.380 we got to do something

00:38:00.020 with this

00:38:00.360 because our constituents

00:38:01.100 who elect us every two years

00:38:02.180 in the House

00:38:02.720 and every six years

00:38:03.320 in the Senate,

00:38:03.840 they really want us

00:38:04.560 to do something.

00:38:05.580 But we have to balance

00:38:07.200 other concerns.

00:38:08.380 Namely,

00:38:09.280 we need to have a good

00:38:09.920 relationship with the White House

00:38:10.880 and we're going to have

00:38:11.520 our political careers nuked.

00:38:12.820 We're in the short term

00:38:13.640 not going to get

00:38:14.080 any legislation passed.

00:38:15.260 And in the long term,

00:38:16.160 we're going to be run out

00:38:16.700 of the government.

00:38:17.400 So we have a responsibility

00:38:18.720 to our constituents

00:38:19.480 and we need to make sure

00:38:20.680 that we're in their good graces,

00:38:21.860 but we can't irritate

00:38:22.920 the White House

00:38:23.400 and the White House

00:38:24.160 doesn't really want

00:38:24.760 any more of this coming out.

00:38:25.800 And so they kicked it

00:38:26.600 to the court.

00:38:26.980 The court doesn't want

00:38:27.640 this coming out.

00:38:28.360 Now it's got to come

00:38:29.060 to Congress.

00:38:29.540 Okay,

00:38:29.800 well,

00:38:29.960 shoot.

00:38:30.400 All right,

00:38:30.640 let's subpoena

00:38:31.660 Ghislaine Maxwell.

00:38:32.440 That's the only thing

00:38:32.860 we can do.

00:38:34.480 And Ghislaine Maxwell

00:38:35.200 says,

00:38:35.780 all right,

00:38:36.580 I got nothing to lose.

00:38:37.800 I'm just in prison

00:38:38.320 forever now.

00:38:39.080 So,

00:38:39.540 okay,

00:38:40.040 I'll come testify,

00:38:42.140 but you got to give me

00:38:42.900 something.

00:38:44.940 I'll give you

00:38:45.640 what you want,

00:38:46.800 which is for me

00:38:47.780 to testify.

00:38:49.240 But you got to give me

00:38:50.300 something.

00:38:51.080 Namely,

00:38:51.580 you got to give me

00:38:52.160 clemency.

00:38:54.160 Since you really

00:38:54.900 want me to testify.

00:38:55.860 But the funny thing is,

00:38:57.560 the executive branch

00:38:58.360 doesn't really care

00:38:59.420 if she testifies or not.

00:39:00.400 Probably doesn't really

00:39:00.980 even want her to

00:39:01.520 because they think

00:39:02.380 that this issue

00:39:02.800 is a distraction

00:39:03.340 from all the achievements

00:39:04.020 of the administration.

00:39:05.820 So they don't,

00:39:06.520 they kind of say

00:39:07.640 they want her to,

00:39:08.140 but they don't really

00:39:08.720 want her to testify.

00:39:10.200 The Congress doesn't

00:39:11.220 really want her to testify.

00:39:12.300 They don't care.

00:39:12.880 They think this thing's

00:39:13.460 probably a dead end.

00:39:14.340 It's not going anywhere.

00:39:15.140 If this really is a matter

00:39:16.060 of super secret

00:39:16.720 high-level intelligence,

00:39:17.680 nothing's going to come out.

00:39:18.640 And if it's not,

00:39:19.420 then all the information

00:39:20.080 is already out.

00:39:21.520 So they don't actually

00:39:22.760 want her to testify.

00:39:24.820 And they know,

00:39:26.420 she knows

00:39:27.400 that they don't want

00:39:28.880 her to testify.

00:39:30.300 And they know

00:39:31.300 that she knows

00:39:32.380 that they don't want

00:39:33.120 her to testify.

00:39:34.400 But she knows

00:39:35.680 that the people

00:39:38.200 demand

00:39:39.200 that they

00:39:41.000 want her to testify,

00:39:42.520 even though they don't

00:39:43.080 really want her to testify.

00:39:43.980 So this is like

00:39:45.360 11-D chess.

00:39:47.940 And the question is

00:39:49.400 for the Congress,

00:39:51.180 for the White House,

00:39:52.020 I guess,

00:39:52.240 and the Congress,

00:39:53.400 can they keep this

00:39:55.860 on the back burner

00:39:56.960 long enough

00:39:57.740 that they don't

00:39:59.440 have to grant

00:40:00.020 her clemency

00:40:00.620 and they don't even

00:40:02.120 have to have her

00:40:02.540 come testify?

00:40:03.280 Because by the way,

00:40:04.340 she's put,

00:40:05.160 on the White House

00:40:05.760 specifically,

00:40:06.300 she's put them

00:40:06.760 in an impossible situation.

00:40:07.960 If the White House

00:40:11.080 grants Ghislaine Maxwell

00:40:12.120 clemency,

00:40:12.880 the headline from

00:40:13.740 Democrats is going

00:40:14.540 to be,

00:40:15.820 President Trump

00:40:16.760 goes soft

00:40:17.760 on his old friend

00:40:18.680 to cover up

00:40:19.320 for Jeffrey Epstein

00:40:20.280 and no one

00:40:21.040 is being held

00:40:22.200 accountable,

00:40:22.700 not even the madam

00:40:23.500 who procured

00:40:24.020 all the underage girls.

00:40:25.480 That's going to be

00:40:25.860 the headline.

00:40:27.440 So he's damned

00:40:28.180 if he does.

00:40:29.260 But then if Trump

00:40:29.840 doesn't give her clemency,

00:40:30.880 the headline is going

00:40:31.480 to be,

00:40:32.340 Trump refuses

00:40:33.580 to have Ghislaine

00:40:35.640 Maxwell testify,

00:40:37.020 refuses to do

00:40:37.760 what needs to be done

00:40:38.480 to get Ghislaine

00:40:38.940 Maxwell to testify

00:40:39.560 because he's trying

00:40:40.400 to cover up

00:40:40.860 for the Epstein sex ring.

00:40:41.820 So he's damned

00:40:42.440 if he doesn't.

00:40:43.760 There is nothing,

00:40:44.460 I mean,

00:40:44.660 it's a masterstroke

00:40:46.020 from Ghislaine

00:40:46.900 Maxwell's attorneys.

00:40:49.880 She's put the Congress

00:40:51.440 in a bad position

00:40:52.420 because the Congress

00:40:55.120 also kind of says

00:40:56.280 they want her to testify,

00:40:57.100 but they don't really

00:40:57.500 want her to testify

00:40:58.120 and they kind of

00:40:58.520 want this thing

00:40:58.900 to move on

00:40:59.360 because the longer

00:41:00.040 the story's in the news.

00:41:01.200 I don't think

00:41:02.380 this incriminates

00:41:03.160 Trump in any way.

00:41:04.080 I don't think

00:41:04.420 this incriminates

00:41:05.100 prominent Republicans

00:41:05.880 in any way.

00:41:07.260 I'm not,

00:41:08.120 I think that's all nonsense.

00:41:09.480 But the longer

00:41:10.200 it's in the news,

00:41:11.740 the more distracting it is.

00:41:12.920 There's only so much attention,

00:41:13.980 there's only so much

00:41:14.500 political capital,

00:41:15.260 they want to move on

00:41:15.880 and do other things

00:41:16.380 like the trade deal

00:41:16.960 in Europe,

00:41:17.520 like other investigations,

00:41:18.860 like immigration policy,

00:41:20.000 like resolving wars.

00:41:20.880 So it's just bad

00:41:22.380 for this to be in the news

00:41:23.400 for Republicans.

00:41:25.280 And so she's got

00:41:25.980 the Congress

00:41:27.180 in a bad spot,

00:41:27.840 but she's really got

00:41:28.940 the White House

00:41:29.460 in a bad spot.

00:41:30.220 And I don't know

00:41:33.080 what they do here.

00:41:33.900 You know what,

00:41:34.620 on 99.7% of issues,

00:41:38.500 if the White House

00:41:40.280 asked my opinion,

00:41:41.020 I would have a strong

00:41:41.580 opinion on what to do.

00:41:42.700 In this case,

00:41:44.640 Ghislaine has really

00:41:46.220 boxed them into a corner.

00:41:48.860 Give her clemency 0.63

00:41:49.880 so she can speak or not.

00:41:51.160 I mean,

00:41:51.320 I guess I would say

00:41:52.120 if I were advising

00:41:52.680 the White House,

00:41:53.380 I would say don't

00:41:54.080 give her clemency. 0.98

00:41:55.580 Because at the very least,

00:41:56.500 you can always say

00:41:56.940 she was trying

00:41:57.400 to wriggle out of it.

00:41:58.420 We'd love for her

00:41:59.100 to testify.

00:41:59.760 In fact,

00:42:00.100 I want to make her testify.

00:42:01.620 We're going to exhaust

00:42:02.360 all legal options

00:42:03.540 through the DOJ

00:42:04.900 to force Ghislaine

00:42:06.020 to testify before Congress.

00:42:08.440 But we're not going

00:42:09.560 to give her clemency.

00:42:10.620 We're not letting her

00:42:11.240 off the hook

00:42:11.660 for her terrible crimes.

00:42:12.600 I guess that's what

00:42:13.280 I would say.

00:42:14.620 But there's no way

00:42:15.900 to respond to this

00:42:16.660 without drawing

00:42:17.080 a little blood.

00:42:18.620 Maybe this woman 1.00

00:42:19.300 is a super spy after all.

00:42:20.620 Maybe she's a smart 1.00

00:42:21.700 political operator.

00:42:22.500 At the very least,

00:42:23.200 she has very good attorneys. 0.81

00:42:24.880 Okay, speaking of achievements

00:42:26.380 of the Trump administration,

00:42:27.600 there's a really big one

00:42:28.460 that not a lot of people

00:42:29.380 are talking about.

00:42:30.860 The Office of Personnel Management

00:42:33.320 has just ruled

00:42:35.640 that federal employees

00:42:37.060 can display religious items

00:42:38.780 and evangelize at work.

00:42:41.240 This is a memo

00:42:41.980 that just came out

00:42:42.540 from OPM.

00:42:43.300 Protecting religious expression

00:42:44.420 in the federal workplace

00:42:45.340 says that the government workforce

00:42:48.280 should be a welcoming place

00:42:49.400 for employees

00:42:49.840 who practice religion.

00:42:51.480 Allowing religious discrimination 0.86

00:42:52.940 in the federal workplace

00:42:53.900 violates federal law.

00:42:54.920 It also threatens

00:42:55.720 to adversely impact

00:42:56.720 recruitment and retention

00:42:57.980 of high-qualified employees

00:42:59.040 of faith.

00:42:59.580 Very true.

00:43:01.180 And federal employees,

00:43:02.640 quote,

00:43:02.820 may engage in conversations

00:43:04.020 regarding religious topics

00:43:05.160 with fellow employees,

00:43:06.220 including attempting

00:43:06.940 to persuade others

00:43:08.120 of the correctness

00:43:08.800 of their own religious views,

00:43:10.140 provided that such efforts

00:43:11.220 are not harassing in nature.

00:43:13.180 Employees may also encourage

00:43:14.240 their co-workers

00:43:14.800 to participate

00:43:15.380 in religious expressions

00:43:16.200 of faith,

00:43:16.680 such as prayer,

00:43:17.620 to the same extent

00:43:18.340 that they would be permitted

00:43:19.200 to encourage co-workers

00:43:20.140 to participate

00:43:21.360 in other personal activities.

00:43:24.160 Yes,

00:43:24.560 obviously that's the case.

00:43:25.760 And even if you read

00:43:26.680 some small coverage of this,

00:43:29.100 even the liberals will admit,

00:43:30.120 well,

00:43:30.520 in principle,

00:43:31.240 this doesn't change the law.

00:43:32.380 It's just a change of enforcement.

00:43:35.320 It used to be

00:43:35.940 we would discourage religion 1.00

00:43:37.180 in the workplace,

00:43:37.960 but now the government's

00:43:39.200 kind of allowing it.

00:43:41.920 Yeah,

00:43:42.640 you have to

00:43:43.400 because of the First Amendment,

00:43:45.480 for starters,

00:43:46.360 and because it's the right thing to do.

00:43:49.060 And because religion

00:43:50.400 is not just a private thing.

00:43:51.580 It's not just the Obama version 0.82

00:43:53.060 of stuffing it all

00:43:54.120 into your head quietly.

00:43:55.580 Freedom of worship

00:43:56.360 rather than freedom of religion.

00:43:57.660 Religion is a habit of virtue

00:43:59.680 that inclines the will

00:44:00.360 to give to God

00:44:01.160 what he deserves.

00:44:02.560 Part of the Christian religion

00:44:03.720 is the great commission

00:44:04.880 that Christ gives us

00:44:06.320 to make disciples of all nations,

00:44:07.840 to go out and evangelize.

00:44:09.560 If you're not allowed to do that,

00:44:10.840 if you're not allowed

00:44:11.240 to talk to people

00:44:11.920 about your faith,

00:44:12.600 you don't have anything

00:44:13.760 even resembling

00:44:14.480 religious freedom

00:44:15.100 in this country.

00:44:16.400 Oh,

00:44:16.580 you have religious freedom,

00:44:17.940 but you can't practice

00:44:20.120 a basic aspect

00:44:20.920 of your religion

00:44:21.680 for 8 to 12 hours a day,

00:44:23.700 five days a week.

00:44:24.540 Give me a break.

00:44:26.280 But Michael,

00:44:27.000 doesn't this violate

00:44:27.560 the First Amendment?

00:44:29.480 No,

00:44:29.900 I've just explained

00:44:30.500 how it actually,

00:44:31.660 the First Amendment

00:44:32.060 requires a provision like this.

00:44:34.980 But no,

00:44:35.640 doesn't this violate

00:44:36.540 the freedom of religion

00:44:38.420 or freedom from religion

00:44:39.660 or you're not allowed

00:44:40.320 to have religion

00:44:41.020 in the workplace

00:44:41.760 or in the government?

00:44:42.780 My friend,

00:44:43.200 my friend,

00:44:43.660 each session of Congress

00:44:46.760 begins with a prayer.

00:44:48.720 That has been true

00:44:49.820 since 1774

00:44:51.740 in the First Continental Congress.

00:44:54.240 My friend,

00:44:54.860 my friend,

00:44:55.520 if Congress gets

00:44:57.380 to have freedom of religion,

00:44:58.460 why don't you

00:44:59.000 in your workplace,

00:44:59.820 in your federal workplace,

00:45:00.700 in your private office,

00:45:01.620 you can't harass people.

00:45:03.800 There's obviously

00:45:04.640 a proper mean,

00:45:06.700 a virtuous mean

00:45:07.560 between extremes.

00:45:09.720 But yeah,

00:45:10.580 we get to have a religion.

00:45:12.860 Sorry,

00:45:13.400 sorry,

00:45:13.880 libs destroyed.

00:45:14.480 Okay,

00:45:14.840 speaking of moral development,

00:45:15.800 there's a story,

00:45:16.260 I know I'm running late,

00:45:16.860 but I don't care.

00:45:17.500 There's a story

00:45:17.960 I have to get to.

00:45:19.220 I guess I mentioned it to you

00:45:20.060 at the top of the show.

00:45:21.320 Horrifying story.

00:45:23.260 Kids who get smartphones

00:45:24.120 before the age of 13

00:45:25.080 face a huge suicide risk.

00:45:26.980 This,

00:45:27.320 according to a study

00:45:28.140 published in the Journal

00:45:28.920 of Human Development

00:45:29.520 and Capabilities,

00:45:30.660 the study tracked

00:45:31.340 over 100,000 people

00:45:32.320 between the ages

00:45:33.040 of 18 and 24.

00:45:35.060 Almost half,

00:45:35.960 48% of those

00:45:37.180 who got phones

00:45:37.840 between,

00:45:38.760 age 5 and age 6

00:45:40.100 reported suicidal thoughts.

00:45:43.660 For almost

00:45:44.580 one in two

00:45:45.460 kids

00:45:46.160 who got phones

00:45:47.160 between age 5 and age 6

00:45:48.460 reported having suicidal thoughts.

00:45:50.860 Now,

00:45:51.160 that risk

00:45:51.820 drops significantly

00:45:53.000 if you got a phone

00:45:54.620 at age 13.

00:45:55.780 That's only 28%

00:45:56.740 of kids.

00:45:57.700 So,

00:45:57.940 it almost drops in half.

00:46:00.360 Those who got

00:46:01.100 smartphones

00:46:01.640 before the age of 13

00:46:02.660 showed much higher rates

00:46:04.100 than their peers

00:46:04.620 of suicidal thoughts,

00:46:06.260 aggression,

00:46:07.380 and emotional struggles.

00:46:09.720 And that probably

00:46:11.040 won't surprise people

00:46:11.820 because of social media,

00:46:13.140 because of bullying,

00:46:13.980 because of porn,

00:46:14.920 because of grotesque content,

00:46:16.160 because of everything.

00:46:18.580 Many people,

00:46:19.860 this to me

00:46:20.600 is the most interesting

00:46:21.320 political aspect

00:46:22.200 of this story.

00:46:22.740 It's not all that surprising

00:46:26.860 a study.

00:46:27.960 Maybe you haven't heard

00:46:28.620 about it before,

00:46:29.340 but you heard

00:46:31.400 similar things.

00:46:32.920 Many people

00:46:33.680 will hear that study

00:46:35.080 and still give

00:46:36.800 their kids

00:46:37.240 cell phones

00:46:37.880 under the age of 13.

00:46:39.220 And they'll do it

00:46:40.000 because,

00:46:40.480 well,

00:46:41.160 all their friends

00:46:42.360 at school

00:46:42.980 have one,

00:46:44.180 and well,

00:46:45.380 you know,

00:46:45.900 I got to pick them up

00:46:46.720 at soccer practice,

00:46:47.680 so how could I

00:46:48.360 possibly do that

00:46:49.480 if they don't have

00:46:50.600 a portal to hell

00:46:51.800 in,

00:46:52.360 you know,

00:46:53.280 4K

00:46:53.940 at all times

00:46:55.140 on their hands.

00:46:56.540 And,

00:46:56.940 well,

00:46:57.880 it's just kind of,

00:46:58.960 this is just,

00:46:59.540 today's day and age,

00:47:00.720 and well,

00:47:01.080 we're going to try

00:47:01.500 to mitigate the risk

00:47:02.340 in other ways,

00:47:03.040 and well,

00:47:03.940 I put some stupid program

00:47:05.220 on their browser,

00:47:06.000 so they definitely

00:47:06.500 can't get around that.

00:47:07.540 And well,

00:47:08.120 well,

00:47:08.440 well,

00:47:08.660 and they'll do it.

00:47:09.260 They'll rationalize it

00:47:10.400 and excuse it.

00:47:13.000 If I told you,

00:47:14.980 hey,

00:47:15.460 there's a thing

00:47:16.300 that you can do

00:47:17.560 that can cut your kid's 0.99

00:47:18.900 suicide risk in half,

00:47:21.320 or I'll phrase it differently,

00:47:23.440 there's a thing

00:47:24.160 that you can do,

00:47:26.120 this new kind of thing

00:47:27.440 that you can do

00:47:28.020 that has never been done

00:47:28.820 before in history,

00:47:29.640 and if you do that thing

00:47:30.940 for your kid,

00:47:32.660 their risk of suicide

00:47:33.720 will massively increase.

00:47:36.820 It's this thing

00:47:37.400 that no one's ever

00:47:38.080 really needed before,

00:47:39.080 and it's kind of superfluous,

00:47:40.180 and it's mostly

00:47:40.620 a way to waste time.

00:47:41.520 And anyway,

00:47:41.960 if you give it to your kid,

00:47:43.040 their risk of killing themselves

00:47:44.060 will massively increase.

00:47:45.280 Hey,

00:47:45.460 do you want to give it

00:47:45.900 to your kid?

00:47:46.720 And eight out of ten parents

00:47:48.140 are going to say,

00:47:48.780 golly,

00:47:49.220 yes,

00:47:49.540 I do.

00:47:50.320 Sign me up,

00:47:50.900 of course I do.

00:47:52.560 Why?

00:47:53.760 I'll tell you why.

00:47:55.740 I'll tell you why.

00:47:56.700 Because there are only

00:47:58.440 two persuasive arguments

00:48:00.160 in liberal society.

00:48:03.100 They are

00:48:03.900 license.

00:48:07.280 They are,

00:48:07.760 the first persuasive argument

00:48:09.180 is,

00:48:09.380 well,

00:48:09.500 why not?

00:48:10.680 Why shouldn't I?

00:48:12.360 Because your kid

00:48:12.800 might kill himself.

00:48:13.880 Yeah,

00:48:14.320 but it's a less than

00:48:15.400 50% risk.

00:48:19.680 What?

00:48:20.840 Yeah,

00:48:21.300 why not?

00:48:21.980 Why not?

00:48:23.040 Why shouldn't we

00:48:23.820 redefine marriage?

00:48:25.280 Yeah,

00:48:25.540 why shouldn't we

00:48:26.500 take away obscenity laws?

00:48:29.500 Yeah,

00:48:29.740 why shouldn't we

00:48:30.760 kick religion 0.98

00:48:32.500 out of the public square?

00:48:33.460 Yeah,

00:48:33.680 why shouldn't we

00:48:34.620 allow kids to date

00:48:36.600 at the age of ten?

00:48:37.240 Why shouldn't we

00:48:38.520 use contraception

00:48:40.520 all the time?

00:48:41.020 Why shouldn't we

00:48:41.740 kill babies?

00:48:42.340 Why shouldn't we?

00:48:42.860 Why shouldn't we?

00:48:43.360 Why not?

00:48:43.740 Why not?

00:48:44.020 Why not?

00:48:44.260 Why not?

00:48:44.840 Is license.

00:48:46.040 Maximizing personal autonomy.

00:48:47.100 That's the first

00:48:47.600 persuasive argument

00:48:48.600 in liberal society.

00:48:49.700 And the other one is

00:48:50.740 social proof.

00:48:52.300 And that's the

00:48:54.520 crazier one even.

00:48:56.380 In a liberal society

00:48:58.160 such as ours

00:48:58.960 that has

00:49:00.820 so liberated itself

00:49:02.540 that we've

00:49:03.340 liberated ourselves

00:49:04.260 supposedly from

00:49:05.240 the moral order,

00:49:06.260 from objective reality,

00:49:07.740 from biological reality,

00:49:09.220 from moral and

00:49:09.940 philosophical reality,

00:49:10.980 we've liberated

00:49:11.720 ourselves from everything.

00:49:12.800 We're just

00:49:13.480 floating in space,

00:49:14.540 man.

00:49:14.980 And so there's

00:49:15.540 nothing that we can

00:49:16.520 ground ourselves on.

00:49:17.460 There's nothing solid.

00:49:18.460 There's nothing sturdy.

00:49:19.880 And so the only way

00:49:21.460 that you can get

00:49:22.360 any guidance

00:49:23.040 on what to do

00:49:23.780 is to look around you

00:49:25.240 and see what all

00:49:26.080 the other lunatic

00:49:27.120 hot air balloons

00:49:27.820 floating in outer space

00:49:28.760 are doing.

00:49:30.600 And so you can

00:49:31.760 read the study

00:49:32.460 and say,

00:49:32.920 hey,

00:49:33.620 here is a lot of

00:49:34.980 sturdy scientific evidence

00:49:36.800 that backs up

00:49:38.460 your sturdy

00:49:39.120 philosophical intuitions

00:49:40.620 and deductions

00:49:41.880 that if you give

00:49:44.240 your kid a portal

00:49:44.960 to hell, 0.98

00:49:45.440 he might kill himself.

00:49:47.540 Here's all the evidence.

00:49:48.600 But when those

00:49:49.520 hot air balloon

00:49:50.460 liberals look around

00:49:51.340 and they see

00:49:52.040 everyone else

00:49:52.560 giving their kids

00:49:53.040 cell phones,

00:49:53.380 they say,

00:49:53.620 well,

00:49:54.220 50 million Frenchmen

00:49:55.960 can't be wrong.

00:49:56.600 Well,

00:49:57.700 there's no,

00:49:58.060 everyone else

00:49:58.460 is doing it.

00:49:59.560 It is the thing

00:50:00.820 your father or mother

00:50:02.240 told you as a kid.

00:50:03.480 And you said,

00:50:04.000 come on,

00:50:04.740 Johnny gets to do it

00:50:05.980 and say,

00:50:06.180 well,

00:50:06.280 if Johnny drove off

00:50:07.280 a bridge,

00:50:07.760 jumped off a bridge,

00:50:08.380 would you do it too?

00:50:10.320 That's it.

00:50:10.800 The liberals

00:50:11.180 would do it too.

00:50:11.940 They would do it too

00:50:12.640 because they have

00:50:13.320 no other criterion

00:50:14.660 on which to base

00:50:15.720 their decisions.

00:50:16.320 That's really

00:50:18.140 what it's about.

00:50:19.540 And that combination,

00:50:21.380 why not the license?

00:50:23.220 Well,

00:50:23.540 if there's no

00:50:24.120 totally rock solid

00:50:26.060 compelling reason

00:50:26.940 that I in my broken,

00:50:28.340 darkened intellect

00:50:28.880 cannot perfectly understand,

00:50:30.520 then I'm just going to say

00:50:31.340 we should do it.

00:50:32.000 Why not?

00:50:32.500 You do you.

00:50:33.180 Laissez faire.

00:50:33.780 Laissez le bon temps brûler.

00:50:34.840 And social proof.

00:50:40.000 You combine those.

00:50:40.800 That is a toxic combination

00:50:42.180 that will,

00:50:44.360 God forbid,

00:50:46.120 kill people you love

00:50:47.200 and ultimately

00:50:48.200 will kill a society.

00:50:49.380 Okay.

00:50:49.820 Today is Woke Wednesday

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The Michael Knowles Show - July 30, 2025

Ep. 1782 - Caught on Camera— Viral Jazz Festival Attacker Was Out On Bond

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