The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 1790 - South Park Lights Up Right-Wing Podcasters

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00:00:30.000 South Park is lighting up right-wing influencers

00:00:34.700 from Charlie Kirk and Ben Shapiro to Nick Fuentes and Alex Jones.

00:00:39.140 No one on the right seems to know how to react.

00:00:42.440 Should they own it and laugh and change their social media avatars?

00:00:47.260 Or should they be offended and yell at Trey Parker and Matt Stone

00:00:51.020 and call it leftist propaganda?

00:00:52.740 No one knows how to respond.

00:00:54.540 And the reason is that they don't understand

00:00:57.420 what South Park is actually making fun of,

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00:02:52.500 I finally watched the new season of South Park.

00:02:55.980 I don't watch South Park regularly.

00:02:58.160 I don't watch any TV regularly.

00:03:00.020 But when I was a kid, I watched South Park all the time.

00:03:03.740 I started watching South Park the second airing.

00:03:07.100 They used to air it twice a week back in the olden days

00:03:09.680 when people would watch television on linear cable.

00:03:12.260 I saw the second airing of the first episode,

00:03:14.820 and I watched it obsessively for years and years.

00:03:18.500 It's been on forever now, but I watched it a lot.

00:03:20.480 So I think I have a decent sense of South Park's humor.

00:03:23.760 And I was told in this new season of South Park,

00:03:26.500 they're making fun of Trump and Vance and Kristi Noem.

00:03:29.760 But in particular, I was told they're making fun

00:03:32.360 of right-wing podcasters and influencers and streamers.

00:03:36.000 And I said, all right, well, I guess I got to watch it.

00:03:39.180 And I saw these people alternately embracing it,

00:03:43.000 saying this is great.

00:03:43.920 I'm being parodied in South Park.

00:03:45.640 This is awesome.

00:03:46.260 We're going to own it.

00:03:46.860 We're going to be in on the joke.

00:03:47.700 And then other people saying, South Park took money

00:03:50.380 from Paramount, and they're just attacking Trump,

00:03:52.720 and they don't attack Biden and their hacks

00:03:54.700 and their leftists and whatever, whatever.

00:03:57.220 So I said, I got to watch it for myself.

00:03:59.060 So the first thing going into it,

00:04:00.980 I was told that Cartman is Charlie Kirk,

00:04:05.780 which I said, man, good on Charlie.

00:04:07.760 That is a great, what an honor.

00:04:09.440 But it's not quite what's going on.

00:04:12.960 Here's the very first part of the episode.

00:04:15.200 The stuff he's saying about Jews is out of control.

00:04:18.700 Bro, you just got to ignore him.

00:04:20.220 Bro, it's pretty hard to ignore him

00:04:21.580 when he's saying it all on a podcast.

00:04:23.360 Hey, guys, who are you talking about?

00:04:25.500 Clyde.

00:04:26.860 Clyde?

00:04:27.440 Hey, here he comes.

00:04:30.300 Whatever, guys.

00:04:31.240 Prove me wrong.

00:04:32.240 Prove me wrong.

00:04:33.680 You don't know a thing about the Jewish people.

00:04:35.660 Yeah, and shut up about girls' bodies. 1.00

00:04:37.920 Well, that sounds like a very female and Jew thing to say. 1.00

00:04:40.540 If you guys don't like it,

00:04:41.600 why don't you come debate me on my podcast?

00:04:43.920 What?

00:04:46.880 What's going on?

00:04:47.720 So right off the top, you recognize,

00:04:50.220 hold on, Cartman isn't Charlie Kirk

00:04:52.260 or anyone else on the right.

00:04:54.600 Cartman is Cartman.

00:04:55.780 He gets so excited when they say,

00:04:57.580 you know, this guy,

00:04:58.220 he's saying all these terrible things about Jews

00:04:59.540 and women and blacks and this and that. 1.00

00:05:01.920 And he says, oh, who are you talking about?

00:05:03.280 You're talking about me, right?

00:05:04.120 I've been doing this since the 90s.

00:05:05.780 I've been doing this since 1998

00:05:07.120 or whenever South Park opened.

00:05:09.300 And they say, no, we're talking about Clyde.

00:05:11.020 And he says, wait, what are you talking about, Clyde?

00:05:14.160 That's my shtick.

00:05:16.060 Clyde is taking my shtick.

00:05:17.440 And then Clyde walks in, this other kid,

00:05:20.380 this non-Cartman kid,

00:05:21.600 he walks in and he starts doing everything.

00:05:23.540 He says, prove me wrong.

00:05:24.460 That's a reference to Charlie Kirk.

00:05:25.980 He starts calling women whores.

00:05:27.720 I think that's a reference to Andrew Tate.

00:05:29.340 He starts going off on the Jews.

00:05:30.960 That's obviously the Nick Fuentes thing.

00:05:32.580 He's going off on all these people.

00:05:34.300 He's just an amalgam of all of these voices on the right.

00:05:37.980 And the drama of it is,

00:05:39.800 Cartman's saying, wait, hold on, that's my,

00:05:41.320 why are you, he stole my shtick.

00:05:44.120 So why did he do it?

00:05:46.980 Next scene, Clyde,

00:05:48.840 the avatar of all the right-wing talkers,

00:05:50.680 is sitting talking to the counselor.

00:05:52.360 Why is it that he's going off on all of these groups?

00:05:55.480 Is it because he really wants to dominate women?

00:05:58.860 He really hates the Jews.

00:06:00.240 He really hates whoever.

00:06:03.000 No.

00:06:04.960 He's doing it because it's cynical and it plays

00:06:08.640 and it's going to make him a lot of money.

00:06:11.160 The other students are very upset at this podcast.

00:06:14.540 And what makes you think you got to say all this stuff, Clyde?

00:06:18.100 Hey, I'm just trying to make my nut, man.

00:06:20.080 You know, kids have it tough these days.

00:06:21.540 We got Xbox subscriptions, PS5, Steam subscriptions.

00:06:24.220 And so, you know, as a kid, if you could do a podcast,

00:06:26.180 say some really divisive shtick,

00:06:27.280 then you could make your nut.

00:06:28.700 I'm just trying to make my nut.

00:06:30.400 And this is a double entendre.

00:06:32.460 I'm trying to make my nut,

00:06:33.580 meaning I'm trying to get some money

00:06:34.740 and I'm trying to be titillated.

00:06:37.000 I'm trying to, this kind of, it gets me off.

00:06:39.660 That's the, not to be too crass about it,

00:06:41.700 but that's what he's saying here.

00:06:42.920 And it plays on both levels.

00:06:44.140 So this to me is great news for the American right 0.91

00:06:46.800 because South Park's parody here,

00:06:49.440 South Park's satire is pointing out

00:06:52.340 that young people increasingly are right wing.

00:06:56.320 And they're saying there's a cynical motive here.

00:06:58.280 Everyone's an influencer.

00:06:59.280 Everyone's an e-girl. 1.00

00:07:00.340 Everyone's a podcast bro.

00:07:01.780 Every, every white guy under the age of 57,

00:07:05.080 I think has a podcast at this point.

00:07:06.860 It's a, it's a federal statute

00:07:08.760 that we all must have podcasts.

00:07:10.320 They say, look, increasingly these,

00:07:12.280 these people are right wing

00:07:13.180 and there's a market for it.

00:07:15.100 And that's how it can be lucrative.

00:07:17.560 And that's why we're seeing this explosion

00:07:20.440 in right wing influencers.

00:07:22.300 You know, South Park always goes after the regime.

00:07:26.440 That's it.

00:07:26.860 It's totally unfair to say South Park

00:07:29.600 attacks the right more than the left.

00:07:31.020 That's not true.

00:07:31.580 If anything, I think it attacks the left

00:07:32.920 more than the right.

00:07:33.580 But the reason it's done so in my lifetime

00:07:35.680 is because the left has been in charge

00:07:37.260 for most of my lifetime.

00:07:38.540 The fact that South Park is going after the right now

00:07:41.280 means that the right is the regime,

00:07:43.260 which means we won.

00:07:44.540 I mean, that's great news.

00:07:45.880 If you're on the right, I'm thrilled

00:07:47.260 that South Park's going after us.

00:07:48.760 It means that we matter.

00:07:50.320 South Park used to go after Obama a little bit.

00:07:52.380 South Park's gone after Clinton.

00:07:54.740 But South Park didn't really go after Biden that much.

00:07:58.120 Because Biden wasn't really the president.

00:08:00.700 Nobody really believed that he was the president.

00:08:02.480 He didn't feel like the regime.

00:08:04.300 He's saying now it's the right that's in charge

00:08:07.040 in the government, but also in the culture.

00:08:10.040 So then we get a glimpse into what the Clyde podcast

00:08:13.320 actually looks like.

00:08:14.300 Welcome to the channel of truth, guys.

00:08:17.460 You can't trust Jews, white people are the underprivileged, 1.00

00:08:19.860 and women belong at home. 1.00

00:08:21.120 I'd like to welcome our first guest to the debate,

00:08:23.180 Eric Cartman.

00:08:25.840 What the hell do you think you're doing, Clyde?

00:08:27.780 We're here speaking the truth about the Jews

00:08:29.360 and the underprivileged white class.

00:08:30.600 That's my stick!

00:08:31.880 Knock it off, Clyde! 0.71

00:08:32.680 You stole my idea!

00:08:34.000 I don't know about stealing ideas,

00:08:35.400 but I do know about some amazing supplement powders

00:08:37.240 that are an absolute steal.

00:08:38.120 Supplement powders!

00:08:38.680 Be sure to get some, and also be sure to hashtag

00:08:40.740 respect Clyde's authority.

00:08:42.440 What?

00:08:43.320 Okay, so that bit there at the end,

00:08:45.180 that shows you exactly the thesis of the episode,

00:08:47.640 because if you're a longtime South Park fan,

00:08:50.640 like I certainly was as a kid,

00:08:52.580 you'll know that that line, respect my authority,

00:08:55.740 comes from, I think, the first season of South Park.

00:08:58.220 That was a Cartman line.

00:08:59.380 It became a kind of catchphrase.

00:09:01.560 And Clyde, 20 years later, or 25 years later,

00:09:03.760 whatever it is now, is ripping it off.

00:09:06.380 And who is he?

00:09:07.980 It's hard to tell.

00:09:10.420 He's going after the Jews very hard,

00:09:13.080 so that's obviously the Nick Fuentes reference.

00:09:15.600 But he's also hawking supplements.

00:09:17.520 That's more of an Alex Jones reference.

00:09:20.380 But it's an interview podcast,

00:09:22.480 so that might be more, I don't know,

00:09:23.880 is that more of like a Tucker reference?

00:09:26.100 It's just all the right-wing bros together.

00:09:29.020 Now, final point on this,

00:09:32.020 is what all of this is about.

00:09:36.500 Why is it that the right is stealing South Park's shtick?

00:09:40.620 What does it mean?

00:09:42.140 Why is it working?

00:09:43.780 Why all of a sudden,

00:09:44.800 this is what people on the left are asking,

00:09:46.040 why all of a sudden is it okay

00:09:47.240 to go after women and Jews and blacks 1.00

00:09:51.140 and all these groups that you weren't allowed to go at

00:09:54.680 under political correctness,

00:09:56.680 under the left's regime rule.

00:09:58.560 Why is that?

00:09:59.760 South Park answers it in a very funny way,

00:10:01.340 in a very accurate way.

00:10:02.100 We'll get to that in one second.

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00:11:22.780 What it all comes down to,

00:11:25.060 the reason that there's been

00:11:27.340 this big shift in culture

00:11:28.500 and politics

00:11:29.160 and the explosion

00:11:30.100 of right-wing podcasts,

00:11:31.560 and it comes down to,

00:11:33.360 in the eyes of South Park,

00:11:35.080 master debating.

00:11:37.720 Yes, Jeremiah 1-5 says,

00:11:39.140 before I formed you in the womb,

00:11:39.940 I knew you,

00:11:40.360 but it's just morality

00:11:41.140 that demands we protect

00:11:42.000 the most vulnerable.

00:11:42.800 So let me ask you,

00:11:43.520 when do you think life begins?

00:11:46.080 Eric, are you all right in there?

00:11:47.860 Yeah, I'm fine, Mom.

00:11:48.640 I'm just in here master debating.

00:11:51.260 Well, Eric, that's enough.

00:11:52.820 Let's get out of the bathroom.

00:11:54.500 I can't, Mom.

00:11:55.120 I'm master debating

00:11:55.760 to these young college girls.

00:11:57.180 That's very naughty, Eric.

00:11:58.820 Stop it.

00:11:59.660 Mom, I finally got sponsored

00:12:00.700 by a protein powder,

00:12:01.560 so I got to master debate

00:12:02.340 for a couple more hours.

00:12:03.440 Leviticus 9, 1 through 8.

00:12:04.620 Let me alone.

00:12:05.060 So, he's master debating.

00:12:08.440 He's locked the bathroom door.

00:12:09.400 He's master debating,

00:12:10.540 and his mother says,

00:12:11.440 you got to get out of there,

00:12:12.320 don't you?

00:12:12.700 Even this is this brilliant observation

00:12:16.540 of an inversion here.

00:12:18.060 Used to be,

00:12:18.920 back in the olden days,

00:12:20.900 that if a boy were,

00:12:22.620 I don't know,

00:12:23.260 this is a family show.

00:12:23.840 How do I clean it up?

00:12:25.060 If a boy were looking at naughty images,

00:12:28.480 maybe spending a little too much time alone,

00:12:30.320 that would be transgressive and wrong,

00:12:33.820 and his parents would yell at him over it.

00:12:36.060 Don't you do that.

00:12:37.400 But these days,

00:12:39.200 pornography and the sexual revolution,

00:12:41.640 that's totally mainstream.

00:12:42.820 That's normal.

00:12:43.180 That's encouraged.

00:12:43.820 That's called healthy.

00:12:45.860 That's supposed to conduce

00:12:47.200 to your flourishing.

00:12:48.960 No, no, no, that's fine.

00:12:49.720 No parent would ever tell their kid

00:12:50.900 not to do that now.

00:12:52.480 What is subversive and transgressive

00:12:54.760 and supposedly bad for you

00:12:56.120 and awful for your health

00:12:56.980 is debating political issues,

00:13:01.520 is going after the left,

00:13:04.220 is owning the libs,

00:13:05.540 is that's what's transgressive.

00:13:06.860 That's what's kind of cool.

00:13:08.060 That's what the kids are doing

00:13:09.080 that the parents don't want them to do.

00:13:10.840 Great observation.

00:13:11.980 Now, we don't have time

00:13:12.940 to go through the whole episode.

00:13:13.880 There's one scene, though,

00:13:15.840 that shows you

00:13:17.860 what South Park's doing really clearly,

00:13:19.340 and it's the Charlie Kirk Awards

00:13:21.720 for owning the libs or whatever.

00:13:23.240 Charlie Kirk Awards

00:13:24.020 for master debating.

00:13:25.420 So right there, it tells you,

00:13:26.600 Cartman is not Charlie Kirk.

00:13:29.720 None of these guys

00:13:30.600 are any of the individuals.

00:13:31.700 You know, as I mentioned,

00:13:32.580 I think they're very, very clear references

00:13:34.500 at the beginning to Alex Jones

00:13:36.500 and Nick Fuentes and Charlie Kirk.

00:13:39.060 I think there are also,

00:13:40.460 there's a wink at Ben

00:13:41.720 where it says, you know,

00:13:43.500 lib owned, whatever.

00:13:44.800 I think that's a wink at Ben Shapiro.

00:13:47.280 I even think,

00:13:48.300 maybe I flatter myself,

00:13:49.220 I think there might have been

00:13:49.800 a little wink at my CPAC speech

00:13:51.460 during the Charlie Kirk

00:13:52.740 Master Debater Awards

00:13:53.860 when Clyde is receiving the award.

00:13:55.780 He says, you know, okay.

00:13:56.760 And in conclusion,

00:13:58.600 lesbians are an abomination from God. 1.00

00:14:00.680 I wonder, you know,

00:14:01.360 there was a little wink

00:14:02.240 at the very least

00:14:02.800 at the religious right

00:14:03.720 and the anti-LGBT,

00:14:05.660 but lesbian abomination 1.00

00:14:07.620 might have been a little wink

00:14:08.740 at trans eradication.

00:14:10.000 In any case,

00:14:10.480 it's just everyone altogether.

00:14:12.900 And Cartman saying,

00:14:14.380 you stole this from me.

00:14:15.820 And this gets to a point

00:14:18.620 that Trey Parker and Matt Stone

00:14:19.620 had made many years ago.

00:14:20.800 He said,

00:14:21.140 when we made Cartman,

00:14:22.520 who is the most lovable character

00:14:23.880 on the show,

00:14:25.040 we made Cartman

00:14:26.500 because we asked ourselves,

00:14:27.800 what would happen

00:14:28.460 if you had Archie Bunker,

00:14:30.300 the old character

00:14:31.020 from All in the Family,

00:14:32.000 1970s,

00:14:32.800 what if you had Archie Bunker,

00:14:34.080 the kind of bigoted,

00:14:35.540 ornery,

00:14:36.220 sexist guy, 0.67

00:14:37.640 racist, 0.77

00:14:38.320 anti-Semitic,

00:14:39.180 all this,

00:14:39.360 but you put him in the body

00:14:40.200 of an eight-year-old boy.

00:14:40.960 And this is an observation

00:14:43.580 about TV and culture,

00:14:46.040 which is that

00:14:47.160 these comments,

00:14:51.240 is the anti-black

00:14:52.860 and Jew and woman

00:14:54.020 and this and that,

00:14:55.500 it's funny,

00:14:56.820 it's lovable,

00:14:57.840 it's endearing

00:14:58.680 if it's said

00:15:01.320 through the voice of a clown,

00:15:02.980 if it's said through

00:15:03.980 the voice of a comedian.

00:15:05.440 If this were just a video

00:15:07.780 of some actual skinhead

00:15:09.560 or neo-Nazi

00:15:10.220 going out and burning

00:15:10.940 a cross

00:15:11.520 or something

00:15:12.020 on someone's lawn

00:15:12.960 or beating a woman

00:15:14.600 or something like that,

00:15:15.740 it would not be funny.

00:15:17.660 That person would be 0.51

00:15:19.060 the most villainous character

00:15:20.540 in the show.

00:15:21.900 But because it's said

00:15:23.780 through the mouth

00:15:24.460 of a clown,

00:15:25.620 because it's politically

00:15:26.820 ineffective,

00:15:28.580 unthreatening,

00:15:30.920 it's the most lovable behavior,

00:15:32.880 it's the most endearing.

00:15:34.100 Because there's always

00:15:35.300 racial tension,

00:15:36.040 there's always religious tension,

00:15:37.320 there's always sexual tension,

00:15:38.460 and you gotta let it out

00:15:39.740 some way.

00:15:40.780 Society needs a way

00:15:41.640 to let that out.

00:15:42.520 And if you can let it out

00:15:43.500 through the voice of a clown,

00:15:45.040 all the better.

00:15:46.580 The clown gets to,

00:15:47.840 you know,

00:15:48.560 make fun of the king

00:15:49.460 and it's okay.

00:15:50.440 If a serious person did that,

00:15:51.880 that would not be okay.

00:15:53.480 And so,

00:15:53.940 the characters,

00:15:55.140 I mean,

00:15:55.360 just from the top of it,

00:15:58.100 the fact that you have

00:15:59.040 Alex Jones being parodied.

00:16:02.140 Alex Jones said

00:16:02.920 that a bunch of kids

00:16:03.980 who were murdered

00:16:04.740 in a shooting

00:16:05.300 didn't actually get murdered.

00:16:06.340 But Alex Jones

00:16:07.760 is still a really

00:16:08.340 sympathetic,

00:16:08.960 lovable character.

00:16:10.260 Why?

00:16:10.680 Because he's big

00:16:11.580 and funny

00:16:12.180 and he's a comedian

00:16:12.980 and he makes you laugh

00:16:14.120 and he's kind of clownish

00:16:15.160 in his behavior.

00:16:17.060 Well,

00:16:17.280 a lot of these other guys,

00:16:18.160 not everyone on the right,

00:16:19.100 but a lot of the other guys

00:16:20.160 who do these streams

00:16:22.340 and these podcasts,

00:16:23.720 how do they do it?

00:16:24.580 Do they do it

00:16:25.040 in a really serious way

00:16:26.040 and they're just presenting

00:16:26.740 the information to you

00:16:27.480 really sober?

00:16:28.140 No.

00:16:28.540 They're laughing

00:16:29.260 and they're making jokes

00:16:30.400 all the time

00:16:30.900 and they're using

00:16:31.360 really crass,

00:16:32.440 vulgar language

00:16:33.180 and it's because that

00:16:34.440 is a sign

00:16:37.000 that you're not

00:16:37.440 a big political threat.

00:16:38.820 It's a sign

00:16:39.160 I'm just being a clown.

00:16:40.320 I'm just a clown.

00:16:41.140 And so,

00:16:41.780 because it doesn't actually

00:16:43.480 pose any threat

00:16:44.160 to the system,

00:16:44.900 these are guys who say,

00:16:45.660 I'm not going to vote for Trump.

00:16:46.720 I'm not going to vote for anyone.

00:16:47.720 I'm not going to participate

00:16:48.460 in the political system.

00:16:49.800 I'm just here telling jokes.

00:16:52.600 That becomes very,

00:16:54.020 very lovable.

00:16:55.340 And that is what South Park did.

00:16:57.220 That was the point.

00:16:58.140 That was actually explicitly,

00:17:00.260 intentionally the point

00:17:01.140 of South Park and Cartman.

00:17:02.600 That's the point of Archie Bunker

00:17:04.120 on All in the Family

00:17:04.940 for the kids in the audience

00:17:05.920 who probably haven't seen

00:17:06.720 All in the Family.

00:17:07.540 That's the point of that character.

00:17:08.620 He's the most lovable character.

00:17:09.840 He's the most racist,

00:17:10.800 anti-Semitic,

00:17:11.760 sexist character in the show.

00:17:13.000 But he's lovable

00:17:13.940 because he's the clowns.

00:17:15.500 He's not coming

00:17:16.200 from a place of hatred.

00:17:17.900 But he's saying

00:17:18.520 all of these things

00:17:19.180 in a way that really

00:17:20.000 doesn't threaten anything,

00:17:21.200 doesn't threaten the system.

00:17:22.720 The point of this season,

00:17:25.700 as I can see,

00:17:26.300 is that we're all

00:17:28.100 in South Park now.

00:17:29.220 We're all in South Park now.

00:17:31.780 And young people love it

00:17:33.180 and it's hip

00:17:33.720 and it's cool

00:17:34.360 and it's fun

00:17:34.920 and it's transgressive.

00:17:35.800 But we're all South Park now.

00:17:37.440 I think it's brilliant.

00:17:38.300 I think it's great.

00:17:38.740 I think the right should embrace it.

00:17:39.860 Okay.

00:17:40.140 Speaking of naughty language,

00:17:42.340 there is a commencement speaker

00:17:44.360 at some college,

00:17:45.340 it's really unclear where,

00:17:46.500 who's gone viral

00:17:47.460 for concluding her speech

00:17:50.540 with F ICE

00:17:52.180 and F the Trump administration.

00:17:56.380 Excuse my language,

00:17:58.100 but to that I say F ICE

00:18:00.080 and F the Trump administration.

00:18:02.140 So brave.

00:18:20.740 So brave.

00:18:21.480 This has just started going viral.

00:18:23.020 Obviously,

00:18:23.620 this commencement happened

00:18:24.320 a month or two ago,

00:18:25.160 but it's just started going viral,

00:18:26.660 making the rounds.

00:18:27.700 And you see the faculty behind her,

00:18:30.360 the administration behind her.

00:18:31.200 Yes.

00:18:31.740 Wow.

00:18:32.400 Nodding.

00:18:33.220 In their magisterial academic robes.

00:18:37.500 And she says,

00:18:38.420 like she's speaking truth to power,

00:18:40.780 F ICE,

00:18:43.020 immigration enforcement,

00:18:44.480 F the Trump administration.

00:18:46.960 Yes.

00:18:47.520 And she's nodding along

00:18:48.540 the people behind her,

00:18:50.080 all the establishment,

00:18:51.120 nodding along,

00:18:51.720 nodding along,

00:18:52.240 nodding along.

00:18:54.100 This is really cringe,

00:18:56.300 really lame.

00:18:57.520 Strikes me as very millennial coded.

00:19:00.040 It's a very millennial thing.

00:19:02.060 I don't know.

00:19:02.360 It doesn't strike me as

00:19:03.360 Zoomer coded.

00:19:04.780 It seems millennial to me.

00:19:06.260 He's a naughty word.

00:19:07.340 You think,

00:19:07.640 you think saying a naughty word

00:19:08.900 is transgressive?

00:19:09.740 Gets us right back to South Park.

00:19:11.060 In 1998,

00:19:12.380 saying naughty words on cable

00:19:13.640 was extremely transgressive.

00:19:15.520 It did not happen.

00:19:17.220 Today,

00:19:17.840 what's transgressive?

00:19:18.500 Today,

00:19:18.800 what's transgressive

00:19:19.460 is not saying naughty words.

00:19:20.780 Today,

00:19:21.260 being wholesome

00:19:21.860 is transgressive.

00:19:22.980 Today,

00:19:23.860 getting married

00:19:24.460 and going to church

00:19:25.260 and acknowledging

00:19:26.640 a moral order

00:19:27.180 and trying to live up to it.

00:19:28.120 That's what's seen

00:19:28.980 as transgressive today.

00:19:31.360 It's a different world.

00:19:33.840 It's a different,

00:19:34.360 the culture

00:19:34.960 has kind of stolen

00:19:35.760 South Park shtick.

00:19:37.580 And now,

00:19:38.000 so now to be transgressive

00:19:39.240 has to be

00:19:39.800 a little bit different.

00:19:40.800 This is the safe thing.

00:19:41.720 You know that this

00:19:42.580 commencement speech

00:19:43.200 is the safe thing

00:19:43.900 because the professors

00:19:44.940 behind her

00:19:45.440 are nodding along

00:19:46.080 with approval.

00:19:47.920 Commencement speakers,

00:19:48.960 valedictorians,

00:19:50.240 the top of the class,

00:19:51.840 is always

00:19:54.180 playing it safe.

00:19:55.860 Almost always.

00:19:56.820 That's how they

00:19:57.300 get to the top

00:19:58.360 of the class.

00:20:00.060 And that's the safe thing now.

00:20:01.720 That's the millennial.

00:20:02.440 That's not the transgressive thing.

00:20:03.940 That's not

00:20:04.420 the future.

00:20:07.200 It's just

00:20:07.900 lame.

00:20:08.700 Super lame.

00:20:09.500 Now,

00:20:10.900 the people who

00:20:11.720 don't hate

00:20:12.440 the Trump administration

00:20:13.260 are noticing

00:20:13.980 that actually

00:20:14.560 this administration

00:20:15.320 is doing some

00:20:16.860 pretty great things.

00:20:17.880 Like,

00:20:18.500 this was announced

00:20:19.140 right on Friday,

00:20:20.120 I think.

00:20:21.840 Trump has

00:20:23.080 apparently ended

00:20:23.800 the 35-year

00:20:25.220 conflict

00:20:25.940 between Azerbaijan

00:20:27.740 and Armenia.

00:20:31.060 The president

00:20:31.900 of the United States,

00:20:33.340 the president

00:20:33.800 of the Republic

00:20:34.480 of Azerbaijan,

00:20:35.560 and the prime minister

00:20:36.500 of the Republic

00:20:37.160 of Armenia

00:20:37.800 will now sign

00:20:38.880 the joint declaration

00:20:39.780 on the outcomes

00:20:40.520 of the Trump route

00:20:41.300 for international

00:20:41.940 peace and prosperity

00:20:42.940 summit.

00:20:49.560 This is really

00:20:50.480 important stuff.

00:20:51.160 and it's a topic

00:20:52.040 that's pretty close

00:20:53.120 to my heart

00:20:53.740 because Armenia

00:20:54.660 is the oldest

00:20:55.120 Christian country

00:20:55.760 in the world.

00:20:56.620 Armenia became

00:20:57.760 Christian as a country

00:20:58.820 before the Edict

00:21:00.300 of Milan,

00:21:01.020 before Emperor

00:21:01.540 Constantine

00:21:02.280 legalized Christianity

00:21:03.520 in the Roman Empire.

00:21:04.560 It was a long time.

00:21:05.380 Was it 310 or something?

00:21:06.540 It became

00:21:07.140 Christian.

00:21:10.000 Azerbaijan

00:21:10.380 is a Muslim country.

00:21:12.560 Azerbaijan

00:21:12.940 has been fighting

00:21:14.600 with Armenia.

00:21:15.840 One particular

00:21:16.660 expression of this

00:21:17.300 was the Nagorno-Karabakh

00:21:18.220 conflict over some

00:21:19.100 disputed territory.

00:21:20.120 And it gets even

00:21:21.160 more bizarre

00:21:22.020 because in the

00:21:23.780 Azerbaijan-Armenia

00:21:25.540 conflict,

00:21:26.460 America was

00:21:27.280 indirectly attacking

00:21:28.440 Armenia,

00:21:30.080 the Christian country,

00:21:31.300 and helping Azerbaijan,

00:21:32.840 the Muslim country.

00:21:34.140 Why?

00:21:34.980 Through Israel,

00:21:36.120 which makes it

00:21:36.600 even weirder

00:21:37.260 because it means

00:21:37.900 that the Jewish country

00:21:38.960 was helping the Muslim country

00:21:40.700 against the Christian country 0.99

00:21:42.000 because the Christian country

00:21:44.600 Armenia had allied

00:21:45.740 with the Muslim country

00:21:47.340 Iran and Russia,

00:21:49.320 Iran and Russia,

00:21:50.200 both geopolitical foes

00:21:51.420 of the United States

00:21:52.240 for a very,

00:21:52.900 very long time.

00:21:53.720 And so it was just

00:21:54.220 this complete mess.

00:21:55.980 It was a complete mess

00:21:57.220 and it threatened

00:21:57.940 some of the oldest

00:21:58.400 Christian sites in the world.

00:22:00.500 35 years this has been going on.

00:22:02.680 This has been going on

00:22:03.680 since the end of the Cold War.

00:22:06.220 Trump resolves it.

00:22:07.980 How did he resolve it?

00:22:09.060 It's going to create

00:22:09.480 a major transit corridor.

00:22:10.620 It's going to be the Trump route

00:22:12.000 for international peace

00:22:12.860 and prosperity.

00:22:13.500 It'll help these two countries.

00:22:14.400 It'll help global trade.

00:22:15.540 It'll connect Azerbaijan

00:22:16.860 with one of its autonomous exclaves,

00:22:20.540 which is in Armenian territory.

00:22:22.960 And this is not the only

00:22:24.260 global conflict

00:22:24.940 Trump has resolved.

00:22:26.940 I'm beginning to think

00:22:28.460 I would go so far as to say

00:22:29.480 Trump might be

00:22:30.100 the best geopolitics president,

00:22:33.980 the best president

00:22:35.620 for global peace

00:22:36.600 in my lifetime.

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00:24:01.840 What conflicts

00:24:02.960 has Trump resolved?

00:24:04.440 Do you remember

00:24:04.800 when India and Pakistan 0.75

00:24:05.840 were almost about to

00:24:07.060 go to war?

00:24:08.300 India and Pakistan,

00:24:09.240 two nuclear nations

00:24:10.180 that hate each other

00:24:11.040 more than just about

00:24:11.740 any two countries on earth?

00:24:13.000 Yeah.

00:24:14.320 What happened?

00:24:15.680 They walked back

00:24:16.940 from the brink.

00:24:18.280 Why?

00:24:19.020 Well, according to

00:24:19.720 the prime minister of Pakistan,

00:24:21.100 largely thanks to

00:24:21.920 Trump's leadership.

00:24:23.040 You don't need to take

00:24:23.680 Trump's word for it.

00:24:24.320 Trump claims credit

00:24:24.920 for a lot of things.

00:24:26.440 The Pakistan PM

00:24:27.800 thanked Trump

00:24:28.700 for his leadership

00:24:29.340 in resolving that conflict.

00:24:31.300 Israel and Iran,

00:24:32.320 I thought we were on

00:24:32.800 the brink of World War III.

00:24:33.840 Remember all the panic hands

00:24:34.780 were saying,

00:24:35.240 we're going to get dragged

00:24:36.480 into World War III.

00:24:37.820 There was going to be

00:24:38.220 a nuclear war.

00:24:39.620 Trump was not putting

00:24:42.100 American interests first. 0.78

00:24:43.520 He was screwing up everything.

00:24:44.680 And then what?

00:24:46.500 Bunker buster missile.

00:24:48.660 Blows up a nuclear site.

00:24:50.920 No escalation.

00:24:52.240 Negotiates a ceasefire.

00:24:53.580 Both sides basically

00:24:54.640 break the ceasefire

00:24:55.520 or start to position themselves

00:24:58.040 to break the ceasefire.

00:24:58.900 Trump nevertheless

00:24:59.800 insists that the ceasefire remains.

00:25:02.220 Very, very impressive.

00:25:03.920 No big deal.

00:25:05.040 Ends that war.

00:25:06.660 Rwanda and the DRC,

00:25:08.500 the Democratic Republic

00:25:09.900 of the Congo.

00:25:11.480 It's a 30-year conflict.

00:25:12.940 Trump resolved it.

00:25:14.780 There was a conflict

00:25:16.080 that looked like

00:25:16.760 it was about to break out

00:25:17.460 between Serbia and Kosovo.

00:25:20.120 It's a little unclear.

00:25:21.600 It's a little unfalseviable

00:25:22.500 because the conflict

00:25:23.200 did not break out.

00:25:24.560 But Trump is claiming

00:25:25.380 credit for it.

00:25:25.980 And Kosovo agrees. 0.95

00:25:26.860 Kosovo agrees there was

00:25:27.820 about to be a war

00:25:28.500 and Trump stopped it.

00:25:29.820 So Serbia kind of denies it,

00:25:31.200 but Kosovo acknowledges it.

00:25:33.480 There's another conflict.

00:25:34.720 Trump ended.

00:25:35.800 Cambodia and Thailand.

00:25:36.840 There was four days

00:25:37.380 of fighting back in July.

00:25:38.820 Trump negotiated a ceasefire.

00:25:41.320 Ceasefire.

00:25:41.880 This is very impressive stuff.

00:25:43.080 The only president

00:25:45.220 of my lifetime

00:25:45.960 who could claim

00:25:47.200 a better record,

00:25:49.140 maybe,

00:25:49.620 maybe,

00:25:50.240 or even close

00:25:51.260 to a rival record

00:25:52.220 on foreign policy

00:25:53.800 would be George H.W. Bush

00:25:55.320 because he successfully

00:25:57.320 managed the Gulf War

00:25:58.360 and the dismantling

00:25:59.300 of the Soviet Union.

00:26:00.180 So I guess you'd say,

00:26:02.460 though,

00:26:02.820 the way the Gulf War

00:26:04.280 was fought,

00:26:04.780 it did kind of set the stage

00:26:05.600 for the second Gulf War

00:26:06.680 in Iraq,

00:26:07.240 which most people think

00:26:08.000 was a disaster.

00:26:08.960 So I don't know.

00:26:09.500 I think probably Trump

00:26:11.720 is an even better

00:26:12.900 geopolitics president

00:26:13.880 than George H.W. Bush.

00:26:15.840 Who comes close?

00:26:17.960 Clinton?

00:26:18.560 No chance.

00:26:19.200 Bill Clinton set the stage

00:26:20.100 for 9-11.

00:26:21.440 Bill Clinton,

00:26:22.260 he was a good short-term

00:26:23.320 geopolitics president,

00:26:24.720 but long-term,

00:26:26.400 even Clinton,

00:26:27.060 I think,

00:26:27.300 would acknowledge.

00:26:27.920 He kind of blew it.

00:26:30.000 George W. Bush?

00:26:31.720 Not quite.

00:26:32.480 Man had good intentions,

00:26:33.400 but probably not quite.

00:26:35.400 Obama?

00:26:35.940 Give me a break.

00:26:36.620 Biden?

00:26:37.380 No,

00:26:37.660 I think it goes to Trump.

00:26:41.000 I think Trump

00:26:41.860 is the greatest

00:26:42.360 geopolitics president

00:26:43.280 of my lifetime.

00:26:44.140 And we might get

00:26:45.120 the resolution

00:26:45.560 to another war

00:26:46.380 because,

00:26:48.480 according to reports,

00:26:50.000 Vladimir Putin

00:26:50.540 is offering to end

00:26:51.400 the war in Ukraine.

00:26:53.340 And the way he's offered

00:26:54.200 to end the war

00:26:54.820 is in exchange

00:26:55.680 for the regions

00:26:56.740 that he's conquered.

00:26:58.120 So before Trump won,

00:26:59.820 back in the Obama administration,

00:27:02.640 Putin took Crimea.

00:27:04.600 Putin came in 0.87

00:27:05.360 and took Crimea.

00:27:06.160 Actually,

00:27:06.420 let's go back

00:27:06.880 to the George W. Bush

00:27:07.900 administration.

00:27:09.060 George W. Bush,

00:27:10.500 on his watch,

00:27:12.180 Putin takes Georgia.

00:27:14.280 Just goes in,

00:27:15.020 not the peaches,

00:27:16.180 but the one

00:27:16.620 in Eastern Europe.

00:27:18.160 He goes in

00:27:18.660 and takes Georgia.

00:27:20.020 Then Obama's in charge

00:27:22.000 and Putin takes Crimea,

00:27:24.160 an important strategic location

00:27:25.640 that has belonged to Russia

00:27:26.440 at very points

00:27:26.900 in his history,

00:27:28.040 but previously

00:27:28.420 belonged to Ukraine.

00:27:30.060 Then Trump is president.

00:27:31.840 Putin stops.

00:27:34.160 No more.

00:27:34.840 Then Biden becomes president

00:27:37.300 and Putin invades Ukraine

00:27:39.040 and takes a lot of territory.

00:27:41.760 So the territory,

00:27:42.440 thanks to a little handy chart

00:27:43.680 here from the BBC,

00:27:44.940 takes all these regions

00:27:46.000 in Eastern Ukraine.

00:27:47.360 Luhansk,

00:27:48.040 Donetsk,

00:27:48.720 I'm certainly going to mispronounce,

00:27:50.000 Zaporozhye,

00:27:51.940 and Kherson.

00:27:53.540 Takes all of those regions

00:27:55.100 and still holds Crimea.

00:27:57.420 So now,

00:27:58.540 Putin reportedly

00:27:59.300 is going to say,

00:27:59.840 okay,

00:28:00.060 I'll agree to a ceasefire

00:28:01.120 in Ukraine.

00:28:01.780 Not going to go take over Kiev.

00:28:03.000 I'm not going to even

00:28:03.600 go take Kharkiv.

00:28:04.380 I'm not going to take

00:28:05.040 all of these other territories

00:28:06.980 that I've threatened

00:28:07.460 over the years.

00:28:07.940 I'm not even going to insist

00:28:08.700 that Zelensky be kicked out,

00:28:10.220 but I'm going to keep

00:28:11.200 all of those regions

00:28:12.460 that I conquered.

00:28:15.000 Now,

00:28:16.180 Trump is in a very tough spot here

00:28:17.640 because if he allows Putin

00:28:19.100 to do this,

00:28:20.220 he's rewarding Putin's aggression.

00:28:22.840 He's imperiling places

00:28:24.220 like Poland, 0.84

00:28:25.920 the Baltics.

00:28:29.060 He's imperiling a lot of places.

00:28:32.440 It makes America look weak

00:28:34.240 because this is not

00:28:35.220 contrary to

00:28:36.720 nationalist self-flattery.

00:28:39.680 This is not just a war

00:28:40.660 between individual nations.

00:28:41.800 This is a great power struggle

00:28:42.720 between empires.

00:28:44.460 The broader,

00:28:45.860 the entity formerly known

00:28:47.280 as the Russian Empire

00:28:48.140 and the Soviet Union,

00:28:49.160 which is trying to reconquer

00:28:50.240 territory that it's lost,

00:28:51.440 and the American Empire,

00:28:52.400 which is the global hegemon.

00:28:53.260 And China's waiting 0.95

00:28:54.740 in the wings there as well

00:28:55.560 with its own imperial ambitions.

00:28:57.440 So,

00:28:58.160 the BBC also gives us

00:28:59.040 another little handy chart.

00:29:00.200 Shows you Ukraine's 1.00

00:29:01.320 natural resources

00:29:02.240 by the

00:29:03.980 concentration.

00:29:07.040 So,

00:29:07.620 you've got

00:29:08.140 the kind of lighter

00:29:08.940 colored regions.

00:29:09.960 If you're watching this,

00:29:10.700 if you're listening,

00:29:11.180 you'll have to just have me

00:29:11.880 describe it to you.

00:29:12.900 Lighter colored regions

00:29:13.700 with relatively few

00:29:14.740 resources

00:29:15.660 and the darker colored

00:29:17.100 regions with a lot.

00:29:18.580 You can see

00:29:19.360 in the Donbass region

00:29:21.300 there's a lot

00:29:22.320 of coal and iron,

00:29:24.100 a lot of natural resources.

00:29:25.940 So,

00:29:26.520 those first two

00:29:27.440 that Putin went into,

00:29:29.880 pretty heavy.

00:29:30.560 As you move

00:29:31.580 into the other regions,

00:29:33.540 it's a little

00:29:34.320 less heavy

00:29:35.960 and natural resources.

00:29:37.140 So, the

00:29:37.320 Zaporizhzhzhzhzhzhzhzhzhzhzhzhzhzhzhzhzhzhzhzha.

00:29:37.660 I've got to work on my Ukrainian pronunciation.

00:29:41.860 And Kersen, and down there, it's a little less.

00:29:44.320 Crimea still has a lot of resources.

00:29:45.680 So one thing that the Trump administration could do is say,

00:29:48.920 okay, you're not going to get all of the territory that you've conquered, Putin.

00:29:51.980 You're going to have to pull out of some of the eastern regions,

00:29:55.480 but we'll let you keep Crimea, which is historically part of Russia

00:29:59.160 and which is strategically very important for Russia

00:30:01.860 and which is disconnected from the other eastern regions if you lose the bottom two,

00:30:05.900 but you're still connected to Russia.

00:30:07.660 So you get to keep Crimea, and you get to keep Luhansk and Donetsk,

00:30:12.320 but you don't get to keep the latter two regions.

00:30:15.320 So you're going to cede that back to Ukraine.

00:30:17.120 And then it looks like kind of a win-win.

00:30:18.740 But this has been three years of war now.

00:30:21.060 You have to give both sides the ability to claim a win

00:30:24.360 because there are going to be some hawks in America who say,

00:30:28.320 well, let's just go in and kick him all the way out. 0.97

00:30:30.220 You know, he's some two-bit jerk.

00:30:31.820 He has got a country that's really just a gas station with a country attached,

00:30:35.440 like John McCain used to say.

00:30:36.480 And they're not nearly as strong as the United States.

00:30:38.760 We can go in and blow them out of the hemisphere. 0.99

00:30:42.640 I guess that's true.

00:30:44.300 But Trump is constrained by this paradox.

00:30:49.060 Americans do not want to be in this war,

00:30:52.140 and Americans do not want to lose this war.

00:30:55.020 That's the way it goes.

00:30:56.520 They don't want to be in this war.

00:30:57.660 They don't want to lose this war.

00:30:58.500 That's it.

00:31:01.520 Similar dynamic playing out in Israel-Gaza.

00:31:05.440 But that's the problem.

00:31:06.780 So if you're Trump, it's not so easy.

00:31:09.660 It's not so easy.

00:31:10.580 Americans don't want another war in the Middle East.

00:31:12.240 We also don't want Iran to have nuclear weapons.

00:31:15.920 Oh, there's a tension there.

00:31:16.820 So what's he going to do?

00:31:17.800 I think Trump has to claw back some of that territory as a win.

00:31:21.380 But if Putin is able to keep the more strategic and resource-rich areas,

00:31:26.580 that's a big win for Putin.

00:31:28.460 He can take that home to the Russian people. 1.00

00:31:29.980 It's a win-win.

00:31:31.840 And Ukraine maybe should just return to being a buffer state, 0.96

00:31:34.340 which it was before we got a little big for our britches in that region 0.63

00:31:38.740 and screwed things up

00:31:39.960 and gave Putin the opportunity to go in and actually invade.

00:31:43.240 Okay, speaking of taking over territory,

00:31:45.120 you know this story,

00:31:48.120 the supposed federal takeover of Washington, D.C.

00:31:51.620 That's a claim.

00:31:52.260 Donald Trump wants to commence with a federal takeover of Washington, D.C.,

00:31:56.820 which is, in principle, a completely bogus story

00:32:00.200 because the federal government already controls Washington, D.C.

00:32:04.800 Going all the way back to the Constitution,

00:32:07.520 Article 1, was it Article 1, Section 8, Clause 17, if I'm not mistaken,

00:32:11.460 says that the Congress controls the federal district,

00:32:14.280 in all cases whatsoever.

00:32:17.360 The federal government directly controlled Washington, D.C.

00:32:21.680 from 1800, 1800, 1801, whenever D.C. was incorporated,

00:32:26.300 until 1973 with the Home Rule Act.

00:32:29.940 Not only was it Congress that was controlling D.C.,

00:32:32.820 it was also the executive branch

00:32:34.240 because for a little over 100 years,

00:32:37.140 from 1871 to 1973,

00:32:40.440 the president would appoint mayors and governors

00:32:43.320 to exert control over Washington, D.C.,

00:32:45.800 but it's still being run by the federal government.

00:32:47.640 Now, because a lot of bad things happened in the 70s,

00:32:51.680 now D.C. has Home Rule,

00:32:53.720 and it's a disaster,

00:32:55.220 and Democrats are getting carjacked,

00:32:57.120 and Secret Service trucks are getting carjacked,

00:32:59.380 and firing off shots in Georgetown,

00:33:00.780 a nice part of town,

00:33:01.600 and it's just, it's a disaster, okay?

00:33:04.620 So Trump is saying,

00:33:05.560 we need the nation's capital to be beautiful and safe,

00:33:08.160 and we're gonna take it back over.

00:33:10.140 That's probably a good idea.

00:33:11.500 There's one rebuttal to that.

00:33:14.180 The one rejoinder that the libs are lobbying is,

00:33:17.720 hey, crime is coming down in D.C.

00:33:21.780 Crime had been manageable.

00:33:24.300 It had come down a little bit in the 90s.

00:33:25.920 Then it spiked like crazy up till 2023.

00:33:30.380 But now, over the last 12 months or so,

00:33:32.440 it started to come down.

00:33:34.020 That's the line.

00:33:34.880 And so they say,

00:33:35.540 if it's coming down,

00:33:36.340 if the trend line's in the right direction,

00:33:37.320 why are you trying to federalize D.C.?

00:33:39.280 And this is a hard line to argue against.

00:33:42.800 You could say, well, look,

00:33:43.480 there's maybe been a tiny blip that was diminishing,

00:33:46.180 but the broader trend line is that crime's been going up.

00:33:49.140 But it's still, it's a hard one to argue against.

00:33:50.600 In fact, I was on TMZ Live the other day,

00:33:52.240 and Harvey on TMZ said,

00:33:53.700 hey, well, come on, crime's going down now,

00:33:55.600 so why now?

00:33:56.240 Why you want to?

00:33:56.640 And it's tricky to answer

00:33:57.820 until you realize crime is probably not going down in D.C.

00:34:03.580 The only reason people think that crime is going down in D.C.

00:34:06.200 is that the D.C. cops have been lying about it.

00:34:08.780 So you'd have no reason to know,

00:34:11.760 to be able to argue that crime is not actually going down in D.C.

00:34:14.400 But here's a little report from just a few weeks ago.

00:34:19.400 D.C. police commander suspended

00:34:20.940 accused of changing crime statistics.

00:34:23.700 By the way, this is being reported by a local NBC affiliate.

00:34:26.040 This is not from some right-wing news sources,

00:34:28.040 it's from NBC.

00:34:30.300 D.C. police commander suspended

00:34:31.640 accused of changing crime statistics.

00:34:34.120 Police unions' directive to change offense classifications

00:34:37.100 comes from the command staff.

00:34:38.400 So they're cooking the books.

00:34:39.760 That's why.

00:34:40.280 And I spend a lot of time in D.C.,

00:34:41.780 especially since the boys are back in town.

00:34:43.460 Since this January,

00:34:45.040 Republican Congress takes over,

00:34:46.720 the Republicans come back to the White House.

00:34:48.240 I've been in D.C. a lot.

00:34:51.160 It does not appear to me that crime is going down in D.C.

00:34:54.020 or that homelessness is going down.

00:34:55.180 D.C. is rough, even in the nice areas.

00:34:58.640 I've been hanging out with,

00:34:59.720 I was with a U.S. senator once in a nice part of D.C.

00:35:02.700 His car got robbed in a smash and grab.

00:35:04.840 They stole his briefcase close to the White House.

00:35:08.680 Henry Queller, Democrat congressman,

00:35:10.680 was carjacked at gunpoint by Capitol Hill,

00:35:14.340 by the U.S. Capitol, like a year and a half ago.

00:35:17.420 Okay, crime is not going down.

00:35:18.940 The one good argument the Democrats had,

00:35:21.320 the one even plausible argument

00:35:22.700 against the federal government asserting its rights in D.C.

00:35:26.560 Apparently totally bogus.

00:35:27.980 Mr. President,

00:35:29.220 take back the federal district

00:35:30.980 and also erase that stupid BLM square 0.94

00:35:33.520 and all the dumb pride flags that are all over the place.

00:35:35.600 Thank you.

00:35:36.020 Thank you.

00:35:36.260 I appreciate it.

00:35:37.020 Okay, now,

00:35:38.840 speaking of cities falling to pot,

00:35:41.600 there's a safe injection site,

00:35:43.000 a taxpayer-funded safe injection site

00:35:45.880 in New York City up in Harlem.

00:35:48.740 You're not going to believe with this safe injection.

00:35:50.560 Well, you will believe it,

00:35:51.540 but it's shocking and gross.

00:35:53.860 You're not going to believe what this has led to.

00:35:57.820 You want a culture that fights back?

00:35:59.820 You want daily shows that are uncensored,

00:36:01.700 unapologetic, and grounded in facts?

00:36:03.440 You want entertainment that entertains

00:36:05.180 without the pronouns, the lectures,

00:36:07.180 and the ideological landmines?

00:36:08.780 It's all here.

00:36:09.860 Take a look at what is happening this month

00:36:12.000 on Daily Wire Plus.

00:36:13.600 I don't care what you did in your career

00:36:15.540 the last five years.

00:36:16.800 What are you going to do tonight?

00:36:17.920 Yeah, that's a very good question.

00:36:19.240 Are you ready?

00:36:23.380 I'm ready.

00:36:24.120 Let's do it.

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00:37:16.380 My favorite comment yesterday

00:37:17.980 is from Hardboiled Entertainment

00:37:19.780 who says,

00:37:20.180 Caller, no offense, Michael.

00:37:22.980 Some taken.

00:37:24.100 Oh, yeah.

00:37:25.000 That was the caller who said,

00:37:28.320 Hey, Michael,

00:37:28.900 you and I are very, very similar

00:37:30.220 in the way we view the world,

00:37:32.040 in our dress,

00:37:33.880 in our religious practices,

00:37:34.880 but I'm a little bit more physically fit than you.

00:37:36.780 I'm a little more toned,

00:37:37.980 but no offense.

00:37:40.280 Some taken.

00:37:41.080 I took that personally.

00:37:44.340 You know that?

00:37:44.720 I took that personally.

00:37:47.740 East Harlem

00:37:48.680 has a headquarters

00:37:50.220 for a safe injection site,

00:37:52.140 On Point's

00:37:53.040 safe injection site,

00:37:55.000 and the New York Post is reporting

00:37:57.260 that around this safe injection site,

00:38:00.580 it has not blossomed

00:38:01.700 into a beautiful

00:38:02.920 liberal utopia

00:38:05.120 where all these junkies

00:38:06.900 are just, you know,

00:38:07.820 shooting up their drugs

00:38:08.840 in a safe

00:38:09.660 and orderly way.

00:38:11.080 No, people are fornicating

00:38:12.500 on the streets,

00:38:13.300 on the sidewalk,

00:38:14.460 as people walk by.

00:38:16.700 Junkies

00:38:17.140 are,

00:38:17.760 they're going to their

00:38:18.180 safe injection sites,

00:38:19.420 they're doing a bunch of drugs,

00:38:21.960 and then they are fornicating

00:38:24.640 like gorillas,

00:38:27.120 like wild animals

00:38:29.560 in the streets.

00:38:31.460 and the other Harlem residents

00:38:33.480 are just walking by,

00:38:34.720 and this is New York,

00:38:35.600 so they're not even,

00:38:36.240 they're kind of nonplussed about it.

00:38:38.680 This is

00:38:39.640 not conducive

00:38:42.360 to public flourishing.

00:38:44.360 So the city said,

00:38:46.800 according to the city,

00:38:47.720 6,000 junkies

00:38:49.140 took illegal drugs

00:38:52.000 38,000 times

00:38:54.540 at the two

00:38:56.020 on-point

00:38:56.800 safe injection sites

00:38:58.140 last year.

00:38:59.500 And so on-point

00:39:00.480 is saying

00:39:01.060 that that fact,

00:39:02.380 the fact that they said,

00:39:03.140 hey, junkies,

00:39:03.800 come here

00:39:04.140 and do a bunch of poison

00:39:05.620 38,000 times

00:39:07.340 in a year,

00:39:08.420 they say that

00:39:09.260 prevented

00:39:10.380 1,800

00:39:11.980 overdose deaths.

00:39:13.100 1,800 people

00:39:13.720 are alive today

00:39:14.340 because

00:39:16.060 this liberal

00:39:17.260 non-profit

00:39:17.960 gave them

00:39:20.100 a bunch of

00:39:20.620 poisonous drugs

00:39:21.200 to do

00:39:21.540 and impelled them

00:39:22.580 to fornicate

00:39:23.160 outside of their

00:39:23.720 headquarters.

00:39:24.540 That statistic

00:39:27.300 is not true.

00:39:29.780 It's not,

00:39:30.960 I mean,

00:39:31.340 maybe it,

00:39:32.400 maybe there's

00:39:33.160 a partial truth

00:39:34.160 to it.

00:39:34.880 It might well

00:39:35.640 be the case

00:39:36.280 that 1,800

00:39:37.680 people last year

00:39:38.640 did not overdose

00:39:40.100 at the moment

00:39:41.440 that they were

00:39:41.840 expected to overdose.

00:39:44.720 But not one person

00:39:45.960 was saved

00:39:46.600 by the safe injection site.

00:39:48.380 The reason

00:39:49.140 the safe injection sites

00:39:50.120 don't work

00:39:50.780 is not

00:39:52.420 that they're,

00:39:53.760 that they're

00:39:54.640 not getting

00:39:55.020 enough funding.

00:39:55.760 They're getting

00:39:56.020 plenty of

00:39:56.400 taxpayer funding.

00:39:57.820 It's not

00:39:58.720 that the junkies

00:40:01.000 don't have a

00:40:01.540 really safe place

00:40:02.840 to shoot up.

00:40:03.600 It's not that

00:40:04.440 the safe injection sites

00:40:05.760 are being run

00:40:06.800 inefficiently.

00:40:08.980 It's that

00:40:09.640 there's no such thing

00:40:10.520 as safely injecting

00:40:11.540 poison into your veins.

00:40:14.100 That's the,

00:40:14.860 that's the issue.

00:40:16.640 The issue

00:40:17.440 is reality.

00:40:18.180 The reality

00:40:20.420 is junkies

00:40:21.800 do a lot

00:40:22.420 of disordered

00:40:23.040 things

00:40:23.500 like loaf

00:40:25.080 around

00:40:25.540 and attack

00:40:26.780 people

00:40:27.240 and fornicate

00:40:28.340 on the streets

00:40:28.960 and kill 0.83

00:40:29.660 themselves.

00:40:30.380 That's what

00:40:31.160 they do.

00:40:32.160 That's what

00:40:32.700 being a junkie

00:40:33.720 leads to.

00:40:35.740 And

00:40:36.340 the only way

00:40:37.620 to stop

00:40:38.140 those bad outcomes

00:40:39.140 is to stop

00:40:40.360 people from

00:40:40.860 being junkies.

00:40:41.960 But the liberals

00:40:42.760 don't want to

00:40:43.320 do that

00:40:43.760 because

00:40:44.980 one,

00:40:46.300 they fear

00:40:47.680 in principle

00:40:49.120 any political

00:40:50.180 program that

00:40:50.920 says no.

00:40:52.940 They say,

00:40:53.280 oh,

00:40:53.380 it doesn't work.

00:40:54.840 Being harsh,

00:40:55.780 it doesn't work.

00:40:56.520 We need to,

00:40:57.360 and they just

00:40:58.300 disagree at a

00:40:59.060 fundamental level

00:40:59.800 with constricting

00:41:00.940 people's private

00:41:01.540 autonomy.

00:41:02.860 At a deeper

00:41:03.880 level,

00:41:04.300 they say,

00:41:04.580 well,

00:41:04.660 no,

00:41:04.840 freedom is

00:41:05.740 doing whatever

00:41:06.200 you want

00:41:06.580 whenever you

00:41:06.980 want to do

00:41:07.360 it.

00:41:08.220 And

00:41:08.620 the real

00:41:09.560 causes of

00:41:10.140 harm in

00:41:10.460 society are

00:41:11.040 repression

00:41:11.800 and

00:41:12.700 circumscribing

00:41:14.260 desires.

00:41:15.680 And

00:41:15.840 so if you

00:41:16.920 just let

00:41:17.880 people do

00:41:18.300 whatever they

00:41:18.640 want to do

00:41:19.120 magically,

00:41:20.360 it's all

00:41:21.300 going to

00:41:21.460 work out.

00:41:21.840 It's kind

00:41:22.080 of the same

00:41:22.460 magical thinking

00:41:23.140 on the social

00:41:23.660 level that

00:41:24.380 you have

00:41:24.820 with the

00:41:25.340 so-called

00:41:25.780 fiscal

00:41:26.080 conservatives

00:41:26.580 on the

00:41:26.880 economic

00:41:27.200 level,

00:41:27.920 when the

00:41:28.400 fiscal

00:41:28.740 conservatives

00:41:29.280 don't just

00:41:30.000 respect

00:41:30.540 markets for

00:41:31.540 being an

00:41:31.960 efficient way

00:41:32.340 to allocate

00:41:32.660 resources,

00:41:33.560 but which

00:41:33.980 really create

00:41:35.860 idols out of

00:41:36.880 the free

00:41:37.160 market,

00:41:37.640 that even

00:41:38.120 give it a

00:41:39.060 kind of

00:41:39.340 idolatrous

00:41:39.940 shape,

00:41:40.440 the invisible

00:41:41.200 hand,

00:41:41.820 all hail the

00:41:42.480 invisible

00:41:42.920 hand.

00:41:43.800 And some

00:41:44.100 of the

00:41:44.320 real ideologues

00:41:45.100 on the

00:41:45.280 right,

00:41:45.460 they say,

00:41:45.920 well,

00:41:46.020 if we

00:41:46.220 just allow

00:41:46.700 the invisible

00:41:47.360 hand,

00:41:48.340 peace be

00:41:48.820 upon him,

00:41:49.660 to do

00:41:50.020 his magnificent,

00:41:51.500 glorious

00:41:52.220 work,

00:41:53.280 his divinity,

00:41:55.200 the invisible

00:41:55.640 hand,

00:41:56.420 will create a

00:41:57.340 utopia,

00:41:58.340 an absolute

00:41:58.880 paradise on

00:41:59.740 earth,

00:42:00.000 all hail the

00:42:00.720 invisible hand.

00:42:01.600 That's the

00:42:02.180 same kind of

00:42:02.620 magical thinking

00:42:03.340 that you get

00:42:04.100 with the

00:42:04.380 libs on

00:42:04.680 these social

00:42:05.160 issues.

00:42:05.640 If we

00:42:06.000 just legalize

00:42:06.860 all the

00:42:07.140 drugs,

00:42:08.020 if we

00:42:08.360 legalize all

00:42:09.000 the drugs

00:42:09.520 and all the

00:42:10.180 gross behaviors

00:42:10.940 and all the

00:42:11.560 weird sex

00:42:12.260 and all the

00:42:13.040 disordered

00:42:13.400 desires,

00:42:13.820 if we just

00:42:14.260 legalize all

00:42:15.020 of it magically,

00:42:16.780 in the short

00:42:17.320 run,

00:42:17.520 it'll look like

00:42:17.940 things are

00:42:18.200 getting worse,

00:42:18.600 but then

00:42:18.860 magically one

00:42:19.540 day it'll

00:42:19.900 all be

00:42:20.260 better and

00:42:21.320 they'll all

00:42:21.600 be cured and

00:42:22.220 there won't

00:42:22.420 be any

00:42:22.680 junkies

00:42:23.000 anymore.

00:42:24.500 We'll go

00:42:25.020 from everyone's

00:42:25.820 going to become

00:42:26.140 a junkie to

00:42:26.680 suddenly no

00:42:27.280 one's a

00:42:27.520 junkie and

00:42:28.040 it's not

00:42:28.320 real.

00:42:29.600 The problem

00:42:30.400 is the

00:42:30.820 reality.

00:42:32.040 If you

00:42:32.580 want a

00:42:33.220 junkie to

00:42:33.680 clean up,

00:42:34.900 you would do

00:42:35.660 much better

00:42:36.260 to throw

00:42:37.260 him in

00:42:37.580 prison and

00:42:38.220 take away

00:42:38.640 his drugs

00:42:39.180 and let

00:42:39.560 him sweat

00:42:40.100 out a

00:42:40.580 brutal

00:42:40.880 withdrawal

00:42:41.300 for a

00:42:41.660 week than

00:42:42.800 you would

00:42:43.180 to give

00:42:43.480 him a

00:42:43.700 safe

00:42:43.880 injection

00:42:44.240 site

00:42:44.600 where the

00:42:46.660 actual

00:42:47.300 consequences

00:42:47.960 we can

00:42:48.280 expect are

00:42:48.800 not the

00:42:49.820 flourishing of

00:42:50.460 health and

00:42:51.220 a beautiful

00:42:52.100 garden of

00:42:52.840 Eden springing

00:42:53.540 up in

00:42:53.780 East Harlem.

00:42:54.520 What you'll

00:42:55.060 actually get

00:42:55.700 is a bunch

00:42:56.180 of junkies

00:42:56.700 shooting up

00:42:57.220 dope into

00:42:58.160 their veins

00:42:58.700 and attacking

00:43:00.380 people and

00:43:01.200 fornicating on

00:43:01.760 the streets and

00:43:02.740 killing themselves

00:43:04.180 eventually.

00:43:04.800 That's the

00:43:05.300 reality.

00:43:05.820 They don't

00:43:06.200 want to

00:43:06.400 face it.

00:43:07.580 New York

00:43:07.860 City residents

00:43:08.360 see it,

00:43:08.740 though.

00:43:09.900 The libs in

00:43:11.040 their high

00:43:11.500 rises maybe

00:43:12.160 can ignore

00:43:12.640 it.

00:43:12.860 The people

00:43:13.160 who are on

00:43:13.440 the streets

00:43:13.740 in Harlem,

00:43:14.320 they're seeing

00:43:14.680 it.

00:43:15.060 Speaking of

00:43:15.640 health threats,

00:43:16.180 this is a story

00:43:16.540 I wanted to

00:43:16.840 get to last

00:43:17.240 week, but we

00:43:17.640 have to

00:43:17.940 cover it.

00:43:19.660 CNN is

00:43:20.740 really worried

00:43:21.360 about the

00:43:23.000 resurgence of

00:43:23.940 a terrible

00:43:24.640 health threat.

00:43:27.580 Conversion

00:43:28.020 therapy.

00:43:29.660 Have you

00:43:29.900 heard of

00:43:30.280 conversion

00:43:31.420 therapy?

00:43:32.540 This is the

00:43:34.380 headline from

00:43:34.760 CNN.

00:43:35.280 God

00:43:35.540 please fix

00:43:36.060 me inside

00:43:36.960 the dangerous

00:43:37.920 resurgence of

00:43:39.960 ex-gay 1.00

00:43:41.100 conversion

00:43:42.380 therapy.

00:43:45.500 What is

00:43:46.220 conversion

00:43:46.560 therapy?

00:43:47.000 It's when a

00:43:47.840 guy goes to

00:43:48.460 a therapist

00:43:48.920 and he

00:43:49.200 says,

00:43:49.460 hey, I

00:43:49.640 have these

00:43:49.940 sexual

00:43:50.500 desires and

00:43:51.620 behaviors and

00:43:52.940 habits and

00:43:53.880 impulses that

00:43:54.840 are causing

00:43:55.360 me distress,

00:43:55.820 and I'd like

00:43:57.080 to find ways

00:43:57.820 to manage

00:43:58.280 that and

00:43:58.900 maybe try to

00:44:00.100 mitigate some

00:44:00.680 of these bad

00:44:01.780 impulses I

00:44:02.360 have.

00:44:02.580 And the

00:44:03.460 therapist says,

00:44:04.000 okay, well,

00:44:04.460 let's work on a

00:44:05.000 few things.

00:44:05.580 And anyway,

00:44:05.880 you're not

00:44:06.120 allowed to

00:44:06.400 do that.

00:44:09.140 Notice,

00:44:09.920 you are allowed

00:44:11.020 to do that

00:44:11.680 for any other

00:44:13.400 psychological

00:44:14.100 affliction.

00:44:15.100 In fact,

00:44:15.540 that is the

00:44:16.660 definition of

00:44:17.420 therapy.

00:44:18.220 The definition

00:44:18.980 of therapy

00:44:19.680 is conversion

00:44:21.760 from one way

00:44:23.020 of thinking

00:44:23.460 to another

00:44:24.200 way of

00:44:24.540 thinking,

00:44:25.100 from one

00:44:25.840 set of

00:44:26.140 behaviors to

00:44:27.080 another set

00:44:27.640 behaviors.

00:44:29.040 The whole

00:44:29.720 point of

00:44:31.260 therapy,

00:44:31.860 at least in

00:44:32.360 principle,

00:44:32.780 if not in

00:44:33.140 practice,

00:44:33.760 is to

00:44:34.860 change

00:44:36.180 yourself

00:44:36.860 because what

00:44:37.860 you're presently

00:44:38.620 doing and

00:44:39.280 thinking is

00:44:40.400 causing you

00:44:40.900 distress.

00:44:42.060 And so you're

00:44:42.420 allowed to do

00:44:42.840 that for any

00:44:44.000 impulsive

00:44:44.520 behavior,

00:44:45.280 any kind of

00:44:46.340 psychological

00:44:46.780 affliction,

00:44:47.860 other than

00:44:49.840 this particular

00:44:51.580 sexual ideology.

00:44:54.040 Why is

00:44:55.040 that?

00:44:55.320 because

00:44:57.660 this issue

00:44:59.820 cuts to

00:45:00.480 not a

00:45:01.260 scientific

00:45:01.660 question,

00:45:03.000 you know,

00:45:03.180 sexual desire

00:45:04.340 or orientation

00:45:05.500 or inclination

00:45:06.640 or it's not

00:45:07.420 really about

00:45:07.980 that.

00:45:09.700 It's not

00:45:10.380 about public

00:45:10.860 health,

00:45:11.280 it's not

00:45:11.560 about private

00:45:11.980 health,

00:45:12.400 it's not

00:45:12.720 about science,

00:45:13.640 it's not,

00:45:14.700 it gets to

00:45:15.560 that deeper

00:45:16.660 premise,

00:45:19.140 axiom

00:45:19.720 of the liberal

00:45:21.100 regime.

00:45:21.480 It's actually

00:45:21.780 the same thing

00:45:22.140 we're talking

00:45:22.460 about with

00:45:22.860 the junky

00:45:23.740 safe injection

00:45:24.900 sites.

00:45:26.100 Which is,

00:45:28.080 liberalism says

00:45:29.240 it's always

00:45:30.140 bad to

00:45:30.600 constrict

00:45:31.060 individual

00:45:31.780 autonomy,

00:45:32.760 especially on

00:45:34.800 the social

00:45:35.220 issues,

00:45:35.760 especially when

00:45:36.780 it comes to

00:45:37.200 sex.

00:45:38.320 So the

00:45:38.700 reason that

00:45:39.380 people are

00:45:39.720 concerned about

00:45:40.380 conversion

00:45:41.300 therapy has

00:45:42.600 nothing to

00:45:43.080 do with

00:45:43.560 science or,

00:45:44.940 I mean,

00:45:45.140 that's just

00:45:45.360 what therapy

00:45:46.180 is,

00:45:46.480 is conversion.

00:45:47.780 What it

00:45:48.460 has to do

00:45:49.100 with is

00:45:49.800 transgressing

00:45:50.680 the bedrock

00:45:52.440 political

00:45:52.880 premise that

00:45:54.320 individual

00:45:57.100 autonomy,

00:45:57.720 and especially

00:45:58.180 pertaining to

00:45:58.740 sex, 0.67

00:45:59.000 because sex

00:45:59.300 is so important

00:45:59.780 to human

00:46:00.080 nature,

00:46:00.920 that that is

00:46:01.540 just a no-go.

00:46:02.240 You're not

00:46:02.580 allowed to

00:46:02.880 do it.

00:46:03.140 It's totally

00:46:03.660 verboten.

00:46:05.340 So they make

00:46:06.120 up all this

00:46:06.520 kind of nonsense.

00:46:07.060 conversion therapy,

00:46:08.800 it's abusive,

00:46:09.380 it's unscientific,

00:46:10.220 it's this,

00:46:10.600 it's that.

00:46:11.140 They're going to

00:46:11.740 hook kids up

00:46:12.420 to electrodes.

00:46:13.100 No one wants

00:46:13.740 to hook kids

00:46:14.200 up to electrodes.

00:46:16.180 But if a

00:46:16.540 guy,

00:46:17.180 by the way,

00:46:18.700 what it says

00:46:19.100 here,

00:46:19.320 God,

00:46:19.520 please fix me,

00:46:20.440 that's not

00:46:20.960 hooking a kid 0.98

00:46:21.540 up to an

00:46:21.840 electrode,

00:46:22.160 that's not a

00:46:22.480 parent forcing

00:46:23.020 some poor

00:46:23.420 little kid

00:46:23.760 into a

00:46:24.660 psychological

00:46:25.740 program.

00:46:27.160 That's a

00:46:27.800 person

00:46:28.640 saying,

00:46:30.220 this thing,

00:46:30.720 this desire

00:46:31.660 is causing

00:46:32.100 me trouble,

00:46:33.120 please help

00:46:33.520 me manage

00:46:33.920 it.

00:46:34.100 If you

00:46:35.760 can do it

00:46:36.160 with any

00:46:36.400 other

00:46:36.580 psychological

00:46:37.020 affliction,

00:46:37.460 why is this

00:46:38.200 the dangerous

00:46:38.740 one?

00:46:40.340 Because this

00:46:41.160 is a part

00:46:43.220 of the

00:46:43.640 public

00:46:44.320 liturgy.

00:46:45.380 The pride

00:46:46.040 parades are

00:46:46.480 part of the

00:46:46.820 public

00:46:47.040 liturgy.

00:46:48.300 The coming

00:46:49.280 out day

00:46:50.180 is part of

00:46:50.800 a public

00:46:51.200 sacrament.

00:46:52.820 And the

00:46:54.680 individual

00:46:55.360 autonomy is

00:46:56.440 the essential

00:46:57.400 part of the

00:46:58.000 liberal

00:46:58.260 anthropology.

00:46:59.620 And it's

00:47:00.100 all just

00:47:00.400 wrong.

00:47:01.280 We need to

00:47:02.020 convert away

00:47:02.460 from that.

00:47:03.060 Forget about

00:47:03.500 the sex 0.61

00:47:04.060 stuff or

00:47:04.360 whatever.

00:47:04.700 We need to

00:47:05.120 convert away

00:47:05.580 from that

00:47:06.200 understanding

00:47:06.760 of politics

00:47:07.380 because it's

00:47:08.140 bogus and

00:47:09.100 it's passé and

00:47:10.340 it has clearly

00:47:10.920 failed.

00:47:11.580 Okay, today is

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The Michael Knowles Show - August 11, 2025

Ep. 1790 - South Park Lights Up Right-Wing Podcasters

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