The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 1808 - Of Course, We Should Disarm Transvestites

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00:00:30.000 The Trump administration is threatening to disarm the transgenders,

00:00:35.940 and somehow it is the right-wingers who are upset about it.

00:00:41.320 I'm Michael Knowles. This is The Michael Knowles Show.

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00:02:12.760 President Trump is threatening to disarm,

00:02:15.860 to take guns away from,

00:02:17.640 the trans-identifying people.

00:02:19.580 And it is...

00:02:22.580 Everybody is a little bit upset with him,

00:02:24.420 but it is especially the right-wingers

00:02:26.640 who are upset about this.

00:02:28.540 This is one of those weird issues

00:02:30.300 that crosses the aisle

00:02:33.680 because the right obviously is skeptical

00:02:37.040 of the entire transgender ideology.

00:02:41.280 So anything that diminishes the transgender ideology,

00:02:43.620 the right is for,

00:02:44.440 but the right loves guns.

00:02:45.560 And the left loves weird sex stuff,

00:02:48.780 is totally in favor of any weird sex stuff

00:02:51.060 you can possibly think of,

00:02:52.740 any way you can possibly contort your body

00:02:55.440 to do something unnatural and deviant.

00:02:57.640 Therefore, except they hate guns.

00:03:00.200 So now we're kind of caught in the middle.

00:03:03.480 Seems to me pretty obvious

00:03:05.520 that a guy who thinks that he's a woman,

00:03:08.820 a guy whose grasp of reality is so tenuous,

00:03:12.540 so loose that he doesn't know what his sex is,

00:03:16.600 probably should not have a firearm.

00:03:19.740 Now, the rejoinder to this,

00:03:21.660 and I think it is a legitimate rejoinder,

00:03:23.520 is this is the slippery slope.

00:03:26.860 The rejoinder is,

00:03:28.300 if you support your Second Amendment right,

00:03:30.000 which the libs have been going after forever,

00:03:32.140 then you need to oppose any and all regulations

00:03:35.280 that could in any way possibly take a single gun

00:03:38.160 out of the hand of any American.

00:03:39.740 Because it's always a farce,

00:03:41.260 it's always a ruse,

00:03:42.240 it's a way to take the guns away

00:03:44.060 from the normal people.

00:03:45.040 I get it.

00:03:46.140 Our ideological opponents are underhanded.

00:03:48.980 There's no question about that.

00:03:50.820 However, just think about this in principle.

00:03:53.500 When people say,

00:03:55.320 look, shall not be infringed,

00:03:56.580 as clear as day,

00:03:57.400 you can't take the guns away.

00:03:58.220 We already agree, in principle,

00:04:01.700 that there are people

00:04:04.520 who are not sufficiently in command

00:04:06.140 of their reason to have a gun.

00:04:08.200 Should a baby be allowed to go buy a gun?

00:04:11.340 Should a baby, should a baby,

00:04:12.840 listen, I'm a lifetime member of the NRA,

00:04:14.980 I have guns, I,

00:04:17.640 should a baby be allowed to go buy a gun?

00:04:20.060 No.

00:04:21.460 Should a severely retarded person

00:04:23.920 be allowed to go buy a gun?

00:04:26.740 Probably not.

00:04:27.460 Should your grandfather,

00:04:30.540 with advanced dementia,

00:04:32.240 who doesn't know what day it is,

00:04:33.820 be able to go buy a gun?

00:04:35.520 Would that be good for him?

00:04:37.220 Would that do,

00:04:37.840 no, no.

00:04:39.340 I think we would all admit,

00:04:40.480 no.

00:04:42.580 Transgenderism is a severe mental illness.

00:04:45.340 It is,

00:04:45.940 it's not,

00:04:47.040 as some of the slippery slope warriors

00:04:49.360 are going to say,

00:04:49.960 it's not akin to

00:04:51.460 a soldier coming back from war

00:04:53.800 with PTSD.

00:04:55.180 That's bad enough in itself.

00:04:57.460 But PTSD is not the same

00:04:59.540 as not knowing what sex you are.

00:05:03.000 Okay,

00:05:03.340 some ADHD,

00:05:06.740 anxiety,

00:05:08.940 even,

00:05:09.480 even a touch of depression,

00:05:11.580 things that,

00:05:12.160 that are psychological diagnoses,

00:05:14.440 is different in kind

00:05:16.480 from the severe mental illness

00:05:19.840 that,

00:05:21.120 that says that your perception

00:05:22.580 is so screwed up,

00:05:23.640 you don't know what your sex is.

00:05:25.580 that is real deep

00:05:28.580 in the heart of man.

00:05:30.460 And,

00:05:31.040 I don't think anyone on the right

00:05:33.060 would disagree with that.

00:05:34.060 I hope not.

00:05:35.440 That is,

00:05:36.180 like,

00:05:36.620 you know,

00:05:37.000 not every horror movie ever,

00:05:38.640 but,

00:05:38.880 like,

00:05:39.040 all these serial killers,

00:05:40.200 you know,

00:05:40.460 Buffalo Bill,

00:05:41.380 Psycho,

00:05:41.840 all this.

00:05:42.220 What is the,

00:05:42.660 what is the emblematic

00:05:44.920 mental illness

00:05:45.780 that,

00:05:46.680 that,

00:05:47.160 those movies are grounded in?

00:05:49.060 That those movies,

00:05:49.740 which are based on real cases,

00:05:50.720 which are based on real people,

00:05:51.560 are grounded in?

00:05:52.080 The trans identity.

00:05:55.720 The fact that you don't know

00:05:57.220 even what sex you are.

00:05:58.240 There are all these other issues

00:05:59.560 that,

00:05:59.840 that attend to that.

00:06:01.940 It's,

00:06:02.440 you're not going to meet someone

00:06:04.460 who thinks he's the opposite sex,

00:06:06.120 who,

00:06:06.380 who doesn't have a cascade

00:06:07.700 of other mental,

00:06:08.820 mental illnesses

00:06:09.680 and,

00:06:10.700 psychological problems

00:06:12.340 that go along with that.

00:06:13.460 Okay.

00:06:14.160 So,

00:06:14.880 that's just the,

00:06:15.720 the normative argument.

00:06:16.800 Should we?

00:06:17.640 Should they?

00:06:18.480 Should we do this?

00:06:19.120 Should we do that?

00:06:20.280 The,

00:06:20.860 even stronger argument,

00:06:23.100 I think,

00:06:23.520 is,

00:06:24.660 President Trump's DOJ

00:06:26.180 could,

00:06:27.840 today,

00:06:30.300 tell transvestites,

00:06:31.760 or,

00:06:32.160 not even,

00:06:32.440 not even transvestites,

00:06:33.280 not even cross-dressers

00:06:34.100 and cabaret singers,

00:06:34.980 and we're talking like,

00:06:35.780 guys who think they're

00:06:36.460 the opposite sex.

00:06:37.460 The DOJ,

00:06:38.200 today,

00:06:39.020 could say,

00:06:39.660 you can't own guns,

00:06:41.020 and they would not have to pass

00:06:42.640 a single additional law.

00:06:44.800 Because the federal law,

00:06:46.640 already,

00:06:47.520 today,

00:06:47.860 says that you can be

00:06:50.240 deprived of your

00:06:51.720 Second Amendment rights

00:06:52.500 or your Second Amendment rights

00:06:53.860 can be circumscribed

00:06:54.660 if you are mentally

00:06:56.460 defective.

00:06:59.200 People who think

00:07:00.080 they're the opposite sex

00:07:01.120 are mentally defective.

00:07:03.620 Thinking you're the opposite sex

00:07:04.920 is prima facie evidence

00:07:06.240 that you are mentally defective

00:07:07.800 and severely so.

00:07:09.560 I don't mean to be too harsh

00:07:10.860 to people who are a little bit weird

00:07:12.120 or anything,

00:07:12.700 but clarity is charity

00:07:13.840 and that's the truth.

00:07:14.700 18 U.S. Code

00:07:16.420 Section 922

00:07:17.680 G4

00:07:19.460 says

00:07:20.420 that

00:07:22.180 the government

00:07:25.040 can prohibit

00:07:25.880 possession of firearms

00:07:26.700 for anyone

00:07:27.260 who has been adjudicated

00:07:29.120 as a mental defective

00:07:30.200 or who has been committed

00:07:31.000 to a mental institution.

00:07:32.340 That's or,

00:07:32.900 by the way,

00:07:33.200 because sometimes

00:07:33.700 libertarians will respond

00:07:35.000 and say,

00:07:35.340 well,

00:07:35.640 if they're so mentally defective,

00:07:37.160 they should just be committed

00:07:37.960 to an institution.

00:07:38.900 First of all,

00:07:39.300 no one really believes that

00:07:40.340 if you have a little brother

00:07:42.580 who is severely mentally retarded,

00:07:44.700 we don't think that

00:07:45.360 it should be a matter of law

00:07:46.280 that you send him

00:07:46.860 to an insane asylum.

00:07:48.180 Granny has a touch of dementia.

00:07:50.000 You don't think that

00:07:51.460 it should be a matter

00:07:52.520 of federal law

00:07:53.040 that you have to ship her off

00:07:53.900 to some institution.

00:07:54.980 It's okay to have people

00:07:56.060 in society and care for them,

00:07:57.660 but you have to circumscribe

00:08:00.240 their rights

00:08:00.820 in as much as they are not

00:08:02.220 capable of exercising

00:08:03.640 those rights,

00:08:04.380 in as much as their intellect

00:08:06.180 and will are damaged

00:08:07.900 or defective.

00:08:08.740 This would not require

00:08:10.740 passing any new gun control laws.

00:08:13.240 I'm totally opposed

00:08:14.300 to all new gun control laws

00:08:15.960 and have been,

00:08:18.500 am now,

00:08:19.160 remain so into the future.

00:08:20.900 What this would do,

00:08:22.180 what Trump is doing,

00:08:23.420 is simply acknowledging reality.

00:08:26.660 That's what this is about.

00:08:28.040 This isn't about changing

00:08:28.960 the gun laws in any way.

00:08:31.320 This is about acknowledging reality,

00:08:33.160 which is why I'm so gung-ho for it,

00:08:35.180 because it would be establishing

00:08:36.320 as a matter of federal law

00:08:37.720 that transgenderism

00:08:40.960 is a mental illness,

00:08:42.100 a severe mental illness,

00:08:43.140 and if you have it,

00:08:44.000 you're mentally defective.

00:08:45.860 And a lot of our problems

00:08:47.520 in recent years

00:08:48.320 have stemmed from

00:08:49.680 or been associated with

00:08:50.740 our refusal to acknowledge

00:08:51.820 that fact.

00:08:53.780 But Michael,

00:08:54.840 if we do this now,

00:08:56.280 if we acknowledge

00:08:57.220 transgenderism

00:08:58.120 as a mental illness,

00:08:59.380 why, by golly,

00:09:00.260 when Democrats come into power,

00:09:01.600 they might acknowledge,

00:09:02.600 I don't know,

00:09:03.820 Christianity

00:09:04.180 as a mental illness.

00:09:05.400 Take your talking points

00:09:09.160 back to 2012.

00:09:10.360 I'm sick of them.

00:09:11.520 I am not afraid

00:09:12.260 of exercising political power

00:09:14.140 for the good today

00:09:16.020 when the people

00:09:16.800 have given us power

00:09:17.620 because of some hypothetical evil

00:09:19.920 that the Democrats

00:09:20.640 might do tomorrow

00:09:21.480 that they almost certainly

00:09:22.720 will do

00:09:23.220 whether we act today or not.

00:09:26.640 Aren't we done with this?

00:09:28.520 This notion that we can

00:09:29.860 never exercise power

00:09:30.980 because of what the Democrats

00:09:32.400 hypothetically might do

00:09:33.380 in the future

00:09:33.800 even though the Democrats

00:09:34.500 have already been

00:09:34.980 wielding power unjustly

00:09:36.360 and capriciously

00:09:36.920 against us for decades.

00:09:38.840 Enough of that, man.

00:09:39.800 That's loser mentality.

00:09:41.840 I am not into that.

00:09:44.120 But it does get down

00:09:45.960 to a fundamental debate

00:09:47.100 over what kind of country we are,

00:09:49.620 how we interact

00:09:50.220 with the government,

00:09:50.820 and where we get our rights,

00:09:52.120 which coincidentally

00:09:52.940 came up in the Senate yesterday

00:09:53.980 when Tim Kaine,

00:09:55.860 the man who was almost

00:09:57.380 one heartbeat away

00:09:59.080 from becoming

00:09:59.560 the second woman president

00:10:00.640 of the United States,

00:10:01.520 Tim Kaine,

00:10:02.080 who since his doomed run

00:10:05.320 for vice president

00:10:06.140 has become more and more

00:10:07.740 like the Joker

00:10:08.800 every single day.

00:10:09.760 You look at him,

00:10:10.140 he just looks like

00:10:10.620 Jack Nicholson as the Joker.

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00:10:15.340 to mock the notion

00:10:17.300 of natural rights

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00:11:39.300 Tim Kaine embracing

00:11:40.540 his role

00:11:41.400 as an agent of chaos

00:11:42.800 and movie villain

00:11:43.640 takes to the floor

00:11:44.560 of the U.S. Senate

00:11:45.340 to mock

00:11:45.980 the ideological foundation

00:11:48.000 of the entire United States.

00:11:49.860 The notion that

00:11:52.400 rights don't come

00:11:53.640 from laws

00:11:54.320 and don't come

00:11:55.300 from the government

00:11:56.160 but come from the creator,

00:11:58.180 that's what the Iranian

00:11:59.600 government believes.

00:12:00.700 It's a theocratic regime

00:12:02.180 that bases its rule

00:12:04.560 on Shia law

00:12:05.800 and targets Sunnis,

00:12:08.120 Baha'is,

00:12:09.020 Jews,

00:12:09.780 Christians

00:12:10.200 and other religious minorities.

00:12:11.920 And they do it

00:12:12.900 because they believe

00:12:14.020 that they understand

00:12:14.980 what natural rights are

00:12:16.160 from their creator.

00:12:17.020 So the statement

00:12:19.240 that our rights

00:12:20.780 do not come

00:12:21.920 from our laws

00:12:22.840 or our governments

00:12:23.860 is extremely troubling.

00:12:26.060 It's extremely,

00:12:27.720 extremely troubling.

00:12:28.580 Man,

00:12:29.660 if he thinks

00:12:30.260 that statement is bad,

00:12:31.360 just wait until he reads

00:12:32.380 Thomas Jefferson

00:12:34.680 or really any

00:12:37.940 of the founding fathers

00:12:39.060 and framers

00:12:40.160 of the Constitution

00:12:41.000 or the thinkers

00:12:42.020 from which they got

00:12:43.540 their ideas

00:12:44.220 or the long history

00:12:45.980 of Christendom,

00:12:48.400 he says the Iranian regime

00:12:49.980 targets Baha'i

00:12:51.780 and Jews

00:12:52.520 and Christians

00:12:53.500 and this and that.

00:12:55.100 That's true.

00:12:55.760 In the American regime,

00:12:56.620 we only target Christians.

00:12:58.680 I guess,

00:12:59.520 is that an advantage?

00:13:01.140 The American liberal regime

00:13:02.700 only targets Christians

00:13:03.880 and imprisons

00:13:04.620 pro-life brannies

00:13:05.660 and nuns.

00:13:07.620 But the Iranian regime,

00:13:09.840 those theocrats,

00:13:10.700 because the Iranians,

00:13:12.000 they believe in God too.

00:13:14.440 That's scary.

00:13:15.320 We cannot,

00:13:16.200 this is a radical notion,

00:13:18.020 it's downright Muslim

00:13:18.840 to say that we hold

00:13:19.880 these truths to be self-evident,

00:13:21.160 that all men are created equal

00:13:22.120 and endowed by their creator

00:13:23.140 with certain unalienable rights.

00:13:25.900 The ignorance is astounding.

00:13:29.700 His utter unfamiliarity

00:13:32.200 with the philosophical basis

00:13:33.960 of the United States

00:13:35.120 is jaw-dropping,

00:13:36.900 even though we should come

00:13:37.680 to believe it in recent years

00:13:38.820 because the liberals

00:13:40.600 and the Democrats

00:13:41.260 have made themselves out,

00:13:42.460 often explicitly

00:13:43.500 to be anti-American.

00:13:45.320 But you'd think

00:13:46.240 to be anti-American,

00:13:47.580 you would at least be familiar

00:13:48.700 with what you're opposing.

00:13:49.960 Tim Kaine,

00:13:50.440 not even familiar with that.

00:13:51.840 This is the constant liberal attack

00:13:54.520 on any non-liberal government.

00:13:57.780 The constant attack is,

00:14:00.300 you're basing your judgments

00:14:04.000 of morality and rights

00:14:05.640 on a religious basis?

00:14:08.000 Why, that will lead inevitably

00:14:10.020 to arbitrary rule,

00:14:11.760 to tyranny, to oppression.

00:14:13.820 You can't ground it

00:14:15.240 in anything rational.

00:14:18.120 This is, you have your morality,

00:14:19.720 I have my morality.

00:14:20.540 We can't know anything

00:14:21.200 about morality.

00:14:22.160 This is very scary.

00:14:23.520 And that's why Tim Kaine's

00:14:24.440 alternative is to ground our rights

00:14:26.760 in positive law.

00:14:28.300 And he thinks that's going

00:14:29.000 to solve the question.

00:14:30.460 Not in natural law, certainly,

00:14:32.780 not in a notion of our creator

00:14:34.700 giving us rights,

00:14:35.420 but in just the positive law

00:14:36.620 that really our rights

00:14:37.520 just come from you and I

00:14:38.600 electing our representatives

00:14:39.860 and then they vote on bills

00:14:41.740 and they give us rights

00:14:42.560 or they take our rights away

00:14:43.480 and that's that.

00:14:44.220 But you see the contradiction there.

00:14:48.260 It's in the word rights.

00:14:50.820 The very word rights

00:14:52.440 refers to a conception of justice.

00:14:56.140 It corresponds with notions

00:14:58.640 of right and wrong,

00:15:01.100 which then point to

00:15:03.580 an objective moral order.

00:15:04.700 It speaks to justice,

00:15:07.980 people getting what they deserve.

00:15:09.380 It speaks to something

00:15:10.440 beyond the mere wills

00:15:13.180 and appetites

00:15:14.320 and desires of men.

00:15:16.340 But then he denies

00:15:17.600 that there's any objective

00:15:18.460 basis for it.

00:15:19.160 So he almost has to come up

00:15:20.260 with a different word.

00:15:21.920 Privileges, I guess.

00:15:22.940 So we get our privileges

00:15:23.820 from the government.

00:15:24.700 But you can't say the word rights

00:15:26.000 because the rights

00:15:26.640 are pointing to something

00:15:27.560 beyond the mere

00:15:29.360 irrational desires of men.

00:15:32.120 The sheer tyranny of will.

00:15:33.320 But the reason

00:15:36.520 that he doesn't do that,

00:15:37.500 the reason that he

00:15:38.080 and all the other libs

00:15:38.720 still use the rights language

00:15:40.160 is because liberalism

00:15:42.560 is a form of,

00:15:44.700 is a matter of faith

00:15:46.160 as much as any theocracy.

00:15:48.280 That's really what

00:15:49.020 this comes down to.

00:15:50.620 Liberalism,

00:15:51.320 his form of government,

00:15:52.320 his preferred form of government,

00:15:53.440 unlike the authoritarian

00:15:54.180 Christian government,

00:15:55.640 which he thinks resembles

00:15:56.920 the theocracy of Iran,

00:15:58.900 his preferred liberal form

00:16:01.180 of government

00:16:01.620 is at least as much

00:16:04.120 a matter of faith,

00:16:04.980 actually more a matter of faith,

00:16:07.780 as any theocracy

00:16:09.220 or theocracy's government

00:16:10.580 by clerics.

00:16:11.200 So even just any government

00:16:12.420 that is openly

00:16:13.260 and honestly

00:16:14.940 grounded in religion.

00:16:16.920 Why do I say that?

00:16:18.640 I was reading,

00:16:19.380 you know,

00:16:19.580 I refer to the great

00:16:20.820 Harvard law professor

00:16:21.540 Adrian Vermeule

00:16:22.340 on the show a fair bit.

00:16:23.820 He's reading a great old essay

00:16:24.980 of his in American affairs

00:16:26.800 on the invisible hand.

00:16:31.200 You know,

00:16:31.480 we hear of the invisible hand

00:16:32.780 in matters of economics,

00:16:34.300 you know,

00:16:34.400 the invisible hand

00:16:35.060 of the free market

00:16:35.860 or the invisible hand

00:16:38.120 in the marketplace of ideas,

00:16:39.980 you know,

00:16:40.320 the notion that

00:16:41.540 as long as you have

00:16:42.040 more and more voices,

00:16:43.060 more and more speech,

00:16:44.060 that somehow the truth

00:16:44.740 is going to win out.

00:16:45.620 I wrote a book

00:16:46.500 arguing against that thesis,

00:16:48.620 but that's a very popular view,

00:16:49.920 including on the right.

00:16:50.860 Or the notion that

00:16:52.300 the invisible hand

00:16:54.040 in a competitive mixed regime

00:16:56.420 and a competitive government

00:16:57.920 with checks and balances,

00:16:59.240 with a separation of powers,

00:17:00.620 that that is somehow

00:17:01.280 inevitably going to give you

00:17:02.900 the best form of government,

00:17:04.300 the greatest justice.

00:17:05.520 And even that phrase

00:17:08.040 shows you

00:17:09.040 just how much a matter of faith

00:17:11.640 liberalism is.

00:17:13.160 The invisible hand.

00:17:15.080 The invisible hand

00:17:16.160 is something we used

00:17:16.840 to call providence.

00:17:18.640 That's his point.

00:17:19.420 It's a really excellent essay.

00:17:20.620 I recommend you go read it.

00:17:21.940 The invisible hand

00:17:23.960 is just providence

00:17:24.860 for atheists.

00:17:26.620 The way that we speak,

00:17:27.920 the way that Tim Kaine

00:17:28.580 is speaking about this,

00:17:29.900 he simultaneously

00:17:31.140 has to deny

00:17:32.860 any objective order,

00:17:36.260 morality,

00:17:37.180 metaphysical basis

00:17:38.140 for right and wrong

00:17:40.320 and the things we do

00:17:41.020 in society.

00:17:42.600 He has to deny it.

00:17:43.640 He has to say

00:17:44.020 it's all just about men.

00:17:45.560 But in order to persuade you

00:17:47.960 to go along

00:17:49.320 with his political vision,

00:17:50.140 he has to refer

00:17:51.460 to that pre-liberal

00:17:53.860 and downright religious

00:17:55.280 basis of justice.

00:17:57.080 He has to refer to it.

00:17:58.480 And then, of course,

00:17:58.980 liberalism just eats away

00:17:59.920 at that basis over time.

00:18:01.500 And we've spoken about that

00:18:02.780 many, many times.

00:18:04.820 This is the point

00:18:06.260 you've always got to

00:18:07.160 throw back to the libs

00:18:08.100 whenever they say,

00:18:09.300 well, you're being authoritarian

00:18:10.680 or whatever.

00:18:11.760 I say,

00:18:11.980 not as authoritarian

00:18:12.680 as you are.

00:18:14.160 At least for me,

00:18:15.160 when I refer to

00:18:17.160 how I view politics

00:18:18.860 and how I derive

00:18:20.140 right and wrong,

00:18:20.600 at least I'm pointing

00:18:21.360 to a clear God

00:18:22.320 that you can,

00:18:23.040 to some degree,

00:18:23.620 understand.

00:18:24.880 You guys are hiding

00:18:25.680 the ball even on that.

00:18:27.280 You're demanding

00:18:27.880 an extreme amount

00:18:29.160 of authority

00:18:29.700 over all of us,

00:18:30.940 but you're not even

00:18:32.300 grounding it on

00:18:33.060 a good and

00:18:34.560 logical God

00:18:36.060 who loves us.

00:18:37.220 You're just grounding

00:18:38.180 it in,

00:18:39.180 I don't know,

00:18:40.140 the whims and caprices

00:18:41.020 of Tim Kaine.

00:18:42.260 Ugh,

00:18:42.580 not a good basis

00:18:43.240 of government.

00:18:44.140 Speaking of

00:18:44.580 the invisible hand,

00:18:45.600 President Trump

00:18:46.100 is bullying big tech

00:18:47.320 into investing

00:18:48.300 a lot of money

00:18:48.960 in America.

00:18:49.580 Here he is

00:18:50.200 at a meeting

00:18:50.720 with Mark Zuckerberg

00:18:52.020 just yesterday.

00:18:53.680 Well,

00:18:54.120 thanks for hosting us.

00:18:55.280 I mean,

00:18:55.380 this is quite a group

00:18:56.040 to get together,

00:18:56.840 and I think

00:18:57.560 all of the companies

00:18:59.420 here are building,

00:19:01.060 just making huge

00:19:02.160 investments

00:19:02.620 in the country

00:19:03.660 in order to

00:19:04.540 build out data centers

00:19:05.780 and infrastructure

00:19:06.680 to power the next

00:19:08.640 wave of innovation.

00:19:09.640 So it's,

00:19:10.740 you know,

00:19:10.900 we don't often

00:19:11.360 get together

00:19:11.880 as the CEOs

00:19:13.920 of the different

00:19:14.360 companies,

00:19:15.000 but it's good

00:19:15.980 to see everyone.

00:19:18.180 How much

00:19:18.540 are you spending,

00:19:19.420 would you say,

00:19:20.140 over the next

00:19:20.580 billion years?

00:19:21.420 Oh, gosh.

00:19:22.560 I mean,

00:19:23.080 I think it's probably

00:19:24.000 going to be something

00:19:24.660 like,

00:19:25.500 I don't know,

00:19:26.880 at least

00:19:27.360 $600 billion

00:19:28.780 through 28

00:19:30.740 in the U.S.

00:19:33.020 Yeah.

00:19:33.660 It's a lot.

00:19:34.400 No,

00:19:34.700 it's significant.

00:19:36.560 It's a lot.

00:19:37.500 Thank you, Mark.

00:19:38.140 It's great to have you.

00:19:39.180 Thank you.

00:19:39.900 So he's sitting there,

00:19:41.580 and he's just like

00:19:43.460 Don Corleone.

00:19:44.760 He calls these guys in.

00:19:47.240 Mark Zuckerberg

00:19:47.940 spent a lot of money

00:19:48.800 to make sure Trump

00:19:49.580 wouldn't win in 2020.

00:19:50.840 Spent a lot of money.

00:19:51.860 Some of that money

00:19:52.440 was used to subvert

00:19:54.060 the law in the case

00:19:55.080 of the ballot drop boxes.

00:19:56.940 He's no big friend

00:19:58.120 to Trump.

00:19:59.300 I don't think he's

00:20:00.140 a huge ally

00:20:01.000 of the American right.

00:20:03.360 At least he didn't

00:20:04.280 think his bread

00:20:05.040 was going to be buttered

00:20:05.760 by the American right.

00:20:06.640 He was working

00:20:07.140 for the left.

00:20:07.920 All these guys.

00:20:10.380 And Trump calls

00:20:11.080 them all down

00:20:11.480 to the White House.

00:20:12.000 He gets his power.

00:20:13.460 He's elected

00:20:14.080 with a popular vote.

00:20:15.380 He calls them all

00:20:16.280 down to the White House.

00:20:17.180 He says,

00:20:17.480 Hey, fellas.

00:20:19.280 Thanks.

00:20:19.680 A lot of you came

00:20:20.240 to my inauguration

00:20:21.240 to come kiss the ring.

00:20:22.280 Thanks for coming

00:20:22.860 down for dinner.

00:20:24.900 And then Mark Zuckerberg

00:20:25.600 gets up there,

00:20:26.080 and he says,

00:20:26.820 Hey, yes,

00:20:27.700 it's really nice,

00:20:28.380 Mr. President,

00:20:28.820 to be here with everybody.

00:20:30.320 Really,

00:20:30.740 we don't all have a chance

00:20:31.600 to get together,

00:20:32.380 and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.

00:20:34.300 Nicety, nicety, nicety.

00:20:36.140 And Trump says,

00:20:37.420 Yeah.

00:20:38.460 How much money

00:20:39.200 are you going to spend

00:20:39.980 in this economy?

00:20:41.380 How much money

00:20:41.980 are you going to spend

00:20:42.560 to accomplish

00:20:43.320 my political goals

00:20:44.520 in this country?

00:20:46.160 Oh, yeah, sorry.

00:20:47.120 I was just talking

00:20:48.280 about how really nice.

00:20:49.180 Yeah, yeah, yeah.

00:20:49.920 Real nice.

00:20:50.440 We're all together.

00:20:51.260 Raise a glass.

00:20:52.080 Cheers.

00:20:52.920 Where's the money?

00:20:54.640 Where's my money, Mark?

00:20:59.120 I'm actually,

00:21:00.020 I was thinking about spending,

00:21:01.820 would $600 billion be enough?

00:21:04.400 Yeah.

00:21:08.360 Yeah, that'd be enough.

00:21:09.340 That's a lot of money,

00:21:10.360 $600 billion.

00:21:11.320 I love this.

00:21:12.760 And this ties in

00:21:13.840 with what we were

00:21:14.260 just talking about.

00:21:16.340 The libs are going

00:21:17.300 to hate this,

00:21:18.160 and the libertarians

00:21:19.540 are going to hate this,

00:21:20.520 because this is

00:21:21.420 President Trump

00:21:22.220 bullying business,

00:21:24.180 and we can never have

00:21:25.320 the state or the political power

00:21:26.820 going into bully business,

00:21:28.000 because that will distort

00:21:28.820 the conditions

00:21:29.380 of the ideal free marketplace,

00:21:31.280 and that's not only inefficient,

00:21:33.960 that's downright immoral.

00:21:35.820 All hail the sacred,

00:21:37.400 invisible hand,

00:21:38.400 magnificent and gracious.

00:21:40.000 Peace be upon it.

00:21:41.580 You cannot have a politician

00:21:43.900 interfere in the economy.

00:21:45.340 Yeah, why?

00:21:46.220 Why is that?

00:21:47.540 Why am I supposed

00:21:48.280 to believe that?

00:21:49.660 Because a great calamity

00:21:51.460 will befall us.

00:21:52.260 The invisible hand

00:21:53.080 will become angry with us.

00:21:55.000 Oh, no.

00:21:55.680 No, I don't think so.

00:21:57.620 I like markets

00:21:58.680 to run efficiently.

00:21:59.780 I don't think we should have

00:22:00.800 some command and control economy,

00:22:02.180 but Trump was elected

00:22:04.040 all the way back in 2016

00:22:05.480 because people came

00:22:09.400 to the realization

00:22:10.160 that we are a country

00:22:12.580 with an economy.

00:22:14.340 We are not an economy

00:22:16.760 that has to be served

00:22:18.580 by the people.

00:22:19.980 You don't want to put the cart

00:22:21.260 before the horse.

00:22:23.660 We don't have a country

00:22:25.120 in order to maximize GDP

00:22:28.920 and economic efficiency

00:22:29.980 and markets and all.

00:22:31.940 No, the markets work for us, okay?

00:22:34.620 And sometimes there are going

00:22:36.480 to be distortions

00:22:37.240 in the markets.

00:22:37.860 That's true inevitably.

00:22:39.780 That's true everywhere

00:22:41.300 other than in an economic textbook

00:22:43.640 with ideal utopian conditions

00:22:45.120 that never exist in practice.

00:22:47.080 There were issues with labor.

00:22:48.880 There were issues with trade.

00:22:50.600 There were issues with America's role

00:22:54.220 as the global hegemon

00:22:55.260 and how we related

00:22:55.980 to other markets

00:22:56.680 around the world.

00:22:57.320 And Trump came in and he said,

00:22:57.980 I'm going to fix that

00:22:58.540 and I'm going to prioritize

00:22:59.200 American workers

00:23:00.040 and I'm going to prioritize

00:23:01.140 investment in our country

00:23:02.260 and I'm going to promote

00:23:03.280 certain industries

00:23:04.200 in order to maintain parity

00:23:06.600 and an advantage, hopefully,

00:23:08.540 with some of our adversaries

00:23:09.540 like China.

00:23:10.900 And Mark, you're going to invest money

00:23:12.200 in this country, okay?

00:23:14.920 That is, that's the right,

00:23:16.820 that's the right way

00:23:17.320 to do things, man.

00:23:18.420 That's really,

00:23:19.280 that's recognizing

00:23:20.260 the political moment.

00:23:23.600 It's turning away

00:23:24.780 from the idol worship

00:23:25.820 of Mammon and Luker

00:23:27.640 and the ideological conceptions

00:23:30.000 of liberalism

00:23:30.680 and the free market.

00:23:31.660 And it's getting back

00:23:32.340 to some kind of basic

00:23:33.280 conservative politics.

00:23:34.580 Love it.

00:23:35.820 All right, now the rest of you,

00:23:36.840 where's my money?

00:23:37.840 Where's my money?

00:23:38.720 Okay, speaking of

00:23:39.600 ever-deepening conservatism,

00:23:41.520 Florida is going to end

00:23:42.320 all vaccine mandates.

00:23:44.160 And this is another issue

00:23:45.160 that's going to split the right,

00:23:46.220 just like the taking away guns

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00:25:33.800 My favorite comment yesterday

00:25:35.020 is from the Drummer's Workshop,

00:25:35.980 Norm's Music.

00:25:36.640 It says,

00:25:36.980 a Cory Booker engagement

00:25:37.940 is when your gym teacher

00:25:39.320 and your other gym teacher

00:25:41.460 get married.

00:25:42.200 That's not nice.

00:25:42.900 I'm sure she's a lovely gal,

00:25:44.120 but it's Taylor Swift

00:25:45.740 and Travis Kelsey.

00:25:46.580 It's when your English teacher

00:25:47.380 marries your gym teacher

00:25:48.340 and a Cory Booker engagement.

00:25:50.460 It's your gym teacher

00:25:52.020 and your other gym teacher.

00:25:52.840 That's at least what people

00:25:53.480 would expect.

00:25:54.480 Speaking of deepening

00:25:55.420 conservatism,

00:25:57.480 Florida has announced

00:25:58.500 that it will end

00:26:00.900 all vaccine mandates,

00:26:02.660 all vaccine mandates,

00:26:03.820 not just the COVID vax,

00:26:05.900 the old clot shot,

00:26:07.180 Fauci ouchie.

00:26:07.980 No,

00:26:08.120 no,

00:26:08.400 we're talking about

00:26:08.840 all the vaccines.

00:26:10.680 Governor DeSantis

00:26:11.580 has pushed this

00:26:12.420 and his

00:26:13.700 Surgeon General,

00:26:15.860 is it a Surgeon General?

00:26:16.940 The Chief Public Health Officer

00:26:18.080 in the state,

00:26:18.700 Lodapo,

00:26:19.180 is very impressive.

00:26:21.320 For decades now,

00:26:22.880 Florida

00:26:23.280 has required kids

00:26:25.260 who go to schools

00:26:26.160 to get a ton of vaccines.

00:26:28.000 That includes

00:26:28.980 MMR,

00:26:29.860 measles,

00:26:30.160 mumps,

00:26:30.380 and rubella.

00:26:30.900 That includes polio,

00:26:32.220 chickenpox.

00:26:32.880 You didn't have to get

00:26:33.560 the chickenpox vaccine

00:26:34.320 when I was a kid.

00:26:34.820 When I was a kid,

00:26:35.220 you got chickenpox

00:26:35.780 and hepatitis B

00:26:38.160 in case you're

00:26:39.800 sharing any needles

00:26:41.260 or going to brothels

00:26:42.100 in the fourth grade.

00:26:44.320 The state came out

00:26:46.180 on Wednesday

00:26:46.980 and said,

00:26:48.720 those mandates

00:26:49.220 are going to end.

00:26:50.560 And they went even further.

00:26:51.820 They compared the mandates

00:26:52.820 to slavery,

00:26:54.580 said all of them

00:26:55.920 will end,

00:26:56.840 every last one of them.

00:26:58.820 Who am I as a man

00:27:00.300 standing here now

00:27:01.420 to tell you

00:27:02.220 what you should put

00:27:03.200 in your body?

00:27:04.780 This

00:27:05.220 is going to excite

00:27:07.340 a lot of people

00:27:07.920 on the right.

00:27:09.360 Unfortunately,

00:27:10.000 I think it might do so

00:27:10.840 for all the wrong reasons.

00:27:13.200 This is one of these issues

00:27:14.560 where

00:27:14.920 I might agree

00:27:18.200 in practice

00:27:19.700 with getting rid

00:27:21.060 of the vaccine mandates,

00:27:22.280 but I don't agree

00:27:23.120 with it in principle.

00:27:25.200 And a lot of libs

00:27:26.600 and squishes

00:27:28.640 and they will agree

00:27:30.100 with it in principle

00:27:30.880 but not in practice.

00:27:31.840 Isn't that weird?

00:27:32.900 Isn't that kind of weird?

00:27:35.260 In other words,

00:27:36.440 even the left,

00:27:37.400 they will say,

00:27:37.800 well, look,

00:27:38.040 we can't be authoritarian.

00:27:39.220 We can't force people

00:27:40.120 to do things

00:27:40.640 that they don't want to do.

00:27:41.460 Consent is the highest

00:27:42.280 moral criterion.

00:27:43.400 The greatest good

00:27:44.360 in politics

00:27:44.880 is the maximization

00:27:45.900 of individual autonomy.

00:27:47.160 Blah, blah, blah.

00:27:47.640 But, you know,

00:27:51.180 to maximize utility,

00:27:53.200 greatest good

00:27:53.760 for the greatest number,

00:27:54.460 we need to force kids

00:27:55.580 to take these shots.

00:27:57.260 But in principle,

00:27:57.980 I disagree with it,

00:27:58.600 but in practice,

00:27:59.120 I agree with it.

00:28:00.220 Whereas my view

00:28:00.920 is the opposite.

00:28:02.300 I actually have no problem

00:28:03.940 with vaccine mandates

00:28:04.840 in principle.

00:28:06.260 I know,

00:28:06.940 maybe this is going to be

00:28:07.560 an unpopular opinion.

00:28:09.520 I have no problem

00:28:10.960 with vaccine mandates

00:28:11.820 in principle.

00:28:12.960 George Washington

00:28:13.740 and the Continental Army

00:28:14.820 mandated inoculation

00:28:16.500 against smallpox

00:28:17.280 and it killed

00:28:17.680 a ton of people.

00:28:19.060 Okay,

00:28:19.340 there's really

00:28:20.640 nothing conservative

00:28:23.060 about this hyper-individualism

00:28:27.160 that says that the government

00:28:28.040 can never mandate anything.

00:28:29.440 I have nothing wrong

00:28:30.640 with vaccine mandates

00:28:31.500 in principle,

00:28:32.480 and yet,

00:28:33.700 I do disagree with them

00:28:36.020 often in practice.

00:28:36.880 So it's like,

00:28:37.400 in practice,

00:28:38.260 I'm with the Florida government,

00:28:40.280 at least to some degree here,

00:28:41.500 but in principle,

00:28:42.420 I'm wrong

00:28:42.820 and I don't want us

00:28:43.520 to draw the wrong lessons

00:28:44.820 from this.

00:28:46.500 The idea that the government

00:28:47.980 has no right

00:28:48.820 to tell you

00:28:49.360 what to do with your body

00:28:50.380 is a fundamentally

00:28:52.220 liberal idea.

00:28:53.540 It is a liberal,

00:28:54.740 individualist,

00:28:55.680 atomizing idea

00:28:56.600 that phrase society

00:28:57.860 undermines order,

00:28:59.980 undermines hierarchy,

00:29:01.440 undermines power,

00:29:03.680 undermines any coherent

00:29:06.440 conception of the political.

00:29:08.780 Okay,

00:29:09.040 the government does,

00:29:09.980 the government can tell you

00:29:10.980 what seatbelts to put on,

00:29:12.540 the government can tell you

00:29:14.260 what clothes you can

00:29:15.420 and cannot wear

00:29:16.200 to some reasonable,

00:29:17.240 you can't walk out

00:29:18.020 in your birthday suit

00:29:18.700 in the middle of the road.

00:29:19.820 The government can,

00:29:20.860 the government can tell you

00:29:21.720 what drugs you can't

00:29:22.540 put in your body.

00:29:24.720 Some people would argue,

00:29:25.800 no, no,

00:29:26.240 the most conservative thing

00:29:27.020 in the world

00:29:27.340 is to legalize fentanyl

00:29:28.320 or something.

00:29:28.620 No,

00:29:29.780 it's not, man.

00:29:31.820 This,

00:29:32.140 I'm not knocking

00:29:32.680 the Florida policy.

00:29:33.740 It's,

00:29:34.100 it might well be a good thing,

00:29:35.740 but not for the reasons

00:29:37.600 that everyone thinks.

00:29:38.520 The reason that it's,

00:29:39.560 it might be wise

00:29:40.420 to end the vaccine mandates

00:29:42.020 is that

00:29:43.020 the government

00:29:44.420 that we elected

00:29:45.260 has,

00:29:46.860 is now leading investigations

00:29:48.220 thanks to Bobby Kennedy

00:29:49.240 into the safety

00:29:50.500 and efficacy

00:29:51.000 of vaccines.

00:29:52.360 It's being carried out

00:29:53.540 in a reasonably ordered way.

00:29:56.000 And there are questions.

00:29:57.840 After COVID,

00:29:58.740 our public health officials

00:29:59.540 lied to us.

00:30:00.560 During COVID,

00:30:01.240 they lied to us.

00:30:01.720 Afterward,

00:30:02.100 we discovered that.

00:30:03.620 And so it is reasonable

00:30:04.960 to take away

00:30:06.660 some of their power

00:30:07.460 to reduce

00:30:08.800 the interference

00:30:09.960 that they have

00:30:10.600 in our lives.

00:30:11.820 They lied to us

00:30:12.660 specifically about the vaccine.

00:30:13.980 There has to be

00:30:14.620 some consequence to that.

00:30:15.640 And the consequence

00:30:16.060 is probably going to be

00:30:16.940 that we're going to question

00:30:17.960 vaccine safety

00:30:18.900 and efficacy.

00:30:20.040 That's not our fault.

00:30:21.180 That's,

00:30:21.580 that's the public health

00:30:23.140 officials' fault.

00:30:24.480 But don't take

00:30:25.260 the wrong lesson.

00:30:26.120 The lesson to take away

00:30:27.580 is not that

00:30:28.180 we have no political right

00:30:30.220 to enforce things.

00:30:32.760 We do.

00:30:33.440 When we even talk about

00:30:34.040 the government,

00:30:34.580 the government made me do this,

00:30:35.580 the government made me do that.

00:30:36.500 The government is,

00:30:38.480 in principle,

00:30:39.320 and to some degree in practice,

00:30:40.500 a reflection of us,

00:30:42.400 of the people.

00:30:43.020 We elect these guys.

00:30:44.360 We are,

00:30:45.020 we are at the very least

00:30:46.060 citizens in this country.

00:30:47.680 And the government does,

00:30:49.400 they can do things.

00:30:51.460 The,

00:30:51.860 the,

00:30:52.180 the question is,

00:30:53.180 what is prudent

00:30:53.680 for the government to do?

00:30:55.420 Don't take,

00:30:56.180 don't become a big lip.

00:30:57.300 Don't do that.

00:30:57.800 Now,

00:30:57.940 on the point of vaccines,

00:30:58.940 RFK Jr.

00:30:59.480 just got into a shouting match

00:31:00.840 with Mike Bennett.

00:31:02.420 Do you remember Mike Bennett?

00:31:03.920 I think he ran for president.

00:31:05.480 He's one of the many,

00:31:06.600 many also rands

00:31:07.800 among the Democrats

00:31:09.200 in recent years.

00:31:10.460 He has this

00:31:11.380 cartoonishly

00:31:13.060 boring voice.

00:31:15.200 He just has,

00:31:15.940 like the fact that this guy

00:31:16.920 was a presidential candidate

00:31:17.960 is shocking.

00:31:19.020 Anyway,

00:31:19.360 he gets into a big fight

00:31:20.660 with Kennedy

00:31:21.440 yesterday

00:31:22.220 over vaccines.

00:31:25.620 You can make,

00:31:26.980 you can characterize it

00:31:28.040 any way you want.

00:31:28.880 I quoted them today.

00:31:30.300 What I said was accurate.

00:31:31.860 What you said

00:31:33.060 were lies.

00:31:34.680 Are you saying,

00:31:35.900 Senator,

00:31:36.380 moving the Titanic,

00:31:39.040 the tears of the Titanic,

00:31:39.580 Are you saying

00:31:40.180 that a TmRNA vaccine

00:31:41.780 has never been associated

00:31:43.440 with myocarditis

00:31:44.460 or pericarditis

00:31:45.540 in teenagers?

00:31:46.180 I am saying,

00:31:46.820 I am simply,

00:31:47.400 Is that what you're

00:31:48.100 trying to tell us?

00:31:48.840 I am simply trying

00:31:49.960 to say

00:31:50.540 that the people

00:31:51.640 that you have put

00:31:52.720 on that panel

00:31:53.680 after firing

00:31:55.320 the entire,

00:31:56.140 You're evading

00:31:56.700 the question.

00:31:57.380 No,

00:31:58.940 I'm asking the questions

00:32:00.000 here.

00:32:00.200 You're evading

00:32:00.720 that question.

00:32:01.500 I'm asking the questions,

00:32:02.940 Mr. Kennedy.

00:32:04.500 I'm asking the questions

00:32:05.400 for Mr. Kennedy

00:32:06.140 on behalf of parents

00:32:08.240 and schools

00:32:09.700 and teachers

00:32:11.040 all over

00:32:12.240 the United States

00:32:13.180 of America

00:32:13.700 who deserve

00:32:14.800 so much better

00:32:16.240 than your leadership.

00:32:17.580 Oh my goodness.

00:32:18.660 That's what this conversation

00:32:19.500 is about,

00:32:20.300 Mr. Chairman.

00:32:21.400 Senator,

00:32:21.760 they deserve the truth

00:32:23.300 and that's what

00:32:24.200 we're going to give them

00:32:24.880 for the first time

00:32:25.940 in the history of that

00:32:27.240 agency.

00:32:29.720 Love that.

00:32:30.900 Kennedy wins the exchange

00:32:32.420 for sure.

00:32:33.320 There was a while

00:32:33.900 where Bennett was doing okay

00:32:35.060 and then he just became

00:32:36.100 such a blowhard

00:32:37.360 by the end of it

00:32:38.140 or he revealed himself

00:32:38.980 to be such a blowhard.

00:32:41.460 Hold on,

00:32:42.020 I have a question for you.

00:32:43.140 Oh, no, no, no,

00:32:43.900 I'm asking the questions.

00:32:46.160 I'm asking the questions.

00:32:47.400 No, no, no,

00:32:48.000 I'm not,

00:32:48.540 but I am rubber

00:32:49.340 and you are glue

00:32:50.240 and well,

00:32:50.940 what bounces off to me

00:32:51.800 sticks to you.

00:32:53.760 Sounds like a dying whale

00:32:55.680 when Mike Bennett speaks.

00:32:56.900 Pathetic.

00:32:57.880 Totally pathetic.

00:32:58.800 And Kennedy gets him.

00:33:00.500 Kennedy totally nails him

00:33:02.000 because he says,

00:33:03.580 hey,

00:33:05.000 you know,

00:33:05.320 vaccines aren't always safe,

00:33:06.540 right?

00:33:07.140 He goes,

00:33:07.400 oh,

00:33:07.780 there you said

00:33:08.600 on the line

00:33:09.480 of things in the vaccine.

00:33:10.800 You're telling me

00:33:11.420 that these vaccines

00:33:12.120 have never been tied

00:33:12.860 to myocarditis

00:33:13.580 or pericarditis

00:33:14.360 in teenagers?

00:33:16.420 Notably,

00:33:17.240 the COVID vaccine

00:33:18.260 in the last five years.

00:33:19.060 Oh,

00:33:19.740 I don't,

00:33:20.320 you stop

00:33:20.860 having me.

00:33:21.600 It's just,

00:33:26.100 what is that?

00:33:26.860 What do they call it?

00:33:27.280 Echo location?

00:33:28.100 Is that like the sonar?

00:33:29.160 That anyway,

00:33:29.620 I don't know.

00:33:30.880 I can't listen to Mike Bennett anymore.

00:33:32.860 And I think people tune that stuff out

00:33:35.000 because Kennedy can deflate it all

00:33:37.000 with that one question.

00:33:37.800 Hey,

00:33:38.360 remember when you all lied to us

00:33:41.420 about the vaccine

00:33:42.440 you made all of us take

00:33:43.920 five minutes ago?

00:33:46.700 Remember when you made

00:33:47.720 all of us take this vaccine

00:33:49.380 that was untested?

00:33:52.320 That we know was untested

00:33:53.620 because it was developed

00:33:54.320 in five seconds.

00:33:55.220 And you made everyone take it,

00:33:56.520 even the groups

00:33:57.660 that were not at risk

00:33:58.560 from the virus

00:33:59.320 that it was supposed

00:33:59.740 to protect against.

00:34:00.600 And then you lied

00:34:01.580 about the safety risks

00:34:02.520 and people died from it.

00:34:03.760 And you lied

00:34:04.600 about the efficacy.

00:34:06.040 And first you said

00:34:07.000 that if we got the vaccine

00:34:07.980 we wouldn't contract the virus.

00:34:09.640 Then,

00:34:10.140 when that wasn't true,

00:34:11.080 you said,

00:34:11.480 if we got the vaccine

00:34:12.480 we wouldn't spread the virus.

00:34:14.060 Then,

00:34:14.400 when that wasn't true,

00:34:15.200 you made the unfalsifiable claim

00:34:16.840 just like all of the

00:34:17.660 foundational claims

00:34:18.520 of liberalism

00:34:19.280 that,

00:34:20.440 well,

00:34:20.540 it would have been

00:34:20.960 a lot worse without it.

00:34:23.920 Yeah,

00:34:24.280 you remember that?

00:34:24.980 Yeah,

00:34:25.140 we're not going to listen

00:34:25.800 to you anymore.

00:34:26.660 We don't want to listen to me.

00:34:28.260 No,

00:34:28.700 we won't.

00:34:29.580 No,

00:34:30.000 we won't.

00:34:30.300 No,

00:34:30.440 we won't.

00:34:31.240 That's why people elected

00:34:32.100 Trump campaigning

00:34:32.900 with Bobby Kennedy

00:34:33.760 on this issue.

00:34:36.900 Totally.

00:34:37.420 This is,

00:34:37.760 this is a similar,

00:34:39.200 a similar issue.

00:34:41.300 It's not that vaccines

00:34:42.380 are,

00:34:43.660 are

00:34:44.420 necessarily terrible

00:34:45.780 in practice.

00:34:46.360 I have nothing

00:34:46.760 in principle

00:34:47.180 against vaccines,

00:34:48.000 but there are

00:34:49.200 practical consequences

00:34:50.380 to public health

00:34:51.700 priorities

00:34:52.780 and public health

00:34:53.800 actions.

00:34:54.900 And when you lie

00:34:56.020 about vaccines

00:34:56.740 and when the vaccines

00:34:57.400 fail,

00:34:57.680 there's going to be

00:34:58.000 a backlash.

00:34:58.660 You want to blame

00:34:59.080 someone,

00:34:59.480 Mike Bennett?

00:34:59.940 Blame yourself.

00:35:01.780 Okay,

00:35:02.380 before we go,

00:35:03.220 just one,

00:35:03.620 one minor point.

00:35:05.320 President Trump

00:35:06.060 has renamed

00:35:06.660 the Department of Defense.

00:35:08.940 It's now

00:35:09.520 the Department of War.

00:35:11.300 It used to be

00:35:12.220 the Department of War.

00:35:13.640 Then it became

00:35:14.420 this squishy,

00:35:15.460 effeminate

00:35:16.100 lib

00:35:17.220 Department of Defense.

00:35:19.340 And now it's

00:35:19.700 the Department of War

00:35:20.380 again.

00:35:21.780 And just

00:35:22.440 another important

00:35:24.020 point,

00:35:24.800 because the libs

00:35:25.520 are going to hate this

00:35:26.080 and they're going to

00:35:26.420 say that it's bellicose.

00:35:27.580 It's belligerent

00:35:28.320 to call it

00:35:28.780 the Department of War.

00:35:30.500 Au contraire,

00:35:31.800 mes frères,

00:35:33.300 the phrase

00:35:34.160 Department of War

00:35:34.960 is much

00:35:36.560 more

00:35:37.600 inclined toward

00:35:39.780 peace

00:35:40.240 than the Department

00:35:41.180 of Defense.

00:35:41.560 They changed it

00:35:42.040 to Department of Defense

00:35:42.760 because you want

00:35:43.600 to make it seem

00:35:44.080 like you're never

00:35:44.600 launching an

00:35:45.920 offensive war.

00:35:46.760 You're never

00:35:47.000 being the aggressor,

00:35:47.880 but you'll defend

00:35:48.420 yourselves when

00:35:49.060 necessary.

00:35:49.540 But we don't

00:35:50.020 want any

00:35:50.480 aggressive war.

00:35:51.780 Oh,

00:35:52.020 these belligerent

00:35:52.700 maniacs,

00:35:53.180 they want war.

00:35:53.840 No,

00:35:53.960 no,

00:35:54.020 no.

00:35:55.620 The Department

00:35:56.340 of Defense

00:35:56.820 is much more

00:35:57.540 likely to get

00:35:58.060 you embroiled

00:35:58.460 in a war

00:35:58.800 than the Department

00:35:59.580 of War is.

00:36:00.260 You know why?

00:36:01.520 Because the Department

00:36:02.200 of War is honest.

00:36:03.780 The Department

00:36:04.220 of War tells you

00:36:04.900 exactly what it

00:36:05.620 does.

00:36:06.000 It wages war.

00:36:07.640 The phrase

00:36:08.240 Department of

00:36:08.920 Defense is

00:36:09.620 Orwellian.

00:36:11.120 That is an

00:36:11.800 Orwellian phrase.

00:36:13.540 When the Department

00:36:14.380 of Defense ran

00:36:15.100 the second Iraq

00:36:15.820 war,

00:36:17.320 was that

00:36:17.740 honest?

00:36:19.800 Was that a

00:36:20.160 defensive war?

00:36:21.060 Even the first

00:36:21.500 Iraq war,

00:36:21.940 was that a

00:36:22.280 defensive war?

00:36:24.220 Was the war

00:36:25.260 in Libya,

00:36:25.800 was that a

00:36:26.400 defensive war?

00:36:27.240 No,

00:36:27.600 it was a lie.

00:36:28.420 Those were

00:36:28.760 offensive wars.

00:36:29.560 You can defend

00:36:30.200 the justice or

00:36:31.260 injustice of those

00:36:31.880 wars all you like.

00:36:32.920 My point is,

00:36:33.660 that wasn't

00:36:34.320 defensive.

00:36:34.900 Department of War

00:36:38.000 is honest.

00:36:39.440 Which gets to

00:36:41.400 the irony of the

00:36:42.700 Trump administration,

00:36:43.700 at least in the eyes

00:36:44.260 of the left,

00:36:44.760 which is,

00:36:45.280 they all see

00:36:45.800 Trump as being

00:36:46.540 belligerent and

00:36:47.160 bellicose and

00:36:48.120 maniac and a

00:36:49.140 cowboy.

00:36:50.220 And actually,

00:36:50.960 he's much more

00:36:51.560 dovish.

00:36:51.960 He's much more

00:36:52.560 of a peace

00:36:52.960 president than

00:36:53.680 any of the

00:36:54.220 Democrat presidents

00:36:54.960 in my lifetime.

00:36:56.620 Why is that?

00:36:57.460 Because he's honest

00:36:58.140 about what war is

00:36:59.300 like,

00:36:59.540 he's honest about

00:37:00.340 the risks

00:37:01.940 brought about

00:37:03.000 by geopolitical

00:37:04.320 strain and

00:37:05.220 conflict.

00:37:07.540 Because he's

00:37:08.340 honest about it,

00:37:08.980 because he's

00:37:09.400 willing to

00:37:10.080 back up

00:37:11.500 his threats,

00:37:13.040 you get more

00:37:14.280 peace.

00:37:14.780 If you want

00:37:15.440 peace,

00:37:15.900 prepare a

00:37:16.220 department of

00:37:16.620 war.

00:37:17.620 Finally,

00:37:18.040 finally,

00:37:18.400 we get to

00:37:18.740 my favorite

00:37:19.100 time of the

00:37:19.440 week when

00:37:19.880 I get to

00:37:20.700 hear from

00:37:21.040 you in the

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00:37:28.080 Take it away.

00:37:29.580 Hi,

00:37:30.040 Michael.

00:37:30.500 I know you

00:37:31.120 said a couple

00:37:31.560 weeks ago that

00:37:32.240 you believe in

00:37:32.860 capital punishment.

00:37:34.020 As a follow-up,

00:37:35.320 I'm just curious.

00:37:36.620 What would your

00:37:37.160 preferred method

00:37:38.260 of execution be?

00:37:40.160 And also,

00:37:40.920 what would your

00:37:41.440 death row meal

00:37:42.480 be?

00:37:43.300 Thanks.

00:37:45.560 I'd probably do

00:37:46.400 a Philly

00:37:46.740 cheesesteak.

00:37:47.820 I don't know

00:37:48.080 why that pop.

00:37:48.520 It's not even

00:37:48.860 that the Philly

00:37:49.140 cheesesteak is my

00:37:50.120 total top

00:37:51.040 favorite food.

00:37:51.780 But I've

00:37:52.760 thought about

00:37:53.400 this question

00:37:53.940 before and I

00:37:54.900 have come to

00:37:55.320 the conclusion

00:37:55.820 my final meal

00:37:56.680 would be a

00:37:57.080 Philly cheesesteak

00:37:57.880 and I would

00:37:58.920 choose death

00:37:59.480 by firing

00:38:00.060 squat if I

00:38:01.740 had to go

00:38:02.260 by capital

00:38:03.140 punishment.

00:38:03.820 And I'd do

00:38:04.920 it at least

00:38:05.540 with a cigarette

00:38:06.060 in my mouth,

00:38:06.660 but I don't

00:38:06.900 like cigarettes

00:38:07.320 really,

00:38:07.600 so I'd like

00:38:08.160 to do it

00:38:08.460 with a cigar

00:38:09.080 or a

00:38:09.540 cigarillo

00:38:10.000 in my mouth.

00:38:11.040 Yeah,

00:38:11.200 that's the way

00:38:11.600 to go.

00:38:11.760 It's much

00:38:12.020 more dignified.

00:38:14.480 Standing up,

00:38:15.480 you know,

00:38:15.700 much more

00:38:16.140 dignified than

00:38:17.040 a lethal

00:38:17.740 injection,

00:38:18.900 the electric

00:38:19.300 chair is a

00:38:19.740 little spooky,

00:38:21.160 noose would

00:38:21.560 freak me out.

00:38:23.280 There's a

00:38:23.600 Dorothy Parker

00:38:24.080 poem about

00:38:24.600 this,

00:38:25.400 but I think

00:38:26.640 firing squat,

00:38:27.340 it's a dignified

00:38:27.940 way to go,

00:38:28.860 especially after

00:38:29.320 a nice tasty

00:38:30.080 cheesesteak.

00:38:30.580 Next question.

00:38:32.260 Hey,

00:38:32.420 Michael,

00:38:32.820 my kid is

00:38:33.660 getting bullied

00:38:34.260 at school.

00:38:35.980 She goes to

00:38:36.720 public school,

00:38:37.340 it seems like

00:38:37.860 it's getting

00:38:38.560 kind of serious.

00:38:39.680 We've reached

00:38:40.060 out to her

00:38:40.460 teacher and

00:38:40.900 her principal

00:38:41.300 and so far

00:38:41.860 nothing's really

00:38:42.480 been done

00:38:42.800 about it.

00:38:43.920 Should we

00:38:44.360 consider moving

00:38:45.380 to homeschooling

00:38:46.080 or private

00:38:46.520 schooling or

00:38:47.120 are there

00:38:47.300 other steps

00:38:47.720 that we

00:38:47.940 should be

00:38:48.220 taking to

00:38:49.260 address this

00:38:49.900 first?

00:38:51.100 Appreciate it.

00:38:51.800 Thanks.

00:38:52.300 Sorry to hear

00:38:52.860 you kids

00:38:53.200 going through

00:38:53.620 that.

00:38:55.580 I would,

00:38:56.400 look,

00:38:57.000 I think a

00:38:58.100 little bit of

00:38:58.580 bullying,

00:38:59.160 a little bit

00:38:59.600 of razzing

00:39:00.180 among kids

00:39:00.760 is important

00:39:01.740 in life

00:39:02.400 and the

00:39:03.480 fact that

00:39:04.000 we kind

00:39:04.540 of extirpated

00:39:05.320 it in the

00:39:05.620 90s and

00:39:06.020 2000s made

00:39:06.760 a generation

00:39:07.240 of weaklings

00:39:07.760 and that's

00:39:08.140 bad.

00:39:08.880 So a little

00:39:09.460 bit of that,

00:39:10.380 a little bit

00:39:10.780 of fighting

00:39:11.460 in the

00:39:11.700 schoolyard

00:39:12.100 is probably

00:39:12.480 good for a

00:39:12.960 kid,

00:39:13.160 builds character,

00:39:13.660 at least for

00:39:13.980 the boys.

00:39:15.780 However,

00:39:16.320 there does

00:39:16.800 come a point

00:39:17.320 at which

00:39:17.760 it can really

00:39:18.800 screw up your

00:39:19.320 life.

00:39:20.140 I know people

00:39:21.040 who were

00:39:21.520 bullied where

00:39:22.560 it really,

00:39:23.640 really screwed

00:39:24.600 up their

00:39:24.880 life and God

00:39:25.480 forbid,

00:39:25.880 you know,

00:39:26.080 they fall

00:39:26.820 into a

00:39:27.120 depression or

00:39:27.700 kill themselves.

00:39:28.340 You hear

00:39:28.500 these stories

00:39:28.880 too,

00:39:29.880 especially when

00:39:30.540 it comes to

00:39:30.840 a girl or

00:39:32.180 with a boy,

00:39:33.180 you know,

00:39:33.440 you want them

00:39:33.840 to learn how

00:39:35.240 to punch back.

00:39:36.780 You need a

00:39:37.680 boy to learn.

00:39:39.060 I remember

00:39:39.540 my mother told

00:39:40.100 me this in

00:39:40.540 elementary school.

00:39:41.180 All the teachers

00:39:41.440 said,

00:39:41.880 if anyone ever

00:39:42.620 pushes you or

00:39:43.240 punches you,

00:39:43.720 you come

00:39:44.120 right to the

00:39:44.480 teacher and

00:39:44.820 you don't do

00:39:45.200 anything.

00:39:45.760 And I told

00:39:46.160 that to my

00:39:46.500 mother and

00:39:46.860 she goes,

00:39:47.160 that's not

00:39:47.580 true.

00:39:48.500 If someone

00:39:49.140 punches you,

00:39:49.720 you got to

00:39:49.880 punch him

00:39:50.140 back.

00:39:51.280 I said,

00:39:51.700 oh,

00:39:52.020 really?

00:39:53.200 About six or

00:39:54.000 something.

00:39:54.900 And I don't

00:39:55.280 know,

00:39:55.500 some kid

00:39:55.820 pushed me

00:39:56.400 and I hit

00:39:57.320 him back and

00:39:57.920 that's good.

00:39:58.480 That's an

00:39:58.740 important lesson

00:39:59.480 at least for

00:39:59.960 a boy.

00:40:01.340 But not so

00:40:02.640 much for a

00:40:03.120 girl.

00:40:04.260 And it can

00:40:04.800 be very,

00:40:05.460 very bad.

00:40:06.140 And especially

00:40:06.480 if the school

00:40:07.340 is unresponsive,

00:40:09.020 I'd pull her.

00:40:10.060 I would pull

00:40:10.540 her.

00:40:10.700 If it's really

00:40:11.360 getting bad and

00:40:11.980 there's nothing

00:40:12.600 that's improving,

00:40:13.880 I'd pull her

00:40:14.420 and send her to a

00:40:15.740 different school

00:40:16.080 if you can afford

00:40:16.560 it or homeschool

00:40:17.820 something for a

00:40:18.440 little bit.

00:40:18.800 But I would

00:40:19.440 take it

00:40:19.900 seriously.

00:40:22.160 This is the

00:40:23.420 proper conservative

00:40:24.260 view.

00:40:24.940 You have to,

00:40:26.100 you're more,

00:40:27.820 I don't know,

00:40:29.680 tolerant of

00:40:30.380 bullying than

00:40:31.400 the libs.

00:40:32.040 But in that way,

00:40:33.100 you actually take

00:40:33.580 it more seriously

00:40:34.500 because you

00:40:35.720 recognize it

00:40:36.140 actually means

00:40:37.040 something and

00:40:37.500 it can go too

00:40:38.580 far.

00:40:39.040 Next question.

00:40:40.980 Hi,

00:40:41.480 Michael.

00:40:41.980 So I've been

00:40:42.540 seeing this guy

00:40:43.160 and he seems

00:40:43.780 to have a lot

00:40:44.180 of great

00:40:44.440 qualities,

00:40:45.100 but he often

00:40:45.880 smokes weed.

00:40:47.080 My question

00:40:47.620 is,

00:40:48.160 is that a

00:40:48.520 deal breaker?

00:40:49.420 On the same

00:40:49.980 note,

00:40:50.380 is it okay

00:40:50.920 to date someone

00:40:51.580 with the goal

00:40:51.980 of fixing

00:40:52.460 their vices

00:40:53.080 or changing

00:40:53.980 them?

00:40:54.680 Like a

00:40:55.460 conservative

00:40:55.860 dating a lib

00:40:56.560 or an

00:40:57.100 anti-weed person

00:40:58.220 dating a weed

00:40:59.140 smoker in

00:40:59.820 order to try

00:41:00.260 to get them

00:41:00.620 to stop?

00:41:02.700 Good question.

00:41:04.180 It's not a

00:41:04.740 good sign.

00:41:06.680 To put aside

00:41:07.420 here,

00:41:08.560 you know,

00:41:09.120 a wounded

00:41:10.040 veteran with

00:41:10.860 PTSD

00:41:11.480 who has

00:41:12.660 been prescribed

00:41:13.460 medicinal

00:41:14.240 marijuana,

00:41:15.020 so-called.

00:41:15.580 Let's just

00:41:15.940 put that,

00:41:16.280 I'm not even

00:41:16.660 weighing in

00:41:17.120 on that issue

00:41:17.600 right now.

00:41:18.560 Put that aside.

00:41:19.200 You're just

00:41:19.460 talking about

00:41:20.000 a young guy

00:41:20.740 who likes

00:41:22.080 to smoke

00:41:22.460 the devil's

00:41:22.940 lettuce.

00:41:23.880 I think it's

00:41:24.560 a bad sign.

00:41:25.600 I mean,

00:41:25.820 one of the

00:41:26.460 moral arguments

00:41:27.840 about this

00:41:28.420 is it's

00:41:28.800 different from

00:41:29.500 alcohol in

00:41:30.320 as much as

00:41:30.820 you can have

00:41:31.220 a drink

00:41:31.620 or two

00:41:31.920 drinks

00:41:32.320 and not

00:41:33.080 get drunk.

00:41:33.740 I mean,

00:41:33.920 Christ,

00:41:34.360 you know,

00:41:34.580 his first

00:41:34.880 public miracle

00:41:35.480 is turning

00:41:35.840 water into

00:41:36.300 wine for

00:41:36.660 people who

00:41:36.980 have been

00:41:37.160 drinking

00:41:37.380 for days.

00:41:38.800 But you

00:41:39.260 can do

00:41:39.540 that.

00:41:39.840 You can

00:41:40.080 also drink

00:41:40.560 too much

00:41:40.940 and get

00:41:41.160 drunk.

00:41:41.500 That would

00:41:41.680 be a sin.

00:41:42.260 But you

00:41:42.480 can drink

00:41:42.960 just socially,

00:41:43.580 have a drink

00:41:43.940 or two,

00:41:44.440 and kind of

00:41:44.760 loosens things

00:41:45.260 up, but

00:41:45.600 you haven't

00:41:46.680 really lost

00:41:47.120 control of

00:41:47.560 your faculties.

00:41:48.280 you can't

00:41:49.980 really do the

00:41:50.660 same with

00:41:51.360 the sin

00:41:51.640 spinach.

00:41:53.080 If you're

00:41:54.100 smoking pot,

00:41:54.940 you're getting

00:41:55.420 high.

00:41:56.700 Unless you're

00:41:58.760 doing a

00:41:59.040 Bill Clinton

00:41:59.460 thing,

00:42:00.160 it takes you

00:42:02.400 further.

00:42:03.620 And it

00:42:04.440 just codes

00:42:05.720 lib.

00:42:06.900 It makes

00:42:07.300 you more

00:42:07.820 mellow,

00:42:08.420 man.

00:42:09.020 It kind of

00:42:09.600 makes you a

00:42:10.120 little less

00:42:10.640 ambitious.

00:42:11.520 It makes

00:42:11.720 you a little

00:42:12.000 less energetic.

00:42:13.400 It makes

00:42:13.640 you a little

00:42:13.920 more inclined

00:42:14.580 to eat a

00:42:15.040 big bag

00:42:15.380 of Cheetos.

00:42:15.940 It codes

00:42:18.120 lib.

00:42:18.820 And so

00:42:19.340 if he's

00:42:20.620 just doing

00:42:20.960 this

00:42:21.160 recreationally

00:42:21.980 frequently at

00:42:22.680 the beginning

00:42:23.160 of your

00:42:23.440 relationship,

00:42:24.280 I wouldn't

00:42:25.100 nag him

00:42:25.500 about it,

00:42:25.940 but I

00:42:26.100 would just

00:42:26.420 say,

00:42:26.800 hey,

00:42:27.440 this is

00:42:28.440 deeply

00:42:29.620 unattractive

00:42:30.660 and you

00:42:31.200 seem like

00:42:32.140 a lib,

00:42:32.720 and I

00:42:33.060 find libs

00:42:34.620 to be

00:42:35.320 gross.

00:42:38.300 And I

00:42:38.500 want a

00:42:38.860 chad.

00:42:39.340 I want a

00:42:39.720 giga chad.

00:42:40.440 If you

00:42:41.780 don't want

00:42:42.100 to be a

00:42:42.420 giga chad,

00:42:42.980 that's fine,

00:42:43.700 but I'm

00:42:44.060 going to go

00:42:44.280 get a

00:42:44.540 giga chad

00:42:45.160 if you

00:42:45.520 want to

00:42:45.760 be like

00:42:46.360 a huge

00:42:47.100 couch potato

00:42:48.660 lib,

00:42:48.960 that's fine.

00:42:49.860 That's okay,

00:42:50.260 but then you

00:42:50.600 need to go

00:42:50.880 get like a

00:42:51.320 lib girlfriend

00:42:51.760 with a

00:42:52.120 septum

00:42:52.400 piercing and

00:42:52.960 you know,

00:42:53.220 10 face

00:42:53.620 tattoos.

00:42:54.820 And that's

00:42:55.160 fine.

00:42:55.500 But it's

00:42:56.700 not a

00:42:56.940 good sign.

00:42:58.840 Take up

00:42:59.320 cigars,

00:42:59.780 take up

00:43:00.000 Mayflower

00:43:00.320 cigars.

00:43:01.120 It's better

00:43:01.580 for you.

00:43:02.000 It's much

00:43:02.360 more attractive.

00:43:03.080 Next

00:43:03.240 question.

00:43:06.540 I want

00:43:07.240 your further

00:43:07.700 thoughts about

00:43:08.520 Israel and

00:43:09.100 its influence

00:43:09.660 on America.

00:43:10.440 Fill on your

00:43:10.800 analysis on

00:43:11.480 Trump's

00:43:11.940 Israel used

00:43:12.980 to control

00:43:13.460 Congress

00:43:14.060 statement.

00:43:14.620 First off,

00:43:16.300 many of the

00:43:16.820 people who

00:43:17.240 are against

00:43:17.820 anti-Semitism

00:43:18.900 clearly act

00:43:19.800 as a stereotype.

00:43:20.520 For two

00:43:20.780 examples,

00:43:21.340 one a Jew,

00:43:21.860 the other not.

00:43:23.200 Congressmen like

00:43:24.180 Randy Fine and

00:43:25.020 Don Bacon have

00:43:26.000 effectively proclaimed

00:43:26.980 their fealty to

00:43:27.860 Israel above

00:43:28.960 America.

00:43:29.960 We criticize

00:43:30.700 Ilhan Omar for

00:43:31.940 her obvious

00:43:32.620 loyalty to a

00:43:33.500 foreign country

00:43:34.000 all day,

00:43:34.680 but Republicans

00:43:35.420 are largely and

00:43:36.800 strangely quiet

00:43:37.660 when it's for

00:43:38.140 Israel and the

00:43:38.860 Jews.

00:43:39.540 They insist on

00:43:40.440 giving real

00:43:41.180 claims to people

00:43:42.420 against Jews.

00:43:43.280 Matt Gaetz

00:43:44.460 once said,

00:43:45.100 if you oppose

00:43:45.620 the U.S.-Israel

00:43:46.460 relationship,

00:43:47.660 you face

00:43:48.040 tremendous

00:43:48.700 headwinds to

00:43:49.320 get into

00:43:49.760 government.

00:43:51.160 An AOC was

00:43:52.040 an example of

00:43:52.780 an anti-Israel

00:43:53.700 congressman

00:43:54.400 Trump used,

00:43:55.560 but she voted

00:43:56.340 to directly fund

00:43:57.400 Israel and

00:43:58.360 then put out a

00:43:58.940 gobbledygook

00:43:59.540 ex-post about

00:44:00.760 how funding

00:44:01.260 Israel was

00:44:01.840 necessary and

00:44:02.540 not funding

00:44:03.080 their alleged

00:44:03.680 genocide.

00:44:04.960 Israel isn't

00:44:05.820 shadowrunning our

00:44:06.680 government like

00:44:07.320 a wild spy

00:44:08.060 movie, but if

00:44:09.380 AOC is the

00:44:10.400 normal anti-Israel

00:44:11.700 politician, it

00:44:13.060 begs the

00:44:13.520 question about

00:44:14.340 how much

00:44:14.720 foreign influence

00:44:15.820 and interests,

00:44:17.380 particularly with

00:44:18.040 Israel, are

00:44:18.840 baked into our

00:44:19.540 government.

00:44:20.300 I'd love your

00:44:20.960 thoughts.

00:44:22.160 Oh, sure.

00:44:22.880 All right.

00:44:23.460 That was a little

00:44:23.760 bit of a lot.

00:44:24.220 We try to,

00:44:24.840 this is not a

00:44:25.460 knock on you,

00:44:26.020 but try to keep

00:44:27.160 the questions

00:44:27.680 tough, if you can,

00:44:28.440 under a minute,

00:44:28.940 ideally 30 seconds,

00:44:29.820 so that we can,

00:44:30.280 you know, we've

00:44:30.560 got to fit a lot

00:44:30.960 of questions in the

00:44:31.480 show.

00:44:31.840 But it's a good

00:44:32.320 question, and it

00:44:33.220 comes from Trump

00:44:34.380 this past week.

00:44:35.620 He said, isn't it

00:44:36.620 great?

00:44:36.860 Look, I love

00:44:37.460 Israel.

00:44:38.040 Israel's great.

00:44:38.760 They used to

00:44:40.360 totally control

00:44:41.200 Congress, and now

00:44:42.360 they have no

00:44:42.760 control over Congress

00:44:43.580 at all, and

00:44:43.940 everyone hates

00:44:44.360 them.

00:44:45.040 Israel's great.

00:44:45.840 It was a compliment

00:44:47.240 sandwich with this

00:44:47.960 really funny thing in

00:44:48.700 the middle.

00:44:49.440 And this is how I

00:44:51.040 think he defangs

00:44:51.760 this issue, because

00:44:52.800 there are some

00:44:53.180 people who insist

00:44:54.060 that the state of

00:44:54.920 Israel has no

00:44:55.700 lobbying in the

00:44:56.320 United States, no

00:44:57.420 influence whatsoever,

00:44:59.040 none.

00:44:59.360 That's like totally

00:45:00.020 crazy and ridiculous,

00:45:01.000 and if you suggest

00:45:01.540 that that's true,

00:45:02.620 you're an anti-Semite.

00:45:04.080 You know, there's

00:45:04.420 that view.

00:45:04.900 That's obviously

00:45:06.120 preposterous.

00:45:06.960 Israel has a

00:45:08.060 very strong

00:45:08.720 lobby in the

00:45:09.220 United States, or

00:45:10.220 had a very strong

00:45:11.540 lobby, per Trump's

00:45:13.200 point.

00:45:13.860 Then there's this

00:45:14.480 other side that

00:45:15.240 says, you know,

00:45:15.820 Israel is pulling

00:45:16.540 the strings, and

00:45:17.360 every time I stub

00:45:19.280 my toe in the

00:45:19.840 morning, it's

00:45:20.340 because some Jew

00:45:21.120 in a schrimel is,

00:45:22.120 you know, secretly

00:45:23.000 conspiring to move

00:45:24.640 my furniture.

00:45:26.140 That's also not

00:45:27.720 true.

00:45:28.880 The reality is that

00:45:30.920 the state of

00:45:31.640 Israel, because of

00:45:33.440 historical circumstance,

00:45:35.800 among other things,

00:45:36.960 just has this

00:45:37.920 relationship with

00:45:38.640 the United States.

00:45:40.420 The state of

00:45:40.920 Israel is founded

00:45:41.580 by the United

00:45:42.100 Nations, which is

00:45:44.280 seated in the

00:45:44.740 United States.

00:45:45.780 It was founded,

00:45:47.760 it was permitted

00:45:49.220 or licensed

00:45:50.300 decades earlier

00:45:51.660 by the British

00:45:52.720 Empire.

00:45:53.360 We are the

00:45:53.740 successor of the

00:45:54.460 British Empire, in

00:45:55.120 many ways, we're

00:45:55.720 kind of the same

00:45:56.340 thing.

00:45:57.600 And it was

00:45:59.420 founded after the

00:46:00.060 Second World War,

00:46:00.840 which we won when

00:46:02.040 we became one of

00:46:03.300 the two superpowers

00:46:04.060 of the world on our

00:46:04.740 way to becoming a

00:46:05.280 global hegemon.

00:46:05.800 So we just have

00:46:06.640 this relationship

00:46:07.240 with Israel, and

00:46:07.840 we have plenty of

00:46:09.780 pro-Israel people in

00:46:10.520 the United States,

00:46:11.120 plenty of Jews in

00:46:11.620 the United States,

00:46:12.140 plenty of Jews who

00:46:12.600 hate Israel in the

00:46:13.260 United States, so

00:46:13.860 that's not exactly

00:46:14.540 monolithic.

00:46:15.540 But there's all

00:46:16.540 these reasons that

00:46:17.480 there are political

00:46:18.060 headwinds that support

00:46:19.720 Israel.

00:46:20.360 But I think also,

00:46:22.100 you can't ignore the

00:46:23.480 second part of Trump's

00:46:24.420 comment, which is,

00:46:25.740 yeah, they don't

00:46:26.000 really have control

00:46:26.600 anymore.

00:46:27.300 Just look at the

00:46:27.860 public opinion polling.

00:46:29.620 Just look at the way

00:46:30.700 congressmen are speaking

00:46:31.560 about this now.

00:46:32.140 Just look at, you

00:46:32.900 know, look at, I

00:46:33.600 don't know, any

00:46:34.060 popular media, left,

00:46:36.320 increasingly on the

00:46:37.480 right, mainstream

00:46:39.000 fringe.

00:46:39.700 They all hate Israel.

00:46:40.880 So, I mean, I think

00:46:41.760 that would be evidence

00:46:42.840 that, and maybe this

00:46:44.680 will be a consolation

00:46:45.780 to some people, that

00:46:46.380 would be evidence that

00:46:47.320 the state of Israel

00:46:47.880 doesn't really have

00:46:49.560 quite as much influence

00:46:50.560 as, not only as they

00:46:52.300 once did, but as

00:46:53.080 people seem to imagine

00:46:54.120 that they do.

00:46:55.480 It's, it's the least

00:46:56.900 popular view, as I

00:46:57.860 always mention, on the

00:46:58.620 Israel-Palestine

00:46:59.260 conflict, is my view,

00:47:00.580 is that things are just

00:47:01.400 kind of murky and

00:47:02.340 nuanced, and these

00:47:03.720 kind of extreme theories

00:47:05.380 just don't really hold

00:47:06.220 water.

00:47:06.740 And that seems to be

00:47:07.240 Trump's view as well.

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The Michael Knowles Show - September 05, 2025

Ep. 1808 - Of Course, We Should Disarm Transvestites

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