The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 1854 - Just Groom It： Nike Partners With A Non-Binary Furry

00:00:00.000 Democrats might split with Chuck Schumer over the shutdown.

00:00:03.520 Jimmy Kimmel's wife splits with her family over Donald Trump.

00:00:06.800 And a 34-year-old woman who split with her boyfriend

00:00:09.340 wants to sue him for stealing the best years of her life.

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00:02:03.860 The shutdown is ending.

00:02:06.420 We talked about it yesterday.

00:02:08.180 The Senate voted.

00:02:09.260 Eight Senate Democrats went over with the Republicans.

00:02:12.420 They got the 60 votes.

00:02:13.760 Then it goes to the House.

00:02:14.920 Then the government will reopen.

00:02:16.140 Okay, why did they do it?

00:02:18.980 They did it because Trump was threatening to nuke the filibuster.

00:02:23.320 And I know there were squishy Republicans who said,

00:02:25.360 no, we can't nuke the filibuster.

00:02:26.720 No, we can't do it.

00:02:27.440 The reason that the eight Democrats moved over to the Republican side

00:02:31.120 is because Donald Trump threatened to nuke the filibuster

00:02:34.500 and Republicans were serious about it.

00:02:36.940 I made an argument at the live show with Megyn Kelly that the time has come.

00:02:40.480 I really like the filibuster,

00:02:41.540 but politics is about applying eternal principles to changing circumstances.

00:02:45.500 And the circumstances are such that if that government shutdown

00:02:49.520 had gone on for one more day, it was time to do it.

00:02:53.040 And the Democrats still will probably want to nuke the filibuster 0.96

00:02:55.400 the next time they're in power.

00:02:56.620 That's what moved it.

00:02:58.300 So the Democrats' hands were really forced here.

00:03:04.080 And now they look terrible because they didn't really achieve anything.

00:03:09.100 They didn't achieve anything at all.

00:03:12.440 I shouldn't say that.

00:03:13.620 They won some elections in Virginia.

00:03:16.440 The shutdown did help them do that.

00:03:18.540 They changed the political conversation away from crime in the cities, for instance,

00:03:24.900 a big Democrat problem.

00:03:26.120 So they achieved that.

00:03:27.620 It's not that it literally achieved nothing.

00:03:30.360 It didn't achieve any of the political ends that they were promising to achieve.

00:03:34.840 And so they look bad.

00:03:36.160 Add on to that, it was the longest government shutdown ever, 41 days, 42 days and counting.

00:03:43.400 It's bad.

00:03:45.280 They said, we're not going to reopen the government until Republicans give us more subsidies for our

00:03:50.560 failing Obamacare policy.

00:03:52.060 And Trump said no.

00:03:53.060 And they said, okay, okay, uncle, uncle.

00:03:55.940 And there will be political consequences for that.

00:03:58.180 But you are now seeing widespread calls for Chuck Schumer to step down as the Democrat leader in

00:04:03.780 the Senate.

00:04:04.480 And it's not just from the total kooks.

00:04:07.040 Ro Khanna, who is a relatively serious Democrat congressman.

00:04:11.100 I'm grading on a curve because I don't think they're a really serious Democrat congressman.

00:04:15.020 But relative to the rest of the party, Ro Khanna is a pretty serious figure.

00:04:19.080 He comes out, he says, Senator Schumer is no longer effective and should be replaced.

00:04:24.140 If you can't lead the fight to stop health care premiums from skyrocketing for Americans,

00:04:28.100 what will you fight for?

00:04:30.120 He's still, he's going to deny until he dies.

00:04:32.820 You know, he's still keeping a straight face on this.

00:04:35.200 Government shutdown was about improving health care for Americans,

00:04:38.140 even though the health care policy that failed was the Obamacare policy. 0.57

00:04:41.220 So there's no reason to believe the Democrats would do any better this time.

00:04:43.440 In any case, he says, Schumer promised that this is what was going to happen.

00:04:48.640 He led the shutdown.

00:04:50.460 The shutdown failed on its policy grounds.

00:04:54.060 And even politically, it largely failed because the public blamed Democrats for the shutdown,

00:04:58.900 not Republicans.

00:04:59.480 First time ever in our lifetimes.

00:05:01.460 Gavin Newsom, one of the front runners for 2028 on the Democrat side. 0.98

00:05:05.080 He just tweets out, pathetic. 0.90

00:05:06.980 Then you get Chris Murphy, Democrat in the Senate. 0.97

00:05:09.340 Here is how he told his constituents that the shutdown was likely going to end.

00:05:13.920 The vote hasn't closed, but it looks like eight Democrats have joined Republicans to

00:05:23.080 vote for a temporary reopening of the government for about two months,

00:05:27.540 but a bill with no protections to stop the coming health care disaster in this country

00:05:32.500 caused by Donald Trump's premium increases,

00:05:34.520 nor any provisions to meaningfully stop Trump's corruption and his illegality.

00:05:41.000 You can see how tired I am.

00:05:43.720 I've been here all weekend.

00:05:45.000 I've been working throughout the past few weeks to try to prevent this moment.

00:05:51.360 Repulsive.

00:05:52.320 This is repulsive.

00:05:55.020 Why is a member of the United States Senate sitting there on camera whining about his feel-feels?

00:06:02.620 First of all, why is he sitting there without a jacket on,

00:06:05.620 his rumpled little shirt, his tie askew, his button undone at the top,

00:06:12.720 which my button's undone at the top too, but I'm not wearing a tie.

00:06:15.000 Sitting there, guys, I've been working so hard.

00:06:22.360 I haven't even shaved.

00:06:24.140 I've been working so hard and I failed.

00:06:28.660 This isn't the first time he's done this.

00:06:30.560 He sent out a tweet, Chris Murphy.

00:06:32.740 This was back in March.

00:06:35.940 And I remember reading this and I said, this is repulsive in a political leader.

00:06:39.840 Who are, he tweets out, he goes, hey, I just got home.

00:06:43.600 Tough effing day.

00:06:46.160 I'm going to go live on Instagram in a few minutes to say why I voted no on some bill.

00:06:52.740 Actually, it was, it was actually over basically the same issue, a government funding bill.

00:06:57.100 This is so degrading.

00:06:58.640 This is degrading to the US Senate, which has already been degraded quite a lot in recent years.

00:07:04.180 I don't, you're politically, you're a grown man.

00:07:07.780 Forget that you're politically, you're a grown man.

00:07:10.120 Sit up straight, button your shirt, pull up your tie, put a jacket on and stop whining about,

00:07:17.760 I don't want to hear about, oh, your emotions are kind of hurt because I was going to try to do something in my job and I'm a failure. 0.92

00:07:29.120 So freaking lame.

00:07:30.980 Sorry, it's a little bit of a side rant. 0.91

00:07:32.520 But I think he is voicing the view of the Democrat Party, which is we failed.

00:07:39.940 And at least guys like Ro Khanna and Gavin Newsom have the dignity to be angry about it instead of just depressed and sad and squishy.

00:07:49.580 In any case, they failed.

00:07:50.680 And that failure might have political consequences.

00:07:54.700 It could cost Chuck Schumer his job.

00:07:58.040 And broadly speaking, what you're seeing is a generational shift.

00:08:03.480 Some of these guys are ancient.

00:08:06.080 The Senate leaders, the House leaders, Nancy Pelosi just announced that she was going to retire after more than 60 years in politics.

00:08:14.480 You're seeing a new generation of Democrats rise up, and they're much more radical.

00:08:21.180 You have the Muslim communist in New York, who's now the mayor. 0.92

00:08:23.660 You have, of course, AOC and Jasmine Crockett and Ilhan Omar, and the list goes on and on and on.

00:08:30.280 What you are seeing in this shutdown is not just one more political battle, usual kind of stuff, in this case, a tactical loss for the Democrats.

00:08:38.700 What you are seeing is a political party that is completely exasperated, completely exhausted.

00:08:46.020 The government shutdown itself was a desperate Hail Mary pass.

00:08:50.640 That's what it was.

00:08:52.280 They were losing on every issue other than health care.

00:08:55.060 They were a little bit above water on health care.

00:08:58.260 So they said, okay, let's shut down the government, try to shift the conversation to health care.

00:09:01.320 That didn't really work.

00:09:03.200 They shifted the conversation away from some of their failures like crime in the cities.

00:09:06.300 But people are not really talking about health care in as much as they are.

00:09:08.940 They're largely blaming the Democrats because it was the Democrats' health care law that failed.

00:09:13.160 This is an exhausted party.

00:09:16.440 And when the party gets exhausted, they get desperate.

00:09:22.100 And that's how you see things like political violence in the streets, the justification of political violence, calls for a shift in the leadership of the party.

00:09:31.120 Chuck Schumer, even if he doesn't step down as minority leader in the Senate, he could lose a Senate seat to AOC next go around if AOC herself doesn't run for president.

00:09:39.500 There is also a lot of turmoil on the Republican side.

00:09:45.420 You're seeing a spike in the perennial Republican civil war between the more traditional conservatives and the neoconservatives, between a generational fight, the younger conservatives and the older conservatives.

00:09:57.100 But that hasn't led to an exhausted party because you have vitality in the leadership of Trump.

00:10:03.880 The Republican Party was exhausted in 2015.

00:10:06.900 Trump injected life into it.

00:10:08.460 And even though Trump is of a certain age, the guy's got more energy than just about anyone.

00:10:12.820 He never seems to sleep.

00:10:14.040 He's always going.

00:10:15.100 He exhausts the much younger reporters and staffers around him.

00:10:18.140 And you have vitality in J.D. Vance, who accommodates new ideas, who promotes new ideas within the party, responds to changing circumstances, but also is able to maintain some moderation and cohesion, bring other people along, keep that coalition together.

00:10:37.920 So the Republican Party is much healthier right now.

00:10:40.560 There are dangers, but it's much healthier right now than the Democrats who are ready to politically decapitate their leadership.

00:10:46.940 All of this is leading rank-and-file Dems of various profiles, private citizens and also public figures, to pull their hair out, to whine and cry on TV, to even sever relationships with their families, as we see with Jimmy Kimmel and his apparently unbalanced wife.

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00:12:38.760 Jimmy Kimmel's wife has just spilled the tea on how she and her husband have had to cut ties.

00:12:46.660 They haven't had to.

00:12:47.900 They have chosen to cut ties with their family.

00:12:51.360 That's right before Thanksgiving, right before Christmas.

00:12:53.380 Because some of their family members voted for Donald Trump.

00:12:58.520 There's like a little bit of sympathy I have for people in my family that I feel are kind of being deliberately misinformed every day.

00:13:09.180 Not kind of.

00:13:10.320 They are deliberately being misinformed every day and they believe it.

00:13:14.820 But it hurts me so much because of the personal relationship I now have where my husband is out there fighting this man.

00:13:25.180 And to me, them voting for Trump is them not voting for my husband and me and our family.

00:13:33.080 And I unfortunately have kind of lost relationships with people in my family because of it.

00:13:39.780 It's like this is not just Republican versus Democrat for me anymore.

00:13:44.420 It is to me, it's family values.

00:13:47.400 I feel like I'm kind of in constant conflict and I'm angry all the time, which isn't healthy.

00:13:52.960 Poor Jimmy Kimmel.

00:13:55.740 Let's hope that Jimmy Kimmel's life improves.

00:13:58.840 He clearly made a big mistake.

00:14:00.800 And he continues to make a mistake because he's not husbanding his wife. 0.98

00:14:04.820 What she is saying is not just some fringe, crazy Hollywood wife nonsense.

00:14:10.440 What she is saying, I think, typifies the Democrat Party right now. 0.71

00:14:13.340 First, let's get to the first thing she says.

00:14:16.240 She says, you know, it's like these people.

00:14:19.520 These people, they're being misled.

00:14:21.240 Okay, so I have some sympathy for the conservatives because they're being misinformed all the time.

00:14:26.320 Then Jimmy chimes in.

00:14:27.500 His wife finally lets him open his mouth.

00:14:29.680 She says, well, yeah, they're being misinformed.

00:14:33.000 Jimmy Kimmel came out on his show the day after Charlie Kirk was murdered.

00:14:39.460 And he strongly insinuated that the killer was a MAGA Republican. 0.96

00:14:45.200 The suspect is a furry dating a trans furry. 0.97

00:14:53.420 He's a gay guy who wrote Catch This Fascist on the Bullet and who, in his own writing, explained his far-left motivations for murdering Charlie, the most prominent promoter of civil debate on the American right. 0.97

00:15:10.520 Jimmy Kimmel comes out on his show, says, yeah, yeah, yeah, it was a MAGA Republican. 0.97

00:15:16.360 And Jimmy Kimmel has the audacity to say, these conservatives are being misinformed. 1.00

00:15:21.240 If they're being misinformed, they're being misinformed by you, not that any of them are watching your stupid show. 1.00

00:15:25.840 The wife then goes on. 1.00

00:15:27.480 And she says, yeah, it's just, it's just, you know, some of them, they voted for Trump.

00:15:33.000 And so I've lost relationships with them.

00:15:35.280 Listen to the passive voice, ever the victim.

00:15:38.560 I don't mean to beat up on her too much.

00:15:40.380 I think the Democrats, I think the left broadly feels this way.

00:15:43.840 I've lost relationships with them.

00:15:46.760 Let's be a little more specific.

00:15:48.620 You have severed relationships with your family.

00:15:51.180 You have disowned your family because some of them voted for the president, the man who won not only the electoral vote, but the popular vote.

00:16:01.220 Because some of your family members voted for the man that most Americans voted for, in one of the two major political parties in the United States for 170 years, you have severed relationships with your family.

00:16:19.120 Why? Why has she done that? 1.00

00:16:23.380 The right doesn't do that.

00:16:25.060 The left does that.

00:16:26.940 Why has she done that? 1.00

00:16:28.740 Well, she says, it's because it just kind of felt like if you're voting for Trump, you're voting against me and my husband and my family.

00:16:38.720 I hear this from Democrats.

00:16:40.380 I hear this from libs, especially the ones who love to make some random identity group the central part of who they are.

00:16:49.120 They say, well, if you vote for me, or rather, if you vote for Trump, you're voting against trans rights.

00:16:55.940 You're voting against me.

00:16:58.040 You're voting against gay rights. 0.96

00:17:00.380 You're voting against black rights or Mexican rights or I don't know, whatever.

00:17:05.980 Never mind that Trump won an historically high number of the black vote and black male vote and of Hispanics.

00:17:12.580 Never mind, never mind, never mind.

00:17:14.060 That's what they say.

00:17:14.680 But for the Kimmels, this is exaggerated because they're public figures.

00:17:20.360 So maybe let's be really charitable to her.

00:17:22.160 She's saying, look, my husband is in a very public fight with Donald Trump.

00:17:26.080 So it's not just, you know, you voted against me by voting for Trump because I'm a private citizen.

00:17:31.240 No, no, no.

00:17:32.180 Kimmel and Trump are in a very public feud.

00:17:34.360 And so if you side with Trump, you're siding against my husband in this big public fight, even though my husband doesn't hold office.

00:17:40.860 Even there, I'm reminded that James Carville and Mary Matlin are married.

00:17:46.800 Do you know that some of the younger listeners will not remember this?

00:17:49.440 James Carville was the chief strategist of Bill Clinton's 1992 presidential campaign.

00:17:54.000 Mary Matlin was a top aide to George H.W. Bush.

00:17:56.920 They met during the campaign, and they got married.

00:17:59.960 And they're still married.

00:18:02.440 They're one of the strongest marriages in all of politics.

00:18:06.420 Not only two people whose views are diametrically opposed, but two people who actually ran presidential campaigns against each other.

00:18:16.200 So it's not just a political problem.

00:18:20.280 It's not just the fact that some of her family is on the other side.

00:18:25.140 It's a her problem. 0.88

00:18:26.840 It's a Jimmy Kimmel problem.

00:18:28.940 It is a current 2025 liberal Democrat problem.

00:18:34.600 They refuse to get along with more than half the country.

00:18:39.380 We get along with them.

00:18:41.260 We tolerate them.

00:18:42.860 We don't disinvite them from Thanksgiving and Christmas.

00:18:46.780 They refuse to get along with us.

00:18:49.120 And there's very little we can do about that.

00:18:51.560 We, you know, you can lead a horse to water.

00:18:56.580 In battles, your opponent has a say.

00:18:59.780 We do our best.

00:19:01.280 But for any of the Democrats watching this show, I know there are plenty of Democrats and liberals who watch this show.

00:19:06.440 Maybe Mrs. Kimmel watches the show. 0.99

00:19:07.960 I don't know.

00:19:08.380 It would probably behoove you to at least consider the possibility that all that anger you feel, all that constant frustration, the impulse to divorce your family,

00:19:25.200 your family who raised you, who loves you, who is nice to you, the fact that you feel that all of a sudden and that you're starting to do that and you're the one whose behavior is changing, that might be a you problem.

00:19:39.400 And maybe the ultimate cause of your anger is not Trump.

00:19:45.220 It's not the Trump voters.

00:19:47.200 It's not J.D. Vance.

00:19:48.680 It's not.

00:19:50.200 Maybe it's something a little deeper with you.

00:19:52.540 Maybe you are perceiving politics incorrectly.

00:19:55.720 Maybe you have a spiritual problem.

00:19:57.760 Maybe you have a severe dearth of charity.

00:20:00.080 Maybe you're a little too self-obsessed if you think that casting a presidential ballot is about you or your husband or whatever.

00:20:07.120 Maybe you need to work on yourself.

00:20:11.460 And maybe you need to recognize you have a big problem.

00:20:13.080 Maybe you need to ask for God's help and cooperate with his grace.

00:20:15.380 Maybe you need to do that.

00:20:16.360 That's my message.

00:20:17.220 Not just to Mrs. Kimmel, though I would appreciate if someone would send this to her too.

00:20:20.680 It would help her.

00:20:21.780 But it's to all the Democrats, many of whom are feeling this way.

00:20:26.120 Look at the surveys.

00:20:27.760 Very liberal people, eight times as likely to justify political violence as very conservative people.

00:20:31.880 26% of young liberals justifying political violence.

00:20:34.600 It's a big, broad problem.

00:20:39.300 Within a political party, what had been the major political party in the United States, that is exhausted, that is exasperated, that doesn't know what it believes on any issue, that doesn't have any leaders, that doesn't have a presidential frontrunner for the first time in a quarter century, that doesn't know where to go from here.

00:20:56.200 Rather than just get angrier and angrier and angrier and become more and more irrational and maybe even get violent, rather than do that, maybe just take a breather and recognize maybe something is wrong with you.

00:21:13.140 And maybe turn to the people who have cared for you and who loved you, maybe your family that you want to disown, and ask them for a little bit of help.

00:21:19.080 That's just my thought, in the spirit of Thanksgiving, which is coming up.

00:21:22.500 Speaking of family, really important article I read in The Telegraph.

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00:21:28.660 I encourage you all to read it.

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00:21:33.720 Does he owe me anything?

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00:21:40.920 Woman dates a guy for 10 years. 0.61

00:21:42.840 She's 34. 0.94

00:21:44.520 He up and leaves her.

00:21:45.740 She wants to sue him.

00:21:46.620 All those lost years.

00:21:50.140 Maybe she can use the money to pay to freeze her eggs or get IVF or something like that. 1.00

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00:23:05.440 Shopify.com slash Knowles.

00:23:09.200 My ex stole my childbearing ears.

00:23:11.240 Does he owe me?

00:23:12.240 This is another widespread problem.

00:23:15.840 This is not just about this woman writing into the telegraph.

00:23:18.640 I know plenty of women who feel this way, who have been dating, and clock's ticking, and they get to a certain age, and they say, oh my goodness, time's running out to get married to have kids. 0.91

00:23:28.880 And I've been dating this guy forever, but he was a total schlub, and he either left me, or he doesn't want to get married, or he doesn't want to have kids.

00:23:35.860 And shoot, man, I'm running out of options.

00:23:38.260 Here's what this lady says. 1.00

00:23:41.240 I'll just read a few little pieces.

00:23:43.680 He tells me that he feels at 38 as though he still has a decade of enjoying his lifestyle, empowering through with his career, and is not ready for marriage and children.

00:23:53.940 He's 38 years old.

00:23:54.740 He's not ready for marriage and children.

00:23:55.940 He's just got to find himself, you know?

00:23:58.240 He's got to do more drugs and work a little more and go to more nightclubs, and then he'll be ready.

00:24:05.460 He knows that marriage and children have become a priority for me, so he's off.

00:24:11.060 That's it.

00:24:12.060 He's 38.

00:24:12.800 She's 34. 0.94

00:24:13.480 They've dated for 10 years, but he just has more exploring to do.

00:24:18.680 You know, he just wants to prioritize him, and so he's out.

00:24:22.660 Here I am at 34, eggs twitching, ready for the marriage and parenthood stage of life, but unexpectedly single and emotionally devastated.

00:24:32.800 I am tipping into the furious phase of the grief cycle because I feel as though he owes me big time, and I want him to pay.

00:24:38.640 The woman then goes on to explain that she also made career sacrifices to prioritize her ex-boyfriend.

00:24:47.820 You know, he had career ambitions, and she let her career take a backseat for her ex-boyfriend.

00:24:53.340 Totally normal thing to do if you're a wife and it's for your husband. 1.00

00:24:56.720 A little bit of a worse idea if you guys are not married and you're just shacking up.

00:25:03.740 But they had verbally agreed that he would be the chief breadwinner when they had children.

00:25:09.000 But, you know, it was a verbal agreement, nothing on paper, no marriage certificate.

00:25:13.720 You know, sometimes people say, oh, who needs a piece of paper?

00:25:16.260 Oh, who needs to get married? 1.00

00:25:17.600 That's just a matter for the state.

00:25:18.720 No, no, no.

00:25:19.120 We're just going to date indefinitely.

00:25:20.500 Well, here's why.

00:25:21.520 Here's one reason why, at least.

00:25:23.400 Well, we had a verbal agreement.

00:25:24.680 See how that holds up in court.

00:25:25.680 So, she concludes, now I feel like these compromises have left me vulnerable and I'm seeking compensation.

00:25:32.720 Surely, he should have some responsibility for helping me mitigate the damage to our plans caused by his change of heart and broken promises.

00:25:38.560 Well, I really feel for this woman.

00:25:42.600 I really feel for her.

00:25:43.980 She made a lot of bad choices.

00:25:45.400 She never should have dated this guy for 10 years.

00:25:47.380 She never should have thought that 34 is the time to start thinking about if you want to settle down and have kids.

00:25:51.780 Because she should have thought about that when she started dating him at age 24, frankly.

00:25:57.140 And, obviously, she has no legal recourse here.

00:25:59.960 But I feel for her also because in the old days, you would have said, look, now she has no legal recourse.

00:26:09.160 But if they had been married, they actually would have had a contract.

00:26:12.580 And if he broke that contract, she would be able to take him to the cleaners.

00:26:16.080 In some places, yeah, maybe.

00:26:17.560 But actually, divorce has been liberalized over the last 60 years.

00:26:23.140 Largely driven by the feminists.

00:26:24.860 But divorce has been liberalized.

00:26:26.740 And most of the people who initiate the divorces are women. 1.00

00:26:30.660 So I guess the feminists feel like that's a victory. 1.00

00:26:33.320 But in this case, if the guy had just left her, she could have challenged the divorce.

00:26:38.160 She could have refused to give him a divorce in the old days. 0.92

00:26:40.500 She could have forced him to stay in the marriage.

00:26:44.080 Or, verily, she could have taken him for a lot of money.

00:26:48.920 So now, you know, it's easy to say, well, they just should have gotten married.

00:26:52.300 And then if he decided to leave, she would have had some legal options.

00:26:54.980 But frankly, with no fault divorce, you don't really have as many options.

00:26:59.160 You can dissolve marriage. 0.89

00:27:00.160 It is degraded marriage to the point that marriage is kind of like being boyfriend and girlfriend.

00:27:05.360 And so is it any wonder that people think that being boyfriend and girlfriend is basically the same thing as marriage?

00:27:09.240 It's not.

00:27:09.640 But it's not.

00:27:10.420 And she's tragically finding out how very different those things are.

00:27:14.880 So I looked at some of the responses.

00:27:17.260 And you're going to hear this from people on the right.

00:27:19.000 I know there are going to be people on the right, not just on the left, not just the feminists. 1.00

00:27:23.300 There will be people on the right who say, she's a grown woman.

00:27:26.620 Her mistake. 1.00

00:27:27.760 She was dumb. 1.00

00:27:28.720 She made her bed. 1.00

00:27:29.660 She can lie in it.

00:27:31.200 Why do I care?

00:27:31.740 She doesn't get to take him to the cleaners for this.

00:27:33.640 She doesn't get to sue him.

00:27:34.600 She literally doesn't get to sue him.

00:27:36.020 But I don't feel bad for her.

00:27:37.980 She made her choices.

00:27:38.760 She's a grown woman.

00:27:40.480 Here, I'll just read verbatim.

00:27:42.800 One tweeter.

00:27:44.580 Women are either adults with agency or they're not. 1.00

00:27:46.980 There's no middle ground.

00:27:48.820 Another one.

00:27:49.480 Another one.

00:27:50.300 Accountability matters.

00:27:51.680 You make your own choices.

00:27:53.040 And those choices have consequences.

00:27:54.860 You chose that person.

00:27:55.860 So no one owes you anything for the decisions you freely made.

00:27:59.960 So what is the conservative view of that?

00:28:01.900 What's my view of this?

00:28:04.920 Sorry, I disagree with that.

00:28:06.540 I know that there's a kind of red pill bro contingent that says, oh, these women. 1.00

00:28:10.640 These women, you know, come on. 1.00

00:28:11.820 They're grown adults.

00:28:12.420 They need to make their own decisions.

00:28:13.440 Accountability matters.

00:28:14.240 Either women are accountable grown adults or they're not. 1.00

00:28:18.800 Sorry, I just don't see it that way.

00:28:22.840 Some people who misunderstand things are going to accuse me of being a little bit lib or like a little bit feminist.

00:28:28.400 Because I am largely on the woman's side in this case.

00:28:30.960 But I promise you, the reason that I'm largely on the woman's side in this case has nothing to do with feminism. 0.77

00:28:37.280 It is actually the exact opposite of feminism. 1.00

00:28:40.380 And I think it's the red pill bros who really share the same view as the feminists ultimately.

00:28:46.740 I think it's the red pill bros who say men and women are exactly the same.

00:28:50.680 And so men and women need to be held to exactly the same standards when it comes to decision making, accountability, relationships.

00:28:58.860 They need to be held to the exact same standards. 0.94

00:29:00.660 And that's gay. 0.98

00:29:02.040 That's a gay anthropology. 0.99

00:29:04.320 That's feminist. 1.00

00:29:05.680 It's gay. 1.00

00:29:06.820 It's liberal. 0.87

00:29:08.060 It's the view that says that men and women are exactly the same.

00:29:11.040 This line, someone says, accountability matters.

00:29:14.160 Accountability matters.

00:29:15.260 You make your choices. 1.00

00:29:16.540 Suck it up, lady. 1.00

00:29:18.300 Yeah, I know you followed this guy around for a while and he used you and then left you high and dry. 1.00

00:29:23.300 But accountability matters.

00:29:24.500 It reminded me of that great line from the movie As Good As It Gets, the Jack Nicholson line.

00:29:29.960 Jack Nicholson plays a writer and he's asked by this woman, fangirling, I'm all gaga over him, says, how do you write women so well? 0.98

00:29:39.860 How do you write women so well? 1.00

00:29:42.460 I think of a man and I take away reason and accountability.

00:29:46.700 Show me the lie.

00:29:53.700 No, listen, listen, listen.

00:29:56.880 The Red Pill bros don't take this woman's side because a lot of them actually hate women. 0.78

00:30:04.660 They actually just like don't really like women.

00:30:06.560 I am taking the woman's side because I really like women. 1.00

00:30:12.600 I love women. 1.00

00:30:13.840 I think women are great. 1.00

00:30:15.400 But look at the irony here.

00:30:17.660 It's the kind of Red Pill bro reaction that says, this woman needs to be accountable because men and women are exactly the same.

00:30:25.360 They need to be held to exactly the same standard.

00:30:26.980 And me, someone who loves women, my explanation is now men and women are not the same.

00:30:34.860 And they can't really be held to the same standards because women are not as reasonable and accountable. 1.00

00:30:42.840 Certainly when it comes to relationships.

00:30:44.620 I know.

00:30:44.880 And they're going to say that's misogynistic.

00:30:46.440 That's how dare you. 0.95

00:30:47.220 That's sexist.

00:30:48.580 It is what it is.

00:30:50.060 I don't know what to tell you.

00:30:50.900 But women are not as reasonable and accountable. 1.00

00:30:56.680 Certainly when it comes to relationships.

00:30:58.500 They're not.

00:30:59.120 That's why the Jack Nicholson line hit.

00:31:00.780 That's why it's one of the most famous movie lines of the last 30 years.

00:31:04.600 And that's a lovely thing about them.

00:31:08.260 Look, everyone agrees with me, ultimately.

00:31:12.680 Because let me ask you a question.

00:31:14.700 Is it okay to hit a woman? 0.99

00:31:16.480 When I was a kid, I was brought up to be told it's not okay to hit a woman.

00:31:21.380 The liberals, weirdly enough, were raised to think that it is okay to hit a woman.

00:31:25.320 So much so that now you have liberal politicians literally arguing in deliberations over laws

00:31:31.920 that it is okay for men to punch women in boxing, in UFC.

00:31:37.740 And they say it's okay.

00:31:39.260 Because men and women are basically the same.

00:31:42.120 Men and women are the same. 0.93

00:31:43.180 That's feminism. 1.00

00:31:43.960 That's the gay movement. 0.99

00:31:44.940 That's the trans movement.

00:31:45.920 It's all the same premise.

00:31:47.560 Men and women are the same. 0.93

00:31:48.500 I don't think they're the same.

00:31:50.900 And I think that men have a responsibility to lead their households. 0.94

00:31:55.980 And I think that when a man leads a woman on for 10 years, yeah, there's really nothing 0.97

00:32:01.940 a woman can do about that. 1.00

00:32:03.600 But that's a problem.

00:32:04.440 And that's a political problem.

00:32:05.660 And it's why we should discourage fornication.

00:32:09.600 It's why we should discourage adultery and hookup culture and all these other things. 0.96

00:32:14.840 It's why we should promote marriage. 0.99

00:32:16.620 It's why we need a serious definition of marriage. 0.80

00:32:19.800 It's why we need to restrain divorce laws. 1.00

00:32:23.440 It's why we need to get rid of excuses like no-fault divorce that in many ways render the

00:32:30.740 institution of marriage meaningless.

00:32:33.600 It's why we need to make sure that, it's why we need to overrule Obergefell, for instance,

00:32:37.760 and remind everyone that marriage involves both men and women.

00:32:41.100 You need one of each.

00:32:43.020 It's kind of like the essential nature of marriage.

00:32:47.960 How right-wing are you?

00:32:51.060 How trad are you?

00:32:52.180 How classical are you?

00:32:52.980 How based are you?

00:32:54.920 Do you think men and women are the same or not?

00:32:56.820 If you think they're different, then you have to behave that way.

00:33:04.140 And the irony of ironies is that we're told if you really love women, you have to treat

00:33:10.320 men and women exactly the same.

00:33:11.640 And yet I notice it is the most practically misogynistic people in the country who argue

00:33:17.920 that men and women are the same.

00:33:18.960 It's the ones who want to force giant dudes into your little girl's changing room and allow 1.00

00:33:23.260 men to beat up women in a boxing ring. 1.00

00:33:25.100 Those are the ones who, these people who hate women, or even people on the right who like 0.92

00:33:30.820 clearly have a deep hostility to women.

00:33:33.500 They're the ones saying men and women are the same, treat them the same. 0.98

00:33:37.360 And the people who love women, who actually love women, they're the ones who are acknowledging 0.94

00:33:42.680 reality.

00:33:43.920 I'm on the, she shouldn't, she's not going to get money from, she shouldn't freeze her

00:33:47.740 eggs, she shouldn't do IVF. 1.00

00:33:48.740 I feel for her and she shouldn't do morally dubious or immoral things.

00:33:53.020 But I feel for her, and if we love women and we want to make them happier, we got to acknowledge

00:33:59.220 reality.

00:34:00.540 There's that study came out of Yale, I think it was 2008, the paradox of declining female

00:34:03.760 happiness.

00:34:05.480 Since feminism, women's happiness has declined in absolute terms and relative to the happiness 1.00

00:34:10.920 of men.

00:34:12.640 That'll change course if you like women. 1.00

00:34:15.380 Is it okay to hit women? 0.86

00:34:16.340 That's, I say no, because they're different.

00:34:20.740 Okay, speaking of marriage, big update on the Supreme Court, whether or not they're going

00:34:25.280 to overrule gay marriage. 0.61

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00:35:05.460 My favorite comment yesterday is from Sal Saguev N3S, who said, 0.91

00:35:10.340 Senator Schumer never makes the same mistake twice.

00:35:14.440 He makes it five or six times, just to be sure.

00:35:17.220 That is Senator John Kennedy.

00:35:18.740 Actually, the comment just said Senator Kennedy.

00:35:20.720 I said, wait, Teddy Kennedy hit?

00:35:22.480 He hit him like that?

00:35:23.540 He hit Schumer?

00:35:24.460 I said, no, Senator John Kennedy, who has the best one-liners of anybody in the U.S.

00:35:27.740 Senate.

00:35:29.560 Turning from the Senate to the Supreme Court, I mentioned yesterday on the show that on Friday,

00:35:35.800 the Supreme Court deliberated over whether or not they were going to hear an appeal from

00:35:40.440 this woman, Kim Davis, who is a county clerk who refused to issue same-sex marriage licenses. 0.99

00:35:45.660 This would be a case that could trigger the overruling of Obergefell, which created a

00:35:50.720 constitutional right to same-sex marriage.

00:35:53.680 And I said, look, the court is probably not going to hear this case.

00:35:57.520 Right now, there's still too much popular support.

00:35:59.840 There's 54% popular support for same-sex marriage in the U.S.

00:36:02.760 But that number has declined, and it will continue to decline.

00:36:05.800 Whether or not they hear this case this time, they will hear it eventually, and they will

00:36:09.220 hear some case like this eventually.

00:36:10.500 They will overrule Obergefell eventually, because it's totally contrary to nature.

00:36:14.600 So the Supreme Court decided shortly after my show came out to reject this appeal, to overturn

00:36:22.220 Obergefell.

00:36:23.820 Okay, I'm not surprised at all.

00:36:25.260 It's going to be a long road.

00:36:26.120 I also mentioned on the show yesterday that it took almost 50 years for Roe v. Wade to be

00:36:29.920 overruled, but it was overruled eventually.

00:36:32.380 Because the Roe v. Wade decision, followed up by Planned Parenthood v. Casey, which undermined

00:36:39.080 the reasoning of Roe v. Wade, but upheld the object of it, which was a national license 0.78

00:36:43.280 to abortion, supposedly in the Constitution, that was just ridiculous. 0.81

00:36:47.500 It was ridiculous on textualist grounds. 0.97

00:36:49.920 It was ridiculous on originalist grounds. 0.91

00:36:52.120 It was ridiculous on moral grounds, natural law grounds. 0.98

00:36:54.640 It was ridiculous, and it was contrary to reality. 0.98

00:36:57.080 There is no right to slaughter kids. 0.99

00:37:02.400 There just isn't.

00:37:04.000 And the same principle is true for Obergefell.

00:37:07.900 There is no right to same-sex marriage. 1.00

00:37:11.020 There is no such thing as same-sex marriage.

00:37:13.200 And there's certainly no right to it.

00:37:15.000 And there's certainly no right to it in the Constitution.

00:37:17.220 Do you think when Alexander Hamilton and James Madison and John Jay are writing The Federalist,

00:37:22.480 do you think in the back of their minds was the notion that two fellas were going to go get a

00:37:26.840 marriage certificate and then go to the baby store and buy kids, create designer babies?

00:37:32.080 And I don't think so. 0.96

00:37:33.900 That would have been ridiculous. 0.65

00:37:36.920 It was ridiculous in 2014.

00:37:40.320 The notion of same-sex marriage, Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton ran against it in 2008. 0.96

00:37:45.040 It's preposterous.

00:37:47.320 The only reason it exists is because Senator, sorry, Justice Kennedy, there's so many Kennedys

00:37:53.220 in our government.

00:37:54.100 Justice Kennedy, Anthony Kennedy, in Obergefell, decided to write some romantic poetry and say

00:38:00.080 that there is a secret right to intimacy in the Constitution, a right that I have not seen

00:38:04.960 anywhere in the Constitution.

00:38:06.440 But even if there were such a right, Antonin Scalia beautifully wrote in his dissent, he said,

00:38:11.160 even if there were a right to intimacy in the Constitution, marriage restricts rather than

00:38:16.880 expands the right to intimacy, ask the nearest hippie. 0.77

00:38:20.940 So it's just preposterous all around.

00:38:23.680 And reality will reassert itself in the end.

00:38:27.060 And maybe sooner than later.

00:38:28.720 These politics are shifting very quickly because the Democrat Party is completely exhausted,

00:38:32.660 doesn't know where to go from here.

00:38:33.740 And the right is in the midst of a civil war to figure out what its future is going to be.

00:38:37.880 And things might happen quickly.

00:38:39.800 Now, speaking of weird sex stuff, Nike has hired a non-binary furry to sell athletic wear 1.00

00:38:44.580 to gamers.

00:38:48.820 Weren't we done with this?

00:38:50.060 Isn't that over?

00:38:51.700 That headline is very 2023 energy.

00:38:54.100 Why is, I thought, get woke, go broke.

00:38:57.400 What happened to, they hired someone, what's this guy's name?

00:39:03.080 Sonic, it's like a Sonic the Hedgehog kind of thing. 0.96

00:39:05.640 But anyway, it's some weird looking dude sitting in a gamer chair with a big creepy sex mask on

00:39:11.660 and some Nike gear, I guess. 1.00

00:39:14.160 And then really, really short shorts, only slightly covering his big, fat, hairy, disgusting legs. 0.99

00:39:20.400 It's just the whole thing is gross. 0.99

00:39:22.060 I don't mean to body shame, but all men should cover up. 1.00

00:39:27.580 I don't want short shorts on any man. 0.99

00:39:29.500 And I don't want to see your gross, hairy legs. 1.00

00:39:31.280 And it's gross. 0.99

00:39:31.880 The whole thing is disgusting.

00:39:32.760 However, I guess I will break with all my fellow conservatives in that I get why Nike did this.

00:39:41.260 Nike did this because Nike's business has been failing relative to its competitors,

00:39:46.920 competitors like Adidas.

00:39:48.360 Adidas has been eating Nike's lunch.

00:39:50.580 So Nike had to do something to change its fortunes.

00:39:55.120 And one way it was going to do that was lean into the gamer community, like video games.

00:39:59.840 You think of Nike as being about sports, go outside, touch grass, run around, throw a ball.

00:40:07.620 They were leaning into digital sports, video games.

00:40:11.500 And video game culture is super creepy and weird.

00:40:15.680 It is.

00:40:16.420 I'm going to, I can see the comments now.

00:40:18.820 I know.

00:40:20.700 I mean no offense by that.

00:40:22.580 Let all who have ears to hear, let them hear.

00:40:25.760 Video game culture is creepy and weird.

00:40:29.620 And often kind of involves weird sex stuff.

00:40:31.980 It just is.

00:40:32.960 I don't have much first-hand experience of video game culture.

00:40:37.060 I just know from what I read and what I hear, it's weird.

00:40:40.620 It's not sports.

00:40:41.760 You know, you go out.

00:40:42.660 It's some like giga chad who puts on, you know, his uniform and throws the ball.

00:40:47.420 He's got muscles.

00:40:48.540 He's athletic.

00:40:49.460 He's dating some hot chick who's normal.

00:40:52.200 It's the exemplar of healthy, normal American culture.

00:40:58.360 Is that the image you get from video gamers?

00:41:01.200 That they're just in like really good shape, great health, with a really hot girlfriend,

00:41:07.060 just like normal.

00:41:08.580 That is not the image you have of that.

00:41:10.840 And so Nike said, all right, well, we're going to try to get into video games to try to help

00:41:15.920 us boost our sales.

00:41:17.080 And if we want to get into video games, we're not going to go get the giga chad to be our

00:41:21.060 spokesman. 0.99

00:41:21.580 We're going to go get some weird sex freak, a non-binary. 1.00

00:41:24.480 Yes, Sonic Fox is his name. 0.99

00:41:27.280 Martine Rose collab Nike's latest campaign.

00:41:30.880 Okay.

00:41:32.380 That's, it's in a way it's a smart business decision.

00:41:36.500 But here's the bigger problem.

00:41:37.700 The bigger problem is not bringing weird sex stuff into Nike.

00:41:43.100 The bigger problem is combining e-sports with real sports.

00:41:48.980 They both have the word sports in it, I guess, but they're totally different things.

00:41:53.400 That's going to be the big problem.

00:41:55.580 And actual athletes and actual would-be athletes and actual hobbyists and guys who just like

00:42:01.440 to throw a football every so often are not going to want to be associated with weird 0.97

00:42:05.340 sex freaks. 0.95

00:42:06.080 They're just not going to want to do that. 0.97

00:42:08.540 That's the bigger issue.

00:42:10.540 There is a, there is a cultural disconnect, not between the furries and the gamers.

00:42:18.660 I bet, I bet most furries are gamers.

00:42:21.260 If I'm not saying most gamers are furries, but I think most furries are gamers.

00:42:25.040 Most, it's not that all rectangles are squares, but all squares are rectangles.

00:42:30.020 And trying to combine that with giga chats doesn't make any sense.

00:42:34.540 And so in, in the long run, it probably will hurt Nike.

00:42:38.580 It's like, it was just, they were just being a little too clever by half.

00:42:41.540 Now, speaking of go woke, go broke, I don't know if people still watch South Park.

00:42:46.700 Well, people do because they've had record high ratings this season.

00:42:51.120 I watched South Park from episode one, the second airing of episode one in 1998 or whenever it was.

00:42:56.620 I watched a ton of South Park.

00:42:57.900 I just generally don't watch TV.

00:42:59.240 So I haven't seen South Park in a while, but I've always found it to be funny.

00:43:02.660 Trey Parker, Matt Stone, really funny guys.

00:43:04.660 But this year, they went really hard after Trump.

00:43:08.840 And I watched one episode of it just to see it.

00:43:11.800 And it was, it was pretty funny, but they went really hard after Trump.

00:43:14.260 This, after skewering the woke for many years.

00:43:18.920 That, after, even in the 90s, they always had this kind of libertarian streak.

00:43:22.280 They would make fun of conservatives sometimes, but they would really go after the left.

00:43:25.860 You know, I think it was Matt Stone said, look, we hate conservatives, but we really effing hate liberals.

00:43:31.940 You know, that was always their take.

00:43:33.600 And so this season, they went really, really hard after the right.

00:43:36.720 And now they've explained why.

00:43:39.140 Trey Parker said, it's not that we got all political.

00:43:43.820 It's that politics became pop culture.

00:43:46.420 Because many seasons, they don't even really lean into political news, but this time they did.

00:43:50.760 And Trey Parker's saying, no, it's not that we like got triggered and got all political like Jimmy Kimmel's wife.

00:43:55.500 We're the same guys.

00:43:56.620 It's just that now everyone's just talking about politics all the time.

00:43:59.400 That is the pop culture.

00:44:01.420 And so we're reflecting that.

00:44:02.780 As good satirists, we're reflecting that.

00:44:04.720 Matt Stone said that the reason they went after Trump is because criticizing Trump started to feel taboo.

00:44:12.080 And what South Park is all about is breaking taboos, for better and worse.

00:44:16.640 That's what it's all about.

00:44:19.260 And for most of the last 25 years, the taboos have all been set by the left.

00:44:24.420 And so if you wanted to transgress the taboos, you were mostly making fun of the left.

00:44:28.640 He said, now it started to feel like criticizing Trump was taboo.

00:44:31.620 So we went after Trump.

00:44:32.560 Matt Stone said, Trey and I are attracted to that like flies to honey.

00:44:37.840 Oh, that's where the taboo is over there?

00:44:39.700 Okay, then we're over there.

00:44:40.800 We just had to show our independence somehow.

00:44:42.600 Okay.

00:44:43.380 I know some conservatives were going after South Park for this.

00:44:48.080 South Park famously parodied Charlie Kirk before he died, of course.

00:44:53.420 And some conservatives went after them for that.

00:44:57.260 I will say Charlie loved it.

00:44:58.580 Charlie totally leaned into it.

00:44:59.800 He thought it was hilarious.

00:45:00.620 I think he changed his profile picture on social media to Cartman as Charlie Kirk.

00:45:05.380 It's cool.

00:45:05.860 It's a great honor.

00:45:06.740 And a lot of conservatives have really enjoyed South Park over the years.

00:45:09.380 So I don't, I know some conservatives don't like that.

00:45:13.100 To me, this is a sign of the times.

00:45:15.120 This actually brings us right back to our first story about the shutdown and where the Democrats are.

00:45:18.360 It is great.

00:45:21.040 It is a great sign for conservatives that Trey Parker and Matt Stone are going after Trump

00:45:26.480 because they feel that's where the taboos are, because that's where they feel that's where the

00:45:31.280 mainstream culture is, because that's where they feel that's where the regime is.

00:45:35.020 Because that means that conservatives have very serious political control and cultural control

00:45:41.680 that we have not really had in my lifetime.

00:45:45.780 That's great.

00:45:46.560 That means that right now, the Republican Party has problems.

00:45:52.980 There's a civil war.

00:45:54.220 There's always a civil war, but it's really getting hot right now.

00:45:56.840 And they're trying to figure out what the future is, what happens after Trump.

00:45:59.160 Can J.D. Vance continue to lead this coalition?

00:46:01.180 What's the coalition look like?

00:46:02.020 Do we have to kick people out, blah, blah, blah.

00:46:03.180 It goes on forever.

00:46:04.700 There's problems.

00:46:06.120 But the Democrats are completely exhausted.

00:46:08.780 And yes, they elected their Muslim communists in New York. 0.74

00:46:11.220 And yes, they won some elections in Virginia.

00:46:12.700 But they're running on empty right now.

00:46:14.700 They don't know what they believe about any, what do they believe about tariffs?

00:46:18.180 What do they believe about workers?

00:46:19.400 What do they believe about migration?

00:46:20.640 What do they believe about foreign policy?

00:46:21.980 What do they believe?

00:46:22.620 They don't know.

00:46:23.700 They're split on everything.

00:46:25.680 Who are their leaders?

00:46:27.300 They don't have a presidential front runner.

00:46:29.960 They might not have a leader in the Senate pretty soon.

00:46:32.580 This is good stuff.

00:46:33.400 I'll take it.

00:46:33.860 When South Park skewers you, that is a good sign.

00:46:37.360 It means that you have power.

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