The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 1895 - President Trump's Fiery WEF Speech Explained in 5 Minutes

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00:00:17.560 President Trump has arrived in Davos to tell the globalists of the World Economic Forum

00:00:22.180 what's what?

00:00:23.400 The sworn enemy of the liberal transnational elite from both the public and the private

00:00:29.080 sectors shows up and they all just have to listen to him because he is the most powerful

00:00:34.760 man in the world.

00:00:36.280 We will get into everything that he said.

00:00:39.280 It's happening as we speak.

00:00:40.620 Actually, we're pulling clips live and we will also get into the plans of the World Economic

00:00:45.940 Forum.

00:00:46.500 Wef darling Yuval Harari proclaims that AI will soon take over everything, including religion.

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00:03:07.780 So Trump shows up to WEF.

00:03:10.540 It's happening right now.

00:03:12.060 My producers are hurriedly, hastily pulling the clips as President Trump speaks.

00:03:18.120 So we'll get to that whenever we have them.

00:03:20.240 But yesterday, we got a little preview of what Trump was going to say from his deputy,

00:03:25.240 Howard Lutnick, who showed up and told the globalists this.

00:03:30.780 Globalization has failed the West and the United States of America.

00:03:36.420 It's a failed policy.

00:03:38.940 It is what the WEF has stood for, which is export, offshore, far shore, find the cheapest

00:03:47.420 labor in the world, and the world is a better place for it.

00:03:50.840 The fact is, it has left America behind.

00:03:54.380 It has left the American workers behind. 0.67

00:03:56.860 Okay, Lutnick, totally right here.

00:04:00.080 You can see all of the other panelists from the WEF here just looking at him.

00:04:04.980 What?

00:04:05.780 It's a mixture of just defeat.

00:04:09.080 You can see the one guy in the middle, he's just looking with defeat.

00:04:11.500 Oh, why do we have to listen to America?

00:04:13.760 And then the bemusement, they don't know what to make of it.

00:04:17.740 His point is right, though.

00:04:19.640 This has failed America.

00:04:21.780 WEF is not made up of radical leftists.

00:04:28.180 I think there's a misconception for some people who see this shadowy gathering in Davos, Switzerland,

00:04:33.780 and they think it's these radical leftists, these communist agitators who are trying to destroy the world.

00:04:40.480 In a way, they kind of are, but they're not really radicals.

00:04:44.500 In the sense that the people you're seeing in Minneapolis who are punching cops and wearing black masks and calling for revolution,

00:04:54.260 those are leftist radicals.

00:04:57.080 The kind of people who meet in Davos are, I hate to use vulgarity or profanity,

00:05:02.900 but it's called for because this is a precise technical term. 1.00

00:05:06.900 They're shit libs. 0.98

00:05:07.780 I don't really know the etymology of that term, but they're the kind of liberals who are elite, 1.00

00:05:16.640 who sip champagne, who don't throw punches in the streets.

00:05:21.780 They're the kind of liberals who have institutional power in the private and the public sectors.

00:05:26.880 That's something specific to WEF, is that it's a meeting of business leaders and government leaders

00:05:33.300 who do want to bring about a left-wing form of governance throughout the world.

00:05:40.400 But it's not Maoists marching in the streets.

00:05:44.780 It's a more elite, bourgeois, even insidious kind of liberalism.

00:05:52.840 It's the liberalism of globalization.

00:05:55.060 And so when Letnick comes out and he says, globalization has failed America,

00:06:00.260 he's not talking about the last few years.

00:06:02.320 He's not talking about wokeness. 0.60

00:06:03.400 He's going back to the 90s or earlier.

00:06:06.560 He's going back to the liberal ideology that says from now on, nations are not going to matter as much.

00:06:12.900 We're going to be governed by these supranational, international institutions

00:06:16.160 like the United Nations or the IMF or the World Economic Forum.

00:06:20.160 And borders, therefore, are not going to matter so much.

00:06:22.880 And so we're going to get a lot of mass migration.

00:06:25.660 And we're going to get global trade that is not even established by sovereign nations,

00:06:31.400 but is regulated by these international institutions.

00:06:35.220 And we're just going to, we're all going to be kind of one world.

00:06:39.060 And yeah, you're going to lose your sovereignty.

00:06:41.060 And yeah, you're going to lose your traditions and your way of life

00:06:44.240 and your specific national identities.

00:06:46.520 But hey, we're going to get more cheap stuff.

00:06:50.280 And Letnick comes there.

00:06:51.400 Everyone agreed with this.

00:06:52.220 The Republicans and the Democrats agreed with this in the 90s.

00:06:55.240 Everybody, the world is flat.

00:06:56.660 It's great.

00:06:57.540 It's history has stopped.

00:07:00.940 But now we don't agree with this.

00:07:02.820 The left is still kind of there.

00:07:04.520 The establishment left, not the woke left.

00:07:06.640 They've woken up from that.

00:07:08.040 And even the right, the red-pilled right.

00:07:09.900 They've also woken up from that.

00:07:12.560 That's those two terms, woke and red-pill.

00:07:15.340 They speak to the same kind of thing.

00:07:17.020 You've woken up from a fantasy, from a dream.

00:07:19.700 And you're rejecting that liberal consensus.

00:07:23.000 And so when Letnick says globalization's failed, he says, look, the American worker was left behind.

00:07:26.780 Our national identity is gone.

00:07:28.520 We have a total fraying of social solidarity.

00:07:30.600 We don't even know what it means to be an American anymore on the 250th anniversary of our country.

00:07:35.540 So what we are rejecting is not merely leftism.

00:07:39.080 It's not merely liberalism.

00:07:40.980 It's not merely some policy or other policy.

00:07:43.740 We are rejecting the prevailing ideology that animates things like the World Economic Forum.

00:07:50.200 A nice little start to the trip.

00:07:54.620 Trump rolls up.

00:07:55.160 Do we have the clips now, guys?

00:07:56.260 Or no?

00:07:56.560 I want to wait until we have all the clips.

00:07:58.040 I want to hit the big winners from Trump.

00:08:01.740 All right.

00:08:02.560 There's one.

00:08:03.020 No, there's one more because I want to get Trump's entrance here.

00:08:06.580 So before we get to what Trump says, just have a sense beyond policies regarding trade and immigration, whatever.

00:08:13.240 What is the broader, deeper vision of the World Economic Forum?

00:08:17.680 Yuval Harari sums this up well.

00:08:19.100 Yuval Harari helped to contribute to Klaus Schwab's book, Klaus Schwab, who was the head of the World Economic Forum.

00:08:27.840 Yuval Harari is sort of the court intellectual of the World Economic Forum.

00:08:31.500 And he came out and he told everyone that as we look into the future, the future is going to be run by AI.

00:08:39.520 Anything involving language, up to and including the Bible, religion is going to be taken over by AI. 0.67

00:08:47.700 Here's what he had to say.

00:08:49.100 Do you know?

00:08:50.740 As far as putting words in order is concerned, AI already thinks better than many of us.

00:09:00.600 Therefore, anything made of words will be taken over by AI.

00:09:09.140 If laws are made of words, then AI will take over the legal system.

00:09:16.000 If books are just combinations of words, then AI will take over books.

00:09:22.260 If religion is built from words, if religion is built from words, then AI will take over religion.

00:09:30.120 This is particularly true of religions based on books, like Islam, Christianity, or Judaism.

00:09:38.360 Judaism calls itself the religion of the book, and it grants ultimate authority, not to humans, but to words in books.

00:09:50.220 Humans have authority in Judaism, not because of our experiences, but only because we learn words in books.

00:10:00.300 Now, no human can read and remember all the words in all the Jewish books, but AI can easily do that. 0.81

00:10:10.920 This guy could not make himself seem more villainous if he tried.

00:10:25.760 I've thought this about Yuval Harari for a while.

00:10:28.120 He leans into it.

00:10:29.820 He's going to be the Bond villain.

00:10:31.900 He's going to be this figure who seems to herald the end times, and he leans into it.

00:10:38.760 And he's not totally wrong about the influence of AI.

00:10:42.600 AI has crept into all of your lives.

00:10:44.440 In one way or another, AI has crept into everyone's life, and we even cooperate with it a lot.

00:10:50.400 So in that way, he's right.

00:10:51.420 But he gets the fundamental things wrong here.

00:10:53.900 First of all, he says, Jews refer to themselves as the religion of the book, the people of the book.

00:11:00.320 That's a half-truth.

00:11:02.280 That's sometimes true today.

00:11:04.520 The Jews did not originate this phrase, the people of the book.

00:11:07.040 Do you know where the people of the book comes from?

00:11:09.480 It comes from Islam.

00:11:11.640 It's a phrase from the Quran.

00:11:14.220 To refer to Christians and Jews and try to make Islam seem like it's part of that.

00:11:18.860 But people of the book is a Muslim term that then later Jews and some Protestants have reappropriated, or appropriated, I suppose, appropriated for the first time.

00:11:31.680 But when you get down to it, we would not say, forget about Islam.

00:11:36.280 Whatever Islam is, put that aside. 1.00

00:11:38.340 Judaism and Christianity are not fundamentally or not essentially religions of the book.

00:11:46.660 They're religions of sacrifice. 0.99

00:11:49.800 It is true, since the destruction of the second temple in 70 AD, Jews gather and conduct their religious services in the synagogue.

00:12:00.920 But previously, that was a religion of temple sacrifice.

00:12:05.160 Christianity, crucially, is a religion of sacrifice. 0.99

00:12:10.340 The centerpiece of the holy liturgy is the holy sacrifice of the mass, the blessed sacrament.

00:12:15.520 Christ in the holy Eucharist, body, blood, soul, and divinity.

00:12:19.540 I don't mean to diminish in any way the importance of the book.

00:12:23.280 But John Paul II beautifully, I think, corrected this idea that we are the religion of the book.

00:12:30.740 When he said, no, no, no, we are the religion of the word of God.

00:12:35.120 We're the people of the word.

00:12:36.660 And so we have holy scripture, inerrant, authored by God.

00:12:43.160 But the center point here is the word himself, the word which becomes flesh and dwells among us.

00:12:51.200 That's what we are.

00:12:53.600 And when you realize that, Yuval Harari's statement is all the more jarring.

00:12:57.980 Because he says anything that involves language, that is to say anything that involves words,

00:13:01.480 we'll be taken over, we'll be conquered by AI.

00:13:06.380 But if the religion that animates our civilization is the religion of the word,

00:13:11.160 in the beginning was the word, and the word was with God, and the word was God,

00:13:16.580 then what he's saying is AI is going to conquer God.

00:13:21.080 I'm not sure if he, he's a smart guy, so he might be aware that that is what he's saying.

00:13:25.160 Even if he's not, even if this is inadvertent, perhaps then it's all the more jarring.

00:13:31.060 He says that AI will conquer God.

00:13:33.520 And I think that's what a lot of these liberal, humanist, materialist, atheists, globalists, this is thatists, believe.

00:13:43.900 That's what they believe.

00:13:46.140 This is the culmination, not just of a few years or a few decades,

00:13:49.160 this is the culmination of centuries of liberal thought.

00:13:52.780 But they're going to make their own God.

00:13:57.660 And AI is going to be their God, and they're going to worship it. 0.99

00:14:00.680 Just like in the Old Testament, we see pagans worshiping dumb idols, 0.97

00:14:07.080 just as God tells us throughout the Bible, 1.00

00:14:10.520 not to worship these dumb idols lest we become dumb ourselves. 0.99

00:14:15.200 And that's exactly what we've done. 0.99

00:14:16.920 Which is why all of these fancy elites who went to very good schools,

00:14:21.100 and they have lots of money, and they have fancy jobs. 0.99

00:14:24.000 It's why they seem so dumb. 0.97

00:14:26.560 It's why even guys like Yuval Harari, who's probably got a very high IQ, 0.99

00:14:29.200 and he's read a lot of books. 0.99

00:14:29.920 It's why what he's saying seems so, so dumb. 0.99

00:14:33.720 And it's why you need a guy like Trump to barge in there and tell them. 0.98

00:14:37.440 It's why you need to go to the imperial capital of global liberalism,

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00:16:11.300 President Trump rolls up.

00:16:13.260 First thing he does is says a special hello to all of his enemies in the audience.

00:16:17.920 And to address so many respected business leaders, so many friends, a few enemies.

00:16:28.680 And all of the distinguished guests.

00:16:31.360 It's a who's who, I will say that.

00:16:32.920 I've come to this year's World Economic Forum with truly phenomenal news from America.

00:16:40.100 Okay, phenomenal news.

00:16:41.600 It's great.

00:16:41.960 Hey, everybody.

00:16:42.700 Nice to see all of you.

00:16:43.580 Trump is friends with some people here.

00:16:45.340 Sometimes, Emmanuel Macron.

00:16:46.720 Is he friends with Macron?

00:16:48.180 Sometimes he is.

00:16:49.200 Sometimes he is.

00:16:50.160 And is he?

00:16:51.700 But there are some people in that audience who are avowed enemies of his.

00:16:56.160 And so does Trump tailor his message to the Davos audience?

00:17:00.640 Does he try to just win friends and influence people by flattering their liberal sensibilities?

00:17:06.620 You know, maybe avoiding the rougher edges of Trumpism.

00:17:10.920 You know, working on areas.

00:17:12.600 I think you know where I'm going with this.

00:17:13.920 Working on areas of commonality where we all agree and putting that some of that stuff that.

00:17:19.860 No, he leans into the Trumpiest Trump edges here.

00:17:23.660 The areas where they're most likely to disagree.

00:17:26.300 The things that in many ways are least relevant to them.

00:17:28.600 And he leans into claims of the stolen election in 2020.

00:17:36.440 That is how little a care in the world he gives.

00:17:39.880 That is how much he wants to ram it down their throats.

00:17:43.460 That he's the boss and they're going to listen.

00:17:45.380 It's a war that should have never started and it wouldn't have started if the 2020 U.S. presidential election weren't rigged.

00:17:54.340 It was a rigged election.

00:17:55.440 Everybody now knows that.

00:17:56.660 They found out.

00:17:58.660 People will soon be prosecuted for what they did.

00:18:03.360 It's probably breaking news, but it should be.

00:18:06.100 It was a rigged election.

00:18:07.420 Can't have rigged elections.

00:18:08.680 I love two parts of this.

00:18:13.360 One, I love that he doesn't back off of the observation.

00:18:17.100 That at the very least, I think most reasonable people would have to agree.

00:18:20.300 In some way, the 2020 election where all the election rules were changed in some cases unconstitutionally as in Pennsylvania.

00:18:26.700 In some way, at the very least, we would say it was rigged.

00:18:29.260 One might go further.

00:18:31.400 One might say it was like really, really rigged.

00:18:34.520 It was like very intentionally rigged.

00:18:36.940 But I love that he's not backing off this and I love that he's saying it at Davos.

00:18:39.820 This is the kind of claim that is most likely to offend there.

00:18:45.800 Because it seems gratuitous.

00:18:48.020 It seems superfluous.

00:18:49.400 It seems, it offends their sensibilities that these processes of liberalism and democracy are perfect and beyond question.

00:18:59.120 He goes and he says, nah, the Democrats, the people who were talking to you last year, yeah, they stole the election from me. 1.00

00:19:05.200 Those dirty crooks, those rotten crooks. 1.00

00:19:07.920 Yeah, you know, your friend Joe Biden and his cronies. 1.00

00:19:11.660 Yeah, he stole the election from me.

00:19:13.440 But don't worry, he got his comeuppance and now I'm back here and you're going to listen to me.

00:19:17.700 But the second reason I really like this comment, he's promising concrete action.

00:19:23.320 He says, yeah, people are going to be prosecuted for that.

00:19:25.580 And lest one think, oh, this is just some bluster.

00:19:27.880 He's, you know, talking beyond the sail or something.

00:19:29.960 He says, I might be breaking news when I say that.

00:19:32.920 Now we all stop.

00:19:33.520 We say, wait, is this just an ordinary DOJ investigation into some crooked county clerks or something?

00:19:41.360 Or you remember one part of the claims made about the 2020 election?

00:19:46.440 Is it somehow related to the Hugo Chavez regime in Venezuela?

00:19:50.060 And then we've just arrested Nicolas Maduro, the successor to Chavez, dictator of Venezuela.

00:19:54.120 And he's going to be prosecuted in New York.

00:19:56.520 And is he, I don't, I don't know.

00:20:00.040 What do I know?

00:20:00.740 Is, is he suggesting that there is some, I don't know.

00:20:05.320 And you're just on the edge of your seat.

00:20:07.320 You say, what comes next?

00:20:08.840 But then Trump gets down to business.

00:20:10.540 What does he really want to talk about here?

00:20:12.580 The World Economic Forum is about the world and the world order.

00:20:16.240 Okay, so what are we going to talk about?

00:20:17.360 We could talk about the Ukraine war.

00:20:19.080 He was already alluding to that a little bit when he was talking about the 2020 election.

00:20:22.620 He says, had I remained in office, there would be no Ukraine war.

00:20:25.360 I think that's true.

00:20:25.980 I think Zelensky agrees with that.

00:20:28.160 Putin agrees with that.

00:20:31.340 So we could talk about that.

00:20:32.380 We could talk about the Israel-Gaza war.

00:20:34.120 Though that's basically over.

00:20:35.680 Trump basically put an end to that.

00:20:40.100 We could talk about war in Venezuela.

00:20:41.860 That was over in about 88 minutes.

00:20:45.380 But there is one territorial concern that is outstanding.

00:20:49.040 And that is the fact that the United States wants Greenland.

00:20:51.400 Trump in particular wants to acquire Greenland.

00:20:53.680 This has been U.S. policy since the 19th century.

00:20:56.400 The State Department has wanted to acquire Greenland.

00:20:57.920 We've tried to buy it multiple times over the years.

00:21:00.120 It's been rebuffed.

00:21:01.780 Trump says, we're going to have it.

00:21:03.520 We never asked for anything.

00:21:08.100 And we never got anything.

00:21:09.940 We probably won't get anything unless I decide to use excessive strength and force.

00:21:14.780 Where we would be, frankly, unstoppable.

00:21:18.660 But I won't do that.

00:21:22.460 Okay?

00:21:22.960 Now everyone's saying, oh, good.

00:21:25.300 That's probably the biggest statement I made.

00:21:28.280 Because people thought I would use force.

00:21:29.980 I don't have to use force.

00:21:31.080 I don't want to use force.

00:21:32.000 I won't use force.

00:21:33.520 All the United States is asking for is a place called Greenland, where we already had it as a trustee,

00:21:42.000 but respectfully returned it back to Denmark not long ago after we defeated the Germans, the Japanese, the Italians, and others in World War II.

00:21:51.940 We gave it back to them.

00:21:53.100 We were a powerful force then, but we are a much more powerful force now after I rebuilt the military in my first term and continue to do so today.

00:22:03.440 This is clearly quite intentional rhetoric.

00:22:07.980 Sometimes Trump goes off script.

00:22:09.160 He's great extemporaneously.

00:22:10.480 We all love that about him.

00:22:11.300 This is quite specific diction.

00:22:15.560 There is this fear that the U.S., and I've joked about this on air, said, you know, we're going to send Don Rumsfeld in an F-35, light up nuke.

00:22:25.500 You know, we'll be greeted as liberators in Greenland by the Eskimos. 0.84

00:22:28.920 We're taking it, baby.

00:22:30.040 This is Bush-era neocon revanchism.

00:22:33.680 Bring it here.

00:22:35.040 And Trump has left open that possibility, but I don't think anyone, no serious person, seriously thought he was going to do that.

00:22:43.620 Here he forecloses it.

00:22:45.260 He's getting a lot of pushback from the Europeans, and sometimes it's good to get pushback from Europeans, but you don't want it to be excessive or needless. 0.62

00:22:52.920 And so he says, no, no, look, guys, I'm not going to do a Maduro.

00:22:56.780 I know it got real because of Maduro.

00:22:58.360 I know it got real.

00:22:59.440 I'm not going to go in and, you know, kidnap the Eskimo leader of Greenland.

00:23:04.040 I'm not going to go take out Hamlet or Hamlet's successor.

00:23:07.620 I'm not going to pull a Claudius and kill the king of Denmark.

00:23:09.660 I'm just, we need Greenland, guys.

00:23:12.500 We've had Greenland before.

00:23:14.400 Notice that.

00:23:15.040 I think a lot of people are hearing for the first time.

00:23:17.620 We have controlled Greenland before, as in the Second World War.

00:23:23.320 During the Second World War, Denmark gets overrun by Hitler.

00:23:26.120 Denmark owns Greenland as a kind of a colony.

00:23:31.240 And so at that point, Greenland is owned by an occupied country.

00:23:36.760 The U.S. just came in and took it over. 0.68

00:23:38.500 And then we just gave it back.

00:23:41.100 And we gave it back because why?

00:23:44.020 What does Trump say here?

00:23:45.020 He doesn't just say we won World War II.

00:23:46.420 He doesn't even just use the shorthand that we typically use for winning World War II, which is, we defeated the Nazis.

00:23:53.420 He says we defeated Germany, not just the Nazis, not just the political party, the Nazi party.

00:23:57.640 He goes, we defeated Germany, the country, and Japan, the country. 0.86

00:24:04.480 And he throws Italy in there.

00:24:05.680 And Italy, the country.

00:24:08.220 Italy.

00:24:08.460 People forget that Italy was even in World War II because the Italians, they don't take war very seriously.

00:24:13.300 Not since Octavian have they taken war all that seriously.

00:24:16.980 And so they just, yeah, we're on this side.

00:24:18.840 Now we're on that side.

00:24:19.620 Whatever.

00:24:20.180 We'll be a-drinking and a-smoking under the bridge.

00:24:22.140 Let me know when the war is over.

00:24:24.320 But he leaves that in there too.

00:24:25.740 Why?

00:24:26.380 I think this was tactical rhetoric.

00:24:30.240 He's here at the World Economic Forum.

00:24:31.900 He's speaking to delegates from Germany and Japan and Italy.

00:24:37.680 And when he comes out and he says, hey, we are the World War champ.

00:24:42.140 You know we're the World War champ?

00:24:44.220 We beat you guys.

00:24:47.040 Everyone in this room, everybody in Davos right now has something in common.

00:24:52.060 You were either defeated or saved by the United States.

00:24:56.440 That's the one thing all you guys have in common from everywhere around the world.

00:25:01.900 This kind of rhetoric, and it's subtle and it's going to go over most people's heads.

00:25:05.640 This kind of rhetoric is very specific and very effective.

00:25:12.360 He's saying we are the global hegemon.

00:25:15.540 And in the example that comes right before he deploys this rhetoric, he says we're a beneficent global hegemon.

00:25:23.820 We are a magnanimous global hegemon.

00:25:26.500 We had Greenland already.

00:25:28.100 We were very nice and gave it back to you after we saved you and as we still protect you today.

00:25:35.380 Remember that time you got overrun by your enemies and we had to bail you out?

00:25:39.060 Just like we are your military protectors today?

00:25:42.760 Yeah.

00:25:43.760 And we were real magnanimous.

00:25:45.160 And we occupied Greenland because you needed us to, because you all need us to, because we protect the world order.

00:25:53.380 And guess what?

00:25:54.860 You need us to again, because hostilities are ramping up.

00:25:58.620 There are threats to the liberal world order.

00:26:00.720 It is just cracking up.

00:26:02.060 That happens sometimes.

00:26:04.000 History exists.

00:26:05.100 History moves on, and sometimes balance is a power shift.

00:26:08.500 We're in one of these moments where people are preparing for war.

00:26:11.080 We hope there isn't war, but we're preparing for war.

00:26:13.500 And guys, I'm not threatening you, king of Denmark, with F-35s, but let's get real.

00:26:22.620 We could take it if we wanted in three minutes.

00:26:26.320 It's good for you for us to protect it.

00:26:29.340 Give us Greenland.

00:26:30.400 Really, you know, Trump, he's known for his rhetorical bombast, but I think at this point, as he's dominated American politics for 10 years, I think we have to admit he's a pretty smart guy, and he's pretty good at politics.

00:26:45.740 And part of the advantage of the bombast is that it sometimes distracts from very particular, very effective rhetoric that is conveying, wittingly or unwittingly, is conveying very serious ideas, and this is one of them.

00:27:02.780 Okay, now I want to get back to religion, as the liberals of the World Economic Forum say that AI is about to take over religion, because Elon Musk, an ally of President Trump, has a beautiful observation he's just made about religion and human behavior.

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00:28:25.240 Elon Musk has gone viral for an interview with Lex Friedman, in which Elon, who is quite

00:28:30.700 prolific, we would say, when it comes to procreation.

00:28:34.060 He has about a billion children.

00:28:38.400 Lots of baby mamas, baby's mama, sort of like attorneys general. 1.00

00:28:42.780 But he knows a lot about sex, let's put it that way. 0.76

00:28:45.340 And he made this delightful observation about sex.

00:28:51.000 Massive amount of thinking, like truly stupendous amount of thinking has gone into sex without 0.90

00:28:56.300 procreation, without procreation, which is actually quite a silly action in the absence 0.73

00:29:02.440 of procreation. 0.96

00:29:03.400 It's a bit silly.

00:29:04.320 So why are you doing it?

00:29:05.520 Because it makes the limbic system happy.

00:29:07.080 That's why.

00:29:07.420 But it's pretty absurd, really.

00:29:10.820 But I mean, this is a lot of computation has gone into, how can I do more of that with

00:29:17.440 procreation not even being a factor?

00:29:19.020 I love this clip.

00:29:20.020 I don't know when this was filmed.

00:29:21.320 It's going viral now.

00:29:22.480 But I love this clip.

00:29:23.620 I hadn't seen it before.

00:29:24.480 It might be new.

00:29:25.080 I don't know.

00:29:25.440 But it looks a little younger there.

00:29:27.720 But in any case, I love this clip because Elon, in his genius IQ, with his immense intellectual

00:29:35.320 curiosity, with all of his successes, has discovered something that wise people have

00:29:41.220 always known, that nobody seems to know today, which is that sex is for procreation.

00:29:47.520 It's not that it can't be involved in other things.

00:29:50.300 It's not that it can't produce other consequences.

00:29:52.440 But what it's for is procreation.

00:29:56.040 He's discovered what Norm MacDonald hit on in a very, very funny bit. 0.88

00:30:01.040 He goes, yeah, you know, the thing about sex is that it's a filthy, shameful thing that's 0.95

00:30:06.500 obviously only meant for procreation. 0.94

00:30:09.440 And I remember he did that bit, I don't know, it was five, ten years ago, and it shocks the

00:30:14.500 audience.

00:30:15.440 He may have done it in San Francisco, of all places.

00:30:18.500 And he's right.

00:30:20.800 That's what it's for. 0.94

00:30:23.200 It's a silly thing. 0.73

00:30:26.580 Just take the kids out of it. 0.99

00:30:27.900 Let's say everybody's sterile, as we all kind of are intentionally sterile today, for the

00:30:32.460 most part.

00:30:33.820 He, imagine just the action.

00:30:36.140 I don't want to lead you into, you know, appealing to prurient interest and to impure

00:30:39.460 thoughts.

00:30:39.800 But just if you can, if you can make it not a lusty thing, you just think of it's kind

00:30:43.800 of, you know, we call it bumping uglies.

00:30:45.720 You know, it's kind of a weird thing.

00:30:47.280 And so, if it's not for procreation, what's it for?

00:30:52.440 Just, just feeling good, getting a fleeting titillation, producing some kind of endorphin

00:31:00.900 or so.

00:31:01.320 Is that, that's what, it's just pure self-indulgence.

00:31:04.460 Is that?

00:31:04.780 No.

00:31:05.060 It's for procreation.

00:31:07.680 And we can abstract this beyond sex, which is, when you use things for what they're

00:31:14.640 for, the world makes sense and you are generally happy.

00:31:20.180 When we use things in ways that they're not for or that are contrary to their purpose, we're

00:31:29.060 not happy.

00:31:29.740 And the world becomes absurd.

00:31:32.360 Absurd meaning out of tune.

00:31:34.020 You know, it just doesn't, it doesn't really make sense.

00:31:37.400 We, we should take this, uh, sex matters a lot because it's so essential to human nature.

00:31:42.840 But we should take this just generally throughout society.

00:31:45.460 What are nations for?

00:31:46.660 Nations are for, uh, protecting its peoples for the common good of their peoples.

00:31:52.740 So when a nation undermines the common good of its people, opens up its border, lets crime

00:31:58.800 run route, then the nation becomes absurd.

00:32:01.280 Our nations in the West have become absurd because they're not doing what they're for. 0.96

00:32:07.020 When education systems make people dumber, the education system becomes absurd. 0.75

00:32:12.180 They're not doing what they're for. 0.97

00:32:14.020 When religious institutions turn away from religious truth and they just try to mollify 0.98

00:32:18.340 people or embrace the spirit of the age or something, they become ridiculous. 0.97

00:32:23.100 Because they're not doing what they're for. 0.76

00:32:24.280 You got to do what you're for.

00:32:25.860 So with Elon, he's, he's totally right about sex.

00:32:29.020 It would be good though if he took it further because, and I, I offer this fraternal observation,

00:32:35.660 uh, with due humility and with great admiration for Elon.

00:32:40.200 I think Elon is terrific.

00:32:41.360 I'm, I'm a great admirer of his, but when it comes to procreation, he has this problem,

00:32:45.320 which is, he, you know, he's got a lot of babies, mama, and he's not married and he

00:32:49.140 should be married.

00:32:50.180 He should, he should be monogamous.

00:32:51.900 He should do that.

00:32:53.500 Not, um, not just cause I'm like morally scolding or something like that, or trying to be holier

00:32:57.440 than thou, but just because that's what sex is for too.

00:33:01.400 If sex is for procreation, for the begetting of children, well, that can't be the end of 0.98

00:33:07.680 it, right?

00:33:08.440 Because once, once the children come out, come out of the womb, there's still, there's 0.99

00:33:13.320 more to the story.

00:33:14.120 It's still going.

00:33:15.480 There's more, there's more to do.

00:33:17.420 So that's why we say that, that, uh, sex is for the procreation of children, but marriage 0.93

00:33:23.540 is for the procreation and the education of children for raising kids through their whole

00:33:28.080 lives, the kids that you're begetting as the object of sex, uh, those kids do best in a

00:33:37.120 marriage, but it goes without saying between a man and a woman.

00:33:41.220 And so you, and the marriage provides that best environment for the kids when it's for

00:33:47.220 life, when it's monogamous.

00:33:48.540 So I would say one can just take it further and one should take it further.

00:33:52.700 Elon is completely on the right path.

00:33:54.100 He's one of the few people in, in a really prominent public life who's recognizing it

00:33:58.500 today.

00:33:58.780 So we should take it further.

00:34:01.000 I think he's right.

00:34:01.880 He's, he's helping to lead the way and how glorious would it be for our public life if,

00:34:06.580 if he kept going, man, maybe took religion quite seriously later too.

00:34:11.920 Maybe that's, maybe that's part of it.

00:34:13.160 I don't know.

00:34:13.400 We'll see.

00:34:13.860 Okay.

00:34:14.600 Now, speaking of procreation, excellent news coming out of the white house. 0.88

00:34:19.560 Actually, I should say out of the Naval Observatory, excellent news on multiple fronts.

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00:35:23.800 I did not pick this comment today because my derelict, lazy producers didn't send them

00:35:29.100 to me.

00:35:29.520 They said they sent them to me.

00:35:31.120 I don't see them.

00:35:32.220 I did not see them.

00:35:34.020 So we'll see who is right.

00:35:34.920 We'll see if I'm calumniating them right now.

00:35:36.420 But first, they've picked this comment from DK Outdoors.

00:35:40.820 When life gives you lemons, you must prosecute them to the fullest extent of the law.

00:35:45.360 Yeah, I like that.

00:35:46.100 I like that.

00:35:48.040 When lemons turn up in Minneapolis, you need to arrest them because they're collaborating

00:35:53.100 with mobs violating the FACE Act.

00:35:54.860 I agree.

00:35:55.720 I totally agree.

00:35:56.640 Okay, back to procreation.

00:35:57.980 Again, statement from the Naval Observatory yesterday, seal of the Vice President of the

00:36:03.360 United States, we're very excited to share the news that Usha is pregnant with our fourth

00:36:07.800 child, the boy.

00:36:09.800 Usha and the baby are doing well, and we're all looking forward to welcoming him in July.

00:36:15.780 And that goes on, during this exciting and hectic time, we're particularly grateful for

00:36:18.480 the military doctors who take excellent care of our family and for the staff members who

00:36:21.800 do so much to ensure that we can serve the country while enjoying a wonderful life with

00:36:24.680 our children, J.D., Vance, and Usha Vance.

00:36:28.540 Love this.

00:36:29.520 This is awesome.

00:36:30.560 Please join me in a round of applause for the Vances.

00:36:33.120 This is great.

00:36:33.960 At a personal level, this is great.

00:36:36.020 Four kids.

00:36:36.700 I love it.

00:36:37.740 I'm falling a little bit behind J.D. right now.

00:36:39.700 I think I got a sweet little Lisa and I, you know, maybe we got to hurry things up.

00:36:43.480 I don't know.

00:36:44.940 Four is great.

00:36:45.760 I think it was Fulton Sheen, the first televangelist who happened to be a Catholic bishop, who said

00:36:52.100 that three is the ideal minimum of children for a family.

00:36:56.300 You know, these days, a lot of people don't have kids.

00:36:58.520 A lot of people can't have kids for various environmental reasons or because they waited

00:37:02.580 too long or all sorts of reasons.

00:37:04.240 You know, infertility is a very difficult thing.

00:37:07.100 But three, that used to be the ideal minimum.

00:37:10.920 Five kids, six kids.

00:37:12.260 Eight kids was not totally uncommon.

00:37:14.460 So four, this is really good.

00:37:16.240 The vice president punching above the ideal minimum.

00:37:19.000 I love it.

00:37:19.460 That's very good at a personal level.

00:37:20.940 It's wonderful for them.

00:37:21.720 May your fourth child be a masculine child. 0.98

00:37:25.140 That's great.

00:37:25.600 Okay.

00:37:26.540 At a political level, I love this.

00:37:30.260 If it were just the vice president's good news, you say attaboy and move on.

00:37:34.400 But this is politically significant because we are mimetic creatures.

00:37:41.320 Because going all the way back to Aristotle, we recognize we're the social creature.

00:37:46.560 We're political animals.

00:37:47.480 We're not just abstracted individuals.

00:37:49.380 What we do affects the people that are around us.

00:37:53.800 That is why this kind of libertarian view, whether it's the left libertarians or the right

00:38:00.720 libertarians even, when they say, well, how does what I do affect you?

00:38:04.260 How does my doing drugs or redefining marriage or killing my baby, how does that affect you?

00:38:09.620 Why do you care so much about, why does it affect you?

00:38:12.240 How does it affect me?

00:38:14.560 Because I'm a human living in society because I'm a political creature, as are you.

00:38:21.660 Because to quote Kamala Harris, we didn't fall out of a coconut tree.

00:38:24.360 So anyway, we mimic each other, not merely in our behavior, in our modes of speech.

00:38:30.080 We learn to speak that way.

00:38:31.780 That's just part of what is of the essence of humanity.

00:38:36.600 We even imitate each other's desires.

00:38:39.000 The example I often go back to, people want the Rolex watch, 99 times out of 100, they

00:38:47.520 want the Rolex watch, not because they know anything about horology, not because they know

00:38:54.440 anything about the materials that go into the watch, certainly not because it tells better

00:38:59.600 time, doesn't tell better time than a $15 Timex or Casio.

00:39:03.200 They want the Rolex watch because you want the Rolex watch.

00:39:09.040 They want the Rolex watch or the Chanel bag or the Ferragamo shoes or the whatever, you know,

00:39:17.360 the Mercedes-Benz.

00:39:18.860 So they want these things, not because of something about the thing themselves usually,

00:39:23.820 but because people that they admire want them too.

00:39:27.640 And we imitate those desires.

00:39:29.940 And so what does this have to do with JD's new kid?

00:39:32.000 I'll tell you what it has to do.

00:39:36.020 My friends in New York, by and large, they don't really have kids.

00:39:39.200 If they do, it's like one kid, maybe.

00:39:41.960 You know why?

00:39:42.760 Because their friends don't have kids.

00:39:44.720 My friends in Tennessee, they have a lot of kids.

00:39:48.040 Do you know why?

00:39:48.780 Because their friends have a lot of kids.

00:39:51.380 And because they, I've even spoken to people about this, they start to feel a pressure.

00:39:56.740 My friends in New York, they think you're weird if you have a bunch of kids.

00:39:59.680 They think you have more than two kids, maybe more than one kid. 0.61

00:40:02.580 They think you're a weirdo.

00:40:04.000 There's a pressure not to have kids.

00:40:06.560 And I think that affects people.

00:40:09.120 Whereas here, especially if you're, you know, I'm in the more traditional Catholic scene,

00:40:14.840 but there's a lot of people of a lot of religious backgrounds who have a lot of kids in Tennessee. 0.91

00:40:19.120 If you don't have a bunch of kids, now you're the weirdo.

00:40:21.920 And there's a pressure to have more kids.

00:40:24.860 There is a social contagion to it.

00:40:29.020 Our mimetic desire is fueled in different ways, in different places.

00:40:34.680 And having a young vice president and second lady who have, by modern standards, a big family,

00:40:42.140 and are having a kid in the White House and Naval Observatory, that's good.

00:40:47.540 You're going to see a boost in births.

00:40:50.240 You will.

00:40:51.280 You will see it.

00:40:51.920 I don't know how modest or how great that will be, but we need this.

00:40:55.160 It actually does matter what our leaders do.

00:40:58.300 This is what the Republicans had right in the 90s when they impeached Bill Clinton.

00:41:01.760 And now it's to some degree a moot point because our culture is degraded so much,

00:41:05.060 in part because of those things.

00:41:06.460 But it matters what our leaders do because we're going to emulate them,

00:41:11.780 whether you want to or not.

00:41:13.060 You look around now, before the Trump era, you go to a young Republican convention.

00:41:20.980 People are wearing Brooks Brothers striped ties.

00:41:22.760 Now they wear that big, glossy red power tie.

00:41:24.800 Why?

00:41:25.060 Because they follow the leader.

00:41:26.560 So let's make sure that our leaders are popping out a lot of kids and exemplifying good behavior.

00:41:31.620 I love it.

00:41:32.000 Okay.

00:41:32.320 Speaking of kids, this is a weird one.

00:41:35.020 The actress Pam Greer, I don't really know what she's been in, but she's an actress, fairly well-known actress.

00:41:42.320 She was just on The View.

00:41:43.840 And she confessed.

00:41:45.960 She got choked up.

00:41:48.060 She said when she was a kid, her mother would tell her to turn away

00:41:51.740 so she wouldn't have to see the lynched black people in the trees of Ohio.

00:41:57.760 Listen to the harrowing tale.

00:42:00.480 You faced a lot of racism growing up in Columbus, Ohio.

00:42:05.020 How did that shape you?

00:42:08.000 Well, the military wouldn't allow black families to live on the base, so you had to live in an apartment. 0.98

00:42:15.340 And you couldn't take a bus.

00:42:17.200 You couldn't afford a car.

00:42:18.300 You walked.

00:42:18.700 Your dad's walked to the base.

00:42:21.020 And sometimes we would go from tree shade to shade to get back to the apartment, my brother and I, my mom, with bags.

00:42:30.440 And my mom would go, don't look, don't look, don't look.

00:42:32.700 And she'd pull us away.

00:42:34.340 Wow.

00:42:35.380 Because there was someone hanging from a tree.

00:42:39.700 And they have a memorial for it now where you can see where people were and left.

00:42:47.000 And it triggers me today to see that a voice can be silenced. 0.98

00:42:55.880 And if a white family supported a black, they're going to get burned down or killed or lynched as well. 0.99

00:43:01.700 Yeah. 1.00

00:43:02.540 Okay, so hold on.

00:43:04.140 Now, if you don't, some of you know the facts about this, which is why you're probably laughing.

00:43:09.360 But if you don't know the facts, you look around, you hear the audience, oh, oh, my goodness.

00:43:15.360 And then you look around and you see Whoopi Goldberg, who, I get a kick out of Whoopi Goldberg, but, you know, she doesn't know anything.

00:43:20.700 And she's there, wow, yes, nodding her head.

00:43:23.000 Yes, wow.

00:43:23.700 And then they turn to whatever, Sonny Hostin.

00:43:26.640 Yes, wow.

00:43:27.420 Oh, my goodness.

00:43:28.140 And then they turn to the chick who's the fake conservative on The View. 0.97

00:43:31.540 She used to work for Trump a thousand years ago, Alyssa Farah, I think.

00:43:37.400 Anyway, she's the fake conservative on The View. 0.94

00:43:39.400 And even she, yes, nodding, yes, wow.

00:43:43.440 So I was driving as a child and my mother would say, look away.

00:43:49.320 There's a black man hanging from a tree.

00:43:53.100 So I said, man, how old is this lady? 1.00

00:43:55.780 Because I looked it up.

00:43:57.680 It's not that there were never lynchings in America.

00:43:59.280 There have been lynchings.

00:44:00.360 Not a lot, actually.

00:44:02.140 People have it in their mind.

00:44:03.100 There were like millions of lynchings in America.

00:44:04.400 That's not true.

00:44:04.940 It was a pretty minor phenomenon.

00:44:06.780 But still, pretty gruesome, I suspect, if you saw lynching.

00:44:09.900 Largest mass lynching in American history was actually, oddly enough, of Italians in Louisiana.

00:44:15.180 That's actually why we got Columbus Day.

00:44:16.660 That's a story for another time.

00:44:17.640 Anyway, there have been lynchings.

00:44:20.320 Do you know when the last lynching in Ohio was?

00:44:25.580 1911.

00:44:27.780 Not 2011.

00:44:28.840 It was 1911.

00:44:30.760 And so this lady, I don't know, she looks pretty good for her age. 1.00

00:44:36.500 Because in order for her, I did the math.

00:44:39.140 In order for her to have seen a lynching in Ohio, when do you start to remember stuff?

00:44:46.700 Five years old?

00:44:47.740 Four years old?

00:44:48.320 Let's say four years old.

00:44:49.200 Let's say this woman has distinct memories from when she was four years old.

00:44:52.260 That would make her 119 years old.

00:44:57.760 That was the last lynching.

00:44:59.240 So does that woman look 119 to you? 0.92

00:45:02.860 No, I think she's 70 or something, or in her 70s.

00:45:06.040 So that's almost 50 years too young to have even had the possibility.

00:45:15.260 And even 1911, that was very, very late stage of the lynching phenomenon.

00:45:20.200 I mean, there are modern lynchings where there's a ton of gang violence and stuff, people just executing people and shooting them all over in left-wing run cities throughout America.

00:45:31.240 But the lynching, like specifically racial, hanging from a tree, that, why, does she believe this?

00:45:39.420 This woman, she gets choked up, she's crying. 0.99

00:45:40.900 Is she just lying?

00:45:41.900 I don't know that she's lying.

00:45:44.040 She's an actress. 1.00

00:45:44.860 And one thing I will tell you, as a young man, I was an actor.

00:45:47.940 I studied acting.

00:45:48.700 I was classically trained at conservatories.

00:45:50.440 And I actually have now quite changed views on even the morality of acting, now that I'm a little deeper into philosophy and theology.

00:46:00.020 But that, too, is a topic for another time. 0.91

00:46:02.460 The one thing I can promise you, though, having spent a lot of time around actors, and especially actresses, is that they're completely insane. 0.99

00:46:11.500 They're completely insane. 1.00

00:46:12.820 They're crazy. 1.00

00:46:13.800 It's part of the job. 0.99

00:46:15.940 You have to be. 0.99

00:46:16.800 Because, to quote Wynne Hanman, one of the great acting teachers, assistant to Sandy Meisner in the 50s, trained many of the great actors that are around today, you have to be a gullible fool to be an actor. 0.90

00:46:26.540 Because to be an actor, you have to live truthfully in imaginary circumstances.

00:46:31.640 You have to, you know, hold the blaster laser gun on the spaceship and really believe it and really live truthfully on planet Zebulon 5.

00:46:40.040 And so, this woman probably believes it.

00:46:43.540 This is a kind of a self-induced psychosis because the culture has said it's a racist country and blacks are being lynched all the time.

00:46:53.700 And so, she probably has this memory.

00:46:55.420 I mean, actually, part of acting training is creating memories for yourself that can inform your performance of the role, at least according to certain techniques of acting.

00:47:02.480 So, she probably believes it.

00:47:04.540 The ladies on The View believe it.

00:47:06.380 The audience believes it.

00:47:07.560 A lot of libs believe that.

00:47:10.800 This is a kind of a self-induced psychosis.

00:47:13.580 It's, it, these people are living truthfully, but it's in imaginary circumstances.

00:47:17.320 And I think that accounts for a lot of the social problems we have.

00:47:19.920 And so, one great corrective to that is that President Trump has just announced he's going to bring back mental asylum.

00:47:25.820 He's going, I know I'm running late today.

00:47:28.220 I know I'm running late.

00:47:29.800 I don't care.

00:47:30.860 President Trump, give it to me.

00:47:32.140 There's a reason for bail.

00:47:34.680 Long tested.

00:47:36.720 Signed an executive order to bring back mental institutions and insane asylums.

00:47:41.520 We're going to have to bring them back.

00:47:43.700 Hate to build those suckers, but, but you got to get the people off the streets.

00:47:48.860 Love this.

00:47:49.800 Love this.

00:47:50.660 This is one of those things he's probably not going to get a lot of credit for if it comes to pass, if there's not too much obstruction.

00:47:56.600 He probably won't get a lot of credit for it, but it could be really important.

00:47:59.700 And I even love the way he presents it.

00:48:01.640 He goes, look, we got to bring back the mental institutions, okay?

00:48:04.440 You hate to do it.

00:48:05.620 You hate to do it because they're bad places.

00:48:07.960 But they're bad places because mental illness is bad. 1.00

00:48:11.320 Because psychosis is bad.

00:48:14.060 Some of that, I think, probably has a spiritual basis.

00:48:16.620 Some of it might just be purely physical, but it's bad.

00:48:20.540 It's bad.

00:48:22.740 That's why we close them down.

00:48:24.140 That's one of the reasons we close them down.

00:48:25.800 But the question that I have is, what's the alternative?

00:48:28.380 You hear this.

00:48:28.920 There are many liberals who watch the show.

00:48:30.660 And you hear this, and Trump says, I'm going to bring back insane asylum and mental institutions.

00:48:34.360 And you say, that's terrible. 0.58

00:48:35.380 That's crazy.

00:48:35.840 That's awful.

00:48:36.280 There are all these abuses.

00:48:37.160 Let me ask you, what's the alternative?

00:48:40.420 Let me ask you a question first.

00:48:43.380 Why did we get rid of the mental institutions in the first place?

00:48:47.340 I'll tell you why.

00:48:47.980 It's a very particular reason in the 50s and 60s.

00:48:50.240 Because we developed antipsychotic drugs.

00:48:52.320 And the idea was, you take all these crazy people who are, in many cases, dangerous to

00:48:58.260 the community or dangerous to themselves, and in any case, can't live on their own. 0.95

00:49:02.500 And you take these crazy people, you ply them with pills, and they get a little bit better. 0.94

00:49:07.780 Maybe a lot better. 0.94

00:49:08.560 Maybe they can work in society.

00:49:09.960 Maybe they can take care of themselves.

00:49:11.220 Maybe they're not a threat.

00:49:13.020 The problem is, for virtually every person that you see on the street, every bum, every

00:49:19.780 indigent, they don't take the pills.

00:49:23.580 Or they have other mental problems and spiritual problems, like addictions and all.

00:49:27.620 But in any case, the psychological remedies haven't worked.

00:49:32.380 Or they just don't avail themselves of them.

00:49:34.640 So then what's the alternative?

00:49:36.700 You have people setting women on fire in subway cars in New York.

00:49:41.280 You have people going, you see this a lot, actually, on trains.

00:49:43.360 You have people stabbing Irina Zarutska on the train.

00:49:48.020 It's all blamed on mental illness.

00:49:49.320 You have repeat offenders arrested 40, 50, 60, 70 times.

00:49:53.440 Just waiting, a powder keg, waiting to go off to harm innocent people.

00:49:58.180 What's the alternative to the insane asylum?

00:50:00.620 You don't want to put them in jail.

00:50:02.320 Because in some cases, maybe they haven't committed a crime yet, or they've gotten out.

00:50:06.200 So you don't want to put them in jail preemptively for a crime they haven't yet committed.

00:50:09.740 But you can predict pretty well that they're going to commit.

00:50:12.100 What's the alternative?

00:50:13.260 The alternative in our liberal society is, hands off, never mind.

00:50:17.840 Let them just be on the street.

00:50:19.040 Hopefully, the cold will finally just get them, and they'll die of exposure.

00:50:21.740 And I don't need to think about it.

00:50:22.780 It's not my fault.

00:50:23.420 I'll wipe my hands of it.

00:50:24.580 Worst case, they set some grannies on fire on the subway. 1.00

00:50:27.340 But again, I don't take the subway.

00:50:28.600 I take taxis and private cars.

00:50:30.700 So I don't need to worry about that.

00:50:31.940 It's not my problem.

00:50:32.560 That's the response from the left and the right.

00:50:35.800 On the left, they take it further.

00:50:37.640 They say, these people have a right.

00:50:39.680 They have a right to commit obscene acts in the streets.

00:50:43.320 And they have a right to violence.

00:50:45.240 Beheading people in the street is the cry of the unheard, of the oppressed, or whatever.

00:50:49.080 But even those guys on the right sometimes will say, yeah, not my problem.

00:50:51.780 I don't want to hear about it.

00:50:52.840 I'm building a big wall.

00:50:53.940 I'm getting a lot of guns.

00:50:55.560 Moving out of the cities.

00:50:56.640 But it's a retreat from society, which is contrary to our nature as social creatures

00:51:01.060 who are inclined naturally to live in order in society.

00:51:04.440 So my answer is, no.

00:51:06.100 The proper solution, the caring solution that we ought to be able to agree upon on the left

00:51:12.020 and the right is you got to take care of these people who can't take care of themselves.

00:51:18.620 For our good and for their good, too.

00:51:20.260 I love it.

00:51:20.840 Very brave.

00:51:22.060 This is a very courageous stance.

00:51:23.520 And he's going to get no credit for it.

00:51:25.420 Okay.

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00:51:50.860 What was it like, Merlin?

00:52:05.820 To be alone with God?

00:52:07.840 Is that who you think I was alone with?

00:52:18.660 Merlin.

00:52:19.540 I knew your father.

00:52:21.100 I am yet convinced that he was not of this world.

00:52:23.460 All men know of the great Taliesin.

00:52:29.580 You are my father.

00:52:30.760 That the gods should war for my soul.

00:52:33.920 Princess Garrus.

00:52:35.420 Savior of our people.

00:52:36.860 I know what the bull god offered you.

00:52:41.980 I was offered the same.

00:52:43.980 And?

00:52:45.460 There is a new power at work in the world.

00:52:47.580 I've seen it.

00:52:49.600 A god who sacrifices what he loves for us.

00:52:52.340 We are each given only one life, Singer.

00:52:55.080 No.

00:52:56.240 And we're given another.

00:53:00.060 I learnt of Yazoo the Christ. 1.00

00:53:02.360 And I have become his follower.

00:53:04.240 He's waiting on a miracle.

00:53:05.380 And I think you can give him one.

00:53:07.880 Trust in Yazoo.

00:53:09.140 He is the only hope for men like us.

00:53:12.100 Vader Britain never rests in the hands of the great light.

00:53:15.080 Great light.

00:53:16.240 Great darkness.

00:53:17.680 Such things mattered to me then. 0.70

00:53:19.980 What matters to you now, mistress of lies? 0.94

00:53:23.720 You. 0.99

00:53:25.340 Nephew.

00:53:28.400 The sword of a high king.

00:53:30.600 How many lives must be lost before you accept the power you were born to wield?

00:53:40.360 Circling to the promises of a god who has abandoned you.

00:53:43.640 I cannot take up that sword again.

00:53:46.480 You know what you must do.

00:53:50.100 Great light, forgive me.

00:53:51.200 The time has come to be reborn.

00:54:01.880 The time has come to be reborn.

The Michael Knowles Show - January 21, 2026

Ep. 1895 - President Trump's Fiery WEF Speech Explained in 5 Minutes

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