Ep. 1904 - Zohran Mamdani Freezes 16 New Yorkers To DEATH
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The septum ring lady has gone viral for saying that she will burn her life to the ground over the ICE protests. Why is it always the same woman? And what does this mean? And why should we be worried?
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The warmth of collectivism inaugurated by Zoran Mamdani kills 16 homeless New Yorkers in just
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one month. Jeffrey Epstein turns out to be Vladimir Putin's money manager. That's actually
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kind of a new revelation of the files. We'll get into what that means. And 30-something women,
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not the number 30, like the age 30, women in their 30s are now injecting themselves with fat
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from corpses to make their derrieres look plumper. Did I read that? Did I read that right? Is that
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really a news story? Did that really happen? Why is that happening? I'm Michael Knowles,
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Michael Knowles Show. Welcome back to the show. The septum ring strikes again. A septum ring lady
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has gone viral for saying that she will burn her life to the ground over the ICE protests.
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Why is it always the septum ring? And what does this mean? Ordinary people who support law and
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order, not just conservatives, just normal people generally, need to beware this religious,
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Before we get into anything, I'm going to be speaking in Nashville on Friday. YAF and The
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Daily Wire are partnering up for an America 250 rally to celebrate America as we now officially
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enter into the bicesquicentennial, the 250th anniversary of America. It's going to be a great
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time. There are going to be a bunch of other speakers there. And Antifa has decided to show up
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to protest me. This hit my newsfeed yesterday. There's a Nashville Antifa, even in Nashville,
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nowhere is sacred, I guess. This is the rally against transphobia. They're still on this.
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They're still on the trans thing. They never give it up because it's the apotheosis of liberalism,
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because the transgender ideology is the culmination of centuries of the liberal impulse
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for radical liberation from everything, including morality, social order, religion, God,
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and even the self. And they're particularly upset at me, it turns out. They write on their 615
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anti-fascist page, one of the headline figures at the conference is Michael Knowles, a Daily Wire host
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whose participation has drawn controversy because of his inflammatory rhetoric about trans people and
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blah, blah, blah. So anyway, they're inviting all of their goons to show up and create trouble at the
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YAF, Daily Wire Rally. I then looked at their website, not just their social media pages.
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And I guess they're targeting me. A headline, Michael Knowles listed as a speaker for this conference.
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Other guys though, Nick Freitas. Nick Freitas, who has personally armed me. I appreciate that.
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Mary Margaret Olihan, Reagan, Cabot, Abby Johnson. Okay. I just, I look on the bright side of things.
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I'm a glass half full kind of guy because hope is a theological virtue and actually a command that we
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have to follow. And I look at this as glass half full because a little warning to our friends in
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Antifa, the last time Antifa sent one of their goons to one of my speaking events, he ended up in
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federal prison. He's still in federal prison. So if they want to show up again, that's fine.
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Antifa thinks that it's going to intimidate us, especially in the wake of Charlie Kirk's assassination,
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the constant threats on conservatives. The point of which is to chill ordinary speech in public life,
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spook us, scare us into staying home. Not going to work. Not going to work. I take this as a
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wonderful opportunity. The last time Antifa showed up, I was able to help to correct America's
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under-incarceration problem. Very glad that one of their members is now wearing an orange jumpsuit.
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And so I take this as an opportunity. If Antifa wants to get out of hand, even here in my hometown
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of Nashville, that's fine. We will use that as another opportunity to help replenish America's
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prisons with some of their lawless people. So anyway, it'll be a lot of fun. I think the event
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will be streamed. If you're in Nashville, feel free to come down. Watch out for Antifa. But happily,
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we have good cops here in Nashville, so I'm not too concerned. Speaking of lawlessness,
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Zoran Mamdani has just made a really sad and totally predictable announcement.
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You know, we in Nashville got smacked probably the hardest of any city in the country with this cold
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front that just moved in, left a lot of people out of power, sent me to the hood for a few days
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because my power was out. And a pal of mine put me up there in one of his Airbnbs. That's where I was
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broadcasting the show from with him producing. It was very, very nice. Luckily, Nashville is mostly
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back online. When the cold front made it to New York, it was not nearly as bad. There was very
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little ice. It was mostly just snow. And nevertheless, 16 homeless New Yorkers died during that brief
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little cold snap. Here is the new mayor of New York. A severe cold front continues to bear down on
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our city. Today is our 11th consecutive day of below freezing weather. And we could very well be in the
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middle of the longest period of consecutive sub 32 degree weather in our city's entire history.
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Without temperatures rising above freezing, snow has hardened into blocks of ice. But the greatest
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danger posed by the sustained cold is to vulnerable New Yorkers who remain exposed to the elements.
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As of this morning, 16 of our fellow New Yorkers have passed away outside during this brutal stretch
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of cold. In 13 of these cases, preliminary findings indicate that hypothermia played a role.
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And three of these deaths appear to be overdose deaths. We await final results from the medical
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examiner's office and will inform New Yorkers as we learn more. Each of these lives lost is a tragedy.
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My heart was at the family of those mourning their loved ones.
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Okay, so Zoran is blaming these deaths mostly on nature, though he admits a few of them are drug
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deaths. However, I want to take a national view here. New York did not really get hit hard in this
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cold front. Other places did, and people died in other parts of the country.
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But they died because the weather came in, totally overwhelmed the systems that are not built for
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cold weather. They're not built for snow and ice. And some people very sadly died in their homes
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because they couldn't get power back online because of this once in a decade, once in three
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or four decades cold snap. Terribly sad in a lot of places, kind of unavoidable.
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Not the case in New York. New York is built for cold weather. Cold weather hits New York every
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single year. New York knows how to deal with cold weather, usually when they have competent
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management and government. The people who died in New York did not die because their power went out.
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New York didn't lose power. They died because they were left to die on the streets. Why were
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they left to die on the streets? Is this just some immutable characteristic of New York? What can we
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do? Throw our arms up in the air? A longstanding problem? No, it's not. They were left to die on the
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streets specifically because Zoran Mamdani, who has been in office for just one month now,
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left them to die on the streets, and in fact, campaigned to leave them to die on the streets.
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Don't take my word for it. Here is CBS News, local New York.
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Mayor-elect Zoran Mamdani says that he will end the Adams administration's practice of removing
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homeless encampments from city sidewalks. But advocates argue it will be a step backwards for
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the city's quality of life. Ali Bauman questioned the mayor-elect about this tonight.
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For the past three years, the NYPD has been systematically removing homeless encampments
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from New York City sidewalks, a practice mayor-elect Zoran Mamdani vows to end once he takes office.
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Vows to end it. This is Mamdani campaigning and then in the transition saying, we are
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intentionally going to leave the homeless, who are almost entirely drug addicts and mentally ill.
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We're gonna leave them on the streets. And this is supposedly going to be compassionate.
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That's a change of policy from the previous administration, which just left office.
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A little history of New York. In the 70s and 80s, there were a lot of bums, a lot of criminals,
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a lot of homeless on the streets. Rudy Giuliani came in in the 1990s and got rid of all that.
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Said, no, no, no, you homeless, you need to go to shelters or we're gonna arrest you.
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But we're not gonna leave you on the streets. Rudy Giuliani reiterated this after he was mayor
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of New York during the Occupy Wall Street protests. When people set up encampments all over the city,
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he said, no, no, no, you can't do this. Sleeping on the street is a dysfunctional act which harms
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society and the individual. In other words, letting the homeless stay on the street
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is contrary to the common good. It's not just that letting the homeless stay on the street is good for
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the homeless, but it's bad for the rest of the New Yorkers who don't want to see them.
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That's how Mamdani's presenting it. The real argument is, no, no, no, it's actually bad for
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everyone. Because, yeah, it's bad for the law-abiding New Yorkers who don't want criminals
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and drug addicts and crazy people running around the streets all the time. But it's bad for the
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homeless. It's bad for them because they're susceptible to crime, susceptible to being
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assaulted or raped or killed, and they're also vulnerable to the elements. It's very, very dangerous
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to leave them on the streets at all times of the year, especially in the winter.
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Now we are seeing the fruit of that pay off. This is the warmth of collectivism. This is the
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compassion that Zoran Mamdani has promised. Left 60 New Yorkers dead during a totally predictable,
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not even all that bad cold front. And he even gives away the game there. He's trying to mitigate
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his culpability. So he's saying, well, yeah, okay, I left 13 of them to die from the cold. They
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basically froze like Jack Nicholson at the end of The Shining. And yeah, okay, I'm not going to take
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responsibility for that. But yeah, you know, sure. Okay. The cold got him. But three of them just
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overdosed. Like that's better? Like that's good? Well, they chose to die. They consented. They're
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consenting adults. First of all, you can't consent when you're crazy or when you're addicted to all
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kinds of vices or when you're underage or when there are all sorts of things that compromise our
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consent. So Zoran Mamdani's whole policy is based on a misconception of freedom, what freedom really is.
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He thinks freedom, like all liberals, he thinks freedom is just neutrality and choosing.
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Well, some people choose not to do heroin, but some people choose to do heroin. And who are we
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to say what the better choice is? It's a misconception of freedom. It's a misconception
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of the common good. It's a misconception of what's good for everybody. The common good is not just the
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random collection of all of the individual goods of people, some of which are contrary to each other,
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in this kind of utilitarian calculation that tries to lead to the greatest utility for the greatest
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number. The common good is what we all share, what is good for all of us, what is not diminished by
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any individual good. And it's a misunderstanding of compassion. It is not compassionate to just
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ignore people. It's funny because the left accuses the right of this. You just ignore people. You
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retreat to your nice neighborhoods and your penthouses and your money, and you ignore your
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common man. You don't think you're your brother's keeper. The left is, sometimes the right is guilty
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of that, especially the more libertarian right. The left is just as guilty of that. Oh, just leave
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people to their degradation. Leave people to their vices. Leave people to their destructive behaviors.
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Be it on sexual ideologies. Be it on just license more broadly. Be it with regard to living on the
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street. Just leave them. It's fine. Who are you to intervene? Who am I? I'm a reasonable person,
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and I'm a member of society, and I'm a citizen. And the consequences of all three of those
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misconceptions from Zoran Mamdani are that 16 people die up the street, die on the street,
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whether from drugs or from exposure. That's the warmth of collectivism.
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What would have been more compassionate for the homeless? Zoran Mamdani, who says all sorts of
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sweet things about the homeless and leaves them to die on the street, or Rudy Giuliani,
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who talks a little tougher, who seems a little bit meaner, but who protects those people?
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Where's the real compassion? That's it. We're one month into Mamdani. One month in,
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and you've got homeless ice cubes lining the streets of New York, some of which also have
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heroin and fentanyl in their blood. Real nice, real nice. We're in for a real treat with Zoran.
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York post where okay. Back side from the dead, women chasing the perfect body are pumping quote
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ethically sourced, ethically sourced cadaver fat into boobs and butts. We're recycling.
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Their words, not mine. I'm just going to read you a little bit, just a little, couple little
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sections from this article. You can read the whole thing. She recently ditched her barely there 32 A
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cups for 40, 42, sorry, 32 B cup bazooms, getting a pair of Motiva breast implants and several
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cc's of aloe clay in November. What is aloe clay? It's fat from dead people. Wanting a natural and
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supple finish, the Pilates instructor entrusted Dr. Anna Steve of Ninstein Plastic Surgery to round
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out her new embellishments with the liquid gold that's derived from the dead. It's a grim detail
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Daphne often reminds herself to forget. I have chosen not to think about it, the 38-year-old chuckled,
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referring to the creepiness of using fat from an anonymous cadaver source. Dr. Anna explained that
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aloe clay would give me the best results and she was so right, added Daphne, gushing over the quote
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unparalleled confidence she's gained since boosting her bust. Now, in case you're wondering where the
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dead people fat comes from, this company insists upon very rigorous standards. The dead people have
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to be at least 18 years old and they need to have had an autopsy. So it can't be from children who are
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possibly not dead. That's the standard here. They are harvesting fat from bodies, but it's ethically
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sourced, meaning it's not from children and the sources have been officially ruled to be dead.
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So it's not from living children. Okay, last little piece from the article. It can sound jarring at first,
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Stacy, 34, a married financial specialist, told the Post. But when you look at it scientifically,
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cadaver donor tissue has been used in medicine for decades. Medicine. Medicine now meaning making
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women's derrieres look a little plumper. The Manhattanite, who asked that her last name be withheld,
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I wonder why, used the harvested human remains for a mini Brazilian butt lift, BBL. She also relied on
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the borrowed goods to fill her hip dips and to revise a botched liposuction job on her inner left
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thigh. It's highly regulated and ethically sourced, she raved of the donations from the dearly departed.
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It's like we're recycling. They keep using this word ethically. And I'm not sure that word means
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exactly what we think it means. This is really perverse. I think most people hearing the story
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would say this is really messed up in that this is something's gone a little, probably a hundred
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thousand things have gone wrong to lead us to the point where middle-aged, young-ish to middle-aged
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women are taking fat from dead people to make themselves look a little bit better. Some of these
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women, by the way, are married. So I don't know who you're trying to impress. This is more perverse
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even than it seems at first glance though, because it's a fallen world. People do bad things. That's
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been true always and everywhere since we got booted from the Garden of Eden. However, there's a difference
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between typical vice and atypical vice. Ordinary bad stuff and like really decadent, degenerate,
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especially crazy Sodom and Gomorrah type of bad stuff. The typical vice is the old feeding on the
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young. That's a typical vice. The midlife crisis. The guy in his forties leaves his wife and shacks up
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with a 25-year-old secretary or something. That's the typical vice. That's what Dracula is about,
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right? The older guy trying to become young again by feeding, usually in a sexual way, on young women.
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That's the ordinary wickedness. In this case though, it's not the old feeding on the young.
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It's the young-ish, young-ish to middle-aged feeding on the dead.
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Whoa, whoa, man. That is really creepy. And it's ethical. It's ethically sourced. It's kind of like
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recycling. Oh, to unpack that, we would need three days. We don't have three days, so I'll fit it into
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one minute. Recycling is a word that we get from environmentalism. Environmentalism, which is one
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of the many replacements for traditional religion, Christianity, that has come out of liberalism,
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which was a way to try to preserve Christianity without Christ. It was a way to try to keep religion
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without God. And so you get all sorts of ideologies that replace religion in liberalism, be it Marxism,
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be it environmentalism, be it the sexual revolution, transgenderism, whatever. There are all these kind
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of partial trying to grab onto truths that become great perversions. And so in this, they say, well,
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it's kind of like recycling. Now, you can say some version of recycling might be okay. In principle,
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you throw out your plastic bottles in a different can. Practically, it doesn't matter because it all just
00:24:05.760
goes to East Asia, and it's all just trash, basically. But at least in theory, you could convince yourself,
00:24:10.920
okay, this might be good for the natural environment. Okay. Recycling by taking the fat from dead people
00:24:16.820
to make your rump look a little more plump, that's a little bit different, isn't it? And some would say
00:24:26.020
that it is especially unethical because it involves the desecration of dead bodies.
00:24:32.120
We kind of just generally desecrate dead bodies now in our society. When Christendom was strong,
00:24:40.740
there was a prohibition on cremation. Now, a lot of people get cremated. Maybe most people get
00:24:46.320
cremated for all we know. What is wrong about cremation? It's considered licit even by the
00:24:53.720
Catholic Church now in today's day and age, but I don't think it's good. And the reason it's not good is
00:24:59.180
symbolically it's not good because it symbolically implies a mockery of the resurrection of the body.
00:25:07.420
Christianity is distinguished from other religions in part because we believe in the resurrection of
00:25:14.200
the body. Not just the resurrection of an idea, not just the immortality of the soul, but the
00:25:19.120
resurrection of the body. We will have our bodies again, a glorified body. And so it's not that God
00:25:24.440
can't bring up all the ashes or something, give us a glorified body. But it's just that symbolically,
00:25:29.720
we're human beings. We communicate through symbols and rituals and these actions that have meaning.
00:25:35.180
Symbolically, it seems to undermine the resurrection of the body. So we treat dead bodies well.
00:25:42.080
We bury them. We put them in mausoleums. We pray over them. We have headstones where people go and
00:25:49.220
visit and say prayers and all that kind of stuff. And now we don't really do that. We have funerals.
00:25:53.060
Now we don't really have funerals. We try to get rid of dead bodies as quickly as we can.
00:25:58.420
We scatter the ashes. Maybe we have a celebration of life later on. We don't want to deal with this
00:26:03.380
fact of death. We don't want to think about the meaning of the immortality of the soul and
00:26:07.420
certainly the resurrection of the body. So we just try to forget about it. We actually pretend that we
00:26:12.040
just turn to worm food when we die. That nothing really happens. Nothing really means anything.
00:26:16.380
And so then we end up desecrating bodies. This was a major controversy during the scientific
00:26:23.260
revolution and in the renaissance because people were doing experiments on dead bodies. But you
00:26:27.300
can say, okay, there's some ethics to this because we're doing these experiments in order to improve
00:26:31.080
human life and to cure illnesses. And now we've taken this to the point that we are scraping fat
00:26:36.380
off of the dead bodies, which we treat as no different than any other kind of refuse.
00:26:41.400
We're scraping the fat off to make married 34-year-old women's butts look a little bigger
00:26:46.860
for whom? I guess their husbands, maybe for Instagram. I don't really know.
00:26:51.860
This is a level of decadence that most people would not have been able to predict.
00:26:59.280
This is Nikola Tesla. You will live to see horrors beyond your wildest imagination.
00:27:06.880
Beginning in New York, but it will not stay in New York. The errors of New York,
00:27:10.600
the errors of Russia spread throughout the world in the 20th century. The errors of New York will
00:27:14.480
spread throughout America. Get ready, get ready for your girlfriend to have dead people's fat in her
00:27:21.680
butt. Not a sentence I expected ever to say on this show. Now, speaking of death sentences,
00:27:28.300
this is a tough, tough, tough day, tough news cycle. We'll get to the current Democrat claim
00:27:34.400
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preworn.com slash Knowles, K-N-W-L-E-S, preworn.com slash Knowles. A new Democrat talking point just
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dropped. This care of Congress ladies, Laura Gillen and Frederica Wilson. This is because Trump
00:29:14.600
is ending temporary protective status for 350,000 Haitians who are in the United States.
00:29:18.480
The new argument is that sending Haitians back to Haiti is a death sentence.
00:29:26.200
Sending these people back to Haiti is basically a death sentence. And that's why we were asking
00:29:32.120
the administration to open up their hearts and to extend this TPS.
00:29:36.100
Okay, why is sending Haitians to Haiti a death sentence?
00:29:41.460
I'm trying to think of the most charitable, reasonable read of this. I guess you could say
00:29:45.620
it's because Haiti has natural disasters, right? In that case, if someone is seeking refuge from a
00:29:53.040
natural disaster, then sending them back to a place that is still reeling from the consequences
00:29:58.280
of natural disaster, where they don't have food or water or shelter or whatever, I guess that would
00:30:02.460
be a kind of a death sentence. Maybe it could still be justifiable, but okay, I could understand that.
00:30:07.200
Is that the problem? I don't think there's been a recent natural disaster in Haiti.
00:30:12.820
But what specifically makes it a death sentence to send Haitians to Haiti?
00:30:18.180
They are terrorized. They are terrorized. Haitian nationals. This is cruelty. This is inhumane.
00:30:26.880
And this is a death sentence. Because we already know the consequences. Because in Haiti, there's
00:30:36.300
open warfare and rape. There's ravaging violence against women and children. There are no school
00:30:44.680
days, no work schedule. You do what the gangs want you to do.
00:30:50.420
Okay, so it's not a natural disaster. It's not an earthquake or a snowstorm. I don't think they
00:30:54.440
get a lot of snowstorms in Haiti. The reason that these Democrats are contending in unison
00:30:59.640
that sending Haitians, who have no right to be here in America, no long-term right,
00:31:04.520
back to Haiti, where they're from, the reason that that's a death sentence is because in Haiti,
00:31:10.400
there are Haitians. It's the Haitians. They say, we can't expose these Haitians to Haitians.
00:31:17.540
The Haitians will kill them. Why? Because you're getting it straight from Frederica Wilson,
00:31:23.380
Democrat Congress lady. Because Haitians rape each other. They commit a lot of violence.
00:31:31.000
There's total disorder in their community. There are a lot of gangs. They don't work.
00:31:36.080
They don't go to school. They just rape and kill each other.
00:31:41.460
Per a supposed champion of the Haitians, Frederica Wilson. She says, these Haitians,
00:31:47.900
these Haitians are bad news, man. If you send people to go live with Haitians,
00:31:53.600
they'll die. They'll get raped and assaulted and die.
00:31:59.820
Okay, so then why would you send your own constituents to live with Haitians?
00:32:07.200
I'm not weighing in on the merits here. I think there's probably a lot of truth to what Frederica
00:32:12.180
Wilson is inadvertently saying here. But I'm not weighing in. I'm not making any substantive claim
00:32:17.500
about the Haitians. I'm simply taking their premise at their word. If that is the case,
00:32:24.300
then what they are admitting here is they would never send Haitians to go live with Haitians.
00:32:29.600
It's so awful. It's a death sentence. But they would send all of their constituents to live with
00:32:34.360
Haitians. It would be terrible if Haitians were raped and assaulted and terrorized by gangs.
00:32:42.620
Therefore, Americans must be raped and assaulted and terrorized by gangs. That is the argument
00:32:48.420
that the Democrats are making explicitly right now. Seems like the Trump policy is probably a pretty
00:32:56.120
smart one. I'm all for charity. I'm all for trying to be nice to people, recognizing America does have
00:33:03.220
a global leadership role. Yeah, of course. So if there's an earthquake or something,
00:33:06.300
something beyond the control of the people, a temporary problem, maybe we try to help them out.
00:33:10.920
Maybe. If this is just how Haiti is, and it is, I mean, this is how Haiti has been for now
00:33:18.080
like 230 years. The Haitian Revolution began in what, 1791? It ended in 1804. It culminated when the
00:33:29.680
Haitians slaughtered all the remaining white people in Haiti, killed all of the French,
00:33:33.100
men, women, and children, just slaughtered them all, raped the women first, but then slaughtered
00:33:36.340
them all. It's 1804. It's 2026. They haven't fixed it yet. Haiti's only gotten worse.
00:33:45.960
So is their argument just, we need to take all the Haitians? Why would we allow any Haitians to live
00:33:52.440
with Haitians? It's a death sentence. But then if we bring them here, then we're exposing all the
00:34:00.000
Americans to the Haitians. So then why would we tolerate any of these Haitians coming to the country
00:34:05.860
if the Democrats are right about the Haitians? Why would we do that? Because their political agenda
00:34:14.520
is, at least in principle, to help everybody else in the world and always to punish Americans.
00:34:23.380
Always to punish Americans. For what? They can't quite tell you. They give you a thousand reasons,
00:34:28.500
none of which makes sense, many of which are contradictory. But that's what it's about.
00:34:34.440
The Democrats are running on this campaign. Let's punish Americans. Let's allow Americans,
00:34:38.780
not just the Haitians, let's allow Americans to be raped and assaulted and subject to gang violence
00:34:43.860
from Venezuelan criminals who come across the border, from Somalis who defraud the government
00:34:48.540
and fund terrorism overseas and create havoc and disorder in our cities. Let's always punish
00:34:54.460
Americans for the supposed benefit of everybody else in the world. And Trump is running on the
00:34:59.100
policy of, hey, let's help Americans. Let's for once put the American citizens first when it comes to
00:35:07.560
American civil law and American national policy.
00:35:10.360
I'm starting to think, look, by all systemic measures, Republicans should lose the midterms
00:35:19.280
big. It's just what happens when a party takes the White House, usually the next time the other
00:35:23.460
party takes the Congress, maybe the Senate. And that's just how it works. It's how the pendulum
00:35:27.460
swings. If that's what the Dems are running on, it's going to be hard. Who knows? We're living in
00:35:34.120
unprecedented times. We have a president who has a non-consecutive second term.
00:35:37.040
This is only the second time in American history that's happened. I don't know. Maybe this bodes
00:35:41.220
well. In any case, please, Republicans, clip this out. This should be one of many campaign ads
00:35:47.660
throughout the campaign. Trump wants to get the rapists and the gang members and the murderers
00:35:54.840
out of our country, and we want to keep them here. Okay. All right. That's a bold strategy. We'll
00:36:01.120
see how it works. Speaking of immoral behavior, a story I've wanted to get to for at least a couple
00:36:04.140
days. A Florida couple is suing an IVF company because this couple, Lily White is the freshly
00:36:11.240
driven snow, gave birth to a baby that appears to be Indian. How'd that happen? Either the wife
00:36:21.080
has something to admit to the husband, but I don't think it's that because they went to IVF,
00:36:24.440
so I don't think it's that. Or something went really wrong with IVF. We'll get to that momentarily.
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free. My favorite comment, truly my favorite comment yesterday, comes from Guzdez,
00:37:14.960
who says, in response to my claiming, reading some of the Epstein files, that I was totally vindicated
00:37:19.820
in my prediction. Guzdez disagrees and says, Michael, I think the conspiracy theorists
00:37:24.720
are more vindicated than MK on this one. I have to challenge your premise, because your premise
00:37:33.140
is that when it comes to Epstein, I am not a conspiracy theorist. I guess I'm not a conspiracy
00:37:39.700
theorist, generally speaking, but when it comes to Epstein, you seem to suggest that I don't think
00:37:45.760
there's a conspiracy. And I don't know, maybe I wasn't clear in my show yesterday. Maybe you missed
00:37:51.500
what I said in my show yesterday. Not only do I think Epstein was involved in a conspiracy,
00:37:57.880
I think Epstein was involved in like a billion conspiracies. I think we don't even know the
00:38:03.740
number of conspiracies he was involved in. I am many times over a conspiracy theorist when it comes
00:38:10.540
to the case of Jeffrey Epstein, because we have ample evidence of myriad conspiracies in the emails,
00:38:17.260
more so in all the emails that come out, including one of them that we'll talk about today,
00:38:21.000
which is Epstein managing money for Vladimir Putin. There is no, you seem to think there's
00:38:26.920
a contradiction here where there is none. We'll get to that in a moment. First, though,
00:38:31.440
this Florida couple. So, hold on, let me get rid of the article from the Times about the
00:38:36.440
cadaverous Brazilian butt lifts. Let's get to this strange couple. Do I have it? I don't have it.
00:38:43.500
They didn't give me my article. Okay. Well, that's very frustrating. In any case, the story is of a
00:38:50.480
Florida couple suing a fertility clinic after an embryo mix-up. Oopsie-daisy. This is the birth
00:38:57.920
of a non-Caucasian child, which is obviously biologically not theirs. In a way, maybe biologically
00:39:04.040
theirs if the woman gestated the baby, though she might have just hired a surrogate, as many people
00:39:09.060
do in this industry. And so, whoops, we got the wrong baby. And now what are they going to do?
00:39:15.100
I wish I had the details of the story. I'll flog my producers after the show for not giving me this
00:39:20.160
article. But the details almost don't matter. We actually have enough facts to come to a difficult
00:39:27.740
conclusion about this. I know a lot of people have used IVF. IVF technology has been around for decades,
00:39:33.960
though it's dramatically increased in prevalence as costs have come down a little bit, and as
00:39:40.080
restrictions on it have loosened up. I know a lot of people, they say, well, I wouldn't have my kid
00:39:45.460
if it weren't for IVF. I wouldn't have this, that, or the other thing. I wouldn't have my niece. I
00:39:56.240
Good ends do not justify immoral means. And I want to point out what happens here.
00:40:00.740
The couple, oopsie-daisy, they mixed up the embryos, they get the wrong baby.
00:40:05.120
The only two things that can happen now are that the couple that paid for the baby, you know,
00:40:12.080
with their own genetic material, assuming that the genetic material was from the real mother and
00:40:16.120
the real father, and there wasn't a further mix up, mixing up the sperm and the egg, either that
00:40:21.420
couple, the Indian couple, gets the baby back, and the baby is just ripped away from the only parents
00:40:29.040
the baby's ever known, as, how old is the baby now? Six months? Eight months? Who knows how long
00:40:36.080
that process could take a year, a year and a half? Either they say, oh, sorry, baby, and they rip the
00:40:40.260
baby away from the only parents, specifically the only mommy the baby's ever known, and give it back
00:40:44.280
to this other couple, which is biologically the parents of the couple, of the baby, but nevertheless,
00:40:49.320
the baby doesn't really know those parents, in which case the baby is traumatized.
00:40:53.340
Or, they say, you know what, no harm, no foul, sorry that you ended up with our baby, and,
00:41:00.380
but you know what, you just keep that baby, we'll use one of our other eggs that we paid
00:41:03.320
for, or one of our other embryos that we paid for, and you can keep that baby, and we'll
00:41:06.540
just forget all about it. In which case, the baby is intentionally deprived of his natural
00:41:11.940
mother and father, in which case the baby is also traumatized. There is no scenario in
00:41:19.300
which the baby is not traumatized. Not one. Not one. I, I saw, I posted this on X, and someone
00:41:28.060
said, oh, you know, it was Richard Hanania, who's a very liberal, uh, pseudo-ethicist, I
00:41:34.680
guess, who has very, very confused ethics on, on everything. And he said, oh, you know, it's
00:41:39.480
a newborn baby. The implication being that newborn babies can't be traumatized, six-month-olds
00:41:47.440
can't be traumatized. Babies don't have an attachment to the people they think are their
00:41:52.720
mothers or fathers. Especially the mothers, they actually don't have as much of an attachment
00:41:56.500
to the fathers. Is that the idea? You can't, oh, you can't traumatize a baby. This is what,
00:42:00.300
this is that cope that you always hear. They say, oh, kids are, kids are resilient. Oh,
00:42:04.480
kids are resilient, which is merely an excuse to traumatize children and to not feel bad about
00:42:08.960
it. So that's, that's what happens here. I know that a lot of people have used IVF
00:42:16.600
because I know that people struggle with fertility. Some reasons that are just chosen, you know,
00:42:22.940
they put off having kids too late because they want to go to brunches. Some reasons that
00:42:26.180
are natural. There's a lot of weird stuff in the environment and it's a fallen world
00:42:28.560
and some people struggle with infertility. Sweet little Elise and I struggled with it for
00:42:32.320
two years. So I actually have firsthand experience of this. I know how very difficult, it worked
00:42:37.080
that for us in the end because of other treatments that were not IVF. But I, I understand, I personally
00:42:44.100
know how difficult this is, but I want to mince words here. This entire industry is satanic.
00:42:52.100
The whole thing. It's satanic. It's completely unacceptable. And I know the rejoinder that someone,
00:42:58.440
that probably people are already typing it out. They say, well, I wouldn't have my kid if not for IVF.
00:43:03.980
And so nothing that produces my kid could possibly be wrong or immoral or evil. I would just remind
00:43:12.140
you, rape produces children. Rape produces children. If you're a pro-lifer, you don't think
00:43:20.100
that kids should be murdered just because they were raped, just because their mother was raped.
00:43:24.460
You don't think that kids are less than other kids just because they were conceived in rape and other
00:43:31.420
kids were conceived in marital love. Nevertheless, you would never use the fact of the goodness of
00:43:39.840
the existence of that child to justify rape. So we are admitting off the front, right, right at the
00:43:47.220
beginning, that there are some ways to conceive children that are immoral and that should be
00:43:53.340
against the law. If you think that rape should be illegal, you are conceding immediately that there
00:43:59.920
are some ways of producing children that are immoral and that should be against the law.
00:44:06.100
And so I have to ask you, when it comes to the IVF industry,
00:44:08.460
do you think that it is good to create a situation in which kids can be traumatized?
00:44:18.260
No, that should probably be illegal. It is illegal to traumatize kids in a whole host of ways.
00:44:23.800
Okay. And you say, well, this is just, this happens as a rare case. First of all,
00:44:27.100
it happens more often than you think. And there's a lot more litigation about this than you might
00:44:29.940
think. But second of all, just consider the case of hiring surrogates. In the case of hiring a
00:44:35.680
surrogate, a child is being gestated in the womb of a woman who is the only mother that baby has ever
00:44:42.040
known. And the moment that baby is born, brought into this world, that baby is ripped away from
00:44:48.080
that mother, whose voice the baby knows, whose feel the baby knows, being ripped away. There is
00:44:53.940
an immediate trauma. There's an immediate injustice that's taken place. In best case scenario, just with
00:44:59.620
surrogacy. Even if the baby goes to the baby's natural biological parents.
00:45:05.680
Furthermore, we would all agree that it's wrong to sell people, right? We all think slavery is
00:45:11.080
wrong and immoral. The IVF industry exists to sell people, to go and custom order people,
00:45:20.060
and then to sell them. So it reduces the most fundamental human bonds and connections
00:45:26.540
to a near commercial transaction. Furthermore, in practice, IVF results in the killing of many,
00:45:34.960
many, many babies. Because many embryos are created that are then indefinitely frozen or
00:45:40.200
destroyed. Or frozen and then eventually destroyed. So IVF practically almost always entails killing lots
00:45:48.200
of children. When you tally it all up, it massively increases the abortion, right?
00:45:53.900
The whole industry is satanic. Not merely because accidents happen, though that's quite bad.
00:46:01.700
Not merely because it involves these injustices that some people try to push to the side. But
00:46:07.800
because it commoditizes human life and it reverses the order of rights in procreation. The only person
00:46:13.960
who can be said to have rights in procreation is the right of a baby to be the product of the specific
00:46:19.320
conjugal act of his natural mother and father. When you come down to it, philosophically,
00:46:26.040
anthropologically, that's the only person who can be said to have rights. You don't have a right to
00:46:30.860
buy a kid. You don't have a right to another person's kid. You don't have a right to kill your
00:46:34.440
kids. You don't have a right to order kids from scientists who are, in fact, merchants of human
00:46:43.100
beings. It is a hard saying. I know. People don't want to hear it. But it's a fact. And all who have
00:46:49.780
ears to hear, let them hear. Okay, before we go, story I have to get to. The septum rings are back.
00:46:56.640
The septum rings are back. This septum lady had this to say regarding the ICE protests.
00:47:02.720
If you want to argue with me, I'll argue. But I got to let you know something. I'm willing to burn my
00:47:06.640
whole life to the ground. I don't care. I got nothing to lose. I don't want to be here.
00:47:20.020
And I don't believe in heaven. So with somebody else. Okay, so I mentioned this because it's
00:47:26.300
always the septum rings. That's I did a deep investigation into this. You can find it on
00:47:29.400
my YouTube channel. I suspect this is a lot of the activism you're seeing, notably from the
00:47:37.460
middle-aged white ladies. I've been a little tough on the middle-aged white ladies this show with the
00:47:40.760
cadaver fat and all the rest of it. I suspect this is a lot of it. A crisis specifically among middle-aged
00:47:48.380
white ladies who are especially likely to take psychiatric drugs, to have all sorts of emotional
00:47:53.200
problems, which are usually related to spiritual problems. What did she say? She goes, I don't give an
00:47:57.860
F. I don't want to be here. I don't want to be here. And I don't give an F. And don't mess with me
00:48:04.620
because I got nothing to lose. I think that's true. This is the consequence of a lot of errors.
00:48:13.300
Women like that need husbands. Sorry, fellas. Who's going to step up to the task? I don't see a lot of
00:48:19.880
volunteers. I get it. But women like that need husbands. Men need wives, generally speaking, unless you
00:48:26.300
have a religious vocation or some special circumstance. Generally, women need husbands
00:48:29.800
and men need wives. That's how the world works. We're coupling creatures. We're inclined to live
00:48:33.400
in an ordered society and we're coupling creatures especially. When we don't have those kinds of
00:48:38.440
supports, real supports, not just commercial, transactional, you know, this is my partner and
00:48:44.300
we're just going to try to increase each other's private benefit as much as we can. And then when we
00:48:49.000
stop privately benefiting, we're going to split up and forget about contracts and forget about promises,
00:48:52.880
certainly forget about sacred vows. We're just individuals. The consequences is people go crazy
00:48:58.140
and they feel like they have no stake in the society. This is why marriage is the fundamental
00:49:01.380
building block of society. That's why when you try to screw around with marriage and redefine marriage,
00:49:05.640
you mess up all of society because that's the fundamental political unit. And people feel like
00:49:10.280
they don't have a stake. And when they don't have a stake, they start to screw up a lot of the rest of
00:49:14.080
society down to putting themselves in dangerous situations, blocking traffic, obstructing law
00:49:19.560
enforcement, daring cops to shoot them. Because at a deep level, a lot of these people have a death
00:49:24.440
wish. Because there's a lot of nihilism that comes about when you turn away all of the obligations that
00:49:29.840
you naturally have and you try to make yourself into a god, things stop making sense. And you become
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very nihilistic, as she did. Okay, before we go, I know we're running late. There's one story I have to
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get to, though. It's the Epstein thing. This came out of the files. This one's going around today.
00:49:45.600
Jeffrey Epstein was the wealth manager for Vladimir Putin and Robert Mugabe. For Mugabe, too. This is
00:49:55.800
according to a confidential source. So again, you don't know if the confidential sources are always
00:49:59.640
right. But according to the FBI, he managed money for Putin and Mugabe. We know from the emails that
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Epstein was meeting with Putin. So the source said Epstein was President Vladimir Putin's wealth
00:50:13.480
manager and provided the same service for former Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe. He had dirt
00:50:18.220
on a lot of other people. He had this appointment with Putin in 2011. He did a lot of weird stuff.
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He might have worked for Russian intelligence. He might have worked for both Russia and Israel.
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We know from some of the other sources, he might have worked with American intelligence,
00:50:36.400
possibly MI6 intelligence. This gets back to my favorite comment of the day,
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which as Michael, the conspiracy theorists were right. Yeah, they were much more right than they
00:50:47.420
think they are, actually. Everyone is just focusing on the weird sex stuff. Because Epstein had all these
00:50:53.120
young women and some underage girls, girls who were teenagers. Most of the women, I think,
00:51:00.080
were not teenagers. I think most of the women were just like women in their 20s for the less perverse,
00:51:06.860
I guess, rich, influential, famous people. But some of the girls were quite young, even more
00:51:13.340
compromised. Who was Epstein? That's the question. What a lot of people want, as I said yesterday,
00:51:20.580
is not transparency. And more than that, it's justice, but it's not even ultimately justice.
00:51:28.140
I think they want to know who this guy was. What did he mean for the political order?
00:51:31.700
Was he a spy? Or was he just a rich guy with lots of connections? And so what the question really
00:51:38.640
comes down to is, how much of the Epstein operation was for his personal benefit, his personal
00:51:45.220
enrichment? And how much of it was on behalf of some other entity or other state or other states?
00:51:52.860
That's the question. And so when people say Epstein was a spy, I think they have this mistaken idea
00:51:58.540
that it was Agent Epstein reporting for duty at Langley or Tel Aviv or Moscow or wherever.
00:52:07.440
The one thing I'm quite confident of is it wasn't Agent Epstein. Because that's not really how spy work
00:52:13.360
works. Sure, there are some people who are career spies in the Foreign Service and do that. But
00:52:20.220
there's this gray area. If you have spies, if you have James Bond over here and you have Joe Blow over
00:52:27.160
here, there is a gray area of people with a lot of money or a lot of connections or a lot of power
00:52:32.220
who aid intelligence agencies, one or multiple, but who are still doing stuff privately for their own
00:52:38.960
benefit. And that would seem to be what Epstein was. He obviously had a ton of intelligence connections.
00:52:45.280
Some people are just trying to focus on one or two or this. He seems to have had intelligence
00:52:48.640
connections with like everybody, including intelligence agencies that fight each other.
00:52:53.020
So the question then becomes, how much of this was just a shyster who was trying to
00:53:01.260
improve his status in the world? And how many of this was a spy, a secret agent? How patriotic was he?
00:53:10.480
Was this about his private gain or public benefit? And the only way to answer that with anything
00:53:18.000
approaching confidence is to see what happened in that jail cell. And I know the cameras didn't work,
00:53:25.040
but then they did work. But then a minute was missing from the cameras and we don't really see
00:53:30.920
what happened. And that's what we have to know. To start to answer that question, how much was he
00:53:36.700
working for himself? How much was he working for other people? And who specifically was he working
00:53:39.920
for the most? I guess he was working for everybody, but he was one of these guys who just makes the
00:53:45.040
wheels of government and business. And those two are actually pretty related kind of move. He was a
00:53:50.380
connector. He was a lubricant, pardon the evocative imagery, but that's kind of what he was. The only
00:53:56.400
way to answer that, the only way to start to answer that is to say, who killed him? Or was it himself?
00:54:04.260
And did someone allow him to kill himself if it was himself? And that's the question.
00:54:07.980
And notice, of all the juicy stuff that was coming out about Epstein, that's the one question
00:54:14.700
ain't nobody going toward. We're not getting any additional evidence on that.
00:54:21.060
Oh, look at this videotape. But oh, actually a minute's missing. And oh, never mind. Actually,
00:54:25.000
the cameras didn't work. And actually, they did work. And actually, we're not getting that one ever,
00:54:29.360
which totally vindicates my view, based on how the government releases information,
00:54:34.780
how governments release information. Either Epstein was who the mainstream is telling you he
00:54:40.660
was, just a private guy. It was all private. It was all his own weird stuff privately.
00:54:45.240
And that was it. And he killed himself. And that's that. In which case, we know everything
00:54:47.940
we're going to know about him. Or he was something more. He was obviously something more. In which case,
00:54:55.420
take it to the bank. You are not going to find out any more about it. In which case,
00:55:00.880
we already know everything we're going to know. People find that unsatisfying.
00:55:04.780
They want their podcast host to come out and say, we're this close. We're this close to
00:55:10.000
finding out the truth. We're hot on the case. Those people, either they're stupid or they're
00:55:14.480
lying to you. We're not this close. We have a rough idea of all the potentiality of all the
00:55:21.900
things Epstein could be. We are not this close to finding out what it was. A lot of that will hinge
00:55:28.400
on the circumstances of his death, which is the biggest black hole in the entire Epstein case.
00:55:32.580
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What was it like, Merlin, to be alone with God?
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Merlin, I knew your father. I am yet convinced that he was not of this world.
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You are my father. The gods should war for my soul.
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There is a new power at work in the world. I've seen it.
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Fate of Britain never rests in the hands of the great light.
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How many lives must be lost before you accept the power you were born to wield?
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Circling to the promises of a god who has abandoned you.