The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 1913 - Horrifying Updates： Trans Father Confirmed In Hockey Rink Massacre

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00:03:07.000 So much to get to,

00:03:08.000 even a relatively breaking story last night

00:03:11.000 amid everything going on

00:03:12.000 the Munich Security Conference,

00:03:14.000 aliens,

00:03:15.000 massive national debate over white nationalism.

00:03:20.000 Another story,

00:03:21.000 I heard this song before,

00:03:23.000 a trans-identifying guy

00:03:26.000 shot up a school hockey game

00:03:28.000 last night in Rhode Island.

00:03:30.000 This story,

00:03:32.000 it comes from a guy named Robert

00:03:35.000 who now goes by Roberta.

00:03:37.000 I just, here are the bullet points. 0.92

00:03:39.000 Transgender dad shoots up a high school hockey game. 0.98

00:03:46.000 He then killed himself after opening fire 0.98

00:03:49.000 at the Pawtucket ice rink.

00:03:51.000 So right now,

00:03:52.000 just check, check, check on every stereotype

00:03:55.000 of the trans-identifying people. 0.99

00:03:57.000 Suicidal, homicidal,

00:04:00.000 major family problems,

00:04:02.000 target schools.

00:04:04.000 He had responded,

00:04:06.000 I think to Kevin Sorbo once actually,

00:04:08.000 on X,

00:04:09.000 said, keep bashing us,

00:04:10.000 because Kevin Sorbo,

00:04:11.000 the conservative actor,

00:04:13.000 said that transgenderism isn't real.

00:04:15.000 This guy responded a while ago, 0.97

00:04:16.000 said, keep bashing us,

00:04:18.000 but do not wonder why we go berserk.

00:04:21.000 So,

00:04:23.000 guy says he's a girl,

00:04:27.000 targets a school,

00:04:28.000 targets his family,

00:04:29.000 homicidal, suicidal,

00:04:31.000 lots of warning,

00:04:32.000 totally predictable.

00:04:33.000 This is every trans-violence story 1.00

00:04:35.000 you've ever heard,

00:04:36.000 to a T.

00:04:38.000 The victims include

00:04:40.000 the mother of one of the student hockey players,

00:04:43.000 the mother of the son of this trans guy,

00:04:50.000 and the athlete's sibling.

00:04:53.000 I don't think the son actually was killed,

00:04:55.000 but the sibling at least was killed.

00:04:57.000 It's not clear to reporters,

00:04:59.000 I'm reading this from the New York Post,

00:05:00.000 if the mom who was gunned down 0.83

00:05:02.000 is the ex-wife of the trans guy.

00:05:05.000 His ex-wife filed for divorce in 2020

00:05:08.000 on the grounds of gender reassignment surgery

00:05:10.000 and narcissistic plus personality disorder traits.

00:05:14.000 Again, right out of every trans story, 1.00

00:05:17.000 right out of the textbook.

00:05:19.000 The trans phenomenon associated

00:05:22.000 with extreme narcissism,

00:05:24.000 extreme personality disorders.

00:05:28.000 The gunman's daughter has told reporters

00:05:30.000 he, quote,

00:05:31.000 has mental health issues 0.99

00:05:32.000 and was very sick. 1.00

00:05:34.000 He shot my family and he's dead now. 1.00

00:05:38.000 The guy has mental health problems. 1.00

00:05:42.000 Gee, you don't say. 0.99

00:05:43.000 Of course he does.

00:05:44.000 Now, here's the question for all of the libs

00:05:46.000 and all the people who are open-minded,

00:05:49.000 so open-minded that their brains fall out

00:05:51.000 on the trans issue. 0.99

00:05:53.000 What are his mental problems? 0.98

00:05:55.000 What are they? 0.66

00:05:56.000 Did he just have a little OCD?

00:05:58.000 Did he just have a touch of depression?

00:06:01.000 What are the mental problems? 0.94

00:06:03.000 The mental problem is the trans identity. 1.00

00:06:08.000 What's the trans identity? 0.81

00:06:09.000 That's the problem, right?

00:06:11.000 Can we admit that now?

00:06:12.000 You were previously not allowed to admit that

00:06:14.000 and you would be kicked off of social media

00:06:16.000 for saying that

00:06:17.000 and you would be calumniated in the national press

00:06:20.000 in my case when I gave a speech

00:06:21.000 on the transgender issue some years ago.

00:06:24.000 Can we admit that though?

00:06:25.000 What's the mental health problem?

00:06:27.000 We always say we have a mental health crisis

00:06:28.000 in this country.

00:06:29.000 We need to have a serious conversation

00:06:30.000 about mental health.

00:06:31.000 You know, rather than just target

00:06:33.000 these poor trans people, 0.91

00:06:35.000 we need to talk about mental health. 0.96

00:06:36.000 That's what we're trying to do.

00:06:37.000 That's what we're trying to talk about.

00:06:38.000 Because the mental health problem they have 0.84

00:06:41.000 is they think they're the opposite sex.

00:06:43.000 And that goes along with extreme narcissism,

00:06:47.000 violence, violent tendencies,

00:06:50.000 and suicidality.

00:06:52.000 Like every time.

00:06:54.000 Every time.

00:06:56.000 A disproportionately disproportionate number

00:06:59.000 of these shooters, the school shooters,

00:07:01.000 the family shooters are trans identified.

00:07:04.000 Their suicide rates are multiples

00:07:07.000 and orders of magnitude higher

00:07:08.000 than the general population.

00:07:10.000 So that's the mental health problem, right?

00:07:12.000 So we should treat that problem, right?

00:07:14.000 No, we're not allowed to.

00:07:16.000 We say out of one side of our mouths,

00:07:19.000 this is a very serious mental health issue.

00:07:21.000 And then out of the other side,

00:07:22.000 we say, and we're not going to do anything about it.

00:07:23.000 So they keep shooting people. 0.69

00:07:24.000 They keep shooting kids.

00:07:25.000 They keep targeting school children. 1.00

00:07:27.000 They keep shooting their wives. 0.95

00:07:30.000 Final part of the story, 0.95

00:07:31.000 the ice rink slaughter,

00:07:33.000 the New York Post,

00:07:34.000 came just days after 18 year old

00:07:36.000 transgender high school dropout, 0.96

00:07:38.000 murdered his own mom and stepbrother 0.99

00:07:41.000 before gunning down six others

00:07:42.000 at his former school in Canada.

00:07:43.000 If we have time,

00:07:44.000 we'll get to some of the fallout

00:07:45.000 from that shooting as well.

00:07:49.000 Another day, 1.00

00:07:50.000 another transvestite shooting people 1.00

00:07:53.000 and himself. 1.00

00:07:54.000 Yes.

00:07:55.000 And the part that is so infuriating

00:07:59.000 about the whole story,

00:08:00.000 it's not even just the tragedy.

00:08:02.000 It's a fallen world

00:08:03.000 and sad things happen

00:08:04.000 and the rain falls on the just

00:08:05.000 and the unjust alike.

00:08:06.000 The thing that is infuriating

00:08:08.000 about this story

00:08:09.000 is it's entirely predictable.

00:08:11.000 And major national politicians,

00:08:13.000 the Democrats,

00:08:15.000 defend this.

00:08:16.000 They affirm this.

00:08:17.000 He says,

00:08:18.000 you keep bashing us

00:08:20.000 and then you wonder why we go berserk.

00:08:21.000 We're not bashing you. 0.99

00:08:22.000 You are berserk. 1.00

00:08:24.000 You're a berserk person. 1.00

00:08:26.000 If you think you're the opposite sex, 1.00

00:08:28.000 you're berserk. 0.94

00:08:29.000 And you have a lot of 1.00

00:08:30.000 berserk personality traits.

00:08:32.000 And what you are perceiving 0.96

00:08:33.000 as us bashing you

00:08:34.000 is us trying to help you

00:08:36.000 and us pointing out the obvious, 0.89

00:08:38.000 which is that you are berserk.

00:08:40.000 And then the way that you're going

00:08:42.000 to get back at us

00:08:43.000 is by proving us entirely right.

00:08:46.000 Every time.

00:08:47.000 Every time.

00:08:48.000 Every time.

00:08:49.000 On top of that,

00:08:50.000 the largest data set on this issue

00:08:52.000 has shown

00:08:53.000 that the transgender procedures,

00:08:55.000 surgical, hormonal,

00:08:56.000 even social,

00:08:57.000 they don't help.

00:08:59.000 They don't help at all.

00:09:00.000 They don't mitigate the depression.

00:09:01.000 They don't mitigate the anxiety.

00:09:02.000 They actually make the anxiety worse

00:09:04.000 and they don't mitigate the suicidality.

00:09:06.000 And if it were just a problem

00:09:08.000 afflicting you,

00:09:09.000 I would still care about it.

00:09:10.000 I would still,

00:09:11.000 because I'm not some libertarian,

00:09:12.000 I would still try to help you

00:09:13.000 because we all live in society

00:09:14.000 and there are standards

00:09:15.000 and norms in society.

00:09:16.000 But the reality is,

00:09:17.000 it's affecting everybody.

00:09:19.000 You're taking away bathrooms from women. 1.00

00:09:21.000 You're taking away sports from women. 1.00

00:09:23.000 You're creating a lot of disorder

00:09:24.000 and scandal on the street.

00:09:25.000 Oh yeah. 0.58

00:09:26.000 And you keep slaughtering people. 0.99

00:09:28.000 Kids. 0.97

00:09:29.000 You keep targeting kids.

00:09:30.000 So that's that.

00:09:32.000 For the good of society

00:09:33.000 and especially for the good

00:09:34.000 of the poor people 0.84

00:09:35.000 who are in the throes

00:09:37.000 of this confusion, 0.99

00:09:38.000 transgenderism must be eradicated 1.00

00:09:41.000 from public life entirely. 0.99

00:09:43.000 The whole preposterous ideology

00:09:44.000 at every level.

00:09:45.000 If you agree with that,

00:09:47.000 you're taking one step

00:09:48.000 toward solving the problem.

00:09:49.000 If you don't agree with that,

00:09:50.000 then you want, 0.86

00:09:51.000 you want these shootings

00:09:52.000 to keep happening.

00:09:53.000 Okay.

00:09:54.000 Moving on from the trannies for now, 1.00

00:09:56.000 we turn to Capitol Hill

00:09:58.000 and a top State Department nominee.

00:10:02.000 This is Jeremy Carl,

00:10:03.000 very qualified State Department nominee,

00:10:05.000 strong academic background,

00:10:07.000 has written a lot,

00:10:08.000 thought a lot about this.

00:10:09.000 Good, good pick for the job.

00:10:10.000 Good for the job.

00:10:11.000 The Democrats though,

00:10:12.000 they want to boot him

00:10:13.000 and they want to boot him

00:10:14.000 because apparently Jeremy Carl

00:10:17.000 is a white nationalist.

00:10:20.000 What does white nationalism even mean?

00:10:22.000 I don't know.

00:10:23.000 Let's try to find out.

00:10:24.000 Here is Democrat Chris Murphy,

00:10:25.000 one of the most insufferable. 0.59

00:10:27.000 Would you say most insufferable

00:10:28.000 or least sufferable?

00:10:29.000 Regardless, 0.96

00:10:30.000 he's one of the absolute worst Democrats 0.90

00:10:32.000 on Capitol Hill.

00:10:33.000 He's from Connecticut.

00:10:34.000 Here he is grilling President Trump's

00:10:36.000 State Department nominee

00:10:37.000 over claims of anti-white discrimination.

00:10:41.000 A year ago,

00:10:42.000 were white Americans

00:10:43.000 the most discriminated against group

00:10:45.000 in the United States?

00:10:46.000 You said it.

00:10:47.000 Yes.

00:10:48.000 Senator,

00:10:49.000 certainly this is my belief.

00:10:50.000 I'm not running away from that.

00:10:51.000 I think that while of course

00:10:53.000 all races in different contexts

00:10:55.000 can be subject to really severe discrimination,

00:10:59.000 that when we look at our legal structures,

00:11:01.000 white Americans are often very disfavored

00:11:04.000 in overt ways.

00:11:05.000 We're seeing this

00:11:06.000 in the Small Business Administration,

00:11:07.000 many other places.

00:11:08.000 So your belief is that white Americans

00:11:11.000 face more discrimination,

00:11:13.000 at least prior to the Trump administration,

00:11:15.000 fixing this than black Americans? 1.00

00:11:17.000 On average, Senator, 0.59

00:11:19.000 yes, that's correct.

00:11:20.000 And I'm not running away

00:11:21.000 from that statement at all.

00:11:22.000 Does anybody seriously disagree with that?

00:11:24.000 Jeremy Carl's very well articulated point is,

00:11:27.000 he said, yes,

00:11:28.000 anybody can face unjust discrimination,

00:11:30.000 but white people are the only group

00:11:33.000 that face a discrimination

00:11:36.000 that is approved culturally

00:11:38.000 and that is legally sanctioned.

00:11:40.000 Until very recently,

00:11:42.000 maybe you have a few cases

00:11:43.000 on affirmative action

00:11:44.000 that start to move the ball

00:11:46.000 in the other direction.

00:11:47.000 But even in those cases,

00:11:48.000 after the Supreme Court

00:11:49.000 struck down affirmative action

00:11:50.000 in college admissions,

00:11:51.000 the colleges all just said,

00:11:52.000 okay, well,

00:11:53.000 we'll abide by the court's ruling.

00:11:54.000 Wink, wink.

00:11:55.000 And they're going to figure out

00:11:56.000 other ways to get around it.

00:11:57.000 Does anybody seriously disagree with that? 0.99

00:11:59.000 If you do not hire a black person, 1.00

00:12:03.000 if you don't admit a black person 0.99

00:12:04.000 to your college, 0.99

00:12:05.000 you will face an onslaught,

00:12:07.000 not just of civil cases,

00:12:08.000 you'll face civil rights investigations.

00:12:12.000 If you exclude a white person, 0.54

00:12:14.000 you are applauded for your great efforts

00:12:17.000 to diversify and to include

00:12:20.000 and to promote equity.

00:12:21.000 In fact, the only reason

00:12:22.000 that the Supreme Court

00:12:23.000 struck down affirmative action

00:12:24.000 in college admissions

00:12:25.000 is because the Asians 1.00

00:12:26.000 were able to claim discrimination as well.

00:12:29.000 Had it just been white people, 0.71

00:12:30.000 they would have let it go. 0.79

00:12:31.000 Because the whole point

00:12:32.000 of affirmative action

00:12:33.000 is to reduce the number of white people, 0.86

00:12:35.000 the proportion of white people

00:12:36.000 in various fields.

00:12:37.000 That's why it was the Asians 1.00

00:12:39.000 who had to lead the fight

00:12:40.000 against affirmative action.

00:12:42.000 But can you name another group

00:12:44.000 that is discriminated against

00:12:46.000 de facto?

00:12:47.000 Maybe.

00:12:48.000 Yeah, maybe.

00:12:49.000 It depends on the situation.

00:12:50.000 Maybe you can name a group

00:12:51.000 that's discriminated against

00:12:52.000 as a matter of fact.

00:12:54.000 Can you name another group

00:12:55.000 where discrimination

00:12:57.000 against that group

00:12:58.000 is culturally approved?

00:12:59.000 Yeah, that's, 0.62

00:13:00.000 we need to abolish whiteness. 0.99

00:13:01.000 We need more diversity.

00:13:03.000 We need, no. 1.00

00:13:04.000 Oh, the stupid white people, 1.00

00:13:06.000 those dumb white Karens. 1.00

00:13:07.000 Can you name another one? 1.00

00:13:08.000 I can't.

00:13:09.000 Where that's approved

00:13:10.000 by our mainstream institutions,

00:13:11.000 by our elites,

00:13:12.000 in media,

00:13:13.000 in politics,

00:13:14.000 and elsewhere.

00:13:15.000 And then furthermore,

00:13:16.000 can you name another group

00:13:17.000 where it is not only culturally approved,

00:13:20.000 but legal,

00:13:21.000 and legally encouraged

00:13:23.000 to discriminate against that group?

00:13:25.000 Can you?

00:13:27.000 No.

00:13:28.000 No. 0.65

00:13:29.000 It's white people. 0.76

00:13:30.000 So as,

00:13:31.000 as far as the racial groups go,

00:13:33.000 white people are,

00:13:35.000 in fact,

00:13:36.000 more discriminated against

00:13:37.000 than the other groups.

00:13:38.000 Jeremy Carl,

00:13:39.000 100% right.

00:13:40.000 Chris Murphy,

00:13:41.000 goes down swinging on that one.

00:13:42.000 How about Cory Booker?

00:13:43.000 Cory Booker comes up.

00:13:44.000 He is absolutely shocked

00:13:46.000 that Jeremy Carl

00:13:47.000 would promote

00:13:48.000 the great replacement theory.

00:13:52.000 What do you mean when you say

00:13:55.000 that you believe

00:13:56.000 in the great replacement theory?

00:13:57.000 Senator,

00:13:59.000 thank you for that question.

00:14:01.000 Uh,

00:14:02.000 this refers to,

00:14:03.000 uh,

00:14:04.000 the intentional

00:14:05.000 demographic replacement

00:14:07.000 of Europeans in Europe.

00:14:09.000 It was invented by,

00:14:10.000 uh,

00:14:11.000 Renaud Camus,

00:14:12.000 who was a,

00:14:13.000 a French scholar.

00:14:14.000 You think there's an active effort

00:14:15.000 to,

00:14:16.000 quote unquote,

00:14:17.000 replace

00:14:18.000 Americans right now?

00:14:20.000 Uh,

00:14:21.000 Senator,

00:14:22.000 I think the Democratic Party

00:14:23.000 through its immigration policies

00:14:24.000 has certainly shown signs of that.

00:14:26.000 And,

00:14:27.000 and I don't understand that.

00:14:28.000 So you are saying,

00:14:29.000 you know,

00:14:30.000 I don't understand that.

00:14:31.000 More Americans

00:14:32.000 are black

00:14:33.000 or Latino 0.60

00:14:35.000 Americans,

00:14:36.000 that that somehow

00:14:38.000 weakens

00:14:40.000 America

00:14:41.000 because it puts 0.99

00:14:42.000 whites

00:14:43.000 in a minority. 0.95

00:14:44.000 Hold on.

00:14:46.000 So Cory Booker,

00:14:47.000 you notice he changes it there

00:14:48.000 at the end.

00:14:49.000 At first he says,

00:14:50.000 you think that there is a major

00:14:52.000 demographic shift afoot?

00:14:53.000 And Jeremy Earl says,

00:14:54.000 yeah,

00:14:55.000 what are you?

00:14:56.000 Yeah.

00:14:57.000 In 1964,

00:14:58.000 white people were 90% of the United States.

00:15:01.000 Now they're a little under 60%,

00:15:03.000 depending on how you count it.

00:15:04.000 So there's been this massive shift

00:15:06.000 because of the Hart-Celler Act,

00:15:07.000 which specifically endeavored to reduce

00:15:10.000 the white proportion of the population

00:15:12.000 and bring in non-white peoples.

00:15:13.000 So you might think that's a good thing.

00:15:15.000 And actually you guys do think it's a good thing.

00:15:17.000 You always talk about how it's a good thing.

00:15:19.000 You've written very prominent political science papers

00:15:22.000 about this.

00:15:23.000 You've talked about the coalition of the ascendant.

00:15:25.000 You've bragged about this when you're celebrating it,

00:15:28.000 but then you deny it when we object to it.

00:15:31.000 There's a meme going around social media,

00:15:33.000 which is that so much of Democrat political discourse

00:15:36.000 is just pretending not to understand things,

00:15:38.000 thus making communication impossible.

00:15:40.000 And so Cory Booker,

00:15:42.000 he's pretending not to understand this.

00:15:44.000 Oh, you're telling me there's a mass migration campaign

00:15:46.000 to change the demographics of America?

00:15:48.000 What?

00:15:49.000 It's the first time hearing of this.

00:15:50.000 Stop the presses.

00:15:51.000 What?

00:15:52.000 But then when Jeremy Carl says, yeah, that's obviously happening,

00:15:57.000 he goes, so you're telling me that's a bad thing

00:16:00.000 that brown people make America weaker? 1.00

00:16:02.000 Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. 0.95

00:16:03.000 Jeremy, Jeremy Carl never said that.

00:16:05.000 Senator, what are, where, where'd you get that from?

00:16:08.000 Seems to me you are confessing some prejudice of your own.

00:16:12.000 Seems to me you're changing the argument here

00:16:15.000 because you know you can't win on the first point.

00:16:17.000 Obviously there is a major political project for a demographic shift.

00:16:22.000 Let me ask you something real quick, real quick here.

00:16:26.000 Can you define DEI for me?

00:16:29.000 What is DEI?

00:16:30.000 I know it stands for diversity, equity, inclusion, but what does it do?

00:16:34.000 What is the definition of DEI?

00:16:36.000 What is it?

00:16:37.000 I think the most clinical, neutral definition we could have of DEI is,

00:16:45.000 as the promoters of DEI would put it, that it is a noble political project

00:16:51.000 to reduce the white proportion of the population in any given society.

00:16:58.000 That's what diversify means, diversity.

00:17:00.000 We have too many white people in boardrooms, in universities, in the United States. 1.00

00:17:05.000 And so we need to diversify.

00:17:07.000 That is, we need more non-white people relative to the white people, 1.00

00:17:10.000 which means if you're going to have more non-white people, 0.86

00:17:12.000 you have to have relatively fewer white people. 0.78

00:17:15.000 Right? 0.76

00:17:16.000 That's what that means.

00:17:17.000 And when people promote DEI, they're saying this is a noble, good political project

00:17:22.000 in order to reduce the proportion of the white population in any given society.

00:17:27.000 Okay.

00:17:28.000 Now, can you please define for me the great replacement theory?

00:17:32.000 What is the great replacement theory?

00:17:34.000 As I understand it, reading Wikipedia, listening to these bloviating Democrat senators,

00:17:39.000 the great replacement theory is the evil, vile, obviously false conspiracy theory

00:17:48.000 that there is a political project to reduce the proportion of white people in a given society.

00:17:54.000 Do I have that right?

00:17:55.000 Is that right?

00:17:57.000 DEI very clearly is this wonderful, wonderful project to reduce,

00:18:02.000 to rebalance society by reducing the proportion of white people.

00:18:07.000 And the great replacement theory is the evil, awful, how dare you even suggest a conspiracy theory

00:18:12.000 that there is a political project to reduce the proportion of white people in a given society.

00:18:17.000 Do I have that right?

00:18:19.000 Is that right?

00:18:20.000 The difference in definition between those two things is merely one of connotation.

00:18:30.000 DEI?

00:18:31.000 Two thumbs up, big smile.

00:18:33.000 Great replacement theory.

00:18:37.000 Two thumbs way down, that's totally fake.

00:18:40.000 DEI?

00:18:41.000 Huh?

00:18:42.000 Oh, great replacement theory.

00:18:44.000 That's all.

00:18:45.000 That's the definition.

00:18:46.000 That's the distinction.

00:18:48.000 But they literally, at their most basic level, mean the same thing.

00:18:54.000 Hmm.

00:18:55.000 I think that's probably why Cory Booker, who is relatively more intelligent than Chris Murphy.

00:19:01.000 That's why he had to move on.

00:19:02.000 He knew he couldn't win the point debating the Democrats program for demographic shift.

00:19:08.000 So he has to say, well, you think it's bad?

00:19:10.000 You don't like brown people?

00:19:11.000 He said, I never said that.

00:19:12.000 What are you talking about?

00:19:13.000 Okay. 1.00

00:19:14.000 Uh, beyond the stupid political fights happening on Capitol Hill for all of President Trump's 0.98

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00:19:24.000 Marco Rubio, knocked it out of the park at the Munich Security Conference.

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00:22:01.000 The Munich Security Conference just took place.

00:22:04.000 Now, this was the site last year of the vice president, J.D. Vance,

00:22:07.000 giving one of the great speeches in the history of the Trump administration,

00:22:11.000 the Trump administrations, in which he shows up to the Munich Security Conference

00:22:15.000 and he says, hey guys, this liberal internationalism, it's not working.

00:22:18.000 And the American people elected us to defend the interests of the United States.

00:22:22.000 And in defending the interests of the United States, by the way,

00:22:24.000 we will protect the global order, especially Europe.

00:22:27.000 And it was this real tough love for people in Munich.

00:22:30.000 It was an excellent, excellent speech.

00:22:32.000 Marco Rubio comes out and gives what is tonally a very different speech

00:22:37.000 from what the vice president gave last year.

00:22:40.000 But listen in to specifically what the Secretary of State is saying.

00:22:46.000 The euphoria of this triumph led us to a dangerous delusion

00:22:52.000 that we had entered, quote, the end of history.

00:22:55.000 That every nation would now be a liberal democracy, that the ties formed by trade

00:22:59.000 and by commerce alone would now replace nationhood.

00:23:04.000 We are part of one civilization, Western civilization.

00:23:08.000 We are bound to one another by the deepest bonds that nations could share,

00:23:12.000 forged by centuries of shared history, Christian faith, culture, heritage, language, ancestry,

00:23:20.000 and the sacrifices our forefathers made together.

00:23:23.000 We are connected spiritually and we are connected culturally.

00:23:27.000 We want Europe.

00:23:29.000 The fundamental question we must answer at the outset is what exactly are we defending?

00:23:35.000 Because armies do not fight for abstractions.

00:23:39.000 Armies fight for a people.

00:23:41.000 Armies fight for a nation.

00:23:43.000 Armies fight for a way of life.

00:23:46.000 Excellent, excellent speech from the Secretary of State.

00:23:49.000 It's beautiful.

00:23:50.000 And it was very well stated in this very diplomatic way.

00:23:53.000 And Rubio is the chief diplomat of the United States.

00:23:56.000 And yet when you focus in on specifically what he was saying,

00:23:59.000 what I find so delightful about this Munich Security Conference speech,

00:24:02.000 it was basically the same speech Vance gave last year.

00:24:07.000 But tonally, it was different.

00:24:10.000 Vance's speech was the tough love.

00:24:13.000 Rubio's speech is the softer diplomatic view.

00:24:17.000 So you have the vice president who the vice president and the president have to be tougher.

00:24:22.000 They got to be more of the blunt instruments.

00:24:24.000 The chief diplomat has to be more diplomatic.

00:24:26.000 And yet there was perfect alignment.

00:24:28.000 Listen at what beautiful what Rubio said there at the end.

00:24:31.000 Nations don't really fight for abstractions.

00:24:35.000 Yes, there are ideas and ideals that inform war and national policy.

00:24:40.000 But they fight for a people.

00:24:42.000 That's what nations defend.

00:24:44.000 Nations don't just defend ideas in the abstract.

00:24:46.000 That's a liberal pretense.

00:24:48.000 But it isn't true.

00:24:50.000 We don't go to war for some vague idea that can be held by the Tibetans or the Vietnamese or the Mauritians.

00:25:00.000 We fight for a people.

00:25:01.000 That's what the civil authority in any country is supposed to do, to defend a people.

00:25:06.000 And how does one defend a people?

00:25:07.000 By defending a way of life.

00:25:09.000 By defending a tradition.

00:25:10.000 By defending families.

00:25:12.000 As they exist not only in the present moment, but as they have existed throughout the ages.

00:25:16.000 From our ancestors down through our posterity.

00:25:18.000 This is the kind of thing that our framers and founding fathers were writing about in the revolutionary era.

00:25:25.000 And in the Constitution, for that matter.

00:25:27.000 In the Federalist Papers.

00:25:29.000 Beautifully stated.

00:25:31.000 You get a unified vision.

00:25:34.000 And this, I think, is one of the most white-pilling aspects of the Trump era.

00:25:40.000 Is we're told that, you know, once Trump is gone, everyone's going to fight for the future of the Republican Party.

00:25:44.000 And the whole MAGA project is going to fall apart.

00:25:46.000 Not from what I can see.

00:25:48.000 Not from what I can see.

00:25:50.000 From what I can see, one, we hear these rumblings of a J.D. Vance, Marco Rubio unity ticket already from the outset.

00:25:57.000 An idea that's been promoted by the President of the United States multiple times.

00:26:01.000 And has been affirmed by the Secretary of State, who has already endorsed J.D. Vance.

00:26:05.000 J.D. Vance, who said great things about Rubio.

00:26:07.000 J.D. Vance, who promoted this speech.

00:26:09.000 What you're seeing here is complementarity.

00:26:13.000 We love Europe.

00:26:15.000 This is our civilization.

00:26:17.000 We're about more than just an economic zone.

00:26:19.000 Okay?

00:26:20.000 That's what we recognize.

00:26:21.000 Nations are more than economies.

00:26:23.000 We want robust economies.

00:26:25.000 We want economic strength.

00:26:27.000 But nations are about more than that.

00:26:29.000 We will not reduce our countries just to some stale material marketplace where we're all just trying to make an extra buck.

00:26:38.000 Nations don't last very long in that way.

00:26:40.000 Moreover, we are not even an isolated little island in the United States.

00:26:46.000 Yes, we're separated by a couple of oceans.

00:26:48.000 But we come from somewhere.

00:26:50.000 We come from the discoveries of Christopher Columbus.

00:26:53.000 We come from the Mayflower, which is a great cigar brand.

00:26:56.000 We come most directly from England, which gave us our system of law.

00:27:00.000 We come, and our language for that matter.

00:27:03.000 We come even deeper from Rome, from the Middle Ages, from Christendom.

00:27:08.000 We come from the church.

00:27:10.000 We come from the great artists.

00:27:12.000 We have a unified civilization.

00:27:14.000 And we will defend that.

00:27:16.000 And how will we defend it?

00:27:17.000 Will we defend it through the stale institutions of liberal globalism?

00:27:21.000 Marco Rubio says no.

00:27:23.000 The United Nations still has tremendous potential to be a tool for good in the world.

00:27:30.000 But we cannot ignore that today, on the most pressing matters before us, it has no answers and has played virtually no role.

00:27:39.000 It could not solve the war in Gaza.

00:27:42.000 Instead, it was American leadership that freed captives from barbarians and brought about a fragile truce.

00:27:49.000 It has not solved the war in Ukraine.

00:27:51.000 It took American leadership in partnership with many of the countries here today just to bring the two sides to the table in search of a still elusive peace.

00:28:00.000 It was powerless to constrain the nuclear program of radical Shia clerics in Tehran. 0.84

00:28:06.000 That required 14 bombs dropped with precision from American B2 bombers.

00:28:11.000 And it was unable to address the threat to our security from a narco terrorist dictator in Venezuela. 0.87

00:28:17.000 Instead, it took American special forces to bring this fugitive to justice.

00:28:21.000 There we have it, this focus on the tangible.

00:28:25.000 Liberalism wants to abstract everything into the ether, but nationalism, conservatism, ordinary patriotism, it brings it back down to earth.

00:28:36.000 Patriotism being an extension of the love of one's own family, the family which is eminently tangible, the bedrock unit of society.

00:28:45.000 He says it wasn't the UN that is solving these global problems.

00:28:50.000 These global problems that spun out of control under the Biden administration, I'll point out, which has this undue faith in liberal internationalism.

00:28:59.000 No.

00:29:00.000 It was American leadership.

00:29:02.000 And we're going to keep leading.

00:29:04.000 And that will not merely benefit us and tyrannize everyone else.

00:29:08.000 That will be conducive to the good of everyone.

00:29:10.000 This is the make America great again idea.

00:29:12.000 This is America pursuing our interests, putting America first, not to the exclusion of other people, but to put things in their proper order.

00:29:19.000 It actually gets back to a point J.D. Vance made months ago on the ordo amoris, the order of loves, the ordo caritatis, the idea that we have a greater responsibility to those who are close to us.

00:29:28.000 A husband has a greater responsibility to his wife than he does to some lady down the street. 0.57

00:29:32.000 And a nation has a greater responsibility to its constituents.

00:29:36.000 And by caring for one's nearest, one can actually do much more good for the rest of the world than one can by inverting that order, by ignoring our families.

00:29:47.000 Liberals do this all the time.

00:29:49.000 The liberals hate their families, but they love humanity as a whole.

00:29:52.000 You know, they care about some guy they never met on the other side of the world.

00:29:55.000 So they say.

00:29:56.000 But they hate everyone around them.

00:29:58.000 That's disordered.

00:29:59.000 You're not going to really do any good for anybody.

00:30:01.000 I love this.

00:30:02.000 Very, very good speech.

00:30:03.000 I love that it complements the vice president's speech last year.

00:30:06.000 I love that both of those speeches are downstream of President Trump's vision.

00:30:09.000 Because it means we do know what we want.

00:30:12.000 It means there is unity on the right, which is rare, and it's a happy occasion when it happens.

00:30:17.000 And it means we know where we're looking in 2026 and 2028, if the liberal institutions don't rig it for us by then.

00:30:25.000 Now, the Democrats did not do as well at the Munich Security Conference.

00:30:28.000 AOC seems to have lost her tongue.

00:30:32.000 She doesn't.

00:30:33.000 She just ended up stammering around when asked a very basic question about foreign policy.

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00:32:00.000 Extraordinarily articulate vision from Marco Rubio.

00:32:04.000 Let's see how the other side did.

00:32:06.000 AOC?

00:32:08.000 Would and should the U.S. actually commit U.S. troops to defend Taiwan if China were to move?

00:32:16.000 You know, I think that this is such a, you know, I think that this is a, this is of course a very longstanding policy of the United States.

00:32:37.000 And I think what we are hoping for is that we want to make sure that we never get to that point.

00:32:43.000 And we want to make sure that we are moving in all of our economic research and our global positions to avoid any such confrontation.

00:32:53.000 And for that question to even arise.

00:32:56.000 Okay.

00:32:57.000 She at least remembered how to use the English language there by the end. 0.83

00:33:01.000 That first part was particularly humiliating after a question that was simple and certainly should have been expected.

00:33:11.000 You're at the Munich security conference.

00:33:12.000 You are being asked questions about, at the very least, the most basic parts of U.S. foreign policy.

00:33:17.000 What are we going to do about Ukraine?

00:33:19.000 What are we going to do about the Middle East and the Holy Land? 0.87

00:33:22.000 What are we going to do about Taiwan?

00:33:24.000 Taiwan would be in the top three.

00:33:26.000 It's not, you know, this isn't some esoteric question on an AP exam.

00:33:32.000 Okay.

00:33:33.000 This is like one of the most basic questions in U.S. foreign policy.

00:33:37.000 What are we going to do about Taiwan?

00:33:39.000 She goes, Taiwan, where's Taiwan?

00:33:45.000 Is that?

00:33:46.000 And then finally, after stammering around for what, 45 seconds?

00:33:50.000 She goes, I just think, I hope we don't have to, I hope I don't have to answer that.

00:33:55.000 I hope I don't have to answer that.

00:33:57.000 That's her answer.

00:34:00.000 Not ready for prime time, AOC.

00:34:02.000 AOC is not ready. 1.00

00:34:03.000 And it's funny because when AOC first hit the scene, everyone made fun of her and called her stupid and ignorant. 0.99

00:34:09.000 And then AOC impressed a lot of people with her ability to get attention, first of all, and to maneuver herself within the Democratic Party, which was initially hostile to her. 0.97

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00:34:32.000 She's pretty good at maneuvering. 1.00

00:34:33.000 Now she's being talked about as a potential replacement for Chuck Schumer in the Senate, or maybe even a presidential candidate. 1.00

00:34:39.000 She's probably in the top three for the Democrats in 2028. 0.99

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00:34:45.000 And you remember, oh, she's just actually not ready for prime time because she doesn't actually know anything.

00:34:51.000 I'm not, I don't know AOC's IQ.

00:34:54.000 I haven't seen her SAT scores.

00:34:56.000 Don't think she's a Rhodes Scholar.

00:34:58.000 But furthermore, beyond raw intelligence, whatever she's lacking there, she doesn't know anything.

00:35:06.000 She hasn't thought deeply about anything.

00:35:10.000 This became abundantly clear when AOC took the opportunity to pitch actual communism at the security conference.

00:35:23.000 Marco Rubio's speech was a pure appeal to Western culture.

00:35:31.000 My favorite part was when he said that American cowboys came from Spain.

00:35:40.000 I believe the Mexicans and descendants of African slave enslaved peoples would like to have a word. 1.00

00:35:48.000 Put a pause here.

00:35:49.000 Hold on.

00:35:50.000 Even before she gets to her pitch of communism, even this, she goes, Marco Rubio said that we have Spain to thank for cowboys. 0.87

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00:36:01.000 I mean, we all know it's just black people and Hispanics who, hold on. 0.99

00:36:08.000 Does she not know that there weren't just always horses in America?

00:36:14.000 Does she not?

00:36:15.000 She probably doesn't know that.

00:36:17.000 She probably doesn't know that Spain introduced horses to America.

00:36:22.000 Spain also, she refers to the Hispanic people and the black people in America.

00:36:27.000 Europeans also introduced black people to America and Europeans also created the Hispanic race, the Latino race, which is a mixture of American indigenous and European Spanish.

00:36:39.000 So she also probably doesn't, but like at a, at a, at a more basic, at a simpler level, she doesn't know that it was Europeans who brought the horses here.

00:36:51.000 But she has vague impressions of history.

00:36:56.000 She has a narrative.

00:36:58.000 She has an ideology, but she doesn't have any of the facts, the data points that undergird that ideology. 0.89

00:37:07.000 This, this, this was a big shift that happened actually when AOC and I were in elementary and middle and high school in virtually the same area.

00:37:15.000 AOC was a town over from me.

00:37:16.000 She was in the wider, richer town over from me in Westchester County.

00:37:19.000 And AOC and I, when we were in school, the way we were taught history generally was great trends, great themes.

00:37:30.000 Previously, history had been taught on facts, men and dates and battles and things that happened.

00:37:35.000 And then if you were going to come up with a theory of history, if you were going to arrive at some ideology, you would arrive at that after you had at least memorized some facts of history.

00:37:47.000 By the time we got to school, that had flipped.

00:37:50.000 You weren't really supposed to learn dates and battles and men and facts.

00:37:54.000 As long as you had the general trends, that would suffice.

00:37:58.000 And that's clearly what's going on with AOC here.

00:38:00.000 So then this brings us to her ideological pitch at the Munich Security Conference, which was literally for communism.

00:38:09.000 But, you know, I think it's also important to note how thin that foundation is.

00:38:19.000 The response that we have to have is, again, it's material, it's class based, it's common interest.

00:38:26.000 We talk about when we talk about a class based internationalist perspective also means ending the hypocrisy towards the global south.

00:38:37.000 OK, so there were a lot of buzzwords here, global south, hypocrisy.

00:38:42.000 But then what was that phrase you just used?

00:38:44.000 A class based international perspective.

00:38:48.000 Let me translate that into common language.

00:38:52.000 Class based internationalism is communism.

00:38:57.000 It is Marxist, Leninist.

00:39:02.000 Stalin actually shifts it a little bit into a more national kind of communism.

00:39:05.000 But the idea is that there are different structures for the world order.

00:39:10.000 There are different possibilities.

00:39:11.000 You could have a system of nation states where different peoples have sovereignty and they get along together in the world while pursuing their own national interest.

00:39:21.000 There is the empire model where you have great powers that comprise lots of different peoples.

00:39:27.000 But they have a broad swath of territory with some basic shared aspects of law, a different but shared conception of the common good.

00:39:37.000 And they face off against other great powers.

00:39:40.000 And then there is an international class based form of world order, which is communism.

00:39:46.000 Workers of the world unite.

00:39:48.000 Proletariat, throw off your shackles.

00:39:51.000 That's what AOC is pitching here. 0.80

00:39:54.000 Mixed in with some weird kind of racial, vaguely nationalist perspectives like justice for the global south or whatever.

00:40:04.000 But I guess it's primarily communism.

00:40:10.000 Hasn't worked, by the way, which is why even the Soviet Union had to shift to a more national and imperial perspective than a workers of the world unite perspective.

00:40:19.000 But furthermore, this kind of communism isn't even the smart kind of communism.

00:40:25.000 I guess there's no such thing as smart communism, but there was at least.

00:40:30.000 You know, when when Karl Marx is writing and he's quoting Ludwig Feuerbach and he's thinking seriously about history and he's engaging with serious thinkers.

00:40:40.000 He's citing facts.

00:40:42.000 He's giving some argument for his ultimately demonic ideology.

00:40:47.000 AOC only has the slogans.

00:40:51.000 The other reason why it's hard to be a smart communist today is because after the 19th century, there were many experiments with communism and they always turned out bad every single time with that exception.

00:41:02.000 So to even take Marx seriously today is to come to grips with that fact.

00:41:08.000 And if you're going to try to salvage Marx, you have to shift what he's talking about.

00:41:12.000 She doesn't do that. 1.00

00:41:13.000 She just goes back to the slogans from OG Marxism without anything to back it up.

00:41:19.000 This lady is not ready for prime time. 1.00

00:41:23.000 This lady is just not ready for prime time. 1.00

00:41:26.000 This was very embarrassing.

00:41:27.000 You had a you had a sophisticated speech from Rubio where he talks about material interests.

00:41:33.000 Just like AOC says we need to talk about material interests.

00:41:35.000 Rubio is totally wrong.

00:41:36.000 Rubio is specifically talking about material interests.

00:41:38.000 He says he says we don't fight for abstractions.

00:41:41.000 We fight for peoples, for a way of life, for material goods within the context of a culture.

00:41:45.000 AOC can't even grant that culture.

00:41:47.000 What is European culture?

00:41:49.000 What is what is that?

00:41:50.000 You know, it's just well, it's that meme going around of so much of Democrat discourse is them pretending not to understand things.

00:41:56.000 Making communication impossible.

00:41:58.000 Rough performance.

00:41:59.000 You can tell AOC is freaking out about it.

00:42:01.000 She reportedly called the New York Times pleading with them to change their coverage of her appearance there.

00:42:07.000 Saying it's all being misunderstood.

00:42:08.000 I'm not even running for president.

00:42:10.000 You don't get it.

00:42:11.000 You know, I was misunderstood.

00:42:12.000 I was.

00:42:13.000 This was bad. 1.00

00:42:14.000 AOC way back because for years, AOC was considered just a complete clown, like a total dolt. 0.94

00:42:21.000 And she had finally gained some prestige and some mojo within the Democrat Party. 0.78

00:42:25.000 And she had convinced people that she had learned things and she had matured and been educated.

00:42:30.000 And then this this appearance at the MSC just totally shoots that down.

00:42:35.000 This woman has learned nothing. 0.94

00:42:37.000 She's she's not even more polished rhetorically.

00:42:39.000 Hey, AOC would would President AOC defend Taiwan?

00:42:44.000 Where do cowboys come from? 1.00

00:42:48.000 Just really pathetic. 1.00

00:42:49.000 Really, really pathetic. 0.99

00:42:51.000 The consistent AOC underestimators are completely vindicated here. 0.97

00:42:56.000 OK.

00:42:57.000 Now, somehow even wackier than AOC, Barack Obama just told the liberal commentator Brian Tyler

00:43:03.000 Cohen that aliens are real.

00:43:06.000 We'll get to that momentarily first, though, folks.

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00:44:12.000 I just tell them.

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00:44:15.000 When it comes to the Pendragon cycle, Rise of the Merlin, which Roger Avery, author of Pulp Fiction, just came out and said is just absolutely unbelievable.

00:44:24.000 A lot of people are saying it.

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00:44:38.000 My favorite comment yesterday is from Olivia Vaughn, 4428, who says, it's amazing that with food stamps, you can't buy rotisserie chicken because it's considered warm food, but you can buy liters of soda and candy bars.

00:44:49.000 That's pretty crazy.

00:44:50.000 There probably should be some loss leader exception on this because the weird thing about a lot of grocery stores is it's actually cheaper to buy the rotisserie chicken cooked than it is to buy a chicken and then rotisserie it yourself.

00:45:01.000 So, yeah, yeah, it's a weird one.

00:45:04.000 But anyway, those indulgent zoomers, they keep trying to feed themselves, those rapscallions. 1.00

00:45:09.000 Okay.

00:45:10.000 Speaking of young people, somewhat young, slightly young people, probably a millennial.

00:45:15.000 Brian Tyler Cohen just interviewed Barack Obama and Obama decided to make a little news here.

00:45:22.000 Obama declared that aliens are real.

00:45:26.000 Are aliens real?

00:45:29.000 They're real, but I haven't seen them and they're not being kept in, what is it?

00:45:35.000 Area 51.

00:45:36.000 Area 51.

00:45:37.000 There's no underground facility unless there's this enormous conspiracy and they hid it from the president of the United States.

00:45:47.000 What was the first question you wanted answered when you became president?

00:45:51.000 Where are the aliens?

00:45:54.000 Where are the aliens?

00:45:55.000 Okay, so then it cuts off here.

00:45:58.000 If you listen to his next question, he just moves on.

00:46:02.000 He just moves on.

00:46:03.000 He goes, okay, well, anyway, Obama has a funny answer here.

00:46:07.000 But Brian Tyler Cohen, I think, has set the new gold standard for incompetence at interviewing.

00:46:15.000 He says, okay, are aliens real?

00:46:17.000 Yes, they're real.

00:46:18.000 He says, okay, moving on.

00:46:21.000 What's the first question you wanted answered when you became president?

00:46:25.000 And Obama even gives it to him.

00:46:27.000 He gives him the follow up.

00:46:28.000 He's like, I want to know where the aliens are.

00:46:29.000 It's a funny follow up.

00:46:31.000 And then Cohen just moves on.

00:46:33.000 No follow up.

00:46:34.000 No.

00:46:35.000 A president of the United States is declaring that aliens are real.

00:46:38.000 And this guy, this joker, decides he's not even going to follow up on it.

00:46:43.000 Oh, how do you know that?

00:46:45.000 How do you know that aliens are real?

00:46:46.000 And now Obama's come out to clarify.

00:46:48.000 He says, well, I don't know that aliens are real.

00:46:51.000 And he gives that whole liberal nonsense of, but you know, the universe is really big.

00:46:55.000 And the universe is really big.

00:46:56.000 And so statistically, there has to be intelligent life elsewhere in the universe.

00:47:00.000 They never explained why that is, by the way.

00:47:03.000 Because in order to ascertain the probability of something, you have to know how that thing came about in the first place.

00:47:11.000 You have to know like anything about that thing.

00:47:14.000 And we don't.

00:47:15.000 At the level of pure nature, I think we do actually know it from the level of theology and anthropology.

00:47:22.000 But from the level purely of nature, we don't know how life came about.

00:47:27.000 We don't know, for instance, how one goes from inorganic to organic matter.

00:47:34.000 We just have no idea.

00:47:35.000 There have been a zillion theories over the years, and none of them have been proven.

00:47:38.000 And some of them have been disproven.

00:47:40.000 So the argument that the universe is really, really big actually does not imply that there is intelligent life or life of any kind anywhere else.

00:47:50.000 It doesn't imply that.

00:47:52.000 But the reason that the libs love aliens is because the existence of aliens diminishes the distinction of human beings.

00:48:02.000 It makes us less special.

00:48:04.000 That's usually explicitly their argument.

00:48:06.000 They say, what, you think you're so special?

00:48:08.000 A universe that's eight gazillion bajillion miles wide and expanding and with countless worlds.

00:48:15.000 Do you think you're so special?

00:48:17.000 And my answer, and the Christian answer, but, you know, just my answer even from all my sense data is, yeah, I think we're pretty special.

00:48:27.000 The deeper reason that the libs always promote aliens is because it diminishes the incarnation.

00:48:34.000 Because Christ is a man.

00:48:37.000 Because God becomes a man.

00:48:39.000 He doesn't become E.T.

00:48:41.000 He doesn't become a gazelle.

00:48:43.000 He becomes a man.

00:48:45.000 And he raises our very humanity to inestimable dignity.

00:48:52.000 And the libs and demons want to diminish that. 0.79

00:48:57.000 Satan falls from heaven because he can't bow down to a man, basically.

00:49:02.000 That's what's at the heart of this.

00:49:05.000 I'm not saying that all the libs who promote the alien stuff are like actively working with demons.

00:49:09.000 I'm really not.

00:49:10.000 I don't see demons under every rock.

00:49:11.000 But it is curious that so much of liberalism comes down to a prideful attempt to exalt man above his station and ends by degrading man below his station.

00:49:25.000 It begins by this notion that we'll have no kings or priests.

00:49:28.000 You know, man will only be free when the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest.

00:49:32.000 We're just humanists now.

00:49:34.000 We're going to raise humanity up.

00:49:36.000 We're going to maximize individual autonomy.

00:49:38.000 And then what's the end of it?

00:49:40.000 The end of it is we degrade ourselves.

00:49:42.000 We pretend that we're just sacks of meat that exist only for pleasure.

00:49:45.000 And we promote things like abortion, slaughtering babies, degrading humanity. 0.65

00:49:49.000 We promote things like suicide, slaughtering ourselves, degrading humanity.

00:49:53.000 We reduce ourselves below actually the station to which we've been raised.

00:49:59.000 No surprise there.

00:50:01.000 So when Obama says, look, I'm clarifying.

00:50:03.000 I actually don't really, I don't know.

00:50:05.000 I didn't see any evidence of the aliens.

00:50:07.000 I think he's probably being honest here.

00:50:08.000 I think his knee-jerk reaction of, well, of course aliens exist.

00:50:11.000 His certainty in that just comes from his liberalism.

00:50:14.000 We have to be.

00:50:15.000 Humans aren't special.

00:50:16.000 You think yourself special?

00:50:17.000 But we are.

00:50:19.000 We are actually.

00:50:20.000 It's actually a harder truth.

00:50:21.000 It is a more realistic view, but it's more difficult.

00:50:26.000 And it entails more responsibility to say, yes, we are special.

00:50:30.000 It's kind of weird, right, that we, among all of the created things, have rational wills.

00:50:37.000 Isn't that kind of weird that we can conceive of abstract things, unlike every animal and plant and all organic matter on earth?

00:50:45.000 That we are finite, immortal, we die, but we have this immortal, eternal aspect to ourselves because we can reason.

00:50:55.000 Isn't that kind of weird that like nothing else that we've ever encountered or really even can conceive of has that, has that combination of flesh and reason and will?

00:51:09.000 Isn't that kind of weird?

00:51:10.000 That makes us kind of special.

00:51:11.000 You are special, believe it or not.

00:51:13.000 Believe it or not.

00:51:14.000 Okay.

00:51:15.000 So much more to get to.

00:51:16.000 I guess we don't have Dr. Epstein.

00:51:18.000 I know he's like on the other side of the world right now.

00:51:20.000 He's not on Mars, but he's on the other side of the world.

00:51:22.000 We will try to get Dr. Epstein later on this week.

00:51:25.000 Today, though, we have to go because it's Teehee Tuesday.

00:51:29.000 The rest of the show continues now.

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00:51:45.000 What was it like, Merlin, to be alone with God?

00:51:55.000 Is that who you think I was alone with?

00:52:02.000 Maradyn, I knew your father.

00:52:04.000 I am yet convinced that he was not of this world.

00:52:09.000 All men know of the great Taliesin.

00:52:13.000 You are my father, that the gods should war for my soul.

00:52:17.000 Princess Garrus, savior of our people.

00:52:23.000 I know what the Bull God offered you.

00:52:25.000 I was offered the same.

00:52:27.000 And?

00:52:29.000 There is a new pirate work in the world. I've seen it.

00:52:33.000 A god who sacrifices all he loves for us.

00:52:35.000 We are each given only one life, Singer.

00:52:38.000 No.

00:52:39.000 We're given another.

00:52:43.000 I learnt of Yazoo the Christ. 1.00

00:52:45.000 And I have become his follower.

00:52:47.000 He's waiting on a miracle.

00:52:49.000 And I think you can give him one.

00:52:51.000 Trust in Yazoo.

00:52:52.000 He is the only hope for men like us.

00:52:55.000 Faith of Britain never rests in the hands of the great light.

00:52:58.000 Great light, great darkness.

00:53:00.000 Such things mattered to me then. 0.84

00:53:03.000 What matters to you now, mistress of lies?

00:53:07.000 You, nephew. 0.61

00:53:12.000 The sword of the High King.

00:53:16.000 How many lives must be lost before you accept the power you were born to wield?

00:53:21.000 So clinging to the promises of a god who has abandoned you.

00:53:26.000 I cannot take up that sword again.

00:53:29.000 You know what you must do.

00:53:33.000 Great light, forgive me.

00:53:34.000 Forgive me.

00:53:42.000 The time has come.

00:53:44.000 To be reborn.

00:53:45.000 You.

00:53:47.000 The time has come.

00:53:48.000 The will.

00:53:49.000 Be reborn.

00:53:50.000 As the thing has come.

00:53:52.000 Hey Winter Really Rusty.

00:53:53.000 The world is human.

00:53:54.000 This world is a resident.

00:53:55.000 Julie got one of his own kids. 0.77

00:53:56.000 He has no idea.

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