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00:02:53.980The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency has registered aliens.gov and alien.gov.
00:03:02.520So one of them could be for the illegals south of the border.
00:03:05.940The other one could be for the men from Mars.
00:03:08.940And you could do alien versus predator.
00:03:12.180And both of those could be the MS-13 gang members or both of them could be the little green men.
00:03:17.800I think this is about little green men.
00:03:20.420It'd be a very funny troll if the Trump administration did this, leaked it, got everyone talking about it, and then just put a picture of some big, fat, face-tatted Latin American criminal.
00:03:32.060But President Trump announced, what was it, a month ago that he was going to start disclosing information about UFOs.
00:03:37.300I've spoken to people in the government who have been following this issue very closely, and they tell me they're seeing really crazy stuff.
00:03:45.180I've been speaking to people in the government who were skeptical of aliens going in, or skeptical of the UFOs, I should say, because aliens are a different issue.
00:03:54.260But they were skeptical of the UFOs going in, and now they say something is really happening.
00:03:59.880The stories involve aircraft moving in ways that we just don't understand, in ways that we could not possibly recreate, strange visual phenomena.
00:04:08.140But they're not just hallucinations because they're physical evidence of these kinds of craft.
00:04:13.960The stories are pretty similar over time.
00:04:17.140I was hoping with all these stories of UFOs that it was just us, that it was just our government or our defense industry building stuff.
00:04:27.540And we were pretending not to know about it to fake out our enemies or maybe some people really weren't in the know and it was highly classified and it was us.
00:04:34.920I am now convinced, given what the government has said privately and publicly, I'm now convinced we actually don't really know what these things are.
00:04:47.260So my next guess was that it was China.
00:04:57.500I think there's some evidence that it could just be China.
00:05:00.180That's pretty bad because my third guess is that it's demons.
00:05:02.940At no point on my guessing do I think that there are actually little green men from the planet Zebulon 5 who have weird little green gray flesh that come and visit Earth and stick things into people's orifices.
00:05:30.320I'm just a wonder if they're going to visit.
00:05:31.540I said, no, after that, what did you, and he said, no, I just, man, I just really hope they don't probe me, you know, I hope they don't know that I, you know, live in this part of town and I sleep with my window open from 9 p.m. to 3, I don't know, he was like going on and on about it, and I know a lot of people are really interested in it being aliens, but it's not aliens, aliens are not real, look at me, look at me, this is going to be the most controversial thing, this, I should rename this show Unpopular Takes with Michael Knowles,
00:05:59.680Unpopular takes that are going to get everybody to hate you, but which are indisputably correct with Michael Knowles.
00:06:07.200That's going to be the new name of my show.
00:06:08.900Because look at me, Matt, and the rest of you.
00:07:12.940I know that God can form man out of the clay and breathe into his nostrils.
00:07:17.020I know that, but that is a supernatural process.
00:07:19.340from a natural process, like amino acids just banging together in a primordial soup
00:07:27.000with a certain concoction of carbon and methane and, I don't know, nitrogen in the atmosphere.
00:07:33.160That whole thing, we have no idea how you could possibly go from inorganic to organic matter.
00:07:40.200There have been many hypotheses over the years.
00:07:42.220They have all flopped, every single one of them.
00:07:44.660So the universe being really, really big means nothing.
00:07:49.340So, then people will say, well, look, we're just this one creature on this rock, in this galaxy, in the solar system, in this galaxy, in the middle of nowhere.
00:11:23.920If you're seeing aliens and they're beaming you up to their spaceship and they're sticking stuff in you, that's not good.
00:11:30.220For physical reasons and for metaphysical reasons, too.
00:11:32.920Speaking of aliens, Jamie Raskin, Democrat member of Congress, was just pontificating in the House of Representatives on illegal immigration.
00:11:43.940I know before we were talking about Iran, before we were talking about all sorts of tangential issues that aren't going to help Republicans win any elections, aren't going to help conservatives move the ball down the field.
00:11:55.120We're back to talking about immigration.
00:11:56.580And Jamie Raskin, a big Democrat, is running on the claim that Thomas Paine, author of Common Sense, one of the fathers of the American Revolution, that he was an undocumented immigrant.
00:12:13.620Invoking Tom Paine, who was an undocumented immigrant who came to this land in 1774, two years before the revolution, and wrote Common Sense.
00:12:26.280The member said, I think his opening sentence was, he said, Thomas Paine was an illegal immigrant.
00:12:30.520My understanding was Mr. Paine was born in the U.K., came to America, then a British colony in 1774.
00:12:36.540So I was just struggling to figure out how he was an illegal immigrant.
00:12:38.660I didn't say he was an illegal immigrant.
00:12:40.720I said he was an undocumented immigrant, just like Thomas Jefferson's family was.
00:12:45.920Most of our ancestors did not arrive here with documents.
00:13:08.200I just used the euphemism that we made up to replace the more appropriate term, illegal immigrant,
00:13:16.160which actually itself is a euphemism to replace the more clinical term, which is illegal alien.
00:13:19.640I just use that to refer to the observation that the man had nary a notebook when he arrived.
00:13:27.640What? What are you talking about? He's an undocumented immigrant.
00:13:30.660He didn't bring any vellum with him on which to write his diaries.
00:13:34.820Oh, you mean he like literally didn't have paper?
00:13:37.960He's a British subject. He went to a British territory.
00:13:41.440The phrase undocumented immigrant is stupid,
00:13:46.400But in as much as it has any meaning at all, it refers to the fact that these people have a different legal status than citizens or residents.
00:13:58.600But now you're taking illegal alien has a pretty clear meaning.
00:14:03.900A foreign person who is here against the law.
00:14:14.940they're leaving their country, but they're not really immigrants. Okay, fine. And then it became
00:14:19.960undocumented alien and undocumented immigrant, whatever. And now it literally, it just, you're
00:14:28.320referring to the, this is so dumb, so ridiculous. If this is how Democrats are going to run an
00:14:33.200immigration, we're going to win the entire House of Representatives. Also though, there's one
00:14:37.360additional point we should make here, which I haven't seen anyone make on this ridiculous
00:14:41.520exchange that went viral. Namely, we should have deported Thomas Paine. Thomas Paine is not good.
00:14:48.460He wrote a very popular pamphlet, Common Sense, and so people in American history sometimes exalt
00:14:55.260him. He's very bad. He's a huge lib. He was one of the most liberal figures around the American
00:15:00.740Revolution. The American Revolution would have proceeded just fine without Thomas Paine,
00:15:05.400maybe even in a better way. We had very good conservative leaders in the American Revolution.
00:15:10.460We never needed Thomas Paine. He was a crazy lib. He believed crazy things. So even if Thomas Paine is your, yes, deport the MS-13 guy, send him to Bukele's torture camp, and maybe do the same to Thomas Paine. I'm sufficiently conservative that I wouldn't object to that.
00:15:25.720Okay. Speaking of clashes on Capitol Hill, big fight within the GOP between Mark Wayne Mullen, who is the senator who's now up for DHS secretary, and Rand Paul, ostensibly a Republican senator, though much more libertarian, frequently opposes Trump. These two went at it. They had personal beef. This is like the podcast wars brought – this is the senator wars.
00:15:46.560We got the intraparty senator wars on Capitol Hill. What does it mean for the future of MAGA? What does it mean for the future of the Trump administration? Will he get his DHS secretary? And how does it reflect the voters? Because you see the mess on Capitol Hill and then CNN tells us that MAGA voters support President Trump at a rate of 100 percent. We'll get to the discrepancy. First, I want to tell you about Hillsdale.
00:16:12.880Folks, right now, head on over to hillsdale.edu slash Knowles, K-N-O-W-L-E-S.
00:17:09.600That is hillsdale.edu slash K-N-O-W-L-E-S, hillsdale.edu slash Knowles.
00:17:16.960Mark Wayne Mullen should be flying through the confirmation process to be the new DHS secretary until he hit the roadblock, not from the Democrats, the roadblock of Republican Senator Rand Paul.
00:17:29.800If I have something to say, I'll say it directly to your face.
00:17:32.400I work around this room to try to fix problems.
00:17:35.500I've worked with many people in this room.
00:17:37.620Seems like you fight Republicans more than you work with us.
00:18:26.900And part of it is because I guess Mark Wayne Mullen at some point made a joke about Rand Paul being very seriously assaulted by his neighbor.
00:19:08.640I think there's a lack of contrition, both about the violence that perpetrated on me,
00:19:13.940really the violent episode he was involved in and set a committee where he's told the media, frankly, that he doesn't regret it.
00:19:20.480He's also told the media there, as he said it again today, that there's a historical precedent for violence, that caning and dueling happened all the time.
00:19:28.540And I pointed out, well, it was illegal 170, 200 years ago.
00:19:32.340They would actually flee and they would do it in areas they could find where the law didn't reach.
00:19:36.660Sometimes they would actually go to Canada.
00:19:38.520Sometimes they'd go from one state to the other.
00:19:40.920But the mass of civilized response, even in the 1850s or 1830s, was against dueling.
00:22:19.660Really shocking headline came out of CNN's pollster, who's going to be one of the biggest celebrities in politics after this, because he keeps showing all these really shocking poll numbers.
00:22:29.320We showed yesterday where the Trump base sits on the Iran war.
00:22:34.700If you listen to the podcast, you'd think they're all against the Iran war.
00:22:37.420But you look at the numbers, almost all of them are four.
00:24:51.440That's like saying, what percentage of people who support Donald Trump support Donald Trump?
00:24:56.200Oh my goodness, it's 100%. Yeah, right. Because your premise was the conclusion. Of course that is the case. Did you know that 100% of people who live in the White House named Donald John Trump support Donald Trump? Did you know that? Shocking number. I would be shocked if that numbers were any different. Of course that is the case.
00:25:21.380The issue is that MAGA is not just MAGA. It's just using these words in really slippery ways.
00:25:28.240And this kind of stuff is going to have Republicans whistling past the graveyard in the midterms or in 2028.
00:25:34.800When we say MAGA, what does that mean?
00:25:38.060To me, MAGA is the people who elected Trump.
00:25:41.420Well, you know who elected Trump? More than 50% of the country.
00:25:44.480Or actually, that's technically not true, but the popular vote.
00:25:48.760The more than voted for Kamala, roughly half the country, that was MAGA as far as I'm concerned.
00:25:56.120But MAGA can also mean the really hardcore people, the most hardcore people who voted for Trump three times, who have hashtag MAGA in their Twitter bios, who wear the hats every day.
00:26:05.560Okay, let's say that that number is 30% of the country.
00:26:09.320If you keep your support at 100% with 30% of the country, but your support crashes with the other 70% of the country, you're never going to win another election again.
00:26:20.700I'm not saying that that's what's happening, but there is a far greater fear that that is happening.
00:26:25.540So that segment, the guy just led on right there, that segment was really about Tucker and other people who previously were allies of Trump who are now at odds with Trump.
00:26:43.260I was on Piers Morgan's show with Dave Smith. And the premise was that the real America firsters felt betrayed by President Trump. You know, Trump wasn't really America first. And the point I made, I got along great with Dave. I thought we were having an amiable exchange.
00:26:59.580But the point I made was, look, Dave, you're a popular podcaster, but you don't get to define America first. You don't get to define MAGA. There's one guy who gets to define it, and it's the guy who built that coalition to the point that he won the presidency on it. That is his coalition by definition.
00:27:19.520You can say, well, I used to be in his coalition and now I'm not in his coalition. I used to like him, but now I hate him. You can say whatever you want. But the one thing you can't say is that MAGA is defined by some random podcaster or some random influencer or whatever. America First really belongs to some live streamer. It doesn't. It's Trump. Plenty of those people are impressive.
00:27:38.980None of them got themselves elected president at least two times, at least two times.
00:27:43.480OK, so, yeah, of course, MAGA supports Trump, of course.
00:27:48.340But the MAGA coalition, the thing that actually gets you results, that gets you into office, that includes independence.
00:30:48.060It's not to completely destroy their nuclear facilities necessarily, because we already did that six months ago, and then they just started building them up again.
00:30:56.220It's not to convince them never to build another missile.
00:35:04.720Yeah, Val Kilmer died on April Fool's Day last year. Less than one year ago, Val Kilmer died. He's going to star in a movie. Not because he had completed filming of the movie. I don't think he'd even started filming of the movie. He died of throat cancer, so he wasn't even really able to speak at the end. Val Kilmer is going to be in this movie because they're going to try to bring him back to life with AI.
00:35:23.700eye. So this just came out from Variety, the trade magazine in Hollywood, and it's this movie that
00:35:30.280Val Kilmer apparently really wanted to do. The AI Val Kilmer has his daughter's blessing,
00:35:35.680apparently. He said, oh, my dad really wanted to do this, and he wasn't able to do it, so this is
00:35:40.180really great. I'm sure this is what he would have wanted. They already did this in that Star Wars
00:35:44.900movie, what was it, five, seven years ago now, where they brought Princess Leia to the screen
00:35:49.760again, where they brought Peter Cushing to the screen again. That guy had been dead forever.
00:35:53.700So they'd already, they've been trying this out for a while. Now they're going to, they're going to take a dead guy and make an AI avatar of him and have him star in a movie. Not just a little cameo. To which I have to say, this is really like a get back to basics episode of the show. We're talking about UFOs and we're talking about all sorts of really weird stuff.
00:36:14.740now we're talking about necromancy. This is necromancy. Taking dead actors and making AI
00:36:25.400versions of them and putting words in their mouths and movements in their apparent bodies
00:36:29.880and having them star in movies is indistinguishable from necromancy.
00:36:36.600And I know the objection. You say, no, it's not. It's just technology, Michael.
00:36:40.820You know, necromancy is where you literally bring someone back from the dead.
00:36:46.140But this is just creating an image that looks and sounds like them.
00:42:35.980Thinking about Christian anthropology in light of certain future scenarios for humanity.
00:42:42.540Advances in cosmetic surgery offer tools that significantly change the relationship with one's corporeality, with our bodies, with our having bodies.
00:42:50.960A widespread cult of the body follows, tending toward a frantic search for a perfect figure, always fit, young, and beautiful.
00:42:58.180A curious situation arises. The ideal body is exalted, while the real body is not truly loved, since it is a source of limits, fatigue, and aging.
00:43:08.380Cosmetic procedures create a relationship where the person, quote, is no longer his or her body, but owns a body, from which arises the search for a borrowed identity.
00:43:16.480This is really brilliant stuff, and I encourage you to read it from the Vatican.
00:43:19.220Even if you're not Catholic or even if you are Catholic but you don't like the Pope or I don't know, whatever your hobby horse is, you should read this.
00:43:26.020This is very important because that last bit there is the key.
00:43:29.620There's this relationship now where a person in his own mind is no longer his or her own body but owns a body from which arises the search for a borrowed identity.
00:43:45.760It's like a husk for our true selves, but we're not really our bodies.
00:43:50.360And you would think that this would lead to a kind of ascetic mentality that would cause us to disregard our bodies, but that's not true.
00:43:58.000Actually, especially in modernity, liberal modernity, which emphasizes self-ownership, which emphasizes autonomy, we come to obsess over the body even more.
00:44:10.520When we cease to view the body as what we are, we begin to view the body as something we own.
00:44:18.580View the body the same way Professor Jacob views his Camaro.
00:44:22.040Something that he's always going to work on.
00:44:23.940Something he's going to replace the parts on.
00:44:26.080Something he's going to try to, he's going to take a hammer to.
00:44:29.040You know, he takes a hammer to the Camaro and Clavicular takes a hammer to his face.
00:44:40.600He endorsed Gavin Newsom because he thinks Gavin Newsom is good-looking.
00:44:43.280And he said that to be good-looking is the most important thing in the world.
00:44:47.160So, that notwithstanding, he seems, I guess he's more on the right if he were political.
00:44:51.640But whatever, you get him and you get the transgenders.
00:44:55.040But it's this obsession with the body when one ceases to view oneself as the body.
00:45:00.900When one views the body as a kind of commodity.
00:45:03.860You know, just something, just an accessory, just something that we have.
00:45:08.280It's a big problem. It's the culmination of liberalism. It was always there. I mean, that kind of idea has been around for 300 years. It's been cooking and percolating, but now it's come to this absurd extreme.
00:45:20.880And when something is visibly absurd, hitting yourself in the head with a hammer or chopping off your genitals or whatever, or even just getting the ugly plastic surgery. I've never seen plastic surgery look good. Can I tell you that?
00:45:32.280I'm not saying corrective stuff like a soldier gets blown up in a war and he gets some corrective surgery to try to make it look like he was before.
00:45:40.800I'm not saying things that correct a defect or an injury or an impairment.
00:45:44.380I'm talking about people who are otherwise perfectly normal, perfectly as they should be, who want to augment something.
00:45:59.460the horror we're girls who have perfectly beautiful lips perfectly nice looking lips
00:46:03.000they get the thing where they it looks like that and it all it's never looked good it always looks
00:46:08.800bad or they get the crazy facelifts or they get and i don't i don't mean to shame anybody i know
00:46:15.620there are plenty of people who've gotten procedures out there i'm not probably you shouldn't do any
00:46:21.200more of it but i'm not i'm not knocking anybody we all we all make mistakes we all do but what
00:46:26.020they'll tell you. No, Michael, you only don't like the bad plastic surgery. When it's really
00:46:32.260good, you don't even notice it. We notice it. We're polite, but we notice it, and it doesn't
00:46:40.900look good. I'm not saying everyone's a 10 out of 10 supermodel. I'm just saying you look better the
00:46:46.940way you are than when you try to augment yourself and you turn yourself into some high school art
00:46:51.920project. That's not a good way to think of yourself. A canvas on which we can do whatever
00:46:57.500we want because we have total freedom of expression. Art for art's sake. Art is not for
00:47:01.800art's sake. That's a modern nonsense. You do things for some purpose, for some good that we can
00:47:09.060know with our reason. That's what you should be doing.
00:47:13.600So, if you want to stop obsessing about your body, there's so much body dysmorphia, then what you need to do is recognize that we are a body.
00:47:35.540We haven't done a good Tallarico clip in a few days.
00:47:38.680James Tallarico, Democrat Senate candidate in Texas, has just, another clip has come up from 2022 in which he is campaigning in Texas on vegetarianism.
00:47:54.760We have, I think, heard more and more issues of animal welfare.
00:47:59.380I think not just because it's the right thing to do and the moral thing to do, but also it's, as all of you know, necessary to fight climate change.
00:48:06.840it is now existential that we try to reduce our meat consumption and that we try to respect
00:48:12.860animals in all aspects of society. And so I am proud to say that our campaign has officially
00:48:19.300become a non-meat campaign. So we are only buying vegan products from our local vegan businesses.
00:48:29.720Some of you may know Big Nonas. They were little Nonas and then they opened up Brick and Mortar,
00:48:34.220another big notice, but we just got our pizza from there today. And so the point is that I think
00:48:39.640all of us, not just policymakers, but everyone has to take personal responsibility in this effort.
00:48:48.600Mascon campaigning on not eating meat in Texas. He's cooked. He's a great candidate. This is what
00:48:57.460they all said. They said this about Buttigieg. They said this about Beto. You remember, oh,
00:49:01.680he's a real, he's going to give us a run for our money. I look at this guy, I think he's a total
00:49:06.120joker. Why would I? And now he's got the mask on, campaigning on tofu in Texas, give me a break.
00:49:14.020But why is it not working? Why is it not working for him? Pete Buttigieg, there was this reboot,
00:49:19.700it was like the 10th reboot of Pete Buttigieg. They did the same thing to Beto. It was in some
00:49:24.620magazine a week or two ago. Here's Pete sitting at a diner, just a man's man. He wore a beard and
00:49:29.780and he's wearing flannel, and isn't he just a regular guy?
00:49:32.580Previously, he was the really wide-eyed, white Obama,
00:49:37.800gay, progressive, checked every box four years ago.
00:50:04.460But for the guys who flop, it's very hard to reset when they tie their whole personality to a particular moment that falls out of fashion.
00:50:12.220Now that wokeness is out of fashion, being gay is bad for Buttigieg.
00:50:15.700Previously, being gay was good for Buttigieg because the whole country was super-duper gay, and his party was as gay as all get-out.
00:50:22.700So it gave him a benefit, actually, to be a little light in the loafers.
00:50:27.180Now, not so much, actually. The support, even just national support for gay marriage, quote unquote, has declined precipitously. And this thing with Tallarico, he's saying you can't eat meat because of the environment. Climate change is over. Bill Gates declared climate change over the other day. Greta Thunberg is now protesting that people are not burning oil. That's the new Greta Thunberg protest.