Ep. 2021 - Trump Scores First HUGE Midterm Election Win In Arizona
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On today's show: President Trump wins big in Arizona as the midterms start to look surprisingly good for Republicans, but threats loom as Secretary of State Pete Hegseth hits up Capitol Hill for more funding as the Iran war approaches its sixth month, and therapists are reportedly telling tons of patients to cut off contact with their parents, and the world's most famous biohacker claims to harvest organs from the baby.
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to $500,000 at cardiff.co slash Knowles. President Trump wins big in Arizona as the
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midterm elections start to look surprisingly good for Republicans. But threats loom as Secretary
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of State, sorry, Secretary of War Pete Hegseth hits up Capitol Hill for more funding as the Iran
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war approaches its sixth month. Then, turning to domestic matters, therapists are reportedly
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telling tons of patients to cut off contact with their parents, and the world's most famous
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biohacker claims to have cloned himself to harvest organs from the baby. I'm Michael Knowles,
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welcome back to the show little technical difficulty there at the top of the show
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i don't know exactly what happened but i'm very very confident it is professor jacob's fault
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we have a great guest coming on at the very end of the show my favorite mma fighter a close friend
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of the creme de la creme Michael Knoll Show community. First though, just on some basic
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political news, big win for conservatives, big win for MAGA, big win for President Trump last
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night in Arizona. Andy Biggs won the Arizona governor primary. This was a primary that
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included Congressman David Schweikert and businessman Scott Neely, along with Ken Maselli.
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There were a number of people running for this spot. And Andy Biggs is the guy who won it.
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Andy Biggs had the endorsement of two very important conservatives, one being Donald Trump,
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the other being Charlie Kirk. Charlie was a big proponent of Andy, obviously, before he was
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killed. And so this was a big win for the MAGA, conservative, populist side of the movement.
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It's also really important because Arizona is one of five states that Trump won in 2024,
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where a Democrat governor is on the ballot in 2026.
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So this is a real opportunity for conservatives.
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And one of the arguments against Andy Biggs in the primary
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was that he was too Trumpy, he was too conservative.
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Arizona is more the state of maverick, moderate Republicans.
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The fact that Andy Biggs was, you know, supporting Trump
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even during 2020, even after the worst day in the history of our Constitution, January 6th.
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You know, that was really the attack line used on him in the primary. It didn't work.
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The Republican Party belongs to Donald Trump. That is true nationally. That's apparently true
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in Arizona. So the Trump-backed candidate wins. That's a good look for Trump in the midterms.
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And also, it's very important, the fact that Trump recently won that state while it has a
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Democrat governor. While that Democrat governor was on the ballot in the midterms, it's really
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a good sign for the GOP and for these midterm elections. Everything should be working against
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the GOP right now. Historically, the GOP should get clobbered in the midterms. The fact that you
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have this war that's pretty unpopular, the Iran war, which we'll get to in a second,
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should really clobber the GOP. The fact that there's some economic instability should really
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clobber the GOP, on and on and on and on and on. The best thing the GOP has going for it though
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is the Democrats because people really, really don't like the Democrats. They actually trust
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the GOP more than the Democrats. I think a lot of it with the Democrats, people are going to think
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I'm beating a dead horse, but I'm really not here. A lot of it goes back to the Dems going all in on
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woke, especially transing the kids. You might say that's a minor issue that affects relatively few
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people, but it just, it so exposed the Democrats' error in judgment, they have not recovered from
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it. They are doing everything they can right now to change their image. They're doing everything
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they can to run away from woke. Zoran Mamdani is doing that. You've got AOC saying she's not
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really a leftist. She's a working class person. It isn't working though. So good news for Trump,
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good news for the GOP. Now, there's some bad news for President Trump and the administration,
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which is that the Iran war, which we were all hoping was going to wrap up in four to five weeks,
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is now approaching the end of its fifth month and with no end in sight. Looking into its sixth
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month, Secretary of War Pete Hegseth was on Capitol Hill because the administration needs
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more money. The war has cost about $37, $38 billion thus far. They'll need some more money
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to prosecute the war. And Pete Hegseth met some really strong headwinds on Capitol Hill.
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The Democrats accused the administration of starting a needless war.
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I would take issue with your characterization that we started this war.
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Iran started this war 47 years ago, and they've killed thousands of Americans, including our brothers on the battlefield in Iraq.
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With all respect, Mr. Secretary, let me just ask.
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Okay, so Chris Van Hollen doesn't have a great response to this, which is the kind of GOP line.
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Iran overthrew, the Mullahs overthrew the CIA-backed regime, the U.S.-backed regime, the Shah, and then immediately took a bunch of Americans hostage.
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They killed hundreds of Americans in the Beirut barracks bombings.
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They killed hundreds, if not thousands, of Americans during the war on terror.
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And so, and they were developing a nuclear weapon, which the United States, as the hegemon said,
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they can't do. Okay, fine. Fair enough. I agree in principle. I don't think that line of argument,
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though, is going to work if this war really takes a negative turn. If you start to see a lot of
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American casualties, if you start to see really awful images on the TV, if it drags on past six
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months, maybe a year, maybe two years. I don't think that line is really going to work because
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there was a new start of the conflict, which began about five months ago, that was after a
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discrete conflict to destroy the nuclear facilities a year prior. So it is a vulnerability
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for the administration, and nobody's going to benefit by pretending otherwise. I mean, this was
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why I said, had I been on the NSC, nobody invited me, but had I been on the NSC,
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I would have made the arguments against the war, against the latest war.
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Not because Pete is wrong when he says Iran's been waging a kind of war on us for 47 years.
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Just because I felt the most likely scenario was going to be a quagmire like this one.
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So because this has dragged down a little longer, the military needs a little bit more funding.
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The Dems on Capitol Hill don't want to give it to him.
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american men and women as opposed to ukrainian men and women is a higher priority for the united
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states senate so five supplementals that went to ukraine as good as that cause may be why is that
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righteous to do but funding troops in harm's way right now uh given the threat and what they're
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undertaking this is a partisan exercise and it's hypocrisy and i appreciate you pointing it out
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When the Russia-Ukraine war started, we saw, obviously, cost go up around the world.
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Okay, so this is a really good line of argument here from Pete.
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And he points out, okay, you Democrats on the panel, you don't want to fund the American troops who are in the Persian Gulf right now.
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Okay, why did you give five supplementals to Ukraine?
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because you think that the war in Iran is a quagmire.
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because you think the war in Iran is a war of choice
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I think America has a lot more strategic interests
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And so he is weakening a lot of the Dem arguments, but nevertheless, Iran is the vulnerability for the administration.
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I don't envy the administration because they had this impossible choice, which was the vast majority of Americans do not want to allow Iran to get a nuclear weapon, and the vast majority of Americans don't want war with Iran, and those two things were in conflict.
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I don't envy the administration, but this was always going to be the most complex thing the administration was getting into.
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Had it really worked out quickly, it would have been a stroke of grand strategic genius.
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But it's the highest risk move of the administration because it does risk the entire Trump legacy.
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And it's the wisdom of Machiavelli in his Florentine Histories when he points out wars begin at the will of any man, but they don't end at the will of any man.
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So the Republicans in the midterms are looking really, really good.
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That doesn't mean, but it just means you have to keep that issue at bay as a top priority.
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Okay, speaking of never-ending inconveniences, I want to talk about modern therapy because there's a really important article in the Wall Street Journal about the horrible damage that therapists are doing to their patients and how the therapists are destroying families.
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And the article doesn't get into this, but I think the conclusion, if you have any familiarity,
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if you have any historical context with what psychology is, the conclusion we have to come
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Distributors, LLC. Really, really good article in the Wall Street Journal. Are therapists to blame
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for the rise of adults cutting off their parents? Many moms and dads believe that their adult
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children are getting bad advice, and a growing number of researchers agree everything becomes
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trauma, we hear. This is from Elizabeth Bernstein. Really, really good article. I'll just give you
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the top line of it. Shoshana Rubley was shocked by her therapist's advice given in her second
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session. So she signs up with this shrink, gives him 300 bucks, and the shrink says, hey,
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you need to cut off your parents. But the counselor was recommended by someone she knew
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and had impressive credentials, so she did as she was told. She cut off all ties with her mother.
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The article asks, is it really good therapy to break your mother's heart?
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listen to these statistics one in four americans is estranged from or has cut ties with a close
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relative at any given time so i either had the ties cut by the other guy or has has actively
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cut ties with a relative one in four americans ten percent one in ten americans is estranged
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from a parent or a child. Can you imagine? Well, statistically, maybe you can imagine.
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This is according to research by Carl Pillemer, a family sociologist and professor of human
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development at Cornell. He thinks one of the driving factors here, the reason why these
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numbers are increasing, is because of tensions over politics and social issues continuing to
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rise. I've seen this firsthand. I've seen it up close. Among some 7,000 estranged parents surveyed
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April, a third of them believe their adult child's therapist had influenced or recommended the
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decision to end the relationship. So is that good therapy? In some cases, you have the parents'
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money going to the children who use the money to pay the therapist to tell the kid to cut off
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ties with the parent. Is that really good therapy? Is that good for the human person? Is that good
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psychiatry and psychology. What are the negative consequences? The journal mentions a few.
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For one, there is no scientific evidence that separating from a close relative is inherently
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beneficial. So right off the bat, hey, hey, yeah, stop talking to your mom or stop talking to your
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kid or whatever it is, says the therapist. There is no scientific evidence that that
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is beneficial at all. There is long-term damage, broken relationships with siblings,
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grandchildren, parents as they age. That is unexpected. As Christine Droney, who's a
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clinical social worker in Pennsylvania, says, you can have somebody die during the estrangement.
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And there are lifelong consequences. So your stupid shrink tells you to stop talking to your
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mom or your dad. Then your mom or your dad dies during your selfish and idiotic estrangement.
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And then you come to regret that later in life, and you can blame the psychologist, but the psychologist has moved on to another patient.
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The Cornell research, or Pillimer, shows that while people who start a cutoff often feel a temporary sense of relief, they also experience, quote, significantly higher rates of chronic unhappiness and depression over time.
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So, not only is there no scientific—I shouldn't laugh, this is very sad.
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Not only is there no scientific evidence that cutting off your family, for whatever reason, makes you happier, there is evidence that it makes you less happy.
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Very often, when you cut off a family member, you are cutting off your best source of support.
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As long as you're paying the shrink's bills, the shrink will hear you out and tell you you're right about everything and nothing's your fault.
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But when you stop paying the bills to the shrink,
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because you've just cut off your support network.
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And so the last point that the article details,
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despite the poor mother consistently reaching out,
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During that time, the patient, Rubley, fell in love,
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got married, lost two grandparents, had other family members cut her off because she was so
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awful to her own mother. She goes, it was really hard. There were all these unintended consequences.
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Now, Rubley has children of her own, realized that she was wrong, realized that all parents
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make mistakes, reestablishes a relationship with her mother. And the mother says, was thrilled to
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hear from her. It was a real trial, but I always figured someday she would realize she'd made a
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mistake. Okay. So is it, I guess, a happy ending to that story? For a lot of families, there are
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not. Now, what the article doesn't get to and what a lot of the political commentary on this
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will not get to is the problem is not just that some psychologists have gone wrong or that some
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shrinks are making mistakes. The problem is that psychologists are just fundamentally not equipped
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to do psychology. First question you should ask yourself, if you have a friend or family member,
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maybe it's you personally, who've gone to a shrink for like 30 years and you're not getting any
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better. You should say, huh, I guess the shrink probably isn't very helpful. I guess the psychologist
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doesn't know very much about psychology. Very often people will still keep going to the shrink.
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Maybe they just treat the psychologist as a drug dealer, which a lot of people do.
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They'll even use like telemedicine to just beam into a drug dealer in some other state,
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get Prozac or whatever they want. But if you're not actually improving, you should ask yourself
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why that is. And it comes down to the first question, which is what is psychology? Psychology
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refers to the psyche, which is the soul, breath, spirit, soul. That's what that means. So,
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psychology is the study of the soul. I would be willing to bet that most clinical psychologists
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working today do not believe that the soul exists. What is the soul? The soul is immaterial,
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just as your body is material. The soul is the substantial form of the human person.
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Your body is the matter. That's the material aspect of the human person. The soul is a
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substantial form. It's what makes you, you. It's why you are not merely a bag of carbon molecules
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and water. You are Johnny or Sally or whatever. That's because of your soul. You don't need to be
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even particularly religious to recognize that the soul is just what integrates all of the matter
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of your person. It is what makes you what you are. Okay. Psychologists, especially in an age
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of scientific materialism, probably don't even think the soul exists. Even the ones who do
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are not really expert in matters of the soul because matters of the soul go deeper than what
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passes for psychology today. It involves questions of religion. It involves questions of morality,
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of ethics, of anthropology. Who are we? Where do we come from? Ultimately, it gets down to God.
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Psychologists, if they are any good at dealing with matters of the soul, it's accidental,
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actually. It's not even necessarily part of their training. If they happen to have a decent
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understanding of the soul, it's because they are accidentally Christian, because they are
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accidentally steeped in philosophy. None of that actually comes from the psychological
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profession. This is true of so much of modern society is just scientists are not really
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qualified for the work they're doing because it involves ethics and philosophy and all the rest
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of it. However, there's one more point on this I want to make. It's a very practical point,
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getting out of the heady field of the psyche and religion and morality and everything.
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Just a really practical point. I'm glad the Wall Street Journal ran this article. I'm glad people
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are more skeptical of psychologists, especially when they give bad advice. But let's take this a
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step further. If cutting off your mom or your dad does not actually make you happy, if it actually
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is much more likely to make you unhappy, what conclusions can we draw? What conclusions can we
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draw about general family estrangement and how everything the modern world tells us about it is
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not true and how we shouldn't cut off our family members? What conclusions should we draw when it
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comes to marriage and divorce, which is the most immediate, urgent question of family.
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Because we live at a time when we're told that divorce can be a good thing. Sometimes people
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need to be divorced. Even if you have kids, look, a kid is going to do better if mommy and daddy are
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happy, and they're going to be happy when they're separated. They're not going to be happy when
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they're together. They don't make each other happy. So they're going to go off, and they're
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going to be separated, and they're going to get stepmommy and stepdaddy. But don't worry. I know
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it's going to be a little bit of an adjustment for the kid, but he's going to spend some time
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at both houses. But you know what? Mommy and daddy are going to be happy. So then the kid's
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going to be happy. That premise alone is ridiculous. At the very least, we should say
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a very dubious premise. But the crazy part is, even the first part of the argument,
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Because you say, well, my kid might be a little unhappy for a while,
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Two-thirds of unhappily married people who did not divorce
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ended up calling their marriage happy five years later.
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two-thirds of people who were unhappily married who wanted to get divorced
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two-thirds of them who did not divorce in five years said they had a happy marriage
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you want to hear it get really crazy four out of five very unhappy people people who really
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really wanted to get divorced four out of five of them who did not get divorced
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said they had a happy marriage five years later.
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It was, in fact, the least happy people in their marriages
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to call themselves happily married five years later.
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What about the people who actually did get divorced?
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so our our our modern science especially social sciences especially psychology
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appear to be totally wrong about people they're they're good about dentistry modern science is
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really good about dentistry it's good about electronics it's good about computing it's
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good about transportation it's like very impressive on those things but when it comes
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to people, how people actually work, modern science totally sucks. It gets everything wrong.
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And even it's gotten things so wrong that some modern scientists are beginning to question
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what has been orthodoxy for a long time when it comes to marriage, when it comes to
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relationships, when it comes to family, parents, siblings, whatever. Why is that?
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It is because engineers are actually good at engineering, and it's because mechanics are good at mechanics, and astrophysicists are good at physics and the sky and jet propulsion.
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They're actually good at that stuff. But psychologists really have no competence at
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the thing that they're ostensibly doing, which is understanding the psyche, the soul.
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They neglect the soul outright. A lot of modern anthropologists don't really understand human
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nature because they're writing off so much of human nature at the beginning, the immaterial
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part, the soulful part, the moral part. You can't do that. You just don't understand what man is.
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If you reduce man to some mere bag of chemicals or something, you are not dealing with man.
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That's balanceofnature.com, promo code Knowles. Do you know Brian Johnson? He's this guy,
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he goes viral all the time on social media. He's some kind of entrepreneur, some tech futurist type,
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and he's a biohacker. So he wants to live forever. He wants to, at the very least,
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live as long as he possibly can. And it was kind of funny. I mean, you feel bad about it, but
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he, his whole life, his raison d'etre is to be healthy and live a long time and not get sick.
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And he recently revealed that despite primping and pruning and preening and despite precisely
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calculating every aspect of his entire life, he's come down with some disease where his stomach is
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basically eating itself. I forget the name of the specific complication, but anyway, so it didn't,
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it didn't work. Meanwhile, I'm over here, I'm smoking cigars, I'm eating cheesesteaks. I don't
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want to jinx anything. I don't want to, but a lot of us out here, we don't really think about our
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health that much. And we feel good most of the time. God willing, we live a long life. Anyway,
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Brian Johnson is now taking this to such an extreme. He claims to have cloned himself.
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Here's his own words. I just cloned myself as a newborn with this clone. I can
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become my own blood boy, test therapies on the clone, grow organs for transplantation,
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develop new treatments, inject young cells. This baby Brian lives in a Petri dish for now,
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This may be scary to some people, a dystopian future,
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Clinical trials are already using this technology
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I think they make good pianos and guitars,
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it seems like a bad idea to create babies a clone of yourself which again we use this word clone
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but maybe a more biological way to think about it a more basic way that doesn't sound like a
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sci-fi movie is to just say he made a twin of himself a creature that is genetically the same
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as him. It'd be like an identical twin. He made the twin, and now he's going to harvest his twin's
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blood and chop him up and do scientific experiments on him and take his organs.
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Doesn't that, I don't know, why is it that when we say I'm going to harvest the organs of my twin,
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I'm going to keep my twin as a kind of a slave so that I can suck his blood and live a little
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longer. Why does that sound worse than saying I'm going to do it to a clone? Well, because of the
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same problem we have in psychology, which is people don't really ask themselves what a clone
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is. What does he think a clone is? What we like to think is that a clone is just something for us.
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A clone is not really a human being, in other words. A twin is really a human being. A clone
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is not really a human being. A twin and a clone are exactly the same thing. But we just say,
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no, no, the difference is I don't have any rights to this other person when it's a human being,
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but I do have rights to a clone. It's like the difference between
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marriage and prostitution. Well, there are multiple differences between marriage and
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prostitution. But let's just say in the marital act, the act that defines what a marriage is,
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doing that with your wife and doing that with a prostitute physically look like the same thing.
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The difference is when you do that act with your wife,
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you feel, you recognize that you have obligations to your wife.
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the whole point is you have no obligations to this person.
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This person is really only here for your pleasure.
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We're at least going to pretend that this is not really a person.
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This is just a commodity to be bought and sold.
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one of the reasons the prostitution probably should be illegal,
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If that is wrong, how much more so, how much wronger would it be to make a baby that is genetically the same, make a twin of yourself and then harvest it for blood and organs?
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this is this is the theme of modernity this is this is where a lot of the dystopian
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science fiction novels and and movies come from is at least at a deep level a recognition
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that the scientists are not qualified for the work that they're doing
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and so what is the response to that even many conservatives will say well the response to this
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misunderstanding and dearth of education is, we just need more people to study STEM.
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You know, we need more people to study engineering and the hard sciences and this, that.
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I mean, yeah, we need that too because we don't want to lose a technology war with China.
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But the answer to this problem is really not to do that at all.
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The answer to this problem is to study the humanities, to seriously study the humanities,
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a lot of people are reading the odyssey now which is very good news uh to immerse ourselves in
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philosophy to take religion very seriously that's the answer because uh scientific advancement
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with a kind of moral philosophical religious decay is like the worst of all possible worlds
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that is the tower of babel pope leo was actually warning about this in his recent encyclical
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magnifica humanitas. That is the worst of all worlds. We're so afraid that we're going to fall
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behind scientifically. We're so afraid that we're going to lose the AI race with China or whatever.
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Yeah, that would be really bad if we lost the AI race with China. But the nightmare scenario,
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the worst possible scenario for all of us, the Tower of Babel, end of the world kind of scenario
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is when you have a lot of scientific progress with a lot of moral, anthropological, religious
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decay. Well, that's what you currently have in psychology, in AI, actually, in all throughout
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bioethics. You don't want to do that. Speaking of the corruption of the academy, one of our pals,
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Brandon Gill, rising star freshman in Congress, he just nailed the head of the Smithsonian.
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I talked about this on the show last week. The White House Domestic Policy Council just released
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a very, very important report, which I encourage all of you to go read, on the corruption of the
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Smithsonian Institution, specifically the National Museum of American History, which exists to
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celebrate America, talk about our history, make sense of our founding and our development as a
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country. And what it has done in recent years, explicitly, the White House brings all the
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receipts, is it tries to remove a lot of American history, remove exhibits on the Founding Fathers
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and then when it does talk about any of those things,
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to paint it in as negative a light as possible.
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totally nails her. Excuse me, sir? Is it important to be polite? Yes, sir. It's also interesting
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because the same mass action toolkit that your organization has been promoting references
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politeness as a defining characteristic of white supremacy culture. Ma'am, are you a white
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supremacist? No, sir. You're not. Can you help me square why your organization says that being
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polite as part of being a white supremacist? I'm not exactly familiar with that passage of
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the Mass Action Toolkit, which is not the one that we developed. I can show you the passage
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right here. Oh, I love it. This, by the way, just to circle us all the way back to the top of the
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show, this is why Republicans who should be getting clobbered in the midterm polls are not,
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and in some cases might even be a little bit up this is why it is hard the kids don't remember
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man even the adults don't remember how insane the left got by 2022 2023 i mean we go back to it a
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lot but they were chopping off kids genitals they really did that and and if you didn't
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applaud that, you were the bad guy. You could be punished at your job and in school.
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This Smithsonian Institution was publishing, here we have it,
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Aspects and Assumptions of Whiteness, White Culture in the United States.
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The United States, which was a 90% white country until like 30 seconds ago. Let's not forget,
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just when you look at the demographics of America, until recent decades, America was a 90% white
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country from its founding until like 37 seconds ago. But the Smithsonian Institution, which is
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in charge of curating our understanding of American history, they invade not only against
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white culture, but then they are ironically very offensive to non-white people because they say,
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yeah, rugged individualism, that's an aspect of white culture, self-reliance, independence,
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autonomy, achievement. That's white. Being a totally helpless, dumb little lamb, that's not
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white. Okay. But white people, we're the ones who are family structure, having a family, that's
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white. If you're just a deadbeat cad, derelict dad, promiscuous, then you're not white. But
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you're, if you have a family, you're white. Smithsonian. Emphasis on the scientific method.
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It really ties the whole show together today. Objective, rational, linear thinking. That's
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white. And being a complete dumb idiot, that's not white, according to the Smithsonian.
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And though, as we've discussed today, there are problems with an over-reliance on the scientific
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method. There is the one area where the Smithsonian and I agree. On and on and on,
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showing up for things on time that's white being irresponsible is not white thinking about your
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future is white um being irresponsible being reckless that's not white on and on and on okay
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so brandon gill is so good at this it's not it's not inevitable that we could nail the left on this
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he's he is very good at actually doing it but this was a good exchange because one it was so subtle
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do you think it's important to be polite okay because your institution says that being polite
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is an aspect of white supremacy so you're a white supremacist oh no you're not and then the head of
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the smithsonian says well you know i just wasn't that familiar with that part of the toolkit
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it's important to nail people on this not to beat a dead horse not not to score cheap points
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But right now, today, the left is trying to argue that Trump's attempts at reform of the
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Smithsonian are illegitimate, awful, beyond the pale, erasing history, what have you.
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Don't forget, Whoopi Goldberg was making that claim on The View to J.D. Vance, the vice
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She's taking issues specifically with the Trump administration's attempt to reform the
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for Republicans to talk to the Smithsonian and say, hey, do you guys still believe that
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politeness is white supremacy? See, you have to remind people of this stuff
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in order to defend the actual political good of Trump de-wokifying the Smithsonian,
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but also to remind people, to not let the left get away with it, to remind people of just how
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hideous the left had become, how completely indefensible the left had become.
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so much so recognized by so many people that the republicans are polling basically dead even in
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midterm elections they should lose in a landslide want to see your rewards go further now at shell
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because I have to get to my favorite comment yesterday.
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this is from jay who says guess michael had to change the thumbnail because of the eu rules on
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sports broadcasting okay okay so yesterday i don't we do the show there are a number of stories we
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were hitting on one of which was aoc so someone tags me on social media says michael this thumbnail
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is pretty crazy i said what what is it and i hadn't seen it i look at it and i don't i actually
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don't know someone in the editing department someone someone in production had used a picture
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of AOC that I'd never seen before that really focused on some of her whoever took the picture
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was not confused about the difference between men and women let's put it that way and it was a little
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it was a little much okay and I actually gave the instruction I said you know guys look I know I
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know the YouTube algorithm and everything but uh let's can we tone this down please can we
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so yeah i i was that was quite a thumbnail that was a journey i'm glad someone caught it before
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before i did okay uh the head of the california teacher union
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who also works for the main teacher union in america the american federation of teachers
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uh this guy wearing a solidarity shirt for may day is is going viral once again
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for, this is thanks to Corey DeAngelis, the education reformer,
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for calling on his members to get out in the streets and stop the fascist Trump regime.
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To fight back against this fascist regime, we need to be in the streets, wisely using our wallets,
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battling in the courts, and winning at the ballot box, the center of our democracy.
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so solidarity is the lesson plan is what his shirt says head of the california federation
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of teachers also vice president of of randy weingarten's american federation of teachers
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no surprise that the left-wing teachers are pushing this stuff but we like to put it out
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of our heads we like to put it out of our heads because it's really annoying to think about what
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we can do about our kids education it's very painful to think that our kids are being
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seriously abused intellectually, if not physically, but they're being intellectually abused.
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They're being poorly formed. We pretend in modernity that education is just cramming your
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head full of facts. It's not. Education is the formation of the soul. The purpose of education,
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the highest form of education, which is a liberal education, liberal arts education,
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the point of that, as the word liberal would imply, is to help us to make sense of our freedom.
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It's the education befitting a free man. And they're not getting that. They're getting the
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opposite. They're being turned into slaves and automatons for a very evil ideology. And so it's
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very painful for us to recognize that fact. We say, oh, it's not that bad. It's not that big a
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deal. Oh, you know, kids are resilient. You always hear that for kids are resilient. But no, it is
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that bad. However bad you think the public education unions have gotten, it's like a billion
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times worse. So what do we do with that? We have two choices as far as I can tell. We can either
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exclude, sorry, we can either surrender public education. So we can say, you know what, I'm not
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sending my kid to that school. And you got the rich people who say, I'm going to send my kid to
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private school. And you've got the both rich and poor people who say, I don't even want to send my
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kid to private school. In some cases, the private schools are worse than the public schools. Places
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like LA, the $60,000 a year private schools are worse than the public schools when it comes to
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radical ideology. So then you get a mixture of socioeconomic classes saying, I'm going to
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homeschool. That's one thing you can do. There's some benefit to that, I guess.
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Depending on where you are, there can be a big benefit. You can do that, or you can try to take
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control of your public education system. And maybe you have to do both. If you live in an area where
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the public schools are really bad, then maybe you're going to send your kid to private school,
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and maybe you're going to homeschool or whatever. But that doesn't mean you should take your foot
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off the gas when it comes to driving the ball down the field on public school. Because this is
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totally unacceptable. Even if your kid is one of the lucky ones who gets homeschooled or goes to
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a good private school, you're going to live in a country full of people who were educated by this
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guy. Solidarity is the lesson plan. Mayday. Trump is fascist. We need to overthrow the American
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system of government. I mean, you're going to live in a country educated by those people.
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so you can't you can't have that which means just at a basic level you have two choices you can
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either surrender which is what i think most establishment conservatives have done or you can
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get a little tough you can get a little what would be called authoritarian now again it's not really
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authoritarian it's really just what william f buckley jr was calling for and got in man at yale
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but you need to exclude teachers based on their views you need to let's be totally blunt with it
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in terms of how it would be implemented it might be different but let's be totally blunt with what
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we're talking about. You need viewpoint discrimination, as it has come to be called.
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This is novel idea in American jurisprudence. It starts to come up in the middle to late 20th
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century. It only really hits its stride in the 80s and 90s, this idea that you can't have
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viewpoint discrimination. You can't discriminate based on someone's ideology or whatever.
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But of course you have to. Of course you have to do that, especially in education.
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You need to discriminate on behalf of the truth against falsehood. And so people who hold false
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and pernicious ideologies need to be excluded.
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You need to fire commie teachers for being commies.
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they feel that's illiberal or authoritarian or fascist
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They probably agree with this lunatic teacher union guy.
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The only alternative is you surrender public education.
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And if you surrender public education, you surrender your country.
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It will show you what your country will be in 20 years.
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If you want to be the kind of conservative who just wants to lose but be considered a sort of nice guy while it happens, okay.
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Or you can get – I'm not saying it's easy, but it is relatively simple.
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You need to get tougher, and you need to be able to say we can make distinctions between right and wrong and good and bad.
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good news though for the youngins on the horizon I can't quite get to right now because I'll just
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tease it a little bit. New home prices are going down for the first time since 1974. New home
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prices are lower than the prices of existing homes. That's like a tiny little sliver of good
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news in an otherwise bleak economic outlook for young people. So we'll get to that momentarily
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first though, because we want to toughen ourselves up for this difficult culture that we're fighting
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in we have one of the toughest guys i know that would be smiling sam alvey coming on the show
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for the member room segmentum because sam you have a fight coming up i i absolutely do i am fighting
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this friday for karate combat defending this belt and uh i i'm gonna be and still and still
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the world's greatest fighter when is the fight gonna be so it is this friday night it'll be on
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karate combat youtube channel and uh everyone everyone should watch it this is going to be so
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much fun i'm fighting uriah hall he's a ufc veteran uh and it's just it's the kind of fight
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that's going to make people happy okay all right so you got to set go to the karate combat youtube
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channel set the schedule the subscription the whatever button you got to click do it because
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you're going to see a great fight from a great fighter and you're going to see a fight from
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someone who I taught everything he knows. I taught him everything he knows, you know,
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am I aligned? I would be nothing without you. I would be nothing without you. My career started
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the day you cornered me. Uh, Michael, the knuckle knolls got in that corner and he helped me get
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that win. Like nobody could have ever done. Yeah. I don't look, I'm usually a little more
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humble about it, but it's coming from your mat. So it's like, yes, I, you can go see one of my
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real proteges as the old corner Michael the Knuckle Knowles. We'll get to more with Sam
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