The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 2046 - Abdul El-Sayed： Trans Surgery Is The Same As Circumcision

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00:01:27.780 Democrat Senate hopeful Abdul El-Sayed crossed the aisle to Fox News to assuage the fears of moderate Michigan voters that he might be too radical.

00:01:36.560 So naturally, he compared castrating children to circumcision, acknowledged hating the Second Amendment, and endorsed Sharia law.

00:01:45.600 Then Target comes under fire from the woke mob for featuring a black model in its Halloween costume selection.

00:01:52.460 You're not allowed to hire black people.

00:01:55.260 And the centimillionaire owner of the San Francisco 49ers gets caught with a hooker in a trailer park.

00:02:01.420 I'm Michael Knowles. This is The Michael Knowles Show.

00:02:21.680 Welcome back to the show.

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00:03:51.240 Abdul El-Sayed, the Democrat Senate candidate in Michigan, realizes that he's got this problem,

00:03:56.440 which is that he's freaking out the normal voters in Michigan.

00:03:58.820 Michigan's a swing state.

00:04:00.000 So he says that he's going to go across the aisle, go on to some conservative media.

00:04:04.200 He chooses Jesse Waters' show on Fox News.

00:04:07.560 Jesse did a phenomenal job in the interview.

00:04:10.460 I don't think he was unfair in any way.

00:04:12.280 He allowed Abdul El-Sayed's views to speak for themselves.

00:04:15.460 The first one he hits on the big culture war issue. Do you really support transing the kids?

00:04:22.520 Here's Abdul's answer. You dodged. You dodged again. Sex changes for minors. Do you support that?

00:04:32.280 Look, you know, I remember having great conversations with my conservative friends

00:04:37.180 about right to try legislation. The idea that the government shouldn't tell you what kind of

00:04:41.300 health care you should have. I just think the government shouldn't tell you what kind of

00:04:44.780 health care you should have and if you're a minor you want to try on kids now if you disagree with

00:04:49.780 that if you disagree with that if you disagree that health care decisions need to be made by a

00:04:54.240 doctor and their parents and a patient then i just we think we agree to disagree but you know

00:04:59.560 you want to put government inside you're a doctor selectively i am so you think it's okay for a

00:05:07.920 parent to slash his kids you think that's okay i mean do you so do you really want to have this

00:05:15.500 conversation are you circumcised yeah yeah but i mean uh that's a personal question okay doctor

00:05:22.280 you probably should want to move on you probably should want to move on a circumcision is different

00:05:26.600 than castration i think it's a it's a problem it's a problem that you think that you get to decide

00:05:32.400 what happens between a parent, a doctor, and a patient.

00:05:36.180 And I'm just saying that, yes, circumcision is surgery on a kid's ding-a-ling.

00:05:39.740 So if you really want to bring that up, you can.

00:05:41.440 I just think you guys are really selective about how you want to talk about these things.

00:05:44.300 Abdul, Michigan's not going for that.

00:05:46.640 That is sick stuff.

00:05:48.800 Right off the bat, you know this interview is going to be absolutely delightful.

00:05:54.040 Mr. Al-Sayed, you know, people, they're a little worried about some of your radical policies.

00:05:58.380 You don't really support castrating kids, right?

00:06:01.180 Are you circumcised, Jesse?

00:06:03.880 It's not.

00:06:04.920 Whatever point he was trying to make, that is not the right rhetoric if you want to come off as normal, as unthreatening, as the kind of mainstream candidate.

00:06:17.660 And the point that he's making is clever on the surface but ridiculous underneath, which is true of so much of leftism.

00:06:24.380 jesse waters brings up this big issue and he says hey your whole party has embraced

00:06:31.220 lopping off the genitals of little kids giving them cross-sex hormones permanently castrating

00:06:36.280 them damaging their bones shortening their lives pretending that a little boy is actually a girl

00:06:40.880 you don't support that right and abdul al-sayed says well uh have you taken part in a very

00:06:48.580 mainstream, widespread genital operation that does, I guess, like technically speaking,

00:06:57.780 a circumcision mutilates a genital technically, but it's so different as to be not just different

00:07:05.420 in degree, but different in kind because circumcision is a religious practice of the

00:07:10.980 Jews that was adopted by certain sects of Protestants, which is why it became popular

00:07:16.160 in America. Most Christians in Europe are not circumcised, but in America they are. Good enough

00:07:20.380 for our Lord, probably good enough for me. And what are the consequences of this? The consequences

00:07:25.060 of circumcision are, I don't remember, but I'm sure it's a little painful when you're a little

00:07:29.900 baby. And then the only other consequence is you're a little bit less likely to contract

00:07:35.140 sexual transmitted disease. That's about it. And maybe it's a little easier to wash yourself.

00:07:41.480 That's it. That is the consequence of circumcision, which is very widespread throughout our culture for a very long time. The consequence of transing a kid is that he will not go through puberty. He will become a eunuch. He will not be able to have children, and he will die earlier.

00:08:01.540 so these are totally different sorts of things now you got to give the devil his due

00:08:07.560 this might be the best answer that he has on this so much of leftism is that it's it's just

00:08:14.480 trying to conflate unlike things such that you make this sort of false comparison and you distract

00:08:21.620 people from what is really at issue here there is not a major movement against circumcision we've

00:08:28.020 had circumcision for a very, very long time, certainly in the Holy Land and then spread

00:08:33.620 throughout the West. And that doesn't wile up voters. Mutilating little kids and making them

00:08:40.020 seem like the opposite sex, that does. And so he's just trying to say, no, no, no, it's not that

00:08:43.220 weird what we're doing, even though these things are totally different in kind. Okay. So he doubles

00:08:46.460 down on the least popular left-wing position. Then Jesse hits him on the Second Amendment.

00:08:52.560 You want to replace the right to bear arms with the right to health care.

00:08:58.440 You don't want to replace the Second Amendment, do you?

00:09:03.440 Well, look, man, I think more people are more worried about whether or not they can see a doctor than whether or not they can have a gun.

00:09:08.920 I'm just going to put that out there.

00:09:09.860 I mean, you're dodging the question.

00:09:11.420 Do you want to replace the Second Amendment?

00:09:13.980 I'm just saying that more people are more concerned about seeing a doctor.

00:09:17.580 If we had a right to health care in this country, they probably wouldn't.

00:09:19.920 And I think that'd be a pretty good thing, don't you?

00:09:22.420 Here again, this is an even more blatant version of his strategy from the first answer, which is just evasion.

00:09:29.340 He says, well, I don't think, you know, we just want to give health care to people and we don't really want to talk about the Second Amendment.

00:09:35.340 And you say, hold on, I want to talk about the Second Amendment.

00:09:38.040 I just want to make sure that you, the United States senator, if you become a United States senator, will not want to repeal one of my basic civil liberties and one of my basic constitutional rights.

00:09:47.700 And he just filibusters.

00:09:48.880 So we can take that, I think definitively, as proof that Abdul al-Sayed would trans your kid and would take away your guns, take away your constitutional rights.

00:10:01.700 But the craziest answer, the craziest answer actually was not the child mutilation answer.

00:10:08.260 It was not asking the TV host if he had been circumcised, which also serves his kind of base purpose in that it's kind of winking at a little anti-Jewish rhetoric.

00:10:17.900 You know, Jews are the main ones who do circumcision.

00:10:20.260 So it's a little, he's getting a little bit of that in for the anti-Jewish base of Abdul's support.

00:10:24.820 But actually the craziest answer was when Jesse Waters asked him about his comments on Sharia law.

00:10:32.820 We were back then.

00:10:33.960 Okay, let's move on.

00:10:35.680 You said getting rid of Sharia law was white supremacy.

00:10:40.360 Let's roll the tape.

00:10:41.160 Go.

00:10:41.280 I don't have to tell you that the same exact forces that drove native peoples from their land two centuries ago, destroyed Black Wall Street a century ago, bombed a building decades ago, and tried to ban Sharia law not a decade ago, that those forces are alive and well today.

00:11:05.800 So getting rid of Sharia law's white supremacy, can you explain that one?

00:11:11.280 do you do you know what canon law is jesse i assume you're christian right yeah tell me

00:11:16.720 all right so canon law is the name for christian law i don't begrudge you your right to practice

00:11:23.860 your faith as you choose i don't know why the idea that i could practice my faith as i choose

00:11:29.300 is a problem nobody is trying to push sharia law on anyone else just like i hope nobody is trying

00:11:34.600 to push canon law on anybody else because we live in an america where you should have the freedom

00:11:38.580 of your religion and here we have it you thought the comparison of circumcision to castrating a

00:11:45.920 little kid was crazy that is child's play compared to the answer on sharia law he says well you know

00:11:53.720 you're all worried about sharia law but have you ever heard of canon law well you know i mean we're

00:11:59.960 not gonna get rid of canon law so you know it's like shut up about sharia law these also these

00:12:05.880 are different types of law. They come from religions. That's basically where the similarities

00:12:10.840 end. It's not just that one is Christian and one is Muslim. They're different forms of the law.

00:12:18.260 Canon law is the law with which the church governs herself. Canon law is prescriptions for how

00:12:28.380 bishops administer sacraments. Canon law, for those who are not canon lawyers out there,

00:12:33.320 which is statistically everyone. Canon law says things like, hey, ministers, when you are

00:12:39.640 administering a sacrament that involves oil, the oil has to come from olives or similar plants,

00:12:46.900 and it has to have been recently blessed by a bishop. That's what canon law says.

00:12:52.520 Sharia law says that courts need to allow men to have four wives.

00:12:57.200 Sharia law says that the testimony of a woman is worth half as much as the testimony of a man.

00:13:04.080 Sharia law says men can initiate divorce, women cannot.

00:13:08.380 In other words, canon law is an ecclesiastical form of law that is within the church.

00:13:15.500 Sharia law intersects with the civil law.

00:13:19.800 Even in a confessional Catholic state on the order of the high middle ages,

00:13:26.640 the canon law and the civil law are two totally different things.

00:13:30.580 but in majority Muslim states, Sharia law just is the law. It's just the civil law. This is why

00:13:37.620 in increasingly Muslim states, we used to call them Christian states, but then they became

00:13:41.640 atheist. They became liberal, then they became atheist. Now they're largely Muslim. In those

00:13:46.440 states, there are parallel systems of justice. There are separate courts that go by Sharia law

00:13:52.880 rather than the English common law or European law. Totally different. Absolutely apples and

00:13:58.400 oranges. And so I'm left with two conclusions from the interview. One is Abdul El-Sayed

00:14:06.580 really is as radical as they say. Sometimes we Republicans, we get high on our own supply.

00:14:12.660 We say that, you know, Joe Biden is the most radically leftist president ever. And it's like,

00:14:16.460 effectively he is because he was just a rubber stamp for the radical left. But he, in his own

00:14:20.540 person, he doesn't really have any ideology at all. He's pretty milquetoast. Abdul El-Sayed,

00:14:25.600 however is really really radical and we've been talking on the show a lot about how

00:14:29.740 abdul has the schizophrenic campaign uh one day he's jihadi joe the next day he's like a

00:14:37.100 chippendales dancer he's kind of playing up the gay stuff singing oh i want to dance with somebody

00:14:41.220 like a musical theater kid and so you say well which one is he is he the gay millennial liberal

00:14:46.020 or is he the the wahhabi soldier and the answer is apparently both apparently both because he is

00:14:53.460 not going to walk back transing the kids one little bit. Then on top of that, he has the

00:14:58.980 regular rote leftism of trying to get rid of your Second Amendment rights. And then on top of that,

00:15:04.540 he's fully committed to Sharia law. But everyone's complaining about this guy and everyone's talking

00:15:12.180 about how crazy he is and how insane it is. And this will probably turn off a lot of voters. I'm

00:15:15.240 sure it will. You do have to give him a little bit of credit for the political strategy, even

00:15:18.800 though he's bringing up circumcision, all this kind of crazy stuff. This is the best they have.

00:15:23.460 But unless he is going to have a sister soldier moment and say, you know, the radicals in my party have lost it and woke was crazy and specifically this is what I'm going to disavow of wokeness and I'm not a hardcore Muslim and Sharia law is bad and we should not implement it in Muslim-majority communities in the United States.

00:15:42.180 Dearborn, Michigan. Unless he's going to do that, the best pitch he can make to voters is to hide

00:15:49.080 what he believes. And he did that somewhat successfully, as successfully as he possibly

00:15:53.400 could have. But he's running the Abigail Spanberger campaign. That's all this is.

00:15:58.200 The only difference between Abdul and Abigail Spanberger is a beard and a slightly duskier

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00:17:07.960 That is policygenius.com slash K-N-O-W-L-E-S. Target is in big, big trouble.

00:17:16.380 Because Target, I've been trying to make sense of this scandal now for the last

00:17:20.940 20 hours or so. Target is in trouble for doing a racism. We're back. We're back in 2023. You

00:17:29.700 thought it was over woke one was crazy we're back in 2023 we're chopping off kids genitals

00:17:34.880 we're canceling people in corporate america for alleged race crimes that don't even exist

00:17:40.900 so this story is that target was selling a halloween costume the real crime here by the

00:17:46.480 way is selling a halloween costume in august that is all that should be illegal according

00:17:51.740 if sharia law says that's illegal i'm gonna vote for abdul nevertheless they're doing all these

00:17:56.880 things earlier and earlier. They put up the Halloween costume and let's see the Halloween

00:18:00.000 costume. The Halloween costume is like a jack-o'-lantern kind of thing. It's just like a

00:18:05.080 black and orange generic Halloween costume. This was racist. How was it racist? Well, because

00:18:14.580 the mob said that it looked like a minstrel costume. You know, minstrelsy, minstrel shows

00:18:23.100 is this 19th and early 20th century form of entertainment

00:18:26.260 where the way the popular story goes,

00:18:30.200 white people would put on blackface,

00:18:32.920 dress up like Sambo,

00:18:34.060 and do a song and dance routine

00:18:35.180 making fun of black stereotypes.

00:18:37.560 And that's part of the story.

00:18:39.860 I mean, you get Al Jolson,

00:18:41.160 one of the great performers in American history,

00:18:42.900 one of the great movies.

00:18:44.040 Al Jolson comes out there and says,

00:18:45.220 you know, I love to sing about the moon and the June

00:18:47.080 and the spring.

00:18:47.680 I'm not going to get canceled

00:18:48.440 for doing my Al Jolson impression.

00:18:50.040 But that's part of the story.

00:18:50.840 The other part of the story is that black performers,

00:18:53.100 were in minstrelsy as well.

00:18:54.780 We'll get to that in a second.

00:18:56.500 Regardless, it's not a minstrel costume.

00:19:00.800 What about the, they put up this picture

00:19:02.680 of a minstrel performer with his hands in the air

00:19:05.000 and they say, see, look, the black kid

00:19:08.500 who's modeling the costume

00:19:09.780 and the minstrel performer

00:19:11.320 are both doing the same hand gesture.

00:19:13.520 You say, well, the hand gesture

00:19:14.380 has nothing to do with the costume.

00:19:15.700 The costumes are totally different.

00:19:17.660 They say, no, well, but the minstrel performer

00:19:19.900 looks black and so does the kid

00:19:21.120 in the advertisement.

00:19:23.100 You say, okay, so hold on, your issue isn't with the costume. You're not actually alleging that the costume is racist. You're taking issue with the fact that Target hired a black model. That was the issue. It's not the costume.

00:19:39.560 So you say, okay, Target hired a black kid to – and the black kid was waving his hands and this is somehow irredeemably racist.

00:19:48.940 So you say, okay, so the conclusion I have to draw is that corporations should not hire black people to model clothing?

00:19:55.220 They would say, no, no, no.

00:19:56.580 Because if the corporation didn't hire black people to model the clothing, that too would be racist.

00:20:01.720 If you hire the black person, it's racist because of something.

00:20:05.420 and if you don't hire the black people that's definitely racist because you're discriminating

00:20:08.920 against the black people okay so then what's race is it the the hand gesture you're not allowed to

00:20:14.580 wave well hold on i went on the target website i look at the other halloween costumes we have we

00:20:19.660 have a bunch of them that there are plenty of other costumes where the model is has his hands

00:20:25.840 in a similar position they have one for the flash they have one for spider-man they have one for a

00:20:32.880 strawberry. Not a watermelon, that could be considered racist, but a strawberry. And Spider-Man's

00:20:39.000 white, last I checked. The Flash, I think is white. So what's the issue? The issue is that

00:20:47.240 woke is coming back. And a lot of us predicted this. We thought woke was totally defeated

00:20:51.740 really by the 2024 election. And it's not. It's just laying dormant. And AOC proved it when she

00:20:59.080 said woke one was crazy but she wouldn't specify how so the left still believes all of that stuff

00:21:03.860 and the left has the winds at its back right now because the republicans control the whole

00:21:09.460 government and the democrats are very likely going to win the midterm elections so combine those two

00:21:15.240 elements you have an american left that has not learned a single lesson since the height of woke

00:21:20.320 in 2022 2023 and you have the democrats on the brink of regaining political power put those two

00:21:28.020 things together and woke is back. And you're already seeing corporate America anticipating

00:21:33.600 this. You know, there was a tweet from JD Vance that was, people were posting a little bit

00:21:37.360 yesterday that said, guys, Trump won. We don't have to do this anymore. And this was in reference

00:21:41.760 to a prior controversy. This wasn't even about Target. And that's how a lot of us felt. We said,

00:21:45.660 Trump won. We don't need to worry about woke anymore. Yes, we do. We obviously do. In fact,

00:21:50.660 even beyond the politicians, the markets are already anticipating the return of woke. That's

00:21:55.560 what that's what target giving in on this says i mean here's target's apology an apology from us

00:22:02.180 we pulled an offensive halloween costume that should never have been part of our assortment

00:22:06.080 it is no longer for sale as a company we got this wrong and we are deeply sorry we know this is

00:22:11.400 especially hurtful for our black guests capital b team members and partners removing this costume

00:22:16.460 is an important first step and the company is looking closely at how this happened and what

00:22:20.240 needs to change to ensure this won't happen again notice what's missing from the apology

00:22:22.980 they don't explain what was wrong with it. What was wrong with it? I even saw some conservatives,

00:22:28.500 I even spoke to a conservative yesterday, a pretty prominent one, who said, oh yeah,

00:22:31.780 that costume was really bad. I said, how? What's wrong with the costume? Can I give you my deep

00:22:36.840 take on this actually? Can I give you the, just before woke fully comes back, maybe this is what

00:22:41.840 will finally get me totally canceled. Obviously, the view that this is offensive and minstrelsy,

00:22:48.320 that's ridiculous. There's another view which says, no, it's not offensive because it's not

00:22:54.780 minstrelsy. But can we go to the deeper? The deeper view is minstrelsy is a very important

00:23:02.980 part of the American theatrical tradition. Am I allowed to say that? Minstrel shows are a very

00:23:08.620 important part of the American theatrical tradition. They were enacted by very talented

00:23:14.940 black performers pretty frequently.

00:23:17.060 One comes to mind in particular

00:23:18.860 is Billy Kersands.

00:23:20.520 Billy Kersands was this brilliant

00:23:22.780 comedic performer from the

00:23:24.960 minstrel era up through the

00:23:26.900 early vaudeville era. He created the character

00:23:28.920 of Aunt Jemima, which also got cancelled.

00:23:31.020 You will recall. But that was Aunt Jemima.

00:23:32.780 It was so crazy when Aunt Jemima got cancelled.

00:23:34.460 That was a black character played by a black

00:23:36.980 actress, written by

00:23:38.840 a black comedian.

00:23:40.380 But it was all cancelled by liberal white people.

00:23:42.820 and then i'll go even further by the way in my defense of the place of minstrelsy in the

00:23:48.920 american theatrical tradition it still exists and is considered totally fine and is actually

00:23:54.900 applauded this to me this is the this is the deep level of what's so wrong about this target

00:24:00.140 non-traversy minstrel shows still exist they're called tyler perry movies and that's not even

00:24:05.760 just my opinion that is also the opinion of spike lee who was attacking tyler perry because he i

00:24:10.960 won't use the exact phrase that Spike Lee used, but he effectively accused him of promoting

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00:24:25.540 or Sanford and Son, or Good Times, or these still exist. And it's fine. No one boycotts

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00:24:36.580 targeted. So anyway, all right, I'm getting off my soapbox. I'm getting down from my love to

00:24:42.480 sing with my soft shoe and all that. Just pointing out, the key aspect of this cancellation is

00:24:50.240 the capriciousness. That's the key here. It's that it's arbitrary. It's based on nothing.

00:24:57.960 The costume is completely innocuous. The rule about what models you can hire, it's a damned

00:25:02.360 if you do, damned if you don't situation. This is the market anticipating that the woke mob

00:25:07.580 is coming back and they're coming back with a vengeance. And the Democrats are very likely to

00:25:11.920 win the house in the midterms and it's going to get bad. And what are Republicans doing to stop it?

00:25:18.240 We're fighting with each other. We're ignoring the threat. It was ever thus. Okay. Speaking of kids,

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00:26:52.600 A woman is going viral for scolding, disciplining, dealing with her kid in light of the Lindsay Clancy case.

00:27:02.320 Take a look.

00:27:03.560 I accidentally caught, my daughter made a mistake when I was already overstimulated.

00:27:08.240 She spilled her coffee. The daughter spilled the coffee.

00:27:11.060 The daughter burst into a peer as apologizing.

00:27:13.120 I would have been anticipating a blowup to be yelled at and berated.

00:27:16.900 but she remains calm.

00:27:23.700 Okay.

00:27:26.260 Growling in her face.

00:27:28.160 She watches me work to regulate

00:27:29.900 and watches for instruction.

00:27:33.140 She knows that she has nothing to fear

00:27:35.320 and that no matter how frustrated I am,

00:27:36.800 I will always do blah, blah, blah.

00:27:39.020 She waits for instruction.

00:27:40.160 Once I finish cleaning up, we reconnect.

00:27:43.920 I'm far from perfect,

00:27:44.980 but I'm doing much better than I was taught.

00:27:46.900 My parents are so bad, but I'm so good.

00:27:49.400 Okay.

00:27:50.640 Okay.

00:27:52.260 So do you notice the first thing wrong with this?

00:27:56.480 On its face, this is a good video because in the wake of the Lindsay Clancy trial, this mother did not murder her kid.

00:28:04.240 So she's really good.

00:28:05.420 That's the whole thesis of the video is I'm a really good mom.

00:28:08.720 My kid spilled my coffee and I didn't murder her.

00:28:12.280 So I'm a really good mom.

00:28:13.160 And not only did I not murder her, I didn't yell at her.

00:28:17.300 I didn't hit her.

00:28:20.480 I didn't, I regulated myself.

00:28:24.420 I, and my daughter learned this and she's learning much better than I did because I had terrible parents and I hate you, dad.

00:28:30.720 Hate you, dad.

00:28:31.620 That's, which is what all of liberalism boils down to.

00:28:34.020 And look at what a good mom I am because I didn't kill my kid.

00:28:38.380 Do you see the first thing wrong with this?

00:28:40.560 The first thing wrong is that she's filming her kid.

00:28:45.720 Why is the camera on?

00:28:47.520 Why is the camera watching this scene?

00:28:50.920 Did she just set her kid up to make a mistake so that she could do a performance for social media of how she didn't hit her kid or something?

00:29:02.640 Was it all a setup?

00:29:04.040 Let's say it wasn't all a setup.

00:29:05.340 Let's say this woman is just a millennial white lady and she just films herself all the time.

00:29:11.740 A lot of red flags there.

00:29:12.960 Let's say – and it happened to catch the daughter committing this heinous crime of spilling the coffee.

00:29:19.960 Why is she filming her kid?

00:29:22.180 I have a – I'd like to have an intervention with all of the women of all the different races and all the different ages but definitely among the millennials where this seems to be a big problem.

00:29:33.280 Stop filming your kids.

00:29:35.180 Stop – stop it.

00:29:36.560 Stop filming your kids.

00:29:38.720 Stop taking pictures of your kids and then posting them to social media.

00:29:41.840 it is, I would say, wrong statistically 100% of the time to post photos of your kids to social

00:29:50.720 media, period. We'll get to what she did in a second. Posting pictures to a public forum of

00:29:56.460 your little kids is wrong. Sorry to be so judgy today. I don't know. Maybe I woke up on the wrong

00:30:01.560 side of the bed. That is wrong. Don't do that. You should care more about the privacy of your child

00:30:07.760 than you care about getting the updutes from some weirdos on social media.

00:30:11.820 There are a lot of weirdos.

00:30:13.480 You know, there are a lot of people who are sick freaks and perverts

00:30:17.140 who are going to be looking at pictures of your kid.

00:30:20.460 Why would you give them that opportunity?

00:30:23.300 That's a crazy thing to do.

00:30:24.540 I'll tell you why she gave them the opportunity.

00:30:26.020 Because she wanted to be a movie star in a narrative about her heroism

00:30:31.700 in her role as a mother.

00:30:33.740 so she is manipulating this daughter she's she's casting this daughter as the unwitting participant

00:30:43.560 in this movie about what a good mom this lady is she's manipulating the girl's emotions

00:30:50.380 all to get likes and updutes from some friends i guess and ultimately strangers on the internet

00:30:59.460 It's just so disordered.

00:31:04.260 This is a woman who is mortgaging trust with her kid to get the adulation of anonymous crowds.

00:31:11.360 This is a woman who is trading the high good of what would benefit her daughter for the very low good of applause from the mob.

00:31:22.200 this is like like all vice i guess really just about uh trading higher goods for lower goods

00:31:31.320 that's really what this is about even vice is not entirely just about bad things when a guy goes to

00:31:39.380 a hooker and we'll get to that story in a second because the owner of the 49ers just got caught

00:31:42.620 with a hooker in a trailer park when a guy goes to a hooker there's a lot of vice involved in

00:31:46.680 a lot of addiction and commoditizing of human life and instrumentalizing human life and all

00:31:52.500 the rest. But there is at least some kind of kernel of good there, which is the desire to love,

00:31:59.780 albeit in this very perverse way. The desire to connect to another human being, albeit in this

00:32:04.120 perverse way. There is something there. And it's not that there's no good instinct. It's just,

00:32:09.020 it's perverted and it's made decadent and vicious. Well, same thing here. Yes,

00:32:16.320 it's good to have the love of a community, but the love of your daughter is more important than

00:32:23.460 the love of a stranger. And to manipulate your daughter in this way, we always talk about

00:32:28.480 stage moms, you know, or these, the poor Hollywood kids whose parents trot them around like circus

00:32:35.840 animals and make a lot of money on them, usually steal their money. You feel really bad for the

00:32:40.280 kids. Now every mother with a cell phone is, is a Hollywood stage mom because they're all,

00:32:46.720 they're using their kids for content. So anyway, after I'll get off this soapbox,

00:32:51.300 I was on a previous soapbox. Now I'm on this one. Uh, if your wife is doing this,

00:32:57.580 you need to confiscate her phone. And if you're for the ladies out there who are watching and

00:33:01.200 listening, if you were doing this, a lot of people are tempted to do this. Oh, my kid looks so cute.

00:33:04.980 That is like a good, that is a good inclination that is just being used for a bad purpose.

00:33:10.620 You say, my kid is really cute and I want to share this with the world.

00:33:13.620 And maybe it'll show what a good mom I am and maybe it'll show what a luxurious life I lead.

00:33:17.160 You know, it's like when millennials were younger and they just took pictures of their food at a nice restaurant.

00:33:21.600 You do that and you say, oh, actually, but that's not a good idea because I should protect my kid's privacy.

00:33:25.960 I should protect their safety.

00:33:27.180 They didn't ask to be famous.

00:33:28.360 They didn't, maybe this is an embarrassing moment for them.

00:33:31.840 Maybe I'm not, don't do that.

00:33:33.720 Don't do that.

00:33:34.300 stop doing that. Also, if you're a woman or a man, but it's mostly women, you're just constantly

00:33:42.400 posting selfies of yours. That's a bad sign. What are you doing that for? Whose attention do you

00:33:49.280 want? And for what purpose? Really, really bad. Just a totally, totally disordered loves.

00:33:57.680 if Sharia law bans this, if Sharia law bans mothers filming their kids in emotionally

00:34:05.060 manipulative situations, I'm going to vote for Abdul. Abdul has my vote. Okay. Now, speaking of

00:34:10.600 cultural tension, a French conservative politician, Eric Zemmour, is going viral for telling a migrant

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00:36:01.040 Okay, Eric Zemmour, we turn from Germany to France.

00:36:04.740 He's asked by, I guess, a migrant woman if, in his vision for France, people like her will be able to come and seek a better life.

00:36:17.180 The answer is no.

00:36:28.400 And then actually, Zemmour reposts this.

00:36:31.400 I don't know when this exchange took place, but he just posted it yesterday.

00:36:34.320 He responds and he reiterates in text.

00:36:36.500 He goes, the answer is no.

00:36:39.360 This calls to mind the answer of Pope Francis

00:36:41.840 when that female journalist asked him if women can ever become priests.

00:36:46.720 And Pope Francis had a reputation as pretty liberal, pretty progressive, comes from Latin

00:36:52.360 America, is Jesuit.

00:36:54.200 And so probably the female journalist thought there was a good shot he'd say yes.

00:36:57.580 And he just looks at her, takes a beat.

00:36:59.700 And no, and no, no female priests.

00:37:02.800 No, sorry.

00:37:04.500 Can people like me come here to seek a better life?

00:37:07.200 Zemmour says no.

00:37:09.960 This seems harsh.

00:37:10.920 This will seem harsh even to many conservatives who say, well, no, how could you say that

00:37:14.340 to a person?

00:37:14.860 and they don't have a right to come here for a better life.

00:37:18.280 Zemmour is a very serious French politician.

00:37:20.200 He didn't win.

00:37:20.960 He ran for president in 2022.

00:37:22.580 He didn't come in first or second.

00:37:24.600 But he is the head of a French political party.

00:37:26.760 He's an important voice in France.

00:37:29.120 And his answer is totally right.

00:37:30.780 And here's why it's right.

00:37:31.840 Even if you don't literally believe that a nation should be totally closed off

00:37:37.280 to anyone coming to it to seek a better life,

00:37:40.820 right now the norm is migration.

00:37:44.020 Right now, the norm is open borders.

00:37:47.200 The exception is deportation.

00:37:49.740 Even when you get a popularly elected president with unified government who was elected on a program of mass deportation, even under those circumstances, in the United States at least, you can have one random federal district judge out of 700 put a halt to that program.

00:38:06.140 It's so hard.

00:38:07.260 It's hard to deport the violent criminal illegal aliens.

00:38:11.480 It's hard to deport the Haitians here on temporary protection that expired 14 years ago.

00:38:18.280 It's so, so hard to deport anybody.

00:38:22.040 And so obviously what we have to establish is the reverse of that situation.

00:38:27.200 The norm has to be closed border.

00:38:30.860 The norm has to be no migration.

00:38:33.440 The norm has to be if you are here illegally or even if you're here legally but you commit a crime,

00:38:38.580 you are deported like 37 seconds later.

00:38:41.880 That has to be the norm.

00:38:44.280 Even if you want, especially if you want a situation

00:38:46.700 where an exceptional case can come through.

00:38:49.800 If you want that situation, you have to establish the norm of no.

00:38:53.220 So it might seem harsh when Zemmour says, no, sorry.

00:38:56.960 But it's refreshing, I think, for a lot of people

00:38:58.740 who see the situation with political clarity.

00:39:01.160 And it underscores how difficult the immigration issue is.

00:39:04.680 Even as we realize we have the highest foreign-born percentage

00:39:07.120 of the population ever the the very best of many of these immigrant communities are criminals like

00:39:12.980 we talked about yesterday in minnesota the guy who won the like somali refugee of the year award

00:39:18.040 from a minnesota agency was a major fraudster he was just indicted on like eight felonies

00:39:23.880 and maybe a sex trafficking ring so it's just the the whole system is full of such corruption

00:39:30.260 that you have to say, no, no, nobody gets in. And maybe, just maybe, there will be some exception

00:39:38.160 based upon whoever happens to be the political ruler at the time, based upon the sovereign,

00:39:45.160 I suppose. Okay, before we go, there is a story I have to get to, speaking of men and women.

00:39:51.200 The owner of the San Francisco 49ers is a very wealthy guy. He's worth about half a billion

00:39:56.300 dollars. He's run the 49ers for a long time. He owns the 49ers. He just got caught going to see

00:40:03.400 a hooker in a trailer park in Ohio. The details are he didn't even really contest it.

00:40:11.260 He literally didn't contest it. He pled no contest. Now, he didn't plead no contest to

00:40:16.620 doing whatever with a hooker. He pled no contest to lesser charges of disorderly conduct

00:40:21.080 and possession of criminal tools because he had his phone on him, and I guess he had arranged

00:40:25.740 this hooker encounter on the cell phone. And then the disorderly conduct was pleading down

00:40:32.800 this charge of prostitution. According to the report, he, quote, responded to an ad on a known

00:40:40.180 prostitution website in Columbiana County, Ohio, and arranged to have sexual activity with a female

00:40:46.740 in exchange for 140 bucks. Now, just a slight digression. We've had a lot of discourse on

00:40:52.460 affordability. You know, the Democrats have made a big deal about affordability in the midterms.

00:40:57.200 We're talking about the price of burritos. $140 seems pretty cheap. I don't know. I don't know

00:41:03.280 the going rate for prostitution, period. And I certainly don't know the going rate in a trailer

00:41:08.360 park in Ohio. But that, for, I don't know the specificity of the acts, that seems like a pretty

00:41:13.920 reasonable price for vice and crime. Anyway, we'll sidebar that. Much as it does not behoove

00:41:21.820 leftist politicians to bring up circumcision when they're talking about genital mutilation.

00:41:27.020 Probably it doesn't behoove anyone to bring up hookers when it comes to affordability.

00:41:30.380 Nevertheless, he admits he did this. The guy, the owner of the 49ers, goes to the meeting location

00:41:36.560 in East Palestine, Ohio, which was the site of that terrible spill, remember, a few years ago.

00:41:43.000 Then he was taken into custody and he had a cell phone, so they caught him. Okay. What everyone

00:41:47.500 thinks right off the bat is why would he do that? Why would he do that? He's the man who has

00:41:55.120 everything. He's rich. He is successful. He's kind of famous. That is the last thing that a

00:42:04.360 rich, successful, kind of famous guy should be doing. He has everything, but he doesn't have a

00:42:09.760 hooker in a trailer park in Ohio. The question that they ask is who in his shoes would do that?

00:42:16.700 and the answer the very uncomfortable answer that we should all recognize is basically everyone

00:42:22.520 under the right circumstances that's who drew has this great line that he's used for years

00:42:29.380 which is that every man is two drinks and a wink away from ruining his life the the other uh great

00:42:34.800 drew line on this as he tells this joke about the guy who wants to have an orange for a head

00:42:37.980 i won't i won't recite the entire joke but the point is about the absurdity and depravity of

00:42:43.380 human desire. Under the right circumstances, every single guy would go visit a hooker in a

00:42:51.640 trailer park in Ohio, even though that seems like basically the grossest thing you could possibly do.

00:42:55.700 And it's so reckless and you'd be giving away. So this guy's married, you know, I think he's got

00:43:00.560 kids. This is going to ruin all their lives. And yet people do it. Remember Hugh Grant got caught

00:43:06.760 with a hooker. Hugh Grant, at the height of his fame, darling of romantic comedies, gets caught

00:43:12.320 with some hooker in a car.

00:43:14.800 And apparently he got caught

00:43:16.060 because he was pushing the brake too much

00:43:17.500 and the cops saw the lights going on and off.

00:43:19.420 Just the stupidest behavior.

00:43:21.180 Gets to something we were talking about

00:43:22.120 on the show yesterday,

00:43:22.880 which is that sin darkens the intellect.

00:43:25.100 It dulls the mind.

00:43:26.560 St. Thomas' observation

00:43:27.680 that there's no such thing as a smart sinner.

00:43:30.180 The more you sin, the dumber you get.

00:43:31.780 And so the political takeaway from,

00:43:34.040 I haven't even said this guy's name

00:43:35.320 because I really feel bad for this guy

00:43:37.080 that he ruined his life this way.

00:43:39.600 You can look it up.

00:43:40.400 I mean, it's a pretty big news story.

00:43:41.400 But I just use him as an example because it gives us the political principle that if we're all like kind of depraved and we all have these disordered desires, some more than others, some differently than others, but we all got him to some degree, then the way to avoid his fate is to stop the vice before it sets in.

00:44:04.700 That's the real issue.

00:44:05.720 I promise you that this guy looks at a ton of pornography.

00:44:09.040 I promise you that this guy does not have the most robust religious life.

00:44:15.020 Not even to sound holier than thou or super pious or anything.

00:44:18.360 But at a very basic level, religious discipline, generally speaking, keeps you a few steps away from this.

00:44:25.820 For a guy who never looks at any porn, controls his thoughts, averts his eyes when a woman is immodest.

00:44:32.840 A guy who recognizes that idle hands are the devil's playground and he's going to daily mass.

00:44:37.620 For a guy who's doing all of these things, it's not that he could never end up in a trailer park in Ohio with a hooker, but the odds are much, much lower than they are for the guy who drinks a lot, who doesn't sleep very well, who rarely sees his family, who doesn't take his moral views very seriously, who doesn't ask God for grace, who – all of those things are going to make it much, much more likely that you're going to engage in that.

00:45:01.880 And so then the final point on this is there's obviously a role for the church here.

00:45:08.540 There's a role in the community and impelling people to go to church and take their family lives seriously.

00:45:14.220 But there's also a role for the government.

00:45:18.440 If the government had shut down the hooker websites, this guy would not have found this hooker who was actually a cop.

00:45:25.520 if we clamped down, if not outright outlawed, but clamped down a little bit on things like

00:45:32.340 prostitution, that would not exist. If, I think most importantly in this case,

00:45:38.580 if we regulated pornography so that guys weren't engaging in this stuff, in these temptations in

00:45:45.640 the first place, if we did all of that, the 49ers guy's life would be much better.

00:45:51.320 His wife's life would be better.

00:45:53.340 His kid's life would be better.

00:45:55.260 The trailer park would be better.

00:45:57.300 The whole political community would be better.

00:46:00.360 And the only two forces that are stopping us from doing that are the left on the one hand, which supports all manner of vice, especially sexual vice.

00:46:10.080 And the squishy right, which says that, you know, as long as he's not hurting anybody and he's not, you know, making me pay for it, he can go visit any hookers in any trailer parks he wants.

00:46:19.260 you know, the kind of laissez-faire, neutral, liberal view. But then we can't act surprised

00:46:25.980 when this happens. And by the way, if you have a country filled with people who are going to

00:46:30.060 hookers in trailer parks in Ohio, you're going to have a bad country because those people do not

00:46:36.920 possess the wisdom, they do not possess the clarity of vision, and they don't possess the

00:46:42.100 moral discipline to have self-government. That is almost explicitly the warning of our founding

00:46:47.680 fathers and the framers of our constitution pity for that guy so we should pray for him you know

00:46:51.780 everybody involved his whole family and everything but we should also do something about it politically

00:46:55.460 okay so much more i want to get to but i don't have time so i will be back you can see here i

00:47:00.140 want to thank my friends at the conservative partnership institute for uh hosting me here

00:47:03.600 i was in dc for an event but i'll be back in studio tomorrow in the meantime i'm michael

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Ep. 2046 - Abdul El-Sayed： Trans Surgery Is The Same As Circumcision

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