The Michael Knowles Show - September 29, 2026


Ep. 2070 - Republican Campaign Ad Brutalizes Lazy White Men

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Republican campaign ad
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Sarah Sanders Brad Ken Paxton James Tallarico John C.S. Lewis Abdullah Jonathan Pajot Cameron Nanheim Barry Goldwater Team Tallarico Beto O'Rourke Aaron Walton Charlie Kirk Colin Allred Mike Johnson Peter Thiel Susie Wiles Pure Talk Ted Cruz and 5 more
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00:01:43 up to $500,000 at cardiff.co slash Knowles. A Republican campaign ad portrays young white men
00:01:51 as lazy welfare queens. That should bring back the disaffected fellas, huh? The ones that the 1.00
00:01:56 party is emerging. Then, speaking of young people, queer and trans identity is plummeting
00:02:02 among young adults, which is pretty strange for a supposedly innate and immutable characteristic. 0.93
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00:02:18 This is just the beginning. I'm Michael Knowles. This is The Michael Knowles Show.
00:02:26 so welcome back to the show are you the only person on the internet who has not yet seen 1.00
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00:03:06 run hide fight infidels today speaking of things that you watch on screens i don't know it's kind
00:03:13 of a weak transition i don't i'll work i'll do i'll do better next time there is a republican 0.97
00:03:18 campaign ad that has taken over the internet not necessarily for the right reasons it's a campaign
00:03:25 ad coming out of Arkansas. It's from Sarah Sanders, the governor there, whom I like very,
00:03:30 very much. And I feel that she is personally being dragged a little bit unfairly for this.
00:03:34 But the campaign ad as such is driving people crazy. It's an ad against people abusing the
00:03:41 welfare system, which is all good. Republicans, centrists, independents, disillusioned liberals
00:03:47 should all agree with the message. The issue with the ad that is driving people crazy is that the
00:03:52 supposed welfare abuser here is a young white man. Yeah. Oh, you want some of this? Come on. 0.68
00:04:01 Me, Brad. Brad has turned relaxing into a full-time profession. But you, you actually
00:04:08 work hard. You pay taxes to cover welfare for guys like Brad who just choose not to work.
00:04:15 That's why I launched a welfare to work requirement. Almost there. Now, more Arkansans
00:04:22 are working than ever before, even Brad. Okay. All right. So it's the problem is the Brad's
00:04:32 according to the campaign ad. However, we all know that the problem with welfare abuse is not
00:04:38 the Brad's. It's the Abdullah's. If you look in places like Minnesota and Ohio, it's the Shaniqua's. 0.98
00:04:45 I don't think you can get away with doing an ad about the Shaniqua's. It's the, but it's not 1.00
00:04:49 Generally, the brads. We have the numbers to back this up. The population of Arkansas
00:04:53 is 68 to 70 percent white. The black population is about 15 percent. Latino population,
00:05:02 eight or nine percent. Then you have Asian, American Indian, Pacific Islander. They make
00:05:09 up the very small number of the rest of the people. So that's the just demographic of Arkansas.
00:05:14 So compare that to welfare use.
00:05:17 Let's just look at SNAP benefits because that's the biggest one other than Medicaid,
00:05:20 but the Medicaid numbers are almost exactly the same.
00:05:23 You got 70% of the population is white, but only 57.8% of the welfare users are white.
00:05:32 You've got 15% of the population is black, a little under 21% of the welfare users are black.
00:05:39 So black people are disproportionately likely to use the welfare programs.
00:05:43 You've got 8% or 9% of the population is Hispanic.
00:05:47 Almost 11% of the welfare users are Hispanic.
00:05:50 So disproportionately, the welfare users are Hispanic.
00:05:53 Then multiple races, Asian, so on and so forth.
00:05:56 When you look at Medicaid, the numbers are basically the same.
00:06:00 Fewer black people use Medicaid.
00:06:02 More Hispanic people use Medicaid.
00:06:04 But the white percentage is roughly the same. 0.71
00:06:09 Okay, so why, if you have this one group, 0.80
00:06:12 oh, by the way, we didn't even get into sex. Women are more likely to use the welfare programs 1.00
00:06:16 than men are. So why, in this ad, you are identifying as the great culprit of welfare 0.82
00:06:22 abuse, the single demographic least likely to abuse welfare. Why would you do that?
00:06:32 What's interesting about this to me is not that Sarah Sanders made this choice. She's being dragged
00:06:38 for this personally, I don't think that's fair because I think Sarah Sanders is looking at the
00:06:43 reality of language and signs and symbols. And the reality of signs and symbols and language
00:06:50 in our democracy is the most interesting thing about this ad. Because everybody looking at the
00:06:57 Brad ad knows that Brad is not the guy who abuses welfare. Everybody, the white people, the black
00:07:03 people, the Hispanic people, the men, the women, the Republicans, the Democrats. Literally every
00:07:10 group knows that the presentation of welfare abuse in this ad is dishonest. People who want
00:07:18 more welfare, people who want less welfare, everybody knows it is not young white guys
00:07:23 who are abusing the welfare system. And yet, everybody also agrees that the only way
00:07:31 in mainstream politics that you can make an ad going after welfare is by targeting young white
00:07:38 men. Why is that? Because it is simply a fact of our politics that the only group that you are
00:07:44 allowed to, legally allowed to, and culturally encouraged to discriminate against is young
00:07:51 white men. That's the group. You are not allowed to do it. Culturally speaking, you are not allowed 0.74
00:07:57 to criticize anyone other than white men, even white women. A little bit, you can call them 0.64
00:08:02 Karens every now and again, but generally, it's the white men. And then as a matter of the law, 0.54
00:08:08 you're allowed to legally discriminate against men. You're allowed to legally discriminate
00:08:12 against white people. You're allowed to some degree to legally discriminate against Asian 0.76
00:08:16 people. The Supreme Court undermined this a little bit in the Students for Fair Admissions
00:08:20 decision at the Supreme Court, but the schools got around it anyway. Otherwise, you're allowed
00:08:26 to discriminate in favor of black people, in favor of Hispanic people, in favor of women when
00:08:32 it comes to school admissions and jobs, but you're not allowed to discriminate against them.
00:08:37 So to me, the most interesting thing about the ad is the fact that it is dishonest.
00:08:46 We all know it is dishonest, and yet we all know that the Republicans, in order to run an ad on
00:08:54 welfare had to do this. The purpose of a sign, getting into semiotics and getting into how
00:09:02 language works, the purpose of a sign is to point to something that is signified, right? That's how
00:09:09 meaning works. And what's so interesting here is this sign is pointing to something that is
00:09:17 contrary to what the sign looks like. And we all know this. In a way, it's kind of like a double
00:09:22 sign. The lazy young white man here is really pointing to immigrant groups and racial minorities 0.98
00:09:29 and the opposite sex. And that is pointing to the meaning that we're supposed to take away 0.98
00:09:34 from this, which is that some people are abusing the welfare system. But we're not allowed to use
00:09:39 the honest sign. In a modest defense of Sarah Sanders here, again, I'm not saying if I were
00:09:46 the Republican consultant, I probably wouldn't have run this ad. But a modest defense of Sarah
00:09:50 Sanders here. Sarah is running for re-election. The race is relatively tight for Arkansas. Right 0.86
00:09:56 now, Sarah's at 45%. The Democrats at 40%. So nobody's over 50. This is kind of a close race
00:10:02 for a red state. That's a little bit worrisome. So she can't be getting too crazy. And if she
00:10:08 made the ad saying, you know, all these Shaniquas, all these Abdullah's are abusing the welfare 1.00
00:10:12 system and we got to kick them off. The whole race would become about how racist Sarah Sanders is. 0.99
00:10:17 it would give an advantage to her black opponent. The polls might tighten. Who knows? The Democrat 1.00
00:10:23 might even overtake her in the polls. So if the point of the ad is to win the election,
00:10:27 she can't make that ad. But she still wants to run an ad about welfare abuse. So she's going to
00:10:32 make it about a young white guy, young white guys who don't abuse welfare. This is an indictment,
00:10:38 not of Sarah Sanders, not of the Republican Party, exactly. It's an indictment of our system.
00:10:46 I think it was Peter Thiel made a very good point once.
00:10:48 He said, you know, there's this weird contradiction in our politics right now
00:10:52 where we're a democracy, so everybody gets to vote.
00:10:56 We will defend to the death the right of every single,
00:10:59 the sacred right of every person to vote,
00:11:01 to voice their opinion at the ballot box.
00:11:04 Also, no one's allowed to say their opinion in public.
00:11:07 You could be canceled.
00:11:09 You could be destroyed.
00:11:10 You'll lose your career.
00:11:11 Forget about your career in politics.
00:11:12 You'll lose your spot at a university.
00:11:14 you'll get fired from your job, you'll be ostracized from your community if you state
00:11:19 your opinion, even if the opinion happens to be true, if that opinion contradicts wokeness
00:11:24 and the politically correct. The indictment here is the ad is intended to communicate a truth
00:11:32 that resonates with voters. And the ad is doing it. But in order for the ad to do it
00:11:38 in our oppressive totalitarian republic,
00:11:42 it has to do so in dishonest ways
00:11:45 that we all know are dishonest.
00:11:48 But is anybody really shocked or surprised by this?
00:11:50 Some people are saying this is outrageous
00:11:51 and politically it's a bad idea
00:11:54 for the Sanders campaign to go after their base.
00:11:57 And okay, maybe that's true.
00:11:58 I don't think she's going to lose a lot of votes for this,
00:12:00 but whatever you want to say about that,
00:12:04 we all acknowledge that that is the political reality.
00:12:08 So if you don't like that political reality, you're going to have to change a few more things
00:12:12 than Republican campaigns, than a few TV ads. You're going to have to change the system of
00:12:18 legal discrimination that we have against white men. You're going to have to change the cultural
00:12:22 standards and norms and mores, which say that there's this one group that you can vilify and
00:12:28 that you're encouraged to vilify, and you have to blame every problem in the world on this one group.
00:12:32 But you can never hold any other groups accountable for any of their actions.
00:12:36 those are those are deep structural changes in our culture enacted and embodied by our
00:12:43 elite institutions and even uh enshrined in our law the sanders campaign is just acknowledging
00:12:51 that reality that's a that's a deeper problem and it's a problem by the way that's going on
00:12:56 a lot longer than sarah sanders has been governor running running for office been around a lot
00:13:01 longer than she's been alive. It's a reminder that we are living in a fundamentally dishonest
00:13:08 culture. And the left wants to encourage that because the left believes that the way that you
00:13:12 get to a happy society is by lying all the time. You lie and you pretend that the man who thinks
00:13:17 that he's a woman is really a woman. You lie. You say, oh, there are certain problems and
00:13:22 pathologies, especially in minority and immigrant communities. Well, let's just deny that. If we 1.00
00:13:27 just deny that, the problems will get better. Now, of course, that doesn't work. Denying a
00:13:31 problem doesn't make a problem better. It makes the problem fester. Affirming the delusions of
00:13:37 a man who thinks that he's a woman, it doesn't make the problem better. It makes the problem a
00:13:40 lot worse, and anxiety goes up, and depression goes up, and suicidality goes up. But that's what
00:13:45 the left is telling you, and the left dominates the culture. The left, the Democratic Party in
00:13:50 particular, is the establishment party and has been for a very, very long time. The Republicans
00:13:56 are the junior partner in the American polity. They're a little more the anti-establishment
00:14:00 party. It's true. We have basically unified government right now. And yet the culture
00:14:04 is still so predominantly left-wing and liberal. What does that tell you? It tells you that the
00:14:09 politics is about more than just who happens to control the House of Representatives.
00:14:14 That's the reality of it. You can be angry. You can tell Sarah Sanders to fire her campaign
00:14:19 consultants. Maybe she should, maybe not. But that's the reality we're living in. 1.00
00:14:24 and if you want to change those circumstances, you better get to work. Okay, speaking of young
00:14:28 men, an actress at the Human Rights Campaign has just come out and expressed her disappointment
00:14:35 that her son, who she tried to make gay, turned out straight. Every mother's nightmare. We'll get
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00:15:50 that is takelean.com promo code Knowles. Actress Cameron Nanheim. I don't know her. She's been in
00:15:58 a lot of TV shows and movies and things, I guess. Wikipedia tells me. I'm a little out of the
00:16:03 culture, and I certainly don't make a habit of watching the Human Rights Campaign Awards. This
00:16:07 is another, oh, what a great example of lies in our language. The Human Rights Campaign. Do you
00:16:12 know what that is? That's the one that expresses itself. It uses the sign, the symbol of the equals
00:16:18 sign. You might have seen little bumper stickers with the equal sign. And the human rights
00:16:22 campaign is not about, I don't know, freeing political prisoners in China. The human rights
00:16:30 campaign is not about stopping the Christian genocide in Nigeria. The human rights campaign
00:16:35 isn't even about feeding starving people in Africa. The human rights campaign was created
00:16:41 to redefine marriage. That's all it did. And then when the Supreme Court came in and 0.93
00:16:47 fundamentally redefined marriage, or at least attempted to, the human rights campaign pivoted
00:16:52 overnight. And now the human rights campaign exists for the sole purpose of castrating
00:16:56 confused people and making them look a little more like the opposite sex. Human rights, 0.98
00:17:01 that's human rights. Is that when 30, 40 years ago, when people showed up to the United Nations
00:17:07 to give speeches on human rights, were they talking about castrating little kids? I don't
00:17:11 think so. They may have been talking about it, but only to stop it. We need to stop female
00:17:15 genital mutilation in Africa or the Middle East. No, no, no, no. Human rights campaign doing the 0.76
00:17:20 exact opposite of what the name would suggest that it does. So this lady shows up and here 1.00
00:17:26 is her disappointment in her straight child. I always wanted a gay son. I did. I love that 1.00
00:17:36 relationship between gay sons and their mothers. I want to be the picket sign holding mom who would 0.99
00:17:42 beat the s**t out of somebody for her kid. I mean, let's just admit it. Gay sons are the best, right? 0.74
00:17:49 Right? I have photographs of my son in high heels, in full drag. He knows every word to every musical 1.00
00:17:59 ever written. His fairy godfather, Aaron Walton, is here with us tonight. I mean, truly, I thought
00:18:07 i had this locked up but no no he's the only straight guy in his entire musical theater company
00:18:18 so when marcia called me about 10 years ago from her closet i kid you not she was in her closet
00:18:26 to tell me that her son had come out to her as gay all i said was oh my god you are so lucky 0.85
00:18:34 so first takeaway actresses really are always crazy they're always basically without exception 0.97
00:18:43 totally crazy that's the first takeaway the the second takeaway though politically is that 0.56
00:18:50 the left always has to go too far because the left rejects moderation and prudence
00:18:59 just right off the bat. So moderation can be a virtue, not in the sense of like some squishy
00:19:06 rhino Republican, but moderation is the true via media between two extremes. That has been
00:19:11 understood since antiquity as one of the characteristics of virtue, that it establishes
00:19:18 a balance between two vicious extremes. And the left rejects that right off the bat.
00:19:24 liberalism tends to reject that right off the bat you even see this on the libertarian right
00:19:30 when barry goldwater comes out he says you know extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice
00:19:35 and it's a very famous speech but that's not exactly true one we have to properly understand
00:19:41 what liberty is we want to defend liberty but we don't want to become terrorists about it we don't
00:19:44 want to be a nation of john browns murdering innocent families because of your own conception 0.96
00:19:49 of liberty. But this is just part of liberalism. This is just part of leftism, is it always has to 0.99
00:19:54 go too far. I listen to this lady speak, and I think, okay, let's see two extremes here.
00:19:59 One extreme, which you can see in Run, Hide, Fight Infidels at dailywire.com slash subscribe,
00:20:03 is when the jihadis show up, and some guy looks a little fruity, and they kick him off a rooftop. 0.60
00:20:09 That's probably a little extreme, I would have to say, right? I don't think even your most right-wing,
00:20:14 hardcore extremist revanchist reactionary i don't i don't think that guy really wants 0.96
00:20:21 jihadis just walking around kicking homosexuals off the rooftop right so that's one extreme 1.00
00:20:27 but then i think the other extreme is you put your little son in drag and just pray to the god you 0.99
00:20:34 don't believe in that he turns into a queer right i don't that's a little much too can't there be 0.62
00:20:40 some kind of via media here where we say, well, look, the human person has a final cause, has a 0.60
00:20:47 telos, has a purpose. There are things we're supposed to do and things we're not supposed to
00:20:51 do. And human sexuality is for procreation. And so men are made for women in some way. Women are 0.97
00:20:59 made for men. This desire that men have for women is best understood as for the institution of 1.00
00:21:07 marriage, not just going around and going a whoring, but, you know, for monogamy, for this 0.61
00:21:13 partnership. And then the sexual act is ordered toward, it is for the procreation and the education 0.58
00:21:19 of children, which means that the marriage is for life. It's supposed to be a lifelong union
00:21:25 to provide that stability to raise the child. And we can know these things using our reason,
00:21:31 understanding how human nature works. And sometimes people deviate from that a little bit.
00:21:35 and sometimes not everybody gets married
00:21:37 and sometimes, you know, couples are infertile
00:21:39 and sometimes people are a little bit weird
00:21:42 on their sexuality
00:21:42 and sometimes they can correct it a little bit
00:21:45 sometimes they really struggle with it
00:21:48 and so maybe they're going to live
00:21:49 in a celibate way
00:21:51 or they're going to try to be chaste
00:21:52 and sometimes they're going to screw up
00:21:54 and maybe we don't kick them off the roof for it
00:21:56 maybe we just kind of, you know, go along
00:21:59 and we understand the norms
00:22:01 and the standards of society
00:22:02 and we also recognize, to borrow an image
00:22:05 from Jonathan Peugeot that medieval manuscripts have weird stuff along the edges. And there are
00:22:09 weird little gargoyles and things along the edges of those manuscripts. But at the very least,
00:22:13 we're not going to put them at the center of the manuscript. We're not going to put the gargoyles,
00:22:17 which line the outside edges of the cathedral, we're not going to put them in the center at
00:22:21 the altar. And how about that? Can we just be normal? Can we just be normal? That's what you
00:22:28 want to say listening to someone like this. And the conclusion you must draw is that the left says
00:22:36 no. No. This is why all of their radical activism on every front, but especially on sexuality,
00:22:45 because sexuality is very, very important to human nature, especially on this, they will never just
00:22:51 let you be cool. They'll never just let you be a little bit tolerant. They'll never just let you
00:22:58 be kind of normal and sometimes look the other way and not, you know, sometimes go a little,
00:23:03 they'll never let you do that. They have to go to the extreme. There is no via media. There is
00:23:09 no moderation. There is no prudence. They're going to trans your kid. They're going to try
00:23:13 to turn their own children gay. They're going to put them in drag. They're going to demand, 1.00
00:23:20 not just that we have a norm and allow for exceptions. They're going to try to invert
00:23:28 the norm. It's not just that, look, it's good to be normal when it comes to sexuality,
00:23:35 but whatever, we'll let a few things slide. They're going to say, no, no, no. It is good
00:23:40 to be gay and trans and lesbian and pansexual and whatever, all the other sexualities. 0.92
00:23:45 it is good to be that it is bad to be straight it is bad you shouldn't want that's the thing 0.79
00:23:51 that we'll just have to maybe tolerate maybe but they have to do that and the kind of moderate
00:23:59 liberals on the right and the left who say well can't we just be neutral that's the other
00:24:05 alternative they'll say this was like 90s liberalism basically uh they'll say can't we
00:24:09 just be neutral you know if you're if you're straight or if you're gay there's no difference
00:24:13 between those things.
00:24:14 You social conservatives,
00:24:15 you're too harsh.
00:24:17 You can't say that it's normal
00:24:18 to be straight
00:24:20 and to get married
00:24:21 and to have kids.
00:24:21 No, no, no.
00:24:22 Nothing's normal.
00:24:23 Do whatever you want.
00:24:24 Let's just all be totally neutral.
00:24:26 There certainly is no neutrality
00:24:27 because all political communities
00:24:30 are ordered towards
00:24:31 some conception of the good.
00:24:32 So it's either going to be
00:24:33 the good version of the good
00:24:34 or it's going to be bad.
00:24:37 It's going to be the bad
00:24:38 that the left mistakenly
00:24:41 tells us is good.
00:24:42 But that's it.
00:24:43 and if you want that via media thing, then you need to have a firm standard, a firm understanding
00:24:50 of what is good, and in your mercy and magnanimity, perhaps you can allow for certain
00:24:55 exceptions, but that's it. Otherwise, you get in human rights campaign actress lady all the way
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00:26:47 Now, the most charitable read of the actress's speech at the Human Rights Campaign is that, 0.63
00:26:55 which is, we should just call it what it is, which is the radical trans lobby. 0.63
00:26:58 The most charitable read is that what she's saying is sexual orientation is immutable. 0.56
00:27:07 That could be the punchline of her joke. 0.87
00:27:10 That could be the thesis of her joke, I should say, which is she tried so hard to turn her kid gay, but she couldn't because straightness and gayness and transness and pansness and this-ism and that-ism, they're just innate. 0.77
00:27:26 they're immutable you are born this way and there's no changing it okay fair enough and 0.51
00:27:33 she's being hyperbolic in her language to prove that point the issue is there's a new study out
00:27:38 showing that that is not exactly true trans and queer identity are reportedly way way down among
00:27:47 young people do you remember two years ago three years ago you had nbc news all of these other
00:27:53 outlets reporting that LGBT identity was at 20% among Gen Z. Not the historic 2% or less. No,
00:28:04 no, no. It was an order of magnitude up. It was 20%. Then a year later, they come out. They say,
00:28:08 actually, it's 30%. 30% of Gen Z identifies as LGBT LMNOP. That poses a big problem for the
00:28:17 people who say that LGBT LMNOP identity is innate and immutable because it mutated. It changed.
00:28:25 It grew. So either something is in the water and the pregnant women were drinking the water and 0.83
00:28:32 in the womb, it turned their kids LGBT LMNOP, or there's a social contagion aspect, or it is 0.68
00:28:38 possible to develop these LGBT identities through whatever means, because their teacher was doing 0.96
00:28:43 it to them, because their crazy actress mother was putting them in drag because of pornography, 0.93
00:28:46 because of signs from the popular culture and advertising, 0.97
00:28:50 whatever, whatever it is, there must be some change.
00:28:54 What did the study find?
00:28:56 The transgender share among university students peaked in 2023,
00:29:01 no surprise there, and it's gone down since then.
00:29:04 But it hasn't just gone down by a little bit.
00:29:06 It's cut in half.
00:29:09 2023, that's a really interesting year to look at
00:29:11 because I think that was the year that I gave my CPAC speech 0.99
00:29:15 that I caught a lot of flack for, for saying that transgenderism must be eradicated from 0.95
00:29:19 public life entirely, the whole preposterous ideology at every level. So that was peak trans. 1.00
00:29:27 And then after that, in just three years since then, it's gone down by a lot. It's cut in half. 0.99
00:29:34 It was, 7% of university students in 2023 call themselves transgender. Today, it's less than
00:29:42 4%. So you're approaching almost half. The share of students identifying as not heterosexual
00:29:47 fell by around 10 points in that same period. So on the LGBTQ plus acronym, put aside the L and
00:29:56 the G for a second. The decline in BTQ plus identification, one, is pretty manifest. You can
00:30:04 see it's really collapsed. And according to the researchers, it does not appear to be connected
00:30:09 to lower social media use.
00:30:11 That's one of the point to,
00:30:12 okay, well, you know what? 0.91
00:30:13 Get off TikTok.
00:30:14 It's going to go down.
00:30:15 It does not appear to be connected
00:30:16 to religious revival.
00:30:18 There is a religious revival going on,
00:30:19 especially among young people.
00:30:20 You saw that in France
00:30:21 when the Pope was visiting.
00:30:22 You've seen this in the United States.
00:30:23 38% increase in baptisms year over year.
00:30:26 Massive increase in church attendance
00:30:28 and all the rest.
00:30:29 Doesn't appear to be connected to that.
00:30:31 It does not appear to be connected
00:30:32 to a shift to the political right
00:30:34 or the political left.
00:30:35 A lot of young people came over
00:30:36 to the right in 2024.
00:30:37 for yet a shift in about 10 percentage points. Susie Wiles credits that to Charlie Kirk. Now,
00:30:43 some of those young people are shifting way back to the left. Doesn't matter, though. It doesn't
00:30:47 correlate. There is evidence, however, that improved mental health has reduced the BTQ plus
00:30:55 identification. So, put the L and the G aside, which have declined by much more modest rates
00:31:01 than the btq plus what does this tell us it tells us what normal people have suspected for a long
00:31:07 time which is that there seems to be a more solid basis for gay same-sex attraction whether that is
00:31:17 genetic there's no evidence that's genetic but who knows i guess it's possible whether that's
00:31:21 because of exposure to hormones in the womb as has been theorized whether that's because of early
00:31:26 childhood experiences, whatever it is, that appears to be more persistent than the trans
00:31:34 identity, which seems a lot more socially contagious and socially influenced. And then
00:31:40 the Q, what is the Q? It's questioning, what is that? And the B, for that matter, bisexuality,
00:31:45 seems to be a little dubious. So this last line here, to me, is the one that really hammers at 0.68
00:31:51 home, especially on the trans issue. There is evidence that improved mental health is reduced
00:31:55 btq plus identification it really was as simple fixing the transgender issue really was as simple
00:32:04 as people in authority just telling the confused people that they're not trans that was it that's
00:32:13 it when i was four years old i wore a batman cape all around and i asked people to call me batman i
00:32:18 remember i went to my best friend's birthday party and i wanted everybody to call me batman and it
00:32:22 was a lot of fun. And, but at a certain point, it went a little too far in my way. They said,
00:32:25 hey, stop telling people to call you Batman. You're not Batman. And then I stopped thinking
00:32:30 I was Batman. And it is the, according to the study, at least the exact same mechanism worked
00:32:36 here. It turns out if you have a confused young person who goes to a shrink and says, hey, I think
00:32:42 I'm, hi, I'm John, but I think that I'm a woman. And the shrink says, well, you are. It turns out
00:32:50 that John is much more likely to think that he's a woman. And if that same kid shows up to the
00:32:55 shrink and says, hey, my name's John and I think I'm a woman. And the shrink says, oh, well,
00:32:59 you're obviously not because that's not possible. It turns out John is much, much less likely to
00:33:06 think that he's a woman. And then everything improves. It really was that simple. And I don't 0.99
00:33:11 want to single out the shrinks, even though they're an easy whipping boy for a lot of bad 1.00
00:33:16 ideology because psychology is a very dubious field, especially today with the replication
00:33:21 crisis. It's all of the authorities. It's the guidance counselors in the schools. It's the
00:33:26 teachers in the classroom. It's a lot of parents like that wacko actress who was dressing her son 0.96
00:33:30 in drag. It's popular culture. It's Hollywood. It's the government. And so the Biden administration 1.00
00:33:35 was actively pushing transgenderism on kids. And the findings of this study show that if the
00:33:44 authorities push trans on kids, you'll get more trans kids. And if the authorities stop pushing 0.98
00:33:49 trans on kids, you'll get fewer trans kids. And when people identify as trans, they're more likely 0.97
00:33:55 to be miserable. And when people stop identifying as trans, they're more likely to be happy. 1.00
00:34:00 That's the conclusion. It really was that simple. And the libs especially, 1.00
00:34:06 but a lot of people, they want to complicate everything. Oh, it's just so much more nuanced,
00:34:10 man and it's so much more detailed and you can't just eradicate an identity and an ideology and
00:34:15 you don't understand how complex but you know you know what sometimes things are really simple
00:34:21 just i remember i was on that jubilee show and i was talking to a guy who thought he was a woman
00:34:26 and he was you can go watch the episode and he said well how are you going to eradicate
00:34:30 transgenderism i said well probably we'll just start telling the guys that they're not women
00:34:33 and this guy looks at me like i had three heads he's you're oh you're just going to tell them
00:34:37 that they're not women? I said, yeah, pretty much, yeah. I think that'll do it. That was before the
00:34:41 study came out. Totally vindicated. Am I a scientist now? I have an honorary doctorate.
00:34:47 I don't have a real doctorate. Can I get an earned doctorate for this? This is really simple,
00:34:53 and it doesn't take a PhD or an MD to know that. Okay, speaking of young people,
00:34:59 absolutely horrifying story and totally predictable coming out of the Netherlands.
00:35:03 the latest consequence, the latest advance of assisted suicide called medical assistance
00:35:08 in dying or euthanasia, which was pushed on us because we were told very elderly people
00:35:13 in immense pain were just going to be able to choose to end their lives a few days early.
00:35:18 And then it became slightly younger people.
00:35:20 Then it became slightly less sick people.
00:35:22 Then it became just depressed or poor adults.
00:35:24 Now they are euthanizing, that is medically murdering, murdering with the sanction of
00:35:30 the medical community in the state, a two-year-old, because the two-year-old had a disability.
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00:36:50 my favorite comment yesterday uh certainly apropos of our topic today is from ian bob who says just
00:36:58 finished the speechless audiobook thank you michael quotes a lot of obscenities in that book and let
00:37:03 me tell you listening to michael spout cuss words is actually hilarious i highly recommend it 10 out
00:37:08 of 10 yeah i knew when i was recording it i knew if i ever run for office this is going to be like
00:37:12 obama doing the audiobook of his memoir where he talks about eating dog then we would go around
00:37:17 eat some dog we do a couple lines of cocaine and we and i i knew now this the book is not
00:37:21 autobiographical mine but in it i i'm writing about language and the changing of language
00:37:26 and euphemisms and specifically about obscenity so yeah a lot of naughty words that i say
00:37:30 i try not to do it too often but in a clinical environment i felt i had to
00:37:35 okay really horrifying story coming out of the netherlands here's a story a two-year-old child
00:37:42 has been euthanized. Euthanized, which is a euphemism that means the good death, but it's
00:37:49 the opposite of a good death. It's the worst death. It usually means suicide, but increasingly it means
00:37:54 murder. We heard that story last week of a woman who was euthanized against her will. It's not
00:37:59 possible to commit suicide against your will. She was murdered. Well, now you have a two-year-old
00:38:04 toddler who was just murdered by the medical establishment by the state. This is the first
00:38:09 known case of a non-infant under the age of 12 undergoing assisted death. Again, assisted death?
00:38:18 What do you mean? That doesn't make any sense at all. Every murder is an assisted death.
00:38:23 Every manslaughter is an assisted death. What are you talking about? That's not the first case.
00:38:28 This isn't the first time a toddler was murdered. What they're trying to say is assisted suicide,
00:38:34 but a two-year-old can't commit suicide. A two-year-old is below the age of reason,
00:38:39 So it's not possible for you to consent to that action.
00:38:41 You can't, just by definition, a two-year-old can't commit suicide.
00:38:45 And a two-year-old is not even a five-year-old or a six-year-old or a seven-year-old.
00:38:47 A two-year-old is really, really little.
00:38:49 And this two-year-old had a disability. 0.83
00:38:50 That's why they murdered him.
00:38:53 And they're trying to say it was an assisted death.
00:38:55 It's not the first case.
00:38:56 This is the first time in recent memory that a European state has murdered a two-year-old
00:39:04 because he had a disability.
00:39:06 not to not to get to the reductio ad hitlerum but i can think of another time when european states
00:39:14 were murdering two-year-olds because of disabilities and we we got rid of that for a
00:39:20 while now it's back in the netherlands under the guise of compassion so this is a child who was
00:39:25 born a little bit early child was born prematurely at 26 weeks but the child survived child made it
00:39:30 through the nicu but the the the toddler had had problems you know had some brain damage had
00:39:34 cerebral palsy, had some visual impairment, and some epileptic seizures. So, the docs and the
00:39:41 parents decided they were going to murder the kid. Now, you can live with brain damage. I have 0.59
00:39:48 friends who have brain damage, whether from a traumatic brain injury, a car accident, whatever.
00:39:52 You can live with cerebral palsy. I think a lot of us know people who have cerebral palsy.
00:39:57 Who knows? Now that abortion is so high and people abort those with disabilities in the womb,
00:40:03 Maybe younger people today don't know that many people with cerebral palsy,
00:40:06 but I certainly know people like that.
00:40:08 I know people who have visual impairment who are partially blind.
00:40:11 I think you can live with that.
00:40:13 I know people who have had seizures.
00:40:15 A buddy of mine has a daughter who is very, very seriously suffering from seizures,
00:40:19 much more seriously than this two-year-old.
00:40:21 And they had a procedure done that dramatically reduced the number of seizures.
00:40:25 And the girl is like 18 now.
00:40:27 the the sometimes the the baby or the toddler suffered from breathing issues
00:40:34 you know plenty of people who suffer from breathing issues they can live good lives
00:40:38 one of the conclusions here is that there were reasonable alternatives to murdering the toddler
00:40:44 yeah of course any alternative is more reasonable than murdering a toddler because he has a 0.98
00:40:48 disability but this was always going to happen and it was always going to happen in the netherlands 0.99
00:40:53 first. The Netherlands was the first country to legalize euthanasia for people with supposedly
00:40:59 terminal illnesses in 2002. Well, that toddler didn't have a terminal illness per se in any
00:41:07 sense other than the way in which we all have a terminal illness called life, which is that we're
00:41:10 all going to die someday. The timing is amazing because an internet friend of mine, I didn't know
00:41:16 him very, very well, but we communicated a fair bit. I was hoping I'd grab a drink with him at
00:41:21 some point when I was in New York, and I never had the chance, but we corresponded a fair bit.
00:41:26 This is Dovey Eisner, and he just died. He had very, very serious injuries. Sorry,
00:41:33 very, very serious disabilities. He was confined to an electric wheelchair. He used a breathing
00:41:37 tube. His breathing tube became disconnected. He fell into a coma. A year later, he died.
00:41:40 And the timing is quite providential because Dovey fell into this coma and then died
00:41:48 just after he published an article on assisted suicide.
00:41:53 Published in the New York Post and said,
00:41:55 assisted suicide, a dark moral path.
00:41:58 This guy was really, really smart,
00:42:00 wonderful, friendly guy,
00:42:02 very serious, very serious thinker.
00:42:05 And he publishes this piece.
00:42:08 Dovey would have been the perfect candidate
00:42:11 for euthanasia at a very young age for that,
00:42:15 or as an adult.
00:42:16 He was 35 years old when he died.
00:42:18 he would have been the perfect candidate
00:42:20 according to all these liberal governments.
00:42:21 But he said, no, don't kill me.
00:42:24 You shouldn't kill me just because I have disabilities.
00:42:27 I have something to contribute.
00:42:28 Even more than that, he did have a lot to contribute.
00:42:30 But even if he didn't have something
00:42:31 to contribute to politics,
00:42:33 my life is worth living.
00:42:35 I have dignity.
00:42:37 You can't just murder me.
00:42:39 Don't do this.
00:42:43 Don't stigmatize disabilities
00:42:46 any more than they already are.
00:42:48 don't make people who suffer from disabilities
00:42:51 feel as though we ought to kill ourselves.
00:42:54 Don't make people who suffer generally do that
00:42:56 because that's what's happening too.
00:42:58 The euthanasia so-called is now targeting people
00:43:00 who are just a little bit depressed.
00:43:02 There is no limiting principle to it. 1.00
00:43:05 Same point I was making about that crazy actress 0.99
00:43:07 who wanted to turn her kid gay. 0.98
00:43:09 There's no limiting principle to leftism or to liberalism. 0.82
00:43:14 They will always take it too far.
00:43:16 They have to take it too far.
00:43:17 That is in the nature of liberalism and leftism.
00:43:20 I don't think there is any argument for suicide or doctors killing people.
00:43:26 I think that violates the Hippocratic Oath, the nature of the medical profession.
00:43:30 I think it is contrary to natural law.
00:43:32 I think it is the very worst kind of death.
00:43:34 And most serious people who have ever lived anywhere in the world agree with me. 1.00
00:43:39 But even if you're open to the idea of letting granny kill herself because she's told she only has a month to live, 0.83
00:43:47 or because she's in supposedly immense pain and for some reason can't access palliative care.
00:43:52 Can you answer what the limiting principle is? How do you stop the docs from killing
00:43:56 the two-year-old toddler? How do you stop the docs from killing Dovey? You can't. You can't do it.
00:44:03 Speaking of death, very, very important issue that is now cropping up in the midterm campaigns.
00:44:10 This is a very hot race in Texas. You got James Tallarico, the ostensibly straight
00:44:15 white man who is the Democrat running. He says he's Christian. He makes it a big part of his
00:44:19 campaign, running against Ken Paxton, the Republican. And Team Tallarico is seizing
00:44:24 on something Ken Paxton said and going after him hard. Now, right now, our pals over at Cal,
00:44:29 she say that Tallarico has a 60% chance of becoming the next senator. This is horrifying.
00:44:35 We've heard this for years now about Beto O'Rourke. Remember, Beto was going to turn Texas blue.
00:44:40 Remember, Colin Allred was going to beat Ted Cruz, going to turn Texas blue. And Ted beat
00:44:44 both of those guys, both times. But now we're looking at a 60% chance, according to Kalshi.
00:44:50 What did Ken Paxton say that Tallarico's seizing on? He said, Ken Paxton said the Uvalde shooting,
00:44:58 remember that school shooting some years ago, was part of a plan, quote, plan by, quote, God.
00:45:05 21 elementary school children and teachers were murdered in the shooting.
00:45:09 Ken Paxton, says Tallarico, said the Uvalde shooting is part of a plan by God.
00:45:16 Aren't you, isn't your whole campaign that you're the Christian?
00:45:20 You're the Christian white guy in the Democrat party?
00:45:23 Now you're putting God in quotes? 0.98
00:45:25 Like it's ridiculous even to mention God?
00:45:29 Okay, what did Paxton actually say?
00:45:31 It's very important what he said.
00:45:33 He said, he was asked, what would you say to a parent who lost a kid in the Uvalde shooting?
00:45:37 said, if I lost one of my children, I'd be pretty devastated, especially in a way that is so
00:45:42 senseless. If I had the opportunity to talk to the people, I'd have to say, look,
00:45:49 there is always a plan. I believe God always has a plan.
00:45:57 That is the most basic thing that any Christian believes about history. That is not advanced 0.94
00:46:04 against Christianity. That is not the high-level senior seminar on Christianity.
00:46:11 That's Christianity 101. And it's not even exclusive to Christians. Plenty of other people
00:46:16 with plenty of other religious views believe in what we call providence. And if you ask Tallarico,
00:46:25 whatever, he's not going to give an answer on this. But if you ask Tallarico, say, hey,
00:46:28 you don't believe in providence? You don't believe that God has a hand in the unfolding of history?
00:46:32 He would say, no, no, I believe in that.
00:46:34 He'd say, so what's your issue here?
00:46:36 And I guess maybe the most charitable read I can think is,
00:46:39 he would say, well, some things are part of God's providence,
00:46:42 but other things are not.
00:46:44 And how dare you suggest that bad things fall under God's providence?
00:46:48 C.S. Lewis took on this issue very well,
00:46:51 much better than James Tallarico did.
00:46:53 C.S. Lewis made the point, I think it was in miracles,
00:46:57 that either everything falls under providence or nothing does.
00:47:01 the people who want to say no only the good stuff falls under providence
00:47:06 one i'd suggest they read the book of job or i don't know any of the rest of the bible but
00:47:11 two what they're saying is that god is not really god the idea of providence is that god is god he
00:47:17 is sovereign he is omnipotent he is uh he is the god of all of history he creates everything out
00:47:25 of nothing, not a sparrow falls without your father's knowing it. Not a hair on your head
00:47:31 is uncounted. But God doesn't control this or that or this or that. So what ultimately,
00:47:38 when you deny God's total control over providence, what you're doing is you're creating this kind of
00:47:46 Manichaean view of religion where there's like the good God and there's the evil demiurge and
00:47:51 they're just kind of duking it out forever. And sometimes God has the upper hand and sometimes
00:47:55 the evil Demiurge has the upper hand, but they're just kind of duking it out. But that's not what
00:47:59 Christians believe. We believe that God controls history. Now, it doesn't mean that bad things
00:48:04 can't happen. It's the problem of theodicy. Tallarico is not the first person to consider it.
00:48:09 It also doesn't even exactly mean that there's no such thing as chance occurrences.
00:48:14 St. Thomas Aquinas takes this on. St. Thomas Aquinas says, you know, from the human perspective,
00:48:19 there is still chance. There's still fortuitous events because we are secondary causes. So God
00:48:26 gives us free will and we can do things. I really can't. I really have free will. I can take the
00:48:30 leftist here's tumbler. I can move it over here onto my note cards. Then I can move it back here
00:48:33 onto the coaster. I can smoke a Mayflower cigar if I want. And I do want, and maybe I will. But
00:48:37 I'm restraining myself for now because we're approaching the end of the show. Maybe I'll
00:48:40 light it up after the show. Whatever. That's my free will. I am a secondary cause, but God
00:48:48 ultimately has sovereignty over everything. God ultimately controls providence. God takes bad
00:48:54 things and turns them to good. But whatever you think about God, it is necessarily the case that
00:49:01 if God exists, he has a plan. If God is God, God has a plan. And Christians appreciate this in a
00:49:12 very direct way, because the central fact of our religion is the incarnation. Totally ridiculous 1.00
00:49:17 point by James Tallarico, who is once again revealing he is much closer to an antichrist 0.93
00:49:22 figure than he is to a Christian. The thing I would ask these people, though, who mock this
00:49:26 idea of thoughts and prayers as people are grieving, who mock the idea of providence as a
00:49:30 consolation, what's your alternative? What's your alternative? Is your alternative, James Tallarico,
00:49:39 that you're going to tell the Uvalde parents 0.98
00:49:43 there's no consolation for their suffering?
00:49:47 Is your alternative that you're going to tell them
00:49:50 you're going to pass some new gun control law pretty soon? 0.95
00:49:52 Not going to bring their kids back. 0.99
00:49:55 Whatever laws you think you're going to pass as a senator,
00:49:58 guess what?
00:49:58 People are still going to suffer.
00:50:00 Bad things are still going to happen.
00:50:02 You're not going to eliminate bad things.
00:50:04 You're not going to eliminate suffering.
00:50:05 You're not going to eliminate school shootings, actually,
00:50:07 because none of the gun control laws proposed in the last 20 years
00:50:09 would have stopped a single one of them.
00:50:11 But just let's say you actually could.
00:50:13 You're not going to eliminate suffering.
00:50:14 So what are you going to tell people?
00:50:16 How are they to make sense of their suffering?
00:50:18 You don't have any answer.
00:50:20 And it's not just that you don't have any answer
00:50:22 because you're a hard-nosed realist
00:50:23 willing to tell people the truth.
00:50:25 You won't tell people the truth about anything.
00:50:27 You won't tell people the truth 1.00
00:50:28 about a man not becoming a woman. 1.00
00:50:29 You don't know the truth. 0.99
00:50:30 Maybe you know the truth and you're just lying,
00:50:32 or maybe you just don't know the truth.
00:50:35 But your inability to console people, 0.96
00:50:38 i think stems from your ignorance and your pride talarico's answer absolutely right
00:50:45 happens to be true and happens to be very very compassionate okay and happens to be the only 0.81
00:50:50 consolation in the in a broader scope that we have at least at this terrestrial level okay
00:50:56 now i got so much more to say about talarico because this guy man he is slick as all get out
00:51:03 and he right now he looks like he's going to win that race i want to get to that i want to get to
00:51:07 data centers. It's going to be a huge issue in the campaign. Mike Johnson, the Speaker of the
00:51:10 House, weighing in on it. But I don't have time. I'm already late. I'm already running over the
00:51:15 clock. I don't care. But this is my tease for tomorrow. Today is TEE Tuesday. The rest of the
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00:51:37 Every significant movement in history has started with protesting. 1.00
00:51:40 You're a traitor! 1.00
00:51:41 Uncle Tom! 1.00
00:51:42 This is our generation's civil rights!
00:51:43 I have no idea what the protest is about.
00:51:45 Bingo!
00:51:46 Given the current climate,
00:51:47 we should have figured as polarizing as Clay Saunders
00:51:50 could even be allowed on campus.
00:51:51 Ah, can you hear me okay?
00:51:52 Saunders is a close personal friend of Chancellor Friedman.
00:51:55 This is a decision I cannot find. 1.00
00:51:56 Islam will conquer the West. 1.00
00:52:03 Are we paying attention? 1.00
00:52:04 They've taken over the building, they're downstairs and they've blocked the doors.
00:52:09 I seek forgiveness from Allah the Almighty.
00:52:13 We cannot run and hide.
00:52:15 Muhammad is the messenger of God.
00:52:18 There is no God but Allah.
00:52:21 What do you say? 1.00
00:52:23 You turn those SOBs into a fine red mist. 1.00
00:52:27 As we move, one man will cover while the other guys go. 1.00
00:52:31 They call that leap project.
00:52:32 You need a course in safe weapons handling.