The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 2074 - Christa Pike ＂May Not Fully Recover＂ After Being Executed

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00:03:02.480 what it all means for the midterms. Then women go viral standing with the female accuser of the 1.00

00:03:08.560 Cornell seven as New York Governor Kathy Hochul proposes changing state law to reclassify many

00:03:14.260 voluntary sexual encounters as rape. We will get into the one weird trick required to stand with

00:03:20.560 Jane Doe. And then the New York Post is reporting that condemned inmate Krista Pike is still in the 0.96

00:03:27.540 hospital and may not make a full recovery after her execution last week. That's the bad news.

00:03:34.320 But looking on the bright side, very few people recover at all after being executed. Many people

00:03:41.020 seem to be forgetting that fact and lots of other facts about this case. I'm Michael Knowles. This

00:03:46.800 The Michael Knowles Show. Welcome back to the show. A trans-identifying New York Times executive

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00:04:25.480 it's like 10,000 things had to go wrong. So many errors in thinking to get to

00:04:30.920 trans New York Times executive murdered by her Asian in-laws. Anyway, before we get to that 1.00

00:04:36.100 murder. We will get to the execution or almost execution of Krista Pike. I know I'll get into 0.92

00:04:41.460 all the political stories. We are in the heat of midterm season. Things are looking rough.

00:04:46.020 But this story, it's the story that gets crazier by the day. New York Post headline. This one

00:04:54.420 caught my attention just last night. Krista Pike remains in heavily guarded hospital room,

00:05:02.620 quote, may not fully recover after botched Tennessee execution.

00:05:09.980 That very, very few people in history have fully recovered after being executed.

00:05:16.040 Very, very few have recovered to any degree after execution.

00:05:22.620 NBC, rather, reporting, quote, there was no medical oxygen or mask in the execution chamber

00:05:29.800 where Tennessee tried and failed to kill convicted murderer Krista Pike,

00:05:33.360 which meant staff had to go and get it when things went wrong,

00:05:36.980 according to a source who witnessed what happened.

00:05:39.720 Can you believe there was no oxygen tank?

00:05:41.780 There was no life-saving medical care in the execution chamber.

00:05:47.060 Isn't that crazy?

00:05:48.180 We need an investigation into this.

00:05:50.400 We need, people need to be held to account.

00:05:52.960 Why wasn't there life-saving care in the place where you kill people?

00:05:57.320 the the reason that this story keeps fascinating me and fascinating so many other people it is

00:06:04.440 one of the leading news stories is is not so much the grisly detail it's not even so much

00:06:11.140 what a horrible life this woman had and lived and her victims and everyone involved it's not even

00:06:16.200 that it's the absurdity it's the incongruity it's the absurdity this is why people myself included

00:06:22.860 keep making macabre jokes about it is because one of the central aspects of humor is incongruity.

00:06:29.260 It's things being totally out of proportion and out of whack. And these are the craziest

00:06:33.640 headlines you can imagine. There was no oxygen tank in the execution chamber. Next, you're going

00:06:38.680 to tell me there was no surfboard in the desert. Next, you're going to tell me there was no ice

00:06:42.280 tray in the oven. Yes, one would expect that there would not be life-saving medical care

00:06:47.800 in the execution chamber. Saving lives is not what execution chambers are for. The fact that

00:06:55.040 the lawyer is saying she might not make a full recovery. It's so absurd. And the reason that

00:07:00.560 we keep entertaining this is because we refuse to accept what capital punishment is. We still

00:07:10.220 want capital punishment. We still kind of want the death penalty, but people don't want to admit

00:07:14.380 that they want the death penalty. There's still a very strong moral argument for the death penalty,

00:07:18.360 but we don't like making those moral arguments because they kind of make us feel icky.

00:07:22.580 And so we're totally schizophrenic on this subject. One minute we're killing this lady, 0.85

00:07:26.600 the next minute we're desperately trying to save her lives. Now there's an added legal question

00:07:30.980 because during the botched execution, which was really pretty rough, really grisly for this woman,

00:07:36.840 if you didn't feel bad for this woman before, I think you probably do now. Her arm was like on

00:07:41.680 the brink of exploding. They're now reporting she has brain damage. And so there's this interesting

00:07:47.640 legal question, which is, okay, well, if she is brain damaged, can we still execute her?

00:07:53.520 We have laws in this country to stop you from executing criminals, even heinous criminals,

00:07:58.320 who don't have the mental capacity to stand trial or to receive their punishment. 1.00

00:08:03.700 And this woman almost certainly has brain damage. So now what they're going to say is, okay, well,

00:08:08.200 I guess the law said you could execute her before. And this went on for 30 years and went all the way

00:08:12.140 up to the Supreme Court and went to the governor and they all said you can execute her. But now

00:08:15.480 she has brain damage. So now you can't execute her. But she incurred the brain damage while 0.99

00:08:22.120 she was being executed. So I don't know how much everybody knows about executions, but

00:08:28.340 during precisely 100% of executions, the condemned get brain damage. That's how executions work.

00:08:38.880 And in fact, the culmination of that brain damage when the brain stops working

00:08:42.280 is the definition of the end of the execution.

00:08:45.420 So what's so strange in this case, and pretty grisly,

00:08:47.980 is that what we're seeing is a very, very slow motion execution.

00:08:53.140 The drugs didn't work as they were intended.

00:08:55.780 We shouldn't use those drugs.

00:08:57.840 The purpose of those drugs is not mercy toward the condemned.

00:09:00.860 It's mercy to ourselves because we don't want to acknowledge what we're doing,

00:09:04.280 which is killing someone. 0.94

00:09:05.400 A more honest method of execution would be the guillotine or a firing squad. 1.00

00:09:09.140 In fact, this woman requested a firing squad, and they wouldn't give it to her.

00:09:14.580 A firing squad seems way more humane, seems way more merciful than these drugs that fail 7% of the time. 0.96

00:09:20.540 In this case, caused her immense pain and now led her to have brain damage.

00:09:24.800 But is brain damage really a sufficient justification to overturn her condemnation, to overturn her execution?

00:09:35.020 If that were the case and we take that to its logical conclusion, then we can never execute

00:09:39.140 anyone because every single, there is a moment during every execution when the person is still

00:09:45.580 alive but has brain damage. So at that point, when that happens, do we just stop the execution?

00:09:49.760 We say, okay, well, hold on. Now their brain has been deprived of oxygen long enough that

00:09:54.100 they now have brain damage. So now we have to stop the execution because you can't kill people

00:09:57.320 with brain damage. This is, I've made a bunch of macabre jokes about this and I intend to continue,

00:10:03.960 but this is really horrific for this woman. I don't think that capital punishment is cruel 1.00

00:10:07.920 and unusual punishment. I think it's absurd to make that argument, but whatever this is

00:10:13.000 definitely is cruel and unusual punishment. And at this point, I mentioned this right when it

00:10:18.440 happened. I said, you know, if you try to murder someone twice, not murder in this case,

00:10:22.320 if you try to execute someone twice in accordance with the law and the civil authority

00:10:26.020 and it doesn't work, maybe that's a sign. You know, maybe that's a sign that we got to stop.

00:10:31.500 Although probably at this point, the more merciful thing to do is just to finish what they started.

00:10:35.700 In any case, this is really, really horrific.

00:10:39.640 And what it gets down to is our society refusing to grapple with capital punishment.

00:10:44.880 We don't want to admit that we kill criminals.

00:10:47.000 We don't want to admit that there is an argument for killing criminals. 0.92

00:10:50.960 Even Catholics are dealing with this.

00:10:52.620 Obviously, the Catholic Church not only defended the death penalty on moral grounds,

00:10:56.840 but carried out the death penalty for a very, very long time.

00:10:59.940 for roughly 2,000 years. But in 2018, there was this strange change to the catechism of the

00:11:07.420 church by Pope Francis. This had built upon something that began under John Paul II. John

00:11:13.460 Paul II is the first Catholic pope to say, you know what, probably we shouldn't use the death

00:11:18.040 penalty. Probably civil governments today should stop using the death penalty and prefer life in

00:11:22.720 prison. But what John Paul II said, St. John Paul II, was a prudential judgment from the Pope.

00:11:30.040 He said, look, the death penalty is totally legitimate, totally morally in principle,

00:11:35.460 it's fine. But as a practical and prudential matter, technology has progressed, society

00:11:40.700 has progressed to the point that we don't need to carry it out. And so prudentially,

00:11:45.160 I say you shouldn't carry it out. Pope Benedict, his successor, maintained the same position.

00:11:51.640 He said, look, I'm personally against the death penalty as a practical matter.

00:11:55.060 You probably don't have to do it anymore, but reasonable minds can disagree on this.

00:11:58.880 Pope Francis, when he followed Benedict, said basically the same thing, at least at the

00:12:03.080 beginning, but then he changed it in 2018.

00:12:05.980 In 2018, Pope Francis came out and he said, no, no, no, the death penalty is wrong in

00:12:10.180 itself.

00:12:11.080 They still didn't say morally evil because that would contradict scripture in 2000 years

00:12:14.240 of church tradition, but he said it is inadmissible and it is contrary to the gospel in itself

00:12:20.660 because it violates the inviolability of the dignity of the human person.

00:12:26.340 Now, that is a radical change.

00:12:28.020 That's something that John Paul II and Pope Benedict avoided.

00:12:31.900 Pope Leo seems to be maintaining that view.

00:12:34.440 But this is a very difficult view to maintain.

00:12:37.640 It's a very difficult papal statement even to explain

00:12:40.020 because if the death penalty is contrary to the gospel,

00:12:44.560 then one might conclude that St. Paul's defense of the death penalty

00:12:49.620 is contrary to the gospel. Is St. Paul, an author of the New Testament, contrary to the gospel?

00:12:56.560 No one could ever think that. The great doctors of the church, the great church fathers who

00:13:01.160 defended the death penalty, at least in principle, are they contrary to the gospel? St. Thomas Aquinas,

00:13:07.580 the common doctor of the church, that would be very difficult to understand. The popes,

00:13:12.400 some of whom have been beatified on their way to being canonized as saints, blessed Pius IX,

00:13:17.100 carried out some 500 executions in the papal states. Were they acting merely in accordance

00:13:23.080 with the circumstances of their time, which are fine in principle, but now today would not be

00:13:28.580 carried out? Or were they contrary to the gospel? Were they violating the dignity of the human

00:13:34.080 person? Very, very strange, very, very difficult to carry out. And so these are important conversations

00:13:38.220 as it pertains to the Catholic church. I suspect this issue will be settled on a longer time

00:13:43.180 frame. The church does not measure her ages in days or weeks or years even, but in centuries.

00:13:48.920 So it'll be figured out on that kind of scale is my strong suspicion. But this is even broader

00:13:56.920 socially than the Catholic church, which is we don't want to grapple with what we're doing.

00:14:02.960 Why are we killing inmates? Is there a moral justification for killing inmates? If that is

00:14:08.840 true, how should the inmates be killed? If there is to be mercy, where should the mercy be doled

00:14:14.140 out? We can't do that. So we say, okay, we want to kill them. We kind of want to kill for all

00:14:21.740 these reasons, which is why our civilization has done this forever. And here are the arguments,

00:14:26.780 and we need justice for the innocent. And whosoever sheds the blood of man by man shall

00:14:32.700 his blood be shed for man has made the image and likeness of God. Okay, it's actually an argument

00:14:36.340 it from human dignity. So we want to do it, but it's kind of grisly. So you know what? We're just

00:14:40.420 going to, instead of having an executioner, we're going to have doctors come in. Doctors are going

00:14:44.760 to do it instead, which is a total violation of the Hippocratic oath, but it makes us feel better

00:14:49.440 about it. Then someone pointed out the other day, someone posted this to Twitter. They said, you

00:14:54.340 know, it's so gross to have medical professionals perform these executions. I said, I agree.

00:14:59.820 They said, this is why you can't find qualified medical professionals to actually administer

00:15:04.520 the lethal injection. I said, well, that part's not true. If you can't find qualified medical

00:15:08.600 professionals to administer lethal injection, who's performing all the abortions? Who's performing

00:15:13.200 all the euthanasia? Both of which are growing right now. That's not true. There are a lot of

00:15:17.600 unethical medical professionals, but we pretend that that is not killing. We pretend that abortion 0.97

00:15:22.220 and assisted suicide, that that is somehow not killing. And then in this case, we say that the

00:15:28.120 death penalty is killing. We try to draw a comparison between the killing of the innocent

00:15:32.360 in abortion, which is murder, with the civil authority in the execution of justice, killing

00:15:38.240 people who have committed heinous offenses and been convicted of them. Well, those are different

00:15:41.320 things. Anyway, we're very, very confused about it. And so one of the productive aspects of this

00:15:46.700 really horrific case for this woman who's probably suffering a lot is that it is focusing the mind.

00:15:52.320 If we're going to have the death penalty, we should be honest about it. We should know what 0.82

00:15:58.360 we are doing, we should stop trying to fool ourselves in ways that's actually really much

00:16:03.120 crueler to the condemned. Languishing for 30, 40 years on death row and then having poison

00:16:08.680 administered to you that fails 7% of the time that leaves you with brain damage, has your arm

00:16:12.460 basically exploding. Either kill the condemned or don't. Whatever this is though, whatever this is 1.00

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00:17:49.620 of the Cornell 7? I am Jane Doe. I stand with Jane Doe because I am a Jane Doe.

00:17:59.780 I am Jane Doe. I am Jane Doe. I am also Jane Doe.

00:18:04.760 you are jane doe to say i am jane doe is to say i uh actively participate in menage a wheat you

00:18:16.020 know we clean up we clean up the language on this show it's a family program i actively snort ketamine 0.55

00:18:21.020 off of the appendages of various strange men while i enthusiastically engage in depraved acts with

00:18:28.080 them i am jane doe and one of those chicks there i don't know if you're just listening to the show

00:18:32.080 you couldn't see it. One of the women who said, I stand with Jane Doe, she is dressed up in all

00:18:36.540 this kind of crazy makeup, including a witch symbol, like a Wicca symbol. It says, I am Jane 0.52

00:18:41.720 Doe. That one, she might be honest about that. The rest though, why would you admit that? I am

00:18:47.720 Jane Doe. I identify with this woman who's engaging in depraved sexual acts and degrading herself 1.00

00:18:53.180 and doing lots of drugs. Why would you admit that? Because what they're trying to say is that 1.00

00:18:58.700 Jane Doe is the victim here. What they're saying is that Jane Doe was raped. Here is some kind of 0.83

00:19:04.540 slam poetess making the point in verse. I am Jane Doe because millions of women who reported 1.00

00:19:12.760 what happened to them never got a response back. I am Jane Doe because tears rolled down my cheeks.

00:19:17.280 I was just wishing it would all end. I am Jane Doe because I had a life before my life became

00:19:21.800 a story. I was someone's daughter, someone's best friend who had plans for next week, next year,

00:19:26.000 rest of her life. A maybe is not a yes. Silence is not a yes. A shrug is not a yes. Because if you

00:19:31.700 have to guess, if you have to convince, then it was never consent. And that is why I'm not telling

00:19:36.180 you one story. I'm telling you one of millions. Nearly one in three women will experience physical

00:19:41.100 or sexual violence in her lifetime. 840 million Janes. Daughters, friends, sisters, mothers. 137

00:19:48.820 every single day. And while you're watching this, somewhere across another country, another girl is

00:19:53.680 becoming another Jane. Can I get a little Pento Barbital for this drink here, please? Slam poetry, 0.63

00:20:01.460 as Harold Bloom pointed out, is the death of art. And I don't give in to despair or hopelessness

00:20:06.920 ever. I'm a pretty chipper guy. That one has me contemplating shuffling off this mortal coil.

00:20:12.100 That's really, really awful. Just on the artistry. Then let's get to what she's saying.

00:20:16.360 She says, if you have to guess, if you have to guess, then it's rape. A shrug is not consent.

00:20:22.260 uh feeling uncomfortable and pressure and kind of silence is not consent okay sure

00:20:28.160 but jane doe wasn't silent she didn't just shrug she this case is the most clear cut of these

00:20:39.000 campus sexual stories that that we've ever heard at every step of the way the guys asked her if

00:20:48.540 she was okay with these things. They got the thing that the feminists demand, which is 1.00

00:20:52.660 enthusiastic verbal consent. Said, hey, do you want to have two guys at the same time? She says, 1.00

00:21:00.040 yes. Okay, you want three guys? She says, no. So then there's no extra guy. And they say,

00:21:07.820 do you want to do these drugs? She says, yes. Do you want us to do drugs off of you? Yes.

00:21:12.740 Do you want to do this? Do you want to do that? By the end, she says, okay. It's seven hours later.

00:21:17.940 she goes, all right, I think I'm done now. The guys immediately say, okay, that's fine.

00:21:21.780 During the act, during this depraved act, another guy walks in and says, hey, this is gross. Stop

00:21:29.560 this. Everybody get out of here. And according to the reporting and the messages and the testimony,

00:21:35.480 Jane Doe said, hey, it's no big deal. People used to do this all the time in medieval times.

00:21:40.520 We're all consenting adults here. I don't mean to laugh about it because it's really sad for

00:21:45.780 everybody involved. But this completely knocks down any argument that the we stand with Jane

00:21:53.040 Doe feminists can possibly make. The only way to stand with Jane Doe here is to change the facts 1.00

00:21:59.480 in retrospect. That's the only way to say, well, she didn't really give enthusiastic.

00:22:04.200 She didn't really say that. She didn't really agree. Jane Doe reportedly in text messages

00:22:09.160 the next day said none of the sexual stuff was illegal. None of it. We all consented. 1.00

00:22:16.180 In fact, the reason that this became a case at all is because Jane Doe was disappointed

00:22:24.540 that her alleged rapists didn't invite her back to the scene of her alleged rape a week later for

00:22:31.260 a party. And because she was disappointed, she didn't get invited back. She then went to the

00:22:37.460 police or the campus authorities and totally changed her tune on what happened. The only way

00:22:43.280 to make this into anything illegal, forget about immoral. It's deeply immoral and deeply disgusting 0.84

00:22:49.300 and wrong, and everyone should feel ashamed. But the only way to make it into something illegal

00:22:52.720 is to lie about what happened and to change the facts. So why are they all doing it?

00:22:59.020 they're all doing it because of shame. She feels ashamed. The people on campus started to make fun

00:23:07.880 of her. They didn't view her as sexually liberated. They viewed her as an object of

00:23:13.500 male desire and exploitation, and she became a punchline. There's this kind of strange

00:23:20.420 calculation at some point because the feminists say casual sex is good and liberating. They say 0.80

00:23:25.440 that weird aberrant sex is good and liberating. So there's this, but they say that this menage

00:23:30.720 a wheat is somehow exploitative. So there's this question of how many guys? According to the

00:23:35.820 feminists, what is the optimal number of guys at which the act is liberating before it becomes 0.99

00:23:42.080 exploitative? Someone's going to write their PhD thesis in gender studies on that. This isn't just 1.00

00:23:47.660 limited to the gossip and even the court case here about what happened. This is going all the way up

00:23:52.540 the governor of New York. The governor of New York just came out and said she's going to change

00:23:56.100 the law. She says, voluntary intoxication is not a license for sexual assault or gang rape,

00:24:01.640 period. I support closing this loophole and will work with the New York state legislature to

00:24:06.200 accomplish this. Loophole? What loophole? According to the state of New York, just because these two

00:24:13.020 people had been, well, eight people, had been drinking and doing drugs, they say that doesn't

00:24:20.600 necessarily make it rape. They were apparently aware enough to consent to all of these things.

00:24:25.600 No one was passed out. And so they say, well, this is a loophole. Voluntary intoxication is

00:24:31.320 not a license. So now anytime a guy and a girl have one drink and then engage in any kind of

00:24:40.720 sexual activity, according to Kathy Hochul's preference in New York, one or both of those

00:24:47.140 parties could be accused of rape. And of course, the party that's going to be accused of rape is

00:24:51.000 the man. It's not going to be the woman. Even though, according to some of the reporting about

00:24:54.420 the Cornell case, it was the woman, it was Jane Doe who was approaching without asking consent

00:25:01.140 some of these men. But of course, we know that that's how it's going to shake out. And that's

00:25:05.840 probably how it should shake out in the sense that men and women are different and we relate

00:25:08.520 to sex differently. But the feminists deny that fact. And so really what this all comes down to 1.00

00:25:16.500 is everybody changing the facts here because of shame. And the real important political takeaway

00:25:25.680 here is that as people are lying, as people are trying to change the facts, as people are denying

00:25:31.520 reality, they're doing so because they think it'll make it better, but it actually makes it worse.

00:25:35.780 Think about this. I feel bad for this girl. I mean, it's awful that she is ruining these guys'

00:25:40.260 lives by accusing them of rape, apparently baselessly. That's really bad, and she should 0.71

00:25:46.400 be ashamed of herself for that, among other things. But I feel bad for her in that she did

00:25:51.980 bad things. She was led to do bad things by a bad culture, by a bad society, by bad lessons,

00:25:57.940 by the bad ideology of feminism. Yeah, it's bad. And the guys acted very badly too,

00:26:04.260 without question. But notice what she did here. She did the weird sex thing because she wanted

00:26:11.000 to be one of the boys. She wanted to be liked. She wanted their affection. She wanted to be 0.71

00:26:14.300 liberated. She wanted whatever. She does that. And she thinks it's going to be cool. And it's

00:26:18.560 going to actually make her better liked. It's going to increase her social prestige because 0.98

00:26:23.000 she did it. It's going to increase her, I don't know, avant-garde, radical cred, whatever she 0.96

00:26:28.500 thought was going to happen. Then a week later, people made fun of her for it. She was humiliated.

00:26:34.580 And so she said, okay, well, I know what can happen. The way to get out of this shame that

00:26:39.240 I'm now feeling is I'm going to accuse them of rape. She accuses them of rape. This is apparently 0.99

00:26:44.520 investigated on campus by police. And when the facts came out two years ago, they said, you know

00:26:49.180 what? This really wasn't rape. Look, we want to accuse boys of rape as much as the next guy.

00:26:54.740 Campuses do it in this country all the time. But really here, it's so clear cut, we're not going

00:26:59.040 to do that. So she still feels all this shame. The stigma keeps sticking with her. Two years later,

00:27:04.220 she brings a civil suit. She says, well, I'm going to get a lot of money out of that. I'm going to get

00:27:07.560 a lot of money out of the school because the threshold in a civil suit is way lower than

00:27:12.600 in a criminal case. So the civil suit comes out, that gets publicized. Then they reopen the

00:27:19.000 criminal investigation. Now, I'm not naming this woman's reported identity. I think that would be

00:27:24.700 gratuitous, but a lot of people are reporting on it. Just as I'm not reporting on the men's

00:27:29.240 identity, I'm not reporting on the women's identity because it's all gross and no one 0.80

00:27:32.000 benefits from that kind of gossip. Nevertheless, this woman's face and name are plastered all over 0.82

00:27:36.400 the country. Whatever shame she was feeling before, I bet it's gone up by several orders 1.00

00:27:41.320 of magnitude now. It keeps getting worse. The key political takeaway is the more that we lie

00:27:50.460 to cover for ourselves, the more that we lie not just for our own selfish private interest,

00:27:55.960 but as a coping mechanism to try to change reality, the more we lie about the differences

00:28:01.980 between men and women, which is one of the biggest lies of the last 10 years,

00:28:04.840 the more we lie about our own behavior, the more we lie about the morality or propriety of our

00:28:10.660 own behavior, the more that we do it, the worse things are going to get for us.

00:28:15.600 The first step to things getting better is sometimes just taking the L. You take the L,

00:28:21.620 you admit you did something gross and depraved, you accept the social stigma that goes with that,

00:28:26.260 you ask God for forgiveness, you avail yourself of the sacraments, you work toward practicing

00:28:30.620 virtue and things could get better for you. They really can. But if we live in this culture that

00:28:35.440 just keeps doubling down on all of the lies, it's only going to get worse. So much so that now in

00:28:40.660 New York state, instead of saying, you know what? Feminism was pretty stupid. We're going to get 1.00

00:28:43.920 rid of feminism now because this keeps happening to girls and men keep degrading themselves in this

00:28:47.860 way. And it's just like, oh, it's wrong. Men and women are different. And a woman, it's not that

00:28:52.060 a woman needs a man like a fish needs a bicycle. And you know, we're going to go back to the old 1.00

00:28:54.800 way, which worked a lot better when you didn't have menage a weed on Cornell campus. Instead of

00:28:59.280 doing that. She says, no, no, no. We're going to double and triple down on feminism. We have to

00:29:03.580 believe women, even when the women previously told us they weren't raped. We need to believe them

00:29:08.440 when they tell us that they were raped, even if it's two years after the fact. And we need to,

00:29:12.360 we're going to double and triple down. So much so that now voluntary sexual Congress is going 0.87

00:29:19.080 to be redefined as rape. Explicitly, enthusiastically, voluntarily, sexual Congress 0.90

00:29:24.800 is going to be redefined as rape. Okay. You think that's going to work out? You think that's going 0.77

00:29:28.520 to make it better? No. People are going to keep engaging in the depraved behaviors. They're going

00:29:32.060 to continue to feel shame because the natural law is inscribed on every human heart and we all have

00:29:35.920 a conscience. People are going to continue to have their lives ruined. Relatively innocent people are

00:29:42.440 going to be defamed and smeared and lose their jobs. It's only going to get worse. Okay, speaking

00:29:47.480 of insane Democrat state laws, let's turn to Gavin Newsom in California, who is now in preparation

00:29:54.860 for running for president, signing a law requiring large companies in the state of California

00:30:00.540 to disclose any ties they may have had to slavery 150 years ago, more than 150 years ago.

00:30:09.060 What is that law about? It gets back to what we were talking about right at the very top of the

00:30:17.580 show, which is some of the perverse incentives of democracy. This is a pretty yucky mob rule.

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00:32:25.980 The Truth in Disclosure Act. This is a first-in-the-nation law in California requiring

00:32:34.660 large corporations to disclose whether they or any of their predecessor entities profited from

00:32:42.040 slavery. This is a top priority not only for Gavin Newsom, it's a top priority for the California

00:32:47.340 Legislative Black Caucus. This does not target any company. It only targets companies with

00:32:55.580 worldwide gross receipts exceeding $100 million, so very, very large companies. It targets companies

00:33:01.960 that were in existence or that had predecessor companies in existence on or before December 31st,

00:33:07.520 1964, first in the nation measure, to finally hold to account those California companies

00:33:15.140 complicit in slavery. This, as part of the broader effort for California to pay reparations

00:33:21.840 for black people because of slavery. This in California, a state that never had slavery.

00:33:29.940 This is the craziest irony in all. All the really radical slavery reparations,

00:33:36.520 Black Ravens politics stuff is coming out of California, a state that never had slavery and 0.98

00:33:42.440 even more absurdly, a state that was admitted to the union specifically as a free state. 0.99

00:33:50.180 And when it was admitted to the union, basically caused the civil war.

00:33:54.540 It's not just that California kind of avoided slavery. The topic of whether or not California

00:33:59.680 would have slavery was a major national question. And the fact that California said, no, we're not

00:34:05.060 going to have slavery caused the Civil War. And they say, no, no, no, it doesn't matter.

00:34:10.680 You still need to pay reparations. By you, we mean you white taxpayers need to pay reparations 0.79

00:34:18.620 to black people in California, many of whom have absolutely no tie to slavery whatsoever.

00:34:26.200 Not a personal tie, like even a familial tie. You get an immigrant from Kenya who showed up in

00:34:31.940 2016. That guy could theoretically be open to reparations from white people in California,

00:34:41.000 white people whose ancestors came in the 1930s in California, a state that never at any point

00:34:47.720 had slavery. So what's the deal with this specific law? This law, first of all, is just

00:34:55.400 Gavin Newsom pandering to the worst elements of black political activism. 0.82

00:34:59.700 Gavin Newsom, you will remember, 0.97

00:35:02.020 who is so desperate to pander to black people 0.99

00:35:04.560 and who has such a low opinion of black people 1.00

00:35:06.860 that he thought the way he was going to win them over 1.00

00:35:08.820 was saying he was a big, stupid dummy just like them. 1.00

00:35:13.020 I'm not, you know, I'm not trying to impress you. 1.00

00:35:16.340 I'm just trying to impress upon you.

00:35:18.340 I'm like you.

00:35:20.480 I'm no better than you.

00:35:22.980 You know, I'm a 960 SAT guy.

00:35:25.500 and you know and i'm not trying to offend anyone you know trying to act all there if you got 940

00:35:33.180 but literally a 960 sat guy i cannot you you've never seen me read a speech because i cannot read

00:35:44.580 a speech maybe the wrong business to be in you know what i'm saying jive turkeys i'm just like

00:35:53.580 I know you all. 0.55

00:35:55.100 Now, listen here, homie.

00:35:56.580 You might be thinking that with my slicked back hair and my porcelain white skin and my tailored Italian suit, you might be thinking that I'm some kind of honky.

00:36:05.600 But I'm not.

00:36:06.800 You dig? 0.93

00:36:08.460 I'm black as you. 0.94

00:36:09.960 I'm like Steve Martin at the beginning of The Jerk. 0.98

00:36:13.000 I was born a poor black child. 1.00

00:36:15.720 And here's my proof, fellow black people. 1.00

00:36:18.480 I'm a big dummy. 0.98

00:36:19.660 You know, like Red Fox used to call his son on our favorite TV show, 0.74

00:36:24.520 Stanford's son. You remember that? That's like me. Forget about it. I can't take standardized

00:36:29.540 tests. I can't even read, you dig? That's why I'm black, because I can't read. That's what I think

00:36:37.860 defines black people. So says Gavin Newsom, one of the leading candidates for president

00:36:45.100 among the Democrats. It's so delightful. It's one of my favorite, I love it. I love just the

00:36:51.900 cringing, you could almost contort your whole body permanently, just lock in permanent muscular

00:36:58.260 damage from the cringing that that clip induces. He panders real hard specifically to black people. 0.96

00:37:07.780 And so this is just part of that. This is okay, we're going to shake down the companies. But 0.99

00:37:10.860 notice, he's not shaking down the small companies. He's only shaking down the big companies. Because

00:37:14.520 if you shook down a company that makes a million dollars a year, you're not going to get any real

00:37:18.720 reparations money out of them. So this is specifically a shakedown of companies that

00:37:23.840 have the money that Newsom can go in and steal to redistribute to black people who may or may not

00:37:30.280 have any relation to slavery at all and who, unlike Gavin Newsom, may or may not have the

00:37:35.860 ability to read. They're probably more likely to read than Gavin Newsom is. No one, I've seen no

00:37:41.720 want to identify the biggest hypocrisy of this whole legislation. California today,

00:37:53.320 virtually every big California company today participates in slavery actively. Not 150 years

00:38:00.020 ago, not 160 years ago. There are basically no companies that do that today. And it's not just

00:38:05.100 California. It's the whole United States. Any company that manufactures or receives products

00:38:12.220 that are manufactured in China is participating in slavery today. And not just China, a whole 0.99

00:38:19.240 host of other places in East Asia, South Asia, elsewhere in the world too. Certainly in Africa,

00:38:25.780 you're participating in slavery. But China is the more egregious example because we manufacture so 1.00

00:38:29.740 much of our stuff in China, and they have a very active, explicit government-sanctioned program

00:38:34.400 of slave labor. They do that today. Gavin Newsom, he's not sounding the alarm about that.

00:38:42.160 The California Black Caucus doesn't seem to care about that at all. This has nothing to do with

00:38:46.760 the morality of slavery. They totally misunderstand California's history, or they just don't care

00:38:51.980 about California's history when it comes to slavery, but they don't care about slavery

00:38:55.040 generally. This is just a shakedown to pit black people against white people and to pander to the 0.78

00:39:01.500 black people so that Gavin Newsom can become the Democrat nominee. Because in order to become the 0.97

00:39:06.700 Democrat nominee, you need to very, very successfully pander to black people. That's 0.82

00:39:11.760 what this is about. That's his calculation that's going on here. I want anytime Gavin Newsom does

00:39:17.840 one of these town halls, if he does a town hall, he probably doesn't want to talk to voters too

00:39:21.220 much, but if he does, just ask him that. Hey, Governor Newsom, it's so important that you want

00:39:26.800 to bring justice to the companies that participated in slavery 160 years ago.

00:39:31.860 That's so important. Thank you for standing up for freedom and dignity. That's great.

00:39:36.920 Will you also introduce legislation to sanctioned companies that use slave labor today?

00:39:42.300 Like Apple? I don't know, like all the companies? I don't know, all the companies that manufacture

00:39:46.440 insurance? Will you do that? Not quite. Not quite. I don't think so. Okay. Now,

00:39:50.640 we turn from California Democrats to Texas Democrats. Texas Democrats, forget about pandering,

00:39:54.740 They are now openly admitting that they are explicitly buying votes from people in contravention of state and federal law.

00:40:02.240 We'll get to that in a second.

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00:41:49.620 information, you can go see calshe.com slash regulatory. My favorite comment on Friday is

00:41:55.900 from Grace May, who says, Michael's comments about the girl in the Cornell 7 wanting to be one of the

00:41:59.920 boys, I honestly think might be true. I like hanging out with guys and would give a lot to

00:42:04.220 be one of the boys because I find guy friendships to be so much more relaxed and fun than women

00:42:08.100 friendships. 100%. They're barely comparable. I like to think I'm smarter than the girl was, 0.99

00:42:14.220 but still bone-chilling how close to home that hit for me. So true. Male friendship is simply

00:42:19.660 different than female friendship. Some would say women can never be friends with each other. 0.95

00:42:24.200 That's probably taking it a little too far. Aristotle kind of made that point. Or they

00:42:27.420 can't be friends in the fullest sense of the term. But regardless, male friendship and female

00:42:32.280 friendship are different. It's because men and women are different. And when the girls want to 0.96

00:42:37.680 hang with the boys, sometimes they're doing so in a really kind of annoying pick-me way.

00:42:43.040 But sometimes they're doing so because they really do share at a deep level certain attributes

00:42:48.900 with the guys. And male friendships are more relaxed. And it's great. I'm a big proponent

00:42:53.760 of male friendship. But the danger there is men relate to women differently than they relate to

00:42:59.840 men. And men want different things from women than they want from men. And men feel different

00:43:04.800 temptations with women than they do with men. And so either that can lead to a romantic relationship

00:43:11.740 in a wholesome way and you get married and have kids and a white picket fence, or it can lead to

00:43:15.440 some bad stuff, especially when you're hanging at the frat house and everybody's drinking and you

00:43:19.640 realize, oh wait, I'm not actually one of the boys because I'm a girl. And this isn't how boys

00:43:27.020 interact with each other, except for sometimes, I guess in some cases they do interact that way,

00:43:31.580 especially in whatever this kind of Mezzo-Fanuc-Cornell frat house was.

00:43:35.080 But generally, no, no, no, they're different.

00:43:36.600 I'm not one of the boys.

00:43:37.540 Yikes.

00:43:38.400 Maybe I shouldn't have believed those lies.

00:43:39.820 Okay.

00:43:40.820 Texas Democrats are now very openly just buying votes from constituents.

00:43:49.660 We are paying people $25 to attend a one-hour Zoom class

00:43:55.960 to learn why voting is important

00:43:58.920 in why the republicans are causing all these bad things yeah yeah um so it's like a roundabout way

00:44:07.300 of paying people for their vets essentially um which is interesting uh what's the what's this

00:44:13.480 called uh it's called the paid relational program i think rally texas is the official name you can't

00:44:20.360 pay someone to vote for someone you can't be like here's 25 go vote for me you can say um attend

00:44:28.760 a one-hour class and you can receive

00:44:30.880 $25 and then

00:44:32.760 the class just talks about

00:44:34.360 the importance of it.

00:44:36.140 It's a little gray. It's a creative way to

00:44:38.240 it's a creative way to kind of

00:44:40.300 yeah, yeah, yeah.

00:44:42.440 But right now we can use all the help we can get.

00:44:44.120 Yeah, you know, like if I

00:44:45.620 was a Republican, I would be pissed.

00:44:48.220 I would be like, that's shady as

00:44:49.680 yeah. Yeah, and you know

00:44:52.160 what? If I were a federal prosecutor,

00:44:54.280 I would

00:44:54.980 it's not that I'd be ticked off.

00:44:58.460 I would be excited, actually, to prosecute this PAC.

00:45:01.440 This is the Texas Majority PAC.

00:45:02.880 This guy is an organizing manager there,

00:45:05.420 and his name is Sky McAdams.

00:45:09.280 Was he just developed in a Petri dish

00:45:11.460 by the Democratic National Committee

00:45:13.160 and then sent off to the Super PAC to,

00:45:15.720 I don't know, Sky McAdams. 1.00

00:45:18.260 That is as Libba name as I've ever heard. 0.93

00:45:21.140 And he says, yeah, what we're doing 0.80

00:45:22.540 is we're paying for votes.

00:45:23.520 It's a little bit of a roundabout way,

00:45:24.780 but we pay someone 25 bucks to take a zoom call and then the zoom the zoom class just tells you

00:45:31.200 how terrible republicans are it's pretty clear what we're doing here we're paying you 25 bucks

00:45:36.160 and we're gonna we're gonna get your vote that violates both state and federal law so i hope

00:45:41.500 the doj prosecutes these people to the fullest extent of the law i hope they go behind bars i

00:45:46.760 you know maybe we don't need to go as far as a capital punishment to bring us back to the top

00:45:51.540 of the show, but they need to be punished for sure. However, paying people for their votes

00:45:58.360 is not merely a violation of state and federal law. It's also the definition of democracy.

00:46:04.380 So at more virtuous stages of our republic, people were more focused on the common good,

00:46:12.480 and they were more sacrificial in their view of politics, and they were less factional and

00:46:16.580 less interested in simply getting theirs. However, it is a recurrent perennial feature of democracies

00:46:22.900 that you basically buy people's votes. So you can either say, here's 25 bucks,

00:46:28.420 take a phone call with me where I tell you all the terrible things about Republicans.

00:46:32.040 You could go even further and just say, here's 25 bucks, go pull the lever in the ballot box for

00:46:36.620 my guy. You could do that. Or you could say, hey, if you vote for me, I'll steal from Whitey over

00:46:41.980 there and give you reparations. That's what Gavin Newsom's doing. Gavin Newsom's doing nothing 0.98

00:46:45.880 different than these Texas Democrats are doing. And what he's doing is frankly more egregious

00:46:49.980 because he's talking about companies worth over $100 million. Forget about $25 for a Zoom call.

00:46:57.840 When we say, hey, vote for me and I'll increase your entitlements. I'll increase welfare spending. 0.88

00:47:05.180 Hey, vote for me and I'll make sure that we build more factories for this company that's really 0.99

00:47:10.600 important in your district. That's just the nature of democracy. So in as much as we can 0.94

00:47:16.420 hold up the letter of law and hold Democrats to account, that's great. But let's not be utopian

00:47:20.760 about it. You got to play in politics as it is. Democrats really are better at this. The leftists,

00:47:26.980 the organizers are better at dealing with the gritty political reality. And they do things

00:47:30.780 that are immoral and unjust. I'm not saying we need to totally copy it, but I think they have

00:47:34.900 a more realistic view of politics, of political organizing, of electoral politics than the

00:47:40.040 Republicans do, who sometimes get a little too idealistic. Let's not get high on our own supply.

00:47:44.180 Let's not believe our own press releases. Yes, prosecute these people when they violate the law,

00:47:47.680 but also recognize they're just doing democracy. That's it. Politics is the art of the possible.

00:47:54.100 Speaking of Texas Democrats, James Tallarico not backing off any of his radical views. James

00:48:01.440 Tallarico was just grilled on what would happen on immigration if the Democrats retake the House

00:48:07.440 in the Senate, eventually the presidency? What do they want? What is the idea that we're just

00:48:12.320 going to let these illegal aliens stay in America? Is your position that anyone who is here illegally 1.00

00:48:19.220 that doesn't have a criminal record, they should be able to stay in the country? No, I believe that 1.00

00:48:23.940 they should have a pathway to citizenship, which includes paying back taxes, learning English and

00:48:28.900 passing a criminal background check. If they can meet all of those standards, I think they should

00:48:32.740 be eligible for citizenship so with that being said do you then wait though until someone an 0.97

00:48:40.040 illegal migrant is here doesn't have a criminal record and then hurts an american you have a case

00:48:44.260 like jocelyn ungray i know you know that story of course here in texas a 12 year old brutally killed

00:48:49.620 two illegal migrants from venezuela they didn't have a known history they were caught and released

00:48:55.340 and it wasn't until they murdered this young young girl and it's why we should know who's coming into 1.00

00:49:00.820 our country. It's why I'm a border security Democrat. And let me say something a lot of

00:49:04.620 Democrats won't say. It is not racist to want to know who's coming into your country. And I believe

00:49:10.460 that. And it's why we need to make sure that we know exactly who is coming into our country. We 0.99

00:49:15.160 need to have a full orderly vetting process to ensure that we are keeping Americans and Texans

00:49:20.200 safe. He's pretty slick at talking, so maybe a lot of people will just be hypnotized by what he

00:49:25.900 set or fall asleep. But the question was, hey, James Tallarico, do you believe that the illegal

00:49:32.060 aliens, you say they shouldn't be deported, so what, they should just stay? And he says, no,

00:49:36.420 that's not what I believe. I think they should become citizens. Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.

00:49:40.860 Hold on. Hold on. You say, no, no, no. They shouldn't stay. They should be given citizenship.

00:49:47.380 So then what does the no refer to? You're not saying no. You're saying yes, and they should

00:49:53.680 be given even more than that. Because becoming a citizen usually involves staying. He says,

00:49:57.740 you know what? You think these illegal aliens should just stay? No, no, no. I don't think 1.00

00:50:00.560 they should stay. I think we should make them citizens, eligible to become members of the US

00:50:05.020 Senate and receive welfare. No, no, no. So either he has no idea what he's saying, or he's lying

00:50:11.560 in this really blatant way. But then there's a great follow-up question, which I do wish there

00:50:18.980 had been a follow-up of, hold on, you just contradicted yourself. You're saying they

00:50:22.660 she becomes citizens on top. Okay. But she says, well, hold on. You say that we shouldn't have

00:50:27.900 the criminals here, but all these illegals who keep murdering Americans, raping them and committing 0.98

00:50:34.540 all these crimes against them, they didn't have a criminal record. So in other words, if you did 0.98

00:50:39.200 a criminal background check on them and then allowed them to stay, you wouldn't have been 0.85

00:50:43.780 able to know that the next day they would go rape and murder somebody. That was their first 0.92

00:50:49.740 major crime after they came into the country illegally. And they were only able to commit 1.00

00:50:53.980 that crime because Democrats like you allowed them to stay. And he says, no, yes, no, I take

00:50:57.900 that very, very seriously. That's why we need to have to know who's coming into our country. 0.95

00:51:02.960 But by your own logic, you wouldn't know that they were potential violent criminals because

00:51:07.240 they would have passed the criminal background check. By your own logic, you also don't want

00:51:11.340 to know who's coming into the country because you support an open border. You are saying that

00:51:15.540 you're a border security Democrat, but your preferred policies that you articulate in the

00:51:20.700 very same breath are that you just let all these people in, and then you not only give them amnesty,

00:51:25.240 you give them citizenship. This is a degree of dishonesty that is actually somewhat shocking.

00:51:33.840 Maybe it shouldn't be from the guy who says that God is non-binary and who invokes the

00:51:37.160 Blessed Virgin Mary to defend killing babies in the womb. Maybe it shouldn't be surprising to me, 0.99

00:51:41.480 But this guy, this guy is bad news, man. They're running James Tallarico as the nice, soft

00:51:47.840 Democrat. Even a lot of Republicans, when we make fun of him, we're making fun of him for being this

00:51:51.820 weak soy boy beta. That's like the image that we have. I don't know, man. This guy seems more like

00:51:56.920 Patrick Bateman than some weak soy boy. This guy seems dark, man. This guy has an edge. I mean, 1.00

00:52:05.580 if you have the temerity to invoke the Blessed Virgin Mary to defend abortion, there is something

00:52:12.000 really rotted in your soul. And if you have the ability to just look a reporter dead in the face

00:52:16.360 and say, no, no, no, the thing that you're accusing me of is not true. My opinion is much, much worse.

00:52:24.540 No, no, no, we can't know who's coming into our country. And that's why we have to know who's 1.00

00:52:28.940 coming into our country. If you can just do that on command, I don't know, man, that is spooky.

00:52:33.480 that is spooky this game was a beautiful dodge i got to give him credit for that

00:52:37.980 game game recognized game but he just kept answering a different question okay so much

00:52:43.860 more to get to i really want to get to the trans new york times executive who was just murdered

00:52:49.800 by he goes by him but he's actually a she by her in-laws but i don't have time i don't have time

00:52:58.920 that's my tease for tomorrow we will get to the story we will get to the story tomorrow hold me

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00:53:04.560 politicians accountable. You can hold me accountable. We will get

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00:53:24.560 Every significant movement in history has started

00:53:26.540 with protesting.

00:53:28.520 This is our generation's civil rights.

00:53:30.600 I have no idea what the protest is about.

00:53:32.520 Bingo.

00:53:33.360 Given the current climate,

00:53:34.600 should have figured as polarizing as Clay Saunders

00:53:37.360 even be allowed on campus.

00:53:38.520 Ah, can you hear me okay?

00:53:39.800 Saunders is a close personal friend of Chancellor Friedman.

00:53:42.200 This is a decision I can't offer. 1.00

00:53:43.800 Islam will conquer the West. 1.00

00:53:47.120 As-salamu alaykum. 1.00

00:53:50.400 Are we paying attention? 1.00

00:53:52.640 They've taken over the building.

00:53:53.880 They're downstairs and they've blocked the doors.

00:53:57.080 I seek forgiveness from Allah the Almighty.

00:54:01.160 We cannot run and hide.

00:54:02.960 Mohammed is the messenger of God.

00:54:06.360 There is no God but Allah. 0.99

00:54:09.260 What do you say? 1.00

00:54:10.560 We turn those SOBs into a fine red mist. 0.99

00:54:15.560 As we move, one man will cover while the other guys go. 1.00

00:54:18.760 They call that leap project.

00:54:19.860 Stretch around and listen.

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