The Michael Knowles Show - November 12, 2026


Ep. 2102 - My Most Unpopular Take： Surveillance States Are Good

Ep. 2101 - Ole Miss Ring Cam Girls： Was This Racist？ Friendly Fire： The Making of Confession

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00:00:51 The 2028 presidential race heats up just a week after the midterms
00:00:54 as the knives come out for Marco Rubio.
00:00:57 Corporate America scrambles to make nice with the Democrats,
00:00:59 as even some of President Trump's biggest business supporters
00:01:03 rebrand as progressive leftists.
00:01:06 And you, too, can now manage your own surveillance state
00:01:09 with the advent of the Ring doorbell drone.
00:01:13 Smile.
00:01:13 I'm Michael Knowles.
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00:02:25 Okay, do you get the point?
00:02:26 Do you get the point?
00:02:26 I think you do.
00:02:27 Now, speaking of companies,
00:02:30 and when we're talking about Daily Wire,
00:02:32 we're talking about a tech company.
00:02:33 Some of the biggest corporate supporters
00:02:35 of President Trump are rebranding
00:02:39 as essentially progressive.
00:02:43 This coming from Palantir.
00:02:45 Palantir, very, very important company
00:02:47 in the United States.
00:02:48 They've worked well with President Trump,
00:02:50 with lots of other governments.
00:02:52 Obviously, Peter Thiel, who's founder of Palantir.
00:02:55 Peter Thiel has backed President Trump and Vice President Vance,
00:02:59 and he's helped out all sorts of conservative causes.
00:03:02 Anyway, Palantir wants to make very clear right now,
00:03:05 they are not a conservative company.
00:03:07 Alex Karp, co-founder of Palantir, has said that Palantir is essentially progressive.
00:03:14 Here's a big, big headline story in Business Insider.
00:03:17 Alex Karp says he's a lifelong Democrat,
00:03:18 and Palantir's products are essentially progressive. After the Blue Nami, Alex Karp
00:03:23 is talking up his ties to the Democrats. The Palantir CEO once described wokeness as a thin
00:03:28 pagan religion and called Democrats irresponsible and childish. Meanwhile, he praised President 0.58
00:03:32 Trump as a model for entrepreneurs. Well, in a Wednesday interview with Politico,
00:03:36 which is a sister company of Business Insider, he pointed out he is a lefty. I've been a Democrat
00:03:41 my whole life, says Karp. I know more about being a progressive than almost anybody on the planet.
00:03:45 And I absolutely believe Palantir, all of our products, are essentially progressive. 0.67
00:03:50 Though he is an unhappy Democrat who does not love the Mamdani wing of the party. 0.64
00:03:55 Okay. 0.89
00:03:56 So I'm in no way criticizing Palantir for this.
00:04:02 Plenty of people are going to criticize Palantir.
00:04:04 Alex Karp actually is a Democrat, and he played well with the conservatives for a while.
00:04:08 Peter Thiel obviously is a more right-wing person, but Palantir contains multitudes.
00:04:14 if I were Palantir, I'd be doing exactly the same thing. And it ain't just Palantir. It's
00:04:18 all of corporate America is about to be doing this. This is just a sign of the shift in politics.
00:04:26 The Democrats are promising. Jamie Raskin is promising to go after corporations that have
00:04:31 in any way helped the sitting president of the United States. And so this is where I'm favorably
00:04:38 inclined toward a company like Palantir. I'm obviously favorably inclined toward a company
00:04:42 like X, Elon Musk, putting his money where our mouths are to stop the left-wingers from censoring
00:04:47 all the conservatives in the public square. There are other companies I'm less favorably
00:04:50 inclined toward. Some of the big tech companies have been brutal on conservatives, and they had
00:04:55 to be brought into line by President Trump. And yet, even if we're talking about Mark Zuckerberg,
00:05:02 whose company nearly destroyed the Daily Wire some years back, even if we're talking about
00:05:07 Google or any of the other big companies, I have a great deal of sympathy for them
00:05:12 because this is the way American politics works now. It's worked this way at different points
00:05:19 in our history. It especially works this way now. Corporate America will be punished by the party
00:05:25 in power, especially if it's Democrats, if they don't toe a line. So the political import of this
00:05:33 for us is, for a long time, conservatives said politics is downstream of culture. And if that
00:05:37 means that we need to produce good movies, so be it. But that's not a political truth that is
00:05:43 eternally holding. Because culture can be downstream of politics. We were very tough
00:05:50 on some of the big tech companies, Google and Facebook in particular, for going after conservatives.
00:05:56 But in many ways, they were just doing what Elizabeth Warren and a lot of Democrat politicians
00:06:01 were making them do. What do you expect them to do? The political order is setting the tone,
00:06:08 and then the culture-making institutions were in many ways following it.
00:06:13 It's not that these guys, most of the people in corporate America are not all that ideological,
00:06:18 but when they get missives coming in from the government that say, you need to hire according
00:06:22 to DEI policies, you need to increase diversity in your HR departments and the way that you run
00:06:28 you're hiring. You need to debank some conservative. I remember Jamie Dimon making
00:06:34 this point. Jamie Dimon says, look, I don't want to debank anybody. I run a bank. I want to keep
00:06:38 banking people. But when the government threatens to charge me billions of dollars, if I don't
00:06:43 debank so-and-so or so-and-so, I'm just going to comply. I have a business to run here. So this is
00:06:49 unfortunate. We need to pay close attention to this because it signals the return of wokeness.
00:06:54 Wokeness is already back.
00:06:57 It's not that there's a threat that wokeness will come back when the Democrats take their seats in January or if they win the 2020 presidential race.
00:07:04 Wokeness is back, and you will be seeing it in your media, in your products, in hiring practices.
00:07:11 It just is back, okay?
00:07:15 And people, I think people took for granted that a lot of that stuff went away with the election of Trump in 2024.
00:07:21 They're about to get a very unfortunate reminder.
00:07:23 Now, speaking of big tech companies,
00:07:27 the surveillance state is coming to your home
00:07:29 even more than it already has.
00:07:30 Ring has just unveiled what many people are viewing
00:07:33 as a dystopian product, and that is a personal drone.
00:07:38 Maybe you have a doorbell camera.
00:07:39 Maybe you have some even other security cameras
00:07:41 in your home.
00:07:42 Now you can have your own drone,
00:07:45 which means you and all your neighbors
00:07:47 and everyone is just on camera all the time.
00:07:51 We'll get to what that means.
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00:09:36 We've got a new surveillance drone coming to all the homes near you.
00:09:40 Here is the dystopian commercial aired by Ring.
00:09:45 The burglar comes in. 0.50
00:09:46 Of course, he's like a mostly white guy. 0.90
00:09:48 Like every burglary commercial, it's always the one white burglar who's ever existed. 0.73
00:09:56 Anyway, the drone comes up when the alarm goes off. 0.84
00:10:01 The drone is flying room to room.
00:10:04 It can fly outside.
00:10:05 It can fly at night.
00:10:06 It can film everything.
00:10:07 Your whole neighborhood. 1.00
00:10:08 It's just going to be swarms of drones catching all of the exclusively white burglars. 1.00
00:10:14 Sorry, I know I keep harping on that, but it's just so preposterous and it's been true. 0.98
00:10:18 It's like every single burglar is a white guy. 0.97
00:10:20 It's so funny. 0.99
00:10:21 There are more white burglars in this commercial 1.00
00:10:23 than there have ever been in the United States. 0.97
00:10:26 But put that aside for a second.
00:10:28 I told you, Wokeness was back in advertising.
00:10:30 Just focus on the drone for a second.
00:10:33 This is dystopian.
00:10:35 You're walking around your neighborhood at night.
00:10:37 And not only are you on camera
00:10:39 because of all of the security cameras everywhere,
00:10:41 now there are just swarms of drones
00:10:43 monitoring your every action,
00:10:46 peeking into your window.
00:10:48 everything you do, every argument with your wife,
00:10:52 walking around the house half naked out of the shower,
00:10:56 whatever it is, you're on camera.
00:11:01 And yet you already kind of are.
00:11:03 You carry these portals to hell in your pocket all the time,
00:11:05 which are constantly monitoring your voice
00:11:07 and potentially recording you on video.
00:11:10 Every building you walk by in any city in many towns
00:11:14 is going to have some camera picking up what you're doing.
00:11:17 Your TV is spying on you.
00:11:18 Your Alexa, if you have one, is spying on you.
00:11:20 Your refrigerator might be spying on you.
00:11:23 So it already kind of exists.
00:11:24 The drone just brings it home.
00:11:27 And this is where the unpopular opinion comes in.
00:11:29 Because a lot of people, especially on the right, were predicting this many years ago
00:11:35 and saying we're going to live in this kind of big brother, dystopian society
00:11:39 where every action that we ever take is captured on camera.
00:11:44 And everyone hates that, right?
00:11:45 The implication of that fear-mongering is that this would be a hellish sort of society to live in.
00:11:52 I kind of like that basically anything I do at any time of the day is being recorded.
00:11:59 I kind of like it.
00:12:00 When I was a teenager, when I was a libertarian, I hated that.
00:12:03 I remember the first time I went to London, I was flipping the bird at the CCTV cameras.
00:12:07 I just hated it.
00:12:07 I was rebelling against the surveillance.
00:12:11 Now, I'll tell you what.
00:12:13 I think it's a great thing.
00:12:15 I think it's a great thing. Channel your hate into the comments section. It's fine.
00:12:20 Bent, let it out. I know. I'm concerned about the people who have those data. I'm concerned about
00:12:27 who exactly is spying on me and who has access to those. Yeah, yeah, sure.
00:12:33 I kind of like that we're always being recorded all the time. You know why?
00:12:38 because it makes me behave better i know just put the hateful comments into the put it into
00:12:46 the comment section let me explain myself while you're while you're writing i noticed this when
00:12:52 i started to get a little bit of a public profile i'm not brad pitt but i have a little bit of a
00:12:55 public profile you know people come up and say hey when i'm out about town when that first started
00:13:00 happening it was quite shocking you say oh my goodness people are paying attention to me even
00:13:04 as I'm sitting eating my lunch or whatever in a restaurant, I better not yell at my kids
00:13:10 or I better not make an untoward remark or better not, I don't know, be rude to a waiter
00:13:15 or something.
00:13:16 I thought, huh, that's probably good because I shouldn't just yell at my kid at a restaurant
00:13:22 and I should never be mean to waiters.
00:13:24 And I should, if I'm being watched all the time, I ought to behave.
00:13:28 in many ways this dystopian political turn of events is a reminder of a spiritual reality that
00:13:38 is always true which is we are always being watched you know god and the angels and the
00:13:44 demons like spiritual creatures and the one true god are always watching us and we are held to
00:13:51 account for the things that we do even when we think that they're not on camera or not being
00:13:55 seen. What is that old aphorism? Character is what you do when you think nobody is watching,
00:14:01 but someone is always watching. At least God is always watching you.
00:14:05 And so this is the ubiquity of the cameras and the weirdo drones in your home,
00:14:11 that will be very offensive specifically to a liberal or libertarian disposition or view of
00:14:18 the world. But I'm no longer a libertarian. I never really was a liberal. And so, is that such
00:14:27 a bad thing? Why should I be? Look, I'm not saying I would have prescribed this. I wouldn't have
00:14:32 gone about and invented the cameras on everyone's doorway. And we all do stupid things sometimes. 1.00
00:14:37 And especially for young people, that's really awful because it can ruin your life. We saw those 0.99
00:14:41 girls getting caught on a doorbell cam making goofy monkey sounds probably ruined that girl's 1.00
00:14:44 life. So there are plenty of potential downsides. But I'm just saying for you, especially if you're
00:14:50 watching the show and you're an adult, and you should know better and you fully matured,
00:14:55 what are you worried about with the cameras? What are you worried about? Is it some vice?
00:15:01 Is it some bad habit that you fear might be caught? Wouldn't it be good to stop doing that
00:15:08 thing? It's like people who text. People text all sorts of nasty things. There's always a
00:15:13 political scandal now is just when they leak the trove of texts between this person or that person.
00:15:18 This is the one scandal, I promise you, I'm never going to get caught in because I don't text
00:15:21 anybody. I don't text anybody. I don't start texts. I barely text people back. I barely call
00:15:25 people. But some of the old political advice was never put into an email, the sort of thing you
00:15:30 wouldn't be comfortable reading on the cover of the New York Times. I may be the one conservative
00:15:37 who kind of likes the surveillance cameras. Okay. Put your nasty comments below.
00:15:43 Meanwhile, speaking of the surveillance state, who might be running our country,
00:15:48 the presidential race is on.
00:15:49 That was already sort of beginning before the midterms.
00:15:53 But day after the midterms, that's the beginning of the 2028 presidential primary.
00:15:56 There are plenty of people who are going to run.
00:15:59 Vice President J.D. Vance is the heir apparent.
00:16:02 I think he's the obvious frontrunner without question.
00:16:05 But there are other people, especially after the drubbing in the midterms,
00:16:08 who are starting to look good.
00:16:09 DeSantis looks like he's going to run.
00:16:11 Senator Cruz has indicated that he's going to run. Rand Paul has suggested that he might run,
00:16:15 certainly in the libertarian lane. There was one candidate who said that that person is not going
00:16:20 to run. But Rubio has been this big figure. Will he? Won't he? He has already endorsed J.D. Vance.
00:16:27 He's said he doesn't want to run. I think there's a lot of evidence he doesn't want to run.
00:16:31 Plenty of people want him to run, especially donors. So how do we know that the race is on?
00:16:38 because there's finally a hit piece on him.
00:16:40 Washington Post ran this, I think, 0.85
00:16:42 ridiculous hit piece on Marco Rubio. 0.64
00:16:45 Post piece says that Rubio 0.95
00:16:47 has been flying to football games
00:16:51 at the University of Florida.
00:16:54 Rubio's son is at the University of Florida.
00:16:56 Do we have the article?
00:16:58 Yes.
00:17:00 Flying by pricey military jet,
00:17:02 Rubio rarely misses a Florida football game.
00:17:05 Secretary of State Marco Rubio,
00:17:06 who's required to travel by government plane,
00:17:08 defended his trips to his alma mater to see his son play. So, his son is on the football team
00:17:12 at UF. Rubio is currently working like five jobs for the federal government. He's not being paid
00:17:22 all that much relative to the work that he's doing. And one of his indulgences is to see his
00:17:30 family a little bit more by flying to the football game. And I'm sure he would fly Southwest, but he's
00:17:35 not allowed to because America's adversaries want to kill him. So he has to fly by government plane
00:17:40 and that's the hit piece. Very weak hit piece, totally ridiculous. But if Marco Rubio does want 0.98
00:17:48 to run for president, this is a good sign because it means people are beginning to really take him
00:17:51 seriously as a potential presidential candidate. The other reminder here though is I think a lot
00:17:58 of people are beginning to talk about all these other prospective candidates. Oh, maybe DeSantis
00:18:03 will run. Maybe they will convince Rubio to run. They're saying, oh, there's too much negative
00:18:08 press about J.D. Vance, who is the heir apparent. People are getting the order of things wrong
00:18:15 here. There is a lot of negative press about J.D. Vance from all these liberal outlets
00:18:20 because he is the presumptive nominee. And there probably will be a primary,
00:18:26 and I don't think it'll just be a coronation. But that's why. It's not that J.D. Vance might
00:18:32 not be the nominee now because there's all this negative press. There is negative press because
00:18:35 he's the presumptive nominee. And whoever becomes the nominee or whoever even starts to get close
00:18:42 to possibly being the guy is going to get a ton of negative press too. That's the argument,
00:18:48 especially from the donor class, between this hypothetical Vance-Rubio primary. They say,
00:18:54 well, we need to do Rubio because there's too much negative stuff on Vance. But there's no
00:18:57 negative stuff on Rubio. He's like the golden boy. This is the amuse-bouche, folks. There's
00:19:03 going to be horrifically vicious, monstrous negative stuff on anyone who gets close to
00:19:09 the Republican presidential nomination. Did you see what they did to Brett Kavanaugh?
00:19:12 Brett Kavanaugh is like a Boy Scout. He's one of the most wholesome guys we've ever seen in
00:19:15 government. They called him a rapist, like a gang rapist, based on nothing, based on this
00:19:23 totally contrived to count from a lunatic. No evidence whatsoever. So anyway, that's it. 0.98
00:19:30 A sign that the 2028 race is well underway. A sign that anyone who gets close is going to be
00:19:38 smeared. I mean, this Rubio thing is totally absurd. And ultimately, I think probably a good
00:19:44 sign for J.D. Vance because there's so much of the negative attack on him already. It's hard to see
00:19:50 what else people are going to come up with. I'm sure the left will come up with something,
00:19:54 but it's a little hard to see. Okay. Now, speaking of presidential candidates,
00:19:58 one candidate is not running in 2028. That is, drum roll please, Nikki Haley.
00:20:06 You know, I am not running in 2028, but I will continue to talk about the things that I care
00:20:11 about. I will continue to push good policy. I will continue to support good candidates.
00:20:16 And we want a strong America. And whatever we have to do, I think every one of us has an
00:20:19 obligation to try and continue those moving the ball forward. Okay, so Nikki Haley's flirted with
00:20:25 a run. She was running last time. Senator Cruz named her his vice presidential candidate, 0.94
00:20:32 like his running mate, in the final days of the 2016 presidential race. So she obviously has
00:20:37 presidential ambitions. She was on very good terms with Trump in the first term, and they kind of had
00:20:41 a falling out, and they kind of made friends again. Anyway, it was a soap opera, but she's
00:20:45 not going to run. And this actually does have some relevance for the state of play in the race 0.69
00:20:52 because what it means is that Senator Cruz's lane remains decisively his. There are all these
00:21:01 different lanes in the race. I think JD is the heir apparent. I don't think Marco Rubio runs.
00:21:08 Ron DeSantis would run as the better version of Trump probably as he ran last time.
00:21:12 so you got two kind of trumpism candidates one who who i think has a very strong claim to be
00:21:18 the heir the other one who is kind of the alternate reality uh version of what trumpism
00:21:25 could have been you know ah if only we'd picked desantis in 2024 yeah that's that's how he ran
00:21:29 in the 2024 primary that means that there's the reaganite lane uh the the lane of the people who
00:21:36 claim the mantle of reagan who are most likely to invoke the legacy of ronald reagan not even
00:21:40 saying that that's exactly the same thing as what Reagan actually did. I'm just saying
00:21:43 that's how it is understood in the present political climate. I think Senator Cruz
00:21:48 dominates that lane right now. And so then you got the libertarian lane, which is usually held
00:21:54 by a member of the Paul family, like very specific. It's either Ron Paul or Rand Paul.
00:21:58 I think Rand Paul dominates that lane probably over a Thomas Massey. I think Massey has just
00:22:03 alienated himself way too far out of the mainstream. Nikki Haley could have tried to
00:22:09 run in the Reaganite lane. But anyway, I think that's your slate right now. Expect many, many
00:22:14 more hit pieces. Okay. As wokeism is returning, as nature heals and the American political order
00:22:21 returns to decay and decadence, there is a professor at the University of Michigan who's
00:22:26 going viral for her lesson in which she sings show tunes about how awful America is.
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00:23:57 i did not believe this was real when i first saw it a student at the university of michigan
00:24:04 showing what history lessons look like at that august and esteemed university
00:24:09 i can't make this up this is what my professor does for my class university of michigan
00:24:16 I can't even romanticize the past
00:24:21 Because it was sh** back when in many ways 0.98
00:24:28 Though it's even more sh** now 0.95
00:24:34 I thought I was here to help folks save this world 0.96
00:24:41 But I'm here to watch it melt
00:24:45 I pay money to go to this college
00:24:48 It's a real degree, Sarah
00:24:52 It's a real degree
00:24:56 I did not believe this was real at first
00:24:59 I said, I can't put it in the script
00:25:00 I don't trust it, this has to be a hoax, no
00:25:03 Dr. Laura J. Yakis 0.96
00:25:06 she is teaching a seminar sw 505 engaging social justice diversity and oppression in social work
00:25:15 she has a phd in social work and anthropology from the university of michigan 2018 she also
00:25:22 has an msw whatever that is matt is that master of social work probably and an ma from the
00:25:28 university of michigan she's a lecturer in the university of michigan school of social work okay
00:25:34 okay her bio notes this she enjoys writing and performing musical comedy because making fun of
00:25:44 the world is another way to transform it she has received awards she's received awards she has
00:25:50 received the 2024 distinguished lecturer award so this is not some weirdo just graduate student say
00:25:57 who was doing kind of her own thing no no this is she's got her phd she has a job at this school
00:26:02 she got an award for her lecturing. And she is singing. She is indulging some weird
00:26:09 thwarted dream of hers. She is singing specifically about how terrible the past was
00:26:17 and how terrible the present is and how terrible the country is.
00:26:21 And this is what students are paying for. I love that guy. That guy is just the voice of
00:26:26 his generation. It's like, I'm paying. This is supposed to be a real school.
00:26:29 and it's certainly not the thing that i hate the most though about this whole look i like
00:26:34 like a nice acoustic guitar in the right so that's not the appropriate space for it i like
00:26:39 playing the ukulele singing along i hate the degradation of the university i hate that these
00:26:49 fake fields even exist at a university i hate everything about the lesson plan but even down to 1.00
00:26:56 this woman's approach to education. She says that her purpose is to transform the world, 1.00
00:27:05 make fun of the world, and therefore transform it. That is the opposite of what education is 0.94
00:27:11 supposed to do. Education is supposed to have you not make fun of the world, not mock it from
00:27:16 the standpoint of pride. You're supposed to begin with humility in education. Then, rather than make
00:27:22 fun of the world, you're supposed to understand the world, take the world seriously. And then
00:27:28 rather than transform the world, change the world, which is what every graduation speaker tells you
00:27:31 to do these days, you're actually supposed to make sense of the world so that you can live within it
00:27:39 in a way that is in accord with reality and nature and the truth, and so that you can be happy in
00:27:45 this world, that's your natural end, and be happy in the world to come. Because this is a contingent
00:27:51 world. And so it implies, the physical world implies a metaphysical reality, which we also
00:27:56 should understand. That's the purpose of education. The purpose of education, to put it very simply,
00:28:04 is happiness. But the way to be happy is not to hate the past, hate the present, feel resentment
00:28:11 all the time, try to change reality. You're not going to succeed. Reality is going to win in that
00:28:15 battle. All of that is totally contrary to happiness. And so at this point, this woman's
00:28:20 video convinced me we need to just bulldoze the universities. We just need to bulldoze them all, 0.99
00:28:25 defund them all. I used to be more of a reformer. This woman is making me think that she won an
00:28:31 award. She's not even going to be punished for that. She won an award for it. Okay. Speaking 0.94
00:28:37 of insufferable leaders, did you know, I mentioned this a little bit at the end of the show yesterday,
00:28:43 all governors in border states will be Democrats next year. This is leading not only the governors,
00:28:49 but the mayors of cities and border states to declare that they will no longer cooperate with ICE.
00:28:55 Here is the mayor of Houston.
00:28:58 This morning, I have directed the chief and HPD through an executive order
00:29:06 that we will change our policy in regarding contact with ICE.
00:29:12 i do this to begin a healing process
00:29:19 reduce fear and anxiety across our community okay so this is obviously in response to the
00:29:29 midterms democrats come back into power at the national level obviously democrats flip texas
00:29:34 so they say we're going to change our relationship with ice no law has changed
00:29:39 the leadership of ice or the dhs that has not changed
00:29:44 the immigration enforcement should continue unabated federal government runs immigration law
00:29:51 i don't care if you got a new democrat governor i don't care if you got a new democrat mayor they
00:29:55 have no say in that ultimately because of the supremacy clause the federal government controls
00:30:01 these things but it's you're seeing the same reaction here that you're seeing from the corporate
00:30:05 America, which is now the Democrats now have taken substantial power back, and they are going to
00:30:11 terrorize anyone who opposes them. So who do we have? Xavier Becerra, governor of California. Katie
00:30:18 Hobbs remains governor of Arizona. Deb Haaland in New Mexico. Gina Hinojosa in Texas. Goodness
00:30:25 gracious this is tough because you think ah we had that unified government we had we had
00:30:37 practically this the popular vote we had all the wins at our sails and it goes away so fast 0.99
00:30:42 we deported two and a half million illegals that's great three million immigrants total 0.99
00:30:48 out of the country great but we only had two years i wish we had deported five million 1.00
00:30:55 I wish that we had done better in the midterms, which was led in part by the Iran war. 1.00
00:31:01 Ah, it goes so fast.
00:31:05 And there were conservatives during those two years who said, oh, we need to slow down.
00:31:09 There were conservatives working against the immigration crackdown.
00:31:13 Just an important thing to remember in politics, the next time we find ourselves in power,
00:31:17 if we find ourselves in power, if the Democrat governors and legislatures don't pass the
00:31:23 national popular vote concord, which then would essentially, if it survived legal challenges,
00:31:30 prevent Republicans from winning the presidency ever again, because you would have California,
00:31:34 New York, and possibly even Texas just electing the president from then on.
00:31:39 Next time that we have power, next time that we have the opportunity, I don't want to hear
00:31:43 a peep from any conservative, even moderate right-winger who says, well, maybe we should
00:31:49 slow down. Maybe, hey, you got two years to do this stuff, even just to enforce the basics of
00:31:53 the law. And now that opportunity is gone. Okay. Speaking of leaders who generally support
00:31:59 immigration, I turn to Pope Leo. He's caught a lot of flack for being kind of a lib. That's what
00:32:05 people have accused him of. Pope Leo just said something. A lot of people missed it.
00:32:08 But it's another signal from his pontificate that he is much, much more conservative than
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00:33:30 my favorite comment yesterday is from adi who says i do not appreciate this level of
00:33:36 inappropriateness at all it's not okay so i did not know what this referred to i didn't know if
00:33:39 this was semi-ironic can we mr davies are you there yep and what what does this comment refer
00:33:47 to it refers to the ring cam girls from old miss that's what i thought there's a lot of people
00:33:52 online kind of making edits of them and enhancing it making it uh pop a little bit more make it
00:33:58 Well, I'm making it pop.
00:33:59 What kind of euphemisms are we talking about here?
00:34:01 You know, when you're scrolling, just making sure your eyes catch it.
00:34:03 Catch it.
00:34:04 I don't know what the it, are we, how are they enhancing the girl in the, is it what
00:34:10 I think?
00:34:11 Here comes Professor Jacob.
00:34:13 You should give me, let me see the receipts.
00:34:15 What is.
00:34:15 So people are thinking we're trying to like thirst trap click, but actually under further
00:34:20 investigation, I found out that it's not the case.
00:34:23 This is an actual screenshot that Jacob took.
00:34:25 you're saying how do i clean this up for a family show you're saying in the video that went viral
00:34:32 that was the subject of the show yesterday the young gals uh endowment was prominently displayed 0.63
00:34:43 which i did not see i don't see the the thumbnails generally but then apparently 0.99
00:34:47 that's what that refers to but so then they accused you of sort of enhancing that
00:34:53 yes okay but now maybe look i'm actually with the commenter on this i'm with the commenter on this
00:35:01 even if it's i'm not even going to show it on camera even if that's a totally natural
00:35:05 unenhanced picture we should not be showing that guys this is a family show and jacob is sitting
00:35:11 there in his office grok oh can you clear up that image for can you blow it up to uh like a seven
00:35:18 foot by 10 foot. Can I print this out for the wall? And that's fine. Professor Jacob can do
00:35:24 whatever he wants in his office, but I agree with the commenter. I don't need that. I want custody
00:35:28 of the eyes. All right. I was, I was recently a confession. I don't need this. I don't need
00:35:34 anything going on in my, but it is, he is, you are exonerated on, you did not,
00:35:40 you didn't change the size of anything. Read the second page. What's the second page say?
00:35:46 yeah no he's trying to he's he's he's really trying to get out of this right now but even if
00:35:52 it's there's enough obscenity in just regular pictures i don't know and now we're gonna have
00:35:56 the ring drones everywhere we gotta we need to alter the images to make them more modest
00:36:01 i don't yeah some people on the internet are altering the images to make them
00:36:05 more obscene and sexual i want to alter reality and make it more modest okay i'm with the commenter
00:36:11 I'm with you, I feel your pain
00:36:13 I agree, I agree
00:36:15 Okay, speaking of morality
00:36:17 Let's get back to Pope Leo
00:36:18 Pope Leo has just issued a signal
00:36:20 And very few people have picked up on this
00:36:22 That he is much more conservative
00:36:23 Than a lot of people seem to think that he is
00:36:25 Here's what he said
00:36:26 After a few or many years
00:36:31 Of having said yes to the master
00:36:33 We may have grown accustomed
00:36:35 To things that would have once
00:36:37 Troubled us
00:36:38 such as harshness towards others, resistance to being corrected, rivalries, attachments,
00:36:48 sins, or clinging to things that gradually rob us of our freedom.
00:36:54 Something even more serious can happen, that we learn to justify everything,
00:37:00 finding pastoral reasons
00:37:03 or communal or personal motives
00:37:07 for doing what we know is wrong.
00:37:12 We also fail when we do not do the good
00:37:14 that is required of us.
00:37:16 Okay, so a lot of people are going to be listening to this, 0.52
00:37:18 especially non-Catholics, but even Catholics,
00:37:20 and they won't be familiar
00:37:22 with the kind of inner lingo
00:37:24 of the modern Catholic Church.
00:37:27 Every community has lingo.
00:37:29 So, yeah, marriages, you know, husband and wife have their own kind of dialect.
00:37:33 And so some of them are not going to be clued into what he's saying here.
00:37:35 The key word is pastoral, that phrase pastoral reasons.
00:37:40 So he says, you know, we become accustomed to harshness and bad things.
00:37:44 And for a lot of people, what the Pope says is going to sound like you should be nice and not be mean.
00:37:50 He doesn't have an Italian accent because he's American, but he's speaking another language.
00:37:54 You should do good things and not bad things. 0.60
00:37:57 it sounds like it's very basic and almost mundane, but the key phrase there is pastoral
00:38:04 reasons. He says, we should not tolerate all these bad things for purely pastoral reasons.
00:38:11 The left-wing factions within the Catholic church and within the Catholic hierarchy,
00:38:18 the reformers that followed the Second Vatican Council that did quite a lot to deform a lot of
00:38:24 traditional Catholic teaching and practice and liturgy, their favorite word is pastoral.
00:38:30 Because they contrast pastoral with dogmatic, a dogmatic council, a dogmatic pronouncement
00:38:36 would declare something about dogma or doctrine or something about the truth of the faith.
00:38:42 Whereas a pastoral message or pastoral council or what have you is just talking about prudence,
00:38:48 practicality, implementation. So you say, no, no, no, we uphold the perennial truths of the
00:38:54 faith, but we should talk about them a little differently. We should emphasize this and
00:38:58 de-emphasize that and whatever. This is what, again, left-right political paradigms don't map
00:39:07 on directly to the Catholic faith, the Catholic faith, which long predates the left-right
00:39:11 dichotomy. And also, let's not forget that the left and right arose in the French Revolution,
00:39:17 and the Catholics were sitting on the right, and the atheists were sitting on the left. So,
00:39:20 it doesn't map on. But in as much as there's a left-wing Catholic faction, they love that word
00:39:25 pastoral. Oh, yes, we need to go soft on LGBT stuff for pastoral reasons. Oh, yeah, we need to, 0.92
00:39:33 we should try to get women priests, even though the popes have consistently, all the way up through
00:39:38 Pope Francis, and I assume Pope Leo, said, no way we're getting women priests. No, we need, 0.84
00:39:42 for pastoral reasons, we should talk about ways to try to make it seem like women are priests. 0.98
00:39:46 Oh, divorced and civilly remarried Catholics who, contrary to 2,000 years of church teaching, 0.86
00:39:53 no, we should regard that as basically fine and say that they're totally open to the sacraments 0.77
00:39:58 without confession. And no, it's all for pastoral reasons. And what Pope Leo is saying is, hey,
00:40:03 knock it off. Knock it off. Do not contradict the truth of the faith and use pastoral reasons
00:40:10 as an excuse. This is a key sign. I'm not saying he's going to become an immigration restrictionist
00:40:16 or anything overnight, though Pope Leo, contrary to what his critics suggest, has said that nations
00:40:20 have a right to borders. They have a right to determine who comes in. Immigrants ought to
00:40:25 follow the law. He has said things like that. But nevertheless, just from Catholic ease,
00:40:31 the kind of lingo of the modern Catholic church, that is a signal, hey, knock it off with the
00:40:38 lib stuff. Let's get back to basics, which we have seen signaled all the way back to Popplio's
00:40:43 selection of the name Leo, marketing to his rather conservative predecessor, Popplio XIII.
00:40:49 Okay. Now, turning from the spiritual authority to the temporal power, here's a story I wanted
00:40:55 to get to a couple of days ago, and I'm glad we have a little bit of time to get to it now.
00:40:59 This is a minor story. It seems to have escaped most people's notice. President Trump just turned
00:41:04 the Oval Office into a national monument. And I think people haven't covered it because it's
00:41:09 kind of a head scratcher. It seems unimportant and weird. Like, I assume the Oval Office is a
00:41:14 national monument. What does that mean? I assume the White House should be considered a national
00:41:19 monument. But no, this is a formal, legal, official designation. President says this is
00:41:26 establishing the Oval Office National Monument, the White House declares. Today, President Donald
00:41:32 J. Trump signed a proclamation establishing the Oval Office as a national monument to ensure its
00:41:36 preservation, proper care, and management. What this is all about is acknowledging that the
00:41:43 Democrats are about to try to destroy everything. The Oval Office, Trump declares the Oval Office
00:41:49 a national monument in order to protect it from the Democrats destroying it. Because when something
00:41:55 is officially a national monument that creates certain limitations and barriers and processes
00:42:01 for how that thing can be changed.
00:42:04 President Trump has gone on at length
00:42:06 about how he got to the White House
00:42:07 and its physical condition was just really, really bad.
00:42:10 Obama had allowed the place to crumble.
00:42:12 And this has happened really many times over the years
00:42:15 since the construction of the White House,
00:42:17 especially in the early 20th century,
00:42:18 it underwent a major, major renovation
00:42:20 that basically gutted it.
00:42:22 So it goes through ebbs and flows over the years,
00:42:26 but it had gotten pretty bad
00:42:28 and Trump spruces up the joint
00:42:29 because he has made buildings.
00:42:31 That was his career.
00:42:31 and especially the Oval Office, some people don't like it. They think it's too gold and ornate and
00:42:36 European. It doesn't have that sterile, whitewashed American Republican virtue. I like the redesign
00:42:44 of the Oval Office, but what he's saying is the Democrats just won the Congress.
00:42:49 They might win the presidency next time, and they're going to try to destroy everything.
00:42:54 So the signal here is much of the next two years and certainly of the next two, three months before
00:43:01 the Democrats actually take their seats in Congress, is going to be about protecting
00:43:07 everything from the onslaught of destruction that inevitably will come. Whether we're talking about
00:43:14 policies, whether we're talking about agencies, whether we're talking about the physical reality
00:43:21 of the White House and the government and the country. This is all about creating as many
00:43:25 roadblocks to the retribution that we are about to see in the form of the Democrats.
00:43:31 Okay, speaking of Democrat power, we haven't followed up on this too much.
00:43:36 They're still counting ballots in the Mississippi Senate race.
00:43:39 We'll see if they've declared by the time the show airs on all of the other platforms.
00:43:42 But as of now, the Democrat is still leading.
00:43:46 It's about a 2,600-vote lead.
00:43:49 So a million votes counted, 97% of the votes in.
00:43:54 A fraction, a hair sliver right now separates it.
00:43:58 But the Democrat is leading, which means the Democrat is almost certainly going to win,
00:44:02 which means that the Democrats will have picked up eight Senate seats.
00:44:05 That brings it to parity with the 1994 midterm elections, which were a tsunami in favor of the Republicans.
00:44:11 This obviously in favor of the Democrats. 0.59
00:44:14 Republicans still picked up more seats in 94 than the Democrats will have picked up this time.
00:44:19 But votes are coming in.
00:44:20 Lauren Boebert, friend of the show, Lauren Boebert, unfortunately lost her seat.
00:44:23 And we're in for a bumpy ride.
00:44:28 as i said i don't want to flatter you i don't want i don't want to put on rose glasses i don't want
00:44:32 to overly doom but we are in for a bumpy bumpy ride okay no member block today because i have
00:44:40 something very very important to do very spiritually important important for the family
00:44:46 and anyway no member block but i'll make it up to you soon i'm michael knowles this michael
00:44:51 And I'll show you tomorrow.
00:45:05 Father, I used to feel Christ.
00:45:09 I cannot feel anything here.
00:45:21 They take me out of my bed, and they brought me here, and they tell me nothing.
00:45:27 What have I done?
00:45:28 Article 58, counter-revolutionary activity.
00:45:31 That is all I know.
00:45:33 They have to deal with so many enemies of the state, all of whom claim their innocence,
00:45:39 who protest, who cry.
00:45:48 There are no answers here.
00:45:51 Other than the ones they put in your mouth.
00:45:53 You'll break.
00:45:56 Today is your opportunity to demonstrate your loyalty to the people.
00:46:03 I'd like to know why I'm here.
00:46:05 Of course.
00:46:09 But you're already now, don't you?
00:46:11 You must believe in something greater than the party.
00:46:15 You will remember your duty.
00:46:17 I've told you I know nothing.
00:46:18 And he growled like a feral animal. 1.00
00:46:22 You stink of failure! 1.00
00:46:24 You want me to lie. 1.00
00:46:25 Still a drunk! 1.00
00:46:26 Damn you! 1.00
00:46:29 They all break. 1.00
00:46:33 Maybe.