The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 263 - The Moral Incoherence of Veganism

00:00:00.000 PETA wants us to stop bringing home the bacon and start bringing home the bagels. 0.93

00:00:05.660 No more can we beat a dead horse.

00:00:08.500 Now we must feed a fed horse.

00:00:11.380 We will analyze how left-wing vegans want to destroy language with vegan-friendly idioms,

00:00:16.660 presumably because they're a few fries short of a Happy Meal.

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00:00:28.600 I'm Michael Knowles, and this is The Michael Knowles Show.

00:00:37.520 I wonder how many more idioms we can break out there.

00:00:40.660 You can lead a horse to water, but you can only force feed a goose to give you foie gras.

00:00:44.800 I don't know. There are very many, and PETA is going after it.

00:00:47.840 PETA and some left-wing academics.

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00:02:27.320 How long before we're going to have to start changing all of these words, too?

00:02:30.260 We have to change all of the words.

00:02:32.180 This is the new line coming out of PETA and left-wing academics.

00:02:36.620 This from Sharina Z.

00:02:40.300 Hamza, an academic from Swansea University.

00:02:43.720 You know, that's where I get all of my tips about the English language expressions at Swansea University.

00:02:48.560 This is what they're saying.

00:02:49.960 Quote,

00:02:50.220 What are the meat metaphors?

00:03:04.740 Bringing home the bacon.

00:03:07.080 We're not allowed to use bringing home the bacon anymore.

00:03:09.100 We're supposed to say bringing home the bagels.

00:03:11.500 The other one is putting all your eggs in one basket.

00:03:13.840 It's not just animals.

00:03:14.940 We're not allowed to reference animals.

00:03:16.460 We're not even allowed to reference animal products.

00:03:19.040 So you can't say putting all of your eggs in one basket.

00:03:22.460 Another one is killing two birds with one stone.

00:03:25.780 You're not, you can't say that. 0.82

00:03:26.960 It's about killing birds.

00:03:27.960 That's terrible. 0.98

00:03:29.200 And it isn't just one wacko academic. 0.83

00:03:32.040 If it were one wacko academic saying this, I would say, oh, I would kind of laugh it off. 0.89

00:03:36.120 I mean, that's what academics do is they say crazy things and we ignore them.

00:03:39.640 But PETA, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, is now tweeting about this.

00:03:44.080 By the way, PETA is the most ironically named organization probably in the country.

00:03:49.040 PETA for the Ethical Treatment of Animals has killed, in the last two decades, just about 96% of the animals in their care.

00:03:58.500 On any given year, the animals in their care, this is well over 30,000 animals since 1998, 96% of them are killed by PETA.

00:04:06.540 Even the ones that could be adopted out, they just kill them.

00:04:08.860 But they call it People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals.

00:04:11.160 So they sent out a tweet yesterday.

00:04:12.440 It's catching a ton of interest online.

00:04:15.220 And the tweet read, stop using anti-animal language.

00:04:20.400 And this is the money line.

00:04:22.580 Just as it became unacceptable to use racist, homophobic, or ableist language,

00:04:27.720 phrases that trivialize cruelty to animals will vanish as more people begin to appreciate animals for who they are

00:04:34.680 and start bringing home the bagels instead of the bacon.

00:04:37.080 This is my thesis on the culture, is that the left uses language to affect their political agenda.

00:04:52.940 So by the time we get to the political fight, we've already lost because they've already changed the language through the culture.

00:04:59.060 This is what political correctness is.

00:05:00.700 They use terms like social justice.

00:05:03.020 What is social justice?

00:05:05.420 What they're using social justice as a stand-in for is morality.

00:05:10.560 They're saying that we now in our enlightened moral standards realize that it's wrong to kill animals.

00:05:16.640 It's wrong to eat animals.

00:05:17.920 It's wrong to wear animal skins and use leather and whatever.

00:05:21.700 How is that?

00:05:22.580 Where is that?

00:05:23.160 Where do we find that in any sane moral standard?

00:05:27.360 I know that they say it. 0.56

00:05:28.520 I know that these wacko lefties say it. 0.96

00:05:30.160 But where do we find it?

00:05:31.220 The trouble with these new suggestions, by the way, is that the new idioms don't make any sense.

00:05:37.000 So the new idioms, bringing home the bagels.

00:05:39.160 Okay, I guess that one's the most defensible of them.

00:05:42.160 Putting all your eggs in one basket, they now want us to say putting all your berries in one basket.

00:05:47.700 But that doesn't make any sense.

00:05:48.960 If you've got all your eggs in one basket and you drop the basket, all your eggs are gone.

00:05:52.320 Because you crack the egg and then they're gone.

00:05:53.880 If you put all your berries in your basket and then you drop the basket, nothing happens.

00:05:58.580 They're berries.

00:05:59.040 Berries are pretty durable.

00:06:01.300 You drop them, you pick them up, you can eat them.

00:06:03.000 Dust them off, that's fine.

00:06:04.060 Same thing with beating a dead horse.

00:06:06.720 That idiom makes sense.

00:06:08.320 Feeding a fed horse doesn't make any sense.

00:06:11.340 There's another famous idiom.

00:06:12.560 You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make it drink.

00:06:14.760 So they're getting very confused about all of their idioms.

00:06:18.320 And then my favorite one.

00:06:19.820 They took to kill two birds with one stone.

00:06:22.260 And they want to change it to feed two birds with one scone.

00:06:28.220 Do you get it?

00:06:29.280 You have a scone and you feed two birds.

00:06:31.140 That one doesn't make any sense though.

00:06:32.920 Because it is difficult to kill two birds with one stone.

00:06:36.760 It's tactically difficult.

00:06:38.160 And what you were saying with that idiom is that you are going to be efficient in your use of tactics.

00:06:44.240 You're going to take care of two things in one fell swoop.

00:06:47.540 In an efficient way where usually you'd only take care of one thing.

00:06:50.240 To feed two birds with one scone is very easy because birds don't eat very much.

00:06:57.200 You could feed a hundred birds with one scone.

00:06:59.160 That doesn't mean anything.

00:07:00.380 It's so absurd.

00:07:02.640 But they're changing this language.

00:07:04.460 And the issue here is the language.

00:07:07.660 I don't really care about the rise of veganism.

00:07:10.000 Although it is a little weird.

00:07:11.200 Veganism is up 360% in the UK over the last decade.

00:07:15.500 It's up 500% in the US over just the last four years.

00:07:18.920 And the issue with veganism, the reason they're so whacked out about the language here, is that veganism is a morally incoherent ideology.

00:07:27.720 Veganism, it's not just that you can't eat animals.

00:07:30.520 You can't eat fish.

00:07:31.700 You can't eat shellfish.

00:07:33.700 And you can't even eat animal products.

00:07:35.380 You can't eat milk.

00:07:36.280 You can't drink milk.

00:07:37.100 You can't eat eggs.

00:07:38.140 And my question is, why stop there?

00:07:42.840 Does anyone really believe that an oyster is more conscious than a carrot?

00:07:46.600 I was on Fox News this morning talking about this very topic.

00:07:49.840 And I got actually a lot of letters and tweets and things in, not just from left-wingers, but from right-wingers, too, who say,

00:07:56.160 Oh, Michael, you're being too harsh.

00:07:58.100 I'm a vegetarian.

00:07:59.100 I'm a vegan.

00:07:59.620 And it's so much better and it's so much more moral.

00:08:02.140 We have to set the record straight here.

00:08:04.480 An oyster is not in any way more conscious than a carrot.

00:08:07.820 They are morally identical entities.

00:08:10.440 Why is it okay to eat the carrot but it's okay to eat the carrot but not eat the oyster?

00:08:14.380 And further, I mean, the big example here is abortion because every vegan I know, every single one, I know a number of vegans,

00:08:21.740 and I've had to sit through terrible lunches when they take me out to them.

00:08:24.820 They're all in favor of abortion.

00:08:26.920 So they're so, they weep for the little oyster.

00:08:29.900 They weep for the delta smelt. 0.93

00:08:31.640 But an unborn human baby, it doesn't matter. 0.99

00:08:33.800 Wipe it out. 1.00

00:08:34.340 Kill it. 1.00

00:08:34.980 That is a morally incoherent idea. 1.00

00:08:38.180 And what it does is it inverts the natural order.

00:08:41.900 So we have a natural order of things.

00:08:44.380 The animals are here.

00:08:45.680 We have dominion over them.

00:08:47.280 And they are here for our enjoyment.

00:08:49.200 So this is why we don't want to torture animals.

00:08:51.160 We don't want to be cruel to animals.

00:08:53.200 But the reason that we shouldn't torture animals or be cruel to animals is not because the animals have some rights,

00:08:59.020 some consciousness, some spiritual life, some soul, or anything like that.

00:09:04.060 The reason that we shouldn't be cruel to animals is because it deadens our compassion.

00:09:09.080 It deadens our humanity to be needlessly cruel to some innocent little animal.

00:09:14.380 The reason that we need to conserve animals is not because animals are good and humans are bad or that animals have some right to exist in nature and, you know, prance around the forests.

00:09:27.020 It's so that we can enjoy them.

00:09:28.840 The reason to conserve the deer is so that we can go kill more deer or, you know, hunt them and have a good time.

00:09:35.180 There was just, there was a wolf that was killed in, I think it was Yellowstone.

00:09:39.180 And this was a major Twitter moment.

00:09:42.820 You know, this made headlines all around.

00:09:44.820 And they said, a beloved wolf was killed by a trophy hunter.

00:09:49.260 Now, the wolf was killed legally.

00:09:50.820 He had a license to go kill the wolf.

00:09:52.300 They say the beloved wolf.

00:09:54.760 Beloved by whom?

00:09:56.640 Who is crying over the wolf?

00:09:58.720 They did this when a guy bought a very expensive permit, that dentist, to go kill Cecil the lion in Africa.

00:10:05.500 And they said he was a beloved lion.

00:10:07.760 Beloved by whom?

00:10:08.960 He's not a beloved lion.

00:10:10.020 He's a lion.

00:10:11.280 And actually, the reason that they sell permits to these trophy hunters is because they cost a lot of money. 0.60

00:10:16.400 And then all of that money is put toward conservation efforts.

00:10:20.620 Beloved by whom?

00:10:21.600 They're just crafting this narrative to tug on your heartstrings.

00:10:24.740 Also, last time I checked, Cecil is not a particularly African name.

00:10:28.520 They're trying to make it sound like it's the Lion King or something, this beautiful natural environment.

00:10:32.880 No, not quite.

00:10:34.080 I guess the dentist killed the wrong lion or something.

00:10:36.240 But come on, give me a break.

00:10:37.380 So, this inversion is very, very strange.

00:10:41.640 And it's true of the entire environmentalist left.

00:10:44.060 They think that we are here to serve animals, which is true only in the sense that we serve them on our dinner plates.

00:10:51.500 We are here to conserve them and then serve them to each other because they taste very good.

00:10:55.200 But we are not here to give them honor or to give them fealty or anything like that.

00:11:01.180 They are here for us.

00:11:02.640 And we love them because they provide a lot of nice things for us, like a good veal piccata on a good Saturday night.

00:11:07.940 But that's it.

00:11:08.680 That's where the line is.

00:11:09.620 And they've exactly flipped that order.

00:11:11.240 The left does this all the time.

00:11:12.260 And they're constantly flipping and inverting major issues.

00:11:17.960 You know, I love Orrin Hatch, a Republican senator.

00:11:20.520 He celebrated PETA's tweet in precisely the right way.

00:11:24.120 Here's Orrin Hatch.

00:11:24.760 Oh, yeah.

00:11:34.620 Oh, it's getting me, getting my hunger up.

00:11:39.460 I was at a wedding in New York over the weekend.

00:11:43.100 And the wedding was held at the Harvard Club.

00:11:45.040 And the one cool thing that the Harvard Club has that other clubs don't have is they have a giant elephant head on the wall.

00:11:52.500 And actually, I'm a little nervous about this because in my mind, you know, elephants might demonstrate certain aspects of consciousness.

00:12:00.140 So I'm a little iffy on it.

00:12:01.740 But still, we get to honor this cool elephant head on the wall.

00:12:04.340 It's being enjoyed so much more than if it were just ravaged by some predator in its natural environment.

00:12:10.420 And we have more nature worship, more bizarre left-wing nature worship, which is torching the streets of Paris right now.

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00:13:53.720 The inverting the natural order is this bizarre nature worship.

00:13:56.960 And we're seeing this now from Arnold Schwarzenegger.

00:13:59.600 He was at a UN climate conference in Poland, and he said that if he could, he would time

00:14:05.540 travel, travel back in time to terminate fossil fuels, which is such, that is the most privileged,

00:14:13.940 elitist, decadent thing I've ever heard.

00:14:16.340 Because it's true, Arnold Schwarzenegger living in a zillion dollar mansion, he doesn't think

00:14:20.120 about what oil and fossil fuels do.

00:14:22.800 Fossil fuels eliminated poverty.

00:14:25.900 Fossil fuels and free market capitalism has virtually eliminated poverty around the world.

00:14:30.980 It has lifted so many people out of poverty.

00:14:34.360 Fossil fuels is the magic.

00:14:36.660 That is the magic thing that allows for industry.

00:14:39.280 It allows for people to be mobile, to travel enormous distances virtually immediately.

00:14:44.620 It allows for people to heat their homes, to cook their food.

00:14:48.760 It is so essential to raising people from dire extreme poverty into a good standard of

00:14:54.980 living.

00:14:55.480 But people who are zillionaires, elitists like Al Gore or Arnold Schwarzenegger, they write

00:15:00.820 all of that off.

00:15:01.860 And imagine this.

00:15:02.980 He says, quote, the biggest evil is fossil fuels.

00:15:06.940 It's coal.

00:15:07.660 It's gasoline.

00:15:08.700 It's natural gas.

00:15:10.100 Yes, that is the point.

00:15:12.400 That is what they're all saying, that pollution, carbon dioxide, fossil fuels are evil.

00:15:20.640 And the reason that they have to make fossil fuels evil and they have to pretend that is

00:15:25.240 because they want to feel morally virtuous, but they're not virtuous people.

00:15:30.200 So they say this is the greatest evil.

00:15:32.260 Does anyone really believe the greatest evil is gasoline?

00:15:35.420 If that's the greatest evil, stop using gasoline.

00:15:37.720 I assume you use gasoline.

00:15:40.180 I assume you get on airplanes.

00:15:41.380 I assume you drive your car.

00:15:42.540 I assume you take trains and turn your lights on.

00:15:45.060 And I assume you use fossil fuels.

00:15:46.880 If you really think it's the greatest evil, stop it.

00:15:48.720 But of course, it's not the greatest evil.

00:15:50.540 The imagination of man's heart is evil from the beginning.

00:15:53.100 We know that there is a natural, original sin in us.

00:15:57.260 I don't know.

00:15:57.680 What are some things that are more evil than gasoline?

00:15:59.980 Murder, for one, rape, fraud, adultery, infanticide.

00:16:07.380 That's another one.

00:16:08.020 I guess that's under murder.

00:16:09.580 What else?

00:16:10.820 Theft, burglary, aggravated assault.

00:16:13.940 Many things are more evil than gasoline.

00:16:18.520 Gasoline isn't evil at all.

00:16:19.780 But with these people, I know it.

00:16:21.500 I talk to people in Hollywood.

00:16:23.920 And it becomes this bizarre obsession for Hollywood types who are usually hollowed out on the inside.

00:16:31.480 These are people who do bad things all the time.

00:16:33.840 Their lives are a wreck. 0.51

00:16:35.160 I mean, the secret is, especially for actors, even A-list actors, very successful actors, most of them are miserable.

00:16:43.540 And they're miserable because they're not working very much.

00:16:46.020 Even if you're working all the time, you're still not working that much in the arts in Hollywood.

00:16:50.540 And so you've got all of this free time.

00:16:52.500 It's virtually impossible to sustain a marriage in show business, in industries that Arnold Schwarzenegger's been in.

00:16:58.740 It's virtually impossible to act in a moral, productive, good, virtuous way.

00:17:03.480 It just does not happen a lot.

00:17:04.640 And so people feel this brokenness and they feel this need to be virtuous.

00:17:09.080 But they don't want to actually practice virtue.

00:17:11.320 So they practice a pantomime of virtue, which is what environmentalism is.

00:17:16.600 Environmentalism is a separate religious system.

00:17:19.500 It's a parallel religious system to our traditional religions like Christianity or Judaism.

00:17:24.960 And it has indulgences.

00:17:28.120 You can buy indulgences in the form of carbon tax credits.

00:17:30.980 It has sin, original sin, which is pollution.

00:17:33.420 It has atonement in the form of recycling or in the form of reducing your use of fossil fuels.

00:17:42.360 It has proselytizers like Arnold Schwarzenegger and Al Gore.

00:17:45.460 And it offers them a sense of getting off the hook for their real moral failings by pretending to act virtuously and to reject false moral failings like using gasoline.

00:17:57.640 It's really sad to watch it.

00:18:00.000 But the more that people stop paying attention to their metaphysical selves, to their souls, they're going to pay attention to these physical pantomimes of virtue.

00:18:08.640 And that is the environmental movement.

00:18:10.880 Now, if you want to look at actual virtue, if you want to look at real men practicing virtue, look no further than the funeral for George W. Bush, or pardon, God forbid, not for a long time, George H.W. Bush, Bush Sr.

00:18:24.140 He's being laid to rest.

00:18:26.460 There was a big, beautiful funeral in the National Cathedral today.

00:18:31.000 President Trump attended.

00:18:32.880 And there was a great moment yesterday when Bob Dole, a United States senator, 1996 GOP nominee for president, was wheeled up there.

00:18:42.000 And I'll just show you the video.

00:18:43.160 I'll narrate it as it goes along.

00:18:44.520 Bob Dole goes right up.

00:18:47.520 He's alone in front of the casket, the American flag draped over it, and his guard physically lifts Bob Dole out of his wheelchair.

00:18:56.400 He's so frail, and he stares at the coffin.

00:19:00.800 He raises his left arm, and he salutes President Bush.

00:19:06.720 And then he stands there, and then his guard sits him back down.

00:19:11.060 And this is such a beautiful moment.

00:19:13.240 But you might be asking, first of all, why did Bob Dole salute with his left hand?

00:19:18.280 He saluted with his left hand because Bob Dole served in World War II with the 10th Mountain Division.

00:19:22.940 And he got gunned up by a German machine gun in Italy, in the Appanini Mountains.

00:19:28.740 And it got his back, and it took down much of his right arm.

00:19:33.760 I mean, just a riddle of bullets down it.

00:19:36.360 So he had very, very limited use of his right arm.

00:19:39.300 He was really severely injured.

00:19:41.720 And he came back.

00:19:42.400 They said at the time, they quote, they gave him the largest dose of morphine they dared.

00:19:48.260 And they wrote M for morphine on his forehead in his own blood so that nobody else who found him would give him a second dose of morphine, which would have killed him.

00:19:56.860 This is Bob Dole.

00:19:58.200 I really love this guy, even though he was sort of a moderate Republican or a liberal Republican.

00:20:03.700 He ran in 76 for vice president with Gerald Ford.

00:20:08.140 He ran for the presidency in 1980 against Ronald Reagan and George Bush.

00:20:12.020 He ran again in 1988 against George Bush, same guy he just saluted.

00:20:17.100 He won the nomination finally in 96.

00:20:20.140 He was the first presidential candidate that I really loved.

00:20:23.140 My first campaign that I ever volunteered on was to campaign for Bob Dole in my first grade classroom.

00:20:30.580 And I tried to convince all my friends to get their parents to vote for Bob Dole.

00:20:35.800 He wasn't a terribly exciting candidate, and he lost ultimately to Bill Clinton.

00:20:40.580 But he also, Bob Dole, came back around.

00:20:42.420 He was the only GOP former nominee to endorse Donald Trump in 2016.

00:20:47.720 Bush Sr. wouldn't do it.

00:20:48.700 Bush Jr. wouldn't do it.

00:20:49.860 John McCain wouldn't do it.

00:20:51.240 Only Bob Dole came around and did it.

00:20:53.320 And then there's Bob Dole there saluting George Bush, who himself was the youngest Navy pilot during World War II.

00:21:00.860 He was shot down.

00:21:01.760 He heroically survived.

00:21:03.360 I bring this up to show a little episode of virtue, of duty, of loyalty, of overcoming political differences, of a genuine bond between these men.

00:21:15.480 And just to remind you that the Democrats forced us to have President Bill Clinton over George Bush and Bob Dole, two virtuous men. 0.98

00:21:25.620 They rejected those virtuous men twice in a row for a draft-dodging, degenerate, possible rapist, Bill Clinton. 0.98

00:21:34.600 That's what happened. 0.98

00:21:35.500 And so now, you know, we talk about civility. 0.93

00:21:39.420 You know, we talk about restoring honor to the White House, to the Oval Office, how awful Trump is. 0.83

00:21:45.100 Look at those two men.

00:21:46.180 Even if you didn't love their politics, George Bush was kind of a moderate, squishy Republican.

00:21:50.540 Bob Dole, same thing.

00:21:51.540 But they were loyal Republicans, they were good guys, and they were loyal Americans who fought for their country, who were wounded for their country.

00:21:58.980 And we had to deal with Bubba Clinton, who ran away like a coward to avoid the draft.

00:22:05.140 So it was a beautiful part of the ceremony.

00:22:07.340 Then Alan Simpson gets up there, the former GOP senator, Alan Simpson.

00:22:12.100 I think he's about 115 years old at this point.

00:22:14.480 He gets up there and delivers one of the best eulogies I've ever seen.

00:22:18.760 Here are just a few clips.

00:22:19.500 Relax, George told me I only had 10 minutes.

00:22:25.080 He was very direct about it.

00:22:27.000 It wasn't even funny.

00:22:29.800 It's for our country that I fought for.

00:22:34.860 And he was a man of such great humility.

00:22:38.280 Those who travel the high road of humility in Washington, D.C. are not bothered by heavy traffic.

00:22:43.800 He never hated anyone.

00:22:49.080 He knew what his mother and my mother always knew.

00:22:53.760 Hatred corrodes the container it's carried in.

00:22:57.520 Such powerful words and such a powerful eulogy that touches on so many points.

00:23:04.940 What I really loved about Alan Simpson's eulogy here is that it was delivered with strength and with balance and with humor and with seriousness and with sincerity and with earnestness.

00:23:16.340 It really took the life of George Bush and it really took a view of life and a life well lived that we could all learn from.

00:23:25.260 First of all, hatred corrodes the container it is carried in.

00:23:29.260 Such a true statement that we have to remember as people.

00:23:33.020 I can't believe it when I go to these campuses or I look on Twitter or something how vitriolic and angry and nasty and mean people can be.

00:23:43.640 And look, I love owning the libs.

00:23:46.180 I love taking the fight to the left wing and pushing really hard and never giving back and punching right back and not being a squish. 1.00

00:23:52.860 I love all of that.

00:23:54.280 You've got to do it with a bit of humor.

00:23:55.640 If you are getting angry all the time and irritated and you hate people and you're doing politics wrong, get out of politics.

00:24:04.520 Do something else.

00:24:06.120 This is not the place for you then if you're going to really hate people and get so riled up all the time.

00:24:11.760 And the reason for that is not because the other guy doesn't deserve it.

00:24:15.440 There are plenty of people who deserve our scorn and our derision and our anger and our righteous anger.

00:24:21.180 The reason not to become filled with hatred is because hatred hurts you.

00:24:24.900 It corrodes you.

00:24:26.680 It is not what goes into the mouth that defiles a man but what comes out of the mouth.

00:24:30.820 Sometimes you say things that can't be unsaid and it's so vile and corrosive to what you are.

00:24:35.840 And that's why Alan Simpson rejected it and George Bush too.

00:24:39.720 George Bush and plenty of others.

00:24:41.100 Something really we can learn from.

00:24:42.660 But even the view of this.

00:24:44.240 Alan Simpson I guess in 2012, George Bush, they had been friends for decades and decades.

00:24:49.680 I think they'd been friends since the 60s.

00:24:51.460 And George Bush thought he might be dying in 2012.

00:24:53.760 And the Bush family asked Alan Simpson to give the eulogy.

00:24:58.020 And that was when they said to him, all right, Alan, you only get 10 minutes.

00:25:01.160 Not more than 10 minutes, so keep it short.

00:25:03.620 But apparently at that same time, Bush said, I want you to cry when you write the eulogy so that you don't cry while you say the eulogy.

00:25:12.160 Very important advice.

00:25:14.480 I see this in, I've given eulogies, I've given best man toasts.

00:25:20.180 I think we've all given some version of these things that we have to say in public at events.

00:25:26.420 Either joyful events or bittersweet events or sad events.

00:25:29.800 And they're very tricky things to write.

00:25:33.000 They're much trickier than giving a podcast or a lecture or something like that because they have to take a bigger view, a broader view of the human life.

00:25:41.160 And a lot of times I've seen eulogies where people are weeping and sobbing and they're angry and they're cursing.

00:25:47.760 Or you can tell that they want to be cursing.

00:25:51.340 And this isn't right.

00:25:54.440 What Alan Simpson is showing us is that George Bush lived a life well.

00:26:00.380 He did what he came here to do.

00:26:02.680 He served others.

00:26:03.800 He served his country.

00:26:05.180 He was dignified when his country threw him out of office.

00:26:08.720 He was always graceful, always tactful.

00:26:12.240 And he lived to be 94.

00:26:13.800 There's nothing to be angry and sad about.

00:26:16.440 We were talking a little while ago, a few days ago, about how confused we all are about death these days.

00:26:23.580 We're trying to cure death in Silicon Valley and do anything we can to extend life even one moment further.

00:26:30.360 We're so afraid of natural death.

00:26:32.240 I don't think George Bush was afraid of natural death.

00:26:34.480 I think George Bush looked forward to seeing his wife and daughter again.

00:26:38.360 His daughter Robin who died decades and decades ago.

00:26:41.580 I think he was looking forward to it.

00:26:43.180 Not that he was despondent.

00:26:45.240 Not that he was despairing that he wanted to kill himself.

00:26:47.160 But he was ready to go meet his maker to his home in eternity.

00:26:51.960 To have his just reward for a life well lived.

00:26:55.980 And the trouble with a country that is increasingly atheistic is that it's a country that increasingly is full of despair. 0.62

00:27:03.440 We see this reflected in drug addiction and we see this reflected in suicides, both of which are surging beyond the imagination.

00:27:12.460 That's what happens in a country without hope, with despair.

00:27:15.940 But there is hope.

00:27:17.340 And you can see it when you die in a life well lived, in a life where you have hope in heaven and in your savior.

00:27:26.920 Then you get to go somewhere else.

00:27:29.080 I remember during when those Dallas police officers were killed a few years ago.

00:27:34.740 There was an attack on Dallas police officers.

00:27:37.100 George Bush went there and he was singing along.

00:27:41.380 He was swaying to, I think it was the battle hymn of the republic.

00:27:44.460 Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord.

00:27:47.060 His truth is marching on.

00:27:48.700 And George Bush is kind of happy.

00:27:50.140 And they said this was inappropriate that he was happy at a funeral.

00:27:52.580 But he was happy because he believed it.

00:27:54.220 He believed that the glory of the Lord was there and the truth was there and the truth goes marching on.

00:27:59.580 And we should believe it too.

00:28:00.700 It certainly seems George Bush did and Alan Simpson did.

00:28:03.180 Kept that balance of the human life.

00:28:06.120 And we should always try to keep that balance in times of great celebration and in times of bittersweet, even sadness, while we say goodbye to somebody.

00:28:14.240 Really well done.

00:28:15.060 We could all learn a lot from those guys.

00:28:17.060 Now, speaking of protecting your life and a life well lived,

00:28:22.140 you've got to talk about Brownells.

00:28:24.220 Brownells is a big proponent, supporter of the Second Amendment.

00:28:27.200 And they have been for nearly 80 years.

00:28:30.300 This is very, when you want to protect your life and your liberty,

00:28:33.100 you need to make sure that you exercise your rights and your right to bear arms that will allow you to do that.

00:28:39.400 You're buying guns, ammo, accessories online.

00:28:42.460 It is convenient.

00:28:43.260 It is totally legal.

00:28:44.760 And I know that if you're watching this show, you or your friends or family probably would love to open up a Brownells gift card for Christmas.

00:28:54.120 There are a lot of new people coming in who are taking an interest in firearms.

00:28:58.020 Young people, women, people living in the cities.

00:29:01.500 There was, after that shooting at the gay nightclub in Orlando, there were a bunch of signs that went up around the country that said,

00:29:08.320 on a rainbow flag, it said, we fight back, and a huge surge in demographics that traditionally have not had an interest in firearms,

00:29:15.800 who realize we need to protect ourselves.

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00:29:23.240 They offer an industry-exclusive, guaranteed forever warranty on all parts and accessories.

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00:29:44.020 Do not forget about the gun guy or gun gal on your Christmas list, like me.

00:29:48.700 Send me one of these gift cards.

00:29:50.220 Wish me a Merry Christmas, please.

00:29:51.940 Brownells gift cards make great stocking stuffers.

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00:30:01.480 Send me a gift card.

00:30:02.640 I want to buy more firearms and firearm accessories.

00:30:05.620 So, really beautiful eulogies all around.

00:30:11.580 George W. Bush, George Bush's son, former president, also gave a beautiful eulogy as well.

00:30:18.440 So, that's the right note.

00:30:20.900 That's the right note to hit during all of these funerals.

00:30:23.300 How about the wrong note?

00:30:24.360 Who could take a dignified, beautiful expression coming together in a little bit of grief, but in a happiness and joy at a life well lived and a guy who served his country?

00:30:35.520 The Clintons, of course.

00:30:37.160 Watch as the Clintons snub President Trump while he sits down to the funeral.

00:30:42.400 Here he is, he sits down, he shakes hands with Barack Obama, shakes hands with Michelle Obama.

00:30:49.360 President Trump shaking the hands of the Obamas.

00:30:52.620 The Clintons did not acknowledge President Trump.

00:30:55.520 They won't even acknowledge him.

00:30:59.440 Hillary there looking even colder than usual, which I think makes her about zero degrees Kelvin at that point.

00:31:05.120 I think that basically is what stops time and space entirely.

00:31:08.780 You know, it's as cold as the universe will tolerate.

00:31:11.620 And then there's Bill next to her who won't even look at him, which is really hard, I think, for Bill Clinton.

00:31:15.820 Because Bill Clinton's whole persona is just being a really nice guy.

00:31:19.240 Hey there.

00:31:19.940 Hey, pass me that cigar.

00:31:21.260 Don't worry what I'm going to.

00:31:22.580 Yeah, so that's Bill is sitting there.

00:31:24.640 Even he won't turn and acknowledge Donald Trump.

00:31:28.200 That's fine.

00:31:29.580 We're told by Democrats and by squishy Republicans, we want the good old days.

00:31:34.260 We want to, you know, fight with our opponents and then go get drinks with them at 6 p.m.

00:31:39.840 We want civility.

00:31:42.020 Okay, then lead.

00:31:44.520 Then lead on it.

00:31:45.280 There's Donald Trump trying to be civil.

00:31:47.700 Have you heard what the Obamas have been saying about Donald Trump recently? 0.99

00:31:51.880 They've been calling him awful, racist, bigoted, terrible person. 0.95

00:31:55.800 He goes there and shakes their hand and they politely acknowledge him and shake his hand as well. 0.95

00:32:00.180 Not the Clintons.

00:32:00.980 They can't do it because they believe in nothing other than themselves. 1.00

00:32:05.020 They are just a shameless, solipsistic, egotistical black hole of civility. 0.99

00:32:12.720 And that's them. 0.97

00:32:13.900 That's who the Democrats nominated in 2016, nearly nominated in 2008.

00:32:19.560 They need to lead, but they won't do it.

00:32:21.620 We've got a lot more to get to.

00:32:23.500 We've got to get to how this breakdown in civility between the left and the right is leading to bad sex and to new dating apps.

00:32:30.180 We also need to say goodbye to a Never Trump magazine, which looks like it's going under.

00:32:35.320 We'll try to analyze why that is.

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00:33:38.980 We'll be right back. 0.85

00:33:49.520 Before we get to why the left is having bad sex, we need to say adieu, probably, to a conservative magazine, 0.86

00:33:55.980 which has taken a very negative, anti, never Trump stance, The Weekly Standard. 0.95

00:34:01.560 The Weekly Standard.

00:34:02.420 This is Bill Kristol's magazine.

00:34:04.440 There was a major report came out today.

00:34:05.940 It's been around for a long time.

00:34:07.120 It's really one of the pillars of conservative commentary, and it looks like it is going out of business.

00:34:13.400 This is all about Donald Trump.

00:34:15.540 This is 100% about Donald Trump.

00:34:17.380 The Weekly Standard went to war with Donald Trump, and Donald Trump won.

00:34:21.900 I should preface this and say I like Bill Kristol personally.

00:34:25.740 Bill Kristol was the guy who founded it and editor-at-large.

00:34:29.080 I really like him personally.

00:34:30.440 He was a professor of mine at a fellowship that I once did.

00:34:33.240 He's helped me out on certain political campaigns.

00:34:36.140 I think he's an intelligent guy.

00:34:37.760 I listened to his podcast conversations with Bill Kristol.

00:34:40.980 It's one of my favorite podcasts.

00:34:43.240 He made a huge mistake on Donald Trump.

00:34:46.000 He made a huge mistake, and the magazine made a huge mistake, and now the magazine is paying for it.

00:34:51.080 And what they're specifically paying for is not making the mistake.

00:34:54.720 It's doubling down on it.

00:34:57.200 It's not acknowledging their mistake, and it's having the readership question their judgment.

00:35:03.300 That is exactly what's happening.

00:35:05.020 To be fair, there's a broader trend that's going on right now in certain online magazines.

00:35:10.080 Vice Media, Vox.com, BuzzFeed.

00:35:13.500 You notice a trend line here.

00:35:14.740 They're all left-wing outlets, and the Weekly Standard has taken, it was a right-wing outlet,

00:35:20.400 and then it took this very negative anti-Trump stance.

00:35:23.600 Now it looks like the Weekly Standard is joining them, and it might not just be that they're cutting staff.

00:35:28.360 It might be that they're truly going under.

00:35:30.660 The Weekly Standard, for those who don't remember it, was founded in 1995,

00:35:34.020 strongly supportive of the Bush administration, and then a strong opponent of the Trump administration.

00:35:41.120 The Weekly Standard says it's not going out because of dwindling subscribers.

00:35:44.140 They say there are more nefarious forces at work.

00:35:47.040 It's hard to believe that.

00:35:48.300 I just even look at the attitudes of my own conservative friends and myself.

00:35:54.020 The people I know who are conservatives, who are constantly devouring this stuff,

00:35:58.620 don't read the Weekly Standard anymore.

00:36:00.600 And it's because of the judgment.

00:36:02.500 It's because we're questioning their judgment.

00:36:04.400 It's not just that one or two of the editors hate Donald Trump

00:36:07.500 and point out all the flaws in Donald Trump's character and administration.

00:36:11.400 That's fine.

00:36:11.880 And I read a lot of things that are critical of Donald Trump.

00:36:14.780 It's that they doubled down.

00:36:16.360 They wouldn't give it to him when he did things right.

00:36:19.220 They wouldn't admit that they predicted this guy would be a Democrat, a left-winger, an awful president.

00:36:24.920 He wouldn't do any of the things he promised.

00:36:26.540 And he has.

00:36:27.480 He's fulfilled more of his promises than any president in the modern era.

00:36:30.920 He's been more conservative than any president in the modern era.

00:36:33.980 It's okay to get that wrong.

00:36:35.500 What's not okay is not to admit that you got it wrong.

00:36:37.660 And it took them in these crazy directions.

00:36:40.040 Jonathan Last, writing in the Weekly Standard, implied that Brett Kavanaugh was, quote,

00:36:45.340 a Supreme Court justice of questionable moral worth.

00:36:49.800 He implied that in the Weekly.

00:36:50.800 Does anyone on the left or the right really believe that Brett Kavanaugh is some moral degenerate?

00:36:58.220 No, of course not.

00:36:59.520 There was a totally contrived attack against him with no evidence whatsoever.

00:37:04.040 And Kavanaugh fought it off and he won.

00:37:06.300 But some people became so crazed by their opposition to Donald Trump, Trump derangement syndrome, TDS,

00:37:13.660 that they would even attack a guy like Brett Kavanaugh.

00:37:16.100 Brett Kavanaugh, a staff secretary to President Bush, a federal judge for a dozen years.

00:37:20.640 If he's such a moral degenerate, why didn't you voice your feelings on that a little sooner?

00:37:25.900 He was an assistant to Ken Starr during the Starr investigation.

00:37:30.160 It's not like this is some new guy.

00:37:31.900 But they really did this.

00:37:33.060 And so what to take away?

00:37:34.600 I don't want to beat up on the Weekly Standard because I do like the people there,

00:37:37.780 even though they've made an error in judgment.

00:37:41.020 What this really is, is a warning to other magazines and other commentary outlets.

00:37:47.960 In politics, it's very easy to get things wrong.

00:37:50.800 People always get things wrong.

00:37:52.460 You know, it's like on sports predictions.

00:37:54.700 You go and you watch a bunch of sports analysts and they make all of these predictions

00:37:58.520 about what's going to happen in the football game and then none of them happen.

00:38:01.260 And then they're all on TV the next day making more predictions.

00:38:03.860 That's fine.

00:38:04.400 I get it.

00:38:05.200 You just have to, at a certain point, correct your predictions to adhere with reality.

00:38:12.600 Because if you get to a place where everything that you're describing is only true hypothetically

00:38:18.700 or is only true theoretically or is neglectful of reality, people are not going to tune in.

00:38:24.700 They're not going to pay attention anymore.

00:38:26.260 And unfortunately, it seems what's going on at the Weekly Standard.

00:38:30.900 And I hope that other outlets on the right don't fall into that same trap.

00:38:35.200 It's okay to be wrong.

00:38:36.600 Don't worry.

00:38:37.560 When you say that the conservatives fall into this too, because conservatives sometimes fall into pessimism.

00:38:43.300 If you say that the whole world is going to go to hell in a handbasket and then things actually turn out pretty well for the time being,

00:38:49.400 that's a cause for celebration.

00:38:51.500 It's okay to celebrate the fact that you were wrong.

00:38:54.680 I hope people do this.

00:38:56.800 And all of those people, all of those despondent right-wingers, I've got even more good news for you.

00:39:02.100 You can now get laid.

00:39:04.160 I know this is very good news.

00:39:05.620 There is a new dating app just for right-wingers.

00:39:09.420 It's called Writer.

00:39:10.980 It's an online dating app started by Christy Edwards Lawton.

00:39:14.640 And this app is only for right-wingers, only for people supportive of right-wing politics.

00:39:20.180 And if a leftist tries to join, the app will sue you to make sure that the lefties stay off.

00:39:26.680 And it encourages really good behavior.

00:39:28.900 Apparently, if you're on this app and you go out on a date and the man doesn't pay for the first date,

00:39:34.640 you can report the guy.

00:39:35.740 And then there will be consequences for him because they don't want squishy, vegan, herbivore men to go and say that they want to go Dutch on their first date.

00:39:49.340 The man's got to pay because this is a right-wing app.

00:39:51.680 That's a beautiful thing.

00:39:53.080 Now, why does this app need to exist?

00:39:57.280 I should point out that actually, I'm saying that right-wingers can now get laid.

00:40:01.040 That's a cause for celebration. 0.98

00:40:02.400 Republicans are already having sex at a much higher rate than Democrats.

00:40:04.920 This was shown in a survey by Skin Condoms Millennial Sex Survey. 0.85

00:40:10.340 77% of young Republicans are apparently having sex at least once per week.

00:40:15.420 That is compared to 68% of Democrats.

00:40:19.040 So sad.

00:40:19.880 Too bad for you guys.

00:40:20.820 It's a lot of fun.

00:40:21.640 This is what happens when you're angry all the time and you deny that the sexual difference exists

00:40:26.700 and you say that baby it's cold outside is rapey and you say that men can't ever kiss women.

00:40:32.140 This is the logical consequence, guys.

00:40:33.800 Maybe you should think about this.

00:40:34.920 Before you allow yourself to buy these absurd left-wing lines.

00:40:38.800 But why does there need to be an exclusively right-wing dating app? 0.82

00:40:42.980 The reason isn't that right-wingers only want to date right-wingers. 0.90

00:40:46.260 That's not the reason at all.

00:40:47.640 The reason is that Democrats won't date right-wingers.

00:40:50.600 This is borne out by a number of surveys.

00:40:53.040 According to one recent survey, this was a survey of 4,000 people.

00:40:57.120 82% of Democrats said that they would not date a Republican.

00:41:02.460 82%, vast majority.

00:41:04.620 That's compared to just 43% of Republicans who said that they would not date a Democrat.

00:41:09.520 So about half as many Republicans say they wouldn't date a Democrat as Democrats say they wouldn't date a Republican.

00:41:16.520 And we know this too because on the other dating apps, Tinder, Grindr, that's the gay one, Bumble is the other one. 1.00

00:41:26.860 I hear about all of these.

00:41:27.780 Unfortunately, well, maybe fortunately, I missed online dating.

00:41:32.700 I was already dating by the time online dating really came around, so I didn't ever have to deal with all of this.

00:41:37.660 But apparently in online dating apps, the majority of Republicans hide their political affiliation.

00:41:44.460 So if it's asked on OkCupid or whatever what your political views are, they hide it because they know that Democrats won't date them.

00:41:51.020 57% of Republicans hide their party.

00:41:52.960 18% of Democrats hide their party.

00:41:55.120 And the reason for this is because Democrats own the culture.

00:42:00.020 The left wing owns the culture.

00:42:01.600 The culture makes it socially unacceptable to be a conservative.

00:42:06.060 So if you are a conservative, you could lose your job.

00:42:09.480 You could lose your reputation.

00:42:10.820 You could lose your girlfriend.

00:42:12.540 You could lose a lot of social standing.

00:42:15.060 So they have to hide it.

00:42:16.700 The other reason is that conservatives have other things to talk about than politics.

00:42:20.200 On their first date, they might talk about anything from the weather to sports to religion to...

00:42:25.120 How good the soup is to whatever, another round of drinks or something.

00:42:29.140 But because for the left, politics is religion, and therefore it is culture, and therefore politics dominates so much of the social space, it really matters to them.

00:42:40.380 We know this from another number of surveys over the last few years.

00:42:46.200 The left is much more likely to unfriend right-wingers on social media than right-wingers are to unfriend left-wingers.

00:42:54.260 So this makes it very difficult for conservatives to get along in the dating apps.

00:42:59.960 This is a great thing.

00:43:00.760 I think they're going to have a fun time.

00:43:02.220 And it raises this question.

00:43:03.720 Would you date a Democrat if you're a Republican?

00:43:06.460 Or if you're a Democrat, would you date a Republican?

00:43:11.640 And my answer is yes, for sure.

00:43:14.840 Of course I would.

00:43:16.100 And it's because, one, I don't need to lead with politics.

00:43:18.540 I mean, my politics stem from the way I see the world, and my culture, and my reason, and my premises about metaphysics, and what the world is for, and what our lives are for.

00:43:31.540 My politics does come from that.

00:43:33.380 But we can talk about other things.

00:43:35.460 I understand why Democrats think what they think, broadly speaking.

00:43:40.260 I don't want to sound like I'm being prideful or something.

00:43:41.840 I think, basically, I understand why some left-wingers support abortion, or support high taxes, or want socialist health care.

00:43:50.140 I think I basically get their arguments.

00:43:52.100 But, as John Haidt pointed out in his work a number of years ago, the left, broadly, doesn't understand conservatives.

00:43:59.120 So they don't really understand where we're coming from.

00:44:01.100 So if you say, if we were on a date, and some Democrat says, well, I'm a Democrat, I might laugh.

00:44:06.500 I might think, okay, that's cute.

00:44:07.840 We'll talk for a few weeks, and then we'll see if you're still a Democrat.

00:44:10.760 Have another drink.

00:44:12.060 Yeah, let's talk about the basis of your ideas.

00:44:14.580 And it would be interesting.

00:44:15.480 And, by the way, if some girl doesn't change her ideas, that's fine. 1.00

00:44:19.680 We can learn from each other.

00:44:21.120 We can have diversity of thought.

00:44:22.700 We know that conservatives appreciate diversity of thought much more.

00:44:25.580 But the same is not true of the left.

00:44:28.720 So, unfortunately, now we've got to totally segregate ourselves by politics.

00:44:32.880 It's really shallow, because it does make an idol of politics.

00:44:37.320 I think the app is a good idea.

00:44:38.600 I think it's a good idea, because the left has made us do it.

00:44:44.100 It's sort of like in war, if you say, well, I'm opposed to war.

00:44:47.060 I'm not going to ever go to war.

00:44:48.900 And then some other nation declares war on you.

00:44:51.600 The other nation has a say, too.

00:44:53.620 You're not the only one who gets to decide if you're at war.

00:44:55.960 The other nation has a say, too.

00:44:57.660 And so Republicans and conservatives can say, well, I want to date people on the other side

00:45:02.720 of the aisle.

00:45:03.200 But if the other side of the aisle says they won't date you, then they have a say in that, too.

00:45:09.780 It's not just about what you want.

00:45:11.520 It's about what they want.

00:45:12.580 So it seems like a good app, but it seems like a bad sign for our culture.

00:45:16.520 And maybe in the spirit of the season of unity, of coming together, go out and date a Democrat.

00:45:21.220 Go see if you can.

00:45:22.800 Spread a little romantic joy this holiday season.

00:45:26.020 Let me know how it works out.

00:45:27.060 If not, you've always got writer there to go, and you can swipe right, right, right, right some more.

00:45:33.280 All right, that's our show.

00:45:34.080 We've got a lot more to get to, but too late.

00:45:35.620 Too bad.

00:45:36.360 Put your mailbag questions in the mailbag so that we can answer them tomorrow.

00:45:39.480 In the meantime, I'm Michael Knowles.

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The Michael Knowles Show - December 05, 2018

Ep. 263 - The Moral Incoherence of Veganism

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