The Michael Knowles Show - February 04, 2019


Ep. 291 - Infanticide Is Worse Than Blackface


Episode Stats

Length

46 minutes

Words per Minute

172.34673

Word Count

7,975

Sentence Count

483

Misogynist Sentences

16

Hate Speech Sentences

29


Summary

Ralph Northam apologizes for appearing in a blackface Ku Klux Klan photo on his medical school yearbook page. He also denies ever appearing in blackface except for that time he wore blackface to a Michael Jackson impersonator contest. Meanwhile, an Indian man sues his parents for giving birth to him without his consent.


Transcript

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00:00:30.000 Virginia Governor Ralph North is now denying
00:00:33.160 that he appeared in a blackface Ku Klux Klan photo
00:00:36.520 on his medical school yearbook page
00:00:38.180 one day after apologizing
00:00:40.320 for appearing in a blackface Ku Klux Klan photo
00:00:43.080 on his medical school yearbook page.
00:00:44.820 He also denies ever appearing in blackface
00:00:47.920 except for that time he wore blackface
00:00:50.180 to a Michael Jackson impersonator contest.
00:00:52.740 But don't worry.
00:00:53.660 He won't perform the moonwalk anymore
00:00:55.480 because that would be inappropriate according to his wife.
00:00:58.160 Oh yeah.
00:00:58.860 Also, he supports killing babies after they've been born.
00:01:02.260 We will analyze the sheer political brilliance
00:01:04.580 with which Democrats took down one of their own governors
00:01:07.360 to avoid talking about their growing support for infanticide.
00:01:11.060 Then, variations on a theme,
00:01:12.460 an Indian man sues his parents
00:01:14.060 for giving birth to him without his consent.
00:01:16.860 The nerve of them.
00:01:18.060 All life is suffering, he says,
00:01:19.980 but a new study shows that people
00:01:21.520 who have endured the most suffering
00:01:23.080 may live the longest lives.
00:01:24.980 We will try to make sense of the competing cultures
00:01:27.640 of life and death.
00:01:28.900 Finally, speaking of death,
00:01:30.760 Super Bowl 53,
00:01:32.200 and the death of football.
00:01:33.480 I'm Michael Knowles,
00:01:34.260 and this is The Michael Knowles Show.
00:01:42.600 Ralph Northam.
00:01:44.040 What a tragedy in three acts.
00:01:46.240 A comedy and a tragedy in three acts.
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00:03:20.000 one of the most incredible political displays
00:03:23.900 of the last three or four years.
00:03:27.840 Other than everything Donald Trump's done.
00:03:29.960 The Ralph Northam turnaround
00:03:31.800 is a jaw-dropping political display.
00:03:34.420 For those of you who missed it over the weekend,
00:03:36.400 here is Democrat,
00:03:37.520 Virginia Governor Ralph Northam
00:03:39.360 reacting to the news
00:03:42.040 that on his medical school yearbook page
00:03:44.780 is a photo of a man in blackface
00:03:47.200 and a man wearing a Ku Klux Klan outfit.
00:03:51.520 This, according to the Washington Post,
00:03:53.800 Ralph Northam is in this photo.
00:03:56.680 Ralph Northam, this gets exposed,
00:03:58.140 and he comes out and apologizes.
00:04:00.520 That photo and the racist and offensive attitudes it represents
00:04:05.760 does not reflect that person I am today
00:04:08.920 or the way that I have conducted myself
00:04:11.440 as a soldier, a doctor, and a public servant.
00:04:15.060 I am deeply sorry.
00:04:18.360 I cannot change the decisions I made,
00:04:21.440 nor can I undo the harm
00:04:23.080 my behavior caused then and today.
00:04:26.460 But I accept responsibility for my past actions,
00:04:30.120 and I am ready to do the hard work
00:04:32.060 of regaining your trust.
00:04:34.000 He accepts responsibility.
00:04:36.000 He is apologizing.
00:04:37.320 He's about to work to gain back your trust.
00:04:41.180 And then he realized,
00:04:42.080 wait a minute, I'm a Democrat.
00:04:43.080 I don't need to apologize for anything.
00:04:45.600 I don't need to take responsibility.
00:04:47.400 Yippee, I'm a Democrat governor.
00:04:49.080 So then, a day later,
00:04:50.280 he goes out and unapologizes.
00:04:52.360 Yesterday, I took responsibility
00:04:54.920 for content that appeared on my page
00:04:57.660 in the Eastern Virginia Medical School yearbook
00:05:00.560 that was clearly racist and offensive.
00:05:05.180 I am not and will not excuse the content of the photo.
00:05:09.000 It was offensive, racist, and despicable.
00:05:14.680 When my staff showed me the photo in question yesterday,
00:05:18.960 I was seeing it for the first time.
00:05:21.780 I did not purchase the EDMS yearbook,
00:05:24.960 and I was unaware of what was on my page.
00:05:27.460 When I was confronted with the images yesterday,
00:05:31.840 I was appalled that they appeared on my page,
00:05:35.160 but I believe then and now
00:05:37.940 that I am not either of the people in that photo.
00:05:43.920 I stand by my statement of apology
00:05:46.620 to the many Virginians who were hurt
00:05:48.560 by seeing this content
00:05:50.200 on a yearbook page that belongs to me.
00:05:53.000 Being a leftist means never having to say you're sorry.
00:05:57.720 Listen to that language.
00:05:58.940 Then he says,
00:05:59.540 well, I'm apologizing that there was
00:06:02.280 a racially offensive photo on my yearbook page.
00:06:05.220 Then he asks us to believe
00:06:06.580 that he never saw the yearbook,
00:06:08.200 never purchased the yearbook,
00:06:09.740 had nothing to do with the photo being on his page,
00:06:13.780 although then one wonders,
00:06:15.160 why was it on the page,
00:06:16.020 and why are you sorry that it appeared on the page?
00:06:18.140 Then he says, listen to the language,
00:06:20.220 I believe that I was not
00:06:23.080 either of the people on that page.
00:06:24.580 Now, if that photo comes out,
00:06:25.740 a guy in blackface,
00:06:26.820 a guy wearing a Ku Klux Klan uniform,
00:06:28.900 especially if you're a Democrat governor,
00:06:30.620 I mean, there's a long history
00:06:32.580 of Democrat governors wearing that uniform.
00:06:36.120 If that appears,
00:06:37.480 and you weren't in that photo,
00:06:39.140 wouldn't you come out and say,
00:06:39.940 it's not me?
00:06:41.520 You wouldn't apologize for it.
00:06:43.320 When you then unapologized,
00:06:44.840 you wouldn't say,
00:06:45.780 I believe I was not in that.
00:06:47.440 You would say, it's not me.
00:06:48.180 I'm not in that photo.
00:06:49.040 I didn't do that.
00:06:50.800 So, come on, get off it.
00:06:53.120 This is a political dirty trick
00:06:54.440 or something like that.
00:06:55.920 Instead, he's just saying,
00:06:58.740 don't believe your lying eyes.
00:07:00.100 This is what they always do.
00:07:01.140 This reminds me of Joy Reid.
00:07:03.660 Joy Reid is that MSNBC commentator,
00:07:07.380 and it came out that she had written on her blog
00:07:09.980 all of these anti-gay writings years ago.
00:07:12.700 And all of these anti-gay writings come out,
00:07:14.840 and she denies that they were there.
00:07:16.660 She says, I don't know how they got there.
00:07:18.240 Maybe it got hacked.
00:07:19.100 Maybe my old website,
00:07:21.780 ex post facto, got hacked,
00:07:23.580 and then all of these anti-gay writings
00:07:26.480 appeared there.
00:07:27.280 And, well, anyway,
00:07:28.040 no responsibility.
00:07:29.700 It's not me.
00:07:30.660 And then,
00:07:31.360 so he doesn't deny that he wore blackface ever.
00:07:34.020 His excuse, Ralph Northam,
00:07:35.800 is that he wasn't wearing blackface in this photo,
00:07:39.640 but he has worn blackface before.
00:07:42.440 He wore blackface
00:07:43.760 for a Michael Jackson impersonation contest.
00:07:47.940 Virginia will see a meaningful difference between you
00:07:50.740 in the Michael Jackson face paint and the blackface photo.
00:07:55.160 Is that a meaningful distinction in terms of the big part?
00:07:58.060 That's up to them.
00:07:59.560 You know,
00:07:59.900 everything is in soundbites these days,
00:08:02.700 but I really do believe that both of them are wrong,
00:08:07.100 but there's a contrast between the blackface
00:08:10.180 and someone standing there in a Ku Klux Klan outfit
00:08:12.680 and me dressed up in a Michael Jackson costume for a dance contest.
00:08:17.860 And, again,
00:08:19.120 they're both wrong,
00:08:20.940 but I would hope people would see the contrast.
00:08:23.560 So, speaking of seeing contrasts,
00:08:26.080 the one reason this Michael Jackson line is just obviously bogus
00:08:30.080 is that Ralph Northam today
00:08:32.300 is much darker skinned than Michael Jackson for much of his career.
00:08:36.700 So that, you know,
00:08:37.780 the timeline is very important here
00:08:39.140 on when you're doing your Michael Jackson impersonation.
00:08:41.980 But why is he admitting that he wore blackface
00:08:44.720 for a Michael Jackson contest or party or whatever?
00:08:48.900 The reason he's doing it
00:08:50.700 is that the guy's obviously worn blackface.
00:08:53.400 He almost certainly wore blackface in that photo.
00:08:55.340 He wore blackface or he wore the hood.
00:08:56.800 I don't know which one's better for Ralph Northam,
00:08:59.840 but he knows he's done it,
00:09:01.180 and he knows that probably some other photos exist.
00:09:04.960 If this guy was going out wearing blackface in the 80s,
00:09:08.340 probably that's not the only photograph.
00:09:10.240 If one of the photographs makes it to his medical school yearbook page,
00:09:12.820 probably they're going to come out.
00:09:14.060 And so when the next photo comes out,
00:09:15.480 it's going to be much more difficult
00:09:18.600 for Northam to have any credibility,
00:09:21.020 not that he has any now.
00:09:22.600 But the best part of the Michael Jackson line
00:09:24.460 is the piece de la resistance
00:09:26.440 of this whole beautiful press conference
00:09:29.240 when a reporter asks him to do the moonwalk,
00:09:32.960 and he almost does it.
00:09:34.380 The people that do that kind of research,
00:09:36.260 perhaps they should have looked at that.
00:09:39.240 And you said that the competition in San Antonio
00:09:41.680 was a dance competition?
00:09:43.280 Yes.
00:09:44.180 And it was that you danced the moonwalk?
00:09:46.300 That's right.
00:09:47.040 Are you still able to moonwalk?
00:09:50.820 Inappropriate circumstances.
00:09:53.020 My wife says inappropriate circumstances.
00:09:55.500 Are you still able to dance the moonwalk?
00:10:01.360 And what is it for those of you who couldn't see it?
00:10:03.400 He looks around.
00:10:05.060 He's looking around for a place on the stage
00:10:07.620 to do the moonwalk.
00:10:08.840 And he's smiling.
00:10:10.000 And he probably doesn't know how to do the moonwalk.
00:10:11.840 I wish.
00:10:12.740 If only his wife weren't there,
00:10:14.340 we could have seen that.
00:10:15.500 Somehow the press conference would have been even better.
00:10:17.920 Really beautiful.
00:10:18.780 So now, after this press conference,
00:10:21.360 all of a sudden, leading Democrats
00:10:23.140 are coming out against the guy.
00:10:25.060 Terry McAuliffe, ex-governor of Virginia.
00:10:27.400 Eric Holder, ex-attorney general.
00:10:29.480 Hillary Clinton, former future president of the United States.
00:10:32.140 They're all coming out.
00:10:33.200 They're saying,
00:10:33.580 he doesn't have the judgment.
00:10:34.960 He can't be governor of Virginia.
00:10:37.180 He's got to resign.
00:10:38.520 He's got to get out of office.
00:10:40.480 You'll notice all of these Democrats
00:10:42.280 were waiting until after the press conference.
00:10:44.360 It wasn't right when the photo came out.
00:10:46.400 It wasn't, you know,
00:10:47.820 any of his other actions as governor.
00:10:49.500 It was after this press conference
00:10:50.780 they realized this guy is not capable
00:10:54.300 of remaining in office.
00:10:56.660 He's looking too bad for us.
00:10:59.180 What this is about,
00:11:00.800 the reason that Ralph Northam is being pushed out of office
00:11:03.540 is not because he wore blackface
00:11:06.720 or a Ku Klux Klan hood 35 years ago.
00:11:10.440 He's being pushed out
00:11:11.620 for being an incompetent spokesman
00:11:14.200 for the Democrat Party.
00:11:15.760 And what this is really about
00:11:17.460 is not about blackface or racism or bigotry.
00:11:21.740 What this is all really about is abortion.
00:11:24.560 And this was an amazing move by the Democrat Party.
00:11:28.480 I don't know who was behind this.
00:11:30.240 I don't know exactly where the tip-off came from.
00:11:32.260 I don't know how it all played out moment to moment.
00:11:35.060 But pivoting this conversation
00:11:37.500 from this man endorsing infanticide
00:11:41.380 to this man having worn blackface 35 years ago
00:11:44.360 so he's got to go,
00:11:45.320 this was one of the most brilliant
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00:11:50.480 crisis management strategies,
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00:13:36.560 This was the brilliance
00:13:39.320 of this Ralph Northam
00:13:40.360 Democrat strategy.
00:13:41.640 First of all,
00:13:43.200 who tipped off the press
00:13:44.480 about this photograph?
00:13:45.700 I don't think they just
00:13:46.680 coincidentally discovered
00:13:48.280 this photograph a day
00:13:50.140 after Ralph Northam
00:13:52.020 exposed the entire
00:13:53.260 Democrats' abortion position,
00:13:54.900 which is to kill babies.
00:13:57.080 After they're born,
00:13:58.100 as they're being born,
00:13:59.140 right before they're born,
00:14:00.340 he exposed abortion
00:14:02.100 for what it really is,
00:14:03.300 which is infanticide,
00:14:04.560 the killing of babies.
00:14:05.660 A day later,
00:14:06.620 his career is over
00:14:07.680 because of a photograph
00:14:08.820 that someone obviously
00:14:10.060 had for a long time
00:14:11.240 and they were sitting on it,
00:14:12.800 sitting on ammo,
00:14:13.840 just waiting to use it.
00:14:15.740 So who tipped off the press?
00:14:16.860 According to reports now,
00:14:18.220 it was a concerned citizen,
00:14:20.720 not a political opponent.
00:14:23.020 And this is from
00:14:23.660 Big League Politics,
00:14:24.580 which published this.
00:14:25.600 Quote,
00:14:25.800 a concerned citizen,
00:14:26.700 not a political opponent,
00:14:27.960 came to us and pointed this out.
00:14:29.820 I think there's a lot there.
00:14:32.380 How it's being reported now
00:14:34.800 is that it was
00:14:35.180 a medical school classmate
00:14:36.360 who was outraged
00:14:37.500 by the infanticide comments.
00:14:39.120 But how was the medical school
00:14:40.300 classmate outraged?
00:14:41.560 Because he's pro-life
00:14:42.560 or because he's a Democrat?
00:14:43.780 I don't know.
00:14:44.960 The language here,
00:14:46.060 a concerned citizen,
00:14:47.120 not a political opponent,
00:14:49.400 makes me think
00:14:50.140 maybe this wasn't
00:14:51.040 a political opponent.
00:14:51.960 Maybe this was a Democrat.
00:14:54.280 Maybe this tip
00:14:55.020 came from a Democrat
00:14:55.940 who wanted to get abortion
00:14:57.800 and post-birth abortion
00:14:59.860 and infanticide
00:15:00.800 out of the headlines
00:15:02.040 because it looks really,
00:15:03.120 really bad for Democrats.
00:15:05.340 You know,
00:15:06.040 we talked about this
00:15:07.020 on the show last time
00:15:07.940 on Thursday.
00:15:08.660 For so long,
00:15:09.900 the leftists had us argue
00:15:11.620 pro-life
00:15:12.300 at the moment of conception
00:15:13.840 where the majority
00:15:15.860 of Americans
00:15:16.480 support legal abortion
00:15:17.980 three days after conception,
00:15:20.000 two weeks after conception,
00:15:21.000 whatever.
00:15:22.200 But the logical conclusion
00:15:23.640 of that
00:15:24.100 is at the day of birth
00:15:25.080 or the day after birth
00:15:26.220 or the day before birth.
00:15:27.820 And now,
00:15:28.640 because of guys
00:15:29.220 like Ralph Northam
00:15:30.060 and Andrew Cuomo
00:15:30.800 and other Democrats,
00:15:32.680 we're arguing about abortion
00:15:34.080 at its logical conclusion,
00:15:35.340 which is the baby,
00:15:36.420 which is infanticide.
00:15:38.020 And today,
00:15:39.000 other than on this show,
00:15:39.980 other than on maybe
00:15:40.660 a couple other
00:15:41.280 conservative-leaning shows,
00:15:43.040 people aren't going
00:15:44.340 to be talking about
00:15:45.100 Ralph Northam
00:15:45.820 and infanticide.
00:15:47.100 They're going to be talking
00:15:47.680 about some stupid photo
00:15:48.840 35 years ago
00:15:50.260 that I truly care
00:15:51.540 nothing about
00:15:52.800 that is truly
00:15:53.640 not relevant
00:15:54.880 to our lives,
00:15:59.000 to our public policy,
00:16:00.400 to racial relations,
00:16:02.260 to abortion.
00:16:03.800 Just remember this
00:16:04.880 three, four days ago.
00:16:06.440 This is what we were
00:16:07.280 talking about
00:16:07.820 from Ralph Northam.
00:16:09.120 There are,
00:16:09.680 you know,
00:16:09.940 when we talk about
00:16:10.860 third trimester abortions,
00:16:12.660 these are done
00:16:13.580 with the consent
00:16:15.260 of obviously
00:16:16.220 the mother,
00:16:17.140 with the consent
00:16:17.880 of the physicians,
00:16:19.520 more than one physician,
00:16:20.820 by the way.
00:16:21.940 And it's done in cases
00:16:23.280 where there may be
00:16:24.360 severe deformities,
00:16:25.660 there may be a fetus
00:16:27.300 that's non-viable.
00:16:28.860 So in this particular example,
00:16:30.600 if a mother is in labor,
00:16:32.100 I can tell you exactly
00:16:33.320 what would happen.
00:16:34.960 The infant would be delivered,
00:16:37.080 the infant would be
00:16:38.140 kept comfortable,
00:16:39.680 the infant would be
00:16:40.660 resuscitated,
00:16:41.540 if that's what the
00:16:42.660 mother and the family
00:16:43.920 desired,
00:16:44.820 and then a discussion
00:16:45.720 would ensue
00:16:46.460 between the physicians
00:16:47.760 and the mother.
00:16:48.840 So I think this was
00:16:50.100 really blown out
00:16:50.920 of proportion.
00:16:52.580 So,
00:16:53.180 really blown out
00:16:53.980 of proportion.
00:16:54.600 Well,
00:16:54.920 something was blown
00:16:55.840 out of proportion here,
00:16:57.020 but it wasn't
00:16:57.640 the infanticide comments.
00:17:00.880 I guess it's now
00:17:01.600 been blown out
00:17:02.060 of proportion
00:17:02.460 because of this new thing.
00:17:03.760 I'll say it here.
00:17:04.940 I'm probably going to be
00:17:05.800 called a racist
00:17:06.400 for saying this.
00:17:08.220 I think that it is worse
00:17:09.880 to slaughter babies
00:17:11.200 after they've been born
00:17:12.340 than to wear blackface.
00:17:14.240 I know.
00:17:14.960 I'm going to be kicked
00:17:15.420 off Twitter.
00:17:15.960 I'm going to be kicked
00:17:16.420 off Facebook.
00:17:17.580 You're not allowed
00:17:18.180 to say that my show
00:17:18.980 is going to be canceled.
00:17:20.320 I think,
00:17:20.820 I think actually
00:17:21.840 a lot of reasonable
00:17:22.660 people would agree.
00:17:24.340 It is worse
00:17:25.540 to kill infants
00:17:27.820 after they've been born
00:17:29.200 in 2019
00:17:30.240 than it is
00:17:32.220 to have worn blackface
00:17:34.180 in 1984.
00:17:35.300 That's what I think.
00:17:37.720 Call me crazy.
00:17:38.480 Call me crazy.
00:17:39.220 But of course,
00:17:39.620 everybody thinks that.
00:17:40.760 And the leak strategy worked.
00:17:42.600 We're now talking
00:17:43.300 about blackface,
00:17:44.120 which everybody can condemn.
00:17:45.500 Democrats can go out
00:17:46.600 and condemn.
00:17:47.620 Democrat politicians,
00:17:49.080 presidential candidates
00:17:49.900 can go and condemn him,
00:17:51.000 call for him to resign,
00:17:52.020 rather than
00:17:53.020 talking about
00:17:54.740 infants who have been
00:17:55.700 born alive
00:17:56.360 who are now being killed,
00:17:57.580 which Democrats
00:17:58.240 can't condemn.
00:18:00.140 The Democrat
00:18:01.300 presidential candidates
00:18:02.260 who have announced
00:18:02.880 and who haven't announced
00:18:03.680 have been very quiet
00:18:05.000 about these abortion bills
00:18:06.180 in New York
00:18:07.140 and possibly in Rhode Island
00:18:08.880 and in Virginia,
00:18:10.500 the ones that allow you
00:18:11.380 to kill a baby
00:18:11.960 as it's being born
00:18:12.660 or I guess even after
00:18:13.860 it's been born.
00:18:15.420 They can't talk about that
00:18:16.600 because if they come out
00:18:17.380 and say that's too far,
00:18:19.920 then they create
00:18:20.900 a losing issue
00:18:21.540 for Democrats.
00:18:22.380 They're going to lose
00:18:22.980 the primaries.
00:18:24.300 And the question
00:18:24.960 isn't obviously
00:18:25.840 then going to be,
00:18:27.160 well,
00:18:27.400 if it's too late
00:18:28.340 to kill a baby
00:18:29.060 on the day it's being born
00:18:30.260 or the day after
00:18:31.440 it's been born,
00:18:32.420 what about the day
00:18:33.520 before it's been born?
00:18:35.280 What about the week
00:18:35.960 before it's been born?
00:18:37.440 What about at 26 weeks?
00:18:38.800 Now you can kill a baby
00:18:39.640 at 26 weeks
00:18:40.340 in a whole lot of places.
00:18:42.680 Women who are 26 weeks pregnant
00:18:44.300 have a giant belly.
00:18:46.120 You can feel the baby kicking.
00:18:47.580 You can see on 3D sonograms
00:18:49.120 that it's clearly a baby.
00:18:51.440 What about that?
00:18:53.680 And it also,
00:18:54.700 it also,
00:18:55.420 this leak strategy,
00:18:56.900 which was so good,
00:18:58.200 puts Republicans
00:18:58.980 on the defensive
00:19:01.100 because we expressly,
00:19:03.680 we very explicitly
00:19:04.720 do not hold people's
00:19:06.420 30-year-old yearbooks
00:19:07.500 against them.
00:19:08.300 This was the whole
00:19:09.140 Brett Kavanaugh incident
00:19:10.280 was that Brett Kavanaugh
00:19:12.500 wrote about chugging beers
00:19:13.840 in his high school yearbook
00:19:15.320 from the 80s
00:19:16.240 and Republicans
00:19:17.620 rightly pointed out
00:19:18.680 who cares what he wrote
00:19:19.440 in his high school yearbook,
00:19:20.720 who cares what he did
00:19:21.640 in the 80s,
00:19:22.300 I care what's happening now.
00:19:24.160 So,
00:19:24.600 just sort of by principle,
00:19:26.700 Republicans
00:19:27.180 don't want to condemn people
00:19:28.880 for things that happened
00:19:29.700 30 years ago,
00:19:30.680 especially if they've changed,
00:19:31.920 especially if they've said
00:19:32.840 that they're sorry.
00:19:33.520 I don't care.
00:19:34.320 I don't care if this guy
00:19:35.560 wore blackface
00:19:37.160 35 years ago.
00:19:38.560 I don't care if he wore
00:19:39.920 the Ku Klux Klan hood
00:19:41.200 35 years ago,
00:19:42.400 especially because
00:19:42.780 he's a Democrat governor
00:19:43.700 and basically all of them
00:19:44.780 wore the Ku Klux Klan hood
00:19:47.100 for the majority
00:19:48.900 of the existence
00:19:49.580 of the Ku Klux Klan.
00:19:50.700 What I care about is,
00:19:51.900 is he sorry for it?
00:19:53.320 Has he changed?
00:19:54.760 Is he doing things
00:19:56.060 as governor
00:19:56.540 that are discriminatory
00:19:58.180 toward people
00:19:58.620 of other races?
00:19:59.600 Is he oppressing people?
00:20:01.600 If he's doing that,
00:20:02.700 I'm much more concerned
00:20:03.760 about that.
00:20:04.420 He's obviously oppressing
00:20:05.700 one class of people,
00:20:07.220 namely babies.
00:20:09.200 Or babies who are not wanted.
00:20:11.220 Or babies,
00:20:11.700 he says in that video,
00:20:12.520 he says,
00:20:12.820 look,
00:20:13.340 we're not killing
00:20:14.060 the good babies.
00:20:14.900 We're killing
00:20:15.420 those disabled babies.
00:20:17.200 Nobody wants
00:20:17.940 a disabled baby.
00:20:19.460 Who wants that?
00:20:21.680 Nobody wants a baby
00:20:22.780 who has a mental
00:20:24.220 or physical deformity.
00:20:25.320 No,
00:20:25.680 come on.
00:20:26.700 That,
00:20:27.040 I care a lot more
00:20:27.940 about that.
00:20:29.720 So now Democrats,
00:20:31.220 by switching up this story
00:20:32.420 on Ralph Northam,
00:20:33.480 they're trying,
00:20:34.300 trying at least
00:20:34.980 to argue on terms
00:20:36.320 that they can win on.
00:20:38.300 These are not comparable things.
00:20:40.760 And it's,
00:20:41.000 it's also worth pointing out
00:20:42.240 as we talk about
00:20:43.100 this,
00:20:43.740 these abortion laws,
00:20:44.720 which are growing
00:20:45.260 around the country now.
00:20:46.400 When we talk about them,
00:20:47.660 we should make clear
00:20:48.660 that there are
00:20:50.120 real differences
00:20:51.640 between arguing over
00:20:53.240 these bills
00:20:54.520 and arguing over
00:20:55.440 other Democrat policies.
00:20:57.160 I always refrain
00:20:58.820 or I am reluctant
00:20:59.860 to call things evil,
00:21:02.060 to call people evil,
00:21:03.820 to condemn people
00:21:04.760 categorically
00:21:05.600 because they want
00:21:07.680 to raise taxes,
00:21:08.700 because,
00:21:09.160 even because of
00:21:09.960 awful political ideologies
00:21:11.620 like socialism.
00:21:12.820 I,
00:21:13.100 I like to point out
00:21:14.640 that people who are
00:21:15.560 fond of socialism
00:21:16.660 usually do so
00:21:17.500 because they're ignorant,
00:21:18.860 because maybe
00:21:20.000 they have good intentions,
00:21:20.780 but the road to hell
00:21:21.620 is paved in good intentions.
00:21:23.340 This is different.
00:21:25.040 These abortion bills,
00:21:26.440 so-called abortion bills,
00:21:27.500 and really infanticide bills
00:21:29.380 are different.
00:21:30.920 They are categorically evil.
00:21:33.180 They are categorically barbaric.
00:21:35.940 They are evil
00:21:36.940 down to the core.
00:21:37.940 They're horrific.
00:21:39.000 They transcend
00:21:39.740 mere political difference.
00:21:41.680 And we should talk
00:21:42.480 about it that way.
00:21:43.160 It is pure barbarism.
00:21:45.600 The people who support that
00:21:47.100 should not be permitted
00:21:48.480 into polite society.
00:21:49.580 People who vote
00:21:51.160 to support that,
00:21:52.620 to support the killing
00:21:53.400 of babies after they've been born,
00:21:55.000 should be ostracized.
00:21:56.880 They should probably
00:21:57.580 be deported,
00:21:58.880 at least.
00:21:59.840 They should be held
00:22:00.600 to criminal standards.
00:22:01.580 There should be laws
00:22:02.420 passed against
00:22:03.400 this sort of thing.
00:22:04.600 They should be held
00:22:05.140 to criminal standards.
00:22:06.960 It is wickedness,
00:22:08.660 total evil,
00:22:09.640 depravity.
00:22:11.320 That's what that guy did,
00:22:12.640 Ralph Northam.
00:22:13.300 That's what he said
00:22:13.960 on that radio show,
00:22:14.980 is we should allow babies
00:22:16.460 to be born,
00:22:17.140 and then if they have
00:22:18.200 a deformity,
00:22:19.160 or if their parents
00:22:20.220 don't like them,
00:22:21.220 then their parents
00:22:21.860 should be able to kill them
00:22:22.960 right on the table
00:22:24.420 while they're smiling up
00:22:26.140 at their little mothers.
00:22:27.240 That's what he said.
00:22:28.220 That is pure evil.
00:22:31.560 And the Democrats
00:22:32.620 have us not talking
00:22:34.060 about that.
00:22:34.880 They have us talking
00:22:35.780 about a guy wearing
00:22:37.340 a racially insensitive
00:22:39.040 costume 35 years ago.
00:22:42.920 Brilliantly done.
00:22:43.820 My hat goes off
00:22:45.040 to those cynical,
00:22:47.680 depraved political strategists
00:22:52.600 who managed to do that.
00:22:53.660 It was really,
00:22:54.460 really well done
00:22:55.260 and pretty horrific.
00:22:57.840 It was really,
00:22:58.680 really,
00:22:59.100 really cynical
00:23:02.660 and really effective.
00:23:04.120 Now, the reason,
00:23:04.800 the reason that
00:23:05.540 Northam's comments
00:23:06.540 are so dangerous
00:23:07.640 for Democrats
00:23:08.240 is that they describe
00:23:09.460 the reality of abortion,
00:23:10.600 and there's a new series
00:23:11.300 coming out
00:23:11.820 from Live Action
00:23:12.900 which shows this beautifully.
00:23:15.820 It's really astounding.
00:23:16.960 When you have arguments
00:23:17.820 with people,
00:23:18.260 when you have political
00:23:18.880 debates with people,
00:23:19.900 you never change their mind.
00:23:21.540 But this issue,
00:23:22.480 as I say time and again,
00:23:24.060 is different.
00:23:25.020 I was having a debate
00:23:25.760 at Politicon
00:23:26.260 with Democrats like,
00:23:27.420 what's his name,
00:23:28.440 Bakari Sellers,
00:23:29.780 a few others.
00:23:30.380 They said,
00:23:30.620 we need to meet in the middle.
00:23:31.540 I said,
00:23:31.780 you can't meet in the middle
00:23:32.480 on abortion.
00:23:33.320 He said,
00:23:33.660 you're right.
00:23:34.560 That's what you can't.
00:23:35.460 That's a different kind of it.
00:23:36.620 This is a different kind of issue.
00:23:37.900 We'll get to that in a second.
00:23:39.260 We'll get to antinatalism.
00:23:40.620 We'll get to the Indian man
00:23:41.560 who's suing his parents
00:23:42.440 for giving birth to him
00:23:43.620 without his consent.
00:23:45.060 We will get to
00:23:45.860 the Holocaust paradox,
00:23:47.720 how life may involve
00:23:48.940 a lot of suffering,
00:23:49.680 but suffering makes us stronger.
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00:26:52.560 The reason that
00:26:53.660 Ralph Northam's interview there
00:26:55.200 is so dangerous
00:26:56.340 for Democrats,
00:26:57.260 current Democrat politicians,
00:26:59.020 the Democrats
00:26:59.580 running for president,
00:27:00.500 is because they describe
00:27:01.660 the reality of abortion.
00:27:03.700 The pro-abortion
00:27:04.580 activists
00:27:05.900 always use jargon.
00:27:07.320 Whenever people use
00:27:08.020 jargon and euphemisms,
00:27:09.120 you know that they're
00:27:09.640 hiding something from you.
00:27:11.120 They'll say things,
00:27:11.860 when they describe abortion
00:27:12.840 in the pro-abortion
00:27:14.860 activist movement,
00:27:15.820 they'll say,
00:27:16.180 well,
00:27:16.940 we use
00:27:17.920 certain tools
00:27:20.460 and employ certain tools
00:27:22.000 to
00:27:22.900 find the cranium
00:27:25.160 and then we remove
00:27:26.300 the product of pregnancy
00:27:27.800 from the uterus.
00:27:29.300 They all make it
00:27:29.740 very clinical.
00:27:30.280 There was that video
00:27:31.280 of a woman
00:27:31.820 trying to describe
00:27:33.060 abortion to children
00:27:34.060 because she's
00:27:34.740 obviously deranged
00:27:36.000 and she said,
00:27:37.940 it just,
00:27:38.440 you know,
00:27:38.800 it's not a big deal
00:27:39.620 getting an abortion.
00:27:40.580 It's just like
00:27:41.000 a weird body thing,
00:27:43.400 direct quote.
00:27:44.260 It's kind of like
00:27:45.000 going to the dentist,
00:27:46.000 you know,
00:27:46.160 it's just a clinical,
00:27:46.960 but it's obviously
00:27:47.900 not like that.
00:27:49.400 So you hear all
00:27:50.240 of the clinical
00:27:50.900 euphemisms,
00:27:52.180 jargon,
00:27:52.920 that the pro-abortion
00:27:53.720 crowd uses
00:27:54.340 and then what does
00:27:55.100 Ralph Northam say?
00:27:55.940 Because he's obviously
00:27:56.880 not a terribly intelligent man,
00:27:58.460 so when he's out there
00:27:59.700 talking on the radio,
00:28:00.520 he says,
00:28:00.780 yeah,
00:28:01.160 the baby's born
00:28:01.980 and then we leave it
00:28:02.600 on a table
00:28:03.040 and then we kill it
00:28:03.720 if we want to.
00:28:06.180 He's the more honest person.
00:28:07.840 He's the one telling you
00:28:08.720 what it is.
00:28:09.200 At least he's being honest.
00:28:10.540 All that jargon
00:28:11.340 is very dishonest.
00:28:13.220 So Live Action,
00:28:14.520 pro-life organization,
00:28:15.840 has this new series,
00:28:16.920 video series,
00:28:17.620 where they go up to people
00:28:18.640 and they say,
00:28:18.940 what do you think
00:28:19.280 about abortion?
00:28:20.080 And then the people say,
00:28:21.920 well,
00:28:22.120 I support it mostly.
00:28:23.200 I think it's basically fine
00:28:24.220 and, you know,
00:28:25.020 you should have the right
00:28:25.700 to choose
00:28:26.300 and blah,
00:28:26.800 but whatever.
00:28:27.640 And then they show them
00:28:28.920 videos of what an abortion is,
00:28:31.740 what it does.
00:28:33.200 The videos,
00:28:33.640 obviously the videos
00:28:34.220 are not being shown in here
00:28:35.660 because they're pretty graphic.
00:28:37.400 And then instantly,
00:28:38.840 the people change their mind.
00:28:40.520 This never happens
00:28:41.400 in political debate.
00:28:42.260 It happens over time,
00:28:43.380 maybe.
00:28:44.080 It's very hard
00:28:44.720 to convince someone
00:28:45.320 except on this issue,
00:28:46.880 which is different.
00:28:48.500 Check it out.
00:28:49.440 What are your thoughts
00:28:50.120 about abortion?
00:28:50.680 I think everyone
00:28:53.340 should have a right to it.
00:28:55.600 It's our body.
00:28:57.100 It's our decision, right?
00:28:58.720 So we want to go ahead
00:29:00.380 with the pregnancy
00:29:01.020 or to abort it.
00:29:02.860 It should be solely
00:29:03.740 on the person
00:29:04.380 who's carrying the baby.
00:29:05.560 So, yeah,
00:29:06.100 that's what I feel about it.
00:29:07.280 Would you both support abortion
00:29:09.080 all the way up
00:29:09.680 to the moment of birth?
00:29:11.260 Oh, yeah, I do.
00:29:12.200 I do, yes.
00:29:14.180 So now she's watching
00:29:15.560 this video.
00:29:16.480 You can see certain images
00:29:17.600 from the video
00:29:18.380 on how it's being done,
00:29:19.800 some graphics,
00:29:20.680 one word,
00:29:22.520 your thoughts
00:29:22.940 on what you saw?
00:29:25.700 That was heart-wrenching,
00:29:28.300 I guess.
00:29:28.880 I mean,
00:29:29.800 yeah, I mean,
00:29:30.820 until you see
00:29:32.220 something like that,
00:29:33.360 you don't often think
00:29:35.960 that you're going
00:29:36.400 to change your opinion,
00:29:37.360 right?
00:29:37.680 I mean,
00:29:38.140 that's something
00:29:40.060 I would never want
00:29:42.020 anyone to go through,
00:29:43.060 right?
00:29:43.260 Not myself,
00:29:44.040 not her,
00:29:44.500 not anyone.
00:29:45.180 I'm a mom to one,
00:29:46.460 right?
00:29:46.840 And I had no idea
00:29:49.060 this is how abortion
00:29:49.900 takes place,
00:29:50.820 right?
00:29:51.460 Looking at that video
00:29:52.700 and the way
00:29:53.920 it was performed,
00:29:56.440 yeah,
00:29:56.700 it's an eye-opener.
00:29:58.060 So,
00:29:58.600 no,
00:29:59.100 I don't think
00:29:59.940 any kid,
00:30:00.920 any baby,
00:30:01.680 any infant,
00:30:02.500 I mean,
00:30:03.420 any fetus
00:30:04.260 should go through that,
00:30:05.340 no.
00:30:06.680 Listen,
00:30:07.160 and she's so confused.
00:30:08.460 You can hear,
00:30:08.740 I mean,
00:30:08.840 that's how you can really tell
00:30:09.800 that this is genuine.
00:30:10.940 She's saying,
00:30:11.400 I don't think any infant,
00:30:12.280 I mean,
00:30:12.520 I mean,
00:30:12.840 fetus,
00:30:13.840 but even if it's,
00:30:14.680 I still don't think
00:30:15.400 it should go through that.
00:30:16.260 By the way,
00:30:16.620 fetus means offspring.
00:30:17.940 It's a Latin word
00:30:18.580 that means offspring
00:30:19.680 of a parent.
00:30:22.040 Really effective tool
00:30:23.580 and this is always
00:30:24.720 the tool.
00:30:26.040 I mean,
00:30:26.440 when you show
00:30:27.680 the reality,
00:30:28.760 when you show
00:30:29.720 the images,
00:30:31.680 that is what is going
00:30:32.700 to convince people.
00:30:33.600 If you just have a debate,
00:30:34.980 you know,
00:30:35.480 you kind of have
00:30:35.920 a bull session
00:30:36.660 freshman year
00:30:37.440 where you're debating
00:30:38.600 these abstract
00:30:40.160 ideological ideas
00:30:42.400 of abortion
00:30:43.000 and you say,
00:30:43.680 well,
00:30:44.760 isn't abortion
00:30:45.820 sort of like
00:30:46.960 if a woman
00:30:48.000 is chained
00:30:48.900 to a hospital bed
00:30:50.100 and she's connected
00:30:51.180 to a parasite
00:30:52.140 which she didn't ask
00:30:53.600 to be there
00:30:54.220 and the parasite
00:30:54.800 is morally licit
00:30:56.340 to,
00:30:56.720 well,
00:30:57.280 first of all,
00:30:57.780 these thought experiments
00:30:58.860 are ridiculous.
00:30:59.940 They're not terribly
00:31:00.780 good analogies for it
00:31:02.160 but rather than use
00:31:04.540 some silly thought experiment,
00:31:06.440 how about we just look
00:31:07.260 at what an abortion is?
00:31:09.320 They won't let you do that.
00:31:10.480 The left doesn't want you
00:31:11.300 to do that
00:31:11.780 because when you look
00:31:12.660 at the reality of it,
00:31:13.840 when you see the story
00:31:15.080 of what's going on,
00:31:16.480 that's going to make you pro-life.
00:31:19.160 For all but the most
00:31:20.560 psychopathic people,
00:31:22.480 that will make you pro-life.
00:31:24.720 It has to.
00:31:28.140 This is the difference
00:31:29.240 between an ideological manifesto
00:31:31.620 and a narrative.
00:31:33.340 This is why politics
00:31:34.420 is downstream of culture.
00:31:35.860 This is why the culture
00:31:36.660 matters so much
00:31:37.560 is because we live in stories.
00:31:40.480 Ideological manifestos,
00:31:41.980 doctrines,
00:31:42.660 boom, boom, boom,
00:31:43.460 five bullet points
00:31:44.360 that describe all of life.
00:31:46.180 They're always wrong.
00:31:47.380 That's why ideologies
00:31:48.120 are always wrong.
00:31:49.300 It's because they can't contain
00:31:50.820 the richness of life.
00:31:54.160 Stories can get
00:31:55.680 at the richness of life.
00:31:56.660 This is why myths
00:31:57.460 describe life so much.
00:31:59.040 This is why Christianity
00:32:00.100 is the true myth.
00:32:00.960 It's the greatest story
00:32:01.640 ever told.
00:32:02.960 The stories do it.
00:32:03.860 And when we watch
00:32:04.640 the narrative
00:32:05.140 of what an abortion is,
00:32:06.880 there's no ambiguity.
00:32:08.420 I don't have to wonder,
00:32:09.600 what's a cranium?
00:32:10.500 What's this tool look like?
00:32:12.860 How is,
00:32:13.700 what is a fetus
00:32:14.680 or an embryo
00:32:15.540 or a blasto,
00:32:17.460 blastula,
00:32:18.540 or this or that?
00:32:19.320 What is,
00:32:19.940 no, it's a baby.
00:32:20.740 It's obviously a baby.
00:32:22.000 And it's obviously being killed.
00:32:23.360 And it's obviously
00:32:23.720 trying not to be killed.
00:32:25.140 And that's what it is.
00:32:26.540 That's the story.
00:32:28.300 How you feel about abortion
00:32:29.800 really comes down
00:32:31.020 to how you feel about life.
00:32:33.560 That's what it's really about.
00:32:34.580 It's not about
00:32:35.140 what you think
00:32:35.580 about medical procedures.
00:32:36.820 It's not about
00:32:37.360 necessarily even abstract
00:32:39.320 ideological principles.
00:32:41.080 It's,
00:32:41.360 what do you think about life?
00:32:42.840 Is life ultimately good?
00:32:44.880 Is life ultimately a comedy?
00:32:46.900 Is it significant?
00:32:48.240 Does it have purpose?
00:32:50.100 Is your life geared
00:32:51.000 toward a purpose?
00:32:52.360 Or,
00:32:53.320 is life a tale told
00:32:54.420 by an idiot
00:32:55.020 full of sound and fury
00:32:56.020 signifying nothing at all?
00:32:58.000 Which is it?
00:32:59.740 Those are the two views.
00:33:01.340 The traditional view,
00:33:02.520 the Christian view,
00:33:03.240 the religious view broadly
00:33:05.060 is that life has a purpose.
00:33:07.340 It has a telos.
00:33:08.440 The classic ancient view,
00:33:10.200 the Aristotelian view,
00:33:11.320 there is a purpose to life.
00:33:12.620 There is a significance to life.
00:33:14.420 The modern and postmodern view
00:33:16.080 is that it's nothing.
00:33:17.000 It's an accident.
00:33:17.920 We're just a bunch
00:33:18.720 of weird molecules
00:33:20.020 bouncing together
00:33:21.220 that we accidentally
00:33:22.180 ended up in this
00:33:23.540 semi-conscious,
00:33:25.140 probably not even
00:33:26.340 free state.
00:33:27.680 It's probably all
00:33:28.400 determined anyway.
00:33:29.680 And then we delude ourselves
00:33:31.040 with silly illusions
00:33:32.420 like love
00:33:33.360 and virtue
00:33:34.720 and purpose.
00:33:36.120 But it's all just ridiculous
00:33:37.740 and it's really full of suffering
00:33:39.580 and it's really
00:33:40.200 just awful.
00:33:41.240 It would be better
00:33:41.960 not to be born.
00:33:43.700 There is an Indian guy
00:33:45.120 who is now
00:33:46.220 embodying this
00:33:47.580 in a really farcical
00:33:48.680 and dark way.
00:33:49.840 He is suing his parents
00:33:51.680 for giving birth to him
00:33:53.460 without his consent.
00:33:56.340 His name is Ralph,
00:33:57.360 I'm sorry,
00:33:57.760 Raphael Samuel.
00:33:58.640 He says he has
00:33:59.600 a great relationship
00:34:00.340 with his parents
00:34:01.020 but he's compared
00:34:02.500 having children
00:34:03.140 to kidnapping
00:34:03.840 and slavery.
00:34:05.100 He's leading a movement
00:34:06.200 called anti-natalism
00:34:07.700 and when I first saw this
00:34:09.920 I just assumed
00:34:11.320 it was a joke.
00:34:12.020 I assumed it was satire
00:34:13.040 but the weird thing
00:34:14.940 about the age
00:34:15.620 that we're living in
00:34:16.320 is that it's not clear.
00:34:17.320 You have a sitting governor
00:34:18.300 describing how it's
00:34:19.800 perfectly normal
00:34:20.680 and good
00:34:21.580 to kill babies
00:34:22.680 after they've been born
00:34:23.480 if you don't want them.
00:34:24.900 So in that world,
00:34:26.260 if this is satire,
00:34:27.300 it's very good satire.
00:34:28.700 I'm not convinced
00:34:29.360 that it is.
00:34:30.440 This guy,
00:34:31.160 Raphael,
00:34:31.920 says,
00:34:32.440 quote,
00:34:33.460 my life has been amazing
00:34:34.620 but I don't see
00:34:35.600 why I should put
00:34:36.180 another life
00:34:36.800 through the rigmarole
00:34:37.720 of school
00:34:38.420 and finding a career
00:34:39.780 especially when
00:34:40.580 they didn't ask
00:34:41.340 to exist.
00:34:42.280 He's got this campaign
00:34:43.100 he's posting it
00:34:43.780 on the internet
00:34:44.320 where he says
00:34:45.140 if parents truly know
00:34:46.440 what is good
00:34:46.840 for their children,
00:34:48.080 why did they have them?
00:34:49.740 Isn't forcing a child
00:34:50.900 into this world
00:34:51.640 and then forcing it
00:34:52.680 to have a career
00:34:53.380 kidnapping
00:34:54.300 and slavery?
00:34:55.980 The only reason
00:34:57.120 your children
00:34:58.040 are facing problems
00:34:59.080 is because you had them
00:35:00.300 which is true.
00:35:02.240 That's why the children
00:35:03.140 have problems
00:35:03.720 is because you gave them life.
00:35:05.860 So he's right
00:35:06.940 in that way
00:35:07.520 but what it comes down to
00:35:09.660 is is life
00:35:10.200 ultimately a good thing
00:35:11.340 or is life ultimately
00:35:12.180 a bad thing?
00:35:12.860 There's a great little poem
00:35:14.160 by Robert Frost
00:35:15.300 called A Question
00:35:15.980 and the question
00:35:17.340 the poem reads
00:35:18.600 look me in the stars
00:35:20.480 and tell me truly
00:35:21.480 men of earth
00:35:22.060 if all the soul
00:35:23.360 and body scars
00:35:24.300 were not too much
00:35:25.100 to pay for birth
00:35:25.860 and what's funny
00:35:27.440 about that poem
00:35:28.000 is it's not a question
00:35:29.020 it's actually an imperative
00:35:30.180 right?
00:35:30.460 He's actually telling you
00:35:31.260 to do something
00:35:31.840 and of course
00:35:33.020 the person who is
00:35:34.880 telling you this
00:35:35.480 it seems to be
00:35:36.180 the voice of God
00:35:36.940 the voice of your creator
00:35:37.940 and you look up
00:35:39.160 in the stars
00:35:39.740 I've had this experience
00:35:41.200 I know
00:35:41.620 probably all of you
00:35:43.160 have too
00:35:43.600 and you think
00:35:44.460 gosh
00:35:44.880 life has some suffering
00:35:45.800 in it
00:35:46.160 but there is a
00:35:47.060 transcendent beauty
00:35:48.460 and awesomeness
00:35:49.740 to life
00:35:50.940 to this world
00:35:51.680 that makes it all
00:35:53.220 worthwhile
00:35:53.820 life is good
00:35:55.740 that's the takeaway
00:35:57.060 life is good
00:35:57.800 and so there's
00:35:59.360 that aspect of it
00:36:00.300 the life is good view
00:36:02.660 juxtaposed with this
00:36:04.040 post-modern nihilist view
00:36:06.080 that life is all suffering
00:36:07.820 absurd
00:36:08.440 meaningless
00:36:09.020 awful
00:36:09.720 despair
00:36:11.520 but then there's also
00:36:13.320 the idolatry of consent
00:36:14.780 consent is the word of the
00:36:16.360 it's all we hear about
00:36:17.260 is consent
00:36:17.860 it's the ultimate good
00:36:19.080 we create an idol
00:36:20.240 of choice
00:36:20.880 it is
00:36:22.540 the ridiculous conclusion
00:36:23.860 of this idolatry
00:36:25.520 of choice
00:36:26.000 is that you should be able
00:36:27.440 to consent
00:36:28.120 to being born
00:36:29.640 you can't do that
00:36:32.080 when you're just a little
00:36:33.560 glint in your father's eye
00:36:35.020 you know
00:36:36.060 maybe
00:36:36.500 you know
00:36:37.760 your parents are
00:36:39.100 getting a little frisky
00:36:40.000 nobody wants to think about
00:36:40.940 that's not a good image
00:36:41.680 to have in your head
00:36:42.400 you're not able
00:36:43.740 to consent to that
00:36:44.900 because you're
00:36:45.640 born of the
00:36:46.460 product of that love
00:36:47.740 and the Christian view
00:36:49.040 of course
00:36:49.480 is that the whole
00:36:50.460 the whole of creation
00:36:51.340 is a product of love
00:36:52.300 the love that moves
00:36:53.400 the sun and the other stars
00:36:54.600 this
00:36:55.320 is
00:36:56.120 what we see
00:36:57.080 in especially
00:36:57.920 Dante's comedy
00:36:58.800 spells this out
00:36:59.880 very well
00:37:00.620 the love that moves
00:37:02.400 the world and the other stars
00:37:03.380 out of this love
00:37:04.380 is all of the creation
00:37:05.680 this
00:37:07.580 idolatry of consent
00:37:09.440 also undoes
00:37:10.560 a ridiculous premise
00:37:11.600 that we've talked about
00:37:12.580 a few times
00:37:13.380 in the last couple weeks
00:37:14.240 which is this
00:37:15.180 this libertarian premise
00:37:17.100 this hyper individualist premise
00:37:18.520 that you totally
00:37:19.660 own yourself
00:37:20.560 and your body
00:37:21.500 that you
00:37:22.700 this is all me
00:37:23.640 it's all in my possession
00:37:24.780 I am sufficient
00:37:25.760 I am an island unto myself
00:37:27.180 but you don't own that
00:37:28.380 you are created by God
00:37:30.380 you are begotten
00:37:32.360 of your parents
00:37:33.180 you have
00:37:34.580 certain responsibilities
00:37:36.000 not just to your parents
00:37:37.200 not just to your creator
00:37:38.700 to your community
00:37:39.680 as well
00:37:40.140 you have bonds
00:37:40.900 of loyalty
00:37:41.500 and duty
00:37:42.200 we like to
00:37:43.440 because we're a selfish
00:37:44.360 and decadent culture
00:37:45.120 we only like to talk
00:37:45.880 about rights
00:37:46.460 and then we invent
00:37:47.300 a bunch of ridiculous rights
00:37:48.460 I have the right
00:37:49.320 to your labor
00:37:51.420 I have the right
00:37:52.020 to some new
00:37:53.100 technological advancement
00:37:55.220 I have the right
00:37:55.760 to pretend
00:37:56.760 that I'm of a different
00:37:57.500 biological sex
00:37:58.380 I have the right
00:37:58.940 to redefine
00:38:00.100 social institutions
00:38:01.480 I have blah blah blah
00:38:02.340 all these rights
00:38:02.860 what really
00:38:03.940 we should talk about
00:38:04.840 are duties
00:38:05.380 we are born
00:38:06.400 out of love
00:38:07.200 I mean
00:38:07.480 obviously in a very literal sense
00:38:08.880 the love of our parents
00:38:10.040 and the love of
00:38:12.140 our creator
00:38:13.160 for the creation
00:38:13.920 that's what we're born out of
00:38:15.360 and this creates
00:38:16.500 some responsibilities
00:38:17.740 that you should want
00:38:19.000 to embrace
00:38:20.080 out of gratitude
00:38:21.180 veneration
00:38:22.580 gratitude
00:38:23.640 providence
00:38:24.740 you know
00:38:25.460 what gives away the game
00:38:26.840 on this
00:38:27.280 anti-life
00:38:28.400 crusade
00:38:29.660 that the left
00:38:30.080 has gone on
00:38:30.720 is that they come up
00:38:32.380 with different excuses
00:38:33.520 to reach the same conclusion
00:38:34.860 on this anti-natalist
00:38:36.440 movement
00:38:37.260 they also have a
00:38:38.660 meme
00:38:39.100 it says
00:38:39.540 quote
00:38:39.840 should we continue
00:38:41.580 to bring more children
00:38:42.480 in this world
00:38:43.120 and accelerate
00:38:44.100 the process
00:38:44.900 of environmental
00:38:45.600 and social degradation
00:38:47.300 wait a second
00:38:49.500 what argument are we
00:38:50.220 I thought the argument
00:38:50.960 was we shouldn't
00:38:51.520 bring children
00:38:51.940 in the world
00:38:52.340 because it's unfair
00:38:53.060 to them
00:38:53.700 because they didn't
00:38:54.620 consent to it
00:38:55.340 because the world
00:38:56.420 is awful
00:38:56.940 and full of suffering
00:38:57.660 and terrible
00:38:58.140 but now you're saying
00:38:59.080 we shouldn't bring
00:38:59.580 children into the world
00:39:00.380 because it's bad
00:39:01.800 for the awful world
00:39:02.860 which probably shouldn't
00:39:03.740 exist in the first place
00:39:04.640 it seems as though
00:39:06.420 they've reached a conclusion
00:39:07.560 and it's a conclusion
00:39:08.800 in search of a premise
00:39:09.720 the conclusion being
00:39:10.940 life is bad
00:39:12.100 and then the various
00:39:13.460 premises and arguments
00:39:14.360 even if they contradict
00:39:15.280 one another
00:39:15.880 are used to buttress
00:39:18.560 that conclusion
00:39:19.220 this is how a lot of
00:39:20.300 conspiracy theories
00:39:21.120 fall apart
00:39:21.740 conspiracy theories
00:39:22.820 often can sound
00:39:24.200 somewhat convincing
00:39:25.020 and one reason
00:39:26.260 they sometimes fall apart
00:39:27.320 is because
00:39:28.840 you'll have different
00:39:29.700 conspiracy theories
00:39:30.640 disproving
00:39:31.480 one event
00:39:32.620 or arguing against
00:39:33.440 one event
00:39:33.880 but all of the
00:39:34.600 conspiracy theories
00:39:35.340 disagree with one another
00:39:36.460 they all contradict
00:39:37.140 one another
00:39:37.700 and the conspiracists
00:39:39.060 don't care
00:39:39.600 because they've reached
00:39:40.200 a conclusion
00:39:40.760 and they've got
00:39:41.600 a conclusion
00:39:42.000 in search of a premise
00:39:43.180 a conclusion
00:39:43.700 in search of an argument
00:39:45.100 this rhetoric
00:39:45.960 is leading now
00:39:47.020 to the elimination
00:39:48.020 of down syndrome people
00:39:50.000 all throughout the world
00:39:50.880 in Iceland
00:39:51.360 100%
00:39:52.620 statistically 100%
00:39:54.260 of people with down syndrome
00:39:55.080 are killed
00:39:55.580 Denmark
00:39:56.220 it's 98%
00:39:57.240 England
00:39:57.560 it's 90%
00:39:58.380 France 77%
00:39:59.580 the US
00:40:00.260 67%
00:40:01.380 to show
00:40:03.500 that the left
00:40:04.640 rather
00:40:04.940 that this is wrong
00:40:06.060 perhaps
00:40:06.440 we should start
00:40:07.380 using
00:40:07.820 leftist language
00:40:09.100 Matt Walsh
00:40:09.640 had this
00:40:09.920 brilliant
00:40:10.800 phrase
00:40:11.680 that he used
00:40:12.180 the other day
00:40:12.740 referring to
00:40:13.820 undocumented infants
00:40:15.440 he said
00:40:16.220 we should use
00:40:16.620 the left language
00:40:17.260 don't talk about
00:40:17.940 them as babies
00:40:18.480 or fetuses
00:40:19.080 or this or that
00:40:19.680 undocumented infants
00:40:21.180 trying to pass
00:40:22.700 through the border
00:40:23.600 of the birth canal
00:40:24.420 in search of a better life
00:40:25.900 this is what
00:40:27.060 we should talk about
00:40:27.860 the down syndrome
00:40:28.580 community
00:40:29.220 how it's being targeted
00:40:31.080 how it's being persecuted
00:40:32.100 how this is ableist
00:40:33.400 that's a leftist term
00:40:34.580 that means discrimination
00:40:35.620 against people
00:40:37.000 with various disabilities
00:40:38.160 and handicaps
00:40:38.960 actually in this case
00:40:40.940 in the
00:40:41.300 slaughter of down syndrome
00:40:43.420 people
00:40:43.860 that's going on now
00:40:45.100 even in our own country
00:40:46.420 the majority of down syndrome
00:40:47.660 people being killed
00:40:48.360 before they're born
00:40:49.020 that's the one time
00:40:51.460 that these leftist terms
00:40:53.040 can apply
00:40:53.660 these kind of vague
00:40:55.020 leftist slogans
00:40:55.740 the such and such
00:40:56.380 community
00:40:56.960 the such and such
00:40:58.240 victim group
00:40:59.640 they actually are
00:41:00.160 a victim group
00:41:00.680 they actually are being
00:41:01.580 they actually are being
00:41:03.280 wiped out
00:41:03.880 the left insists
00:41:05.460 that anyone who suffers
00:41:06.720 should be killed
00:41:07.420 that's what they're saying
00:41:08.880 that's what the
00:41:09.260 anti-natalism is saying
00:41:10.380 that's what
00:41:11.100 Governor Northam is saying
00:41:12.140 when he talks about
00:41:13.100 deformities
00:41:13.700 and why we should
00:41:14.620 kill people
00:41:15.080 with deformities
00:41:15.900 in part
00:41:17.360 there's a road to hell
00:41:18.420 is paved in good intentions
00:41:20.160 there's a little sliver
00:41:21.160 of that here
00:41:21.720 in a totally evil idea
00:41:23.960 which is
00:41:25.040 that we should
00:41:27.140 not allow people
00:41:28.340 to suffer
00:41:28.820 and death would be
00:41:29.940 better than suffering
00:41:30.620 the trouble is
00:41:31.340 the logical conclusion
00:41:32.320 is that we all suffer
00:41:33.560 so therefore no one
00:41:34.400 should be born
00:41:34.980 there was a study
00:41:35.860 it just came out today
00:41:36.780 in Bloomberg
00:41:37.520 the Holocaust paradox
00:41:39.000 long lives for those
00:41:40.580 who survived
00:41:41.140 the old idea was
00:41:42.260 that people who went
00:41:43.260 through the Holocaust
00:41:43.740 and survived
00:41:44.400 would have shortened lives
00:41:45.500 because they had
00:41:47.880 all this immense suffering
00:41:48.960 you would hear about
00:41:50.460 this a lot
00:41:50.920 and what they're now
00:41:52.300 finding is
00:41:52.920 straight from Bloomberg
00:41:54.000 quote
00:41:54.380 living through a horrendous
00:41:55.580 event like confinement
00:41:56.480 in a concentration camp
00:41:57.600 or prisoner of war camp
00:41:58.720 does create health problems
00:42:00.020 serious enough
00:42:00.560 to shorten
00:42:00.900 most people's lives
00:42:01.800 but those who survive
00:42:03.000 also seem to have
00:42:03.780 other characteristics
00:42:04.600 perhaps a stronger
00:42:05.900 immune system
00:42:06.600 and a more optimistic
00:42:07.340 outlook than the
00:42:08.060 general population
00:42:08.880 that tend to make
00:42:09.900 people live longer
00:42:10.760 new research suggests
00:42:12.120 that such resilience
00:42:13.040 can often overcome
00:42:14.580 scarring
00:42:15.420 and this
00:42:16.760 I mean there is
00:42:18.840 an analysis about this
00:42:20.080 from the American
00:42:20.900 Medical Association
00:42:21.680 we see this again
00:42:22.840 and again
00:42:23.240 Horace Walpole
00:42:24.780 has a great line
00:42:25.580 the English Gothic writer
00:42:27.180 he says
00:42:27.620 life is a comedy
00:42:28.680 to those who think
00:42:29.800 and a tragedy
00:42:30.760 to those who feel
00:42:31.780 we hear this again
00:42:33.460 the light shines
00:42:34.180 in the darkness
00:42:34.760 and the darkness
00:42:35.300 has not overcome it
00:42:36.320 we even hear it
00:42:37.000 in this very popular
00:42:37.960 slogan
00:42:39.580 which is
00:42:40.100 whatever doesn't kill me
00:42:41.160 makes me stronger
00:42:42.540 that we get these
00:42:44.140 the inklings
00:42:44.840 of the same thing
00:42:45.840 politics is downstream
00:42:47.600 of culture
00:42:48.120 culture is downstream
00:42:49.140 of religion
00:42:49.780 and you know
00:42:51.680 Edmund Burke
00:42:52.640 founder of modern
00:42:53.460 conservative thought
00:42:54.100 Russell Kirk later
00:42:55.120 explained that the
00:42:56.140 conservative vision
00:42:56.840 is grounded in
00:42:57.740 veneration
00:42:58.300 and providence
00:42:59.680 one glaring example
00:43:01.960 of this
00:43:02.280 providence
00:43:02.800 the divine order
00:43:03.880 that the world
00:43:05.000 really does make sense
00:43:06.020 that it really does
00:43:06.560 have purpose
00:43:07.180 that it really does
00:43:08.080 it really is good
00:43:09.200 providence
00:43:10.700 one glaring example
00:43:12.540 of this
00:43:13.000 amid all this
00:43:14.380 crazy talk
00:43:15.240 about infanticide
00:43:16.260 actual infanticide
00:43:17.620 killing people
00:43:18.240 after they've been born
00:43:19.360 came out this week
00:43:20.760 every week
00:43:22.260 there are different
00:43:22.880 readings
00:43:23.240 at the Catholic Mass
00:43:24.320 these are not
00:43:25.220 dependent on the
00:43:25.840 news cycle
00:43:26.340 they're not decided
00:43:27.020 by the priest
00:43:27.580 two hours beforehand
00:43:28.420 they've been set
00:43:29.480 long long long
00:43:30.580 in advance
00:43:31.160 and coincidentally
00:43:33.120 or providentially
00:43:34.720 however you like it
00:43:35.520 this is how
00:43:36.860 the entire Mass
00:43:38.260 reading
00:43:38.660 began this week
00:43:40.280 quote
00:43:40.940 the word of the Lord
00:43:42.820 came to me saying
00:43:43.820 before I formed you
00:43:45.460 in the womb
00:43:45.980 I knew you
00:43:46.660 before you were born
00:43:48.060 I dedicated you
00:43:48.960 a prophet to the nations
00:43:50.420 I appointed you
00:43:51.240 but do you
00:43:52.300 gird your loins
00:43:53.160 stand up
00:43:54.000 and tell them
00:43:54.540 all that I command you
00:43:55.540 be not crushed
00:43:56.760 on their account
00:43:57.560 as though
00:43:58.360 I would leave you
00:43:59.480 crushed before them
00:44:00.580 for it is I
00:44:01.900 this day
00:44:03.000 who have made you
00:44:03.920 a fortified city
00:44:04.980 a pillar of iron
00:44:06.260 a wall of brass
00:44:07.340 against the whole land
00:44:08.640 against Judah's kings
00:44:09.860 and princes
00:44:10.340 against its priests
00:44:11.500 and people
00:44:12.020 they will fight against you
00:44:13.860 but not prevail over you
00:44:15.500 for I am with you
00:44:16.700 to deliver you
00:44:17.480 says the Lord
00:44:18.280 amid all talk
00:44:20.540 of infanticide
00:44:21.380 amid all talk
00:44:22.820 of suffering
00:44:23.580 is why we shouldn't
00:44:24.940 live it all
00:44:25.360 why life is ultimately bad
00:44:27.060 providence is a great comfort
00:44:28.560 and comfort means
00:44:29.460 to strengthen
00:44:30.240 we think of comfort
00:44:31.060 as little dolly
00:44:33.160 safe spaces
00:44:34.080 hugging
00:44:34.780 kumbaya
00:44:35.540 that's not what it means
00:44:36.540 it means to strengthen
00:44:38.000 you can comfort people
00:44:40.100 with tough love too
00:44:40.920 it means to strengthen them
00:44:41.980 with come
00:44:43.020 forties
00:44:44.100 strength
00:44:44.880 even when things
00:44:46.580 look bleakest
00:44:47.500 one cannot deny
00:44:49.740 the comforting signs
00:44:50.940 of providence
00:44:51.760 pervading this life
00:44:53.280 which is a gift
00:44:54.580 and a very good thing
00:44:56.180 we'll end on that note
00:44:57.580 and we'll skip the super bowl
00:44:58.540 because everybody else did too
00:44:59.580 lowest ratings in 10 years
00:45:00.660 too bad for them
00:45:01.300 that's our show
00:45:02.400 come back tomorrow
00:45:03.080 in the meantime
00:45:03.500 I'm Michael Knowles
00:45:04.120 this is the Michael Knowles show
00:45:05.080 see you soon
00:45:05.540 hey guys
00:45:34.780 over on the Matt Walsh show today
00:45:35.900 we're going to talk about
00:45:36.680 Ralph Northam
00:45:37.360 the thing that strikes me
00:45:38.540 is that
00:45:39.280 the left is outraged at him
00:45:41.380 because of an inappropriate costume
00:45:43.100 that he wore 30 years ago
00:45:44.380 they are not outraged
00:45:46.100 about the fact that he advocated
00:45:48.120 for infanticide
00:45:49.220 only a few days ago
00:45:50.360 so what does that tell us
00:45:51.760 about the left
00:45:52.680 also the super bowl
00:45:54.860 featured a whole bevy
00:45:56.620 of insufferable
00:45:58.140 cringe inducing
00:46:00.120 virtue signaling ads
00:46:01.960 and we're going to go over
00:46:03.540 some of the worst offenders
00:46:04.660 that we saw last night
00:46:06.220 we'll do all of that today
00:46:07.640 over on the Matt Walsh show
00:46:08.920 we'll do all of that
00:46:11.160 in a minute
00:46:12.160 so
00:46:14.380 I'm going to answer
00:46:14.600 you
00:46:15.000 I've got inspires you
00:46:15.920 so