The Michael Knowles Show - April 04, 2019


Ep. 326 - Bad Politics


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47 minutes

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7,865

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661

Harmful content

Misogyny

16

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Hate speech

11

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Joe Biden has been accused of sexual assault by 7 women, and now more women have come forward with accusations that he groped them. Is Joe Biden a child molester? Is he a misogynist? And is he a rapist?

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00:00:37.640 Joe Biden cowers to the woke mob.
00:00:40.020 GOP rep Matt Gaetz fights global warming on the left's terms.
00:00:44.420 And AOC misses her own advice that the Internet is forever. 1.00
00:00:48.420 We will analyze bad politics.
00:00:50.300 Then some men think they're women, some men think they're puppies, and finally the mailbag. 1.00
00:00:54.520 I'm Michael Knowles, and this is The Michael Knowles Show.
00:00:56.980 Poor Joe Biden.
00:01:06.280 Poor, poor Joe Biden.
00:01:08.320 You know I have been sort of defending him all week.
00:01:11.280 I've been defending him against the charges that he's a sexual predator.
00:01:17.100 Or now, what people are telling me, people are tweeting to me.
00:01:20.180 They say, Michael, how can you defend Joe Biden?
00:01:21.960 And he's groping children.
00:01:25.060 He's, do you really believe, just stop yourself for a minute.
00:01:30.680 Because sometimes ideology does this to us, or sometimes opportunism does this to us.
00:01:36.220 Stop yourself for one second.
00:01:37.680 Do you honestly believe that Joe Biden is a child molester?
00:01:44.540 And that we didn't know about it, or some people knew about it because they saw the videos,
00:01:50.320 and you saw the pictures of, he had his hand on a girl's head or something when he was taking a photo in the Senate.
00:01:56.380 And, but we just, we didn't, we didn't really know.
00:02:00.340 We didn't really act on it until right now, the minute that he's declaring that he's running for president.
00:02:04.880 But actually, he's been a child molester for 40 years, and we just, eh.
00:02:11.040 And some of us knew, but I guess we didn't care enough to make it a big deal.
00:02:14.320 Do you really believe that?
00:02:15.480 No, of course not.
00:02:17.080 However, Joe Biden is sunk.
00:02:21.140 Joe Biden, it is going to be very, very difficult for Joe Biden to dig himself out of this hole.
00:02:26.240 Why?
00:02:26.820 Well, seven women total have come out against Joe Biden.
00:02:31.340 The people who have orchestrated this attack, and make no mistake, this is a well-orchestrated political attack.
00:02:38.680 It looks like a lot of it is coming out of the Sanders campaign, but who knows?
00:02:42.640 Once these things get rolling, more people come out.
00:02:45.060 Whoever orchestrated this attack has done a really great job because it's a slow drip.
00:02:51.580 It's a very, you had that one woman who is the big Sanders activist who said,
00:02:55.960 Joe Biden smelled my hair 10 years ago, and therefore he's a sick monster assailant.
00:03:03.120 Then you had a couple other women. 0.99
00:03:04.740 One woman said, Joe Biden rubbed my nose or something. 1.00
00:03:10.080 He smiled at me five years ago, and therefore he's a misogynist.
00:03:13.700 He hates women.
00:03:15.600 And now a few more women. 1.00
00:03:17.380 Joe Biden hugged me too long once.
00:03:20.740 Joe, there was one woman who said, I asked Joe Biden to take a picture with me and my husband.
00:03:26.380 And when we took the picture, he put his hand on my back.
00:03:30.520 Therefore, he's a sexual predator.
00:03:33.120 Because he took, how do you take a photo?
00:03:35.400 Smile, hands on the back.
00:03:36.640 Hey, how you doing?
00:03:38.520 So now more women have come out. 1.00
00:03:40.820 Seven women in total.
00:03:42.300 One woman, this is my favorite one. 1.00
00:03:44.680 She told the Washington Post that she had framed a photo, the photo of Joe Biden nuzzling with her.
00:03:55.600 Friend had printed it out for her.
00:03:57.000 She actually had framed this photo because it was really cool.
00:04:00.020 She's got this photo of the vice president being affectionate with her.
00:04:02.580 And only years later did she take it down during the Me Too movement because she decided ex post facto that it was a sexual assault.
00:04:12.380 When she took it, she really liked it, framed the photograph.
00:04:16.560 Then years later, it's a sexual assault because of this mass political hysteria and this cynical attack.
00:04:23.980 Even so, even with seven women coming out and saying, Joe Biden shook my hand once, therefore he's a rapist or whatever they're saying.
00:04:32.960 The reason he's sunk is not because of all that.
00:04:35.940 This would have blown over.
00:04:37.380 The reason he's sunk is because he's giving in to the woke mob.
00:04:41.660 The reason he's sunk is because he is accepting their premises and now it's probably over.
00:04:47.880 In the coming month, I expect to be talking to you about a whole lot of issues and I'll always be direct with you.
00:04:53.020 But today I want to talk about just as a support and encouragement that I've made to women and some men that have made them uncomfortable.
00:05:01.440 And I always try to be, in my career, I've always tried to make a human connection.
00:05:06.100 That's my responsibility, I think.
00:05:07.760 I shake hands, I hug people, I grab men and women by the shoulders and say, you can do this.
00:05:12.980 Social norms have begun to change, they've shifted, and the boundaries of protecting personal space have been reset.
00:05:20.240 And I get it, I get it.
00:05:22.120 I hear what they're saying, I understand it, and I'll be much more mindful.
00:05:27.160 That's my responsibility.
00:05:29.040 My responsibility, and I'll meet it.
00:05:31.500 But I'll always believe governing, quite frankly, life for that matter, is about connecting, about connecting with people.
00:05:39.560 That won't change.
00:05:41.120 But I will be more mindful and respectful of people's personal space.
00:05:45.100 And that's a good thing.
00:05:46.420 That's a good thing.
00:05:47.180 That's totally the wrong response.
00:05:50.520 It's the wrong response for about 100 different reasons.
00:05:53.060 First of all, why is Joe Biden in this mess in the first place?
00:05:55.900 He's in this mess because the guy's basically a walking simper.
00:05:59.540 He's just a set of teeth with legs.
00:06:01.780 He just, his entire political career is not based on conviction.
00:06:06.640 It's based on ingratiating himself to people.
00:06:10.100 That's why he does all the hugs and the kisses and the nuzzles.
00:06:12.640 He just wants to ingratiate himself.
00:06:16.880 And how do you ingratiate yourself?
00:06:18.260 In the old school of politics, in the pre-reality TV, pre-social media, pre-Donald Trump era,
00:06:24.620 you were this saccharine, pseudo-earnest, I just really care.
00:06:29.740 I just really want to build people up and encourage people and smile with my giant fake teeth and encourage people.
00:06:38.740 And, hey, there, you can do it.
00:06:40.840 And it's this overly saccharine, totally performative thing.
00:06:46.420 But that was the old school of politics.
00:06:48.500 That's Joe Biden's entire career.
00:06:52.220 And so he's, first of all, he, that got him into this mess in the first place.
00:06:55.500 Because all the fake little nuzzles and hugs and nose Eskimo kisses or whatever he's doing to these people 0.72
00:07:00.480 does look weird in this more gritty, authentic reality TV school of politics.
00:07:06.080 But what his response does is grants the premise.
00:07:12.520 So he doesn't quite apologize.
00:07:14.020 But what he says is, listen, I've, we've had changing societal norms.
00:07:20.460 Maybe I've made some people uncomfortable.
00:07:23.460 I'm going to change that.
00:07:24.800 No, don't, in this moment in politics, look, maybe this will change.
00:07:29.640 Hopefully this will change in five years or something.
00:07:32.060 At this moment, the minute that you admit fault, you're dead.
00:07:37.840 Every Me Too person survived except for Kevin Spacey.
00:07:40.720 Why?
00:07:40.920 Because he's the only one who admitted he did anything wrong.
00:07:44.720 Donald, how many, how many things have people lobbed at Donald Trump?
00:07:48.700 Some fake attacks, some real attacks.
00:07:52.320 His school of thought is that old mob school, deny till you die.
00:07:57.440 That's what Joe Biden should have done here.
00:07:59.180 And the reason he should have done it is because he actually didn't really do anything wrong.
00:08:04.040 He's done a lot of things wrong in his political career.
00:08:06.160 There are a lot of reasons not to vote for him, which we'll get to in one second.
00:08:09.560 But in this hugging politics, that's his whole politics.
00:08:14.080 That's retail politics.
00:08:15.020 What his response should have been, because he should have released a response.
00:08:18.560 He should have gotten that little cell phone camera and posted this on Twitter or whatever.
00:08:22.220 And he should have said, this is a BS political attack.
00:08:25.000 This is being launched by my opponents.
00:08:27.300 This is being launched by the Bernie Sanders campaign.
00:08:30.400 And it is outrageous.
00:08:32.420 They are accusing me of sexual predation, sexual assault with no evidence whatsoever.
00:08:39.340 And they are making a mockery of the Me Too movement.
00:08:42.760 They are making a mockery of the real victims of sexual assault.
00:08:46.580 This is offensive to real victims.
00:08:48.740 These people should apologize for what they are trying to do for their cynical political attack.
00:08:53.940 I will never apologize for encouraging people in politics and having a personal relationship with my constituents.
00:09:00.840 Find me one woman who can credibly accuse me of sexual impropriety or adultery or sexual assault.
00:09:07.760 Find me one woman. 0.99
00:09:09.100 Find me one hotel room booking.
00:09:10.640 Find me one bit of evidence.
00:09:12.340 And until you do, shut your cynical mouths.
00:09:14.500 That's what he should have said.
00:09:15.640 It would have played a lot better, first of all.
00:09:17.660 And it would have been correct.
00:09:19.620 It would have been just.
00:09:22.400 He actually, the one thing you can't get Joe Biden on, as far as we know, is sexual misconduct.
00:09:28.380 He'd probably be in a better space if you could.
00:09:32.140 Teddy Kennedy let his mistress drown in a car.
00:09:34.900 Bob Menendez almost certainly had sex with underage prostitutes in the Dominican Republic.
00:09:40.560 Federal prosecutors certainly think he did.
00:09:42.420 Bill Clinton.
00:09:43.140 We caught Bill Clinton.
00:09:44.760 And he survived impeachment.
00:09:47.640 Joe Biden is sort of the exception here in that he actually isn't sexually improper.
00:09:52.260 Joe Biden, the thing to go after Joe Biden for is that he's a total hack.
00:09:58.000 He is the most disingenuous, unctuous politician in the country who will say anything to win a vote because he's so desperate to appeal to every single person that he's going to nuzzle them with his nose and give them butterfly kisses.
00:10:08.820 Frankly, the one way that I could see this fake scandal redounding to Joe Biden's benefit is that it seems to be covering up in the media the actual scandal that he's involved in, the actual impropriety that he's involved in, which is basically that he bullied Ukraine into paying his son millions of dollars.
00:10:29.760 Oh, you haven't heard about this?
00:10:30.960 I'm not surprised because no mainstream media outlets are covering it.
00:10:34.280 But this is the real scandal that Joe Biden is hiding right now.
00:10:39.720 Joe Biden's son, Hunter, his younger son, Hunter, received millions of dollars from a Ukrainian energy company called Burisma Holdings while his father was vice president, while his father was the main U.S. official dealing with Ukrainian affairs, and while Joe Biden was funneling $1.8 billion to Ukraine.
00:11:02.060 Coincidentally, while Joe Biden was funneling all of that money to Ukraine, his son, Hunter, received millions of dollars.
00:11:14.340 He received regular monthly payments of $166,000 per month from Burisma.
00:11:20.160 Why is that?
00:11:20.860 Is it because Hunter Biden is some expert on Ukrainian-U.S. relations?
00:11:26.020 No.
00:11:26.300 Is it because Hunter Biden is an expert on Russian-Ukrainian relations?
00:11:31.340 No.
00:11:32.040 Is it because Hunter Biden is an expert on energy policy?
00:11:35.880 No.
00:11:36.720 He got the money as a payoff crony deal because his father was threatening to withhold money from Ukraine until he got this sweetheart deal.
00:11:46.040 Listen, Joe Biden actually basically bragged about this at the Council on Foreign Relations in December of 2015.
00:11:52.740 I had gotten a commitment from Poroshenko.
00:11:56.200 They would take action against a state prosecutor, and they didn't.
00:11:59.420 I said, I'm telling you, you're not getting a billion dollars.
00:12:01.960 I said, you're not getting a billion?
00:12:03.320 I'm going to be leaving here, and I think it was, what, six hours?
00:12:05.680 I looked, I said, I'm leaving in six hours.
00:12:07.660 If the prosecutor's not fired, you're not getting the money.
00:12:10.720 Oh, son of a b****. 1.00
00:12:12.960 Got fired.
00:12:13.760 And they put in place someone who was solid at the time.
00:12:19.460 Coincidentally, by the way, the part he's leaving out of this bragging at CFR is that the prosecutor that he made sure to get fired
00:12:26.140 was looking into the crony deals that Hunter Biden had with Burisma.
00:12:32.480 Isn't it a little weird that the vice president of the United States, main point person on Ukrainian-U.S. relations,
00:12:38.420 is saying we're going to withhold almost $2 billion of aid if you don't fire this one prosecutor?
00:12:44.980 What's wrong with that prosecutor?
00:12:47.560 What on earth could that prosecutor have to do with U.S.-Ukrainian relations?
00:12:51.760 Oh, not very much.
00:12:52.680 He's actually just looking into your son.
00:12:54.200 And the cojones on Joe Biden, you've got to give him that at least.
00:12:59.640 He brags about it at the Council on Foreign Relations.
00:13:02.700 This is a real scandal.
00:13:06.660 This is real corruption.
00:13:09.180 This is a real reason that Joe Biden should not be president.
00:13:13.720 Also, it's collusion.
00:13:14.920 This is kind of the funny thing, too.
00:13:16.280 I guess it's Ukrainian collusion or is it Russian collusion?
00:13:19.020 I don't know.
00:13:20.020 But it is collusion.
00:13:21.480 That's a real reason.
00:13:22.520 Demagoguing and race hustling and saying that Mitt Romney wants to put black people back in chains.
00:13:29.780 That's a reason that he shouldn't be president.
00:13:32.680 The fact that he's a plagiarist, which is why he had to drop out of the 1988 presidential race.
00:13:36.820 That's a reason that he shouldn't be president.
00:13:40.580 And the issue with the plagiarism being that Joe Biden is an empty suit.
00:13:44.160 He's a walking grin.
00:13:45.760 He's a walking butterfly kiss.
00:13:48.800 That's all he is.
00:13:51.400 All good reasons to prevent Joe Biden from being president.
00:13:55.960 But to pretend that he's a child molester with no evidence whatsoever, other than some YouTube video where he's taking a photo with a family and he, like, touches a girl's hair or something?
00:14:06.900 Come on.
00:14:07.440 Give me a break.
00:14:08.000 Like, Kamala Harris just came out, you'll be shocked, and said, I believe Joe's accusers.
00:14:13.020 That's fine.
00:14:13.640 Look, I'm perfectly willing to enjoy the schadenfreude while the Democrats rip each other apart and Joe Biden, one of the most disingenuous politicians in the country, goes down just before the finish line again for the third time.
00:14:25.860 And I'm perfectly happy to watch it.
00:14:28.700 But we shouldn't delude ourselves.
00:14:30.660 We shouldn't pretend that the issue is that Joe Biden smelled some lady's hair on the campaign trail in 2002 or something.
00:14:39.380 It just distracts from the real issues, which is that this guy really is an old crook.
00:14:44.180 He really is an old crone.
00:14:46.100 Maybe not as bad as Hillary Clinton, but he is engaging in crooked deals.
00:14:49.860 He's been in the, he was in the Senate for, what, 40 years?
00:14:52.400 He's been in politics for almost 50 years.
00:14:55.860 He led the high-tech lynching against Clarence Thomas.
00:15:00.360 Plenty of reasons to go after this guy.
00:15:02.980 Fortunately, it seems like he's never going to be president.
00:15:06.220 If he can survive it, though, if he can survive it, ironically, talk about 4D chess, it will be because he's using these stupid fake scandals to distract from the real scandal.
00:15:16.260 Speaking of bad politics, though, I hate to go after one of our own, but I have to critique him.
00:15:21.300 GOP representative Matt Gaetz is offering an answer to AOC's Green New Deal.
00:15:27.860 He just held a press conference out right in front of the Capitol on what he is calling the Green Real Deal, and it was just a textbook example of bad politics.
00:15:40.300 We'll go through it point by point.
00:15:42.560 My name is Matt Gaetz.
00:15:43.720 I represent Florida's first congressional district.
00:15:46.840 While it is above water, just yesterday, the secretary of the Air Force, the secretary of the Army, the chiefs of staff of both the Army and the Air Force, testified to the House Armed Services Committee that, in real time, climate change is impacting the strategic decisions that our military makes regarding weapons testing,
00:16:06.300 basing decisions, the global movement of humans, and high-stakes territorial claims made by our adversaries in the Arctic.
00:16:15.060 Our military does not have the luxury of an academic debate about climate change.
00:16:20.540 They must respond to the reality that we face today, and so should the United States Congress.
00:16:26.120 History will judge harshly my Republican colleagues who deny the science of climate change.
00:16:32.460 Similarly, those Democrats who would use climate change as a basis to regulate out of existence the American experience will face the harsh reality that their ideas will fail.
00:16:45.380 Today, along with other members of Congress, I'll be filing a Green Real Deal, a common-sense rebuttal to the Green New Deal.
00:16:54.220 Ah.
00:16:57.300 Ah.
00:16:59.100 Everything about this was wrong.
00:17:00.920 It's not even, like, that bad of an idea, but everything about the execution was wrong.
00:17:07.640 I say this with great goodwill toward Matt Gaetz.
00:17:11.600 Not a good rollout.
00:17:12.840 How so?
00:17:13.600 First of all, all the optics.
00:17:16.320 When you're a member of Congress, you're basically a spokesman.
00:17:18.860 You're basically a performer.
00:17:20.160 You are a mouthpiece for the policy ideas that you and others around you want to pursue.
00:17:28.240 That's most of your power.
00:17:29.400 You don't have a whole lot of raw political power.
00:17:31.860 What you mostly have is the power of a microphone and the power of television cameras.
00:17:35.680 A good example of someone using this properly is Dan Crenshaw, who is very intelligent and a serious-minded person and actually good at his job.
00:17:44.540 So, Dan Crenshaw, he's a freshman member of Congress, one of a zillion people there, he is able to use his platforms, Twitter, going on TV news, going on the internet or whatever, he is able to use those very effectively to convey important policy ideas, important philosophical ideas, important ideological ideas.
00:18:04.440 Okay, this is the opposite of that.
00:18:07.240 First of all, when you hold a press conference in front of the Capitol, you need to have people behind you.
00:18:12.660 I know this seems counterintuitive because you have a microphone, ostensibly you're speaking to people.
00:18:17.020 The people that you're speaking to at a press conference are on the internet.
00:18:19.960 They're behind television sets.
00:18:21.500 They're not the people in front of you.
00:18:24.200 So, you need people behind you to show that your idea has support.
00:18:28.720 Here, Matt Gaetz is just all by himself.
00:18:30.560 The only people behind him are tourists walking by looking at him kind of funny.
00:18:34.740 So, from an optics level, not a great point.
00:18:37.120 Also, he's wearing a neon green tie that makes him look silly.
00:18:40.540 If he wants to wear a green tie, I like that idea.
00:18:42.460 Wear a dark green tie.
00:18:43.520 Wear a sober green tie.
00:18:44.620 Make yourself look serious.
00:18:46.240 He also has a baby blue pocket square that clashes with a neon green tie, as do most things.
00:18:50.840 Lose it.
00:18:51.460 Not a good idea.
00:18:52.820 Basically, 99% of members of Congress and the Senate buy suits that wouldn't have fit their own grandfathers.
00:19:00.240 Tailor your suit.
00:19:01.320 Just look cleaner, more presentable.
00:19:05.060 AOC and all of these guys are actually pretty good at optics most of the time.
00:19:09.760 The GOP needs to be good at optics, too.
00:19:11.760 Okay.
00:19:12.260 Then the sign in front of the press conference says, it says the Green New Deal, and then it's crossed out, and it says real deal.
00:19:19.900 Yeah, we're the real deal.
00:19:21.700 Awful, awful stuff.
00:19:24.640 When you are just responding to your opponents, you are losing because you're playing on their terms.
00:19:33.540 In this case, you're literally accepting their term.
00:19:36.560 You're saying, okay, okay, the Green New Deal is the basis, and I'm just sort of responding.
00:19:39.640 And in this case, it's like crossed out with a marker.
00:19:41.980 Yeah, we're the real deal.
00:19:44.600 Awful.
00:19:45.140 Not good.
00:19:45.920 It reminds me of the mom in Mean Girls. 0.99
00:19:49.600 I'm not a regular mom.
00:19:51.380 I'm a cool mom.
00:19:52.420 That's what some of these Republicans are doing when they're accepting the left's terms.
00:19:56.280 And to the broader point, they're accepting the left's premises.
00:19:59.740 And this is where we get to that pseudo-earnestness that Joe Biden is exhibiting.
00:20:04.120 This idea, this pseudo, look, I really care about climate change.
00:20:08.920 I represent Florida while it's still above water.
00:20:11.740 I'm really, no, come on, man.
00:20:13.680 The problem with these climate change people is that they're hysterical alarmists.
00:20:18.740 You are not going to defeat their arguments by accepting their alarmist premises.
00:20:25.060 It's about to be underwater, and I'm serious about, no, it's not.
00:20:28.460 It's just not.
00:20:29.620 Florida is not going to be underwater.
00:20:30.740 I know Al Gore told us Florida was going to be underwater by like 2012, but it didn't happen.
00:20:35.480 It was never going to happen.
00:20:36.560 It's not going to be underwater by 2024.
00:20:38.320 It's not going to be underwater by 2050.
00:20:39.900 It ain't going to happen, so stop accepting the alarmist premises, because if you accept
00:20:44.320 the alarmist premises, then you basically give them the argument.
00:20:49.980 If you accept the premise that Florida is imminently going to be underwater, then why shouldn't
00:20:55.000 we upend the entire economy and all of American governance and society? 0.70
00:20:59.220 If whole states are going to be submerged underwater in this catastrophe, of course we should mobilize.
00:21:06.620 The problem is that isn't going to happen.
00:21:09.900 Don't accept those premises.
00:21:12.020 You don't need to fight on their terms.
00:21:15.620 It's a bad political look, so I don't think this is going to go anywhere, but I would urge
00:21:20.560 all of our other friends in Congress not to accept this stuff.
00:21:24.640 It's a total loser.
00:21:25.780 If you've got two people selling the Green New Deal, and one of them is a GOP representative
00:21:32.200 in an ill-fitting suit, and the other one is AOC, who is basically a product of social
00:21:37.720 media, they're going to win.
00:21:40.560 The left is going to win that.
00:21:41.780 We are never going to win that fight.
00:21:44.580 Okay?
00:21:44.800 Speaking of AOC, she has made a blunder because AOC has become a punchline.
00:21:54.420 She was always, we were talking about this yesterday, she was always walking this line.
00:21:58.180 Is she a punchline or is she winning? 0.98
00:21:59.720 She won.
00:22:00.260 She upended a long-time incumbent, Joe Crowley, in Congress.
00:22:03.520 She's become one of the most prominent members of Congress.
00:22:07.000 She's directly challenged Nancy Pelosi.
00:22:10.820 And she goes straight to the people.
00:22:12.980 She says, I'm not here to convince my colleagues.
00:22:15.160 I'm here to convince the American people.
00:22:17.620 Now, the trouble with AOC right now, she's finally lost something.
00:22:23.880 She lost the Green New Deal. 0.81
00:22:26.920 That crazy piece of legislation that she wrote that she got everyone to talk about, she even 1.00
00:22:31.920 got Matt Gaetz to talk about it.
00:22:33.220 She got members of the Senate to co-sponsor this bill. 0.74
00:22:38.100 And then Cocaine Mitch, Nuclear Cocaine Mitch, comes up.
00:22:41.260 He says, we're all going to vote on it.
00:22:43.020 He plays chicken and they all cave.
00:22:45.400 She lost.
00:22:46.360 She took the loss.
00:22:47.620 And so what she's got to do now is pivot.
00:22:49.980 She's got to go on the attack somewhere else. 1.00
00:22:52.060 She can't keep fighting this battle because she's losing this battle.
00:22:55.100 And you see this here.
00:22:56.400 So she does one of her weirdo live streams.
00:22:58.500 But this one is different than the others.
00:23:00.740 She's not laughing at people.
00:23:02.740 She's not above the fray.
00:23:05.000 She's not winning the media war. 0.75
00:23:07.940 She's reactive.
00:23:09.320 She's explaining.
00:23:10.340 She's defending.
00:23:11.300 She's losing.
00:23:12.300 How many years until the world ends again?
00:23:15.480 We have 12 years left to cut emissions by at least 50 percent, if not more.
00:23:22.800 And for everyone who wants to make a joke about that, you may laugh, but your grandkids will not.
00:23:32.160 So I understand that the Internet documents everything.
00:23:39.780 And for all those people, you know, you want to look about, you want to talk about looking in the back of history, looking backwards.
00:23:47.440 You look back and you open history books on the civil rights movement and you see those folks who are protesting against the ability for African Americans and black Americans to have the right to vote.
00:24:06.420 You should also know that the Internet documents everything and your grandchildren will not be able to hide the fact that you fought against acknowledging and taking bold actions on climate change.
00:24:21.400 Oh, not her best work.
00:24:24.260 And she doesn't even hear.
00:24:24.940 She's there crouching in what looks like a woodshop.
00:24:28.740 It's a really awful framing.
00:24:30.640 You can't really tell where she is.
00:24:31.680 She's crouching in this really weird way.
00:24:33.760 And then she says, you know, the Internet is forever.
00:24:37.120 Aren't you guys going to look silly in 20 years?
00:24:42.240 Somebody's going to look silly in 20 years.
00:24:43.980 I don't think it's going to be us, but OK.
00:24:46.200 Now, by the way, this is still a more effective way to communicate the Green New Deal than what Matt Gaetz was doing.
00:24:53.200 Much more.
00:24:53.600 At least this is innovative.
00:24:54.580 At least this is capturing people's attention.
00:24:56.600 At least this doesn't look totally contrived.
00:24:58.620 But it's still weak.
00:25:00.200 She's got to back off of this if she wants to maintain her primacy among the Democrat House members. 1.00
00:25:10.320 She's just looking crazy here.
00:25:12.060 She's not really convincing anybody with these arguments.
00:25:15.840 The Internet is forever.
00:25:17.260 I mean, it's actually the same reason because she's just responding.
00:25:20.560 She's just reacting.
00:25:22.260 What you saw Matt Gaetz doing was he's responding and reacting to her.
00:25:25.380 What you see her doing is she's responding and reacting to the people who are mocking her total devastating loss on the Senate vote on the Green New Deal.
00:25:35.160 Don't do it.
00:25:35.980 What was Ronald Reagan would say?
00:25:37.160 When you're explaining, you're losing.
00:25:38.520 It's the same kind of language here.
00:25:41.200 It's all the same kind of language.
00:25:43.120 How do you do this?
00:25:44.220 What you need to do, what Joe Biden should have done, what Matt Gaetz should have done, what AOC should have done, you have to be very direct.
00:25:53.680 You have to be uncompromising.
00:25:55.980 You have to not accept the premises of the other people. 1.00
00:25:58.900 You see, for the first time there, AOC is starting to accept the premises.
00:26:02.740 She says, oh, I'm not saying the world is going to end in 12 years.
00:26:06.880 I'm saying it's going to start to end in 12 years.
00:26:11.160 Yeah, that's not quite what you said.
00:26:13.240 That's not quite what you said before.
00:26:14.640 But okay, I mean, this is more, but you're just, that doesn't work as well.
00:26:19.320 You've got to be direct.
00:26:20.240 You've got to be blunt.
00:26:21.020 You've got to call out the absurdity.
00:26:22.440 We will call out the absurdity in just a second on how men are not women and how men are also not puppies.
00:26:27.560 We'll also get to the mailbag, but first you've got to go to dailywire.com.
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00:26:42.900 Listen, the internet is forever, but you might not be forever if you don't get the Leftist Tears Tumblr, because the tears are coming.
00:26:49.820 Florida's going to be underwater.
00:26:51.360 You could drown.
00:26:52.580 Get your Tumblr.
00:26:53.260 We'll be right back.
00:26:57.080 You've got to call out the absurdity directly.
00:27:07.300 You've got to take it on directly, uncompromisingly.
00:27:10.760 If you try to accept people's premises, if you try to be really nice and conciliatory, and I'm a really nice guy, you're going to lose.
00:27:17.560 This is coming from Teen Vogue to explain to all of us why men are really women.
00:27:25.240 Hi, I'm Hannah Gabby, and I'm here to tell you the binary is bullshit. 0.61
00:27:28.500 Sex typically refers to your biological traits.
00:27:36.140 There's your gonads, your genitalia, your internal sex characteristics, your hormone production, hormone response, and secondary sex characteristics.
00:27:44.180 Gender is about your identity, your expression, and it's often based on ideas about sex.
00:27:49.380 It's important that we really break down what are we talking about when we talk about sex and gender, and is there something called biological sex, and what does that mean?
00:27:57.220 This idea that the body is either male or female is totally wrong, and I am living proof of that.
00:28:06.740 We know intersex people exist and break down this binary.
00:28:09.740 We all have characteristics that are typically male and typically female, and it is really about political choices, social factors, ideological choices, that we assign meaning to different parts of our bodies.
00:28:21.380 So, the meaning may be that the thing that most of us are taught, that if you have a vagina, you're a girl, or if you have a penis, you're a boy.
00:28:28.880 But, like many simple binaries, break down when you start to really get into the nitty gritty.
00:28:33.940 Uh, yeah, things are getting gritty and nitty, that's true.
00:28:39.240 Things are breaking down, but it doesn't dispute the fact that men are not women and women are not men. 0.99
00:28:45.340 What one of those guys says is that what we have is body parts, biological facts, that we assign meaning to, but we can assign whatever meaning we want.
00:28:57.400 It's like Humpty Dumpty in Alice in Wonderland.
00:29:00.200 He says, in my language, words can mean whatever I want them to mean.
00:29:05.960 Well, which is to be master?
00:29:08.000 To use the words correctly or to use the words however you want them to mean, whatever they want to mean?
00:29:13.240 Actually, what you have is body parts.
00:29:15.320 You have biological facts that have meaning.
00:29:18.460 They themselves have meaning.
00:29:20.500 That is not reliant on what you think the meaning is or what you want the meaning to be.
00:29:26.480 That person in there says, there are intersex people.
00:29:30.440 What he means is what we traditionally have been called hermaphrodites.
00:29:33.100 People who have either confusing looking genitals or even confusing chromosomes.
00:29:38.640 People who blur the lines.
00:29:40.100 This is an infinitely, infinitesimally small number of people.
00:29:43.680 But, of course, those people exist.
00:29:47.000 Nevertheless, men and women exist.
00:29:49.320 There are ligers. 1.00
00:29:50.540 There are lions.
00:29:51.500 There's a hybrid of a lion and a tiger.
00:29:53.360 The fact that ligers exist does not mean that lions and tigers also do not exist.
00:29:58.980 And that lions and tigers are different.
00:30:01.020 And that lions are not tigers and tigers are not lions.
00:30:03.740 But ligers exist. 1.00
00:30:05.180 Right, that's true.
00:30:06.040 There are a very, very small number of ligers.
00:30:08.440 Nevertheless, the categories of lion and tiger exist.
00:30:11.260 There are a very, very small number of intersex people.
00:30:13.340 Nevertheless, the category of man and woman, male and female, still exist.
00:30:17.940 You have to call that out.
00:30:19.040 You cannot say, out of a false sense of compassion, that, oh, well, hey, maybe you're right.
00:30:25.640 Maybe there's no such thing as men and women.
00:30:27.220 I mean, what's the harm if we just indulge people who think that they're really the opposite sex
00:30:32.720 or they very much want to be the opposite sex?
00:30:35.120 Here is the harm of indulging delusion.
00:30:38.700 Care of the human puppies in the United Kingdom.
00:30:41.680 But those are actual real bonyos.
00:30:43.620 They're proper dog treats.
00:30:44.860 Oh.
00:30:45.260 Yeah.
00:30:45.600 Help yourself.
00:30:46.360 Well, there's...
00:30:47.840 Oh, can't...
00:30:48.440 You can't...
00:30:48.940 Oh, you can't.
00:30:49.520 Oh, you need to be fed.
00:30:50.180 There's one in the bowl.
00:30:51.360 Oh.
00:30:54.340 There you go.
00:30:55.520 So whilst he's having his treat, because he's been a very good puppy so far,
00:30:59.780 that you were engaged.
00:31:04.060 Yeah.
00:31:04.420 And when, well, we split up 2008.
00:31:06.900 Yeah.
00:31:07.460 So...
00:31:07.920 How much of this did you know when you got involved?
00:31:10.160 Bits of.
00:31:12.020 He didn't have the suit then.
00:31:14.160 So this is a grown man wearing a giant leather suit that makes him look like a Dalmatian puppy.
00:31:21.780 And he identifies as a puppy, even though he's a man.
00:31:26.640 And he's quite convinced that really on some deeper level, he is a puppy.
00:31:30.200 He said this, quote,
00:31:31.260 I realized that my behaviors were quite dog-like in childhood, probably from the age of six.
00:31:35.860 No one ever talked about it.
00:31:36.900 It was never mentioned.
00:31:37.620 My parents took early retirement, and we moved to a farm in Norfolk.
00:31:41.220 It wasn't until the internet arrived in our house that I started chatting to people online,
00:31:45.600 mostly through groups and message boards.
00:31:47.980 I was incredibly nervous when I first started talking to people online.
00:31:51.880 I was living with my parents, and I would sneak downstairs at three in the morning
00:31:55.100 to get on the internet and look for this stuff.
00:31:58.240 I would hold a pillow over the 56K modem so that you couldn't hear the modem noise.
00:32:02.080 I was worried that if I ever spoke to anyone about it, they would be like, you're a nutjob.
00:32:06.980 It's an experience that a lot of pups I know have had, feeling really weird and strange about how they are,
00:32:12.140 and then finding other people and feeling a lot better about it.
00:32:15.000 There is no difference between a man who thinks he's a puppy and a man who thinks that he's a woman.
00:32:21.560 I don't mean that in any sort of mean way or spiteful way or hateful way.
00:32:27.040 These are people who have psychological disorders, and they deserve compassion and treatment.
00:32:32.040 They do not deserve to be deluded or to have their delusions indulged in.
00:32:37.660 This guy obviously also has a sexual fetish that involves pretending that he's an animal,
00:32:42.200 kind of like Beto, who is a furry.
00:32:43.600 We'll get into that at some other episode.
00:32:47.480 But this guy was engaged to a woman, and now he pretends that he's her puppy.
00:32:54.020 That's how this works.
00:32:56.660 No one gains when you indulge delusion.
00:32:59.140 No one gains when you indulge in fantasy.
00:33:01.680 That's a false compassion.
00:33:03.720 Don't be the unctuous, glad-handing, walking simper who tells everyone whatever they think that they want to hear.
00:33:11.400 You've got to call things like they are.
00:33:13.840 You've got to call it like you see it.
00:33:16.460 We get a lot of bad politics when you don't do that,
00:33:18.600 but beyond just the realm of pure government and politics,
00:33:22.700 you just have bad interactions with human beings when you're not direct with them,
00:33:26.400 when you don't call it like you see it,
00:33:28.300 when you're trying to be everything to everybody.
00:33:31.700 This is especially true in these hot-button social issues like transgenderism,
00:33:36.400 where you could face social consequences if you speak obvious truths.
00:33:40.840 You could face professional consequences if you speak obvious truths.
00:33:47.080 We're not going to get along very well in a culture of lies,
00:33:51.460 what Drew Klavan calls the empire of lies.
00:33:54.540 You've got to be honest.
00:33:55.600 I know this seems counterintuitive in politics, but you've got to try.
00:33:58.580 Let's get to the mailbag.
00:33:59.580 Let's try to answer directly and honestly in the mailbag.
00:34:02.020 From David.
00:34:03.480 Michael, thank you for mentioning Leon Cass and the wisdom of repugnance on your show.
00:34:07.560 I've long respected Cass.
00:34:08.800 Do you think there is any hope our culture will start to have serious discussions about bioethical issues,
00:34:13.880 IVF, abortion, or cloning,
00:34:15.520 or technological advancement bound to trample on the sanctity of human life?
00:34:20.660 Thanks.
00:34:20.900 Love the show, David.
00:34:23.160 I'm hopeful in the sense that, I don't know, you're asking about it,
00:34:26.800 so I guess I'm hopeful about that.
00:34:28.360 I'm hopeful because there is the alternative media, there are the new media now,
00:34:33.080 so people can get into these discussions if they really seek them out.
00:34:39.100 I'm not that hopeful because podcasts are a shoddy substitute for church.
00:34:44.640 Podcasts are a shoddy substitute for a firm moral foundation,
00:34:48.260 for a sound religious foundation.
00:34:49.920 So, while the new media, the alternative media, podcasts are becoming much, much more popular,
00:34:56.580 church attendance is declining.
00:34:58.400 Religious instruction is declining.
00:34:59.960 Moral instruction is declining.
00:35:01.260 Our moral vocabulary is going extinct.
00:35:04.080 We're losing the ability to discuss these things.
00:35:06.240 So now, even I hear self-described conservatives say this.
00:35:09.940 They say,
00:35:10.340 Michael, you're talking about the culture and philosophy and religion,
00:35:14.700 but I just want, you've got to talk about facts and science and facts.
00:35:19.300 You don't even know what those words mean.
00:35:21.380 If you're drawing a dichotomy between philosophy and culture and religion and facts or science,
00:35:29.260 then you don't know what those words mean.
00:35:31.120 You lack the vocabulary to engage in those sort of discussions,
00:35:35.380 which are relatively sophisticated for our debased dialogue.
00:35:40.340 But they're essential if you're going to talk about fundamental questions,
00:35:44.260 such as abortion, cloning, in vitro fertilization, the dignity of human life.
00:35:49.460 If our culture continues down that scientistic and shallow path,
00:35:55.460 I can't say that I look forward to a future where we're going to be able to
00:36:00.480 discuss those things in greater clarity.
00:36:02.800 I think what you'll see is you'll see people, society, bifurcate.
00:36:07.000 You're going to have some people who have a fairly sophisticated vocabulary
00:36:10.860 with which to discuss those,
00:36:12.340 and then a lot of people who are simply never given that instruction
00:36:16.220 from birth all the way up through adulthood.
00:36:19.440 A strong, solid moral and linguistic foundation even is necessary for that.
00:36:24.720 From David.
00:36:25.920 Hello, Michael.
00:36:26.820 For Poetry Month, I have written a haiku.
00:36:28.840 Are you satisfied?
00:36:31.480 Cheers, Dave.
00:36:36.800 I'm very satisfied, Dave.
00:36:38.840 From Arnaldo.
00:36:40.280 Dear Pedro,
00:36:41.540 Some people believe that the current condition of tribalism in the parties
00:36:44.540 started with the Republican Party in the Newt Gingrich transfer of power.
00:36:48.980 But my Hillsdale professor says that this started after Watergate,
00:36:52.940 when Democrats left Republicans in the dark in congressional affairs.
00:36:55.940 When did tribalism begin, Arnaldo?
00:37:01.220 Tribalism has recurred many times throughout history.
00:37:03.980 If what you're talking about is our current American political tribalism,
00:37:07.640 where it seems like no one can compromise whatsoever,
00:37:11.000 I tend to agree a little bit more with your Hillsdale professor,
00:37:14.640 but I would go back further.
00:37:15.900 I think it begins with Watergate itself.
00:37:18.040 I think Watergate is the moment that tribalism begins
00:37:23.000 because you had Democrats who were so furious
00:37:27.360 that they lost a presidential election in a landslide
00:37:31.700 to a guy that they had previously stolen a presidential election from in 1960
00:37:37.420 to a guy that they never forgave
00:37:39.560 because he was correct about Alger Hiss,
00:37:42.580 about a communist spy working in the federal government at a high level.
00:37:47.320 He called them out on it, Richard Nixon.
00:37:50.120 The left defended this guy.
00:37:51.400 Richard Nixon was right.
00:37:52.260 They never forgave him for it.
00:37:54.080 And so what they did was they used a bunch of political dirty tricks and leaks
00:37:58.420 to overturn a presidential election that Nixon won in a landslide.
00:38:02.700 It was Watergate. 0.50
00:38:03.380 And the Republicans let them do it
00:38:04.700 because the Republicans were playing by a more dignified set of political standards.
00:38:11.020 The Republicans hadn't got the message
00:38:12.520 that politics was going to become utterly tribal at that point.
00:38:15.460 It began then.
00:38:16.520 It was totally unjust when they did it.
00:38:18.040 They haven't let up since.
00:38:19.260 From Seamus.
00:38:20.720 Hi, Michael.
00:38:21.540 What's the difference between a political philosophy and a political ideology?
00:38:25.360 Under which category, if any, does conservatism fall?
00:38:28.760 An excellent question.
00:38:31.680 Ideology is quite specific.
00:38:35.400 Michael Oakeshott, the great conservative philosopher,
00:38:38.300 defines ideology as the formalized abridgment of the supposed substratum
00:38:43.240 of rational truth contained in the tradition.
00:38:45.400 He gives that definition in rationalism and politics.
00:38:48.900 It's a bulky definition, so think about it.
00:38:52.300 The formalized abridgment of the supposed substratum of rational truth contained in the tradition.
00:38:59.300 There's another definition of ideology which is given by Slavoj Žižek,
00:39:03.800 the philosopher and communist, has popularized this,
00:39:07.940 although he kind of cribs it from both David Foster Wallace and Erika Jong, the novelist,
00:39:12.260 which is that the way we see ideology is everywhere,
00:39:16.120 even in the most mundane and trivial objects, even in toilet bowls.
00:39:21.660 So in Germany, the hole in the toilet bowl is at the front of the bowl.
00:39:27.180 So you see the excrement, you see it there.
00:39:33.440 In the German metaphysical, philosophical, analytical approach to things,
00:39:40.880 you see the excrement.
00:39:43.100 In the French toilet bowl, the hole is in the back.
00:39:45.960 It just goes right away.
00:39:47.080 It's just, it's more elegant.
00:39:48.700 It's more radical.
00:39:49.820 It's more revolutionary.
00:39:51.280 And in the United Kingdom and in America,
00:39:52.960 the hole is in the bottom, but there's a, there's a lot of water all around it.
00:39:57.820 So the excrement goes into the water and you don't have to,
00:40:02.560 it's there, but you know, you don't have to really,
00:40:04.780 you're not supposed to inspect it like those weirdo Germans do. 1.00
00:40:07.500 It's a sort of via media.
00:40:09.080 It's somewhere in the middle.
00:40:09.940 It's more moderate.
00:40:11.840 And this, he says, is ideology.
00:40:15.140 Ideology, we see it in everything.
00:40:18.140 It's like the John Carpenter film, They Live.
00:40:20.660 If it's the glasses, we have ideology on our billboards and our this and everything.
00:40:25.720 And then you can put the glasses on or take the glasses off, really is what it should be.
00:40:29.720 And then you see the bare facts as they are.
00:40:32.580 It's very painful to get rid of ideology.
00:40:36.300 In any case, what all of those people are saying is that ideology is very narrow.
00:40:42.460 It's, it's, you're not seeing reality unvarnished.
00:40:46.300 You're not seeing truth unvarnished.
00:40:47.720 We all bring ideological presuppositions to the way we view the world.
00:40:53.860 Conservatism, I actually don't even use the term conservatism too much, or I try not to,
00:40:57.900 because what the conservative should do is fight ideology tooth and nail as best he can.
00:41:03.360 A lot of different ideologies in the conservative movement.
00:41:06.540 Neoconservatism, libertarianism, the religious right, all of these different ideologies.
00:41:13.280 What we should do, however, is go back to that Oakeshott definition and say that what the conservative does is conserve.
00:41:20.920 The conservative prefers the tried to the untried.
00:41:24.940 The conservative reveres the tradition, venerates the tradition.
00:41:33.180 Believes in prescription.
00:41:34.500 If something has worked for a very long time, maybe I shouldn't totally upend it in a night.
00:41:40.640 That is not quite an ideology.
00:41:43.200 What that is is a veneration for tradition because of the perils of ideology.
00:41:48.460 It's a long and disgusting explanation of the difference between ideology and philosophy.
00:41:56.620 But we should prefer philosophy.
00:41:58.880 We should prefer the view of ideology.
00:42:00.740 Like Zizek is a philosopher.
00:42:02.120 So he's viewing ideology and trying to take all of it in.
00:42:04.900 That's what a conservative should do.
00:42:06.060 Try to take all of it in and proceed cautiously with good judgment, with prudence, with veneration, with prescription.
00:42:14.040 From Nicole, will Trump become a punchline if he loses in 2020?
00:42:19.540 Yes.
00:42:20.600 Not as badly as if he had lost in 2016, but he will.
00:42:24.060 He will because in the United States, we're very harsh on our one-term presidents.
00:42:28.660 Jimmy Carter is a punchline.
00:42:31.320 Even George H.W. Bush is a punchline.
00:42:34.680 Even Richard Nixon is a punchline.
00:42:37.060 He wasn't just a one-term president, but he got kicked out.
00:42:39.720 So he's become a punchline.
00:42:40.840 Again, we're not very nice to our one-term presidents.
00:42:46.080 And if President Trump is a one-term president, he'll be a punchline as well.
00:42:50.540 So we got to get the guy reelected because he's done a lot of good stuff.
00:42:56.540 There's still a lot more good stuff we could do.
00:42:58.640 And it's important historically to look back on this era and say that was a good era.
00:43:03.040 We should have more of that.
00:43:04.980 That's how you build a path to success in the future.
00:43:08.300 From Jeremy.
00:43:09.060 Hello, Michael. My mother is in hospice and will be entering the active state of dying soon.
00:43:13.460 Very sorry to hear that.
00:43:14.920 I'm going to give her a eulogy.
00:43:16.560 Could you recommend a poem, piece of scripture, or other form of written word for inspiration to help guide my writing?
00:43:22.940 Thank you.
00:43:23.760 Jeremy.
00:43:25.040 It's a very difficult thing to eulogize your mother.
00:43:27.680 A little bit of advice I could give is, it is very important.
00:43:38.020 What you say is very important.
00:43:39.420 It's going to stick with you.
00:43:40.480 It's going to matter.
00:43:41.980 This is the moment.
00:43:43.040 You've got to get it right.
00:43:45.260 I don't mean to put extra pressure on you, but you've got to get it right.
00:43:48.120 You're smart to say, is there a poem?
00:43:53.520 Is there a piece of scripture?
00:43:54.380 Is there something that I should use?
00:43:56.220 You know your mother.
00:43:58.320 You should choose the poem.
00:43:59.780 You should choose the bit of scripture.
00:44:03.180 You shouldn't get a canned piece of scripture from somebody else who doesn't know your mother.
00:44:07.160 You should choose it.
00:44:08.100 But it should be about that.
00:44:10.960 It should be about your mother. 0.82
00:44:12.520 It should be about her.
00:44:13.560 It should not be about you.
00:44:14.400 It should not be indulgent.
00:44:17.180 It should not be saccharine.
00:44:18.180 It should not be sentimental.
00:44:19.840 And it should look at the life of your mother, and it should look beyond that.
00:44:24.660 You know, when Father Paul Scalia was eulogizing his father, Antonin Scalia, he actually kind of had a funny opening.
00:44:31.480 He said, we're all here because of one man, a man who was loved by some and hated by others, a deeply polarizing man, a man who changed the world.
00:44:50.760 I speak, of course, of Jesus Christ and all the people there, because that is the point.
00:44:55.460 It was looking beyond.
00:44:56.460 There was another friend of mine told me about how he was asked to give a eulogy by a man who knew that he was dying, and he said, preach the gospel.
00:45:05.640 This is, I think, the right idea, because you're not just giving soft soap to people.
00:45:11.480 First of all, I don't know how old you are.
00:45:13.220 I don't know the circumstances.
00:45:14.500 An important thing when you're eulogizing your mother, especially if you're young, is to let people know, not only will you be okay, not only will they be okay, it will be okay.
00:45:23.140 Life will go on.
00:45:24.240 It will be okay.
00:45:24.960 And so you should do that and then speak about her in a way that involves love and reverence and reality and respect and truth in a way that you will be proud to do it, to look back on that later on.
00:45:46.800 This may be one of the hardest things you ever do.
00:45:49.960 It's going to be grueling and awful to write it and to give it, but you'll be glad that you didn't screw it up and that you didn't take it lightly.
00:45:59.420 All right.
00:45:59.840 We've got a lot more to get to, but that's our show.
00:46:02.180 Come back on Monday.
00:46:03.420 In the meantime, I'm Michael Knowles.
00:46:04.740 This is The Michael Knowles Show.
00:46:05.620 I'll see you then.
00:46:06.100 The Michael Knowles Show.
00:46:36.080 We're going to talk a little bit about this Joe Biden thing.
00:46:39.720 He struggles to respect personal space.
00:46:41.920 Is that a huge scandal that we should all care about?
00:46:44.120 I don't think so, but we'll talk about it.
00:46:46.080 Also, a woman just recently gave birth to her son's child.
00:46:51.240 We will look at the lengths that people go to in order to get around biology.
00:46:56.260 And also, we'll deal with this question.
00:46:59.160 Should Christians cite the Bible when they're arguing about cultural issues with people who don't believe in the Bible?
00:47:05.460 I say no, and I'll explain why today over on The Matt Walsh Show.