The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 339 - How Odd Of God

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00:00:37.720 A neo-Nazi attacks a synagogue on Passover.

00:00:40.720 Politicians politicize the tragedy, and Avengers Endgame is awful.

00:00:45.040 We will examine how the tragedy in San Diego happened and why our culture no longer knows how to talk about tragedy.

00:00:51.600 I'm Michael Knowles, and this is The Michael Knowles Show.

00:00:56.960 Awful tragedy that happened on the last day of Passover at a synagogue in San Diego.

00:01:07.660 It could have been a lot worse than it was.

00:01:10.540 There were a lot of things that happened, providential and personal, that came into play that prevented this from being a massacre.

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00:02:54.640 This attack in San Diego is a clear example of anti-Semitism.

00:03:02.180 I don't use that phrase willy-nilly.

00:03:04.540 I don't use the word racism willy-nilly.

00:03:06.500 I don't use bigotry willy-nilly.

00:03:08.820 The left has taken these phrases, watered them down to not mean very much. 0.56

00:03:12.820 But this attack was caused by a guy who vehemently and irrationally hates Jews.

00:03:21.000 And it gets to a bigger question, the question of theodicy.

00:03:25.880 It even, it reminded me, there's an old Clara Hugh poem that says,

00:03:31.560 how odd of God to choose the Jews. 0.98

00:03:35.100 And this is considered a poetic jive at Jewish people.

00:03:39.140 And the rejoinder to that was, not odd of God, goyim, annoy him. 1.00

00:03:45.420 And then the more profound response to that was,

00:03:49.400 but not so odd as those who choose a Jewish God, yet spurn the Jews.

00:03:55.320 And that's what you see in what happened with this 19-year-old guy

00:04:00.260 who went in and tried to shoot up this synagogue.

00:04:03.940 What happened exactly?

00:04:05.480 In San Diego, at this synagogue shooting,

00:04:08.840 you saw the interaction of two distinct elements.

00:04:12.780 You saw providence and you saw preparedness.

00:04:16.860 It's the only way to describe how this tragedy didn't become an even bigger massacre.

00:04:23.360 You have a 19-year-old white supremacist come in there with an AR-15 rifle 0.93

00:04:28.900 and shoot up this synagogue. 0.99

00:04:31.340 He killed one woman. 0.87

00:04:32.800 He wounded three people, including the rabbi.

00:04:34.960 The woman who was killed was 60-year-old Lori Kay.

00:04:39.620 And she wasn't killed accidentally.

00:04:42.080 She gave up her life to shield the rabbi from bullets. 0.69

00:04:46.460 The rabbi apparently was trying to get the children out of the synagogue.

00:04:50.580 This woman was a wife and a mother. 0.61

00:04:53.920 And she gave up her life to save the rabbi and to save these children.

00:04:58.160 So this shooter comes in.

00:04:59.640 He's got sunglasses on.

00:05:01.260 The rabbi couldn't see his eyes.

00:05:02.700 He says he couldn't see into his soul.

00:05:05.320 And the shooter squares up on the rabbi with the rifle, pulls off a round, and misses.

00:05:11.140 He goes wide.

00:05:12.260 He ends up shooting off the rabbi's finger when the rabbi went and lifted up his hands.

00:05:16.660 Then squares up, gets a better aim on the rabbi, pulls the trigger, doesn't fire. 0.90

00:05:22.360 The gun jams.

00:05:26.220 Guns jam.

00:05:28.260 Modern guns jam less than some older guns.

00:05:32.760 What are the odds that this gun would have jammed after he'd only gotten off a relatively small number of rounds?

00:05:39.200 Hard to imagine.

00:05:41.260 Hard to imagine the odds of that.

00:05:43.260 He gets one round off and it misses.

00:05:44.640 These guns are very easy to aim.

00:05:46.800 But he misses the rabbi.

00:05:48.620 And then he pulls it again and the thing jams.

00:05:52.180 At this point, at this point of unmistakable providence, a combat veteran and an off-duty border patrol agent comes out and starts running and yelling at the shooter.

00:06:04.560 And he's got his own gun on him. 0.98

00:06:06.140 And then this coward, this little, gutless sociopath, runs out of the synagogue. 1.00

00:06:13.320 He can't stand up to a real guy with a gun. 1.00

00:06:15.360 No, no.

00:06:15.780 He thought he had a soft target.

00:06:17.880 Then this combat veteran comes up with his gun.

00:06:21.400 And the guy goes running.

00:06:23.280 Now, the combat veteran was able to hit the shooter's vehicle, wasn't able to hit the shooter himself.

00:06:29.900 The central story here.

00:06:32.520 This guy could have slaughtered that whole synagogue.

00:06:34.960 If not for an off-duty border patrol agent, combat veteran, and providence.

00:06:44.200 Those two things.

00:06:45.620 If his gun hadn't jammed, eventually he would have fixed the jam or he would have thrown in a new magazine.

00:06:51.040 And if this good guy with a gun were not here, we wouldn't be talking about one killed, three wounded.

00:06:56.840 We'd be talking about a slaughter at this synagogue.

00:07:01.080 Providence and preparedness.

00:07:02.360 So how are politicians reacting to this?

00:07:05.220 Ilan Omar tweets out.

00:07:06.860 Famously, anti-Semitic congresswoman Ilan Omar tweets out.

00:07:13.200 Love is the answer.

00:07:14.120 Love is the way.

00:07:14.880 And yes, less gun.

00:07:16.880 Hashtag, no more thoughts and prayers.

00:07:19.240 Is there any better way to describe the left in 2019 than the statement, no more thoughts and prayers?

00:07:29.040 That's it.

00:07:29.620 That sums up the entire left-wing agenda.

00:07:31.680 No more thoughts.

00:07:32.800 No more prayers.

00:07:33.980 That's what they do.

00:07:35.240 Notice, not a terribly specific statement, is it?

00:07:37.880 Love is the answer.

00:07:38.980 Love is the way.

00:07:40.160 And no more guns.

00:07:41.600 Less guns.

00:07:42.220 What are you talking about?

00:07:44.440 If that off-duty border patrol agent hadn't been permitted to carry a gun, the whole synagogue would have been massacred.

00:07:51.420 The whole thing would have been shot up.

00:07:53.220 It doesn't make any sense.

00:07:55.300 And by the way, this was expected.

00:07:57.300 The rabbi apparently was so afraid of an attack on his synagogue that he asked that off-duty border patrol agent to carry a gun.

00:08:06.180 When this guy started to come back into his Jewish faith, he asked him to please carry a gun. 0.98

00:08:11.540 I think the rabbi got a permit to carry a gun, though he didn't have one on him at the time.

00:08:16.120 And fortunately, he prevented what could have been much wider killing.

00:08:21.980 No more prayers.

00:08:23.420 No more prayers is what she says.

00:08:25.020 Prayer is the central issue.

00:08:26.800 The shooter attacked these people while they were praying.

00:08:31.820 The shooter attacked these people on a holy day that celebrates God's gift to the Jewish people of escaping from Egypt, of leaving Egypt and becoming their own nation, free nation.

00:08:44.140 The shooter hated those prayers.

00:08:46.260 These shooters who go in hate prayers.

00:08:48.520 When you come out against prayers, as some people are doing on the left and in politics, you've lost the narrative.

00:08:56.860 To oppose thoughts and prayers tells you the whole story.

00:09:03.140 Now, after this tragedy, President Trump calls the rabbi of the synagogue, Rabbi Yisrael Goldstein, and he explains his gratitude for receiving this phone call.

00:09:14.420 I received a personal phone call from our president, Donald Trump.

00:09:19.840 I was amazed to answer the phone and say the secretary of the White House is calling, and he spent close to 10, 15 minutes with me on the phone.

00:09:31.740 It's the first time I've ever spoken to a president of the United States of America.

00:09:35.260 He shared with me condolences on behalf of the United States of America, and we spoke about the moment of silence, and he spoke about his love of peace and Judaism and Israel, and he was just so comforting.

00:09:50.320 That I'm really grateful to our president for taking the time and making that effort to share with us his comfort and consolation.

00:09:59.100 I've noticed this among a lot of my Orthodox Jewish friends, just anecdotally, is they tend to really like Donald Trump.

00:10:05.900 For a few reasons, Donald Trump has the most moral clarity on the question of Israel-Palestine of any president in modern American history.

00:10:15.160 This is why Israel named a train station after him.

00:10:17.840 This is why they're naming a town after him now.

00:10:21.180 Trump also is clearly, I think, the most pro-Jewish president ever in American history.

00:10:27.760 He's the most nearly Jewish president himself.

00:10:30.240 He's got a daughter who's a convert to Judaism, and he's got a son-in-law who is a Jew, an Orthodox Jew.

00:10:38.180 This is apparently one of the reasons why the shooter hates Trump.

00:10:41.940 So, the question is, why did he do it?

00:10:45.860 Why did this 19-year-old kid become radicalized and go in and shoot up a synagogue?

00:10:51.460 Sometimes people say, who cares their motivations?

00:10:54.680 Don't read the manifesto.

00:10:55.880 Don't read the notes.

00:10:56.900 Don't figure out why he did it. 1.00

00:10:58.040 He's a lunatic. 1.00

00:10:58.800 He's a crazy person. 1.00

00:11:00.220 It should be dismissed, and he shouldn't get any publicity. 0.98

00:11:03.580 Okay, I'm sympathetic to some of those arguments.

00:11:05.980 But, unless you confront the motivations, you're going to have a harder time preventing these things in the future.

00:11:13.800 You're going to have a harder time refuting these arguments.

00:11:15.920 Because this guy wasn't just some lunatic. 0.96

00:11:18.160 There's no reason to believe that he has a mental illness or that he's completely insane. 0.97

00:11:23.280 He had a perverse ideology.

00:11:25.180 He has a perverse understanding of history and theology and philosophy.

00:11:28.580 So, why did he do it?

00:11:29.720 The first thing to know, this is a total copycat of New Zealand. 0.88

00:11:33.420 It's a total copycat of that New Zealand shooting, not just in the act of it, but in the manifesto.

00:11:40.920 I read the manifesto.

00:11:41.800 It looks exactly like it.

00:11:44.460 It's a copycat of, actually, not just the document, but the reasons to.

00:11:48.240 So, this guy, the shooter, opens up his manifesto, which was available online.

00:11:54.200 I don't know if you can still find it.

00:11:56.520 He opens it up talking about ancestry and race and blood.

00:12:01.680 It's the first paragraph or two paragraphs of this thing.

00:12:04.600 I'm proud of my ancestry.

00:12:06.640 I'm proud of the blood that goes through my veins.

00:12:09.980 I'm a descendant of this person, and I have his blood running through me, and that's what matters.

00:12:14.420 Now, he later tries to justify these crimes with culture and religion.

00:12:19.880 But you'll notice he doesn't open up the manifesto on culture or religion.

00:12:24.960 He says later in the manifesto that he's a devout Protestant Christian.

00:12:30.460 You don't see that in the first paragraph, do you?

00:12:32.820 No, he gives away the whole game.

00:12:34.440 He is interested in race.

00:12:37.260 Everything else that goes on top of this racial reason is window dressing.

00:12:41.980 Everything on top of racial bigotry is a distraction from the core question.

00:12:47.340 So, why does he hate the Jews?

00:12:48.560 Because he blames the Jews for everything that has ever gone wrong. 1.00

00:12:52.400 He blames the Jews for pornography. 1.00

00:12:54.260 He blames the Jews for political revolutions. 1.00

00:12:56.680 He blames the Jews for everything. 1.00

00:12:59.460 Genocide, slavery. 1.00

00:13:01.020 He also says this is payback for the Jews killing Christ. 0.97

00:13:05.600 He puts that in one of the paragraphs of his manifesto,

00:13:08.600 which means he probably missed the point of the gospel story.

00:13:11.820 You know, we just celebrated Easter a week ago.

00:13:14.980 And the crucifixion of Christ is where Christ conquers death and redeems mankind.

00:13:22.640 So, this is why you sing on Easter Sunday.

00:13:25.440 Christians sing,

00:13:26.680 Oh, happy fault that won for us so great, so glorious a redeemer.

00:13:32.560 And they're talking about not just the crucifixion,

00:13:34.880 all the way back to the original sin of Adam.

00:13:37.060 It's a way to view the crucifixion as not just this very sad moment,

00:13:42.920 but this triumph over death on the cross.

00:13:46.560 To view even that original sin as not this sad, awful tragedy that has no happy ending,

00:13:52.860 but as a tragedy that actually wins for us a wonderful victory,

00:13:58.220 that actually turns a tragedy into a comedy.

00:14:01.080 He doesn't seem to understand that, this kid.

00:14:05.300 And like this New Zealand shooter,

00:14:07.580 this guy in San Diego clearly spent an inordinate amount of time on the internet.

00:14:13.100 In the deepest bowels of the internet,

00:14:15.740 he dedicates the shooting and the manifesto

00:14:19.120 to all these anonymous people on internet message boards.

00:14:22.820 He uses internet-y language.

00:14:24.700 Sometimes he tells jokes that are ironic,

00:14:27.360 so if you're not familiar with this kind of language,

00:14:29.580 you won't really understand exactly what he's saying.

00:14:32.960 A lot of in-references.

00:14:34.740 And then he gets to the direct copycat of that New Zealand shooter's manifesto,

00:14:40.120 which is he does a little interview with himself to explain his political views.

00:14:44.240 So his first question is,

00:14:46.060 are you a Trump supporter?

00:14:48.000 His response, 1.00

00:14:49.380 you mean that Zionist, Jew-loving, anti-white, traitorous expletive? 1.00

00:14:55.760 Don't make me laugh. 1.00

00:14:57.940 So he hates Trump, 0.97

00:14:59.440 calls him a traitor, 0.98

00:15:01.380 and he hates Trump because Trump doesn't hate the Jews.

00:15:06.240 We've heard now for weeks,

00:15:08.020 well, really for two years,

00:15:09.420 but the mainstream media,

00:15:10.520 certainly for the past few weeks,

00:15:11.860 have been calling Trump a neo-Nazi,

00:15:13.520 saying that he called neo-Nazis very fine people.

00:15:16.020 Clearly, the neo-Nazis don't think

00:15:17.560 that Donald Trump likes them very much.

00:15:19.660 I mean, the stated reason why he hates Donald Trump

00:15:22.720 is that Donald Trump is not a neo-Nazi,

00:15:25.180 that Donald Trump doesn't like neo-Nazis,

00:15:26.960 that Donald Trump is too nice to the Jews. 0.99

00:15:29.760 He then asks himself,

00:15:30.820 are you affiliated with any political ideology?

00:15:34.180 He says, yes,

00:15:35.320 it's called not wanting to go extinct.

00:15:38.180 So this is the same exact ideology

00:15:40.300 that the New Zealand shooter was talking about.

00:15:42.920 It's this idea that white people are about to disappear

00:15:47.080 and they're all gone,

00:15:48.420 and it's this massive conspiracy by any number of people. 0.95

00:15:52.140 It's either the Muslims' fault or the Jews' fault 1.00

00:15:54.320 or these people's fault. 0.95

00:15:55.940 But it's never your own fault, by the way.

00:15:57.940 Nobody ever takes responsibility for your own problems.

00:16:00.180 No, no.

00:16:00.640 It's always somebody else's fault.

00:16:02.540 And then finally, he says,

00:16:03.540 are you a conservative?

00:16:05.280 And this guy says, 0.99

00:16:07.260 I'm not a useless, spineless coward, 0.99

00:16:10.640 so no. 0.96

00:16:11.500 I'm not a conservative.

00:16:13.120 Conservative is a misnomer.

00:16:14.840 They conserve nothing.

00:16:17.640 So he hates Donald Trump.

00:16:19.940 He hates conservatives.

00:16:21.280 And his only political ideology is essentially racial.

00:16:28.780 Notice here,

00:16:29.560 he's not really talking very much about his religious views.

00:16:33.420 He's talking about race.

00:16:36.760 Now, you can read the rest of this manifesto if you want.

00:16:40.300 It's just boilerplate,

00:16:42.360 shallow white supremacist ideology, 0.91

00:16:45.220 so I wouldn't waste your time.

00:16:46.500 But if you want to,

00:16:47.140 you can probably find it online.

00:16:49.680 Immediately in the wake of these things,

00:16:51.280 anything that you do

00:16:52.700 is considered politicizing the tragedy.

00:16:57.840 Almost any way that you can respond,

00:17:00.260 other than saying,

00:17:01.320 we're praying for the victims

00:17:02.620 and we're praying for everybody involved,

00:17:04.140 is considered politicizing the tragedy.

00:17:06.340 And both sides accuse each other

00:17:07.800 of politicizing the tragedy.

00:17:09.420 And generally speaking,

00:17:11.900 politicizing the tragedy is mostly nonsense.

00:17:16.940 Why is that?

00:17:17.740 Because what is politics?

00:17:18.920 Politics is just the way that you and I,

00:17:21.280 interact with each other in civil society.

00:17:24.420 Politics is the way that we all get along

00:17:27.220 underneath the same government.

00:17:29.620 So virtually any way you respond

00:17:31.300 could be accused of politicizing a tragedy.

00:17:34.140 It's the same kind of phrase

00:17:35.620 when you hear people say,

00:17:37.380 we can't legislate morality.

00:17:39.660 That's another one of these mostly meaningless phrases.

00:17:43.460 Listen,

00:17:43.900 I just believe we shouldn't legislate morality.

00:17:47.560 All legislation touches on some aspect of morality.

00:17:52.160 The law exists to codify some aspect of the moral law.

00:17:57.620 This is obviously true of healthcare.

00:17:58.960 All the arguments for healthcare are,

00:18:00.720 it's evil to let people die in the streets.

00:18:04.240 It's evil to not let certain people 0.56

00:18:06.860 go get medical treatment for free.

00:18:08.800 It's evil not to pay for people's cosmetic surgery.

00:18:12.160 It's all moral arguments.

00:18:13.860 This is true even of taxes.

00:18:15.160 The arguments for raising taxes are,

00:18:17.080 it's wrong,

00:18:17.880 it's unfair,

00:18:18.780 you're not paying your fair share.

00:18:20.940 Or, conversely,

00:18:22.360 we need to lower taxes

00:18:23.560 because I have a right to my liberty.

00:18:25.660 I have a right to my property.

00:18:27.260 It's my natural right

00:18:28.380 from the natural law.

00:18:29.980 This is morality, baby.

00:18:31.540 Every aspect of the law

00:18:32.940 has to do with morality.

00:18:34.660 And almost any interaction

00:18:37.420 that we have each other

00:18:38.480 in some way touches on politics.

00:18:41.280 Now, that doesn't mean

00:18:42.340 that there aren't inappropriate ways

00:18:44.080 to respond to a tragedy.

00:18:46.000 There are appropriate ways

00:18:47.020 and there are inappropriate ways.

00:18:49.520 And one of them, by the way,

00:18:51.480 is Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.

00:18:53.580 So she tweets out,

00:18:55.660 right after this happens,

00:18:57.300 quote,

00:18:58.180 heartbroken to hear of the San Diego synagogue shooting,

00:19:01.340 particularly so on this final day of Passover.

00:19:03.860 We have a responsibility

00:19:05.540 to love to protect our neighbors.

00:19:08.680 The longer the Senate delay

00:19:10.000 is holding a vote on H.R. 8,

00:19:12.120 the more we put Americans at risk.

00:19:15.340 What?

00:19:18.500 Heartbroken to hear about this.

00:19:20.280 We should protect our neighbors.

00:19:22.280 If you don't vote

00:19:23.920 for the very specific gun control legislation

00:19:26.120 that I want you to vote for,

00:19:27.460 you are basically responsible 0.97

00:19:28.920 for shooting up a synagogue.

00:19:31.360 That's an inappropriate way

00:19:32.740 to respond to a tragedy.

00:19:35.140 Inappropriate way

00:19:35.800 to respond to a shooting.

00:19:38.340 In part because it's just not true.

00:19:40.560 H.R. 8 is some more gun control legislation

00:19:43.020 to expand background checks.

00:19:45.040 No evidence whatsoever

00:19:46.600 that this would have prevented

00:19:47.900 this shooter from getting a gun.

00:19:49.560 No evidence whatsoever

00:19:50.660 that this would have prevented

00:19:52.160 any of the other mass shootings

00:19:54.080 that we have seen in recent years.

00:19:56.160 So we ask ourselves,

00:19:59.260 how could we have prevented

00:20:01.200 this shooting?

00:20:02.160 How could we have stopped this?

00:20:04.180 More gun control? 0.53

00:20:06.160 No.

00:20:07.040 There's no evidence

00:20:08.240 that any major gun control law

00:20:10.180 that's been proposed

00:20:10.900 would have stopped

00:20:11.660 any of these things.

00:20:12.960 How about if law enforcement

00:20:14.680 had somehow caught this guy earlier?

00:20:17.060 I guess that would have stopped it,

00:20:18.660 but how would they have caught the guy?

00:20:19.880 The guy who did it

00:20:20.920 had no prior contact

00:20:22.500 with law enforcement.

00:20:24.240 The guy before that,

00:20:25.660 before the shooting happened,

00:20:27.420 he was basically a model citizen.

00:20:29.580 Wasn't arrested.

00:20:30.540 He didn't have any priors.

00:20:32.600 Well, maybe if we were able

00:20:35.080 to catch mental illnesses earlier.

00:20:38.420 Again, there's no evidence

00:20:39.600 this guy has a mental illness.

00:20:41.520 When you read that manifesto, 1.00

00:20:43.160 it's perverse,

00:20:44.140 but it's not insane.

00:20:46.400 It's a perverse ideology

00:20:48.040 that he's following down

00:20:50.000 to its own logical conclusions.

00:20:52.540 But it's not the ravings 0.76

00:20:53.820 of a lunatic. 0.99

00:20:54.800 It's the ravings of a bigot 1.00

00:20:55.960 who's filled with hatred,

00:20:57.360 who becomes violent.

00:20:59.940 None of those precautions

00:21:02.300 would have prevented

00:21:03.660 this shooting or any other.

00:21:06.740 None of them.

00:21:08.840 Fortunately, the shooting

00:21:10.100 was prevented from becoming

00:21:11.440 much, much worse.

00:21:12.860 One person dead.

00:21:14.380 It's a tragedy.

00:21:16.140 It's less tragic

00:21:17.420 than had the entire congregation

00:21:19.100 been killed.

00:21:20.740 How did,

00:21:21.200 how was that prevented?

00:21:22.440 Providence and preparedness.

00:21:25.160 A gun jamming

00:21:26.320 at exactly the right time

00:21:28.140 and a guy

00:21:29.760 who was carrying a gun.

00:21:32.040 The,

00:21:32.260 the greatest,

00:21:34.540 most obvious evidence

00:21:37.180 that gun control

00:21:38.320 would not have prevented

00:21:39.220 the shooting.

00:21:40.040 More gun control 0.69

00:21:40.680 may have made the shooting

00:21:41.720 a lot worse.

00:21:42.380 What does it all boil down to

00:21:44.900 is it's hard for us

00:21:45.800 to accept

00:21:46.360 that evil exists.

00:21:48.800 How odd

00:21:49.760 of God.

00:21:52.080 How odd

00:21:52.860 of God

00:21:53.440 that in this creation

00:21:55.060 of ours,

00:21:55.720 there's evil

00:21:56.540 and suffering.

00:21:57.340 And it's not just

00:21:58.340 evil and suffering

00:21:59.120 for people

00:22:00.080 who make bad decisions.

00:22:01.980 It's evil and suffering

00:22:03.060 for innocent people.

00:22:03.980 One of the people

00:22:05.360 who was shot

00:22:06.000 at this synagogue

00:22:07.200 was a little girl

00:22:07.960 was shot in the leg.

00:22:09.080 I think she was

00:22:09.460 eight years old.

00:22:11.640 This 60 year old woman 0.96

00:22:13.000 gave her life

00:22:14.280 to save her rabbi.

00:22:16.760 Totally innocent.

00:22:17.620 Another man,

00:22:19.880 that little girl's uncle,

00:22:20.760 shot.

00:22:21.840 Innocent.

00:22:22.340 Why do bad things

00:22:23.360 happen to good people?

00:22:25.220 Why does a little kid

00:22:26.380 get leukemia?

00:22:27.320 How odd

00:22:27.960 of God.

00:22:28.560 How do we accept

00:22:29.900 tragedy?

00:22:30.780 The reason that we

00:22:31.700 can't have a coherent

00:22:33.040 political conversation

00:22:34.120 about this.

00:22:35.760 Actually,

00:22:36.300 we can't have a coherent

00:22:37.580 cultural conversation

00:22:38.800 about this.

00:22:39.660 We can't have a coherent

00:22:40.680 cultural conversation

00:22:41.720 because we

00:22:42.560 cannot have a coherent

00:22:44.080 religious conversation.

00:22:46.300 It's not just

00:22:47.220 that there are attacks

00:22:48.020 on synagogues. 0.74

00:22:50.100 Obviously,

00:22:50.640 there was the attack

00:22:51.360 on the mosque

00:22:51.900 in New Zealand.

00:22:52.900 Obviously,

00:22:53.360 there have been

00:22:53.760 countless attacks

00:22:54.820 and desecrations

00:22:55.540 of churches

00:22:56.160 throughout France

00:22:57.220 and throughout the West.

00:22:58.560 There was another attack

00:22:59.440 that just occurred

00:23:00.220 on a Protestant church

00:23:01.700 in Africa.

00:23:02.740 Five people killed,

00:23:04.280 including the pastor

00:23:05.600 of that church.

00:23:08.440 There is an attack

00:23:09.700 broadly on religion

00:23:10.720 and it's really too bad

00:23:13.040 because the only way

00:23:14.080 that we can understand

00:23:15.260 this tragedy

00:23:16.020 is religion.

00:23:18.300 This is the question.

00:23:19.360 We live in a fallen world

00:23:20.920 and all we want to do

00:23:22.620 is perfect it.

00:23:23.700 All we want to do

00:23:24.480 is say,

00:23:24.880 oh, just one more law,

00:23:26.320 one little bit of money,

00:23:27.740 just one tweak

00:23:28.700 to the regulatory state

00:23:30.060 and then no more tragedies.

00:23:32.120 No,

00:23:32.460 that's not how it works.

00:23:34.240 No government program

00:23:35.820 will end evil.

00:23:39.040 And

00:23:39.240 so we can't accept

00:23:41.620 the tragic fact of life.

00:23:42.780 ironically then,

00:23:44.120 we can't accept

00:23:45.120 the fact that justice exists.

00:23:48.880 If we can say

00:23:50.260 right now

00:23:50.760 with a good deal

00:23:51.760 of certainty

00:23:52.160 there's really nothing

00:23:53.060 we could have done

00:23:53.800 as a society

00:23:55.060 before this shooting

00:23:56.620 to stop it,

00:23:58.060 what about afterward?

00:24:01.120 Is there some justice

00:24:02.040 that we can have now?

00:24:03.560 Unfortunately,

00:24:04.180 in the state of California

00:24:05.240 about a month ago,

00:24:06.880 Governor Gavin Newsom

00:24:07.900 put a moratorium

00:24:09.020 on the death penalty.

00:24:09.860 the dog

00:24:12.140 who shot up

00:24:12.700 that synagogue 0.96

00:24:13.220 should be taken out 1.00

00:24:14.540 back and killed 1.00

00:24:15.380 by the state, 0.99

00:24:16.720 by the civil authority.

00:24:18.360 The state 0.98

00:24:19.060 should execute him. 1.00

00:24:20.500 He should die. 1.00

00:24:21.660 He should die 1.00

00:24:22.460 because that is just 1.00

00:24:23.860 and that will give us

00:24:25.220 some modicum

00:24:26.500 of justice.

00:24:28.080 It is important

00:24:29.100 because it can deter

00:24:30.340 other shooters.

00:24:32.080 It is important

00:24:33.180 because he deserves it,

00:24:35.760 because it is punishment,

00:24:37.420 because he committed

00:24:38.580 a crime

00:24:39.600 and that demands

00:24:41.140 retribution.

00:24:44.280 But we don't understand

00:24:45.500 the tragic fact of life

00:24:46.780 and so we don't understand

00:24:48.040 justice either.

00:24:50.140 We think there's

00:24:51.100 some way to fix it,

00:24:52.260 some way to just

00:24:52.900 make it all better.

00:24:54.400 No.

00:24:55.280 We can now though,

00:24:56.740 at this moment,

00:24:57.740 we can enact justice

00:24:58.940 by putting down

00:25:00.420 this killer 1.00

00:25:01.520 like the dog he is 1.00

00:25:02.940 to claim some

00:25:04.220 modicum

00:25:05.160 of justice.

00:25:08.580 We can't do that though,

00:25:09.440 can we?

00:25:10.700 You know,

00:25:11.420 speaking of Alexandria

00:25:12.720 Ocasio-Cortez,

00:25:14.080 she's in trouble again

00:25:15.660 because she came out

00:25:17.660 and she used this tragedy 1.00

00:25:19.340 to try to push her own

00:25:20.540 gun control legislation

00:25:21.640 and then it was pointed out

00:25:23.340 she never said anything

00:25:25.140 about the Sri Lanka

00:25:26.520 church attack.

00:25:27.780 Killed 300 people

00:25:28.720 on Easter Sunday. 0.90

00:25:31.080 300 people.

00:25:32.400 And she never made 0.90

00:25:36.120 a statement about it.

00:25:37.520 Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

00:25:38.680 tweeting 25 hours a day

00:25:40.780 and so Kellyanne Conway

00:25:42.200 goes out on television

00:25:43.560 and says it's a little weird

00:25:45.200 that she doesn't talk

00:25:45.880 about this.

00:25:46.760 And Ocasio-Cortez responds,

00:25:48.560 hello Ms. Conway,

00:25:49.900 on Easter I was away

00:25:51.140 from tech

00:25:52.420 visiting my grandmother

00:25:53.360 in Puerto Rico

00:25:54.100 which continues to suffer

00:25:55.460 from the White House's

00:25:56.380 incompetent disaster response.

00:25:58.280 Are you trying to imply

00:25:59.080 that I am less Christian?

00:26:00.460 What's the point of you

00:26:01.140 bringing this up on national TV?

00:26:02.900 The point is very clear.

00:26:05.660 Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

00:26:07.000 is only going to comment

00:26:07.840 on things that affirm

00:26:09.560 her narrative. 0.99

00:26:10.440 And the killing of Christians 0.99

00:26:11.560 around the world

00:26:12.200 does not affirm her narrative.

00:26:13.600 Doesn't affirm her narrative

00:26:14.660 on intersectionality

00:26:15.920 or victimhood

00:26:17.280 or religious bigotry.

00:26:19.680 Christians can never be the victims

00:26:21.160 according to Ocasio-Cortez.

00:26:24.000 And even when she comments

00:26:25.120 on the synagogue shooting

00:26:26.020 it's just to push

00:26:26.880 her own legislation 0.58

00:26:28.740 that wouldn't have prevented it

00:26:30.120 and might have made

00:26:30.620 the shooting worse.

00:26:31.980 That's the point

00:26:32.780 that Kellyanne Conway

00:26:33.900 is making.

00:26:36.260 Now,

00:26:37.080 did AOC understand this?

00:26:38.640 Probably not.

00:26:39.560 But,

00:26:40.380 we don't understand

00:26:42.220 how to talk about tragedy either.

00:26:44.280 And,

00:26:44.680 this becomes apparent

00:26:45.900 in all of our fiction,

00:26:48.480 in all of our novels,

00:26:49.680 in all of our movies,

00:26:50.980 including the biggest movie

00:26:52.000 that came out

00:26:52.700 over the weekend,

00:26:53.640 Avengers Endgame.

00:26:55.000 The biggest,

00:26:55.600 there were a lot of problems

00:26:56.300 with it.

00:26:56.600 I hate the Marvel movies

00:26:57.660 to begin with.

00:26:58.360 But,

00:26:58.880 one of the central problems

00:27:00.140 is we can't talk

00:27:01.820 about tragedy.

00:27:02.640 We have such a shallow view

00:27:03.840 as a culture

00:27:04.860 about tragedy.

00:27:06.000 We will get to that

00:27:06.480 in a second.

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00:27:09.160 very bad news for Joe Biden

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00:27:12.560 because his campaign

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00:27:38.740 with a lot more.

00:27:39.220 I saw Avengers

00:27:50.360 and I hated it.

00:27:52.760 I'll tell you

00:27:53.580 all the reasons

00:27:54.560 I hated it first,

00:27:55.680 but then we'll get to

00:27:56.880 the bigger cultural problem.

00:27:58.600 To begin,

00:27:59.720 three hours long,

00:28:01.080 three hours of my life

00:28:02.840 I have given away

00:28:03.960 to watch this insipid movie.

00:28:06.880 The movie is divided

00:28:08.240 basically into four

00:28:09.200 acts.

00:28:09.940 The first act

00:28:10.820 is unbearable.

00:28:12.440 It is so slow

00:28:13.520 and pointless

00:28:14.240 and horribly written

00:28:15.660 and mostly poorly acted.

00:28:17.960 I was checking my watch

00:28:19.400 every five minutes.

00:28:20.420 The second act

00:28:21.320 is bearable.

00:28:22.760 It's nearly tolerable.

00:28:24.320 It actually has one moment

00:28:25.700 that's almost poignant.

00:28:27.500 So, okay,

00:28:27.980 that part is okay.

00:28:29.720 The third act

00:28:30.740 is inevitable.

00:28:31.500 It's the thing that happens

00:28:32.260 in every superhero movie.

00:28:33.780 And then the fourth act

00:28:35.180 is totally saccharine,

00:28:38.180 sentimental,

00:28:39.200 self-indulgent payoff

00:28:40.780 for all the people

00:28:41.820 who have watched

00:28:42.420 20 of these movies,

00:28:43.740 certainly not me.

00:28:45.000 And so that was pretty awful

00:28:46.120 to watch too.

00:28:47.660 One of the four acts

00:28:48.800 was almost tolerable.

00:28:50.420 The others were awful.

00:28:52.020 What was so bad

00:28:52.900 about the movie?

00:28:53.420 There's no stakes

00:28:56.360 whatsoever.

00:28:58.420 There's no stakes at all.

00:28:59.920 We already know

00:29:00.800 from the Marvel Universe

00:29:01.660 that people can die

00:29:02.540 and come back.

00:29:04.120 Right?

00:29:04.300 We already know

00:29:05.160 from every superhero movie

00:29:06.680 that basically

00:29:07.740 everything turns out

00:29:09.480 the way you expect it to.

00:29:10.720 We already know

00:29:11.880 that these guys

00:29:13.680 have superpowers

00:29:14.600 and so

00:29:15.840 some of them

00:29:16.880 have superpowers

00:29:17.560 that are so immense

00:29:18.600 that basically

00:29:19.960 they're invincible.

00:29:20.960 Okay.

00:29:21.160 That was one aspect.

00:29:22.960 The other is

00:29:23.440 it's tediously

00:29:24.540 politically correct.

00:29:26.300 The moments

00:29:27.140 of political correctness

00:29:28.500 are so

00:29:29.480 egregious

00:29:31.280 and cringe-inducing.

00:29:33.220 Luckily,

00:29:33.740 there aren't too many of them.

00:29:34.820 There are like three or four

00:29:35.620 of them throughout the movie

00:29:36.460 where you just think,

00:29:37.160 oh my gosh,

00:29:38.480 what are you doing to me?

00:29:40.400 And some of the implications

00:29:42.340 of this political correctness,

00:29:43.640 I'm trying to speak

00:29:44.260 in vague terms

00:29:44.920 so I don't spoil the movie

00:29:46.280 for those of you

00:29:47.360 who for some reason

00:29:48.840 want to go see it.

00:29:49.580 But some of the implications

00:29:52.340 of this political correctness

00:29:53.940 just don't make

00:29:54.980 any sense at all.

00:29:56.860 Like are exactly contrary

00:29:58.780 to characters,

00:30:00.860 characters' motivations

00:30:01.740 and the worlds

00:30:03.020 that these characters inhabit.

00:30:05.380 In some cases,

00:30:06.620 the characters

00:30:07.020 are just terrible.

00:30:08.360 So Captain Marvel

00:30:09.260 is just a horrible character.

00:30:11.580 She's annoying. 1.00

00:30:13.040 She has no weaknesses,

00:30:14.680 really.

00:30:15.540 Her biggest weakness

00:30:16.380 is that when she was

00:30:17.040 eight years old,

00:30:17.780 she got kind of angry sometimes.

00:30:19.580 Now she has basically

00:30:20.640 no weakness.

00:30:21.440 She's just a perfect 0.87

00:30:22.680 and amazing

00:30:23.220 and can do no wrong.

00:30:24.560 This is the,

00:30:25.700 one of the real downsides

00:30:26.780 of injecting

00:30:27.480 political correctness

00:30:28.680 into superhero movies

00:30:30.160 is superheroes,

00:30:33.000 when they don't have

00:30:33.660 a weakness,

00:30:34.920 become really,

00:30:36.000 really boring

00:30:36.440 really quickly.

00:30:37.260 But if you're making

00:30:39.000 superhero movies

00:30:40.100 for the purpose

00:30:41.020 of injecting gender politics

00:30:42.880 or leftism

00:30:43.620 or intersectionality,

00:30:44.660 then you basically

00:30:46.740 can't give them

00:30:47.420 any weaknesses.

00:30:48.000 so it's just

00:30:49.060 totally boring.

00:30:50.920 That is Captain Marvel.

00:30:53.880 I guess the best thing

00:30:54.740 I could actually say

00:30:55.460 about Avengers Endgame

00:30:56.580 is that it's not

00:30:57.360 Captain Marvel.

00:30:58.480 That's a good thing.

00:30:59.900 And it's not

00:31:00.300 Black Panther either.

00:31:01.380 It's better than Black Panther, 1.00

00:31:02.920 which again,

00:31:03.680 damning with faint praise.

00:31:06.180 Then there's the 0.99

00:31:07.540 saccharine sentimentality

00:31:09.140 of it all.

00:31:09.620 It's just so nostalgic.

00:31:11.680 It's just,

00:31:12.200 I get it.

00:31:12.820 It's,

00:31:13.060 you're talking about

00:31:13.560 20 movies here.

00:31:14.440 People have been watching this

00:31:15.700 throughout this whole course,

00:31:17.020 so you kind of want

00:31:17.980 a little bit of a clips show.

00:31:19.280 You kind of want to go back

00:31:20.380 and revisit old memories.

00:31:21.780 Okay, fine.

00:31:22.460 But it's so indulgent.

00:31:23.820 It's just,

00:31:24.620 blah.

00:31:26.140 My final takeaway

00:31:27.300 is that Scarlett Johansson

00:31:28.720 is terrific.

00:31:29.780 She is such a good actress

00:31:31.280 and she's hotter 1.00

00:31:31.880 than a $2 pistol.

00:31:33.080 So that part

00:31:33.820 was really good.

00:31:35.080 And Robert Downey Jr.

00:31:36.120 is good in it.

00:31:36.800 I mean,

00:31:36.980 there are some performances

00:31:37.940 are pretty good.

00:31:38.880 The guy who plays

00:31:39.480 Captain America 0.98

00:31:40.100 is awful. 0.98

00:31:41.140 I get it that he is

00:31:42.440 a very attractive man

00:31:44.080 and looks like

00:31:45.240 Captain America.

00:31:45.920 I get it,

00:31:46.840 right?

00:31:47.820 But his performance

00:31:49.040 is not very good.

00:31:50.480 Some of the others

00:31:51.080 are fine or whatever.

00:31:52.440 It's okay.

00:31:52.900 Take it or leave it.

00:31:53.500 The writing is pretty weak

00:31:54.460 in a lot of places.

00:31:55.680 Okay, whatever.

00:31:56.480 Take it or leave it.

00:31:57.740 The biggest issue

00:31:59.020 with the movie

00:31:59.620 actually does relate

00:32:01.620 to our theme today,

00:32:02.820 how odd of God

00:32:03.820 this problem of evil,

00:32:05.860 that evil exists

00:32:06.640 in the world,

00:32:07.660 is

00:32:08.100 the movie

00:32:10.120 is basically about

00:32:11.620 how to deal

00:32:13.320 with regret

00:32:14.020 and grief

00:32:14.880 after some evil

00:32:17.000 action has occurred.

00:32:19.340 That's not a spoiler.

00:32:20.540 We know

00:32:20.880 some evil action

00:32:21.820 has occurred

00:32:22.300 and now

00:32:22.880 all the superheroes

00:32:23.680 are trying to come

00:32:24.680 to grips with that.

00:32:26.180 How can you

00:32:27.060 change what happened?

00:32:28.860 Can you change

00:32:29.540 what happened?

00:32:30.600 If you changed

00:32:31.500 what happened,

00:32:32.040 would it change

00:32:32.480 the future?

00:32:34.380 Why did it happen?

00:32:35.860 Why does evil exist?

00:32:37.240 Why don't the good guys

00:32:39.040 win every single time

00:32:40.020 all the time?

00:32:41.180 That's a serious question.

00:32:43.120 There's one moment

00:32:44.220 in Act 2

00:32:45.860 that

00:32:47.160 nearly approaches

00:32:49.120 poignancy.

00:32:49.920 It almost gets to

00:32:51.260 a serious discussion

00:32:52.660 of this problem

00:32:53.960 and then it totally

00:32:55.580 runs away from it.

00:32:56.800 It totally backs away.

00:32:59.140 And the answer

00:33:00.300 that Avengers Endgame

00:33:03.100 gives for how

00:33:03.920 to deal with evil

00:33:04.880 is basically

00:33:07.160 la la la la la

00:33:09.080 I don't know,

00:33:09.640 no, no, it's not,

00:33:10.180 let's make it all better

00:33:11.380 and it'll just all be better

00:33:12.420 and it can be better

00:33:13.200 for some reason.

00:33:14.460 That's basically

00:33:15.100 the answer that it gives.

00:33:17.360 Now, you might say,

00:33:18.420 Michael, you're making

00:33:19.200 too much out of

00:33:20.220 a superhero movie.

00:33:21.380 This is a popcorn movie

00:33:22.800 for people who like

00:33:23.980 the funny costumes

00:33:25.840 and see big explosions.

00:33:27.840 Okay, fine.

00:33:30.680 That's also true

00:33:31.440 of the Greek myths.

00:33:32.460 That's also true

00:33:33.000 of the Nordic myths.

00:33:33.920 That's also true

00:33:34.520 of the stories

00:33:35.280 that we've told ourselves

00:33:36.600 for years and years

00:33:37.480 which were,

00:33:38.280 the Greek myths

00:33:38.820 were the superhero movies

00:33:39.800 of their day

00:33:40.400 and of the ensuing millennia.

00:33:44.640 But those Greek myths

00:33:46.740 also told us something

00:33:48.340 about our nature.

00:33:50.420 Good myths,

00:33:51.640 good fantasy stories

00:33:52.960 tell us something

00:33:54.100 about reality

00:33:54.900 and about human nature.

00:33:56.260 and so you've got

00:33:57.840 explosions

00:33:58.480 and superpowers

00:33:59.720 and monsters

00:34:00.840 and ogres

00:34:02.320 and giants

00:34:03.000 and you have all

00:34:03.540 the same elements

00:34:04.540 as every superhero story

00:34:06.060 but they tell you

00:34:07.000 something true

00:34:07.860 about your nature

00:34:09.420 and about reality

00:34:10.720 and about evil

00:34:11.840 and about God

00:34:12.980 and about our purpose

00:34:14.520 and why we're here

00:34:15.480 and how we came

00:34:16.200 to be here.

00:34:17.960 Now, let me ask you

00:34:18.980 something.

00:34:19.500 If you're a defender

00:34:20.300 of the Avengers movies

00:34:21.840 and the Marvel movies,

00:34:23.820 what profound truth

00:34:27.700 about human nature

00:34:28.740 is conveyed

00:34:29.620 in these movies?

00:34:32.820 What does this movie

00:34:34.420 tell you

00:34:35.100 about reality,

00:34:37.380 suffering,

00:34:38.400 grief,

00:34:39.440 evil,

00:34:40.760 personality,

00:34:42.040 God?

00:34:43.240 What does it tell you

00:34:44.540 about anything

00:34:45.620 that stories

00:34:47.200 are supposed

00:34:47.540 to tell you about?

00:34:48.180 without giving away

00:34:51.780 any spoilers,

00:34:53.340 it tells you

00:34:54.680 the opposite

00:34:55.320 of the truth.

00:34:58.100 That's what it does.

00:35:00.180 It's a fantasy

00:35:01.720 in the true sense

00:35:02.900 of fantasy.

00:35:04.780 Nothing really

00:35:05.680 has any stakes.

00:35:07.260 Probably nothing

00:35:08.160 really has any costs.

00:35:10.040 I guess, you know,

00:35:10.620 you'll see in the future movies

00:35:11.680 if anything

00:35:13.020 really has any costs.

00:35:16.940 If you can

00:35:17.900 correct one evil

00:35:19.360 in history,

00:35:20.920 why can't you go back

00:35:22.180 and correct other evils?

00:35:23.940 Well,

00:35:24.520 because you just can't.

00:35:27.820 If we're so focused

00:35:29.320 on stopping

00:35:30.200 one evil,

00:35:31.680 why not all the evils?

00:35:33.940 Why don't we live

00:35:34.580 in a perfect world?

00:35:35.840 Why don't we exert

00:35:36.760 our will

00:35:37.280 to just create

00:35:38.100 a perfect world?

00:35:39.140 Why is that not possible?

00:35:42.020 How odd

00:35:42.660 of God

00:35:43.200 to create

00:35:44.660 a world

00:35:45.160 in which evil exists.

00:35:46.940 What does that mean?

00:35:48.840 Maybe it means

00:35:49.680 that we live

00:35:50.100 in a world

00:35:50.420 with free will.

00:35:51.440 Why do we live

00:35:52.260 in a world

00:35:52.600 with free will?

00:35:53.360 What does our freedom mean?

00:35:55.280 How does our freedom

00:35:56.240 relate

00:35:56.820 to providence,

00:35:58.140 to the grace of God?

00:36:01.100 In

00:36:01.260 the

00:36:02.520 takeaway

00:36:03.080 from that synagogue

00:36:03.880 shooting

00:36:04.360 is providence

00:36:06.460 and preparedness.

00:36:07.680 The providence

00:36:08.460 of the gun jamming.

00:36:10.000 The preparedness

00:36:10.680 of the combat veteran

00:36:11.860 being there

00:36:12.420 to chase the shooter

00:36:13.480 out of the synagogue.

00:36:15.020 Save lives.

00:36:15.620 not every life.

00:36:18.900 One woman died

00:36:19.640 but he saved

00:36:20.640 every other life

00:36:21.240 in that room.

00:36:22.260 What does that

00:36:22.740 interaction look like?

00:36:24.360 That's what stories

00:36:25.280 are supposed to help

00:36:25.940 us deal with.

00:36:26.980 And what

00:36:27.500 do we make

00:36:28.340 of the inevitable

00:36:29.320 tragedy of life

00:36:30.620 in the here and now?

00:36:33.660 Once you catch

00:36:34.520 the shooter

00:36:34.960 now we can't 1.00

00:36:37.900 kill him. 1.00

00:36:38.900 He can't face 1.00

00:36:39.840 capital punishment.

00:36:41.160 At the founding

00:36:41.720 of this country

00:36:42.360 the

00:36:43.520 punishment

00:36:44.740 for every

00:36:45.500 serious crime

00:36:46.320 was

00:36:47.220 death. 0.99

00:36:48.840 You would hang 0.99

00:36:49.720 for any serious crime.

00:36:50.980 That was the definition

00:36:51.740 of a felony.

00:36:53.400 Now

00:36:53.920 in many states

00:36:55.880 you can't die

00:36:56.580 for any crime.

00:36:58.160 State of California

00:36:59.140 if this guy

00:37:01.540 is punished

00:37:02.080 by the state

00:37:02.540 of California

00:37:03.060 he will not

00:37:03.820 be killed. 0.89

00:37:05.060 More than that 0.99

00:37:05.900 you have

00:37:06.200 presidential candidates

00:37:07.360 saying that

00:37:08.780 this guy

00:37:09.220 should vote.

00:37:09.720 Bernie Sanders

00:37:11.260 last week

00:37:11.820 said that

00:37:12.120 this guy

00:37:12.520 who shot up

00:37:13.040 the synagogue

00:37:13.400 shooting

00:37:13.840 should not

00:37:14.600 vote just

00:37:15.360 when he leaves

00:37:15.820 prison.

00:37:16.440 He should

00:37:16.760 vote from

00:37:17.780 prison.

00:37:19.580 That is our

00:37:20.520 talk about

00:37:21.640 justice these

00:37:22.300 days.

00:37:22.880 And why is it?

00:37:24.020 Why is our

00:37:24.480 talk about

00:37:24.940 justice so

00:37:25.580 totally warped?

00:37:26.560 We've actually

00:37:27.000 had to create

00:37:27.460 a whole other

00:37:28.020 term for it

00:37:28.740 because we know

00:37:29.660 that what we're

00:37:30.080 talking about

00:37:30.520 is not justice

00:37:31.220 so we call it

00:37:32.040 social justice

00:37:32.840 and social justice

00:37:33.900 really just means

00:37:34.560 not justice.

00:37:36.000 Why?

00:37:37.720 It's because

00:37:38.440 if you put

00:37:38.840 garbage in

00:37:39.460 you get 1.00

00:37:39.700 garbage out

00:37:40.460 if you put 0.99

00:37:41.140 in a garbage 0.96

00:37:41.780 premise about 0.99

00:37:42.500 human nature

00:37:43.140 that this isn't

00:37:44.400 really a tragic

00:37:45.020 world that we

00:37:45.640 really can

00:37:46.140 perfect human

00:37:46.820 nature you're

00:37:47.640 going to get

00:37:47.980 out the

00:37:48.860 garbage 0.99

00:37:49.220 conclusion that 0.99

00:37:50.280 we should

00:37:50.540 never kill

00:37:51.060 anybody that

00:37:51.800 there's no

00:37:52.140 such thing as 0.74

00:37:52.660 real justice

00:37:53.340 there's only

00:37:53.980 social justice

00:37:54.900 which is all

00:37:55.680 about therapy

00:37:56.420 and rehabilitation

00:37:57.460 and not giving

00:37:58.840 up on that 1.00

00:37:59.400 stupid garbage 1.00

00:38:00.420 premise in the 1.00

00:38:00.980 first place that

00:38:01.920 human nature is

00:38:02.780 perfectible in

00:38:03.560 this world.

00:38:04.120 It's not.

00:38:07.080 That's our

00:38:07.940 moral discourse.

00:38:08.740 And so

00:38:09.180 if you accuse

00:38:12.140 me of haranguing

00:38:13.120 a popcorn movie

00:38:14.980 like Avengers

00:38:15.740 say you don't

00:38:17.020 like superhero

00:38:17.680 movies.

00:38:18.180 It's true.

00:38:18.640 I hate superhero

00:38:19.260 movies and I

00:38:19.860 especially hate

00:38:20.920 the Marvel movies.

00:38:22.020 I liked Dark

00:38:22.660 Night and I

00:38:23.140 liked Logan

00:38:23.720 but the other

00:38:25.580 ones I can't

00:38:26.320 stand.

00:38:27.560 Right.

00:38:28.060 Okay.

00:38:28.360 Then I just

00:38:28.780 wouldn't go see

00:38:29.360 them.

00:38:29.860 But the issue

00:38:30.520 is I have to

00:38:31.600 go see them

00:38:32.140 because superhero

00:38:32.940 movies aren't

00:38:33.660 just movies for

00:38:34.320 kids anymore.

00:38:35.380 They're not even

00:38:35.900 just movies for

00:38:36.560 kids and for

00:38:37.260 nerds.

00:38:37.740 They're actually

00:38:39.000 movies for

00:38:39.760 everybody.

00:38:40.460 They are the

00:38:40.840 central cultural

00:38:42.220 event that

00:38:43.260 happens in the

00:38:43.880 United States.

00:38:44.600 That movie took

00:38:45.260 in 1.2 billion

00:38:46.420 dollars over the

00:38:47.200 weekend.

00:38:47.980 It's basically the

00:38:48.860 only movie that

00:38:49.500 people will go see

00:38:50.280 anymore.

00:38:53.060 That's pretty sad.

00:38:54.200 That tells us

00:38:54.860 our culture has

00:38:57.180 been degraded and

00:38:58.360 our moral language

00:38:59.240 has been degraded

00:39:00.180 and therefore our

00:39:02.320 politics is going

00:39:03.200 to be degraded.

00:39:03.980 We say don't

00:39:06.120 politicize a

00:39:06.720 tragedy.

00:39:07.240 Don't politicize

00:39:07.860 this.

00:39:08.200 Don't politicize

00:39:08.820 that.

00:39:09.140 Sure.

00:39:09.400 Yeah.

00:39:09.580 We shouldn't

00:39:10.080 act inappropriately

00:39:13.500 but politics is

00:39:15.640 down from culture.

00:39:16.420 Culture is down

00:39:17.000 from religion.

00:39:17.720 Our cultural

00:39:18.240 moments, our

00:39:21.980 movies and our

00:39:22.540 books and our

00:39:23.020 fantasies reflect a

00:39:24.540 religious understanding

00:39:25.460 and they are

00:39:26.220 reflected in our

00:39:27.040 politics.

00:39:27.660 You can't divorce

00:39:28.800 them.

00:39:29.040 profound religious

00:39:30.800 misunderstanding and

00:39:32.700 bigotry is going

00:39:34.080 to be reflected in

00:39:35.080 certain cultural

00:39:35.980 memes and it's

00:39:36.740 going to be

00:39:37.060 reflected in awful

00:39:37.900 political actions,

00:39:39.060 terrorist actions.

00:39:39.960 It's going to be

00:39:40.380 represented in the

00:39:42.420 wicked actions of

00:39:43.180 individuals to hurt

00:39:44.040 innocent people.

00:39:46.780 All political

00:39:47.800 problems fundamentally

00:39:49.380 ultimately are

00:39:51.740 religious problems

00:39:53.040 and culture is right

00:39:54.800 there in the middle

00:39:55.300 of that and it's

00:39:55.780 why you've got to

00:39:56.420 take culture

00:39:57.400 seriously even if

00:39:58.360 it's a popcorn movie

00:39:59.140 with a lot of

00:39:59.600 superheroes.

00:40:00.440 Before we go we

00:40:01.100 have got to get to

00:40:02.200 a little bit of

00:40:03.240 politics because

00:40:04.340 Joe Biden's campaign

00:40:06.260 has had trouble

00:40:07.000 from the very

00:40:07.620 beginning.

00:40:08.200 I know it looks

00:40:09.220 like he's eight

00:40:09.820 points up right

00:40:10.480 now not just on

00:40:11.560 the Democrats but

00:40:12.600 Morning Consult and

00:40:13.540 Politico say Joe

00:40:14.760 Biden is up eight

00:40:15.900 points on Donald

00:40:16.740 Trump.

00:40:17.660 Don't believe it.

00:40:19.700 Joe Biden is going

00:40:20.900 into this with the

00:40:21.760 nice glossy, I've

00:40:23.280 been out of the

00:40:23.680 public eye for

00:40:24.320 years, I'm the

00:40:25.640 former vice

00:40:26.120 president under

00:40:26.860 Barack Obama, I'm

00:40:27.720 a really nice

00:40:28.380 guy and I never

00:40:29.020 did anything

00:40:29.440 controversial in

00:40:30.820 the last four

00:40:31.440 years.

00:40:31.940 Okay, don't

00:40:35.380 believe it.

00:40:36.480 Joe Biden is

00:40:37.580 already having

00:40:38.280 trouble.

00:40:39.080 They obviously got

00:40:40.140 him on Sniffing

00:40:40.860 Gate, they got

00:40:42.140 him on all his

00:40:42.580 weird interactions

00:40:43.380 with those women 0.59

00:40:44.200 smelling their 0.91

00:40:45.640 hair or giving

00:40:46.020 them shoulder

00:40:46.400 massages.

00:40:47.160 Now they're

00:40:47.660 trying to get

00:40:48.040 him on Anita

00:40:48.540 Hill which

00:40:50.660 doesn't make any

00:40:51.440 sense.

00:40:51.820 They're trying to

00:40:52.180 get him on the

00:40:53.020 Supreme Court

00:40:53.920 confirmation hearings

00:40:54.800 of Clarence

00:40:55.440 Thomas in

00:40:55.920 1991 and

00:40:57.380 they're saying

00:40:57.840 that Joe

00:40:59.020 Biden didn't

00:40:59.740 treat Clarence

00:41:00.580 Thomas' accuser

00:41:01.660 fairly, which is 0.96

00:41:03.640 ridiculous. 0.86

00:41:04.260 He gave Anita 0.99

00:41:04.880 Hill the ability

00:41:05.580 to air all of

00:41:06.720 her claims.

00:41:07.660 Her claims in

00:41:08.920 many cases were

00:41:09.680 debunked and

00:41:11.340 Clarence Thomas

00:41:12.260 got the

00:41:13.000 confirmation.

00:41:14.600 If anything, Joe

00:41:15.340 Biden should

00:41:15.740 apologize to

00:41:16.340 Clarence Thomas,

00:41:17.240 not to Anita

00:41:17.960 Hill.

00:41:19.300 But now the big

00:41:20.480 problem he's facing

00:41:21.200 is that Barack

00:41:22.620 Obama won't

00:41:23.300 endorse him.

00:41:24.100 And here is the 0.99

00:41:24.780 pathetic response 0.99

00:41:25.740 that Joe Biden 0.99

00:41:26.560 is mustering for

00:41:27.220 that.

00:41:28.460 Best choice for

00:41:30.180 the Democrats in

00:41:31.280 2020, why

00:41:32.240 didn't President

00:41:34.000 Obama endorse him?

00:41:36.040 I asked President

00:41:36.800 Obama not to

00:41:37.680 endorse and he

00:41:38.960 doesn't want to

00:41:39.700 dismiss it.

00:41:40.200 We should, whoever

00:41:41.300 wins this nomination

00:41:42.420 should win it on

00:41:43.200 their own merits.

00:41:44.320 So why you?

00:41:45.480 Welcome to Delaware.

00:41:46.360 You and your

00:41:46.840 message very clearly

00:41:47.800 made this about a

00:41:49.160 debate about President

00:41:49.880 Trump.

00:41:50.300 You're going to

00:41:50.680 have to get to the

00:41:51.380 Democratic primary

00:41:52.120 first.

00:41:52.500 Why are you the

00:41:53.280 best choice for

00:41:54.000 Democrats?

00:41:54.960 That'll be for the

00:41:55.740 Democrats in the

00:41:56.460 Senate.

00:41:56.640 How could you

00:41:57.220 differentiate yourself?

00:41:57.860 What do you think

00:41:57.960 about the

00:41:58.260 Boller reports?

00:41:58.940 Mr. Vice

00:41:59.240 President,

00:41:59.540 all this stuff in

00:42:02.320 time, okay?

00:42:03.120 Is the case

00:42:03.520 against Donald Trump

00:42:04.140 strong enough for

00:42:04.640 impeachment, Mr. Vice

00:42:05.620 President?

00:42:05.780 So he's being

00:42:07.740 followed by this

00:42:08.560 gaggle of reporters

00:42:09.640 and he knew that

00:42:11.000 answer was weak so he

00:42:12.180 had to get out of

00:42:12.840 there.

00:42:13.760 Why hasn't Barack

00:42:14.860 Obama endorsed you?

00:42:16.000 His first try is I

00:42:17.880 asked him not to

00:42:18.880 endorse me.

00:42:19.900 Now his campaign

00:42:20.820 operatives had been

00:42:22.560 saying this for the

00:42:23.480 past week.

00:42:24.380 Oh yeah, Joe asked

00:42:25.880 Obama not to

00:42:26.680 endorse.

00:42:27.080 Yeah, okay.

00:42:27.680 If you believe that

00:42:28.520 I got a great bridge

00:42:29.360 in Brooklyn to sell

00:42:30.140 you.

00:42:31.000 Hey, popular former

00:42:33.180 president of my

00:42:34.340 party that I served

00:42:36.380 under for eight years,

00:42:38.180 please don't endorse

00:42:39.140 me.

00:42:40.280 Hey, I know there's a

00:42:41.360 field of 20 Democrat

00:42:42.560 candidates now and it's

00:42:43.900 going to be really hard

00:42:44.460 to differentiate

00:42:44.900 yourself.

00:42:45.520 I definitely don't

00:42:46.280 want the popular

00:42:46.920 former president to

00:42:47.800 endorse me.

00:42:48.540 That would be

00:42:48.860 terrible, right?

00:42:49.400 So nobody believes

00:42:50.600 this.

00:42:51.080 Joe Biden knows

00:42:51.880 that nobody believes

00:42:52.660 this.

00:42:53.080 So then you hear

00:42:53.740 people are missing

00:42:54.380 this.

00:42:55.300 He changes his

00:42:56.080 answer immediately

00:42:56.800 after he gives

00:42:57.500 it.

00:42:58.080 He says, I asked

00:42:59.080 Barack not to

00:43:00.160 endorse and he

00:43:01.160 doesn't want to.

00:43:02.420 He wants the people

00:43:04.240 of the Democrat

00:43:05.360 party should decide.

00:43:06.580 We should, the

00:43:07.460 candidates should win

00:43:08.160 it on their own

00:43:08.660 merits.

00:43:10.460 Hold on.

00:43:11.780 Did you ask him

00:43:13.140 not to endorse you

00:43:13.980 or does he not

00:43:15.120 want to endorse?

00:43:15.740 Obviously, he

00:43:18.780 doesn't want to

00:43:19.180 endorse you and

00:43:19.840 you would take

00:43:20.240 his endorsement.

00:43:21.680 But why does

00:43:24.400 Barack Obama not

00:43:25.120 want to endorse

00:43:25.600 Joe Biden?

00:43:26.120 Because he thinks

00:43:26.460 Joe Biden's a lot

00:43:27.160 weaker than the

00:43:30.260 media think he is.

00:43:31.880 Another report just

00:43:32.840 came out that

00:43:33.500 Barack Obama

00:43:34.220 nudged Joe Biden

00:43:35.680 not to run in

00:43:36.600 2016.

00:43:37.860 The reason was he

00:43:39.140 thought Hillary was 1.00

00:43:39.760 a stronger candidate.

00:43:41.440 Why is he not

00:43:42.880 endorsing Joe Biden

00:43:43.660 now?

00:43:43.920 Because he thinks

00:43:44.940 like I am that

00:43:45.620 Joe Biden is a

00:43:46.180 pretty weak candidate

00:43:46.860 no matter what the

00:43:47.720 polls say.

00:43:48.460 The polls can never

00:43:49.120 be wrong, right?

00:43:50.260 The polls are always

00:43:50.980 right.

00:43:51.860 Is that what we

00:43:52.320 learned in 2016?

00:43:53.500 Got to trust those

00:43:54.240 polls.

00:43:55.200 How could those

00:43:55.720 polls ever be wrong?

00:43:57.420 Especially, especially

00:43:58.840 about an election

00:44:00.300 involving Donald Trump.

00:44:02.100 So it's a, this is a

00:44:03.840 big blow for, for

00:44:05.080 Joe Biden.

00:44:05.860 We've been saying

00:44:06.700 this for weeks now.

00:44:07.920 The only way that

00:44:09.140 Joe Biden really is

00:44:10.580 able to sustain that

00:44:11.460 lead, I think, is if

00:44:12.600 Obama comes out

00:44:13.360 strong for him at

00:44:14.880 the top of the

00:44:15.360 race.

00:44:16.640 That has apparently

00:44:17.520 been closed off.

00:44:19.280 We'll see where

00:44:20.020 Joe goes from here.

00:44:22.080 Again, we've long

00:44:23.120 said that first day

00:44:24.460 of the race was

00:44:24.940 going to be Joe

00:44:25.380 Biden's best day

00:44:26.080 and then he was

00:44:26.420 just going to

00:44:26.780 trail.

00:44:27.280 You're already

00:44:27.800 seeing his net

00:44:28.440 favorability drop

00:44:29.340 five points since

00:44:30.860 January.

00:44:32.060 Probably only headed

00:44:33.180 further down.

00:44:34.420 Now, why?

00:44:36.180 Why is Joe Biden

00:44:37.420 no good at this?

00:44:39.160 Why does Barack

00:44:40.340 Obama think that

00:44:41.040 Joe Biden ultimately

00:44:41.980 can't beat Donald

00:44:42.780 Trump, that some

00:44:43.320 other candidate

00:44:43.780 would be better?

00:44:44.940 One of the rumors

00:44:45.680 is that Michelle

00:44:46.300 Obama is going to

00:44:47.000 get into the race.

00:44:48.060 I'm highly skeptical

00:44:49.420 of that.

00:44:49.920 I don't think that

00:44:50.520 is happening.

00:44:51.940 But I do agree

00:44:53.360 with Obama that

00:44:54.160 he's probably not

00:44:54.720 the strongest

00:44:55.080 candidate.

00:44:55.940 It's because Joe

00:44:56.640 Biden's shtick is

00:44:57.780 being the everyman,

00:44:59.280 the popular guy.

00:45:01.020 He's going, he's

00:45:01.640 just going to nuzzle

00:45:02.260 your little daughter.

00:45:03.220 He's, hey, I'm

00:45:03.960 just Joe.

00:45:04.800 I'm a big giant

00:45:05.600 smile.

00:45:06.200 Hey, I'm Joe

00:45:06.920 Biden.

00:45:07.260 That game is a

00:45:11.260 losing game against

00:45:12.260 Donald Trump because

00:45:13.120 Donald Trump is the

00:45:14.340 most authentic, for

00:45:16.420 better or worse,

00:45:17.740 politician that we've

00:45:19.060 maybe ever had in our

00:45:20.220 history, certainly in

00:45:21.060 the last hundred years.

00:45:22.900 I was the other, I was

00:45:24.480 on Jesse Waters' show

00:45:25.720 on Fox News the other

00:45:26.660 night.

00:45:27.980 They interrupted our

00:45:29.160 segment because Trump

00:45:29.900 was giving this rally.

00:45:30.940 So I watched the entire

00:45:32.280 rally beginning to end.

00:45:33.600 Donald Trump is just so

00:45:37.180 good at politics.

00:45:38.400 Here's just a quick

00:45:39.260 little clip of how he

00:45:40.880 opens up his rally.

00:45:42.520 By the way, Saturday

00:45:44.560 night, is there any

00:45:46.680 place that's more fun

00:45:48.340 than a Trump rally?

00:45:49.880 Can you imagine Sleepy

00:46:03.420 Joe, Crazy Bernie?

00:46:08.680 You look at the

00:46:09.620 candidates, right?

00:46:11.580 I think Pocahontas, she's 1.00

00:46:13.140 finished, she's out.

00:46:17.620 She's gone.

00:46:19.880 No, when it was found

00:46:23.780 that I had more Indian

00:46:25.380 blood in me than she 0.76

00:46:26.980 did, and then it was

00:46:30.200 determined that I had

00:46:31.260 none, but I still had

00:46:32.420 more, that was the end

00:46:36.960 of her 32-year scam on

00:46:39.700 colleges.

00:46:41.920 Donald Trump is going to

00:46:43.260 eat Joe Biden for lunch.

00:46:44.740 This is where he thrives.

00:46:47.120 These rallies are where

00:46:48.100 he thrives.

00:46:48.600 He doesn't always thrive

00:46:50.200 in press conferences.

00:46:51.440 He doesn't always thrive

00:46:52.500 in Oval Office meetings.

00:46:54.060 He doesn't always thrive

00:46:55.400 from the position of

00:46:57.520 president.

00:46:58.640 But he totally kills it

00:47:00.900 in these rallies, and

00:47:01.820 these rallies are what

00:47:02.900 campaigns are.

00:47:04.020 This is the stuff of

00:47:05.340 campaigns.

00:47:06.000 He had another line.

00:47:06.820 He said, you know,

00:47:07.480 before I became a

00:47:08.460 politician, can you

00:47:09.960 believe I'm a

00:47:10.660 politician?

00:47:11.500 And the crowd goes

00:47:12.560 crazy.

00:47:13.060 They love him.

00:47:14.380 They just eat it up.

00:47:15.340 That is the game that

00:47:18.060 Joe Biden has been

00:47:18.960 trying to play for 40

00:47:20.260 years.

00:47:21.060 He spent 40 years

00:47:22.020 becoming the slickest

00:47:22.940 politician in Washington

00:47:24.020 to be slick enough to

00:47:25.480 pretend that he's not a

00:47:26.400 real politician.

00:47:28.220 Oh, Joe, he's so

00:47:29.540 authentic.

00:47:30.460 That's what makes Joe

00:47:31.540 Joe.

00:47:32.920 B.S.

00:47:33.520 Joe Biden is a totally

00:47:35.180 constructed politician.

00:47:37.040 This guy is the real

00:47:38.100 thing.

00:47:38.400 You put those two up

00:47:39.180 against one another,

00:47:40.040 it's not going to be

00:47:40.680 close.

00:47:41.240 All right, that's our

00:47:42.160 show.

00:47:42.400 We got a lot more to get

00:47:42.980 to, but too bad,

00:47:44.360 too late.

00:47:45.060 I'll see you tomorrow.

00:47:45.840 In the meantime, I'm

00:47:46.440 Michael Knowles.

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00:48:19.080 Hey guys, over on the

00:48:19.840 Matt Wall Show today,

00:48:20.640 we're going to talk

00:48:21.020 about this story of an

00:48:22.400 innocent family being

00:48:23.560 ripped apart by child

00:48:25.440 protective services,

00:48:26.720 because apparently, if

00:48:28.520 you haven't noticed by

00:48:29.180 now, you have no

00:48:30.520 rights and you have no

00:48:31.840 presumption of innocence

00:48:32.680 whatsoever when the

00:48:34.160 bureaucrats in CPS set

00:48:36.000 their sights on you.

00:48:37.180 So we'll discuss that.

00:48:38.060 Also, President Trump got

00:48:39.100 himself into hot water,

00:48:40.560 which he's done many

00:48:41.640 times, but this time

00:48:42.600 when he called Robert E.

00:48:43.980 Lee a great general.

00:48:46.360 Well, Robert E.

00:48:47.280 Lee was, in fact, a

00:48:48.620 great general, and it is

00:48:49.900 absurd that we are not

00:48:51.380 allowed to say that

00:48:52.000 anymore, so we'll talk

00:48:52.860 about that as well today

00:48:53.800 over on the Matt Wall

00:48:54.760 Show.

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The Michael Knowles Show - April 29, 2019

Ep. 339 - How Odd Of God

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