Ep. 365 - Did Trump Just Endorse Collusion？
Summary
On today's show, we discuss smart doorbells, the Women's World Cup, and the latest in fake news. Plus, a special offer on a Ring starter kit that keeps you in the loop on what's going on in your neighborhood.
Transcript
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Oil tankers go up in flames in the Middle East. A million people take to the streets in Hong Kong
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as China tightens its grip over the formerly westernized region. And President Trump appears
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to endorse campaign collusion and foreign election interference in an interview with
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George Stepanopoulos. We will examine foreign policy threats and faux pas. Then Jordan Peterson
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launches a new social media platform. Deep fakes blur the distinction between fiction and reality
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with serious implications for 2020. And finally, after all that, the mailbag. I'm Michael Knowles
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turn our attention to a foreign threat that has already invaded our country by checking in on the
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Women's World Cup with our Daily Wire 2 sports correspondent, Jeremy, the God King Boring.
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Yowza, Michael! It's that time of year again. Time for the Federacion of Something Something Soccer
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of America World Cup. And this time, Michael, there's ladies. For those of you who don't remember
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because you're American, the World Cup is that special tournament wherein grown adult athletes
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from every corner of the earth, even terribly poor countries and oppressive countries, gather once a
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year to determine who has taken soccer, that cute game beloved by toddlers and elementary school
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children everywhere and have managed somehow against all odds to build a team that can score
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one to possibly two points more than all of the other teams and thus be declared the very best
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at something, which for women's teams means being just slightly worse than an above average troop of
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15-year-old boys. That's not an exaggeration, Michael. Look it up. It's also that special time of year
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when Democrats and the news media collude with one another to obstruct justice, that sacred state in
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which individuals receive exactly that to which they are entitled by demanding that female soccer players
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be paid the same as their male counterparts. This despite the fact that no one watches them, buys their
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products, attends their events, or even knew their silly little sport existed until they made headlines for
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whining about their pay and disrespecting our nation's flag. Female soccer players work just as hard as male
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soccer players. The pundits shriek as though the level of effort one puts into a task determines the amount other people are
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willing to trade in return for the service, and as if male soccer players actually work harder than
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America's blue-collar laborers who toil in obscurity for less than 75k and just want to be watched, just want
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to watch baseball and be left the hell alone. Of course, in the interest of true justice, Michael, we here at
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The Daily Wire, too, looked into the accusations that there is indeed unfairness in the system, and we have
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discovered this shocking truth. According to a reporter at our sister network, The Daily Wire, women's soccer
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brought in $17 million in ad revenue in 2015. Men's soccer, by contrast, generated 31 times that amount. The
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previous Women's World Cup, which America's Ladies won, generated $73 million in revenue worldwide. The Men's
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World Cup, also known as the World Cup, grossed upwards of $6 billion. Yes, Michael, that's billion
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with a B, a full 82 times more than the more calmly female counterparts. And yet, the women's team received
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$10 million for their trouble, 13%, Michael, of the total haul, whereas the men's team only received
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6% of the $6 billion haul from the Men's World Cup. So you can see, Michael, it's true, foul injustice
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has occurred. The men are clearly paid less than they deserve. Somebody get me a penis hat. Hey, Michael,
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hey, Michael, you want a penis hat? Anyway, it probably won't matter much longer, as this is likely
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the last World Cup in which players who were born biologically female will ever win the sport. Since
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they're being replaced, as in all other women's sports, by mediocre male athletes looking for an
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easy win and willing to suffer for their craft. This because not a single left-wing politician,
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media figure, or academic can produce a working definition of the word woman. But how overpaid
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female athletes are isn't the only controversy from women's soccer, Michael. Mary Ropes-Pierre or
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something, captain of the American national team, has decided to forego the entire premise of a
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national team, a team that represents a nation in an international competition, and refuses to
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participate in the national anthem of the nation that her national team represents, which is this
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nation, America. With a well-practiced resting bitch face that would be a terrible cliche if she
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were a lesbian, Mary Rorschach-Test proved that there is, in fact, an I in team, and a couple of other
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letters to boot, by glaring into the middle distance, while a 96-year-old veteran of World
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War II, her Monica Pete, played the star-spangled banner from his wheelchair. Of course, the ride of
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dour, entitled white women to virtue signal by shunning their nation's banner and heroes before they
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engage in a children's sport for money and fame is exactly what the heroes of World War II were fighting
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for. Right, Michael? Right? Of course it wasn't, Michael! They were fighting for national pride,
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to avenge those murdered in the vicious sneak attack on our forces at Pearl Harbor, to preserve their
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uniquely Christian and unregulated and free way of life, to defend our allies, to stop the Germans
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from their second attempt in half a century to dominate the entire globe, and for their brothers
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beside them doing the same. Are you kidding? If these guys could have seen the disgrace that is
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Mary Robocop, snarling at Harmonica Pete 75 years after they stormed the beaches of Normandy,
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and the praise she received from our national media for the insult to their honor, they probably would
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have called the whole thing off and told us, their grandchildren and great-grandchildren,
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enjoy speaking German, kids, and playing soccer, like the Germans. The Nazis love soccer.
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Yowza, Michael! Back to you! Jeremy, a very thorough report. I have only one question that you didn't
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cover. When it is the ladies who are playing the soccer game themselves, who drives the minivans
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to pick them up when the practice and the games are over? Michael, in this day and age in which men
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have completely forfeited their role in society and in the family, you can bet that beta men all over
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this country will happily pick up their ladies in minivans and SUVs. I look forward to going out and
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buying the juice boxes later. Jeremy, the God King Boring, the sports correspondent for our sister
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network daily. Yowza! A really thorough report. That was, that was terrific. I can't wait for the
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World Cup to happen again next year. This is going to be just terrific. We've got to talk about less
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dangerous threats from abroad to our country. I speak, of course, of oil tankers blowing up in the
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Middle East and riots happening in Hong Kong. In the Middle East right now, two oil tankers have been hit
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by shells or torpedoes. We don't know which. This left one of the tankers on fire. This left one of
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them just sort of floating adrift. This is one month after four oil tankers in the region were
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sabotaged in port. And this, this attack today happened in the Gulf of Oman, which I've actually
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visited. I was seeing a friend in Dubai and we rented a car and drove down to Muscat Oman, which is
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right on the Gulf of Oman. And I can tell you from just firsthand experience, this is not a place that
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you want to be. It's a very nice country, Oman, but it's surrounded by very dangerous countries. You
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have on the one side, Saudi Arabia, which is a U.S. ally. On the other side, you have the United Arab
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Emirates, which is another U.S. ally. Across the water, you've got Iran. That is not a U.S. ally.
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That's a U.S. foe. And then on the last part of the border with Oman, you have Yemen, which is now
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in a civil war. And the civil war is actually just a proxy war between Saudi Arabia and Iran
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backing different sides. This is where Oman is smushed in the world. And so everyone is suspecting
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that this oil tanker was blown up by Iran. We don't know. We're not sure. The foreign minister of
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Iran, John Kerry's good buddy, Javad Sharif, I think his name is, something like that. He says it's
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very suspicious. It's very curious. Of course it is. If it were Iran, that wouldn't make a ton of
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sense right now. The reason for that is that one of the tankers that got blown up was a Japanese
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tanker. And the prime minister of Japan, Shinzo Abe, just landed in Iran. It's the first time a
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Japanese prime minister has gone to Iran since 1979. So this is supposed to be a big moment for
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peace and progress in the region. Wouldn't make a whole lot of sense for Iran to do it. However,
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on the other hand, it maybe would make the most sense because it gives Iran a lot of cover.
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No one would be expecting them to do that at this time. So perhaps that's exactly when they
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would strike. So you have Iran saying that the timing benefits us, the United States and Saudi
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Arabia and the American allies, because it gives us leverage in these heightened tensions in the
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region. Then you have, on the other hand, we say the timing benefits Iran because it gives them
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cover. The broader context of this is there's been talk of the United States going to war with Iran
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for some months now. There's been talk about this for years because Iran is developing a nuclear
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weapon. And the national security advisor to Donald Trump has advocated war with Iran for a long time.
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I love the guy, John Bolton. But when they were negotiating the so-called Iran deal, John Bolton
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had an op-ed, I think in the New York Times that said, to stop Iran's bomb, bomb Iran. And so every
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aspect of this looks suspicious. This is, there is no conclusion. Anyone who tells you there's an easy
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conclusion from what's going on right now in the Middle East is, is lying to you. We don't know
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what's happening. We don't know the prospect of war with Iran. We know that president Trump ran as
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an anti-war candidate. He doesn't want to go to war with Iran. He's been resisting advisors who have
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been trying to get him to go to war with Iran. And so we'll see if this puts him over the edge
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On the other side of the world right now, over in Hong Kong, upwards of a million people
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have taken to the streets to protest a new bill that would allow extraditions to mainland
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China. So ostensibly what this is about is if someone commits a crime in China, they can
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go away to run to Hong Kong, and then they won't be extradited. That's not really what this is
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about. What this is really about is China tightening its grip over a semi-autonomous
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region known as Hong Kong. Hong Kong is, is the fourth most densely populated region in the world.
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This is a, an international city, a center of global finance, very westernized city, and it's
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separate. It's a separate administrative region of China, which has its own governing and economic
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systems for now. But China is encroaching on that. The people there don't identify as Chinese,
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they identify as Hong Kongers. And how did Hong Kong get to be so great? While China is a terrible
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country, it got to be so great because the British ruled it for 150 years. So this was from the end of
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the first Opian War in 1842 through 1997, not that long ago, Britain controlled Hong Kong. And it was
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great. It was awesome. By the end of the 19th century, I guess 1898, Britain signed a 99-year
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lease with China for Hong Kong. So they said, in 99 years, we're going to give this region back.
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Unfortunately, during that time period, you had the communist revolution, you had Mao destroy the
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entire country. And for some reason, Britain still honored the treaty and gave Hong Kong back,
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which it probably shouldn't have done. So you have this essentially Western city that is crumbling
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under Chinese rule. Now China is clamping down even more on this. And obviously, this has a lot to do
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with the United States trade war with China. I mean, you can't take out this fully, largely Westernized
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global financial center right there in China. It's kind of between the East and the West,
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China tightening its grip. You can't take that out of the context of the major trade war,
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that the United States is finally admitting we're already in with China. China stealing our IP,
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illegally subsidizing steel and aluminum, violating WTO treaties, spying on us, putting
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spyware in the technology that they produce for us. This is a major issue. And so they're clamping down
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on Hong Kong. What does this have to do with the United States? What this has to do with the United
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States is that you've got tankers going up in flames in the Middle East. You've got a clamping
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down on a westernized and important financial city just outside of China, outside of mainland China.
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And then you've got President Trump, for some reason, agreeing to do an interview with former
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Clinton operative George Stephanopoulos in the Oval Office. And he totally puts his foot in his
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mouth on foreign policy. Here's what he said. Don Jr. is up before the Senate Intelligence Committee
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today. And again, he was not charged with anything. In retrospect, though, not only wasn't he charged,
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if you read it with all of the horrible fake news. I mean, I was reading that my son was going to go to
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jail. This is a good young man that he was going to go to jail. Don Jr. had been caught up in the
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Russia investigation because of that Trump Tower meeting in 2016, which he set up expecting to get
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dirt on Hillary Clinton from the Russian government. Okay, let's put yourself in a position. You're a
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congressman. Somebody comes up and says, hey, I have information on your opponent. Do you call the FBI?
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I don't think... I'll tell you what, I've seen a lot of things over my life. I don't think in my whole
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life I've ever called the FBI. In my whole life. I don't... You don't call the FBI. Life doesn't work
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that way. The FBI director says that's what should happen. The FBI director is wrong because,
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frankly, it doesn't happen like that. Okay, so, so far, you see what Stephanopoulos is doing.
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He's setting it up and he's talking... He's getting Donald Trump into this personal territory
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because Don Jr. ostensibly set up that Russia meeting at Trump Tower. And so there were all
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these threats that they're going to throw Don Jr. in prison. So Stephanopoulos gets Trump on this
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very defensive, very personal ground. Should your son go to prison? Did your son break the law? Did he do
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something wrong? So Trump, obviously, very loyal especially to his kids, he says, no way, they
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didn't do anything wrong. This is completely fine. If someone came up to you and said, we've got dirt on
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your opponent, obviously you'd take the meeting. And by the way, everybody in the country would take
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that meeting. It's not just Donald Trump. If someone says, I got dirt on your opponent, you're
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running for office. You take it. Of course you take the meeting. Now, he veers off into bad territory
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when he says, the FBI director is wrong. Absolutely. No, I wouldn't have called the FBI. Maybe you need a
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more delicate answer here. He's saying no campaign would have called the FBI. Maybe that's true. I mean,
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in the case of the Hillary Clinton 2016 campaign, not only... It's not that she was offered dirt and she
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called the FBI to report it. The Clinton campaign worked with the FBI through proxies to spy on the
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Trump campaign. The Hillary Clinton campaign paid for the Steele dossier, which was used as the bogus
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evidence to get the Obama administration to spy on the Trump campaign. It's almost like an inverse of
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what they're accusing Trump of doing here. But even so far, what Trump is saying is sort of
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defensible. Then he goes too far. Your campaign this time around, if foreigners, if Russia, if China,
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if someone else offers you information on an opponent, should they accept it or should they
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call the FBI? I think maybe you do both. I think you might want to listen. I don't... There's nothing
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wrong with listening. If somebody called from a country, Norway, we have information on your opponent.
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Oh, I think I'd want to hear it. You want that kind of interference in our elections? It's not an
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interference. They have information. I think I'd take it. This was a total setup question. I mean,
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a really tough question to be in from Stephanopoulos and President Trump blew it. It's a bad look to say,
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yeah, I want foreign governments to give me dirt on my opponents. You don't want to encourage them to
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give you dirt on your opponents because then you owe the foreign governments. And by the way, Trump didn't
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do this. He's putting himself into this hypothetical situation that he's going to be criticized for
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that he didn't even do. It's just a bad political look because now the left and the anti-Trump right
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are in hysterics and they're saying he's not a patriot and he's a traitor to his country.
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That's not the issue. The actual thing he's talking about isn't even the issue. Every country
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interferes in every other country's elections. Countries interfere with each other. They do it
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all the time. During the Obama administration, Barack Obama sent his senior campaign aides to Israel
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to try to oust Benjamin Netanyahu from power. He sent $350,000 of U.S. taxpayer money to a front
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organization to oust Bibi Netanyahu from power in Israel. We all interfere in each other's elections.
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Still, what you don't want is for the President of the United States to accept this sort of thing
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publicly, to accept these premises publicly, because what it does invariably is create the impression
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of disloyalty to your country. That's the impression that President Trump is giving off.
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He's saying, yeah, I would totally accept the help of foreign governments. I would incentivize
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foreign governments to give me dirt on American politicians. Now, he's not actually doing it.
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And actually, Democrat politicians have done this. They have gone and colluded with foreign
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governments to try to win elections. Ted Kennedy colluded with the Soviet Union
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to try to win the presidency. This is how he was negotiating with the Soviet Union to help him
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get elected. So it does happen. But so why don't you say it? You don't say it because hypocrisy
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is the tribute that vice pays to virtue. Because you don't, you also don't want to create incentives,
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publicly speaking. You don't want to put out on your bullhorn and say, hey, foreign governments of
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the world, give me dirt on my opponents. Please spy on American citizens, spy on American politicians.
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It's just a bad look. The good thing you can say for President Trump in this interaction is something
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that I've said for a long time, which is that President Trump is the most honest president that
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we've ever had. He is. He's, call him honest Donald. You have honest Abe, now you can have honest
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Donald. Why is he the most honest president? Because President Trump brags about doing all
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the bad things and thinking all the bad things that all the other presidents have also done,
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but they've hidden. He's open about it. He's honest about it. Obviously any, any politician,
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what he said is practically true. If you're even the president or you're running a campaign
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and someone comes up to you and says, we got dirt on your opponent. Let's say it's some Norwegian
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lawyer. Maybe he's got ties to the Norwegian government. He says, I got a ton of dirt on
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your opponent. 100% of political campaigns take that meeting and take the dirt. They hear him out.
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As Trump said, maybe they call the FBI after, maybe they don't, who knows? 100% of campaigns do it.
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Only this guy would actually admit to wanting to do that or to actually doing that. In some ways,
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this is refreshing. I actually do think this has some positive effect on our political discourse
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because it just knocks away so much BS, so much preening falsehood. However, what this also means
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is then we need to articulate that it's bad. You don't want to incentivize foreign governments to
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spy on American citizens, even if they're awful American citizens like Hillary Clinton. You don't
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want to incentivize that. You don't want it to seem like the president of the United States is
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encouraging you to do that or offering you something in return. That's not a good idea. It's
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refreshing to hear a guy speak honestly, but then it's incumbent on all the rest of us to say,
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right, true. That is honest. We shouldn't do that. Don't do it. Moving on to some good news
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happening domestically. Jordan B. Peterson, you know, the lobster king himself, is announcing a new
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social media platform. This is going to be a censorship-free platform. This is going to be a
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platform that conservatives are welcome to. He announced the name of it. It is called ThinkSpot.
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Now, what does it do? It will allow creators to monetize their content. It will be radically pro-free
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speech. They say the only way they're going to take someone off is if a court orders them to.
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And so this creates some problems. Because the trouble with these is the minute that you
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set up a social media platform, a new one, and you say it's going to be pro-free speech,
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you just get flooded with the Nazis. And so it becomes the Nazi platform. Now,
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one way they're working on this is the platform is going to require a minimum of 50 words per post.
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And I love this idea. Because what that means is, even if you're just going to troll
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in Jordan Peterson's words, you have to be a witty troll. You have to use your brain. You have
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to use words. You have to offer some even sort of vaguely substantive idea. I like that. So is it
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going to work? If anybody can make this work, it's Jordan Peterson, because he's just a superstar
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right now. He is acceptable to conservatives and liberals, not the hard left, but some liberals.
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He's acceptable to religious people and secular people. I mean, he's embraced by Bishop Barron,
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a Catholic bishop. He's also embraced by the whole materialist, new agey, secular crowd.
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And he infuriates the censorship crowd. So he's got the right enemies. For that big problem that we
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mentioned, Nazis, he does have a system for this. The system is that if you, if you basically, if you
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get ratioed, then your posts are hidden and people can click on it and see them, but they're not,
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they don't automatically pop up. And so the New York Times, or New York Magazine rather,
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is referring to this as shadow banning. They say, Jordan Peterson's pro-free speech platform is going
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to be just as bad on shadow banning as Twitter and all the others are. That's not true. That's
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completely dishonest. What Jordan is describing is not shadow banning. What he's saying is,
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if you get downvoted too many times, more than 50% of the time, your post isn't going to show up.
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That's kind of like Reddit. That's not shadow banning. We all know the rules. We all know what's
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happening. You, the user, you, the content creator can see that. What shadow banning is, is when they
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don't tell you that you're not showing up in timelines. When some arbitrary editor over at Twitter
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just says, we don't really like Ted Cruz. We don't really like Michael. We don't like
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Clavin. And so they, they reduce our reach without telling us, without telling us how to do it.
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Totally arbitrary. This, as Jordan has presented it, is totally transparent. Seems like a good idea.
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We'll see if it works. Uh, I'm, I'm hoping that it works. I'm skeptical that it will, because just
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you, you need a lot of people there. And, and the, the fact that it has any political agenda,
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even if it's pro free speech, even if it's pro first amendment, very possibly could ghettoize
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this platform. But if anyone can do it, it's Jordan. So let's hope that it works. Other great
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news in social media. There is a story that people are reporting as bad news for our politics and
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culture and social media. I think this is great news. And it is the rise of deep fake videos. This
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is videos that look like somebody who's recognizable as speaking, but it's just totally made on a
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computer. Uh, listen to this video that looks exactly like Mark Zuckerberg. Imagine this for a
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second. One man with total control of billions of people's stolen data, all their secrets, their
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lives, their futures. I owe it all to Spectre. Spectre showed me that whoever controls the data
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controls the future. So Spectre is the, the James Bond villainous organization, criminal organization.
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Obviously that's not Mark Zuckerberg, but it, if you haven't seen this video, it looks exactly
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like him. And so people are saying this is so dangerous. This is going to totally lead to all
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this deception and all of this awful stuff. I don't think, I think it's exactly the opposite.
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I think that this is going to force people to not believe everything they see on the internet
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because the, the left already twists video on the internet. They twist it outrageously.
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You remember those Covington kids, those kids, the nice kid with the MAGA hat on, and he was standing
00:28:40.180
at the memorials in DC and the media played a 20 second clip of it. And they said, these kids were
00:28:47.100
attacking an elderly Indian. They were accosting him. They were accosting black demonstrators,
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civil rights demonstrators. And then what happened? We saw the whole video and it was exactly the
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opposite, but the media used that video and spun a narrative. That's how the media can do that.
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How about, how about Planned Parenthood videos? Not only do the media and the left take a video
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and, and twist it to say that it's the opposite of what it is. They'll take a video where we can
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see exactly what's happening and tell us that we can't believe our own lying eyes. They did this
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with an investigation into Planned Parenthood that showed Planned Parenthood was selling baby
00:29:22.600
A lot of people want to attack parts these days because they're looking for specific
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nodes, baby nodes. I was like, wow, I didn't even know. Good for them. Yesterday was the
00:29:33.240
first time she said people wanted longer. And then, but like I said, always as many
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attack livers as possible. People just want them.
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People want lower subsidies too. That's, that's simple. I mean, that's easy. I don't know what
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they're doing with it because they want muscle.
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What would you expect for intact tissue? What, what sort of compensation? What sort of...
00:29:59.660
Well, why don't you start by telling me what you're used to paying?
00:30:02.660
It's been years since I've talked about compensation. So let me just figure out what others are getting
00:30:08.660
and if this is in the ballpark, then that's fine. If it's still low, then we can talk about that.
00:30:21.660
They're all haggling over the price of dead baby organs that they've butchered. And then
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she jokes, I want a Lamborghini. Ha ha ha. You can see it. You can see hours of this video.
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The mainstream media and the left said it was selectively edited. It's don't believe
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your eyes. Don't believe your lying eyes. I think deep fakes are great. It will refocus
00:30:39.660
people away from scandal. It will make you more skeptical. It will refocus people away from scandal.
00:30:46.660
I mean, a good example is with Trump. You catch a politician in some decade old video
00:30:51.660
doing or saying something that he shouldn't be doing and this is supposed to end his career.
00:30:56.660
No one cares about that. No one cares what Trump said on a bus to Billy Bush when he thought
00:31:01.660
he was having a private conversation and having locker room talk with a guy off, you know,
00:31:06.660
without being mic'd up. No one cares. That doesn't affect the presidential administration.
00:31:10.660
Now with deep fakes, what's going to happen is everyone's going to say this isn't real
00:31:14.660
or you can't believe that it's real. What it actually does by saying, by taking away the
00:31:21.660
credibility of video, we're in this video culture where everyone's being videoed all the time.
00:31:25.660
By taking away the hardened credibility of that, it focuses you on issues, on the present,
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on what's happening now. What effect will this have on 2020? Clearly the technology is already
00:31:35.660
pretty good. So we'll have to see. And I can't wait for deep fake videos of Eric Swalwell.
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Something tells me they couldn't be more ridiculous than Eric Swalwell himself. We'll see about that.
00:31:45.660
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00:32:02.660
Oh, they'll be, they'll be his own tears. They'll be his own tears when, when that commanding lead he has
00:32:09.660
starts to slip and candidates like Liz Warren and Bernie Sanders jump above him. But we'll see.
00:32:13.660
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00:32:16.660
The first question from Joshua. Michael, why do some churches refer to God as a she or it when he has clearly stated his preferred pronouns are he, him, and his?
00:32:40.660
What are your thoughts on suing those churches and other organizations for purposefully misgendering God?
00:32:48.660
This is a great point. There are some places now, Canada I think is one of these places, where you can be punished for not using someone's preferred pronouns.
00:32:58.660
So even if a man, it's a man, and the man dresses up like a woman, if you don't call him a her, you can be punished for that.
00:33:05.660
In some companies and universities, this is true as well. So why doesn't this apply to God? That's a great question.
00:33:12.660
Intersectionality has all of these contradictions within it. You have homosexuality and transgenderism.
00:33:18.660
Homosexuality relies on the belief that there is such a thing as biological sex, and men are attracted to men and women are attracted to women.
00:33:25.660
Transgenderism says sex doesn't really mean anything. It's socially constructed, and men can be women and women can be men.
00:33:32.660
Those two views don't go together. They don't make any sense. And yet, they're all together in intersectionality.
00:33:39.660
Transgenderism and feminism. Feminism says that women are a distinct category. They're oppressed by men.
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Women need to define what femininity is, and they need equality with men.
00:33:50.660
Transgenderism says there's no such thing as men or women. How do those go together in the LGBTQLMNOP acronym in the left gender movement?
00:33:57.660
It doesn't make sense. They just unite against the oppressor, the straight white male, the straight white male who thinks that he's a male.
00:34:05.660
And so, you can have racial identity politics for everybody but white people. You can have gender politics except for straight men.
00:34:13.660
And I think it's the same thing. Everyone gets to pick his own gender except for God.
00:34:18.660
Because what this is ultimately about, I mean, when we're talking about the patriarchy, when we're talking about these kind of daddy issues,
00:34:24.660
ultimately I think it redounds to religious and metaphysical questions and our big daddy up in the sky.
00:34:35.660
Why is it that through the eyes of the left, this country has become more intolerant, racist, and evil in spite of all efforts on both sides of the aisle to achieve the opposite?
00:34:45.660
When did this society of intersectional victimhood begin?
00:34:49.660
Yes, that's true. If you look around the country, we no longer have whites only water fountains.
00:34:54.660
We no longer have segregation. We don't have redlining. We don't have Jim Crow. We don't have lynchings.
00:34:59.660
And so, by every objective measure, the country is more racially tolerant, more racially equitable than it was in the past.
00:35:10.660
And yet, people are so crazed about this, they say it's more racist now than ever.
00:35:15.660
The way that this happened began in the 1960s, as so many evils did.
00:35:20.660
And I think what's really to blame is not the left embracing a particular racial ideology or the left embracing some particular activist tactics.
00:35:30.660
I think it comes down to this idea that they said in the 60s, which is the personal is the political.
00:35:36.660
So before that, you had a public realm, you had the political being the political, and then you had the personal realm.
00:35:42.660
And so, often, the media wouldn't report on certain politicians' dalliances and extramarital affairs or whatever sort of shenanigans they were up to,
00:35:53.660
because they said there's a difference between the public and the private.
00:35:57.660
You would have people who were friends with people of opposite political ideologies or of opposite political parties.
00:36:03.660
They could go and have fun together, even though they held their own different views, because there was a difference between the public ideas and personalities and the personal.
00:36:20.660
And so now the left is not friends with conservatives very often.
00:36:27.660
The left is much more likely to unfriend somebody who is of a different political point of view than conservatives are,
00:36:33.660
because we still believe in that distinction between the personal and the public or the political, and the left doesn't.
00:36:39.660
Our country is never going to resolve its political problems if we don't reestablish that difference.
00:36:44.660
The left isn't going to do it, and so now it's all personal.
00:36:49.660
You're an evil, wicked person, which you don't really see so much from the right.
00:36:55.660
What do you think of the progressive infantilization in the United States of the 18 to 21-year-old age group?
00:37:01.660
The great state of Texas, greatest perhaps, recently raised the minimum age to purchase tobacco products to 21,
00:37:09.660
and this new law to current alcohol and gun laws.
00:37:13.660
Regardless of the possible health benefits of these laws, how long until 18-year-olds are only seen as adults when referencing war or legal consequences?
00:37:28.660
If you can go fight and die for your country, you ought to be able to buy a smoke.
00:37:34.660
It's almost become a cliché argument, but it's so simple.
00:37:36.660
But now we want to infantilize these, not even late teenagers, even people who are in their 20s.
00:37:42.660
You see this in the criminal justice realm as well.
00:37:45.660
There is a movement now among criminal psychologists to try to push up the age at which you can be tried as a child or some sort of child.
00:37:55.660
They now call your early 20s emerging adulthood.
00:37:58.660
They say your brain hasn't fully developed until you're 25.
00:38:06.660
But they say this because they don't want 25-year-olds who commit a lot of crimes to be tried as adults.
00:38:11.660
They want them to be tried as children because ultimately they want to take away consequences.
00:38:15.660
They don't want to be in a mean culture of justice.
00:38:23.660
And this has a lot of political consequence to it as well because the government that can coddle you can treat you like a child in other ways.
00:38:32.660
I think this is only getting worse and pretty soon you're going to have 35-year-olds who are not being tried in certain courts and who probably aren't able to buy a pack of smokes either.
00:38:45.660
I've been listening to the different Daily Wire shows since January and I noticed you're always the butt of the joke.
00:38:51.660
I've been trying to figure out why and the best I can come up with is that Ben is just jealous of your best-selling blank book.
00:39:05.660
Ben has written about a dozen books in his life, all with words.
00:39:10.660
And then I wrote a book without words and I outsold most of his.
00:39:13.660
But the other reason, I think I have it here, is that framed check because I bet Ben that Trump would win in 2016 and I won.
00:39:21.660
So I think, you know, if I were Ben, I'd be pretty upset about that too.
00:39:27.660
Hey, Michael, I love your show and listen daily.
00:39:31.660
I'm so disgusted by the news that Pinterest has banned live action and the deceitful means by which they tried to suppress its pro-life message.
00:39:39.660
I completely deleted my account because they've made it clear that they can't be trusted to provide a simple service to me in an honest way.
00:39:46.660
Do you think this is the best way to send a message to these companies?
00:39:53.660
A lot of these companies don't have customer service lines.
00:39:56.660
What you need to do, not just delete your account, you need to make it public what you're doing.
00:40:05.660
What they do, like Media Matters and other left-wing activist groups, is they get a group of 20 people to call a company called Pepsi and say,
00:40:14.660
we're never going to drink Pepsi again because you advertised on Michael's show or something like that.
00:40:19.660
And then they panic at Pepsi and then they pull their advertising and they change their behavior.
00:40:26.660
You're only talking about 10 or 20 people calling them, but that makes the difference.
00:40:30.660
It makes more of a difference than if 200 people stopped drinking Pepsi.
00:40:34.660
So I think you're right to stop using that platform.
00:40:39.660
But even if you keep using the platform or you go back to it sometimes or whatever, the key here is to make public how you're dropping them.
00:40:47.660
If you drop Netflix over its abortion activism, more important than cutting Netflix, more important than deleting your account,
00:40:55.660
because I think there are only seven people in America who actually pay for Netflix and all the rest of us are just stealing their passwords.
00:41:00.660
More important than that is you have to call customer service and let them know how upset you are with how they're treating conservatives.
00:41:07.660
From Ashley, hey Michael, on the conversation of gender equality differences and religion.
00:41:13.660
Do you think there's a moral difference between male and female promiscuity?
00:41:17.660
A lot of people, especially parents, seem more concerned with female promiscuity. Thanks.
00:41:22.660
I don't think there's a moral difference between male and female promiscuity, but there is a difference, especially in the case of cheating, for instance.
00:41:33.660
There's a difference in the sense that men view sex differently than women.
00:41:38.660
Men view sex in a more physical, gratifying way.
00:41:42.660
It is certainly the case that men can have casual sex more casually than women do because women tend to attach some emotional significance to sex.
00:41:52.660
Part of this is biological because women have a lot more to lose.
00:41:56.660
Part of this is spiritual or even just practical.
00:42:01.660
Women have a lot more to lose from sex than men do.
00:42:04.660
Maybe men develop some sort of ailment and they need to go get a cream from their doctor or something.
00:42:08.660
Women can become pregnant and also because women are the weaker sex.
00:42:15.660
There are certain protections that they need that men don't need, whether those are social or political or a matter of regulation.
00:42:24.660
So I do think there is a physical difference, and this is why, as a society, we treat male and female promiscuity differently.
00:42:31.660
But I think when we all get up to St. Peter's Gate, we're probably all going to have to answer for it equally.
00:42:40.660
I hope that this message won't hurt your YouTube video.
00:42:44.660
Do you think the reason for this crackdown on YouTube started by the Vox adpocalypse is because of how successful the Daily Wire,
00:42:51.660
Ladder with Crowder, Blaze TV, and PragerU have become compared to left-wing groups like the Young Turks, Vox, and Huffington Post?
00:42:58.660
I remember Crowder saying something about how YouTube actually helps the Young Turks advertise and produce or something along those lines to help make their show less terrible.
00:43:06.660
Why don't more people talk about how YouTube has tried to promote the Young Turks over the Daily Wire?
00:43:22.660
The reason is we were kept out of the mainstream, mainstream Hollywood, mainstream news media.
00:43:26.660
And so you've got a whole buildup of talent and ideas and strategies.
00:43:31.660
And we've worked and figured out how to get our message out there.
00:43:35.660
The Young Turks has produced their show in YouTube's own studios.
00:43:47.660
So a lot of what you're seeing now from the left lobbying YouTube and other tech companies is they say you need to suppress provocative, unreliable, fake news sites.
00:44:04.660
And, of course, the authoritative sources are they themselves.
00:44:14.660
They can't compete with us in the open market because we're much better at this than they are.
00:44:19.660
So they're trying to get the corporations themselves to go in, suppress us, kill off their competition, and unfairly boost them.
00:44:34.660
The Michael Knowles Show is produced by Rebecca Dobkowitz and directed by Mike Joyner.
00:45:01.660
The Michael Knowles Show is a Daily Wire production.
00:45:06.660
Hey everyone, it's Andrew Klavan, host of The Andrew Klavan Show.
00:45:09.660
The mainstream media and social media aren't labeling Ben Shapiro and Dave Rubin alt-right extremists by accident.
00:45:15.660
It's part of a strategy to silence conservative voices and ensure Donald Trump's 2020 defeat.
00:45:23.660
And I'll tell you more about it on The Andrew Klavan Show.