The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 384 - Send Her Back？ Make Her Speaker!

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00:00:30.000 A crowd at a Trump rally chants to send comically villainous anti-American congresswoman Ilhan Omar back to her native country.

00:00:39.060 The usually excitable suspects lose their minds on the left, right, and center.

00:00:44.460 Meanwhile, President Trump has already disavowed the chant.

00:00:47.340 We will cut through the hysteria and examine why not only should we not send Omar back, we should make her Speaker of the House.

00:00:54.800 Then, the UK's Prince Charles predicts the end of the world in just, bum-bum-bum, 18 months.

00:01:01.640 And Berkeley outlaws sexist words like manhole.

00:01:06.480 Finally, the mailbag. I'm Michael Knowles, and this is The Michael Knowles Show.

00:01:09.600 No more manholes.

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00:01:22.020 We've got to get to the biggest news.

00:01:23.780 Not just the biggest news of the day, the biggest news of the century.

00:01:26.600 The biggest news in the history of American politics. 0.75

00:01:28.920 People at a Trump rally chanted, send her back to an awful, villainous, anti-American congresswoman. 1.00

00:01:40.160 And then President Trump disavowed the remarks.

00:01:42.920 But this is the biggest news.

00:01:44.020 It's awful.

00:01:44.660 It's the Third Reich. 0.68

00:01:45.920 Nazism. 0.57

00:01:46.760 The left, right, and center.

00:01:47.680 People are losing their minds over this chant because nobody has any sense of proportion anymore in politics.

00:01:53.760 And everybody is extremely excitable.

00:01:57.520 So, what happened in the rally?

00:02:00.440 President Trump went after Ilhan Omar, as well he should have, because she's singularly awful and she's anti-American.

00:02:07.580 It all started out well.

00:02:09.340 We'll show you what he said, rather.

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00:04:10.540 So Trump goes after Ilhan Omar, as he should have. 1.00

00:04:14.140 It started out very well.

00:04:15.260 Here's what he said.

00:04:16.480 Some people did something.

00:04:18.320 I don't think so.

00:04:21.260 Some people did something.

00:04:23.140 Yeah, some people did something.

00:04:24.660 All right.

00:04:26.660 She pleaded for compassion for ISIS recruits attempting to join the terrorist organization.

00:04:34.080 She was looking for compassion.

00:04:35.440 Omar laughed that Americans speak of al-Qaeda in a menacing tone and remarked that you don't

00:04:46.260 say America with this intensity.

00:04:49.360 You say al-Qaeda makes you proud. 1.00

00:04:52.700 Al-Qaeda makes you proud. 1.00

00:04:55.960 You don't speak that way about America.

00:05:00.800 And at a press conference just this week, when asked whether she supported al-Qaeda,

00:05:07.200 that's our enemy, that's our enemy, they are a very serious problem that we take care of,

00:05:17.760 but they always seem to come along somewhere.

00:05:21.260 She refused to answer.

00:05:23.420 She didn't want to give an answer to that question.

00:05:25.520 All completely true.

00:05:27.500 So far, so good.

00:05:28.380 He should campaign on this until, until election day in 2020.

00:05:32.600 Absolutely right.

00:05:34.440 Then, and this is the, this is what has everyone losing their minds, heads exploding.

00:05:39.740 The crowd briefly chanted, send her back.

00:05:43.840 Here's the crowd.

00:05:44.400 Now, if you can't see the clip, you got to look at Trump's face here.

00:05:59.240 Usually when he hears these chants, lock her up, USA, make America great again.

00:06:03.880 He's got a big beaming smile.

00:06:05.740 He's encouraging it.

00:06:06.620 He's saying it too. 0.99

00:06:08.180 Not the case with this chant.

00:06:09.680 In this chant, he actually looks a little angry.

00:06:12.340 He's got this frown.

00:06:13.280 He's not budging a muscle.

00:06:15.100 He's not intoning anything.

00:06:16.420 He's not encouraging it, which is important when you see his reaction to it this morning.

00:06:20.780 So according to the mainstream media, the left, even many conservatives, and I'm specifically

00:06:25.760 talking about those conservatives who all they want to do is prove to the left that they're

00:06:29.900 not racist or sexist or bigoted or this phobic or that phobic.

00:06:34.400 That's all they want.

00:06:35.480 They just, all they want is to make sure the New York times doesn't say anything mean about

00:06:39.660 them.

00:06:39.880 According to these people, this is the single most horrific event in American history.

00:06:47.120 It doesn't, it doesn't get any worse than this.

00:06:50.380 Forget about slavery, Jim Crow, the Dred Scott decision.

00:06:55.480 Forget about terrorist attacks.

00:06:57.480 Forget about the wars that we've, no, Pearl Harbor.

00:06:59.640 No, no, no, this is the worst event because a crowd briefly chanted, send her back to an 0.97

00:07:06.500 immigrant who speaks with sympathy of Al Qaeda. 0.81

00:07:10.860 Everybody needs to take a breath.

00:07:12.680 Justin Amash, the former Republican who wants to impeach Trump and he left the GOP.

00:07:18.140 He, he was tweeting out all of this hysteria this morning.

00:07:21.520 I just responded to him.

00:07:22.500 I said, calm down.

00:07:25.120 It's okay.

00:07:25.580 Take a breath.

00:07:27.980 First thing, Ilhan Omar is a comically villainous figure in politics.

00:07:36.320 She giggles about Al Qaeda.

00:07:37.960 She equates Al Qaeda with the United States and England and the U.S. Army.

00:07:42.340 She equates Al Qaeda terrorists with U.S. soldiers.

00:07:45.540 Laughs about it on camera.

00:07:46.700 She begged a judge to give leniency to ISIS terrorists.

00:07:51.040 She's one of only a couple legislators to vote against denying insurance benefits to the

00:07:55.800 families of terrorists.

00:07:57.460 She explicitly refused to condemn Al Qaeda at a press conference this week. 0.65

00:08:01.920 And that's all apart from the, the regular Jew hatred that she spouts.

00:08:06.560 That's not even taking into account the, the things that she has tweeted about Al Qaeda

00:08:10.540 and Jews in America.

00:08:11.460 That's just what she's, uh, or rather all the things that she's tweeted about Israel and

00:08:16.380 Jews in America.

00:08:17.020 That's just talking about what she said about Al Qaeda, ISIS, and terrorists.

00:08:21.380 It is perfectly understandable why people would want to send her back.

00:08:27.260 A perfectly understandable passion.

00:08:30.600 Also, the chant is ugly.

00:08:32.900 It's not a nice chant.

00:08:33.920 We don't want to see that in America.

00:08:36.100 Send her back to immigrants who are U.S. citizens. 1.00

00:08:38.340 And it's politically counterproductive.

00:08:41.300 Those things can be true at the same time.

00:08:43.760 It can be totally understandable.

00:08:45.220 The impulses, she can be completely villainous and awful. 1.00

00:08:48.500 And also that chant is ugly and we don't like it.

00:08:51.140 And it doesn't ring very nicely in America.

00:08:54.240 And politically, it's counterproductive to the people who are chanting it.

00:08:58.140 Well, here's the good news, folks.

00:08:59.660 President Trump has already disavowed the chant as well he should.

00:09:03.020 Here's President Trump this morning.

00:09:04.440 When your supporters last week were chanting, chanting, send her back, why didn't you stop

00:09:08.860 them?

00:09:09.120 Why didn't you ask them to stop saying that?

00:09:11.400 Well, number one, I think I did.

00:09:13.260 I started speaking very quickly.

00:09:15.260 It really was a loud, I disagree with it, by the way, but it was quite a chant and I felt

00:09:23.620 a little bit badly about it.

00:09:25.140 But I will say this, I did and I started speaking very quickly, but it started up rather, rather

00:09:31.260 fast, as you probably noticed.

00:09:33.460 So you'll tell your supporters never to say that?

00:09:35.660 Well, I would say that.

00:09:37.120 I was not happy with it.

00:09:40.140 I disagree with it.

00:09:42.040 There it is.

00:09:43.300 Simple.

00:09:44.020 Simple as can be.

00:09:45.000 You know, the thing that the mainstream media and the left and the anti-Trump conservatives,

00:09:50.360 just the, the minute that any news story could possibly reflect poorly on Trump, they pounce

00:09:56.300 on it.

00:09:56.640 They love it.

00:09:57.260 They, they, it's like their favorite thing.

00:09:59.540 They say, this is actually the only time conservatives do pounce.

00:10:03.360 Conservatives generally don't pounce, despite what the mainstream media said, but some anti-Trump

00:10:08.940 conservatives do pounce.

00:10:10.280 The minute a syllable leaves Trump's mouth or one of his supporters' mouths, they take to

00:10:14.840 Twitter, they say there's the worst thing that's ever happened in the history of the world.

00:10:17.960 It's okay.

00:10:18.360 It was an ugly chant.

00:10:20.800 It, it is the sort of thing we don't want to hear in America and Trump disavowed it.

00:10:27.080 Why didn't you disavow it in the moment?

00:10:29.020 Well, what is Trump going to do in the moment?

00:10:30.780 He's going to say, don't ever say that.

00:10:32.280 What, what basically what they want is this moment that John McCain had in 2008, which, 0.94

00:10:38.200 where he tells his supporters that they're awful and they're bigots.

00:10:41.380 What, what the left wants is for Republicans to campaign like twice failed presidential candidate

00:10:46.060 John McCain.

00:10:46.880 That's what they keep saying.

00:10:47.680 John McCain was just trending on Twitter.

00:10:49.540 Why can't Republicans campaign like the twice failed presidential candidate John McCain?

00:10:55.420 Oh, I can't imagine why you'd want us to campaign like that.

00:10:59.080 So he didn't.

00:10:59.880 Trump didn't humiliate his supporters.

00:11:01.420 He didn't insult his supporters in the moment.

00:11:03.240 He did pick up the speech.

00:11:04.560 He didn't participate in it.

00:11:05.960 And then this morning he said, I didn't like it.

00:11:07.580 I disagreed with it.

00:11:08.480 I felt kind of bad about it.

00:11:09.560 Great way to handle it.

00:11:12.540 You're not setting yourself up in opposition to your supporters.

00:11:15.280 You're sort of gently chiding them and making clear you don't want it to happen again.

00:11:20.020 Great.

00:11:20.560 That's wonderful.

00:11:21.480 What does the chant really mean?

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00:13:21.880 So this is good.

00:13:24.740 This seems like the, this seems like the right thing.

00:13:26.660 President Trump rightly attacked Ilhan Omar.

00:13:29.560 His supporters, some of his supporters went too far.

00:13:33.060 They chanted something ugly and politically unproductive.

00:13:36.560 He gently rebuked them for it.

00:13:38.880 All right, good.

00:13:39.720 It's over.

00:13:40.120 This all happened within the span of what, 10 hours?

00:13:43.140 Great.

00:13:43.580 Now, what does the chant mean?

00:13:45.840 I don't think anyone is really calling on her to, to strip her of her citizenship and deport her.

00:13:51.400 I think people are expressing their frustration that we have an anti-American terrorist apologist in the U.S. Congress.

00:13:58.240 And that's a real, a real frustration.

00:14:01.200 I also suspect very few people actually want to give the President of the United States the authority to strip citizens of their citizenship and deport them at will.

00:14:09.880 So what the statement is doing is expressing moral disapproval of Ilhan Omar's egregious actions.

00:14:17.140 And a lot of people are being disingenuous here.

00:14:19.280 The Washington Post tweeted out last night.

00:14:21.180 They said, quote, Trump's accusation is that Rep. Omar sympathizes with Al-Qaeda terrorists.

00:14:26.920 We found no evidence for that claim.

00:14:29.400 Fortunately, I have found no evidence for the claim that the Washington Post is a credible newspaper.

00:14:34.400 I did, however, find evidence of Ilhan Omar expressing sympathy for Al-Qaeda and speaking in a very strange and giggly way about Al-Qaeda.

00:14:44.040 Here's the evidence.

00:14:45.180 The thing that was interesting in the class was every time the professor said Al-Qaeda, he sort of, like, his shoulders went up and, you know, it was sort of like, Al-Qaeda, you know, hospital.

00:14:57.620 He's an expert.

00:14:58.340 You don't say America with an intensity.

00:15:01.960 You don't say England with an intensity.

00:15:04.340 You know, you don't say the army with an intensity.

00:15:09.500 Carter.

00:15:10.340 CARE was founded after 9-11 because they recognized that some people did something and that all of us were starting to lose access to our civil liberties.

00:15:23.520 Can you respond to some of the president's specific claims, most notably that you're a communist and that you're pro-Al-Qaeda?

00:15:31.560 I think it is beyond time.

00:15:34.300 It's beyond time to ask Muslims to condemn terrorists. 1.00

00:15:39.560 We are no longer going to allow the dignification of such ridiculous, ridiculous statement. 1.00

00:15:50.360 Hey, Washington Post, I found your evidence. 0.97

00:15:55.340 Also, I mean, this isn't on video.

00:15:57.000 This is just in the newspapers.

00:15:59.060 Ilhan Omar asked for leniency for terrorists.

00:16:01.880 She voted to let terrorist families keep insurance money from their terrorist family members.

00:16:08.660 And she almost certainly committed immigration fraud by marrying her brother. 0.98

00:16:12.680 So she's absolutely awful.

00:16:15.440 The conservatives pretending that this is the worst thing that's ever happened also are being disingenuous here.

00:16:21.600 President Trump didn't lead the chant.

00:16:23.100 He didn't participate in the chant.

00:16:24.320 He didn't encourage the chant.

00:16:25.440 The chant was over quickly.

00:16:26.320 And then he disavowed the chant.

00:16:27.940 It's fine.

00:16:28.380 It's ugly.

00:16:28.860 It's bad.

00:16:29.900 The thing that's so counterproductive about it is it almost makes her sympathetic, which is virtually impossible to do because she's so villainous.

00:16:38.400 So that should be discouraged.

00:16:40.020 Where Trump bears responsibility here, I mean, I thought he handled the chant and the aftermath as well as he possibly could have.

00:16:47.100 Where he bears some responsibility is he could have avoided this almost certainly by being more precise in the wording of his tweet.

00:16:55.260 So he sent out that tweet.

00:16:56.440 And instead of saying, if you don't love America, leave America, which is the sentiment he was more or less expressing.

00:17:02.320 Instead, he said that these four women, he was implying that these four women should go back to their home countries, even though three of them are from America.

00:17:09.580 And so if the tweet had said, America, love it or leave it, go spend time in countries that aren't so great, come back here and then tell us why our country is even worse, that would have worked.

00:17:21.600 So he's the leader.

00:17:23.080 He started this meme of the center back.

00:17:26.800 Now he's dealing with the fallout of that.

00:17:28.860 And he course corrected.

00:17:30.660 He did course correct.

00:17:31.800 But he's got to keep hammering that home.

00:17:34.780 And he does bear some responsibility.

00:17:36.680 And it should give him pause, just not to create the political headache for himself of maybe way to beat.

00:17:43.840 You know, you write out the tweet.

00:17:45.160 It looks like a really good tweet.

00:17:46.580 Just double check it.

00:17:47.920 Just hit it from a few more angles.

00:17:50.380 Try to be a little bit more precise.

00:17:52.100 Because if he had been a little more precise in his language, this would have been a knockout political attack.

00:17:57.000 And I think it's still fine.

00:17:58.740 I don't think the sky is falling, but it just could have been, he could have made it easier for himself.

00:18:03.920 Also, and this is the point I want to drive home to the people who had been chanting.

00:18:08.540 We don't want to send her back.

00:18:11.060 We don't.

00:18:12.140 She is the greatest gift to conservatives.

00:18:15.940 Not even since AOC.

00:18:17.560 She's a greater gift to conservatives than AOC. 0.95

00:18:20.000 Because AOC just kind of seems like a buffoon. 0.88

00:18:22.880 In some ways, she's sort of sympathetic because she seems unintelligent. 0.97

00:18:27.000 But Ilhan Omar doesn't seem unintelligent. 0.95

00:18:29.480 She just seems wicked. 0.94

00:18:30.560 And she giggles about Al-Qaeda. 0.99

00:18:31.860 And she equates Muslim terrorists with U.S. soldiers.

00:18:35.020 I mean, that is a, there's no comparison there.

00:18:37.580 So we shouldn't send her back.

00:18:38.560 We should make her the Speaker of the House. 1.00

00:18:40.040 We should make her the leader of the Democrats for life. 1.00

00:18:43.060 We should make every Democrat rally behind her. 1.00

00:18:45.280 Which was the effect of the tweet that Trump sent in the first place.

00:18:48.980 We should encourage that.

00:18:50.660 Now, speaking of the sky actually falling, I have to get to really bad news coming out of the United Kingdom and the royal family.

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00:19:50.560 Do you remember when AOC told us six months ago that we only had 12 months left to live?

00:19:56.220 We're like, the world is going to end in 12 years if we don't address climate change.

00:20:00.960 And your biggest issue is, your biggest issue is, how are we going to pay for it?

00:20:10.240 And like, this is the war.

00:20:12.720 This is our World War II.

00:20:14.580 Okay, so this is our World War II.

00:20:16.440 This is the end of the world in 12 years.

00:20:18.080 According to Prince Charles, this situation is way worse.

00:20:21.720 According to Prince Charles, AOC was off by ten and a half years.

00:20:24.920 Actually, we only have 18 months left before we reach a tipping point and the world cannot be saved.

00:20:32.760 Prince Charles just recently said this, quote,

00:20:35.240 I'm firmly of the view that the next 18 months will decide our ability to keep climate change to survivable levels

00:20:41.480 and to restore nature to the equilibrium we need for our survival.

00:20:45.560 Now, this is particularly bad news because in 2015, just four years ago,

00:20:50.380 Prince Charles said that we had 35 years left before we reached that tipping point.

00:20:54.920 So I don't know what happened in the past four years, but apparently things have gotten way, way worse.

00:21:00.240 And we should note in Charles's defense, the 35 years prediction only came after his 2009 prediction

00:21:07.200 where he warned that we only had 100 months left to save the planet,

00:21:11.080 which by that measure means that we passed the point of no return in 2017,

00:21:15.520 which means that there's nothing we can do anymore,

00:21:17.520 which means I guess we should probably just live it up because the world is already doomed.

00:21:22.340 Is that right? Something like that?

00:21:24.920 No, because now we have another 18 months.

00:21:27.760 I wonder how much more time we'll have in 18 months when the world doesn't end

00:21:30.740 and Prince Charles tells us we have another 10 months or another 10 years or who knows.

00:21:35.120 It's almost as if all of these alarmist warnings are arbitrary and disingenuous emotional manipulation

00:21:42.940 to try to affect the same leftist policies that these people have been pushing for 100 years,

00:21:48.500 most of which have nothing to do with the environment.

00:21:52.320 They have been doing this forever.

00:21:55.720 Here's what the left does.

00:21:56.820 They tell everyone that the world is about to end.

00:22:01.260 Then they tell everyone that luckily they have the one solution that can prevent the world from ending.

00:22:07.660 And then they tell everyone that because there's just, there's really no time left,

00:22:12.900 we just have to embrace their solution without asking any questions, without thinking about it too much.

00:22:18.000 And then that's the only way we can save the world.

00:22:19.540 But if we wait and we think about it, then the world is going to end.

00:22:22.600 And we have to do it really, really quickly.

00:22:25.580 I remember this watching An Inconvenient Truth, that Al Gore movie in 2006.

00:22:30.160 Even I, watching that movie, when he came to the end, he said,

00:22:34.860 the whole world's going to end, but it's not too late.

00:22:37.360 We still have like five seconds to do something as long as you do exactly what I tell you to do.

00:22:43.380 That's what they, they always end it with that.

00:22:44.920 We can still do something as long as you embrace exactly what I want right now.

00:22:48.220 And even I walked out of there thinking, gosh, maybe, maybe he's right.

00:22:53.780 Maybe, I don't know.

00:22:54.500 I mean, what was I was 16 at the time.

00:22:56.080 I was, I was emotionally manipulated by that movie, which is what they are all doing.

00:23:02.200 The left wants us to adopt these policies quickly because they don't want us to think about them.

00:23:06.800 Most of the Green New Deal has nothing to do with the environment.

00:23:09.940 It's about redistributing wealth to Native American tribes. 0.63

00:23:13.520 What does that have to do with the environment?

00:23:15.460 It's about exploring reparations.

00:23:17.240 So what does that, it has nothing to do with the environment.

00:23:20.540 It's about universal socialist health care.

00:23:24.020 Again, nothing to do with the environment, but we have to do it quickly because if we reflect

00:23:28.180 on the policies, we'll realize that we're being scammed.

00:23:31.480 So they can't let us reflect on them.

00:23:33.280 The other reason we have to do it quickly is because if we think about it long enough,

00:23:37.300 we'll remember that all of their other doomsday predictions didn't come true.

00:23:43.900 Right?

00:23:44.300 20, so now we have 18 months.

00:23:47.360 2015, we had 35 years.

00:23:49.000 2009, we had only 100 months, which means the world passed the tipping point in 2017.

00:23:54.140 But no, it didn't really.

00:23:55.100 We got some extra time.

00:23:56.580 We got an extra, what, three, three and a half years, something, but we got to do it now.

00:24:00.600 Every one of these.

00:24:01.500 Al Gore said New York City would be completely underwater by now.

00:24:04.420 Didn't happen.

00:24:05.480 Florida would be completely underwater by now.

00:24:07.140 Didn't happen.

00:24:07.740 None of these things.

00:24:08.480 The population bomb in the 1970s, if we don't dramatically decrease the world's population,

00:24:15.140 abortion, contraception, if we don't do that, then we're all going to die.

00:24:20.460 We're wealthier today than any time in history.

00:24:23.980 Way wealthier than we were in the 1970s.

00:24:25.940 And we have way, way more people.

00:24:27.360 It was just totally debunked.

00:24:28.980 Remember in the 70s, global cooling was going to lead to a new ice age, unless we embrace

00:24:33.420 their policies.

00:24:34.820 Now global warming is going to lead to a new hell on earth, unless we embrace their policies.

00:24:40.500 How many times have they been proven wrong?

00:24:42.140 So I have a deal.

00:24:43.200 If they ever are proven right on their predictions, on their doomsday prophecies, then maybe I'll

00:24:49.340 start to listen to them.

00:24:50.140 Then maybe I'll start to worry.

00:24:51.160 Until then, not so much.

00:24:52.980 Speaking of things, by the way, even crazier than Prince Charles' doomsday predictions.

00:24:57.700 The city of Berkeley is banning gendered language from government.

00:25:03.840 Of course, it's happening in Berkeley, California.

00:25:06.000 No policemen, only police officers.

00:25:09.420 No chairman, only chair people.

00:25:13.800 No manpower, you can't, no way can you say manpower.

00:25:17.020 Only human effort.

00:25:19.140 That's the new politically correct term.

00:25:21.440 No manholes.

00:25:23.580 Now it's maintenance holes.

00:25:25.980 Frankly, I think maintenance is a little too close to man for my liking, but I guess

00:25:32.020 it's a progressive step in the right direction.

00:25:33.840 No more he or she. 0.99

00:25:34.880 They won't use pronouns anymore, singular pronouns in the Berkeley city government.

00:25:39.540 Only the singular they, like they is drinking from the leftist tears tumbler.

00:25:45.580 They likes tears.

00:25:47.540 That's what we've reduced our language to.

00:25:51.260 This is significant.

00:25:52.520 The council member there, a Rigel, I think that's how you pronounce his name.

00:25:55.960 I don't know.

00:25:56.400 Rigel Robinson said, quote, there's power in language.

00:25:59.700 This is a small move, but it matters.

00:26:01.760 And he's absolutely right.

00:26:02.740 He's being completely honest.

00:26:04.340 These little small moves in language matter a lot.

00:26:06.760 That's why the left fights so hard to change them.

00:26:08.580 That's why there are 0.2% of the population, if that, is confused about their biological sex.

00:26:16.680 And we've spent years now debating whether we can say he or she, or we have to use the

00:26:22.200 singular they, which is an assault on the English language. 0.99

00:26:25.160 Because it radically changes our understanding of reality in the past.

00:26:29.440 When you use language, the kind of language you use radically changes how you think of reality.

00:26:35.280 For instance, the reason they do the pronoun battle is, if I hear about a transgender girl 1.00

00:26:42.960 beats a girl at a high school track meet, I think, okay, well, a transgender girl who 0.93

00:26:50.040 is a type of girl beats a different girl who's another type of girl at a track meet. 1.00

00:26:55.020 That seems fair, right?

00:26:56.720 But if I use accurate language and I say, a boy in a dress beats a girl at a high school

00:27:02.200 track meet, I'll become aware of the injustice of that.

00:27:04.880 Because men are physically stronger than women and they're faster than women. 0.89

00:27:08.860 I'll say, oh, that's not fair.

00:27:10.100 That's wrong.

00:27:10.680 I don't think that boy in a dress should be able to take a scholarship away from a girl

00:27:14.720 at a girl's track meet.

00:27:16.260 I think the boy should compete with the boys and the girl should compete with the girls. 1.00

00:27:19.460 So they have to change the language.

00:27:21.000 Because if I just say she to refer to the boy in the dress, if I just say transgender girl,

00:27:26.960 even though I am aware of what that means, I'm explicitly talking about that.

00:27:31.620 The image in my mind is of a girl and that's what language does.

00:27:36.720 He then goes on, this city councilman, Rye Joel Robinson, quote, having a male-centric

00:27:41.880 municipal code is inaccurate and not reflective of our reality.

00:27:45.460 Women and non-binary individuals are just as entitled to accurate representation. 0.91

00:27:49.640 Our laws are for everyone and our municipal code should reflect that.

00:27:52.980 Here he's completely wrong.

00:27:54.020 It's not male-centric.

00:27:55.660 Man can refer to a man, like me, or it can refer to mankind, which is gender neutral.

00:28:02.200 In the book of Genesis, it reads, God created man, comma, both male and female.

00:28:08.840 He created them.

00:28:11.360 There is male and female of man because we're talking about mankind.

00:28:14.980 When the Apollo 11 astronauts landed on the moon, Neil Armstrong said,

00:28:19.340 one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind.

00:28:24.540 There's that distinction there between a man, which is Neil Armstrong, and man referring to mankind.

00:28:31.540 You don't have to say humankind.

00:28:32.680 You don't have to say people kind.

00:28:33.960 Man can be gender neutral as well.

00:28:36.700 But the singular they, by the way, the singular they already exists.

00:28:39.660 When people say, instead of saying, hey, call your friend, see if they want to come hang out.

00:28:44.980 People already use this, and we do it because we're so timid about sex in our society.

00:28:51.340 Because you know that if you say something that is true, but politically incorrect,

00:28:55.860 like referring to a man who thinks he's a woman as a man,

00:28:58.760 you will be kicked off of Twitter.

00:29:00.400 You violated the rules.

00:29:01.800 If you're in school, you'll be called into the principal's office.

00:29:04.200 If you're at work, you'll be called into HR.

00:29:06.580 So we use they, not because it's correct or grammatical, but because it's just easier.

00:29:11.840 It's just easier for us not to have to fight.

00:29:15.880 The they suggests many other things.

00:29:18.900 It suggests among them that there is no difference between the sexes.

00:29:22.740 He or she, just they is fine.

00:29:24.740 It suggests maybe there are more than two biological sexes.

00:29:27.860 Robinson, in his line, he referred to non-binary people.

00:29:31.280 Non-binary.

00:29:33.000 Now, there are people who are hermaphrodites or intersex,

00:29:36.160 who have ambiguous genitals or even ambiguous chromosomes.

00:29:39.780 Those people represent, at most, 0.05% of the population.

00:29:43.520 0.05%.

00:29:45.780 99.95% of the population is either male or female.

00:29:51.220 But if we alter our language to only focus on the 0.05% rather than the 99.95%,

00:29:58.940 we create the impression that many, if not most people, are non-binary,

00:30:04.100 which is just a bizarre fiction.

00:30:05.420 And it's this particularly leftist fiction, and it's a particularly liberal fiction,

00:30:10.100 and it's a particularly modern fiction.

00:30:12.840 The story of modernity is the story of emancipation.

00:30:18.440 Liberation.

00:30:19.320 That's what we talk about.

00:30:20.480 Everybody talks about that.

00:30:21.620 We emancipate ourselves from all forms of oppression.

00:30:25.100 And this initially means political oppression.

00:30:27.220 Oppression which one perceives from a king, let's say.

00:30:31.600 Then it's emancipating yourself from social oppression.

00:30:34.140 The oppression of your town or your community or your family, even.

00:30:37.960 Then it's emancipating yourself from moral oppression. 0.99

00:30:41.800 Don't slut shame me. 1.00

00:30:43.320 Don't shame me. 0.99

00:30:44.800 I'm going to embrace pride.

00:30:46.280 I'm going to deny the existence of a moral law.

00:30:51.520 Because if there's a moral law, then someone's telling me what to do.

00:30:54.260 And that's oppressive.

00:30:55.800 This now comes down to a natural emancipation.

00:30:59.700 An emancipation from the natural biological sorts of oppression.

00:31:04.240 We're trying to emancipate ourselves from our very nature.

00:31:08.340 Not just aspects of human nature like our fallenness, our brokenness,

00:31:11.600 our greed, our ambition, our envy, or our over-ambition rather.

00:31:16.740 But actually from our biology.

00:31:18.960 Saying I am not even to be oppressed by my own body.

00:31:22.740 Even my own body oppresses me.

00:31:25.000 We're emancipating ourselves from ourselves.

00:31:27.460 And ironically, this means emancipating ourselves from all distinction.

00:31:32.080 All variety.

00:31:33.080 All diversity.

00:31:34.400 There can't even be men and women.

00:31:36.460 Everybody has to be the same.

00:31:38.400 And it only leaves this boring and ironically oppressive sameness.

00:31:44.140 Homogeneity. 0.62

00:31:44.700 It's just all exactly the same.

00:31:47.440 This is the totalitarian vision.

00:31:50.520 This sameness.

00:31:51.780 This is what's imagined in every dystopian novel.

00:31:54.680 In every dystopian vision, people are all kind of just wearing gray.

00:31:57.760 They all kind of look the same.

00:31:59.140 They all speak the same.

00:32:00.220 If you contradict the totalitarian regime, you're liquidated.

00:32:05.580 You're taken out.

00:32:06.180 You just have to say the same things, think the same things, look exactly the same way.

00:32:10.540 And it's no surprise that Berkeley, California, left of Lennon, is leading the charge in its language.

00:32:17.840 Speaking of language, we've got to get some mailbag questions coming in.

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00:33:43.600 All right.

00:33:51.080 The first question from Jonah.

00:33:55.000 Dear Eric Swalwell,

00:33:57.220 what are your thoughts on Facebook censoring a St. Augustine quote?

00:34:01.560 And do you think that Facebook will ever stop trying to censor conservative and Christian voices?

00:34:07.040 Hashtag came for Ben, stayed for Michael.

00:34:09.060 Jonah, age 16.

00:34:11.020 This is a story.

00:34:12.120 We actually didn't get time to cover it this week.

00:34:14.220 Facebook censored a quote, not from some awful bigot,

00:34:18.320 not from even some conservative political figure, which they try to do frequently.

00:34:23.280 They censored a quote from one of the fathers of the church

00:34:26.040 and one of the greatest saints of history, St. Augustine.

00:34:28.980 And this is the quote.

00:34:29.980 Let us never assume that if we live good lives, we will be without sin.

00:34:35.320 Our lives should be praised only when we continue to beg for pardon.

00:34:39.380 But men are hopeless creatures, and the less they concentrate on their own sins,

00:34:42.960 the more interested they become in the sins of others.

00:34:45.580 They seek to criticize, not to correct.

00:34:47.760 Unable to excuse themselves, they are ready to accuse others.

00:34:51.680 This is obviously a true quote.

00:34:55.280 I mean, this is the essence of the Lord's Prayer.

00:34:57.720 Forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us.

00:35:01.840 It's the idea that, you know, before you take the speck out of your brother's eye,

00:35:06.080 you should pull the plank out of your own eye.

00:35:08.080 Obviously, we're a culture right now that totally focuses on everybody else's problems,

00:35:13.820 never on our own.

00:35:14.560 We always judge everyone else on their actions.

00:35:18.320 We judge ourselves on our intentions, never on our actions,

00:35:21.540 because then we have to admit that we screw up all the time.

00:35:23.820 Facebook is not going to stop doing that.

00:35:26.200 Facebook is now in the business of censoring the truth.

00:35:31.200 Social media now will ban you if you state simple facts.

00:35:34.780 Men are not women. 1.00

00:35:35.660 It's very, very basic things.

00:35:37.700 And so they're always going to come after the truth.

00:35:40.200 If you don't celebrate pride.

00:35:41.720 I mean, what Christian wants to celebrate pride? 1.00

00:35:44.700 It's the queen of all sins. 0.85

00:35:46.280 Deadliest sin.

00:35:47.600 So, no, they're not going to stop it.

00:35:49.060 They're going to go after those people who state simple moral truths.

00:35:54.040 I mean, Christ told us this.

00:35:57.060 He said that we will be hated for his sake.

00:36:00.960 And that it's actually a good thing to be hated for his sake.

00:36:03.080 Look what they did to him.

00:36:05.540 Obviously, the culture, not just this culture, but all cultures,

00:36:08.740 all human society is in some ways going to persecute followers of Christ.

00:36:14.460 And this is just another example of that.

00:36:16.800 And I can't believe it, but they're going after St. Augustine.

00:36:20.380 What, 1,700 years after the man lived?

00:36:22.660 That's, I guess, to be expected.

00:36:24.660 From Brett.

00:36:25.520 Greetings, Kofethe Sensei.

00:36:28.800 If a man receives a gender reassignment surgery, hormone therapy, plastic surgery, 0.97

00:36:32.840 and a successful functioning uterus to carry children, 0.97

00:36:38.180 do they have a legitimate claim to say that they are a woman? 0.98

00:36:41.700 No.

00:36:43.500 I guess we could end the question there.

00:36:44.880 No, they're not.

00:36:45.560 They resemble women. 0.98

00:36:46.960 In some ways, they function like women. 1.00

00:36:48.580 But they are not women. 1.00

00:36:49.720 And what we're confusing is a kind of utilitarian, functional definition of what a woman is

00:36:57.340 to what sex actually means.

00:37:00.560 So women aren't just sort of machines and vessels for bearing children. 1.00

00:37:06.120 They're not just instruments for our own pleasure.

00:37:08.080 I mean, these days, we treat them that way.

00:37:09.880 That's what the surrogate movement is all about,

00:37:12.000 is basically paying desperate women to carry our babies 0.99

00:37:15.000 because we don't want to do it ourselves or we can't do it ourselves.

00:37:17.780 But women are not just instruments for our own desires. 1.00

00:37:25.420 Women are human beings with equal dignity. 0.98

00:37:28.340 That's why the sexual difference between men and women 1.00

00:37:32.680 comes in the first few chapters of Genesis.

00:37:35.540 It's why the sexual difference between men and women 0.99

00:37:37.320 is the essence of the story of Gilgamesh,

00:37:39.480 another foundational story of human nature.

00:37:42.120 It's why it's true of every foundational story of mankind.

00:37:44.860 Sexual difference is foundational to who we are.

00:37:49.760 And speaking of Genesis, it's why women are plucked, 1.00

00:37:52.620 the eve is plucked from Adam's rib.

00:37:54.900 She's not plucked from his head.

00:37:56.500 She's not superior to Adam.

00:37:57.840 She's not plucked from his feet.

00:37:59.360 She's not inferior to Adam.

00:38:01.040 She's plucked from his rib.

00:38:02.320 She has equal dignity to Adam.

00:38:05.120 And you can't change that.

00:38:07.200 You can't change your sex, which is so foundational. 1.00

00:38:10.480 It is a part of who you are.

00:38:12.720 You can't just change it by getting cosmetic surgery.

00:38:15.620 You can't even just change it by turning yourself,

00:38:18.500 in some scientific future,

00:38:20.640 into a plausible vessel for carrying children.

00:38:23.200 It goes deeper than that.

00:38:24.480 I mean, the scientific example today would be,

00:38:26.700 it goes down to our chromosomes.

00:38:28.820 And spiritually and metaphysically,

00:38:30.640 that tells us just how essential sexual difference is,

00:38:34.500 even to our spirit.

00:38:35.440 From Joshua.

00:38:38.720 What are some musicals that you have enjoyed?

00:38:41.160 I find it more difficult these days to find non-PC ones.

00:38:44.640 Yeah, musicals these days are pretty bad.

00:38:46.880 I don't really go see many.

00:38:48.280 My favorite musical is Guys and Dolls,

00:38:50.280 one of the all-time great musicals.

00:38:51.940 You probably, well, speaking of gender difference,

00:38:53.860 you probably can't even do that today,

00:38:55.180 because it suggests that there are such things as guys and dolls.

00:38:58.440 But I love it.

00:38:59.260 It was the first musical I ever did when I was a kid.

00:39:01.680 I'll let you guess which role I played.

00:39:03.360 And it's just one of the great ones, you know.

00:39:06.360 And there's a great film adaptation of it

00:39:08.040 with Marlon Brando and Frank Sinatra.

00:39:10.480 And it takes place in New York.

00:39:12.520 There's wonderful music to it.

00:39:14.220 It's fun.

00:39:15.220 It's not trying to be more than it is.

00:39:17.040 These days, musicals tend to have

00:39:19.600 this kind of PC social justice aspect to them.

00:39:25.000 But that's because musicals are dead.

00:39:26.820 So musicals really thrived in the middle of the 20th century.

00:39:30.380 Think of all those great musicals

00:39:31.640 so the 40s through the 60s.

00:39:34.000 And then they kind of died.

00:39:35.360 I mean, there were some good ones since then,

00:39:36.820 but just not very many.

00:39:38.720 And it's true of the movies.

00:39:39.780 You know, there were great movies,

00:39:40.740 and then the movies died,

00:39:41.600 and now the movies are all just regurgitating

00:39:43.300 ideological messages.

00:39:45.220 Art forms are born, they rise, and they die,

00:39:47.720 and that's what happened to musicals.

00:39:49.260 From Tony.

00:39:50.640 Do you think that President Trump

00:39:52.040 has a punk rock appeal

00:39:53.600 that is going to help the conservative movement

00:39:55.580 win the younger generation?

00:39:57.860 Tony.

00:39:58.120 He does, in a certain sense. 0.95

00:40:00.680 Millennials hate his guts.

00:40:01.900 I noticed that Gen Z seems to like him 0.70

00:40:04.040 a little bit more than millennials do, 0.89

00:40:05.680 because Gen Z is cooler than millennials.

00:40:08.020 He does have a punk rock appeal

00:40:09.820 in that he's contrarian.

00:40:11.980 He bucks the pop culture.

00:40:14.760 He bucks what all of the scolds 0.97

00:40:17.060 of the mainstream media

00:40:18.160 and the mainstream culture are telling him to do.

00:40:20.300 So I think that's cool.

00:40:22.980 I don't know that it's going to win him

00:40:24.640 young voters today, though.

00:40:26.540 I think it's going to win him

00:40:27.800 young voters retrospectively.

00:40:29.440 You know, I'm old enough to remember

00:40:30.680 when George Bush was Hitler. 0.63

00:40:32.580 Now everyone longs for George Bush.

00:40:34.700 All the Democrats love George Bush.

00:40:36.560 I mean, they did call him Hitler.

00:40:38.480 They drew swastikas over his face

00:40:40.140 and gave him little mustaches

00:40:41.120 when he was in office,

00:40:42.380 but now he's a great guy.

00:40:43.900 And I'm old enough to remember

00:40:44.740 when they did that to John McCain

00:40:45.940 and when he was running for president

00:40:47.700 and failed to win.

00:40:49.280 And so they're doing it to Trump now.

00:40:50.860 In the future, though,

00:40:52.300 people are going to cool off

00:40:53.320 and they're going to realize

00:40:54.940 that Trump wasn't Hitler.

00:40:56.840 And then we're going to look

00:40:58.780 at the history of it.

00:41:00.100 And we're going to see that things

00:41:01.380 really did pretty well

00:41:03.140 under President Trump.

00:41:04.360 As far as all the evidence

00:41:05.480 we have right now,

00:41:06.480 things are doing great.

00:41:07.420 The economy is doing great.

00:41:09.140 Our diplomatic relations

00:41:10.300 are doing great,

00:41:11.380 much better than they were

00:41:12.260 under Barack Obama.

00:41:14.360 Things are pretty good overall.

00:41:16.140 And I think that the punk rock appeal

00:41:18.160 is going to be,

00:41:19.100 in retrospect,

00:41:19.880 we're going to say,

00:41:20.300 man, that guy didn't listen

00:41:21.800 to what all the egghead experts

00:41:23.380 were telling him.

00:41:24.280 And he did it his own way.

00:41:25.580 And he listened to the American people

00:41:27.040 and he respected them.

00:41:28.180 And things turned out better.

00:41:29.200 And it's, in many ways,

00:41:30.180 how Ronald Reagan became a saint.

00:41:31.840 When Reagan was in office,

00:41:32.900 a lot of conservatives

00:41:33.560 didn't like him.

00:41:35.180 You know, Bill Buckley liked him

00:41:36.320 at the National Review.

00:41:37.420 But a lot of the rest

00:41:38.700 of that kind of self-appointed

00:41:40.020 conservative movement

00:41:41.460 intelligentsia

00:41:42.240 didn't really care for him.

00:41:43.900 I mean, they would joke.

00:41:45.640 Some people put on

00:41:46.700 the door of the RNC

00:41:47.820 in 1984,

00:41:49.140 draft Bush,

00:41:50.120 because they didn't want Reagan

00:41:51.080 to even run again.

00:41:53.040 And in retrospect, though,

00:41:55.500 because Reagan,

00:41:57.100 in many ways like Trump,

00:41:59.100 bucked the establishment,

00:42:00.620 bucked established norms,

00:42:02.580 and most importantly,

00:42:03.720 because he was successful,

00:42:05.660 he became a model

00:42:07.360 of what a Republican should be

00:42:08.740 and what a Republican

00:42:09.400 should behave like

00:42:11.060 with regard to

00:42:11.580 the mainstream culture.

00:42:12.660 So I could see that

00:42:13.640 happening with Trump.

00:42:14.340 We're just going to need

00:42:14.940 a few years after he leaves office

00:42:16.780 for that to settle in.

00:42:17.680 From Blake.

00:42:18.480 Michael, as a published author

00:42:21.140 on Democratic politics,

00:42:23.020 in your expert opinion,

00:42:24.680 who do you think

00:42:25.220 will pick up Beto's

00:42:26.380 0.0% of the vote

00:42:28.520 when he drops out?

00:42:30.040 Thanks, Blake.

00:42:31.600 Great question,

00:42:32.700 because Beto's polling numbers

00:42:34.460 have a lot in common

00:42:35.660 with the word count

00:42:36.620 of my book,

00:42:38.020 Reasons to Vote for Democrats,

00:42:39.240 a comprehensive guide.

00:42:41.820 Both of those word counts

00:42:43.800 are,

00:42:44.560 they thoroughly describe

00:42:45.780 the appeal of Beto

00:42:47.380 and of the Democratic Party.

00:42:49.360 So,

00:42:50.440 I suspect

00:42:51.600 that his 0.0%

00:42:53.840 is going to go

00:42:54.520 to Eric Swalwell.

00:42:56.180 Obviously,

00:42:56.660 he's my preferred candidate,

00:42:57.760 and I actually think

00:42:58.420 that 0.0% 0.71

00:42:59.700 has already gone

00:43:00.400 to Eric Swalwell,

00:43:02.080 so I think that prediction

00:43:02.840 also was correct.

00:43:04.040 From Brayden.

00:43:04.960 Hi, Michael.

00:43:06.180 I have friends

00:43:06.840 that I share

00:43:07.200 Daily Wire episodes with,

00:43:08.720 and they listen

00:43:09.240 and they say back to me

00:43:10.260 that some of it

00:43:11.120 they agree with,

00:43:11.840 but much of it

00:43:12.320 is opinionated statements

00:43:13.800 that aren't based on facts.

00:43:15.900 They say,

00:43:16.380 you don't mention truthfully

00:43:17.880 what the other side

00:43:18.680 really thinks,

00:43:19.800 acknowledging what

00:43:20.420 the more moderate Democrats,

00:43:21.540 the ones that don't

00:43:22.160 get media attention,

00:43:22.920 are saying.

00:43:23.300 What do you think about this?

00:43:24.140 Thanks, Brayden.

00:43:25.140 Well, those are two criticisms,

00:43:26.300 so you've got to

00:43:26.800 separate them out.

00:43:27.880 On one,

00:43:28.780 they're saying that

00:43:29.500 what I say

00:43:30.540 isn't based on facts,

00:43:32.460 and then the second criticism

00:43:34.420 is that I don't show

00:43:35.700 the more moderate Democrats.

00:43:37.600 So, for the first one,

00:43:38.700 when they say that,

00:43:39.560 they say,

00:43:39.780 what you're saying

00:43:40.180 isn't based on facts,

00:43:41.880 it's very simple.

00:43:42.940 You should ask them

00:43:43.800 to refute what I'm saying.

00:43:46.520 Now, part of

00:43:47.400 what I suspect

00:43:48.420 their confusion is

00:43:49.200 is that they don't know

00:43:49.920 what an opinion is

00:43:50.740 because a lot of people

00:43:51.520 don't know what opinions are.

00:43:52.920 People think that

00:43:53.600 there are facts

00:43:54.400 which are factual

00:43:55.180 and then opinions

00:43:56.140 which are not factual,

00:43:57.620 but that isn't true.

00:43:58.800 There are facts

00:43:59.520 which are factual.

00:44:00.640 There are opinions

00:44:01.580 which are statements

00:44:03.600 of fact

00:44:04.540 from an individual's

00:44:06.220 point of view,

00:44:07.180 and then there's

00:44:08.400 a third category

00:44:09.040 called preferences.

00:44:09.800 Right, like I prefer

00:44:12.360 vanilla ice cream

00:44:13.700 to chocolate ice cream.

00:44:17.960 Here's an example.

00:44:19.980 Two plus two equals four.

00:44:21.140 That's a fact.

00:44:22.520 I think that two plus two

00:44:24.260 equals four.

00:44:25.200 That's an opinion.

00:44:26.880 I prefer chocolate ice cream

00:44:28.860 to vanilla.

00:44:29.820 That's a preference.

00:44:31.280 It's not based on a fact.

00:44:32.560 It's based on my own taste,

00:44:33.840 and about taste,

00:44:34.740 there can be no disagreement.

00:44:36.720 There can't be arguing.

00:44:37.340 So, I think people

00:44:40.840 confuse that a little bit.

00:44:42.380 Just ask them

00:44:43.140 with the facts.

00:44:43.820 Ask them,

00:44:44.420 well, what fact do you have

00:44:45.680 that refutes

00:44:46.440 what these shows say?

00:44:48.640 As for not showing

00:44:49.720 the more moderate Democrats,

00:44:50.880 I think we do that.

00:44:52.120 I mean, I think we,

00:44:52.880 when George Shultz

00:44:53.460 was running for office,

00:44:54.700 when he was briefly

00:44:55.320 running for president,

00:44:56.500 I showed that a bunch,

00:44:58.240 and I said,

00:44:58.840 here are some of the Democrats,

00:45:00.060 but here's why

00:45:01.020 they're being overshadowed.

00:45:03.200 Actually, this whole week

00:45:04.180 I've been talking about

00:45:04.920 how the more moderate,

00:45:06.220 and I put that in quotes,

00:45:07.020 because the Democratic Party

00:45:08.840 actually objectively

00:45:10.040 has moved much further

00:45:11.920 to the left,

00:45:12.640 so there aren't really

00:45:13.720 that many moderates anymore.

00:45:15.140 There used to be

00:45:15.600 what were called

00:45:16.020 blue dog Democrats,

00:45:17.460 conservatives.

00:45:18.360 Now, there are only

00:45:19.020 a handful of them,

00:45:19.980 like Joe Manchin

00:45:20.780 from West Virginia.

00:45:22.960 But even relatively,

00:45:24.400 because moderation is relative,

00:45:26.340 Nancy Pelosi and Joe Biden

00:45:27.980 now represent

00:45:28.600 the kind of moderate wing

00:45:29.680 of the party,

00:45:30.580 and AOC and the squad

00:45:32.320 represents the radical wing,

00:45:33.920 but we've been talking

00:45:34.520 about that disagreement

00:45:35.320 all week,

00:45:36.260 so I just don't think

00:45:37.000 that's a very fair

00:45:38.400 criticism of the show.

00:45:40.180 If they think that

00:45:40.980 there is some huge number

00:45:42.420 of so-called moderate Democrats

00:45:44.340 out there,

00:45:45.140 and just accidentally,

00:45:47.160 very few of them,

00:45:48.020 if any,

00:45:48.480 are running for president,

00:45:49.520 and none of them

00:45:50.420 are dominating

00:45:52.420 the political conversation,

00:45:53.980 please feel free

00:45:54.820 to show me that huge number

00:45:55.880 of moderate Democrats.

00:45:56.840 I haven't seen them.

00:45:57.940 From Grant,

00:45:58.440 Hey Michael,

00:45:59.380 I recently read C.S. Lewis's

00:46:00.660 The Screwtape Letters,

00:46:01.780 and I thought it was

00:46:02.540 a good start for my girlfriend

00:46:03.640 to learn about Christian morals.

00:46:05.340 Turned out she didn't

00:46:06.060 quite understand it.

00:46:07.360 Is this the right literature

00:46:08.240 for that purpose,

00:46:09.020 or can you recommend

00:46:09.780 something more digestible?

00:46:10.920 Keep up the great work,

00:46:11.700 thanks.

00:46:12.100 Coincidentally,

00:46:13.380 I'm actually rereading

00:46:14.360 The Screwtape Letters

00:46:15.180 right now,

00:46:16.880 and it's one of the great books.

00:46:21.240 It's written as this series

00:46:22.760 of letters from a demon,

00:46:23.920 from a little devil,

00:46:25.380 Screwtape,

00:46:26.860 to his nephew,

00:46:29.400 Wormwood.

00:46:30.500 And so he's talking

00:46:31.880 about all the different ways

00:46:33.360 that these devils

00:46:34.700 and demons can go out

00:46:35.960 and steal the souls 0.65

00:46:37.680 from God.

00:46:38.780 Now, obviously,

00:46:39.560 it's written ironically.

00:46:42.720 I mean,

00:46:43.000 he's exposing

00:46:44.940 what the Christian moral view is

00:46:46.720 from the negative,

00:46:48.100 which I think is a really great

00:46:49.540 and creative way

00:46:50.660 to do that.

00:46:51.600 But, you know,

00:46:52.000 it doesn't work for everybody,

00:46:52.800 so if it doesn't work,

00:46:53.620 what I would recommend

00:46:54.400 is C.S. Lewis's other book,

00:46:57.420 probably his most famous book,

00:46:58.880 Mere Christianity. 0.95

00:47:00.020 I think that's just

00:47:00.740 a fabulous introduction

00:47:01.920 to Christianity.

00:47:03.440 It's not terribly humorous.

00:47:05.580 It's not terribly creative.

00:47:08.000 I mean,

00:47:08.180 it just,

00:47:08.480 it really gives

00:47:09.220 a pretty basic introduction

00:47:11.560 to Christianity,

00:47:12.260 and it's very compelling,

00:47:14.020 and it's theologically

00:47:15.340 very advanced,

00:47:17.060 but it can also be read

00:47:18.040 by a three-year-old,

00:47:18.740 so I'd recommend that.

00:47:19.760 But I also highly recommend

00:47:21.400 Screwtape,

00:47:21.880 and that's why I'm reading it,

00:47:23.160 rereading it,

00:47:23.620 again right now.

00:47:24.400 All right,

00:47:24.740 we've got more questions,

00:47:25.600 but too bad,

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00:48:23.600 Hey guys,

00:48:23.940 over on the Matt Wall Show,

00:48:24.820 we're going to discuss

00:48:25.500 tribalistic demagoguery,

00:48:28.140 which is a plague

00:48:30.400 in our society,

00:48:31.440 and it is leading us

00:48:32.700 down a dark path,

00:48:33.880 I believe.

00:48:34.380 Our leaders on both sides,

00:48:35.860 many of them,

00:48:37.480 are nothing but

00:48:38.160 tribalistic demagogues,

00:48:39.720 and they seem eager

00:48:40.600 to encourage radicalism,

00:48:42.980 chaos,

00:48:44.200 civil unrest.

00:48:45.800 So we'll discuss that.

00:48:46.700 Also,

00:48:46.940 Scarlett Johansson

00:48:48.020 has run afoul

00:48:49.040 of the PC mob,

00:48:50.320 and finally,

00:48:51.300 a feminist

00:48:51.880 devised one of the,

00:48:54.520 possibly maybe 0.99

00:48:55.220 the dumbest invention 1.00

00:48:56.500 of all time. 0.99

00:48:57.380 We'll discuss that also today

00:48:58.520 over on the Matt Wall Show.

The Michael Knowles Show - July 18, 2019

Ep. 384 - Send Her Back？ Make Her Speaker!

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