Ep. 821 - ＂Dude, Where's My Laptop？＂ Starring Hunter Biden
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Hunter Biden lost another laptop to the Russians, according to a new video of him complaining to one of his hookers. Thank goodness the adults are back in charge. Check out this episode of The Michael Knowles Show wherever you get your shows.
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Inflation has hit record highs. The Taliban is chasing the United States out of Afghanistan.
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The American population is dying and Hunter Biden lost another laptop full of compromise to the
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Russians, according to a new video of him complaining to one of his hookers. Thank
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goodness the adults are back in charge. I'm Michael Knowles. This is The Michael Knowles Show.
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Should we start with the hooker? Let's do it. Let's start with the hooker because the adults
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are back in charge. You see, everything was going terribly under Trump and the economy was great and
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our geopolitics had settled down and American confidence was growing again and manufacturing
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was great and wages were up and inflation was down. But then the adults got back in charge and now
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and now Hunter Biden has lost another laptop. This is a pretty crazy story. So it just came out.
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It's a video of Hunter Biden speaking to one of his hookers. For some reason, he videotapes all of
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his crimes. And so this video has come out. This was from a few years ago and he is complaining that
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some Russian drug dealers stole a third laptop of his filled with a Compromat and he doesn't know
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They have videos of me doing like a couple of crazy
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So they've got videos of me doing crazy effing sex.
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I don't want to go to this app you said before you met me.
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So it would have been out already, would you say?
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So it wouldn't be because my dad is running for president.
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He also knows that I make like a gazillion dollars.
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Yes. So here we go. Everything, everything that was reported in the New York Post before
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the election that the liberal establishment, the politicians and big tech and the media told
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us was not true. Not only is it all true as we always knew, but we now have video of Hunter
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Biden admitting that it's all true in one conversation with a hooker. So he's actually
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showing you that it's all true while he's saying it's all true. This is the third laptop that's gone
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missing. Thank goodness that the adults are back in charge. I would recommend to Hunter that he
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stop recording himself committing all of these crimes. But this is a, this is a very big problem
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because if Don Jr. Blew his nose the wrong way, it was a international news story and it was the
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disgrace to the United States. But Hunter Biden, you don't hear anything about this. He's admitting
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that he makes a gazillion dollars. How's he making a gazillion dollars? He doesn't have any skills and
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he doesn't work. So he's obviously making a gazillion dollars by selling his father's name and
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trading on his father's influence in the U S government. Are they going to blackmail him?
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He's admitting that they're going to blackmail him. Who is it? It's the Russians. We were told
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for the entire Trump administration that he was compromised by the Russians. It turns out actually
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it's the Bidens who are compromised by the Russians. And where is this now? We're not hearing anything
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about it when you tried to not only post this on social media during the election, but even privately
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message it. You were not permitted to do that. This is being completely suppressed by the establishment.
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Well, what does it mean? What does it mean? What is being done right now because of this blackmail?
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Speaking of the birds and the bees, speaking of the birds and the bees, the American population is
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dying. People are not having babies anymore. This has been a trend since the 1970s, but it's really
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ticked up in recent years. And one of the reasons for that is climate hysteria at which, by the way,
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you know, I hate to say that I told you so. I called this years ago and I talked about it a few
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months ago again on the show. People are so ginned up about the sun monster and they're so afraid that
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the sun monster is going to kill everybody that they're actually right now not having children.
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They're not growing the population. Well, it turns out that analysts, even from highfalutin investment
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banks agree with me. A recent investor note from Morgan Stanley analyst said, quote,
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The movement to not have children owing to fears over climate change is growing and impacting fertility
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rates quicker than any preceding trend in the field of fertility decline. So this hysteria about the
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weather killing everyone is causing a decline in fertility more than stagnant economies, more than
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wars, more than the last environmental scale, a scare that nonsense about overpopulation that cropped up
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in the 1970s that turned out to be completely bogus. The United States birth rate last year
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fell by 4%. That's a huge number. Everyone said there was going to be a COVID baby boom. I actually
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participated in what there may have been of the COVID baby boom. My cute little baby is evidence of that.
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But as a population matter, it actually fell by 4%. That means that regardless of all the other issues
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we can worry about, immigration, wars, the economy, all this, the country is literally dying. There are just
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fewer people being born. And this is affecting different demographics differently. Speaking of population
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decline, it turns out that the white population is declining precipitously. The share of the white population in
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this country fell for the first time in American history. It fell from 63.7% in 2010 to 57.8% in 2020.
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That's the lowest on record. It's because of falling birth rates, specifically among white women
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compared to Hispanic and Asian women. The number, the number, just the raw number of white people,
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non-Hispanic white people shrank from 196 million in 2010 to 191 million today. And as you might expect,
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liberals are celebrating this, which is so funny. It's so funny because I don't know if you've been
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paying attention to the news over the past six or eight months, but there is this new narrative in
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the news that if you observe that the white, the white percentage of the population and the raw number
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of white people is shrinking, that you are a conspiracy theorist, you are a racist, you are a
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white supremacist. They call this the great replacement, crazy conspiracy theory, and you're
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basically no better than Hitler if you suggest that. But if you're a liberal who acknowledges all
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these things and celebrates it, that's very good. Jennifer Rubin, who used to pretend to be a
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conservative columnist at the Washington Post, now I think she's basically open about being a liberal
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columnist. She tweets out this article and she says, quote, a more diverse, more inclusive society.
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This is fabulous news. Now we need to prevent minority white rule.
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Of course, it is cliche. I shouldn't even say it. I'm sorry. I don't even want to say it. But
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of course, if any columnist said this about any other racial group, they would be called a vile,
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vicious racist and rightly so. But Jennifer Rubin, because she's saying it about white people,
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is not called that. Imagine, I can't, I hate this because truly conservatism is going to die
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because we keep playing these hypotheticals and say, well, you know, if the shoe was on the other
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foot. But, you know, if she tweeted out because the, let's say the black population was decreasing,
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a more diverse, more inclusive society, this is fabulous news. Now we need to prevent minority
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black rule. Obviously, she'd be run out of town. She'd have her entire career destroyed. But because
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it's against white people, it's perfectly fine. Jennifer Rubin is not the only person saying this.
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You hear it actually from elected Democrats. Ilhan Omar just some months ago came out and said,
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this is not, not going to, this country is not for white people and white people better pack up
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and head on out. This is not going to be the country of white people. So, and there are so many
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more examples of this. So from what I can conclude, if you say that white people are diminishing as a
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portion of the population and you suggest that either that's neutral or, or a bad thing,
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you're a vile, vicious conspiracy theorist, racist. If you make the exact same observation,
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but you celebrate it, you are a good, wonderful person who supports diversity and a thriving
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America. Probably not, probably not great for our country to have elites cheering on the decline of,
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of a large segment of the country. Probably not the best thing for the country as a whole. But
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Ring.com slash Knowles. Inflation for businesses. So we're not talking about inflation generally.
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We're just talking about inflation for businesses. Costs for businesses have reached a year over
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year rate. Do you want to guess? Do you want to guess what inflation was for businesses last year?
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What would you say? 2%, 3%, 7.8% in July, 7.8%. This is the highest level ever recorded.
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You'll recall in July, President Biden put out a tweet and he said, happy 4th of July. You're so
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lucky that I'm the president now because the cost of your 4th of July barbecue has decreased by 16
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cents. They actually put this out. So it's decreased by 16 cents. Cost of everything else
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is up 7.8%. But you know, hey, at least you saved 16 cents. So the Bureau of Labor Statistics
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showed that this producer price index, not the consumer price index, but the producer price index,
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which tracks changes in input prices for the businesses and for domestic producers,
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has increased just this month by a full percent. So inflation going through the roof,
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inflation generally, including for consumers, also is up at recent record highs. The inflation rate in
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July remained at 5.4%. That matches June's levels, year over year inflation in June, obviously reached
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5.4%. This is the highest rate since the great recession that began in 2007 and 2008. It's not
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just Republicans who are worried about these scare statistics. Even some Democrats are doing that,
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including Joe Manchin. So Joe Manchin, who I think may be the last semi-moderate Democrat in the
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entire country. Kyrsten Sinema, the senator from Arizona, a little bit as well. But basically Manchin,
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as far as I can tell, there are three groups in the Democratic Party now. It's the progressives,
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it's the super progressives, and it's Joe Manchin. Those are the three factions of the party.
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Joe Manchin asked the Federal Reserve to stop printing all this money because when you just print money
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endlessly, eventually you're going to get some inflation. The Federal Open Market Committee,
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which oversees the execution of monetary policy, has refused to amend its near zero interest rates
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or scale back its $120 billion in monthly asset purchases. Here's what Joe Manchin said to the Fed.
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He said, quote, the record amount of stimulus in the economy has led to the most inflation momentum
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in 30 years, and our economy has not even fully reopened yet. I am deeply concerned that the
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continuing stimulus put forth by the Fed and proposal for additional fiscal stimulus will lead
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to our country overheating and to unavoidable inflation taxes that hardworking Americans cannot
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afford. So this ends up being a tax, not on the rich, not on the people who need to pay their fair
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share. This ends up being a tax on everybody, and it disproportionately hits the middle class
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and working classes. So really bad situation for Americans who are already feeling the squeeze
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because the government wouldn't let them go to work for a year. Also, and I suspect this is a little
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bit of what Joe Manchin is seeing here. When we just print money endlessly, when we just inflate
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the dollar or inflate the economy, this weakens our argument against China, right? So we make this
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argument against China. We say China is illegitimately manipulating its currency.
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That's a very bad thing. It shouldn't be doing that. We're doing the same thing. China is
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violating various sort of trade agreements. Okay, well, if we're tinkering with our economy in this
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way, we're doing similar sorts of measures. Well, China this, China that, China this, China that.
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There's a, there's a great old blues song sort of popularized in the last few years by Eric Clapton,
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before you accuse me, take a look at yourself. And that's what Joe Manchin is doing. That's what
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Republicans are doing right now. But it doesn't matter. We're just going on and on. And China's
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spying on its citizens. Yeah, we would never do that, right? The United States would never,
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oh, it turns out actually the NSA is spying on Tucker Carlson and every gizmo and gadget that we have
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is spying on all the rest of us, including our microwaves in our refrigerators. China has a social
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credit score. Oh yeah, we would never have that, right? We would never ostracize people and
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deplatform them and take away their ability to use financial institutions and put them on the no-fly
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list just because they're political dissidents, right? Oh, wait a second. We're doing the exact
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same thing. Really weakens our argument on the foreign stage. And speaking of our adversaries,
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we're looking really, really weak on the foreign stage right now because, I mentioned this at the
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end of the show yesterday, we just officially lost the war in Afghanistan. Soldiers didn't lose the
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war. Soldiers did a great job. Soldiers are the toughest fighting force in the world, but the
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political leadership did. And now we're being chased out by the Taliban. So the United States
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is evacuating Afghanistan. The United States is pulling out somewhat rapidly under Joe Biden.
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This sort of began under Trump, but it's continuing under Biden. And as the United States leaves,
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the Taliban is just coming back and taking over all these cities. Much faster, actually,
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than Joe Biden told us would happen. So actually, now the United States needs to send 3,000 soldiers
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back into Afghanistan just to make sure that our embassy officials and our remaining soldiers and our
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translators aren't slaughtered by the Taliban before they can all get out. Afghan government forces,
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according to the Associated Press, are collapsing even faster than U.S. military leaders thought
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possible. The Taliban, which ruled the country from 1996 until after the United States invasion,
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after 9-11, has captured three more provincial capitals Wednesday. Probably that number is even
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higher now. I haven't checked in the last hour. The 10th and 11th cities that the insurgents have
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taken in a week-long sweep that has given them control of two-thirds of the country,
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which is more or less what they had before 9-11. Joe Biden, of course, the adult in charge.
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Finally, we've got stable leadership. He told us that this was not going to happen.
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How serious was the corruption among the Afghanistan government to this mission failing there?
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Well, first of all, the mission hasn't failed yet. There is, in Afghanistan,
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in all parties, there's been corruption. The question is, can there be an agreement on unity
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of purpose? What is the objective? For example, it started off, there were going to be negotiations
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between the Taliban and the Afghan National Security Forces and the Afghan government that
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that didn't come to fruition. So the question now is, where do they go from here? The jury is still
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out, but the likelihood there's going to be the Taliban overrunning everything and owning the whole
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country is highly unlikely. Highly, highly unlikely. It's highly unlikely. It happened immediately, but it's
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highly, highly unlikely. Oh, this will just two weeks to slow the spread. Oh, Hunter Biden didn't
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lose his laptop to the Russians. Oh, this, that, and the other thing. Is it any wonder that these
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people have no credibility whatsoever? Don't worry, though. Don't worry. The United States has a
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strategy. They know how they are going to stop the Taliban from overrunning the country and undoing 20
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years of whatever we've been trying to do in Afghanistan. Do you know how they're going to do it?
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But it's not the 3,000 troops. That's just to get our guys out of there without them being
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slaughtered. The way they're going to do it, and this is really, I did not expect this strategy.
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They are going to tweet at the Taliban, Taliban known for its Twitter presence. They are going to
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tweet snarky hashtags. And that, that, oh, you thought 20 years of military action and occupation was
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going to do it. No, no, no. The Twitter hashtag will. Quote, this is from the U.S. Embassy in Kabul.
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Escalating Taliban violence, including executions of surrendered Afghan troops,
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shows a lack of respect for hashtag human rights. Don't erase Afghanistan's human rights gains of the
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last 20 years. Yeah. What are you going to do with that, Taliban? Yeah. What are you going to do with
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that, huh? You know, frankly, I wish, I wish that we had known about this in 2001 and 2002. I guess
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Twitter didn't exist in 2001 and 2002. Would have saved us a whole lot of time and money and treasure
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and blood and effort in Afghanistan to accomplish, as far as I can tell, absolutely nothing. This is very
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sad. This is very sad for American servicemen who served in Afghanistan.
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What was accomplished? The one thing you could say was accomplished is that we killed Osama bin
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Laden, but we got him in Pakistan. We didn't even get him in Afghanistan. We got him many years later,
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but okay, let's say that's it. You go, you kill Osama bin Laden. Great. So, so what are we doing? I
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guess in a moment of candor, if you really, if you got a few drinks in the state department officials
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who have been sort of managing this thing or the Pentagon officials, probably what they would tell
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you is we're just treating Afghanistan as a sort of overseas imperial territory, and we're just going
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to be there and we're just going to kind of manage it. They probably wouldn't tell you this on
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television because I don't think the American people want an overseas empire in Afghanistan. And by the
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way, Afghanistan is known as the graveyard of empires. But to what end? What, what's the point?
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What does victory even look like? The United States has not been able to define that in at least a
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Obviously on the foreign policy front, obviously on the economic front, obviously the population's
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literally dying. That's not good. And if you ask the Democrat ruling class for an answer for all of
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this madness, do you know what they're going to tell you? They're going to tell you they're doing
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people are actually just envious of the way that Democrats are running this country? So wind Governor
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Gavin Newsom of California just the other day. Well, let's talk about what we all saw number one
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pride in this state as a California, not as a, I'm a future ex governor. It could happen in a few
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weeks, could happen in a few years. But I love this damn state. We're number one in job creation,
00:24:17.180
tentpole the Americano, 559,000 jobs. Eat your heart out, Texas, Florida. It'd be damn nice
00:24:23.760
if our homegrown teams start focusing on what's right. Everybody outside this state is bitching
00:24:31.280
about this state because of our success. And I'm proud of it. I'm not naive about our competitive
00:24:36.380
liabilities. And that's why we're trying to address them. Yeah, that that's why that's why
00:24:42.740
everybody's talking about California is because of your success, your success at spiking the crime
00:24:47.600
rate, your success at having record levels of homelessness, your success at such extraordinarily
00:24:52.900
high taxes and regulations that not just conservative businesses like my business that moved out of here.
00:24:58.340
That's why I now live in Tennessee. But even liberal businesses are fleeing the state because they can't do
00:25:03.180
business anymore. Your success at locking people in their homes, shutting down their churches,
00:25:08.780
completely upending their way of life. Meanwhile, subsidizing crime all over this. That's why.
00:25:14.980
That's why everyone is fleeing your state. He's obviously feeling the heat right now.
00:25:23.060
And he's feeling the heat because you had a couple of candidates who were sort of unknown,
00:25:27.400
little known Republicans in California who were not going to pose a big challenge to Gavin Newsom
00:25:31.320
as a recall effort. Then you had the Bruce Jenner thing, which was obviously a sideshow. It was
00:25:36.160
one of the greatest gifts you could possibly give the Democrats that Bruce Jenner running and splitting
00:25:41.560
the Republican Party. But then you had Larry Elder throw his hat in the race. And Larry Elder is a
00:25:47.940
pretty mainstream guy. And Larry Elder's got a lot of name recognition. And Larry Elder can raise a lot
00:25:52.600
of money. He's been raising millions and millions of dollars. And Larry Elder is very likable.
00:25:56.480
And Larry Elder is quite conservative, though, you know, he's still somewhat libertarian. He's
00:26:02.240
still a little bit more in that acceptable, moderate California wing. He's a real candidate,
00:26:07.940
is what I'm saying. And Gavin Newsom is obviously feeling the heat from that. And so I think this
00:26:13.820
performance that he's put on is a combination of genuine desperation, but also some campaign
00:26:19.120
advisor saying, Gavin, you got to get tough. People want you to be tough. And it's not working
00:26:24.800
very, very well. And it's not working well, not because of the lack of a performance. You know,
00:26:31.060
Gavin Newsom is a slick politician. He's obviously made it very far. He's talented as far as politicians
00:26:35.520
go. It's not working because at a certain point, you can't deny reality. At a certain point,
00:26:43.960
the liberal establishment, which controls the media, controls every form of communication,
00:26:49.540
it lies and lies. And right now it's lying about COVID numbers among children, hospitalizations
00:26:55.180
among children. That's another story that just came out. The reason for this, of course, is that
00:26:58.420
one of the arguments against forcing kids to mask in schools and forcing young kids to get the vaccine
00:27:03.420
is that the virus doesn't pose a particularly lethal threat. Well, now major news organizations
00:27:07.580
are having to admit that they're actually inflating the numbers of child hospitalizations from COVID
00:27:12.180
because that would be a way to promote this narrative. But even that's falling apart because we've got
00:27:17.460
eyes and we see what's going on and we see what we're paying at the grocery store and we see what
00:27:21.380
we're paying at the gas tank and we see our troops being chased out of Afghanistan because of failed
00:27:25.800
political leadership. And we just see it. We just see it. We see the crime on the streets in L.A.
00:27:30.500
My neighbor, I lived in a pretty nice neighborhood in L.A. I had a little tiny apartment like a lot of
00:27:34.620
people do in L.A., but it was supposed to be a nice neighborhood. It became a homeless camp by the
00:27:38.400
time I left. Even then, every other neighborhood basically was like that. So it's just, they just can't
00:27:45.740
sell it anymore. They just, even, even when they try to affect their plans, their schemes in the
00:27:52.660
dead of night, even that I think people are keeping their eyes open, especially Senator Cruz. Senator
00:27:58.920
Cruz, I don't just say it because he's a friend of mine. I don't just say it because we host a show
00:28:03.960
together. He did some truly magnificent senatoring this week and it happened in the dead of night.
00:28:11.540
So a lot of people didn't pay attention to it. There was a bill. It was the number one
00:28:15.640
priority for Democrats. H.R. 1, the first house resolution and S.1, the first Senate resolution.
00:28:21.780
It's called the For the People Act. That's what they call it. It's really the Corrupt Politicians
00:28:25.300
Act. It's a way to federalize federal elections or federalize rather congressional elections and some
00:28:30.120
others and take away election integrity measures and just try to make it so that politicians can't be
00:28:35.300
booted from office. And Chuck Schumer, because he's a really smart, clever politician and a good
00:28:39.580
tactician, he tried to ram this thing through in the dead of night and he very well could have
00:28:44.900
gotten it through. You needed one objection to stop it. And Senator Cruz, because he's a little bit,
00:28:51.100
I say this with great love, he's a little bit of a nerd. He knows the rules. He knows the way these
00:28:54.700
procedures work. Senator Cruz caught him and he stood up to offer that objection and he single-handedly
00:29:00.320
stopped possibly the most corrupt legislation that's gone through the Congress in my lifetime.
00:29:06.000
This bill would constitute a federal government takeover of elections. It would constitute a
00:29:13.540
massive power grab by Democrats. It would disenfranchise millions of Americans. And it would do precisely
00:29:21.660
the opposite of its nominal title for the people. It is instead for the politicians because it
00:29:29.700
entrenches politicians and ensures that the people cannot vote them out of office. It would strike
00:29:36.200
down virtually every reasonable voter integrity law in the country, including voter ID laws supported by
00:29:42.960
the overwhelming majority of this country, including prohibitions on ballot harvesting, again, widely
00:29:48.680
supported by people in this country. It would mandate that felons be allowed to vote and it would
00:29:54.300
automatically register millions of illegal aliens to vote. It would profoundly undermine democracy in
00:30:00.400
this country. And for that reason, I object. For that reason, I object. A lot of things going
00:30:06.220
terribly wrong in this country, but there are a few people paying attention, a few, and all it takes is a
00:30:11.920
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00:30:16.580
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00:31:39.100
Welcome back to my favorite time of the week, The Mailbag. Josiah writes, Dear Michael,
00:31:44.580
My wife and I have been married for 10 years. We have a nine-year-old daughter. We've made it this
00:31:50.160
long, but we disagree on politics and religion. Ooh, stuff. I'm a conservative and she's a liberal.
00:31:55.700
Though she says she believes in God, she has no interest in praying, going to church, or reading
00:31:58.940
the Bible with me. As our daughter has gotten older, we've clashed more and more regarding what
00:32:03.480
and how we want to teach her, and it's becoming very difficult to find common ground. Any thoughts?
00:32:08.240
Thank you. Well, you're in a tough position, and you're in a tough position because the answer
00:32:16.820
to your problem actually lies in a kind of broad worldview and specifically in religion.
00:32:26.120
And because your wife and you disagree on that, really what you're saying is you disagree on marriage
00:32:31.920
itself because conservatives have, generally speaking, a different view of marriage than liberals
00:32:36.960
do. And Christians certainly have a different view of marriage than modern secularists do.
00:32:41.620
And so the short answer to your question is you need to be the head of your household.
00:32:47.960
And this entails you loving your wife. This entails you being a good steward, loving your wife as Christ
00:32:54.000
loves the church, which is no small request. But it also gives you the responsibility of making
00:33:02.040
these sorts of decisions and leading your household. However, your wife may disagree with that
00:33:07.460
because your wife is more liberal and because perhaps your wife is irreligious, though maybe she
00:33:14.120
would say otherwise. So it remains true. The only way out of this is for you to lead your household
00:33:20.740
and to either through persuasion or confidence or just plain old-fashioned leadership, persuade your
00:33:29.100
wife, you know, bring your wife along on that. But it's very important that you give your daughter
00:33:35.440
a view of the world. Your daughter's going to have some view of the world. She's either going to have
00:33:38.560
your view of the world or your wife's view of the world or some completely separate view of the world.
00:33:43.860
But there's no middle ground between I'm a Christian and I'm an atheist. The middle ground is
00:33:51.460
like Buddhism. I don't know. There isn't a middle ground. You just have to make a decision. I know
00:33:57.520
that we're all very nice these days and we all want to just get along with everyone and no one wants to
00:34:02.140
say no to anything. But no, some things are true and some things are false and some things are good and
00:34:06.720
some things are bad and some things are right and some things are wrong. And you have to come down on
00:34:10.660
the side of that. And it's very hard because by the way, when we say that the husband has to be the
00:34:15.740
head of his household, this is generally speaking not something that men are clamoring to do. I think
00:34:20.440
there's this idea that men are all just knuckle-dragging monsters who all they want to do is boss
00:34:24.280
everyone around like Caligula or something. But that isn't the case. In my experience and knowing my
00:34:29.820
friends as well, mostly what men want to do is lie on the couch and eat potato chips. I would say that
00:34:35.820
would be the main thing we want. We don't actually want the responsibility of making all of
00:34:40.240
these decisions. I get into this disagreement with my wife sometimes and she's always right.
00:34:46.780
We'll be talking about, okay, we've got one night off. Maybe there's a babysitter or something. We're
00:34:50.580
going to go out to dinner. What do you want for dinner? I don't know. Maybe, what do you want,
00:34:54.520
Italian? I don't know. Maybe Italian. Maybe do Chinese. I don't know. What do you want? What do you
00:34:58.060
want? What do you want? What do you want? We'll go back and forth for about 15 hours on this
00:35:02.640
question. What do you want? What do you want? And eventually she'll say, hey, head of household,
00:35:05.720
make a decision already. Genesis three, get it done. Let's go man up. And she's right. But I
00:35:11.980
don't want to do that. And very often, very often men don't want to do that, but you got to buddy. So
00:35:16.200
I, I wish you luck because it's a, I don't mean to make light of your situation. It's pretty tough,
00:35:22.040
but that's what you're called to do. From Sarah. One of my friends is a transgender woman. I, so meaning
00:35:28.900
he's a man who now identifies as a woman. I use his pronouns to his face, but the rest of the time,
00:35:34.780
like now I call him by his proper pronouns. He's a very good friend and I've been able to tolerate
00:35:38.920
his transgenderism because of that. He sent me a text last night saying he just scheduled his
00:35:43.240
appointment for gender reassignment surgery. That is to say, genital mutilation. Up to this point,
00:35:49.000
I've kept my mouth shut because I really can't stand to watch him make this horrible and life
00:35:52.720
altering decision. How should I approach him about this? I care about him and I don't want to see him
00:35:58.080
hurt himself, but he seems pretty dead set on it. Thanks so much. Facing the trans factor,
00:36:01.900
a trademark. Tough situation, actually related, I guess, to the previous question, which is,
00:36:09.080
sometimes love requires people to say difficult things. I'm always reminded of the bio tapestry,
00:36:17.840
which is this wonderful art piece about the battle of Hastings in 1066. And there's a great panel on it
00:36:22.400
where it's a man holding a club and he's smacking other men on the head. And it says, here, Bishop Odo,
00:36:28.680
holding a club comforts the boys. We don't think of comfort as smacking someone on the head with a
00:36:34.520
club, but that's what he was doing because the boys were retreating and Odo said, no, you got to
00:36:37.320
get back into the battle. And sometimes we have to say harsh things. Coincidentally, I actually have
00:36:42.300
a column coming out on this in the Daily Wire today, which is related to Texas's decision to
00:36:48.160
classify a trans surgery for kids as child abuse. And I said, that's good. I'm glad they're banning the
00:36:55.160
trans surgery for kids. Now we ought to do the same for adults. And the reason for that is not
00:36:59.920
because I want to prevent people from following their hearts and their dreams and their passions,
00:37:03.740
but it's because the genital mutilation of transgender surgery is harmful. It's wrong.
00:37:10.240
It isn't right. It is not good for anybody, even the people who are suffering with this delusion that
00:37:16.060
they're women, even if they're actually men. It's not good for anyone. We're calling it child abuse,
00:37:22.660
not only because the children can't consent to it, but because it's an actual mutilation. And so
00:37:26.480
it remains a mutilation for adults. And so what I would recommend, you can send your friend my
00:37:31.740
column when it comes out, but you can also turn him to people who have had immense transgender regret.
00:37:37.600
I'm thinking of people like Walt Heyer. He's become pretty outspoken about this. He was a man who
00:37:43.240
suffered from sexual confusion and gender issues all the way back until he was four years old. And then at
00:37:48.940
the age of 40, he began his process of identifying as transgender. He transitioned, you know, he had
00:37:55.320
the mutilation at 42, and then it didn't solve his problems. For a brief period of time, he thought it
00:38:01.820
did, but it didn't solve his problems. And then at 50, he transitioned back. And you're seeing more and
00:38:06.360
more stories about this. A lot of young people are transitioning back. This is a hideous, faddish
00:38:11.960
ideology that is overtaking people. And I think it's certainly akin to the performance of lobotomies
00:38:20.140
in the previous century, you know, all these quack medical procedures. And so I do fear that your
00:38:24.840
friend will regret this. And I think you ought to just, you ought to just tell him that. And part of
00:38:29.140
the confusion might be that you've indulged his delusions until now, but I don't know that it's an
00:38:33.840
act of respect to indulge people's delusions in this way. I think it might actually be more respectful
00:38:39.160
and be more of an act of love to tell him what you really think. From Camille,
00:38:43.300
Dear Mr. Knowles, with all of the dating advice or tips that exist today, one that keeps popping up
00:38:48.920
is that men will immediately put women in a box of whether they would date this woman, just want to
00:38:54.220
hook up, or have nothing to do with them. Is this true that guys immediately categorize the women they
00:38:59.320
meet and there isn't much a woman can do to change how the men perceive them? Sincerely, nobody puts
00:39:03.960
this baby in a box. It is true that men put women in a box. It is also true that women can do things to
00:39:13.580
change this perception. So they can do things in their general behavior. If a man walks into a party and
00:39:20.780
sees a woman doing a keg stand, you know, in a bikini, being held up by the four brawniest members of the
00:39:27.560
football team, he's probably not going to immediately think, this is wife material. I want
00:39:33.020
this woman to raise my children. Now, it may be the case that plenty of women have done this at some
00:39:40.120
point in their lives, but they don't, you know, you don't want that perception always to be out there.
00:39:45.660
That would be the first part of it. Also, it can be the case that, let's say, you know,
00:39:50.500
the guy sees the girl doing the keg stand with like 15 dudes, like grabbing under her legs and they
00:39:55.140
hook up. But then later on, he realizes this was actually sort of an aberration and this does not
00:40:01.460
represent her general disposition and personality. I have seen, I have seen one night stands turn into
00:40:08.100
weddings. I have, and actually good marriages too. So that can happen as well, but you should be
00:40:14.640
cognizant of the, and I know this is very politically incorrect, but you should be cognizant of the fact
00:40:19.840
that your behavior will play a role in this. It's not just the terrible men and, you know,
00:40:26.140
they're not feminist or woke enough. It's your behavior too that will, that will play a role in
00:40:30.760
this. We all make judgments on a level that is not always totally conscious based on what people
00:40:36.260
are wearing, based on sort of behavior people are engaging, based on the circumstances in which we
00:40:40.400
see people. And so if you are more interested in getting married than just hooking up, which is a good
00:40:47.040
idea, then you should be cognizant of that when you go out, when you dress, when you put yourself in
00:40:51.940
situations. From Evan. Hello, Mr. Knowles. I will be visiting family for the first time since coming
00:40:57.540
out as a conservative and voting for President Trump in 2020. Do you have any tips or tricks to
00:41:02.660
help me get through this? I won't go looking for trouble, but I also won't sit there and take the
00:41:07.360
attacks. I greatly appreciate your advice and I love the show. Thank you. It can be a little tricky
00:41:11.800
because the left is more vindictive than the right. The left is more likely to instigate a political
00:41:21.320
fight at a dinner table than the right. This is always the case. The reason for this, by the way,
00:41:25.740
I'm not even saying it's because of something that's gone totally broken in their souls.
00:41:28.940
It may or may not be, but there's a cultural aspect here too, which is that liberalism is the
00:41:35.480
culture that is the dominant culture. So when you dissent against that, you're the weird one.
00:41:41.800
You are looked on as the heretic. And because the liberal establishment has all of the power,
00:41:48.040
they're just more likely to feel ready to go after you and to persuade you. So I would recommend,
00:41:55.560
sure, don't just take it. Don't say something that you don't believe, obviously. But I would do it with
00:42:00.780
a smile on your face. And I would do it, you know, I would jab a little bit more than I would throw a
00:42:05.560
right hook. I don't think right hooks are great for the dinner table. But little jabs can be perfectly
00:42:09.580
fine if your relatives are really going after you for this. You know, you might mention the fact
00:42:16.620
that Hunter Biden is a criminal degenerate who has given our enemies lots of compromise. And he's
00:42:24.360
at least as corrupt as, well, obviously they're much more corrupt than the Trump family, but
00:42:30.260
equally corrupt perhaps to the Clinton family. Oh, right. That other major democratic family. You know,
00:42:35.820
you can get these little jabs in here of, you know, if they say, oh, everything's so much better
00:42:41.720
under Biden. You say, yeah, you know, it was until I went to fill up my gas tank. Yeah, it was until I
00:42:46.080
went to go by. It was until I went to go to, go out and live my life. I mean, there are all these,
00:42:51.200
but I wouldn't throw that right hook though, because don't forget the purpose of a family event
00:42:55.840
is not to win a political argument. The purpose of a family event is to be with your family and to have a
00:43:01.200
family. And so don't take it, but keep in mind what the, what the goal is. From Garrett, dear
00:43:06.580
quoter of famous theologians, for years I've noticed that, that quotes from various historical
00:43:12.340
figures such as St. Augustine or C.S. Lewis, just roll off your tongue. Do you prepare these quotes
00:43:16.920
in advance or are they just stored in your mind? If stored, how did you compile such an array of
00:43:21.800
quotes and how might you advise one to follow suit sincerely? Would be learner of famous quotes.
00:43:26.240
Well, you know, Winston Churchill said that if a man lacks an education, he ought to get a good book
00:43:32.900
of quotations. And this is true. This is very important. I don't prepare them for the show.
00:43:37.960
I do just have a lot of quotes in my head. In part, this might be because I had a somewhat
00:43:42.380
insufficient education. And so I've really gone looking for little pearls of wisdom elsewhere.
00:43:47.380
And you should do it too. Part of it is, at least when I was in school, maybe it's still true,
00:43:51.840
we had to memorize poetry. I also have worked as an actor before and I always loved that craft as
00:43:59.860
well. And so memorization is a skill that I've worked on a lot. You can work on it too.
00:44:04.840
One thing I would recommend is just memorize a poem every few days. It seems kind of weird,
00:44:10.720
I know, but it's easier to memorize poetry than it is to memorize prose, obviously because there's a
00:44:15.740
rhyme and there's a meter and rhythm to it. And then just, you know, when you come across a good
00:44:21.360
line, whether you're reading it or whether, truly, whether like Churchill, you've got a book of
00:44:25.400
quotations, just record it, highlight it, underline it because it really can beef up some of your
00:44:32.960
arguments when you're having, you know, if I say, for instance, this is my view on taxation because
00:44:38.620
my buddy Joe Schmo said so. Or if you say, this is my view on taxation because St. Augustine said so,
00:44:45.040
that's obviously going to be more persuasive. So just as a tactic, I think it can be very helpful
00:44:49.920
and well worth your time. All right, that's it. That's our show. See you Monday. I'm Michael
00:44:54.060
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