Ep. 831 - Biden Lied, People Died
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A major terror attack rocked Kabul yesterday, hastening the American evacuation even further. At least 12 U.S. servicemen were killed, and Joe Biden just gave a blurred speech blaming everyone but himself. Meanwhile, the cop who killed Ashley Babbitt defends his shot. The New York Times claims California Gov. Larry Elder only got into college because of affirmative action. And the Biden-Harris approval rating plummets.
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Major terror attack rocked Kabul yesterday, hastening the American evacuation even further.
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At least 12 U.S. servicemen were killed. Many Afghans were killed. And Joe Biden just gave
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a blurred speech blaming everyone but himself. The attack was perpetrated by ISIS-K, an offshoot
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of the Islamic State, which is apparently the sworn enemy of the Taliban, which was the sworn
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enemy of the Afghan National Army, our allies, at least our allies, until it ceased to exist.
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Against the Taliban, which is now apparently our ally against ISIS. A changing, confusing,
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infuriating situation, underscoring all the more how little we have to gain from occupying that
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godforsaken country. Meanwhile, the cop who killed Ashley Babbitt defends his shot. The New York Times
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claims California Republican gubernatorial candidate Larry Elder only got into college because of
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affirmative action. They're really heating up the attacks. And the Biden-Harris approval rating
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plummets. I'm Michael Knowles. This is the Michael Knowles Show.
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for supporting the show. I have been more than fair to Joe Biden. For the record, compared I think to
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any other conservative commentator, pundit, talk show host, politician, I have tried to be as
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charitable as I possibly can be to him. I don't think that it's fair to blame him for everything
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in Afghanistan or even most things in Afghanistan. I don't think it's fair to blame him that there was
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any chaos or violence in the withdrawal. I think some chaos and perhaps even some violence were
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probably inevitable. But he has bungled this as much as possible every single step of the way.
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To quote Barack Obama, don't underestimate how much Joe can F things up. And he has. And then he
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finally addressed the nation last night. He was late to the address. And it was, I, it was,
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it was the worst presidential speech I've ever seen in my lifetime. Haven't been on this earth
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too long, but 31 years, been paying attention to politics the whole time. It was the worst I've ever
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seen. It was slurred. It was lethargic. It was meandering. It was weak. It refused to take
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responsibility. Just the open. Just listen to how he begins the speech. A tough day.
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This evening in Kabul, as you all know, terrorists attacked that we've been talking about,
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I'm worried about that the intelligence community has assessed, has undertaken
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an attack by a group known as ISIS-K. Is he awake? Is he even awake here? Or is he just talking?
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That's what I sound like when I talk in my sleep.
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It's not a good way to start. And it does matter. I'm not just taking a cheap shot at him.
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When the United States is attacked, when US servicemen are killed by terrorists in a completely
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avoidable and bungled military operation, you need some energy from the commander in chief.
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You need some clarity. You need some force. And he didn't bring it. Then he confused the whole issue
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by referring to the distinction between the Taliban and ISIS. And how did ISIS get back here? I thought
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he'd beat ISIS. And what is the Taliban doing? And what's the relationship? He left more questions
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than answers. We've been made aware by our intelligence community
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that the ISIS-K, an arch enemy, the Taliban, people who were freed when both those prisons
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were opened, has been planning a complex set of attacks on the United States personnel and others.
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First of all, enough with the Taliban. He calls them the Taliban every single time.
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Only Democrats do this. The conservatives refer to the Taliban because we speak English.
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But the Democrats refer to the Taliban and Pakistan and all these other stupid and Muslim,
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not Muslim, Muslim, because they want to sound cultured or cosmopolitan.
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These are the sort of people who probably go to Italian restaurants and instead of saying,
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hey, I'll have the spaghetti, you know, could you give me a plate of the spaghetti? They'll say,
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oh, thank you. I would have spaghetti a la carbonara, per favore. No, actually they don't do that.
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They just do it with certain words that are non-Western and they think that this makes them
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more serious and cultured. It does not. Speak English, get the point out there.
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Now, Taliban, the Taliban and ISIS and their arch enemies and the ISIS guys got out when those
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prisons were opened up. Who opened the prisons, Joe? The Taliban opened the prisons. The Taliban
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opened the prisons to free the Taliban people, but then the ISIS people got out too. So are they
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arch enemies or are they kind of working together? Do they have a common enemy in the United States?
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All of the above. But now I guess we're told that the Taliban are our allies, which just proves the
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point. What the liberal imperialists who have been pushing this endless war in Afghanistan have been
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telling us is that, look, we've got to go there. There's the good guys. That's the Afghan army. It's
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the allies. And there's the bad guys. That's the Taliban. We're fighting them. We've got to kill
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them all. And then they'll have peace in Afghanistan. And then yesterday we get attacked, not by the
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Taliban, but by ISIS. That's another group. And ISIS is against the Taliban. So now we've got to
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completely switch and say, no, actually the Taliban, they're our allies. They're our friends
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here. The Afghan army doesn't exist. It's just completely folded within hours. So that doesn't
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exist anymore. Now we're friends with the Taliban. So what are we doing? What are we doing? Getting
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out is what we're doing. Joe Biden meanders through this ridiculous speech longer and longer. I won't
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subject you to it. Then he goes and finally takes some questions from the press. So is he taking a
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rousing round of combative questions for, you know, in real time? No, he actually, you
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got to, got to give him credit for transparency. He acknowledges that the questions are pre-approved.
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Ladies and gentlemen, I gave me a list here. The first person I was instructed to call them
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was Kelly O'Donnell of NBC. You have said leaving Afghanistan is in the national interest of the
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United States. They gave me a list here. I have been instructed to call on.
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Instructed by whom? Who are they who tell you to do this? They, the people who instructed you to do
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this are running the country. You manifestly are not. And you're not even competent enough to hide the
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fact that all of this is a show and it's all pre-approved. At least the first questions are.
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He then is asked, uh, actually an excellent reporter here. Uh, it's hard to tell who these
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reporters are because they've got their masks on, but he's, he, he asks him about Bagram. He says,
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hold on. This is the question that my wife asked the other day. My wife who says, I'm no foreign
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policy expert. Okay. I didn't go to West Point, but when you're leaving a country, wouldn't it be smart
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to get the civilians out before the military leaves? Wouldn't that be a smart idea? I don't know.
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Maybe I'm crazy. So this reporter asks that question. Did you personally reject a recommendation
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to hold or to recapture Bagram Air Force Base? Here's what I've done on the, let's ask this,
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answer the last question first. On the tactical questions of how to conduct an evacuation or a war,
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I gather up all the major military personnel that are in Afghanistan, the commanders, as well as the
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Pentagon. And I asked for their best military judgment. What would be the most efficient way
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to accomplish the mission? They concluded the military, the Bagram was not much value added,
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that it was much wiser to focus on Kabul. And so I followed that recommendation.
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Was that, I actually couldn't tell. Was that Wegman? I think it may have been. Excellent question.
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Really excellent question. Terrible answer, but really good question to ask him. Hold on. Was this
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your decision? Are you, the buck stops with you? Are you the one who made this call to abandon the air
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base before, before the air left? Doesn't make sense. And what does Biden do? It's so pathetic.
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He blames his commanders. He says, no, they, they gave me the advice. And so I did what they wanted
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me to do. It's their fault. Don't blame. The buck stops with them. They're the president. It's not my,
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no, buddy, your, your job is to get advice from a lot of different people and then either choose
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whose advice you want to go with or come up with a separate answer yourself. You're the decider.
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Whatever you want to say about George Bush, I think George W. Bush made a lot of mistakes. And I
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think a lot of the problems in Afghanistan are because of him. And a lot of the confusion in
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our foreign policy is because of him. But whatever you want to say about George Bush, at least he was
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the decider. At least he owned his decisions and stood by them. Kind of proof that sometimes a wrong
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decision even can be better than indecision. Biden won't do that. He's got to blame everybody,
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America, a reporter for Fox News, he gets up, asks Biden a question about responsibility.
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Listen, Mr. President, you've been dancing around and evading responsibility for this whole
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debacle. Is this, do you take responsibility for any aspect of the collapse of Afghanistan?
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You set a deadline, you pulled troops out, you sent troops back in, and now 12 Marines are dead. You
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said the buck stops with you. Do you bear any responsibility for the way that things have
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unfolded in the last two weeks? I bear responsibility for fundamentally all that's happened
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of late. But here's the deal. You know, I wish you one day say these things, you know as well as I do
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that the former president made a deal with the Taliban that he would get all American forces
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out of Afghanistan by May 1. In return, the commitment was made, and that was a year before.
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In return, he was given a commitment that the Taliban would continue to attack others, but would not
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attack any American forces. Look, fundamentally, the problem, it all comes back to me. I'm responsible.
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But it was Trump's fault. Democrats always do this. They say, I'm taking full responsibility.
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But really, we all know it was someone else's fault. So they're trying to get credit for taking
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responsibility, but they evade responsibility entirely. By the way, this raises a question.
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A lot of this debacle is because we're pushing down to the end of August or maybe even later.
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If the whole point was that they were going to get the troops out by early May, why didn't they do
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that? If what Biden is saying is, yeah, you know, a lot of the reason that this is so violent and
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there are attacks and everything is because we stayed longer and that's why the Taliban's not
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going to give us another extension. Well, why didn't you just get out when the United States
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said we would then? Wouldn't we have avoided this then? If you're saying that a lot of the reason that
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the Taliban had not been attacking American troops is because of Trump's deal, then why wouldn't you
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continue with that? And then the worst moment of the press conference, then we can move on,
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but the worst moment of the press conference, do not let the left spin this, they're already
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spinning this, is he was asked to follow up by Peter Doocy and Biden was so defeated that he just
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put his head down on his hands. Because before, no, no, no, wait a minute. I'm asking you a question.
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Is that accurate? But Mr. President, respectfully, I don't think that the issue that, do you think
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that people have an issue with pulling out of Afghanistan for just a wave of things that happen?
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So pathetic. He can't, he can't even keep his head up. He can't even keep his eyes open. I mean,
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he was struggling to do that during the speech itself. And now Doocy pushes back at all, very
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simple question. And he puts his head down on his hands. The left is spinning this image. This is a
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devastating image for the Biden administration. And the left is already spinning it and saying that
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he was praying for our troops. That's not what happened. You just heard the clip. He was not,
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he was struggling and failing to answer a simple question by a reporter. Earlier in the speech,
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he said, let's have a moment of silence. But he did. That's not what that image is from. Don't let
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that, I had a blue check mark yesterday. Tell me, oh, no, Michael, you're so callous to make fun of
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this moment. He's praying for the fallen servicemen. He's not. He's praying that the reporter will stop
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asking him tough questions and he's praying that he can get an answer to it. But he can't because there
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is no answer. The chances that this guy gets reelected are collapsing day and day after day
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after day after day, unless there's widespread voter fraud in 2024. If he even runs, there's a
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headline from Yahoo, Yahoo News right now, Yahoo Finance. 2024 odds slide for Biden Harris. Harris leads
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Trump by two percent. Notice anything weird about that headline? Notice anything? The odds slide for
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Biden Harris. Okay, that makes sense. Harris leads Trump by two percent. So they're assuming, first of
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all, that Trump is going to run and that he's going to do very well, actually, right? Because it's neck and
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neck. And they're assuming that Biden will not run for reelection because nobody can listen to that
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speech and think that this guy is even half sentient at this point. He's not. I don't even just mean to
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make fun of him. It's a tough job. Can you imagine? We all have tough jobs, right? I'm sure you, in
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whatever you do in your job, I'm sure you're a good listener to the Michael Knowles show. You've got
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your priorities in order. You probably work very hard. I bet you're tired at the end of the day. I'm tired
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at the end of the day. We all are. And we're not running the world. I guess Joe Biden's not running
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the world either. It's a lot of stress and he just is not living up to it. The only person I've ever
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seen not age in the presidency is Donald Trump. It might've been all of the aspartame from the
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Diet Coke or all the preservatives from the fast food, but the guy looked the same after the
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presidency as he did when he got in. And that's just not true. It wasn't true for Obama. It wasn't
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true for Bush. Certainly isn't true for Biden, who entered the presidency at 102 years old and now
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seems to be 150. Really bad news for them because Biden ain't looking so hot and Harris is profoundly
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unlikable. Trump, speaking of the shadow president, Trump also gave a speech last night. Take a listen.
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As one nation, America mourns the loss of our brave and brilliant American service members
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in a savage and barbaric terrorist attack in Afghanistan. These noble American warriors laid
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down their lives in the line of duty. They sacrificed themselves for the country that they loved,
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racing against time to rescue their fellow citizens from harm's way. They died as American heroes,
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and our nation will honor their memory forever. I want to express my deepest condolences to the
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families of those we have lost. Today, all Americans grieve alongside you. Together, we also pray that God
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will heal the other courageous American service members who were wounded in this heinous attack.
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So he goes on and on and on in a forceful, energetic, clear, actually concise way. When I say he goes on
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and on and on, I'm not, I don't mean he's droning. He's not. Everything he's saying here is clear. It
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serves a purpose and he's got energy. This in itself is devastating. People are probably not going to show you
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this video that he released because he's been deplatformed by the liberal establishment because
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they can't tolerate that threat. You know, Donald Trump, he's so unpopular. He lost by more votes in
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American history, and that's why we can't ever let any of you hear from him at all or ever let him
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appear on a ballot again because of how unpopular he is, right? Right? Doesn't make a lot of sense to me.
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That's what a president sounds like. I'm not saying he's, Trump is the only president. I think there are a lot
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of people who could have given a speech last night. I think there are a lot of people who could have
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actually handled the withdrawal from Kabul. Biden could not. On top of this, we found out the Biden
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administration apparently gave the Taliban a list of US citizens, green card holders, and Afghan
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allies. This is being reported today. Biden refused to answer. Ducey asked him that question. Biden
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refused to give an answer. Now, perhaps that's because he doesn't know what the answer is. This
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is insanity. The argument for it is if you give the Taliban a list of the US citizens, green card
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holders, and crucially Afghan allies in the region, then the Taliban will let them get to the airport,
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right? Or that's sort of the rosy optimistic view. Or you just gave the Taliban a kill list.
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What do you think it is? Knowing what you know about the Taliban, which do you think it is?
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Criminal incompetence or strategic? This was a question that was raised. Was this pure incompetence
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or was it subversion? Or was it sabotage? Or is the foreign policy establishment trying to stay
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in Afghanistan? I don't know. I don't want to ascribe to malice that which is equally explained
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by stupidity. But either this is the most historically incompetent withdrawal ever in US history,
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or there were competing interests going on by the bureaucracy. We were debating this last night
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backstage. Ben made the point that the people don't control foreign policy. The foreign policy is
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controlled by the blob and has been for decades, which then raises the questions. The blob didn't
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want to leave Afghanistan. The withdrawal has been so bunged. We left an army's worth of equipment there
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without any explanation. Is that just the first step in going back in? It's a real question to answer.
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Meanwhile, we've got a lot of violence going on here in the United States. We got a lot of national
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disintegration here in the United States. The cop who killed Ashley Babbitt, the Trump supporter from the
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Capitol. He's speaking out for the first time. So this cop goes on NBC News. This is the cop who
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killed Ashley Babbitt, a Trump supporter in the Capitol. She went into an area she wasn't supposed
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to and she gets shot and killed. We were told that the Trump supporters were violent, terrible. They
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were killing cops. That just none of that was true. None of that was true. Even the New York Times and
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Washington Post had to admit it. The only person who was killed in the political violence of that day
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was Ashley Babbitt, a Trump supporter. Here is the cop's defense.
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I followed my training and I spent countless years and preparing for such a moment. You ultimately hope
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that moment never occurs, but you prepare as best you can. I know that day I saved countless lives.
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I know members of Congress as well as my fellow officers and staff were in jeopardy
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I don't think he killed countless lives, regardless that he saved countless lives. I don't
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know about his claim, about his training, and he did what he was supposed to do. And maybe it was a
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fair shot. I don't know. I mean, an investigation or a trial actually would determine that.
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But I don't think he saved countless lives. Do you know why? Because no one was killed that day
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except for Ashley Babbitt. So you're telling me of all the people that were in the Capitol,
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of all the people in all the places, the only one who was supposed to deadly threat
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was Ashley Babbitt. She was going to kill people. No one else, not the horn guy, not the lectern guy,
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not any of the other people, just Ashley Babbitt. And that's why this unarmed woman was shot to death
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by this cop. And no one's asking questions. I'm not even saying the guy should go to jail.
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It is certainly the case that if it was a white cop killing a black woman
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or a pro-Trump cop killing a Democrat woman, the guy would be in Guantanamo Bay.
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The guy would have had his life, he would have been doxxed. We would have heard from him much
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sooner than this. His family would be threatened. He would certainly be in jail at least, if not
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executed. But it's a black cop defending the Democrats, killing a Trump supporter. So
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totally fine. There won't, there won't be a thorough investigation of this. And there should
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be. There certainly should be. He references his training. Speaking of training, the New York Times
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is really descending to a new low against Larry Elder. You know, Larry Elder, the libertarian,
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somewhat conservative candidate who's doing very, very well, friend of ours and doing very,
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very well running in the recall for California. So you remember LA Times called him the black face of
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white supremacy. Then the LA Times came out and said, because he cleaned his gun six years ago,
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that he's actually like a wife beater, he's a threat to America or something like that.
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Now, New York Times is upping the ante here by calling him an affirmative action case.
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That's the line. The New York Times writes, quote, admitted to Brown University under an early
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affirmative action program. Mr. Elder, the second of three sons, stayed away from California for years,
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moving to the University of Michigan Law School and becoming a lawyer and legal recruiter in Ohio.
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He's an affirmative action case. He wouldn't have gotten into Brown otherwise. You see,
00:24:27.480
he only got in because he was black. So says the New York Times.
00:24:33.120
By that logic, every single black person who gets admitted to any college in America,
00:24:41.280
just about, is an affirmative action case. But they don't refer to all the other lawyers that way,
00:24:48.020
do they? You don't hear them refer to, forget even the lawyers, anyone who gets into any
00:24:55.580
college in the country. Affirmative action case, Nicole Hannah-Jones. Affirmative action case,
00:25:02.100
Joy Reid. Affirmative action case, Maxine Waters. No. In fact, we're told that you're a horrible racist
00:25:09.120
if you suggest that black people get into college because of affirmative action. Now, we know that
00:25:13.180
affirmative action gives an advantage to black students. They don't need test scores that are
00:25:17.540
as high. They don't need grades that are as high as white students or Asian students. So that seems
00:25:21.680
unjust in and of itself. But we are told if you ever call a black person an affirmative action case,
00:25:26.460
you're a vicious, vile racist. Unless you're the New York Times doing it against Larry Elder,
00:25:30.280
in which case this completely cheap shot. Larry Elder is a very intelligent guy. I suspect he
00:25:34.560
could have gotten into a good school on his own. But Clarence Thomas made this point in his memoir.
00:25:38.700
He said he, Clarence Thomas, one of the greatest jurists in the country, extraordinarily intelligent
00:25:42.640
guy. He graduated Yale Law School, top law school in the country, and he had trouble getting a job
00:25:47.700
because people thought he was affirmative action case. And that's one of the reasons he hates
00:25:50.840
affirmative action. Because he says, I could have done it on my own. New York Times, using that,
00:25:57.120
using their own programs, which they say are compassionate, using it as a way to undermine
00:26:02.720
this black guy on the basis of his skin. Speaking of black men who need no affirmative action,
00:26:09.040
Kanye West, baby. I haven't listened to the album yet, but he's got a new album coming out. It's called
00:26:12.580
Donda. And I'm not, maybe we'll do an analysis of the album at some point. He's got a cool new gadget
00:26:18.820
that he uses to mix the album. It's like this very innovative gadget that coincidentally a friend of
00:26:24.700
mine built. So that's cool in and of itself. But what I want to focus on here is, he had a listening
00:26:30.640
party for this last night. And the central set piece was a chapel with a big cross. And the action
00:26:37.720
on stage, he actually had Marilyn Manson there, kind of representing the devil. Because Marilyn Manson is
00:26:42.180
probably the most famous Satanist in the country. And it was representing spiritual warfare. And I just
00:26:46.920
thought, amid all the crazy madness that's going on right now, there is a little glimmer of hope. There's
00:26:54.100
always a little glimmer of hope, even as the world decays, which is that the most famous popular musician
00:26:58.720
in the world is an outspoken Christian. And some people are saying that Kanye is just pretending to be a
00:27:05.280
Christian, just to be weird, just to be eccentric, just to keep people guessing. I mentioned I have at least
00:27:09.660
one mutual friend with Kanye West, others as well. What they tell me is he's 100% serious. He's 100%
00:27:16.680
sincere. And that is a wonderful thing. We can't even omit all this craziness. We can't lose sight
00:27:20.900
of genuinely inspiring, encouraging moments. Speaking of which, though, I can't leave on that
00:27:26.240
high a note. We will get to the mailbag in a second, but I have to note this. Harvard, Harvard
00:27:30.800
University just hired a new chaplain. You know, the chaplain is the pastor, the sort of religious leader
00:27:35.780
at a university, in the military, wherever, in a prison. The new chaplain at Harvard is an atheist.
00:27:44.400
They just hired this guy, Greg Epstein, is a 44-year-old writer of Good Without God.
00:27:48.680
He is the new chaplain. He's going to coordinate the religious life of Harvard. He, who is an atheist.
00:27:56.980
And a lot of people are saying this is insane. You know, the conservatives are saying this is insane.
00:28:01.200
The liberals are saying it's very clever. It's so subversive. It's so clever. I think it's just
00:28:05.320
common sense. I think it's totally ordinary because everybody's got to serve somebody.
00:28:10.920
The absence of religion, what people think is the absence of religion, is a religion of itself.
00:28:15.420
You can't help but make certain ethical, metaphysical claims about the world. And the
00:28:20.060
official religion of Harvard is atheism. And the official religion of our country right now is
00:28:23.860
atheism, by the way. And so it stands to reason that the chaplain of Harvard and chaplain of other
00:28:30.140
influential institutions in America would be an atheist too. He's a lapsed Jew, but he's now,
00:28:35.860
that's gone. He's just an atheist. Not surprising at all. That's the most popular religion in America.
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00:29:33.480
Welcome back to my favorite time of the week, The Mailbag. First question from Christina. Hi there.
00:29:37.780
Hi, Christina. My husband and I were debating this morning whether or not women should be allowed to
00:29:43.680
breastfeed in public without a cover and wanted to know your opinion on the subject. He said it
00:29:49.380
should be allowed. It should, I'm sorry, it should not be allowed because it's public nudity and it
00:29:53.540
makes people uncomfortable and it's not necessary as you could use a cover or a washroom. I say it
00:29:58.420
should be allowed because while there may be partial nudity, it's not a sexual act in any way and is
00:30:04.280
necessary for the baby. And if it makes people uncomfortable, they can just look away. Thanks.
00:30:07.780
We love the show. Your husband's right. It's a simple answer because your argument is that yes,
00:30:17.300
men are attracted to boobs, but the act of breastfeeding is not a particularly sexy act
00:30:25.560
and it is not presenting said boob in a sexual way. Right. But the boob is still sexually attractive
00:30:37.680
to men. It doesn't change the nature of the thing. It's not as though men are attracted to the female
00:30:43.920
body only in certain circumstances. We find the female body attractive in itself. So this is like
00:30:50.680
sometimes you'll hear people say, we don't need to teach women to be more careful when they go out,
00:30:56.460
you know, in a dark alley late at night. We just teach, need to teach men not to be sexual predators.
00:31:01.700
It's like, yeah, sure. That that's a good idea, but you also need to teach people to be prudent and
00:31:06.920
careful. Like we don't need to teach, we don't need to teach people to bring an umbrella outside when
00:31:15.000
it rains. We need to teach the sky not to rain. Yeah, no, I, yeah, you, people should have an umbrella
00:31:20.600
and yes, you should be in, you know, you should take note of the weather, but things are going to
00:31:27.180
happen. This is a fallen world and there are going to be, I'm not saying all men are sexual predators,
00:31:31.280
but there are going to be predators, not even sexual. There are going to be predators out trying to steal
00:31:35.200
your wallet. There are going to be people trying to steal your pocketbook in a dark alley. So you still need to
00:31:38.420
take caution when you go down the dark alleyway and you are going to be, it is, it is a sort of
00:31:45.780
sexual thing anytime any woman takes any part of her top off in public. So I would just recommend
00:31:50.440
those little cover-ups. They're fine. I'm not saying you need to wear a burqa, just a little
00:31:53.140
cover-up there. I think it's good. Obviously women should breastfeed their kids, but I don't think we
00:31:57.500
should tolerate public nudity because of that. We can, we can take care of lots of different aspects of
00:32:03.160
society all at once. From Max, hi Michael, listening to your argument for leaving Afghanistan,
00:32:07.800
I'd like to hear your response to a counter. You say, because we have our problems at home,
00:32:12.800
we should focus on those instead of problems elsewhere. But isn't that the equivalent of
00:32:16.320
arguing that because of all the problems in the church today, we should not focus on evangelization
00:32:20.320
and spreading the faith to others? What are your thoughts on this counter? Thanks and love the show.
00:32:24.260
Deus vult. No, I don't think it's a fair comparison because when we say evangelize, we're saying spread the
00:32:29.340
good news of the gospel and the church, whatever her problems are, and there are many problems,
00:32:34.020
the church still has the basic truth of the gospel to evangelize, right? I believe in God,
00:32:41.380
the Father Almighty, creator of heaven and earth, and Jesus Christ has only sent our Lord who we
00:32:44.060
could recite the creed. We know what the good news is, and so we can spread that even if our bishops
00:32:49.160
are jerks and even if our episcopacy is falling apart and even if Sue from the parish council is
00:32:55.200
ruining things. We still have the message to spread. When it comes to America spreading her values to the
00:33:00.780
world, what are the values? Truth, justice, and the American way? You're not even allowed to say
00:33:05.880
that in a Superman movie anymore. You haven't for 15 years. What is the American value? Is it the
00:33:12.520
pride flag? I bet a lot of people would say that's the American value. We hang it up at our embassies
00:33:17.620
all over the world, including in the Vatican, including in Kabul. I don't feel that that represents
00:33:24.780
me. I don't think trans pride or something is a value that I want to spread, but a lot of people
00:33:29.640
believe that's what it is. We don't know what the values are to evangelize anymore, and so when I
00:33:37.240
make this point on Afghanistan, I'm not making a prescriptive argument that we should and we must
00:33:45.060
get out of Afghanistan right now, and it's the eternally perpetually moral thing to always be
00:33:49.100
out of Afghanistan. I'm not saying that, or out of meddling in other countries' affairs. I'm making
00:33:54.660
the descriptive observation that we don't know what we stand for anymore. We don't know what
00:33:59.960
we're doing there. That's why the people want to get out, and until we figure out what it is that
00:34:04.900
we stand for, we are simply not going to be able to project power overseas, which is what happened
00:34:10.400
in Afghanistan. From Alex, hi, Michael. Please advise. I've been eating an apple a day, and Dr. Fauci has
00:34:15.560
not gone away. Am I buying the wrong brand? What's with Dem apples? Thanks.
00:34:21.560
I have nothing to add to that. That was really beautiful. Beautiful. From Camille.
00:34:30.180
Good morning, Michael. Camille, hello. I recently was discussing dreams and lucid dreaming with some
00:34:35.480
friends. A few of the more hippie friends were saying that dreams are premonitions a lot of the
00:34:39.760
time and can reveal the true inner workings of your psyche. What are your thoughts on dreams in general
00:34:45.520
and lucid dreaming? Thank you, as always. Is this what dreams are made of? Well, dreams can
00:34:52.900
tell you something about the world. This happens in the Bible. This happens through mythology. You see
00:35:01.760
this in myths, and probably some of us have experienced this in our own lives, and whether
00:35:06.840
that is because you're getting a direct message from God about what's going to happen, or whether it's
00:35:12.740
because you're just intuiting something about the world that is then you're working it out in your
00:35:17.420
dreams, in the same way that prophets are not exactly people who predict the future. They're
00:35:21.280
just people who preach the truth because they can see the truth in a world that doesn't.
00:35:25.520
That can happen in dreams, no question about it. But then you bring up lucid dreaming. Lucid dreaming,
00:35:30.740
probably everyone has had a lucid dream at some point. It's a dream where you can control what you do,
00:35:36.940
right? It's a dream where, like, you realize you're dreaming, and you're like, oh, cool,
00:35:39.900
I'm going to fly. Oh, cool, now I'm going to fly, or whatever, you know. In those dreams, I think it's
00:35:46.940
hard to say that's a premonition or something, I mean, because you're controlling the action.
00:35:53.420
So they can be kind of fun, I guess, if you want to fly or whatever, but yeah, I wouldn't take too
00:36:00.340
much stock of that. Probably those dreams will just tell you more about yourself and your own desires,
00:36:05.060
and what you would do when you think no one is watching. From Matthew,
00:36:08.360
Dear Mr. Knowledge, I mean Knowles, after 20 years of U.S. and allied presence in Afghanistan,
00:36:13.940
how is it possible that the Taliban is still so well-armed? Guns, ammo, grenades, etc. In the U.S.,
00:36:21.120
we can't even get reasonably priced ammo, and Biden's attack on the Second Amendment is getting
00:36:24.640
worse. Sincerely, one round shy of a clip. It's a good name. Well, right now the Taliban is so well-armed
00:36:31.660
because we gave them an army's worth of stuff. So it's true, you can't get ammo right now, but
00:36:35.560
Mohammed, Mahar, Mohammed, Al, whatever, you know, has all of your ammo that you paid for
00:36:41.860
with your tax dollars, or actually that your government just borrowed from China to send
00:36:46.120
over there, and you're going to pay the interest on the debt. I think getting to the heart of your
00:36:52.800
question, which is why have we not completely wiped out the Taliban, or why have we not completely wiped
00:36:58.820
out ISIS? Really, the only president who went hard to completely destroy ISIS was Trump. And he did a
00:37:07.160
very good job. Obviously, there are these little offshoots that keep cropping up. But Obama, you'll
00:37:11.460
remember, didn't just try to totally kill ISIS. And I think the reason for that is we no longer in this
00:37:18.140
country try to win wars. We just try to manage conflicts. So I strongly suspect the foreign policy
00:37:24.600
establishment does not want to totally wipe out ISIS, and does not want to totally wipe out the
00:37:28.520
Taliban, and does not want to totally wipe out any of these groups. They want to just kind of keep a
00:37:33.020
balance of power going on so that they all keep sort of killing each other, and no one's ever in
00:37:37.000
control, and it's always in a state of managed chaos. That has been a major aspect of American grand
00:37:44.600
strategy for decades now. And I think the American people are questioning that because we'd prefer to
00:37:49.320
win wars than just kind of manage declines. But there's a big gap between the people who run our
00:37:55.600
foreign policy and the American people themselves. From Nick. Hey, Michael, me again. Oh, no, Nick.
00:38:03.460
Hey, Michael, me again. So my relationship with my above average girlfriend fizzled out. And let's be
00:38:09.060
real. It's not me. It's her. Uh-huh. Now, normally after a breakup, I feel like a phoenix rising from
00:38:14.840
the ashes, ready to dive back into all the babes' DMs. However, I've been thinking of trying
00:38:21.200
something new. Oh, yeah, you think? Rather than the tried and true dating cycle of swipe right,
00:38:26.220
spit game, meet up, talk sexy, get sexy, and finally weeks later answer this so what are we question,
00:38:32.180
I was thinking of getting more serious with a friend of mine who I've been close with but never
00:38:36.560
close with, if you know what I mean. Do you think this is a better strategy for finding a long-term
00:38:42.120
ride-or-die-bay? Sincerely, by close, I mean we never hooked up but she totally wanted to.
00:38:48.860
Nick, you've written into this show many times now. And I actually think that your
00:38:56.160
colorful relationship life is representative of many millennials and Gen Zers.
00:39:04.300
You need to get married, Nick. You need to marry this girl. I strongly recommend marrying people who
00:39:10.480
you're friends with and who you like and who you have shared experience with. I think that's a good
00:39:13.660
idea. I think it's probably better than the swipe culture. But in your case, Nick, even if it's not
00:39:19.700
this girl, I think you should walk outside, pick up a stick, and throw it. And then the first woman
00:39:27.700
that it hits, frankly the first person that it hits at this point, we live in a brave new world,
00:39:31.260
marry that person. And then stop dating and stop swiping. And I'm not saying stop writing into the
00:39:37.080
show because I do get a kick out of your questions and I think they're illuminating. But you gotta
00:39:42.980
get your life in order, Nick, okay? All right? Millennials, you gotta get your life in order,
00:39:50.580
generally. From Jacob, dear Michael, I just moved to a new city to go to college and I would like to
00:39:55.520
go to some bars and restaurants to try to meet new people, particularly women. However, my extreme
00:39:59.660
social anxiety makes me terrified to go and talk to people directly, especially girls. Do you have any
00:40:03.700
tips for me to get over my social anxiety and fear of rejection? Thank you, Jacob. Yes, I do. I don't
00:40:09.260
think it's just you. I think everyone feels this way. Frankly, look, I'm a pretty social guy. Even
00:40:14.600
if I showed up to a new city and I'm going to a restaurant or a bar just to meet people, not just
00:40:20.820
to sit by myself and smoke a cigar and read a book, but to actually go meet people, I would be nervous
00:40:24.600
too. That's an anxiety-inducing experience. So what I would recommend since you're starting college
00:40:28.900
is rather than just show up to a bar and say, hey, ladies, come on, hit me up, I would recommend
00:40:35.400
joining a club. I would recommend joining some kind of activity, extracurricular or curricular,
00:40:40.480
and meeting people that way in a little more organic way and then sort of hanging out a little
00:40:46.640
bit. So you're in a more structured environment and then that, I think, would lead more to being
00:40:52.980
able to say, hey, you want to go get a drink? Hey, you want to get a cup of coffee? Now, you can just
00:40:56.620
show up to a bar and get a drink, but I wouldn't go there just with the hope and expectation of
00:41:04.940
meeting women and picking up a woman because you'll be really nervous. You won't come across
00:41:09.420
as confident. You might come across as overeager. I just don't think it's going to work. So I would
00:41:15.060
do it in a little bit more of an organic way. And you don't even need to go find the chickies first.
00:41:19.260
I mean, maybe you join a club. Maybe it's a political club. Maybe it's a game sort of club. I don't
00:41:24.140
know. Whatever it is. And just meet people and just hang out and just keep it cool. Keep it cool,
00:41:31.120
man. Keep it light. Build up a little confidence that way. And then I think it'll happen more
00:41:36.020
naturally. From Daniel. Michael, if language doesn't matter anymore, and definitions used
00:41:40.880
since the first dictionaries are not properly used anymore, why are conservatives so worried
00:41:44.660
about being called racist, homophobic, xenophobic, or any of the phobes? What if we just treated them
00:41:49.240
as children? These things are only as damaging as the person being called them allows them to be,
00:41:53.780
especially if they're founded in no truth at all. Yeah, I think it's true. I think there's a lot of
00:41:57.740
truth to that. We should not worry about being called racist or whatever. The left doesn't,
00:42:03.380
you know, don't be a jerk. You know, don't hate people on the basis of their skin. But knowing that,
00:42:08.560
yeah, don't care what people call you. It doesn't bother me. I don't try to prove to media
00:42:13.640
matters or whoever that I'm not a racist or whatever. I just don't care. I mean, it doesn't interest me.
00:42:17.580
The fact is, though, it is the worst thing you can be called in American society today,
00:42:21.120
so it does still carry power. But I do agree we should try to rob them of that power. One quick
00:42:25.220
question before we go from Jessica Michael. I'm a single 20-something woman. I've got both girl and
00:42:29.420
guy friends. I don't try to be or act like a guy at all, but have always had a lot of guy friends
00:42:34.320
in addition to my girlfriends. I have sometimes been referred to as one of the guys. Don't love that.
00:42:38.740
I never call myself that. However, I'm still single. I wonder if being seen as one of the guys is
00:42:42.260
inhibiting my dating life. If so, what can I do without completely being someone I'm not?
00:42:46.320
Sincerely, one of those bros is not like the others. Yes, this will inhibit your dating life.
00:42:51.340
I'm sorry. Maybe you do like hanging out with the boys more than the girls, but if you want to no
00:42:55.620
longer be seen in that way, you need to hang out with the girls a little bit more. I'm not saying
00:42:59.760
ditch your guy friends, but you are a girl, and you got to do girl things with girls, and that will
00:43:06.600
help you do girl things with guys. I'm Michael Knowles. This is The Michael Knowles Show. See you Monday.
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00:44:02.020
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