The Michael Knowles Show - September 17, 2021


Ep. 845 - 2021 Just Got Even More Ridiculous


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Nicki Minaj has a message for all of us who are afraid to speak out against the liberal establishment: "You can't just innocently ask a question about something going on in your body. You can't speak out."

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00:00:30.340 Yesterday, I had the privilege of debating the future of conservatism in Washington, D.C.
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00:00:43.100 These scholars represented the various factions of the conservative movement,
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00:00:55.640 And every single person on that panel just got shown up by the most important political philosopher of the week, Nicki Minaj.
00:01:03.940 You can't speak for the fear of the mob attacking you.
00:01:11.100 If that doesn't give you chills up and down your f***ing spine, this is scary.
00:01:17.900 You can't just innocently ask a question about something going on in your body.
00:01:25.280 I remember going to China and they were telling us, you know, you cannot speak out against, you know, the people in power there, etc.
00:01:36.700 And I remember all of us thinking, oh, okay, well, you know, we understand and we respect the laws here and, you know, that it's so different where we live.
00:01:46.400 But don't y'all see what's f***ing happening?
00:01:51.060 Don't y'all see that we are living now in that time?
00:01:55.820 People will isolate you if you simply speak and ask a question.
00:02:02.680 I couldn't have said it better myself.
00:02:04.420 If Nicki thinks the U.S. looks like China now, just wait until she finds out that Joe Biden is attempting to deny medical treatment to his political rivals.
00:02:13.560 I'm Michael Knowles. This is The Michael Knowles Show.
00:02:16.400 Welcome back to the show.
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00:04:11.600 Joe Biden is now promising.
00:04:15.160 I won't say threatening.
00:04:16.000 He's promising to cut off medical supplies.
00:04:18.940 Potentially life-saving medical supplies.
00:04:20.840 To his political opponents.
00:04:24.200 So Joe Biden.
00:04:25.640 Even though the entire focus of the public health apparatus.
00:04:29.640 And the liberal establishment.
00:04:31.540 Has been on vaccines.
00:04:32.840 And we always need vaccines.
00:04:33.980 They did the same thing during AIDS.
00:04:35.420 We've got to focus all the energy and money on vaccines. 0.95
00:04:38.180 Not on therapeutics to actually treat the problem.
00:04:41.180 And actually.
00:04:42.880 Much like with AIDS.
00:04:44.240 The vaccines have.
00:04:46.200 Had dubious effect.
00:04:47.780 We still don't have an AIDS vaccine.
00:04:48.960 The reason that people can survive AIDS now.
00:04:50.840 Is because of therapeutics.
00:04:52.120 Well.
00:04:52.400 Same thing with coronavirus here.
00:04:53.760 The vaccines are less effective.
00:04:55.320 Than we were told they were going to be.
00:04:56.680 And so now people are turning to therapeutics.
00:04:58.600 But.
00:04:59.180 The Biden administration.
00:04:59.960 Is saying.
00:05:00.840 He's going to cut supplies.
00:05:02.260 To red states.
00:05:03.380 Jen Psaki.
00:05:03.920 Was just asked about this.
00:05:05.320 And the White House doubled down.
00:05:06.820 He promised on September 9th.
00:05:08.240 That he was going to send 50% more supply.
00:05:10.760 Monoclonal antibodies.
00:05:11.840 To states.
00:05:12.660 Yet.
00:05:14.100 The Biden administration.
00:05:15.320 Is cutting supplies.
00:05:16.760 In red states.
00:05:17.560 By 50%.
00:05:18.940 Why is the Biden administration.
00:05:21.200 Cutting.
00:05:22.360 These supplies.
00:05:23.960 That's not accurate.
00:05:25.280 So let me give you the accurate information.
00:05:27.540 First of all.
00:05:28.620 We are increasing our distribution.
00:05:29.900 This month.
00:05:30.540 By 50%.
00:05:31.400 Over the last month.
00:05:33.320 Though.
00:05:33.960 And one thing that I think people need to understand.
00:05:36.420 For clarity.
00:05:37.120 Facts.
00:05:37.560 I know.
00:05:37.860 I know you're like facts.
00:05:38.940 Is that monoclonal antibodies.
00:05:41.580 Are life saving therapies.
00:05:42.640 That are used.
00:05:43.340 After infection.
00:05:44.580 To prevent more severe outcomes.
00:05:45.980 So clearly the way to protect people.
00:05:47.840 And save more lives.
00:05:49.220 Is to get them vaccinated.
00:05:50.780 But over the last month.
00:05:52.200 Given the rise in cases.
00:05:53.100 Due to the Delta variant.
00:05:54.540 And the lower number of vaccination rates.
00:05:56.580 In some of these states.
00:05:57.580 Like Florida.
00:05:58.300 Like Texas.
00:05:59.440 Just seven states.
00:06:00.280 Are making up 70% of the orders.
00:06:03.120 Our supply is not unlimited.
00:06:05.160 And we believe it should be equitable.
00:06:07.020 Across states.
00:06:08.020 Across the country.
00:06:09.580 We believe it should be equitable.
00:06:11.680 And that is why we're going to cut the supplies.
00:06:13.960 To the states that need it.
00:06:15.340 And we're going to give the supplies.
00:06:18.060 To other states.
00:06:19.080 And we're going to do so.
00:06:20.140 Very often on the basis.
00:06:21.960 Of political affiliation.
00:06:24.480 Notice though.
00:06:25.620 What that reporter asks there.
00:06:28.100 She says.
00:06:29.840 Why are you.
00:06:31.060 You're cutting the supplies.
00:06:32.100 On the basis of vaccination rates.
00:06:34.220 But many of the people who need them.
00:06:36.420 Are already vaccinated.
00:06:37.380 So they actually did everything.
00:06:38.560 That you're telling them to do.
00:06:39.700 And you're still cutting the supplies to them.
00:06:41.640 And by the way.
00:06:43.180 Even though Jen Psaki. 1.00
00:06:44.340 And the White House.
00:06:44.820 And the public health establishment.
00:06:45.760 Are still harping on the vaccine.
00:06:48.020 Don't forget.
00:06:49.280 That the vaccine.
00:06:50.100 Has not been.
00:06:51.940 The bulletproof protection.
00:06:53.100 That we were told it was.
00:06:54.660 There's a headline now.
00:06:56.040 I know we're not allowed to report on this.
00:06:57.500 But here.
00:06:57.760 It's from NPR.
00:06:59.020 It's from a left wing news source.
00:07:00.880 Fact checkers.
00:07:01.660 So please.
00:07:02.500 Please spare me.
00:07:04.240 Highly vaccinated Israel.
00:07:05.760 Is seeing a dramatic surge.
00:07:07.180 In new COVID cases.
00:07:08.820 Here's why.
00:07:09.380 And then they try to explain it away.
00:07:10.780 Israel is. 0.81
00:07:12.220 The most vaccinated place.
00:07:14.540 On earth.
00:07:16.020 Triple vaccinated.
00:07:17.480 In many cases.
00:07:18.500 And they are having a huge spike.
00:07:21.180 In COVID cases.
00:07:22.400 Well here's why.
00:07:23.300 The immunity from the vaccine.
00:07:24.740 Dips over time.
00:07:25.540 And the Delta variant.
00:07:26.540 Broke through the vaccines protection.
00:07:28.640 And.
00:07:28.840 And Israel's high vaccination rate.
00:07:30.920 It's still not enough.
00:07:31.880 Even though it's more than basically anywhere else on earth.
00:07:33.800 And vaccines are key.
00:07:34.820 But you know.
00:07:35.200 You need to do more stuff than that.
00:07:36.520 And booster shots are great.
00:07:37.700 And you got to get the booster shots.
00:07:39.100 And excuse after excuse after excuse.
00:07:42.300 It's that it didn't work.
00:07:43.980 It didn't work.
00:07:45.440 Like you all told us it would.
00:07:47.340 Your predictions.
00:07:49.340 On the efficacy of the vaccines.
00:07:51.820 Much like your predictions.
00:07:52.900 On every other aspect of the virus.
00:07:54.500 Going back to 15 days to slow the spread.
00:07:56.340 We're wrong.
00:07:57.340 And so people don't trust you anymore.
00:07:59.120 Public health experts.
00:08:00.480 And it's not our fault that we don't trust you.
00:08:02.320 It's your fault that we don't trust you.
00:08:05.320 So now the effect of this is okay.
00:08:07.640 Now that people for whatever reason.
00:08:10.320 Are still getting COVID at this high rate.
00:08:12.680 We're going to cut the supplies.
00:08:14.380 Marco Rubio just came out.
00:08:15.500 He said stop rationing treatment.
00:08:18.900 Every day it's something new with these people in the Biden administration.
00:08:22.320 And they literally want to punish and control everybody.
00:08:25.540 That doesn't do what they want them to do. 0.75
00:08:27.660 Here's the latest.
00:08:28.520 All right.
00:08:28.900 Do you know how many people I know.
00:08:30.460 Including vaccinated people.
00:08:31.880 That got COVID.
00:08:33.040 And were able to get an antibody treatment.
00:08:35.180 And as a result of the antibody treatment.
00:08:36.940 It kept them from getting really sick.
00:08:38.520 It kept them from out of the hospital.
00:08:39.800 In some cases I believe.
00:08:41.180 And I think their doctors believe.
00:08:42.360 It may have saved their lives.
00:08:44.120 I personally know dozens of people that have gone through that.
00:08:46.780 Including family members that went through that.
00:08:48.840 Now the Biden administration.
00:08:50.020 Because they don't like the way Florida is handling vaccines.
00:08:53.640 And not forcing people to do it.
00:08:56.000 In states like Florida as well.
00:08:58.040 Now they've decided they're going to ration the antibody treatment.
00:09:01.200 They're going to start rationing it.
00:09:02.380 There's not a shortage.
00:09:03.500 There isn't some crisis.
00:09:05.020 But they've decided they want to start rationing it.
00:09:07.080 This reeks of politics.
00:09:08.860 This is ridiculous.
00:09:09.900 This is outrageous.
00:09:11.200 People see it for what it is.
00:09:12.640 These people are completely out of control.
00:09:15.740 I don't know what we can do about it in Congress.
00:09:17.240 But I'm going to start looking at it.
00:09:18.440 Because this stuff needs to stop.
00:09:20.300 These people are bordering now on tyranny.
00:09:22.980 And it's outrageous.
00:09:24.140 It has to stop.
00:09:25.940 So Rubio's diagnosis here is totally right.
00:09:29.520 The prescription.
00:09:31.040 He admits.
00:09:32.060 He says I have no idea what we're going to do about it.
00:09:33.980 But the diagnosis is right. 0.78
00:09:36.880 The left is depriving their political opponents of medicine.
00:09:43.180 That's what it boils down to.
00:09:44.640 This is not medically justified.
00:09:48.920 It's not scientifically justified.
00:09:50.460 It's not as much as Jen Psaki wants to spin it.
00:09:53.220 You can't really make a case for this other than pure revenge and the dehumanization of your political opponents.
00:09:59.760 Which we saw just the other night from Don Lemon on CNN.
00:10:03.180 I think if you want to understand why Joe Biden is doing what he's doing, listen to the way that CNN is talking about these same people.
00:10:09.300 I think we have to stop coddling people when it comes to this and the vaccine saying, oh, you can't shame them.
00:10:16.680 You can't call them stupid.
00:10:17.920 You can't call them silly.
00:10:18.760 Yes, they are.
00:10:20.460 The people who aided and abetted Trump are stupid because they believed his big lie.
00:10:24.460 The people who are not getting vaccines, who are believing the lies on the Internet instead of science.
00:10:30.380 It's time to start shaming them.
00:10:31.900 What else?
00:10:32.320 Or leave them behind.
00:10:33.620 Because they are keeping the majority of Americans behind.
00:10:38.760 You didn't feel that way about the polio vaccine.
00:10:41.000 You don't feel that way about measles, mumps, rubella when it comes to your children.
00:10:44.180 All of a sudden, this vaccine is different.
00:10:47.740 What's different about it?
00:10:48.780 The only different thing about it is because of your politics today.
00:10:54.140 People talk about, well, I don't know what's in the shot, Chris.
00:10:57.420 I don't know what's in that shot.
00:10:59.600 I'll tell you what's not in it.
00:11:00.460 Hold on.
00:11:00.840 A tracking device.
00:11:01.660 Yeah.
00:11:01.800 Let me finish this.
00:11:03.920 You know what they get shots in nowadays?
00:11:07.660 In their rear ends?
00:11:09.200 They're getting shots to make it bigger?
00:11:11.460 Okay.
00:11:12.060 So there's no reason to go on listening to Tweedledee and Tweedledum here.
00:11:16.260 Not a whole lot going on between Don Lemon's ears.
00:11:19.140 So he's said a lot of things that are not true.
00:11:21.320 For instance, the suggestion that COVID and polio are the same thing.
00:11:24.860 They're not.
00:11:25.780 One will attack children specifically.
00:11:28.960 Will cripple you. 0.99
00:11:30.460 One is a really big problem.
00:11:32.340 And the other is a cough that for the vast majority of people is not a huge deal.
00:11:36.860 What is the difference between the vaccines?
00:11:38.260 Well, one is a vaccine we've had for a very, very, very long time.
00:11:40.800 The other is a vaccine that was hastily developed and until very recently did not have FDA approval.
00:11:46.540 So there are big differences here.
00:11:49.300 But I don't, who cares?
00:11:50.240 I'm not even focused on that.
00:11:51.580 What I'm focused on is that first part.
00:11:54.220 They're stupid.
00:11:55.880 They need to be shamed.
00:11:57.520 They need to be left behind.
00:11:59.280 This is just the latest iteration of they're deplorable.
00:12:03.240 They're irredeemable.
00:12:04.700 They're bitter clingy.
00:12:05.640 They don't like you.
00:12:08.480 They don't want you to have political rights.
00:12:10.600 They don't want you to be part of the country.
00:12:12.420 And now they're willing to deprive you of medical treatment.
00:12:16.760 That is some seriously dangerous stuff.
00:12:22.720 That, to quote Nicki Minaj, this is like China.
00:12:25.520 Oh my gosh.
00:12:26.280 Oh my gosh.
00:12:26.620 This is like China. 0.96
00:12:27.320 It is.
00:12:27.640 You don't know the half of it, honey.
00:12:29.260 It is.
00:12:30.780 Listen to Nicki.
00:12:32.880 Don't listen to the squishes. 1.00
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00:13:48.280 Speaking of cancel culture, both the cancel culture that Nicki Minaj is decrying and the cancel culture that you're hearing from Don Lemon and the like of, and Joe Biden, you know, denying people medical treatment.
00:14:00.600 A math teacher in Missouri just got fired.
00:14:03.880 The math teacher got fired for posting her views on Facebook.
00:14:08.980 This is a tale that we've heard many, many times in recent years.
00:14:13.640 So, Beth Reams, who spent 25 years as an employee at Pembroke High School in Kansas City, Missouri, was the facilitator for the school's popular conservative club, and she says she avoided politics in her math classroom.
00:14:28.840 She saw no use for it, but she did use her private Facebook page to express her political views.
00:14:35.420 And the problem with Facebook is that even the private pages are not so private.
00:14:39.660 What you put out there on social media will be seen by people.
00:14:42.560 So, she made perfectly innocuous points.
00:14:46.720 She posted, it's racist to think only white people can be racist. 0.92
00:14:51.820 Obviously, that's true.
00:14:53.800 One time, she posted a picture of Al Sharpton, one of the most notorious race hustlers in the country, and said, good morning, America.
00:14:59.320 What are we offended by today?
00:15:00.380 It's just these very funny, frankly, milquetoast sort of posts.
00:15:04.620 This Missouri prep school has now fired her. 1.00
00:15:09.800 Now, I think there are three ways to react to this.
00:15:12.560 The three way, there's the lib way to react, which is, good, she should be fired. 1.00
00:15:19.640 She's not an anti-racist.
00:15:21.480 She's a white supremacist. 0.84
00:15:23.280 Whatever kind of silly things they're going to say, right?
00:15:25.160 That's the celebration of her being fired.
00:15:27.960 Then, there is the sort of moderate way, maybe call it libertarian or something, way to react, which is, this is terrible.
00:15:37.600 This is cancel culture.
00:15:38.680 No one should ever be fired for posting their political views.
00:15:41.000 But that reaction, I think, has a problem, which is, what if this woman had actually posted bad things?
00:15:51.220 What if this woman had actually posted, you know, swastikas and said, Heil Hitler?
00:15:55.720 It's a political view.
00:15:57.880 So, you're saying she should be fired for her political views, but only some political views, but not these political views. 1.00
00:16:03.220 But so, the neutral libertarian, say whatever you want, I don't think that really works.
00:16:09.640 Then, there is the conservative reaction, which is, this woman should not be fired, but her radical leftist colleagues should.
00:16:19.280 That's my view.
00:16:20.760 If you post a perfectly innocuous mainstream conservative thing on Facebook, not only should you not be fired for that,
00:16:26.480 but your colleagues who post radical left-wing things should be fired for that sort of thing.
00:16:31.260 At the very least, they should be fired if they bring these sorts of views into the classroom, right?
00:16:40.420 Maybe you say, okay, if it's on a Facebook page and really no one's, it's kind of public, though, because it's Facebook,
00:16:45.140 but no one really sees it, okay, whatever, we're not going to go, you know, interrogate you for thought crimes.
00:16:50.120 But if you express your radical leftist views in the classroom, you should be fired.
00:16:54.380 That's the conservative view.
00:16:56.040 That's the only coherent view.
00:16:57.700 The neutral view is completely imaginary.
00:17:00.020 It's never existed anywhere.
00:17:01.940 And the idea that a high school classroom is a free marketplace of ideas is preposterous as well.
00:17:06.080 The point of schooling, certainly elementary and middle schools, and I think high schools, too, is indoctrination.
00:17:12.420 That is the point.
00:17:13.040 You're supposed to learn things.
00:17:15.600 You're not just supposed to have a free-flowing hippy-dippy exchange.
00:17:19.700 That doesn't even really exist.
00:17:20.800 You will learn certain things.
00:17:22.860 And so what are the things that you're going to learn?
00:17:25.080 What the left has done is, in the name of academic freedom, they've totally transformed what used to be valuable, serious education into nonsense.
00:17:35.240 And this is one of the paradoxes of education, by the way.
00:17:38.440 Education is meant to make you a free person.
00:17:41.620 That's what, liberal education, that's why we call it that.
00:17:43.680 It's meant to make you a free person.
00:17:44.820 But in order to become a free person, you have to be coerced.
00:17:48.440 You have to learn certain facts.
00:17:49.820 And if you get the questions wrong on the test, you get a bad grade.
00:17:52.980 And you have to, you actually have to be forced to become educated, to become free, so that you don't need to be forced anymore.
00:18:01.960 And somewhere along the line, we forgot that.
00:18:04.420 We got to go back to it.
00:18:05.600 One thing you hear a lot about in classrooms is trigger warnings.
00:18:08.480 You know, in recent years, this is the idea that before you read any work that might in any way offend your delicate sensibilities, you'll say, trigger warning, this work contains violence or sex or whatever.
00:18:22.760 And usually what this is used for is just to suppress great works that contradict leftist orthodoxy.
00:18:30.740 So we've made that point for years on the right, and the left has ignored it.
00:18:34.700 Well, now, there is a study.
00:18:37.620 There is a study that shows that trigger warnings don't work.
00:18:40.840 This is actually a study based on 17 other studies using a range of media, including literature, passages, photographs, and film clips showing that not only do trigger warnings discourage people from reading and viewing important works.
00:18:56.860 They actually do discourage you from engaging in the first place.
00:18:59.300 But they don't even do what we're told they do, namely, help people to avoid emotional trauma.
00:19:05.640 The trigger warnings, according to these studies, do not alleviate emotional distress.
00:19:11.840 They do not significantly reduce negative effect or minimize intrusive thoughts.
00:19:17.900 Two hallmarks of PTSD.
00:19:20.820 And these findings hold for individuals with and without a history of trauma.
00:19:25.360 Like all of these other ways that the left has upended our classrooms and upended our whole culture, they don't accomplish the thing that they are supposedly supposed to accomplish.
00:19:41.300 What they actually accomplish is giving the political order over to the left.
00:19:47.380 And we've got to stop falling for it.
00:19:49.520 And yet again, in this case, there are three reactions you can have.
00:19:53.980 There's the lib reaction of, yeah, we need trigger warnings on everything that might be in any way offensive.
00:19:58.280 And then there's the kind of libertarian view, which is, well, you know, if the teacher wants trigger warnings, that's fine.
00:20:03.620 Leave it up to the teacher or leave it up to the classroom or leave it up to the school.
00:20:08.360 And then there's the conservative view.
00:20:09.820 Get this out of here.
00:20:11.980 Ban it.
00:20:12.520 Don't permit it.
00:20:13.380 It's bad.
00:20:13.920 It's harming students' education.
00:20:15.220 It's undermining the education.
00:20:16.680 And if you undermine liberal education, then you are undermining your own free country.
00:20:23.040 Because the whole point of it is to make free citizens who are capable of free societies and free government.
00:20:28.380 So if you destroy the education, you are destroying free society.
00:20:34.760 Speaking of once free men now apparently becoming captive, I have to talk about, I meant to get to this yesterday.
00:20:44.480 This Time magazine cover.
00:20:47.580 It's a Time magazine cover of the world's most influential people.
00:20:51.920 And on it, it's Harry and Meghan.
00:20:54.900 And it's the saddest cover I have ever seen on a magazine.
00:20:59.640 It is Meghan standing there looking straight forward.
00:21:04.100 She's in the front of the picture and she's just looking right at you.
00:21:07.600 And then it's Harry kind of crouched behind her hook, grasping onto her like a little marsupial in the back.
00:21:14.780 And he's holding onto her, but she's paying no attention to him.
00:21:19.700 Men, do not let this become you.
00:21:22.860 This is a cautionary tale.
00:21:24.160 What is wrong with this photo?
00:21:26.160 Some people are saying, well, the photo, Michael, it just shows a supportive husband with his wife.
00:21:32.800 But Michael, he's just caring for his wife.
00:21:35.260 No, I don't see support.
00:21:37.000 I don't see a mutual kind of bond of affection here.
00:21:40.620 I see a woman who is in front leading the show, paying absolutely no attention to her husband whatsoever. 0.99
00:21:47.560 And then a man who is kind of clinging onto her like a little pet.
00:21:52.360 And I don't think this is in any way helpful or supportive.
00:21:58.360 The traditional view is that the husband has some kind of a leadership role in the household.
00:22:03.720 Obviously, that has been inverted here.
00:22:06.460 And it's been inverted just like all of the standards of our civilization have been inverted in the middle and later part of the 20th century,
00:22:14.720 largely by feminists, actually. 1.00
00:22:17.560 But when you think of good marriages, do you think that the Markles are a good marriage? 0.88
00:22:22.480 Mr. and Mrs. Meghan Markle, do you think that would be an example of a good marriage?
00:22:25.560 Is that the kind of marriage you want to be in?
00:22:28.520 A marriage where you've got this crazy, domineering narcissist ripping this man away from his family, 1.00
00:22:35.840 from all of his obligations.
00:22:37.760 The clearest example of natural obligations you would see, the royal family.
00:22:41.960 The whole point of the royal family is to serve the country.
00:22:44.640 And merely then to move to Hollywood, to play pretend land, to serve nothing but themselves and their own vanity and their narcissism
00:22:52.480 and their pretend pleas for privacy when all they ever seem to do is go on television and go on podcasts and go on magazine covers.
00:23:00.280 Doesn't seem like you want privacy all that much to me.
00:23:03.120 And to serve their need for money.
00:23:05.260 They want to make more and more money on their own.
00:23:08.760 Does that seem like a good marriage?
00:23:11.600 It does not.
00:23:13.060 And it is no coincidence that in this marriage, you get that photo.
00:23:18.680 A cautionary tale.
00:23:20.100 Not everything is the way that it seems.
00:23:24.780 The supposed good guys in our culture today, the people who are on the right side of history,
00:23:33.460 they are the people who are, just to give a sort of random survey off the top of my head,
00:23:38.200 who are on the side of killing babies, of denying medical treatment to their political opponents,
00:23:43.420 of subverting our elections, of denying the right of the people self-government,
00:23:47.780 of destroying education, of abusing children actually in that case.
00:23:51.560 It's there on the side of this total upending of things.
00:23:55.560 Doesn't seem like they're the good guys.
00:23:57.200 Do not whatever in the most subtle of ways.
00:24:00.080 To quote, to quote the crown.
00:24:02.600 It is in the little things that the rot begins.
00:24:05.120 Do not let that happen to you.
00:24:07.280 Speaking of bad marriages.
00:24:10.060 This is, these are marriages that are actually worse than the Markle's somehow, incredibly.
00:24:15.740 You know, we have all the good guy Afghan refugees coming up.
00:24:18.680 It's all, we didn't get all the Americans out of Afghanistan,
00:24:20.800 but we have all these Afghan refugees.
00:24:23.200 They helped us.
00:24:23.980 They were all translators.
00:24:25.340 We, somehow, half that country was translators.
00:24:27.960 And they're coming in, they're highly, highly vetted,
00:24:30.120 even though some people who had already been deported from America
00:24:33.600 were now landing in Afghan, or landing at Dulles Airport in America from Afghanistan,
00:24:40.780 but they'd been deported 20 years ago.
00:24:42.160 And it seems, it's a little,
00:24:43.960 that the official narrative seems a little questionable.
00:24:46.060 We are now learning that some of the men, the wonderful refugees that are here,
00:24:54.360 are actually child abusers.
00:24:58.140 They're, they're men who are arriving with child brides, 0.99
00:25:01.520 who now have to be separated from their husbands,
00:25:04.540 because it's not a proper marriage.
00:25:06.600 I mean, some of these girls are as young as 10 or 12 years old, it would appear. 0.63
00:25:09.480 This is not some random, you know, conservative talking point that's based on some conspiracy theory.
00:25:16.180 Actually, our friend Senator Cruz just got Joe Biden's secretary of state to admit it.
00:25:22.100 On August 27th, according to public reports,
00:25:25.460 you distributed internal documentation highlighting numerous instances and intake centers
00:25:31.140 of sexual abuse in which much older, grown Afghan males appeared with children,
00:25:39.180 young children claimed they were their brides, claimed they were their wives.
00:25:45.120 And the document said the State Department urgently requested guidance.
00:25:49.420 That was your word, urgently.
00:25:52.420 Subsequently, the Department of Homeland Security said that it showed the desperation of families,
00:25:57.460 that they were willing to give little girls to grown men to be subject to sexual abuse and child wives.
00:26:04.780 My question is as follows.
00:26:06.380 Did you receive that urgent guidance?
00:26:08.680 How many children have been subject to sexual abuse?
00:26:11.260 What have you done to rescue young children from illegal and abusive relationships
00:26:18.020 after being brought to America by the State Department?
00:26:22.420 There have been, to my knowledge, a limited number of cases where we have separated people
00:26:26.860 because we were concerned that they were...
00:26:30.080 How many are the cases I'm aware of?
00:26:32.680 A handful.
00:26:33.800 Just a handful.
00:26:34.620 It's not a big deal.
00:26:35.200 Those are the ones that I'm aware of.
00:26:36.180 But the problem is Antony Blinken isn't aware of anything.
00:26:38.620 And the other problem is there's virtually no vetting going on.
00:26:41.720 I actually just sat down with Senator Cruz in D.C. a couple of days ago.
00:26:46.080 He just traveled to Fort Bliss,
00:26:47.780 which is one of the places where the Afghan refugees are being held.
00:26:52.240 And what he was told by the people on the ground there is
00:26:54.840 there's no vetting going on anywhere.
00:26:58.840 By the way, when these refugees are being held in places,
00:27:01.320 it's not as though they're being held in prison.
00:27:03.640 It's just open air.
00:27:05.180 They can just leave if they want.
00:27:07.160 Cruz said that there was one refugee who just called an Uber and who just left.
00:27:12.880 And so when the senator was speaking to some of the officials there,
00:27:18.120 he said, okay, so how are you processing these people?
00:27:20.460 How are you going through and making sure they are who they say they are?
00:27:24.580 And what he was told by officials there is, oh, no, don't worry.
00:27:27.080 The vetting took place in Afghanistan.
00:27:28.840 But what we were told by the people who were monitoring the evacuation out of Afghanistan
00:27:33.780 is that the vetting wasn't going on there as well.
00:27:35.680 I mean, there were people literally clinging to the wheels of airplanes,
00:27:39.540 people just flooding on.
00:27:40.820 I mean, it was absolute chaos.
00:27:42.480 So the long and short of it is you've got people who are now bringing their child brides,
00:27:47.980 who are very, very bad people, who are now flooding into the United States.
00:27:52.720 Meanwhile, Americans overseas left behind.
00:27:55.820 Now, speaking of different cultural perspectives on sex,
00:28:00.720 it's a mild way to put child brides, I guess.
00:28:05.080 The toy company Lego has a new set of toys out for kids.
00:28:09.140 It's the Queer Eye toy.
00:28:12.000 Queer Eye, the Fab Five Loft.
00:28:14.040 It's from Queer Eye for the straight guy.
00:28:15.400 You remember that show?
00:28:16.180 And it's all these gay guys who are interior designers.
00:28:19.580 And a very popular show.
00:28:21.500 So some people are very upset by this.
00:28:22.900 They say, we shouldn't have a show called The Queer Eye.
00:28:26.440 They shouldn't have little toys for kids.
00:28:28.160 And I don't know.
00:28:32.000 My problem is not with Lego, okay?
00:28:35.080 My problem is not with the fact that this show that focuses on an aspect of the sexual revolution
00:28:40.080 was made into a toy for kids.
00:28:41.440 I think that's inevitable.
00:28:44.860 I think that if you have a culture that is really focused on sex, sex of all kinds,
00:28:50.440 that even sort of an unusual sexual desire would then be the kind of hook for this very popular TV show
00:28:57.340 that's been on for many, many years at this point.
00:28:59.580 Inevitably, you're going to get toys about that.
00:29:01.980 That's going to permeate the whole culture.
00:29:04.300 And there's no way to separate that.
00:29:06.520 I mean, this is one of the failures of the you-do-you idea of society, the libertarian idea.
00:29:12.700 I mean, these were the things that we were debating yesterday in D.C.
00:29:14.760 And you can check out that panel at the Intercollegiate Studies Institute.
00:29:18.760 It just doesn't work because we actually do live together in a polity, in a society.
00:29:24.020 And my behavior actually will affect other people.
00:29:27.340 The libs are kind of right about this.
00:29:29.380 And your behavior will affect me.
00:29:31.520 And the prevailing standards and mores actually will affect the kind of country that we're going to have.
00:29:36.980 And it's going to affect the way that we individually develop as well.
00:29:40.860 And it's going to affect the way that we raise our kids.
00:29:42.980 And so if you have a problem with that, then you need to stand up and actually have the cojones to say,
00:29:48.980 no, we are not going to tolerate certain shows on TV.
00:29:53.260 Whether, I mean, Queer Eye seems kind of low on the priority list of things that you've got to get off TV.
00:29:58.800 But you're going to say, no, we're not going to permit certain things in the classroom.
00:30:02.300 No, we're not.
00:30:03.120 You've got to learn the magic word, no.
00:30:06.120 But unfortunately, we've got too many squishes. 0.55
00:30:07.620 We just saw this with this Republican candidate for governor, Glenn Youngkin, in Virginia.
00:30:11.800 He was asked at a debate his opinion on the pro-life law in Texas.
00:30:17.120 And I think he gave the worst possible answer.
00:30:19.880 I think the Texas bill is one that is the standard right now that we're all looking at.
00:30:24.420 And I would not sign the Texas bill today.
00:30:26.480 As I've said through this entire campaign, I am pro-life.
00:30:31.520 I believe in exceptions in the case of rape and incest and when the life of the mother is in jeopardy.
00:30:36.780 But the Texas bill also, also is unworkable and confusing.
00:30:41.380 What we're not doing this evening is talking to my opponent about his extreme views.
00:30:47.040 See, my opponent doesn't want to talk about this topic tonight because he actually called legislation
00:30:51.980 that would enable abortion, paid for with taxpayer money all the way up through and including birth,
00:30:57.960 where a child is kept comfortable while a decision is made whether that child lives or dies.
00:31:01.900 He called that legislation common sense legislation and said he would sign it.
00:31:07.780 Friends, my opponent wants to be the abortion governor and I want to be the jobs governor.
00:31:12.260 Mr. Youngkin, your time is up.
00:31:14.160 This was a bad answer.
00:31:15.520 He thought it was such a clever answer.
00:31:17.140 It's a bad answer.
00:31:18.160 And just learn this lesson, folks.
00:31:20.440 What Glenn Youngkin thought he was doing here by criticizing the Texas law but still saying,
00:31:26.080 I'm pro-life except for some, I'm willing to kill some babies but not all babies.
00:31:29.580 And, you know, but it's a bad law and I hate it.
00:31:32.000 I wouldn't have it here.
00:31:32.900 But my opponent, then he made one good move, which is he said,
00:31:35.640 my opponent's really radical on abortion.
00:31:37.040 Okay, that's true.
00:31:38.900 You know, let's talk about abortion, third trimester abortions with that degenerate Terry McAuliffe supports. 0.93
00:31:44.700 But then he says he wants to be the abortion governor.
00:31:46.720 I want to be the jobs governor.
00:31:48.040 And it's just he thinks that he's placating the pro-lifers and allaying the fears of the pro-abortion people.
00:31:53.220 In reality, he's doing neither.
00:31:54.860 He is now losing the trust of conservatives who think he's going to go squish on a very important issue.
00:32:00.200 And he's not picking up a single lib vote.
00:32:02.180 Not one lib was convinced by his answer, who previously was going to vote against him, was convinced to vote for him.
00:32:09.400 It just, it was too clever by half.
00:32:12.240 Politicians do this a lot.
00:32:14.480 Do not, now is not the time to squish.
00:32:16.680 Now is the time for leadership.
00:32:18.500 And we're in a moment of real political realignment.
00:32:21.540 I think Nicki Minaj is actually showing that.
00:32:24.900 And so now is the time to actually, people want to follow leaders.
00:32:28.240 They don't want to follow squishes who are trying to sneak into a job by ignoring very important political issues and just saying, I'll get you better jobs.
00:32:38.280 Speaking of jobs, the federal government does not want us to continue to do business because we are not going to force our employees to shoot themselves up with this experimental drug.
00:32:49.060 And so they're going to try to come after us and they're going to threaten us with major fines.
00:32:53.840 And we're not going to comply with Biden's stupid mandate.
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00:33:04.420 We'll be right back with the mailbag.
00:33:17.980 It is my favorite time of the week when I get to hear from you in the mailbag.
00:33:21.080 First question up is from Elise.
00:33:24.140 Oh, it's sort of like sweet little Elisa from Elise.
00:33:26.800 Hey, Michael, I'm a single woman in my 20s and I have a dating question.
00:33:29.800 Dating is not super fun for me and I have a lot of anxiety about it.
00:33:32.740 When I actually like someone, I get in my head and overthink everything, which makes me act not like myself and I feel like it messes things up.
00:33:40.340 What are your thoughts on how not how to be confident just being myself or on how to be confident just being myself and not overthinking too much about the outcome?
00:33:50.900 Sincerely, sometimes I think I think too much.
00:33:53.500 This happens to a lot of people.
00:33:54.960 Usually it's men who complain about this, but it can happen to women too.
00:33:58.900 I, for one, actually find it kind of charming if back in my single days, if I'm talking to a woman and she gets a little bit nervous or blushes or something.
00:34:08.580 I really like that.
00:34:09.940 I think that that is sort of evidence that she likes me, you know, and vice versa.
00:34:14.820 I don't think that's necessarily the worst thing in the world, especially when a woman does it. 1.00
00:34:20.260 Because, you know, the man, because he is the one pursuing the woman, he's the one asking her out.
00:34:25.360 He, I think, needs to appear more confident.
00:34:27.860 But if the woman, you know, demonstrates her affection or kind of gives in a little bit, I actually think that's sort of charming.
00:34:36.840 But if you want to seem a little more confident, just keep in mind this.
00:34:44.200 One, in the individual interactions, very likely you are the one being pursued.
00:34:50.020 Very likely it's not you doing the pursuingness.
00:34:52.480 So you might be putting yourself out there, but it's very, you know, just as a matter of the sexes, usually it is the men who are pursuing the women.
00:34:59.980 And so you're already in the position of power, right?
00:35:03.120 You are already the one who can say, yes, I want to go get a drink with you or no, I don't want to get a drink with you.
00:35:09.060 And beyond that, how does a, gosh, it's a little trickier.
00:35:15.500 I can tell a man how to have confidence, but how does the woman have confidence? 1.00
00:35:20.160 I guess consciousness is one of the ways that a woman can have confidence. 0.65
00:35:26.680 Just remember that every insecurity that you have, you feel that you're, whatever, your body doesn't look good or you're, you know, you're a little too weird or you're, I don't know.
00:35:37.880 Women have all sorts of insecurities, even more than men do. 1.00
00:35:41.060 Just remember that every other woman in human history has had all of those insecurities.
00:35:44.520 And, and just, just be cool about it.
00:35:47.640 Just recognize, hey, I am no different in this regard than any other woman who has ever lived.
00:35:52.960 And so, yes, maybe I'm feeling anxious.
00:35:55.120 Yes, maybe I'm feeling nerves.
00:35:56.420 Yes, maybe I'm feeling butterflies.
00:35:57.820 Every other woman has as well.
00:35:59.840 From Anthony.
00:36:00.700 Hello, Mr. Knowles.
00:36:01.560 During the latest backstage episode, Jeremy mentioned how Protestantism was in decline in America while Catholicism was in the ascendant.
00:36:07.380 Do you agree that the Catholic Church is ascendant?
00:36:09.040 As someone who attends the traditional Latin Mass, I do see the growing side of the church.
00:36:12.960 However, with Pachamama, Cardinal McCarrick, the Pope's suppression of the Latin Mass, liturgical abuse scandal, it seems that the one true church has its fair share of issues, issues which hold it back from having the real cultural influence it once enjoyed.
00:36:23.560 Love the show and appreciate all you do.
00:36:24.820 Yes, the Catholic Church has a ton of problems.
00:36:27.300 Hilaire Belloc famously said, he said, I have to take it as a matter of faith that the Catholic Church is divinely instituted.
00:36:33.420 But for nonbelievers, proof of that divine institution is that no other institution conducted with such knavish imbecility would have lasted a fortnight. 0.76
00:36:42.700 So this has been a longstanding issue in the church.
00:36:44.700 And in recent years, it's gotten worse than it has been in the past.
00:36:48.280 That's actually not the point that Jeremy was making, as I understood it.
00:36:51.620 And it's not the point that I think is pretty good.
00:36:53.780 Jeremy is observing that many of the people who are leading the new right, you know, who are really in the ascendant in their influence in the conservative movement in America, Patrick Deneen, Saurabh Amari, Adrian Vermeule, a number of other people, are Catholic.
00:37:15.240 And Jeremy thinks this is kind of weird because America, we are told, is a Protestant country.
00:37:20.900 And this is maybe because the mainline Protestant churches have collapsed.
00:37:23.700 I think that's true.
00:37:24.620 This is maybe because the evangelical churches have become shockingly left-wing in just the last few years.
00:37:30.020 I mean, really, George Floyd was one of the moments that really brought a lot of evangelical churches to the left.
00:37:35.160 And a lot of my evangelical friends have complained about that.
00:37:38.200 Sure, that too.
00:37:39.980 But I think what Jeremy is failing to appreciate is a little secret about conservatism in America, which is that it has always been led by Catholics, which is really weird because America does seem like a Protestant country.
00:37:53.880 And yet you go back, even not that far, but you go back to the origin of the modern conservative movement.
00:37:58.580 Who do you have?
00:37:59.240 Bill Buckley, Catholic.
00:38:00.280 Brent Bozell, Catholic.
00:38:01.280 Phyllis Schlafly, Catholic.
00:38:03.340 James Burnham, even, Catholic.
00:38:05.640 Frank Meyer invented fusionism, Catholic. 0.64
00:38:08.360 The list goes on.
00:38:10.000 Russell Kirk, oh my gosh, one of the most important conservatives.
00:38:12.780 Catholic.
00:38:13.600 And if they didn't all start out Catholic, they became Catholic over time.
00:38:16.320 Why?
00:38:16.900 I'm not going to make any religious point exactly about the religious truth of Catholicism.
00:38:22.980 I'm just going to point out that Catholicism is an incarnational faith.
00:38:27.160 So it's a faith that says it doesn't matter if you just think about things all the time.
00:38:30.580 You actually have to do it.
00:38:31.560 You have to do the sacraments.
00:38:32.540 You have to receive the literal body and blood of Christ.
00:38:34.180 You got to put it in your body.
00:38:35.520 It's a real thing with a real pope who wears a real hat.
00:38:38.380 And that is just a different approach than more rationalistic approaches to religion and
00:38:47.160 ultimately to politics.
00:38:48.280 And so there is a reason that the Catholic Church is one of, if not the only institution
00:38:53.460 that survived from antiquity through modernity.
00:38:55.380 It's because it partakes of that real thing.
00:38:59.640 So the understanding that what happens in time and space actually does matter.
00:39:04.160 And I think that's a deeply conservative view.
00:39:06.180 So even beyond the questions of, you know, what church you go to on Sunday, I think the
00:39:12.360 Catholic view of the whole wide world and the Catholic view of politics is just naturally
00:39:17.400 going to lend itself to conservatism.
00:39:19.020 And it's why the most effective conservatives in America, even in a Protestant country, have
00:39:23.780 been Catholic.
00:39:24.320 From Emma, dear Michael, I come to you from a difficult spot.
00:39:27.500 I'll get right to it.
00:39:28.300 My husband wants a threesome, but I'm not so into the idea.
00:39:32.240 Personally, I hate the idea of seeing him with another woman.
00:39:34.500 He's offered bringing another man into the mix instead, but then I can't understand why
00:39:38.800 he would be okay seeing me with another man.
00:39:40.900 He says he wouldn't be jealous because it's about pleasing me, but I don't think I'd enjoy
00:39:45.580 it.
00:39:45.780 I love my husband, but don't know what to do.
00:39:47.660 Any insight would be appreciated.
00:39:48.760 Sincerely, threes a crowd.
00:39:50.220 Yeah.
00:39:50.340 Your husband is acting like a degenerate and you should tell him that and just be very
00:39:54.980 blunt with him.
00:39:55.880 And, you know, look, people do all sorts of curious, kooky things in the bedroom, especially
00:40:00.640 these days, because it's much more socially acceptable.
00:40:05.100 What you said there, I think, highlights the problem.
00:40:07.340 There was that one line you said when you said to your husband, hey, why do you want to watch
00:40:11.940 some other dude stoop your wife? 1.00
00:40:15.040 And he said, well, because I wouldn't be jealous.
00:40:18.400 It's about pleasing you.
00:40:19.480 It's not about pleasing you.
00:40:20.900 It's not.
00:40:23.380 Marriage is not just about you and he each receiving more and more pleasure for yourself.
00:40:30.840 Sex is not just about you getting pleasure and feeling good.
00:40:36.680 There's an aspect of that, but really what it is about is the union of two people.
00:40:41.520 There is a unitive and, dare I suggest it, procreative aspect of that.
00:40:47.540 It's actually not primarily about you.
00:40:50.480 It's primarily about the other person to whom you have vowed to be loyal and faithful for
00:40:55.620 your life, vowed before God himself and before the community.
00:40:59.760 So it's a political act as well.
00:41:02.420 Something tells me your husband has just gone down some, you know, not so healthy roads,
00:41:07.460 maybe in his thoughts.
00:41:08.640 Maybe he's looking at naughty things on the computer.
00:41:11.460 I hope he's not cheating on you.
00:41:13.480 But whatever it is, look, this happens to men, I think, much more than it happens to women.
00:41:20.040 And, you know, men have certain instincts that can be either suppressed or exacerbated.
00:41:25.700 They can be suppressed by practicing virtue and they can be exacerbated by giving into vice.
00:41:30.560 And the more you do either of those things, the more of it you're going to get.
00:41:32.980 So what I would recommend, if you think your husband, as I do, is acting like a degenerate
00:41:38.140 and a derelict, you should say, okay, buddy, stop thinking those thoughts.
00:41:42.920 Whenever you start thinking those thoughts, think of something.
00:41:44.660 Think of baseball.
00:41:46.200 Think of grandma.
00:41:47.320 Whatever.
00:41:47.660 Think of anything to get your mind way off those thoughts.
00:41:50.600 If he's looking at porn, which I bet he is, tell him to cut it out and, you know, tell
00:41:54.740 him that he needs to put filters or whatever.
00:41:57.360 You know, there is software, I think, that you can put on your computer so that that doesn't
00:42:01.680 happen.
00:42:01.920 And just tell him to work on it because he has these desires now, presumably because he
00:42:07.700 has stoked them.
00:42:08.540 You sometimes hear this, that human beings have two wolves in them, the bad wolf and the
00:42:13.480 good wolf.
00:42:14.760 The bad guy part and the good guy part.
00:42:17.260 Well, which wolf controls who you are?
00:42:19.860 Whichever one you feed is the answer.
00:42:22.000 And so you can create these really bad pathways in your brain.
00:42:25.480 You can really exacerbate these disordered desires.
00:42:27.660 And it's going to be difficult to stop that, but the way to stop that is to stop feeding
00:42:31.840 that bad wolf, okay?
00:42:33.100 And then over time, the better desires will become the more dominant ones.
00:42:39.340 Best of luck.
00:42:39.980 Don't have a threesome. 0.99
00:42:40.900 From Brandon.
00:42:41.520 Hey, Michael, I'm a member of the U.S. Army.
00:42:43.180 And as you know, we've been hit with massive vaccine mandates.
00:42:46.560 I've requested religious exemption from the vaccine for two reasons.
00:42:49.440 One, I don't think it would be morally right to benefit from a vaccine that was developed
00:42:53.360 at the expense of the lives of unborn children.
00:42:54.780 Two, I believe that specifically the nucleic acid technology used in the J&J, Moderna, and
00:43:00.200 BioNTech, I didn't even know about that one, vaccines are not in line with Christianity.
00:43:04.560 Since these vaccines would change the creation of God at a fundamental cellular level and
00:43:07.600 even potentially genetic level, what are your thoughts?
00:43:10.620 Thank you and sincerely, a concerned soldier.
00:43:12.440 Yeah, I mean, you know I strongly oppose the vaccine mandates.
00:43:16.060 I think it's awful.
00:43:17.640 I think you should try to, if you don't want to get, look, if you want to get the vaccine,
00:43:21.140 I can see a bioethical argument to do it.
00:43:23.860 But as I've said from the very beginning, I think this is a prudential matter that really
00:43:29.360 you should have much more control over than, say, Joe Biden does or your commanding officer
00:43:33.500 does.
00:43:34.220 The problem is that a lot of religious institutions, up to and including the Catholic Church,
00:43:39.180 are not giving religious exemptions.
00:43:41.160 The bishops have said it is permissible to get the vaccine, and some have even gone further
00:43:45.220 than that.
00:43:46.500 So if you're Catholic, for instance, you're probably not going to get one.
00:43:49.280 You might be able to get a medical exemption if you find the right doctor.
00:43:52.640 And now if you're a member of some other, you know, religion, you might be able to get
00:43:57.620 a religious exemption.
00:43:58.440 But my only caution to you here is it's very hard to get them.
00:44:02.220 I've talked to friends of mine who are in the military who are not having any luck getting
00:44:05.660 them.
00:44:05.880 So this is a, as the vaccine should have been from the beginning, the way to avoid getting
00:44:13.040 the vaccine is a prudential matter to you.
00:44:14.960 But I think that most options are on the table.
00:44:18.560 From Nick.
00:44:19.400 Hi, Michael.
00:44:19.980 Oh, no.
00:44:20.900 Oh, no.
00:44:22.800 Me again.
00:44:23.660 Uh-huh.
00:44:24.120 This has been a while since.
00:44:25.220 Let's, why don't we take questions from Nick?
00:44:28.260 I, for those who are just tuning in and are not aware, Nick has, assuming it's the same
00:44:34.300 Nick, Nick has had some of the most colorful questions in the history of my show.
00:44:37.200 All right, let's get on with it.
00:44:38.020 Since breaking up with my above-average girlfriend last month, I've enjoyed living my life like
00:44:42.860 a phoenix rising from the ashes.
00:44:45.100 However, rather than diving in the sea of babes, I've tried to be more productive with
00:44:50.120 my Viagra-level sex drive and focus my testosterone on combat sports training.
00:44:56.400 That's actually, I'm, that's good.
00:44:57.920 I'm glad to hear that.
00:44:58.880 I joined an MMA gym and quickly became the gladiator-level stud at the gym and love sparring
00:45:04.380 and wrestling around the mats with these dudes.
00:45:06.500 It's no homo. 1.00
00:45:08.540 My question is, when is it morally appropriate to use these new deadly weapons?
00:45:13.420 My fists, feet, and perfectly formed biceps on someone.
00:45:18.580 I am borderline ready to walk the streets at night hoping to find someone littering that
00:45:23.300 I can take to pound town.
00:45:25.300 No homo. 1.00
00:45:28.020 P.S.
00:45:28.940 Do I want to read this P.S.?
00:45:30.240 P.S.
00:45:30.580 I took your advice and threw a stick outside my office hoping that it would land near someone
00:45:34.280 that I could marry.
00:45:34.940 It's a long story, so I'll just say Doug in accounting might be a tad bit homo. 1.00
00:45:42.480 Nick, Nick, Nick.
00:45:45.100 What would be a positive?
00:45:47.020 I don't want to just criticize you because I actually think you've made some improvements
00:45:51.320 since you've been writing about your derelict relationship with women.
00:45:54.660 I think it is good that you're channeling your obviously above average levels of virility
00:46:01.000 and energy toward improving yourself, in this case your physicality, and not toward leading
00:46:07.200 women astray. 0.99
00:46:08.280 That's good.
00:46:10.580 As to your question, when should you go out looking for a fight?
00:46:13.760 You should never go out looking for a fight.
00:46:15.300 It's a bad idea.
00:46:16.100 That is now another thing that you have to resist.
00:46:19.320 Don't take your guns to town, Bill.
00:46:20.880 Leave your guns at home, Jim.
00:46:22.200 Don't take your guns to town.
00:46:25.720 We have a law enforcement apparatus in this country to deal with criminals just so that
00:46:30.920 you do not become a vigilante.
00:46:33.100 This is a very bad thing.
00:46:34.640 Defend yourself when you've got to defend yourself.
00:46:36.420 You obviously have a right to do that, and you have really, I think, an obligation to
00:46:39.700 do that, and certainly to defend innocent people.
00:46:43.840 But you do not have the right and the authority to go out and take anybody to pound town just
00:46:50.380 because you want to swing your deadly weapons.
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