The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 908 - Biden Gives The Gift Of Death, Disease, And Inflation

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00:00:30.280 As you deck the halls with boughs of holly,

00:00:32.940 Joe Biden wants you to know that we are not headed into the season to be jolly,

00:00:37.520 but rather into a winter of severe illness and death.

00:00:42.900 It's here now and it's spreading and it's going to increase.

00:00:47.460 For unvaccinated, we are looking at a winter of severe illness and death for unvaccinated.

00:00:53.820 For themselves, their families, and the hospitals, they'll soon overwhelm.

00:00:58.540 So lest you think that Joe Biden is just projecting here,

00:01:01.320 what he's saying is it's a winter of severe illness and death specifically for the unvaccinated.

00:01:06.900 And the thing is, none of that would appear to be true from the evidence we have right now.

00:01:11.020 So far, according to the CDC, just 43 people in the United States have come down with the Omicron variant of coronavirus.

00:01:20.060 Nearly 80% of them were vaccinated, not unvaccinated, vaccinated.

00:01:26.920 One briefly went to the hospital.

00:01:29.420 No one so far has died.

00:01:30.460 Never mind that all available evidence suggests that the Omicron or whatever,

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00:01:36.940 is significantly milder than Delta, Alpha, Phi Beta Kappa, all the other ones that we know about.

00:01:42.480 No, no, no.

00:01:43.580 You need to be afraid because otherwise Joe Biden won't have as much power.

00:01:49.360 I'm Michael Knowles.

00:01:50.020 This is The Michael Knowles Show.

00:01:50.800 Welcome back to the show.

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00:02:20.800 The teacher, I guess, has the right to think about whatever he wants to think about.

00:02:28.020 I guess he has the right to read the kind of books he wants to read, generally speaking.

00:02:31.580 He has the right to read, but he doesn't have the right to teach whatever he wants.

00:02:34.940 He has to do his job, and his job involves teaching certain things and giving his kids a certain kind of education.

00:02:41.000 It means teaching the truth.

00:02:42.120 It means teaching things that are good.

00:02:43.800 It means exposing students to things that are beautiful and not the opposite of all that.

00:02:47.880 Just like a bus driver might have the right to go wherever he wants, but not while he's on the job.

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00:04:02.680 Be afraid.

00:04:04.500 Be very, very afraid.

00:04:07.420 That is the message from Joe Biden.

00:04:10.700 This is the kind of fear mongering I have never seen in my whole life in American politics.

00:04:17.100 Having lived through 9-11, the wars in the Middle East, Trump talking about immigration.

00:04:24.820 There has been a lot of, I guess you'd call it fear mongering, I guess.

00:04:31.520 And then on the other side, you've got the Democrats fear mongering about the Russia scandal and Ukraine and all that other stuff.

00:04:37.380 I've never seen anything like this.

00:04:38.960 The president of the United States saying, if you don't do exactly what I tell you to do and inject yourself with some experimental drug, then there's going to be severe pain, illness, death everywhere.

00:04:50.920 Fa-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la. 1.00

00:04:52.560 By the way, on the vaccines, turns out, turns out the vaccines might not be quite as safe as some of the establishment wants you to believe.

00:05:02.620 Before you take me off the air, YouTube and Facebook and Twitter or whatever, I'm just quoting the CDC.

00:05:10.000 At yesterday's meeting of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, CDC officials went into detail on the blood clotting related syndrome that was identified in 54 people in the United States who got the shot before the end of August.

00:05:29.840 Okay.

00:05:30.580 The FDA earlier this week said basically the same thing.

00:05:34.340 I'm just reading directly from the FDA report here.

00:05:37.120 Cases of TTS, cases of blood clots, following the administration of the Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine have been reported in males and females in a wide age range of individuals 18 years and older.

00:05:51.720 With the highest reporting rate, approximately one case per 100,000 doses administered in females ages 30 to 49 years.

00:06:00.120 So first of all, that's not nothing.

00:06:02.420 One in 100,000 is not nothing when you're talking about giving this vax to 330 million people.

00:06:08.240 Overall, approximately 15% of the TTS cases have been fatal.

00:06:15.900 So you got 330 million people just about getting the vaccine.

00:06:19.940 In this specific age group, you're looking at one in 100,000 are getting this complication.

00:06:24.840 And then 15% of that, you die.

00:06:27.600 That's not good.

00:06:28.460 Currently available evidence supports a causal relationship between TTS, the blood clots, and the Janssen COVID-19 vaccine.

00:06:36.600 That's just from the FDA.

00:06:38.860 If you're going to take me off the air for saying that, then at least let's be honest,

00:06:44.480 you are going to take me off the air for quoting directly from an FDA report.

00:06:52.860 Obviously, there are risks from the vaccine, despite all, from the vaccines, plural.

00:07:02.060 Despite all of the establishment propaganda that this is 100% safe and there's no risk whatsoever, that's BS.

00:07:08.700 There is risk in any vaccine, basically any medical intervention you take.

00:07:13.020 And sometimes the risks are higher and sometimes the risks are lower, which is why from the beginning on these vaccine issues,

00:07:21.740 I have pointed out that there are some prudential arguments to get the vaccine,

00:07:28.180 despite the medical and religious and moral complications of it.

00:07:34.440 And there are some prudential arguments for not getting the vaccine, and it might vary even person to person.

00:07:43.440 But the FDA and the CDC saying, yeah, actually, maybe this is a little bit worse than we thought.

00:07:49.680 Yeah, now, both bodies might say, but you should still get the vaccine.

00:07:53.180 But that's just, they're just explaining the facts.

00:07:55.540 Maybe there is more risk here.

00:07:57.820 Even the New York Times covered this, right?

00:07:59.500 So the New York Times covered it, and then they realized they had a little too much truth in their headline,

00:08:05.760 so they had to change the headline.

00:08:07.100 So the original headline was,

00:08:08.760 A CDC panel weighs the risks of blood clots linked to the J&J vaccine.

00:08:14.580 Okay, that's pretty honest, right?

00:08:16.560 The CDC panel is looking once again, because there are more people who have gotten these blood clots and died from the blood clots.

00:08:23.320 Okay, so they're going to weigh the risks of that vaccine.

00:08:27.020 New headline.

00:08:27.700 The CDC recommends that other vaccines be preferred over J&J.

00:08:33.920 So they take out the idea of risk.

00:08:35.920 They take out the idea that maybe these things aren't going to be totally safe for you.

00:08:42.200 And they say, just maybe go look at the other vaccines.

00:08:45.120 But there are risks from the other vaccines as well, as the CDC has admitted.

00:08:49.180 Risks of myocarditis, risks of pericarditis in different groups of people, specifically in younger men.

00:08:54.360 But the establishment doesn't want too much truth to get out.

00:08:59.700 They're trying to hide this story.

00:09:01.580 And this is why when you don't believe the legacy media, when you don't believe Dr.

00:09:09.660 Fauci, when you don't believe Big Pharma, who the hell ever thought it was a good idea to just blindly accept whatever Big Pharma tells you?

00:09:16.320 Remember when people on the left thought that Big Pharma was maybe a little corrupt and maybe there were some conflicts of interest here and maybe we shouldn't just accept every single one of their press releases as gospel truth?

00:09:29.500 And then COVID happened and now we're told that Big Pharma is the greatest, most wonderful, innocent industry in America.

00:09:35.920 You remember that?

00:09:38.440 My friend Ryan Long, the comedian, made this point.

00:09:41.820 It was the left saying, I hate Big Pharma, except for Pfizer.

00:09:44.480 I love, Pfizer's amazing, Pfizer's one.

00:09:46.020 But all the rest of Big Pharma is really terrible.

00:09:48.260 So they're all trying to hide the story, which means you've got to do your own research and you've got to make your own decisions and you've got to use your own faculties of reason and judgment and prudence.

00:09:56.520 And I'm not sure you're even allowed to say that anymore.

00:09:58.300 No consequences whatsoever for the people who misled and lied about the safety and efficacy of certain vaccines.

00:10:07.760 No consequences at all in the federal government, in its associated entities and in the deep state.

00:10:14.540 Great example of this.

00:10:15.920 There was a drone attack.

00:10:17.660 There have been many drone attacks in the Middle East.

00:10:21.340 So there was a drone attack that the United States carried out that killed a bunch of civilians.

00:10:25.520 And the attack should not have been launched.

00:10:31.160 And there was an investigation into it.

00:10:33.080 And, yep, that's bad.

00:10:34.380 We killed a bunch of civilians.

00:10:35.860 So the Pentagon press secretary was brought onto a news show, credit where credit's due, onto Morning Joe, and was asked, is anyone going to be held accountable for this?

00:10:46.560 Here's his answer.

00:10:47.680 How does it strike you that no one is held accountable?

00:10:50.200 Because I know how it strikes a lot of people around the world, that you can get away with murder and nobody's punished for it.

00:10:54.940 I do understand that.

00:10:56.060 We appreciate that not everybody's going to support this decision.

00:11:00.320 What I can tell you is we looked at this thing very, very comprehensively.

00:11:03.860 And, again, we acknowledge that there were procedural breakdowns.

00:11:07.120 Processes were not executed the way they should have been.

00:11:10.420 But it doesn't necessarily indicate that an individual or individuals have to be held to account for that.

00:11:15.740 But, look, this is one...

00:11:17.380 Is there discipline inside the Pentagon at all?

00:11:19.420 I mean, maybe there are no charges brought up, but is anyone demoted or disciplined for what happened that day?

00:11:23.860 What we are going to do, there's not going to be individual discipline as a result of this, Willie.

00:11:29.340 But what we are going to do is learn from this.

00:11:31.840 And we're going to enact and improve our procedures and our processes to try to make sure this doesn't happen again.

00:11:37.540 There aren't going to be any consequences whatsoever for anybody, but we're going to learn from this.

00:11:42.020 You're not going to learn anything if there's no consequences.

00:11:43.920 What are you talking about?

00:11:45.820 Like when your kid keeps stealing the cookies from the cookie jar.

00:11:49.560 You say, okay, well, I'm not going to punish little Johnny, but he's going to learn.

00:11:52.420 He'll learn anything.

00:11:53.020 No, he won't, of course.

00:11:53.880 And I'm not suggesting that the people who didn't follow the procedures that led, therefore, to this murder of civilians.

00:12:02.900 Not murder, I guess, just homicide.

00:12:04.960 It was in the unintentional killing of civilians.

00:12:07.460 I'm not saying they need to be brought up on criminal charges.

00:12:10.340 I'm not saying they need to be thrown in prison.

00:12:13.120 In any military operation, there is a risk of civilians being killed.

00:12:18.740 That's just what happens in war.

00:12:20.640 This is one of the reasons to be a little more circumspect, maybe, when you're talking about going to war.

00:12:24.200 Whether it's an outright full frontal war or whether it's some of these sort of little wars of empire that the United States has been engaging in recently.

00:12:33.220 But surely someone has to be held to account, right?

00:12:37.160 Surely someone or multiple people who didn't follow the rules, they need at least a slap on the wrist, don't they?

00:12:44.920 They need at least to acknowledge fault, don't they?

00:12:47.280 Or no.

00:12:48.640 Because the blob, because the liberal establishment never, never faces consequences.

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00:14:22.940 Speaking of the Pentagon, Joe Biden was just giving a little update on what's going on over at the Pentagon.

00:14:31.320 And he appears to have once again forgotten the name of the Secretary of Defense.

00:14:36.020 I want to thank all of our distinguished guests that are here today, the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs, the Secretary of the, of the, Secretary Austin.

00:14:49.960 So it's even worse than just forgetting the name, which he did.

00:14:54.340 He forgot the name of his own Secretary of Defense.

00:14:56.820 He also forgot the name of the Pentagon.

00:14:59.980 He also forgot the name of the Department of Defense.

00:15:03.180 He said, well, the, and the Secretary of, uh, what's the, huh, what, what's the one is it?

00:15:08.020 It's the, not Secretary of War.

00:15:11.360 It's not the Secretary.

00:15:12.740 Oh, yeah.

00:15:13.180 And then he said Secretary Austin, which he also had forgotten.

00:15:15.280 So we all, we all make fun of Joe Biden's, uh, memory slips and obvious senility.

00:15:22.920 I'm beginning to think this is more sad than funny.

00:15:27.260 In the, in that, if, if you've ever dealt with a loved one who is going through senility,

00:15:34.600 whether it's formally diagnosed as dementia or not, or just age-related memory slips, or just, you know, a lot of people,

00:15:41.900 a lot of older people go through this.

00:15:43.320 It's extremely sad.

00:15:44.620 It's heart-wrenching to watch.

00:15:47.000 And so I don't know how advanced Joe Biden's problems are.

00:15:50.800 I don't, obviously, they hide him a lot from the public.

00:15:52.800 So we usually don't see these sort of things.

00:15:54.340 They hit him for the entire 2020 election, practically.

00:15:57.340 But for anyone who's ever dealt with a loved one who is in cognitive decline,

00:16:03.160 it's, it's really sad, and it's kind of unpredictable,

00:16:06.020 and you don't know when they're really capable or not.

00:16:09.240 And this should worry even Republicans who, we make fun of Joe Biden.

00:16:15.020 We don't like Joe Biden.

00:16:15.760 He's always been a doofus from his earliest, most lucid days.

00:16:18.340 But we have a president who is very clearly not all there.

00:16:23.380 I don't mean this in the way that each party always attacks the other party and says the president's an idiot.

00:16:31.040 They did this to George W. Bush.

00:16:32.720 They did it to Trump.

00:16:33.780 They did it.

00:16:34.140 They do it to all the presidents.

00:16:35.540 But I think for the Democrats listening out there, even the Biden supporters listening out there,

00:16:41.680 you can't tell me that the man is not in a cognitive decline.

00:16:45.780 And so this raises a question.

00:16:47.940 The question is, do we need a president?

00:16:53.520 There are now some, some conservatives who are saying,

00:16:57.840 we need a basic level of competence and to run the government.

00:17:01.140 And if your president's not competent, that's a grave threat to national security.

00:17:03.680 You've got some disingenuous liberals saying, our president's totally competent.

00:17:07.860 It's not a big deal.

00:17:08.500 Don't worry about it.

00:17:09.360 But I'm, I'm actually kind of open-minded on this question.

00:17:12.140 I don't know that we need a president.

00:17:13.840 Really.

00:17:15.780 I wonder if the administrative state is so firm and set and bloated at this point that it can just kind of run itself.

00:17:25.680 Maybe it can.

00:17:26.580 I don't know.

00:17:27.080 I mean, obviously you need the president to appoint certain people,

00:17:29.220 but really even those appointments are just made by advisors.

00:17:31.580 And as long as the president puts his rubber stamp on,

00:17:33.700 as long as they can lift his arm up with a,

00:17:35.120 with a pen in it and just kind of scribble a name on there,

00:17:37.560 then I guess he can sign off on it.

00:17:39.100 Do we need a president?

00:17:40.280 I don't know.

00:17:41.400 Going back all the way to Woodrow Wilson,

00:17:43.400 you have seen this,

00:17:45.100 this notion develop on the left that the presidency is too big for one man.

00:17:49.440 And so therefore we need to create this federal bureaucracy that's just going to run itself,

00:17:54.040 even if the president is totally incapacitated.

00:17:56.480 Maybe that's the case.

00:17:57.400 Now, if that is the case, it tells us that our constitutional order has changed dramatically

00:18:02.500 from what it was in the beginning.

00:18:04.680 And for, for, I guess, most of our nation's history to right now,

00:18:08.700 but it may well be the case that Joe Biden can go sit and watch episodes of Matlock and it won't,

00:18:14.360 it won't matter.

00:18:15.180 The establishment is pretty effective on its own.

00:18:17.520 You see this not just within the administrative agencies,

00:18:19.600 you see it with the media too,

00:18:21.040 because the media are just the propaganda arm of,

00:18:23.980 of the liberal establishment.

00:18:25.420 And so, for instance,

00:18:28.360 when gas jumps an incredible amount over the past year,

00:18:33.380 it's up, I think, what, 56 or 57 percent over the past year.

00:18:38.060 And then it drops down four to 10 cents.

00:18:43.660 And honest news media would come out and say,

00:18:46.020 gosh, gas is so high.

00:18:47.480 This is really a big problem.

00:18:49.400 It's way, way up.

00:18:50.260 But, but because the news media are not honest,

00:18:53.160 because they're the propaganda arm of the liberal establishment,

00:18:55.480 they go in lockstep with the exact same talking points and say,

00:18:59.380 oh, wow, gas is down less than 10 cents.

00:19:02.480 Huge win.

00:19:03.460 Great news.

00:19:04.740 Wonderful.

00:19:05.260 Great leader Biden doing wonderful.

00:19:07.400 All praise to Biden.

00:19:09.160 Here at home, Americans are finally getting some relief.

00:19:12.780 Finally, right?

00:19:14.680 Good news, people.

00:19:15.480 We talked so much about bad news.

00:19:16.960 Oh, my gosh.

00:19:17.640 This is good news.

00:19:19.740 Gas prices are heading south, down.

00:19:22.040 A government forecast says that they could drop below $3 a gallon.

00:19:30.040 Whew.

00:19:30.900 Finally, some economic relief.

00:19:33.440 However, minor.

00:19:34.580 Americans are paying a little less at the pump

00:19:36.680 after weeks of rising energy prices.

00:19:38.600 Relief for the United States as energy costs drop.

00:19:42.360 That pain that you've been feeling at the pump, it may be short-lived.

00:19:45.360 There is finally some relief at the pump.

00:19:47.620 Good news at the pump.

00:19:48.840 Finally getting some relief, as you mentioned.

00:19:50.240 The national average price of gas dropped four cents in the last week.

00:19:53.580 Gas dropped nearly a nickel in the last week.

00:19:56.360 It's a seven-week low.

00:19:57.860 It's moving in the right direction.

00:19:59.200 The average is now at a seven-week low.

00:20:01.820 Actually, a seven-week low.

00:20:03.600 Slightly lower gas prices, so that's good news.

00:20:06.160 Yeah, this is the kind of positive news we've wanted.

00:20:07.640 Really good economic news, including dropping gas prices.

00:20:10.340 Gas prices will tumble below $3 a gallon soon.

00:20:13.980 So that's good news.

00:20:15.240 Soon.

00:20:15.960 It's going to happen soon.

00:20:17.360 That's the news.

00:20:18.220 The news is a thing that I'm predicting will happen in the future

00:20:21.060 because the news of what's actually going on is so bad

00:20:23.900 and devastating for the liberal establishment

00:20:25.880 that I can't even report on that.

00:20:27.800 But in the future, I bet it'll be better.

00:20:30.680 So that will be good news when that happens.

00:20:35.480 My favorite one there is gas prices down almost a nickel.

00:20:38.260 Wow, really great news, huh?

00:20:40.880 Almost a shiny nickel down.

00:20:43.920 The only one there who even has the impulse to try to be kind of honest

00:20:48.260 is Jake Tapper, but he's still got to read all the talking points

00:20:51.620 because he still works for the corporate media.

00:20:53.340 So he just goes, gas prices are down.

00:20:55.520 You know, it's only a little bit.

00:20:58.200 Mr. Zucker, do I really have to say?

00:20:59.960 Okay, I do.

00:21:00.500 I guess I do because I'm the propaganda arm of the liberal establishment.

00:21:05.140 The media are becoming more brazen in their attacks

00:21:10.720 and their defense of the establishment and their attacks on us,

00:21:14.440 the people that they perceive to be their enemies.

00:21:16.820 So Joy Reid on MSNBC is really upset at Elon Musk.

00:21:22.560 She's upset because Elon Musk was attacked on Twitter by Elizabeth Warren.

00:21:30.820 And so Elon Musk just keeps trolling Elizabeth Warren.

00:21:33.600 She says, you know, you haven't done anything.

00:21:35.340 You're not productive.

00:21:36.360 You're not, you're a leech on society.

00:21:37.900 And so that sort of thing.

00:21:39.120 And Elon responds and says, hey, stop projecting, lady.

00:21:41.700 And then they keep, you know, they keep going back and forth.

00:21:43.680 And he's like, hey, listen, Senator Karen.

00:21:45.420 You know, and he just keeps, he's trolling this lady. 0.97

00:21:48.420 But Joy Reid is very upset because Elon,

00:21:52.300 Elon Musk is not allowed to use Karen,

00:21:55.440 which is a racial slur against white people,

00:21:59.360 white women specifically, 0.51

00:22:00.500 because Elon Musk, even though he's an African-American,

00:22:03.460 Elon Musk is not black.

00:22:04.740 And so he's not, he's not allowed to say that.

00:22:07.680 Elon wasn't happy.

00:22:08.540 So he did what he always did

00:22:09.640 and stomped his little feet and insulted Senator Warren,

00:22:12.540 calling her an angry mom

00:22:13.720 and referring to her as Senator Karen.

00:22:16.700 So for so many reasons,

00:22:18.140 being a freeloader and a selfish and disrespectful one,

00:22:20.900 and for misappropriating black vernacular

00:22:23.000 for misogynistic purposes,

00:22:24.760 Elon Musk is the absolute worst.

00:22:26.220 Meanwhile, Senator Warren has better things to do

00:22:28.680 than fight with Junior Birdman on Twitter.

00:22:32.660 She's angry with him for appropriating black vernacular,

00:22:37.600 the black vernacular being a slur against white people.

00:22:43.440 She, her response to this is actually,

00:22:46.060 hey, you can't use that.

00:22:47.640 That's our word.

00:22:48.920 That's our word.

00:22:50.000 This would be like a white person 0.99

00:22:53.200 getting angry at a black person for using the N-word

00:22:56.940 and saying, hey, black people, you can't use the N-word.

00:23:00.800 That's our word for you.

00:23:02.520 That's our, that's our derisive and derogatory term for you.

00:23:06.140 You can't do that.

00:23:07.360 And that, that is what she's saying about, about Karen.

00:23:10.680 And she, and she's saying it to an African-American,

00:23:13.100 which is even more, even more outrageous.

00:23:15.680 It shows you also that racism,

00:23:19.980 if the word means anything anymore,

00:23:21.940 I'm not sure that it does,

00:23:22.920 but racism against white people

00:23:25.560 is the only acceptable form of racism.

00:23:29.960 And it's not only acceptable,

00:23:32.400 and it's not only legal,

00:23:34.080 and it's legal to discriminate,

00:23:35.420 but it's also encouraged.

00:23:37.680 Which shows you that white privilege

00:23:41.300 is quite the opposite.

00:23:42.640 And it shows you that the races that we think are oppressed

00:23:46.740 and the races that we think are the oppressors, 0.68

00:23:49.140 actually, it's probably the opposite, right?

00:23:50.520 At least, at least in terms of the culture

00:23:52.400 and even in terms of the law.

00:23:54.740 When you think about the races

00:23:55.820 that it's legal to discriminate against

00:23:57.680 in, say, college admissions,

00:23:59.820 it's white people and Asian people too,

00:24:02.280 because they get lumped in for whatever reason.

00:24:04.500 But, but that is some brazen stuff.

00:24:08.900 That is, maybe, should we, I can't,

00:24:10.400 we can't test it out.

00:24:11.220 We can't test out the theory

00:24:12.440 and do it in the other way,

00:24:14.240 because if any white person did that,

00:24:16.260 of course they would lose their job.

00:24:19.000 Speaking of race-baiting hypocrites,

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00:26:00.560 Maxine Waters

00:26:01.500 is really upset

00:26:04.220 when people

00:26:05.260 don't wear face masks.

00:26:07.160 She's really upset by that.

00:26:08.420 You'll remember last year

00:26:09.760 she tweeted out,

00:26:11.820 quote,

00:26:12.120 take a chance,

00:26:13.060 remind an unvaccinated person

00:26:14.380 to put on a mask

00:26:15.180 and if they get angry,

00:26:16.140 you know,

00:26:16.300 just tell them,

00:26:16.760 get six feet away from me,

00:26:17.820 keep going.

00:26:18.220 She went on TV,

00:26:19.140 made the same exact point.

00:26:20.640 I tweeted

00:26:21.440 something that said

00:26:23.280 if you see someone

00:26:24.180 without a mask,

00:26:26.240 ask them

00:26:27.140 if they would like

00:26:29.420 to wear a mask.

00:26:30.460 should they be wearing a mask?

00:26:32.020 And I said,

00:26:32.700 you're taking a chance

00:26:33.680 and if they get angry,

00:26:36.060 just walk away

00:26:36.980 and say six feet away.

00:26:39.240 And so,

00:26:40.260 I know that

00:26:41.940 not everybody believes

00:26:43.360 that they should wear a mask

00:26:44.660 and the president

00:26:45.600 of the United States

00:26:46.540 has not helped

00:26:47.380 by not wearing a mask.

00:26:49.960 Pence,

00:26:50.660 the vice president,

00:26:51.600 has not helped

00:26:52.340 doing tours

00:26:54.040 and not wearing a mask.

00:26:56.060 But now I understand

00:26:57.240 that someone close

00:26:59.160 to the president

00:27:00.440 who serves the president

00:27:02.000 in a,

00:27:02.600 you know,

00:27:03.200 a staff capacity

00:27:04.280 is infected.

00:27:06.060 And I'm wondering

00:27:06.620 if this is going

00:27:07.400 to encourage him

00:27:08.280 more to wear a mask

00:27:10.080 and be a good example.

00:27:11.400 Be a good example

00:27:12.280 that,

00:27:13.400 you know,

00:27:13.960 not only are you asking

00:27:15.000 others to wear a mask,

00:27:16.420 but you're doing it yourself.

00:27:18.120 To be a good example,

00:27:19.900 you got to be a good example

00:27:21.520 and you know exactly

00:27:22.620 where this story is going.

00:27:23.800 I don't,

00:27:24.820 you know exactly

00:27:25.740 where this is going.

00:27:27.660 Someone yesterday

00:27:28.920 texts me a picture

00:27:30.140 of Maxine Waters

00:27:32.360 on an airplane

00:27:33.120 not wearing a mask.

00:27:35.000 And so we break the story.

00:27:36.480 Daily Wire breaks the story.

00:27:37.520 You can see it.

00:27:38.200 It's all over.

00:27:38.820 It's gone viral.

00:27:39.600 There she is.

00:27:40.180 She's a hypocrite. 1.00

00:27:41.020 She's not wearing a mask.

00:27:43.080 I try not to wear

00:27:44.100 a mask on airplanes.

00:27:45.060 Unfortunately for me,

00:27:46.380 often the stewardess

00:27:47.860 will come down

00:27:48.320 and say,

00:27:48.540 put your mask on

00:27:49.180 or I'm going to

00:27:49.740 throw you off the airplane.

00:27:51.140 So we have to do it.

00:27:51.880 But we're the little people

00:27:52.640 and then the big people

00:27:53.460 like Maxine Waters,

00:27:54.940 they can do

00:27:55.500 whatever they want.

00:27:56.200 She obviously 0.83

00:27:56.980 doesn't believe

00:27:57.640 what she's saying

00:27:58.220 about the masks.

00:27:59.060 She's obviously

00:27:59.580 not afraid of the virus.

00:28:01.480 She just wants you 1.00

00:28:03.040 to wear the mask.

00:28:03.720 Now,

00:28:04.640 there are a few levels

00:28:07.980 here to what the masks are.

00:28:10.440 And the further you go,

00:28:12.500 the more clear

00:28:13.300 the understanding

00:28:13.980 you will have

00:28:14.580 of what the masks are about.

00:28:16.460 The basic,

00:28:17.540 most shallow level

00:28:18.620 is that the masks

00:28:19.840 are about protecting

00:28:20.800 public health.

00:28:22.060 I just don't think

00:28:23.040 that's true.

00:28:24.420 I think that

00:28:25.540 our rulers

00:28:26.460 have contradicted

00:28:28.280 themselves on masks

00:28:29.440 constantly.

00:28:30.440 Dr. Fauci did that.

00:28:31.240 He said,

00:28:31.480 don't wear the masks,

00:28:32.200 the masks don't work.

00:28:33.060 At the height of the pandemic,

00:28:34.320 he said,

00:28:34.620 don't wear the masks,

00:28:35.200 the masks don't work.

00:28:35.980 Then five seconds later,

00:28:36.980 he says,

00:28:37.360 no, actually,

00:28:37.940 you have to wear the masks.

00:28:39.480 Then he admitted

00:28:40.200 that he lied about

00:28:40.900 his beliefs on the masks.

00:28:42.660 Then he went

00:28:43.360 and tried to throw out

00:28:44.700 a pitch at

00:28:45.720 the Nationals

00:28:46.600 baseball stadium

00:28:47.460 and he dribbled the pitch.

00:28:49.280 You know,

00:28:49.420 it kind of dribbled

00:28:50.100 to the first baseline.

00:28:51.780 But he wore the mask

00:28:53.280 on the pitcher's mound

00:28:54.100 when there was

00:28:54.460 no one around him.

00:28:55.200 Then when he was

00:28:55.640 sitting up in the stands

00:28:56.400 with his buddies,

00:28:56.960 he took the mask off

00:28:57.800 and was just kind of

00:28:58.340 hanging out.

00:28:59.040 He wasn't really eating.

00:28:59.900 He wasn't really drinking.

00:29:00.620 He just had it off

00:29:01.240 because the masks

00:29:01.920 are extremely uncomfortable

00:29:03.620 and dumb. 0.57

00:29:05.700 There have been

00:29:06.680 plenty of other photos

00:29:07.480 of Dr. Fauci

00:29:08.140 getting caught

00:29:08.560 with the mask off

00:29:09.300 when he thought

00:29:09.640 the cameras were not

00:29:10.360 around him.

00:29:10.800 Then the cameras

00:29:11.240 are on him

00:29:11.680 and he puts the mask

00:29:12.580 back on.

00:29:13.020 You see this in San Francisco.

00:29:14.480 Mayor of San Francisco

00:29:15.440 tells everyone

00:29:16.300 they got to wear the masks

00:29:17.160 and then she goes

00:29:17.700 to a nightclub

00:29:18.260 and just starts dancing

00:29:19.180 and doesn't wear the mask.

00:29:21.060 Pelosi got caught.

00:29:22.320 Liz Warren got caught.

00:29:23.760 Maxine Waters

00:29:24.240 has been caught

00:29:24.640 multiple times.

00:29:26.480 So I don't think

00:29:27.460 it's about public health.

00:29:28.660 I don't think

00:29:29.300 these people believe

00:29:30.020 anything that they're saying.

00:29:32.500 It's also not

00:29:33.860 just about

00:29:35.180 making people

00:29:36.180 wear the masks.

00:29:37.060 I don't think

00:29:37.620 it's quite

00:29:38.140 that they themselves

00:29:40.360 want to exempt themselves

00:29:41.540 from a rule

00:29:42.540 that they want

00:29:43.200 all the other people

00:29:44.080 to follow.

00:29:44.640 I don't think they care

00:29:45.560 if all the other people

00:29:46.520 wear the masks.

00:29:47.780 When BLM was rioting,

00:29:50.100 no one was checking

00:29:50.920 the masks.

00:29:52.160 In fact,

00:29:52.580 there were a number,

00:29:53.600 over a thousand

00:29:54.240 public health officials

00:29:55.480 who came out

00:29:56.480 and said

00:29:56.960 that despite

00:29:59.520 shutting down

00:30:00.320 all large gatherings,

00:30:02.160 despite having

00:30:03.820 previously said

00:30:04.600 that all large gatherings

00:30:06.040 were really bad

00:30:06.880 and going to spread

00:30:07.460 coronavirus

00:30:07.920 and were potentially

00:30:09.060 deadly,

00:30:10.340 they said

00:30:11.040 BLM protests 0.99

00:30:12.520 are good.

00:30:13.360 They'll actually

00:30:13.860 help the public health

00:30:14.940 because white supremacy

00:30:16.220 is a public health

00:30:17.500 problem

00:30:17.920 that predates

00:30:19.040 and contributes

00:30:19.720 to COVID-19.

00:30:21.440 They wrote a whole

00:30:21.840 letter about this.

00:30:23.300 Over a thousand

00:30:23.800 of them signed it.

00:30:25.720 So it's not just

00:30:26.740 about making people

00:30:27.840 wear the masks.

00:30:29.500 It's about making

00:30:30.600 you wear the masks.

00:30:32.980 They don't care

00:30:34.180 if their friends

00:30:35.240 and supporters

00:30:36.140 wear the masks.

00:30:37.980 They don't care

00:30:38.780 at all.

00:30:40.280 They care

00:30:41.140 if you,

00:30:42.820 their opponents,

00:30:43.660 the people

00:30:44.380 that they perceive

00:30:45.100 as enemies

00:30:45.900 wear the masks

00:30:47.240 and they are doing it

00:30:48.200 to make you

00:30:49.060 comply

00:30:50.220 and submit

00:30:51.260 to their capricious

00:30:52.900 and arbitrary rule.

00:30:54.900 That's what it's about.

00:30:56.340 That's what it's

00:30:56.980 always been about.

00:30:58.520 Some of us

00:30:59.320 have been pointing

00:31:00.020 that out

00:31:00.520 from the very early days

00:31:02.540 and some people

00:31:04.380 didn't totally believe that

00:31:05.580 and I get it.

00:31:07.060 This is a novel phenomenon

00:31:08.760 but I think now

00:31:10.280 at this point,

00:31:11.120 I don't know

00:31:11.820 how many pictures

00:31:12.540 of Maxine Waters

00:31:14.280 and Pelosi

00:31:14.840 and Fauci

00:31:15.380 and Biden

00:31:16.040 and all these other people

00:31:17.160 not following

00:31:18.180 their own rules

00:31:18.820 and not enforcing

00:31:19.640 their own rules

00:31:20.160 on their supporters.

00:31:21.020 You need to see

00:31:21.540 before you realize

00:31:22.240 the true nature

00:31:22.940 of the mask

00:31:23.760 as a political symbol

00:31:25.660 almost entirely divorced

00:31:28.620 from public health

00:31:29.860 at this point

00:31:30.420 to make you submit.

00:31:34.120 You have to submit.

00:31:36.220 This is what they are

00:31:37.620 now telling us

00:31:38.680 openly,

00:31:39.520 explicitly.

00:31:40.380 Jim Cramer,

00:31:40.920 the eccentric stocks guy

00:31:43.080 on CNBC,

00:31:44.300 he has become more vocal

00:31:45.760 about his leftist

00:31:46.680 political views recently.

00:31:47.860 He tweeted out

00:31:48.520 just a couple days ago,

00:31:49.860 quote,

00:31:51.460 government has a right

00:31:53.040 to force you

00:31:54.240 to obey

00:31:54.980 and has always exercised it,

00:31:57.580 especially under the GOP.

00:31:59.760 There are two main reactions

00:32:01.820 to this tweet,

00:32:02.720 both of which are wrong.

00:32:05.420 The libs

00:32:06.260 are retweeting it

00:32:08.020 and saying,

00:32:08.260 yes,

00:32:08.980 yes,

00:32:09.520 slay queen, 0.98

00:32:10.480 yes,

00:32:11.040 you're so right,

00:32:11.840 Jim.

00:32:12.480 Government can make you

00:32:13.740 obey whatever they want

00:32:14.700 and you better do it

00:32:15.800 and that's that.

00:32:18.280 The libertarians,

00:32:20.300 and I guess a lot of people

00:32:21.380 on the right,

00:32:22.020 but really because of

00:32:23.400 some of the libertarian

00:32:24.700 premises

00:32:25.500 that we've

00:32:26.300 taken on

00:32:27.740 over recent years,

00:32:29.440 they say,

00:32:30.140 no,

00:32:30.280 the government has no right

00:32:31.460 to make you obey,

00:32:32.620 not a right at all,

00:32:34.260 and they don't,

00:32:35.180 and they shouldn't exercise,

00:32:36.320 and that's wrong to,

00:32:37.300 my body,

00:32:37.920 my choice,

00:32:38.340 or whatever they're saying now,

00:32:39.020 even though we don't believe that

00:32:39.820 when it comes to abortion

00:32:40.560 and other things,

00:32:41.400 or drug laws even,

00:32:43.020 or any other number of issues.

00:32:45.180 The real answer here,

00:32:47.540 I'll just edit

00:32:48.320 Jim Cramer's quote.

00:32:50.140 Government

00:32:50.580 sometimes

00:32:52.100 has a right

00:32:53.320 to force you to obey

00:32:54.380 and has

00:32:55.580 sometimes

00:32:56.900 exercised it,

00:32:58.140 sometimes under

00:32:58.780 Democrat administrations,

00:32:59.800 sometimes under

00:33:00.320 Republican administrations.

00:33:01.980 There are just laws

00:33:03.140 and there are unjust laws.

00:33:04.720 First of all,

00:33:05.420 going back to Romans, 0.86

00:33:06.300 going back to Paul's letter

00:33:07.340 to the Romans,

00:33:08.240 the government is there

00:33:09.040 for our own good.

00:33:09.960 The rulers are there,

00:33:11.180 placed there by God.

00:33:12.140 If you're a Christian, 1.00

00:33:12.680 you believe the government

00:33:13.320 is placed there by God

00:33:14.600 for our own good,

00:33:15.840 and that's very hard

00:33:17.280 sometimes for,

00:33:18.620 especially libertarians,

00:33:19.720 to get around to,

00:33:20.880 but they are there

00:33:21.560 for our own good.

00:33:22.300 You do need rule,

00:33:23.120 you do need law,

00:33:23.860 you do need systems of government,

00:33:25.100 and that's a good thing

00:33:25.860 to have them.

00:33:27.620 Also,

00:33:28.360 there are just laws

00:33:29.740 and unjust laws,

00:33:31.360 and it's not always

00:33:32.340 exactly clear

00:33:33.280 quite where it falls,

00:33:34.000 and sometimes a law

00:33:34.900 can be bad

00:33:35.680 and not great,

00:33:36.900 but still you are

00:33:38.660 obliged to follow it,

00:33:39.860 but sometimes

00:33:40.540 you are not obliged

00:33:41.500 to follow it.

00:33:42.620 This is Thomas Aquinas 101,

00:33:44.680 this is political theory 101,

00:33:46.600 and sometimes laws

00:33:47.740 are so egregious

00:33:48.500 that you are obliged

00:33:49.720 not to follow it.

00:33:51.760 You are actually obligated

00:33:53.220 not to go along

00:33:54.320 with unjust laws,

00:33:56.120 and so it requires prudence,

00:33:57.840 it requires thought,

00:33:59.040 it requires judgment.

00:34:00.360 You can't put that ideology

00:34:01.520 on the back of a napkin,

00:34:02.600 and you can't put it

00:34:04.020 in a tweet from a CNBC

00:34:05.300 shrieking lunatic, 0.71

00:34:07.020 but that's the way

00:34:07.660 it really is.

00:34:09.240 Speaking of not complying,

00:34:10.720 not only was the Daily Wire

00:34:11.780 the first company

00:34:12.780 in the country

00:34:13.180 to sue the Biden administration

00:34:14.840 for their

00:34:15.360 unconstitutional mandates,

00:34:17.080 we're also

00:34:18.180 less than

00:34:19.040 100,000 signatures

00:34:21.240 away from hitting

00:34:21.800 our goal of

00:34:22.240 1 million signatures

00:34:23.060 on the

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00:35:17.440 with The Mailbag.

00:35:17.880 Welcome back

00:35:31.160 to The Mailbag.

00:35:32.300 First question up

00:35:33.000 from Philip.

00:35:34.060 Dear,

00:35:35.000 an author who has,

00:35:36.020 an author has no words

00:35:36.940 in olds,

00:35:38.360 Shapiro did a video

00:35:39.360 listing off

00:35:39.920 the greatest Christmas movies

00:35:40.960 of all time

00:35:41.500 as someone who actually

00:35:42.400 celebrates Christmas.

00:35:43.780 What do you think

00:35:44.340 are the best movies

00:35:45.140 to watch this Christmas season?

00:35:47.400 Sincerely,

00:35:47.960 all I want for Christmas

00:35:49.160 is to never hear

00:35:50.600 Mariah Carey again.

00:35:52.520 Fair enough.

00:35:54.520 The greatest Christmas movie

00:35:56.280 of all time.

00:36:00.220 Miracle on 34th Street

00:36:01.540 is very good.

00:36:03.280 Everyone always says

00:36:04.080 it's a wonderful life.

00:36:05.060 It's actually not.

00:36:05.560 That's not my favorite

00:36:06.140 Christmas movie,

00:36:06.900 but you know,

00:36:07.360 fine.

00:36:07.840 That's fine.

00:36:10.280 Home Alone,

00:36:11.300 I think,

00:36:11.720 was the last great

00:36:12.940 Christmas movie.

00:36:14.380 I'm not saying

00:36:14.700 it's the greatest,

00:36:15.560 but it's the last

00:36:16.460 really,

00:36:17.160 really great

00:36:17.660 magical Christmas movie.

00:36:20.020 And then,

00:36:20.560 of course,

00:36:20.900 I've got to give you

00:36:21.480 the only Christmas movie

00:36:22.800 that I have watched

00:36:23.700 this year,

00:36:25.040 re-watched this year

00:36:25.900 with my wife.

00:36:28.160 And that would be

00:36:28.640 Jingle All the Way.

00:36:29.820 An amazing movie.

00:36:31.780 You've got

00:36:32.160 Arnold Schwarzenegger,

00:36:33.920 Sinbad

00:36:34.500 at the height

00:36:35.080 of his powers,

00:36:35.960 Phil Hartman.

00:36:37.180 It's a great movie.

00:36:38.660 It's genuinely funny.

00:36:40.980 Phil Hartman

00:36:41.520 is a scream

00:36:42.280 as he always is.

00:36:43.480 It's actually

00:36:44.340 heartwarming.

00:36:45.620 It's a great movie.

00:36:46.980 Highly,

00:36:47.400 highly recommended.

00:36:48.160 From Mircea.

00:36:50.180 I hope I'm pronouncing

00:36:51.020 that right.

00:36:51.380 Dear Michael,

00:36:52.160 I'm a big fan

00:36:52.760 of your show

00:36:53.200 and your book

00:36:53.620 Speechless,

00:36:54.220 and your podcast

00:36:54.840 has actually made me

00:36:55.520 return to Christianity, 1.00

00:36:56.580 in particular Orthodox

00:36:57.340 Christianity.

00:36:57.880 Wow,

00:36:58.040 that's cool.

00:36:58.460 That's great.

00:36:59.560 We'll get you over

00:37:00.080 to be Catholic

00:37:00.680 soon enough,

00:37:01.240 but I'll tell you,

00:37:01.620 Orthodox,

00:37:02.260 that's a good place

00:37:03.640 to get to,

00:37:04.080 a good place to start.

00:37:05.320 While I'm very happy

00:37:06.740 with my personal turn

00:37:07.640 toward faith

00:37:08.260 and conservatism,

00:37:09.120 I am more skeptical

00:37:10.500 about seeing something

00:37:11.440 similar at a social level

00:37:13.220 against progressivism.

00:37:17.440 I'm not sure that,

00:37:18.300 maybe we're missing

00:37:19.000 a few words here,

00:37:19.640 I'm not quite sure.

00:37:20.620 Is conservatism just

00:37:21.820 delaying the inevitable

00:37:23.200 slippery slope

00:37:24.280 to more extreme liberalism?

00:37:26.460 Is tomorrow's Republican

00:37:27.480 just today's Democrat,

00:37:29.260 or are there reasons

00:37:30.340 to hope for broader

00:37:31.240 social restoration?

00:37:32.760 Respectfully,

00:37:33.440 yours,

00:37:33.760 the Orthodox Christian,

00:37:34.680 Michael.

00:37:34.880 Sometimes people

00:37:37.680 misunderstand

00:37:38.280 what Bill Buckley

00:37:39.280 said when he said

00:37:40.740 in the first issue

00:37:41.540 of National Review

00:37:42.280 that a conservative

00:37:43.480 is one who stands

00:37:44.320 athwart history

00:37:45.060 yelling stop

00:37:46.040 at a time when few,

00:37:47.660 if any,

00:37:47.920 are inclined to do so.

00:37:51.280 That gives the impression

00:37:52.460 that all we're doing

00:37:53.400 is standing athwart

00:37:55.460 the tides of progressivism

00:37:56.740 and usually getting

00:37:57.420 kind of run over

00:37:58.140 or at least backed up

00:37:59.260 into a corner,

00:37:59.760 but we're saying stop,

00:38:00.400 stop, stop,

00:38:00.720 and we're at least

00:38:01.160 slowing it down.

00:38:01.960 But what I believe

00:38:05.880 he's referring to there

00:38:06.720 is the communist idea

00:38:09.820 of history,

00:38:10.960 capital H,

00:38:11.780 the idea,

00:38:12.280 you hear this,

00:38:13.100 versions of this

00:38:13.720 when leftists use the phrase

00:38:15.500 the right side of history,

00:38:16.600 this idea that history

00:38:17.780 is unfolding along

00:38:19.360 a very specific logic

00:38:20.940 and we basically

00:38:21.960 have nothing

00:38:22.580 that we can do

00:38:23.660 to stop it.

00:38:24.460 We can accelerate it,

00:38:25.320 but we can't stop it.

00:38:26.980 And I think Buckley

00:38:28.480 is mocking

00:38:29.260 this communist concept

00:38:31.680 of history as such.

00:38:35.440 So, no,

00:38:36.360 I don't think conservatives

00:38:37.180 are merely

00:38:37.880 just saying stop,

00:38:39.300 stop, stop,

00:38:39.720 and then losing

00:38:40.280 because there's no way

00:38:40.940 to stop time.

00:38:42.160 You know,

00:38:42.400 to use a Chestertonian analogy,

00:38:45.560 when you leave

00:38:46.240 white picket fence

00:38:47.640 alone in a field,

00:38:48.880 you're not going to come back

00:38:50.060 two years later

00:38:50.780 to a white fence.

00:38:51.580 You're going to come back

00:38:51.980 to a very dirty fence,

00:38:53.200 actually a black fence probably

00:38:54.740 because of all the dirt

00:38:56.040 and the soot

00:38:56.800 and all the stuff

00:38:57.480 that's going to be on it.

00:38:58.600 Right?

00:38:58.780 Things are always changing.

00:38:59.840 There's no way

00:39:00.240 to just freeze time.

00:39:02.640 But I do think

00:39:03.780 that conservatives

00:39:05.000 can offer an alternative.

00:39:07.640 Right now,

00:39:08.360 it's a little tough

00:39:09.020 because what passes

00:39:11.520 for conservatism

00:39:12.540 in America

00:39:13.060 is really usually

00:39:14.420 just a form of liberalism.

00:39:16.100 We accept the same premises

00:39:17.220 as the libs

00:39:18.460 and the progressives

00:39:19.220 and the leftists.

00:39:19.920 For instance,

00:39:20.600 that the individual

00:39:21.300 is the basic unit

00:39:22.160 of society.

00:39:23.500 That's what the libs believe.

00:39:25.080 That's what the leftists believe.

00:39:26.740 They think that the individual

00:39:27.820 is the basic unit

00:39:28.740 and individuals ought to be able

00:39:29.720 to do basically

00:39:30.300 whatever they want

00:39:31.040 and the way to arrange society

00:39:32.320 is by taking all those

00:39:33.220 atomized individuals

00:39:34.060 and clumping them together.

00:39:36.580 And what the libertarian types

00:39:40.820 on the right believe

00:39:41.480 is just that we shouldn't

00:39:42.240 clump them together.

00:39:43.680 That yes,

00:39:44.460 the individual is the basic unit

00:39:45.500 of society,

00:39:46.000 but just don't clump them together.

00:39:47.240 And what the conservatives believe

00:39:48.560 is that the individual

00:39:50.540 is not the basic unit

00:39:51.360 of society.

00:39:51.860 Actually,

00:39:52.280 the family is the basic unit

00:39:53.740 of society.

00:39:55.100 The left believes

00:39:55.880 you're born into society

00:39:56.900 with certain abstract rights

00:39:59.340 and we're known primarily

00:40:00.840 by our abstract rights

00:40:02.080 and they usually list

00:40:02.740 a bunch of positive rights

00:40:03.660 like the right to healthcare

00:40:04.380 and the right to education

00:40:05.180 and the right to whatever.

00:40:07.480 The libertarians believe

00:40:08.600 we're born with a bunch

00:40:09.360 of abstract rights

00:40:10.160 and that's the primary way

00:40:11.300 of viewing our politics

00:40:12.300 and those are mostly

00:40:13.660 negative rights,

00:40:14.400 right to life

00:40:15.740 and liberty

00:40:16.520 and the pursuit of happiness.

00:40:19.180 Conservatives believe

00:40:19.880 that we are born primarily

00:40:20.960 with obligations.

00:40:22.300 I'm not saying

00:40:22.560 we don't have rights,

00:40:23.200 but it's primarily obligations

00:40:24.840 and duty

00:40:26.020 and loyalty

00:40:27.060 and filial piety

00:40:29.000 and we didn't come in,

00:40:31.080 we didn't create ourselves

00:40:31.840 in this world,

00:40:32.380 we're not going to decide

00:40:33.380 hopefully when we leave

00:40:34.160 this world

00:40:34.580 and we have obligations

00:40:35.580 to our families

00:40:36.200 and our communities

00:40:36.780 and ultimately to our God.

00:40:39.360 You'll notice that the leftists

00:40:40.980 and the libertarians

00:40:41.880 agree on a lot of basic stuff

00:40:43.640 which is why we keep losing

00:40:45.120 because if we're just following

00:40:46.180 the libertarian strain of things

00:40:47.380 then we're just going to end up

00:40:48.420 where the left wants us to.

00:40:50.240 But if we follow

00:40:52.180 the conservative way

00:40:54.280 of viewing things

00:40:54.980 we're going to have

00:40:56.300 very different premises

00:40:57.100 and we're going to end up

00:40:58.060 in a very different place.

00:40:59.780 And so my suggestion here is

00:41:01.380 that American conservatives

00:41:03.360 need to become

00:41:04.040 much more conservative

00:41:05.260 and stop unwittingly

00:41:08.240 buying into the premises

00:41:09.180 of the libs.

00:41:10.580 From Sarah.

00:41:12.200 Hi Michael.

00:41:13.420 I have a childhood friend

00:41:14.600 who was also

00:41:15.080 my next door neighbor.

00:41:16.020 As young girls

00:41:16.520 we played almost every day

00:41:17.840 and grew up together.

00:41:18.700 After high school

00:41:19.280 we grew apart

00:41:19.900 but still remained friends.

00:41:20.900 We're now in our 30s

00:41:21.980 and over the last 5 years

00:41:23.140 or so

00:41:23.600 she has come out

00:41:24.860 as transgender.

00:41:26.820 Okay.

00:41:27.780 She now refers to herself

00:41:29.140 with male pronouns

00:41:30.060 and has changed her name

00:41:31.520 to a masculine one.

00:41:33.640 She's even had her breasts removed. 1.00

00:41:35.060 Oh gosh it's awful.

00:41:36.320 I feel like I'm in mourning.

00:41:37.300 It feels like she died

00:41:38.300 and this guy

00:41:38.960 is the one who killed her.

00:41:40.340 I know I'll see her

00:41:41.260 this Christmas

00:41:41.760 when I visit my mom's house.

00:41:43.220 I know on the inside

00:41:44.000 that she's still the kind

00:41:44.960 and fun person I grew up with

00:41:46.160 but I'm having a hard time

00:41:47.000 with who she is now.

00:41:48.180 Should I keep this friendship

00:41:49.320 or should I let it go?

00:41:52.080 Well

00:41:52.540 I would never

00:41:54.740 suggest

00:41:56.040 abandoning your friends

00:41:57.400 when they're in the throes

00:41:58.360 of mental illness

00:41:59.240 or physical illness

00:42:00.100 for that matter.

00:42:00.780 Your friend is suffering

00:42:01.980 from

00:42:02.580 delusions

00:42:04.080 and psychological problems

00:42:05.900 and probably spiritual problems

00:42:07.700 that are being compounded

00:42:08.820 by a mass societal delusion

00:42:10.880 that is reinforcing

00:42:12.140 all of her fantasies.

00:42:13.960 And so that's bad.

00:42:15.280 I mean that's really bad.

00:42:17.500 I have friends

00:42:18.040 who have

00:42:18.880 a number of friends

00:42:20.280 who have dealt

00:42:20.860 with mental problems.

00:42:22.420 A number of friends

00:42:23.000 who've dealt

00:42:23.260 with physical problems.

00:42:24.700 And I don't think

00:42:25.200 it's good to just abandon them

00:42:26.300 and say like

00:42:26.680 oh well

00:42:27.180 you know you had a

00:42:28.980 you had a brain injury

00:42:29.860 well now I'm not going

00:42:30.660 to talk to you.

00:42:32.100 Oh well

00:42:32.560 you got into a car accident

00:42:33.700 well now I'm not going

00:42:34.400 to talk to you.

00:42:34.860 That's probably not a good idea.

00:42:36.620 Now some of this

00:42:37.140 might not be up to you

00:42:37.980 because

00:42:39.080 I don't think

00:42:40.540 that you should

00:42:41.080 indulge the delusion.

00:42:43.360 I don't think

00:42:44.040 you should say

00:42:44.460 oh how wonderful

00:42:45.360 it is that you've

00:42:46.040 mutilated yourself 0.91

00:42:46.860 and are laboring

00:42:48.340 under this false idea

00:42:49.360 that you're actually

00:42:49.860 a dude.

00:42:51.060 You shouldn't do that.

00:42:52.600 And your friend

00:42:53.080 may be so far gone

00:42:55.960 that she will not

00:42:58.400 be friends with you

00:42:59.180 if you won't

00:42:59.880 indulge her fantasies.

00:43:02.020 So you may end up

00:43:03.020 losing your friend

00:43:03.640 but I wouldn't be

00:43:04.240 the one to do it.

00:43:05.000 I wouldn't recommend

00:43:05.920 saying like

00:43:06.400 okay see you darling.

00:43:08.300 I would you know

00:43:09.180 speak the truth with love.

00:43:10.040 That's all we can do.

00:43:11.480 From Nigel.

00:43:12.780 Hey Michael

00:43:13.260 I'm a newer listener

00:43:14.080 to your show

00:43:14.680 and I was wondering

00:43:15.200 what are some

00:43:15.660 theological and

00:43:16.300 philosophical literature

00:43:17.580 books that you find

00:43:19.820 inspiring or helped

00:43:20.900 shape your world view.

00:43:23.340 Oh where do I begin man?

00:43:25.180 Where do I begin?

00:43:28.140 Edmund Burke

00:43:28.820 was very important.

00:43:29.980 Reflections on the

00:43:30.660 revolution in France.

00:43:31.480 Michael Oakeshott

00:43:32.240 little essay

00:43:32.960 Rationalism and Politics

00:43:34.320 and On Being Conservative

00:43:35.580 was really good.

00:43:36.520 Roger Scruton

00:43:37.320 is great.

00:43:38.240 He's got a ton

00:43:39.260 of great books.

00:43:39.840 He has a great movie

00:43:40.720 that the BBC

00:43:41.460 is suppressing

00:43:42.140 but you can watch

00:43:42.820 the ripped Portuguese 1.00

00:43:43.800 version on either

00:43:44.700 YouTube or Vimeo.

00:43:46.180 It's called

00:43:46.480 Why Beauty Matters

00:43:47.440 or something like that.

00:43:49.060 Owen Barfield

00:43:49.840 wrote Poetic Diction.

00:43:50.860 He was one of the

00:43:51.280 inklings that converted 0.93

00:43:52.160 C.S. Lewis to

00:43:52.840 Christianity.

00:43:53.540 That would be

00:43:53.980 that was a great book.

00:43:55.800 Good Old Uncle

00:43:56.360 Aristotle and Plato

00:43:57.500 those are very

00:43:58.480 important writers.

00:43:59.660 Dante

00:44:00.000 maybe more than

00:44:01.140 any writer.

00:44:02.840 Dante

00:44:03.160 all of his writing

00:44:04.460 but especially

00:44:05.060 the Divine Comedy

00:44:05.800 was really shaped

00:44:06.660 my thought.

00:44:07.360 the Bible

00:44:09.820 can't forget

00:44:10.960 about the Bible

00:44:11.460 Thomas Aquinas

00:44:12.220 certainly

00:44:12.780 St. Augustine

00:44:14.920 Chesterton

00:44:18.180 C.S. Lewis

00:44:18.920 I'm just throwing out

00:44:20.880 not random names

00:44:21.940 but I'm throwing out

00:44:22.580 names seemingly

00:44:23.600 haphazardly

00:44:24.360 because I think

00:44:24.800 if you want to

00:44:26.900 begin to form

00:44:28.600 or advance

00:44:29.560 in forming

00:44:30.080 your political

00:44:30.900 or theological

00:44:31.620 thoughts

00:44:33.600 I don't think

00:44:35.440 it's necessarily

00:44:36.320 the best way

00:44:37.340 to go about it

00:44:38.020 to just have

00:44:38.640 a list of books

00:44:39.860 that you have

00:44:40.140 to go down

00:44:40.480 boom boom boom

00:44:41.020 one after another.

00:44:41.980 I think what you

00:44:42.420 might want to do

00:44:43.200 is

00:44:44.040 you're reading

00:44:45.540 C.S. Lewis

00:44:46.020 you pick up

00:44:46.960 Mere Christianity 0.99

00:44:47.520 or Abolition of Man

00:44:48.600 or something

00:44:48.980 or whatever

00:44:50.940 from C.S. Lewis

00:44:51.560 and you see that

00:44:52.140 he references

00:44:52.840 G.K. Chesterton

00:44:53.820 you say that's

00:44:54.380 interesting

00:44:54.720 and then you go

00:44:55.160 read G.K. Chesterton

00:44:56.960 for instance

00:44:57.400 right now

00:44:57.740 I just finished

00:44:58.700 reading Drew

00:44:59.300 Clavin's new book

00:45:00.220 his new book

00:45:00.880 is

00:45:01.620 on the romantic poets

00:45:04.300 and how it relates

00:45:04.960 to Christianity

00:45:05.460 it's an excellent

00:45:06.120 excellent book

00:45:06.620 so I'm reading it

00:45:07.560 and he's referring

00:45:09.180 to the romantic poets

00:45:09.960 who I've not read

00:45:11.560 very deeply

00:45:12.380 so then I go

00:45:13.600 and I order

00:45:14.020 some of the books

00:45:14.520 from the romantic poets

00:45:15.360 and then I can go

00:45:15.820 read them

00:45:16.060 so that's what

00:45:16.560 I recommend doing

00:45:17.500 if you want to

00:45:18.040 expand your thought

00:45:19.180 from Sophia

00:45:19.900 Dear Michael

00:45:21.260 I've fallen in love

00:45:22.140 with the most amazing man

00:45:23.460 we haven't been dating long

00:45:24.760 but I know I want to marry him

00:45:26.040 and have all the babies

00:45:26.820 God will bless us with

00:45:27.720 alright calm down lady

00:45:28.680 no maybe that's good

00:45:29.600 that's good

00:45:29.920 it's wonderful

00:45:30.220 to know what you want

00:45:30.880 he's serious

00:45:31.800 and wants a family

00:45:32.540 I want four

00:45:33.080 but he wants six

00:45:33.860 the thing is

00:45:34.920 I'm 33

00:45:35.640 and he's 45

00:45:36.580 so time is not on our side

00:45:38.060 oh yeah

00:45:38.540 six

00:45:39.840 I guess probably won't happen

00:45:41.780 even if he gets started

00:45:43.280 right now

00:45:43.760 but maybe you can get to four

00:45:45.940 depends how

00:45:47.540 depends how quick

00:45:48.400 you churn him

00:45:48.940 his business

00:45:49.900 has suffered tremendously

00:45:50.780 I know he's waiting

00:45:52.380 until things get better

00:45:53.160 financially

00:45:53.560 before moving forward

00:45:54.480 I worry that he may use this

00:45:56.160 as an excuse

00:45:56.680 not to get married

00:45:57.380 and start a family

00:45:58.000 what is your opinion

00:45:58.680 on the long-standing practice

00:46:00.020 of women starting a family

00:46:01.240 without dot dot dot

00:46:02.920 necessarily dot dot dot

00:46:04.260 planning it with the man first

00:46:06.280 dot dot dot

00:46:07.080 oh goodness

00:46:07.660 oh boy

00:46:09.180 I've always been taught

00:46:10.520 that this is trapping

00:46:11.420 which is wrong

00:46:12.320 because it's dishonest

00:46:13.760 I think the risk

00:46:15.360 that he would not step up

00:46:16.440 and marry me

00:46:16.940 if I got pregnant

00:46:17.540 is basically zero

00:46:18.380 but I feel it may be morally wrong

00:46:20.240 even though I want

00:46:21.100 even though I know

00:46:22.980 it is something he wants

00:46:24.020 just not right now

00:46:24.980 yes that is wrong

00:46:26.780 that is wrong

00:46:28.200 it's wrong for a few reasons

00:46:29.780 the reason that

00:46:31.400 that this should not be an issue

00:46:32.760 in the first place

00:46:33.420 is

00:46:33.840 you shouldn't be

00:46:35.740 sleeping together

00:46:36.560 before you are married

00:46:37.580 I know

00:46:38.220 it's a fallen world

00:46:39.280 we all do lots of bad things

00:46:40.640 I'm not

00:46:41.140 I'm not sitting on my high horse here

00:46:43.720 and judging you

00:46:44.480 I'm just saying

00:46:45.080 this is why

00:46:46.460 this shouldn't be a possibility

00:46:47.440 even in the first place

00:46:48.540 and by the way

00:46:49.100 if you guys weren't sleeping together

00:46:50.300 there's probably

00:46:51.360 a pretty good chance

00:46:52.220 he would hurry up along

00:46:53.220 with that

00:46:53.660 with that proposal

00:46:54.520 but

00:46:55.800 as the old

00:46:57.660 age old wisdom goes

00:46:58.780 he is getting the milk

00:46:59.640 for free

00:47:00.060 and so

00:47:00.460 why would he buy the cow

00:47:01.500 especially if he's

00:47:03.380 maybe got some commitment issues

00:47:05.660 or he's delaying

00:47:06.700 his maturity

00:47:07.520 but you should not

00:47:10.300 you shouldn't trap the guy anyway

00:47:11.940 so you're doing this thing

00:47:12.680 you should probably stop doing it

00:47:13.500 but if you're going to keep sleeping together

00:47:14.880 no I don't think you should lie to him

00:47:16.200 about using birth control

00:47:17.500 and then trap him

00:47:18.260 I don't think that

00:47:18.740 I don't think it's great to start a marriage

00:47:20.280 on deceit

00:47:21.360 and coercion 0.97

00:47:22.680 okay

00:47:23.380 I don't

00:47:23.700 I don't think that's a good idea

00:47:24.600 I would

00:47:25.520 one I would recommend

00:47:26.580 cutting that out

00:47:29.060 and then

00:47:29.420 there was a natural inducement

00:47:30.900 to get married

00:47:31.580 but then two

00:47:33.080 if you're not going to do that

00:47:35.160 or even if you are

00:47:35.780 I would sit him down

00:47:36.380 and say

00:47:36.620 listen buster

00:47:37.280 you're not getting any younger

00:47:38.360 neither am I

00:47:39.000 we both want kids

00:47:39.740 we want to get married

00:47:40.560 so piss or get off the pot

00:47:41.940 sorry for the blunt language

00:47:44.400 that's actually the letter

00:47:45.420 that's the letter

00:47:46.640 that my grandmother

00:47:47.280 wrote to my grandfather

00:47:48.320 and they were pretty young

00:47:49.840 I think they were 22

00:47:50.540 or something at the time

00:47:51.360 but it's good advice

00:47:53.080 it's good advice

00:47:54.520 and so I will say it again

00:47:55.520 despite the slightly salty language

00:47:57.880 because I think the situation calls for it

00:47:59.720 piss or get off the pot

00:48:01.520 that's what you should tell them to do

00:48:02.600 from Verinder

00:48:03.520 dear Michael

00:48:04.360 as a conservative

00:48:05.120 what are your views

00:48:06.620 on parents smacking their children

00:48:08.300 I'm not totally opposed to it

00:48:10.020 in theory

00:48:10.500 I was spanked

00:48:12.860 maybe a couple of times as a kid

00:48:14.480 I wasn't

00:48:14.800 not a lot

00:48:15.340 it wasn't a habit

00:48:16.340 but

00:48:17.580 so I'm not

00:48:18.180 not totally opposed to it

00:48:19.380 but in practice

00:48:20.460 I don't plan on doing it

00:48:22.240 I hope I don't do it

00:48:23.280 if I do it

00:48:23.980 I think it would be very

00:48:25.300 rare

00:48:27.100 I don't

00:48:28.340 I don't think it's the most effective

00:48:30.140 parenting strategy

00:48:31.100 but not

00:48:32.500 not totally opposed to it either

00:48:33.560 from Kyle

00:48:34.660 hey Mr. Knowles

00:48:36.320 I know people usually write in

00:48:38.020 to complain about their love life

00:48:39.300 or the Israel-Wakanda conflict

00:48:40.600 fair enough

00:48:41.020 but I have a much more contentious

00:48:43.360 and divisive question

00:48:44.240 to ask you

00:48:45.000 what is the best fast food joint

00:48:47.840 in America

00:48:48.420 if you were on a road trip

00:48:50.040 and only wanted to see

00:48:51.000 one fast food restaurant

00:48:52.240 and the

00:48:53.640 at the rest stop

00:48:54.460 what would it be

00:48:55.540 and what would you order

00:48:57.220 sincerely came for Shapiro

00:48:58.420 stayed for Nick in the mailbag

00:48:59.700 well

00:49:00.200 it's really a astute observation

00:49:02.320 that people write in

00:49:03.160 about their love lives

00:49:04.020 and

00:49:04.440 you know

00:49:05.080 anything from their love lives

00:49:06.120 to the Israel-Wakanda conflict

00:49:07.400 because

00:49:07.820 the

00:49:09.100 peace in the Middle East

00:49:10.120 is often

00:49:10.840 probably much easier

00:49:12.300 to settle

00:49:12.840 than some of these questions

00:49:14.260 about people's love lives

00:49:15.100 where would I stop

00:49:16.200 Arby's

00:49:16.640 not even a question

00:49:17.340 we'll do one more question

00:49:18.220 Jessica

00:49:18.600 dear Michael

00:49:19.520 so many millennials

00:49:20.420 and Gen Z

00:49:21.420 constantly talk about

00:49:22.440 not worrying about the future

00:49:23.300 and having faith

00:49:23.800 that things are meant for you

00:49:24.920 that they won't pass you by

00:49:27.200 there rarely is any mention of God

00:49:29.000 but it seems a little bit like faith

00:49:30.220 and I believe

00:49:30.660 there's a similar Bible verse

00:49:31.840 generally people are

00:49:33.520 referring to relationships

00:49:34.780 or opportunities

00:49:35.440 when they mention the things

00:49:36.580 that are meant for you

00:49:37.440 what are your thoughts

00:49:38.280 on the sentiment of

00:49:39.380 the things that are meant for you

00:49:40.600 will find you

00:49:41.180 and if the phrase is true

00:49:42.200 settling in

00:49:43.220 this is a long question

00:49:43.820 settling in any aspect of life

00:49:45.300 out of fear

00:49:45.800 seems like a slap

00:49:46.600 in the face of God

00:49:47.880 and your faith in him

00:49:48.560 sincerely the waiting

00:49:49.220 is the hardest part

00:49:49.940 God is sovereign

00:49:51.120 providence is extremely real

00:49:53.080 and things will unfold

00:49:55.700 according to God's plan

00:49:57.060 and God can't drive

00:49:58.100 a parked car

00:49:58.820 and you have free will

00:50:00.440 and you have a right

00:50:02.140 and an obligation

00:50:03.040 to use your free will

00:50:04.320 for the good

00:50:06.280 and you have an obligation

00:50:08.400 not to be slothful

00:50:09.500 and you got to do stuff buster

00:50:10.960 and use your reason

00:50:11.840 and your moral conscience

00:50:12.560 and your courage

00:50:13.160 I'm Michael Knowles

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Ep. 908 - Biden Gives The Gift Of Death, Disease, And Inflation

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