Ep. 980 - Will Hunter Biden Get Epsteined？
Summary
Hunter Biden's laptop is a big deal, but some people in the liberal establishment media still don't want to admit it. Does this mean that the Big Guy's political time in office is up? And what does it mean for Joe Biden's chances of winning the 2020 election?
Transcript
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The New York Times now admits that the Hunter Biden laptop is real. The Washington Post admits
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that the Hunter Biden laptop is real. Lots and lots of establishment media are admitting that
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it's real, which means that Hunter's meticulously recorded crimes are real, which means that the
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crooked deals with enemy governments are real, which means that in some of those crooked deals
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with the enemy governments, the 10% being held for the big guy, Joe Biden, is almost certainly
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real, which is, to borrow a phrase from Joe Biden, a big effing deal. But some people in the liberal
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establishment media still don't want to admit it. Thank you for doing this. Really appreciate it.
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I'm Daniel Schmidt. I'm a freshman at the University of Chicago. My question is for Ms. Applebaum.
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So in 2020, you wrote, those who live outside the Fox News bubble do not, of course, need to learn
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any of the stuff about Hunter Biden, referring to his laptop, of course. A poll later after that found
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that if voters knew about the content of the laptop, 16% of Joe Biden voters would have acted differently.
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Now, of course, we know a few weeks ago, the New York Times confirmed that the content is real.
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Do you think the media acted inappropriately when they instantly dismissed Hunter Biden's laptop as
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Russian disinformation? And what can we learn from that in ensuring that what we label as
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disinformation is truly disinformation and not reality?
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My problem with Hunter Biden's laptop is, I think, totally irrelevant. I mean, it's not whether
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it's disinformation or, I mean, I don't think the Hunter Biden's business relationships have anything
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to do with who should be president of the United States. So I don't find it to be interesting.
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I mean, that that would be my problem with that as a major news story.
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It's not interesting. You can say a lot of things about the Hunter Biden laptop.
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But crack pipes, hookers, seven figure bribes from foreign governments, that's I think we all would
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have to agree that is at least interesting. More to the point, this is not a major news story.
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We're talking about what appears to be, from all the available evidence, perhaps the most egregious
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financial corruption in the history of the United States. That's not a major news story. No,
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it's not a major news story to the writers and editors who are carrying for carrying water for
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Joe Biden. Yeah, it's not to them. But if you're just looking at the news, of course, it's a major
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news story. It implicates not just Hunter Biden. It implicates Joe, too. And CBS News is finally
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admitting it. CBS News has a big report on this. They say, quote, CBS has learned more than 150
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financial transactions involving either Hunter or James Biden, that's Joe's brother,
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their global affairs business were flagged as concerning by U.S. banks for further review.
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Some of those concerns included large wire transfers. Now, some people in the liberal establishment
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press still don't want to come clean about all of the work they've done to cover up for Joe Biden.
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They still want to stick to the story. But frankly, what is more interesting to me is the growing number
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of major establishment liberal outlets that are coming clean all at the same time. The Times,
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The Washington Post, CBS News. Seems to me Joe Biden's not getting any respect these days.
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Not from Obama the other day at the White House, not from the White House staff, and not even from
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the press anymore. All of the dirt, all of the mud that we've known about, if you've been listening
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to this show, that we've known about for years, all of it's just coming up now. Does this mean,
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perhaps, that the big guy's political time is up? I'm Michael Knowles. This is The Michael Knowles Show.
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Welcome back to the show. My favorite comment yesterday is from McNasty1977. What a name.
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Who says, our kids should be taught their ABCs, not their LGBs, period. I like that. That's a good
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more Biden corruption and his entire political career falling apart. But on that point of life,
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there is a piece right now on the Daily Wire out by Mary Margaret Olihan that goes in depth on that
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mass murderer abortionist, Cesare Santangelo. He's the one who's responsible for, just in the latest
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news story, having killed five basically full-term or viable babies through abortion. Very possibly
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he killed them outside of the womb. And then well over a hundred babies who were in their first
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trimester or early second trimester. The guy is almost certainly violating the law. Even if he's
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not violating the civil law, which again, almost certainly he is, he's just a demon. He's just the
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nearest thing to what a demon looks like. Cesare Santangelo. Go read that. It's going to be the most
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important piece you read today. Frankly, it'll probably be the most important piece you read
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all year. Things are not going well in the country right now. Obviously, you see a story like that.
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Things are not going well. But things are not going well anywhere in the country. And the buck stops
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with the president. And we're talking now not just about the economy. We're talking not just about
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immigration. We're talking not just about crime. We're talking about foreign policy too. And the White
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House is admitting it. Jen Psaki was just asked a question about the chairman of the Joint Chiefs
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of Staff, Mark Milley, who is now claiming that over the past 18 months, the world has become more
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dangerous. General Milley had some pretty sobering testimony on the Hill today regarding the state of
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the world and sort of a grim outlook. The potential for significant international conflict is increasing,
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not decreasing. Is that an assessment the president shares? And is that sort of the assessment of the
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U.S. government and sort of the state of the world right? Daughter than it was when the president took
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office? Well, certainly the General Milley speaks for the assessment of the U.S. military. And I think
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that's what he was testifying on. And, you know, he speaks on behalf of the administration.
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So she's trying to get out of it. She says, well, he speaks for the military. Gosh,
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he's telling us that things have gotten much more dangerous on our watch. Hmm. He speaks for the U.S.
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military, but I can't say that there's a difference between the White House and the military.
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Yes. And he speaks for the administration. Okay. So the administration is admitting that on Joe Biden's
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watch, the world has gotten more dangerous. On Trump's watch, the world got safer. On Trump's watch,
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you saw less war. You saw a lower risk of greater conflicts. You saw a relative peace abroad.
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Now on Biden's watch, you're seeing the outbreak of the first major war in Europe since World War II,
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potentially a global conflict. And it is Biden's fault. There's something I want to clear up here.
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Ted Cruz got in trouble the other day because he said that Joe Biden bore a lot of responsibility
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for the Russian invasion of Ukraine. That's just a fact. That's not some partisan talking point.
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That's not some cheap slogan. It's just a fact. The president of Ukraine, Vladimir Zelensky,
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says the exact same thing. Zelensky said on June 6th of last year, quote, this was referring to
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Joe Biden's lifting the sanctions off of the Nord Stream 2 pipeline that Vladimir Putin was building,
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which gave him the opportunity to invade Ukraine. Zelensky said, this is a weapon, a real weapon in
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the hands of the Russian Federation. It is not understandable that the bullets to this weapon
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can possibly be provided by such a great country as the United States. He's saying, what are you
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doing, Joe Biden? You're giving Russia the bullets to shoot us. This was long before the invasion,
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by the way. But everyone saw the writing on the wall, everyone with two brain cells to rub together,
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a group that I guess excludes Joe Biden. He said, what are you doing? Stop giving Vladimir Putin the
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bullets to shoot us when they inevitably invade Ukraine. That was last June. And then just a few weeks
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ago in March of this year, Zelensky was responding to Joe Biden reinstating the sanctions that he had
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previously lifted. And he said to Biden and the West broadly, you've applied sanctions and we're
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grateful. These are powerful steps. But it was a little late because if it had been preventative,
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Russia would not have gone to war. I don't know how it can be stated more clearly.
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Yes, the aggressor in any conflict bears moral responsibility for that.
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But Joe Biden set the stage. Joe Biden served up Ukraine to Vladimir Putin on a silver platter,
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and he bears responsibility for that too. And that's not a cheap partisan talking point. It's just a fact.
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If you are one of the people out there who has the Ukraine flag in their bio and you're using the
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Ukraine flag, just as the new face mask, which is just the new BLM symbol, which is just the new
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rainbow flag. And it's just the thing du jour, the current thing. And you're using it as a cudgel
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to attack Republicans. Listen to the Ukrainian president who says that this war is Joe Biden's
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fault. So he's failing. He's failing on the domestic front. You see the walls are closing in,
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but it seems the walls actually might be closing in because the press are finally giving up on Joe Biden.
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The press was propping him up for the past, I was going to say for the past couple of years,
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really, they've been propping him up for the past 50 or so years. You're seeing the, this foreign
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policy collapse on Joe Biden's watch. And then even the one issue that he had been doing relatively
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fine on that was COVID he's, he's underwater on. He's underwater in terms of public opinion polls.
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And it seems that things are going to get worse because you know how I hate to say,
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I told you so, you know, that I hate to be Noel Stradamus and put on my magical hat and take out
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my crystal ball and tell you what the future is. The libs are not going to give up on COVID.
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It was politically very effective for them and it helped them to rig an election because it helped
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them to change all of the rules. Well, there's more news on the COVID front. And frankly, it's just
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more of the same. There's a new study out. This is a new study about the COVID vaccine,
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which as you know, is 100% safe and 100% effective. That's why we need to keep taking
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all the boosters is because of how effective it is. The new study is on the fourth COVID shot.
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So you get your first one, then you got to go back, take your second one. Then I guess
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maybe those didn't work quite as well as we were told they would. Then you had to get your third one.
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Then you had to get your fourth one. Well, the study on the Pfizer shot, and by the way,
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this is coming from CNN. I'm not even reading this from a right-wing source,
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is that it does not offer long-lived protection against the virus. The study was published in the
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New England Journal of Medicine. It examines more than 1.25 million people in Israel, 60 years or
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older, who have been fully vaccinated. The time period was January through March of this year
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when the Omicron variant was dominant. And it just turns out that fourth shot doesn't work that
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well. So line up for your fifth. That one will work, right? That'll work. Because we were told
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by Fauci and Walensky and Biden that when you are vaccinated, when you get your two shots in the case
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of the Pfizer vaccine, then you will, you'll be safe. You won't contract the virus. You won't
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transmit the virus. It can't happen. And then they change their story. And then we'll know,
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actually, you can contract it, but you won't be as bad. And well, yeah, it might not be pleasant,
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but it would be a lot worse if you hadn't gotten that vaccine. And well, it turns out you can
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transmit it too. But so that's why they need to get their multiple shots. Okay. But can you imagine
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how terrible it would be if you didn't get the extra shots? And now they're going to push for a
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fifth and a sixth and a seventh and an eighth and a ninth. And it's just going to go on and on and on.
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And the sheep are going to line up. They are. They're going to do it. They're going to do it.
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Even though everything we've been told, everything we have been told from the very beginning of this
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virus has basically been a bunch of bunk. So Biden failing on that level as well, failing on the COVID
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front, which has been the dominant political issue for the past two years. How about on the border?
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Oh, the border's only getting worse. Alejandro Mayorkas, the Secretary of Homeland Security,
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is rescinding Title 42. Now this has to do with COVID. This Title 42 issue that came into effect
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during the Trump administration, it was a way that the government could in some modest way try to
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curtail the flood of illegal aliens who are coming across the border by pointing out, hey, we're in a
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pandemic. All the American citizens are being told that they can't even leave their homes. Why are we
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letting a million illegal aliens with no vetting, certainly with no vaccines, with no testing,
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just pour across the border, often undetected? That doesn't make a whole lot of sense.
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If COVID's a real grave threat, it's the worst thing ever, and we've got to shut down the economy
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and close your churches, well then how come millions of Guatemalans and Salvadorans are allowed
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to come through and do whatever they want? Why is the American government giving much better
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treatment to Guatemalans than they are to American citizens? Doesn't make sense.
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So there were some restrictions put in place. Now the Secretary of Homeland Security wants to take
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those away. And that's not all they're doing for the illegal aliens. That not only, not only are they
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not saying, hey, stay in your own countries. Not only are they not saying, hey, once you get here,
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we're going to turn you around because you have no right to be in this country. No, they're encouraging
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these people to flood into the country. And then when they get here, they're giving them free cell
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phones. So admits Jen Psaki. Our team in Texas is saying that you guys are starting to give
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smartphones to border crossers, hoping that they'll use the phones to check in or to be tracked.
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Which part of that is supposed to deter people from crossing illegally into the states?
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Well, I think you of all people, since you've asked me a range of questions on this topic over time,
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would recognize that we need to take steps to ensure that we know where individuals are and we can
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check in with them. We need to take steps to ensure, for instance, that the Guatemalans can
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play Candy Crush. That's something that Americans get to do. How are they going to check their Twitter
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timelines if they don't have nice new cell phones? So we have to give that to them. We need to give
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them a nice expensive piece of equipment that will therefore disincentivize them from coming across
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the border. I don't think so. Even her explanation is so pathetic. She says we're going to give them the
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cell phones and then they can check in. They're going to check in. The people who are violating
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one of our most basic laws and you're letting them do it and then you're just letting them go
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and wander into the country, they'll probably check in, right? Call me once a week. Come on. I don't
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think so. They're not going to do that at all. But it's because the Democrats want to flood the country
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with the illegal aliens. This causes, like so many of the Democrat policies, this causes them
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short-term political pain but long-term political gain on all of these issues. The vast majority of
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Americans, the vast, vast majority of Americans want to secure the border. The majority of Americans
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want to drastically reduce illegal immigration too. So the Democrat position on this is completely
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out of line with where the majority of Americans are. It's going to hurt them at the polls, but it could
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help them in the long run because those illegal aliens coming from Latin America are overwhelmingly
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likely to identify as Democrats and vote for Democrats. There has been a big shift in the
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Hispanic vote in the United States. That's an encouraging sign. But the numbers just aren't
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there to make this anything but a disaster for Republicans. Ronald Reagan used to say that
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Hispanics are Republicans. They just don't know it yet. Well, we've been waiting and there have been
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some modest shifts, but not enough to make up for just the sheer volume of people that the Democrats
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have imported into this country so that it can help them win elections. Same thing is true of the
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transgender issue, for instance. Transgenderism in schools. Parents hate it. That's why they
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elected Yunkin in Virginia. That's why they're supporting DeSantis in Florida. That's why this
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is such a winning issue for Republicans. It's causing them short-term pain. But if you can
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indoctrinate a whole generation of Americans into transgenderism, into this completely absurd ideology
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that's utterly in conflict with the traditional American understanding of sex and family and who we are
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and our way of life, then in the long run, you're going to have people who are much more amenable
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to the Democrat point of view than to the Republican point of view. All those angry parents
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are not going to matter over the course of some number of decades. And the kids who have been
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indoctrinated will matter. Same goes for critical race theory. Parents hate critical race theory.
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Across the races, they hate critical race theory. But the kids don't really seem to care. The kids are
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just being indoctrinated from K through 12 through the end of college through graduate school,
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all of which is now being encouraged and subsidized by the government.
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So sure, yeah, you're going to lose votes from the parents. But once those kids become the dominant
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voting bloc, in the long run, the Democrats are going to win. The Democrats play the long game.
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They play the long march through the institutions. Republicans are not as great at that. Though
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Republicans are pretty good at tactics, present tactics in the moment. You just saw that from Greg
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Abbott down in Texas. Greg Abbott is on the front lines dealing with this illegal immigration problem,
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floods of foreigners coming across the border, Biden encouraging it. And now Greg Abbott's got
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to deal with it. So he's packing up a bunch of charter buses and sending them to Washington, D.C.
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To help local officials whose communities are being overwhelmed by hordes of illegal immigrants
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who are being dropped off by the Biden administration. Texas is providing charter buses to send
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these illegal immigrants who have been dropped off by the Biden administration to Washington, D.C.
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We are sending them to the United States Capitol where the Biden administration will be able to
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more immediately address the needs of the people that they are allowing to come across our border.
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I love this. And I hope they're nice charter buses. I love the idea of, listen, Texas, we're going to
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spare no expense. We're going to put people on these nice air conditioned buses and you go right
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down to Joe Biden's doorstep and then deal with them there. The only thing they get wrong is that
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I don't think the buses should go to Washington, D.C. Washington, D.C. is a pretty rundown city at this
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point. Crime is going through the roof. There's already a lot of crime and crime both in terms
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of violent crime and also illegal immigration and all the like. There's already a lot of that in
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Washington, D.C. And a lot of the people who are in Washington, D.C. aren't there full time. You
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think about the Democrat members of Congress. They go home on the weekends. The Democrat senators go home
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on the weekends. Joe Biden's going to Delaware all the time. So it's not going to really make as much
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of a difference there. I want these buses to go to Martha's Vineyard. I want these buses to go to
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Southampton. I want these buses to go to all of the places that the libs actually spend time in.
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And not even the cities, you know, San Francisco or something that is their permanent residence. I
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want it to go to their vacation homes. I want the libs to have to deal with this. I want them to go
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to the Upper West Side of Manhattan. I want them to go to really, really nice places that generally
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don't have these kinds of problems. And I want the libs to see it in real life. Fine. You want to
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flood the country with illegal aliens? I'll still fight you tooth and nail on it because it's giving
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you a major electoral advantage. And it's just plain wrong. But if it's going to happen, don't make the
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Republicans in Texas deal with the problem, which involves drugs and crime and all the things that
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Biden said or that Donald Trump said were coming over the border with illegal aliens. Make the libs
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deal with it. There is one thing that Joe Biden has managed to accomplish in his entire presidency
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that might sort of possibly be a net positive, although it has not ended up looking quite as
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positive as it previously did. That is that Joe Biden got his judicial nominee confirmed to the
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Supreme Court. He got Ketanji Jackson confirmed. It was not a total slam dunk. They really dirtied her
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up in the process and they dirtied her up by reading her own judicial record. This isn't like
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with Kavanaugh when the libs accused him of gang rape based on nothing. This was just Republican
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senators reading her own court opinions, reading her own judicial record. And, and she had no answer
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for it, but she's made it now to the Supreme Court and she has made it to the Supreme Court.
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She has made it to the Supreme Court with the votes of all of the Democrats and none of the Republicans
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except for three. Lisa Murkowski, we knew it. Susan Collins, we knew it. And you guessed it,
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Mitt Romney voted for Ketanji Jackson to the Supreme Court. We all strongly suspected he would do it.
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It's extremely disappointing. It's very sad. And frankly, it's infuriating. This man was the
00:23:13.700
Republican nominee for president 10 years ago. And he voted for her. I blame him more than I blame
00:23:21.540
Murkowski and then I blame Collins. Collins is a Republican senator in a purple state.
00:23:27.860
The vote didn't really matter. This woman was going to be confirmed anyway. Susan Collins wanted
00:23:34.660
to get some cred with the libs in her state. Murkowski, it's a little harder to make that
00:23:39.720
argument because Alaska is more Republican than Maine is. But Murkowski, okay, fine. I get it.
00:23:49.320
Utah is a blood red state. It is one of the most conservative states in the country.
00:23:56.320
Mitt Romney is the senator from Utah. It's a little weird because he was the governor of
00:24:02.580
Massachusetts. And then when he wanted to run for president, he moved to New Hampshire because he
00:24:06.460
thought that would help him to win. And then after that, he couldn't get any offices there. So he
00:24:11.960
moved to Utah and now he's the senator from Utah. Romney didn't have to do it. This woman is the most
00:24:17.380
radical leftist ever, not just on the court right now, but ever in the history of the court.
00:24:21.800
Mitt Romney didn't have to vote for her. He did it because Mitt Romney's job is to put
00:24:26.620
Republicans in their place. That's all he does. Mitt Romney is a guy. He's the Anna Navarro of the
00:24:32.480
U.S. Senate. Mitt Romney is the guy who shows up and he just puts Republicans in their place.
00:24:39.060
That'll show you conservatives. I'm so much better. Hey, Democrats, look at me. Hey, MSNBC,
00:24:44.680
CNN. I'm so good, aren't I? Don't you love me? I'm the good one. I'm not like all those other,
00:24:49.240
I'm not like all those other Republicans. I'm a conservative, but I'm not that kind of
00:24:52.560
conservative. It's just nauseating. It's just nauseating. I am so, I don't feel too much guilt
00:24:59.260
about 2012 because I worked for multiple of Mitt Romney's opponents in 2012 to try to prevent that
00:25:05.060
man from getting the GOP nomination. I did. And, but I voted for him in the general. I guess I don't
00:25:11.540
regret that either. I guess he would have been better than Obama, but it is nauseating. It is
00:25:16.820
nauseating that Republicans nominated that guy to be president. Mitt Romney won't endorse his fellow
00:25:23.860
Utah Senator Mike Lee, who's a perfectly amiable, reliable, conservative Republican with, as far as
00:25:31.820
I can tell, not a single scandal in his entire history. He's one of the, one of the squeaky cleanest
00:25:36.200
guys I've seen in politics. He won't endorse him. He will endorse a radical leftist who supports
00:25:42.340
critical race theory and who lets pedos off the hook and who doesn't know what a woman is.
00:25:47.640
It's all I, if I talk about it any longer, I'm going to start yelling. Speaking of Utah,
00:25:53.540
speaking of these weird Utah Republicans, Utah, very conservative state, very, very conservative
00:25:58.740
state. They elected this governor, Spencer Cox, who in a, in a zoom address that he was just giving
00:26:05.880
announced his preferred pronouns. Okay. Ladies and gentlemen, good afternoon. I am governor Spencer
00:26:14.760
Cox and I have the pleasure today of hosting the first one Utah student town hall. And, uh,
00:26:24.180
He, him, and his. He, him, and his. Play it again. Just play it again, please.
00:26:35.900
Okay. Ladies and gentlemen, good afternoon. I am governor Spencer Cox and I have the pleasure
00:26:42.020
today of hosting the first one Utah student town hall. And, uh, my preferred pronouns are he,
00:26:49.420
him, and his. Whatever political team that guy's on, I'm not on it. I don't know if that guy is
00:27:01.000
what a Republican is. I guess I'm not a Republican. I, I, I, here's my ideology. You know, I generally
00:27:06.460
don't like it. My ideology is whatever he's not, because that is the saddest thing I have ever seen.
00:27:13.300
And I guess he thinks he's pandering to students. I guess he thinks that students really believe in
00:27:19.860
all this stuff. Who knows? Maybe they do. Not the conservative students I talk to, and I talk to
00:27:24.260
thousands of them a year. Spoke to some last night right here in Grove City, Pennsylvania. So I'm
00:27:29.580
speaking to some on Monday at Yale University. That should be interesting. I spoke to some last week
00:27:34.580
at Washburn. I go around to a lot of these schools. We don't introduce our preferred pronouns.
00:27:38.780
Some people will say, who cares? Who cares? Spencer, Spencer Cox, he'll cut taxes or regulations. So
00:27:45.380
he's a perfectly fine Chamber of Commerce Republican. I care. I care. That's it. That's
00:27:49.680
my line. I'm all for a big tent party. If you, if you use your preferred pronouns, if you introduce
00:27:56.040
yourself stating your preferred pronouns, you're out, you're out. I think he should be kicked out of
00:28:00.020
the Republican party. He should, he should, he has no place here. Because it means, I'm not even just
00:28:05.700
being hyperbolic and reacting emotionally. What it means is you don't get anything. You just don't
00:28:10.280
understand anything. If you are willing to cave on men or not women, if you're willing to cave on a
00:28:18.860
fundamental aspect of human nature, then you're just completely useless. I don't care. Elected
00:28:23.580
Democrat, Utah. I don't, who cares? You're just, you just don't get anything. So Spencer Cox,
00:28:29.940
you're out. You're out of my, when I become the head of the Republican National Committee,
00:28:33.420
you're gone. I'm taking away your Republican card. What is called for is the opposite approach
00:28:39.560
here. Not to remain passive and conciliatory and go along and okay, I'm happy to use my pronouns.
00:28:44.660
It's the opposite. It's to get a little bit more aggressive and it's to wield our power a little
00:28:48.380
bit more. Look at Elon Musk. I'm so, I'm giddy with the Elon Musk story. I don't think Musk is some
00:28:54.120
right-wing, hardcore, rock-ribbed Republican, but obviously he's not a big lib and he's extremely funny
00:29:00.380
and he's generally wielding his enormous political and financial power for the, for the good.
00:29:05.840
So Elon Musk bought 9% of Twitter. He is already using that for the good. There's a hysterical
00:29:14.480
article up in the Washington Post. It's Elon Musk's Twitter investment could be bad news for free speech.
00:29:21.520
Bad news for, how is this bad news for free speech? He's going in and he's saying Twitter is too harsh on
00:29:26.380
free speech. I want to, and I think the insinuation is he wants to reinstate some banned accounts. I
00:29:30.860
think the insinuation is he wants to lift some of the rules and some of the capricious guidelines.
00:29:35.480
And that's certainly how the Twitter employees are interpreting it because some of the most woke
00:29:39.820
Twitter employees right now are, are saying that they're very likely to quit. Twitter told Reuters
00:29:45.180
that the company's board plays an important advisory and feedback role across the entire service,
00:29:50.400
but says they don't really affect the day-to-day very much. And then Reuters was talking to some of the
00:29:55.300
employees and they say, no, we were so scared that Musk is going to bring more free speech back to
00:29:59.980
Twitter that we're leaving. Some people are dusting off their resumes. I don't want to work for somebody
00:30:04.700
like Musk. And then Substack, which is another writing platform, is hiring. And Substack says,
00:30:10.940
Substack's hiring. If you're a Twitter employee who's considering resigning because you're worried
00:30:14.780
about Elon Musk pushing for less regulated speech, please do not come work here. Everyone else can,
00:30:20.580
but you, please do not come work here. I mentioned the story because Elon Musk hasn't
00:30:25.260
done anything yet other than get himself onto the board of directors. He hasn't changed a single
00:30:29.860
policy, hasn't changed the dot over an I or the cross on a T. And already Twitter is getting better
00:30:35.340
because these woke idiots are leaving. And that's good because personnel is policy. The people who are
00:30:41.680
executing policy are going to largely determine what that policy looks like. I hope big bag Elon goes in
00:30:48.720
there and pushes these people out of the company, ostensibly of their own will. That's a great
00:30:54.160
way that conservatives can wield our political power. The libs are doing it right now in the army
00:30:58.740
and the CIA. That's what those woke recruitment commercials are about. That's what the vaccine
00:31:02.140
mandate is about. Push the conservative minded people out so that your people are in there because
00:31:07.120
personnel is policy. Now, speaking of personnel who've been around the government for a long time,
00:31:13.640
you probably know that Dr. Fauci has been in government for what, 40 years now? Some 40 years.
00:31:21.060
Fauci did not happen overnight. He changed your lives. He changed this country overnight for the
00:31:26.920
past two years, just more and more and more. But this man has developed, has grown his power over
00:31:34.580
time. We have a series called Fauci Unmasked. You can get it right now over at the Daily Wire. Take a listen.
00:31:40.900
He's the highest paid employee in our federal government. And beginning in the spring of 2020,
00:31:48.000
Dr. Fauci began to set national policy that affected the way that 330 million Americans lived
00:31:54.340
their lives. For goodness sakes, I'm telling you wear a mask, keep social distancing. There's nothing
00:32:00.680
political about that. But who is Anthony Fauci? People who have conspiracy theories. Those are people
00:32:07.920
that don't particularly care for me. In this short series, we will do what the establishment media
00:32:13.700
have refused to do. We will give you an unvarnished look at the career of the most powerful politician
00:32:20.100
in America, Dr. Anthony Fauci. Don't you think it's time that you step down and let someone else who has
00:32:25.800
a more effective message? Actually, no. Go check it out right now. Dailywire.com slash subscribe. We will
00:32:41.000
be right back with The Mailbag. Welcome back to the show. My favorite time of the week, The Mailbag.
00:32:57.720
First question up from James. Hey, Michael. Love the show. I've been dating my girlfriend for almost a year
00:33:02.100
and we're talking about getting married. Everything is going well and the only time we have a major
00:33:07.180
tiff is when the topic of previous relationships comes up. She basically wants to know how promiscuous
00:33:12.040
I was before her. I never get into details because I'm a private person. It's also because I know this
00:33:18.680
will only lead to arguments since I was a slay king in college. It's a great term, James. What should
00:33:25.940
I do? Tell her knowing she's going to hate the truth or just tell her I love her and don't want
00:33:31.320
anything between us. I'd love some advice. It's a great question. I don't think that everyone should
00:33:39.500
be totally open about every weird thing they ever did in their whole lives. I just don't. I know that
00:33:46.500
it's very fashionable in our modern liberal enlightened age to have radical total transparency
00:33:53.140
about everything. I don't think that's a great idea. That actually, that very notion did come about
00:33:58.620
with the rise of the modern left going back centuries. But this idea that we should have
00:34:03.940
no secrets, no private aspects of our lives, that we should tell our partners, our spouses,
00:34:09.260
our wives, everything, absolute radical transparency. No one likes that. Nobody likes that.
00:34:16.780
You don't, do you want to know about every guy that your wife ever dated? You want to imagine that?
00:34:22.220
You want to think about that? Unless you're Will Smith, you probably don't. And Will Smith doesn't
00:34:25.340
like it either. That's why he's punched Chris Rock in the face. It's because no one actually likes
00:34:29.280
thinking about that sort of thing. So if I were you, I would take the, I would take the latter
00:34:34.740
route and say, listen, I love you. When I was young and irresponsible, I was young and irresponsible.
00:34:40.220
You can, if she really pushes it, you can say, listen, I was, I was popular with the ladies.
00:34:45.460
I was, I was, I did well. I did well, but it was bad. I did well by the standards of our secular age,
00:34:52.640
but it was not good. And thank goodness I found you, my virtuous wife. Now let's stop talking about
00:34:59.080
it. Let the dead past bury the dead. No reason to go digging that up. I mean, if you live, if you
00:35:04.920
just live in the past and stew in your regrets forever and ever and ever, you're not going to do
00:35:09.340
anything. To be less flippant about you apparently stooping all these ladies, maybe you regret that.
00:35:16.760
Maybe you don't regret that, but probably you do. And that's life. That's life. You can't change the
00:35:23.380
past, but you can change the future. So you can do that. From Aaron. Hello, Mr. Knowles. I have a
00:35:29.220
question about dating at work. In my late 20, I'm in my late 20s and there is a guy who seems interested
00:35:34.220
in me and we have a good time flirting back and forth, but I don't know if it's a good idea.
00:35:38.400
We work closely together and I don't know if he's ready for a serious relationship and don't know how to
00:35:42.880
navigate this. He also seems to just be flirty. So I don't know what to do. Any advice would
00:35:46.620
be appreciated. There are two basic bodily functions that every human being has to engage in.
00:35:55.140
One is eating and one is excreting. And as a general rule, you should not excrete where you eat.
00:36:07.600
I would not recommend dating your coworker. This is not a good idea. I'm not saying it never has worked
00:36:13.720
out. It has worked out sometimes. I have friends who work together who ended up getting married. I
00:36:21.980
went to their weddings and they have wonderful marriages. I'm not saying it can't happen.
00:36:27.920
Usually it doesn't work out. And then it's awkward and sometimes people get in trouble and depending on
00:36:33.880
your company's HR policy, you could end up getting fired. And you're already saying you don't know if
00:36:37.940
this guy is serious about anything or he's just kind of flirtatious. No, I do not do it. Do not do
00:36:44.700
it unless you don't care about your job. In which case, whatever. Go have fun. From Andrew. Hi, Michael.
00:36:50.200
I had a question in regard to religion. I'm not Catholic, but was raised in the faith and still
00:36:54.040
have a great respect for it. I don't wish to disrespect religion. So I had a question in regard
00:36:58.380
to group prayers held in social circumstances, such as at weddings or before meals at banquets.
00:37:03.120
If I don't believe in God, would it be blasphemous or would I be taking the Lord's name in vain if I
00:37:08.860
bowed my head and prayed or even pretended? Since I'm not sure of the existence of God,
00:37:13.660
it seems blasphemous to bow my head and pray. I don't want to disrespect the faith even though
00:37:18.500
I'm no longer a firm believer. No, absolutely not. Of course you should bow your head and you should
00:37:24.180
pray. God exists whether you believe in him or not. And you're even saying you don't know if you
00:37:30.160
don't believe in him. You don't know if you do believe in him. You're just kind of not
00:37:33.000
firm in your faith. Well, okay. How about you err on the side of caution and pay the respect that
00:37:38.580
is due to God? God is not just some figment of your or anyone else's imagination. He's real. I know
00:37:43.560
that these days that's a radical statement and all the atheists with their neck beards laugh about
00:37:48.000
it, but it's just a fact. It's just true. God exists. He is real. He created you. He knew every
00:37:54.240
hair on your head before you were born. And so if you struggle with your faith, as a great many
00:38:00.260
people do, as certainly I have done in my life, and you're in one of those periods where you're
00:38:04.960
not quite sure, just be reverent. Just pray. Just, I would recommend behaving as though God
00:38:13.460
exists. This is Drew's great experiment that he gives to atheists. He says, live for 60 days
00:38:19.920
as though God exists. And see what happens. Pray. Follow the rules. Talk to God. Take care of your
00:38:29.240
spiritual life. And see what happens at the end of 60 days. Maybe that'll work for you within 60 days.
00:38:36.500
Maybe it won't. But no, there's nothing disrespectful about showing respect just because you might be a
00:38:45.520
little uncertain or have mixed emotions. No, it's not all about you, man. It's about doing stuff
00:38:51.000
matters too. So do it. I think that's the right thing to do. From Michael. Hello, Michael. With the
00:38:56.100
libs coming out to defend grooming children into woke ideology, specifically the sexual aspects,
00:39:01.460
I can't help but see the similarities of this type of grooming to Christian conversion therapy.
00:39:06.760
Not specifically how they function, but the outrage. Libs railed against the world at conversion
00:39:10.620
therapy, but is grooming young impressionable minds into sexual ideologies and wokeism, not in a sense
00:39:16.240
conversion therapy. I know the libs thrive and survive on hypocrisy, but okay, groomer won't go
00:39:21.180
far enough. We need to keep hitting them where it hurts. You give us, Michael's a good name, kind for
00:39:25.240
guards. Thanks. Yeah, I think the comparison is fair enough in as much as everybody's got to serve
00:39:31.820
somebody. There is no such thing as neutral education. The libs disingenuously pretend that there is a
00:39:39.180
neutral education, and the squishes on the right naively believe there is such a thing as neutral
00:39:45.400
education, but there isn't. Every syllable that you utter, every second you spend educating a young
00:39:52.700
person is either going to be bringing them closer to the truth or further from the truth. It's going
00:39:58.400
to be teaching them to do the right thing or to do the wrong thing. It's going to be cultivating their
00:40:05.280
taste for beauty or their taste for ugliness, but there's no neutrality here. The one point that
00:40:12.900
you've got to give to the libs when they're talking about sexual conversations in kindergarten, when the
00:40:16.780
groomers are pushing the weird sex stuff in K through third grade, is they're saying, well, what
00:40:23.500
happens when we have to talk about marriage? Marriage is going to come up. You read a little storybook to
00:40:28.880
a kid, and there's a husband and a wife. So what if it's a husband and a husband? Now, traditionally,
00:40:34.340
we would say that can't exist. There's no such thing as a husband and a husband, a husband married
00:40:38.860
to a husband, because that's not what marriage is. So that's not possible. Now we're saying you
00:40:43.300
got to keep that very novel sexual ideology out of the schools. But so you're telling me you can't
00:40:48.040
read a little storybook, a little board book to kids that involves a husband and a wife? Well,
00:40:53.360
that's sort of sexual, isn't it? Is that banned too? And what we would say is no. No. We should
00:40:58.900
teach people that there's such the thing as a man and such a thing as a woman, and they're
00:41:04.400
different. They're not the same. So the feminists are wrong, and the transgenderists are wrong,
00:41:08.460
and they're actually meant for one another, and they're actually complementary. And men and women,
00:41:12.980
generally speaking, should get married, and generally speaking, they should have kids,
00:41:18.540
and that's the right thing to do. I guess that's kind of a sexual ideology. Is that kind of a conversion
00:41:23.420
therapy? I don't, whatever slogan you want to use. No, it's just, that's just the way the world is.
00:41:29.860
And so now we're upset that the libs are completely contradicting that and saying,
00:41:33.160
no, men and women aren't different. No, people shouldn't get married. No, you shouldn't have
00:41:36.620
kids. Actually, you should kill your kids. Actually, you should go and, and engage in all
00:41:40.740
these crazy sexual views. We're saying, whoa, whoa, whoa, that's crazy. Stop indoctrinating kids into
00:41:45.720
sex. But they're going to know something. They're going to, they're going to know that there's a mommy
00:41:51.220
and a daddy, or that there's a mommy and a mommy and a daddy and a daddy, and the daddy became mommy
00:41:54.460
last week. And, and, and so that's inevitable. And so we've got to move beyond just the procedural
00:41:59.520
aspects of things and talk about the substance too. This is the thesis of my book, Speechless.
00:42:06.440
Free speech in the abstract, all these procedural questions don't mean anything if you don't have
00:42:10.600
anything to say. From Katie. Hey, Michael, that's for all you do in particular, oh, that, thanks,
00:42:18.480
which I think you meant to say. Thanks for all you do in particular, the entertaining
00:42:21.860
relationship advice. Oh, thank you. I'm glad you enjoyed it. It seems I may be in need of
00:42:25.540
some relationship advice myself. My fiance and I are having a great time getting ready for our
00:42:29.860
big day and he's the love of my life. However, I'm a Christian and he's not. Since we are getting
00:42:34.400
ready for the family, for the wedding, family and friends are making sure they say their piece
00:42:38.360
before our big day. Usually goes something like this. I love you and support you, but, and then
00:42:43.240
some version of it concerns how he's not a believer. I hear the concern and pray for his salvation and
00:42:51.420
also mention 1 Corinthians 7, 14, quote, for the unbelieving husband is made holy because of his
00:42:58.560
wife and the unbelieving wife is made holy because of her husband. Otherwise, your children would be
00:43:02.880
unclean, but as it is, they are holy. What would you say to me? Thanks. Well, sure, I'm not telling you
00:43:08.600
not to marry your fiance, but you are not husband and wife yet. So we're not, we're not addressing a
00:43:15.720
question of, you know, the, you're already married and one spouse has become a Christian and the other
00:43:21.860
is not. And here's why you shouldn't get divorced. And here's how you should grapple with that situation.
00:43:26.180
You're talking about entering into a marriage, knowing all of this. I'm not saying that marriages
00:43:31.560
between atheists or agnostics and Christians cannot work or interfaith or anything like that,
00:43:36.980
but it can be trickier. Your family is going to have to believe something. You're going to have
00:43:42.120
to determine how to raise the kids. And this is a particularly difficult issue because it's the
00:43:46.720
husband who's not Christian and it's the wife who is Christian. And if you are Christian, you probably
00:43:53.880
have some sense that the husband should be the head of the household. So that creates some problems
00:43:59.200
as well. I'm not, I'm not giving you a firm answer here. Yes or no on what to do. But I am saying that
00:44:06.640
the concerns are legit. And I think you need to have all of these conversations with your fiance
00:44:11.980
before the big day. At the very least, you have to have to have the conversation. How are the kids
00:44:16.880
going to be raised? Are the kids going to be raised Christian or kind of without a religion? And by the
00:44:21.020
way, if the, even if he says the kids are going to be raised Christian, is daddy going to go to church?
00:44:26.460
Because if daddy doesn't go to church on Sunday and church is just a thing that mommy makes the kids
00:44:31.160
go to, but daddy gets to stay home and watch football, the kids are probably not going to
00:44:35.400
continue to go to church when they become adults because there's not going to be a coherence to
00:44:39.900
the faith. And they're going to have questions. Is daddy going to go to hell? They're going to have
00:44:43.380
questions. Why doesn't daddy take, I want to be more like daddy. Daddy seems cool. He's cool. He let,
00:44:47.020
he just eats Cheerios and watches football. So you've got to really sort that out. And if, if your fiance says,
00:44:53.780
look, I don't really, I don't believe in this yet. I don't know. It's kind of new to me,
00:44:58.260
but because this matters to you, I promise you, I will raise the kids in the church. I will go to
00:45:04.060
church on Sunday. If he does that, then I think that shows that, that you're growing together,
00:45:09.080
but otherwise one fears that you could grow apart. From Deborah, Michael, do you agree with the
00:45:16.040
statement, live life with no regrets? I'll pause there. Cause you have more to say. What does that even
00:45:22.340
mean? We're all fallen creatures. We all sin frequently. So how do you, how are you supposed
00:45:27.400
to live life with no regrets? The only way to do that would be to not have a moral conscience or to
00:45:31.940
try to suppress your moral conscience and say, oh, well, I probably shouldn't have done all those
00:45:36.440
drugs and slept around with all those people and gambled all my money away last night, but
00:45:40.300
oopsie daisy YOLO. Uh, no, that's not a good idea. Uh, may I say, I don't agree with that statement.
00:45:47.040
Yes, no, nor do I, because we don't live in a pink bubble with unicorns and pots of gold at the end of
00:45:51.320
the rainbow and everything is happy, happy, happy. We can't control every aspect of our lives.
00:45:55.840
I think Kierkegaard's statement of life can only be understood, that life can only be understood
00:46:01.700
backwards, but it must be lived forwards, quite frankly, is a better statement.
00:46:06.540
I'd love to hear your thoughts. Oh, wise sage. Yes. I, I, I like your answer. The issue of live life
00:46:13.520
with no regrets has a few parts to it. One is, uh, comes from a play by David Mamet where, uh,
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one of the characters in Glengarry Glen Ross says, they, people say you regret the things that you
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don't do. I'm doing a slight Pacino accent because he played him in the movie, uh, but that's not
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necessarily true. You regret things that you do do as well. There are plenty of things I've done that
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I regret. I guess they're trying to think if there were things I haven't done that I regret not doing
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maybe one or two, but more, more actually much more. It's the other one. So I wish I didn't have
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those regrets. And then what does that mean now to just disregard the moral order? Go, go out,
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cheat on your wife. No regrets. Yeah. Go out on a school night and, and bomb the paper. No regrets.
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No, I think you probably will regret all of those things. Chesterton said that the Carpe Diem religion,
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the seize the day religion is not the religion of happy people. It's the religion of very unhappy people.
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It's the religion of people desperately grasping for anything to feel like they're doing anything.
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But, uh, no, I would, I would not recommend that. I would, I would live life conscious of regret,
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not bogged down by the shame of regret, but conscious of it and able to repent and improve
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your life and do the right thing. I'm Michael Knowles. This is the Michael Knowles Show. See you Monday.
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