Andrew Clavin frames the left’s collapse through Texas church shooter fallout, where elites like Blumenthal and Wheaton blamed guns over mental health, ignoring asylum closures in the 1980s. He contrasts Trump’s focus on armed citizens with Hollywood hypocrisy, then pivots to DNC collusion against Sanders and Yale’s radicalization, citing protests against Shakespeare and hydropower. Mocking NFL protests and leftist media, he ties transgender ideology and Cosmopolitan’s incest normalization to cultural decay, arguing conservative pessimism is vindicated as leftist movements crumble like past revolutions. [Automatically generated summary]
All right, so just to recap the Clavinless weekend, a virulent atheist murders worshipers in a church, and the left takes to Twitter to mock prayer.
A legal gunman takes down a guy with illegal guns, so the left attacks legal guns.
Illegal leaks from the Mueller investigation are used by Democrat collaborator NBC to distract us from the fact that corruption in the Democrat Party is now so deep that an honest Democrat would have died of loneliness had there ever been an honest Democrat, which apparently there wasn't.
And a Republican may become the governor of Blue Virginia, and the NFL, which was the hottest brand in the country about 20 minutes ago, now has ratings somewhere between women's basketball and bocce.
You remember the Oscar-winning song, It's Hard Out There for a Pimp.
Well, apparently it's even harder if what you're pimping is socialism.
The left is going down in flames.
Michael Knowles, you remember Michael Knowles, the star of Another Kingdom and also the host of some show or other I've never heard of.
But Michael Knowles, the host of our own Michael Knowles show, he was at the Buckley dinner, the William F. Buckley dinner at Yale over the weekend, and he has a report at what is happening to his dear old alma mater.
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All right, I always hate these days when we have these terrible tragedies, not because, you know, obviously because there has been a terrible tragedy, but also because I don't think I can add all that much to what there is to say.
But I do want to talk about how it's covered and how we talk about it a little bit.
But mostly, I've just been watching all weekend long.
I was just watching the left is going down in flames.
And because the media is left, you're not really seeing it quite as clearly as you would if we had a fair and balanced media.
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And in my case, I'm supposed to say you'll never have to go to the post office again.
In my case, I'll never have to tell my wife to go to the post office again.
Yeah, because I'm just that guy.
That's the kind of skunk I am.
You know, this story out of Texas is as bad as it can possibly be.
There's no way I can, on this show, do credit.
It would take a minister in a church.
Obviously, madman goes into a church, open fire.
The death toll, I think, is up to 27 as I'm speaking.
It'll probably go up.
He apparently hit everybody in this tiny church in this tiny town.
So, you know, there's only like 400 people in the entire town.
It looks like, I mean, he was, his friends all say, or his friends, the people who knew him say that he was a virulent atheist who was always talking about how stupid people who believe in God are.
And he was also a guy who had been cashiered out of the military for beating up his wife and child, which means that, of course, he shouldn't have had a gun in the first place.
You can't get a gun if you've been convicted of domestic abuse, domestic violence.
So we're talking about a guy who would have had a gun, whether there were laws against guns or not.
He was breaking the law.
And as he came out, a plumber who lived next door, as he came out of the church, a plumber came out with a rifle and shot him.
And then the guy got into his car and drove away.
The shooter got into his car and drove away.
The plumber then just waylaid a car that was driving by and said, after that guy, and the other guy, the guy in the car, just took off after him, because this is Texas.
These guys don't mess around.
They drove off after these guys, run him down, but it looks like he killed himself in the car.
That's what the sheriff was saying this morning.
So, obviously, again, tragedy beyond our mind's ability to comprehend, evil beyond the mind's ability to comprehend.
And one of the hardest things for people to comprehend is our helplessness in the face of evil, which is true.
Without God, we are completely helpless.
With God, we at least have a fighting chance for the world, but never in these individual incidents.
So the left goes into its leftist media first, which is just an arm of the left at this point, goes into their immediate playbook, which is it's all about the guns.
And by doing that, something interesting happens.
Let's look at a montage.
Let's start off with a montage of them, this is number 10, I think, of the media just bringing out their playbook right away.
Richard Blumenthaler tweeted out: horror, heartbreak, shame, prayers are important but insufficient after another unspeakable tragedy.
Congress must act or be complicit with that.
So, I mean, we're watching this slaughter in America.
You know, are our political leaders doing anything at all to stop it?
First, the Second Amendment in this case has nullified the right to live for many people in this church.
And I think a national discussion has to happen.
It's not too, you know, we've constantly run away from it.
But we're going to keep doing this until we have that discussion.
Since I arrived at Congress this year, I've been talking about limiting magazine capacity and guns.
And this is just another incident, probably the fourth or fifth this year, that could have been, if not prevented, certainly the damage would have diminished greatly if we had just made small changes to our gun laws.
It's fundamentally a problem in America.
And it's not going to fix every shooting.
That's the argument they make.
Well, seatbelts won't stop every car fatality either.
And we can't get even the Congress to give us one sentence to say that you can't have bump stock.
So there's a guy named Chet Cannon.
He runs something called the Democratic Coalition Against Trump or something like this.
And he claims to be the biggest arm of the resistance.
After the New York City terrorist attack, where the Islamists ran down people in Lower Manhattan, when Trump talked about the diversity visa lottery program, this guy, Scott, yes, I'm sorry, Scott Dworkin is the guy.
I'm sorry, Chet Cannon is the guy who tweeted that who retweeted this.
Scott Dworkin is the guy from this Democratic Resistance.
He said it's the morning after the NYC terrorist attack, and Trump's already politicizing it like the disgusting and deranged little boy he is.
And then, of course, today, same guy, Scott Dworkin, yes, I'm going to politicize the blank out of the mass murder of 20 innocent people in Texas.
Deal with it.
All right, I'll deal with it.
You're scum.
Now you're dealt with.
That's the thank you very much.
You know, here's the thing.
Here's the point I want to make.
The left is obsessed with disarming individual Americans because they hate individual Americans.
They want to impose on us a government that tells us what to do, what our church life should be like, what we should believe about sexuality.
They want us to state this whole thing about transgenderism.
It's not about transgenderism.
I'm not going off on a tangent here.
It's about making sure that you believe, just like in Orwell's 1984, that you believe that two and two, it's not four, it's not five, it's not two, it is what the state says it is.
So the transgender thing is you believe that a man and a woman is what the state says it is.
They want you to accept the idea that you don't know reality.
Your take on reality doesn't matter.
And in order to do that, they have to take your guns away, because ultimately the point is to take everything from you, to take all your power away, all your individuality, all your freedom.
And if you have guns, it's going to be a lot harder for them to do that.
So that's their obsession, is taking away your guns.
And because the media is leftist, the dialogue immediately goes to the topic of guns.
And that puts us, those of us who believe in the Second Amendment, that puts us on the defensive.
We have to say no, for instance, in this case, that guy who just said, oh, just a little change in the laws would have changed everything, would have changed nothing, except maybe to take a gun away from the guy who shot the bad guy.
So we are put in a position where we're still being drawn in to their conversation.
Okay, now here's my take on the Second Amendment is this.
The Second Amendment is not up for negotiation because it is what protects us from the government.
The government should be afraid of us.
I didn't hear a lot of complaints.
I didn't hear the media go on and on and on when a Bernie bro shot our congressman.
Rand Paul was attacked by the lunatic socialist who lived next door, broke five of Rand Paul's ribs.
He's still, I think he's still in the hospital or he's just been released.
You know, I want to make sure that the people who want to stop those guys, the people who want to stop the Bernie bros who want to socialize our country, the people who want to take out Rand Paul because he is a libertarian, I want to make sure that those guys are afraid of us, of each and every one of us.
And the only way to ensure that is with guns.
It has nothing to do with hunting, has nothing to do with self-protection.
It has to do with the fact that we should be able to organize into a militia if ever our government goes south.
God forbid that should happen.
God forbid that should happen.
But if it does, we should be able to have guns and defend ourselves.
And every time the left says, in other countries, they don't have this problem.
There are no other countries.
There's only us.
Because we are unique.
We are exceptional.
We are different because, one, we're a creedal country.
We live by a creed, not by our race, not by the color of our skin, not by even our religion.
We live by a creed that grows out of our religion.
But that is what constitutes our country.
That's the first thing.
So we're unique in that way.
And the second thing is we are, the creed is that we govern from the bottom down.
I am supposed to have the most power.
The town has the next most, the state the next.
And the federal government should not have that much power.
Now, of course, that has been changing since 1776 and getting worse and worse until the president of these United States actually thought he should have the power to regulate who uses the bathrooms in your school in Texas, in Nashville.
He actually believed that.
So we know we need the protections of the Second Amendment because we know how crazy these guys, how power crazy these guys can get.
So it's not up for grabs.
It's not up for negotiation.
This conversation shouldn't even be happening.
The minute it happens, the TV set should be turned off.
You know, that is not the question.
Weirdly, because this doesn't always happen, Donald Trump got it exactly right.
Donald Trump is in Japan making his Asian trip.
Here was his reaction.
This isn't a guns situation.
I mean, we could go into it, but it's a little bit soon to go into it.
But fortunately, somebody else had a gun that was shooting in the opposite direction.
Otherwise, it would have been as bad as it was.
It would have been much worse.
But this is a mental health problem at the highest level.
It's a very, very sad event.
These are great people and a very, very sad event.
But that's the way I view it.
See, that is, instead of going on and defending the Second Amendment, which doesn't need defending, we can defend it when the time comes because we're armed because of the Second Amendment.
But instead of defending the Second Amendment, we should actually be on TV talking about mental health because the mental health system in this country has collapsed.
It doesn't exist anymore.
During the 80s, all the asylums closed.
It made it impossible.
The idea, I suppose, was that we were going to have the drugs we needed to control people.
But almost all of these shooters are on some kind of drugs.
And almost all of them are fatherless.
Almost all of them have other problems.
We do need a system of mental health in this country.
It is really, there really is no, nothing to do when, you know, heaven forfend, but if somebody you love comes to you and says, starts talking crazy and starts talking violent, there's not that much you can do.
And there should be.
You should be able to put people away.
You should be able to protect them and others from themselves and from their insanity.
Most mentally ill people are not dangerous, obviously, but a certain amount of them are and really need to be stopped.
Now, I don't know if that would have stopped this guy.
I don't know, but I'm just saying that it is true that our mental health system has collapsed and it has been, actually, it's been deconstructed more than collapsed.
So just going on on this idea, this obsession, it's not just with disarming us, because everything the left does is about the government getting power over individuals.
Let me just show you for a minute.
I just have to talk about this guy.
I want to make sure I get his name in here because he's such a plumber who shot this bad guy.
And I'm not mentioning the name of the bad guy because screw him.
But the plumber who shot him was named Stephen Wilford.
And Stephen Wilford shot him.
The guy got in his car, wounded, dropped his gun.
The bad guy dropped his gun, got in his car, started driving away, and Wilford then waved down this guy, Johnny Langendorf.
And Langendorf was like, get in the car.
And they took after this guy 95 miles an hour.
Here's Langendorf describing this.
He got a little bit of a jump on us.
And so we were doing about 95 down 539, going around traffic and everything.
And eventually he came to kind of a slowdown.
And after that, we got within just a few feet of him, and then he got off the road.
How did that happen?
Did you guys bump him or did he lose control by himself?
He just lost control.
And then that's whenever I put the vehicle in park because I was still on the phone with dispatch.
And the other gentleman jumped out and had his rifle drawn on him.
And he didn't move after that.
So if you couldn't see him, if you're just listening to the show, he's got the whole Texas thing going on.
He's got a cowboy hat.
He's also got a tattoo of a steer, a longhorn steer on his neck.
And when I see this guy who chased after a mad dog killer at 95 miles an hour, like on the instant, right?
He's driving by and he's like minding his own business and he just suddenly goes into this.
I'm thinking, what do you think our friends in the media think of this guy?
What do you think our friends in the media think of this?
This is the guy they hate.
This is the guy, same as with those people in Houston who were rescuing people.
These are the people they despise.
So let's compare this fellow, this gentleman, to our celebrities, our betters, our elites, right?
Paul Ryan, the Speaker of the House, tweeted his condolences to the victims.
Actor Will Wheaton, this is from Newsbusters, one of my favorite sites.
Will Wheaton of Star Trek The Next Generation tweeted at Paul Ryan, the murdered victims were in a church.
If prayers did anything, they'd still be alive, you worthless sack of bleep.
He had tweeted earlier, welcome to America.
It has been zero days since our last mass shooting, F the NRA.
By the way, there's never been a mass shooter who belonged to the NRA, so I don't know what the NRA has to do with this, they're defending the Second Amendment.
MSNBC's Joy Reid decided to mix in a theology lesson.
Enough with the thoughts and prayers already.
The Bible teaches us that faith without works is dead.
Do something or say nothing.
Atheist Ricky Gervais threw in his two cents.
My thoughts and prayers are that people wake the blank up.
Even pop star Katy Perry got involved saying prayer without action is powerless.
Chelsea Handler decided to blame.
This is her tweet.
This is amazing.
Innocent people go to church on Sunday to honor their God and while doing so get shot and killed.
What country?
America.
Why?
Republicans.
Yeah, I don't even know where that.
Singer Josh Groban, prayers are what the victims were doing.
If you respond to these attacks with prayers but no action, you are protecting the next murderer.
Moby just went straight to the favorite scapegoat.
Did you hear me?
Trump, Republicans, NRA, every single gun death is preventable and every single gun death is the result of real Donald Trump.
Actress Amy Brennan tweeted, vote these NRA lovers out.
Director Adam McKay went a bit further claiming that the shooter must have been a member of the Republican Party.
We don't know anything about that.
Clearly a loon.
Another part of the problem is the Republican Party doesn't view mentally ill, heavily armed white guys as dangerous.
They view them as voters.
Rosie O'Donnell attacked the NRA saying, when will we end the NRA stranglehold on Congress?
Robert, I don't know how to pronounce his name, Cross, K-R-O-E-S-E, who is my colleague, a fellow novelist, he tweeted, nice to see celebrities taking time off from raping each other to condemn prayer.
That's exactly the way I thought about it.
I was thinking, you know, these guys, like every one of these people is implicated in this Hollywood mess where every single guy is chasing these women around, doing disgusting things.
And not, you know, it's not like, oh, I got drunk one day and I did this stupid thing.
I'm ashamed.
It's not like that.
This is what they do.
This is how they behave.
And they're going to preach to us about, you know, and this has been going on.
You know, there was a piece, I think it was in the Daily Mail.
They ran a piece from the 1940s about Maureen O'Hara.
She was one of the most beautiful and best actresses.
She was a co-star of John Wayne and The Quiet Man.
And this is an article from the 1940s.
Irish film star Maureen O'Hara today charged Hollywood producers and directors with calling her a cold potato without sex appeal because she refuses to let them make love to her.
I am so upset with it that I'm ready to quit Hollywood, Maureen says.
It's got so bad I hate to come to work in the morning.
I'm a helpless victim of a Hollywood whispering campaign because I don't let the producer and director kiss me every morning or let them paw me.
They have spread word around town that I am not a woman, that I am a cold piece of marble statuary.
I guess Hollywood won't consider me as anything except a cold hunk of marble until I divorce my husband, give my baby away, and get my name and photograph in all the newspapers.
If that's Hollywood's idea of being a woman, I'm ready to quit now.
So these people who are coming on, our moral bettors who are coming on, have been this way forever.
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This is not a new thing.
And these are the guys who are going to talk to us about church and what we should believe in God and how we should react to tragedy.
You know, I admit, I admit that there is a certain amount of helplessness in the face of evil and it's hard to bear, but that is why we pray.
That is why we send our prayers to people, because we understand that we are helpless, but God is not.
You know, that's the whole point.
You know, it's just watching this.
But it's only part of this larger corruption, which I'll talk about in a minute.
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Who?
Oh, yeah, Michael.
I remember Michael Knowles.
Yeah.
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So all of this, you know, this madness, the left is bankrupt.
They are morally bankrupt.
And it turns out, and when we're talking about the Democratic Party, they were also actually bankrupt.
This weekend on NBC, NBC released a story that the Mueller investigation now has enough information to indict Michael Flynn.
You remember Michael Flynn for 24 days was in the Trump cabinet, and then he lied to Mike Pence about a conversation he had with the Russian ambassador or something like that, so he had to quit.
Okay, so now, first of all, this is an investigation.
There's not supposed to be any leaks, right?
NBC is basically an arm of the Democrat Party, right?
It's MSNBC, it's NBC.
It's run by everybody who runs it, everybody who owns it, all Democrats all the time.
These are the guys who covered up basically for Harvey Weinstein when the sexual scandal hit.
They're all part of this whole thing, and they cover this up, and now they leak this weird little story because it's not that Flynn is going to be indicted, it's that they have enough information to indict him, which is essentially a non-story, right?
A source comes to you and says we have enough information to indict.
That's a non-story because you don't know what it means.
We don't know who this guy is, who their source is.
Why is it there?
It is there to take attention away, to distract your attention from the deep dye corruption that we now know exists in the Democrat Party.
Not only do we know that Hillary Clinton paid for the steel dossier filled with Russian, you know, Russian, how can I put it?
Misinformation about Donald Trump.
We don't know how much of it was misinformation, but it came directly from the Kremlin through the steel dossier.
Hillary Clinton paid for it.
But now, Donna Brazil, right?
Is that how we pronounce it?
Brazil?
Brazil?
Yeah.
The former head of the DNC says she came into the DNC and she promised that she would let Bernie Sanders know if they were working against him.
And what she found was that Barack Obama had bankrupted, had left the Democrat Party bankrupt.
And so the Clinton people had come in and said, we'll bankroll the Democrat Party, basically.
But essentially, the Democrat Party becomes us.
It becomes the Clinton campaign, and we will be in control of all the money.
This is her story, Donna Brazil.
So that means that essentially they were controlling all the money, and Bernie was screwed.
I mean, everything he said was true, turns out to be true.
So how does the media respond to this?
Well, first, let's let Donna.
Now, you remember, Donna Brazil is the woman who was at CNN.
She was a CNN commentator, and she was passing questions to the Clinton campaign.
So she's a Clinton fan.
You know, she's a Clinton fan.
But she goes on, George Stephanopoulos.
Listen to Stephanopoulos' question.
Former, former, I should say, current Democrat hack, Stephanopoulos, on ABC, and also ABC Newsman.
Listen to the question he asked.
Do you think this helps for the book to come out?
Well, George, I mean, this is a lesson of 2016.
If I released it next year, they would say, Donna, you're impacting on 2018.
If I release it, Donna, you're impacting.
George, for those who are telling me to shut up, they told Hillary that a couple of months ago, you know what I tell them?
Go to hell.
I'm going to tell my story.
I'm going to tell my story, George, because this is a story of a young girl who started in American politics at the age of nine, who continues to fight each and every week of her life.
I went down to Virginia last week to kick off the canvassing campaign.
Nobody paid me to do that.
Nobody, I'm not on a payroll, George.
I care about my country.
I care about our democracy.
And I say go to hell because why am I supposed to be the only person that is unable to tell my story?
Suddenly, suddenly, Donna Brazil is bad news.
So Brian Stelter is on with Kellyanne Conway, and they're going back and forth.
It was always entertaining.
They're punching.
It's like watching rock'em sock and robots.
They just punch each other in the face.
But Stelter is such a hack.
And Kellyanne Conway has now got his number so that everything he says, she just lights him up.
But listen to Stelter now.
He's going after his former colleague.
Yeah, here's the deal.
The credibility crisis exists in the other party now.
I just cannot believe the bombshell that Donna Brazil has launched, where she says that she was dealing with three, quote, titanic egos.
President Obama.
You know, I stopped taking Donna Brazil seriously when she lied and when it was revealed that CNN fired her for giving debate questions to Hillary Clinton.
Wow.
I'm not here to ask you about Donna Brazil.
Excuse me, I think that's very unkind to Donna Brazile.
Defending Donna Brazile.
But I just, I mean, they all did this.
I mean, Anderson Cooper did the same thing.
You know, it's just like they're just throwing this woman under the bus because suddenly she's talking about the Democrat Party and telling it's obviously true that this was happening, you know, but it's just how it is also, it also reflects on Obama that he left this party bankrupt.
So I just want to play, before we get to Michael Knowles, I just want to play this David Brooks clip, right?
He is from Knucklehead Row at the New York Times, but he goes on this thing where he, as a fake conservative, argues with a liberal.
So a fake conservative argues with a liberal that for NPR.
That PBS is what they call a debate between the two sides.
But Brooks, David Brooks has this to say about talking, they're talking about the Virginia race.
There's a Republican, a kind of semi-Trumpian Ed Gillespie, doesn't like Trump, but he kind of agrees with some of Trump, running in Virginia, a state that hates Donald Trump.
I think Hillary won it by 5%, right?
And it's been a blue state for lots of elections.
They have a blue popular Democrat governor.
They should just take this state, but now they seem to be running neck and neck.
The Democrat has a slight lead in the polls, but not that much.
And so the Democrat, Ed Gillespie, looks like he has a chance.
And they're talking about the fact that this is just the Democrat Party coming apart at the seams.
And here is what David Brooks has to say.
It's cut five.
President Trump now, David, is saying the Democratic Party should be investigated.
The Clinton campaign should be investigated by the Justice Department, the FBI.
Yeah, I don't know about that, but those of us who are trying to rebut populists like Trump have the disadvantage that our elites really do stink.
And this is an advantage example of that.
It was sort of an open secret that the DNC was on Hillary Clinton side.
We saw it from the schedule of the debates all through the year.
They didn't want to have him because they didn't want to give Sanders the platform.
But this goes beyond what even I imagined was the level of collusion.
I mean, it's a pretty sleazy economic takeover of a party apparatus against the bylaws of that apparatus.
It's just not something a normal campaign that respects institutions and how things should work should do.
He wants to defend the elites, but they stink.
And when he says elites, when he says elites, let us be clear that he means Democrat elites.
That is why Brooks has been swept away.
Brooks, who had a kind of a, what would I call it, a visceral conservatism?
He believed in sort of, you know, being elegant and having class and kind of old conservative values.
But he's been swept away by the elitism, which is all leftism and is all empty and corrupt.
And speaking of empty and corrupt, we have Michael Knowles here.
And elitist.
Thank you very much.
Yale graduate Michael Knowles, the host of the Michael Knowles Show, which is absolutely excellent.
You actually, I hate to say it, but you actually do an excellent job on your show.
You know, if I weren't so extremely tired and hungover from this delayed flight last night, I would blush.
Almost.
But I have to just tell this one thing, because I saw your fiancé, Alyssa, over the weekend.
She was at a party that I was at.
And now, I have to explain this to the audience.
Michael is the star, the performer of Another Kingdom, which is our, and we hope you will go on iTunes and subscribe and rate it and pump it up because it really is, it's doing really well.
It's got over like 500 five-star reviews now, and it's really, you're becoming a star.
Pretty soon you'll be able to abuse women.
You know, I actually did purchase in New York this weekend the bathrobe, the bath hope I can go into.
Just a few more, a few more five-star reviews, and you should be ready to bring women to your hotel.
So one of the great mysteries of life is that Knowles is engaged to one of the nicest women I have ever met, one of the sweetest human beings.
I mean, in some places, they walk around asking why we're here, who is God.
The Daily Wire, we walk around saying, How did Knowles score Alyssa?
It's unbelievable.
It's evidence against divine justice.
It is evidence against divine justice.
There's no question about it.
But she is the sweetest, and she has this sweet little voice.
You know, she says, Hello, how are you?
That kind of thing.
But every time you do her voice.
Yeah, I don't think you did it right, Drew.
It's usually something to the effect.
Like, I got in late last night, you know, and Alyssa was there.
She stayed up late because she was nervous about my flight.
So I walk in the door and she goes, Oh, my goodness gracious, where have you been?
Oh, no.
Right?
Listen, I'm a trained actor, but I'm pretty sure that's an accurate representation.
Every time Knowles does this voice, every single time I turn to him and say, How did sweet little Elisa, how did she get that voice?
That's not the way she talks.
So Knowles is doing all the voices on Another Kingdom, and there is a character, because it takes place in this kind of bizarre world, there's a character who is a rat, but she is a mutant rat with a woman's face.
So I said, Well, you know, give her like this mutant rat voice, you know.
So he does that voice for the mutant rat, and Alyssa says to him, You're using my voice for the mutant rat.
Mike, I cannot believe that you would use my voice for that rat.
So I did send that over to Drew.
So I walked over to the party and said, It's not your voice.
You don't sound anything like that.
Anyway, it's all, you guys are weird, too weird for me.
I can't even understand how this happened in a moral life.
Yeah, it certainly isn't logical in any way.
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But yeah, very lucky.
I guess it's evidence against divine justice, but for divine mercy.
That must be it.
So you were at your alma mater, dear old Yale.
I was.
I was at dear old Yale.
I was at the institution formerly known as Yale.
Yeah, yeah, right, exactly.
Yale, a former university.
And I was there for the Buckley program because my senior year, junior, senior year, they founded at Yale the William F. Buckley Jr. program for intellectual diversity on campus.
And I was one of the inaugural fellows of it.
And at the time, they thought, you know, we're noticing at Yale there's a slight anti-conservative bias here.
And they had no idea what would happen within the next five or six years as professors started getting fired for suggesting that 18-year-old students can choose their own Halloween costumes.
Yes, that really happened.
This all really started to happen.
So I've missed the dinner a few years in a row now, but I was able to make it back this time.
And I'm glad I did because my year, they only had a handful of student fellows.
I represented about 40% of Republicans on campus.
We're not a lot of us.
And now they have, I think, 54 student fellows there.
And so I was able to speak to some of them, freshmen all the way up to seniors.
And I said, wow, I had no idea that there were 54 conservatives or Republicans on campus.
And a lot of them said to me, we're not Republicans.
At least we didn't think we were Republicans.
We came here thinking we were Democrats and liberals.
But Yale has apparently so radicalized these students because of how absurd their leftism has become that they are now only finding intellectual solace at the conservative right-wing Bill Buckley program.
That's really, I mean, that's kind of what I've been talking about all day.
You know, Ronald Reagan said this.
He said they can't help themselves, so don't worry when they take power because they will become leftists and alienate everybody.
And I think that's what they're doing.
I mean, we see it.
There was, I think, two weeks ago, last week or two weeks ago, there was a group of student protesters who demanded that the Yale Investment Office divest from a construction investment which would have allowed a transmission pipeline to be built to transport hydropower energy from Canada to the United States.
Not oil, not natural gas, we're talking about hydropower, because some forests might have had to be cleared somewhere.
Wow.
I think a week before that, Yale students decolonized the English department.
I don't mean just some protest.
They got the English department to, quote, decolonize, not just diversify.
If they were to diversify, they'd offer some poets that are probably not very good, but they're obscure, and, you know, it's like a Sicilian, Uzbeki woman or whatever.
But this wasn't that.
You can now graduate from Yale with a degree in English and not read Shakespeare.
Is that true?
That is true.
See, that is a genuine failure.
That is genuinely failing, letting down the people who are paying you to educate them.
You have not studied English if you don't read Shakespeare.
And if you don't read Shakespeare a lot, I mean, you should really read the complete, if you're an English major, you should read the complete works of Shakespeare because everything you think comes from Shakespeare, whether you like it or not.
Even if you disagree with what you think, it comes from Shakespeare.
And I think that that is a genuine failure of Yale, and shame on them.
And that requirement, it was because previously, if you wanted to get a degree in English at Yale, you would have to take a course called Major English Poets.
But they were very upset because it turns out that many major English poets are English.
And major, yeah.
And major.
Yeah, so that was, and you bring up that they're really getting ripped off because they're paying $60,000, $70,000 a year and they're not learning anything.
But what's amazing, especially about the protests over investments, is that as of 2012, and it's increased since then, 57% of Yale students received financial aid.
I paid very little to go to Yale.
Back when I went, it was even up to 50% then, I think, or a little under.
So all of these curricula are being subsidized by the people that the students are then vilifying, the ones who are paying for their education.
Of course.
And there was even, we saw this in May, there was a hunger strike.
I'm sorry, a symbolic hunger strike.
Because Yale graduate students are allowed to unionize for some reason.
I have no idea why, but they're allowed to unionize.
But that wasn't enough.
They're not allowed to unionize by department.
So they're not allowed to have these like six member unions.
As a result, they went on a hunger strike where whenever you get hungry, you can eat, but otherwise it's a hunger strike.
That's hilarious.
If you're a student at Yale and you're seeing that, you know, you come, you think you're a liberal from Connecticut or something.
You show up, you say, oh yeah, I'm a Democrat.
And you look at this chaos around you.
You look at a university in flames, basically.
There is no way that you could help but seek out some academic seriousness.
So what did they talk about at the dinner?
So the dinner was on the Constitution and the courts.
It was on, actually Kelly Ayot, the former senator, was there, and she basically talked about being the Sherpa for Judge Gorsuch, for Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch.
And it was a very, you know, I think many people would go there and say, this is so boring.
We're talking about the Constitution.
This is so boring.
We're talking about constitutional law and history and how our government works.
And it's not nearly as exciting as burning down buildings.
It's not nearly as exciting as marching and screaming.
I've missed it.
I know, that's right.
But it was, you know, there's always a theme every year.
And this year the theme was the Constitution and the courts.
And it was probably one of the few serious looks that Yale will offer on that throughout the year.
And I think it was no coincidence that the conference was forced to move off campus to a hotel right nearby because it was just too radical to have a former U.S. Senator talk about the courts.
What is your show about today?
So the show today is about our great Mikado virtuous man, President Donald Trump overseas with Shinzo Abe.
And the wonderful confluence.
The fake news was turned up to 11.
I saw that.
I saw that.
That was a real joy.
I had a lot of time to read the news as I was trying not to sleep at the airport yesterday.
And also, I'm sure you might have caught this.
Donna Brazile seems to be validating right-wing conspiracy theories about Seth Rich.
Hilarious.
So we'll explain what that means.
We're going to find out at the end of this whole thing that Donald Trump is the great virtuous man.
We're going to be in the upside down.
And that Hillary Clinton literally shot Seth Rich.
Yeah, that's great.
Hillary Clinton.
With her hands while she was on the phone with Vladimir Putin.
That's right.
All right, the Michael Knowles show coming up.
It's good to see you, Knowles.
I'll talk to you later.
Good to see you.
All right.
I have to just take a brief break before we get to our crappy culture and talk about the fact that Vin Scully, the greatest sports announcer who ever lived in all eternity in every universe, no doubt about it, right?
He says he's never watching an NFL game ever again.
He's had it.
He says, Papa John, the pizza guy who's on with Peyton Manning all the time, he says the NFL has hurt us by not resolving the current debacle.
Look at these, if you're still watching, you've got to look at these stadiums.
They are empty.
The NFL used to be.
And, you know, this is about race in a way, which I'm sure the left will be the quickest to say because these guys started protesting by dissing the flag.
They were protesting what they felt was police brutality toward black people.
But here's the question, see.
Are they Americans who happen to be black or are they blacks who happen to be Americans?
Because if they're Americans who happen to be black, then I care about them very much because they're my countrymen.
They're my fellow citizens.
I may not agree with them, but that's part of being an American.
We sit down, we talk about it.
But then if you're an American who happens to be black, salute the flag.
If you're a black person who happens to be American, don't salute the flag.
I don't care about you.
I got other things to worry about.
I got to worry about my fellow countrymen.
So that is the problem.
That is the buying that they're in.
And of course, the white players just want to support their pals on the team, as they should.
But the NFL has put them in a terrible position by not just saying, no, make your protest somewhere else.
Make your protest when you want, but not while the flag is being saluted.
All right, our crappy culture.
So I'm looking through the magazines and some of this just comes into my ken, but like the women's magazines, other people have made this point, but the women's magazines have been essentially colonized by the left and feminism.
There are no women's magazines, no major women's magazines that are run by right-wingers or by people who are not feminists.
And, you know, one of the things that I'm really interested in that I want to start talking about more is the way that by owning our culture, we don't even realize, we on the right don't even realize that we are being made to apologize for the simple truth.
I was talking about it a little earlier today about how the transgender hoopla, the fufra, nobody cares about transgender people.
Nobody cares that there are some people who have problems with their gender.
They have to work it out as best they can.
God bless them.
Let them go in peace.
Nobody cares about that.
Nobody wants to hurt them.
But the idea that we must be forced to recognize their illusion as the truth is a ploy to put us in a mental mindset where we think the party is, you know, the government has the say over what is true instead of us.
Let's say, yeah, two plus two.
It doesn't even equal five.
It equals what the party says it will.
That was 1984.
It's not that it equals five.
It equals what the party says it equals.
And that's the whole thing.
And when I think, I think a lot about this, about feminism is that they have made it, so we apologize for thinking that men should be men and women should be women.
I hear this all the time.
And I really believe, I know I'm always picking on superhero movies.
I like some superhero movies.
I think there are too many of them.
I really believe that superhero movies have become a thing because they let men be men, basically.
Nobody can attack or criticize Superman for being super, right?
But if a man is super, then everybody says, well, why does the man get to do it?
Why shouldn't we put a strong woman in there?
Because there are no strong women.
That's why.
Because in reality, the strongest man is always stronger than the strongest woman, right on down the bell curve.
So that's the way that's going to work.
And that creates certain responsibilities and certain notions between us, like the way we treat each other.
And the fact that women have babies changes the way we treat each other.
And the fact that women are women changes the way that they have a different attitude, changes the way we treat each other.
Right this minute, everything seems like the left seems like it is trying to dismantle everything.
I think it was in Cosmopolitan recently that they had a piece basically trying to normalize incest.
This is what it's like to fall in love with your brother.
That was one.
And there's a new website called Open Minded, with their hashtag Accept Love campaign, where they're trying to sell us polygamy, okay?
And the Huffington Post loves this.
They just love this.
They're pushing this thing, and they say this moment will be remembered in history if not for the complete distigmatization than for making great strides and acceptance for LGBT relationships and individuals.
This is from Open Minded, talking to the Huffington Post.
We are finally allowing people to rightfully so to find themselves.
If we can accept that a man can love a man and vice versa for women, why then is it so difficult to wrap our minds around the concept of loving more than one person?
And here is a tape Open Minded put out in which this guy with four, I think he's got four wives in there, talks about how great it is to be polygamous.
It's hard to get everything you need from one person.
I've been in polyamorous relationships before, and it's just never worked as well as it has with this one.
They just all have their qualities.
You can find time to just enjoy each other's qualities at different times.
You know, when we want to talk fashion, hang with her, when we want to talk gardening and earthy stuff, Joshua, and we want to talk getting stuff done and motivating these two to do things when we're hurting the cat.
So it just really does take away from me.
Any boredness.
It makes life easier.
It's hard to expect so much from one person.
It's fair to expect to get everything you need from one person.
So, you know, you wonder why you look at societies like Islamic societies where they have more than one woman and women are treated like crap.
Of course, because the value of women goes down as you're allowed to marry more of them.
If you basically think it's right to have one woman, women become much more valuable.
They have much more control in relationships.
They have much more power.
But I talk a lot about the period of time between the French Revolution and the Victorian age.
And the reason I talk about it is because to me, it's an exact mirror of our time.
Not an exact mirror.
It is a useful mirror of our time.
And I always say that people know that there was a Hitler and they know that there was a fall of Rome.
So whenever something happens in history, in modern history, they say, oh, it's just like the fall of Rome.
Oh, it's just like Hitler.
But in fact, there were a lot of other things that happened in history too.
And one of them was the French Revolution, which did, in fact, revolutionize the minds of Europe.
And they thought it was the age of Aquarius.
And when I was a kid, there were the 60s, which revolutionized our culture, not always for the better.
And we thought that that was the age of Aquarius and everything was going to be great afterwards.
And free love was a big thing.
Well, back in this time, the turn of the 18th century, free love was also one of the cries of the poets and thinkers and radicals who were following the French Revolution and were not swayed by the fact that the French Revolution was an utter failure, that it led to a terror, and the terror then led to a world war led by Napoleon.
And only in Britain did they hold out because, first of all, their Navy was able to keep Napoleon at bay.
And secondly, they repressed a lot of the revolutionary sentiment.
They put people in jail for a lot of their revolutionary sentiment.
The poet Shelley left and went to Italy and railed against the marriage.
He wrote a poem called Epipsychidian in 1821.
Here is just a verse from it.
I never was attached to that great sect whose doctrine is that each one should select out of the crowd a mistress or a friend, and all the rest, though fair and wise, commend to cold oblivion.
Though it is in the code of modern morals and the beaten road which those poor slaves with weary footsteps tread.
He's talking about married people, those people who believe in marriage, that poor slaves with weary footsteps tread, who travel to their home among the dead by the broad highway of the world, and so with one chained friend, perhaps a jealous foe, the dreariest and the longest journey go.
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That was his description of marriage, the dreariest and the longest journey.
And the poet William Blake, who came before Shelley, was also the same, although Blake had one of the happiest marriages in all of literature.
He said, I cry, love, love, love, happy, happy love, free as the mountain wind.
Can that be love that drinks another as a sponge drinks water, that clouds with jealousy, his nights with weepings all the day?
This is Blake's description of marriage.
To spin a web of age around him, gray and hoary, dark, till his eyes sicken at the fruits that hang before his sight, such as self-love that invis all a creeping skeleton with lamplike eyes watching around the frozen marriage bed.
The fact is that right now, even the left is beginning to realize that marriage is the great equalizer of our time.
That the problem 70 years ago, social mobility and protection from poverty, I'm reading, this is an essay on this fact.
Charles Murray of the American Enterprise Institute wrote this book, Coming Apart, The State of White America, which I read, and he says in 1960, the poorly and moderately educated were only 10% less likely to be married than the college-educated, with both numbers quite high, 84%, 94%, respectively.
Today, these two groups, the poor and the rich, are separated by a 35% margin, and the gap continues to expand.
And even leftists, Jonathan Rauch, writing in the National Journal, notes that marriage is displacing both income and race as the great class divide of the new century.
Isabel Sawhill, a senior scholar at the center-left Brookings Institute, boldly and correctly proclaimed some years ago that the proliferation of single-parent households accounts for virtually all of the increase in child poverty since the early 1970s, all of the increase in child poverty.
Marriage is a foundational value of the country.
That was why people were fighting against gay marriage, not because they hated gays, but because they loved marriage.
And the only thing I want to say is: conservatives are naturally pessimistic.
That's why they're conservatives.
They think anything you change, they just follow that change into oblivion.
And so they think if all these people are coming out and touting incest and polygamy, that must be the way the country is going.
I just want to remind you that after those poems that I read you by Shelley and Blake, the Victorian era came, when sexuality was basically as wrapped around and tight as it could be, and marriage became almost deified.
I mean, the idea of the woman was then the angel in the house, they called her.
And so just because people are touting this stuff doesn't mean that it's not about to collapse.
And I look at the left right now, and I see a burning building falling into ashes in this way, in terms of sexuality, as well as in terms of their politics and in terms of the socialism that they're selling.
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I think that is actually good news, even among all the bad news that we have to suffer every day.
I'll talk to you again tomorrow.
We have a guest tomorrow, don't we?
It is, oh yeah, I think we have Christina Hofsum tomorrow, which is, she's the best.