Ep. 70 - Embassy In Jerusalem, Fire Destroying Hollywood: Are These The End Times?
With President Trump officially recognizing Jerusalem as the ancient capital of Israel and the Jewish people, and with my beloved city Hollywood literally burning to the ground, we must ask ourselves: are these the end times? We’ll analyze the apocalypse from the Christmas War Rooms. Then, Lauren Cooley of the Washington Examiner and the Daily Wire’s own Jacob Airey join the Panel of Deplorables to discuss President Trump’s once again coincidentally accurate prediction over Islamist threats to the UK, a woman marrying her chandelier, and human-mouse hybrids.
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With President Trump officially recognizing Jerusalem as the ancient capital of Israel and the Jewish people, and my beloved city Hollywood literally burning to the ground, we must ask ourselves, are these the end times?
We will analyze the apocalypse from the Christmas war rooms.
Then, Lauren Cooley of the Washington Examiner and Amanda Prestigiacomo of the Daily Wire will join the panel of deplorables to discuss President Trump's Once again, accidentally accurate prediction over Islamist threats to the UK, a woman marrying her chandelier, and human-mouse hybrids.
I'm Michael Knowles, and this is The Michael Knowles Show.
You know, so I have to correct myself.
Apparently that was wishful thinking.
I was really hoping it was Amanda on the show today.
It's not.
It's Jacob Airy.
That's fine.
We'll make do.
You'll notice I'm coming to you right now from the Christmas war rooms because I woke up this morning and my city is on fire.
And now while most of the people at The Daily Wire live on the other side of the hill or they live a little east or whatever, I am directly in line with where the fire is just raining down like Sodom and Gomorrah on Hollywood.
I sent out a couple tweets this morning.
Basically, I think the images of L.A. burning are what people think it's like to commute to the Daily Wire, just going down into the infernos and to hell, abandon all hope, ye who enter here.
I also pointed out that God does not paint with a terribly subtle brush.
People got very angry about this on Twitter.
They said that it was similar to when lefties claimed the hurricanes were divine vengeance for Trump.
But it actually is a completely different joke.
The point here is that Hollywood is figuratively burning itself to the ground.
You've seen Harvey Weinstein, you've seen all of these major actors, celebrities, Kevin Spacey, heads of studios, agents.
Everybody is being accused of sexual harassment.
Ben Affleck, although you don't hear about that anymore because he's too valuable to Hollywood.
And so it's all figuratively burning.
And then God, with that little, you know, little brush stroke, it makes it much more vivid because now it's literally burning to the ground.
Quite a relation between the symbol and the symbolized.
So we'll get into all of that.
And, you know, they say that politics is show business for ugly people, which is true, that D.C. is Hollywood for ugly people.
And if there's one ugly person who's succeeded in both, that would be Democratic Senator Al Franken of New Jersey.
You remember he was on Saturday Night Live, and now he is professionally groping women in our nation's capital in the swampland.
And so there have been these accusations bubbling for a few weeks now.
As people have been harping on Roy Moore in Alabama, they've said, what about Al Franken?
Al Franken posed for photos, groping women, groping troops, grabbing people's derriere at state fairs, that sort of thing.
And he's denied it.
He said he's reflecting over Thanksgiving, whatever, but they haven't gotten him yet.
Just today, that all changed.
There are now 28 Democratic senators, his colleagues, people from his caucus, who are calling on him to resign.
This is one day after John Conyers, who has been a United States representative since, I think, 1751.
He's been there since the Johnson administration.
15 men, 13 women, who are his colleagues in the Senate, are calling on him to resign.
And so here is a live feed from Senator Franken's office this morning.
I deserve good things.
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I refuse to beat myself up.
I am an attractive person.
I am fun to be with.
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Turns out that's fake news because people don't like Al Franken because he gropes women, I guess.
And it isn't just that.
Actually, I was showing this clip around today.
People forget that he was on Saturday Night Live.
They forget whenever I see Senator Franken trying to grill someone during Senate testimony or whatever, all I can see is Stuart Smalley.
I'm good enough.
I'm smart enough.
I grope enough.
And gosh darn it.
But anyway, he very likely will have to resign now.
And this is a trade.
Do not think for one second that the Democrats have woken up and they said, oh, you know, we were wrong about sexual assault for so long.
And coincidentally, we'll do it at exactly the moment when it isn't politically advantageous for us anymore to support sexual assailants.
So there's nothing organic about this.
This began because Bill Clinton is no longer useful.
because Hillary Clinton will never be president.
And there have been these allegations bubbling up, but they know they can only go after Roy Moore.
And Roy Moore, by the way, it's not about Roy Moore.
It's not about this Alabama Senate seat.
This is all a proxy for Donald Trump.
If we can get Roy Moore on these decades old allegations about bad things with women, then we can bring it all the way up to Donald Trump.
If we can get them to crack on Roy Moore, we can get them to crack on Donald Trump.
But oops, we can't have any credibility on those issues if we don't get rid of John Conyers, if we don't get rid of Bob Medendez, if we don't get rid of Al Franken, they've already had to deal with Anthony Weiner and the myriad other politicians who have been accused of improprieties with women.
Now, there is a trade that's going on.
So John Conyers, Nancy Pelosi initially stood up for the guy, said he shouldn't resign, and then eventually she caved and said, okay, get rid of him.
Why?
Because he's politically useless now.
He's about 150 years old.
He's in a totally safe Democrat seat.
He's endorsed his son to take over the seat.
His son, by the way, who we've just learned, has rapped about how his dad is a womanizer and he's a player and all this and that, and how his mother went to prison.
So they know it's a safe seat.
The kid might actually win it.
Who knows?
Al Franken is another one.
We have a governor of Minnesota who is a Democrat.
His name is Mark Dayton.
So if Franken resigns, they'll be able to appoint another Democrat senator.
Nothing ventured, nothing gained, right?
No harm, no foul.
It's okay.
Their Senate numbers are still doing just fine.
Bob Menendez is where the rubber meets the road, and it's how you know that these guys are totally full of it because they're willing to throw people who are useless to them under the bus.
It began with Donna Brazile, who threw Hillary Clinton, the House of Clinton, under the bus.
They threw out now Franken and before that John Conyers.
But Bob Menendez can't go.
Now, what is Bob Menendez accused of?
If you listen to the mainstream media tell it, he's accused of nothing.
There are these old discredited allegations that in the Dominican Republic he had a few dalliances with dances.
A few dalliances with underaged prostitutes, but that's totally discredited.
It was run on one of those fake news right-wing websites.
Not so.
Bob Menendez is on trial for corruption.
A lot of slick dealings from Bob Menendez in New Jersey, not terribly surprising.
But federal prosecutors made a point of saying on Monday that they are not convinced that the underage prostitute allegations are false.
They're not sure.
It's not saying he certainly did it, but it totally undercuts the mainstream media narrative that these are discredited, that it isn't true.
So we're seeing this all burning down, but until we get Bob Menendez, until they offer one of their own, one of the own Democrats who's accused of these things, where it actually has a political cost to them, I just don't believe it, and you shouldn't believe it either.
Before we move on, there is so much more apocalypse to talk about.
There is so many more signs of the end times and some of the best news of the day, by the way.
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Now, there was a lot of hand wringing, especially on the right, when we were going to hire a president in November of 2016.
And we were all very nervous that President Trump would not keep any of his promises.
He wasn't a real conservative.
We hadn't seen him exhibit conservatism or right-wing views in his life.
One of the promises that he made—he was very insistent on this—was to move the capital of Israel—or rather, to recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel— And to move the U.S. Embassy to Jerusalem.
Now, you know, with Gomorrah on the sea by fire, with Washington, D.C. and the swamp imploding, the most prophetic news of the day is that Donald Trump made good on that promise.
Here is President Trump on the campaign trail.
We will move the American embassy to the eternal capital of the Jewish people, Jerusalem.
When he said it, I didn't believe it either, by the way.
I didn't think it would happen because Republicans have campaigned on this for years.
Ever since, after the Gingrich Revolution, after the big Republican wins in the House in 1995, they passed the Jerusalem Embassy Act.
What does it mean?
It means what it says.
They decided that they would move the US Embassy from Tel Aviv, where all of the embassies practically are in Israel, to Jerusalem to recognize Jerusalem as the eternal city and capital of the Jewish people and of Israel.
Now, the problem with this is that Palestinian Arabs claim the city for themselves, and that's where we see the Palestinian-Israeli conflict.
What did President Clinton do when this law was passed?
He signed a waiver and said that they couldn't do it.
Same with President Bush, same with President Obama.
They all cited national security concerns.
We can't do it.
It'll basically piss off our neighbors too much and we don't want to have to deal with that.
So what does President Trump do?
Does he do what three of his predecessors did in violation of the law and contravention of the law?
Here is President Trump this morning.
Therefore, I have determined that it is time to officially recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel.
While previous presidents have made this a major campaign promise, they failed to deliver.
Today, I am delivering.
He's delivering.
That's what he does.
He's the deliverer.
And not just that, there were some reports before that Donald Trump would recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel, but not move the U.S. embassy.
So you kind of get all the nice press releases, but it doesn't have much of an effect.
Even that, by the way, would have been an act of moral courage.
But he didn't do that.
He followed through with the concrete action.
You would always hear on the campaign trail Donald Trump say, well, I build things.
I'll build a wall.
I'm very good at building things.
He would always use concrete examples.
Low energy Jeb, Lion Ted, Crooked Hillary, right?
These graphic, vivid examples.
And it's how he makes his rhetoric so effective, even make America great again.
It's very concrete.
It creates an image in your mind.
And that's what he's doing here.
It would be very un-Trumpy.
It would be anti-Trumpian to say Jerusalem is the capital of Israel, but we're not going to move the embassy.
He has to follow through with that concrete action.
And that's what he did.
More than I expected, more than a lot of commentators expected.
This is an act of real political courage and moral clarity.
For people say that Donald Trump has no moral vision or no ideological vision of the world.
It's hard to say that now.
This was a difficult act.
There was no reason he had to do it.
He easily could have gotten away without doing it.
It runs a lot of risks by moving the embassy to Jerusalem, but he understood that it's the right thing to do and it sends a clear moral message to the world and it's a reassumption for the world of American moral leadership.
So much of what you heard during Barack Obama's era was the United States apologizing for crimes that it didn't commit and that the West, by the way, didn't even commit.
As he's talking about Islamic terrorism, he starts talking about the Crusades.
One, as if the first crusade were some bad war that the West should apologize for, which it wasn't.
And two, as though a war that happened 1,000 years ago or 800 years ago is morally equivalent to what's happening today, that it's as politically relevant as it is today and And Donald Trump isn't doing that.
So I guess the real sign of the apocalypse, we have Hollywood burning.
That might be it.
We have the American embassy being reconstructed in Jerusalem.
Maybe that's it.
But Donald Trump being the voice of moral clarity in the world is probably the primest example that we're in the end times.
And bring it on.
That's not so bad.
With that, I think we should bring on our panel.
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Okay, let's bring on our panel.
Lauren Cooley from the Washington Examiner, thank you for being here.
And Jacob, are you sitting in my office?
Are you sitting in my studio?
I escaped from the sane asylum and ended up in the basement of the Daily Wire.
I don't know how that happened.
It's very fitting.
There's something very fitting about that.
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I would be upset that you're sitting in my studio, but I am coming from War on Christmas Central right now with a hot cup of Coco Fefe, so that's okay.
I can get over it.
There is insane news.
This is why we couldn't just cancel the show today.
This is unbelievable.
I was watching this morning, as I should have been commuting to The Daily Wire, watching that incredible press conference from President Trump.
Lauren, let's begin with you.
This has been promised for a long time.
There have been a lot of national security risks.
Was this the right thing to do for President Trump with regard to all of the national security risks it entails?
LISA DESJARDINS: Yes, absolutely.
So, like you said, this is something that not everyone expected, but I'm starting to believe that if we can expect one thing from Donald Trump, it's that he's going to do what he says he's going to do.
There's been many different campaign promises that he's followed through on, and that's not your typical politician by any means.
Obviously, President Trump is not our typical politician.
But the interesting thing here is, like you said, He didn't have to follow through on this in the sense that other presidents haven't followed through on this.
And there's a lot of risk involved.
But I think sometimes doing the right thing is risky.
Otherwise everyone would be doing the right thing.
So when it comes to moral clarity It's exciting to see that we have a president that isn't just going to do what's politically expedient, isn't going to do necessarily the easiest thing, the path of least resistance, but he's actually doing something that takes a lot of guts and we may have some pushback for, but it's the right thing to do and we've got a guy in office that's willing to do the right thing.
Jacob, why did he do this?
Is this, by the way, going to be the beginning of the much promised Trump World War III? He causes World War III by making our friends over in the Middle East very angry at us?
Or is there some political motive that's going on here?
Why this move?
Why now?
Why is he the president to do it after 20 years?
Yeah.
I think he wants to make history.
That's why I think he's doing it.
I'm not saying that his motivations are bad.
I think they're very well-intentioned.
But I honestly do think that he's doing this because, hey, I'm going to be that president, that Republican president who actually kept that promise.
And now he's in the history books.
He's the first US president to recognize Jerusalem as the true capital of Israel.
Now, as far as the starting World War III, I think we're going to see a lot of virtue signaling from the left, and we might get some blowback from radical Islamists, but I honestly think that...
As far as World War III is concerned, I don't think that's going to happen.
I think we're going to see a lot of pushback, but outside of that, no real international damage outside of some UN delegates just grandstanding on it.
That's the only reason the UN exists anyway, is just for bad people to grandstand.
But I do think also these stories are related.
Maybe not the fire.
the fire might just be unrelated, but all of the sexual assault reckoning happening on the left and President Trump doing very well in office, I think there's no coincidence that the reason they're ramping this up, the reason they're willing to claim Al Franken's scalp and John Conyers' scalp the reason they're willing to claim Al Franken's scalp and John Conyers' scalp and really reckon with these issues is that they have to run on this in Donald Trump is doing too well.
I think they were banking on running on Trump doing a terrible job, crashing the economy, starting trade wars, starting World War III, but it just isn't happening.
The economy is growing very strongly.
He was able to get this major legislative win with tax reform.
He's ably handled foreign policy.
Had political courage, even as a Republican.
Yeah, obviously we see this with the Jerusalem embassy move, but he's done a decent job of wrangling, massive deregulation, kept his promise on originalist judges, is packing the courts with his judges.
So they're not going to be able to run on that.
They just have to hit him on sexual assault claims or whatever.
Lauren, is that going to work?
Are they going to be able to drag these girls from 30 years ago back up?
Is it Are these allegations, if they fire Franken and they fire Conyers and reclaim the moral high ground, are these allegations enough to win in 2018 and 2020?
I don't think they are, and here's why.
I'm going to tie the Israel embassy move into this sexual assault conversation.
So the left has done a great job trying to say that Republicans and conservatives have lost the moral high ground, and they keep hammering an issue long enough.
Some of the religious conservative base may start to believe it, may start to lose faith in the president.
But by actually doing something so bold with Israel, With our foreign policy when it comes to, you know, our greatest ally, which has a lot of historical and biblical context and means a lot to social conservatives.
I think this foreign policy move and win actually helps him regain moral high ground despite all the claims with sexual assault, having to deal with President Trump and his past.
Because there is also a world in which I can totally believe voters saying you're throwing out These allegations from 40 years ago, and they might be true, they may not be true.
If they're true, I feel bad for the victims.
But my political priorities are bigger than unsubstantiated allegations.
I could see that happening.
It might be their best shot, though.
Jacob, where does this end?
Does it end?
Are they going to end right before they get Bob Menendez?
Is it going to topple over into Bob Menendez?
Is it going to bring down the entire United States Senate?
Sexual impropriety is a job requirement of politics, basically.
What is the endgame here?
Are we all going to be sitting around looking like the disgusting fallen sinners that we are?
Well, I think so.
And quite frankly, here's what's happening.
All this finger-pointing, like, oh, this Republican did this, but this Democrat did this.
Just wait.
They're going to go into Christmas recess, and all of a sudden the finger-pointing stops if Al Franken and John Connors resigns.
Now, if they don't, that might be a different story.
But I think that, or if Moore gets elected and he doesn't get censured, then the finger pointing will continue.
Those three.
But if those three things become unraveled, then I think all of a sudden it'll just die down and all the sexual harassment finger pointing that's done by these politicians, we won't hear about it anymore.
Because like you said, it's almost a job requirement for a senator to have some weird fetish that we have to hear about.
That is true.
And I don't want to hear about them.
No, let's hope it dies out after Christmas and the bad guys just resign or go away.
I do not want to hear about it.
Okay, we have much more to talk about.
Speaking of President Trump being right and surprising all of us, turns out he was coincidentally right about terror threats in the United Kingdom against the government of Theresa May.
We also need to talk about a woman marrying her chandelier and the future super race of human mice.
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More great news.
There is more great news coming out of this news cycle somehow.
So you might have remembered a week or two ago, Donald Trump retweeted Britain First, this very far right group, tweet Muslim videos, videos of Muslims doing bad sorts of things.
And he got in a lot of trouble for this, and actually the Tory Prime Minister of the UK, Theresa May, criticized Donald Trump for doing it, said he shouldn't have done it, and it was bad and unhelpful.
So Donald Trump responded to her and said, Theresa May, don't focus on me.
Focus on the destructive, radical Islamic terrorism that is taking place within the United Kingdom.
We are doing just fine.
Now, at the time, he's, why are you antagonizing an ally?
There's no reason for this.
We've just learned that Theresa May was almost assassinated by Islamic terrorists recently.
An Islamist man was planning to blow up 10 Downing Street, the center of the UK government, before his plot was foiled by British intelligence.
Lauren, does Donald Trump just keep accidentally being right about these things?
What can you tell me about this plot?
So, I think Donald Trump, in a sense, is accidentally right in the sense that he knows there's a threat in the UK, specifically when it comes to Islamic terrorists.
So, is the video accurate of what was reported was depicted?
A lot of people said no.
President Trump watched it.
He thought that it depicted a broader issue going on in Europe.
Obviously, he has his finger on the pulse.
He understands that there is an issue going on there.
So I actually equate this kind of to liberal journalists.
Their worldview is that President Trump is absolutely terrible.
And so they'll jump to conclusions and report fake news because They hear a rumor and they're like, that makes sense to my worldview.
That makes sense.
I'm going to publish it.
It has to be true.
And it's not.
So in the same way, these videos, not necessarily accurate, not necessarily factual, but it meets Donald Trump's worldview.
And that's that Islamic terrorism is...
Becoming more and more rampant in the UK. And so when he retweeted those videos and that information, it may not have specifically been accurate, but it fits the worldview of Donald Trump.
And I think his worldview is very accurate in the broad scheme of things.
This does happen on both sides.
Both sides, the left and the right, I'm perfectly willing to admit, when we hear some information that confirms our suspicions about the world, we're more likely to run with it.
Even if the evidence isn't there, we're more likely to say, well, this isn't true, but it confirms the greater truth.
I see that happening on the left all the time.
It does happen on the right as well.
Jacob, what is the threat here?
How does Europe deal with this?
Obviously, Europe is going to deal with Islamic terrorism and has Islamic threats that are different than the United States does.
How do they mitigate the risk and what does this have to do with all of the other European politics we've seen this year, the Brexit, the pushing back against diversity throughout the United Kingdom?
Well, first of all, I think they need to get a handle on their immigration crisis because right now, especially you see in Germany and France, they're trying to censure places like Austria, the Czech Republic, Poland that are putting in place stricter migration policies.
And so they need to deal with that first because that is where the right is coming from.
They're just – We're good to go.
Willing to do it?
Well, Angela Merkel seemed to hint that she might be realizing, oh, maybe this was a bad idea.
So I think that's where they want to start.
And I think as far as Brexit was concerned, I think that was more of a reaction to the British wanted to stay British.
The British don't want to be French.
Those terrible racists.
I can't believe the English want to stay English.
Outrageous.
Exactly.
They're like, we don't want to be French.
We don't want to be Germans.
We want to be English.
So I think that was more of a reaction to...
We want to keep our culture as opposed to reaction with how the EU is handling Islamic immigration into the continent.
Absolutely.
And I actually want to talk about this a little more, but we might have to do a separate show on it because there's much more important news and another sign of the apocalypse.
A woman is marrying her chandelier.
A woman named Amanda Liberty...
Well-named, 33 years old, says she will soon marry a chandelier that she bought online.
She described how she kisses and cuddles the antique, which is 57 years older than she is.
She says that she is emotionally and, get ready to cringe, sexually gratified by the chandelier.
Lauren, isn't this illegal?
Isn't this an example of prostitution?
Isn't this trafficking?
She purchased her soon-to-be spouse.
Yeah, well...
I don't know how that works with an inanimate object, but what I will say is this.
The fact that we validate this and say congratulations on your upcoming nuptials to a chandelier just shows that we're starting to really accept mental health issues as not only the norm, but as something to celebrate and encourage.
This is not the only example that I've seen in the news recently about women or men becoming attracted to random objects.
There's a woman who wants to marry a Ferris wheel and another one, I think, who married a bridge.
This is just bizarre.
With the lady in the chandelier, I read that she actually has multiple other chandeliers that she also loves, but she's only going to marry the one.
I just feel bad for the chandelier she's marrying.
Yeah, what a cat.
I mean, if I was a chandelier, I would want, you know, a monogamous relationship.
I guess she's polyamorous.
I guess she has a whole harem of lamps and, like, flashbulbs and things like that.
We actually do have a clip of the woman with her beloved.
Oh, no.
Oh, yes.
Oh, no.
I've been burnt by you before.
Oh, no.
That looks like sexual assault to me.
She was clearly saying, oh no.
And he said, oh yes.
Oh no.
Oh yeah.
That is no good.
That's going to be the next Hollywood story to follow is Lumiere from Beauty and the Beast.
Really awful.
Now, Lauren pointed out, we are indulging these delusions and these mental illnesses.
But Jacob, how far back does this go?
It seems to me that the purpose of indulging a woman who has a sexual fetish to be sexual with inanimate objects, which I believe qualifies her to be a U.S. senator, if we indulge that, that only mainstreams the problem.
It only enhances the problem.
There was a woman earlier this year who married herself.
She had a ceremony with a mirror, and she married herself in front of friends and family.
How far does this go?
If we're going to say no, clearly it is not marriage if you are hugging your light bulb.
That is clearly not marriage.
Then aren't we just hateful bigots?
Doesn't that undo so much of the argumentation and so much of the logic behind redefining marriage, not just to include same-sex monogamous couples, but to include polygamous couples, polyamorous couples, incestual relationships?
If we yell at the lady and we tell the lady who's marrying her Lumiere that it isn't marriage, doesn't that undo all of the logic of our progressive period?
Yes, and I think that's why you see some of these far-left hacks going for it.
I want to know who these ministers are that are marrying these people.
I mean, they should be defrocked immediately.
They're just as crazy as this woman marrying her lantern or her chandelier or whatever this is.
I'm sure they're Unitarians or Jesuits or something.
Could be.
To your broader point, yes, I think that this thread, because they've realized, the left has realized, they've opened this Pandora's box and they don't know where it's going to end.
Because right after the Supreme Court declared that homosexual marriage was legal, the first thing was the radical Mormon said, hey, we're next.
We want to have our marriages to our four wives.
So I do think that that's why we're not seeing as much of a pushback.
There used to be when people would do this crazy stuff, it would be all over the news.
Now you barely hear about it.
You might hear it on some oddball news outlet, but now it's been kind of quiet because they know once they pull that string, they have to close the Pandora's box.
Plus, the left has made all of these things so unfunny.
This is obviously hilarious.
A woman is marrying her chandelier.
I feel bad for her.
She clearly has some mental illness, but the act itself is very funny.
Drag queens are funny, but the left makes them so solemn and so unfunny.
We have to treat it very seriously and, you know, oh yes, my heart is bleeding or whatever.
Lauren, is there going to be any sort of cultural shift backward?
We've seen Donald Trump using humor to point out the absurdities of political correctness, the absurdities of the culture warrior left.
Is there going to be any push backward when it comes to marriage or sexual morality, or are we just living in decadent times here to stay?
Actually, I think that it used to be the left was so progressive and pushing the boundaries.
But today, the real rebellious counterculture is the right.
It's conservatives.
And so studies actually show that generations even younger than millennials, so kids that are in high school and starting college now, Actually kind of find an appeal to conservative values, traditional social values in a sense, because it's cool to be different.
It's cool to push the boundaries.
And obviously the Hollywood left, the culture across, really across the globe at this point, is so liberal, not in just the sense of freedom and the ability to do things, but liberal in the sense of just Wacky craziness, accepting mental illness, these things.
I think we will see a shift back.
Not necessarily for the morality of it, but I think just because if you push too far, you almost push into the other side.
Nothing says cool guy like cardigan sweaters and parted hair and sockless loafers.
I know, I'm with you.
We're the new punk man.
It's great.
So, speaking of...
Mental illness and the future of humanity and the apocalypse.
I think we've reached the end.
We've officially reached the end, which is that the National Institutes of Health have now used your taxpayer dollars to create, quote, humanized mice, mice implanted with tissues taken from aborted babies.
Jacob, my first question, is there any way to make that more horrifying?
That's like the most horrifying thing I've ever heard.
Well, I want to know why they didn't use turtles, because I would like to see a real incarnation of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.
But to your point, no, this is...
That humans playing God – and whenever humans play God, we always screw it up.
It always leads to chaos.
And so I think that – I think they – for one thing, I want a refund.
I want all the money back that they spent on this ridiculous project.
It's not worth it and it's going to have dire consequences because then – Right now they're using aborted fetuses, right?
Well, next, what if it's a live person?
What if it's a person in a coma who could potentially wake up?
I mean, when are we going to draw the line of when can we farm these human body parts?
I donate Marshall.
If it is for science and I am willing to donate my producer Marshall, it will further the human race, it will further scientific progress.
And thank you for your sacrifice, Marshall.
They are using human bone marrow, liver, and thymus in these animals.
So it's not the brain yet.
It isn't like a poor little human brain and a rat saying like, kill me, kill me.
But for decades and decades, the primary battle in bioethical debates has been abortion.
And obviously we've made great strides toward a reasonable, the reasonable side of life.
We've made great strides on pro-life for 40 years.
Leon Kass, the president's philosopher, the head of President Bush's Council on Bioethical Inquiry, is a bioconservative, and he's predicted these things, that cloning would become the next great debate, that hybrids and chimeras would be the next great debate.
Lauren, I notice we've missed the debate.
They're just funding this stuff with taxpayer money without asking us.
Is this now going to take over abortion as the real bioethical issue, or are Americans going to say, "Ah, well, who cares?
You can keep funding it.
I don't really understand what it is anyway." Well, I think if you ask most Americans, they would say humans are humans and God is God.
Humans are not God.
And so why would we be, you know, dabbling in this?
But I do think it's a little more tricky.
It's a little more difficult to understand than the concept just of abortion.
So it may take a while for people to wake up to it.
But I kind of equate this with the artificial intelligence debate.
Obviously, our supercomputers aren't being hybrid meshed with humans and there's not that debate of when do you take human DNA away from someone, whether they're an organ donor or if there's somebody who is just in a coma.
There's not that debate, but at the same time, these are the things where we have to actually think about it and say, are we going to be successful bridging these mice, humans, and are they gonna become superheroes or super villains I mean, it's something far down the line, but it's not ridiculous to be talking about.
But I do think we've missed the debate.
We're already paying for it, whether we like it or not.
It does sound ridiculous, though, when you think of, like, an evil mouse with a mustache and a cape flying around with a human brain or something.
But it is around the corner.
Yeah, the brave new world has arrived, and it does seem a little bit apocalyptic.
All right, panel, thank you for being here.
We have Lauren Cooley from the Washington Examiner.
We have Jacob Airy from my desk, apparently, for some reason.
That is our show.
We will be talking much more.
This is a little preview.
In the Christmas war rooms here, we will be talking about the war on Christmas.
I feel passionately about this subject, and I think some of my fellow conservatives do not appreciate the importance of it.
So we will be down in the bunkers discussing that.
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