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Some schmuck on MSNBC thinks that there is an idiot percentage of the population.
And, according to him, the people who make up that idiot percentage just need to be told what to do.
I think it was a lot harder the first time around, because we're creating new behavior versus returning to the kind of behavior we've already been through.
So, look, whether it's a mandate on masks, a mandate on vaccine, is, at this point, there is a percentage of the population that Who cares whether they're angry or upset about that?
There's 330 million people in this country.
We need to protect ourselves.
And as Willie and Alicia mentioned, look, there's been mandates throughout time.
I grew up having to get a smallpox vaccine.
We all did.
Other vaccines also.
So I'm done worrying about what people think.
I'm done worrying about is there going to be a firestorm, whether it's a mandated mask, whether it's a mandated vaccine.
there's an idiot percentage of this population that just needs to be told what to do.
And guess what?
You don't have a choice.
Too bad.
You know, I think that guy has a point.
That guy is most certainly convincing me that there is an idiot percentage of our population.
That would be our ruling elite.
I don't think our ruling elite knows the first thing about philosophy or politics or life generally.
I think that the regime that the ruling elite has foisted upon us Has led to misery in basically every aspect of life.
And I think that that idiot percentage ruling elite needs to be told what to do by the far smarter, far more grounded, far better adjusted people to whom that elite pretends to be accountable.
I'm Michael Knowles.
This is the Michael Knowles Show.
My favorite comment from Friday is from CoolPapaJMagic, who says, what a great name, says, Joe Biden will solve the inflation problem by printing more money.
Ibram X. Kendi will solve racism by adding more racism.
Yeah, that makes sense.
Where do we find these geniuses?
Great point.
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These people who are part of the ruling establishment, the ruling class, what do I mean by that?
I mean the people on all the legacy media outlets, not the insurgent new media outlets, but all the ones that are established, that have all the gatekeepers, that are promoted by the regime.
I'm talking about the people in big tech.
I'm talking about the people in the big Highfalutin positions of power.
I'm talking about the people entrenched in the federal bureaucracy.
I'm talking about the Democratic Party, which is the dominant party in this country.
Right now it has unified government, but it is just molded with the entire elite apparatus.
I think these guys maybe should take a seat for a moment.
I think for them to doubt our intelligence is pretty rich.
What say you, Mr.
President?
That's underway, just like the other question that's illogical.
And I've heard you speak about it because you all I'm not being solicitous, but you're always straight up about what you're doing.
And the question is whether or not we should be in a position where you are.
Why can't the the the experts say we know that this virus is, in fact, We know why all the drugs approved are not temporarily approved, but permanently approved.
That's underway, too.
I expect that to occur quickly.
Well, you mean for the FDA? For the FDA. Well, oh gosh, I'm sorry.
I need to catch my breath from that dizzying intellect from the genius percentage of the population that rules us.
And by the way, I'm not even just making fun of Biden.
Biden has always been, you know, a few French fries short of a happy meal.
Joe Biden has never been the brightest bulb in the pack.
Not quite the sharpest tool in the shed.
How many more metaphors can I use?
Historically, I mean, Joe Biden is famously not that bright.
But it's not just him.
And obviously he's senile now, so he's even slower than he used to be.
It's not just him.
I'm not just taking a cheap shot at Joe Biden, who should not be president, and is obviously not capable of being president.
It doesn't matter, though, of course, because he's just a vessel of the ruling elite.
He's just a vessel of the establishment.
I'm talking about the establishment itself.
We have had roughly a century or so now of almost continuous liberal rule, of progressive liberal rule, beginning with, I guess more than a century then, depending on how you count it, beginning with Woodrow Wilson revolutionizing the federal government, admitting that he was doing it while he beginning with Woodrow Wilson revolutionizing the federal government, admitting that he was doing it while he did it, saying that We need a new order that's going to empower progressive technocrats.
You see FDR really begin to implement that and you see it ratchet up over time.
Even when there briefly were periods of relative conservative rule, they didn't succeed at impeding the growth of that federal technocratic elite.
Even Ronald Reagan famously complained or rather lamented that he did not manage to shrink the government.
So this thing has been growing and growing and growing over time, and in recent decades it's really accelerated.
What has that given us?
Because you see the growth in the government, but then you see the radical transformation of society, the sexual revolution, all of these sorts of things.
What has that given us?
Birth rate below replacement.
People are not having kids.
A decrease in life expectancy recently because of deaths of despair.
You're seeing a plummeting in the happiness of women, both relative to men and as an absolute measure.
You're seeing spikes in child anxiety and stress and suicide.
You're seeing a complete gutting of the middle class.
You're seeing manufacturing jobs shipped overseas.
You're seeing a Total loss of control over even our own border.
You're seeing a collapse in the faith that we have in our institutions, including in our electoral system.
You're seeing abject failure on just about every single front in our society.
And yet these people who have ruled basically without challenge for a century are telling us that we're the idiot percentage of the population.
Just give them more power.
Just listen to those geniuses a little bit more and things will go so much better.
Are you seeing that?
We no longer can keep men out of the little girls' changing room, but give the geniuses more power.
That's what's going to help us out.
What I'm talking about when I mock these people who have the audacity to call the rest of us idiots, I'm not just talking about Joe Biden losing a few synapses.
I'm talking about the whole system, which is both inept and extremely corrupt.
Just look at a little bit of this corruption.
The DOJ right now, you probably didn't even see this news story because it was dropped very quietly and the media aren't going to cover it, the establishment media.
You recall that Governor Cuovid in New York, Andrew Cuomo, who was fetid as the great savior of coronavirus, he won an Emmy for his performances, which were fictional performances over how wonderfully he was handling COVID.
Remember, he released a book, the media thanked, Governor, and then it turned out he was handling the virus worse than any other governor in the country.
He not only sent thousands of senior citizens to their deaths because of his boneheaded policies, but then he covered it up from federal investigators.
So...
There was, at one point, an investigation into what Cuomo was doing, but now Joe Biden's Justice Department is formally declining to investigate those nursing home policies.
Not just in New York, by the way, so Cuomo's going to get off the hook, but also in Pennsylvania and Michigan.
Places that had come under scrutiny for the way that they were treating their senior citizens.
That's dropped.
That's over now.
No big deal.
You'll hear about it on this show.
You'll hear about it, I don't know, maybe on a handful of other conservative shows.
And that's it.
And it's going to be memory hold.
And COVID is going to go sell more books.
And he's going to get off the hook.
Like I told you, he would, by the way.
Do you remember when the sex scandal came up, which I observed from the very beginning was just a distraction from the real scandal, which involved COVID and lying to federal investigators, covering up things from federal investigators?
I said, Cuomo's a tough guy.
If anyone could survive this, it's going to be him.
Well, he's going to survive.
We should just listen to them more.
Kill a few more thousand senior citizens.
How about Biden's DOJ... We're good to go.
Was prosecuting five visiting researchers from China who were just academics, just scholars, but it turns out they were spies for the Chinese government, as is often the case.
So, the Wall Street Journal just reported this weekend that the DOJ is dropping their cases against the Chinese spies.
Why?
Because it turned out that they weren't really spies?
No.
Why?
Because the spies...
Fulfilled their justice?
They endured some criminal justice and then they were going to be released?
No.
They just dropped it.
Quote, In all our prosecutions, the Department of Justice evaluates the merits of a case as it prepares for trial.
This is DOJ spokesman Wynn Hornbuckle, which is not a real name, right?
There is no way that that is actually that guy's name.
This is...
This is like, spies will often come up with elaborate names.
This has to be that.
In any case, Mr.
Hornbuckle says, recent developments in a handful of cases involving defendants with alleged undisclosed ties to the People's Liberation Army of the People's Republic of China have prompted the department to reevaluate these prosecutions.
We have determined that it is now in the interest of justice to dismiss them.
Right, because the Trump administration, uniquely among administrations over the past several decades, Took a hard line on China.
Said the growth of China is not good for the United States.
It's not good for the world.
Obviously, it was correct.
Because just as Trump was getting tough on China, whoopsie-daisy, a virus leaks out of the Wuhan lab that shuts down the entire world.
Looks like he was right.
Joe Biden, who famously cheered on the rise of China, is now cozying up to them again.
He won't call China an enemy.
He won't take a hard line on them.
So he's dropping the prosecution into their spies.
Surprise, surprise.
And no one's going to hear boo about it.
And that's just that.
Did we elicit any concessions from China?
I don't think so.
It's just over.
Just listen to the ruling elite.
Listen to those geniuses.
Maybe we'll shut the world down again.
I guess we already are for the Delta and the Lambda and the Phi Beta Kappa variants.
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Our brilliant ruling elite is not only disregarding our immigration laws.
These are some of the most fundamental laws in our country.
Who gets to come in and be counted as an American?
But our ruling elite is now inverting those laws and saying that foreign nationals Who cross our border illegally, not only can they one day become Americans, not only can they stay here, first of all, and not only can they one day become Americans, but according to Kamala Harris, they already are.
I want to make clear to the dreamers who are here and those who are watching from home, this is your home.
This is your home.
And we see you, and you are not alone.
The President and I, needless to say, and I hope many of you saw his town hall yesterday, we are unequivocal that we recognize you for the Americans that you are, and that we recognize that you deserve all the rights that come with American citizenship.
And so we will be tireless in fighting for a pathway to citizenship.
Hold on, Kamala.
Why would you have to fight for a pathway to citizenship if they're already Americans?
According to Kamala Harris, and it's not just her, again, I don't mean to just pick on her, according to the entire liberal ruling elite, words no longer have meaning.
If foreigners are Americans, then words have no meaning.
If men are women, then words have no meaning.
If we can no longer rely on language to make basic distinctions between a thing and its opposite, then words don't have any meaning.
But what the left believes, as I think I read somewhere in a recent number one national bestselling book, The left uses language.
They believe that because there's no such thing as objective reality, therefore words do not refer to any objective reality, but rather words construct and constitute subjective reality.
And so, if you redefine all the words, you can redefine reality.
So, if you want to make a foreign national into an American, you don't need to have them follow the legal channels.
You do not even need to undertake any legal process.
You just call them Americans, and then they are Americans.
If you want a man to become a woman, he doesn't need to...
Well, it's impossible, but you don't even need to go through the surgery to have the man better resemble a woman.
You just need to call him a woman, and then he just is a woman.
And that's that.
These are the geniuses.
See, we're the idiot percentage Who believes there's a distinction between foreigners and Americans.
Citizens of another country and citizens of this country.
We're the idiot percentage.
But Kamala Harris, who fails to recognize the most basic distinctions in politics, she's the genius.
If you oppose illegal aliens, by the way, illegal immigration and then amnesty for breaking a basic law, you will be called a racist, right?
That's just, that's the worst thing you can be called in America today.
And that's what you will be called.
I touched on this at the very end of the show on Friday, but I don't want to miss it.
The Girl Scouts, Girl Scouts of America are now pushing on the little girls who make up the membership, an anti-racist guide.
Antiracist.
Anti-racism, these derivations of wokeness and critical theory and critical race theory, have now infiltrated the Girl Scouts.
The Girl Scouts told its membership that taking a colorblind approach to life, where you don't really care that much about what race a person is, that actually perpetuates racism.
And parents must have conversations about race and racism regularly with their daughters to counterbalance this narrative.
This is part of the online resource to push anti-racism and critical race theory.
The guide goes on to say, saying we're all the same, or I don't see color, might be well-intentioned, but it perpetuates racism because it disregards part of people's identities.
Plus, saying everyone is the same implies that everyone has the same experiences and is treated the same in our society, which statistics and the everyday discrimination faced by black people and other people of color show isn't the case.
So they're saying...
It's wrong to say that everybody is the same.
Because that erases people's identities and denies their suffering.
Now, notice, though.
Notice.
If you were to say, okay, fine.
Everyone is not the same.
Not everyone has equal ability.
Okay, yeah.
Uh...
Everyone's not the same.
Not everyone has equal intelligence.
Not everyone has equal ambition.
Not everyone has equal moral cultivation.
Not everyone has equal virtue in the way that they live.
You would be sent to Guantanamo Bay.
That would be so outrageous.
That would be so racist or sexist or thisist or thatist.
But...
If you say not everyone is equal, not everyone is the same, because not everyone suffers as much, well that's...
That's the only thing you're permitted to observe about differences in people because suffering now carries social currency.
Suffering is the new privilege, and so this is why you have ever-expanding victim groups, and this is why everyone is trying to claim some kind of oppression because that, paradoxically, will actually give them privilege.
The reason I mention this is we've gone over this kind of ideology plenty of times on the show.
Just to point out that our ruling liberal elite, which, as the commenter on the show actually says, is going to solve racism with racism.
It's going to solve inflation by printing money and solve racism by adding more racism.
This ruling class has gutted not only our constitutional system of government, our educational systems, our corporate systems.
It's gutted civil society, even the most basic voluntary civil associations like...
The Girl Scouts.
Totally gutted by these geniuses.
How about our schools?
I also very briefly touched on this on Friday, but I can't let this one go without a little mention.
The Missouri School District right now, Francis Howell School District in St.
Charles County, Missouri, has just hired a critical race theory professor to audit their curricula.
The school district is paying this race hustling huckster, this con artist, $15,000 to ruin their history curriculum and to imbue it with the ideology of critical race theory.
I mention this so that the hustler's name is Dr.
LeGarrett King.
He was hired for, quote, professional development and consultation services, and he's an associate professor at University of Missouri and director of the university's Carter Center for K-12 Black History Education.
Do not let them tell you that your kids are not being taught by critical race theory in schools.
This is what's happening.
King, this hustler who was hired just by one school district in one place, Has retweeted a lot of content expressing his belief that critical race theory ought to be taught in K-12 schools as well.
He has now been hired by the school district, or was hired some time ago, to imbue the curriculum with this radical theory that our genius ruling elite tells us is only taught in certain law schools.
Oh, you idiots, you rubes, you idiot percentage!
This isn't being taught in schools.
Well, here you go.
You have a...
Critical race theorist who has been hired by a school district, K-12, to imbue the curriculum with these ideas.
He is telling you outright that he thinks that these sorts of things should be taught in schools, and it's now happening.
Don't let them gaslight you.
The ruling class gutted civic associations, civil society, gutted the educational system.
Now, this ruling elite is instructing students to hate their own country.
Which brings me to the Olympics.
I don't watch the Olympics.
I've never really cared for the Olympics, and I haven't watched it in years.
But I did see this clip, this clip, that the Olympic ceremony opened with that anthem of the brilliant, genius, global citizens of the world, that awful twaddle by John Lennon, one of the worst songs ever written, Imagine.
I hope someday you'll join us And the world will leave us wrong And the world will leave us wrong And the world will leave us wrong And the world will leave us wrong And
the world will leave us wrong Well,
I did not expect to see the voices Keith Urban here as part of the opening ceremony, but that was spectacular.
I did not expect to hear that song that they play every year since, you know, 50 years ago and that the aged boomer hippies think is the most important hymn in the liturgical calendar and in our hymnal.
I did expect it, because they do it all the time.
It's awful.
The vision of society that it presents is just communism.
Imagine there's no God.
Imagine there's no heaven.
Imagine there's nothing to live for.
Imagine there's no distinctions between people or anything that makes you special.
It's awful.
It's an ugly, hideous, inhuman vision of society.
And that's the vision the ruling elite wants to push on you.
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I love that the Olympics opened with Imagine.
I love it in part because I don't watch the Olympics, so I didn't have to endure that awful song by John Lennon.
But I love it because it's an acknowledgement that the liberal ruling class, the sort of globalized citizen of the world class, doesn't have any new ideas.
They've been playing the same damn song forever and ever.
I loved at the end of the broadcast, the broadcaster said, Wow, I did not expect that.
That's not a knife.
This is a knife.
I don't know.
My Australian's not very good.
And so the broadcaster said that.
Just a little trip back through memory lane.
They play this song almost every year.
Here we go.
London 2012.
Wow.
so inspiring.
Imagine there's no heaven.
Pyeongchang, 2018.
Imagine there's no heaven.
Imagine you turn to warm food when you die.
Torino, 2006.
Above us, just this physical world, and we're all going to just turn to take a dirt nap when we die.
Ninety-six in Atlanta.
Wow, inspiring.
Imagine all the people living for their own hedonistic pleasure with nothing that is permanent.
Wow.
I was reading Chesterton last night, G.K. Chesterton, the great, great British Catholic writer.
And he pointed out that the Carpe Diem religion, seize the day, live for today.
The Carpe Diem religion is not the religion of happy people.
It's the religion of very unhappy people.
And we all know this in our own life.
We know that that friend of yours who all he's ever doing is chasing momentary pleasure, no regrets, you regret the things you don't do, whatever.
That guy is never your happiest friend.
Paradoxically, strangely, Counter-intuitively, according to many people, it tends to be the well-grounded, moderate, religious people who have a family, who practice the virtues, who reign in their own passions, they tend to be happier.
Isn't that weird?
Isn't that a strange thing?
It's counter-intuitive.
But it's not, of course.
The Carpe Diem religion, the seize the day, we're only living for today, there's no heaven, there's nothing above us, we're just this world.
That religion, which is the dominant view of the liberal ruling class, is a desperate religion.
It's the same problem that, I don't know if you've ever experienced this, but on a holiday, very often tensions are very high when you're going over to your family for a holiday, or Valentine's Day is a lot like this, where you're so focused on having a good time, you're so intent, you think the day will be ruined if you don't have a good time, that you never have a good time, if you focus like that.
If you just take the day as it will, if you take life as it will, if you recognize that life involves a great deal of suffering, but there is a point to it, and that actually there is an ennobling aspect to the suffering, and there's something beyond just this physical world, if you recognize that, then it sanctifies everything.
It makes it much more comfortable, much more bearable.
But if all you're focused on is pleasuring yourself all the time, you are going to be miserable.
I know it seems counterintuitive.
People are waking up to that.
I think a lot of the revolt against our ruling elite is recognizing that the things that they've promised us have not panned out.
Women were told that if they just stopped raising families and went out to work for...
Some old guy at the widget factory 100 hours a week, that that would make them happier, and it hasn't.
The measures of this, it's hard to measure happiness, but such as they are, these measures have shown that that isn't true.
Women's happiness has declined dramatically.
If we just tell our kids to, you know, pursue their own ambitions and interests and our own ambitions and interests, and without regard to a classical serious education, they'll be happier.
They're not.
They're more stressed, they're more anxious and suicidal than ever.
If we just let the liberal ruling elite ship our jobs overseas, yeah, we'll lose our job at the factory, but it's okay, because GDP will increase, and we'll have more gizmos from China, and that'll make us all happier.
Will it?
No.
We've got deaths of despair going through the roof.
We're actually seeing a reduction in American life expectancy.
We've got an opioid crisis running amok.
Well, if we just empower international organizations and empower China, then the world is going to live in peace.
Is it?
I don't know.
We just had a global pandemic, allegedly.
The worst, deadliest pandemic ever.
But regardless of the lethality of the virus, we shut down the whole world.
How'd that work out?
Didn't work out very well at all.
And I think people are waking up to this and they're saying, oh God, these people have ruined my country.
The religion of imagine, the religion of imagine that nothing matters other than our own pleasure in bumping up GDP and suppressing the idiot percentage and just following this ruling class wherever they want to lead us.
That hasn't panned out very well.
And so, I think the Trump vote was in many ways a reaction against that, and I think you're only seeing that increase.
The candidacies right now of J.D. Vance and Blake Masters, the two Senate candidates, who are really contradicting a lot of conservative orthodoxy, who are saying, hey, forget about GDP for a second.
We need to focus on families.
We need to focus on building up our society.
We need to cut it out with all this insane free, quote-unquote, free trade that's really primarily benefiting other countries.
We need to stop that.
That is part of the reaction against this.
No surprise that the Olympics, which is really, you know, now the total expression of the ruling global elite, is collapsing in the ratings.
16.7 million Americans tuned in to NBC's broadcast.
This is the smallest television audience in the past 33 years.
It was predicted that the ratings could drop as low as 17 million people in America, and it dropped even lower than that.
This is according to preliminary data from NBC Universal.
Now, part of this...
Is that people don't watch TV as much anymore?
Certainly that's part of it.
People are unplugging their TVs.
They don't have cable.
Although it's worth pointing out, this is network TV. So many, many more people will have network than would have cable.
But sure, part of it is the technological issue.
Part of it is just this vision of society is collapsing under its own weight.
Steep, steep drop.
The Tokyo audience declined 37% from 2016.
37% rather.
Speaking of, two top PGA golfers are not being permitted to compete in the Olympics because they tested positive for the Wu flu.
They weren't sick.
They're totally fine.
But they tested positive.
So now they can't compete.
Spanish golfer John Rahm, he tested positive last month.
Had to drop out of a PGA tournament that he was leading in, by the way.
He's tested positive again.
He won't compete in Tokyo.
This guy, man, he can't win for losing.
He's got permanent COVID.
And Bryson DeChambeau, an American, will also miss the games because he tested positive for COVID.
Insane.
You're now seeing more travel restrictions around the world because the global elite are clamping down again.
They say it's for the Delta variant.
Now we have the Delta variant.
Soon we're going to have the Lambda variant.
Then we're going to have the Phi Beta Kappa variant.
There's no end to the variants, folks.
I don't know if you've caught on yet, but 15 days to slow the spread is eternity.
It's never ending.
It is never ending unless you take it back.
Right now there are 100,000 people in the streets in Paris to protest the French president Macron's new rules, new lockdown rules.
They're just going to keep this going forever because they think it's better for society.
They think it's better if the scientific elite has much more control than the people do over society.
And by the way, they think it's better if we just wear masks all the time.
I've talked to even slightly conservative public health experts who have said, well, you know, the thing about the masks is, maybe we don't wear them all the time, but we should at least wear them during flu season.
I mean, it was crazy before.
We were just going out and interacting with one another and seeing our faces, and that was crazy.
I think they want us to live in this sanitized, hideous culture.
Where we don't see one another's faces, where we don't have many political rights, and where the Fauci's of the world tell us what to do.
Where top athletes in the world are taken out of the Olympics because they don't even have symptoms from the Wu flu that has been with us now for a year, year and a half, vaccines all over the place.
Having many, many...
Harmful effects on society.
Do you remember last year when the federal government was proposing a relief package for COVID? I was fine with the relief package.
I sort of thought if the government is going to shut down the world, then the government owes you something.
They can't just expect you to bear the brunt of that entirely if they're going to make this ridiculous decision to shut down the world.
But I said, you know, The beefing up of unemployment benefits.
That's a bad idea.
COVID stimulus, fine by me.
The government broke it.
The government can fix it.
But the beefing up of unemployment is going to have really bad effects.
And so some Republicans tried to fight very hard against this in the Senate.
I remember Senator Cruz and Senator Graham, Lindsey Graham, pushed very hard against this, but didn't go anywhere.
So it ended up going through.
Well, now we have a report out from Morning Consult that 1.8 million Americans Have turned down job offers in order to stay on unemployment.
That's not good, right?
That's a bad situation.
I already knew this was the case.
Not 1.8 million.
That's a shocking number.
But I already knew this was a problem.
Because I've talked to my Uber drivers who say, yeah, there aren't that many drivers right now because people don't want to go back to work because they're making more money on unemployment.
Because I've talked to people in restaurants who are waitresses or managers or even owners of restaurants, and they'll say, yeah, we can't get staff here because people are making more money on unemployment.
Well, here's from Morning Consult.
It's not like this is a far-right organization.
They're reporting 1.8 million Americans would rather stay on the dole.
Because the ruling class did something so obviously economically and socially harmful.
But those of us who said it, we're the idiot percentage.
Who said maybe this isn't a good idea.
Speaking of people getting jobs, I'm going to rub salt in that wound right now.
Because the ruling class still has a ton of power and they're flexing that power.
You know, one of the highlights of the Trump administration was that Trump got a lot of judges through, and they often were disappointing judges, but still there were a number of good judges who got through.
I'm not just talking about the Supreme Court, I'm talking about the lower courts as well.
She said, all right, Trump and Cocaine Mitch, they're getting judges through at record rates.
Joe Biden is blowing them out of the water right now.
In the first six months of his administration, Joe Biden and the Democrats have had eight federal judges confirmed.
That is the highest number of judges confirmed, not just in the last four or eight or 12 or 16 years, highest number of judges confirmed in 52 years, more than half a century.
Trump and George H.W. Bush at this point in their presidency had each appointed four judges.
Obama, Bush II, and Ronald Reagan hadn't appointed any.
Biden's already gotten eight federal judges through.
The guy does not know which end is up.
The guy probably doesn't know his own name.
But the establishment is still wielding political power in a pretty effective way.
It's a harmful way for our country.
It's going to lead to more and more misery and to a greater collapse of our civil order.
But they're pretty good at wielding political power.
Speaking of the judges, there is a huge court case that's coming up this term.
This is the Dobbs case.
The Dobbs case regards an abortion law, whether or not it is legal to limit abortion or prohibit abortion after 15 weeks.
This is the point at which a baby can suck his own thumb.
And this case will seek to overturn Roe v.
Wade in Planned Parenthood v.
Casey.
Well, Joe Biden just accidentally touched on this case.
Joe Biden...
There are a number of clips of him going around that are pretty embarrassing.
I'm not even going to play one of them on the show, though it's gone viral.
The clip is Joe Biden screaming something that seems as though he's referring to his own anatomy.
It's one of these bizarre outbursts that Biden has made, but there are a number of them out there.
Including, he was asked a question, are there Democrats who want to defund the police?
Joe Biden has a puzzling answer.
We are not defunding the police.
We have not.
And are there people who, in the Democratic Party, who want to be president?
Are there people in the Republican Party who think we're sucking the blood out of kids?
I'm not sure.
Are there people in the Democratic Party who want to be president?
Are you defunding the police?
He says, are there people in the Republican Party who think we're sucking the blood out of kids?
Which, just as a practical matter, just as a very narrow matter, the Democrats are by supporting abortion.
But the broader point is even more preposterous.
Joe Biden says, we're not defunding the police.
Oh, the Republicans, next they're going to say we're sucking the blood out of kids, which we are through abortion, which we're vigorously defending, which I'm actually trying to get taxpayers to fund right now through the repeal of the Hyde Amendment.
Okay, neither here nor there.
Republicans, when they say that Democrats want to defund the police, they're not making some outlandish claim.
They're not coming up with some conspiracy theory, as Joe Biden is implying.
They're just quoting the Democrats' own words.
Very, very prominent.
Democratic politicians have said defund the police, have called to defund the police, have put forward legislation, have successfully defunded the police.
And very prominent Democratic politicians have said, abolish the police doesn't mean just move some funding around or change the training.
It means abolish the police.
It means get rid of them.
But Joe Biden makes a mind, oh, what's next?
What are you people going to say next?
You say we're sucking the blood out of kids?
They can't even stand by their own words.
Because they can see how deeply unpopular they are.
Because they can see that people are waking up to what this ruling class has done to them.
We sucking the blood out of kids?
I mean, we are, but...
Speaking of our culture's abuse of young people, you know, I bring up TikTok videos somewhat frequently.
Only the ones that kind of go viral and make their way around the internet.
I'm not on TikTok myself.
I feel that Xi Jinping has enough of my information, but I do catch it on Twitter or YouTube sometimes.
So there was a video of a young person describing the difference between, I want to get this right, between aromanticism And asexuality.
These are now two sexual identities.
And so one is aromantic.
You're not romantic.
And the other is asexual.
Here's the difference.
This is a reminder that non-asexual aromantic and allosexual aromantic are not always interchangeable.
Non-asexual aromantic includes identities such as my own.
I'm not asexual, but I'm not allosexual either.
My experiences are going to be very different from an allosexual aromantic person's.
I think it's just important if you're an ally who's talking about aromantic issues, if you're talking about allosexual aromantic issues, Make sure to say allosexual aromantic.
There's nothing wrong with that term.
Just saying non-asexual aromantic also includes other aromantic people who might not experience sexual attraction but still don't identify as asexual.
Just something to keep in mind.
That is something that if you keep it in your mind, your mind will turn to soup.
I want to be pretty clear, by the way.
I am not poking fun at this confused young person's idea of sexuality.
I am actually indignant and outraged by the way that our culture has warped this young person's mind and confused this young person.
I'm not exactly clear.
I don't want to be wrong about identities and the aloe and the amo and the whatever the identities are.
So I googled it.
I googled the aromantic.
I don't know what aloe is, but aro I saw is aromantic.
That's the lingo for aromantic.
And it means you're not romantically attracted to people, but you do enjoy having sex with them sometimes, possibly.
And then asexual is you don't enjoy having sex with people, but you may be romantically attracted to them.
How does that work?
I don't know.
Nobody knows.
But these are just two of the newer sexual identities.
There will probably be a half dozen more by the time we finish this show today.
And there aren't that many more minutes left in the show, but there will still be more of these things.
Because getting back to the point on race that the Girl Scouts brought up, you know, that racial blindness, color blindness is actually awful because it erases people's identity.
If your identity as a culture is in the font of being, you know, I am that I am, God is another name for him, then you will know who you are and you will have a fixed point that you are moving toward and that you are identifying yourself with.
If you do not, you will be, as my friend Father George Rutler has pointed out, if you do not find your identity in the I am who I am, you will find your identity with this, or you will attempt to find your identity with a pathetic question, which is, who am I? You'll say, I'm an A-lo, A-ro, A-bo, A-sex, trans, bi, non, whatever, and it will never end.
It will never end because you are not sufficient, because you are a contingent being, right?
Who is imperfect because this is a fallen world and you will never be satisfied with your own identity.
It will just go on and on and on.
On Wednesday, last Wednesday, Argentina decided to indulge this insanity at the governmental level.
They are now incorporating identification cards that include an option for people who do not identify as either female or male.
They will allow people to put X in their national identification document and passports.
In the place where they otherwise would have put their sex.
Now, obviously this undermines the point of identification documents, because you won't actually be identifying yourself.
But I want to show you the three opinions on this.
There's the leftist opinion, which is you have a God-given...
Well, they don't believe in God, but you have a...
Human right or whatever to gender expression and identifying however you want to.
And you absolutely have the right to put the X on your gender form.
Then there is the kind of squishy conservative libertarian thing, which is, they'll say, look, you have a right.
You have every right to identify as a transgender person or a binary or an ARO, ALO, whatever it is.
But just don't make me pay for it, right?
Or just, but you can't put it on a document.
Or maybe you can, but your kid can't do it.
But your kids can't do it.
That's off-limit for kids.
Or they'll try to put some contrived limitations on it while still granting the premise of A right to infinite personal autonomy to indulge whatever delusion you have.
And then there's the conservative response, which is, you don't have a right to define reality.
In Justice Kennedy's words, you don't have the...
Even though he was obviously on the other side of the question.
But you don't have the right to define your own concept of existence.
There is reality.
It will reassert itself in the end.
And you must...
Bend your absolute tyranny of will.
You have to bend it toward reality.
You cannot impose your delusions on the world.
It doesn't matter your age.
It doesn't matter how nice you are or whatever.
You do not have a right to contradict reality.
And I think, unfortunately, our genius elite has been denying reality for a long time.
a lot of squishes who might've had very good intentions have to some degree indulged that belief.
And I think the American people, the idiot percentage, the rest of us, you know, us crazy idiots who think that men are not women and foreigners are not Americans and who recognize that the ruling elite has led us off a cliff.
We are saying, no, we're on the side of reality Your fantasies haven't worked.
Take a seat.
And we need to take political power back from those people who view us with nothing but derision and who view us as incompetent, bumbling, deplorable fools who, by the way, can govern society a whole lot better, I suspect, than our ruling elite.
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