Joe Biden condemns campus protests after they are already shut down, Jeff Goldblum says he won’t leave money to kids, and a Mexican senator ritually sacrifices chicken to a demon tasked with producing rain.
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A day after police across the country arrested some 2,000 genderqueer jihadis of the campus Intifada, President Joe Biden is ready to take a stand on the major political crisis that's already over.
In fact, peaceful protest is in the best tradition of how Americans respond to consequential issues.
But, but, neither are we a lawless country.
We are a civil society, and order must prevail.
Throughout our history, we've often faced moments like this because we are a big, diverse, free-thinking, and freedom-loving nation.
In moments like this, there are always those who rush in to score political points.
But this isn't a moment for politics.
It's a moment for clarity.
So let me be clear.
Peaceful protest in America.
Violent protest is not protected.
Peaceful protest is.
It's against the law when violence occurs.
Destroying property is not a peaceful protest.
It's against the law.
Vandalism, trespassing, breaking windows, shutting down campuses, forcing the cancellation of classes and graduations.
None of this is a peaceful protest.
Threatening people, intimidating people, instilling fear in people is not peaceful protest.
It's against the law.
My favorite line.
This is not a time for politics.
It's a time for clarity.
Usually my politics is about obfuscation.
Usually my politics is about avoiding the issue.
But now it's time for clarity.
It's not... Protest is not about politics?
What are you talking about?
Now, to give the dotard his due, this is probably the best way Biden could have handled it.
Wait until it looks like everything is resolved, then prevaricate with a special wink to the political establishment.
Oh, both sides are great, but I'm more on the side of the establishment.
And then hope everyone moves on.
It is downright Clintonian.
But the problem is that Joe Biden is not Bill Clinton.
And 2024 is not the relatively peaceful, cohesive 1990s.
And even after thousands of arrests, perhaps because of thousands of arrests, I strongly suspect the keffiyeh-clad Democrat protesters aren't going anywhere.
And that is a big headache for Joe Biden.
I'm Michael Knowles.
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The protests are a big threat to Joe Biden.
If you didn't know that before yesterday, I think the impromptu presidential address probably should have called that to your attention.
This is not just some weirdos on college, it is weirdos on college campuses, but it's not just weirdos on college campuses.
This is a nationwide campus protest that represents a major fissure on the American left.
It comes from a major wedge issue, which is this Israel-Gaza war, because the leftist base fanatically hates the State of Israel, and the leftist donor class and political establishment generally likes the State of Israel.
And the American people generally like the State of Israel, so it creates a big political problem, and the activists, the base, which the Democrats need, They're probably not going anywhere.
Even if you arrest 2,000 of them, there's a good chance they come back.
And that could have effects on Biden, not just for the election season, not even just for four years.
It could be a generational effect, at least if you listen to the liberal analysts on MSNBC.
It's hard to imagine that this is This imagery of the NYPD storming Columbia in this moment is not going to reverberate in ways that we cannot yet see across the political divide.
And I think that we should remember what the kind of images of protest disorder did in the late 60s.
Because even as the Vietnam War became increasingly unpopular, so did the anti-war protests.
And it was in part the backlash to that, as well as to urban crime, that gave us not just Richard Nixon, but, you know, kind of, except for the four-year oasis of Jimmy Carter, kind of unbroken Republican rule until Bill Clinton.
You know, and so I would expect that, and we're already seeing the backlash to this, but I would expect it to be ferocious.
Yeah, the late 70s were a period of retrenchment, and then 1980 saw Ronald Reagan and a conservative agenda that was fiercer, more focused, and more effective than maybe any other conservative agenda in ways that we're still grappling with to this day.
That's right.
That's right.
I like the honest history here.
I pretty much totally agree with these MSNBC analysts.
The revisionist history that we're all taught is the 1960s was an age of Aquarius and, you know, America was on the brink of cultural revolution.
And in fact, the Libs did manage to score a lot of victories.
It wasn't in the direct political institutions.
They scored a lot of victories in academia.
We're seeing the flowering of that in academia today at Columbia and NYU and UCLA.
They scored a lot of victories in Hollywood.
They scored a lot of victories in journalism.
But in the direct political order, the actual government institutions, they got totally creamed.
Because after the radical, largely campus-focused protests of the late 1960s, we got Richard Nixon.
The president that was elected with a more significant majority than, I guess, basically any president before him, just totally swept the country.
And then the deep state threw him out.
Then she says, well, we got this four-year oasis of Jimmy Carter.
So you had Nixon, then his VP Ford, who no one voted for.
Then you get Jimmy Carter for four years.
And then you get Reagan.
And I'd go even further.
She says, you have more or less unbroken Republican rule from the election of Richard Nixon to the election of Bill Clinton.
But even Bill Clinton was kind of conservative.
Bill Clinton ran as, I'm a Democrat, but not that kind of Democrat.
He ran as a dino.
You know, we have the RINOs, they had the DINOs.
He ran as a New Democrat, and he was awful in many ways, but he was a more moderate, more conservative Democrat.
And then you get George Bush.
So, it's true.
The reaction to the insanity of leftist politics in the late 60s gave us a quarter century, at least, of basically moderate conservative rule.
It at least stymied the radical plans of the leftists.
Could these campus protests have the same effect?
Seems to me it's quite possible.
We often hear about how this Trump-MAGA Republican Party, it's not your grandpa's Republican Party.
Yeah, well, I think the Democrats wearing keffiyehs screaming death to America.
I don't think that's your grandpa's Democrat Party either, is it?
I don't think the gender-bending lunatics waving the Palestine flag, I don't think that's exactly your grandpa's Democrat Party.
That is where the extremism is.
And the normal people who are in the middle who aren't all that political, the kind of people who were really put off by the 1960s radical protests.
I think those people are going to be just as put off by the campus intifada.
Now, speaking of conservative politics, one of my absolute favorite right-wing leaders in the world, Nayib Bukele, is the leader of El Salvador.
He cleaned up crime.
He took that country from being the most dangerous country in the world to being one of the safest countries in the Western Hemisphere.
Naib Bukele just called his cabinet together and he made a big, important announcement that American conservatives could learn from.
I will translate.
President McKellar says, in fact, you can see that everyone here is from the executive branch, from the executive branch that I oversee, except for one person, the attorney general.
He's not part of the executive branch.
He's here for a simple reason.
It's because I want to ask him publicly to investigate everyone sitting here.
Retroactively and into the future.
I imagine that there should be no problem with that.
Someone once asked me, are you afraid of death?
I said, of course, no one wants to die.
I don't want to die.
But I know that I'll die someday, like everyone else.
Death is the one thing we can't escape.
But if there's one thing I fear, it's leaving a bad legacy.
For one president, President Duterte, there was a sort of promise.
The president isn't a thief.
They said he's surrounded by thieves.
That won't happen to me.
That won't happen to me.
So I'm investigating all of you.
My closest advisors, I'm going to investigate all of you.
That's so, so important for conservatives to think of, especially as we look forward to 2025.
President Trump, best Republican president, best president, period, of my lifetime.
But he had some clunkers in the executive branch.
It was tough.
No one wanted to work for him.
They were so afraid of being investigated, of being thrown in jail, of being persecuted by the liberal establishment, that the Trump administration had a hard time hiring people.
And so, they had some really good people in the executive branch under Trump, but they had some clunkers too.
And this is why it's so, so important that the Trump transition begin right now.
Because personnel is policy.
We're talking about politics here, and we live in a modern liberal age where we think that people are just machines, and we think that computers run the world, and personality doesn't matter, soul and spirit don't matter.
We're all just kind of algorithms, beep-booping and computing, and we're not.
We're not.
White papers don't mean a whole lot.
The formal text of some regulation or statute, even that doesn't matter all that much.
The letter killeth and the spirit giveth life, okay?
And personnel is policy.
So if you got crooks and losers in your administration, you're done.
This is true even of the elected officials.
We vote for these guys who say the right thing, they have the right hair, but then the minute they get to Congress, they squish.
They don't have the judgment, they don't have the courage to stand up for what we want.
Personnel is policy.
It's all about people, okay?
Politics is all about people.
And one of the greatest conservative leaders in the world right now gets it.
We should get that too.
This is why I don't really knock Trump when he makes some errant comment about public policy while he's trying to, you know, hit the right line to continue to win votes without selling out conservative principles.
I think that's kind of a distraction to me.
Did you see the latest Trump truth social post?
Did you hear the latest Trump?
I don't really care.
You know what I care?
What actually gets done.
And you know what determines what actually gets done?
The people that Trump puts in charge.
We hear, oh, Donald Trump won't pick good judges because, you know, he didn't attend Federalist Society dinners or something like that.
Yeah, maybe, but you know, Trump's not picking the judges himself.
Donald Trump has advisors who pick the judges and he picked, in the case of the judges, he picked a good advisor.
And then he got good judges, and that's how it works, man.
You gotta make sure you're surrounded by smart people, people who are not corrupt.
You gotta keep a good eye on them, and you gotta remember, personnel is policy.
There's so much more to say first, though.
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Speaking of legacies, Jeff Goldblum, beloved movie actor Jeff Goldblum, has just announced that, you know, he's somewhat aged, he's something of an elderly father, he's got younger kids than men his age typically would, and so he's thinking about the future, what happens when he's gone, and he says he's not going to leave his kids any money.
Now that I'm raising kids, I'm no, you know, conventionalist, but I know the system that we're in, and I think sooner than later, but I don't want to scare them.
They should figure out, I mean, I love the creative life, it saved my life, but also this idea that, hey, you know, you've got to row your own boat.
It's an important thing to teach kids.
Most people don't.
Right?
I mean, I'm not going to do it for you and you're not going to want me to do it for you.
You've got to figure out how to find out what's wanted and needed and where that intersects with your love and passion and what you can do.
And even if it doesn't, you might have to do that anyway.
Yeah.
Okay.
I think we all hear this advice and we think, good on Jeff Goldblum.
Very American.
You know, kids, I've made a zillion dollars, but you got to cut your own path.
You're not just going to rest on daddy's money.
You're not getting daddy's money.
You got to figure things out yourself.
Pull yourself up by your bootstraps.
And there's, there's some wisdom to this.
Because many of us know rich kids who just inherited some money and wasted their lives and it didn't make them happy and they didn't flourish.
And okay, sure.
So we say, go out there, cut your own path.
That's good.
But, but that can be taken to an extreme too.
That is, I think, a consequence of liberalism.
What is liberalism about?
Liberalism is about the individual.
It's about forgetting about tradition, forgetting about legacy, doing what you want, being innovative, creative destruction, individual effort, individual everything.
And that isn't really how society has worked for all of history.
And it's not really how human nature works, as we talk about on this show a lot.
So, Jeff Goldblum, it seems to me, is going way too far in the other direction to say, I'm not giving my kids any money and they just have to figure everything out themselves because otherwise they'll become wastrels.
Well, what if they don't?
What if Yes, you teach your kids to cultivate good desires, and to work really hard, and to be diligent, and to find things that turn them on, and get them excited to get out of bed in the morning, and also give them your money, and also give them a financial legacy, and also give them some generational wealth.
How about, instead of saying, I've got to keep this wealth from you because you might squander it and thereby ruin your life, what if we say, hey, I'm going to teach my kids to be good stewards of their inheritance?
That, I think, is missing.
From the American ethos right now on the left and on the right.
And I think it's a consequence of liberalism, which ignores the past, which says we don't need anything to do with our forebears.
They were probably racist and stupid, and we're so brilliant, we're going to do everything on our own.
But generational wealth is a good thing, and I'm not just talking about money, I'm talking about generational wisdom.
That's an important thing.
Generational homes.
You know, there was a home, I think it burned down in the 90s, but there was a Knowles family home in New Hampshire.
It wasn't a particularly nice home, it's not like the Knowles family had any particular amount of money, but it had just been standing on this plot of land since the 17th century.
It had just been there since like 1635 or something like that.
And they made some additions to it, but it was a visible expression of a family legacy.
Without much money, without much fanfare, it was just there and you could say, oh, that's cool, that was my family.
Oh, there's some history there.
There's a tie to the land and to the culture, and that part is really missing.
That's the problem with the individualism.
That the right has embraced in recent decades is, you know, we're conservatives, guys.
We want to conserve stuff.
I think it was Jim Mattis who, you know, General Mattis, before he fell out of favor on the right, there were all those great quotes of his going around to read, you know, go up to a bunch of terrorists and say, I'm going to kill all of you if you don't do exactly what I say.
But one of them, one of the quotes that was going around was, About how he loves to read books.
And he said he loves to read books because he wants other people to make his mistakes for him.
He doesn't want to make his own mistakes.
He wants to learn from other people's mistakes.
That's a kind of inheritance.
That's a kind of generational wisdom.
And I think the conservative movement in America is moving more in this direction.
It's much more in the classical direction, which is, hey, we want to conserve stuff.
And that means conserving traditions.
Conserving ways of life, conserving institutions, conserving buildings, conserving borders, conserving laws, and yes, conserving money.
You know, being conservative with your money means kind of saving it and spending it prudently, first on the ones that we love and those to whom we have the nearest obligation, and then to others outside of that.
The liberals always flip this on its head, though, and the liberals' bleeding heart is basically to I don't mean to beat up too much on Jeff Goldblum.
I'm using him as a point of departure to talk about this broader political problem.
But to say, forget about the people around me.
Forget about the people in my community.
I'm going to care about humanity in the abstract.
So I'm going to leave my money to some charity that does something in Djibouti and ignore the community around me that I engage with every single day.
Very, very backwards.
There are priorities of charity.
There's an order of charity.
Begins with those to whom you have the nearest obligation, and out from there, and out from there, and out from there.
Just as the nation state is, you know, patriotism is an extension of filial piety, the love that you would have for your parents, the love that you would have for your family.
We want to be conservative with that.
But we're not conservative anymore.
Especially with our money.
The conservatives, so-called, just want to spend, spend, spend all their money on a bunch of nonsense, sending their money overseas.
For goodness sakes, we saw it this week.
Sending our money.
We'll send our money to Ukraine.
We'll send our money to Taiwan.
We'll send our money to Israel.
We'll send our money everywhere else.
Well, you can't, you're not going to conserve very much if you have that kind of flippant attitude toward your inheritance.
Whether we're talking about a financial one, we're talking about a cultural one, or religious inheritance, or a family inheritance.
Now, my favorite comment yesterday is from Elizabeth Harris, 317, who says, clearly the Republicans have not learned the lesson from Napoleon.
In his saying, if your enemy is making a mistake, don't interrupt him.
Yes, I don't know if Napoleon... There are all these quotes that are attributed to Napoleon and Churchill and especially Napoleon.
There are a lot of erroneous quotes, but whether it was Napoleon or just some guy on the back of a Cracker Jack prize or something, it's very true.
When your enemy is making mistakes, do not interrupt.
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Speaking of spending money, Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals says that the state must fund transgender surgeries.
This is from a federal appeals court.
Eight Democrat judges just made this order.
I think it was in North Carolina.
It doesn't even really matter which state this applies to because it's coming to a state near you.
They forced transgender surgery into the realm now, basically, of being a constitutional right via this decision.
And people are really shocked about this.
I was talking to Megyn Kelly about this on her show a few days ago.
And she said, this is just so crazy.
Why do we have to pay for it?
Why do we, you know, if you want to get a trans surgery, I don't know, I guess you can do that, but why do we have to pay for it?
And the reason we have to pay for it is because we live in a society and we have certain communal medical obligations.
We pay our taxes, our taxes go towards certain medical programs, at the very least for the poor through Medicaid and for the elderly through Medicare.
I don't know how many 90 year olds are, you know, having their their family jewels chopped off.
But who knows?
I guess it could happen in principle.
And then you've got to make a hard decision, which is, do we do the surgery or do we not?
It's being paid for by the public.
So the decision is not, should the public pay for medical care?
We have that.
We've had that for many decades in this country.
You have to deal with the substantive question, is transgenderism real?
And should people who are confused about their sex be able to go into a doctor and have their appendages chopped off?
You- You can't just rest on this liberal proceduralism of, you know, well you can get this one but you gotta pay for it privately, or you can get this kind of surgery but it'll be paid for by the state, or this surgery will be somewhat subsidized.
No.
We subsidize medical care.
And even if we didn't, we live in a society and we set medical regulations.
And we determine how the Hippocratic Oath is expressed visibly in medical clinics.
And we tell doctors what they can do and what they can't do.
And right now, if you go into a medical clinic and you've got body integrity identity disorder, which is for now a rare disorder where people go in and they say, you know, I've got two healthy arms.
But on the inside, I feel like someone who only has one healthy arm.
So chop off my right arm, doc.
If you go into at least most medical clinics in America, And you say, I've got body integrity identity disorder.
This is a clinically recognized disorder.
The doc will say, oh, I'm sorry for you, but you know, you got two arms.
I'm not chopping off a healthy limb and you got to go talk to a psychologist and maybe ideally a priest and maybe an exorcist, but they're not going to chop off your healthy limb.
However, if you go in with the exact same condition, albeit pertaining to your genitals, you go in and the docs will chop you up and they'll charge either you or they'll charge the state a lot of money for it.
We're already funding this stuff.
So the only question is, if that is valid medical treatment, as the libs all the way up to Joe Biden insist that it is, if it is valid medical treatment for, you know, a little kid to go into a doctor and say, I feel uncomfortable in my body, so I want you to sterilize me.
I want you to chop off my healthy limbs.
I want you to give me bone problems and reduce my life expectancy.
The question is, will we tolerate that?
Or will we say no?
Because if we say no, we're cutting against liberalism.
We're cutting against individualism.
We're cutting against you-do-you.
We're cutting against America's the place where you can do and be anything you want.
I mean, the liberal ideology is so deeply embedded that even many things that we like, you know, this is a free country.
We say this is a free country in America.
America, man can be whatever he wants.
Well, can he really be whatever?
Can he be a woman?
Oh, he can't be a woman because that's illogical, it's contrary to reality.
Okay, then we have to acknowledge a man can't really be anything he wants.
He can be anything he wants in accord with nature and reality.
Okay, well that's a real limit.
Do we have the guts?
Do we have the wisdom to impose those kinds of limits?
No.
Okay, if we don't, today, I think maybe in the long run, maybe we do because people are going to wake up and reality will prevail in the end.
But today, if we don't have that wisdom, then You're not just going to tolerate it, you're going to pay for it.
And you are going to have a little bit of blood on your hands, folks, because we live in a society.
Speaking of sexually confused kids, there's a disturbing report out.
A new survey from the Trevor Project, which is an LGBT organization, says that more than 1 in 10 LGBTQ youth attempted suicide last year.
This is really, really disturbing.
12% of LGBT identifying youth between the ages of 13 and 24 say that they attempted suicide last year.
39% of that group said that they seriously considered attempting suicide.
Within the last year.
And then when you look just specifically at the trans identifying and the non-binary, the other version of trans youth, 46% of these people said that they seriously considered attempting suicide.
Really, really disturbing.
But the policy implication of this report, I think, is probably the opposite of what the LGBT activists think it is.
The policy implication that the LGBT activists take from this is, we need to normalize LGBT ideology.
Can you see these young people who are afflicted by this LGBT ideology, who have this identity, That they are really unhappy.
And so we need to promote the ideology more.
We need to encourage it.
We need to normalize it.
But, you know, it doesn't take a rocket scientist to realize actually the opposite conclusion is true.
Because in recent years, the rate of anxiety, depression, and suicide among LGBT identifying youth has not shrunk.
If anything, it's gotten worse.
12% of people?
If anything, that has gotten worse in recent years.
But the number of LGBT identifying youth has vastly expanded.
The numbers are completely crazy.
I mean, here's a headline.
What's behind the explosive growth in LGBTQ youth numbers?
The number of LGBTQ identifying youth 20 years ago would have been something like 2-3%.
Now the number is over 20% according to a recent survey.
20%, one in five.
So the identity has exploded.
The normalization has exploded.
The encouragement of this ideology and identity has exploded.
And what we were promised was, if you normalize it, if you encourage it, if you teach it in elementary school classrooms, then that's going to make the people who identify this way feel much better about themselves, and their anxiety is going to decline, and their depression is going to decline, and they're going to stop committing suicide.
But that hasn't happened.
None of that has happened.
There is no evidence whatsoever that normalizing disordered sexual identities and behaviors Makes anybody feel better.
If anything, it makes them feel worse.
According to their own numbers.
According to their own advocacy organizations.
So it seemed to me, if you see these numbers, you should say, there is an identity that gives you a greater than 1 in 10 chance of wanting to kill yourself.
It would seem to me the logical conclusion is we should discourage this identity.
Now the LGBT advocates would say, well, the identity is immutable.
It's just in you from birth.
You can't possibly change it or ameliorate your whatever desires or anything.
I don't, maybe not.
Maybe, maybe certain desires do come from nature.
I don't know.
But what I do know is the numbers of this identity went from 2% to 20% in a matter of a small number of years.
So unless Alex Jones is right and there's something in the water turning not only the frickin frogs gay but also the zoomers gay and trans and questioning and non-binary and whatever, then obviously this is a social fad that can be encouraged or discouraged.
The identity can increase or decrease and if the suicide rate and depression and anxiety isn't really changing or if anything if it's getting a little worse, that's very clear the number that you can change is the identity.
You can discourage that identity, you can stop castrating little kids in your gender clinics, and at the very least you can stop encouraging the identity.
We're heading into Pride Month, the first of, I think now we have Pride half of the year, and there are all these sorts of liturgical rituals that go along with this, the coming out day.
I remember when I was in college they had, it was like you'd walk through a fake little door on the campus and it was the coming out, coming out of the closet and all of these rituals and all of this celebration.
But if it's, if it's not helping anyone, if it's actually only making more and more people miserable, and if it's, if it's only leading more and more people into depression, anxiety, and suicide, shouldn't we try the opposite approach?
Should we try the opposite approach?
Shouldn't we believe what the LGBT organizations tell us?
And then, in order to help them, and everyone else, and to have a society that lives in accord with reality, which is a prerequisite for flourishing, shouldn't we say, Let's take a pause here.
Let's skip Pride Month this year.
Let's just see how it goes.
Maybe we can skip it a lot more in the future.
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Tell me what you need.
Jumping in the first one?
Rolling.
Speed.
Action.
Sawbuck's looking a little chubby-wubby.
So I bought him some new food.
It's organic and vegan.
Dogs are supposed to eat meat.
They're descendants of wolves.
You ever see a vegan wolf on the Nature Channel?
I'm a vegan.
Coffee is for closers, ladies.
Listen up!
Hey, don't make this a prison hug.
I'm a heteronormative, cisgendered, white male.
For which I apologize.
I'm black and that used to be enough.
But I'm also bilingual and I'm non-binary.
We're the army!
We drink more before 9am than you Navy pukes do all day.
He rubbed all the fur off his emotional support ferret.
The damn thing look like a four-legged penis!
Charity and work.
Two words that should never go together.
Like women and opinions.
I want a burly man.
They're salty and make me dizzy.
Sorry, I just need to find a thingy to fix my gaming chair.
When I was on the construction site, my chair was a five-gallon bucket.
It was also my toilet.
Hey, I'm done.
I'm going back to bed.
Thanks a lot.
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Finally, finally.
Well, before I give you this, I'm gonna give you just a little tease, because I teased it at the top, and I guess we'll have to talk about it next week.
You know me, I'm a tease.
A Mexican senator ritually sacrificed a chicken to a demon in order to get rain to fall down.
We'll get into the details next week.
Just a reminder that there's nothing new under the sun.
There's nothing new.
You think you've got a new ideology.
You can go out and do a kumbaya and hug the trees and talk about the climate monster and how we need to save the delta.
Paganism, nature worship, has been around for a long, long time.
And we think You know, this Christian society, this is really bad and cruel.
Well, if you think Christian society is bad, just wait until you see un-Christian society.
Just wait until you see post-Christian, neo-pagan society.
No bueno.
No bueno.
Everybody's still talking about, you know, Christy Noem shooting her poor little pooch.
What about the chickens?
They're being sacrificed to demons.
I don't know.
We don't talk about them.
Why are we allowed to talk about them?
Well, we'll talk about them next week.
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Take it away.
Hi Michael, I have a question about sheltering your kids.
I know a lot of people, including some Christians, who say you shouldn't shelter your kids because it doesn't prepare them for the quote-unquote real world.
The argument is basically that You shelter your kids from a very young age and then when they grow into adulthood and move away from the home, they don't have the proper tools and principles to deal with life's difficulties and evils that every person has to face throughout their life.
Now I'm in favor of sheltering your kids but it has made me question whether or not there's a right and wrong way to shelter your kids.
So I was wondering if you have had this experience with your own kids and learning the right way to shelter your kids so that they grow up to be virtuous good people who are able and equipped to deal with the difficulties of life but so that they're not so sheltered that life Basically destroys them.
Thanks!
Yes, you're just talking about building up an immune system.
So, you can't shelter your kids forever, and if you don't expose them to anything that threatens their virtue, then when they are shoved into the real world and they leave the home, they're going to be very vulnerable to that.
Also, if you expose them to things that threaten their virtue at a too young age, then that could also poison them and destroy them and make it very difficult to undo because kids are so impressionable and malleable.
So, what do you do?
Just like building up an immune system.
You, when your kids are very, very young and, you know, could die from the flu or something, you really take a lot of extra steps to protect them from that stuff.
Then, as they get a little bit older, they're, I don't know, seven, eight years old now, maybe then when chicken pox comes around, I guess no one gets chicken pox anymore because there's a shot for it, but now no one takes vaxxers anymore, so maybe they're gonna get chicken pox again.
In any case, when they're old enough that chicken pox won't be a huge threat to them, Then they can build up that immunity, then maybe it's okay to expose them to that a little bit.
And the same thing is true with drinking.
I'm happy to say I've never had a problem with drinking.
I have a problem when my glass is empty.
That's when I have a problem.
No, I have, I've had friends who really have had problems with that and they become addicts and they have to go to rehab and it really messes up their life.
I, I like to have a drink, but I don't, you know, if there's a, if I have half a whiskey and then I'm ready to go to bed, I just, I can leave the glass of whiskey.
I don't really care that much.
Why is that?
Because my, my mother exposed, especially coming from an Italian family.
She exposed me to a little bit of alcohol at a young age.
You know, it's Christmas time, you're a kid, you get a little tiny glass of wine.
Oh, that's nice.
And then I remember when I was 16, I said, Michael, we're on vacation.
She goes, Michael, you're going to go to college soon.
You're going to be exposed to a lot of booze.
So you should, you should have a beer on vacation.
You should, you know, have a little drink.
It's okay, but you're going to kind of learn how to do it and learn your limits and boundaries and do it responsibly.
And I did.
And then, you know, when I went to college, A lot of my friends ended up in the hospital or the health clinic because they drank too much, and that never happened to me.
It was kind of nice, because I learned my limits, and the real world didn't totally knock me down.
So it's not so much a question of what you expose your kids to, it's at what time.
Your kids are going to learn about transgenderism at some point.
Wish they didn't have to, you know?
It's awful that we've normalized that ideology, but it is going to happen.
So what you have to do is take the steps in the schools that you choose for your kids, or homeschooling, in the church you attend, in the community that you engage with, and the people that you see, to make sure that when they're forming their ideas about what sex is, They're not taken by that ideology.
But then, you know, before they go off to college or before they go get a job, they recognize that there is such a thing as transvestitism, and so they're not shocked when they see, you know, Husky Hank wearing a dress at day one on the job.
And you've got to make sure that they've built up the ethical and anthropological framework to even understand what that is and recognize that it's a fallen world and we have charity for people and, you know, we don't just emulate every behavior we see because it can be very harmful.
That's how you do it.
Just like with a pathogen, just like with any behavior.
Next question.
Hello, Mr. Knowles.
Thank you so much for your show.
I'm very curious what you think about the student protests and to what extent you think that the police actions against them is giving them a larger platform or if it's just something that has to be done.
Thank you.
It has to be done in the sense that the liberal elite donors to these schools are demanding that it be done.
It doesn't have to be done as a matter of law and order, because we know that our system of law and order is very corrupt.
So if we had a really robust and healthy system of law and order, they would have shut that BLM protest down within a few days.
Instead, it raged for eight months coast to coast.
So no, it wasn't just that our justice system realized this is too dangerous.
Now, No, no, they don't care about that when it serves their liberal political interests.
The reason that the police were called in and they arrested 2,000 people is because the liberal donors didn't like the protests because it made them look bad and it threatened their interests.
That's what it's about.
So I kind of get a kick out of that.
Obviously, I feel bad for the students who weren't able to go to class.
I feel bad specifically for the Jewish students who are being really directly targeted by the campus in Tefada.
I feel bad for the people who live around these neighborhoods with these schools and they have to deal with these lunatics all the time.
I feel for them.
But as a political matter, I get a real kick out of it because it's just left on left violence.
It is just an internal contradiction within the American left working itself out in a very painful way that's very repellent to moderate normal voters.
And so I don't think that the cops coming in with a heavy hand is going to put an end to it.
As long as the Gaza war goes on.
As long as the IDF might invade Rafah, as long as there's a prospect that this is going to continue, frankly, as long as the Palestinian people don't have their own nation state, but certainly as long as the war is hot.
The Libs are going to be furious about this because the young leftists view it as just an extension, maybe even the apotheosis, of Western colonialism and oppression.
And so they call the state of Israel an apartheid state, just like they did to South Africa in the 80s.
They accuse the State of Israel of oppressive, you know, white settler colonialism of an oppressed brown people, just like they do to Americans and Europeans.
And that's not good.
This has just been beaten into them since they were little kids, and they are not going to give that up.
One does not want to acknowledge Schadenfreude, but the fact that these university administrators have been pushing this stuff, and the liberal donors, and the whole liberal establishment has been pushing this stuff for decades.
Now that they're seeing the fruit of their efforts, I don't want to interrupt them.
That's what I'm saying.
I just, I don't feel like we should interrupt.
Next question.
Hey Michael, trying to fragrance Max.
I know you've heard of LuxMaxine.
I was just wondering, what is your signature scent?
And have you heard of Jeremy Fragrance?
I think there was some novel language in there.
Fragrance max?
Because you look max, that's when you work out, you get nice clothing and stuff.
So if you want to fragrance max, it means you want to put on a certain type of cologne.
So what is my signature scent?
It's evolved over the years.
I do like a cologne every now and again.
When I was really young, I was given a bottle of a cologne called Pheromone.
It's a very kind of old man, like 80s kind of thing.
Then, in the 2000s, I wore Armani Code, like a good Italian boy from New York.
Then, when I got to college, I started checking out Old Bay.
You know, St.
John's kinds, a little bit waspier, maybe a little bit subtler.
And now, I still like the St.
John's ones, but there was my favorite cologne I've ever worn, was given to me by a friend of mine.
He's a wealthy liberal lawyer in New York, but kind of like a reasonable liberal, very, very amiable.
And at one time, one of his clients gave him an $800 bottle of cologne from Arabia called Julescence Blue, Passion of the Desert Shake, and this You just take the lid off of this cologne.
You don't even spray it.
And you feel like you are swimming in a Persian used car lot in Glendale or something.
Beverly Hills.
And I did wear this for years.
It's gone now and I'm too cheap to buy another bottle.
