Ep. 1518 - CNN Cuts Trump Spokesman's Mic In A Live Broadcast
Joe Biden hires another interesting guy at the White House, Julian Assange reaches a plea deal and goes free, and CNN pulls a Trump spokesman from air during a live broadcast.
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In June of 2022, Joe Biden hired a cross-dressing kleptomaniac canine fetishist to help manage nuclear waste in the Department of Energy.
In August of 2022, Joe Biden hired a homosexual Satanist with a pentagram tattoo and matching leather harness to be the White House monkey pox coordinator.
Presumably, that man's job was to coordinate how everyone would catch monkey pox at the White House.
Now, Joe Biden has hired an androgynous pinko who wants to abolish law and immigration enforcement to be the White House Associate Communications Director.
Since this new hire, Tyler Cherry, was announced, he has come under scrutiny and he has attempted to disavow his past remarks and behaviors.
Two days ago, Mr. Cherry tweeted, quote, past social media posts from when I was younger Do not reflect my current views, period.
I support this administration's agenda.
That's the only part of the whole hiring that confuses me.
Mr. Cherry's posts, from mocking law enforcement to promoting degeneracy, seem entirely in line with this administration's agenda.
As far as I'm concerned, he is the perfect spokesman for the Biden White House.
So why would he disavow any of it?
I'm Michael Knowles.
This is The Michael Knowles Show.
Welcome back to the show.
CNN was interviewing President Trump's spokesman and pulled her from the air after the spokesman just quoted back to CNN what CNN hosts, what CNN debate moderators for this week's presidential debate have already said about Trump.
That was too much for CNN.
We will get to that really beautiful performance by the Trump spokesman.
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This spate of hiring doesn't look great for the White House.
The people who are the face of the White House are embarrassing in their behavior and in their speech.
So it's not a great look, but at least they're consistent.
They are uniformly embarrassing.
They are uniformly shameless.
We saw this Once again with DHS Secretary Mayorkas.
Seems like every day I'm playing a new clip of the Secretary of Homeland Security Mayorkas.
It makes sense since Mayorkas is the one who is laying out the red carpet for millions of unvetted illegal aliens to come into this country.
Well, Mayorkas just let in some people that it's bad even for him.
It's bad even for the Biden administration.
This would be ISIS terrorists.
ISIS terrorists were just arrested, eight of them.
They're from ISIS-K, which is a break-off group of ISIS.
And that's bad enough that they got into the country.
We then found out they were already known to law enforcement because they had already been stopped when they were crossing into this country illegally.
And the Department of Homeland Security just let them go.
Not only is the border so open that ISIS terrorists can get through, but our immigration enforcement can meet them, talk to them, say, oh, wow, you guys kind of look like ISIS terrorists.
Well, anyway, I guess we got to let you go.
Even CNN has to ask the Secretary of Homeland Security about this blunder of the ages, this colossal screw up, and here is how Mayorkas tries to get out of it.
We had eight individuals of concern as to whom we did not have derogatory information when first encountered at the border.
We made determinations in the service of our law enforcement objectives, in the service of our highest priority.
Keep the American people safe and secure to take immigration enforcement action and that is indeed what we did.
I have spoken English for about 30, I guess 33 or so years now.
I wrote a whole book on language.
I actually speak multiple languages.
And in none of the languages that I speak, least of all English, does what that man said make any sense whatsoever.
Can we just play the clip again?
I want to try to see if I can translate that absolute, prevaricating, obfuscating gobbledygook.
We had eight individuals of concern, as to whom we did not have derogatory information when we first encountered them.
As to whom, put a pause, as to whom we did not have derogatory information when we first encountered them.
So you got these terrorist looking dudes, cross the border, they illegally, that should have been it, they get caught, you're going back.
But no, because we have an official policy of open borders, letting foreigners just pour into our country in violation of our most basic laws.
DHS, border enforcement, says, okay, well, we got some terrorist-looking dudes coming across, but we don't have any particular derogatory information, whatever the hell that's supposed to mean.
So, I guess, hey, fellas, you're not going to do any terrorism, right?
What?
No, haha, why would we ever do terrorism to you evil, dumb scum of the earth Americans?
You great Satan will die and pay for your crimes!
No, no, we would never do any of that.
Okay, fellas, sounds good.
Go on in.
Go on in now.
See you later.
And then, Mayorkas decides, later on, after these terrorists have been allowed into the country, and we're caught talking about all sorts of terrorist things, finally, finally, they decide, okay, we're gonna take some action.
A little late, buddy.
And we did exactly, that's why we did exactly what we were supposed to do.
Hey, I've got an idea.
Look, I'm not, I'm no policy wonk.
I am not the Secretary of Homeland Security.
How about when terrorist-looking fellas are first encountered at the border, we send them away?
I'll go even further.
How about when illegal aliens are first encountered at the border?
We just send them away then.
Then we don't need to worry about it.
Then we don't need to monitor the terrorists.
We don't need to listen in on their phone calls.
Eight of them.
Now, some Republicans are taking action.
Ted Budd, Republican from North Carolina, and a group of 21 senators are demanding answers here from Mayorkas.
There was a sting operation that then took place in LA, New York, and Philly.
They were caught on wiretap talking about bombs.
Okay, well, I'm glad they didn't set off any bombs, but... Yesterday, I said.
I pointed out that Democrat pundits and politicians, members of Congress, are laughing about the fact that illegal aliens are committing rapes and murders in the United States.
They're laughing about that.
They're laughing about how conservatives are concerned about that.
How we're running headlines about the crimes that illegal aliens are committing.
They think it's kind of funny.
They know that these illegal aliens are liable to commit some crimes, bad crimes, rapes and murders, even rapes and murders of Teenage girls and younger than teenage girls.
But their calculation is, well, some American kids get raped and murdered.
That's a small price to pay for a permanent electoral advantage.
That's a small price to pay for mass migration, which is going to benefit Democrats in the long term.
So, yeah, some kids have to get raped and murdered, but, you know, that's just the cost.
That is the actual calculus that they're engaging in.
And now I guess we'll take it even further.
Well, yeah, look, some ISIS terrorists are going to come into the country.
And who knows?
Maybe they'll set off some bombs, knock down a couple buildings.
Who knows?
Maybe they'll get a dirty bomb.
You know, they'll smuggle a nuclear weapon.
I hope not.
But, you know, look, that's a small price to pay for millions and millions more Democrat voters in the long term.
There is no limit to what these people will do to secure their political power.
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Speaking of foreign nationals and U.S.
policy, huge news yesterday.
Julian Assange, the founder of WikiLeaks, who's been in custody, in actual official custody for five years, but who was in a kind of unofficial custody seeking asylum at the Ecuadorian embassy in the United Kingdom for, what, something like 10 years before that?
He'd been there for a really, really long time, in a kind of prison now for a decade or so.
He's free.
He cut a deal with the U.S. government, and he went free.
He's gone.
This case has been built up for so long, most people, even if you're pretty tuned into politics, don't remember what this guy was in trouble for in the first place.
He was in trouble because, according to the U.S. Constitutional, government, he conspired with a U.S.
malcontent from the military, Bradley Manning, who now thinks he's a woman and calls himself Chelsea.
He conspired to get military secrets and he released them in the largest dump of military secrets probably in world history.
He was then charged with, you know, obtaining and releasing this criminal information.
And then he struck a plea deal, and it was a plea deal for time served in London.
The release of the military information took place during Obama's presidency, so it goes back a long time.
Started in 2009 and they released hundreds of thousands of reports about the Iraq War, about Guantanamo Bay, lots of State Department cables.
He then also, this was kind of charming, he published Democrat National Committee emails in 2016.
There were lots of questions about that and reprisals against him for that.
In any case, What are we supposed to think about this?
I'm old enough to remember when this all started, when Assange's legal troubles really kicked up starting in 2009.
I'm old enough to remember when the conservatives hated Assange and the liberals loved Assange.
Because he was fighting against the war!
And at that time, the Republicans liked the war and the Democrats hated the war.
But then it flipped.
Then the Democrats loved the war and the Republicans hated the war.
And it didn't really matter who got elected.
We still got the same war.
We got more wars, actually.
Barack Obama ran against wars in the Middle East, and then we got more wars in the Middle East under Obama.
We knocked over Libya, knocked over Egypt, kept the troops in Iraq and Afghanistan.
We drew them down a little bit in Iraq.
It just kept going.
And so the positions flipped.
And so people's opinion of this story is going to be entirely dependent on how one presently views the U.S.
government.
People are going to try to invoke some higher principle here.
They're going to point out Julian Assange, he's a journalist.
He is kind of a journalist.
And so if you take a view of the free press that's totally absolute and the press should be able to say whatever they want, that's certainly not my view, but if that's your view, it's a very liberal view, then you're going to say this is an intrepid journalist and he must be defended for releasing this information.
But I think there are all sorts of limits on speech and on the press.
I read a whole book about it and I don't think that journalists have the right to publish super duper secret classified information of immediate national security import that could endanger millions of lives.
I don't think they have any right to do that.
That's never been the view of the press in America, but that is the view of ideologues.
They will sometimes use that kind of principle to buttress their argument.
But what I'm saying here is, your view of Julian Assange, even if you cover it with some facade of a higher principle about journalism or free speech or accountability or whatever, that's all window dressing.
What it really comes down to is your present view of the U.S.
government.
If the U.S.
government is Still trustworthy, still somewhat accountable, still in line with the American tradition and all the best stuff about our country, then Julian Julian Assange is a villain.
Because Julian Assange is violating our laws, he's violating our national secrets, and he's endangering the American political order.
If, however, You view the American government as extremely corrupt, as engaged in all manner of evil around the world, as unaccountable to the people, actually as working against the people, then Julian Assange is a hero.
He's a hero on behalf of the real American tradition and the way of life which has been usurped by this distant and wicked elite.
And if your view As is, I think, the case for most people, lies somewhere in between those two poles, then your opinion of Julian Assange's release is going to be complicated and nuanced.
But that's what it's going to come down to.
Some of the best advice my mother ever gave me when I was a kid was, Michael, I was getting a little big for my britches, and she said, Michael, don't ever believe your own press releases.
Don't believe, this is especially important when it comes to politics, don't believe your own press releases.
Don't believe your own highfalutin, abstract, ideological language.
This is not about freedom of the press, this is not about free speech, this is not about democracy or freedom or equality or whatever.
This is about how corrupt is the U.S.
government.
This is about how removed, how perfidious, how dirty and rotten is our government.
If it's extremely so, Then you're celebrating Assange's release.
If it's not at all, then you're furious about Assange's release.
And if it's somewhere in the middle, you've got a more complex view of Assange's release.
Now, regardless, this is a desperate play from the Biden administration.
Because Biden knows that highly ideological young people like Julian Assange.
Because they view him as speaking truth to power.
In a sense, he is doing that.
He is releasing information from some of the most powerful people in the world, and he's been persecuted as a result of that.
And young people like that kind of narrative.
So, Biden realizes that right now his young voter base hates him because Biden supports Israel and the young liberals despise Israel.
And he realizes he's got a big problem because he looks like he's the powerful guy.
He looks like he's the authoritarian, the tyrant, the...
The awful, evil, old power that's not accountable to the people.
And so he gives them this little dawdle, you know, he gives them this little trinket.
Okay, you can have Julian Assange.
If this were not an election year, and if Joe Biden were not facing a tough re-election fight, that guy would still be rotting behind bars in the United Kingdom, or he'd be extradited to the U.S.
But maybe the best part of the release of Assange, forget about the complex Questions of his role vis-a-vis the American government, the press.
The best part is it shows the Biden White House is really, really worried.
They're willing to do anything they can, including conclude this 15-year battle over national security and the free press.
So this 15-year battle regarding Assange.
Okay, whatever.
We cave.
We give it to you.
You can have Assange.
Please give us our young voters back.
Speaking of Lib's desperation, the spokesman for Donald Trump Caroline, leave it.
I just went on CNN, and this is, what, two, three days before the CNN presidential debate between Biden and Trump, and she goes on, and she just points out that CNN is a network that is hostile to Trump.
She points out that the people moderating the CNN debate have expressed extreme hostility to Trump in the past, and for that, CNN threw her off the air.
First of all, it takes someone five minutes to Google Jake Tapper, Donald Trump, to see that Jake Tapper has consistently... Ma'am, we're going to stop this interview if you're going to keep attacking my colleagues.
Ma'am, I'm going to stop this interview if you continue to attack my colleagues.
I would like to talk about Joe Biden and Donald Trump, who you work for.
If you are here to speak on his behalf, I am willing to have this conversation.
I am stating facts that your colleagues have stated in the past.
Okay, I'm sorry guys, we're going to come back out to the panel.
Caroline, thank you very much for your time.
You are welcome to come back at any point.
She is welcome to come back and speak about Donald Trump and Donald Trump will have equal time to Joe Biden when they both join us now at next, early, later this week in Atlanta for this debate.
You're welcome to come back.
Cut her mic.
Cut her mic.
Kill her.
Get her out of here.
Shut her up.
Muzzle her.
No, you're welcome.
We want to hear your views.
Why is she still on the screen?
Get her out of here.
No, no, no.
Donald Trump and Biden will have equal time.
Oh, yeah?
That's a preview?
Is that a preview of how CNN is going to treat Trump's presidential campaign?
Because I think it probably is a preview, and it means I bet they're going to be pretty quick on the old cut the mic trigger.
And I bet they're going to favor Biden and they're going to disfavor Trump, as has always been the case.
That was the only point Trump's spokesman was making.
Hey, I'm just going to read you quotes from the moderators of the CNN debate to point out that this seems like it's kind of stacked against Trump.
No, no, no!
She can't read our own words back to us!
Cut her mic!
Get her out of here!
The woman who did that, the CNN flag, is Casey Hunt.
I don't know Casey Hunt personally at all, but I remember when I first was getting into politics during the 2011-2012 presidential cycle, I went up to New Hampshire.
And I was around a number of reporters up there and I was around the presidential campaigns, and I remember instinctively I thought, this woman is awful.
It's not like we had some long conversation or anything, I just, I was reading her coverage and I thought, this woman is awful.
She is such a liberal hack.
She is one of the hackiest libs of all the liberal hacks.
And that was back when she was just a small potatoes reporter, I think for Politico at the time.
Now she's grown up, she's got her big commentary show on CNN, and she is Doing the same kind of stuff.
She's going to try to silence the presidential spokesman for the former president, hopefully future president, and Republican nominee.
That is just a preview of things to come on that very network regarding those very same people on Thursday night.
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Is that really bad?
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We know this debate is going to be stacked against Trump.
So should we whine and complain about that?
Is that really bad?
Or should we actually be happy about it?
Eric Trump, the president's son, went on Fox to give his take.
Make no mistake, this is still CNN, right?
This is Jake Tapper.
Jake Tapper has compared my father to Hitler before, right?
I mean, Jake Tapper is the guy who will yell at his control room, say, turn this man off!
I don't want to hear what he has to say when my father is giving press conferences.
I mean, I can't tell you who these people are.
You know who they are.
You've seen them before.
I saw them as I walked into a courtroom every day.
Where they're sitting there with grins on their face, I mean, just ear-to-ear smiles, right?
So understand that he's not just going to be debating Joe Biden, he's going to be debating CNN.
This is pretty much the best advantage Trump can hope for.
Because Trump, in his personality, can be divisive.
I think he's quite charming, and I think that was proven in 2016 when he charmed more voters than Mitt Romney did.
He's divisive in his policies, not only because he upholds a lot of the traditional Republican policies, but because he's harkened back to an even deeper well of conservatism on issues like immigration, on issues like trade, on issues like restraint in foreign policy.
Trump is more conservative than Mitt Romney, the nominee from 2012, than John McCain, the nominee from 2008, than George W. Bush in many ways.
at least accounting for how far society has moved to the left since the time of George W. Bush, Trump seems relatively more conservative.
So that can be very divisive.
So when there are so many opportunities for Trump to turn people off, the best advantage he can hope for is to be persecuted.
Because no matter what people think about abortion, or marriage, or immigration, or the war in Ukraine, or whatever, the vast majority of Americans can agree that Trump is being persecuted by his political rival, Joe Biden, who has weaponized the government against Donald Trump, and that that's wrong.
The vast majority of Americans feel that way.
The vast majority of Americans hate the news media.
They hate it.
They hate the political establishment.
And it's amazing that Donald Trump, who was the president already, he's already been the president for four years, still manages to present himself as a political outsider.
But the reason he can do that is because the political establishment for that entire time has been against him.
It's been so, so decidedly against him that they're trying to put him in an orange jumpsuit now.
And the media are terribly unfair to him.
And the people know that.
So if you're Trump, at first I thought, why did he agree to do a debate on CNN and on ABC?
He should have tried to get it, you know, one debate on CNN, one debate on, I don't know, The Daily Wire, or one debate on Fox, or one debate on The Blaze, or one debate on some right-wing network, or, you know, even center-right network in the case of Fox.
Something that's not just decidedly left-wing.
But then, oh, right, of course.
Trump's at his very best when he's going into the lion's den.
Trump's at his very best.
He just thrives on conflict, and he's anti-fragile in that way, like the author Nassim Nicholas Taleb describes.
He gets stronger the more you beat him up.
So, great, put him on CNN.
He'll probably do better on CNN than he would have done in a debate on a conservative network.
He's looking good on the campaign trail.
There's one little tactic.
And again, I know a lot of people were skeptical of that I think is playing really, really well.
Trump just released a video of it alongside a lot of enthusiastic, just behind-the-scenes kind of campaign trail videos.
And it's Trump, he's at some burger place, he buys burgers for everybody, you know, pats some kid on the head, gives him a $20 bill, you know, it's all looking good.
And then Trump pays the bill for the burgers, and he signs it, and he writes this.
No tax!
On kip!
Kips.
Yeah!
Yeah!
There's a great picture even then of the guys making the food behind the counter and they're holding that...
Vote Trump, no tax on tips.
This has become something of a meme.
Trump supporters will do, they'll post their bill, they go out to the restaurant and have dinner and then they'll leave a tip and you know it's good just at least, it's good to do generally but it's also good for communications purposes.
Make sure it's a good tip, you know it's a nice looking tip and then you put the nice tip there and you say vote Trump, no tax on tips.
So it's visual.
Trump is so good at the visual, at the tangible.
Even when he makes fun of his opponents, he paints a picture of that low energy Jeb.
Little Marco.
Little Marco.
He's always drinking that water.
He's always sweating.
He just paints this picture.
And so you've got this really clear image in your minds.
And on the tax code, that can be kind of abstract policy.
Even the fact that our taxes are removed from our paychecks before we receive our paychecks.
So a lot of people don't even feel immediately the effects of a tax increase or a tax decrease.
No tax on tips.
Okay, I can make sense of that.
I know how much I'm getting.
If I'm working as a waiter, I've worked in restaurants, you look, you see, you know exactly what you're getting on that tip.
You say, oh good, I was paying 20%, 30%, whatever, of that tip in taxes.
Now I'm not.
Now I get to keep that.
You can take a picture of it.
You can see it.
Vote Trump.
No tax on tip.
Okay, I'm into it.
Now, some doctrinaire libertarians have criticized Trump for this.
I'll say, why are you giving a giveaway to these waiters?
What, other kinds of workers don't deserve a giveaway like this?
This is just like Biden, you know, giving away student loan forgiveness to college graduates.
It's a giveaway, yeah.
It's a political maneuver, yeah, sure.
But this one's a lot smarter.
Biden is seen as giving money, giving a lot of money, to people who statistically are going to make more money than the average American worker.
If you graduate from a college, you're likely to make more money, significantly more money, than a non-college graduate.
So, Biden is going to people who are already kind of rich and giving them a ton more money.
Hundreds of thousands of dollars, potentially, each.
Trump is seen as going to people who make statistically less money and who do jobs that are really hard jobs.
Being a waiter, being a kitchen runner, being a busboy, that's a hard, tiring job.
You gotta put up with all sorts of customers all day.
And going to those people and saying, hey, that relatively smaller amount of money that is a gratuity, you get to keep more of that if you elect me.
It's Trump making concrete The realignment of the parties that he's been pushing for eight or nine years now, which is that the Republicans are going to be the party of working Americans.
Democrats are the party of the rich.
They're the party of the global elite.
They're the party of latte-sipping Hollywood celebrities sending your money to Ukraine, palling around with Selensky at the World Economic Forum in Davos.
Sure, that's going to be the Democrats.
Republicans are going to be the party of waiters.
And you can just leave it as an empty promise.
Republicans have made that empty promise before.
Or you can make it concrete with actual policy and a policy that you can represent visually on a receipt.
Vote for Trump, no tax on tips.
Brilliant stuff.
Speaking of receipts, Alex Rosen, the pedophile hunter, has just nabbed another pervert.
And this pervert happens to be a political figure that would be the head of the LGBTQ Democrats in Maryland.
You're the head of the LGBTQ Dems in Maryland?
Okay.
How long have you been in that position for?
Since fall.
Since fall?
Okay.
Is that like a paid position?
Okay.
Just more of a volunteer type thing?
Is it like a super PAC or something?
Or is it just... Okay.
Some of this stuff said here, like, you know, I want to rape you.
I want to see how much of a f*** you are.
What was kind of sad about that?
I hope you try to get away once I start.
I like the fantasy and he seemed to enjoy it.
And I didn't know this person, and I never intended to meet him.
- No, of course.
- With a little blow?
- No, of course not. - Mehear said it's okay if you wanna jerk off looking at it, talking about your .
And you said stop by this morning so I can stretch your hole.
Can't wait to make you my little bull.
And this was four days later with no response.
Can't wait to make you my little dump, baby boy.
Okay.
Okay, so this guy who keeps talking to Alex Rosen for some reason.
He's a political figure.
He is the head of the LGBTQ Democrats in Maryland.
During Pride Month he gets nabbed, by the way.
He's talking to someone he thinks is a 14-year-old boy.
Obviously, it's this decoy working for Alex who's got a big YouTube channel and who not only does these investigations that the police often won't do, but then he tries to involve law enforcement in it.
Sometimes law enforcement will accept this invitation and go and arrest these people and take predators off the street.
Sometimes law enforcement won't.
In this case, Alex pointed out, he said, in regard to the lack of police involvement in this, please note, we tried to turn this in back in November.
They didn't want anything to do with it.
Though he admitted, the head of the LGBTQ Dems in Maryland, he admitted to sending obscene photos.
In Maryland, the law states you have to be a cop or a real kid for it to be a charge.
He admitted to previously possessing child pornography, but did not have any in his possession currently.
We are still going to turn all of this over to the cops, but calling them to the scene would have done nothing, and the cops probably will do nothing here.
Really, really gross stuff.
I sat down with Alex some months ago.
We did a full long Michael and interview.
Here's a short teaser.
We had a pedo in Wyoming who came to drink baby's blood.
I mean, it's so common for people to be into infants and toddlers.
Three of them have said they have received child porn as young as five years old.
On the scale of, these guys don't.
Consider anything in the metaphysical realm to these are interdimensional demons worshiping Satan.
Where do your marks fall?
Well, um... You can go check that out on the Michael Knowles YouTube channel under Michael And, that's the series, or DailyWare Plus.
Really compelling stuff, and it's a shame that law enforcement doesn't want to follow up a lot of the time on these important finds.
This is obviously totally humiliating for the head of the LGBTQ Dems in Maryland.
You know, awful stuff, probably criminal.
Again, I don't know, I'm not a cop, I'm not a prosecutor, but there's probably some criminal stuff here.
But you heard what he said.
He said, look, it's just a fantasy.
I was just fantasizing.
I wasn't really going to do it.
And now he's caught on camera and his life is ruined.
It's humiliating because it's so vile.
It's humiliating because it's so shameful.
But if you look at this in charity, I know it's very difficult to look at this kind of thing in charity, but if you look at this thing in charity from the perspective of a fallen world where you say, there but for the grace of God go I, if you try to put yourself in this guy's shoes, You've got to ask yourself, how many things had to go wrong in this guy's life?
How many bad decisions did this guy have to make to end up there, standing opposite Alex Rosen, being nabbed for all of the world to see, saying and doing some of the most disgusting stuff imaginable?
What happened?
He obviously is addicted to pornography.
That's something that's ubiquitous though.
Porn is everywhere in the culture.
Okay, there's that.
He had to believe that certain sexual pathologies and aberrant behaviors and disordered desires are okay, should be affirmed, you know, so maybe he was born with these kinds of desires or maybe that's what he told himself.
He has to believe that life is about just pursuing your own interests without regard to reason, without... Think about the time, all the time that this guy He's spent scheming and talking to people he thinks are children online.
Think about how completely twisted this guy's life is.
The reason I bring all that up is...
It could be anyone.
Maybe not this particular crime, but people can end up down a rabbit hole, and it always starts with one bad decision.
Maybe some bad circumstance, and then one bad decision leads to another, to another, to another, and before you know it, forget about this guy for a second, before you know it, you're Hunter Biden, born basically with a silver spoon, whose father is a very influential person, and you're buying crack on Skid Row in Los Angeles.
I mean, you think that's a crazy one, or you're going to strip clubs every night, or you're doing whatever.
People think, well, that's just someone else.
That can't happen to me.
It can't.
This is a fallen world, man.
You can end up in really bad places.
If we continue to encourage and normalize these sorts of depraved behaviors, one will lead to another, to another, to another.
The libertarians say, legalize everything, you know, just let people do whatever they want.
That's freedom, or whatever.
It's the freedom that lands you doing an interview with Alex Rosen.
That's the freedom that lands you on Skid Row buying crack.
If only there was a little less of that kind of freedom and some more of the real freedom that built up our country.
Maybe that guy wouldn't be in that position.
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My favorite comment yesterday is from Kevin McDee at 112, who says, I learned a long time ago not to argue with idiots on the internet.
What else do you do on the internet?
I don't.
That's a good point, though.
It actually ties in with what we were just saying about how people can be led astray, especially on the internet.
If you find yourself arguing with idiots on the internet, you know, if you find yourself getting really, really angry in internet fights, one, it's good to remember the futility of that, the general futility of getting into flame wars on social media, but two, just think about the wasted time.
All the things you could be doing in the precious few moments that you were given on this earth.
All the opportunity cost to the flame wars on the internet.
Then maybe go do something else.
Speaking of bad decisions, we're talking about immigration, we're talking about terrorists crossing the border, we're talking about illegal aliens that are raping and murdering people, we're talking about all sorts of stuff.
But amid all of those really scintillating, you know, tabloid headlines, There are less titillating headlines and political issues that do threaten to unravel the country, and we don't talk about them nearly enough.
Neil Ferguson, the historian, just pointed out.
Any great power that spends more on debt service than on defense will not stay great for very long.
True of Habsburg, Spain.
True of the Ancien Regime in France.
True of the Ottoman Empire.
True of the British Empire.
This law is about to be put to the test by the U.S.
beginning this very year.
This year, we will spend more just servicing the U.S.
national debt than we will spend on defense.
This is The first issue that I focused on in politics, when I got involved in politics at a national level when I was but a wee lad, my first campaign was a congressional campaign.
It was focused largely on this issue of debt and spending.
And then I worked on some national campaigns that were focused on that issue.
We've done nothing about it.
The situation has only gotten worse and worse and worse.
And sometimes we mock this issue of the debt as a kind of just a policy wonk nerd issue.
It's no big deal.
But it can have real tangible consequences.
The Tea Party was largely about how we need to get our spending under order.
There was a really great speech given at CPAC once by Mitch Daniels, who was then the governor of Indiana, saying we have a new red menace, this one consisting of ink.
And unfortunately, the issue is kind of a snooze fest for a lot of people, and they don't care.
They want to talk about the more cultural issues.
And in fact, I can understand why.
Because the argument made by people like Mitch Daniels was, we need to get our fiscal house in order, then we can focus on the social issues, but we need a social truce until then.
But that's not how politics really works.
That's what we learned.
Daniels is a super smart guy, he was a great governor, but that's just not how politics works.
Debt and the way we spend money and the way we think about money is a social issue.
If we don't get the social issues in order, if we don't shore up the American family, if we don't shore up our borders, if we don't shore up community and our sense of our obligations to the country and a turn away from selfish interest and toward the common good, then we're just not going to fix the fiscal problem.
We're all just going to keep trying to get money out of the pie.
But we have to do something about it.
We are very complacent.
We really seem to think that the American empire, the American global hegemony, is going to go on forever.
Lesser empires, lesser nations have, or I'm sorry, rather I should say greater, more splendid-looking, magnificent-looking empires, you think of the Ancien Régime in France, have fallen for these kinds of issues.
No one's even talking about it.
No, it's off the table.
The suggestion of entitlement reform, or really any way to get the budget, neither party is at all interested in it.
Maybe because we need to fix the social issues first, then we can talk about it, but clock's ticking.
As the nerdy historians point out, nerdy historians are often correct.
Speaking of deceptive accounting, here's a really, this is probably the stupidest article I have read in a very, very long time.
This is from Newsweek.
It says, Texas abortion ban linked to infant deaths rise.
There's a study out.
It showed, and this is going to prove to all you pro-lifers how terrible it is to ban abortion because by banning abortion they've increased infant mortality.
What's the study?
Study analyzed almost 95,000 recorded infant deaths in Texas and 28 comparison states between 2021-2022.
After accounting for absolute increases in birth rates, it found that the Texas Heartbeat Act was associated with an unexpected increase in infant mortality.
The infant deaths increased in one year from 1985 to 2240, so it's 255 additional deaths.
This is higher than other states.
What was this caused by?
Congenital abnormalities, the most common cause of infant mortality.
They account for more than 1 in 5 infant deaths.
Okay, so there you go, 20% of these infant deaths, right there, congenital abnormalities.
Baked in from the beginning.
By banning abortions, this is what Newsweek writes, by banning abortions in cases of known congenital abnormalities, more babies will likely be born with these conditions.
Okay, hold on.
I think you probably understood the problem with this headline from the beginning, but here I think it's especially clear.
When babies die, when more babies die outside the womb, Because you have killed fewer babies inside the womb.
That does not necessarily represent an increase in infant mortality.
What that represents is an exposure of the infant mortality that already exists.
All they're doing here is they're just pretending that when a baby dies outside the womb, that's a baby dying, but when a baby is murdered inside the womb, that's not a baby.
It's not death.
It has nothing to do with death or life or definitely not babies.
Just forget about it.
No, that's not it.
Now, in addition to congenital factors, They say there might also be societal factors behind these increases, including increased socioeconomic and mental stresses associated with unplanned pregnancy.
The repercussions of potentially preventable increases in infant mortality are significant, say the researchers.
Experiencing an infant death is associated with trauma and potential criminalization, particularly for racialized groups.
Then, I don't know, they go on and say, we need to let black people kill more of their babies.
That's the implication.
But notice here what they don't state.
They don't talk about the trauma and the sin and crime of murdering your baby in the womb.
Forget about that.
Well, plenty of women, plenty of women have all sorts of trauma after they kill their babies from abortion, through abortion, but they don't talk about it.
I don't know.
Forget about that.
No, no, it's awful.
These babies are dying of congenital issues when we could have just murdered them inside the womb.
Well, the babies are still dying, aren't they?
The only difference is now we're exposing it.
First of all, you're giving the babies a chance at life.
You're giving parents the opportunity to love their children, even for some period of time.
You're no longer encouraging parents to kill their children, something that will stick with them for the rest of their lives and that is intrinsically evil.
You're not necessarily increasing infant mortality.
Probably you're not doing that at all.
You're exposing it.
You're exposing the real infant mortality crisis in the country, which is that we murder a million babies a year.
