Ep. 1519 - Libs Call For Violence If Trump Wins

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The establishment media have debunked a lie about Donald Trump seven years after inventing and peddling that lie.

Better late than never, I guess. Seven years ago, President Trump condemned neo Nazis and white supremacists after a march in Charlottesville, Virginia.

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You had some very bad people in that group, but you also had people that were very fine people on both sides. You had people in that group. Excuse me. Excuse me. I saw the same pictures as you did. You had people in that group that were there to protest the taking down of to them a very, very important statue and the renaming of a park from Robert E. Lee to another name.

George Washington was a slave owner. Was George Washington a slave owner? So will George Washington now lose his status? Are we going to take down. Excuse me, are we going to take down, are we going to take down statues to George Washington? How about Thomas Jefferson? What do you think of Thomas Jefferson? You like him? I do. Okay, good. Are we going to take down the statue? Because he was a major slave owner. Now we're going to take down his statue?

So you know what? It's fine. You're changing history, you're changing culture. And you had people, and I'm not talking about the neo Nazis and the white nationalists, because they should be condemned totally. But you had many people in that group other than neo Nazis and white nationalists.

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Five years ago, Joe Biden launched his presidential campaign, aired the very first ad of his presidential campaign on the lie concocted and propagated by the mainstream media that Trump called neo Nazis. Very fine people.

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We saw klansmen and white supremacists and neo Nazis come out in the open, their crazed faces illuminated by torches, veins bulging and burying the fangs of racism, chanting the same anti semitic bile heard across Europe in the thirties.

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You will not replace us.

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And they were met by a courageous group of Americans, and a violent clash ensued, and a brave young woman lost her life.

And that's when we heard the words of the president of the United States that stunned the world and shocked the conscious of this nation.

He said there were, quote, some very fine people on both sides. Very fine people on both sides.

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Very fine? You're calling Nazis very fine? Well, now, seven years after the media lied about what Trump said, and five years after the media gave Biden a pass for lying about what Trump said, at least one establishment media outlet, Snopes, is admitting that it was all, in fact, a lie. Headline. No, Trump did not call neo Nazis and white supremacists very fine people. Claim. On August 15, 2017, then President Donald Trump called neo Nazis and white supremacists who attended the Unite the right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia. Very fine people.

Rating false.

False. Okay, that's it. Not even half true, half false. Nope. Just false because it was false. Great news and a great sign that the media will also eventually admit that Trump did not commit felony business fraud, did not criminally mishandle classified documents, did not defraud the US and violate the rights of citizens, and did not commit racketeering like Al Capone.

Just be sure to check back for those admissions sometime around the year 2033. I'm Michael Knowles. This is the Michael Knowles show.

Welcome back to the show. A man has gone viral on TikTok after a woman, just a random woman, filmed him on an airplane, possibly cheating on his wife.

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How concerned are you, congresswoman, about your safety if Donald Trump is reelected?

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Well, I'm very concerned not only about my safety and not only about the safety of members of Congress. I'm concerned about the safety of so many people in this country, particularly people of color. Donald, Donald Trump has said that if he does not win, it's going to be fraud. And because it's going to be fraud, there's going to be blood in the streets. He threatens about a civil war and he threatens there's going to be violence. So I say all of this talk is motivational with many of those who are racist, who are sitting at home listening to him, and they're taking him up on his threats even before the elections take place, having the attack, the insurrection that took place on the House of Representatives, in Congress, on the Capitol, on the Capitol grounds that we could be in for more killings like that.

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More killings like what? Because you notice the way she's talking.

She's making it seem as though the leftists are the victims. Oh, it's, we are going to be in trouble. We the Democrat members of Congress, we the liberal people of color, we the victims of the violent, awful Maga movement.

But then she says you're going to see more killings like you saw on January 6. Who was killed on January 6? One person was killed on January 6 in the political violence, and that would be Ashley Babbitt, a Trump supporter who was killed by a trigger happy cop.

So what is she really threatening here?

She's saying Donald Trump is the one threatening the leftists. Really? It seems to me she is threatening the conservatives. If Trump wins, there's going to be violence.

When there has been political violence over the last five years, ten years even.

Who's been committing the violence? It's the left. Frankly, you go back 100 years when there's been political violence going back 100 years.

Has it been Republican on Democrat, or has it been Democrat on Republican? Has it been right on left? Or has it been left on right? The weather Underground was that, that was a far right organization that was blowing up buildings, killing people. Was that the Black Panthers? That was a far right organization, the antifa. That's a far right organization. Antifa tried to blow me up when I was in Pittsburgh.

It's all not 100%, but it's almost always the left. And here, even as she's trying to frame it as a fear that she has, that the right wing is going to attack her, she accidentally admits where the violence is coming from. You're going to see more killings like you saw on January 6. Okay, well, if we're going to see more killings like we saw on January 6, then we're going to see killings of right wingers who are protesting the left wing political establishment. That's what we're going to see. And ultimately, I suspect that's what she means. BLM, that's a far right organization. I don't think so.

It's not just happening in America. There's a leftist politician in France who has just called to eradicate right wing populists.

It occurs to me only now there are no subtitles there. So I'll loosely translate, I have pretty bad French. What she says is, if we could eradicate them, and you might have even heard it, if we can eradicate them, that would be great. And then she recognizes, oh, shoot, I shouldn't have said that. So she says, no, no, that's not a good word. But if we could drastically reduce the. The score, if we could drastically reduce the victories of the far right, that would be wonderful. So she recognizes, oh, yikes, I shouldn't have said that. But she said what? She said, if we could eradicate them. Now, I have a little experience with the word eradicate because I gave a speech at CPAC a couple years ago in which I chose my words pretty carefully and I was accused of genocide by the left. But what did I say at CPAc? At CPAC, I said, for the good of society, and especially the good of these. These trans identifying people, transgenderism must be eradicated from public life entirely. The whole ideology at every level. So I was very clear. I pointed it out multiple times. I was talking about the eradication of an ideology, the eradication of a condition like you would eradicate poverty or cancer or Nazism or jihadism or communism.

I made it quite clear. I was not talking about the eradication of people.

This woman does exactly the opposite. She says, we need to eradicate them.

Them.

Now, when I spoke, I feel quite precisely, I was accused by Rolling Stone and the Huffington Post and the whole liberal establishment of calling for genocide. This woman. You probably didn't even see a headline about this because this is the ordinary course of action. And you see it again and again, prominent left wing figures. I remember Oprah got in trouble for saying this some years ago. She said, you know, these people who oppose progress, they just need to die. You know, we just gotta. Maybe we'll just wait for them to die naturally, but we gotta just look forward to them dying so that we can have our country. We don't need them in it. Cause they're dead.

You hear this kind of language all the time. They want to kill us. I hate to say it makes me kind of sad to say it, but they wanna kill us, okay? And when they accuse us of wanting to kill them, that is projection. That's like when a cheating husband suspects his wife of cheating on him without any evidence. Why does he suspect his wife of cheating on him? Because he has a guilty conscience. Because he's projecting. That's what the libs do. There's going to be more political violence if Trump wins. Why do you say that? The Trump movement has engaged in virtually no political violence ever.

The left has been engaged in political violence almost without pause. I mean, just BLM alone was eight months of burning the country down with the support, the vocal rhetorical and financial support of prominent leftists, including the current vice president and president of the United States, at least staffers to the president of the United States.

It was eight months. Dozens of people murdered, businesses burned to the ground, homes burned to the ground.

They're like the cheating husband who accuses the wife of cheating on him. All of this talk, oh, there's, the right wants to engage in political violence. That is pure projection. There's so much more to say. First, though, go to puretalk.com knowles. I was walking the other day around a little bit of a touristy site in Nashville. Someone comes up to me, says, Michael Love the show. Daily listener. I gotta know, is pure talk really that good? That was the question. I said, I can assure you, I can promise you with 100% certainty, pure talk is even better than you think it is. For years, people have been switching their wireless service to pure talk to save money. $20 a month for unlimited talk, unlimited text, tons of data. It's a no brainer. Over the last few weeks, Pure Talk has reported a surge of new customers signing up to help them support a charity that is near and dear to their and our hearts, America's warrior partnership. Many of my own listeners have chosen to step away from Verizon, ATT, and T Mobile to switch to pure talk and help this great charity get to do business with a company that shares your values. That is why pure talk has decided to extend their support for AWP through Independence Day. From now through July 4 weekend, Pure Talk will match every dollar donated. Switch your cell phone service to America's most dependable 5g network with Pure talk. Go to puretalk.com knowles to start saving on wireless today. That is puretalk.com kenowles.

Speaking of cheating husbands, a man has gone viral, and I guess his paramour, his mistress, has gone viral, too.

After a woman on an airplane who was sitting two rows ahead of them starts filming a little bit herself, but she's really trying to just film the guy and the woman behind her.

You can see I'm blurring out the guy's face and the mistress's face.

Cause this seems pretty disordered.

We'll get into what's going on here in a second. The woman writes in the comment of her video.

If this man is your husband flying United Airlines flight such and such from Houston to New York? He's probably gonna be staying with Katie tonight. I shouldn't have said the name. Him and Katie met him and Katie. So, you know, it should be. He should be in the nominative, not the accusative. But obviously this woman who's filming this has a couple of screws loose. Him and Katie met at the airport bar and haven't left each other's side since then. He convinced her to change her seat so she could sit next to him and they could drink. I don't know his name, but know hers because he keeps saying it. He's also said his eight year old daughter danced for the Astros opening night. He's from this town in Texas, says he's a surfer, got a new surfboard, supposedly president of the company he works for and flying to New York for business. I wouldn't have known he was married if he hadn't been wearing his wedding ring. Excuse me, rubbing my eye. I didn't know what else to do to self record. Haha. Haha. Face. Do your thing, TikTok. Hashtag find the wife.

Then this woman posts a follow up video update. They were making out and ended up in the bathroom together.

What a psycho this woman is. Put aside the guy and the mistress. We'll get to him in a second. What a complete psycho this woman is on the airplane. Would it ever occur to you, first of all, to mind people's business this much? Would it ever? You're sitting on an airplane. I don't care if someone starts jumping up and doing jumping jacks in the aisle, I'm pretty much going to ignore them and I'm going to sit there and I'm going to have my drink and I'm going to read my book or do my work and maybe I'll eat some peanuts.

What kind of a woman involved, what kind of a gossipy, wicked woman involves herself so much in other people's private affairs?

Affairs, I guess pun unintended there.

Whatever this man has done to harm the institution of marriage, this woman is doing much more. This is really totally inexcusable.

What could this possibly accomplish? First of all, maybe the guy's cheating on his wife. Maybe he's not. I don't know.

Maybe the guy's, maybe. I guess he's married, is wearing a wedding ring.

Maybe.

Maybe he's a widower. Maybe his wife just died. Maybe. That's not likely. Maybe it is. He's still wearing the wedding ring. Maybe he's divorced? I I don't support divorce, but maybe that's the situation. Maybe this is some weird role playing fantasy that a man and his wife have on an airplane. I don't know. People do weird stuff.

But how on earth could you involve yourself in another man's marriage this way? And then to go on and say, find that wife. Find that wife. What, so you can humiliate a jilted woman? Oh, that's a good, hey, here's info about his daughter, his underage daughter, and here's what he looks like. And let's make him go famous, and let's totally humiliate his wife. Girl power. Why? So that this woman can feel virtuous or get some more clicks, get some more likes on TikTok. It's just so wrong.

You know, I had this long debate with Pearl Davis of the kind of red pill. I guess she's sort of in the red pill community. I don't know. Her schtick is she just attacks women all the time.

But I said, look, I think marriage is indissoluble. I think what God has joined, no man can separate. So she said, well, no, you need prenups. Men shouldn't get married.

Divorce is acceptable. And if a woman cheats, divorce is acceptable. And she kind of mocked me for saying that, no, I really don't think there's any excuse for divorce.

And she mocked me as being too soft on women or something. But I'll defend the men just as much as I'll defend the women, because really, I'm not defending a man or a woman. I'm defending the institution of marriage, which is a natural institution and in my view, a sacramental institution, and it's the building block of society. So this doesn't exist. Let's say this guy is a cheater. Maybe he's a cheater. Maybe he's an adulterer. That's awful. It's terribly sinful.

He should make it up to his wife, if he possibly can. He should go to confession. He should work on himself. He should remove himself from the near occasion of sin.

I'm not excusing any of it. It's just really awful to cut at the fidelity which lies at the heart of a marriage, but it's a marriage. It's the building block of society.

If we're not going to respect that, we're not going to respect any of our political institutions, there's going to just be total instability.

This woman, I guess what's so offensive about this video to me is this woman is pretending as though she is defending marriage. She's not. She is trying to destroy this guy's marriage and humiliate his wife so that she somehow, individual woman, some prideful individual woman, can get more clicks on TikTok.

Not good. Gotta defend marriage. We gotta consistently defend marriage. This ain't it, man. Now, speaking of romances that are fascinating the public, Bill Belichick, former coach for the New England Patriots, has been caught on camera. I'm not telling tales out of school. This has been widely reported. He was caught on camera leaving someone's home, and people were making jokes about this at the Tom Brady roasted. We now know he was leaving the home of a 24 year old former cheerleader who apparently is his girlfriend. Bill Belichick is 72 years old.

The cheerleader, 24 years old.

I know there's going to be some portion of guys in the audience whose response to this story will be nice.

Yeah, Bill, but there are going to be a lot of people who are kind of laughing about this, who are either disgusted by this or find it very funny and ridiculous, or find it both disgusting and ridiculous and will laugh, but also recoil at the story. Now, this gal, I also won't say her name.

It's reported, I guess she previously dated a 64 year old. So she has a type. She has a type. And who knows how she developed that type? And probably not the most normally ordered thing, but okay, fine.

I don't even want to talk about Belichick or his girlfriend or, I don't mean any shade to Bill Belichick. He's a very talented coach.

The reason the story interests me is because it shows you the inescapability of the moral order.

This guy has everything.

He is one of the winningest coaches in the history of sports. He's rich, he's famous. He's a cool guy. He's got all these accomplishments, and now he's the butt of jokes. And he's the butt of jokes specifically because he's doing something that in his own mind makes him really cool. He's the butt of jokes because he's getting so much pleasure. He's the butt of jokes because he's indulging himself so much. It's not even like he got caught doing something that is broadly considered, you know, I don't know, disgusting or degrading or he got caught doing something that's so indulgent, that's so decadent that it's. That it diminishes him and it makes him look ridiculous. There's no way for a 72 year old guy to be dating a 24 year old girl, no matter how cool that guy is or accomplished or whatever, there's no way you see those two out on a dinner date and you're going to laugh. You're going to feel sorry for both parties involved.

They're still making fun of him. You can have it all. You can have money. You can have fame. You can have accomplishments. You can't escape the moral order.

It's going to be there. People think, oh, well, now that I've made x amount of money, I can get away with this. Now that I'm this famous, I can get away with that. You can't. You can't. The moral order is there, whether you want to acknowledge it or not.

Now, speaking of disorder, though, that then became ordered.

Romantic relationships. You've got to check out my sit down on michael. And with lex and Nick Rennick, check out the teaser.

You identified as a man on hormones. You, Nick, identified as a homosexual. So you got gay married. Yeah. Cause we truly. We truly didn't think that the way that we were living was wrong. You came out as a lesbian, not as a transgender.

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At first, yes. My own mother looked me in the eye and said, if I would have known that you were gonna be my child, I would have aborted you. I go over to my mom, and she's pouring her glass of wine, and I say it. I finally get it out of my mouth and she says, that's why you're a freak.

It was like my innocence was ripped away. All this confusion came in.

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I feel for every teen boy that is struggling with all of these emotions and feelings and desires.

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So I fell on my face and I just cried out to God and I said, make me sexually attracted to a man.

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You both acknowledge the desires. Real. So do you still have the desires?

Watch the episode now on the Michael Knowles YouTube channel. Be sure to watch the uncensored versions on Spotify and ad free on Dailywire. Plus, a lot of this lgbt stuff spreads through social media as a kind of social contagion. That's why the lgbt identification among Zoomers has reached 30% right now. That's why it tripled within five years. It's either there's chemicals in the water turning the frogs gay, which actually, there are those two, or it's a social contagion. So this then calls our attention to a study. A new study just came out on how young people are processing information online. Because it's different from the way that older people, boomers, Gen X maybe even millennials are processing information online.

There's a report on this in Business Insider. It's based on a study done by Jigsaw, which is a subsidiary company of Google.

Here is what the CEO of Jigsaw said. Within a week of actual research, we threw out the term information literacy.

So this idea of how do you know to process information? How do you sift between what kind of information is valuable and valid and what is false and worthless?

They use that term information literacy. Well, the term doesn't even really apply to Zoomers. Why?

Because according to Jigsaw, zoomers are not on a linear journey to evaluate the veracity of anything. Instead, they are engaged in information sensibility, a socially informed practice that relies on folk heuristics of credibility, you know, rules of thumb, interpretive principles to figure out credibility.

So lots of science y jargon to get at what. What are they trying to say? What jigsaw is discovering is that zoomers are taking in information and determining its credibility based on the comments.

They're going to jump straight to the comment section and they're going to see what people are saying, because in the comments section, we have what is sometimes referred to as weaponized autism. You have people with extreme skill or technical expertise or just a lot of time on their hands and a nerdy kind of instinct to go look up all this information. And so if there is something false in an article, it'll be debunked in the comments section right away. And we expect the algorithm to bump up those comments that are so incisive, we expect to see those at the top. And so zoomers, according to Jigsaw, they're going to read the headline. They're not going to read all or even most of the article.

They're not going to then go look in an encyclopedia to verify the information that they read in the article. No, they're going to jump to the comments. They're going to outsource the fact checking and the verification to random people on the Internet, and they're going to trust that the random people on the Internet are going to do the fact checking for them, and it's going to be pretty reliable. Okay, why is that?

According to this study, the old guard is like, yeah, but you have to care ultimately about the truth. The gen z take is you can tell me your truth and what you think is important. You know, what about the truth? You just tell me your truth. And that's why we're going to farm it out to all these different individuals. And the study seems to be lamenting the fact that Zoomers think this way. I don't know why they're lamenting that. This is how zoomers have been taught. Zoomers from preschool have been taught that there is no such thing as the truth. There's only your truth, and there's my truth. And truth is kind of whatever you want it to be, man. They've been taught that reason is unreliable. They've been taught to defer, not to tradition, which is what I think is a sensible thing to do when we recognize we all have a relatively small portion of reason in our brains. No, no, no. They've been taught to defer then to the irrational will. Whatever you want. If today you want to be a woman, if tomorrow you want to be a dinosaur, well, you just are that thing. And everyone has to acquiesce to the tyranny of your will, and that's going to supplant the truth. That's going to. That's going to become your truth because you're going to club people on the head if they don't go along with your supposed truth. So this is how zoomers have been taught. And now zoomers are thinking and acting in a way that is in accord with what they've been taught since they were in diapers. Yeah, there's no surprise there.

And furthermore, this folk heuristic of credibility, namely, listening to what the people you trust say about it, is not the worst idea. That's actually a pretty. That's a pretty smart heuristic, because you don't. One, you don't have time to go through all the scientific and philosophical papers to analyze and examine every single article you read. But two, we know that the so called credible establishment news sources are totally full of it. And they push lies like the lie that Donald Trump called nazis find people in Charlottesville and they push them for seven years before they ever even admit. Okay, maybe we lied about that. So the fact that zoomers don't believe the established, credible sources, like the mainstream media, like what? The guys in the scientific lab coats, like Doctor Fauci, who told us, if you take the vaccine for Covid, you're not going to catch COVID Actually, whoops, you'll catch it, but you won't spread it. Actually, whoops, you will spread it, but it'll be a little better or whatever. Anyway, stop asking me questions. Put on your mask. Yeah, they don't trust the scientific authorities. Sure, because they've.

They've tarnished their own credibility.

So now they're going to trust the people that they follow, the influencers and their friends and their networks, to do some of that work for them. And frankly, that would be a pretty good idea, except for one other fact. This also from a viral video on social media yesterday.

The comments that you're seeing at the top of the comment section probably look different from the comments at the top of the section that other people are seeing.

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I opened the comments of this video and kind of as I expected, everyone was saying, oh, that's really rude. It's the disregard of her time. I don't like him.

Did he communicate with you? If not, then that's a red flag. Okay, fair enough. You know, I send this video to my boyfriend who was sat next to me, and then I said to my boyfriend, lol, look at the comments.

Bear in mind, these comments were coming up at the top of the list. So as soon as you open the comments, these are the ones that came up for me. Tell me why my boyfriend opens the comments on his phone again. It's the first list of comments that come up. It's the same time on the same video.

Or you could get your own hobby instead of waiting around for him, like, God forbid he has a good time. He went before 03:00 a.m. he's ahead of schedule.

No wonder we're also divided when you can look at the same comments on the same video and it'll change them based on who you are, and I presume based on other activity in the app.

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Okay, so the girl looks at it, and all the comments say the guy's bad and the girl's right. The guy looks at it and all the comments say the guy's right and the girl's wrong.

We're getting different top comments. Right? Right.

She's lamenting. She's saying, because we don't have any common public space anymore, we're all divided. And this is a big problem. I agree.

I agree. That is a big problem.

However, this is also smart business. If you're the one making these apps and these platforms.

Yeah. You want to serve people comments that they're going to enjoy, that they're going to like seeing, that are going to go along with what they believe.

So we think of this as brave new world. We're all locked in our own little echo chambers. We have no idea how to talk to each other anymore. We're living in totally disparate realities. Okay, yeah, there's some truth to that. But this also reinforces some old wisdom, which is, be careful who you surround yourself with.

That's really what it reinforces, right? If you surround yourself in real life with druggies and losers and people who are ne'er do wells, who are harming themselves, well, you're probably going to engage in that behavior too.

If, however, you surround yourself with people who are diligent, who are virtuous, who are pious, perhaps, who are trying to better themselves, then they're probably going to pull you up a little bit. You're probably going to engage in those behaviors too, because we're mimetic and we imitate each other's behaviors and speech and desires.

So we know thats true in real life. Theres a common saying that youre the average of the five people you spend the most time with.

Thats going to dictate your behavior and your speech and your desire, even where you want to go in life. So why wouldnt that be true online? If were spending now an increasing amount of time online on these apps doom scrolling in the comments section, wouldnt the same principle hold true?

Youre the average of the people you spend the most time with.

So if youre following people who are not credible, who are provocative or dishonest or treacherous or whatever, you might end up that way too. You got to be very careful who you follow on social media.

Now, is this ideal? No, this is not ideal for me. When I want to figure out if something is true or false, do you know what I do? Its not that I go to the old encyclopedia.

Sometimes I'll go to an encyclopedia. Often I will go to, if it's an ethical question, philosophical question, certainly a religious question, I'll just google such and such question, Thomas Aquinas summa theologiae.

Or maybe if it's a philosophical question, I'll say such and such question. Aristotle, or such and such question. I don't know.

Dante, maybe St. Augustine, I don't know. I'll pull up some whoever, if it's an historical question, I'll go to trusted historians.

But that's the same principle, isn't it? I'm just surrounding myself with a small group of people. I'm not going to follow every, I don't know every figure in intellectual history. I don't. No one does. And I certainly don't because I'm relatively poorly educated. So I don't know. Ain't no one got time for that. I've got to make videos reacting to TikToks. So I surround myself with the five people that I think are credible and then I look to them for guidance, much as we all do on social media. It's good to do that. Just make sure you're cultivating a circle that's going to lead you in the right direction and not going to lead you down a bad path where you don't even know, where you're not even aware of, who is putting the ideas in your head and the desires in your heart that are increasingly present there. Now, speaking of techno dystopias, there is a new video going around based on a proposal by a scientist, Hashem al Ghaili, which seeks to totally upend prisons, redo prisons as we know them.

The new concept is that we shouldn't lock people up for years, dozens of years at a time, but actually, we can just kind of plug them into the matrix for a few minutes, rejigger their brains, and then let them out two minutes after they've been sentenced.

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First, the prisoner is given a choice, either spending tens of years in a prison cell or seeking fast track rehabilitation through artificial memory implantation. If the prisoner chooses to undergo fast track rehabilitation, the cognify device is used.

Next, the prisoner undergoes high resolution brain scanning to create a detailed map of their neural pathways.

This brain map helps guide the cognify device to target specific brain regions responsible for memory, reasoning, and logical thinking, such as the hippocampus, prefrontal cortex, amygdala, parietal lobe, and anterior cingulate cortex.

Once the target brain regions are identified, cognify is then placed around the head of the prisoner. The intensity and the type of artificial memories is then adjusted, depending on the crime.

Inside the criminal's mind, time would pass differently, slower than in real life, making them experience years worth of artificial memories in just a few minutes.

Synthetic memories are customized, depending on the crime committed and the unique brain structure and psychological profile of the individual.

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Uh, no, thank you. No, thanks. That's fine.

Some people would take this. In fact, I bet most people, in principle, if this technology really could work, would take this. You say, oh, I would either spend 30 years in prison or I spend three minutes in prison, but I guess it sort of feels like 30 years in prison, but then I'll still have the rest of my life. And, yeah, I've got some fake memories in there, and maybe it's rejiggered. Well, the point of it would be to rejigger my desires and remake my personality. So part of the proposal here is your. You would send reports to the family of the criminals so that they would know, okay, this is the new personality that you're. But you know, you go to prison, you come out of prison with a new personality. So you're just gonna shorten that time span and then you get the rest of your life.

This is, of course, an assault on the incarnation, lowercase I incarnation. It's an assault, not the capital I incarnation of our lord, though that's related to it. But it's an assault on the fact that we're incarnate beings.

It's an assault on history. It's an assault on contingent reality. It's an assault on time.

But it's important that this is an assault on the body.

You don't really need to go turn big rocks into small rocks. You don't really need to spend every night, 365 days a year for 30 years in that prison cell. No, you don't really need to do anything with your body. We'll just flash some pictures in front of your eyeballs, and then you'll think that you did all that. That's the Matrix, right? It says your body doesn't matter. Your body can be used for whatever purpose. Your true self is not your body.

It's an assault on the incarnation, which, according to pious tradition, is the impulse that caused Satan's rebellion. Satan, an angel, pure light, the most beautiful angel, pure intellect, rather, doesn't want to have to degrade himself to be below an animal or a creature, rather, that is part animal and part spirit, because that's where man is. We share some characteristics with the beasts. We share some characteristics with the angels, because we're body and we're soul, mind.

And so Satan, according to pious traditions, seeing the future of the incarnation, that our Lord, the second person of the Trinity, would take on flesh. This was too much. He can't worship and end up being below a creature that he thinks should be below him. The body is the problem. So much so that Tertullian, the early Christian writer, says that the flesh is the very hinge of salvation.

That's what this is an assault on. That's what transhumanism is largely about, overcoming the body, which is to say, overcoming the contingent, decaying, corruptible aspects of this world.

It's downright Pelagian.

The whole transhumanist project is to say, we will save ourselves. It's a new version of the Tower of Babel. This time, though, it's going to be like the weird cyborg pod building of Babel, and probably even more ghastly than the first one.

My friends, tomorrow night we are hosting a special live daily wire backstage of the presidential debate. Daily Wire? Plus will simulcast the entire debate. We're providing commentary you won't find anywhere else because we won't be on those other channels. So of course our commentary is going to, you're going to. It's going to be where we are. You'll hear from Ben Shapiro, Matt Walsh, whatever. Andrew Clavin. Okay, Jeremy boring and of course, yours truly. Ooh, that's going to be nice. Offering real time analysis starts at 08:30 p.m. eastern with a pre show to set the stage and highlight what matters in this debate. After the debate, stick around for our exclusive post show. Do not miss Daily wire backstage, live on Daily Wire plus tomorrow night starting at 08:30 p.m. eastern, Dailywire.com dot my favorite comment yesterday is from Aaron Dennis, 1111, who says Assange is not a hero or a villain, hes just a person who did what he thought was right. I dont know if it was or not.

That is the least satisfying and most accurate description I have heard of the release of Julian Assange.

Many people who are celebrating Assanges release today would have been furious about it 20 years ago and vice versa.

It's a complex issue, as I tried to point out on my show yesterday, but nuance, complexity, ambiguity, shades of gray, they don't play very well in talking point politics. No siree. Okay, speaking of our brave new world, this is a story I've been meaning to get to for some days now, and I have to get to because I want to spike the football on it a little bit.

Vegan fake meat has been linked to early death.

You know, I hate to say I told you so, but sometimes I told you so.

Researchers from the University of Sao Paulo and Bureau College London have assessed diets of more than 118,000 brits ages 40 to 69. They found that a plant based eating plan does promote overall heart health. Okay.

However, that is only when the diet features fresh foods.

You know, the plant based foods and your veggies and your fruits and your whole grains and beans and whatever beans which are good for your heart. There's a problem with that. We don't need to get into it. Researchers found that for every 10% increase in plant based foods, the risk of death from heart disease fell by 20%. So that's good.

Here's the wrinkle.

When the increase in plant based foods came from the ultra processed foods that are like the vegan fake meat, all the weird prepackaged stuff you see in the vegan aisle, then the risk of heart disease not only didn't decrease, it actually increased 12%.

Love this.

I don't love that people are dying of heart disease, but I love this because I've always been skeptical of the fake meat. No, actually, you know what we're going to do in the future? We're not going to have to kill animals because we're just going to have Bill Gates develop some disgusting looking, soggy meat, fake meat product in a laboratory somewhere, and then we're all going to eat that. It's going to be great. I thought. No, the reason I don't think that's a great idea. The reason that if you offered me same price, same convenience, you offered me something fresh from a farm or something that was super duper, ultra processed. The reason I would always take the thing fresh from the farm is a simple question. Who's a better engineer, you or God?

Who do you think has better engineered the human body and the things that go into and out of the human body? You or God? Or if you're an atheist, then I don't know, the impersonal forces of nature that developed totally randomly over zillions of years. Whatever you want to say, whatever fake substitute you have for God, let's just, let's say it's that even if it's, even if you believe in that thing, even according to pure materialism, pure natural, impersonal evolutionary forces, surely that would be a better engineer than Bill Gates in a lab coat making you disgusting vegan meat. Right?

Right. And now, now it seems that that's the case either from, you know, from all eternity, your body has been made for these things. These kinds of things, you know, plants and whatever, bacon or, I dont know, kind of more natural foods or your body, for zillions of years, has evolved in this very specific way in accordance with this kind of nature. But either way, thats going to be way more precise than what some human beings take into their own hands when they think that they can be gods and rewrite all of creation. Now speaking of death, I want to turn to a political death. Not a biological death, but a political death.

Jamal Bowman has been booted out of Congress pretty dramatically. It wasnt particularly close.

Jamal Bowman is a huge lib.

He behaves in a rather uncivilized way. Jamal Bowman, you might recall, once accused me of being a nazi hellbent on keeping only white men alive and in power.

He did this as a sitting member of Congress. He soon will not be a sitting member of Congress, but he did this because I said, boys and girls are different. We shouldn't pretend otherwise. And so he called me a Nazi.

Hell, Ben, trying to keep me only white men alive and in power. I'm not sure where he got that from. Someone pointed out I'm not even all that white.

The children of the mezzo giorno have always been a little bit of a racially liminal people. But even if I didn't get tan in the summer, where he got that idea from, I don't know, there's a little extra irony to Jamal Bowmans political demise, which is that, look, he was going to lose.

Hes been cratering for a while now because hes rather eccentric and disreputable and people dont want to be represented by him, but because he took a really strong stance against Israel. That also attracted the pro Israel constituencies and AIPAC, the pro Israel lobby, which spent a lot of money to boot this guy out of Congress. So I am kind of tickled that a guy who would use Nazi as a term of derision and attack me as a Nazi, its like the worst thing youd call someone would be booted out of Congress in some part thanks to the pro Israel lobby. Theres something kind of funny about that, isnt it? Okay, well, anyway, I dont want to spike the football too much, but, Jamal, we hardly knew yall, but youre out of Congress now. Okay, I guess that, I know correlation is not causation, but you call me a Nazi and attack me, you get kicked out of Congress very quickly thereafter. I don't know. They just seem there's, I'm not saying there's a connection there, but that's interesting.

Also, some really good news. Have to mention it before we get into the member segmentum. I have a special guest, too, my friend Lauren Boebert, member of Congress in Colorado, was, you know, the Democrats were going after her. She was one of their top targets in her district. She changed districts.

And so some people said, oh, this is a political Hail Mary. I don't know if this is going to work. I don't know if the new district is going to want her anyway. She won easily in her district. So now we have a very reliable conservative vote there. Very excited. Congratulations to Lauren. Congratulations to the conservatives and the Republicans. You get a particularly bad guy out of Congress. You get a strong conservative remains in Congress even after Democrats were trying to take you out. Makes me feel pretty good going into the debate on Thursday, going into the Republican National Convention, and going into the elections in November.

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