Ep. 1540 - Disgusting Olympic Ceremony Mocks Christians

Michael Knowles
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I have never been more vindicated in not watching the Olympics than I was on Friday night when the olympic ceremony kicked off in Paris by mocking God.

The ceremony culminated in a parody of the Last Supper, replacing the incarnate Lord with some sort of astral witch and replacing the apostles with a bunch of drag queens and similar deviants, one of whom had his genitals hanging below his costume next to a child.

Unlike the television networks, I have decided to blur this image because it's sacrilegious and also just generally revolting. The homosexual leftist who put the display together, Thomas Jolly, denies that the tableau was meant to evoke the Last Supper. Instead, we are now told by the scene's apologists it was meant to call to mind the feast of the gods by the 17th century dutch painter Jan van Beillarde. Or else it was meant to call to mind preparations for the wedding banquet of Cupid and psyche by the 16th century italian engraver Diana Sculturi. These alternative interpretations are pretty weak.

One, because no ordinary person would recognize those paintings, whereas everyone recognizes the last Supper. But two, because the tableau clearly bears greater resemblance to the last Supper. One of the most distinctive features of which is that the dinner guests are all seated, like in the tableau. But unlike in those other works on one side of the table, the fact that the tableaus defenders cant even agree on which work it was supposedly based on, tells you the whole defense is disingenuous.

Now, the sacrilegious depiction certainly was pagan.

The Olympics is a late 19th century revival of ancient pagan games, and it includes lots of pagan imagery. As I mentioned last week, the Olympic torch relay begins with a reenactment of vestal virgins worshipping at the temple of Hera.

But this modern pagan imagery is sacrilegious in a way that ancient paganism wasn't, because modern paganism has to grapple with Christianity.

Ancient paganism at its worst was fables in demon worship. But at its best, the paganism of Plato and Aristotle, for instance. It was a kind of vague intuition of Christianity, a deduction through natural reason of the one true God.

Modern religion can't ignore Christianity.

The incarnation is the central event in history.

Whether you think that's good or bad, whether you believe in the meaning of the incarnation, it just is the central event. It changes everything.

Islam grapples with Christianity. Christ is mentioned in the Quran. Even Judaism, which seems to have come before. Christianity grapples with the person of Christ. In the Talmud, France was christian by the end of the fifth century. It's the home of countless saints and cathedrals. It's been known as the eldest daughter of the church.

Ancient Athens can innocently, or at least ignorantly, celebrate the pagan gods.

Modern France can only do so by rejecting the true God.

I, for one, think we ought to leave pagan worship to the past, and I am inclined to leave the Olympics there, too. I'm Michael Knowles. This is the Michael Knowles show.

Welcome back to the show. You know, I was at the Bitcoin conference last week. The audio on the show was a little, was a little weak. It was a very loud conference. I'm glad we're back in the studio where the audio is much better. But it was a really important conference, and President Trump addressed the bitcoin conference, and bitcoin might end up playing a decisive role in the 2024 election. There's so much more to say. First, though, go to laundry sauce.com slash Knowles. There's not much that I love more than smoking a delicious mayflower cigar, though.

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We also had, as part of the French Olympics, a depiction of the beheading of Frances Queen Marie Antoinette.

So you have the queen holding her head, followed by fire blasting out of the ground and heavy metal musicians playing devilish sounding music while the French celebrate beheading their queen. This, too, by the way, has a religious aspect to it.

So what do we know about the organizer, the artistic director of these ceremonies? We know that he's a touchlight in the loafers. We know that he's a leftist.

But it's France, so doesn't that describe everybody?

We know that the scene was meant to call to mind. In fairness, I think this part is true. It was meant to call to mind the pagan basis of the Olympic Games.

But because it's happening in 2024 rather than, I don't know, 24 bc or centuries earlier bc, we know that in order to be pagan, it's got to reject millennia of development, specifically after the incarnation. So it's a rejection of Christ in that tableau of the last Supper. It's a rejection of the christian civilization that once was France.

It's a celebration of the French Revolution which beheaded Queen Marie Antoinette and which has religious overtones to that too.

The beheading of the queen, one of the worst events in the history of Europe.

I mean, the French Revolution was a kind of return of paganism, a rejection of Christianity. They went into Notre Dame, turned it into a temple to reason.

They remade everything after secularism and atheism and tried to destroy the last vestiges of Christianity in France.

But one of the most famous descriptions of all this came from Edmund Burke, an Englishman, in his book reflections on the revolution in France. And the most famous passage of that work refers to Marie Antoinette. There was a time when I knew this by heart, but I'll make sure I don't miss a word here. Burke writes, it is now 16 or 17 years since I saw the queen of France, then the dauphiness at Versailles and surely never lighted on this orb which she hardly seemed to touch. A more delightful vision. I saw her just above the horizon, decorating and cheering the elevated sphere. She just began to move in, glittering like the morning star, full of life and splendor and joy. Oh, what a revolution. Oh, what a heart must I have to contemplate without emotion and elevation. That elevation and that fall. Little did I dream that when she added titles of veneration to those of enthusiastic, distant, respectful love that she should ever be obliged to carry the sharp antidote against disgrace concealed in that bosom. Little did I dream that I should have lived to see such disasters fallen upon her in a nation of gallant men, in a nation of men of honor and of cavaliers. I thought 10,000 swords must have leaped from their scabbards to avenge even a look that threatened her with insult.

But the age of chivalry is gone. It goes on to the even more famous parts of that passage.

I read all of this because hes obviously not just writing about Queen Marie Antoinette here. Theres something deeper going on. This passage has been mocked even at the time as being so over the top. The queen of France was a nice lady, but why so over the top? Because obviously he is referring literally to Queen Marie Antoinette, but hes referring by way of allegory to Mary, the queen of heaven, Mary Maryland. One's the queen of France, one's the queen of heaven. Listen to this language. Yes, the most delightful vision.

She hardly seemed to touch the earth.

She's glittering like the morning star, full of life, of splendor and joy. This is the language of prayer. Hail Mary, full of grace, the Lord is with thee. What a revolution. She added titles of veneration. Of course, we traditionally and famously venerate Mary.

And you would imagine that 10,000 swords would leap from their scabbards to avenge even an insulting look. What is France? France is the, Paris is the city of Notre Dame de Paris, our lady of Paris. It's the most famous church there.

So the french revolution was so evil, in part because of the literal action of beheading the queen, but also in the figurative action, in what that means by way of allegory, that it was an overthrow of Christianity in favor of atheism, in favor of a new kind of paganism. The worship in Notre Dame de Paris of the goddess reason, a statue of the goddess reason, that new paganism is even worse than the old paganism. You think of the new pagan cults, like the new age cults, they refer to Christ. They refer to Christianity. They're a perversion of Christianity.

Modern liberalism is a perversion of Christendom.

The civilization that gave rise to liberalism was Christendom.

And then liberalism attacks that which begat it.

It's a violation of it, as you see in the french revolution, very much in keeping with Frances modern history.

The Olympics has always been super liberal. That's one of the reasons I never really watched it. It's this very Kumbaya. We have to pretend that all the nations of the earth are equal. And even though all the best athletes just train in America, and then we let them go back to their countries and compete against us, and it's all we are the world kind of nonsense.

It even comes about the modern games at the end of the 19th century, this age of advancing liberalism and the libs. I know some conservatives like the Olympics too, but it's generally libs who like the idea of the Olympics. Well, now we're seeing the darker meaning of that liberalism, which is that it is explicitly, overtly a rejection of Christianity. That's always been what it is.

Now, speaking of belligerent liberalism, I got some tea to spill. Get your saucers out. I got tea to spill.

The Murdoch family is at war with itself because Rupert Murdoch, the billionaire tycoon behind the Wall Street Journal and the New York Post and especially Fox News, is going to war with his family to keep Fox News right wing. Some of us would say Fox has moved a little bit to the left in recent years.

But Rupert wants to stop that, according to a report out of the New York Times, because Rupert Murdoch is a man of a certain age. I think he's 93 now or something.

He knows that time is short.

And one of his kids seems pretty conservative. Lachlan Murdoch. The rest of the Murdoch kids seem pretty liberal.

And so Murdoch is trying to go in and change a trust that was established years ago, 25 years ago or so, to make Laughlin the head of Fox News, the head of News Corp. So that he can keep Fox News right wing. And his argument is, this will benefit all of the heirs. The other kids are still going to get their piece of the pie. Theyre just not going to have control because Rupert fears that theyre going to make Fox News even more liberal than its become in recent years. Now, will this work? The trust was supposed to be totally unchangeable. But a Nevada probate commissioner has found that Murdoch would be able to edit the trust if he can prove that he's acting in good faith and for the sole benefit of his heirs.

So he's got to prove, and I think he can prove this, that keeping Fox News right wing is in the financial benefit of these shareholders, of these beneficiaries, which is obviously true. If Fox News goes left, it's going to lose its audience and it's not going to be any good to anybody.

But the family is still fighting Rupert Murdoch on this point. They don't want him to take the steps necessary to keep Fox News right wing, meaning the Fox News heirs, the Murdoch kids, the other Murdoch kids are actively working in court against their own financial interest.

That is how much pressure there is to be liberal in the elite spheres of our society. They would rather lose money, they would rather lose their inheritance than be scorned at cocktail parties, than be considered a right winger or heaven for fend a trumper.

That's the pressure in our culture.

Even when billions of dollars are on the line, people who move in the elite circles of our culture would still rather be on the side of the liberals and forego their inheritance.

So much so that the tycoon, the pater familias, has to go to court to protect the financial wellbeing of his progeny.

Thats where we are.

You think its tough to be a conservative in this culture? You think its tough to score some cultural wins? Yeah. Yeah, you're right.

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Here's what he had to say.

Donald Trump
You need tremendous amounts of electricity. You need double the electricity of the entire electricity that we have right now in the United States to dominate. And we'll get that done. Who would think we can get that done? But we're going to get it done. We'll be having power plants built at the sites. We'll be releasing people from certain ridiculous requirements.

And we'll be using fossil fuel to make electricity because we're going to have to, we'll be using nuclear. We'll be doing it in an environmentally friendly way. But we will be creating so much electricity that you'll be saying, please, please, president, we don't want any more electricity. We can't stand it. You'll be begging me, no more electricity. Sir, we have enough. We have enough. This afternoon, I'm laying out my plan to ensure that the United States will be the crypto capital of the planet and the bitcoin, bitcoin superpower of the world. And we'll get it done.

Michael Knowles
I love that President Trump has like five lines and he just applies them to different circumstances. So here we see the application of the you're going to win so much. You're going to say, please, I'm tired of winning. We don't want to win anymore. So he's saying, look, crypto requires a lot of electricity. That's one of the reasons that the libs are against crypto. And you need a lot of electricity. We're going to give you electricity. We're going to give you so much. You're going to say, please, no more. I've got too much electricity.

I love it. I love it. And the crowd goes wild there.

Now, President Trump stopped short. He made all sorts of promises about crypto. He said that he's going to establish a presidential bitcoin advisory council. He said he was going to keep all the bitcoin jobs in the United States.

He said that there would be no central bank digital currency, which would be a way for the government to go in and gut. And bitcoin while he was president, he stepped a little bit short of a promise that was made on his behalf the day before by Bobby Kennedy junior, who also addressed the bitcoin conference, has.

Bobby Kennedy Jr.
The potential to return monetary discipline to the Fed and to restore the dollar as the unchallenged global reserve currency.

And just as bitcoin can fortify the dollar, it can also secure America's position in cyberspace.

I understand that tomorrow President Trump may announce his plan to build a bitcoin Fort Knox and authorize the us government to buy a million bitcoin as a strategic reserve asset.

And I applaud that announcement, and we should all applaud it.

Michael Knowles
Now. Trump didnt actually do that.

So whats going on here?

Is Bobby Kennedy Junior, who is running against President Trump. Is he trying to take the wind out of Trump's sails by claiming this announcement for himself?

Is he working on behalf of Trump to float this idea, see how it plays, not just in the room, but how it plays in the markets and the broader public opinion is, I don't know exactly what he's up to. We know that Trump stopped short of that. But Trump did go pretty far to say, look, I'm going to do everything that I can to support bitcoin and crypto digital currencies.

Bobby Kennedy also running. So now we got two of the three who are running for president. He says, I too, am going to support bitcoin as much as I can.

The Democrats are quite opposed to bitcoin.

Kamala Harris maybe was going to show up to the bitcoin conference.

There was a rumor she was going to make it, and then at the last minute, she did not make it. At first I thought that she declined to show up because she didn't want to be booed back into Kentucky. The people in that room were not the most favorable to her.

I heard some scuttlebutt on the floor of the bitcoin conference that Kamala Harris didn't show up because she was disinvited, because she wouldn't agree to certain terms laid out by the bitcoin organizer. So I don't know. I don't know where the reality of that really lies. I do know that Trump has made this a point to see his light.

The Dems have come out strongly against bitcoin.

Trump has said, okay, bitcoiners. Hey, all you people who are fanatically passionate about your subject and who have a ton of money, you're welcome in my party. Yeah, come on over here. Send that bitcoin over here, baby. That's I'm for you. And this is actually scaring the Democrats.

So Democrats just came out. A number of Democrat lawmakers sent a letter to prospective presidential candidates and to the chairman of the Democrat National Committee asking that the party change its position on bitcoin. We respectfully call on you. They write to include pro digital asset language in the party's platform. It's imperative that the party's platform reflects the potential benefits of digital assets and blockchain technology. Select a VP candidate sophisticated in digital asset policy. Select a pro innovation SEC chair. So for the securities and Exchange Commission, not someone who's going to be reflexively anti bitcoin and crypto, but who's going to be open to it and engage with industry experts. What all these people we're talking about, congressmen Colin Allred, Nikki Budzinski, Angie Craig, Don Davis, Dan Goldman. The Rokanas list goes on, on and on.

A lot of Democrat lawmakers here saying, hey, guys, you're missing the boat. We need you to be pro crypto. But the DNC is not. That's why they have to write this letter that the Democratic Party is the anti bitcoin party. It's the anti crypto party, and the Republican Party is the pro bitcoin party and the pro crypto party. And what do I think about bitcoin? I don't think very much about bitcoin. I went to the conference. I still don't really totally get what it is. It owes more to my ignorance and nature as a stunade than to bitcoin. Necessarily. But all I know is, from a political perspective, this makes the Republicans look like the party of the future, and this makes the Democrats look like the party of the past.

And that didn't used to be the case. It used to look like the Republicans were the party of the past. We just want to go back to the 1950s or something, and the Democrats are the party of the future.

But for the past, at least three or four years, and maybe more than that, maybe eight or nine years now, the Republicans have looked like the party of innovation. Trump shaking up the party platform, looking ahead, shaking up foreign policy.

There was a foreign policy under Bush. It was pretty much the same foreign policy. Under Obama. Trump shakes that up. There was a trade policy under Bush, it was pretty much the same trade policy under Obama. Trump shakes that up. And then obviously the Democrats have a presidential candidate, then president, who was a walking cadaver. That didn't make them look like the party of the future. Even now they have a younger candidate. Trump is chronologically older than she is, but he seems to have younger ideas. He seems more vibrant with Kamala because she's an empty suit. She just regurgitates whatever the Democrat party platform is, and the party platform is out of date. Whatever you think of bitcoin, whatever you think of crypto, it is exciting and I think politically wise for Republicans, where they can, without sacrificing their principles, to put themselves on the side of innovation, of hope, of the future.

Michael Knowles
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The libs are not looking good right now. Their policies are not popular generally. Their record over the past three years is really unpopular.

Nominee, until a couple of weeks ago was really unpopular. So much so that they had to ditch him. And they get this new lady who's also not popular. So the best they can do right now is lie.

I don't mean that as a cheap political shot.

I'll give you an example of it. Pretty clear one.

CB's News.

Trump falsely accuses VP Harris of donating to the Minnesota Freedom Fund.

What's the Minnesota Freedom Fund? The Minnesota Freedom Fund is this jailbreak organization that came to prominence during the George Floyd riots.

So Trump has mentioned this. He's mentioned that Kamala Harris has been supportive of this organization that bails out violent criminals.

And just here's the headline. I'm not gonna go into the nitty gritty details of the article or the video or even the subheader that contradict the headline. This is the headline. This is what most people are gonna see. Trump falsely accuses VP Harris of donating to Minnesota Freedom Fund.

Now, I'm going to show you a tweet from VP Harris June 1, 2020.

If you're able to chip in now to the Minnesota Freedom Fund to help post bail for those protesting on the ground in Minnesota with a link to donate.

The link comes from Act Blue, which is probably the most prominent left wing organization in the country.

Trump falsely accuses VP of donating to Minnesota Freedom Fund. Please donate now to Minnesota Freedom Fund.

Now. I guess you could say, hold on, let me see. I guess you could try to say that Kamala Harris, while she encouraged others to donate to the millions of people whom that tweet reached, she encouraged them to donate, but she was hypocritical. She didn't really donate herself.

I guess you could say that. But even so, I don't think that gets her off the hook. If I'm a political bundler and I host a dinner for all my rich friends, and I bundle $5 million for a presidential candidate, but I don't really give money myself, other than my work, other than my effort, other than an in kind contribution like Kamala's tweet, which would constitute an in kind contribution, she's turning her political apparatus to raise money for this group. But other than the, even if I don't explicitly write a check, am I not a donor to that candidate? I just raised him $5 million. I'd probably be appointed the ambassador to the court of St. James. You're telling me I'm not really a donor in that case. That's the kind of sophistry that the left is trying to engage in right now, to lie, because this woman is extremely radical. She raised money to bail out very violent, nasty, evil people who committed all sorts of crimes. She wanted to bail them out of jail.

She was the most left wing Democrat. Well, obviously, if you're the most left wing Democrat senator, you're the most left wing senator.

While she was in the Senate.

She has a terrible, terrible record.

And we've got 98 days till the election or something like that. So the best the libs can do is just lie. They're going to look you right in the eye and they're going to lie to you about all of the unfortunate aspects of her record. And there are many of those. They're going to lie to you about a lot of other stuff, too. Remember last week, Christopher Wray, the director of the FBI, appears before a congressional committee.

Chris Wray floats a conspiracy theory that Trump was not actually shot by a bullet. Where did all eight bullets go? Is, I guess my question.

Michael Knowles
I don't have that in front of me. I'm happy to circle back and get that to you. It's assuming we have that information yet.

As I said, I think with respect to former President Trump, there's some question about whether or not it's a bullet or shrapnel that hit his ear. So it's conceivable, as I sit here right now, I don't know whether that bullet, in addition to causing the grazing, could have also landed somewhere else.

But I believe we've accounted for all of the shots in the cartridges. So let us.

Michael Knowles
It's my understanding that the very first one was the one that hit the president. Is that the very first shot or is that not accurate?

Michael Knowles
I don't. As I sit here right now, I don't know the answer to that. I believe we know the answer to that. I just don't have it in front of me.

Michael Knowles
Okay. Yeah, it's just, it's a little unclear. You know, when that guy, after we spent, you know, we in the liberal establishment spent the last eight years calling Trump hitler and an existential threat to democracy, and then that guy went out and tried to blow his head off and came within a hair's breadth just a nanosecond earlier, Trump moved his head about 20 degrees. And really, the clearest explanation is that it was a miracle, because natural explanations fail. Yeah. I just don't know, if it was really a bullet, you know, it's like, was it really a big deal?

So I just don't know. I'm the director of the FBI. Why am I supposed to know anything? I don't know anything, huh? Is it a bullet? So the FBI clarified this, by the way, the FBI issued a statement, said, quote, what struck former President Trump in the ear was a bullet.

Christopher Ray.

Whether whole or fragmented into smaller pieces fired from the deceased subject's rifle.

No, no. Blue anon? No. Tinfoil hat. FBI director. No, it wasn't. It wasn't a piece of a. I don't know, a teleprompter or something. It was a bullet that hit him, buddy. That was the FBI that acknowledged that Trump had a field day with this dishonesty.

Donald Trump
In fact, my chart that I looked over to the right, that chart, you know, the famous chart that showed we had the best numbers in history, at least recorded history on the border.

That chart probably saved my life. Can you believe it? Because I looked over.

If I didn't look over, I got a problem.

Wasn't too good. Anyway, did you see the FBI today? Apologize? I said, well, it might have been a bullet, but it might have been glass. So really, where did the glass come from? Or it might have been shrapnel. Where did the shrapnel come from?

No. They then said it was a bullet. They just try and do it. It just never ends with these people. They raid Mar a Lago. They do things so bad. So bad. Our country is so sick.

But they apologize. We accept their apology.

Michael Knowles
But look, we accept their apology, okay?

This is what they're gonna do.

The FBI director is gonna. With a straight face, he's gonna look Jim Jordan in the eye and say, yeah, we don't know if it was a bullet. I mean, you all saw the bullet go through his ear and very nearly through the back of Trump's head. Yeah, we don't know, though. Don't believe your lying eyes. CB's news is going to look at you and say, oh, Kamala, she never raised a lot of money for this jailbreak fund to bail violent criminals out of jail who then would go on to commit more violent crime. No, she never did that. That tweet she sent, she didn't really send that. You're not reading that tweet. That's not real. Don't believe your lying eyes. Put your fingers in your ear and go, la, la, la, la. That's what they're gonna do, is they have to. What's their alternative, they cant gin up any more scandals about Trump.

Ive pretty much exhausted that, I think, over the last eight or nine years. They cant point to the good stuff that Kamala has done. She has not accomplished anything.

The things she has done have been failures.

The borders are, she was put in charge of the border. She failed on that. She failed on every other assignment that she was given. Well get to that in a moment.

And the policies shes advocated are deeply unpopular and extremely left wing.

So they just have to distract from her.

The way theyre going to do that is theyre just going to lie.

I just mentioned Kamala has failed on everything she was put in charge of. So we know that Biden put her in charge of the border.

I read his words verbatim from the White House transcript on the show and on Piers Morgan's show when a Democrat columnist was desperately trying to deflect attention from Kamala's role as the border czar.

But that's not the only area of White House policy she was put in charge of. Kamala was also put in charge of connecting people in rural areas with high speed Internet. So here's Biden's own words again. I'm not putting any words in Biden's mouth. Here is Biden at the 2021 State of the Union address giving a task to Kamala Harris.

Joe Biden
And the process will create thousands and thousands of good paying jobs.

It creates jobs connecting every american with high speed Internet, including 35% of the rural America that still doesn't have it.

This is going to help our kids and our businesses succeed in the 21st century economy.

And I'm asking the vice president to lead this effort if she would, of course, because I know it will get done.

Michael Knowles
How many people do you think Kamala Harris connected with high speed Internet?

Biden, he turns to her during the state of the union. She responds, she goes, yes, of course. Of course I'll do it. I know it'll get done. If I put Kamala Harris in charge of this. Guess how many people were connected with high speed Internet thanks to Kamala Harris?

None. Not a single person. Not $142.5 billion from this supposed infrastructure bill. It was not an infrastructure bill.

Not one person was connected with high speed Internet as a result of this.

Kamala Harris did not get the job done. She didnt get even one iota of one fraction of one tiny, teensy weeny little percent of the job done. She did nothing.

Her record is absolutely terrible.

The Kamala Harris campaign, I guess, is what we would call it now tweeted out yesterday, said, you know, all of these attacks on Kamala, they're so disgusting. She's an historically accomplished vice president.

But in that social media post, they didn't name any accomplishments.

I don't want to be overly tough on Vice President Harris, so I'd ask her supporters, what has she accomplished?

You have the floor.

You got the comments section here on all the different platforms that this show will be broadcast on.

Name me one thing she did.

She prosecuted people, some people that were worth prosecuting, many people who she should not have prosecuted when she was ag of California. Okay.

Thats something probably doesnt play very well in the Democratic Party.

She did the bare elements of her job, usually poorly, when she was the attorney general of California. What did she accomplish as a member of the US Senate?

Give me one thing. What did she accomplish as the vice president of the United States? Name me one thing. What did she accomplish in her czar roles, the specific areas of public policy that she was put in charge of by the president of the United States very publicly? What did she accomplish?

Nothing.

She didnt accomplish anything.

Shes been things.

One thing that she has been.

And this has gone under the radar. But my friend Steve guest pointed this out to me the other day.

Shes the daughter of a marxist professor, and im beginning to notice a pattern here of people in the Biden administration who are the children of marxist professors. Well get to that in 1 second.

My favorite comment yesterday or Friday is from Diana RC.

No one is above the law, says Kamala Harris in her new campaign ad, except people who are here illegally. Yeah, it's kind of a funny one.

It's funny that the libs, while they're trying to prosecute Trump on unprecedented and obviously trumped up charges, they will simultaneously argue that no human being is illegal and it's not a crime to enter the country illegally. Well, hold on. And they'll try to ban use of the term illegal alien. If you're watching this show, show on a certain video social media platform right now, probably my audio is dipping out. When I use the technical phrase illegal alien. I have been told by my producers that we are no longer permitted by one of these big tech platforms to use the phrase illegal alien. Illegal alien is technical language advised for a very long time by the federal government.

Just means a foreign national who is in the United States criminally illegal alien doesn't mean someone from the planet Neptune. It just means a foreigner who's here against the law. You're not allowed to use that phrase. No one is above the law, except for about eleven to 20 million people who either themselves or at least their children will likely vote for democrats. Those guys, they are, in fact, above the law.

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Who is Kamala Harris?

My friend Steve Guest, very observant man in politics, pointed out her father is a marxist professor. And I knew, I think I knew that her father was some kind of economist or professor. So his name is Donald J. Harris. It's kind of funny that the first part of his name is Donald J. Donald J. Harris.

He's a marxist economist who for many decades taught at Stanford.

When I say hes a marxist economist, I dont just mean that as some term of derision. I mean that as a technical term. This is the same language that is used by left wing outlets to describe him by the New Yorker, by the economist. Thats just what he is. Hes an economist in the tradition of Karl Marx.

That got me thinking. Okay, so the VP for Biden, who was one of the presidential candidates who ran against him in 2020, she's the daughter of a marxist professor, kind of like the transportation secretary, Pete Buttigieg. Pete Buttigieg's dad was a very, very famous marxist literary scholar. Joseph Buttigieg. I encountered Joseph Buttigieg because in my book speechless, controlling words, controlling minds, I devote thank you. I devote a fair bit of time to Antonio Gramsci, who is an italian marxist philosopher and political activist. Really important. A lot of his work inspired leftists in the United States. And happily, I can read Italian.

There aren't many practical applications of reading Italian in the world. It's not like French or Spanish. But one of them is you can read these italian communists from the 20th century.

A lot of people in the west were not able for a long time to at least to read the whole corpus of Gramsci until Joseph Buttigieg, Pete Buttigieg's dad, translated the prison notebooks into English.

I think he was the president of the Gramsci society.

This guy was a hardcore committed Marxist, and he was a literary scholar at Notre Dame. So what does this mean? Is this some grand conspiracy? Well, in a way, it is. It's a really broad conspiracy, which is we are now seeing the fruit of the left's long march through the institutions.

Another Marxist who inspired the left wing campus movements, Rudy Duchka, coined that phrase, the long march through the institutions. And it was obviously viewing the West's leftward march in light of Mao's cultural revolution in Long March.

So the work of people, well, not just Gramsci, but people like Herbert Marcuse, the scholars of the Frankfurt school, and then their followers, and the left wing activists, they said, we're going to take the long view of how to transform America, and we're going to do it not just by winning elections. We'll win some elections, but we're going to take over the classrooms. We're going to take over the entertainment media. We're going to take over the news media. We're going to tilt everything very far to the left. And then the fruit of that is going to be a political order in which the frame of the debate is set by us.

So, people, it's not just that we're going to win the arguments for leftism. We're going to exclude alternative views. So the only way that people can think is in a fundamentally liberal and even more than liberal, leftist, socialist, Marx tinged way, we're seeing the fruit of that. Now. The kids of these two marxist scholars are serving at some of the highest levels of government. Now. One of them is the presidential nominee for the Democratic Party.

The long march through the institutions works.

Conservatives get impatient sometimes. We want to see immediate results where we lose interest and move on. The left doesn't move on.

Whatever virtues they lack, I think they lack most of them. They are patient and they are persistent.

And now we're seeing the fruit of that. Now, speaking of progeny, weird story just hit the news.

A sperm donor has just won over custody of his child from a couple of lesbians. And actually it was the sperm donor and the lesbian girlfriend who's not the biological mother of the kid. The two of them have won the rights over the biological mother of the child. What does all of this mean? A ruling was just handed down by the Federal Circuit and family Court of Australia, and it pertains to a nine year old boy. This poor little boy. How did this poor little boy end up in this predicament? He was conceived via IVF, of course. He was conceived by commoditizing human life, establishing the domination of technology over the origin and destiny of human life, and establishing the legal space for baby stores. So he was purchased at the baby store, conceived at the baby store, and the female couple, these two lesbians, chose donor eggs and donor sperm. So I guess in that way, you wouldn't even say the biological mother was the biological mother, though it does appear that she carried. So she was at least, I guess, the surrogate mother.

All the parties were known to each other. That's what makes this a little bit weird. The eggs were donated by a mutual friend of the birth mother, though not the biological mother. And her then lesbian partner in the sperm donation was by a man that the boy refers to as daddy and the man who donated his sperm with the agreement that he would have a role in the boy's life, albeit not the role of a proper father, living at home with a mother and raising the kid in a family, but he would still be involved somehow.

Okay. The birth mother lost her parental rights. Presumably she was involved in all sorts of terrible things and she wanted sole responsibility of the child. But now it's the lesbian ex girlfriend and the sperm donor get the kid, which I guess it's a relatively better outcome here.

I don't know. The whole thing is really sad. And it fills one both with sadness for the boy and anger at these extremely selfish, degenerate people who insisted on a commoditizing human life and purchasing a child at the baby store.

It's even dark creating a child at the baby store, but it's a reminder that we have to pay close attention to our language here. That was the whole point of my book. Speechless, controlling words, controlling minds. And we got it. Thank you. We have to focus on this a lot because the left sets the boundaries of debate by controlling language. By setting the terms of language. If an illegal alien, if you can't say illegal alien anymore, as I'm apparently not allowed to say on big certain big tech platforms.

Then we have to use what? Phrases like undocumented American. Well, undocumented Americans should get to stay in America. They're Americans, after all. They just don't have some documents. Illegal aliens have no right to stay in America.

Depending on how you describe that person, you will be able to persuade people much more easily of your own position.

So what's the operative phrase here? Sperm donor. That's the operative phrase. There's no such thing as a sperm donor.

That's not real. There are only fathers. There are fathers and mothers, and there are good fathers and bad fathers. And there are some fathers who do the right thing and get married and raise their kids and act like fathers. And there are some fathers who go to a store and get paid money to do intrinsically evil and depraved actions into a cup or something and then have no responsibility for the child. And I guess this guy lies somewhere in the middle. He's kind of a good father in the sense that he wants to be involved in the kid's life and in some ways protect the kid. But he's certainly a bad father in that he abandoned the child and allowed the child to be raised in this very disordered way with these two ladies.

Regardless, he's a father. I remember when I was in college, I remember hearing that one could make $1,000 a week donating sperm or whatever. Selling sperm, I guess. And I'd be lying to you if I said the thought didn't cross my mind. I was an atheist. I was a libertarian.

I wasn't seriously inclined to do it. But I thought, $1,000 a week.

Say I do it 50 weeks a year.

Maybe I'll take a little vacation. Two weeks. Maybe I don't do it. And that could be, what, $200,000 over the course of four years?

And actually, it might have been more than $1,000 a week because in my recollection, I did the math, and I could have made about 400 grand over the course of my time in college. So I don't know. Let's say it was two grand a week. Whatever it was, I'm obviously very glad I didn't do that, because I would have all of these children that I would have abandoned, my own flesh and blood, who I would have abandoned. And when you look at something like the sperm donation or whatever, you're abandoning them to people who are at the very bottom of the list of those who should be parents, because it's people who would commoditize human life by buying them at the baby store, often in very disordered kinds of relationships, or single parents who are intentionally creating a child for that environment that is not conducive to their flourishing. Really, really bad stuff. There's no such thing as that, though. There's mothers and there's fathers. No matter how we want to change the language, no matter how we want to redefine marriage or redefine human life, we actually don't have the power to do that with our words. We only have the power to lie and deceive. Very often lie and deceive ourselves. Not good.

Not gonna give you a good political society if you're constantly lying and deceiving yourself. It's music Monday.

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