Michael Knowles (5:25)
Excuse me. Excuse me. Wow. You are not allowed to talk like that. That is so, so invasive. Okay, but like, we were with you last night and you did not have a baby. Yeah, and you guys said that after dinner you were going to go to a rave called Bulge Dungeon. And now today you have a baby. What we're asking is, how did this happen? Okay, I'm sorry. Why is it, when it's us an interrogation, I don't ask you why you're poor. You can't ask this question. It goes on. It's really funny. The gay guys are the clowns in this sketch. The straight people are the straight men in this sketch, which is fitting, I suppose. The joke is that two fellas can't make a baby. And it's super weird that multiple, many pairs of two fellas have babies. And it's morally dubious and everyone's suspicious of it, and they should be, because it involves bioethically suspect practices. Let's just call it what it is, downright immoral practices to commoditize a human being. Go to a baby store, purchase an egg, rent a womb, and pick a baby out like you'd pick out a designer handbag. It's wrong. It shouldn't happen. Also, one of the jokes is that babies need their mothers. So the straight group asks, well, where's the mother? And then the guys in the clown position in the sketch say, oh, well, you know, I'm a little more emotional and I'm not as good a driver or something, so I guess I'm sort of the mother. That's the punchline. This is the most pronounced vibe shift example I've seen, I think, period, full stop. I think more than the election, more than the public polling after the inauguration, more than the shift in how the liberal media and liberal institutions are treating Trump and Republicans. This is Saturday Night Live. This is the liberal comedy show par excellence. And they are mocking the idea of gay rights, of gay marriage, of surrogacy, of ivf, of the whole baby industry. Huge, huge vibe shift. And all of those examples that I just mentioned are obviously related. The fact that CNN and MSNBC and all the liberal networks are now starting to have to cater to conservatives is a direct reaction to the 2024 election. The fact that even SNL, even the entertainment comedy popular media are having to shift their political tone is a reaction to the election because Trump not only won the election, he won the popular vote. And he not only won the white guys, he won plenty of white guys, but he also won half of Hispanics, almost one in five black guys, 40% of women under 30. He just won a lot. And he ran on mass deportations, and he ran on cutting out the excesses of the sexual revolution, and he ran on normal, really good stuff. A reminder, too, during the real high point of social especially sexual liberalism of the last, I don't know, maybe about 10 years ago, redefining marriage, opening up baby stores, pushing transgenderism, all of that kind of stuff. Those of us who resisted and said no, not just to no transcendent kids, but no to the redefining marriage, it's not possible. No to the baby industry, no to all of these social experiments. We were called idiots and rubes and passe and on the wrong side of history and all the rest. And look who's laughing now. The reason that I can feel confident, and you should be able to feel confident that innovations such as baby stores and gay marriage and all the rest of it are not gonna last forever is that they are so out of accord with reality, they are so ultimately indefensible that it's like a castle built on sand. Okay? It can't last because logic is eternal. Human nature is eternal. We can have all sorts of experiments, societies can go downhill, we can sacrifice babies on altars for hundreds of years, but eventually reality is gonna kick back in. Okay? Really, really good stuff. On this very same point, there is something that I called for in a viral clip about two months ago that is now. People laughed at me. They mocked me when I said it. And it is now national policy in a major western country. There's so much. First though, go to goodranchers.com use promo code knowles. Have you taken a look at your grocery bill lately? I try not to look at my grocery bill. Those meat prices are likely going to go crazy with all of the tariffs. Makes you wonder if you can still serve the good stuff to your family, right? Luckily, goodranchers.com delivers 100% locally sourced American beef, chicken, pork and more straight to your door. So you do not have to worry about any tariff pricing or grocery store mystery meat. While everyone else is dealing with those unpredictable imported meat prices. Good Ranchers is completely tariff proof, 100% American supply chain for me. I've always liked that it's American meat and I really like the company. 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Tuesday, I guess it is. Okay, so that means Good Friday's coming up. Holy Saturday, Easter Sunday, Easter Monday, Easter Tuesday, Easter Wednesday. You're gonna want your home to smell like a beautiful monastery. Smells and bells candle. Then we'll move on to the next candle. Hungary's parliament has just moved on from the rainbow mafia, from the LGBT Pride Day. That became Pride Week. That became Pride Month. That became Pride two months that became Pride Year. Hungary's parliament just passed an amendment to the Constitution that allows the government to ban Pride and really all public LGBT displays. This is so beautiful. We'll get to exactly what it means, how it passed. But I was on the Jubilee show surrounded a couple of months ago, and we filmed it even earlier than that. And I was surrounded by 20 or 25 LGBT elementop activists. And one of the prompts that we were debating was that we should ban Pride. Of course we talked about get rid of transgenderism. Of course we talked about all of the issues that you usually hear about. But one that even some people on the center right told me was too far, too crazy was the notion that we should ban Pride parades. But to me, it seems so obvious. I'm a citizen. I have the right, at least some right to set standards in the town square. And the Pride parades are not things that happen in people's backyards. They happen in the town square. They happen on Main Street. And I should not be expected to. To walk my little kid or to walk my elderly grandmother through the town square when they're weird fellas wearing leather costumes, smacking each other around, doing gross stuff. They don't have the right to do that. I have the right in part to my town square. And even people on the center right, they mocked me for this. How could you possibly ban pride? Well, I'll tell you how Hungary just did it. The vote passed along party lines. 140 votes for it, 21 against it. Pretty good victory. The amendment declares that children's rights to Moral, physical and spiritual development supersede any right other than the right to life, including that to peaceably assemble Love. This. This is great. You don't have a right to obscene, weird stuff in the public square. Now, in Hungary, kids are not going to be exposed to and propagandized with LGBT nonsense in kindergarten, first grade, second grade, third grade. This is common sense. One reaction is going to be, well, Michael, that's Hungary. And Hungary is a far right authoritarian government. We would never tolerate that here in America, we have our constitutional rights. Until very, very recently, we had in practice the exact same policies in America. And in principle, we still do. There is no free speech, right to obscenity. Pride parades are not as American as apple pie. Benjamin Franklin didn't show up to the Pride parade. Okay? Pride parades are a relatively recent phenomenon that come about as a result of the weakening of American laws against obscenity, that come about as a weakening of the American political right to set community standards and a strengthening of the individual license to autonomy and libertinism and all the rest of it. We made more sense before that. We have political rights. We have the right to an exalted freedom beyond the degraded pseudo freedom of the individual license to do gross stuff in public. Really, really good stuff. And it reminds me of that line from Cardinal Manning. There is a day to come that will reverse the confident judgments of men. People who say, oh, there's no white look. It's the same people who said Roe v. Wade will never be overruled. And I was one of the people who was skeptical of Roe v. Wade getting overruled. How quickly things can change. Settled precedent. The most sacred Supreme Court decision ever for the American left, overturned by President Trump, a guy who for much of his life was a kind of Democrat, socially liberal New Yorker. These things can flip. The pushback against transgenderism, which even five years ago we were told is the way of the future. Now it's a punchline. Gay marriage, we were told, here forever. Now it's a punchline on Saturday Night Live. Pride parades in public. I don't know that they're all that long for this world, even in America. Now, speaking of family, new report at the Wall Street Journal that young people increasingly are turning away from cutting their own path from going to work for some corporation somewhere else in the country. Young people increasingly are working for family businesses. They write. The share of small businesses that employ a young adult child of an owner has doubled since 2018 and is up 13% year over year as of January to roughly 1200, according to an analysis by payroll provider Gusto. Mark Valentino, the head of business banking at Citizens, sees this moment as a reversal from recent decades in which the children of business owners tended to stigmatize, returning to the family firm in favor of striking out on their own. For the first time in a generation, there's more excitement and interest in taking over a business that already exists. So for pretty much all of my life, there has been this sense that there's something wrong about taking over the family business. There's something kind of unmanly about it. You know, you're not really free. You should cut out on your own, do whatever you want, go work for some other corporation, that it would be better to go work for some guy you never heard of, doing some business that you've really got no experience in than it is to work for the family business. A similar kind of reasoning, I think, to the idea that women must go out and work in some corporate environment. Not that they can go out and work, but they must, that it's somehow wrong. They're not liberated. If they stay at home and raise children and homeschool and bake cookies and do all the things that women once did, it would be wrong to do that. And I think that judgment, too, is being reversed here. There's a popular sense that it's wrong to go work for your family business, but really it's just natural and reasonable. I didn't grow up with a family business or anything like that, so obviously I didn't work for one. But I was thinking about my own employment history. I've had all sorts of crazy jobs going back to when I was 14 years old. And it occurs to me, I don't think I've ever gotten a job by submitting a job application, going to some kind of random recruitment website, and just submitting a blank application. I've submitted job applications, but it was to people I knew or to people who knew people that I knew. And it's not like I came from money. It's not like I came from connections. But even my first job, I worked at a Subway sandwich store. But it was a store that we would go into a lot. And, you know, I would talk to the owner. My mother kind of knew the owner said, hey, you know, maybe you could give my kid a job. Other jobs I've had in politics, it was kind of people that I knew or people that I knew that I knew, or someone heard about me from some campaign that I worked on, and we kind of were aware of Each other, obviously, the Daily Wire, we were all kind of friends. We were all in the same social circle before this company even existed. And I think that's the way it works. When young people, I go to these universities and young people ask me for advice. How do I break into politics, how do I do? One joke I say is, well, the best way to break into political media is to be friends with Jeremy Boring. That's the first thing I would recommend. But there's a lot of truth to that. You know, humans are social creatures and so we're not just clinical, you know, independent robots floating through outer space with no connections to each other. It actually makes sense to work with your friends or at least to work with people who know your friends or people that you can trust in a way that is sometimes inarticulable and goes deeper than just the terms of a contract. Businesses actually work better that way. There is a reason that there is such a thing as a family business that isn't wrong. It isn't wrong to follow your natural inclinations and the relationships that you've cultivated in all other areas of life in your professional life as well. Everyone knew this for all of it. So much of our time is just rediscovering things that people have known intuitively for all of history. Now, speaking of business and businessmen, you remember that lunatic, that young guy Luigi, who murdered the healthcare CEO in New York some months ago in an act of cold blooded murder? Well, a prominent left wing journalist has just gone on a prominent left wing cable channel to explain how that murderer is clearly obviously a morally good man. There's so much more to say. First though, go to PureTalk.comKnowles as Doge continues to cut the fat surgically from decades of bloated government spending and corruption, PureTalk, the cell phone company that I use, is cutting the fat from the wireless industry. That's right, PureTalk says I don't think so. 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PureTalk Wireless by Americans for Americans. Taylor Lorenzo, one of the more eccentric figures from the left wing media space. She is a totally mainstream left wing journalist. She's worked for the Washington Post, the New York Times, the Daily Beast, the Daily Mail, Business Insider. She's worked for everyone. Now she's going on CNN to explain why the young man who murdered a healthcare CEO in cold blood and deprived that man's wife and children of, of a husband and father, why he is obviously a morally good man.