Michael Knowles (35:19)
Bye Santa. According to Wall street apes, which is one of the funny Twitter accounts, not only was Mrs. Claus replaced by a black Mrs. Claus on the Disney cruise ships, and not only was Mrs. Claus replaced by a black woman at the Disneyland Christmas parade, but Disney has now replaced Santa himself with a black Santa at Epcot. Santa Claus is not black. Santa Claus. I don't. Listen. Open your ears. Pull over your car. Sit down. Want you to hear this loud and clear. Santa Claus is not black. Do you know why? Because Santa Claus lives at the North Pole. And there aren't black people at the North Pole. If Santa Claus were black, that would mean that Santa Claus is a recent immigrant to the North Pole. But he's not a recent immigrant. He's been at the North Pole for a very long time. Cause he's a jolly old elf with a bowl full of jelly who's been giving Christmas presents to children in his magical sleigh with his eight tiny reindeer since time immemorial. So he's not black. If Santa Claus's ancestor had been black, Santa Claus would cease to have been black by now because of the many millennia of acculturation and development at the North Pole. He is white and an elf, and he's jolly and he has a bowl full of jelly. Stop trying to erase Santa Claus. Now, some will say Santa Claus isn't real. First of all, I don't accept that. But second of all, even if you wanted to get really into the nitty gritty on the historical personae on whom Santa Claus Sinterklaas is based on, we would be talking about St. Nicholas, Myra. St. Nicholas, who was Greek. And even though the Greeks might be kind of black compared to the English, say they're not black, They're Greek. He is from Turkey. Now, Turkey has been overrun by the Turks. Used to be Constantinople used to be Greece, but now it's Turkey. But even the Turks are not black. One could sort of argue that they're Asian. St. Nicholas is from the Asian province of the Roman Empire. One could argue, given the fact that Santa Claus lives in the North Pole, that he looks like an Eskimo or an Inuit. But what's so amazing is that while one could make an argument that Santa Claus is virtually any race, however labored that argument is, Disney has picked the only race that Santa Claus cannot be, which is a South Saharan, sub Saharan African. It's very frustrating. Why have they done this? They have done this because they want to be inclusive for something. But incoherence is not inclusive. There are many great figures in the history of Christmas and certainly in the history of Christianity that are black. Saint Moses the Black, for one. Do you ever hear of St. Moses the Black? He's a saint. He's a very great ancient saint. And he was so black that his name is the Black. And there is this kind of funny quirk of history, which is apparently, he used to be a thief before he converted. And he's like a great saint. He's a fabulous saint. That would be one. And many, many others. Many of the great bishops and cardinals who are alive today, the great heroic giant figures of the Church, are not in Europe or America. Many of them, some of the most notable, are in Africa and are very, very black. But Santa Claus is not black. And the idea that making Santa Claus black will somehow be inclusive is silly in itself, because incoherence is not inclusive. This is a key point. Incoherence is not inclusive because what allows us to be inclusive at all, what allows us to exist in community at all, to communicate with one another, is the fact that there is an objective reality that corresponds with our reason, that allows us to use logic to come to certain conclusions that are objective and therefore communicable to other people through signs and symbols that we all agree upon. I hate to be so. I actually love to be so pedantic. This is a very important point. There has to be an objective reality. What is inclusive is truth. What is inclusive is logic. What is inclusive is objective reality. Because all of us, inasmuch as we are rational creatures, all of us can participate in that. When, however, we deny reality, be it through the transgender ideology, be it through some radical racial ideologies, what have you on the left or on the right, when we engage in the incoherent, we cease to be inclusive. We fall into the realms of subjective fantasy that are not Communicable to other people and that have us all grunting like baboons. Santa Claus is white. Have I said that? Have I made that clear enough? Okay, speaking of the North Pole, speaking of, I should say, materially abundant resorts in the middle of nowhere. We turn from the north pole to Little St. James Island. There's been a release of the Epstein files. The Epstein, you know, what are the Epstein. What are the Epstein files? Even all the files that come from the grand juries, that come from investigations that have remained heretofore locked up by the government. These are files that go back to 2007, when Epstein was arrested for weird sex stuff the first time. The Epstein scandal didn't become a major national issue until about 2014 or so. More on that in a moment. Then it started to hit in 2016, and it went away for a little bit. Then Epstein supposedly killed himself or didn't kill himself. And then now it's sort of an issue again when we talk about the Epstein files, the idea that there are smoking gun documents that say so and so did this or that so and so was working for this zillionaire or this government or this whatever, something that's really, really explicit. The idea that such a document would survive for. What are we at now, 18 years of scrutiny and shenanigans and chicanery is absurd. I've said this from the beginning. Either Epstein is who he says he is, just a rich guy with a lot of powerful friends who's a sex freak and that's it, or we will never know the full story about Epstein. And anyone who's telling you otherwise is lying to you to get clicks, because that's the cold, hard political fact of it. But there are a lot of pictures, and the government has now released some of these pictures. And there's a lot of pictures of Bill Clinton, a lot of pictures of Bubba out there. One in particular where it's Bubba next to some chicky, hands behind his head, chest bare, lying in a hot tub. Hey there, honey. Wow. I'm glad I'm not President Any. Do we have the picture of Noam Chomsky by any chance? This one's amazing. Noam Chomsky, one of the most preening leftists. I think he's still. I actually didn't realize he was still alive, but I googled it. He's still alive. He's 100 years old almost. And Noam Chomsky, he was actually quite a good linguist, but he's just an awful, preening leftist politically holier. Than thou, more moral than everybody. This is a picture of him on Epstein's jet. He spends his whole career talking about how we need to tear down the privileged and the elite and these dodgy people who work with all the politicians to control the world. And then there he is on the Epstein sex plane, just like, hey, Jeff, pass another glass of Dom Perignon, please. But most of the pictures that we're seeing are of Bill Clinton, and it's not Bill Clinton standing next to Epstein at a party. That's the famous picture of Donald Trump that the left is trying to use to say Trump is seriously implicated in Epstein. It's Bill Clinton with women, scantily clad, swimming next to him in a hot tub. It's Clinton with young looking ladies sitting on the armrest of his chair, on his lap on an airplane. It's Clinton looking compromised. Okay, brilliant politics in this release. Why? I'll tell you why. Clinton standing next to Kevin Spacey. That one's a little weird. I'll tell you why. It's a brilliant, a brilliant little scandal. Where is it? Where is it? Here we go. FT Financial Times. How Bill Clinton became the focus of the Epstein files. How Bill Clinton's subheader tranche of documents released by DOJ shifted the spotlight onto the former president. Shifted the spotlight. How Bill Clinton became the focus of the Epstein files. How short people's memories are. When the Epstein scandal first came to public attention around 2014, it was a Clinton scandal, it was a Democrat scandal. It's not that there weren't Republicans around Epstein sometimes, but the vast majority were very prominent Democrats. And the most prominent was Bill Clinton, who's in zillions of these photos. Bill Clinton, who is a well known sex freak. How Bill Clinton became the focus. It's not that he became the focus. He was the focus. And then Democrats Weekly, I believe, tried to make Trump the focus of the Epstein files. And then Trump wisely just released the documents and those facts made Bill Clinton the focus again. It refocused Epstein onto what it was always about, which was chiefly, though not exclusively, a Democrat scandal. What the release does is it gives the people what they're demanding, release the files. Okay, But I've got pretty decent sources, including liberals, who say that Trump, though he's mentioned, you know, he was friends with Epstein for a while, though he's mentioned in the files, he's not seriously implicated anywhere. And yet I'm not sure the same can be said of the prominent Democrats. So then Trump comes out, he says, all right, you want Me to release the files. I'll release the files. Hey, wait a second. You're shifting the focus onto Bill Clinton? Yeah, that's where it was before you guys tried to shift it. Okay, speaking of weird sex stuff, there's a story I want to get to, but I'm running late. This is in the Wall Street Journal about how a throuple had to redecorate a house. And the throuple, this is three men who are in some kind of bizarre, deviant relationship together. How they wanted to decorate a house. But what do you know? They all had different taste in home decorations. And it's really just a horrifying, horrifying, horrifying story that we'll have to get to tomorrow. Also, Fulton county just admitted that 315,000 votes in 2020 lacked poll workers signatures. Some of us raised questions about the integrity of that election in 2020. And other people on the left and on the right, even the people preening on the principled supposed people on the right said no. The reelection was totally fair. And looks like we were right again. Okay, we'll get to all of that, I guess tomorrow. The rest of the show continues now. You do not want to miss it. 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