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Then homicidal left wing streamer Hasan Piker rats on the vast funding system tied to foreign governments that promotes leftist activism in the United States. One little subpoena from the treasury, one little envelope and Piker is selling all of his comrades down the river with we will get into how it works. Finally, Canadians can now receive government approval to kill themselves at Tim Hortons. How convenient. I'm Michael Knowles. This is the Michael Knowles Show. Welcome back to the show. Democrats stooped to a low on Memorial Day when they used fallen soldiers, recently fallen soldiers, to attack President Trump. When they go low, we use soldiers as props. I guess we'll get to that. It was so bad even some Democrats called them out. They had to delete. It shows you whatever problems the GOP has right now, the Democrats somehow implausibly have even more problems. First though, I wanna tell you about Pure Talk. 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When I was checking last night, with 64% of the votes in, I don't know what the final tally was. You know what, I'll just look it up. I can just listen. I try not to use screens on this show because I am a traditional conservative and I hate screens. Let's see. Final score as of 5 minutes ago on the New York Times site. Wow. It was very, very stable. But an even bigger margin to Paxton. Paxton 63.8 and Cornyn 36.2. This means that in this election cycle, two sitting Republican senators have gone down in primary challenges. That has never happened in the history of the Senate. Both of the Trump endorsed candidates winning over the incumbents. Now, my first takeaway on this, just given how some political commentators have been analyzing the primary campaigns, is how you gonna blame this one on the Jews? That's what I wanna know. There's some people out there in political commentary and podcasts and punditry that are blaming all of the primaries on the Jews. They're saying that the Jews or Israel or AIPAC or something can control the GOP and control Trump. And so they're really the ones calling the shots in the primaries. I would point out in this primary in Texas that AIPAC endorsed John Cornyn and Cornyn went down by a lot, by a huge Huge margin here. And Trump, of course, backed Paxton over the AIPAC endorsed candidate Cornyn. So I don't think that really explains the race in Texas. Some people have pointed to the pro Israel issue in the race with Thomas Massie going down, another incumbent Congressman losing his seat in Kentucky. But it also doesn't explain why Brad Raffensperger went down in Georgia. Also doesn't explain why Bill Cassidy went down in Louisiana. Also doesn't explain why the five Indiana state legislators went down up in the aforementioned state of Indiana. There is one common thread to all of these races. The common thread is whoever Trump supports wins and whoever Trump opposes loses. And maybe you don't like Trump now. I mean, a lot of people in political media, even erstwhile conservatives or libertarians, have turned on Trump. And maybe they've done so for ideological reasons. I think more so they've done it because the media always have an incentive to be in opposition to the government. When your party is in power, your ratings go down. So some people maybe unwittingly, maybe cynically decide that it's better for them to be in opposition because it lets their ratings go up. But regardless, a lot of people have turned on Trump within the media class. That has not happened in the gop. That has not happened with the primary voters in the Republican Party. Clearly Trump has a complete lock on the gop. He owns it. So now the people who oppose Trump, especially from the right now, what they're saying is, well, it's a Pyrrhic victory because Trump has won these primary campaigns, but he's going to lose the general election in November. All of his backed candidates are gonna go down again. I don't really buy that. People are saying that Ed Gallrain, who beat Thomas Massie, that he's gonna lose that seat in Kentucky. I just don't buy it. It's a safe seat. I think he's gonna win. People are saying Ken Paxton can't possibly beat James Talarico. I think, look, Talarico is getting a lot of media attention, he's got a lot of donations, so maybe he'll be a viable candidate. But in himself I actually kind of a paper tiger. And everyone keeps betting against Ken Paxton. I've heard this for years. Cuz Ken Paxton has a, shall we say, colorful personal life. But regardless, Ken Paxton keeps winning elections, okay? Every time they say there's no way Paxton's gonna win the seat, there's no way he's gonna become Attorney General of Texas. There's no way, no way, no way, guess what happens? He does. So regardless of what happens in the general, Trump sold on the GOP is very firm. Which means that when we look ahead to 2028, as of now, all the signs point to that primary will be decided by Trump. It will not be decided by some random activist. It will not be decided by a podcaster or a live streamer or a tweeter. As of today, it's gonna be decided by Trump. For good or ill, he owns the gop. Now we turn to the left a little bit. This is my favorite news story of at least the past several weeks. Left wing streamer, Hasan Piker, who is a homicidal streamer. He's called for the murder of ordinary Republican senators. Hasan Piker has received a subpoena from the Treasury Department. The subpoena comes in regard to his trip to Cuba, where Hasan Piker unbelievably bragged about violating U.S. law. Not, you know, the old school Communists were a little more clever. The old school communists in America, they were a little tougher, okay? Guys like Alger Hiss. Alger Hiss, who was a communist Soviet agent working in the State Department, helped found the United Nations. Alger Hiss evaded detection for a very, very long time. Even Richard Nixon, who's a real smart tough guy. It took Nixon almost a year and a half to take down Alger Hiss. But today's communist subversives, they're a little bit weaker, okay? So they go on live stream and they start bragging about violating federal law. They. They give the government the rhetorical rope to hang them. And then the minute they receive one tiny little subpoena from the treasury, they start ratting on all of their com yets, which is exactly what Hasan Piker did. So here's an old clip that is circulating right now, which begins to show you maybe why Piker got this subpoena.
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I wanna go to Cuba. Would you be down?
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I love Cuba.
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Oh, yeah, you'd be down. Yeah, I filmed a documentary there once. They, the Cuban government actually hit my contact from the embassy and told them that if the only thing stopping us from coming to Cuba was the consistent Internet access, we can make it happen.
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Yeah, Cuba is sick.
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Wait, like the government reached out to you, so. Yeah, yeah, of course it's. Well, not reach out to me. There's like, there's a middleman there because I had a. I had a doctor from Cuba. Cuba does this thing called medical missions. And they've been doing it since, I believe, like the 70s, and it's incredibly successful. They Have a massive, very robust, like, medical program because kind of they have to, because they're under an incredible sanctions regime by the United States of America that the rest of the world thinks is abhorrent, except for America and Israel that keep consistently vetoing it over and over again.
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Ok, he digresses. He's like a fruit fly. He can't keep his mind on one topic. But listen to what he just said there. He says, I can't get over it. I got it. Michael, get it together. Back in the old days when subversives in America were working with hostile foreign governments against whom we have embargoes, for instance, or serious sanctions, they would hide it. They would say, oh, yeah, no, what are you talking about? I've never met the ambassador from the Soviet Union. No. What are you. No, duh, no, they're not me. No, absolutely not. I am a patriotic American. This guy comes out, I was colluding with the Castro family and then his interviewer where it says, wait, hold on. You were conspiring with a hostile foreign government that you're not allowed to work with? Well, no, I mean, not directly because we were hiding it through a middleman. Here's exactly how I committed all the crimes. Hey, is that camera rolling? It's just beautiful. It's a beautiful thing. Algier Hiss rolling over in his grave. So he says her, duh, duh, I'm, I'm working with a foreign government who do that. It's hostile that we have an embargo against. Come arrest me. And then, and then it gets better. When the government actually sends him a subpoena for all the things that he's admitting to on camera, he completely crashes out.
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None of this is illegal, ok? As an American citizen, you can literally be in correspondence with individuals in another country. The American restrictions on this stuff are f ing idiotic. I have a journalism visa. What the f are you talking about? And what's really funny about it is that every single media outlet that goes
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to Cuba does this as well.
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Cnn, Al Jazeera, abc, Fox News, every. Every American news outlet that has been to Cuba has done this.
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Yeah. So no, that isn't true. I have a little personal experience here because I've been to Cuba on a journalist visa and at no point did I conspire with the Cuban government. At no point was I in direct contact with officials from the Cuban government or even intermediated contact with the Cuban government. I never asked them to give me special Internet access. I never stayed at their government owned hotels because all of that is in fact illegal. So he's completely crashing out. Cuz he doesn't, he just. Look, maybe he's being honest here and he just honestly is ignorant and he doesn't know what the US law is. He previously confessed on Livestream to violating US law by staying at the hotel and he got the law completely wrong. He said no, no, no, the US government makes you stay at the Cuban government hotels. That's not true. That's the opposite of what the law says. You are prohibited from doing that. So he's clearly spooked by the subpoena. And then this is the piece de resistance. The second he gets this subpoena, this little envelope from treasury, he rats on everybody he's working with.
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I think that ultimately the target is probably Singham and his operation from PSL to Answer Coalition to Co Pink. Like anything that he has ever financed. And it's not new, it's been around for a while, but it's obviously it's held through regardless because like it's ridiculous, right? It's like totally ridiculous to try and
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you know,
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to try and stop like the political advocacy of an American citizen. Right. Roy Singham is a American citizen. He lives in China now and he's a centimillionaire. I think he like has almost a billion dollars, not sure how much money he has now. But like he's been a funding vehicle for a lot of like political, a lot of political movements in the country, like a lot of activism and they hate that. Like the American government hates that. So they're trying to jam him up, you know, they're trying to hit him on anything and everything they possibly can.
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Yeah, like all the crimes he's committing. He goes, it's Roy Singham, it's not me. Go get him. He's this hundreds of millionaire, maybe a billionaire communist funder who is living in China and hint, hint, hint, might be colluding with the Chinese government. And he funds all of these subversive communist political movements in America, including the ones that are all committing all the crimes with the Cuban government. And it's him, not me. Don't get me. Can you believe this? This is crazy. The US government can't stop American citizens from certain types of political activism. Yes, of course we can. That's been true since the very founding of the country. It's been true since the Alien and Sedition Acts. And by the way, it was true with the re upping of the various Alien and Sedition Acts and legislation in the early 20th century when we Prosecuted people just like Hasan Piker. Deported them, in some cases, arrested them. For goodness sakes. Woodrow Wilson put the leading socialist in America, Eugene Debs, as his political opponent in prison, and he was right to do so. We've done this many, many times over the years. And the ratting is just the best part, because it seems like he's kind of defending this Communist funder who's allegedly working with the Chinese government. But in a way, it's him passing the buck. No, no, no, it's him. It's him. Go get him. Most effective subpoena ever. Love this. I guess it came from Treasury. Good on Scott Besant. My admiration for him grows more and more each day looking at his political skill. Hilarious. This is poor Hasan Piker. I mean, look, Hasan Piker should be arrested. He should be imprisoned. Ideally, he would be deported. He's just absolutely awful for the country. He's an anchor baby who came here to bulk the system. He's just terrible. He celebrates political violence against conservatives. We should definitely get him out and banish him to Elba if we can. But the one little bit of sympathy I have for him, the one little bit of pity I have for him is he's just clearly in so far over his head. Just. He does not. The Communists are not sending their best, okay? And that is delightful and a little bit sad. Now, speaking of hostile foreign governments, we turn away from the Far east, we turn away from the Middle east, or even 90 miles off Florida, we turn to America's evil top hat, where the Canadian government is now proving their own citizens to kill themselves outside of Tim Hortons. We'll get to that momentarily. First, though, I wanna tell you about lean. Go to takelean.com, enter code knowles kn l e s at this point, almost everyone has heard about the weight loss injections that have exploded in popularity over the last couple years. Clearly, they're getting attention because the results can be dramatic. 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And don't miss an episode up in America's evil top hat. Really, really sad story. Canadian citizens are being approved to kill themselves by their government outside of a coffee and donut shop. Tim Hortons. Great, great coffee and donut shop. Here we have a headline from the National Post. Ontario man dies of maid. Maid Medical assistance in dying. One of the many euphemisms for suicide, the more popular euphemism is euthanasia. Euthanasia, which literally means a good death. And this is ironic. Like all politically correct euphemisms, it is the opposite of the truth. Because suicide is the worst death. It is the single worst kind of death because it is a death that involves a grave mortal sin on the part of the person who is dying. It splits the self against the self, and it is the final indulgence of despair. It's just as bad as it gets. And we in our confused modern age, we call it the good death. The other thing they call it is medical assistance in dying. And he dies of maid after being assessed outside of a Tim Hortons. In a second case, the same doctor failed to administer one of three drugs used in assisted deaths and the patient resumed spontaneously breathing after being pronounced dead. It gets more Ghoulish by the second. So there's three drugs that they apparently give you to help you kill yourself because the Canadian government doesn't want to treat you. Because Canadians don't think the citizens should care for one another. They want to get rid of the expensive refuse as they consider their fellow man. And so they just say, hey, you want to kill yourself? Oh, you stub your toe, it's gonna cost us a little few dollars in band aids. Hey, have you thought about killing yourself? Oh, you're depressed, huh? A family member died, or you're getting a little older, you've got some pain, or you lost your job. Okay, well, instead of helping you get a new job or supporting your family or any, have you thought of killing yourself? That's what the government now says. But it gets more and more ghoulish. Because I guess the way they do it is they give you three drugs, one of which paralyzes you. The next one does this, the next one does that, but the one that paralyzes you, I guess this doctor forgot to administer. So his lungs just started working again after he was already pronounced dead. Really, really horrifying. So the reason I wanna highlight this story is because the way it's being reported is that the problem here is that assisted suicide wasn't done correctly. You know, they violated some of the procedures. You know, look, guys, you're not really supposed to give a citizen approval to murder himself outside of a Tim Hortons. You're supposed to do it in a doctor's office. You know, listen, guys, when the doctors violate their Hippocratic oath and the government violates its most basic charge, which is to advance the common good and care for its citizens, you know, what they're really supposed to do is give you all three drugs that will kill you and not forget one, not forget the lung drug. That's what's really wrong here. And so this guy, you know, is being prosecuted for this. And everyone agrees, oh, this was done really, really poorly. And we, you know, maybe we need a little bit more oversight over the assisted suicide program. No, that's not the point. The problem here is not the Tim Hortons. If you're gonna kill yourself, Tim Hortons is actually a nice place to do it. I'm not recommending killing yourself, but I like Tim Hortons a lot. Those little tiny. The little Canadian munchkins that they have there. They're very tasty. The coffee's very good. The problem is not the location. The problem is not that the doctor forgot to give him One of the three poisons. The problem is that doctors are killing patients. The problem is that the government is killing citizens. And even that is darker than it sounds, because they're not even taking responsibility for doing it. They're persuading the patients and sanctioning the patients to kill themselves. That's the problem. The problem is assisted suicide. We mentioned yesterday the Pope's recent encyclical on artificial intelligence, which is kind of a misnomer, the way it's being described, because the encyclical is actually about humanity. It's called Magnifica Humanitas, Magnificent Humanity. It's about remaining human in an age of AI, in an age of technology, in an age of ideology, how to remain human. And the most basic charge of a human being, the first precept of the natural law, is that good is to be done, good is to be pursued, and evil is to be avoided. And that is true of individuals, and that's true of governments. And now we've totally flipped this and we've said, no, no, people should kill themselves and our citizens should kill themselves. And the way we've gotten there, it's not an accident. It's not something peculiar to America's evil top hat. This is the inescapable consequence of the false premises of liberalism. Liberalism, which begins with the false belief that originated in the garden of nature, that we own ourselves, that we are fully autonomous creatures, that we have full rights to do whatever we want with ourselves, that we can appropriate to ourselves the power of God, that we shall be as gods. That's the problem with liberalism. That's the first problem with liberalism. And I know sometimes I go out, I give speeches, or I'm in debates or even on this show, and people will write in to me. They'll say, michael, stop conflating leftism with liberalism. Your real problem is with the left, not with liberalism. These leftists, they're not true liberals. And I've had to correct people for years, and I say, no, no, no. The problem is with liberals, too. Leftism is an outgrowth of liberalism. Certainly they're related and they can be distinct in their own ways. But the problem is with liberalism, you don't have a right to kill yourself. You don't have a right to kill yourself. And there are gonna be some conservatives, there are gonna be some people on the right who say, no, no. Yeah. Look, if a guy wants to kill himself, what's it to me? You know, it's his choice. No, that's not true. There is a reason that suicide was not only not permitted by the state, not only not assisted by the state, but was against the law for most of history, and which is still against the law in most places in America. Cause you don't have a right to do it. And the moment that we grant, as a consequence of liberalism, that you have a right to kill yourself, you're gonna end up with medical assistance in dying. You're gonna end up killing your citizens outside of a freaking Tim Hortons. Smiley, Smiley. It's all gonna be done in the name of sympathy and empathy and humanity and compassion. Death with dignity, they call. It's the least dignified death. Having some government bureaucrats stick you full of poison and approve you to do so standing outside of a coffee shop is the least dignified way that you can possibly die. Certainly when it's done with your consent. This is not about abuses or eccentricities. It's the whole program. Over 5% of Canadians right now die this way. Ever since it's become legal, 7% of people in Quebec die this way. This was only legalized in 2016. It's not just gonna be the fringe cases that would be bad. This is now just increasingly how you die in Canada. You kill yourself and the government encourages you too. Sick. Okay. Speaking of death, the Democrats have fallen to a new low. They are using fallen soldiers on Memorial Day to score cheap shots against Trump. 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This is so tasteless, classless, grotesque and out of step with how Americans traditionally treat Memorial Day and victims, sorry, of not. Not victims of the service members who give their lives, who've made the ultimate sacrifice. This is so out of step with it. So out of step that even Democrats called it out. Senator Tammy Duckworth posts, it is incredibly distasteful to use our heroic dead for a political attack on Memorial Day. I'm a Democrat and I condemn this post by the dnc. Congressman Jason Crow says, if we want the moral high ground, we have to do better. I fought for our country and served with those who made the ultimate sacrif. It is wrong to politicize this day. I won't hesitate to call out my own team when we fall short. This is really bad. It was so bad that seven, eight hours later, the Democrats finally took the post down. You should not be using fallen service members as props to score cheap political points against your opponent. You just shouldn't do that. That's really out of step with the American tradition. It's really classless, even. And the two Democrats who have a hint of a moral conscience recognize that as such. So why did they do it? That's my question. Look, I'm all for invective and polemics and all that. That's part of politics. But my chief interest in politics, my primary interest I'm trying to analyze a political problem, is to just say, how did they get there? Let me try to put myself in the other guy's shoes before I condemn the person, before I inveigh against the person, which I'll get to. But before I do that, how on earth did they make this choice that was so grotesque that they had to, in a rare instance, walk it back, that members of their own party were attacked? How did they get there? And I think I know why. Because the Democrats have no respect. No respect. I say it's the Rodney Dangerfield problem. No respect. No respect. I say the Democrats have no respect. They have no sense of reverence. They have no sense of proportion, certainly. So let's start with the last part. They have no sense of proportion for the Democrats. They ignore the higher things and the broader things and the rich complexities of life. They ignore how we got here. They ignore everything that undergirds what we have. They ignore our spiritual reality. They ignore theology and ontology and epistemology and the moral order. And for the Democrats, everything is so narrow. It's just politics. It reminds me of an addict. You know, an addict is one whose scope of what gives them pleasure constricts. It's just really, really narrow. A lot of things give me pleasure. Cigars for one ukulele gives me pleasure. Playing ball with my kids gives me pleasure. A nice meal gives me pleasure going sitting on the beach, gives me pleasure. Reading a good book list, on and on and on. You could probably name dozens of things that give you pleasure. For the addict, though, it just narrows in. The only thing that gives them pleasure is the drug or the porn or the whatever. Whatever it is that were the. If you're a glutton, you know, just food or whatever it is, that's all that gives you pleasure. And for the Democrats, all of the richness of life is just kind of constricted down into politics. All that matters is politics. And within politics, all that matters is the will. The triumph of the will over the intellect, over reason, which we are told is nothing but a mask for the power structures of white supremacy or patriarchy or whatever. We can't be reasonable here. We just need to take matters into our own hands. We need to be like Raskolnikov in Crime and Punishment. We need to transcend the facade of the moral order and just pursue our own will, the tyranny of the will, at all costs. And so for them, it's all political activism and they treat it as a religion. If you have super lib relatives or friends, you know this, they just, they don't want to talk about anything else. They're the ones who bring it up at Thanksgiving, they're the ones who bring it up at dinner. They can't think about anything else, and so they have no sense of proportion. Yes, politics really matter. I'm very pro politics. But there's more to life. And you have to put the political questions within their proper place. When it comes to eternal questions, moral questions, artistic matters and so on. So for them, any shot works. This is why they celebrated the assassination of Charlie. They celebrated the assassination of Charlie because anything that can be seen to advance their political position is worth it. Any opposition that they face is seen to be existential. So they need to celebrate. Even when a moderate centrist Republican goes around and convinces his fellow citizens and is really nice and gracious about it, even that guy, he's got to die, and it's good when he dies in their minds. So anything, okay, 13 service members die in a military conflict that needs to be used as a political cudgel. And they have no respect, they have no reverence, they have no sense of the sacred. They have no sense of enchantment. They have no sense of propriety. And so they don't realize how grotesque their rhetoric and their behavior is, even to the handful of people who have maintained some sense of sense, common sense, on their own side. And it shocks them. It shocks them when Tammy Duckworth calls them out, says, oh, shoot, maybe we really did go too far. But the problem is they didn't know. They really had no sense of that. They had to be called out from the outside. 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This is from the producers. We'll see if I agree. Hard Boiled Entertainment says so. Can we finally get back to calling someone piker as an insult? Oh, that's a good kind of old timey. And I love old timey stuff. I just posted a video yesterday of His Imperial and Royal Highness Archduke Edward Hapsburg and I playing a trail up the lonesome pine. You know me, I like really old timey stuff. And piker, that's an old insult. I like that he's a piker. Okay, Spencer Pratt, being interviewed by ABC7 in the race for mayor, asked what he will do about the homeless. What are your plans for the over 40,000 homeless in Los Angeles?
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Yeah, well, they're not homeless. They're drug addicts. Most of these people are addicted to fentanyl and meth. This isn't Spencer.
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Are you saying they don't have homes?
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There is places for all of these people to sleep in la, no matter what anybody tells you. We have housing and shelter for everyone that's living on the street. They are choosing to be on the street because they want to do drugs. They don't want rules, they don't want to listen. They want to have animals to abuse. This idea that they are forced on the street right now is a lie that our city is perpetuating. These 40,000 people, 60% of them, city Watch just announced this week, are not from Los Angeles, they're not from California. These people have been bused in by scam rehabs, scam NGOs, scam homeless, non profits. These people, when I unplug them and say we're not taking our tax money anymore, they're all going to Seattle where the mayor will welcome them.
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Great framing here. To call these people homeless is like calling your mom a sack of carbon. It's technically true, I guess. They don't have homes and your mom is a sack of carbon in a certain sense, but that's not really what defines her. You wouldn't say that's the distinguishing feature of your. It's true, she's kind of a sack of carbon, but she's a human being. She's a woman, she's your mother, she's all of these things. So yeah, I guess technically they're homeless on the street, but that's not why they're on the street. That's not what defines them. For goodness sakes, they're not even Angelenos. The majority, the clear majority of them are from outside of la. Really what defines them is they're drug addicts or they have some mental problems that they don't want to deal with or that their families don't want to deal with. Or some of them are just bums, some of them just don't want to work. I remember one time I was in New Haven and I was walking by some young, able bodied bum, but young guy. Yeah, it was like relatively good looking guy. He was sitting on a bench playing air guitar and he goes, hey man, can you give me some money? I was like 20 at the time. I said, I just start laughing and he says, hey, it's not funny, man. I said, why don't you have a job? I was a curmudgeonly conservative guy from a young age. So why don't you have a job? It'd be one thing if you're a quadriplegic mentally ill person who really can't work, but you're an able bodied young guy, why don't you get a job? And he just didn't want one. He just wanted to be a bum. Well, what defines that guy is not that he's homeless. What defines that guy is that he's a lazy bum and taxpayers shouldn't have to pay for them. What defines the drug addict ones is that they want to do drugs. There are plenty of places for them to go in la. Those places are empty most nights. And furthermore, what defines a lot of these guys is they're not even from la. So good, send them back to where they come from. That's really the way to think about it. His words as we know, color and even constitute how we see the world. So we feel bad for the homeless, we feel a little less bad for the drug addicts. And more to the point, beyond our feelings, the solution to homelessness is to give people homes. But that doesn't actually solve the problem that we're describing. Because the problem we're describing is not one of homelessness, it's one of drug addiction and social neglect and mental illness. So you got to treat that differently. But the libs don't want to treat any of that. Okay, then send him to Seattle. Speaking of news media obliviousness I said I would get to this yesterday. I don't want to miss it. There was a shooting at the White House. This was Friday, I think it was. And some 30 rounds go off. Some guy shows up, rap sheet a mile long. He's trying to shoot people, and the Secret Service just unload on this guy. A bystander was hit. I guess the bystander is okay. But as these rounds are going off, one of the news anchors doing a live shot doesn't even know what the sounds are. What is that? What is that? She looks back, totally confused. She's kind of, like, disgusted. But what is that? Shoot, shoot, shoot. And then she steps out of the booth. She leans out of the booth. Some are calling this the most millennial reaction to an active shooter of all time. She just leans out. Hey, what is that? Let me step into the line of bullets. Let me. Is there. What is that? What is that? It's kind of like Sabrina Carpenter when the Arabic person started yodeling. She says, what is that? Your culture. I don't like that. It was the same face. What is that? Oh, I don't like the sound of that. It was the most oblivious. Not a single instinct for self preservation. It's so millennial. Look, I hate to beat up on my own age group, but I think this might be one of the real defining features of the Millennials is just total cluelessness. Raised at the beginning of the age of the participation trophy, told for their whole lives that they're the most special people ever. When the millennials were in college, what was the term that described them? The term that described them was the snowflake. Now, it's a dated term, but it was the snowflake. Because they were all told they were so special, they were protected by helicopter parents from all the consequences of life. They were screwed up in their own ways, in the sense that all their parents were divorced and they were held to very high standards. And they were told that the only way to have fulfillment in life is to achieve professionally or make money or become famous. Look, I don't mean to be too harsh on the millennials, but. But for the sad and funny and ridiculous aspects of the millennial upbringing, what it all redounded to was just a complete cluelessness to the point that there's an active shooter right beside you, and you're kind of. You say, what? I've never heard that before. And then you step out potentially into the line of fire. Now, I gotta give this girl credit because she leaned into the joke. These memes were all going around and she goes, what's her name? Julie Serkin. And she leans into it, she goes, I'm glad I could take one for the team with NBC's SNL on summer break. Thanks for the memes, Internet. I hope you'll stick around for the reporting. And so total credit to this girl. She really leaned into it. That's very impressive. That's when you're the butt of a joke, you just kind of gotta lean in, laugh, shake it off and move on. But it does raise a very serious question. Not even for her precisely, but for all of our news media, for all of the people in public responsibility, which is, can you really be a reporter if you don't know what gunfire sounds like? Can you really be a reporter or a journalist or a pundit if you are so removed from, protected from reality that you are totally caught off guard by some of the most basic elements of life, most places in the world, which includes violence? This is one thing that does worry me about the rising political class and the journalist class and the pundit class. It's not just the rise of radical ideology. The Hasan pikers collaborating with Chinese communists, allegedly, potentially, or Cuban communists admittedly, or any. It's not even just them calling for violence against conservatives. Yeah, there's radicalism there. There's some radicalism on the right. I guess what worries me more is just the ignorance, the blithe ignorance, the incompetence, the inability to perform basic tasks and the lack of curiosity and discipline to better oneself. If you read letters that were written two generations ago, certainly three or four generations ago, letters from 12 year olds, 13 year olds, these are people who had read things, who knew things, who had had experiences, who had touched grass, who had a deeper connection to reality than people do today. This is to be expected. We live much of our lives mediated by virtual reality. We live a lot of our lives removed from the harshness of reality, on screens, in air conditioned rooms, alone, without serious relationships. But that a nation, much less an empire, cannot be effectively run by people who are that disconnected from reality. It's not going to work out. Well, look, there are ideological problems too, but it's just like basic competence. There was a meme going around the other day, but it's a meme based on something real, which was the Oxford admissions test for a scholarship. And it was from something like 100 years ago. And to gain a scholarship to Oxford, you had to explain the difference between different declensions, say of the Latin language and its superiority over ancient Greek. You had to explain your familiarity with the great texts of Western civilization, Homer and Dante and Shakespeare. You had to parse very serious questions of natural law. Today, some of the very top students at Oxford would be drooling at you if you were to read them those questions. They just don't know. I'm actually going to Oxford for a debate pretty soon within a week or two. I don't mean to single them out. The whole culture has just gotten so much dumber and so much more oblivious and it does not bode well for us. We can have the most perfect ideology in the world, but if people are insulated from reality, we are screwed. And this is actually what the Pope was talking about. You know, one last point before we go. Doug Burgum, the secretary of the Interior, he went on Maria Bartiromo's excellent show on Fox Business and he was asked about the Pope and the Pope's encyclical on AI magnifica humanitas. And Burgum was pretty shocked that the Pope would weigh in on this issue. And Secretary, even Pope Leo this weekend issuing a major document Monday focused largely on the implications of the rise of artificial intelligence. The Pope saying that this technology could make civilization less human. Why is the Pope commenting about AI right now? Well, I didn't know that was in know that tech editor territorializing was part of the role of being hope. But it is a. But certainly some of these states in that have got high, that have got very high electricity prices today and they've got high electricity prices today because of, of the policies they pursued with, with trying to go with intermittent, unreliable, weather dependent sources of electricity. We've got to get back to, you know, baseload power to make this whole thing work. But it is the future is very bright if we can make sure we can get this stuff built.
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Okay.
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Okay. All right. All right. So just that first reaction here, he says, well, you know, I didn't know that tech editorializing was part of the role of being Pope. It is. It is. I don't mean to be too tough on Secretary Burgum because he's not Catholic. I think he's a Methodist. So I guess he just doesn't know that. But yeah, tech editorializing that is speaking about the relationship of man to technology is very, very much in the purview of the role of being the Pope. In fact, the pope, the 19th century pope from whom this pope borrows his name, Pope Leo xiii, is probably most famous for tech editorializing for the encyclical Rerum Navarum for addressing the challenges that come with industrialization and the way that man has to respond to industrialization, to maintain his dignity, to remain fully human. Pope Pius XI spoke out with the rise of artificial contraception and made very clear that the Church does not support artificial contraception. He made very clear the Catholic view that Christians cannot use artificial contraception. This was then. His successors addressed this later. Pope Paul, Paul vi, who was conceived as a more liberal pope, but even Paul VI made this very, very clear in Humanae Vitae. Pope Pius xii. When nuclear weapons came about, Pope Pius XII spoke out, immediately condemned nuclear weapons, described Nan's relationship to that technology. All of his successors have done that too. Yeah. What do you think the role of the Pope is? He's not just an administrator, he's not just a bureaucrat. The Pope is supposed to be the Vicar of Christ and he's supposed to speak definitively to issues within history. That is why our Lord establishes a visible church and apostles and their successors is because Christ is not just a figure from history like the Buddha or something like that. He establishes a visible church and he gives the church authority, the keys to the kingdom of heaven, the power to bind and to loosen. Because he says, I will not leave you, I will not abandon you, even until the end of the age. I'll send the Paraclete. So, yeah, of course, if the Pope is not going to speak on moral matters, anthropological matters, if he's not going to offer guidance on how we relate to the changes that come with history and politics and technology, I don't know, what do you think he does? He prays, he appoints bishops and things like that. You know, he. But yeah, of course we need to speak to these things. If not him, who are we gonna get our moral guidance on this from Silicon Valley? I certainly hope not. Now, speaking of how we relate to this changing world, this rapidly evolving world that seems to be robbing us of our humanity, I'm very pleased to have my friend Luke Burgess on the show who has a new book out addressing this and other questions. The rest of the show continues now. You do not wanna miss it. Become a member, use code knowleskena wles at checkout for two months free on all annual plans.