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Ep. 1989 - Spencer Pratt Loses LA Mayoral Bid After Shady Ballot Dump
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Start your free trial today@shopify.com Republican hope Spencer Pratt goes down in LA and as much as I hate to say I told you so, this is one of those predictions I only got half right. The minute Spencer Pratt made a splash and everybody started talking about how he was gonna beat the Dems and flip Gomorrah by the Sea over to the gop, I pointed out that that was not going to happen. I pointed out that the communist Karen Bass was going to win reelection. And so far that observation has been spot on. But the part I got wrong was that I predicted that Pratt would beat the socialist candidate Nidiaraman. And to be fair to myself, I was right about that. On election night. On election night, Spencer Pratt was beating that candidate by a lot. And then five days of mail in ballots and dumps from hundreds of ballot drop boxes have given the socialist just the boost she needed to take Pratt out of the race altogether. A reminder that 2020 never really ended, it's just been laying dormant waiting for the opportunity to reemerge. Then the Pentagon offends Mormons and the YouTube couple that murdered their baby because he had down syndrome might have made the whole thing up. I'm Michael Knowles, this is the Michael Knowles. Welcome back to the show. Smash the like button and subscribe. Also check us out on Spotify where you can download full episode audio and video to watch or listen whenever you want without using your data. Do not miss an episode. We thought that Pride Month was basically dead this year. Hellofresh Hellofresh. Really doing its best to resurrect Pride Month put posting the grossest, gayest ads for it that you can imagine, which I think actually is very bad for the LGBT community and very bad for Pride. We'll get to that in a minute. First though, I wanna tell you about PureTalk. Go to PureTalk.comKnowles Americans are very good at celebrating military service. 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Obviously there's a relationship between Twitter and real life. But everyone who thinks that Twitter is really representative of real life, they thought Spencer Pratt was gonna win in la. And I told you all, as I've told you with all of the meta political phenomena that occur on the right, on the left, but that occur on social media, I said this is not indicative of real life, I was right. Karen bass had about 35 to 38% of the vote. Spencer Pratt had 28 to 30% of the vote. Okay, so he comes in number two. And Nidhiraman the socialist had 20 to 23% of the vote. That was on election day. But, you know, it takes a lot of days to count all those ballots, doesn't it? We used to say that about banana republics and totally degraded polities where they steal elections all the time. Now we say that about our own country. What does that say about us? So after five days of counting all those extra ballots being dropped in by helicopters, Karen Bass has about the same amount. Her total's gone down a little bit. She's at 34.7%. And Nidhiraman the socialist overtakes Spencer Pratt. She's got 27.1% of the vote. And Spencer Pratt has 26.7% of the vote. About 3,000 votes. Just a nice, convenient 3,000 votes separate the two of them. Stealing elections is nothing new, especially to the Democrats. Maybe the most infamous example of this and consequential example of this in recent history was the 1948 Senate election in Texas, where LBJ stole the election. He stuffed a ballot box full of ballots, put him just over the edge. This was litigated all the way up to the Supreme Court, and the Supreme Court didn't want to interfere. So they said, well, we don't really have jurisdiction here. They just kind of punted on the question. Robert Caro, the definitive biographer of lbj, basically proves that LBJ stole that election, but plenty of other people have proven it, too, but it was too late. Robert Caro is writing his books in, like, 1991. LBJ wins the election in 1948, then becomes vice president. Then Kennedy is killed, becomes president. He's one of the most destructive presidents we've ever had. He's out of office and dead by the time that we can definitively prove it. We know for a fact that election was stolen. Plenty of elections have been stolen in America. So the question is, did the Democrats steal this election, too? We don't know for certain. Trump got into this very testy interview with Kristen Welker from NBC. Very testy interview where he says, look, they're stealing the election in California. Just. Do you have proof? Do you have proof? Where's your proof? This is the most secure election in the history of the world. It's the most secure election since the 2020 election, when we did all the same stuff. Okay. No, I Don't have proof. I don't have proof that they've stolen the election in la. But you know what I do know? I know that they have widespread mail in voting, which is intrinsically less secure than in person voting. I know that they don't have voter id, which means that the election is much less secure than it needs to be. I know that they have ballot harvesting where activists can just go around to all sorts of communities, retirement homes, take somebody's hand, fill out the ballot, and they can then take possession of that ballot and bring it in on behalf of the voter. I know that LA has ballot drop boxes all over the city. Not very secure ballot drop boxes where you can just dump in whatever you want. I know that there are shenanigans in LA. I remember the 2016 election. 2016 election. I haven't told this anecdote in a minute. I go to vote. I'm one of the only Republicans in la. That's actually not true. There are a lot of Republicans in la. Just there are a lot more Democrats than there are Republicans. But I think there might be more Republicans in LA county than just about any other county in the country, just because of how big it is. Anyway, I go to vote in the primary in 2016, all good. Then when I go to vote in the general election, they seem to have lost my voter information. I had to file a provisional ballot. I said, that's pretty weird. I voted just fine at the primary and you know that I'm a Republican. That's weird that I can't vote formally in the general. I speak to another Republican friend of mine and he's in a different precinct, all different, same thing. He voted just fine in the primary, but they didn't have his voter information for the general. He had to file a provisional ballot and he's a lawyer, so he actually fought that all the way to the end. And they said, oh, it was a clerical error. How can we not conclude that there's cheating in la? I guess that's my question. No, I don't have proof that they stole the LA election and I never thought Spencer Pratt was gonna win. So I'm pretty. I'm not utopian here, I'm not idealistic. But how can we, how can you ask us to conclude that there was not cheating when you have changed every single rule just about available to you to increase the likelihood of cheating and you're not concerned about that, and you're not concerned about the optics and you're gonna double down on that and you're gonna take five days to count the ballots in an election like we're some banana Republican Latin America, how can we not conclude that there is cheating? At the very least, Democrats, who are so concerned about trust in our sacred institutions of democracy, the very fact that so many voters believe justifiably that there might be cheating because you've changed all the rules to increase the likelihood of cheating, surely that the very perception should impel Democrats to change the rules so that we all have trust in our institutions, right? No, they have no interest in doing that whatsoever. No reasonable person can conclude that there's not cheating going on in la. That's the problem. And so long as the party in charge, which is now formally being run by an actual communist, Karen Bass, was a formal member of a communist organization, so long as that party doesn't care at all about improving the perception and the trust in our institutions, I think the reasonable conclusion to reach is, yes, of course there's cheating. Now, speaking of morality, it's very immoral to steal elections. Speaking of morality, Pentagon is in a lot of hot water because the Pentagon released a new list of how they're categorizing religions in the military. And this is not a list of the religions that are permitted in the military. You're permitted to have any religious beliefs you want in the military. This is not a list of who gets access to special services or anything like that. It's just a way of classifying the military categorizes and classifies everything. It's a way of classifying the religions of the members of the armed services. And they've done a major rehaul. We'll get to what they took out in a second. But they're in big trouble because members of lds Mormons are accusing the military of being unfair to them. And here's why. Here are the formal religions now listed for the US Military. Agnostic, Baha' I Faith, Buddhism, and then this litany of Christian flavors. So it's Christian hyphen, Assemblies of God, Christian hyphen, Baptist, Christian hyphen, Brethren, Catholic, Church of Christ, Church of God, Church of the Nazarene, Episcopal, Anglican, Evangelical, Jehovah's Witnesses, Lutheran, Methodist, non denominational, Orthodox, other, Pentecostal, Presbyterian, Quaker, Reformed, Scientist, Seventh Day Adventist, and then that's the end of the list of Christian religions. Next one on the list, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, the Mormons, lds. So the Mormons show up not categorized as a Christian religion, followed by Hindu, Islam, Judaism, no religion, other religions, and Sikh and the LDS come out and they say, why are you not listing us as Christian? And we know all of the reasons for which LDS would not be listed as Christian. But the chief reason is that LDS does not hold to trinitarian theology. So the centerpiece of the Nicene Creed, of all of historical Christianity, LDS does not hold to. So you say, okay, I guess it's fair that it's not listed as Christianity. But I have to come out here in defense of the Mormons of the lds, because if trinitarian theology is the criterion, the essential criterion, the crucial criterion, to use a pun for Christianity, why are the Jehovah's Witnesses listed as Christian? Why are the Pentecostals, at the very least the oneness, Pentecostals who deny the Trinity, why are they listed as Christian? Why are the Christian Scientists who deny the Trinity, why are they listed as Christian? Why are some of the Quakers. Many Quakers believe in the Trinity, but some do not. And it's not an essential matter of the Quaker religion. So I have to say here without. Obviously, I'm not changing my views on Christianity. I'm not changing my views about the Trinity or the essential aspects of the Creed. But it does seem to me that the Mormons are being unfairly singled out here. If you're gonna say the essential criterion is trinitarian theology, fair enough. But. But then why did the jdubs get a pass? The Jehovah's Witnesses, Christian Scientists, you know, a very thoughtful guy, great follow on Twitter Hadar Hazoni responded when I asked this question and said, well, maybe it's because the Mormons have added scripture. So they have a new. Forget about the differing views of who Christ is and who God the Father is. And, you know, obviously LDS differs greatly from the various historical understandings of Christianity. But he pointed out, he said, well, you know, look, they have this extra scripture, so maybe that was the criterion on which this decision was made. But I don't even think that holds water because Christian Scientists have an additional book that's on par with Scripture as well. I think it's called Science and Health, and they consider that to be equivalent to Scripture. So it does seem to me that the LDs are being unfairly singled out here. And, you know, everybody beats up on the Mormons all the time. And Mormons are very reliable Republican voters. They live, you know, very, very good family lives. They're very, you know, sort of model citizens in many, many ways. And I do think this would be an example of them being kind of unfairly singled out. So in some people. A lot of people responded to that and said, yeah, well, the J. Dubs and the Christian Scientists and all these other people, they should be kicked off the list too. I say, fine, whatever. However you want to look at the classification for the purposes of the military, that's fine. But it does seem to me there should be an even standard here. Now, before everybody wants to beat up on the Pentagon, I want to point out the Pentagon. Rehauling this list or overhauling this list of the religions is a good thing. Do you know what they took off? They took off a lot. First on the list they removed is Messianic. I think that refers to Messianic Jews and Messianic Judaism. That's not the same thing as just a Jew who believes in Christ. Obviously the very first Christians in the entire world were Jews. Were ethnic Jews who believed in Christ. Messianic Judaism is a more modern religion which is a subset of Protestantism. And obviously there just aren't that many of them in the world. So listed under Christian other as a relatively small denomination of Protestantism. Okay, I get that that probably, probably doesn't deserve its own category. Then think about these. Ekankar, E C K a N K a R Ekankar under Biden and the Democrats. That was a religion recognized specifically by the Pentagon. Heathen. That was another one. Native American Church of the Spiral Tree. I mean, I'm sure there are many, many listeners from the Native American Church of the Spiral Tree. Right? Troth, Rosicrucianism, Dian Wi, which is dianic Wicca by the way. There were three forms of Wicca, of witchcraft, three forms of witches specifically listed by the Pentagon under the liberals as religions to be recognized specifically. Shaman Seox we asatru Pagan, Humanist. How is humanist a religion? Eastern religions just generally Unitarian Universalist. Now I guess that one was a little more prominent in America's history. Unitarian Universalist also not really a religion because they don't seem to believe almost anything. Specifically Wicca. Another just Wicca. Generally magic and spiritualist, which is truly just as occult as it gets. Magic spelled M A G I C K and spiritualist and atheist. Those were all listed as religions. So the Pentagon did a great job. And we ought to give Pete Hegseth a lot of attaboys for removing all of that ridiculous nonsense. Doesn't mean that people who hold to these views are not permitted in the military. I'm not convinced that people who like worship demons and Satan should be in the military. That seems like a bad idea. But whatever they're still allowed in the military. They're just not specifically demarcated as a religion recognized by the Pentagon. But I do think. I think there is a double standard here being applied to lds. So this brings us then, to a profound moral question, which is this viral story. It's all anybody's been talking about for a few days. You know, I've been in. I was in the uk I was speaking at the Oxford Union, which was an absolute delight. I think that debate is gonna be coming out, I don't know, sometime in the next couple weeks. Great, great time. I actually did two events at Oxford. I did a separate speech followed by a Q and A. Then actually, there was another Q and A meet and greet sort of thing. And then there was finally the formal debate that evening. So that'd be a lot of fun. Keep your eyes out for that. In the meantime, everybody's talking about this Ridgeway couple. The Ridgeways, who were some youtubers who came out and they said, hey, we just aborted our kid because he has down syndrome. Thank you so much for your support. We love that you support us while we killed our kid. And now they're defending it, and it's become a big, big controversy. Now there's a question over whether or not they made the whole thing up. We will examine the evidence. First, though, I want to tell you about hallow. Go to hallow.comknowles we spend a tremendous amount of time paying attention to politics, culture, work, family responsibilities, the endless stream of information coming at us every day. Question is, how much time do we devote to our spiritual lives? Very important not to miss a day of prayer. One of the reasons I love Hallow. Hallow is the world's largest Catholic prayer app. It's become a practical tool for people who want to build a more consistent prayer routine. I love Hallow. Gosh. 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Then they kind of disappeared and now they're the talk of the town again. Because they came out and said, yeah, my wife is pregnant. They were filming everything. It was really, really weird. They're filming everything. Even filming the wife getting the test results that the baby has down syndrome and sobbing on camera. The husband just mugging for the camera. And the whole thing's really, really weird. They're saying, yeah, no, it's. We didn't want our kid to be defective, so we killed our kid. And no big deal. The guy came out, he said, look, I just didn't wanna have to bury my son. He said, I killed my kid in the womb. He has down syndrome. I killed my kid because I didn't wanna have to bury him. Someday. If you have down syndrome, you're probably gonna have a shortened lifespan and all sorts of problems. So I didn't want him to bury my kid. To which, of course, we would respond, you didn't want to bury your kid, so you threw him in a medical waste bin instead. This is one of the central lies of Abortion is the idea that you can just snap your fingers and pretend that your child was not conceived. Say, no, no, no, it's just a clump of cells. It's nothing. Now, of course, this abortion occurred at 20, 21 weeks. Anyone who's ever been pregnant, anyone who's ever had a kid knows a baby at 20, 21 weeks. It's fully formed. In all of the identifiable ways of seeing a baby, this is a baby. Not that that even should necessarily matter when you're contemplating abortion, because a person's a person, no matter how small. But 20, 21 weeks, I mean, that is just totally, undeniably a baby in every visual and auditory way. Nevertheless, he says, yeah, I didn't want to have to bury my son, so I chopped him up and vacuumed him out and threw him in a medical waste bin. Some people are saying this was all made up because apparently Jesse Ridgeway, a big part of his YouTube channel, is blurring the line between fictional narratives and reality. And actually, the thing that I guess made him famous 10 years ago was that he did this whole series, and he just wrote about this, too. Again, as he's getting all his new attention, he said, ten years ago today, I shot my father and fled to Switzerland, where with what I thought was $30,000 in cash, it wasn't. The money was spent, I was spent, and I was on the run. Now, when I finally tasted freedom, I was faced with an immeasurable guilt for an unforgivable act. I killed the man who wanted me to be better, albeit in his own sick way. Don't ever do what I did, because I have to live with that now, and I don't know if I can handle that. I said, pleading to my YouTube audience. The Internet exploded as thousands of cop calls flooded in. Everyone thought this was real. It was like War of the worlds. 80, 90 years ago, war of the Worlds. There was this radio broadcast about an alien invasion, and people thought it was real, it was fictional, but they all thought it was real. The world watched in horror as the psycho kid confessed that he was leaving YouTube forever. He goes on and on and on about this whole thing, and he says, but this, that fake tragedy now set the stage for this real tragedy. And you just. You can't quite tell. Was this all a hoax just to get our attention? I hope it was. I certainly hope he didn't actually kill his down syndrome kid. But then some people are saying, well, no, hold on. Maybe he's just suggesting that this was a hoax to get all of the Fire off of him because he actually did kill his kid. Cuz he's being just pilloried, including by the speaker of the House, by everybody for doing something that, by the way, most people who have down syndrome kids do. That's, I guess, what makes this. If it is just art, I pray, I hope it's just art. If it is just art, it's quite good art. Because most babies with down syndrome are aborted in the U.S. most people who have a Down syndrome baby do what this guy did. But when this guy does it, we all recognize it as profoundly evil. We see all the ways in which this is deeply, deeply evil. In Iceland, they kill basically every single baby with down syndrome. And they cheer it on. They say we've eradicated down syndrome. They haven't actually eradicated down syndrome. They just committed genocide. They just kill all the babies with down syndrome. But there are questions. I mean, here's the video, here's the video where the woman supposedly finds out that her baby has down syndrome. Yeah. Jeffrey said, and I don't. Maybe you could speak to this, but there's a Down syndrome chance for the baby, but it's like 95 out of 100 chance. So first thing you see is, hold on. This is sick, man. What kind of husband would film this? What kind of husband would put his wife in this situation where she's reading the test results and then crying on camera and they're talking about how their kid has down syndrome and then filming her walking off camera with this music underneath? I mean, this is sick psycho stuff. Now we live in an age where everything's content, where people just live online all the time. So it's plausible that might be real, but you don't know if it's real. Some people are also pointing out she just doesn't look pregnant. And if she had the abortion at 20, 21 weeks, she's definitely not 20, 21 weeks pregnant. But if they got the test results earlier and then only committed the abortion later, then she would be what, 12 weeks pregnant, maybe nine weeks pregnant. I guess it's possible. She wouldn't really be showing them. You just don't know then on top of that last point on this, then I'll get to what it really gets to. Is that this guy, in his bio, in his Internet creator bio, they write that this is a guy whose tool of the trade is to blur the line between fiction and reality. So we don't know. I think this would be a case where we need to assume he's guilty until proven Innocent. I know our standard of justice is that you're innocent until proven guilty. But if he's just punking us, one, it is really great art. But two, he's punking us by admitting to committing a very grave moral crime. Even if it's not recognized as such by the civil authority. And so I think he would have to prove to us he didn't really do it to escape the opprobrium that is being rightly heaped upon him. So I don't know. I don't know if it's real or not. But you know what I do know, just from a political and media standpoint, this tells us a lot about ourselves, and this tells us a lot about content. And this tells us a lot about what we are desiring. Content. Content, we used to call it entertainment or content. Has been getting more and more personal and authentic for, like, the entire history of our civilization. Just a little brief history of content. In ancient Greece, you had these great plays by Euripides, by Sophocles, by Aristophanes, these great plays. But the plays were very, very. And they even. They were kind of tied in with religion. But they were very representational in that you'd have the characters speaking their lines. But then you would have a chorus behind them who played a role in the play. So it was very removed. Nobody thought that they were looking at reality. Then I'm skipping ahead a little bit. There's a lot more to fill in along the way. In the Middle Ages, you had morality plays. Then with Shakespeare, you get this real injection of psychology, of a personal inner life. Even though the Shakespearean actors are not gonna be confused for naturalism. Cause they're speaking in rhyme and meter. But so much so that the literary critic Harold Bloom says that Shakespeare actually invented the self. Invented the individual in his writing. Cause it's so psychological, it's so personal. Then you get naturalism taken to a greater extreme. You get rid of the rhyme, you get rid of the meter. You make everything a little bit smaller. Now, things are not always about princes and kings. And now it shrinks down to a much more personal level. You get Chekhov, Ibsen and Strindberg. This ties in with the development of naturalistic acting from the Moscow Art Theater with Konstantin Stanislavski. This thing comes over to the United States through the group theater, through method acting and other forms of technical acting. You get naturalism in movies. So you go from these big. Well, you know. What do you say here, Scout? You know, what are you talking about here? In that Kind of silly accent. You move into Marlon Brando sitting in the back of the car with his brother. Yours, my brother Charlie. You should have looked out for me. It's kind of mumbling. Very personal. It feels much more real. Then you go from that into naturalism in acting, which is dominated for 100 years, into reality TV. Now it's getting even more personal. Now the line between reality and fiction is even more blurred. Then you get into live streaming. Then you get into clavicular. Kind of clavicular is maybe the apotheosis of this. And you just don't know what's real. Even clavicular, on his live streams multiple times knows that his girlfriend's various girlfriends are pregnant. And then there's no follow up on that. You don't know if that's real or if you're just kind of making it up for clicks. And now this. We used to sit in the theater and watch opera and big plays. Now we sit on our couches and look at our phones and we don't know what's real and what's not real. And I think there's something very psychologically damaging about that. Because going back to ancient Greece, part of the reason you would go see a play, what's the purpose of the theater? What's the purpose of movies? One of the purposes is to experience catharsis, to experience the emotional rollercoaster, to see something new, to understand some new aspect about human nature or the world, and then to experience the emotions of that without the consequences. So you learn something. It can be edifying. It can help bring you through your day and to new places of understanding. But it was safe because you're not really intertwined in that with the new really personal, authentic, intimate, right in your face, right on your phone. Form of content. It's all intertwined. And rather than helping you to understand reality better, it actually makes it more difficult for you to understand reality because you can't tell the difference between fiction and the real world. Okay. Speaking of intimacy, HelloFresh is doing its best to revive Pride Month. 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Trump wins the popular vote, specifically running against the radical LGBT culture stuff. All of a sudden the corporations basically get the picture. Even the Dem politicians get the point. They don't change their views, but they downplay it. They run like moderates like Abigail Spanberger in Virginia. One company is doing its best to revive the gay stuff that is HelloFresh. HelloFresh issued a statement for Pride Month. They said, we know eating isn't always a top priority this month. We respect that. But for those of you who are prepping, for those of you who are prepping, we have an extensive lineup of high fiber recipes available. Happy Pride. So prepping. I'm inferring here from this statement. I think HelloFresh has done campaigns like this before. Prepping means that you change what you eat in order to prepare for really gross stuff. Really aberrant actions. This is a family show, so I'm going to try to choose my words carefully. Really deviant aberrant actions where you would not want to have eaten some Indian food before that or something. I don't know. Let's leave it at that. Someone responds to hellofresh and says, how about a Pride Month discount code? Bottoms up. Bottoms up. And then HelloFresh responds and says, yeah, great idea. Use code Bottoms up for a Pride Month discount. And then they tagged the guy who wrote it. You ask, we deliver. Literally. The comments cooked. They concluded. Okay, okay. First, yuck. Yuck. Icky. Gross. Yuck. If I could spoon out my mind's eye this morning and have deleted the HelloFresh story entirely, if it were not making the rounds as virally as it is, how much better we would all be. HelloFresh thinks they're doing something really clever for Pride Month. 1. They think that they're marketing their product. Well, I don't know that they are. We're all talking about it, so in that way, they are. But we all have this really gross taste in our minds as a result. So this doesn't make me more inclined to shop at hellofresh. It makes me nauseated. It now makes me associate hellofresh with nausea to the point that I. Politics or ideology aside, I just don't want to go to hellofresh because I'm associating it with something yucky. But furthermore, I don't think this is good for pride. I don't think this is good for lgbt. Do you know why? Because think about how the LGBT movement has advanced everywhere. For basically all of human history, all the LGBT activities have been considered kind of gross. Not that, you know, a lot of it has existed. Maybe it exists to a greater degree now, but. But it's kind of been on the fringes of society. People don't really talk about it. People are gonna do it, whatever. But you certainly don't promote it or try to consciously think about it. The way that the LGBT rights movement has advanced, specifically, has been by getting people to not think about what it actually means. That's really how they did it. And it begins in earnest with Will and Grace. Don't forget the early days of the LGBT movement. The early days of it, it was all this, like, guys in leather walking down the street in Pride parades doing gross stuff, and it repulsed normal people. Then the LGBT movement started to get some liftoff during aids, because the LGBT behavior was leading to a massive AIDS epidemic, and the public authorities tried to lie about it and pretend that there was also an epidemic of heterosexual aids. That just isn't real. That's not. Put that one away with the Easter Bunny and the Tooth Fairy. That was a fiction pushed by the authorities. But then what really pushed it into the mainstream was Will and Grace. And Will and Grace, which was this show about a couple of gay guys and a couple of straight ladies. Will and Grace, very specifically never got into the details of what actually went on. I remember even as a kid, that show was on. It was on primetime, on NBC, I think. And I remember thinking, and I grew up in a very liberal place. I was very open minded on these things. But I remember thinking it was kind of sad that this guy and this girl live together, but they never get married or get together because he was gay. I remember just thinking, oh, that's kind of sad. But whatever. I wasn't judging it too much because the whole shtick was just not getting people to think about what it actually means, like nuts and bolts, as it were. And that's how the LGBT movement advanced throughout the 2000s and the 2000s, to the point that for the first time in our country, and if you go back to The Netherlands in 2001, for the first time in all of human history anywhere, we actually redefined marriage because we had so put out of our minds what the LGBT stuff actually means that we said, oh, yeah, it's basically the same as a man and a woman united together for the purpose of the procreation and education of children. Hellofresh. I don't know. They're going along with the lgbt getting a little big for their britches, a little big for their chaps, where now they're reminding people of what it actually is. Beyond the euphemisms and the rainbows and the pride and the slogans, what it actually is is that. And that's kind of yucky. And I'm not. We're not gonna send the purity police. We're not gonna become Shiite and send people to people's bedrooms, but we don't. No one wants to promote that. And I don't think anyone wants to shop at Hellofresh. I think they've gone too far. I think they jumped the shark. Okay, Speaking of the LGBT movement in Pride Month, major, major poll out from Gallup. You know, I hate to say I told you so. This one proving something that I have been mocked for years for predicting, showing that support for so called same sex marriage is collapsing. I was mocked not only by the left, I was mocked by huge swaths, if not the majority of the right, for saying that gay marriage, it's not permanent, it's gonna go away. Probably go away sooner rather than later. And they said, you're crazy, you're backwards. We lost that battle. Move on. We gotta give up that issue. We gotta move on. I said, you're crazy. It's gonna go away. Gallup seems to be proving those of us who thought so Correct. For decades, the left has told you the Civil Rights act is beyond criticism, sacred, untouchable. To question it is to be a bigot. End of conversation. So naturally, Matt Walsh decided to question the untouchable narrative. Episode 5 of Real History is now available on the Daily Wire. Matt Walsh's the Real History of the Civil Rights Movement, Part two, the Looting of America, makes the case that the Civil Rights act was not just flawed legislation. It was the founding document of the American nanny state. The government decided you were not capable of managing your own life. Fifty years later, we're still living with the consequences. D, E, I, E, S, G. Pronouns in the workplace didn't come from nowhere. This is an ongoing series, new episodes every month. Next up, Matt covers the real history of communism, which is long overdue. I say, if your understanding of American history comes from a public school textbook, I've got bad news for you. Matt Walsh has the remedy. Subscribe to the Daily Wire. Watch episode five, the Looting of America. You owe it to yourself to know what actually happened. My favorite comment yesterday is from knightriderbs, who says, I don't see how people can care more about pets than humans. I can. I totally can. It's the same reason that you see this sometimes reflected in surveys, that young men prefer pornography to actual relationships. You see this in Japan has been a problem for years. The reason is that human beings are complicated and pets are not. Human beings are complicated. Pornography is not. Pets just kind of do whatever you want them to do. Same thing goes for pornography. It's just kind of whatever you want. It's all about you. Whereas when you have a human relationship, a relationship to a spouse or to a friend or family member or certainly to your child, they don't just do whatever you want to do. You have to deal with them on their own terms. And you have obligations toward them that are much more significant than your obligation to your pooch. So this is in response to the Ridgeway couple, you know, spending a year trying to save their little pooch from some disease. Meanwhile, the minute that their baby doesn't come out absolutely perfect, they say they're going to grind them up and try again. Say, how could someone do this? How could someone be nicer to their dog than to their baby? Because it's way easier. It's way easier. It's much less fulfilling. It's much less satisfying. It's a familial and civilizational suicide to do so. But I see how they do it. It's because it's easy. Gallup Reporting new US Poll shows a downtick in support for same sex marriage and for the transgender ideology. This shows that support for those two things has stopped rising after two decades. I'll just read a little bit from the report. That said at the Guardian, acceptance of same sex marriage and relationships in the US has flattened after more than two decades of steadily increasing support, with an ongoing decline among Republicans. About 65% of U.S. adults believe same sex marriage should be legal, down slightly from 71% in 2022 and 2023. Most of the change is due to dropping acceptance among Republicans, obviously. In the new survey, which was concluded In May, only 37% of Republicans say same sex marriage should be legally valid, while 35% say gay and lesbian relations are morally acceptable. Very, very interesting. So more Republicans are willing to say that same sex union should be valid than are willing to say that it's morally acceptable. That shows you just the encroachment of libertarianism on the conservative mind. Very deleterious turn of events over the last 60, 70 years. But it's only 37% say same sex marriage should be legally valid. And that phrasing is better than what you saw in the first paragraph because one of the ways the libs won on same sex marriage is by saying, well, should gay people be allowed to get married? I just had this debate. I was on Piers Morgan show in the uk. It was a very raucous, wild segment where with an LGBT activist and comedian, nice guy, but he couldn't understand. He actually couldn't even understand the argument I was making. And Piers was getting a riotous kick out of the whole thing. But I said, no, no, it's not that gay people shouldn't be allowed to get married. They're allowed to get married. The question is, what is marriage? And I said, marriage, it seems to me, is the lifelong union of a man and a woman for order toward procreation and the education of children. And even if you don't like that, it can't be anything else. That's what makes marriage marriage. I can't just redefine my leftist years tumbler as a pizza. I can say, look, the leftist years Tumbler, it's a beverage vessel for actually for leftist ears, but also for my fruity millennial seltzer. And it's for bringing that into my mouth so that I can have nutrients. They say, well, I want it to be a pizza. They say, okay, well, but it's not a pizza. They say, but I want it to be a pizza. Well, how dare you Exclude my desires. How dare you push your views on me? I want it to be pizza. I say it's not even up to me. It's just not a pizza. And the point with marriage is, if marriage is not a union between a man and a woman or toward procreation, education of children, what is it? What delineates it? What separates it from every other institution? I actually should be more specific. Marriage is a lifelong union between a man and a woman ordered toward the procreation, education of children. Because, you know, a guy and a girl, boyfriend and girlfriend can have a kid. It's not necessarily a lifelong union. It's ordered toward procreation. Maybe not necessarily the education of children, but if it's just like two people who love each other. Plenty of people who are not married love each other. And plenty of people who are married don't actually love each other that much. So that's not the criterion. Two people who live together. Plenty of people live together who aren't married. Plenty of married couples don't even live together, at least for decent stretches of time. What is it? And this is why same sex marriage is gonna disappear eventually. I hope sooner rather than later. Cause there are negative social consequences, especially for kids. But it will eventually disappear. And the reason is it's contrary to reality. It's contrary to nature. That just isn't marriage. And people, even if we try to overcome our reason, even if we try to overcome the limits that exist within reality, at a certain point reality is going to win. That's what's happening. And you're seeing this. It is declining. The support is declining. It will continue to decline because it is contrary to reality. And I hate to say I told you so, but I was totally right about this. Okay, I'm just gonna bring up another story. I'm not necessarily saying there's a connection between what I was just talking about and this story. I'm not. Look, don't read too much into this. I'm not necessarily James Talarico. I know we were just talking about Pride and hellofresh and same sex marriage, but I'm just. For no reason whatsoever, I now want to talk about James Tallarico. James Talarico. I can't leave the show today. Before we get to this, James Talarico is going all around Texas trying to pretend he's just one of the fellas. You know, he's just like a regular old Texan, you know, we gotta elect me to the Senate. God is non binary. Women are persons with uteruses. But I'm a regular old Texan fella. Hey, bubba, vote for me. And so James Talarico is posting these pictures of him sitting at barbecue joints, attempting to seem like a Texan by eating the barbecue. And he looks repulsed. And he just. This is not his girlfriend. His girlfriend is a vegan. You know, this guy, he's not a barbecue guy. He's just not. He's not a beer and a barbecue guy. And watching him try to choke down barbecue, it reminds me of Jacob Fry, the mayor of Minneapolis, trying to choke down that Somali slop. Do you remember that? Do we have. Yeah, you remember that? Jacob Fry there, when he's trying to suck up to the Somalis who've now conquered his city, he's sitting there eating that just obviously disgusting Somali slop, and he's trying to choke it down. He's obviously nauseated. He's, mm, oh, this is really, mm, java. This is really good. And you see the Somali guy just laughing at him like, oh, yeah, yeah, you like that? They probably gave him intentionally the most disgusting Somali food. Not that Somalis are exactly known for their Michelin rated restaurants. In any case, it's perfect. Cause in Jacob Fry's case, you have sympathy for him. You say, look, this guy lives in a Concord city. He's trying to hold on to his position as mayor, so he's gonna choke down the foreign slob. Okay? But in Talarico's case, he's eating the indigenous food. He's eating the food of Texans. And he himself seems like the foreigner. It's kind of the flipped version of what's going on in Minneapolis. Jacob Fry. Look, I don't know if he really believes all the nonsense the leftist gobbledygook he promotes, but he's just trying to pander to get votes from a foreign population that's taken over his city in Texas. Talarico is the foreigner. And I don't know that he is gonna make it does not read as authentic. It's not great content for him. It's very funny content for us. Okay, much more to get to. But the rest of the show continues now. You do not wanna miss it. Become a member, use code Knowleskin or wles at checkout for two months free on all annual plans. Sam.