The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 1344 - Trump Takes Over Speaker Of The House?

Episode Date: October 4, 2023

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Kevin McCarthy is officially out as the Speaker of the House of Representatives. Mr. McCarthy is the first Speaker in history to be ousted from the job by a vote. And he is out because Republican Congressman Matt Gates led a rebellion of just eight Republicans to vote against the Speaker. Since the GOP majority in the House is so thin, eight Republicans was all it took to defect. and along with the unified votes of the Democrats who didn't want to vote to save McCarthy, they all brought McCarthy's brief tenure to a close. Here is Congressman Gates defending the uprising. Look at that big ass.

Look at that big, juicy booty. Sorry, that was an audio clip of AOC over a picture of Ilhan Omar, licking her lips, literally licking her lips while staring at the backside of Congressman Gates yesterday. I'm not sure how that video got in there. Here is Matt Gates defending the uprising. Kevin McCarthy is the Speaker of the House of Representatives, and he has failed to take a stand where it matters. So if he won't, I will.

I make no apologies for defending the right of every hardworking American to afford a decent life for themselves and their families, and we have a greater opportunity to do that and to build coalitions under new leadership. We have to rip off the Band-Aid. we have to get back on a better course. And Mr. Speaker, I don't know how this vote's going to go. Usually when a vote comes to this floor, it's pretty predetermined.

And this one, I'm not so sure. But I am sure that we've made the right argument. That this place deserves single-subject spending bills, that we should have 72 hours to read a bill, that something that spends more than $100 million shouldn't be put on the suspension agenda such that we can't amend it. And there shouldn't be secret side deals

made on a continuing resolution to lump Ukraine in with border security. That is not right for Ukraine or border security because it fails to give either of those issues the dignity that they would require. Let's get our act together. Let's get on with it. Let's vacate the chair and let's get a better speaker. I yield back. All fair points.

All fair. The only thing that wasn't totally fair about that was the tailoring on Matt Gates' jacket. He needs a better tailor. But otherwise, he sounded great. He looked great. a lot of totally legit points. But now the question that we are left with is, what now? What happens now? McCarthy wasn't great, but he was far from the worst. In fact, this is probably damning with faint praise, but it's still true. Kevin McCarthy is probably the most conservative

speaker that Republicans have had since Joe Martin in the 1950s. He was certainly better than Paul Ryan, certainly better than John Boehner. Arguably, he was more conservative even than Newt Gingrich. But he lost the trust of some key conservatives. So now he's out. And now there is a vacancy for the worst job in all of American politics. I'm Michael Knowles. This is the Michael Noles show. Welcome back to the show. There are some studies out that suggest that antidepressants are linked with stunted sexuality and that birth control pills are linked with divorce. We'll get to that in just a moment. First, though, I don't want to move off of the speaker issue too quickly. And I know a lot of people are asking, Michael, who should be the next speaker? Is Kevin McCarthy going to run again?

No, he said he's not going to run again. He could have just run again, maybe whittled away at those eight Republicans, given them more concessions. But he says, no, I don't want the job. Some people are suggesting, well, it could be Matt Gates. Matt Gates is never going to get those votes. Maybe Jim Jordan. That would be amazing. I love Jim Jordan. He'd be a terrific speaker, but I like him too much to wish such a terrible job on him. There's no way. He hasn't really expressed his desire for the job. In fact, the one prominent person who has put forward his name to be the next speaker of the House is Matt Walsh. And so I would like to officially and fully endorse Matt Walsh for Speaker. Matt has a lot of experience in Washington. I know that he's been

busy dancing, but I think that he could bring to bear all of that work that he has done for the vice president and others in Washington to the Speaker's chair, to that gable. So Matt Walsh has my full ringing endorsement. And the top reason why I am endorsing Matt Walsh or really anyone over myself, because you know, you don't need to be a member of Congress to be speaker in theory. The reason is because under no circumstances would I ever seek the speakership of the House of Representatives because it is the single worst job in Washington, D.C. One would probably rather clean out the portable latrines on the National Mall than be the Speaker of the House. It is absolutely terrible. It is hurting cats at best. And you'll be thrown out

and called a bum and called the worst person in the world. You get absolutely no glory. You get absolutely no thanks. And the recent Republican speakers have ended their careers in shame. So no. No, who would want that job? Why is it so bad? It's not the worst job if you're a Democrat. People love Nancy Pelosi. Nancy Pelosi was able to accomplish a lot of things. Not very good things, but she was able to accomplish a lot. She has a lot of influence. She has a lot of prominence in the Democrat Party. She's helped shape the Democrat agenda.

She's still lauded as one of the leaders of the party. The same cannot be said of Paul Ryan. The same cannot be said of John Boehner. Even Newt, he was the most effective one we've had in a long time, perhaps other than Kevin McCarthy. Newt Gingrich was certainly more effective than Kevin McCarthy. Kevin McCarthy might have been a little bit more conservative. But regardless, why is it that the Democrats do better in the job than the Republicans do?

The reason is because for the Republicans, it is an impossible job because the Republican Party is split in far more distinct ways than the Democrats are. The Democratic Party is split between extremely progressive people and slightly less progressive people. There aren't really very many conservative Democrats at all. Maybe Henry Quellar of Texas would be. He's probably the only one. Okay. So you've got the extreme far-left liberals.

You've got AOC and Ilhan Omar. And then you've got the slightly less extreme ones like Nancy Pelosi. But they're all on the same page. Directionally, they're all facing the same way. And so it's easy to wrangle them. With the Republicans, you've got the conservatives, mostly in the Freedom Caucus. And then you've got the liberals, who are the moderates, who are the ones who agree with Democrats on a lot of issues.

But they're at least nominally a Republican, and they vote with the Republicans on some issues. And we want them to be with the Republicans so that we don't get completely blown out in these votes. But how do you reconcile those things? When it comes down to foundational premises of politics, all of the Democrats are on the same page. When it comes down to foundational premises of politics, the Republicans are split. You've got the conservatives and the liberals. And the two will never get all that close together. anyone who's going to wrangle them is going to have to be able to be a little bit squishy,

which is going to irritate the conservatives. And the conservatives rightly are going to say, well, I don't want to go along with that. If the choice we have in Congress is between super-duper liberals and slightly less intense liberals, then what's the point? That's not a choice. That's an echo. And so they're going to pull their support. The ousting of Kevin McCarthy should not come as a surprise to anyone. It's been occurring in slow motion, but it should not come as a surprise to anyone. This was baked in the moment that Kevin McCarthy gave in to some of the demands of the conservatives, which is he offered them the motion to vacate, the fact that they could just with one member stand up there and say, no more speaker. He offered them all sorts of

concessions on committees. He offered them, which is one of the arguments as to why he wasn't the worst speaker we've ever had. He offered them a lot more prominence, and he made them promises that he was not able to keep. And so they ousted them. Who takes over now? Few names have been floated, beyond Matt Walsh, which is Steve Scalise, House Majority Leader, and Tom Emmer, House Majority Whip,

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Probably not going to be Steve Scalice. Steve Scalese would be a great choice for it, but he is suffering from a pretty brutal cancer diagnosis. So it's probably not going to be him. At least Stefanik, the Republican from New York, who's a little bit lib, but she has played her cards pretty well, and she's been on the right side of Trump. She is the House GOP conference chairman.

However, she is being talked about as a potential VP pick for Trump. So she probably doesn't want the speakership. Tom Emmer is the House majority whip. He is kind of on the wrong side of Trump. And whether you love Trump or hate Trump, Trump's a big figure in the Republican Party, not a great place to be. When he was NRCC chairman, that's the congressional campaign committee for the Republicans, He encouraged Republicans not to mention Trump's name on the campaign trail.

He was pretty critical of Trump in 2016. I don't know. I don't really. Maybe Emmer gets it. He's probably the most likely candidate right now. He's definitely in the top three. McCarthy says he won't run again. Thomas Massey is, I can't imagine.

He's extremely conservative and he was opposed to the motion to vacate for the same reasons that I said because he said McCarthy. I'm not saying McCarthy is great, but he was the best we've had in a long time. And I don't know that we're going to do much better. So who could it be? Could it be Trump himself? I think it should be Trump. Assuming Matt wants to focus on his dancing career, I think the speaker should be Donald Trump. Because that is the funniest of all options. And because there aren't any notably better options before us. The best option probably would be Jim Jordan. Jim Jordan has said repeatedly he has no desire to have the job. He would much rather stay where he is on the Judiciary Committee. He's doing excellent work there on the Judiciary Committee.

I like him personally. I really like Jim Jordan. I don't wish such a terrible job on him. And Trump would have a lot of fun with it. And it would just, because we're in this moment of political upheaval, where the Democrats have destroyed basically all of the norms of our political order, and they're focusing all of that destruction on the person of Donald Trump, then the way to bring all of this to the four would, of course, be to put Trump in the number three position in the entire U.S. government. And then you just kind of wait to see what happens. If, for instance, well, here's a great reason why it should be Trump.

Donald Trump right now has been threatened with a gag order. So the judge in one of the zillion trials of Donald Trump, the judge in this financial trial where they're trying to take away his companies, and they're trying to pretend that his companies aren't worth very much money, even though we know that they are. They're pretending that Mara Lago is worth $18 million. Mara Lago does $25 million a year, just the business. Forget about the property. The property is worth hundreds of millions of dollars. But they're trying to take this away, and they issued a gag order on Trump. Judge Arthur N. Goran issued this limited gag order.

against everyone in the civil case to stop verbal and social media posted swipes at members of the staff, because Trump took a swipe at one of the judge's staff members and pointed out that she's a huge lib. Allison Greenfield is a big lib, she's a big Democrat. And Trump said this is a crooked case and I'm just being politically persecuted and look at all these big libs on your staff. And the judge says, you can't talk about how we're all big libs. Or if you do talk about it, we're going to put you in jail for 30 days. So, here's my proposal. Donald Trump becomes Speaker of the House of Representatives.

He then, as the leader of the lower body of one of the branches of government, he has open debate on the floor of the house and he gets to say whatever he wants. And the judge can't do a damn thing about it because that would lead to a constitutional crisis. More of a constitutional crisis than we're already in. He's probably not going to be speaker, but it would be really funny. Could you imagine? Did you imagine sitting there at the state of the union? Gung, gung, gung. All right, ladies and gentlemen, he's the president.

I'm the president, not that jerk. Okay. Speaking of speaking out, and even assuming that Donald Trump, by the way, is not the Speaker of the House, Trump should violate this gag order. He certainly should violate the gag order. I'm not sure that I would have said a week ago that he should call the members of this judge of staff Big Libs, but now he must. He has to do it because all of these prosecutions are a ridiculous farce.

none of them have anything to do with any crimes that Donald Trump supposedly committed. He's not being brought up on rape charges. Give me a break in New York. He's not being brought up on insurrection and the evil, horrible crime of calling the Secretary of State of Georgia when you're the President of the United States or this, that. I don't even remember all the charges. Now of overvaluing his businesses, give me a break.

He's not being brought up on any of that because they are crimes. he's being brought up on those things because the liberal ruling class wants to destroy the former president and current leader of the political opposition. That's all it's about. It's all just about 2024. And so Trump has to speak out. Let them put him in jail. Let them put – there are still some people, probably not you if you're listening to this show. I don't care if you love Trump, if you hate Trump, if you're a left-wing Democrat. If you're listening to this show and you pay attention to politics, you know that this is a political. persecution. But there are some people, very unfortunate people, who perhaps don't yet listen to this show, who naively think that these trials are really just about the blind law being evenly distributed to

everybody, and Lady Justice, where's the blindfold? And so Donald Trump, he's just going to be held to account if he did anything wrong. Some people naively still believe that. Let them put him in an orange jumpsuit. Let him sit in a jail. Let the reality of this political persecution set in, of what a banana republic the Democrats have made this country into. Let that set in. I think it would help Trump's campaign. I think it would, even if it hurt Trump's campaign, I think it would be good for the American political order because we would have to confront a very nasty reality, which is that we are no longer governed like a bill up on Capitol Hill and all the other BS you learned in your civics class. If we were governed that way, we are governed that way no longer, and we're not

going to fix the problem until we acknowledge it. Speaking of speaking out, speaking of people with power, Pope Francis has signaled an openness to a sort of same-sex blessing, not gay marriage exactly, but kind of a same-sex blessing, and potentially even a type of women, woman priestess, sort of maybe situation in the Catholic Church. This is all extremely complex. One, because the libs lie as journalists. But I don't want to blame everything on the lib journalists here. Two, because the Holy Father tends to speak in a way that there might be a little bit ambiguous.

Three, because the Jesuits, and Pope Francis is a Jesuit. the first Jesuit Pope ever, they have a habit of being a little cagey, not the way that they speak. Four, because the Catholic Church being 2,000 years old, and at least in my view, divinely instituted, has a lot of layers to it. You know, there's mystery there. And so it can't be easily, you know, jotted down in five bullet points on the back of a napkin. But that is why, even though.

though I usually, when Pope Francis is in the news, I say, oh, who cares? I'm not, I'm not concerned about that. Things will sort itself out, but it's not, it's probably being misrepresented. But here, this is really worrisome because the Catholic Church is headed for something called a synod, unsinodality. What is that? Your guess is as good as mine. It is a meeting of bishops and lay people and non-Catholics for some reason who are all joining together. It's not an ecumenical counsel. It's not, people don't really know what it is. And it's potentially a campaign to restructure the very constitution of the church. And there is the possibility that the church, which has uniquely held firm against these errors of modernity that have infected other institutions,

things like the contraceptive mentality, things like abortion, things like the sexual revolution, especially we've seen those three things in the last 60 years. The Catholic Church has held firm. Even supposedly liberal popes like Pope Paul VI held firm. Issues Humanevite, which says no contraception, no abortion, none of that weird stuff. Pope Francis has said you cannot bless sin. Pope Francis has said things that seem pretty Orthodox, pretty Catholic. But then we see in a response to questions that were posed to him by his cardinals, he seemed a little ambiguous about whether priests can issue blessings of same-sex situations, let's call it, situations maybe, and of women's roles in the church. So my takeaway, perhaps we'll get to this on Theology Thursday, because

this is a big deal in the Catholic Church being the bedrock institution of Western civilization. Even if you're not Catholic, you probably would agree with that statement. If there are big disruptions afoot in the Catholic Church, that is going to affect everybody, whether you're Catholic yet or not. Ultimately, I'm not concerned because I believe that the church is divinely instituted, and I believe that our Lord will never leave his church, and I believe he sent the Holy Spirit to guide the church. But this, we could be heading for a very, very, very serious. scandalous moments. So we've got to peer into that. I think it was Paul the 6th who said the

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I was having this conversation the other night with sweet little Alisa. And we were just talking about how the world has gotten so crazy and why men and women are acting so weird about each other. And Alisa raised the question. She said, you know, Mac, it's a lot. It's a lot. It's a lot. It's It's kind of like a little bit weird how we just pump women full of hormones and chemicals for like decades at a time, you know, starting when they're like 13 years old. And Mac, do you think any of the relationship problems, the divorces, whatever? Could that be linked to that? And I said, you know, girl, that's an interesting suggestion, as are many of Elisa's suggestions. So then I googled it, and it turns out she's probably right.

I found this story which originated in the UK independent, so, you know, major paper, that suggests that marital problems are a side effect of birth control use. 85% of people in Britain said that their marriage or relationship had been impacted by contraceptions side effects. According to this survey here, women who had ever taken hormonal oral contraceptives, the pill, that sort of thing, divorced at a rate 54% above the study average. Women with tubal ligations who had their tubes tied divorced at a rate 78% above average. Husbands who have had bisectomies were twice as likely to divorce. The divorce rate for couples who had ever used condoms was 67% above the average. and on the flip side of things, women who actively used natural family planning, which is something that the church has encouraged in the past and it's a little more natural.

And one hopes it is to be used so that you can have more children not used as a sneaky back door into contraception. But it's one that Christians are a little more inclined toward. were 47% less likely to divorce than the average. If you considered women who had ever used NFP, ever in their whole lives, the group was still 31% less likely to divorce. Now, you could say, well, right, the reason for these numbers is that if you ever use contraception, then you're not going to be Catholic. You're not going to be practicing the Catholic faith, for instance.

and Catholics say that you can't get divorced, and modern libs say that you can get divorced, so that's why they're more likely to divorce. Same goes for other religious communities. It's Michael, it's that their behavior vis-a-vis contraception is indicative of deeper beliefs, and the deeper beliefs are responsible for their behaviors relative to divorce. Okay, yeah, maybe. Maybe, yeah, sure, but that explains a lot of it. Could it also be, though?

We know that contraception, we know that the pill, for instance, changes women's biochemistry and could have effects on the kind of men that they're attracted to and how they're attracted to them and different mood swings and all the rest of it. Is it possible that by radically altering women's hormones and biochemistry for decades at a time, we're kind of messing up the way that they relate to the men in their lives? It seems likely to me. at the very least, we know that other drugs are messing up people's sexual development, especially kids' sexual development, antidepressant drugs, which everybody is on now. A shocking number of

Americans are on these depression pills that radically alter their brain chemistry. We now have a story just came out yesterday that antidepressants could stunt teenagers developing sexuality as they grow older, really depressing that teenagers are on antidepressants. If teenagers are on antidepressants, something has gone seriously wrong in the culture from the family all the way up to the political order and to the medical order that we would just prescribe kids, these very powerful drugs. Why are these teens so depressed? Rarely do people discuss how this might affect their development, but it turns out we know that antidepressants tamped down sex drive in adults and it would appear that it has similar odd effects on the sexuality of kids. could the widespread prescription of antidepressants have something to do with the bizarre uptick in especially younger people, desiring all sorts of weird sexual modifications and procedures and indulging in fictional sexual identities?

Might the two things have some link there? Since statistically, every single kid who desires a trans procedure, assuming it's not pure Munchausen by proxy, and it's not purely the parents destroying these kids' lives, if the kids have asked for it at all. Statistically, 100% of them are on some kind of antidepressant drug. Do you think that there could be some link here? I suspect there could be. I suspect there could, which is why I try to take as few drugs as possible. Other than a nice glass of red wine and a cigar, which generally don't, they're not too tough on your brain chemistry. I don't even want to take ibuprofen.

I'm loath to say I had a headache this morning, and I delayed and I waited and I waited before I would take an ibuprofen. Even that I don't want to take. Just think about all the chemicals. We're pumping into our bodies all the time. Does anyone really think that has no effect on all the weird behaviors and irrationality that's cropped up in our public life? and all of the bizarre...

I don't... It's hard to imagine that. Speaking of women's issues, women are complaining. It's not the headline story, but women are complaining about men showing up to a women's tech conference. Take a listen.

Career conference for females in tech was taken over by male attendees. They were there just purely for the career fair. Social media clips filmed at the Grace Hopper, the world's largest gathering of women technologists, show men standing in line to meet with recruiters. This is a space for women in tech. This is one of those few limited resources

that isn't for you. It's for us. Some of the male attendees reportedly lied about being non-binary just to get in. But it's interesting that the large majority of the people that actually ended up in the event had name tags with he, him, and have no searchable history of identifying as non-binary. Several tech workers defended the men

for trying to capitalize on job opportunities not meant for them, seeing that the entire concept was wrong. Let's be honest, there is no need for a conference just for women because if it was the opposite just for men, then it would be sexist. Just because you are a woman doesn't give you the right to talk to a big firm recruiter, guys work just as hard and they don't get that chance. Okay. What I love about this video is that they anticipate the objection from the right.

Is the objection from the right is going to be, well, maybe those men identify us. women, ha-ha, you told us that you can identify however you want. You told us that there's practically no difference between men and women. So maybe those men are just trans or non-binary or whatever. And they anticipate that. And they say, yeah, there are some men who are lying about being non-binary. How do you know they're lying? How do you know they're lying? I thought that what makes you trans or what makes you non-binary is the mere declaration that you are so. So then you can't lie. You cannot be lying about it. Because if there were some objective external measure of one's transness or one's non-binaryness, then one could lie about it. But if the sole criterion

of transness and non-binaryness is your declaration that you are that thing, then it is not possible to lie about it. So they weren't lying about it. Or the whole thing is a lie. And obviously, the latter is the case. But then they go further. They say, but some men were there and they wrote he, him. They said that they're men, but they just want to go anyway. And that's wrong, because this is supposed to be just for women, even if we included trans women and the non-binary people. But the very ideology of transgenderism, the very ideology of non-binary, certainly, is that there is no categorical difference between men and women. There is no objective categorical difference between men and women. It's all just kind of a blurry construction of how we want to identify.

So by granting the very premise that a trans woman or a non-binary person could go to the conference or could even exist as a category of being, these women are undermining the whole point of the conference, which is that women need their own special space, and men can't go to that. So what is this boil down to? What this boils down to is something that some of us have been saying for a very long time, which is that transgenderism and non-binaryism

and all the weird sex stuff is not about logic. When you ask someone to explain to you how transgenderism works, they will give you five mutually contradictory explanations. Oh, it's actually the brain develops differently. Actually, it has nothing to do with the brain or anything physical at all. Actually, you're just a man born in a woman's body. Actually, it's about the soul. Actually, you don't have a soul. Actually, it's about the estrogen you were exposed to in the womb.

Actually, it's about this, it's about that. It's about whatever you want to be. And it's all mutually contradictory at the biological and philosophical level. and what it's all about is just will. It's just about I want. It's just about I will get what I will get. Okay, that's what it's about. And there's no arguing with that.

I made this point yesterday on the show. Debate has limits. Debate is good so that you can sometimes refine your perception of reality and get a little bit closer to the truth. I like debate. I'm a professional debate. But to quote a former liberal president of Yale, skepticism has utility only when it leads to conviction. You've got to settle on certain truths.

And when people disagree about the most fundamental principles and premises and axioms, then no debate is possible. Because you need to at least have some shared understanding of reality in order to have a debate at all. We need to at least agree about language. We need to at least agree about the simple meaning of words. We need to at least be able to agree about what these symbols refer to an objective reality. If we can't agree on that, then someone's got to win and someone's got to lose. As I have mentioned before, there's no middle ground with transgenderism. Either it's true or not.

If it's true, it's true for everybody. If it's false, it's false as it is, then for the good of society and especially for the good of the poor people who've fallen prey to that confusion, transgenderism must be eradicated from public life entirely the whole ideology at every level. Now, speaking of liberal activism, a really sad story that went viral yesterday. It was a guy, a 32-year-old activist who was stabbed to death by some vagrant wacko at 4 a.m. in bedstie. And he was leaving a wedding with his, looks like his girlfriend. And a young white guy, apparently a real do-gooder, you know, liberal social activist, and he's there with his girlfriend, and there's a vagrant in Bedford-Stuyvesant.

I mentioned he's a young white guy because Bedstuy is a black neighborhood. It's overwhelmingly a black neighborhood. So this guy stands out. Bed-Stuy is a poor neighborhood. This guy's wearing a suit. His girlfriend is wearing a gown, and this vagrant walks by, and for some reason, this young man, this 32-year-old man, gets up with his girlfriend and follows the crazy vagrant and starts speaking to him when this vagrant, it looks like he was beating up on a car or a trash can or something. And the guy showed courage in that when the vagrant pulled a knife out and starts attacking him, he put himself in between the attacker and his girlfriend. And then he was stabbed today. He was down on the ground and this was all captured on camera because cameras now are everywhere.

The sad, I mean, the sad part about this is this young man died. Some people are kind of mocking it and saying, well, he got what he deserved, you know, play stupid games, play stupid prizes. I'm not doing that. That's, you know, this is a very sad thing if a guy gets murdered, especially if he is trying to help his girlfriend. But what's really, what is especially sad and what's politically important for all of us is the shocking way that he and so many people today. misjudge these sorts of situations, which we'll get to in one second. First, though, McMuffin 19 gave my famous comment yesterday, and he said, Libs always say you can't yell fire in a crowded theater, but we'll pull a fire alarm to stop a vote.

That's true. You can't yell fire in a crowded theater unless the Republicans are passing a continuing resolution that you don't like. Then the Supreme Court has said you are allowed to pull the fire alarm, especially if you can't read and don't know, don't know, what fire alarms look like. Bedstai is a very bad neighborhood. Wasn't it a biggie who rapped about Bedstie, do or die? Bedstie is not a nice place. I just looked up the crime statistics in Bedstuy.

Your chance of becoming a victim of crime in Bedford-Stuyvesant is about 1 in 35. The violent crime rate is 1,000 per 100,000 people. The average crime rate is 2,900 per 100,000 people. It was four o'clock in the morning. This is a young white couple dressed to the nines from a wedding. They're going to stick out like a sore thumb. Some people have said, well, it's crazy to be in New York City at 4 o'clock in the morning. It's not crazy to be in New York.

I've been in New York City at 4 o'clock in the morning many, many times, all over the streets and all sorts of parts of New York. But if I'm going to be out on the street at 4 o'clock in the morning, it's when the bars get out in New York, I'm going to be in nice neighborhoods. I'm not going to do that in bad neighborhoods. And there's a difference between bad neighborhoods and nice neighborhoods. And you're not allowed to say that now because it's politically incorrect to suggest that certain neighborhoods are more prone to crime than others. But they are.

And if I see a crazy looking vagrant on the street, I'm going to cross to the other side of the street. And I'm not going to talk to that guy. I'm not even going to make eye contact with that guy. Because some people are more dangerous than I. others. You're not allowed to say that now, especially if the person is black. Even if the person's white, but especially if the person's black, you're not allowed to say that because that would be called, I don't know, they'd call you racist or profiling or whatever. But these are all natural reactions that are conducive to our own safety. The word that has been totally trodden underfoot

in recent decades is prejudice. Prejudice is a terrible, you're not supposed to prejudge anything. But of course, you have to prejudge things. You have to just act on gut and instinct. You don't have time to write a 50-page thesis on every single question you're presented with. You wouldn't get out of bed in the morning. You wouldn't be able to determine, okay, I'm going to get out of bed, and then eat a bowl of Cheerios, and then go take a shower, and then go get in my car and drive to work. You'd have to examine every single one of those decisions. Every time you meet somebody, you wouldn't be able to know do I shake their hand? Do I punch him in the face? Do I run away? Prejudice. I'm not saying cruelty. I'm not saying, you know, unjust discrimination. I'm not saying any of that. But just prejudging, just going on your gut, going with the wisdom of the ages, that is not only not a bad thing. That's a very, very good thing. That is essential to our personal safety and to politics. Edmund Burke, one of the great Anglo-Irish philosophy.

of conservatism, elevated prejudice as a very important aspect of politics. Because otherwise, we're going to be like the utopian liberals. We're going to be like the progressives who say the past was always bad. We've got to throw out that had no wisdom whatsoever. And we're just going to reinvent the world every single day out of our own stock of reason. But our stock of reason is relatively limited. And when we do that, when we ignore the wisdom of the ages, we actually put even more constraints on our stock of reason. And we imperil ourselves and our political community. Very sad.

We should pray for that guy and we should pray for his girlfriend, you know, and maybe even for that maniac criminal there who I hope is arrested. I hope all the other criminals in New York are arrested. There's another sad aspect of the story. If New York were just operating like it did during Giuliani's day, then the prosecutors would arrest the criminals and the likelihood of being victimized in it, even in these bad neighborhoods, would diminish greatly. but because of political correctness, because of liberalism, because of a misunderstanding of human nature and politics, we don't get that. And so it's no surprise when people, in recent days, oddly enough, especially open liberal activists, are victimized. That should come as no surprise because they're basing their behavior on flawed premises. It's not just bedstay.

Henry Queller, I mentioned Henry Queller at the top of the show. He's a Democrat from Texas, but he's relatively more conservative. Congressman Queller was just carjacked in Washington, D.C. I was coming in from the Capitol. I parked in front of my apartment complex, and when I was getting up, three guys came up with guns. I quickly analyzed the situation. I got a black belt with karate, so you've got to learn what to do.

I looked to the left, somebody had a gun. To the right, somebody had a gun. A third guy behind me. and you got to stay calm. So I went ahead and gave the car keys and they took off. Within a couple hours, they were able to recover my phone, my car. Everything got returned. I want to thank the Capitol Police and the Metro Police for doing their job.

So it's good that there was a relatively happy ending here and Congressman Kweller wasn't hurt and he got his stuff back. This is a sitting member of Congress getting carjacked. You know the city has spun out of control when that happens. Years ago, during the early days of the verdict podcast, we were filming it. Me and Senator Cruz and some of the staff were filming it on somewhere L Street, K Street, somewhere in the studio. But in a nice part of D.C., we're pretty close to the White House. And this was about one in the morning. Senator Cruz would come over after the impeachment vote and we'd do the podcast.

They'd just park on the street, whatever. After one of the early shows, Senator Cruz walks back into the student. We were cleaning up a little bit. And he said, guys, someone broke into my car. There's a smash and grab. Someone just smashed open a window, grabbed, stole stuff out of the car. This is a sitting U.S. Senator. This is a sitting U.S. congressman here, Kwellar.

How do you stop it? It's not complicated. If Rudy Giuliani could do it in New York City in the early 90s, anyone could do it. It might not be easy, but it is simple. You have to acknowledge that the way to fight crime is to lock up the criminals. You have to recognize that the bad neighborhoods are where the crime is likely to happen. You've got to send more cops to those bad neighborhoods and you've got to harass more criminals and you've got to lock them up for longer periods of time.

When crime is on the rise, that means you have an under-incarceration problem. What do our liberal rulers tell us that we have an over-incarceration? Well, over-incarceration, talk to me about over-incarceration when the crime rate starts dropping again. It's just a refusal to accept human nature and reality as it is. Well, of course, we live in a time when you're not even allowed to say that men and women are different. Is it any wonder that we're ignoring reality on other fronts too? The rest of the show

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