The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 1393 - Cocomelon Pushes Child Crossdressing & Gay Parents

Episode Date: December 21, 2023

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No way. A Lego set is a gift that always clicks. And clicks. Mom, look. It's so beautiful. And clicks. For every nature lover, choose a Lego set. A gift that always clicks. A popular kids show, quite possibly the most popular kids show in the world, is apparently trying to turn your child into a tutu-wearing, mama-denying, gender-bending dancer, as evidenced by this recently viral clip. Thing that we know about you, you love to get up and dance. How about you break out those moves?

For your two biggest fans. If you're not sure what to choose, think about all the things you like to do. Just be you. Just be me? Yep. When you're trying to decide, think about all the things you like to do. Just be you. Just be me.

Believe that clip was dug up by the Twitter account Endwokeness. I'm not sure I will ever forgive end-wokeness for digging that up. Why shouldn't kids shows depict little boys wearing tutus and dancing for the pleasure of homosexual men who have somehow gained custody of them? Huh? Come on, man. It's 2023. Sure.

Until the mid to late 20th century, anyone who ever considered creating a scene like that, even for adults would have been ostracized from polite society and likely prosecuted. But it's 2023. Standards have changed. Get with the program. This is just what kids are watching these days. This is what kids are watching these days.

When I say cocoa melon is popular, I mean it's the third biggest channel on YouTube ever. I mean 169 million subscribers on YouTube. It's the second most viewed channel. on YouTube. I'm talking 172 billion views, billion with a B. This channel has distribution deals with Netflix, Roku, and Hulu. It's been able to rack up all of those views, according to a New York Times profile, through a single-minded strategy to keep kids' attention. Liberal friends of mine who let their kids watch cocoa melon have described it as crack for kids. I have not put cocoa melon on for my kids for a few reasons.

One, because I love them. Two, because the show has always struck me is extremely annoying. And three, because I just assume that anything modern and popular and praised by the libs is poison. Now we have proof. That's why we launched our own kids platform, Bent Key. If you're already a Daily Wire member, then you've already got it. And if you're not, and you have kids, I strongly recommend the kids. that you get it now.

But even if you don't, at the very least, I strongly recommend that you do not put your kids in front of cocoa melon. When the indoctrination is subtle, it's easy to blame the content producers. When the leftist indoctrination is this overt, if we keep putting it on for our kids, then we have no one to blame but ourselves. I'm Michael Knowles.

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Just be yourself. I guess what's wrong is the assumption that that makes about human nature, which is that there's this true self at the core of an onion. We just need to peel away the layers of society and norms and standards and practice and morality and tradition and ritual. We need to peel away all those layers, and then we will get to the true core of the self. And the true core for that little boy is wearing tutus and dancing for a couple of homosexuals. That's the true, that's his real identity. Once you peel away the layers of oppression in society, that's not actually how human nature works. It's not actually how identity works.

This is so insidious because what really lies at the core of human behavior, certain things are genetic predispositions, certain things are just woven into the fabric of human nature, but a lot of human behavior and especially human desire, comes from imitation. We imitate the people around us. We're like chimpanzees in this way. We mimic people. We are mimetic creatures. The baby learns to talk by copying his mommy and daddy.

One hopes he has a mommy and daddy. The baby learns to talk. The parents are speaking and then the baby says, Mama, Mama, Mama, Mama. And then you say other words. Applesauce. and that they learn to copy you. If you've ever been around children,

if you've ever had children of your own, especially, you'll know that kids are like little sponges. Every word you say, they're going to start copying. Every little behavior that you do, even every unconscious behavior, you move your eyebrow in a certain way, you walk in a certain way. They're going to copy that.

We are memetic, and we are memetic when it comes to our desires as well. I mentioned this on the show yesterday in a different context. The reason people want the Rolex watch is not because they know anything about how the watch works, It's not because they know anything really about the history of the company or the mechanics of watch gears. It's because other people want the Rolex watch. Other people who they admire and respect like the Rolex watch, so they want it too.

The reason you want your neighbor's wife is not because she's Helen of Troy. It's not because she's the hottest woman ever. It's because your neighbor wants her. And so our desire, not only do we mimic the speech and behavior of others, we even mimic their desires. So the way that a kid becomes his true self is not just by, is not certainly not by peeling away the layers of learned behavior, it's by acculturating him. The way he becomes his true self is by educating him. It's by how he's raised. So if a kid is raised by a lumberjack and his traditional wife in the mountains of who knows where, somewhere in the western United States, and they've got really traditional values

and the dad goes out and chops wood and the mom churns butter and I don't know, I'm probably getting into some kind of fairy tale fable of a traditional life but that kid is going to be more likely to go chop wood or if it's a girl more likely to churn butter. And if a child is raised by a couple of homosexual men who purchased the child

from scientists and impoverished women in the third world through IVF and surrogacy, then that kid, kid is more likely to mimic their behavior. And if a kid is raised to be told that it is oppressive for a boy to play with G.I. Joe, and it's wonderful and liberating for a boy to wear a tutu and dance for the pleasure of his father's, quote unquote, he's going to do that too. And if a kid is raised watching that absolutely degenerate cartoon, then the kid is more likely to mimic those behaviors as well. We think of this in a really visceral way. And we say, you are what you eat. If you

eat a lot of bad food, you're going to feel bad. If you're just eating fast food all the time, you're going to get overweight and bloated, you're just going to feel lethargic and bad. Well, the same is true. It's especially true when it comes to our minds and our souls. The more bad stuff we take in, the worse we're going to feel, the more it's going to twist our desires and our sense of identity, and ultimately our soul is what we're really talking about. And this is quite clear when we talk about porn on the internet. That's probably clear. theorist when we talk about porn. It's even worse than Cocoa Mellon. We had Arden Young, a young journalist on who had conducted an investigation through sound investigations of Pornhub a couple of weeks ago.

Well, she's got more to her investigation now. She went undercover and spoke to not just the senior writers at the parent company of Pornhub, which is who she nabbed previously, but now she's speaking to a technical product manager at this company. The company was called Mindgeek, but of course, the company is just so disreputable, so despicable, that they have to keep changing their name because, because like the euphemism treadmill, bad connotations just glom on naturally to whatever this company is called. So it used to be called, the company itself is called Porn Hub, and there are other related porn sites. The parent company was called Mind Geek. Now I think it's called A-Lo. But here we have Mike Farley, technical product manager at Mindgeek, according to his social media.

And unlike the previous senior staff at Pornhub's parent company that Arden interviewed, this guy is not totally gung-ho on the product. He actually expresses some real reservations about it. So many people portray porn as like liberating. Liberates. I don't know. I think it's just the easy way out. I just think you're taking the easy way out. And like, I don't think anybody like watches porn and then like feels good about them.

It's not really something that you're just like, hey, I'm the left. Like it's not, it's like, it's like ecstasy to like, what the f*** can I do? It's like an addiction. Well, I definitely think for an addiction is never. That's for sure. But yeah, no, I don't know, I don't think it's like a positive thing in general. Even like Jordan Peterson, I know that he says like the, there's not many studies on him. there's not a lot of like we don't really know that implication.

You've seen like thousands of hottest girls on earth naked, right? Like in your brain, like your brain thinks you've seen them in person. Like there's no difference, right? Like visually you saw it. And I think like that, there's no way that that's like good. I can't be normal. I can't be healthy. I like this guy.

I guess maybe the reason he's got a more normal and reasonable perspective on this, is he's not one of the writers. Unlike those other two guys who said, yeah, we're trying to slip in all sorts of weird, especially deviant stuff into the so-called straight porn. And then that way, we're going to convert the customer to a new product. Those guys truly just seem like demons.

This guy doesn't seem like a demon. He's working for a very, very evil company. But he's the technical product manager. He strikes me as just a normal tech guy, right? And I guess he, maybe he didn't get a job at Boeing or something. He didn't get a job at NASA. So, okay, he's going to take the job at the porn company. But at least he gets it.

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Higherbond.com today. New rule for life just dropped, brought to you by the technical product manager at Mind Geek, Pornhub's parent company, Mike Farley. And the rule is this. Don't let your behavior stop you from acknowledging the truth. don't become a captive to your own bad behavior. This guy, unlike the other staff at Pornhub who Arden interviewed undercover, this guy is clearly struggling with the immorality of his job. This guy clearly recognizes something is wrong with this company, with our modern culture.

He listens to Jordan Peterson for goodness sake, okay? He's obviously in some way on the right track, but he still works for this big porn company. He's helping to promote something that's very evil, and that according to his own admission, is not healthy for people. So what's he going to do? What a lot of people do, this to some degree describes all of us. We know that there's a right thing to do, but we do the wrong thing. What do we do in that circumstance?

Well, we only have two options. We can either admit that what we're doing is wrong and feel some degree of shame and either live in that shame as hypocrites or try to better ourselves and try to improve even though we're going to stumble, or we can deny the truth that we know in favor of the behavior. And most people, I think, most people here, maybe not here, not in the Crem de la Crem Michael Null's show audience, but most people in general will do the latter. If they're doing a behavior that they come to realize is wrong or immoral, not healthy, they will deny the truth that they have reasonably arrived at in order to.

to justify the behavior. And in part, some of the reason they'll do that is I'll say, well, if I acknowledge, I, someone working for a porn company, if I acknowledge that porn is bad, then I would be a hypocrite. Or I'd have to quit my job. And I can't quit my job. I got a mortgage payment, you know? And look, it's a complicated world.

It's not black and white. There's all sorts of shades of gray in the middle. Come on, man. Look, maybe it's not the hell. But I, hey, anyway, all that moral philosophies it. that's above my pay grade. I'm just going to go out and get my bag, you know, make some money, and we'll worry about that. And that's not that bad, right? That's what most people do. And who am I to lecture people on this? I am working at a porn company and I can't be that bad,

therefore. No. The good thing to do, though, the right thing to do is when your reason has arrived at something at a conclusion that's obviously true and your behavior doesn't jive with that, even if you can't change the behavior yet, even if you're just so, habituated to this behavior that you can't you feel totally powerless to change it at least acknowledge the truth don't deny the truth to justify your own bad behavior at least acknowledge the truth and simply by acknowledging the truth you will begin to start to turn those wheels to of your desire to start to maybe kind of make a change in your behavior that guy could probably do it for most of these guys, you feel kind of bad for them that they're getting caught on camera and they're going to lose their jobs.

But you don't really feel that bad for them because they're doing terrible things. And for this guy, though, I'm glad he's going to lose his job because he wants to lose his job on some degree, on some level, rather. He wants to. He knows it's bad. He knows it's not healthy. He's a tech guy. I'm sure he can get another job somewhere else. He could do it. Good. I hope he loses his job. It'd be good for him. I don't hope he loses his job because I think he's a job. a bad guy. I think he's kind of a good guy. Gladdy got caught. Now, you are seeing a principle, a version of this principle, applied in the presidential race. There are a lot of people who hate Donald Trump. Shocking to hear, I know. There are a lot of people, even in the Republican Party,

you hate Donald Trump. There are a lot of people who worked for Donald Trump who hate Donald Trump. And still, when Colorado Supreme Court came out and said Trump cannot appear on the ballot because we are going to, in an unprecedented way, radically reinterpret a civil war era of provision of the Constitution designed to stop Confederate generals from taking over the government. And we're going to interpret that to say that the mean orange man from New York can't be president again. Even Bill Barr, former Trump Attorney General, who has been a huge Trump critic, came out and said it's totally bogus. As you know, I strongly oppose Donald Trump for the Republican nomination.

But I think that this case is legally wrong and untenable. And I think this kind of action of stretching the law, taking these hyper-aggressive positions to try to knock Trump out of the race, are counterproductive. They backfire. As you know, he feeds on grievance, just like a fire feeds on oxygen. And this is going to end up as a grievance that helps him. To deprive somebody of the right to hold public office,

requires due process. It requires an adjudication of two core issues. One, was there an insurrection? Did the public disturbance rise to the level of an insurrection? And second, what was the role of the individual in there? Was it engagement? Did they do something to break their oath of office? Those are complicated facts, and this was denied due process. It was a five-day hearing. There was no No jury. It was before the judge. I think if they take it up, they're going to slap it down very quickly. And I hope they do take it up quickly and slap it down because otherwise he could be left off the ballot in this primary. So Barr, absolutely totally right here. Barr is not the only one. John Bolton, former national security advisor to Donald Trump. Bolton has been a huge Trump critic of late. He's certainly not going to support Trump in 2024. John Bolton, same thing. Very serious lawyer, educated man. Washington. operator. He says this Colorado ruling completely nuts. I think it's completely misplaced. I think

this Colorado Supreme Court decision is badly wrong for multiple reasons. Number one, the 14th Amendment provides that Congress can pass legislation to carry its provisions into effect, which Congress has done on many aspects. It has not put anything with respect to Section 3 on the books since just after the Civil War. Second, the idea that 50 different state courts can decide a question involving the highest elective office in the executive branch, interpreting the federal constitution as to what constitutes an insurrection against the federal government is incoherent. And I think undoubtedly the Supreme Court's going to have to clear that up.

I'd be willing to bet a small amount of money here that the Supreme Court, if it gets to merits of this, if it has to, will reverse. There's no other logical way you can apply this, and it would sow chaos in elections as far as the eye could see. Colorado Supreme Court has done something that I didn't think possible. The Colorado Supreme Court has gotten Bill Barr and John Bolton to support Donald Trump again. Not to support him. They still don't like him. They don't want to be president again. But to be on his side of this argument. I think the Colorado Supreme Court has United the Republican Party here. No Republican, other than the most absurd shill for the Democrats, you know, court jester conservative types like Liz Cheney. I haven't even heard her opine on this.

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don't like Trump, but they're coming to his defense. What are the candidates doing in the 2024 presidential primary? Vivek Ramoswamy has just pledged that if this decision is not reversed, he will pull his name off the ballot in Colorado as well. They have just tried to bar President Trump from the Colorado ballot using an unconstitutional maneuver that is a bastardization of the 14th Amendment to our U.S. Constitution. This was a provision, Section 3, that was designed to bar. Confederate members. People switch to the Confederacy from actually being able to serve.

That's very different than what's at issue here to say the least. This is a hollowed out husk of what the country was built on. The basic principle that we the people select our leadership, not the unelected elite class in the back of palace halls. That's old world Europe, not the United States. That's why I'm making a pledge today, that I will withdraw, I pledge to withdraw from the Colorado GOP primary ballot unless and until Trump's name is restored. And I demand that Ron DeSantis and Chris Christie and Nikki Haley do the same thing, or else these Republicans are simply complicit in this unconstitutional attack on the way we conduct our constitutional republic. Very clever political maneuver because it puts the other GOP candidates on defense.

And I don't think this is just a cynical ploy. I think it's an admirable thing to do. I think that we cannot allow the Democrats to decide who the GOP nominee is. I think we cannot allow elected and appointed officials in the states who are big libs to so subvert our sacred democracy that we hear so much about that they prevent people from voting for the popular candidate for president. I think it's admirable. It would send a strong message. I've heard some conservatives say that it would be completely self-undermining for the other GOP candidates to pull off the ballot in the Colorado primary. I don't understand that. I think it would be a very strong statement of Republican unity to say, first of all, Colorado is not going to choose the GOP nominee. Colorado primary is not for a very long time. It's not going to be decisive. And it sends a statement to say, this is a bogus process. This is a banana republic. kind of maneuver here, and we are not going to dignify it with our presence on the ballots. Won't matter. Now, a lot of the candidates don't want to do that because they want as many delegates as they can possibly get to try to make some kind of challenge to Trump, which seems

totally implausible at this point. Trump continues to totally dominate the field everywhere, throughout the entire country and every state. So it's not a huge cost to the candidates, other than it's an acknowledgement that Trump is the presumptive nominee. A lot of them don't want to make that acknowledgement. But I think it would be a very strong political maneuver for Republicans to do this, to pull off of the ballot and to say, no. Yes, we're going to lose some delegates, I guess. It's relatively low cost because it's Colorado. But more importantly, we're going to send a message. This election process is being rigged by the Democrats. This is a fake election process. You guys are rigging it in such a way that the popular candidate will not be able to garner

the votes of the people who want to vote for him. This is bogus. We will not go along with it. And I think the Republicans who leave their names on the ballot are going to be sending the opposite message. They're going to say, well, you know, too bad for you, Trump. Hey, Democrats, please let me stick around. I'll be nice. It's very strong, very strong move. Now, Ron DeSantis gives a good argument in the opposite direction. Fellow GOPP 2024 presidential candidate, Vivek Ramoswamy, saying he will remove himself from the Colorado ballot unless Trump's eligibility is restored, would you do the same? No, I think that's just playing into the left. I think the case will get overturned by the Supreme

Court, but I've qualified for all the ballots. I'm competing in all the states, and I'm going to accumulate the delegates necessary. That's the whole name of the game in this situation. But I do anticipate that that decision was political and we'll get reversed. So that last part there, DeSantis is 100% right. If I were a gambling man, which I I'm not, but if I were a gambling, man, I would put money on the Supreme Court overruling this decision. It's just preposterous. It's a preposterous decision. So what DeSantis is saying is, hold on, I'm not going to pull my name off the ballot in Colorado, and then this decision gets reversed by the Supreme Court, and then Trump's on the ballot, and I'm not. I'm not going to do that. That's

crazy. Why would I ever do that? Fair enough reasoning. I think the reasoning there is tight, but DeSantis' stance looks bad politically. Even the way he's saying it looks bad. He looks defensive. He looks irritated. He looks peeved. He goes, no, I'm not, come on. No, I'm not doing that.

I'm going to be, I've qualified for the ballots. I'm going to be on the ballots. No. And it's going to get overturned anyway. It's not that big a deal. Come on, move along, move along. It doesn't look good. It is a big deal.

Even if it does get overturned, and I agree, it probably will be overturned. It's a big deal that the Democrats are using their political power, their power in elected and appointed office to totally subvert our democracy, which they purport to love so much, to prohibit people from voting on a ballot for the popular candidate, who happens to be a former president, who happens to be the frontrunner in the GOP field by a country mile. That's a big deal. We haven't seen that ever, actually. But they're going to reinterpret a post-Civil War provision of the Constitution intended to stop Confederates from taking over the government 150 years later to stop the mean orange man from being on the ballot.

That's a big deal, okay? And to downplay that, to undermine it, it looks like you're fine with this rigging. It looks like you're fine with this fraudulent electoral system. And this has been a problem with the DeSantis campaign from day one, which is that the guy is super smart, the guy is super effective. The guy is very admirable in so many ways. But he just doesn't seem to have the

pizaz on the campaign trail to communicate that. He has what George Will once referred to as the charisma of confidence. He is. He's very competent in office. But you also need the charisma of charisma when you're on the trail. And you also need to be able to speak to broader political movements and issues. It's not just nuts and bolts wonkery. It's not just going in there and clogging the pipes if you're a plumber. There needs to be a broader political vision if you're going to lead a broader political movement. And Vivek is seizing on that right now. I'm not suggesting it's going to boost his numbers above DeSantis or anything like that.

But I just think Vivek understands the significance of that moment and he is capitalizing on it much more than DeSantis is, even if his reasoning on the court process and how the ballot is ultimately going to look is totally sound. Now, you know, one thing that unites Vivek and Ron. DeSantis. There's a few things. They're Republicans, they're guys, they're running for president. They're both graduates of Harvard University. The Vake, a Harvard undergrad. Actually, they're both graduates of Yale, too. The Vake was Harvard undergrad and Yale Law School, and Ron DeSantis was Yale undergrad and Harvard Law School. That's kind of weird. And so they both, I guess,

will have a bit of shame at the president of one of their institutions. Harvard, under fire because their president, Claudine Gay, defended calls for genocide against the Jews as requiring a little bit of context. You know, I'm not quite sure if it's harassment. And also then she was caught plagiarizing, I guess basically everything she's ever written, including thank you notes for Christmas gifts. You know, she's just plagiarized everything. And now we found out that the Harvard president once created a, quote,

task force on visual culture and signage to make white men less visible at Harvard. We found this out thanks to Chris Rufo, who is on a jihad against Claudian Gay and might still end up getting her fired. He pointed out that after the George Floyd riots, during the George Floyd riots, gay commissioned this task force that released a series of recommendations for engaging with the, quote, historical reckoning with racial injustice. And the recommendations included a mandate to change, quote, spaces whose visual culture is dominated by homogenous portraiture of white men, homogenous. You know, all those white guys look the same. You know, you know how all those black guys look the same? Oh, hold on. You're not allowed to say that. Oh, man, that'd be, you'd be totally

canceled if you said that. But now, you know, those white guys, they're all just, you know, just stupid evil white guys. I hate them. They're the worst, aren't they? I hate those white guys. Well, anyway, that's what the Harvard president thinks. She said, we need to get rid of all these pictures of white men. She said that administrators needed to refurb. the walls of Annenberg Hall because it, quote, prominently displayed a series of 23 portraits, none of which depict women, and all but three of which depict white men. And we hate these white men. It doesn't say who the white men are. So they usually leave out who the white men are because they're some of the most accomplished people ever in history. That's why they have their portraits on the wall. But they don't want to get into that. They just say, we hate whitey. We hate the white guys. Get rid of them. We need to refresh things because of these stale, disgusting, awful white men. This woman is awful. This woman, Claudine Gay, this president of Harvard, is just cartoonishly awful.

She goes before Congress. First of all, there's the pogrom on Israel, probably the largest pogrome ever, you know, certainly in recent history. And the Hamas runs in totally unexpected attack. And her first response is silence. Her first response is while the Harvard students are defending Hamas. is silence. Then, because of that, she and the U-Pen president get dragged before Congress, and she and the pen lady both say that, well, you know, calls for genocide against the Jews.

It doesn't necessarily constitute harassment, you know, when you really think about it and this and that and this and that. So the pen lady gets fired because she's white and we hate white people. Remember, white people are evil, they're terrible. So she gets fired instantly. Claudine Gay, though, is not white. She also hates white people, apparently. She wants to refresh society by getting rid of the white people. So she gets to stay in office because if you fire her, you would be racist rather. But then we've found, on top of that, thanks to Chris Rufo and Aaron Sabiriam,

the journalist, that this woman has plagiarized everything from her doctoral dissertation in school to, I think she has a total of 11 academic publications. Actual scholars have 11 academic publications before they leave graduate school. But Claudine Gay, who is manifestly not an actual scholar, has 11 total in her entire career. And she plagiarized those, including the acknowledgments in her academic publications, such as they are. So then they get her on that, but they still don't want to fire her because it'd be racist to fire her. Go fire another Karen at another Ivy League school, but you can't fire Claudine Gay. And now we find out that she undertook an active campaign to get rid of the white guys on campus.

Is it any wonder then, the numbers are in, numbers don't lie, that Harvard's early admission applications have dropped to a four-year low. Harvard's early admission apps are down 17%. Now, when you want to go to an institution known as a university that will actually teach you true things, you've got to check out Prager You. Right now, go to Prageru.com. A majority of Gen Z supports left-wing policy. like open borders and socialism. If we don't reach them and change their minds, the country we know

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It's extremely contagious. Harvard, having real-time recruiting students. It's weird, isn't it? Harvard's supposed to be one of, if not the most prestigious universities in the country. Four-year-low, 17% down on early admissions. What's that about? It can't be about the plagiarism scandal, actually, because the deadline for early action was November 1st, and the plagiarism scandal didn't break until a couple weeks ago. It can't be even the congressional testimony. The congressional testimony was after the deadline. What it was, though, I think, was related to the October 7th pogrom, because after that attack,

you had all of the Harvard groups, something like two dozen Harvard student groups, voicing support for the Palestine Liberation Movement and for Hamas, and that just doesn't look good. It created a real wedge in the Democrat Party. The wedge being that elite Democrats older Democrats support Israel. Younger Democrats, activist Democrats, support Palestine liberation. There's not a lot of room for reconciliation there.

That is a proper wedge. And those scandals, especially now, imagine if the early application deadline were later, probably the drop would be even more significant. Those scandals are actually hurting the university. 17% down is rough. So what do we do? I think we follow Chris Rufo's lead. Chris Rufo is a very, very effective Gromshian political activist, meaning he's a very smart guy. He's a good think tank scholar. He's a good

journalist. But what he's really, really good at is emulating the tactics of the political left, the radicals, Antonio Gramsci, Herbert Marcus, the new left of the 1960s. He can emulate their tactics in a just way for the principles of the right. And he's better at doing that than just about anybody. There are very few people who come even close to Chris Rufo. And that's what he's doing here. He's trying to get the Harvard president. And this is the kind of specificity that we need. Okay. We're not going to take down every university in the United States. The universities are the epicenter of leftist power. The universities are where radical leftism really came alive in the 1960s, they provide the sign of cures for the radical leftist activists. The downstream

effects of that are massive because all of the political elites go to these schools. So it's huge. And if we could gut those universities, it would be the biggest power grab by conservatives in generations. But we're not going to get rid of all of them right away. We're not going to retake those universities right away. We're not even going to knock the Ivy League right away. but we might get Harvard. We might just get Harvard. If we can just persuade enough students not to apply to Harvard, and maybe they go to Yale, maybe they go to Stanford.

I get kind of a kick out of it, even though Yale is extremely left-wing, too, and probably wants to rescind my degree every day of the week. I kind of get a kick out of it because I've rooted against Harvard for a long time, and now actually Harvard might go down. But forget about all those schools are extremely left-werect. left wing, Stanford, Yale, Princeton, Cornell, all of them. But if you can get the students to go from Harvard to the peer schools, you can really weaken Harvard. And then you drive, you keep pushing on the president's scandal and you get the president to resign and disgrace.

That further hits the Harvard reputation. And then you point out to the donors that you got two dozen Harvard student groups marching for Hamas. That's really going to hurt the donors. That's really going to hurt the donations coming into Harvard. And then you've got a three-pronged attack that seriously weakens what is the symbol of prestigious elite education in the United States, a stronghold of the left, and that's a political win. You're not going to take down every woke corporation at a time. You're going to take down Bud Light, if that. Okay, that's your chance.

You get one of them. Even Target, we tried to take down Target. It didn't really work. We did take down Bud Light. We've got to keep up the pressure on Bud Light, too. Bud Light's not the only company that's embraced the radical LGBT-L-N-O-P agenda far from. They all have.

But Bud Light did it in the most egregious way that gave us the biggest opening. We took them down. And we took a scalp, a corporate scalp. That's what we got to do here with Harvard. Keep it up. Speaking of science and scholarship, peer-reviewed study, I teased it yesterday.

This comes from the Public Library of Science, Sciences Journal PLOS, investigated greenhouse gas emissions of methane and nitrous oxide and human breath, which allegedly contribute to global warming. So what's the conclusion that we would draw from this paper? Global warming is really bad, threatens to kill us all. Your breathing contributes to global warming. Therefore, you've got to stop breathing. That's the only reasonable conclusion you can draw if you accept those two premises. and this was always the end of it. The end of the climate religion, the cult, has always been anti-human.

Isn't it coincidental how everything we hear, every piece of practical advice that we get from the climate religion people, always reduces humanity, always diminishes humanity, always says, hey, you've got to have fewer children. having children is bad for the world. Hey, you've got to eat less. When you eat, it's bad for the environment. Hey, you have to have less culture. No meat. No, no moving around.

No building things. You can't build things. That's bad for the environment. You have to have less culture. You need to live in smaller spaces. No nice big houses. You've got to live in little tiny cages like rats. Yeah.

Otherwise, the world is going to end. Yeah, you can't have electricity. You can't fuel things. You can't build and dig and grow and create. All of that's over. Oh, and by the way, now you've got to kill yourself. You have to kill yourself because otherwise you're going to die. It reminds me of one of those early South Park episodes where the crazy hunter Jimbo, he says, listen, boys, we got to go kill all these deer. We got to use bazookas and all sorts of crazy guns. And we have to kill them because we've got to thin out the herd or else they'll die. And there actually is a good argument for thinning out the herd when it pertains to animals, not to human beings. But, but this argument was being made in a satirical way because at a very literal level, it doesn't make any sense, right? You've got a, you've got to die or else you're going to die. That's the straight-faced argument that the libs are making here. Stop breathing or else you will die. And of course that is the case. All pagan religion ultimately comes down to this. All pagan religion

ultimately comes down to human sacrifice, because all pagan religion ultimately is to demons, and demons hate you and want to kill you. Listen, not everyone's ready to hear that story, even though wise people have understood that since the dawn of time virtually everywhere on Earth. So it sounds absurd by today's modern scientific standards, but we live in absurd times.

So it's no surprise. We live in times where the brilliant people in the white lab coats who supposedly know all the mysteries of the universe are the ones who tell us that the way to save the world is for you to stop breathing. Okay. We live in times when the geniuses

and the white lab coats tell you that the way to stop catching an airborne illness is to put a hanky on your face and stand six feet away. We live in times

when the geniuses in the white lab coats say that if your little boy puts on a tutu ever because you encouraged him to, then you got to castrate him and chop his genitals off,

okay? And you've got to take an experimental shot that is going to stop you from catching a virus and spreading a virus. And actually it doesn't do either of those things,

but get 10 more shots because it'll work next time. We promise you. We live in an age of absurdity. And maybe the gods of the copybook headings were right. Maybe there isn't all that much new under the sun, including the sun religion. Maybe that's the same old sun religion that has been used to sacrifice human beings and diminish us for all of history. The rest of the show continues now.

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