The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 1639 - Biggest Lie Of The Year

Episode Date: December 18, 2024

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As we wrap up the strangest year in recent political history, maybe in all of American political history, unidentified drones spread to more major American cities. Disney abandons transgenderism, and a financial asset called Fartcoin has hit an $800 million market cap. I'm Michael Knowles. It's the Michael Nulls show. Welcome back to the show. There's a new poll out asked young Americans whether or not they think the assassination of the United Health Care CEO was justified. And more people said yes than said no. Not a good sign for the future of the country. There's so much more to say. First though, go to balance of nature.com. Use promo code Noles. Balance of nature fruits and veggies is the most convenient way to get whole fruits and vegetables daily.

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As we wrap up the year, Politifact has given out its award for the lie of the year. And there were some real doozies in 2024. I'm sure you could list off the top of your head 10 of the biggest lies easily. And Politifact didn't pick any of them. Do you know what? Politifact didn't pick any of them. Do you know what Politifact chose for the lie of the year? A lie marked a town and its residents in the name of campaign rage. It was absurd. It was consequential. Our lie of the year goes to Donald Trump and J.D. Vance for false claims that Haitian immigrants in Springfield, Ohio were eating pet, dogs, and cats. That's the lie of the year. Now, Godd Love Community Notes, which came in after Elon purchased Twitter.

Community Notes points out, back in March of 2024, residents of Springfield were complaining about missing pets. There were 911 calls about missing pets. Furthermore, this isn't even in the community notes. A woman was arrested in Ohio for eating a cat. When she was arrested, she had fur on her mouth. So maybe it wasn't a totally, maybe it wasn't a precisely claim. Maybe it was. But you tell me regardless. That's the lie of the year. That's the defining lie or the most egregious lie. I don't know. I've got some other contenders. Do you remember, for instance, when Joe Scarborough on MSNBC, echoing the entire liberal establishment all the way up to the White House, said this about Joe Biden? Start your tape right now, because I'm about to tell you the truth. And F you, if you can't handle the truth.

this version of Biden intellectually, analytically, is the best Biden ever. Not a close second. And I've known him for years. The Prasinski's have known him for 50 years. If it weren't the truth, I wouldn't say it. Joe Scarborough said that four months before Joe Biden dropped out of the presidential race because of his dementia.

So that would be a pretty good one. It wasn't just Scarborough. It was the whole liberal media. It was the whole Democrat establishment. It was Kamala. It went all the way up to the White House. Scarborough just put himself out on that limb the furthest, I guess. Four months later, Biden steps down because his brain doesn't work anymore.

Okay, that might be the lie of the year. Hey, I got another contender. Here's another contender for the lie of the year. This one from Joe Biden himself. As we sit here in Normandy, your son, Hunter, is on trial. And I know that you cannot speak about an ongoing federal prosecution. But let me ask you, will you accept the jury's outcome, their verdict no matter what it is? Yes.

And have you ruled out a pardon for your son? Yes. Yes. I have ruled out a pardon for my son. That was six months before Joe Biden gave Hunter Biden the most sweeping, comprehensive pardon in American presidential history. Seems like that could be a contender for a lie of the year, wouldn't she say? But no, no, Trump and Vance. mentioned police reports that had come up in a town in Ohio.

That might have been true, seemed like they very well could have been true. We know that that exact crime actually did occur in Ohio around that time. Hmm. I would put those ahead. I don't know. I don't think it's just my partisanship. In fact, I think it's probably politicist's partisanship. Now, there's another big story coming out, another big whopper, actually, I guess.

This was a story out of Aurora, Colorado. Police have arrested 14 people in an apartment complex that is run by the Trende Aragua Venezuelan gang. And if you want to go through the lives of the year, you might go back a little bit to when Martha Raddts on ABC News was interviewing then vice presidential candidate, J.D. Vance. J.D. Vance pointed out that this Venezuelan gang had taken over a town in Colorado. Martha Radditt said, hey, cut it out. Fact check. 10 billion Pinoc. No big deal. How dare you suggest that, J.D. Vance? What we're hearing, of course, Martha, is that people are terrified by what has happened with some of these Venezuelan gangs. Senator Vance, I'm going to stop you because I know exactly what happened. I'm going to stop you. The incidents were limited to a handful of apartment complexes, and the mayor said our dedicated

police officers have acted on those concerns. A handful of problems. Only, Martha, do you hear yourself? Only a handful of apartment complexes in America were taken over by Venezuelan gangs. And Donald Trump is the problem. And not Kamala Harris's open border. Americans are so fed up with what's going on. And they have every right to be. I love JD's reaction here.

Martha, do you hear yourself? But that was it. I'm going to stop you there. I'm going to stop you there, JD. Okay, a very small number of apartment complexes. Maybe we're like briefly taken over by Venezuelan gangs and everything. But the police have totally taken care of it. It's no big deal.

It's not a problem. It doesn't exist. Move along, move along. That's how it started. Then yesterday, police arrested 14 people in one of the apartment complexes that had reports of armed Venezuelan gangsters marauding through the hallways. They were responding to an armed home invasion in one of the apartments in which the victims were kidnapped and then held hostage and one of them was stabbed by, alleged.

the Venezuelan gangsters. So that's, I don't think that's the top lie of the year. Martha Radditz and the Libs denying that Kamala Harris's open border had allowed a Venezuelan gang to take over a town. But it's a good runner-up. I think the first two winners belong to Joe Biden and the people around Joe Biden. It does not help Democrats when their lies become implausible. Democrats lie, I think they lie more often and more egregiously than Republicans. But Republicans lie sometimes too, it's politics, people spin, people stretch the truth, I get it. That can be effective if your lies are plausible. That is not effective when your lies become implausible. When you go out there and you say, my policy is going to help the American economy, and even if

it doesn't, even if inflation goes up or even if GDP goes down a little bit, or even if you could at least still maybe make the argument to say, no, it's actually working to help fix the deficit or I don't know, this tax credit helped you in this particular way. There are ways to spin it where you can convince the American people that something is true even if it isn't. But when you go up to the American people and you say, hey, the guy who can't

speak, who's drooling, who's about 150 years old, oh, he's as sharp as ever. This is intellectually the best version of this politician we've ever seen. That is not plausible. You are insulting people's intelligence. The people are going to conclude either that you have no idea what you're talking about

or that you're lying to them. either way, they're going to say, you have very poor judgment and I'm not going to trust you anymore. That's what happened. That's the big conclusion. That's how you know the Democrats are responsible for the lie of the year. They're really responsible for the lie of the year because they got clobbered. Okay, the people were sick of those lies, all the way down to the basic lie of a man can become a woman, which was a culture war issue that really played in Republicans' favor this year. It was all just evidence that the Dems had lost the common sense. You saw this at Disney.

Disney just came out with a huge culture-shaking story yesterday, and I feel a lot of people did not actually pay attention to it. Disney has this new original series. It's Pixar's first ever original series. It's called Win or Lose. And Win or Lose, according to Variety, the trade paper, had a trans storyline in it. This from Variety. Win or lose was originally set to feature a transgender storyline that ended up being cut by Disney, Variety has learned.

And what did a spokesman for Disney say? This is on the record. When it comes to animated content for a younger audience, we recognize that many parents would prefer to discuss certain subjects with their children on their own terms and timeline. Since when? Since when did you realize that? We have been saying that to you, Disney, for years. We've been saying that to you, public outlets. elementary schools for years. We've been saying that to you, libraries and the whole liberal culture for years. And you've said, no, you dirty, rotten parents don't have a right to raise your kids how you want to. No, you're going to scar them. You're this kind of phob. You're that kind of phob. We're going to force all this weird LGBT stuff on your kids from the youngest age possible. And if your kid wants to start pretending to be the opposite sex, we're going to affirm him

in those delusions. And sometimes we're not even going to tell you about it. Forget about you parents. you have no right to raise your kids. That was until November. And then in November, there were a whole lot of reasons that Republicans won unified government in a landslide. But one of them, and a lot of people didn't believe me. I said, one of the big reasons is the transgender ideology issue. An issue that I've been paying attention to for quite a while, and I pointed out must be eradicated from public life entirely the whole ideology at every level. The reason for that is that the trans issue smuggles in so many premises. The trans issue is so. such a political nuclear bomb that if we accept the transgender ideology, then we totally blow up

the foundation of our politics. Our perceptions can no longer be trusted. Our reason can no longer be trusted. We can no longer make any distinctions, including the most natural distinction between a man and a woman. We lose everything. That's why the libs are so gung-ho about it. It allows them to toss reason out of politics altogether and turn politics into a a manner of sheer interest and the tyranny of one's will, kind of voluntarist politics. That's why they like it so much, but they lost. Okay, the American people broadly rejected that,

and now even Disney, as its stock prices has cratered in recent years, even Disney has to say, okay, you know what, we went too far. You're right. We'll throw the trans ideology overboard. We'll throw the trans activists overboard. We are not going to win. We're not going to win in the marketplace. We're not going to win at the ballot box.

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It's about equal to the parent company of Steak and Shake, a major long-standing food company. Now among those mighty companies we have Fartcoin. How did this happen? It's just a meme. The coin not only doesn't have any value. People think it has values in a sense. I mean, if you own some of it, you could trade it,

you could cash out before the whole thing collapses, and I guess you'd get some U.S. dollar for it, you'd get some greenbacks, and that way it has value, but it doesn't have any actual underlying value. How has it jumped so much? Well, it's jumped in part because Bitcoin, the most established cryptocurrency, I don't even know that it's exactly a currency, but it's certainly a type of a digital asset. Bitcoin has jumped 130% this year. More importantly, Bitcoin has jumped 50% in value. in price, I should say, since Trump was elected, the Trump election alone saw Bitcoin shoot up 50%. There's another coin in addition to Bitcoin and all the... I don't really invest in these things all that much, but I was persuaded to buy some LGBT coin years ago.

Still waiting for that return to come in. I put a relatively modest amount of money into Let's Go Brandon coin. I guess LGBT could stand for a number of things, but it was like, let's go Brandon. And I was about to become a trillionaire on that, and I put a small amount of money in, and I seem to have lost all of it. That's what happens with meme coins. Maybe that's what will happen with crypto broadly. But there are others. There was one hawk coin, not the bird. It refers to hawk tua, that girl, Haley Welch, who went viral for making a lewd comment. Over the course of 24 hours, the hawk tua coin market cap hit $500 million. But then it cratered

down to $28 million and people lost basically all their money. And the girl, Haley Welch, is now being accused of insider trading, although she's denied it. And I kind of believe her. I don't, I don't think that Haley Welch is some financial evil mastermind. I don't know. Maybe I'm going a little too soft on her. But in any case, the coin was a pump and dump. Whether she knew about it or not, it was a pump and dump. The SEC is right to look into this thing. It raises questions about all sorts of meme coins and crypto broadly. Regardless, though, let's say you've made a ton of money on Bitcoin. There are plenty of people listening to the show

who have made an insane amount of money on Bitcoin. I wish I'd made a little bit of that money on Bitcoin. But I'm not losing sleep over it because a lot of the crypto investing, it just feels like gambling. The fact that Bitcoin jumped 50% after Trump's election to me is not a great sign about the health of cryptocurrency. about the health of the economy and about the health of the American political order. That's the sort of thing that happens in kleptocracies. That's the sort of thing that happens

in banana republics where the supposed value of assets, of companies, of investments, jumps or collapses based on jokes, based on memes, and based on elections. That's not how things are supposed to work. The way it's supposed to work is the price, the market cap, is increased because there is an actual increase in the value of the underlying asset. The widget company, stock price goes up because the widget company is making and selling more widgets. And there's a long-term strategy for it to make and sell even more widgets. And it employs real people and it produces real products and it has real effects in the world. Hocktua coin, fart coin, all these other little meme assets, supposed assets, don't have any

underlying value. It's just gambling. And that's fine. There's a role for gambling. Gambling has existed in all societies forever. But you don't want these kinds of huge swings. You don't want people. You don't want major financial institutions.

It's just gambling. That's not good. But as some friends of mine had pointed out for years now, luck is not a business model. And right now, it seems to me, with our country, we've gone from sober, deep, strategic planning in our law, in our political order, in our economy. We've gone from that kind of long-term, sober, serious thinking into just kind of random gambling and making it all up as we go. That's probably not a good sign for the health of the country. Now, speaking of going bankrupt, there's a news report out. This is from the Irish Star that the Vatican is on the brink of bankruptcy. This due to a dramatic decline in global donations during the course of this pontificate.

Now, the Vatican even, the enduring institution of our entire civilization, been around for 2,000 years now, still going strong. The gates of hell will not prevail. You know, our Lord will always be. at the church, I certainly believe. It doesn't mean the church is immune to the same kind of economic ups and downs that present themselves to all of us. That happens. But this seems a little bit steeper. This seems more than just ripples in the stock market. People are donating a lot less, consistently less, and donating less even than people are expecting. Why is that? Some are going to point fingers, they're going to say it's because of Pope Francis. That's what this article is doing. Some are going to say it's this problem or that problem. They're going to point to all sorts of

hobby horses. It seems to me, as a mackerel snapping papist myself, there is a strange tension right now. It has been for some years between certain elder prelates in the church who are often radical and iconoclastic and even innovative. The kind of people who really celebrated the degradation of the liturgy and the intrusion of electric guitars and Maracas and, I don't know, whatever, balloons into the holy liturgy. And the laity, the laity which is younger, at least the really tuned in laity, younger, which wants orthodoxy and tradition and reverence. I just see it.

I go around to churches all around the country. Sometimes I'm traveling on a Sunday or a holy day and I go in and I go to traditional Latin mass churches. I go to churches that have the new mass, the mass of Pope Paul the 6th, but in a more reverent way, adorientum with chanting, with some more Latin, fewer electric guitars, fewer jokes and vaudeville shows. So I go into those, and then I sometimes go to parishes that are really kind of modern and casual and engage in all sorts of liturgical abuses. And I can't help but notice the more traditional reverent parishes, they're full of young people. And they're full of really young people, meaning the young people who attend have a lot of kids. They're vibrant. They're crying. If a church isn't crying, it's dying.

And I go into the more innovative, modern hippie-dippy ones, the median age is about 106. And they aren't having kids. And so there's a financial issue here that is raising a broader and inevitable political point. The future of the church, seems to me, will be traditional. one, because the church has the deposit of faith that is sacred scripture with sacred tradition, as St. Paul tells us, but also because the more traditional people, the people who want orthodoxy and truth and beauty and reverence, they're the ones having the kids. So I'm not even just wishcasting here. I'm just saying the future of the church is going to be that because the other people are not producing the future of the church. So I guess there are two ways

it could go. The churches will either become more reverent, more orthodox, more traditional, more beautiful, more of what they are over the course of two millennia, or those churches are going to become mosques or coffee shops, because there aren't going to be Christians

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I might say, I don't care about the political leanings of my neighbors, but I think you kind of do. I certainly do. I'm not saying I don't want any Democrats on my street, but I want to live in a place where people want to live the way that I want to live. Isn't that why we move to a neighborhood? Isn't that the very essence of community is people living in common, having something to do with each other? It takes a village to raise a child, well, you better make sure you live in the right village. It really does take a village to raise a child. So make sure you're not living in a village that is totally opposed to your beliefs,

that is totally opposed to what you want for your children, because your kids are not going to turn out the way you hope that they will. This tool is being launched by OISI? Looks like it should be Odyssey, but it says OISI. OECD, I don't know, whatever. It's some tech startup. It's in South Florida and New York. This is being reported by Axios.

Users will be able to see consumer and political data for each block. This will be taken from Kemp. campaign and election results, campaign contributions, licenseable commercial data. You know, we give our data out all the time on our phones, on our computers, so it can get those data, and it can tell you what the neighborhood looks like. This is useful. If I were in the market to buy a house, I'd probably check it out. You want to live with people who want to live the same way as you.

Now, you're going to hear people say, what do you want to do? You want to live in a kind of segregated community? They're going to use the S word. but in this case pertaining to politics rather than race or religion or something like that. And why is that? It's because the distinctive characteristic of our age, the really significant characteristic of our age, is politics. It's not really race. In every country around the world, for all of history, there have been racial divisions because racial distinctions are real. But in America today, it's not the most important thing. There have been times when it's been more important. And today it's not as significant as it once was.

Even religion. There have been times in every country around the world for all of history where religion was a big dividing line. Today, not so much. I grew up in Westchester, New York. In Westchester, New York, you had a lot of Jews, you had a lot of Catholics, you had some old wasps. But really, you know what everyone was just about? It was just kind of liberal and basically secular. I'm not denying that there were some people who really practiced a faith, but

not much the Catholics were kind of squishy the Jews were reform the wasps I don't I mean I don't know have the mainstream Protestant churches believed anything in a hundred years I'm not so sure that they have everyone did kind of believe the same thing even if they on paper they had different religious differences

that those distinctions didn't matter that much so when people self-segregate in the homes in which they live, the distinctive characteristic will be whatever is most significant at that time. And today, that is politics. It's not really race.

It's not really religion. It's not really any of the other factors. It's going to be politics. No wonder this kind of app is going to come out. That's just human nature. There's no, you might say that's prejudice. That's this. You can call it whatever you want.

That has recurred everywhere for all of human history. it will continue into the future. And it tells us something about what we believe, about how we view ourselves, our relation to the world, our relation to maybe beyond the world, that today the most important thing to people is electoral politics.

Now, speaking of shifting political attitudes, there's a poll out from Emerson College. A little bit disturbing. More young Americans believe that the United Healthcare CEO who was assassinated, more young Americans believe that his assassination was justified than believe it wasn't justified. They polled 18 to 29-year-olds,

41% of them say the murder was either somewhat or completely acceptable, a full 24% of them say it was somewhat acceptable, and then 17% say it was completely acceptable. One in six, almost one in five, young people polled, say that the murder of the healthcare CEO was completely acceptable simply because,

this is a husband and a father, simply because he was the CEO of a healthcare company. I don't even think he was a rich kid growing up. I think he was in many ways a self-made man. 40% say that the murder was completely or somewhat unacceptable. 33% say somewhat unacceptable. Just 7% of young people

say that the murder of a health insurance company CEO was completely unacceptable. This should not be surprising at all. It should not be surprising, certainly on the left, shouldn't even really be surprising on the right, especially that we're talking about young people here, shouldn't be surprising at all. If you are educated on Karl Marx, if you're educated on Frederick Nietzsche, if you're educated just on plain old liberalism, then how would you have the moral and ethical architecture, to understand why it's wrong to murder this guy just because he runs a company you don't like. Those are the kinds of people that young people are educated on today.

They're educated on Marx and his heirs. They're educated on Nietzsche and his heirs. God is dead. We're going beyond good and evil. There's the Superman. You have to violate the supposed moral norms in order to fulfill your full potential, the tyranny of the will. You're supposed to. And then just plain old liberalism, which is all about.

about me, me, me, me, me. It's all about my rights and my entitlements and the social compact that I've entered into because I'm fundamentally an individual and it's all about me. All right, if that's what you're raised on, why is this wrong? This has been mainstream thinking since the French Revolution, which we are taught today was a great event. The French Revolution is one of the most evil events in the history of the world. The French Revolution, when these nasty, revolutionaries came in, murdered their king and queen, overturned the whole society, spilled zillions of gallons of blood, ultimately ate their own, killed the revolutionaries too, destroyed so much beauty, so much tradition, harassed and murdered so many innocent people,

were told that was good. Why? Well, because they were after revolution. They had a good end insight and the good end justified the immoral means. That is universally the moral teaching that we get today in the mainstream culture. Okay, well, if that's all true, if you can behead the Queen of France

because you think she said something that you don't like, she didn't even say it, you know, let them eat bread, or let them eat cake, rather. If you can behead the Queen of France purely because of envy, and recklessness and wrath and pride and all of the deadly sins.

If that's justified, surely killing the CEO of a health insurance company would be justified. Sure. If there's no morality and we're beyond good and evil and we're going to become the Superman and everything we think about the transcendent moral order is just a bunch of bunk and illusions and fairy tales that we tell kids so they're not afraid of the dark, then why wouldn't you kill the healthcare CEO if you don't like him? frankly i'm i'm i'm proud i'm gratified to see that seven percent of young people still understand that this is always immoral wow in a culture so poorly educated as ours so confused as ours a culture after virtue seven percent still understand the truth that's that's pretty good i'm looking at the glass half full but we've got our work cut out for us speaking of harming people through politics horrible story out of Canada. Another horrible story out of America's evil top hat.

Should this be a daily segment on the show? What's going on in America's evil top hat? It seems to get worse by the day. A Canadian woman, woman of a certain age, Roseanne Milburn, 61 years old, needed knee replacement surgery. This is a relatively common surgery. She needed that surgery.

She needed it six years ago. But because Canada has a socialist healthcare system, she had to wait and wait and wait and wait and wait and wait. And her injury got worse and worse and worse. Eventually, her number comes up in the lottery. She gets to have her knee replaced. And there was dead tissue. Things had started to turn a little bit because the health care system made her wait so long. The government made her wait so long. So they found some dead tissue. They removed the dead tissue. And it was okay. It was successful surgery. And then they just needed to send her to one more specialist to stitch her up. They were going to do that later that day. Problem was. she could not be transferred to that specialist who is at the Winnipeg Health Sciences Center because the Winnipeg HSC didn't have any beds available. All the beds were full. So they removed the dead tissue. The surgery had gone pretty well, but this woman had an open wound.

She hadn't been properly stitched up. So they had to wait for a bed. And she waited, and she waited and she waited. She waited for eight days at Concordia Hospital. where the first part of the procedure was done. Eight days with an open wound in Canada. Not in Cuba. Not in Madagascar. Not in some far-flung third world country. No, no, no, no, in Canada. Finally, they bring her to the HSC to have her wound stitched up, but it's too late. Now you've got more rotting flesh, and she had to have her leg amputated. This woman,

who was scheduled to have what is considered these days to be a relatively routine procedure six years ago, had to lose her leg because the government just dragged its feet, the bureaucrats couldn't get her in in time, even after they were able to do most of the job, they just didn't. They couldn't find a bed for her. So she had to lose her leg. This is socialist health care. This is the reality of socialist health care. There are all sorts of complaints about the American health care system. There's all sorts of excuses. for murdering the head of an American health insurance company. The U.S. health care is expensive. It's Byzantine.

It's got all these sorts of problems. It is much better than that. Even still in America, you don't lose your leg because you're waiting six years for a procedure. You might amass a ton of medical debt. You might have to wait in the emergency room for a little bit. But you're not going to lose your leg over this. And U.S. health care was much better before Barack Obama.

before Obama said he was going to bring premiums down, increased coverage for everyone, and he implemented a health care system much closer to Canada's. Before all that, those big lies of the year when health care rates actually skyrocketed and American health care is still terrible, so terrible that people are justifying the murder of a health care insurance CEO even after Barack Obama. What is it? 15 years now after Obamacare. But a U.S. health care was even better before Obamacare.

It's not perfect. There's still plenty of things to complain about, but it's better than this. Why? Why doesn't socialist health care work? Why? Why? Why are there still all these problems? Because there is no avoiding the finitude of resources in time and space. We live in time and space. We pretend we don't. We pretend we're gnaustic spirits floating through the ether or something. We're not. We live in time and space. There is a finitude of resources. So the question is, how do you allocate these resources in a way that is efficient, that gets the job done, and we don't turn into this evil top hat up there called Canada? At the Daily Wire, When we say join us in the fight, these are not empty words. These are real battles that affect the lives of every American every day. We took on the Biden administration in their unconstitutional vaccine mandate. We took it straight to the Supreme Court and we won. The groundbreaking documentary, what is a woman, changed the national conversation forever.

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My favorite comment yesterday, it's from that person, 611, who's referring to a favorite quote apparently for me. It's my new favorite MK quote. It is normal for politicians to have an interest in theater because the skills are so. similar. You know, it's funny. I guess that sounds funny, but I didn't mean for that to be funny. It's just a fact. The skills actually are similar. When you're in politics and when you're in the theater, you need to be able to communicate well. You need to be able to understand people. You need to have an interest in people. At the best levels of theater in politics, you have to care about the truth in the theater, living truthfully in imaginary circumstances, in politics,

caring about political truths, social truths, economic truths. So I wasn't joking. It sounds funny because it makes politicians sound like vain liars, which at the low end they are just like bad actors are vain liars. But I wasn't really joking. There is a reason that many, if not most, politicians have some background in the theater. It's just they're similar skills, you know? All the world's a stage, I guess.

Now, speaking of the government, There's an update on the drones. You know the drones that are flying all over the country, especially in New Jersey? Well, now drones have been spotted way above the clouds in Detroit, reportedly. You can see this was uploaded to YouTube by easily amused EE. And it's someone flying a commercial flight above the clouds. And there's these little shiny dots. Now, part of me would say, okay, maybe you see one of those.

You say, it's probably just another airplane. I don't know, they're five pretty close together. Maybe it's a reflection off the glass in the window. However, people are coming out and saying, no, it wasn't a reflection off the glass, didn't behave like a reflection in the glass. So it could be drones. This was a flight from Chicago O'Hare,

heading to Newark, showed at least four glowing objects above the clouds. So the cloud layer was supposed to be at 8,000 feet, maybe as high as 12,000 feet. According to the Express, that is higher than any commercially available. drone would be able to hold station at this altitude. And the drone seemed significantly higher than the cloud layer.

So then you ask, okay, well, is it another airplane? Flight radar data show that there were no commercial flights in that region at that time. So now the plot thickens. Now we say, okay, it's not just around this port in New Jersey. It's all the way closer to Detroit. You can't say it's airplanes. Maybe you could say it's just an illusion off the glass. It doesn't look like that, though, from the camera footage.

Kirby, the national security spokesman at the White House, says, we assess that the sightings to date include a combination of lawful commercial drones, hobbyist drones, and law enforcement drones, as well as manned, fixed-wing aircraft, helicopters, and even stars that were mistakenly reported as drones. We have not identified anything anomalous or any national security or public safety risk over the civilian airspace in New Jersey or other states in the northeast. But, you know, the work continues, move along, move along.

Okay, so there was a non-answer. Well, no, look, it's something up there, but, Don't worry. Don't freak out, but it's something, but don't worry. Stop asking me. President Trump gave a more straightforward answer on this. He says that the administration and the military know exactly what those aircraft are. The government knows what is happening. Look, our military knows where they took off from. If it's a garage, they can go right into that garage.

They know where it came from and where it went. and for some reason they don't want to comment and I think they'd be better off saying what it is our military knows and our president knows and for some reason they want to keep people in suspense I can't imagine it's the enemy because it was the enemy they'd blast it out even if they were late they'd blast it something strange is going on for some reason

they don't want to tell the people and they should because the people are really I mean they happen to be over Bedminster we should know they're very They're very close to Bedminster. I think maybe I won't spend the weekend in Bedminster. I've decided to cancel my trip. Have you received an intelligence briefing on the drones? I don't want to comment on that.

Okay, so there's the answer. Once again, for people who say Trump, he's brash, he shoots from the hippies, crazies. He's being extremely controlled, responsible in his rhetoric, raising legitimate concerns. He's being more direct with the American people than Kirby is, or then Joe Biden is. And what's he saying? He says, the military knows what this is. Biden knows and the military know what this is.

And he's asked, well, are you receiving intelligence briefings? And he says, I don't want to comment. Of course he's receiving intelligence briefings. He's the president-elect. He was permitted to receive intelligence briefings during the campaign. He chose not to because he said, I received these intelligence briefings, and then I don't say a word about it.

And then someone, probably from the administration, leaks the information. And then they blame it on me because I received the intelligence briefings. So he said, I don't even want to receive them. And then you can't blame it on me. Now, this is a setup. But Trump won the election. In a landslide, he has unified government. He's about to become the president a month from now.

Of course he's receiving intelligence briefings. And if he says they know what they are, the administration of the military, then he knows what they are. but he's saying, look, it's really not my place. I am presently not the president, but I really wish the president would just come out and say what it is. Reading between the lines of what Trump is saying here and of what John Kirby's saying here, it seems to me my gut instinct was totally 100% correct,

which is, I suspect these are our vehicles. Maybe they're trying to suggest they're commercial vehicles that are American, but probably it's our military. At least this is all going up with the acquiescence of our military. I don't think it's UFOs. I don't think it's Iran. I don't think it's, I don't think it's any of that stuff. Now, why the drones are up there, why the Biden administration won't be straight with the American people? I don't know. Why Trump doesn't want to stay at Bedminster? Because the drones are hovering overhead. That I do know. You know, I mean, he was almost murdered twice. And this administration has justified his assassination.

So, you know, I get that part. But people. are going off on all of these kind of crazy theories. Some in New Jersey and New York are claiming that they're getting sick from drones. This is now being reported. Residents in New Jersey say they become mysteriously ill after seeing drones in the sky. After witnessing or reading about the devices, residents revealed how they started coughing, suffering from a blocked or runny nose, or experienced puffy, watery eyes. One woman in New Jersey said she, became so sick, it felt like she was coughing up my lung. Well, a second in New York City said her blocked sinuses must be because of drones over Staten Island. So people are getting sick during flu

season, and now I guess we'd call it COVID season, and they're saying it's because they looked at a drone. Now, I haven't seen any drones in the sky. I also have been coughing and I've had a runny nose and itchy and watery eyes. So I don't know. That would seem to me a little far-fetched. Seems a little bit like mass hysteria. Then this video was going viral of a woman driving down the street, She sees Tesla cars with their lights flashing. She said the drones are taking over the electric cars. Oh, my God. What are these Teslas doing?

Oh, my, oh, my God. My phone's making funny, weird noises, too. Oh, no. They're hacking. My system. Oh, my. Oh, my. So the woman, I think, is joking here.

But the video was making the rounds and going viral. See, you know, the drones are affecting the electric cars, which that's just what Tesla's do when they get updated. and Elon updates these Teslas all the time. So that would appear to be some mass hysteria. But I predicted two things, one of which seems to have been proven to already. First thing about the drones I predicted is, I think they're ours. At the very least, we know exactly what they are and it's not that big a deal.

That would seem, Trump seems to be holding that view or implying that view. The second thing I predicted is whatever the drones are, it will be the lamest possible explanation. Everyone's really excited for it to be an alien invasion. It won't be. Whatever they are, it will be the lamest possible explanation you can imagine. This is part of a theory that has become a meme on the internet, which is that nothing ever happens.

And it's not exactly true that in history nothing ever happens, but most of the time nothing happens. And I think this would be an example of that. Now, speaking of people getting sick, this is there's a story out. I'm just going to tease it. You know me. I'm a big tease. There's a poll out of University of Michigan that shows that friendship after the age of 50 can be a matter of life and death, which is scary because people over the age of 50 often don't have very many friends, if any friends. These days, even young people don't seem to have

very many friends. Rates of loneliness and social isolation have skyrocketed in recent decades, And that's especially true for people over 50, and that's especially true for men over 50. But this study is showing that people who don't have close social connections, people who don't have friends over the age of 50, are more likely to be sick or more likely to die than people who do have friends. And there is a significant correlation between these things, and this shouldn't be surprising. This wouldn't be surprising to classical philosophers in politics.

This would not be surprising to anyone with a modicum of common sense 200 years ago. but in our individualistic age, this is really shocking and scary. Perhaps we'll get into it tomorrow. Now I don't have time for that because I need to bring on one of my friends for a face-off. If you haven't seen my face-off series before, it's usually on YouTube. It's also on the Daily Wire website where I test my knowledge of trivia, usually really stupid, pointless trivia, against great experts in those subjects. And most of the time I've won, there have been a couple of times.

I've gone down. In any case, I have a genius coming on the show today, and I intend to beat him. The show continues now. You do not want to miss it. Become a member use code. Knowles, Ken, W. L.E.S. Check out for two months free on all annual plans.