The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 2081 - Cornell University Officially Bans Frat Parties

Episode Date: October 14, 2026

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Probably the least effective thing the school could possibly do, but also the only thing that the administration's liberalism will allow them to do in the face of this scandal. into it. Then more evidence emerges that Ilhan Omar defrauded immigration authorities enough to get herself deported. And Vice President J.D. Vance insinuates that Texas Democrat Senate nominee James Tala RICO is gay, even though Talariko says he has a girlfriend in a different town. She goes to a different school. I'm Michael Knowles. This is the Michael Nulls show. Welcome back to the show. The Daily Wire has a new movie coming out, and everybody is talking about it. Legitimately every, not just conservatives on Twitter, like everybody.

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but I'm going to see it before you do. Okay. Speaking of things to do in your free time, speaking of recreational activities, Cornell is banning frat parties in response to the Cornell seven allegations. We've gone through the litany of allegations and counter allegations a number of times. I won't rehash them. But the long and short of it is, this gal goes to a frat party, has a menager wheat with a bunch of ketamine. Afterwards, she says it was all consensual. It was fine. She wanted to do it again. She wanted to come back, albeit with a slightly different arrangement of men. Then she was upset that she wasn't invited to a Halloween party the following week.

Then her reputation was toast and everyone was calling her whore. And then she decided to call it rape. This was investigated. It wasn't rape. According to the Cornell authorities, two years later, she files a civil suit. All of a sudden, they're reopening the criminal investigation. And everybody looks terrible in this whole thing. So the institution that looks the most terrible is Cornell,

Cornell, which is now totally associated with this depraved, debauchous, disgusting activity. Cornell, which has not really made a lot of statements on it until now. The president of Cornell decides what they are going to do in response to this allegation of rape that almost certainly is false, according to the evidence that we've seen over the last, not just two months over the last two years, and in response to the drugs and the hookups and the creepiness and the kind of gay stuff, in response to all of it,

Cornell is going to ban frat parties. That's their response. Before I get to why that's, of course that's their response. Before I get to why, here's what the president of Cornell, Michael Kotlakov, says in a letter. Very lengthy letter. I won't read the whole thing, but he says they're looking at three measures to remedy what happened.

One, strengthen campus safety. All parties and social events in infraternity council houses at Cornell will be suspended for the remainder of this year. So no more frat parties. Two, better support for survivors.

Cornell will also add staff to the Cornell office of civil rights, including the appointment of a dedicated case manager who will help individuals who report sexual misconduct navigate other university processes such as financial aid, academic accommodations, da-da-da-da-da-da as needed.

Student support staff will be added beyond the Presidential Tax Force, recommendations to provide additional victim-advocate support in the sexual harassment and assault, response and education, office, blah, blah, blah. So they're going to add more administrators. They think that the problem at universities, where the sexual culture has gotten worse and worse and worse over recent decades, is that they don't have enough administrators. The chief area of growth in the universities for the past several decades is administrators. that they're hiring more teachers or better teachers. It's not that they're bringing in better

or more accomplished students. It's just the admin. Why is the tuition gone up? The tuition has gone up because the federal government has guaranteed the loans. Where have the university spent the money, they've spent it on administrators, deans and deputy deans and deputy assistant deputy deputy deans of nonsense. And so now they're saying, you know what? Our admin has grown by 7,000% in recent years. Well, it's going to be 7,001% now. Totally ridiculous. And so they're going to add HR managers, basically. For what? To deal with claims of sexual assault

for the victim support? Let's not forget, the girl wasn't raped. According to her, now she's saying she was raped, but according to her, in many, many text messages that have come out

during the event, after the event, a week after the event, she said verbatim explicitly, all the sexual stuff was consensual. our body our choice. I loved being with you guys. I want to do it again. The whole reason she accused them of rape is because she wanted to go back to the site of her alleged rape with her alleged

rapists. Totally ridiculous. So to say, well, you know, in response to this, it's a completely objectionable, disgusting thing that happened between all of these people. The university should do something to remedy it, but whatever happened, it wasn't rape. So the university says, well, you know what we need to do. We need to add more administrative. to deal with rape. A rape didn't happen. And furthermore, if a rape did happen, why would you hire new deputy assistant deputy deans to deal with rape? If the whole argument coming from these liberal academic administrators now is that we don't take rape seriously enough, why would you deal with cases of rape through non-legal, non-justice system means? If the whole argument from the left is you,

You conservatives, it's us. It's the conservatives throwing the ketamine-fueled orgies. Regardless. This is an intra-liberal issue. But they say, hey, you people, you non-woke leftists, you don't take rape seriously enough. As a conservative, I would say, I think we're the only people taking rape seriously. Because rape is a very serious crime that should be handled by the criminal justice system. And if people commit it, they should go to prison for a long time.

what these liberal administrators are saying is, no, no, no, rape isn't a big deal. We shouldn't deal with it through the justice system. We should just get a bunch of random professors and ex-professors to sit on a tribunal to trounce the rights of the accused and not to bring any real sort of justice at all. Totally wrong. I mean, this is pathetic. This is ridiculous. And then the third thing.

Changing the social culture at Cornell. Research has shown that campus sexual assault is not limited to the fraternity system. its core is the specific context of social behavior and a deeply disturbing prevalence of alcohol and drug abuse. While this is not a problem unique to Cornell, we are committed to setting a higher standard for education, oversight, and enforcement of safe social behavior and citizenship. Okay, that's the nearest thing to a good point the president's making. Because at these schools, and especially at the Ivy League schools, actually, booze and drugs are all over the place, and no students are ever punished for that stuff. The hookup culture is actively encouraged,

and that's way beyond the frat system. Totally right about that. But what are you going to do to change that? Are you going to say that women need to be more modest? Are you going to say that men need to be more chivalrous and treat women differently than they would treat men? No. Are you going to say that men and women should live in different dorms, at least, if not go to different schools? No, you're not going to do that. Are you going to say that men and women relate to sex differently, and therefore there should be different standards in how they relate, in how they behave regarding sex? No. all of that would contradict feminism and liberalism. So Cornell recognizes there's a problem with the sexual culture on campus, but they're not going to do a damn thing to change it because they can't.

Because liberalism and feminism will not allow them to. And so part of me says you're going to ban frat parties for the rest of the year. That's kind of based. If the frat parties are just involved, they just entail a bunch of drugs and weird, mostly gay orgies, then, yeah, we should probably shut down the first. frat parties for a little bit. But ultimately, this is bad. The reason that they're going to try to deal with this issue by shutting down the frat parties is because the universities already hate the frat parties, because they already hate fraternities because they hate single-sex institutions, because that

contradicts feminism, that contradicts liberalism. And even if women are occasionally allowed to have their own spaces, men certainly are not. That's why the universities go in and they open up all the male secret societies, all the male private membership clubs, even beyond the university, just throughout society, they say you have to open them up to women. And so men are not allowed to have spaces for themselves. But it's important. Fraternities are a good thing. Faternities are a good thing. They're actually an essential social institution because men need to have places to hang out with just men. No knock on women. I love women. I love spending time with women and talking to women. But sometimes I want to hang out with the fellas. Now, if the all-male institutions are so decayed

that what the men do there is a bunch of weird, like, ketamine orgy gay stuff, then, you know what, whatever. I guess the institution's lost and nothing's really, nothing's really surrendered by giving up the frat parties. But we, as a society, need fraternities. We need mail-only spaces. You want to know why cigar lounges have spiked in popularity in recent years, beginning in the 1990s?

Part of it is because cigars are delicious. Mayflower cigars are especially delicious. You can get them at Mayflower cigars.com. You have to be 21 years old or older to order some exclusion supply. Part of it is because it's a wonderful hobby. But I think an even bigger driver than that is because cigar lounges are one of the last basically male-only spaces. Legally, you're not allowed to have them. Private membership clubs, country clubs.

They have to be opened everybody now. But smoke is kind of a woman repellent. And some women love to smoke cigars, but they often don't go to the lounges. And so that is why. Because men want some spaces to go hang out and just talk to men and talk about man stuff. and do the things that they do when women aren't around. And women have their own spaces too. Women used to have the hair salon,

and they'd have those big stupid things over their head, and they'd sit there for three hours. And they don't really do that anymore either, because we live in this androgynous, weird, trans society. But guess what happens? When you start jumbling up all the sex stuff, the Cornell 7 party happens. Things get really weird, really quick.

And if you want to try to fix that, without dealing with the underlying problem that men and women are different, it shouldn't be a problem. It doesn't have to be a problem, but you just have to treat men and women a little bit differently in order to acknowledge that. If you're not going to deal with that underlying issue, you're not going to do anything. So, okay, we're going to ban the frat parties because the left has already hated frats for a very, very long time because the left hates it when men just hang out with other men and exclude women. And so, okay, that's the one thing they can do to try to fix the sexual culture on campus and it will not help. It won't help. They'll just. just have parties somewhere else. They'll just have their ketamine-fueled orgies somewhere else. And all you'll have done is lost one of the last, even semi-conservative institutions on campus. Okay, speaking of weird sex stuff, the vice president is implying that Democrat Senate candidate James Tala Rico is a little light in the loafers. We'll get to that in a second. First, I want to tell you

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And he made, can you believe he would do this? He made a joke insinuating that James Talley that James Talleyco is a homosexual. Now before we get started, I love you too, sir. In a totally platonic way, to be clear. I'm the vice president, not James Tala Rico. But I got to. Can you believe how could he say that? Oh my goodness.

in the year 2006. So there was all sorts of feigned and sincere outrage from effeminate leftists,

one of whom is this guy, Adam Cochran, who I guess is some left-wing pundit of some sort or other,

and he tweets out, dot, dot, dot, the vice president of the United States, dot, dot, dot, in 2026, dot, dot, dot, trying to insult

a Senate candidate, dot, dot, dot, by implying he is gay, how terribly far we've fallen as a nation. I couldn't tell. I thought he was joking at first. He wasn't joking. He was sincerely outraged, shocked that J.D. Vance would make this joke.

Can you believe how far we've fallen? You know, we used to be a proper country, a civilized country, and now we have statesmen insinuating that their rivals are gay. Just a little history lesson. Can I get, can we, I don't need to give you a history lesson, but I got to give Adam Cochran one. James Thomas Callender, who was one of Thomas Jefferson's hatchet men

during the 1800 presidential election. He was a journalist in a time of hyperpartisan journalism. I guess we're in that time again. I guess we've probably always been in that time. In any case, one of Jefferson's hatchet men described President John Adams as, quote, that hideous hermaphrodical character, which has neither the force and firmness of a man

nor the gentleness and sensibility of a woman. Let's fast forward a little bit into the 19. century, President James Buchanan and his buddy, the one-time Vice President William Rufus King, they were referred to as Miss Nancy and Aunt Fancy because people kept insinuating that they were, you know, friends of Dorothy. Davy Crockett, when he was contemplating running for the presidency, he referred to President Martin Van Buren as a dandy who, quote, struts and swaggers like a crow in the gutter, quote, laced up in corsets such as wind. in a town where, and if possible, tighter than the best of them.

Calling your opponent of Fanoek is one of the oldest traditions in American history, and it has been practiced by some of the very finest statesmen we've ever had, some of the most civilized men in their associates. Vice President Vance, for his part, doubled down. I said that you wouldn't want to see Tolariko's search history. What do you mean by that? Well, he's just a guy who shows a weird focus on transgender kids and dragover. Queens and, you know, I think he said something to the effect of an 11-year-old in drag was

a great side or a very beautiful thing. He says a lot of weird stuff. And I think typically people who say stuff like that tend to have some pretty unusual search histories. Maybe he doesn't, just guessing, but I wouldn't want to see it. I love he's getting that little spark there at the end. Yeah, anyway, I'm just, no, here, let me explain to you my joke. You want me to explain my joke? Do you? You want me to explain my joke? you because you have such a problem with it? Okay. He says that the thing he most loves, James Tallerico, is trans kids. Remember that one? He was asked in an interview, what do you most love? And he said, trans kids, that's weird. I would say, you know, beyond my family, God, I would say,

I love ukulele's. I love sitting on the beach with a cocktail. I love cigars. I love, I don't know, I like wristwatches. They're kind of nice, you know. I don't know. A real, real comfy pair of pajamas. What does James Talleyco say? Oh, the thing I most love is trans kids. I just love them.

Remember, James Tala Rico was asked on the trail. Hey, who's your favorite drag queen? Doesn't miss a beat. He's like Sheila Jones. I don't know, whatever. I don't remember the name he said. But he knew. He had a favorite drag queen.

And so, and so, Mr. Journalist, you're asking me what I'm. meant by my comment. I mean, he probably has a weird search history because he's a freak. He's clearly a sexual deviant. Any other questions? Okay, that wraps it up. I'm going to go get back on Air Force, too. Great answer from Vance. Great answer. And it's just totally absurd to suggest that what he is doing is somehow degrading American political rhetoric. The very finest statesmen we have ever had, going all the way back to the earliest elections we've ever had with statesmen who were far better than most of what we deal with today

were calling each other homosexuals. And in this case, Vance makes a good point in his explanation. He actually has a reason to. There's no reason to call John Adams a eunuch. It's because he was kind of short and kind of weird looking. But he wasn't talking about how much he loves trans kids. With Tala Rico, there's a lot of smoke there. I know what Talarico says he has a girlfriend.

She just, you know, she lives in Canada. She goes to a different school. She just lives in a different town. Okay. Speaking of sexual liberation. Viral post on social media, driving me crazy. It's another one of these, let's celebrate divorce posts. And it has rightly gone viral.

People are furious over this. The guy who posted it is some account Dom loves investing. What, I don't really follow him, but I don't know, some finance account. He says, my wife and I decided to get a divorce. There were no fights. Just two adults who realized they drifted apart from each other. This is probably the hardest thing that I had to go through. First of all, telling our girls, seeing them so sad, was heartbreaking. But we're still a team as parents and we'll do everything for them. We're still a team. No, you're not. The thing you are doing, at its most basic level, the thing you are doing is ceasing to be a team. And you say, we'll do everything for our girls. the thing they most want and need. No, we'll do everything for our girls. We'll, I don't know, we'll take them out for ice cream sometimes. We'll compete for their affection. We'll, I don't, we won't do the one thing they most want and need, that we won't do. But we'll do everything else. Also, we have to sell our house, the house I wanted to live in forever and raise my kids in.

Going back to a smaller apartment will be rough. Yeah, okay. So you'll, you'll do everything for your kids other than the thing they most want and need. Also, you're going to take their home away from them. But you'll do it because you guys are a team. So you'll do everything for them. I still have a lot to handle. I'm really concerned about you. That's why you haven't thought enough about yourself. I still have a lot to handle. That's why I wasn't active here on X. I'm really grateful for all the people who reached out and asked where I was. This woman, this woman will always be part of my life. She gifted me with two perfect daughters. I wish her all the best. Great memories are made in those years. I'll be back soon. Thank you, everyone. Okay.

actually don't mean to be too hard on this guy. I don't know anything about this guy. I don't really care that much to know anything about this guy. It's not totally my business. It's a little bit my business because marriage is a public institution and wedding vows or a public act. So it actually is my business. Society is my business. But the particulars, I don't know, maybe this guy's wife left him. Maybe she left him for another man. Maybe she is a psycho. Maybe she's Lindsay Clancy. I don't know. I don't know what the issue is. The problem that people have, chiefly with these kinds of posts, the reason they go viral, is not that people get divorced. That's a problem. People have a problem with that. I certainly have a problem with that. But that's

actually not chiefly the problem. The problem is putting on a happy face. The problem is celebrating it. The problem is justifying it. You want to get divorced? Okay. In a civil society, we can't really stop you. You can ban divorce. You can make it more difficult. We probably should make it much more difficult. But people have been getting divorced since man walked out of the cave. That is going to happen. It's a fallen world. It happens sometimes. But it is entirely evil. Like, it is a bad thing. It happens. Sometimes it happens. We should have pity for the people to whom it happens. We should encourage them to try to make it not happen. And when it does happen, you should say, it's a bad thing. What people are reacting against is the liberal mindset that tells you that you have to celebrate this kind of thing.

One, because it's an exercise of individual autonomy, and that's all that matters. But two, because we recognize our society has made us kind of miserable and people are getting less happy over time. And inasmuch as you can measure happiness, people are getting much less happy. But we can't acknowledge that because we're becoming more liberal. We're exercising our individual autonomy more. We're told that that is the most important thing in life. So we have to believe that we can change the world through the power of positive thinking. That's the dominant ethos, quasi-religious ethos in the world. What do they call it? Moral therapeutic deism, that kind of thing. So that's what people find offensive because it's a lie.

Just tell me your wife left you. My wife left me. She's awful. I'm really upset about it. it. It's really messing up my girl's life and it totally sucks. Okay. I can have a lot of sympathy for that guy. Or you know what? I screwed up. I cheated on my wife and she can't forgive me. And it's totally my fault. And it sucks. And I feel horrible and I ruined everything. I can feel pity for that guy too. I can talk to that guy. But this guy, I'm not talking to this guy. Yeah, we decided to get no, no fights. Nothing wrong. There's no, fault. There was no fault in this divorce. By definition, if there is a divorce, there is fault. Someone is at fault. Because you made a vow to stay together forever. And now you're breaking that

vow. Somebody is at fault. No, nothing happened. It's just like, you know, I used to like chocolate, now I like vanilla. You know, so anyway, we're going to destroy our children's lives and actually really immiserate our own lives. And it's going to totally suck. But, you know, isn't that just life? Love wins. It reminds me of this line from Alan Bloom. In the closing of the American mind, great book. He's writing about students. He's writing about the university. He says, students these days are in general nice. I choose the word carefully. They're not particularly moral or noble. Such niceness as a facet of democratic character when times are good. Neither war nor tyranny nor want has hardened them or made demands on them. The wounds

and rivalries caused by class distinctions have disappeared along with any strong sense of class, as it once existed in America and still does poisonously in England. Students are free of most constraints and their families make sacrifices for them without asking for much in the way of obedience or respect, religion and national origin have almost no noticeable effect on their social life or their career prospects. Although few really believe in the system, they do not have any burning sentiment that injustice is being done to them. The drugs and the sex once thought to be forbidden are available in quantities required for sensible use. Students these days are pleasant, friendly, and if not great-souled, at least not particularly mean-spirited. Their primary preoccupation is

themselves understood in the narrowest sense. That's it. That's the whole story. I bet this guy, Dom, whatever, all these people who celebrate divorce, they try to be nice, nice about it. I bet they're really nice guys. But they're really nice. They're not particularly moral. They're not particularly thoughtful. They're not great sold. It's not totally their fault. This is a feature of democratic societies, especially when we are in times of abundance. People are just kind of nice. And niceness sucks. Being polite, being kind, being civilized, that's all very good. Being nice, that's the kind of society you get with niceness. A society of a bunch of selfish, miserable people. Okay. Speaking of family, Ilhan Omar might get deported. We'll get to that in a second.

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It's because she herself may have lied to immigration authorities as a minor. It was really her father who did this, that they changed her birth date. So she got her citizenship when she was 17. through a program for the minor-aged children of naturalized immigrants. And so when she was 17, she gets it. But if she was actually born a year earlier, that means she was 18 at the time. She was ineligible for the program. Her naturalization was fraudulent. Now there's a 10-year statute of limitations on that.

So it wouldn't matter either way, except if she has used the fake birth date on official documents since then, passports, birth certificates, driver's licenses, then... The statute of limitations resets. Ilhan could be deported. The reporting that we're getting now out of the New York Post is pretty significant. The latest update to it is that Representative Omar's staff got her birth date changed officially after being elected to Congress. So here we have not just Ilhan Omar or her father changing a date a while ago. No one really knew about it.

Here, it seems like this was intentional. Ilhan Omar knew about it, her staff knew about it. They went in, they changed the birth date, used the fraudulent birth date. That would reset the statute of limitations. Looks like there's a real case here. I am beginning to get bullish that we could denaturalize Ilhan Omar. We'll see if it really happens. It's a long road ahead. But don't forget, this is not just Trump settling scores with enemies. The warrant for the raid was signed off on by a federal judge. This investigation has been going on for a very, very long time. And, there have already been other investigations into Ilhan Omar's family's migration history. This is pretty good stuff. Keep it up. Keep up the fire. There's a world.

If we got rid of Ilhan Omar, that would be, she's kind of my favorite person in the squad. I know she's, there's AOC in the squad. She's kind of Paul McCartney. She's the most mainstream one. Then you've got Ilhan Omar. She's kind of the John Lennon. You know, she's the edgy one. She's like kind of a terrorist or kind of supports terrorists.

But, you know, she's a little edgy. a cooler. Then you have Rashida Talib and Ayanna Presley. One of them is George, one of them's Ringo. I don't know which. Anyway, though, if we got rid of her, that would be a big, big win for the right. Now, speaking of federal officials and scandals, Kimberly Gilfoyle, the Fox News star, the once fiancee of Don Jr.,

very, very prominent Trump surrogate, now ambassador to Greece. She has officially resigned as ambassador to Greece amid a financial scandal. Here is the president on what happened. No, she wasn't a member of my family. She, I guess, dated my son a long time ago, but she wasn't know. She

went to Greece. She was doing a good job, but we didn't like what we were reading. What did you make of him? Mr. President? Did you speak with Kimberly Gilmore and personally? What did she say to you? I didn't speak to her now, but she will

not be there. I didn't like what I read. Okay, so Trump very, very dismissive here. He said, Kimberly Guilfuel was a big surrogate for MAGA and for Trump. Obviously, you know, she dated and was engaged to Don Jr. Though that was a while ago and Don has since remarried. But, you know, she was a big figure. She was a star of the five on Fox News. And what does Trump say? He says, oh, yeah, yeah, whatever.

She dated my son a while ago, but I didn't like what I was reading. So she's out. What did you say to her personally? I didn't say anything to her personally. I just fired her. She's out. I've always gotten along very well with Kimberly Gilfoyle. I found her to be very nice, but it was a tough scandal. The reports that were coming out were that she was requesting money from different donors to pay off debts and bills and trying to hide it on financial disclosures. And it looked bad. We don't know all the details. Maybe there will be an investigation. Maybe it's all a big misunderstanding, but it looked pretty bad. And the left is, you know, going to point to this and say, well, this is evidence that the Trump administration is thoroughly corrupt. But wouldn't you have to look at it and draw the exact opposite conclusion? The fact that Guilfoyle was such a big figure, she was very close to the Trump family, nobody denies that, she was, she got this ambassadorship because of her closeness to the Trump family. She had a lot of fans on the right because of her Fox News days. And the fact that,

that when this scandal came out, Trump just immediately fired her from the job. To me, that says that actually the Trump administration does take corruption seriously. And actually, they're not going to deal with that. They don't want the appearance of impropriety. And so everyone says, okay, well, you know, if you think what Kimberly Gilfell did is bad, just wait until you see what the Trump family's been doing. Well, what? What's the accusation?

I hear all of these insinuations of corruption, pay to play, and... But notice you don't hear many firm accusations. There is some firm accusation about the ambassador to Greece. What happens? Trump fires her in two seconds. What's the accusation about the Trump family? My takeaway from this is, look, the guns have been trained on Trump figuratively and literally for over 10 years. They've been picking apart everything to try to prove that he is corrupt in some way.

And they've come up with nothing. Trump lost a ton of money, certainly during the first administration. then he had that little interregnum when he could make some money again. But he lost a lot of money on the endeavor. He doesn't take a salary as president. One of the reasons that historically in America, at least in the early days, we had rich people as president, senator, and statesmen, is because it's harder to corrupt rich people. It is easier to corrupt poor people in politics because the poor people need the money. The rich people, it's harder to buy them off. Don't forget, Trump is our richest president. You know who our second richest president was ever?

Washington, the father of our country and the universally admired man. So anyway, I think, you know, in a way, it's too bad what happened with Kim Gilfoyle. I hope, you know, we'll see what happens when the whole story comes to light. But for the Trump administration, I think this actually makes them look pretty good. Okay. Speaking of foreign affairs, that war in Iran is becoming a little bit more global. We're always worried about the outbreak of World War III. Well, you see the The war in Ukraine is really a kind of a global war because it's a proxy war between the United States and Russia. The war in Iran increasingly is looking like a proxy war between the United States and China, because China is arming some of the Iranian-backed militants, the Houthis.

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China is getting involved in the Iran War. There's a report out from the Wall Street Journal. Where is? I have so many reports out. There's so much newsbreaking. New report shows how Yemeni militant group is developing medium range weapons independently of Iran. So we're in this, what now? Six-month standoff in the Iran War.

The issue is that Iran has closed the Strait of Hormuz, which has 20% of the world's energy go through it, along with other things like petrochemicals and fertilizer and all the rest. they've really locked it down. It's very difficult to deal with the Iranian system because the Iranian government and the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps are actually two separate entities. And so it's hard to even know who to negotiate with. And in any case, the Iranians feel that they have leverage, especially going to the midterms. So the war goes on and on and on the United States has a lot of allies in the region. So they've been trying to get oil out in different ways. And Saudi Arabia has been trying to get oil out in places beyond the Strait of Hormuz. The problem is that Saudi Arabia is fighting a war with Yemen, specifically with the Houthis in Yemen, the Houthis who are a proxy group of Iran. So Iran has all these different proxies, Hezbollah, Hamas, the Houthis, and the Houthis are causing a lot of problems because if the Houthis can defeat Saudi Arabia, which they look like they're doing a pretty good job of doing, then the Houthis can stop the pressure release of the oil getting out the other way outside of the Strait of Hormuz, and it gives Iran more leverage again. So you say, okay, well, we've got to beat the Houthis.

We've been fighting the Houthis for many, many years. The problem is, the Houthis now are not just on their own. They're not just receiving support from Iran. They're apparently being armed by China. They're receiving machinery that will allow them to develop medium-range weapons that can work independently of Iran. And so why do I mention all of this? There's so much more to say about the conflict.

It's endlessly complex, just as the Ukraine war is endlessly complex. It's just a reminder for people who are miffed about the Iran war. I don't like the Iran war. I don't think President Trump likes the Iran war. Had I been on the National Security Council, I probably would have urged restraint, as I've said before, during and after the war began. However, there are people who want to reduce the Iran war to some kind of psychobabble nonsense, you know, just some whim of Trump's one day, or they want to reduce it to one geopolitical issue. Usually people point to Israel. They say Israel just dragged us into this war. And Israel certainly tried to drag us into this war. Israel certainly tried to persuade President Trump to go to war with Iran.

There's no denying that. But so did Saudi Arabia. So did perhaps some of our other allies in the Gulf. So did many of President Trump's advisors. And President Trump himself has been very aggressive toward Iran. Not just during his presidencies, but going all the way back to the 1980s. The reason I mentioned the story about China getting involved is, one, it means that the Iran work. could really, really heat up. Ukraine is really about fighting Russia, Iran in many ways is really about fighting China. But what it also means is you cannot reduce, as so much stupid pundit commentary does, you cannot reduce these kinds of wars, especially when we're talking about grand strategy,

foreign policy, geopolitics, you cannot reduce it to some monocausal kind of thing. there is so much more going on. Okay, these are imperial wars. The United States is an empire. I know that we say that we're not an empire because we say we just have allies, but guess what? That's what empires say.

And so we have this imperial league and that includes Western Europe and that includes Eastern Europe too, I guess. That includes the Gulf states, that includes the state of Israel, that includes the Western Hemisphere. That is the American Empire. Russia has its own empire, and it's trying to reconstitute the empire that it lost with the fall of the Soviet Union,

which Vladimir Putin says was the greatest geopolitical tragedy, catastrophe of the 20th century. So he wants to reconstitute the Soviet Union with the Baltic states, with Eastern Europe. He wants to do that. That was their empire. China has its own empire. It wants to reconstitute territory like Taiwan. wants to push its influence into the Middle East and into African is doing so very effectively and elsewhere and Europe and Latin America for that matter.

And so the war in Venezuela is an imperial war. The war in Ukraine is an imperial war. The war in Iran is an imperial war too. And the reason I'm mentioning it is not because anyone needs to care about this all that much. It's just to point out if your consternation with the Republicans right now is because we went to war in Iran and we're going to have another stupid forever war. for some ideological reason or because Israel dragged us in or whatever. Just know, that's not really what it's about. Yes, ideology plays some role. Yes, our alliances play some role. Yes, Israel plays some role.

Yeah, sure, sure. That it's about a lot more than that. And the proof is China's arming the Houthis. Okay. That's that's that if you, if you needed any additional proof, that is it. Right now, our pals over at Kalshi, have the question up, will Trump visit China before December 1st, 2026, 83%, before January 1st, 2027, 88%. Though that, where's that blue line there? Yeah, it's dropping in the last week.

We're getting a little frostier with China, no doubt about it. Now, speaking of foreign imports, there's a story I have to get to. It's really, really important. It's really important. The libs are trying to ban foie gras, fatty liver, fatty goose and duck liver.

They're trying to ban it again. that they've tried this before and then they've often reversed course. But now, where's the story? I'll have to read it. Here we go. Here we go. Not the Justice Department, no. Here at Vox.com. Two U.S. cities could soon ban one of the world's most controversial foods. There's an obscure but high-stakes animal rights issue in the coming election. Voters in D.C. and Denver will cast their ballots to decide whether their city's restaurants and grocery stores can continue to sell one of the world's most controversial foods, flagra. foie gras is delicious. I first had patte of foie gras when I was two years old. Not that, you know, I didn't grow up with money, but, you know, we had relatives like the finer things.

I remember I just loved it. It's so delicious. Fouagra and paté, it's just fatty liver. So it's the liver of a bird that has been stuffed to the gallet through a tube in the last 15 days of its life. So the liver swells up to like six to ten times the normal size, and it's just so freaking delicious. and the tree huggers and the animal rights people have whined about this for years. And they say, it's terrible. You're force feeding the goose or the duck and you shouldn't do that. So we need to ban foie gras. And I'm here to tell you this is just socialism. This is about socialism.

Even if you're an animal rights person. So one, people say, how could you stand for the force feeding of animals? It's so cruel. It's so inhumane. I say, you know, you know we kill the animals before we eat them too, right? Do you know what it is to eat animals? Yeah, I'm okay with force feeding an animal. I'm okay with killing it. I'm certainly okay with force feeding it. And by the way, in the case of the ducks,

the ducks gullets are built to swallow like whole fish, okay? So it's not necessarily even animal cruelty to force feed these ducks. Yeah, it makes them a little fatter. They waddled around in the last few days of their life. But it's not... Shoving a bunch of food down a duck's gullet is different than whether if we shoved a bunch of food down our gullets because ducks are not human beings.

And that's the real issue here. Because I promise you, all these people who want to ban foie gras, basically all of them support abortion. I shouldn't laugh about it, but basically all of them support euthanasia, killing granny, murdering little babies in the womb for any reason whatsoever. But they're really concerned that you're feeding the duck too much. You know, we say one of the signs,

of a really affluent society is when one of our biggest complaints is that the poor are too fat. And usually in societies the poor are starving. In our society, the poor are too fat. That's their big problem. Well, same thing here. Hold on. You're telling me the big animal rights.

The big animal rights problem is we're feeding the animals too much. Give me a break. And also, it's far from clear that the animals are receiving any additional pain or blah, blah, blah. But the other reason, this is just socialism, is because foie gras is, are rich people food. It's kind of expensive. I have foie gras like once a year, once or twice a year,

but it's delicious. I love it. I love having it. You go over to your wealthy uncle's house or aunt's house and maybe they have a little foie gras pet. It's great. It's delicious. I should eat it more, although it does kind of kill you. It's kind of fatty and it's not good. We don't need to get into it. It's delicious. It's a rich people food. So you're concerned about animal rights. If you wanted to do something for improving the conditions for animals and reducing the suffering of animals, if you're one of these utilitarians like Peter Singer over at Princeton, when these big animal rights activists, you would stop eating eggs. You would stop eating chicken nuggets.

All these animals are caged up. They can't move. They're living in squalor. Filty conditions. They're pecking each other to death. It's horrible. You would stop. But those foods are for everybody.

The only reason that they're taking issue with foie gras is because it's an expensive food. It's an imported food. It's not a big part of American culture. But it's just socialism. It's a way to make themselves feel better and feel humane while ignoring the big issue. And forget about animal rights generally because these are the kind of people who would kill little human babies. Okay, so much more to get to. So much more to get to.

but we don't have time. So we'll get to the Democrat running for Fayetteville County Council in Indiana, who is a new Democrat star, maybe the most articulate Democrat in the country. We'll get to that. We'll get to so much more tomorrow. Right now, it is time for this stupid segment that Ben Davies created, called Lock In or Log Off. We will get to that, and I'll take your votes. You've got to give me your votes on whether or not you want to kill this segment, which I hate. The rest of the show continues now. You do not want to miss it. Become a member use code, Knowles, K&W, LAS, at check out for two months free on all annual plans. Thought. You sit there and shake because you're dependent on drink. You're sick is all over you.

Have you ever seen a child starve to death, Professor? No. I have.