Ep. 1720 - RFK Throws Out Food Dyes And The Stale GOP

Major changes are coming to your food, which is definitive proof that major changes are coming to both American political parties, which is why major changes are coming to your stock portfolio, all while major changes are coming to the most important institution in our civilization.

It's a big week. I'm Michael Knowles.
Huge news from the government regulation front, from the political order front, on economics, on religion. Obviously, the political ground is shifting all underneath us.
Also, Kanye West has just admitted to an incestuous relationship with his male cousin. So we'll get to it a little bit later.
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But it has been a whirlwind tour. I was on the road from Easter, then I went up to the White House for the Easter egg roll, then I had to drop my wife and kids off, then I came straight out to LA, and I figure, well, look, it's Easter time.
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And then everything happens. Everything's going.
The Pope dies. The government is in tumult.
The markets, I think, are about to recover a lot. And I think Trump is about to settle a lot of these trade disputes.
And Bobby Kennedy Jr. just announced, big part of the Maha, make America healthy again agenda, that he is going to ban a bunch of food dyes from all of our food.
When I met with, and I want to commend the food companies for working with us to achieve this agreement or this settlement. And when I went in a few months or about a month ago to meet with a few food companies, I was talking with my staff about these petroleum-based dyes, and I said, if they want to add petroleum, if they want to eat petroleum, they ought to add it themselves at home.
They shouldn't be feeding it to the rest of us. And without our knowledge or consent.
And unfortunately, we're going to get rid of the dyes. and then one by, we're going to get rid of every ingredient and additive in food that we can legally address.
This is a huge deal. Someone reacted to this news on social media, pointed out that Froot Loops are now just going to have to be White Loops, I guess.
This is actually going to change our food because in America, we use a lot of food dyes, which we've been told for decades now might be toxic, might be causing cancer and other diseases, and yet they've remained in our food. Bobby Kennedy comes in here after Trump is elected on the Make America Healthy Again agenda, and he says, we're going to get rid of a lot of these food dyes.
And I don't really care about the food dyes. I care a lot about this story.
I think this is a really important political story, but I don't actually care about the food dyes that much because I'm not a 25 to 35 year old white woman. So I'll go along with it.
Let's get the seed oils out of the food and let's get the plastics out of our kitchen, and we need to get red dye 40. Is that the one that's bad? Red dye 40, and phethylates? Are they lecithin? Is that, I don't know, whatever it is.
Whatever sweet little Elisa tells me about the food, I believe it. Whatever all the trad, crunchy, zoomer, millennial chicks say, I believe it.
That's not that interesting to me.

Because I'll also stuff my face with Twinkies. I don't, I'm not, what I'm interested in is what this means for the political order.
Because with that little press conference yesterday, Bobby Kennedy has just provided definitive proof that this is not the Republican party of your father or your grandfather.

Republicans are cheering on a Kennedy, a lifelong Democrat, for regulating businesses.

That's what this is.

Republicans, the right-wing, cool, populist Republicans, are cheering on massive new government regulation. And I'm not criticizing them for it.
I'm cheering this on too. I think this probably is a good thing.
I trust the science. I trust the Trump administration when it comes to regulating food.
And it's probably better that we're not having all these dubious chemicals in our food. What I really love about this is that the Republican Party is no longer the party that the Democrats caricature.
You know how the Democrats caricature the Republicans? Sometimes we live up to the caricature. They say, you just want to end all regulation.
You want to abolish the government. And then you have the Republicans sometimes will say, yeah, we're the party of small government.
We want to deregulate everything, baby. We need the free market to control everything.
But that's not really what we believe. That's not what I believe.
That's not what Republicans believe today. That's not what the president believes.
It never made sense for the Republican Party to be the party of small government because we're a big country with a lot of people. You can't have small government in a country of 300 million plus people.
What you can have is a limited government. That is to say, a government that respects its

proper limits and is strong and effective in the areas in which it is competent and which it has

authority, and a government which respects the limits that have been put on it by the people,

by the constitution, by the natural law. That's what we want, limited government.
We're going to have a big government. It's a big country.
But the libs want that government to do all sorts of things that it shouldn't do. We want the government to do the things that it should do and not the things that it shouldn't do.
Same thing when it comes to regulation. I'm for regulation.
I don't want the Republican Party to be the party of no regulation. We do have a state, and the state is here for our own good, and the civil authority is supposed to conduce to the common good.
I like some regulations. I just want them to be prudent regulations.
I want them to be good regulations. The libs want all sorts of insane regulations that are really bad.
Regulations that say that schools need to teach you about weird sex stuff and to hate whitey and Christianity. That's an example of a bad regulation.
Regulations that tell me that I have to pay zillions of dollars in taxes to have a beautiful, delicious premium Mayflower cigar. That's a story I'm going to try to get to in a little bit too, because there's a related topic that the Trump administration should look at.
I don't want stupid regulations. I want good regulation.
Get the poison out of our food. That's a good regulation.
And what that means politically for us too, is that we now look like the reasonable ones. The Democrats are the party of opposing reasonable regulations.
So now Democrats are the party of demanding that we have poisons in our food? I guess so. Now Democrats are the party of demanding that we outsource the political authority to corporations? Yeah, that has happened in my lifetime.
When I grew up, I was told that the parties switched in the 1960s. And the exact timeline kept changing a little bit, but it was always that the parties switched at whatever point was most convenient for Democrats.
And then one day, all the Democrats said, you're Republicans now, and the Republicans said, you're Democrats now. Okay, that didn't seem really credible to me.
But the parties are developing, and they have switched in at least one important political respect. Democrats are now the party of corporate oligarchs, and Republicans are the party of the people.
Even the Democrats admit it. When they say the Trump movement is populist, that's what you're saying.
You're saying it's the party of the people. All right.
Fine by me. Now, what are the Democrats doing about it? How are they going to change their political fortunes? For that, we turn from RFK to RFK's wife's former TV husband, Larry David, who has a really incisive op-ed out in the New York Times.
Bill Maher just went to visit the White House. He had dinner with Trump.
I don't know if they actually sat down for dinner. I don't know if he got the nice Big Mac special, but they had a lengthy meeting.
And Bill Maher came out afterward and he said, this dinner surprised me. Trump is really genial in person and he's not what you think he is if you only consume the media.
And he had positive things to say about Trump. So Larry David comes out with this essay in the New York Times.
My dinner with Adolf. Do you get it? And then he goes on and he says, imagine my surprise when in the spring of 1939, a letter arrived at my house inviting me to dinner at the old chancellery with the world's most reviled man, Adolf Hitler.
I'd been a critic of him, but I found out he was really genial and he was kind of funny and whatever it goes on. Do you get it? Hey, do you get it? Larry David in the New York Times is saying that Trump is like Hitler.
Do you get it?

Wow. Wow, Larry.
This is really making me think about President Trump in a new and interesting

way. You've really shown me something that hadn't been presented to me before.

Oh, it's just all so tedious. And Larry David is funny.
He's funny. Seinfeld is funny.
It's not as

funny as people say it was, but it's funny. It's a good show.
And Curb Your Enthusiasm is funny. Kind of hard to watch.
You have to have a particular style of humor, but it's funny. It's a good show.
This essay is not funny. And the reason that it is not funny is because it is so hackneyed.
It is so painfully unoriginal. It is so profoundly predictable.
To be funny, you have to subvert expectations. That is one of the keys to comedy.
Incongruity, the subversion of your expectations, sometimes absurdity. And you don't get any of that.
I mean, Larry David's essay is absurd, but he doesn't know it's absurd, and it's not supposed to be received as absurd. You're supposed to say, wow, Trump is Hitler.
That doesn't land. Even the people who are responding positively to this op-ed, it's just libs who are responding positively by saying, yeah, stick it to Bill Maher.
It's the claps not laugh style of comedy. No one's laughing at this really.
It doesn't land. None of this lands for the libs.
Trump and Bobby Kennedy and Elon Musk and the right-wing coalition that Trump managed to assemble,

they're all running laps around the Democrats right now.

And the Democrats have no idea what to do about it.

And you have people like the governor of this state that I find myself in right now,

Gavin Newsom, who is flailing at the wind,

trying to create a presidential campaign out of this political party,

which is lying in ruins.

So what does he do?

He starts a podcast and invites right-wing podcast bros onto his podcast to try anything. That is how this new coalition has revolutionized the GOP.
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It's not just in America that you're seeing the left collapsing. Keir Starmer, extremely liberal prime minister of the United Kingdom, extremely liberal prime minister.
He was in an interview with Konstantin Kislin, and he made the argument that you don't have to be English to be English. He said that a person could be from Timbuktu, could be black as the Congo, the heart of darkness, and could be, I don't know, from Tahiti, and could arrive in the UK, get his citizenship, and instantly become an Englishman, more English than Winston Churchill.
This is the kind of liberal PM we're talking about here. And yet, Keir Starmer just came out and he said that he no longer believes that trans women are women.
This after the UK Supreme Court ruled that the Equality Act, gender and sex law that was passed in the UK some years ago does not mean that trans women, quote unquote, are women, that defines sex as biological, innate, immutable. So the prime minister said that the decision answered the question about sex and gender.
And then Downing Street had to later confirm and say, no, the Supreme Court judgment has made clear that when looking at the Equality Act, a woman is a biological woman. That is set out clearly by the court judgment.
What this means is that liberals throughout the West have concluded that the trans thing is a losing issue. And when I spoke at CPAC a couple years ago and I said transgenderism must be eradicated from public life entirely for everyone's good.
Transgenderism doesn't help anyone. It's totally absurd.
It's not grounded in reality. That is now happening in real time.
Transgenderism is being eradicated from public life entirely, not even just in America, also in the UK, not just the conservatives pushing it, even the liberals concluding it. The most immediate cause, I don't want to take too much credit for that happening.
You could give a lot of credit to Matt Walsh, obviously, with what is a woman really changing the conversation. You could give a lot of credit to many other conservatives who have been strong on the transgender issue.
You could give a lot of credit to radical feminists who have been talking about this

issue for a long time too. It's not even just people who would call themselves on the right.

It's even people who would consider themselves more on the far part of the left. But the most

immediate cause of this shift on transgenderism and the broader surrender of the Western left,

it's Trump's election. And specifically, it's Trump's election by the popular vote or with the popular vote because the popular vote doesn't decide the election, but it's politically really, really significant.
That was it. All sorts of cultural causes there.
That was it. That was the shift.
It's a loser. That issue's done.
Now the left has to move on to something else but what are they going to move on to what's their issue they don't seem to have much so they keep just trying to nip at trump's heels they keep trying to do whatever they try to do whatever they can to to stick a to stick a stick in the spokes of the trump bicycle how many metaphors can i mix here i don't know but they're not really succeeding so the latest move this is of the Trump bicycle. How many metaphors can I mix here? I don't know, but they're not really succeeding.
So the latest move, this is from the Washington Post, one of the most swampy establishment papers out there historically, is to try to take down Pete Hegseth as the defense secretary. Headline, Pete Hegseth, isolated and defiant, has Trump's backing for now.

Because the White House keeps going out and saying, no, no, we're not firing Hegseth.

We support Hegseth.

They've been saying this since the confirmation hearings.

And so the liberal media can't just say, yeah, Trump supports Hegseth.

He's going to be the Secretary of Defense.

They have to say, well, okay, he has Trump's support for now. But he's going to be the secretary of defense i have to say well okay he he has trump's support for now but he's isolated and defiant and i hate him and he's terrible and i wish he could be banned to saint helena but i think it's it's all pretty silly this is nothing new they're going to pretend that there's this new scandal, which is that Pete Hegseth used Telegram to talk about government work.
Like every single person in politics of both parties does. But Pete Hegseth, he did it in a group chat where there was a liberal journalist added to it.
And even though Pete Hegseth isn't the guy who added the liberal journalist to the chat, it was actually some other Trump administration official. Pete needs to resign.
Why? Well, because Pete talked about his very successful military operation. Wait, what did you just say? Well, yeah, Pete talked about the military operation.
Now, before that, what did you, oh, the really successful military operation he carried out against the Houthis. He mentioned that in an encrypted chat.
And then news of that got out a little bit later. And obviously after the Houthis were bombed.
And why is he supposed to resign? Because some other guy added a liberal journalist to, hold on, I'm scratching my head here. Well, he just needs to resign.
Why? Well, because weren't you just saying a few months ago that he had to resign because he's an alcoholic, a claim that you made without any evidence whatsoever, like not one scintilla of evidence that Pete Hegseth has a drinking problem. You had many people come out like me, actually, coincidentally.
I personally attested to, it's not like I was on air with Pete Hegseth every day, but I was on air with Pete Hegseth many mornings, very, very early in the morning, remote and in person, in studio in New York, when Pete was doing that morning show at Fox. 6 a.m., he didn't look bloodshot-eyed to me.
He didn't look hungover to me. In fact, he had more energy than just about anybody in the building.
So they made up the alcoholic thing, and they said, well, no, he's got to resign because he dated a lot of women. Oh, yeah.
Oh, yeah, man. Democrats really want to, the party of Bill Clinton really wants to bring up lady problems.
I don't think you'd want to do that. So what is it about? Some people are concluding they want Pete Hegseth to resign because his ideology is too disruptive to the Washington establishment.
Pete's great. He's a strong conservative.
But I actually don't even think it's that. I don't think that Pete's ideological views are all that out of step with just, I don't know, mainstream kind of views.
It's certainly not out of step with mainstream conservative points of view. He's a very mainstream figure.
Got a lot of qualifications, graduate of Princeton and Harvard, which used to be considered a good thing. These days, I guess it's more suspect, but the Libs like it.
Princeton, Harvard, served in the military honorably, articulate, sharp guy. I don't know.
Seems like he's got a lot of qualifications. I think the Libs are going after Pete Hegseth so hard because they think he's the easiest one to pick off.
They think that because they can portray him as just a pretty face on TV, that he'll be the easiest one to pick off. What this is really all about is Trump though.
They just hate Trump. If they felt that Tulsi was more vulnerable than Pete Hegseth, they'd be going after Tulsi.
If they felt that, I don't know, Stephen Miller were more vulnerable than Pete Hegseth, they'd be going after Miller. They're just trying to get a scalp.
And thus far, Trump hasn't given them a scalp. And I suspect he's not going to give him Pete Hegseth's scalp anytime soon.
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Treasury Secretary Scott Besson has told investors in a closed-door meeting arranged, I think, by J.P. Morgan, that he thinks that there will soon be a de-escalation in the trade war between the U.S.
and China. He says there will be a de-escalation, according to reports in CNBC.
It will be in the very near future. He thinks no one believes the current status quo is sustainable,

according to reporting. And despite the U.S.
levying a 145% tariff on China, China retaliating with a 125% tariff on the U.S., Besant reportedly said the goal of Trump's trade policy is not to decouple from China. So, if all of that is true, if the goal is not to decouple, that means that the priority in the trade war, the priority for all the tariffs and Liberation Day is not to reshore American jobs.
And it's not to grab a lot of revenue from trade, from the tariffs that potentially, who knows, could be used to get rid of the income tax or something. If these comments are true, what that means is that the priority in the trade war is to gain leverage, get better trade deals, and sell more American stuff overseas, which could have some effect in bringing back American manufacturing.
Not as much as if you say we're not importing stuff anymore, so you better make it here. That's a much more aggressive way that could succeed, could fail.
You'll get more manufacturing jobs if we can sell more of our stuff overseas and we've got more of a competitive edge in getting into those markets. That's true.
But it means that that's not the priority. Certainly the priority wouldn't be, wouldn't be the revenue from the tariffs.
It means that as many fairly old school conservatives have been saying for a while, Trump is, he's just trying to get better trade deals. He's just trying to stop the United States from being taken advantage of.
But he does want to sell more. He's a businessman.
He wants to make more. He wants to sell more.
He wants us to get more money. He thinks the business of America is business and the businessman probably knows his business best.
to quote Calvin Coolidge. Which means Trump is a moderate.
And this is what the libs can't stand. This is what they don't get.
It's what the Trump coalition understands. That's how Trump was able to pull people from the center left.
That's how Trump was able to pull demographics that previously were not voting Republican. That's how Trump has multiple Democrat presidential candidates in his administration.
He is a moderate, not in the squishy, give up, wimpy kind of way that we've come to associate that word in Republican politics, but moderate in, I think, an Aristotelian way, moderation as being a virtue.

Trump is a moderate in that trying to get a better trade deal with China

so that we can have more trade but on better terms

has been the standard GOP position for decades at this point.

Every GOP candidate running for president has said,

China needs to stop manipulating its currencies.

China needs to stop dumping steel and subsidizing its various industries. China needs to stop doing blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
But then they don't, China needs to stop stealing our intellectual property. China needs to stop this.
China needs to stop, we got to get tough on trade with China. It's just that none of them have done anything about it.
We basically just rolled over when Clinton brought China into the World Trade Organization.

And Trump is just doing something about it. So much of the Trump administration is just Trump doing things that GOP politicians have been promising to do for decades.
And the fact that Trump actually fulfills those promises makes his presidency seem, and actually be, I suppose, transformative for the Republican Party and for the country. But you shouldn't call him a radical.
In many, if not all ways, on immigration, on some parts of trade, in some ways Trump is changing our trade view or restoring it to a century-old trade view, but in many ways on trade, many ways on foreign policy, in most respects I would say, Trump is just keeping the promises that past Republicans failed to keep. And that is refreshing from my point of view, but it can seem shocking and transformative from many other people's point of view.
One minor point I want to bring up. It's a major point for me.
When it comes to these trade policies, I have an inside view on only one industry, and that is the cigar industry, because I'm an owner of Mayflower Cigars. I'm the founder of this boutique cigar company, and even though it's a very large cigar company, thanks to all of you who smoke Mayflower Cigars, but it's still a relatively new, relatively boutique company.
And cigar tobacco generally comes from Latin America, sometimes from Africa, sometimes from the South Pacific, sometimes from Connecticut and Pennsylvania, as Mayflower is incorporating into maybe some new blends that we'll talk about later. But the vast majority, virtually all the premium cigar tobacco comes from Latin America.
And there are these massive tariffs right now, relatively massive compared to other Latin in countries, on Nicaragua, which has become the cigar capital of the world after the communists took over Cuba and messed up that cigar industry. And it's where a lot of American investment is gone.
It's where a lot of American cigars come from. And I think the tariffs are 18 or 19% right now.
I think that while Trump is creating exemptions, I'm not just asking this because it helps Mayflower cigars. I'm looking at it more from a political angle.
Premium cigar consumers, they're basically all Trump supporters. Not all 80 percent are Trump supporters.
The premium cigar industry, the actual manufacturers who are getting walloped, not only with these tariffs, but with decades of horrible, burdensome regulation, going back to Obama with S-Chip, hiking up all these taxes, all these different shakedowns to bring cigars into the country. The cigar manufacturers are 90%, 95% probably Trump supporters.
This is a small industry. It's an artisanal industry, handmade product, accessible luxury good.
It seems to me, while we're carving out all of these exemptions on the tariffs, if we're not going to onshore cigar making, because that's not possible in the United States, certainly not possible at scale, but it's just not how cigars work. If we're not going to get a lot of revenue, really, from the tariffs as a matter of our U.S.
budget. And if we want to maybe be a little nicer to our friends and a little tougher on some of our political opponents, it seems to me a great carve-out for the Trump administration, anyone listening right now in the admin, a great little carve-out would be for all of the patriotic Americans who have been oppressed for too long, who work in the premium cigar industry, and for all of the premium cigar smokers.
Just like the image that you have of the conservative man might be worth, we're talking real politics here, folks, friends and enemies, okay? Come on, come on. All right, enough on that.
Speaking of incense, there's an amazing

report out on the Pope's final hours. And I know people have strong feelings about Pope Francis.
I'm a conservative. I get it.
I love the traditional Latin mass, which was restricted under Pope Francis. I understand there's a little confusion sometimes about this pontificate.
But this is really amazing. According to the reporting, Pope Francis thanked his personal nurse for encouraging him to go out.
His last real action on earth was to go out and greet crowds in St. Peter's Square in the Vatican on Easter Sunday.
88 years old, he had been in ill health for a very, very long time. And against the wishes of many doctors, he went out, had the Urbi at Urbi, gave an Easter blessing to the crowds, came back home and died.
That's a good way to go. He even apparently, when he got back in, in the early hours of the next morning, the first signs of illness reappeared more than an hour later.
The Pope waved to his personal nurse, who had encouraged him to go out to the crowd, sort of waved in a gesture of farewell, fell into a coma, was dead about two hours later.

This is what we call a good death. Whatever you think of the guy's pontificate, this is a strong way to go, and it's a good death.
We now in modernity, in our liberal society, we think a

good death is a death that takes you totally by surprise. You don't have to think about it.
You don't need to worry. Just someone comes up with a two by four and just clocks you in the head and takes you out without you even seeing it.
You know, Lenny going to, George going to Lenny and putting the pistol behind his head and just saying, think of the bunny rabbits, George. That's the good death.
That is not what a good death has been understood to be traditionally in our civilization. A good death is one that you know is coming so you can prepare your soul for it.
So you can make peace with your maker, confess your sins, receive the sacrament, viaticum, to take it with you, and then go on to your eternal reward. That's what you want to do.

You don't want to be caught unawares. You don't want to be caught outside of a state of grace.
So the Pope obviously was well prepared for this, and then he gave out the last of his life to bless people as he's the supreme shepherd of the church, earthly shepherd of the church. that that has a cognizance of what life is for.
This is what I love so much about this final recollection here of the Pope's last day. He knew, look, he could have listened to doctor's orders and stayed at home and rested and not given out the Easter blessing and on, and on the holiest day of the Christian year.
And maybe he would have lived a few more days or a few more weeks, or maybe even a few more months. What's, what's life for? Are you just living to stuff your face and drink good wine and I don't know, amuse yourself? Well, then you're going to fail.
You're going to fail at that. Because one day, the food's going to run out, the wine's going to run out, the amusements are going to run out.
And if they don't run out, you're going to run out. And you're not going to get to do that anymore.
You're going to fail. You're setting, if your view of life is that life is for receiving as much pleasure as possible for as long as possible.
If your view of life is that you want to minimize suffering, you want to get rid of suffering and pain, you're going to fail because eventually all of that is going to find you. In order for you to have a successful life, your life has to be about something more.
And there is a goal to life and a purpose to it, and we can know what that is, and that is to know God, to serve him on earth, and to enjoy him forever in heaven. If that's your goal, you can succeed.

If you recognize that you have particular purposes here on earth, and they all tend toward your grand purpose, then what the Pope did, I don't care what you think of his pontificate, I know it was a rough one in many respects. Beautiful way to go.
It's a model. That's a model for how you should shuffle off this mortal coil.
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My favorite comment yesterday is from Jess Hallock 5346, who says, I think an African pope would be pretty rockin'. Yeah, well, people think it'd be great because the libs who don't know anything about the church would cheer on the first black pope out of their racial ideology.
But then they'd find out that the African popes are all extremely right-wing. Why are you gay? You are gay.
You are transgender. I actually think that guy's Catholic, right? The guy who went viral for that.
Anyway, I don't think he's up for pope, but there are some marvelous African prelates who are up for pope. But no one knows.
No one knows. The betting markets are terrible when it comes to figuring out who the next Pope is going to be.
Most people don't even really know what the day-to-day of being a Pope is. Most people don't really know what the cardinals do, what they would desire in electing a Pope.
So, you know, it's fun to guess. I'll probably keep guessing.
A lot of people keep guessing Cardinal Pizzaballa because he has a funny name. I think that's the main reason that he's saying, I'm pretty sure.
You get these guys who could not name three living cardinals. So, you know, I'm pretty sure.
I think actually the next pope, it's going to be the guy with the most interesting name, just coincidentally. Yeah, okay.
Well, I think Cardinal Stromboli Bada, I think he is going to be, yeah, are you gonna put any money on it actually i don't think i don't want to put money down that's this doesn't seem like the kind of thing you want to bet that actual money on speaking of process uh stephen miller the white house deputy chief of staff has uh just come out and responded i, in a perfect way that should be emulated by other Republican politicians to the Supreme Court decision that says that Trump cannot use the Alien Enemies Act to deport alien enemies. Here's what he has to say.
So they're all illegal. They're all gang members.
They're all foreign terrorists. And now we are being told that they cannot be expelled from our country without an extraordinary amount of individualized adjudication at the district court circuit court supreme court up and down up and down up and down no american citizen receives This level of so-called due process because there's a due process this is called infinity process to keep you here forever that's what this is oh no it's crazy american citizen charged with a charge with a crime with a serious crime inside the united states a u.s born american citizen receives this kind of process millions of dollars in free legal services, representation at every single level.
Do you think that there is any, for example, any American

citizen who was persecuted, who was innocent related to

January 6th, do you think they could just get this kind of

relief, this kind of process? It was never available to them.

The whole system was rigged against them, just like it's rigged in favor of illegal alien invaders. Bingo, man.
Bingo. Absolutely perfect messaging coming out of Stephen Miller here.
This phrase, infinity process, is great. Because what the libs are saying is, you can't use laws that are already on the books, some of which have been on the books for 130 years.
You can't use the laws that are on the books to deport the illegal aliens because they need due process. Not even the face-tattooed Satan-worshipping gangsters who are part of foreign terrorist organizations.
You can't get them out of the country unless they go through months and years-long court process. They need due process.
And what Stephen Miller is saying is the Democrats don't want these guys to have due process. They want them to have infinity process.
They want the process to just keep going on and on and on so they can keep punting the deportations until the democrats are back in power and they can give them amnesty and put them on a path to citizenship and get what they really want out of mass migration what they've really wanted the whole time chief of all which is a permanent electoral majority because they think with a fair bit of justification for it, that mass migration is going to redound to their clear electoral benefit. And then if they can't win elections by convincing Americans to vote for them, well, they'll just import voters themselves.
That's what they want, infinity process. And the reason that this is so wrong is because it's not process.
The Democrats are trying to turn due process into an end in itself. The purpose of due process is to get to the end of justice, giving the criminal or the accused what he deserves.
If he's innocent, he's acquitted. He goes free.
If he's guilty, he faces punishment for it. But Democrats, that's not what they're doing here.
They are not using these legal mechanisms as a process. They're using them as an end unto themselves.
The end being to keep these guys in the country and eventually to give them amnesty. Stephen Miller, totally right.
I love this line. You want infinity process.
You want to keep the worst people on earth in our country face tattooed, raping, murdering members of foreign terrorist organizations. You're going to use infinity process.
Well, no, that's not what the law is for. That's not what due process even is.
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Okay, now, moving from this terrible Supreme Court decision, but sticking to unfortunate events. You know, this is a family-friendly program, so I'm actually trying to figure out exactly how I can present this.
I'll tell you what, if you've got kids listening to the show right now, some people do that, just mute it for the next eight seconds. Kanye West has admitted to an incestuous homosexual relationship with his male cousin when they were children, up through their teenage years.
alright you can unmute it now well maybe you can

I don't know. Kanye, I don't mean to laugh at it.
It's a very sad story. Kanye has a song I called Cousins, and he says, the song is called Cousins about my cousin that's locked in jail for life for killing a pregnant lady a few years after I told him we wouldn't look at dirty magazines together anymore.
So it just goes right over the whole thing about his cousin killing a pregnant woman. Goes to jail for that.
Says, I told him we wouldn't look at dirty magazines together. Perhaps in my self-centered mess, I felt it was my fault that I showed him those dirty magazines when he was six, and then we acted out what we saw.

He says, my dad had Playboy magazines,

but the magazines I found in the top of my mom's closet were different.

What exactly does he mean by that?

Does he mean they were more perverse?

I don't know exactly what he means by that. He says, my name is Ye, and then he goes on to describe in graphic detail what he and his cousin did which i'm not i'm not going to do that because no one needs to hear about that really awful really terrible stuff um you you do kind of feel bad for kanye and you just definitely feel bad for the cousin you definitely feel bad for the lady that the cousin murdered and the kid that the cousin murdered and you just you just really feel bad for everyone involved in this culture that was magazines that's my biggest takeaway from this that was magazines that Kanye West is talking about finding pornographic magazines impelled Kanye West to commit really traumatic acts that have obviously traumatized him, probably his cousin, would really traumatize anybody, and have seriously messed up his life.
Kanye West, some years ago, tweeted out, said, pornography ruined my marriage. It took my marriage from me.
He talks, and he's paraded his most recent wife around in a pornographic way. He said he wanted to start a porn company.
It's just totally poisoned his brain. It's poisoned the minds of many people who are exposed to porn at a young age.
That was magazines. The pornography that kids are exposed to today at age, what, eight, I think, is the median age of exposure to pornography, internet pornography, is high-speed video, immersive.
Now, you know, now we've got 3D goggles and sex robots coming down the pike. It is so much more stimulating than you find a magazine in a closet or something.
And the magazines were bad enough to ruin Kanye West's life. So I'm not sitting here like the church lady.
I think anybody with two brain cells to rub together knows that porn is bad and you shouldn't look at it and you shouldn't expose others to it. But if magazines were bad enough to lead Kanye West to do what he did and to screw up his life the way it has, how could anyone oppose age verification laws for porn sites? You know, the Democrats now and the libs and the perverts and the degenerates and the porn industry, and I'm being a little repetitive, I guess, here, they fight tooth and nail to stop laws that simply require age verification so that kids like Kanye West was when he first discovered porn don't find much more dangerous, much more stimulating kinds of porn on the internet.
or at least it kind of tries to stop them. Pornography companies will stop doing business

in whole states rather than comply with age verification laws that are intended to make sure that kids don't look at porn. But you listen to this.
This is seriously depraved, dangerous stuff. And as far as I'm concerned, if you oppose these age verification laws, you are as degenerate a pervert.
You are as dark a force in politics as I have ever seen. A slightly related issue.
Do we need to confess these kinds of things to everyone? Have you noticed this is a modern impulse to confess your sins to everyone or your traumas or all the, there's really more traumas because people never want to really own up to sin. Kanye West is doing a little bit here, but have you noticed that people just confess everything online on Twitter Twitter, or on TikTok especially, you know, the girls crying, confessing all sorts of stuff and traumas, and once again, a vindication.
I think we're living through this time where all the old ways that we'd kind of tried to suppress and forget about where they're coming back again. People make fun of the notion that a Catholic goes into a confessional, kneels down in front of a priest.
There's a scrim, there's a screen, and anonymously confesses his sins. And then the priest says, because he has this power given to him by Christ in the gospels, to say, I absolve you of your sins.
In our modern culture, we mock this. But the confessional is just channeling a very human need to get a load off our chest.
And I think conferring the real spiritual graces of absolution from God who can forgive your sins. But even if you don't believe that, it's speaking to a deep human psychological need to, come on, get it off your chest, man.
We do that anyway. We still have to do that.
It's just now either you confess your sins to your therapist and it's really you're trying to evade responsibility. So the way you confess your sins to a priest is you actually have to say all the terrible stuff you've done in basically the worst way possible.
And, you know, you try to absolve yourself in the therapist's office or on TikTok now. You confess it to the whole world.
You don't need to, I don't feel bad for Kanye. He doesn't need to confess this stuff to the whole world.
He needs to confess it to a priest who tries to move on. And then we need political solutions to the temptation that people are being led into.
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There's so much more I want to get to, but we can't because I have to film some excellent episodes of the book club with PragerU

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