The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 1943 - NBA Player CUT For Criticizing LGBTQ Pride Propaganda

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I don't care about the NBA.

I thought the Chicago Bulls, actually, also back then, the Chicago Bulls.

I thought they were cool in the 90s, because everyone did.

Michael Jordan and LaTrell Spreewell, Dennis Rodman would actually, Dennis Rodman probably

would have been okay for Pride Month, but this guy is not Jaden Ivy.

Jaden Ivy is a basketball player, that's basically all I know about him.

But beyond the basketball court, I know that he holds Christian views of sexual ethics.

The world can proclaim LGBTQ, right?

They have, they proclaim Pride Month and the NBA.

They proclaim it.

They show it to the world.

They say, come join us for Pride Month to celebrate unrighteousness.

They proclaim it.

They proclaim it on the billboards.

They proclaim it in the streets, unrighteousness.

So how is it that one can't speak righteousness?

How is it one that, how are they to say that you, man, this man is crazy?

Okay.

So he just says that in his view, gay stuff is not righteous.

For that, this guy was fired from the Chicago Bulls.

And you, even a semi orthodox view of every major world religion, Christianity, Judaism,

Islam, on and on and on, holds that homosexual acts are not allowed, that it's unrighteous.

In fact, some of his language here was pretty mild by comparison to say scripture, right?

Jews and Christians reading the Old Testament, but view these acts as an abomination.

He didn't even say abomination.

He just said, look, it's not righteous.

And you're seeing all this weird stuff on the billboards and it's no good.

And for that, this Chicago Bulls fired him.

According to the Bull Statement, there is a certain level of expectations and standards

that are here.

That's Coach Billy Donovan.

We have people from hall walks of life working in the building and players from all different

walks of life.

So the first thing is that everyone comes with their own personal experiences, right?

But we have to all be professional.

There has to be a high level of respect for one another, and we've got to help each other

and be accountable to those standards.

Now hold on, I just have to correct this guy for a second.

He said, we have people from all walks of life working in the building, players from all

walks of life.

That's not true.

Because if a player comes out and expresses his religious views of sexual ethics, if he's

a practicing Christian or Jew or Muslim, as they said, he's not welcome there.

So the Bulls have liberals, and they have sexual revolutionaries, and they have hardcore leftists.

And in fairness, they have conservatives and Christians and Jews and Muslims maybe

in principle, as long as they shut up, as long as they don't say what they believe.

But if they do say what they believe, they're going to be axed.

They're not welcome.

It concludes from ownership, Jerry and Michael Ryan's dwarf down to the front office, executive

vice president, Arthurus, Karnasovas, and general manager Mark Eversley, me as a coach and even

to the players.

There's a certain standard we all want to live by, we're all responsible for that standard.

So what is this?

This is effectively a blasphemy law.

That's the point to take home.

It's not a blasphemy law in that this Bulls player isn't cursing God, he isn't saying

anything truly sacrilegious, he's cursing the false gods of liberalism.

The gods of weird sex stuff, and maximizing individual autonomy, and the gods of never

publicly proclaiming your Christian, or I guess Jewish or Muslim faith, that's it.

That's effectively a blasphemy law.

This guy was fired because he was too outspokenly Christian.

That's it.

That should be illegal by the letter of the law, I guess that is illegal, and yet it happens

all the time.

And his firing further infringes on the civil rights of, yeah, I don't want to keep repeating

the three monotheistic religions, but I would say anyone who holds anything even resembling

traditional sexual ethics, it further infringes on their rights because it's a signal, hey,

you could lose your job, and the government's not going to do anything to stop it.

That's how it goes.

So, the point for all of us is to recognize, and this is an issue that I actually wrote

a whole book about called Speechless Controlling Words Controlling Minds, which you can get

wherever fine books are sold.

The debate, I know we're in LA right now, that the ding is going to be a little delayed.

Look, I'm being very forgiving today, in the spirit of charity, it's holy week.

The debate that we think we're having, that a lot on the right thought we were having,

between free speech and censorship, that's fake.

We are going to live in some religiously informed country.

The question is, what God are we going to worship?

We have the liturgical calendar, we have the Pride Month, multiple months, we have the

secular saints, we have the liturgies of liberalism, we have all this stuff.

And it doesn't just affect the right wing conservative at a liberal college, it doesn't

just affect your outspoken MAGA uncle at his job, or he just couldn't keep his mouth shut.

This is affecting the NBA.

Look, I find it offensive when people come out and say we should transcend the kids.

I find it offensive when people say we should kill babies.

I think people probably should lose their jobs if they support killing babies.

But we don't insist upon that.

We have a great degree of toleration for this kind of stuff.

And maybe we shouldn't.

Maybe we shouldn't.

Maybe our liberalism, we on the right, maybe our liberalism has allowed the left to clamp

down so strongly on these standards.

I mean, I lay right now, I just mentioned just a few days ago, someone tagged on a wall

with graffiti, kill your local ice agent.

Big letters, people were filming him as he did it.

This was during the No Kings rally, kill your local ice agent.

You know what's going to happen to that person?

Nothing.

Nothing's going to happen to that guy.

He is inciting violence against federal law enforcement.

Nothing's going to happen to that guy.

He won't be arrested almost certainly.

If he is arrested, he'll get off the hook in two seconds.

Kill your local ice agent.

You're good.

You'll actually be celebrated, at least tacitly, by liberal politicians.

Well, what if that sign said, don't be gay?

What if that sign said what the Chicago Bull said?

I don't think that LGBT stuff is righteous.

The guy would have been arrested for a hate crime.

He would have been arrested first for vandalism, property crimes.

And then it would have been aggravated.

It would have been exacerbated by hate crimes.

That's what would have happened.

There'd be a federal civil rights investigation into that.

These are the standards we live by.

So for the people who, they're normal people.

Center left, moderate, center right.

The ones who say, well, you know, the left is gone far.

But some of these right wingers,

they're really these Christian nationalists.

They, I don't know about them.

I don't, you know, I don't want to live in a theocracy.

First of all, you're not going to live in a theocracy.

Theocracy is government by clerics.

But let me tell you something.

No matter how extreme the Christian right,

the Christian nationalists were to go,

they would not have one one hundredth the zeal

of the leftists who insist upon their moral precepts,

which are not moral at all.

In fact, they're immoral precepts.

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that took over social media.

Odds are, if you have family members

who are at all interested in politics,

they have posted this article.

They've shared it.

It was trending.

Bullet used to kill Charlie Kirk.

Did not, all caps did not match rifle

allegedly used by suspect Tyler Robinson,

new court filing claims.

Right off the bat, you see this last part.

It's a new court filing claim.

So this is a claim that is being made by the defense.

This is a claim being made by the guy

who allegedly murdered Charlie Kirk.

The leftist with the trans furry boyfriend

who killed Charlie.

His lawyers have made this claim.

So right off the bat, you see why are we giving

credence to what his lawyers were saying?

But then just the headline.

Bullet used to kill Charlie Kirk.

Did not match rifle allegedly used by suspect Tyler Robinson.

You just read into the article.

I'll just read you the first three paragraphs, short paragraphs.

The bullet that killed conservative commentator Charlie Kirk

may not match the rifle used by suspect Tyler Robinson.

Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, hold on.

Headline says did not.

First sentence says may not.

So right off the bat, we know the headline is a lie.

But then it says, okay, may not match the rifle.

Robinson 22 is facing capital murder charges

and a potential death sentence for Kirk's murder

at Utah Valley University on September 10th.

But his defense attorneys now argue

that the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms

and explosives, quote, was unable to identify

the bullet recovered at autopsy in the right

to the rifle allegedly tied to Mr. Robinson.

Hold on, hold on, hold on.

The first claim was the bullets don't match.

The inescapable implication being

that this guy Tyler Robinson did not actually murder Charlie Kirk.

That's the inescapable conclusion

you would have to draw from that headline.

Then the first sentence contradicts the headline.

It says it may not match.

And then the third sentence tells you what actually happened.

The ATF just couldn't identify the bullet

because it was split into fragments.

It's not that they identified it as a bullet

that doesn't match the gun.

They didn't identify the bullet at all

because the fragments were exploded.

So it might match the gun, might not match the gun,

based strictly on the bullet,

you just can't come to a conclusion.

You know what can lead you to a conclusion?

The fact that Tyler Robinson allegedly confessed

to the crime multiple times through multiple media,

including to his father who turned him into the police.

His fingerprints were found on the gun

and the gun fired a bullet at Charlie,

a bullet which exploded such that the ATF

can't perfectly identify with 100% certainty

exactly what kind of bullet it is

because it exploded, but which nevertheless,

obviously was fired from this gun.

Why does this one hurt me?

There have been a conspiracy theories floating around Charlie.

Charlie's murder from five seconds after he was killed.

As he was dying, you had conspiracy theories

first launched by the left, by the way, floating around.

You had Matthew Dow, the Democrat strategist on MSNBC.

He floated the first quasi-conspiracy theory

which is saying that he did it to himself.

So Charlie, you know, he spoke hate

and this is what happens when you speak hate.

Now it's not, I guess that's more victim blaming.

It's got a twinge of conspiracy theory to it.

Then you had people saying,

maybe it was a radical right-winger who did it.

Then, then, then, but why does this,

people have been doing this forever

and they always do this when someone's assassinated,

when any major event happens, conspiracy theories explode.

In very rare circumstances, the conspiracy theories turn,

if they don't turn out to be right,

they at least raise some questions about what happened,

but the overwhelming majority of the time,

they're not true, but people go there, okay.

So why does this one bother me?

Here's why.

It occurred to me.

One, there's a difference between speculating

on the murder of Charlie Kirk

and whether or not we went to the moon or something,

or whether or not someone blew up the Titanic

or either any of the kind of

outlandish conspiracy theories that never the last,

the thing about the moon, that's kind of fun to think about.

Did we fake it?

Was it Stanley Kubrick?

Did I don't know how we fooled the Soviet Union?

I don't know how we got them to go along with it,

but that's kind of fun.

It's kind of trivial.

It's kind of inconsequential.

With this one though,

and I've seen this up close,

not just because I was pals with Charlie,

but because the person who allegedly killed Charlie,

that kind of person has threatened to

and attempted to injure a lot of us on the right

for a very long time.

A guy went to prison, federal prison,

for throwing an explosive at one of my speaking events

at the University of Pittsburgh,

where I was discussing the exact same issues

that allegedly motivated Tyler Robinson to murder Charlie.

So you see this up close,

and it means it has immediate political import.

This guy did it.

Allegedly, I have to say allegedly

because he hasn't been convicted yet.

This guy, according to reports about his own confessions,

did it.

And this means that if conspiracy theories gain traction,

this guy could get off the hook.

He could get away with murder.

And when someone murders your friend,

you don't want that person to get off the hook.

And when some, for millions and millions of people

who didn't know Charlie personally,

but who might as well have,

who felt like they knew him personally,

who might have met him at some point,

but who loved his leadership in his videos,

that would feel like an absolutely unacceptable injustice.

And so then why am I so angry at the Daily Mail?

A lot of other people have spread these conspiracy theories,

and I'll tell you why,

because there are people who really believe them.

I know it's very tempting to say everyone's just being cynical

about the Charlie conspiracy theories.

I think a lot of people sincerely believe

the conspiracy theories,

and it's very difficult to persuade people out of that.

Okay, and so for them, you just,

I don't know, you hope you can persuade them, you hope it.

Okay.

The Daily Mail obviously doesn't believe the theory.

The Daily Mail is just cynically promoting it to get clicks.

It's gonna say to sell newspapers,

they don't do that anymore, to get clicks.

That's what this is about.

The headline is a lie.

It is, they admit that it's a lie in the first sentence.

And the stakes are very high for this.

My view of politics, as I've said many a time,

is that politics is not debate club.

Some people, especially in the pundit class,

but sometimes even in the elected class,

especially among the pundits,

they view politics as debate club.

They view politics as a matter of pure ideology

that we just speak into existence,

and they get very angry and impatient with politicians

who are actually trying to do the practical work of politics,

with the activists who are going out and whipping the votes,

with the organizers and the coalition builders.

They get very angry with them,

because they're not so lily-white and pure.

The ideologues, they just get to speak their maxims

into the air, and then they get to go back

to their quiet, private little lives.

They don't have to deal with the mess of it.

But I like the reality of politics.

I like politics as a lived action in a political community

that is not totally pure, that is not perfectly ideological.

That involves compromise, and involves power struggles,

and sometimes you've got to win,

and you've got to beat the bad guy,

and you've got to lock the bad guy,

and this would be a case of that.

A leftist murdered Charlie Kirk,

and then the mainstream left

to a distressingly large degree celebrated it afterward,

and they need to be punished for that

in order to dissuade them from continuing to kill conservatives.

They need to be punished as a matter of justice

and a matter of deterrence.

It's bad enough when people are just confused about the facts

or sincerely believe theories that are contrary to reality

that could undermine our political moment.

When people do it, obviously cynically,

for purely selfish motives, just to get clicks,

just to make money, just to be damned,

safety be damned, political community be damned,

it's very disreputable,

very, very irresponsible stuff from the Daily Mail.

I should not be terribly surprised, but really,

I have a lot of emotional discipline, okay?

That's my Anglo side.

That's not my significance.

My Anglo side is stiff upper lip.

I have a lot of emotional discipline.

That one really, really got under my skin.

Speaking of tabloid journalism,

a Washington Post columnist is weighing in on a wife

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The Washington Post is now they're getting multi-media.

I don't know, they took a lesson from the New York Times, maybe they took a lesson from

the Daily Wire.

But they had a dear abbey sort of letter, an advice column that peaked my interest because

it gets to probably the bedrock political problem that we have.

The bedrock political problem we face is not immigration, it's not taxation, it's not

foreign policy.

The bedrock political problem we have is that we no longer know what marriage is.

And I'm not just blaming the gaze, that's a problem too, the fact that we think two

fellows can get married or two ladies can get married.

That is a big problem, it has a lot of bad consequences, but that's not the bedrock problem.

The bedrock problem is, even when we agree that marriage is between a man and a woman,

we don't actually know what it is, as exemplified in this Washington Post question.

I stopped having sex with my husband and now he's sleeping in a tent in our backyard.

I'm embarrassed by what our neighbors might think, how can I talk some sense into it?

Can we talk about the fact that the first response you have is that you're embarrassed

about what the neighbors might think?

I think your conversation should not be about talking sense into your husband, I think

it should be talking to your husband.

I'm not going to say anything about the unilateral decision that you made to stop having

sex with your husband because those are complicated decisions and once you've decided

not to have sex, it is your decision, but it seems like neither of you is talking to

the other about how you feel.

I don't know where the neighbors come into that.

Okay, totally wrong, perfectly wrong advice.

First of all, she says, I can't believe your first thought is what might the neighbors

think?

Of course, that's going to be your first thought.

You're having marital problems.

Your husband is doing this crazy stunt that is going to spook your neighbors.

He is doing that, so your thought is, gosh, what are the neighbors going to think?

He can actually get your attention to draw your mind to the fact that this is a big problem

that you won't sleep with your husband.

Then what does she say?

She says, look, when you decide not to sleep with your husband, that's your decision.

I know this is going to be a little controversial.

I know, look, when you say things that everybody knew five years ago, at this point, maybe

10 years ago.

You say things everybody knew five minutes ago, but you say them today, it's controversial,

but it's not your decision.

Can I say that?

Whether or not to sleep with your husband or to sleep with your wife, that is not in fact

entirely your decision.

When you get married, it's amazing that it needs to be said.

When you get married, you are agreeing to sleep with your spouse.

Save for the rarest of exceptions.

There is a very rare exception called a Josephite marriage.

Why is it named Josephite marriage?

After St. Joseph, who Christians traditionally believe, and most Christians still do believe,

Joseph and Mary had a chaste marriage.

They didn't have sex together.

I guess you're going to have a chaste marriage and still be sexually active, but they did

not.

I actually did a little fun Twitter poll on this the other day.

I said, when it comes to the claim that Mary was perpetually a virgin, not just a virgin

before the birth of Jesus, but afterward as well.

Do you agree with the Catholic Church's view on this?

Or do you agree with the view of the Protestant reformers, like Luther, Martin Luther, Ulrich

Vingley, later Protestants, John Wesley?

What do you agree with?

The Catholic view or that Protestant view?

The trick of the question, of course, was that they all agreed.

They all agreed with the perpetual opportunity of Mary.

Anyway, I exempt Josephite marriages, and there have been some more recent examples of

that too.

I would also say I exempt if there is a grave, an exceedingly grave reason, for instance.

Here's an example.

Because of some medical complication, if doctors can say with great certainty that if a woman

becomes pregnant, it will kill her.

But the couple doesn't want to use artificial contraception because they view that as a

sin.

There, you could see a grave reason, a grave exception for not, but all of that digression

to say, ladies, you have to sleep with your husband.

It's not just your choice.

Husbands?

I don't know.

Maybe you don't want to sleep with your wife.

Maybe your wife?

Maybe you think she's ugly now.

Yeah.

I don't know why.

Maybe she's annoying you.

Maybe I don't know why.

But you have to sleep with your wife too.

Spouses.

You have to sleep together.

That is, in fact, the action that defines a marriage.

Some will be tempted to say, no, how dare you, Michael.

That's a reductive, no, what defines a marriage is the emotional support.

Yeah, no, that's all a good of marriage.

No, what defines a marriage is we have dinner together, so I have dinner with a lot of

people.

No, what defines a marriage?

We sleep in the same bed.

I've shared bunks before.

You know what defines a marriage?

That thing that married people do, and you have to do it.

And the real reason that people resist this is not even feminism.

I mean, look, that's a big driver of it.

It's not even, it doesn't even have to do with marriage or sex.

The real reason that people reject that view in modernity is because it implies that

we are not totally autonomous.

It implies that we have obligations.

I have to do things.

And what's so crazy is our culture, all societies, when they flourish, recognize that we have

a lot of duties and obligations.

We have obligations to our country, maybe that's military service, maybe that's just other

public service.

We have obligations to our community and giving arms and giving charity and philanthropy.

Let me ask you a question.

I'm preaching to the choir here, but do you give to charity?

How much of your income do you give to charity?

The Bible says you're supposed to give 10%.

Do you give 10%, most people don't, maybe you don't, probably not, I don't know, depends

on how you cut it, maybe you don't.

But do you give 5%, do you give 3%, five people don't give anything.

You have obligations to your employer, you have obligations to your spouse, you gotta

sleep with your spouse.

But people don't want to acknowledge that we have natural obligations as well as obligations

that we enter into.

That is what cuts at the heart of liberalism.

But that is why liberalism cuts at the heart of the most basic political institution,

which is why liberalism is like an acid that pours over all of society, and which now

turns society against itself.

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Okay, speaking of moral teaching, this is a doozy.

Backed out of the Ohio House, the Ohio House has just passed a law against indecent exposure

to minors, that's the good news.

The bad news, every single Democrat voted against it.

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We'll see if they picked a good one.

This is from Hardwell Entertainment says Michael, you and I both know Matt's going to do his

next documentary as a trip with JD Vance to Area 51, etc.

I hope that that's Matt's next documentary because JD Vance can correct his mistaken

view because JD Vance, being an intelligent and educated and serious man, knows that

aliens are much more likely to be demons than they are to be little green men.

Back to the moral teaching of the Ohio House.

We should all agree whether you're religious or secular, whether you are Christian, Jewish,

Muslim, Shinto, Buddhist.

We should all agree shouldn't we?

That in decent exposure to minors is wrong and should be outlawed, right?

Well, Democrats disagree.

The Ohio House just passed this law every Democrat opposed it.

Why?

Because the law would possibly infringe on the LGBTQ movement.

Pride parades from coast to coast usually engage with indecent exposure to minors.

We've all seen the videos.

I don't need to play the videos.

We've seen over many years the pictures and the videos from the Pride parades that are

not in some CD alley in a red light district.

They're on Main Street and there are kids at these parades.

We've seen the drag queen story hour shows.

We've seen kids at drag bars.

We've seen all that.

We know that men go into the women's bathroom because of LGBT rights, so-called, which often

results in indecent exposure.

We know all these things.

And so the lips say, okay, between protecting kids from indecent exposure and promoting

weird sex stuff, we're going to choose the weird sex stuff.

I go bulls, the only thing you're not allowed to say.

You could go in there, blaspheme God all day, the bulls will love you, the minute you

go in and say, actually, I object somewhat to creepy sex stuff.

You're fired, you're out.

This goes very, very deep.

So deep in fact that I would go so as far as to say, the sexualization of children is intrinsic

to the left wing political vision.

I don't think that's overstating it.

Here's a 1969 essay by the once-in-future Democrat presidential candidate Bernie Sanders.

Bernie Sanders been a Democrat legislator for 150 years.

This close to being president multiple times actually might have had a shot at it, had

the Democrats not stolen the nomination from him.

In a 1969 essay in the Vermont Freeman, he wrote, quote,

In Vermont at a state beach, a mother is reprimanded by authority for allowing her six-year-old

daughter to go about without her diapers on.

Now, if children go around naked, they are liable to see each other's sexual organs and

maybe even touch them, terrible thing.

If we raise children up like this, it will probably ruin the whole pornography business,

not to mention the large segment of the general economy, which makes its money by playing

on people's sexual frustrations.

So it's an ironic comment.

He's saying, oh no, we could ruin the whole pornography business.

If what, what is he actually advocating here?

What he's advocating is having kids run around naked so that they can see each other's

sexual organs and touch them.

That's what he's saying.

That's what he's advocating for here.

Using not-so-subtle verbal irony, he's saying, I politician Bernie Sanders, as a matter

of my political ideology, want kids to run around naked and molest each other.

This got him in a little bit of trouble when he ran for president, but the media mostly

rushed down to the rug.

This was not a one-off.

He was influenced by leading left-wing thinkers of his day.

The clearest one being Wilhelm Reich, who had this idea that all the problems of the world

are caused by people not having enough orgasms.

That was actually his theory and a lot of prominent leftists and left-wing intellectuals

believed that.

But we do this to this day.

Even if the left is not as open about it as they were in 1969, what is coming out day

at school about?

What is coming out day?

I remember, they had that when I was a kid.

Coming out day.

Coming out day is when kids say that they're gay.

They walk through a door and they decide to be gay or they tell everyone that they have

a previously said they're gay.

What's that about?

That's about sexualizing kids.

What the phrase protect LGBT youth, protect trans youth.

What's that about?

That's about sexualizing kids.

That's about encouraging kids to think more and more about sex and to more aberrant forms

of sex.

The left believes that exposing kids to weird sex stuff is good for them because it allows

them to experiment and discover their true desires, which exist in some, I don't know,

platonic realm, but which they have not yet discovered.

So like Plato's theory of knowledge, they need to discover.

They need to relearn what they have forgotten.

They need to remember the hidden knowledge that they have forgotten, but which nonetheless

pertains to them.

I don't think I'm overstating it.

I don't think I'm being hyperbolic or I'm attacking straw man or anything like that.

You can read the Bernie Sanders essay.

You can look at the vote in the Ohio State House and you can just see the implications of

the left wing ideology, which says that the purpose of life is self-actualization and

self-control and therefore we need to be authentically ourselves.

The traditional religious view is we need to conform ourselves to God that we're born,

the creation is good, but it's a fallen world and so there's some problems and we need

to conform ourselves to God and in that way we will most perfectly be ourselves.

The liberal view says the opposite says, forget about conforming yourself to God.

That's bad.

That's going to give you neuroses.

That's going to give you pathologies.

No, no, no.

You just need to be authentically yourself.

So you need to, especially when we're talking about sex, which is so central to human nature,

you need to push the limits of sex.

You need to experiment in sex at a younger and younger age.

This is their words, not mine.

To arrive at their true identities.

Their true identities which year after year become more and more perverse because when

we try to conform ourselves to God who is immutable and all good and all true and all beautiful,

then we become more perfect and we become more free, actually.

But when we try to just be more like ourselves, you get, you get caught in this kind of

aura boros like a snake eating its own tail.

You just, whatever defects you have, they become more and more pronounced unless you yourself

are perfect and then becoming more and more like yourself, I suppose will be good, but

assuming you're not perfect, that is actually what creates the neuroses and the pathologies

and all the problems.

As you can just see, we can see that anecdotally around us, really creepy anyway, because

the left doesn't want to admit this openly.

They used to, when Bernie was writing, they don't now, but encouraging kids to do weird

sex stuff is intrinsic to the left-wing political vision.

And if you have a problem with that, prove me wrong.

I haven't heard an argument against it.

Speaking of sex scandals, Eric Swalwell, the would-be future governor of California, he's

actually probably not eligible legally to run for governor of California as his fellow

Democrat candidate Tom Steyer pointed out, because Eric Swalwell is not, in fact, a resident

of California and the California state constitution says you have to be.

He can sort that out himself.

The irony of Swalwell right now in his current job in the House of Representatives is that

Swalwell sent a cease and desist to the FBI to stop the FBI from releasing documents

about his involvement with the Chinese spy, Fang Fang.

Involvement here is a euphemism.

He knew, biblically, this Chinese spy, Fang Fang.

And we've known about that for a long time.

He's tried to evade the questions.

Now the Washington Post is reporting the FBI is considering releasing some of these documents

and he is threatening to sue them to stop them from doing that.

And this is very strange, because I seem to recall Eric Swalwell quite recently demanding

that the FBI be more transparent, that the FBI release files pertaining to sex scandals

and potential blackmail.

Not just that Eric Swalwell was calling on the FBI release files, but he was calling

to release files in specifically this case, in exactly the kind of situation that he's

involved in with Fang Fang.

He tweeted out, you don't need a judge.

Trump has the files.

Why won't he release them now?

Swalwell, again, the American people deserve transparency, not redactions and cover-ups.

What happened to that transparency?

Now, whatever you think about the Epstein files, the whole Epstein political football was

strutted out as a Democrat scandal and then somehow the Democrats made it a Republican scandal,

but it really should be more of a Democrat scandal as a hot potato, whatever.

In any case, it is way more responsible to release the files relating to Swalwell and Fang Fang.

It's just two people.

We know they had a relationship.

We know she's a Chinese spy.

This does not really threaten to ensnare innocent people here.

We know this all happened.

But the Epstein files seems like half the people in the country emailed Epstein at some

point and some of them were crooks and scoundrels.

Some of them were perfectly innocent.

So if you're calling for transparency, it is much more reasonable to call for the transparency

on the Swalwell Fang Fang files than the Epstein files, especially because this guy, who

is clearly compromised by the Chinese, is not just a sitting federal legislator, but he's

seeking to become the governor of California, one of the largest economies in the world.

Okay.

Before we go, I know I'm running late.

I don't care.

Eric Trump, President Trump's son, has just released footage of what will become the

Donald J. Trump presidential library.

Do we have the B-roll?

Look at that.

So it's in Miami, China.

It looks kind of like Freedom Tower in New York, which was the tower that replaced the

World Trade Center.

So it's not that it's the most beautiful architecture in the world, but it's a stunning

building.

And its size is very New York, it's very Trump, very 80s, free Wall Street.

It's just very, it's cool, big Trump name on the top.

And then I think they've got other facilities there where you can have nice cocktail parties,

nice greenery, big American flag down the middle.

It's nice.

It's not Bozar, it's not our new vote or even our deco, but it's nice.

It's okay.

It's a nice building.

Good job.

They did a good job.

Very Trump.

I was hoping that it would not be in Miami or New York.

I was hoping that the Trump library would become the Donald J. Trump presidential library

in Casino in Atlantic City.

I thought that would be the funniest version of it, but they haven't.

Okay, it's going to be in Miami.

And it's cool.

It's really nice.

Where's that Obama library?

They're almost done with that, right?

Do we have a picture of that?

Yeah.

So if you're only listening now, you got to go Google it if you haven't seen it already.

Barack Obama's library is almost done and it's, I can't describe to you how ugly it

is.

It's a, it's brutalist and brutalism itself is very ugly, but it's particularly ugly

brutalism.

It looks just like a big ugly asymmetrical, but still just flat slab, angular flat slab

in the middle of Chicago.

Not how.

Despite all the degradation to Chicago in recent years, the Obama library makes Chicago

uglier compared to the Trump building, red, white, blue, flag, nice, 80s, New York, business.

The reason that I pointed out is not just to dunk on Obama.

The added perversity of the two presidential libraries is the presidents get to pick

their library.

It's not like anyone forced this on them.

I'm sure President Trump, or at the very least his family, was involved in designing it,

but knowing Trump, I bet he was pretty actively involved in designing the library himself.

So was Obama.

Obama picked that.

Obama picked the brutalism.

Nobody forced it on.

It's kind of, I think of that meme, the meme of the guy going up to talk to the cute girl,

you know, it says, hi, could I buy you a drink and then the just big fat ugly friend walks

up.

Actually, she's not interested.

That's what it's like looking at the two presidential libraries.

Hi, I'd like to go visit a presidential library, you're just trying to walk into the beautiful

Trump library.

And then just the ugly Obama one comes around, actually, he's not interested.

You can come to my library instead.

It's brutal.

It's awful.

It's the Obama one's brutalist.

And it reflects the presidents.

The Trump library is so Trump, so Trump, New York, big, bold, brash, glass.

It's not the most ornamented, but it's there.

It makes a statement.

The Obama library, it's just a bunch of ugly nothing.

It's a bunch of depressing, nihilistic, nothing.

What was Obama?

He's just kind of nothing.

Just kind of ugly, not physically, fine looking guy, just ugly, drab, spirit discouraging,

nothing.

Reminds me of a line that I heard.

I think Drew Clayton might have told me this.

And it's become a cliche.

By 40 you've earned your face.

If you're ugly at 12 or even at 18, that's probably not your fault.

Ah, there's just genetics or circumstances in which you were born.

But if you're really ugly, if you look weathered and I don't know, just twisted and bent

by the time you're 40, that's on you.

You've lived that way.

You didn't have to live that way.

That's true.

It's true with these buildings.

That building is Obama and that other building is Trump.

Okay.

I want to get to the controversy about President Trump's Air Force One.

Sorry, about President Trump's new ballroom at the White House, which he just was discussing

on Air Force One.

But I don't have time.

I got to get to it.

I got to get to it tomorrow.

Speaking of federal buildings, we're going to be heading on down to Cape Canaveral for

the launch of Artemis II.

So if you're around there for the launch, I'll see you there.

If not, I'll see you here because we're going to have a very special episode of Michael

Moles show live from the launch of Artemis II.

The first time in 50 years we've gone back to the moon or depending on your perspective,

the first time we've ever gone to the moon.