Ep. 2081 - Cornell University Officially Bans Frat Parties

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In response to the, by all accounts, false accusation of rape by a sophomore girl who had a ketamine-fueled menage a wheat with a bunch. Of at least slightly homosexual frat bros. Cornell is officially banning frat parties. 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. We'll get 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 Democrats. Senate nominee James Tallarico is gay. Even though Tallarico says he has a girlfriend in a different town. She goes to a different school. I'm Michael Knowles. This is the Michael Knowles 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. It's on all these big news aggregators and channels because the movie is starring James Franco and Rob Lowe. It's got Brad Dourif, a terrific actor, Nick Nolte. The list goes on and on and on. And it was written by Ben Shapiro. It looks phenomenal. I actually have not seen the movie yet. I got Ben. I twisted his arm to send me the screener last night. So I'm very much looking forward to seeing it. The trailer looks killer, though. And you have to be a Daily Wire subscriber to watch it. So check this out. This is crazy. This is a big star-studded cast. It's a movie about the Soviets and Christians. It's called Confession. And you need to go to DailyWire.com slash subscribe if you want to see it when it comes out soon. 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 7 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 menage a huit with a bunch of ketamine. Afterward, she says it was all consensual. It was fine. She said 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 a 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. The most terrible is Cornell. Cornell, which is now totally associated with this depraved, debaucherous, 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 this allegation of rape, to the drugs and the hookups and the creepiness and the kind of gay stuff, and 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 Kotlikoff, 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. All 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, 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. It's not 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. It's the admin. Why has the tuition gone up? The tuition has gone up because the federal government has guaranteed the loans. Where have the universities 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. 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 wanted 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 administrators 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 conservatives, like it's us, like it's the conservatives throwing the ketamine-fueled orgies, Regardless, this is an intraliberal, 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. At 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, you know, it's not a problem. It's not a problem. It's not a problem. It's not a problem. It's not a problem. It's not a problem. It's not a problem. It's not a problem. It's 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 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 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 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, if they just entail a bunch of drugs and weird, mostly gay orgies, then yeah, we should probably shut down the 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 university is going to shut down the frat parties. And if they shut down the frat parties, 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. They're actually an 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 ketamine orgy gay stuff, then you know what? Whatever. I guess the institution's lost and nothing's really surrendered by giving up the frat parties. But we as a society need fraternities. We need male-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 mayflowersigars.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. The private, membership clubs, country clubs, they have to be open to 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 right-wing party. We're going to ban the right-wing party. And we're going to ban the right-wing party. We've 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 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. 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He's hammering the trail for the midterms, and he's focused on that big Senate race, Ken Paxton versus James Tallarico. And he made, can you believe he would do this? He made a joke insinuating that James Tallarico 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 Tallarico, but I gotta. Can you believe, how could he say that? Oh my goodness, in the year 2026. 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? We, 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 gotta 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 hyper-partisan 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 hermaphroditical 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 19th 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 women in a town wear, and if possible, tighter than the best of them." Calling your opponent a Fanuc 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 and their associates. Vice President Vance, for his part, doubled down. You said that you wouldn't want to see Tallarico's search history. What do you mean by that? Well, Well, he's just a guy who shows a weird focus on transgender kids and drag 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. It just, 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. Anyway, I'm just, no, here, let me explain to you my joke. You want me to explain my joke to you because you have such a problem with it? Okay. He says that the thing he most loves, James Tallarico, 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 ukuleles. 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. And a real, a real comfy pair of pajamas. What does James Tallarico say? Oh, the thing I most love is trans kids. I just love them. Remember, James Tallarico 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 the, 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 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 Two. 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 statesman 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. That's totally. 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, you know, a eunuch. It's because he was kind of short and kind of weird looking. But he wasn't, you know, he wasn't talking about how much he loves trans kids. With Tallarico, there's a lot of smoke there. And I know Tallarico says he has a lot of smoke. He has a girlfriend. She just, you know, she lives in Canada. 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. He's 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, except the thing they most want. 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'll. But 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. Okay, so 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. Um, but you'll, you'll do it because you guys are a team. So you'll do everything for them. I still have a lot to handle. That's why I'm glad I'm really concerned about you. That's good. You know, you haven't thought enough about yourself. 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, this woman, I think it means woman, will always be part of my life. She gifted me with two perfect daughters. I wish her all the best. Great memories were made in those years. I'll be back soon. Thank you, everyone. Okay. I 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 are 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, 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, in a civil society, we can't really stop you. You know, you can, 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's a, 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, what people are reacting against is the liberal mindset that tells you that you, 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, we ha we, we recognize that our society has made us kind of miserable and people are getting less happy over time. And in as much as you can measure happiness, people are getting much less happy, but we can't acknowledge that because we're, we're becoming more liberated. We're, we're exercising our individual autonomy more. We're told that that is the most important thing in life. So we, we have to. I believe that we can change the world through the power of positive thinking. That, that's the, the dominant ethos, quasi religious ethos in the world. What do they call it? A moral, therapeutic deism, that kind of thing. So that's what people find offensive because it's a lie. It's just, tell me your wife left you. My wife left me. She's awful. I'm really upset about it. It's really messing up my girl's life and it totally sucks. Okay. I, oh, 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 I, it's totally my fault and it sucks and I feel horrible and I ruined everything. I can, 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, 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. They're in general nice. I choose the word carefully. They're not particularly moral or noble. Such niceness is 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 society. 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, they celebrate divorce. They try to be nice. Nice. I bet they're really nice, guys. I bet they're really nice. They're not particularly moral. They're not particularly thoughtful. They're not great-souled. 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. 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Then we all think it's because of the fact that she married her brother, so she helped him to commit immigration fraud. Turns out it's probably not, according to the sources and a lot of widespread reporting. 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 age 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 she's not eligible for the program. So she's not eligible 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 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. If we got rid of Ilhan Omar, that would be. She's kind of my favorite person in the squad. 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. She's the edgy one. She's kind of a terrorist, kind of supports terrorists. But she's a little edgy, a little cooler. Then you have Rashida Tlaib and Ayanna Presley. One of them is George. One of them is 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 Guilfoyle, the Fox News star, the once fiance 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. She wasn't a member of my family. She, I guess, dated my son a long time ago, but she wasn't. No, she went to Greece. She was doing a good job, but we didn't like what we were reading. What did you think of those allegations? Okay, so Trump, very, very dismissive here. He's saying Kimberly Guilfoyle was a big surrogate for MAGA and for Trump. Obviously, she dated and was engaged to Don Jr., though that was a while ago, and Don has since remarried. But- 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 Guilfoyle. I've 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'll be an investigation. Maybe it's all a big misunderstanding, but it looked pretty bad. And the left is 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 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 when the 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, if you think it is bad, just wait until you see what the Trump family has been doing. Well, what? What's the accusation? I hear all of these insinuations of corruption, pay to play. 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 statesman, is because it's harder to corrupt rich people. It is easier to corrupt rich 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? George 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 Guilfoyle. 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 war in Ukraine is really a kind of a global war because it's a proxy war between the United States and Russia. 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is not a nigerian prince i don't think they're royalty he's just the son of a nigerian billionaire but yeah that's true you know you think you get those emails from i am a nigerian prince send me your bank account you say bank account here's my take my wife hey you go please take my wife please okay poor guy poor guy i don't mean to make jokes about toby mcguire but that was weird that was a weird that was a weird incident china is getting involved in the iran war there's a report out from the wall street journal where is it i have so many reports out there's so much news breaking 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 and all the rest so 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 now the united states has a lot of allies in the region so they've been trying to get oil out in different ways and and saudi arabia has been trying to get oil out in places beyond the strait of hormuz the 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 uh the houthis can stop the pressure release of the oil getting out the other way outside of the strait of hormuz and it it gives iran more leverage again so you say okay well we got to beat the houthis we've been fighting the houthis for many many years 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 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 in the gulf so did many of president trump's advisors and president trump himself has been very uh aggressive toward iran not just during his presidencies but going all the way back to the 1980s the reason i i mentioned the story about china getting involved is one it means the iran war could really really heat up where 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 re reconstitute territory like taiwan wants to push its influence into the middle east and into africa and it's 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 in iran is an imperial war too and i the reason i'm mentioning it is not uh 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 that's not really what it's about oh 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 hooties okay that's that's that's that if you if you needed any additional proof that is it right now our pals over at cal shee uh 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 uh 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 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 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 dc and denver will cast their ballots to decide whether their cities restaurants and grocery stores can continue to sell one of the world's most controversial foods foie gras foie gras is delicious i first had a pate 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's so delicious foie gras and pate it's just fatty liver so it's the liver of a bird that has been stuffed to the gullet 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 the i'm here to tell you this is just socialism this is about socialism even 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 you know 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 these ducks yeah it makes them a little fatter they waddle 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 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 okay 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 they're not going to feed the duck too much 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 a 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 or pate. It's great. It's delicious. I should eat it more, although it does kind of kill you. It's kind of fatty. 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, one of 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, filthy conditions. They're pecking each other to death. It's horrible. You would stop it. 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 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. 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