Michael Moynihan
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842 appearances
21 recordings
2 series
first heard Dec 2024
last heard May 2025
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But what's bizarre is morning shows tend to be a little lighter, you know, kind of there's just a bit more levity. And you expect 60 Minutes or the serious evening news shows. Those are going to be hard hitting. And in this case, it was exactly the opposite. I mean, 60 Minutes is one of the most serious news properties in the history of television journalism. It used to be. I don't know.
I don't know what has happened. But this is not helping the credibility of the establishment media in the least.
Of course, you know, even that naughty joke about the migrants playing in electrical fields or something, that's a that's a dark joke. It's a dark joke. It's like an Internet meme. It's the sort of thing that statistically everyone on the Internet has engaged with at some point.
And so I'm not I'm not saying that that should be the opening speech of a state dinner or something like that, but it's a crude, nasty, dark little joke. OK. And so what is the consequence of that? I don't know. Some people giggle or something. Now look at the consequence, not even just in Germany, but throughout Europe, of banning basic speech. J.D. Vance talked about that in Munich.
You had Christians who would pray silently in their own minds, 50 meters away from abortion mills. Those kinds of people are arrested. You would have people who object in any way to mass migration. Those kinds of people would be harassed by the government. You would have families in Northern England who are objecting to their children being brought into rape gangs by migrants.
You would see the force of the law come down against them and the supposed threat that they pose to multiculturalism rather than against the migrants. To your point, Megan, Who are we to privilege here? Someone who's offended by a naughty joke or an internet meme? Or the people whose kids have been stabbed by migrants as has happened throughout Europe?
How about we pay attention to the serious issues from actual European citizens here? Well, the liberal elite on that continent won't do it. So the constituents are voting against the ruling liberal elite parties. And the only thing that they can do to hold on to their power is to further clamp down, to tighten their grip.
And so it's a breath of fresh air for America and for Europe when the vice president comes in and says, hey, we're not going to put up with this anymore.
The best excuse that I've heard the European left come up with here, and the American left, I guess, is that, no, he wasn't just crying because they were all so upset by J.D. Vance. It's really because, you know, he's going to be leaving this post soon. And so it was just a kind of a broader overwhelming with emotion to which I would respond.
First of all, seems a little dubious to me, given the actual news reporting that came out of that conference. But second of all. Also, even if that were the case, yeah, that's ridiculous, man. Are you kidding? This is Europe. This is the Munich Security Conference. If you're Vladimir Putin in the Kremlin, are you now cowering? Oh, no. The Europeans, they might flood me with tears.
I hope I don't drown. Good grief. What a pathetic showing from Europe.
I would say just as a numbers game, statistically, any of us could be the child of Elon Musk. When we're trying to adjudicate the claim as to whether or not the baby is really Elon's, statistically, really any child you come across in the street could have been sired by the head of Doge. You know, I actually ran into Ashley at one of the inauguration events in D.C.
because Ashley is pretty well known among conservative media. She's an influencer. She's an influencer. You know, she's involved in the island, right? She had a book.
on kind of making fun of transgenderism children's book and so people are are aware of her and she's very active on twitter and elon's very active on twitter and so i guess i'm not terribly surprised that the two of them linked up in some way given uh how prolific elon is at producing many things children included and and so i i guess my biggest political takeaway from the whole story which uh you know
generally men are not all that tuned into these kinds of stories you know it's also not exactly a man bites dog story so i've paid a little bit of attention to it and my biggest takeaway is a political truth that has existed since classical antiquity up to the present Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned."
That is a lesson that not only the billionaires should know and the people in media and politics should know, that is true for everyone. It does seem to appear to be what's going on here. As has been reported, Ashley St. Clair says that she feels jilted or ignored. And it's not just right wing influencers who are going to act out and lash out when that occurs. That's a lot of women.
Well, I think also to your point, Megan, whatever you think about Elon and his views on natalism, which I think Elon is totally right that we have an underpopulation problem. And I think he's right that people should have more children. I would encourage people to do it the old-fashioned way. You know, I'm a...
mackerel-snapping papist myself, so I think marriage is a lifelong union of a man and a woman ordered toward the procreation and education of children and also for the mutual support of the spouses. But people across geography, across social classes, across everywhere are broadly confused about these questions, in part because the revolutions, especially the 1960s,
really blew up our moral and ethical thinking on these matters. So I actually have a great deal of sympathy for people who are really confused about it. But regardless of what you think about what Elon does, you can't say he's hiding the ball, okay? He is very clear about his views of natalism and IVF. So yeah, people know exactly what they're getting going into it. That's the thing. Yeah.
I agree with you, Megan.
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