Ep. 2016 - Jeremy Boreing Breaks Silence On Recent Drama

**Michael Knowles** (0:00)
The US has launched a fresh round of strikes on Iran as the war threatens to drag out for months or years. The House votes to make daylight savings time permanent, and two homosexual men sue the surrogate they hired because she wouldn't kill their baby over a cleft lip. I'm Michael Knowles, this is The Michael Knowles Show.
Welcome back to the show, huge show today. We have a former Daily Wire employee, a former, a little more than an employee coming on to weigh in on a lot of drama. Let's just put it that way. I usually don't get into too much drama, but we have a former Daily Wire personality coming on later. I just, I think this subject is too important not to weigh in on. So in any case, we'll get to that in just a little bit. First though, there's a lot going on. The war in Iran is in full swing again. The president, hearing from CENTCOM, we have major strikes coming out again this morning. We've got a new senator from South Carolina, Lindsey Graham's sister is going to take over that seat. We got a whole lot going on.
And amid all of it, the House of Representatives, which I love, you know, look, I like the, I don't want to beat up on the congressmen. Some of my closest friends are congressmen. They're doing something that I hate. The House is currently doing something that I hate and the Senate needs to stop them. What they are doing is voting to make daylight savings time permanent. And I know I'm in the minority here. I know this is an unpopular opinion. I love that we switch the clocks. I think it's fun. It's a nifty little cultural thing we do. People complain about it, but it's kind of fun. And it gives you something to look forward to. And it makes us think about the significance of the passage of time, to quote Kamala Harris. And it actually serves a purpose. And in recent years, levelers and liberals and rationalists have been trying to kill daylight savings time or to kill standard time and make it permanently daylight savings time. And this began on the left, but it's picked up steam on the right as well. These are the same kind of people who love the metric system, who just want everything to be clinical and bland and dry and unsatisfying. In any case, the House just voted to make daylight savings time permanent.
You might not share my delight at the whimsy and apparent arbitrariness of this cultural tradition we have of changing the clocks twice a year, even if you don't. And I encourage you to participate in the whimsy and delight of changing seasons. But even if you don't share my joy in those moments.
Daylight savings time actually does serve a purpose. And alternately, standard time serves a purpose. Changing the clock serves a purpose. In Arizona, Arizona, which is being used as a model, because in most of Arizona, they do not have daylight savings time. In Arizona, that kind of works because the earliest sunrise is 530 a.m. and the latest sunrise is 730 a.m. In other parts of the country, that isn't true. If this stupid house bill is enacted into law, in parts of Michigan, the sun would not rise until 914 in the morning. That's weird. That's not good. That's not helpful. In parts of North Dakota and Minnesota, the sun would not rise until 945 in the morning during parts of the year. That doesn't make any sense. I was lying in bed with sweet little Lisa this morning, lamenting the stupid house bill. And she pointed out something that you never hear anyone bring into the debate over daylight savings time. Namely, there's a reason we have it, and there's a reason we have standard time, and there's a reason it changes. This is Chesterton's fence. I hear conservatives all the time bring up Chesterton's fence. The idea that when you see something, when you find a fence in the middle of a field, you have no idea what the purpose of the fence is, the instinct of the radical is just to tear the fence down, but the instinct of the conservative should be not to tear the fence down. You have to first figure out what the fence is for. And in this case, daylight savings time and standard time and changing the clocks, it all actually serves a purpose, and we should not do it. I hate it. I want the Senate to kill this bill. Tom Cotton in the Senate killed the bill last time this came up. Kill that bill. I think even the White House supports this bill. Sorry, as I say, Trump gets it right 99.789% of the time. This is one of those incidents, instances rather, where we part ways. This is sorry. He gets it right statistically 100% of the time, but on occasion, we're not quite in alignment. This does not make sense. Senate killed this bill. I hate that. We need whimsy. We need daylight savings time and standard time. Okay, speaking of the Senate real quick, Lindsey Graham's sister is in fact going to serve the rest of his term. President Trump called for this. This would be one of those areas, 99.789, 6, 7% of the time, that I totally agree with the president. Lindsey Graham's sister is a perfect person to fill this seat temporarily. And I don't want to hear from people that, no, we need someone with a lot of political experience. And no, we need someone whose ideology we know perfectly. And no, no, no, there is a tradition of widow appointments. When someone dies, you just appoint the widow to serve out the rest of his term, whatever the office is. Lindsey Graham was not married. He was very close to his sister, Darlene, whom he had started to raise and eventually adopted beginning when she was 13 years old because their parents died. So anyway, she was the closest person to Lindsey Graham. All I care about really is that we just have a reliable vote, reliable Republican vote to advance the president's agenda other than on daylight savings time for the rest of the term. That's all that really matters to me. The ideology doesn't really matter. The political experience, I don't care how much Aristotle and Dinoza Cortez and Edmund Burke the person has read. You just need the person to be a reliable vote. It's nice for Lindsey Graham's legacy. You say, well, this is what he would have wanted, what have you. That's somewhat important. But more important to me is we get someone who's going to vote in line with the party. This is one of the best things you can say about Lindsey Graham. He was a partisan. I like that. I like partisans. I like people who are reliable and loyal, who are good at politics. So in any case, I think it's a good choice.