The Michael Knowles Show - January 15, 2019


Ep. 280 - Toxic Michael-inity


Episode Stats

Length

46 minutes

Words per Minute

178.38841

Word Count

8,355

Sentence Count

732

Misogynist Sentences

44

Hate Speech Sentences

22


Summary

Gillette is shaving away toxic masculinity in a new ad campaign. We will examine the true causes of toxic masculinity, toxic femininity, and everything in between. Then, President Trump hosts a fast food feast at the White House, Laura Loomer illegally immigrates to Nancy Pelosi s house, and Kamala Harris pulls a Liz Warren.


Transcript

00:00:00.320 Gillette is shaving away toxic masculinity in a new ad campaign.
00:00:04.620 We will examine the true causes of toxic masculinity, toxic femininity, and everything in between.
00:00:10.760 Then, President Trump hosts a fast food feast at the White House,
00:00:15.020 Laura Loomer illegally immigrates to Nancy Pelosi's house,
00:00:18.520 and Kamala Harris pulls a Liz Warren.
00:00:20.780 I'm Michael Knowles, and this is The Michael Knowles Show.
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00:02:00.400 Gillette, you've probably seen this.
00:02:02.040 Gillette has a new ad out.
00:02:04.200 I'm going to show this ad in its entirety.
00:02:06.260 You're not going to want to miss one little bit of it.
00:02:08.640 It's a new ad about toxic masculinity.
00:02:11.480 They've jumped on the social justice warrior bandwagon.
00:02:14.480 Here it is if you've missed it.
00:02:15.600 Bullying.
00:02:18.620 The Me Too movement against sexual harassment.
00:02:20.560 Toxic masculinity.
00:02:22.460 Is this the best a man can get?
00:02:24.140 The best a man can get!
00:02:27.940 Is it?
00:02:32.060 We can't hide from it.
00:02:33.660 Sexual harassment is taking over...
00:02:35.800 It's been going on far too long.
00:02:40.380 We can't laugh it off.
00:02:43.060 Who's the daddy?
00:02:43.860 What I actually think she's trying to say.
00:02:48.000 Making the same old excuses.
00:02:49.880 Boys will be boys.
00:02:51.300 Boys will be boys.
00:02:52.340 Boys will be boys.
00:02:53.360 But something finally changed.
00:02:55.500 Allegations regarding sexual assault and sexual harassment.
00:02:59.020 But she says he's a prostitute.
00:03:01.320 And there will be no going back.
00:03:05.500 Because we,
00:03:06.900 we believe in the best in men.
00:03:09.240 Men need to hold other men accountable.
00:03:12.940 Smile, sweetie.
00:03:13.860 Come on.
00:03:15.320 To say the right thing.
00:03:17.460 To act the right way.
00:03:19.720 Bro, am I cool?
00:03:20.840 Am I cool?
00:03:21.580 Some already are.
00:03:23.640 I love a child.
00:03:25.180 In ways big.
00:03:26.740 Young men.
00:03:27.960 For everyone.
00:03:28.880 And small.
00:03:30.180 I am strong.
00:03:31.520 I am strong.
00:03:34.240 But some is not enough.
00:03:37.940 It's not how we treat each other, okay?
00:03:41.480 Okay.
00:03:43.160 Because the boys watching today
00:03:45.020 will be the men of tomorrow.
00:03:52.080 Gillette.
00:03:52.660 The best a man can't get.
00:03:54.480 So this ad.
00:03:57.280 Just notice all of the subtle left-wing social justice warrior aspects to it.
00:04:03.300 Just to begin, one point that not a lot of people are talking about
00:04:06.060 is that with one exception for the first 40 seconds of the ad,
00:04:09.840 all of the bad guys are white guys.
00:04:13.020 With one exception.
00:04:13.960 There are probably 50 or 60 guys.
00:04:16.560 You know, the whole lines of guys in the cartoons and all this.
00:04:19.600 And with the exception of one bad black guy,
00:04:22.700 all of the bad guys are white guys.
00:04:25.020 And then when it turns and it's good,
00:04:27.180 virtually all of the good guys were saying,
00:04:28.980 hey, don't do that.
00:04:29.740 Be nice to this person.
00:04:30.900 Don't bully this person.
00:04:31.700 Are all not white guys.
00:04:33.940 And they did this because they are feeding into
00:04:37.280 not just a narrative about men should be nice to women.
00:04:39.980 They're feeding into an intersectional narrative.
00:04:42.820 They're feeding into the main narrative we see now on the left,
00:04:45.960 which is that there are hierarchies of victimhood
00:04:48.740 and the worst guys in the whole wide world
00:04:51.360 are the straight white men who think that they're men
00:04:54.120 and who behave like men should behave.
00:04:56.200 This comes on the heels of the American Psychological Association
00:04:59.680 saying that traditional masculinity,
00:05:03.040 you know, as opposed to that newfangled masculinity,
00:05:05.700 is harmful, it's terrible, we need to get rid of it.
00:05:09.580 So Gillette is buying into this.
00:05:11.460 I actually, I was late to the show today.
00:05:13.680 I was late getting into the studio
00:05:14.700 because I woke up and I had to take photos
00:05:18.140 of, well, me shaving before I used my Gillette razor
00:05:22.400 and then me after I used my Gillette razor.
00:05:25.120 And you can see the difference right on screen.
00:05:27.480 If you can't, you know, in the first picture,
00:05:29.440 I'm wearing a wife beater, you know, I'm kind of,
00:05:32.700 that's just what they call it.
00:05:34.180 It's a men's undershirt.
00:05:35.260 That's just the phrase.
00:05:36.120 Talk about toxic.
00:05:37.200 And, you know, my hair is askew.
00:05:38.720 I'm smoking a cigar and drinking scotch at seven in the morning.
00:05:42.020 And then, but after I used that Gillette,
00:05:44.080 oh, it was just amazing.
00:05:46.160 I transformed into a plaid onesie.
00:05:49.520 I had a little teacup with a little lemon drop on the side
00:05:53.300 and I just, I felt so much better, you know.
00:05:54.940 So, clearly this product is working.
00:05:58.800 The initial response to this is what self-respecting man
00:06:02.700 is going to buy a razor for a company that is lecturing
00:06:06.640 and scolding men with this ridiculous caricature of masculinity,
00:06:12.040 which is buying this line, hook, line, and sinker,
00:06:14.240 that masculinity is a bad thing.
00:06:16.960 Fair enough.
00:06:17.880 I do think it will hurt them in the long run.
00:06:19.920 But what Gillette is doing is they're looking around,
00:06:23.220 especially at Nike,
00:06:24.620 and they're saying Nike,
00:06:26.060 by embracing radical leftism,
00:06:28.200 by embracing Colin Kaepernick as their spokesman,
00:06:31.180 by embracing these anti-American, anti-traditional politics,
00:06:35.840 they got a short-term gain,
00:06:38.000 at least a short-term gain,
00:06:39.740 in sales, profits, market share.
00:06:43.380 You know, they've actually done pretty well
00:06:45.320 as a result of that campaign.
00:06:46.880 And Gillette is looking at that
00:06:48.060 and they're saying that right now,
00:06:49.760 in the sort of normal society,
00:06:52.280 politics is downstream of culture,
00:06:53.760 culture is downstream of religion.
00:06:55.420 But in this weird society that we're in now,
00:06:57.500 it's like a snake eating its own tail.
00:06:59.400 Politics is still downstream of culture,
00:07:01.080 but then culture is downstream of politics
00:07:02.780 in a way that the left is totally inverted.
00:07:05.860 So they look to the politics,
00:07:07.260 not just as their culture,
00:07:08.480 but as their God.
00:07:09.520 And they're saying,
00:07:10.280 okay, well, if that's the case,
00:07:12.280 then we need to infuse our advertisements with politics.
00:07:16.800 Now, it's a little weird for Gillette,
00:07:17.920 because Gillette is a company for men.
00:07:20.000 Men skew more conservative than women.
00:07:22.640 We'll see if this pays off for them in the end.
00:07:25.320 The idea of it itself, though,
00:07:26.780 is just so wrong.
00:07:29.060 Because I've seen even a couple of conservatives
00:07:31.740 on Twitter say,
00:07:32.640 oh, I don't really see what's wrong with the ad.
00:07:34.640 They're just saying men shouldn't be jerks.
00:07:37.360 They're not saying that men shouldn't be jerks.
00:07:39.400 They're saying that men are jerks.
00:07:42.000 It's not just that men should be nicer,
00:07:43.800 men should be more polite.
00:07:44.780 Sure, yeah, of course.
00:07:45.540 What they're saying is that men,
00:07:47.900 by their very nature,
00:07:50.060 are awful.
00:07:51.200 They're worse than women.
00:07:53.100 They're just bad people
00:07:55.060 who do bad things.
00:07:57.160 And further what they're saying,
00:07:59.060 by using these extreme examples,
00:08:00.780 so they use these kids,
00:08:01.720 a little roughhousing.
00:08:02.800 Kids are wrestling on the ground,
00:08:04.320 kind of smacking each other.
00:08:05.780 And in the bad olden days,
00:08:08.360 when people were using Gillette,
00:08:09.920 then that was just boys will be boys.
00:08:12.260 So it's not a big deal.
00:08:13.020 But now in the good days,
00:08:14.480 where Gillette is the new feminist shaving company,
00:08:17.660 then the father goes in and he says,
00:08:18.900 no, we don't roughhouse.
00:08:20.760 No, we don't do that.
00:08:22.900 This is the way to raise the worst kind of men.
00:08:27.320 If you tell boys not to stick up for themselves,
00:08:31.520 not to roughhouse every once in a while,
00:08:33.760 not to be able to take a punch every once in a while,
00:08:36.020 they are going to be so weak.
00:08:37.620 They are going to be so embittered.
00:08:39.840 They are going to be so stressed and anxious
00:08:42.260 and depressed and catty and miserable
00:08:45.460 that they're going to look like young men do
00:08:47.920 in our current society.
00:08:48.840 Because that's exactly what happened.
00:08:50.380 You had a generation of men raised broadly
00:08:53.000 with the self-esteem movement,
00:08:55.260 with anti-masculinity or toxic masculinity,
00:08:58.600 with feminism as the dominant gender ideology
00:09:02.480 of their youth.
00:09:04.080 And what has this raised?
00:09:05.560 It's raised not a generation of polite,
00:09:08.140 wonderful, chivalrous gentlemen.
00:09:09.940 It's raised a generation where we now have,
00:09:12.560 allegedly, according to the left,
00:09:14.040 a rape epidemic on campus.
00:09:16.120 We now have women claiming to be abused
00:09:18.740 in all forms of industries,
00:09:20.180 obviously in show business and elsewhere.
00:09:22.780 You raise men without any of the virtues.
00:09:26.420 What they are saying now is that masculinity is toxic.
00:09:31.560 In reality, manliness is a virtue.
00:09:34.680 In fact, it's not just a virtue.
00:09:36.700 It's what virtue means.
00:09:38.260 Virtue, virtu, comes from Latin, from vir,
00:09:42.160 which means man.
00:09:44.000 And virtue means moral uprightness,
00:09:46.900 doing the right thing.
00:09:49.300 This, as the left always does,
00:09:51.600 they have flipped this.
00:09:52.680 They have totally perverted this.
00:09:54.200 And they want you to believe that vice is virtue
00:09:56.160 and virtue is vice.
00:09:57.440 The way you know this is also ridiculous
00:09:59.140 because nobody's denying that certain primarily male attributes,
00:10:04.660 masculine attributes,
00:10:06.360 can be perverted and taken to a bad place.
00:10:09.300 So courage can be turned into aggression or bullying
00:10:12.580 or recklessness or whatever.
00:10:14.700 It can be turned into any of those things.
00:10:17.640 But isn't that true of every other group?
00:10:20.200 What about femininity?
00:10:21.140 Why don't we talk about toxic femininity?
00:10:23.860 If I came out and I talked about toxic femininity,
00:10:27.480 I would be labeled a bigot or a sexist
00:10:29.700 or a misogynist or whatever.
00:10:31.240 A friend of mine posted on Facebook the other day,
00:10:35.260 it was a picture and she said,
00:10:37.080 you know, I've been stopping mansplainers
00:10:40.160 for a very long time.
00:10:41.800 It was her giving a talk and it said,
00:10:43.660 I'm stopping mansplainers.
00:10:44.960 What if I posted a picture of myself
00:10:46.840 at one of my college talks
00:10:48.020 and I said,
00:10:48.720 I've been shutting up women since 2016 or 2012,
00:10:52.340 whatever.
00:10:52.880 Would that look good?
00:10:53.620 Would that be a good look?
00:10:54.400 No, of course not.
00:10:55.300 And it doesn't work when women do it either.
00:10:57.960 By the way,
00:10:58.640 what Gillette is about to learn
00:11:00.100 is it's actually already coming out right now.
00:11:02.960 I think it was Fast Company
00:11:04.140 published a headline after this advertisement.
00:11:08.320 It said,
00:11:08.920 Gillette targets toxic masculinity in a new campaign
00:11:12.360 but still advertises on Fox News.
00:11:15.900 And what the idea here is,
00:11:21.420 is that Gillette is pretending
00:11:24.380 or they're at least feigning
00:11:26.080 to be this social justice warrior company now.
00:11:30.440 This is their new marketing flip
00:11:31.680 but they're not totally social justice warriors.
00:11:34.900 They're still advertising with Fox News.
00:11:37.700 They don't advertise on our show
00:11:39.160 but they advertise on a right-wing network
00:11:42.340 or a vaguely conservative network
00:11:44.620 and this is very bad.
00:11:45.900 The lesson here is that
00:11:48.380 you will rue the day
00:11:51.000 when you grant the left's premises.
00:11:53.500 Even if the premises are seemingly convenient
00:11:57.900 or expedient
00:11:59.040 or you think,
00:11:59.700 oh, it'd be just so easy
00:12:01.240 if I just accept this premise,
00:12:03.960 they'll stop bothering me.
00:12:05.080 Okay, men, masculinity is toxic.
00:12:08.000 You should all be feminists.
00:12:09.260 The minute you grant that premise
00:12:10.900 like a snake eating its own tail,
00:12:12.700 they will devour you.
00:12:14.520 They'll say you grant that premise
00:12:15.580 but it's not good enough.
00:12:16.640 It's not social justice-y enough.
00:12:18.460 It's not leftist enough.
00:12:19.500 It's not this.
00:12:20.160 And this is really gonna come at Gillette.
00:12:23.300 It doesn't stop.
00:12:24.180 This happened in Hollywood.
00:12:25.620 The minute that,
00:12:26.780 and actually it's happened in the Me Too movement.
00:12:30.120 When these guys,
00:12:30.940 a lot of whom are pretty bad hombres in Hollywood,
00:12:33.520 admit that they did something wrong
00:12:35.100 or they say maybe I should wear the little bracelet
00:12:37.200 or the pin that says time's up,
00:12:38.940 they immediately,
00:12:39.820 it just cascades.
00:12:40.900 It's an avalanche.
00:12:42.740 Gillette, I hope,
00:12:44.140 discovers that
00:12:44.780 because it's a very bad thing.
00:12:46.500 It's a horrible message.
00:12:47.820 It's a horrible message in part
00:12:49.200 because it's convincing
00:12:50.580 to ignorant and shallow people
00:12:52.520 but manliness is a virtue.
00:12:54.760 Manliness is where we get the word virtue
00:12:56.780 and we should defend that
00:12:57.900 against these straw man absurd attacks.
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00:14:31.880 Speaking of toxic masculinity,
00:14:34.060 I'll illustrate this point a little bit
00:14:35.860 by looking at some rhinos
00:14:37.120 in the sad, sad case of John Kasich.
00:14:39.920 John Kasich,
00:14:41.480 now that he's leaving
00:14:42.420 the Ohio Governor's Mansion,
00:14:43.800 is joining CNN.
00:14:45.940 Surprising,
00:14:46.680 exactly,
00:14:47.820 not a single person on earth.
00:14:49.360 He's joining CNN,
00:14:50.680 and he is a pathetic politician.
00:14:52.880 He is truly pathetic.
00:14:54.340 He started out,
00:14:55.900 John Kasich,
00:14:56.680 as a pretty right-wing politician,
00:15:00.000 pretty right-wing governor.
00:15:01.400 He was a member of Congress,
00:15:03.520 budget committee,
00:15:04.400 he was a fiscal hawk,
00:15:07.080 pretty rock-ribbed.
00:15:08.180 I really liked him.
00:15:09.400 I was hoping he would run for president
00:15:10.700 in 2016,
00:15:12.060 back when he was old John Kasich.
00:15:14.000 And then he became
00:15:15.120 this virtue-signaling,
00:15:17.300 leftist,
00:15:18.160 awful politician.
00:15:19.340 There was a great piece today
00:15:20.280 in the Washington Examiner
00:15:21.280 called
00:15:21.560 John Kasich Exits Stage Left
00:15:24.280 by Jason Hart.
00:15:26.060 What is his legacy?
00:15:27.300 This is my defense
00:15:30.360 of manliness,
00:15:32.940 of being manly
00:15:33.660 and not being a weak,
00:15:34.940 wimpy rhino
00:15:37.100 like John Kasich.
00:15:38.460 He's leaving
00:15:39.180 the Ohio Governor's Mansion
00:15:40.160 with super majorities
00:15:41.160 in both houses
00:15:42.020 of the Ohio General Assembly.
00:15:43.960 And yet,
00:15:44.600 the fiscal hawk
00:15:45.320 is leaving
00:15:45.680 with the highest government spending
00:15:47.100 ever.
00:15:48.260 Medicaid enrollment
00:15:49.120 way up,
00:15:50.200 low private sector
00:15:51.440 job growth
00:15:52.220 lower than the national average
00:15:53.620 for a long part of his tenure.
00:15:55.520 He also,
00:15:56.220 he was running against
00:15:57.020 the unions and the pensions.
00:15:58.880 He's leaving
00:15:59.460 with some of the worst
00:16:00.600 union laws in the country,
00:16:02.460 one of the worst
00:16:03.140 municipal tax systems,
00:16:04.960 and some of the worst
00:16:06.220 unfunded liabilities
00:16:07.340 in the nation.
00:16:08.060 So all of those
00:16:08.700 entitlement and pension programs
00:16:11.280 are really awful.
00:16:12.660 What happened to this guy?
00:16:14.680 He exhibited
00:16:15.440 true toxic masculinity,
00:16:17.820 which is wimpiness,
00:16:19.420 which is self-interest.
00:16:21.940 John Kasich
00:16:22.820 only knows about
00:16:24.180 numero uno.
00:16:25.260 He doesn't
00:16:26.320 seem to put
00:16:27.020 his ideas first
00:16:28.040 or his constituents first.
00:16:29.480 He's only in it
00:16:30.620 for himself,
00:16:31.300 I think is the reason
00:16:32.060 why he turned out
00:16:33.360 so bad.
00:16:34.560 And he's clearly
00:16:35.280 gotten bad advice.
00:16:36.360 I mean,
00:16:36.560 this was a decision.
00:16:39.120 When he was first running,
00:16:40.500 he said,
00:16:41.000 I was Tea Party
00:16:41.960 before there was
00:16:42.680 a Tea Party.
00:16:43.560 He was running
00:16:44.400 to the right,
00:16:45.140 and then he got
00:16:45.660 bad advice.
00:16:47.800 Some people told him
00:16:49.000 to turn left,
00:16:50.320 that that was going to be
00:16:51.180 his path
00:16:52.060 to more political power,
00:16:53.240 and he sold
00:16:54.320 his political soul
00:16:55.420 for nothing.
00:16:56.460 Because that's what happens
00:16:57.400 when you sell
00:16:57.880 your political soul,
00:16:58.820 is you get nothing.
00:16:59.840 It's a bad investment.
00:17:01.320 Read a book.
00:17:02.460 Read history.
00:17:03.720 Read the Bible.
00:17:05.100 So,
00:17:05.740 what is this
00:17:07.820 toxic masculinity
00:17:08.680 paired up?
00:17:09.600 It's a pairing
00:17:10.300 of pure self-interest
00:17:12.000 and ambition.
00:17:15.100 You've got to be
00:17:15.980 really wary about this.
00:17:17.280 Because I think
00:17:20.000 this is how leftism
00:17:20.940 spreads in our culture,
00:17:22.700 is people are
00:17:24.140 purely self-interested
00:17:25.680 and they're very ambitious,
00:17:27.520 and so they're willing
00:17:28.200 to make a deal
00:17:28.780 with the devil.
00:17:29.560 They're willing to say,
00:17:30.340 well, you know,
00:17:31.260 look,
00:17:32.220 if I speak the truth,
00:17:33.640 if I say that men
00:17:34.380 aren't women,
00:17:35.440 if I say that up
00:17:37.480 is not down,
00:17:38.400 if I say that
00:17:39.460 unborn baby
00:17:41.060 is not just
00:17:42.220 medical tissue,
00:17:44.200 as some activists
00:17:45.900 are saying today,
00:17:46.920 if I say that,
00:17:48.000 it will hurt my career,
00:17:49.300 I might not make
00:17:49.940 as much money,
00:17:50.680 I might not be
00:17:51.140 as popular at the parties,
00:17:52.920 maybe I won't be
00:17:53.980 as cool,
00:17:54.600 I won't be such
00:17:55.080 a cool guy,
00:17:55.760 and so they make
00:17:56.500 these little tiny
00:17:57.260 concessions.
00:17:58.600 They make these
00:17:59.220 little social concessions
00:18:00.380 and what happens?
00:18:01.480 The culture is
00:18:02.220 utterly transformed
00:18:03.460 by wimps.
00:18:04.920 Even guys on the right,
00:18:06.060 you'll see this sometimes,
00:18:07.160 I mean,
00:18:07.320 this is the classic example
00:18:08.520 of the Republican
00:18:09.920 but not that kind
00:18:10.680 of Republican.
00:18:11.580 It's those guys
00:18:12.460 who you say,
00:18:13.460 oh, you're a conservative
00:18:14.280 and they say,
00:18:14.860 yes, I'm a conservative,
00:18:15.460 but I'm much more
00:18:16.160 interested in you
00:18:16.660 liking me
00:18:17.100 than being conservative
00:18:17.820 or advancing my ideas.
00:18:18.680 I'm not that kind
00:18:19.140 of a conservative.
00:18:20.640 That's what they say.
00:18:21.420 And I say,
00:18:21.840 you know,
00:18:22.320 look, I get it.
00:18:23.380 I remember I've gone
00:18:24.460 through political
00:18:25.020 evolutions in my life.
00:18:27.100 Certainly,
00:18:27.740 I was less conservative
00:18:29.340 in my youth
00:18:31.220 when I was sowing
00:18:32.300 my wild oats
00:18:33.120 than I am now.
00:18:34.080 I get it.
00:18:34.800 There's a huge
00:18:35.260 social pressure
00:18:36.060 on campuses
00:18:36.940 in corporate America
00:18:37.980 in the halls of Congress
00:18:39.260 to not be
00:18:40.540 a real conservative guy,
00:18:42.360 to not say
00:18:42.980 what you think.
00:18:44.080 You might be unpopular,
00:18:45.180 you might sound
00:18:46.640 out of fashion.
00:18:48.840 Just stick to it.
00:18:50.000 Otherwise,
00:18:50.520 you're left with nothing.
00:18:52.700 I think,
00:18:53.120 who was it?
00:18:53.660 It was Dean Inge
00:18:54.560 who said,
00:18:55.760 the man who marries himself
00:18:57.460 to the spirit of the age
00:18:58.680 will find himself
00:18:59.460 a widow in the next.
00:19:01.160 And that's what's
00:19:01.780 happening right now.
00:19:02.540 John Kasich is mourning
00:19:03.600 the death
00:19:04.300 of his political career.
00:19:05.720 He really could have been
00:19:06.560 a contender in 2016
00:19:07.700 if he had remained
00:19:08.440 a conservative
00:19:09.000 and a Republican.
00:19:10.080 He now thinks
00:19:10.780 he's going to primary
00:19:11.500 Donald Trump in 2020.
00:19:13.440 Good luck, pal.
00:19:14.280 Great.
00:19:14.620 I hope he does.
00:19:15.620 I think it'll really
00:19:16.660 unify the base
00:19:17.800 around Donald Trump
00:19:18.640 to see this wimp,
00:19:20.300 this pathetic failure
00:19:21.260 of a politician
00:19:22.080 go out
00:19:23.560 and run his mouth
00:19:24.940 about what?
00:19:25.680 What is he fighting for?
00:19:27.320 All the things
00:19:27.980 he was fighting for,
00:19:28.860 he betrayed.
00:19:29.980 So he's just fighting
00:19:30.920 for his own pride.
00:19:32.700 And that's what it is.
00:19:33.660 It's pride.
00:19:34.400 It's not just
00:19:34.820 John Kasich you see this in.
00:19:36.100 You see this with
00:19:36.720 an old GOP operative
00:19:38.100 named Steve Schmidt
00:19:38.960 who's now left
00:19:40.240 of Vladimir Lenin
00:19:41.300 and running
00:19:42.160 to make the people
00:19:43.040 at MSNBC like him.
00:19:44.440 Please like me,
00:19:45.360 like me, guys.
00:19:46.560 Here he is on MSNBC
00:19:47.540 talking about
00:19:48.120 Trump's Oval Office speech.
00:19:50.220 And you consider
00:19:51.620 that speech,
00:19:52.420 what a powerful argument
00:19:53.840 it makes
00:19:54.760 against the theory
00:19:56.880 of evolution
00:19:57.640 as we look
00:19:58.760 at the continuing
00:19:59.580 debasement
00:20:00.300 of the office
00:20:01.020 of the presidency
00:20:02.400 of the United States.
00:20:03.620 We saw from Trump today
00:20:05.620 the typical lying,
00:20:07.440 the racial demagoguery,
00:20:09.500 the nonsense,
00:20:10.540 the spinning of crises
00:20:12.160 out of whole cloth.
00:20:13.640 They will reopen
00:20:14.560 the government.
00:20:15.500 And at that point,
00:20:17.020 what will become clear
00:20:18.120 is that even
00:20:18.980 the Republican minority
00:20:21.020 in the House,
00:20:21.760 the Republican majority
00:20:22.760 in the Senate
00:20:23.360 will have joined
00:20:24.500 every world leader,
00:20:26.360 most of the American people
00:20:27.800 as a group
00:20:29.360 who do not take
00:20:30.580 this man seriously
00:20:31.820 at all.
00:20:32.620 They look at him
00:20:33.840 as a joke,
00:20:34.760 a clown,
00:20:35.460 and a farce.
00:20:36.500 A joke,
00:20:37.340 a clown,
00:20:37.680 and a farce.
00:20:38.240 Don't take him seriously
00:20:39.220 at all.
00:20:39.600 I think Steve Schmidt
00:20:40.220 is projecting.
00:20:41.120 I think he was looking
00:20:42.740 at a mirror
00:20:43.220 and thought that he was
00:20:44.060 looking in at an
00:20:44.720 Oval Office speech.
00:20:45.860 This is a man
00:20:46.560 who worked for John McCain.
00:20:47.760 He worked for George W. Bush.
00:20:49.300 And so he does come
00:20:50.420 from the more squishy wing
00:20:52.520 of the Republican Party.
00:20:54.380 It's not, you know,
00:20:55.160 like he was going out there
00:20:57.040 marching in the Reagan Revolution.
00:20:58.460 He's a little young for that.
00:20:59.780 He wasn't a founding member
00:21:01.020 of the Tea Party
00:21:01.840 or anything like that either.
00:21:03.180 But just to illustrate
00:21:04.760 what a squish,
00:21:06.600 what moral weakness,
00:21:08.740 what toxicity
00:21:09.440 this displays.
00:21:10.800 This guy,
00:21:11.700 Steve Schmidt,
00:21:12.300 left the Republican Party.
00:21:13.620 He finally left
00:21:14.320 the Republican Party.
00:21:15.480 And it's being talked about
00:21:16.900 as though he left it
00:21:17.680 specifically over Trump.
00:21:19.220 But it wasn't just
00:21:20.280 Donald Trump.
00:21:21.080 The reason that Steve Schmidt
00:21:22.500 left the Republican Party
00:21:23.980 specifically
00:21:24.660 is because Donald Trump
00:21:26.680 kept his campaign promise,
00:21:29.040 which was the campaign promise
00:21:30.560 of Barack Obama.
00:21:32.080 It was the campaign promise
00:21:32.860 of George W. Bush
00:21:33.860 to move the U.S. Embassy
00:21:36.500 in Israel
00:21:37.260 to the capital of Israel,
00:21:39.100 which is Jerusalem.
00:21:41.020 When Donald Trump did that,
00:21:42.720 not when he lied,
00:21:44.100 not when he said something
00:21:45.180 racially insensitive,
00:21:46.780 not when he exceeded
00:21:48.180 his powers of the executive,
00:21:50.320 when Donald Trump
00:21:51.720 kept his promise
00:21:53.420 and the promise
00:21:54.920 of Steve Schmidt's own boss,
00:21:56.700 who didn't keep that promise.
00:21:57.880 That was what made
00:21:59.000 Steve Schmidt
00:21:59.600 leave the Republican Party
00:22:01.380 because he would prefer
00:22:02.840 wimpy, girly men
00:22:05.640 who lie,
00:22:06.340 who don't keep their word
00:22:07.300 because it's nice
00:22:08.040 and it's polite.
00:22:09.020 And that way,
00:22:10.120 a group of people
00:22:12.260 in the Middle East
00:22:13.400 who elected Hamas
00:22:14.640 to represent them,
00:22:16.080 who elected a terrorist group
00:22:17.520 to represent them,
00:22:18.440 maybe then they'll like
00:22:19.420 Steve Schmidt.
00:22:20.220 See, guys, I'm cool.
00:22:21.540 I'm not that harsh
00:22:22.360 on terrorism.
00:22:23.440 Don't you like me?
00:22:24.420 Like me, please.
00:22:25.100 It's pathetic.
00:22:26.300 It's pathetic.
00:22:26.920 And it comes from pride.
00:22:29.360 It ultimately comes from pride
00:22:31.320 because this guy
00:22:32.920 just needs to be liked.
00:22:34.400 You've got to be
00:22:34.900 a little careful
00:22:35.580 about politicians
00:22:37.940 who are desperate
00:22:39.340 to be liked,
00:22:40.480 who want, look,
00:22:41.400 a little bit of
00:22:43.220 seeking out the applause
00:22:46.000 and seeking out crowds,
00:22:47.520 that is a professional hazard
00:22:49.580 of politics
00:22:50.340 and show business.
00:22:52.260 It's a requirement
00:22:53.220 of it, really.
00:22:53.880 But you've got to
00:22:55.460 differentiate between
00:22:56.340 the people
00:22:56.760 who are willing
00:22:57.500 to say tough things
00:22:58.540 and don't care
00:22:59.600 if, you know,
00:23:00.560 the crowds around them
00:23:01.720 don't like them
00:23:02.680 and the people
00:23:04.040 who are willing
00:23:04.480 to change what they say
00:23:05.720 to any given audience
00:23:07.140 no matter how
00:23:08.160 the political winds turn.
00:23:10.020 That's the difference.
00:23:10.880 I mean, you look at
00:23:11.500 somebody like Mitt Romney
00:23:12.680 and any room he talks to
00:23:14.380 and any different day
00:23:15.460 of the week
00:23:15.760 that he talks to,
00:23:16.340 he says something different.
00:23:17.520 He's trying to appeal to them.
00:23:18.680 He's so desperate
00:23:19.320 for their affection.
00:23:20.420 It comes from a pride
00:23:21.640 and it comes from
00:23:22.860 a ruthless ambition.
00:23:24.320 That's truly toxic.
00:23:25.560 But that has nothing
00:23:26.220 to do with manliness.
00:23:27.480 Steve Schmidt,
00:23:28.060 that's not a manly man.
00:23:29.340 That's a weak guy
00:23:31.080 taking pot shots
00:23:32.280 because he's betrayed
00:23:33.460 his own principles
00:23:34.380 and he's left with nothing.
00:23:35.580 He's left with nothing
00:23:36.920 but the corpse
00:23:37.520 of his political career.
00:23:38.560 Same as John Kasich.
00:23:39.760 We will get to
00:23:40.660 a good version of masculinity.
00:23:42.640 Probably Gillette
00:23:43.180 wouldn't like it very much,
00:23:44.540 but I certainly liked it.
00:23:45.880 The Donald Trump
00:23:46.800 fast food summit,
00:23:48.580 the fast food feast
00:23:49.480 at the White House
00:23:50.020 last night with Clemson.
00:23:50.840 We'll get to Laura Loomer
00:23:52.060 illegally immigrating
00:23:53.840 to Nancy Pelosi's house.
00:23:55.540 2020 Kamala Harris campaign.
00:23:58.040 And then if we have time,
00:23:58.700 we'll talk about Steve King.
00:23:59.520 But first,
00:24:00.700 I have got to say goodbye
00:24:01.880 to Facebook and YouTube.
00:24:02.940 And by the way,
00:24:03.680 this Friday,
00:24:04.460 this is a really important event.
00:24:06.700 Ben Shapiro,
00:24:07.780 the big boss himself,
00:24:08.740 will be taking his show
00:24:10.340 on the road to
00:24:11.580 the March for Life in D.C.
00:24:15.280 He will be doing his show
00:24:16.440 from the March for Life.
00:24:17.640 It's going to be very cool.
00:24:18.620 10 a.m. Eastern.
00:24:19.440 He'll be live streaming
00:24:20.320 at the National Mall
00:24:21.200 and 12th Street.
00:24:22.760 So if you are planning
00:24:23.980 to be at the March,
00:24:25.220 head over there
00:24:25.940 and see him in person.
00:24:27.620 It's going to be really cool.
00:24:29.020 Unfortunately,
00:24:29.400 I'm going to be stuck here in L.A.
00:24:30.560 because someone's got to
00:24:31.460 keep an eye on the shop
00:24:32.340 while the boss is out of town.
00:24:34.100 You know,
00:24:34.340 someone's got to smoke cigars
00:24:35.540 in everyone's studios
00:24:36.380 and offices.
00:24:37.080 So I'll have to be here.
00:24:38.060 If I could be there,
00:24:38.780 I would.
00:24:39.080 If you're around town,
00:24:40.380 do not miss it.
00:24:41.200 It is going to be fabulous.
00:24:42.380 If you're on Facebook
00:24:43.160 and YouTube,
00:24:43.600 go to dailywire.com.
00:24:45.100 $10 a month,
00:24:45.860 $100 for an annual membership.
00:24:47.580 You get me,
00:24:48.120 you get the Andrew Klavan show,
00:24:48.880 you get the Ben Shapiro show,
00:24:49.660 you get the Matt Wall show,
00:24:50.760 you get to ask questions
00:24:51.420 in the mailbag,
00:24:51.980 get them in.
00:24:52.340 That's coming up on Thursday.
00:24:53.940 You get to ask questions
00:24:55.380 in backstage.
00:24:56.240 We were doing that
00:24:56.780 a lot more these days.
00:24:58.220 You will get to see
00:24:59.680 another kingdom.
00:25:00.200 You'll get everything.
00:25:01.500 And you'll get this.
00:25:03.220 You will get
00:25:04.120 the leftist tears tumbler.
00:25:06.600 And this is very important
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00:25:11.680 they use water,
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00:25:13.380 they use a faucet,
00:25:14.380 maybe they use shaving cream.
00:25:15.980 But if you have
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00:25:23.120 It stings a little bit
00:25:24.060 because of how salty it is.
00:25:25.800 But it just gives you
00:25:27.120 a beautiful scent
00:25:28.200 all the rest of the day.
00:25:29.400 You get to smell,
00:25:30.600 you get to maybe
00:25:30.980 stick your tongue out,
00:25:32.300 just taste some of those
00:25:33.260 delicious leftist tears.
00:25:34.440 It will set your day off right
00:25:35.860 first thing in the morning.
00:25:36.840 Go to dailywire.com,
00:25:38.080 get your leftist tears
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00:25:41.520 and we will be right back
00:25:42.480 with a lot more.
00:25:52.800 Every time I fleetingly think
00:25:55.720 that I don't love Donald Trump,
00:25:57.660 he does something like this.
00:25:58.940 He invited the Clemson football team
00:26:01.120 over to the White House
00:26:02.040 to celebrate their win
00:26:03.940 in some sporting event
00:26:05.320 that I did not even know
00:26:06.320 was occurring.
00:26:07.280 And apparently this was
00:26:08.360 a big deal,
00:26:09.300 and the trouble is
00:26:10.300 the government is shut down,
00:26:11.380 so there was nobody there
00:26:12.260 to cook all the food
00:26:13.720 and serve all the food.
00:26:15.360 So Donald Trump,
00:26:16.340 rather than canceling the event,
00:26:18.340 he had a stroke of genius.
00:26:21.640 And by the way,
00:26:22.220 to talk about Providence
00:26:23.280 at work here,
00:26:24.620 Donald Trump caters
00:26:25.800 the whole event
00:26:26.580 with fast food last night.
00:26:28.700 McDonald's, Burger King,
00:26:30.080 Wendy's, pizza,
00:26:32.200 you know,
00:26:32.380 just all of this fast food
00:26:33.820 on silver platters
00:26:35.280 with chandeliers,
00:26:36.940 with candles,
00:26:37.720 you know,
00:26:37.860 it's so beautiful.
00:26:38.500 Last night,
00:26:39.580 before this happened,
00:26:40.420 before I saw this,
00:26:41.380 I was driving home,
00:26:42.700 and I actually don't eat
00:26:43.960 McDonald's that much,
00:26:45.040 and I had a hankering
00:26:45.940 for McDonald's,
00:26:46.800 and I drove about
00:26:47.800 a mile out of the way,
00:26:48.760 or two miles out of the way,
00:26:49.820 to go get it.
00:26:50.880 And I said,
00:26:51.460 why do I want McDonald's
00:26:52.820 right now?
00:26:53.280 If you doubt Providence,
00:26:54.960 just remember that.
00:26:56.180 I think this is going to be
00:26:57.400 the new proof
00:26:58.340 of the existence of God.
00:26:59.940 Here is Donald Trump
00:27:01.040 using this event
00:27:02.380 with political brilliance.
00:27:05.180 Great American food,
00:27:07.740 and it will be
00:27:08.180 very interesting
00:27:08.860 to see at the end
00:27:09.620 of this evening
00:27:10.160 how many are left.
00:27:11.500 Do you prefer McDonald's
00:27:12.920 or Wendy's?
00:27:13.400 I like them all.
00:27:14.960 That's a tough question.
00:27:16.140 If it's American,
00:27:17.060 I like it.
00:27:17.660 It's all American stuff.
00:27:19.520 So,
00:27:20.100 but it's good stuff.
00:27:20.920 And we have
00:27:21.360 the national champion team,
00:27:24.060 as you know,
00:27:24.920 Clemson Tigers,
00:27:26.580 and they had a fantastic game
00:27:28.280 against Alabama.
00:27:29.100 We have pizzas,
00:27:31.080 we have 300 hamburgers,
00:27:33.020 many, many French fries,
00:27:34.700 all of our favorite foods.
00:27:37.120 I want to see what's here
00:27:38.440 when we leave
00:27:39.100 because I don't think
00:27:40.180 it's going to be much.
00:27:41.440 The reason we did this
00:27:42.320 is because of the shutdown.
00:27:44.180 We want to make sure
00:27:45.340 that everything is right.
00:27:46.540 So, we sent out,
00:27:47.440 we got this,
00:27:48.840 and we have some wonderful
00:27:50.100 people working
00:27:51.120 at the White House
00:27:51.740 that helped us out with this.
00:27:53.840 And I will say
00:27:54.940 the Republicans
00:27:55.600 are really,
00:27:56.680 really sticking together.
00:27:58.900 It's great to see
00:27:59.860 because we need border security.
00:28:01.380 We have to have it.
00:28:02.840 We have to have it.
00:28:03.760 No doubt about it.
00:28:04.860 Should have happened
00:28:05.400 30 years ago,
00:28:06.260 20 years ago,
00:28:07.100 10 years ago.
00:28:08.880 And it's going to happen now.
00:28:10.440 It's going to happen now.
00:28:11.280 Thank you very much, everybody.
00:28:12.860 Thanks, guys.
00:28:13.500 Enjoy your food.
00:28:14.480 It's going to happen now.
00:28:17.480 Never.
00:28:18.180 This is the rule.
00:28:19.280 This is the, you know,
00:28:20.100 never get into a fight
00:28:21.700 with a Sicilian
00:28:22.360 when death is on the line.
00:28:23.700 Never engage
00:28:24.620 in a land war in Asia.
00:28:26.060 And never challenge
00:28:28.160 Donald Trump
00:28:29.040 to a battle in the media.
00:28:31.080 He is the master
00:28:32.640 of the media.
00:28:33.540 So, what he did,
00:28:34.260 there was this event
00:28:34.840 on the calendar
00:28:35.480 to hang out
00:28:36.640 with the Clemson football team.
00:28:38.460 And he says,
00:28:39.080 okay, we'll still do it.
00:28:40.220 And I will take this event
00:28:41.500 and I will turn it into
00:28:43.020 an instantly viral promotion,
00:28:46.920 advertisement
00:28:47.620 for my border wall
00:28:49.800 during the government shutdown.
00:28:52.180 So, the news,
00:28:52.840 they've been covering
00:28:53.360 how awful he was,
00:28:54.340 how awful the Oval Office speech was.
00:28:56.360 It's terrible.
00:28:57.080 They tried that.
00:28:57.720 They hated that.
00:28:58.800 So, then he goes out
00:28:59.840 and he creates an event
00:29:01.540 that even his opponents
00:29:02.880 can't hate.
00:29:04.040 There was a photo
00:29:04.600 of him going around
00:29:05.580 sort of smiling
00:29:06.580 in front of this beautiful
00:29:07.800 long table
00:29:09.060 filled with silver trays
00:29:10.320 of hamburgers.
00:29:11.940 And they were all joking.
00:29:13.480 Even his opponents
00:29:14.160 were joking.
00:29:14.760 They said,
00:29:14.980 this is the Hamburglar.
00:29:16.200 Look at him.
00:29:16.740 Look at this.
00:29:17.220 Go, oh, this is so crazy.
00:29:18.760 And so, they're attacking him.
00:29:20.320 But they're attacking him
00:29:21.360 for doing something
00:29:22.140 that we all have affection for.
00:29:25.620 That's really very likable.
00:29:27.200 It's very hard to dislike.
00:29:28.780 Ocasio-Cortez is good
00:29:29.900 at this too.
00:29:30.700 She's very good
00:29:31.500 at doing things
00:29:32.380 that even her critics,
00:29:33.780 when they point them out,
00:29:34.920 have to admit
00:29:35.560 are sort of likable.
00:29:36.920 You know, she smiles,
00:29:37.780 she giggles, whatever.
00:29:39.300 And so, Donald Trump
00:29:40.220 does this just
00:29:40.980 to a whole nother level.
00:29:42.960 And you'll notice
00:29:43.700 there wasn't a lot of Chipotle
00:29:44.740 at that event.
00:29:46.220 Not even Taco Bell,
00:29:47.600 which I like.
00:29:48.420 It was all American.
00:29:49.460 He said,
00:29:49.620 it's all good American food.
00:29:51.200 And what this did
00:29:52.240 was this triggered the left
00:29:53.720 in a way,
00:29:56.380 in two ways.
00:29:57.240 First, they said,
00:29:58.580 they attacked his wealth.
00:29:59.900 They said,
00:30:00.240 he's obviously not a billionaire.
00:30:02.060 Because if he were a billionaire,
00:30:03.440 he'd have good food
00:30:04.440 instead of that disgusting fast food.
00:30:07.220 So, he gets the left,
00:30:08.560 and this was going
00:30:09.040 all over the internet,
00:30:10.000 all over the commentary.
00:30:11.580 He gets the left
00:30:12.440 to position themselves
00:30:13.900 as privileged,
00:30:15.320 effete,
00:30:16.060 rich people
00:30:16.820 looking down on people
00:30:17.940 who have less than them.
00:30:19.420 The next part,
00:30:20.940 which is related to that,
00:30:22.100 is he got the left
00:30:23.300 to attack fast food.
00:30:25.100 But the thing is,
00:30:27.020 that food that was on that table
00:30:28.560 in the White House
00:30:29.280 is the most popular food
00:30:31.300 in America.
00:30:32.760 By a long shot.
00:30:34.500 It's not even close.
00:30:36.060 Like, it's not,
00:30:37.180 the gap between Big Mac
00:30:39.540 and kale from Whole Foods
00:30:41.740 is, like,
00:30:42.780 there isn't enough room
00:30:43.620 in my studio
00:30:44.420 to show the gap
00:30:45.820 in popularity
00:30:46.440 between those two things.
00:30:47.640 Now, the trouble is,
00:30:48.600 when you're talking
00:30:49.460 about members of the press,
00:30:50.620 the media,
00:30:51.400 Democrats in Congress,
00:30:52.340 and the Senate,
00:30:53.100 that exactly flips.
00:30:54.160 They haven't eaten
00:30:55.080 a McDonald's hamburger
00:30:56.240 since they were 15.
00:30:58.240 They only eat the kale
00:30:59.720 from Whole Foods.
00:31:00.960 And so,
00:31:01.340 and they pay much more
00:31:02.140 for the kale from Whole Foods
00:31:03.240 for a little piece of lettuce
00:31:04.300 than they do for
00:31:05.300 a Big Mac meal
00:31:06.380 at McDonald's.
00:31:07.380 And so you have them
00:31:08.400 looking down on that
00:31:09.280 and you have the rest
00:31:09.820 of America saying,
00:31:10.560 wait a minute,
00:31:11.560 I'd love that.
00:31:12.340 That sounds great.
00:31:13.300 They're all saying,
00:31:14.120 how awful,
00:31:14.980 how awful it is
00:31:15.720 that Donald Trump
00:31:16.280 invited the football team
00:31:17.480 and he just served them
00:31:19.200 fast food.
00:31:19.880 That's disgusting.
00:31:20.720 And the rest of America,
00:31:21.880 the rest of us,
00:31:22.440 as I'm sitting there
00:31:23.120 literally eating
00:31:24.040 a double quarter pounder
00:31:25.240 with cheese
00:31:25.540 as this is happening,
00:31:26.560 I'm saying,
00:31:26.960 I love that food.
00:31:28.740 That food's delicious.
00:31:29.760 What are you talking about?
00:31:31.480 Then they try to attack it
00:31:32.580 from another angle.
00:31:33.240 They say,
00:31:33.700 wow,
00:31:34.120 Donald Trump,
00:31:34.720 he's playing into a stereotype
00:31:36.000 that college jocks
00:31:37.580 like to eat a lot
00:31:38.580 of fast food.
00:31:39.940 Well,
00:31:40.080 guess what?
00:31:40.380 All the food was gone
00:31:41.040 by the end of the night.
00:31:41.780 You know why?
00:31:42.300 Because college jocks
00:31:43.120 love to eat a lot
00:31:43.720 of fast food.
00:31:44.500 Not just college jocks,
00:31:46.040 every college student
00:31:47.080 likes to eat a lot
00:31:47.640 of fast food.
00:31:48.360 Not just every college student,
00:31:49.760 most Americans do.
00:31:50.940 It was a master stroke
00:31:52.980 because as every one
00:31:54.700 of those little memes
00:31:55.400 was going around
00:31:56.060 of Donald Trump
00:31:56.620 standing in front
00:31:57.240 of 300 hamburgers,
00:31:59.580 you then have
00:32:00.780 that video going around
00:32:02.380 where he says,
00:32:02.880 yep,
00:32:03.540 the reason we're doing
00:32:04.640 these hamburgers
00:32:05.400 is because of the border
00:32:06.380 shutdown,
00:32:06.860 but that's okay.
00:32:07.420 I'm not going to complain.
00:32:09.080 I'm not going to complain.
00:32:10.580 And this is another aspect
00:32:12.220 that he's demonstrating.
00:32:13.380 He doesn't always demonstrate it,
00:32:14.420 but he's demonstrating it here
00:32:15.440 of manliness,
00:32:17.360 of masculinity,
00:32:17.980 is you need gratitude.
00:32:20.820 You need gratitude.
00:32:22.260 You know,
00:32:22.700 you need humility.
00:32:24.640 Trump actually,
00:32:25.660 you know,
00:32:25.820 ironically,
00:32:26.380 he does have humility.
00:32:27.540 He jokes about himself.
00:32:28.440 He makes a lot of jokes
00:32:29.240 about bragging,
00:32:30.180 but he also makes jokes
00:32:31.100 about himself.
00:32:32.260 He says,
00:32:32.580 the only good thing about me
00:32:33.460 is I don't drink.
00:32:34.240 I'd be the worst drunk
00:32:35.020 in the world.
00:32:35.480 I'd be terrible.
00:32:37.160 He makes these jokes
00:32:38.200 about himself,
00:32:39.280 even as he's joking
00:32:40.240 about how funny he is,
00:32:41.220 how great he is,
00:32:41.960 how rich he is.
00:32:43.340 And you need a little bit
00:32:44.920 of gratitude, though.
00:32:46.040 And he's saying,
00:32:46.480 look,
00:32:46.840 I'm not going to complain
00:32:47.680 that we've got to eat this food.
00:32:48.620 Everybody likes fast food.
00:32:49.700 It's our favorite food.
00:32:50.640 It's good and American.
00:32:51.700 We're going to have
00:32:52.180 a great time here tonight.
00:32:53.340 It makes you a bigger person.
00:32:54.760 It makes you a much better person.
00:32:56.640 To be a man,
00:32:57.400 you need to be able
00:32:58.160 to look back
00:32:59.360 on your history,
00:33:01.320 on your forefathers,
00:33:02.480 on everything in civilization
00:33:04.680 that has led you
00:33:05.520 to where you are.
00:33:06.780 And you need to not hate it.
00:33:08.760 If you hate it,
00:33:09.520 you become whiny
00:33:10.600 and miserable like the left.
00:33:12.340 You become catty
00:33:13.360 like all of these
00:33:14.160 girly men
00:33:15.220 on the left wing.
00:33:17.020 But if you look at it
00:33:18.520 with gratitude
00:33:19.040 and you say,
00:33:19.460 look,
00:33:19.600 those guys weren't perfect
00:33:20.560 and their fathers
00:33:21.600 weren't perfect
00:33:22.120 and their fathers
00:33:22.640 weren't perfect.
00:33:23.360 And I'm not perfect.
00:33:24.240 I'm sure not perfect.
00:33:25.180 I can conclude.
00:33:26.120 I can deduce
00:33:26.920 that I'm a flawed person too.
00:33:28.620 That gives you
00:33:29.180 a little bit of humility
00:33:30.040 and it allows you
00:33:31.260 to look forward
00:33:31.900 and say,
00:33:32.600 okay,
00:33:33.200 here's how we're going
00:33:33.800 to be the bigger men here.
00:33:35.080 Here's how we're going
00:33:35.520 to be adults.
00:33:36.320 Here's how we're going
00:33:36.840 to move forward.
00:33:37.360 It makes you much more attractive.
00:33:38.840 This was a real PR win
00:33:41.020 for a president
00:33:42.060 who is losing
00:33:43.400 the PR battle
00:33:44.320 of this shutdown.
00:33:45.900 His approval rating
00:33:46.660 is going down,
00:33:47.420 not by a lot,
00:33:48.020 but by a little bit.
00:33:49.100 And he's being blamed
00:33:51.040 overall for the shutdown.
00:33:53.060 His policy is improving
00:33:54.620 in popularity.
00:33:56.060 The border wall itself
00:33:56.840 is now more popular
00:33:57.660 than it was
00:33:58.120 before the shutdown.
00:33:59.180 But he needed
00:33:59.800 a little PR win.
00:34:00.880 He totally got it here.
00:34:02.320 And coincidentally,
00:34:03.400 it helped to demonstrate
00:34:04.900 a little lesson
00:34:05.860 about masculinity
00:34:06.940 very much in the news.
00:34:09.060 You're even going
00:34:09.820 to see this now.
00:34:10.580 So they make fun
00:34:11.320 of the airport
00:34:11.860 or the fast food.
00:34:13.500 You're going to see this
00:34:14.000 with the airports too.
00:34:15.460 Americans are not being
00:34:16.360 affected by this shutdown.
00:34:17.720 They don't feel it.
00:34:18.580 Federal workers,
00:34:19.260 we feel bad for them
00:34:20.040 if they're out of work.
00:34:21.760 But that's a small percentage
00:34:23.260 of the population.
00:34:24.380 Vast majority of Americans
00:34:25.400 are not affected
00:34:26.000 by this shutdown.
00:34:27.460 What the left
00:34:28.000 and the media are saying
00:34:28.840 is, well,
00:34:29.740 if the TSA
00:34:30.480 stops showing up to work,
00:34:31.860 if my pre-check line
00:34:33.100 at Terminal B
00:34:34.120 at JFK
00:34:35.620 is shut down,
00:34:36.320 then you're going
00:34:37.480 to hear about it,
00:34:38.180 Mr. President.
00:34:39.660 Most people don't fly
00:34:40.580 that much.
00:34:41.880 The vast majority
00:34:42.840 of Americans
00:34:43.340 don't fly very frequently.
00:34:45.220 The media fly around
00:34:46.160 all the time.
00:34:46.600 I fly around all the time.
00:34:47.560 I'm very angry
00:34:48.100 when the pre-check
00:34:48.640 is shut down
00:34:49.120 at Terminal B of JFK.
00:34:50.580 But,
00:34:52.080 small price to pay
00:34:53.100 from a small group
00:34:53.960 of people
00:34:54.400 who generally inhabit
00:34:55.740 a pretty privileged
00:34:56.700 segment of society.
00:34:58.580 And if they're going
00:34:59.260 to be complaining
00:34:59.780 about that,
00:35:00.260 it's going to be
00:35:00.620 exactly the same thing.
00:35:01.760 You're going to have
00:35:01.960 the vast majority
00:35:02.580 of America saying,
00:35:04.040 oh,
00:35:04.360 your pre-check line
00:35:05.780 was closed,
00:35:06.800 boo-hoo-hoo.
00:35:07.920 Let me play you
00:35:08.820 a sad song
00:35:09.920 on the world's
00:35:10.360 smallest violin.
00:35:11.720 Big PR win
00:35:12.800 and President Trump
00:35:13.900 needed it,
00:35:14.400 so I was very glad
00:35:16.160 to see it last night.
00:35:17.180 Another fun PR win
00:35:18.340 from the right
00:35:19.120 was Laura Loomer.
00:35:20.520 If you're not familiar
00:35:21.280 with Laura Loomer,
00:35:22.420 she is a provocateur,
00:35:24.040 a provocatrix,
00:35:24.860 I suppose she would be.
00:35:26.040 She's an investigative,
00:35:28.080 independent journalist.
00:35:29.560 She's a right-wing activist.
00:35:31.820 She goes a little
00:35:32.360 out there sometimes.
00:35:33.520 She can be a little
00:35:34.060 out there.
00:35:34.460 This, however,
00:35:36.160 was perfectly executed.
00:35:38.600 She illegally immigrated
00:35:41.040 to Nancy Pelosi's compound.
00:35:43.160 She was just going
00:35:43.680 to go in there,
00:35:44.380 you know,
00:35:44.760 because California
00:35:45.960 is a sanctuary state.
00:35:47.320 Pelosi said walls
00:35:48.360 are immoral.
00:35:49.300 So she's just going
00:35:50.040 to go in there
00:35:50.640 and since walls
00:35:51.480 are immoral,
00:35:51.960 she's going to live
00:35:52.460 in Nancy Pelosi's house.
00:35:54.260 Surprise, surprise,
00:35:55.120 she was met
00:35:55.700 by Nancy Pelosi's
00:35:56.820 security guards.
00:35:57.460 Well, this is private
00:36:00.700 property, so...
00:36:02.160 I'm confused.
00:36:02.800 I thought that
00:36:03.400 California was
00:36:04.620 a sanctuary state.
00:36:06.160 I thought San Francisco
00:36:06.940 was a sanctuary state.
00:36:08.680 I don't know.
00:36:09.100 I thought Nancy Pelosi,
00:36:11.280 who's the speaker
00:36:11.800 of the house,
00:36:12.240 said that this is a sanctuary state.
00:36:12.360 Can we get ID
00:36:12.960 from everybody that's here
00:36:14.300 since you guys
00:36:15.040 are on private property?
00:36:15.820 We don't need that
00:36:16.660 in California.
00:36:17.240 I know we didn't need
00:36:17.640 that in California
00:36:18.360 because Gavin Newsom
00:36:19.380 said we didn't need
00:36:19.940 driver's licenses
00:36:20.660 because it's like
00:36:21.500 a form of profiling.
00:36:22.420 Well, you're on private property,
00:36:25.440 so you're trespassing.
00:36:27.340 I'm really confused.
00:36:28.480 Nancy said everyone
00:36:29.260 was welcome here.
00:36:30.300 Do you know
00:36:30.920 who Nancy Pelosi is?
00:36:31.900 Yes, sir.
00:36:32.440 So Nancy Pelosi said
00:36:33.960 Nancy Pelosi said that
00:36:35.940 I didn't think
00:36:36.820 I needed one, though.
00:36:37.480 You know, right?
00:36:38.360 You guys, I'm really confused
00:36:39.740 because Nancy Pelosi
00:36:40.680 said asylum's a human right,
00:36:42.040 but now they're saying
00:36:42.640 I'm trespassing
00:36:43.540 and Nancy said
00:36:44.300 everyone is welcome here.
00:36:45.900 Like, if you know
00:36:46.880 her nephew, Gavin Newsom,
00:36:48.520 he said everyone's welcome here.
00:36:49.600 So, real quick,
00:36:50.680 can I get your guy
00:36:51.180 a license?
00:36:51.240 Basically, you're trespassing.
00:36:53.040 Need to see some ID.
00:36:55.760 What's trespassing?
00:36:56.940 I reject those facts.
00:36:58.240 It's being on private property.
00:36:59.280 I reject those facts.
00:37:00.360 I didn't know there was
00:37:00.980 private property in California.
00:37:02.880 What's private property?
00:37:07.000 It's so good
00:37:08.040 and it goes on
00:37:09.300 for like an hour,
00:37:10.560 so I recommend
00:37:11.720 whenever you get home,
00:37:14.200 you know,
00:37:14.520 pull it up and watch it.
00:37:16.260 The right is so much better
00:37:18.480 at trolling than the left.
00:37:20.520 It's outrageous.
00:37:22.020 Obviously,
00:37:22.740 I mean,
00:37:22.860 I'll take a little credit
00:37:23.580 for the blank book.
00:37:24.900 Stunts like this
00:37:25.520 are so phenomenal
00:37:26.780 and we have the troll-in-chief
00:37:28.360 in the Oval Office.
00:37:29.980 The reason for this, though,
00:37:31.440 the reason why this stunt
00:37:32.660 went so well,
00:37:33.840 compare the right-wing stunts
00:37:35.020 to the left-wing stunts.
00:37:36.360 Right-wing stunt
00:37:37.100 is a funny,
00:37:39.060 provocative girl
00:37:40.480 shows up to Nancy Pelosi's house
00:37:42.700 allegedly with illegal aliens.
00:37:44.840 She said that she had
00:37:45.700 illegal aliens with her.
00:37:46.760 I don't know if that's true or not,
00:37:48.600 but it puts Nancy Pelosi
00:37:49.820 in this awful position of,
00:37:51.340 I'm supposed to arrest them,
00:37:53.320 but I said that I can't arrest them.
00:37:54.780 And does she really have illegal aliens?
00:37:56.280 I should let them in,
00:37:57.020 but not the American.
00:37:57.900 And what should I do?
00:37:59.100 And so she goes to Nancy Pelosi's house
00:38:01.380 and then just engages
00:38:02.840 in funny repartee.
00:38:04.740 It's just funny banter.
00:38:06.200 She didn't kick down
00:38:07.520 Nancy Pelosi's door.
00:38:09.000 She didn't scare
00:38:10.380 Nancy Pelosi's family in public
00:38:12.300 or at their home or anything.
00:38:13.520 She just engaged in repartee
00:38:15.620 to explicate
00:38:16.780 how absurd
00:38:18.200 Pelosi's immigration position is,
00:38:20.820 how incoherent
00:38:21.780 her immigration position is,
00:38:23.200 how she doesn't really believe
00:38:24.420 that walls are immoral
00:38:25.240 because she has many walls
00:38:26.300 and security guards herself.
00:38:28.580 Compare that to the left.
00:38:29.880 What the left does
00:38:30.680 is it sends
00:38:31.760 roving gangs of thugs
00:38:33.680 to Tucker Carlson's house,
00:38:35.300 kicks in his door,
00:38:36.420 breaks his door,
00:38:37.900 has his wife hiding
00:38:38.860 in the pantry safe room
00:38:40.280 until the cops show up,
00:38:41.840 lighting up fire in the streets
00:38:43.360 in Oregon.
00:38:44.100 They're just not that funny.
00:38:45.400 Now, humor requires
00:38:46.840 intelligence and wit,
00:38:48.900 so maybe that would explain
00:38:50.720 some of it.
00:38:51.520 But it also explains
00:38:52.760 these very virtues
00:38:53.720 that we're talking about today
00:38:54.940 with toxic masculinity
00:38:55.980 and with good,
00:38:57.420 virtuous manliness,
00:38:58.600 which is,
00:38:59.620 Laura Loomer here is prudent.
00:39:02.020 She didn't kick in
00:39:03.040 anybody's door.
00:39:03.840 That wouldn't serve any purpose.
00:39:05.060 She did apparently
00:39:05.820 try Nancy Pelosi's knob.
00:39:07.820 Said, oh, that's so weird.
00:39:08.540 It's locked.
00:39:09.620 But why is it locked?
00:39:10.800 Locks are immoral.
00:39:11.940 Walls are immoral.
00:39:12.620 So she did,
00:39:13.420 but she was very prudent.
00:39:14.400 She was very respectful
00:39:15.460 to the police,
00:39:16.600 played it totally straight,
00:39:18.280 very humble.
00:39:19.600 She goes in.
00:39:20.540 It's not just about her.
00:39:21.960 It's about these ideas.
00:39:23.300 It's about Nancy Pelosi's
00:39:24.640 own words being used
00:39:26.460 against her.
00:39:27.400 Everything's in balance here.
00:39:28.700 Everything has
00:39:29.280 a sense of proportion.
00:39:32.280 Everything has a good
00:39:33.000 sense of humor.
00:39:34.980 Really, really good stuff.
00:39:36.380 I hope that we get
00:39:37.200 more of this.
00:39:38.360 You know,
00:39:38.800 we should never,
00:39:39.600 the right should never
00:39:40.420 engage in what the left
00:39:41.320 does, which is go
00:39:42.560 and scare people
00:39:43.900 and kick in their doors
00:39:45.680 or anything like that.
00:39:46.840 But we should do this.
00:39:48.240 This is terrific.
00:39:49.460 To go up to Nancy Pelosi's gate
00:39:51.440 and engage in funny repartee
00:39:54.080 with the security guards,
00:39:55.740 that's terrific.
00:39:56.800 That's fabulous.
00:39:57.660 If we had a society like that,
00:39:59.120 we would all be living
00:39:59.980 in wonderful good humor,
00:40:01.300 and we'd all be very
00:40:02.220 grateful for it.
00:40:03.360 Nothing threatening,
00:40:04.520 nothing mean.
00:40:05.600 in just taking
00:40:06.980 Nancy Pelosi's premises
00:40:08.960 to their logical conclusion,
00:40:11.940 which is that
00:40:12.520 Laura Loomer
00:40:13.140 should be able
00:40:14.380 to illegally immigrate
00:40:15.960 onto her property.
00:40:17.920 Those guys are asking
00:40:19.060 her for IDs.
00:40:19.780 The entire Democrat Party
00:40:20.800 tells us that IDs
00:40:21.600 are racist.
00:40:23.280 Why is this
00:40:23.960 Democrat Speaker
00:40:24.840 of the House,
00:40:25.680 why are her security guards
00:40:26.860 asking for a mechanism,
00:40:28.660 an instrument of racism
00:40:29.960 and bigotry?
00:40:31.480 Because Democrats
00:40:32.360 don't really believe
00:40:33.200 that IDs are racist.
00:40:34.380 They're just cynical,
00:40:35.040 and they're just race hustling,
00:40:36.680 and they're just trying
00:40:37.760 to divide Americans.
00:40:39.060 Laura Loomer
00:40:39.540 showed that beautifully.
00:40:40.960 My hat is off to you.
00:40:42.540 Really, really well done.
00:40:44.420 Kamala Harris,
00:40:45.120 running for president.
00:40:46.200 She's put together
00:40:46.960 a mood mix
00:40:47.940 because,
00:40:49.220 as Steve Buscemi says
00:40:50.440 when he walks in
00:40:51.120 with his skateboard
00:40:51.700 over his shoulder,
00:40:53.300 how do you do,
00:40:54.140 fella kids?
00:40:55.000 Hey there, fella kids.
00:40:56.680 Here is Kamala Harris
00:40:57.800 doing her best rendition
00:40:58.880 of How Do You Do,
00:41:00.160 Fella Kids.
00:41:01.260 Hey, it's Kamala Harris,
00:41:02.720 and this is my mood mix.
00:41:07.060 A song that has
00:41:08.480 always made me dance.
00:41:10.580 Check the rhyme,
00:41:11.580 A Tribe Called Quest.
00:41:13.380 You know I'm talking
00:41:14.100 about Fife.
00:41:17.580 A song that has to be
00:41:19.920 played loud
00:41:20.580 because you have to hear
00:41:21.600 the bass.
00:41:22.780 The Sun Is Shining
00:41:24.040 by Bob Marley
00:41:25.340 and the Wailers.
00:41:26.860 Right?
00:41:27.300 The Sun Is Shining
00:41:30.460 and the Wailers.
00:41:33.060 A song that reminds me
00:41:34.960 of Howard University,
00:41:36.460 my alma mater,
00:41:37.540 the Mecca,
00:41:38.500 the real H.U.
00:41:41.340 Push It by Salt and Pepper.
00:41:44.720 Because it was a real hit song
00:41:47.360 when I was there.
00:41:50.440 Favorite song from my childhood,
00:41:52.560 Young, Gifted, and Black
00:41:53.620 by Aretha Franklin.
00:41:54.580 A song that makes me think
00:41:57.080 of my birthplace, Oakland.
00:41:59.680 Anything by Too Short.
00:42:02.200 Too Short!
00:42:04.440 A presidential song
00:42:06.180 for anyone.
00:42:07.920 One Nation Under a Groove
00:42:09.460 by Funkadelic.
00:42:11.100 One Nation Under a Groove.
00:42:13.980 The only thing I agree
00:42:15.800 with her on there
00:42:16.400 is I actually do really
00:42:17.420 like Funkadelic
00:42:18.220 and I do like
00:42:18.740 One Nation Under a Groove.
00:42:20.100 Everything else though,
00:42:21.180 how pathetic.
00:42:22.920 Let's just go through it
00:42:24.080 because she's really
00:42:24.940 given us a glimpse
00:42:25.640 into what this 2020 campaign
00:42:27.160 is going to be like.
00:42:28.140 First of all,
00:42:29.040 she's laughing too much
00:42:30.120 in too identical a way.
00:42:32.060 It just seems contrived.
00:42:33.480 I don't know if it's contrived.
00:42:34.600 I suspect it is.
00:42:35.640 It's that Hillary thing
00:42:36.520 that ha ha ha ha ha ha.
00:42:38.360 I'm likable.
00:42:39.480 Ha ha ha ha.
00:42:40.360 Look how likable
00:42:41.320 and casual I am.
00:42:42.420 Ha ha ha ha.
00:42:43.080 It doesn't play.
00:42:44.880 It also shows
00:42:45.980 that this entire campaign
00:42:47.060 is going to be going
00:42:47.740 for identity politics.
00:42:49.200 Look at what she highlights.
00:42:50.640 She spends a huge portion
00:42:52.740 of one of the song segments
00:42:54.660 talking about
00:42:55.360 my alma mater,
00:42:56.740 Howard University,
00:42:57.820 historically black,
00:42:59.160 the mecca,
00:42:59.900 the place,
00:43:00.500 the real HU.
00:43:02.060 I think she's referring
00:43:03.140 to Harvard University
00:43:04.320 although Harvard
00:43:05.000 doesn't call itself HU
00:43:06.060 but she's drawing
00:43:07.000 that dichotomy.
00:43:07.880 She's saying I'm,
00:43:08.980 you know,
00:43:09.320 she says one of her
00:43:09.940 favorite songs
00:43:10.440 was Young, Gifted, and Black.
00:43:12.320 See, that's me.
00:43:13.140 That's what I was.
00:43:13.880 I was born in Oakland.
00:43:15.920 Oakland,
00:43:16.380 a very, very black,
00:43:17.800 very tough city,
00:43:19.340 very tough town.
00:43:21.680 She's smart to do this
00:43:22.800 in a way
00:43:23.140 because it's her only shot
00:43:24.040 to do anything
00:43:25.020 to become president.
00:43:26.160 She has to play,
00:43:27.060 lean into the intersectionality vibe.
00:43:28.880 She has to play race politics.
00:43:31.120 I mean,
00:43:31.300 she actually doesn't,
00:43:32.260 she doesn't have to do it
00:43:33.380 in a normal political structure.
00:43:35.860 She's fairly intelligent.
00:43:36.920 She's had a good career.
00:43:38.060 She should be able
00:43:38.660 to run on her own merits
00:43:39.680 but in this day and age,
00:43:41.180 in this Democrat party,
00:43:42.260 she can't do it.
00:43:43.260 The one trouble
00:43:43.860 she's going to run into
00:43:44.600 on identity politics
00:43:45.560 is she's not actually
00:43:46.600 black American
00:43:47.340 in the way we would refer to that.
00:43:49.920 She's half Indian
00:43:50.780 and half Jamaican.
00:43:52.160 Her father is a Stanford economics
00:43:54.840 professor from Jamaica.
00:43:56.300 Her mother is a breast cancer scientist.
00:43:59.740 So it really cuts,
00:44:01.020 she's playing it up
00:44:02.160 as though she grew up
00:44:02.920 in Oakland
00:44:03.420 and, you know,
00:44:04.520 rough and tumble
00:44:05.260 and Young, Gifted, and Black.
00:44:06.860 But really,
00:44:07.880 she grew up in total privilege
00:44:08.900 and she didn't grow up in Oakland.
00:44:10.080 At the age of seven,
00:44:11.020 she moved to Canada.
00:44:11.840 She moved to Montreal.
00:44:13.060 She lived in Canada
00:44:13.840 until she went to college.
00:44:15.660 And so she totally grew up in Canada.
00:44:17.460 You've got another
00:44:17.940 Ocasio-Cortez thing here.
00:44:19.880 She grew up privileged,
00:44:21.300 intelligent,
00:44:22.120 half Jamaican,
00:44:22.780 half Indian.
00:44:23.820 She's a lawyer
00:44:24.620 who was in Canada
00:44:26.040 and she's going to pretend now
00:44:27.840 to have grown up
00:44:28.440 on the mean streets of Oakland.
00:44:29.840 A career politician
00:44:30.800 who is trying to reinvent
00:44:32.740 her identity
00:44:33.900 to play into
00:44:35.840 what is unfortunately
00:44:36.800 going to be
00:44:37.280 an identity politics-based
00:44:39.080 Democrat 2020
00:44:40.940 presidential primary.
00:44:42.780 It's too bad for her.
00:44:43.900 She actually does have
00:44:44.800 a lot of credentials.
00:44:46.420 She's had a good career.
00:44:47.480 She could run on the merits
00:44:48.840 if this were any other time
00:44:50.700 and if she were a member
00:44:51.380 of any other party.
00:44:52.560 But she's not,
00:44:53.440 and I fear for her,
00:44:55.560 she's not likable.
00:44:56.720 She's not casual.
00:44:58.280 She's the poor man's
00:44:59.800 Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez,
00:45:01.240 like the really poor man's
00:45:02.800 Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.
00:45:03.900 So I think she's going to
00:45:05.520 flop on that point.
00:45:06.880 Authenticity really matters
00:45:08.200 these days,
00:45:09.180 especially in presidential politics,
00:45:11.040 especially after the age
00:45:12.220 of Donald Trump
00:45:12.900 or in the age of Donald Trump.
00:45:14.940 And she's going to get hit
00:45:16.340 for an inauthentic representation
00:45:19.240 of her upbringing.
00:45:21.580 It's going to happen.
00:45:22.500 It's not going to come
00:45:23.080 from Republicans.
00:45:23.840 It's going to come
00:45:24.220 from other Democrats
00:45:24.980 who are going to say
00:45:26.220 she's not the real deal.
00:45:28.060 She's not authentic enough.
00:45:29.540 And that's what you have
00:45:30.720 to look forward to
00:45:31.400 because the circular firing squad
00:45:33.080 is always entertaining
00:45:33.900 to watch in politics
00:45:34.800 when it's your opponents
00:45:35.740 doing it.
00:45:36.460 Okay, that's our show.
00:45:37.100 We didn't get to everything.
00:45:37.780 We'll try to get to more tomorrow.
00:45:38.860 In the meantime,
00:45:39.420 I'm Michael Knowles.
00:45:39.980 This is The Michael Knowles Show.
00:45:41.140 I'll see you tomorrow.
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