The Michael Knowles Show

00:00:00.000 For years now, the Libs have claimed that the MAGA movement is a fringe political phenomenon,

00:00:05.980 that it does not represent the mainstream of American politics, that it doesn't even

00:00:10.540 represent the mainstream of the Republican Party, despite Donald Trump's winning the

00:00:15.360 nomination twice and the presidency at least once. They claim that even if Trump did win

00:00:21.520 the presidency, he didn't win the popular vote. His views are minority views, and very few people

00:00:28.460 really like him at all, which is pretty rich coming from Democrats, since as usual, pretty

00:00:35.220 much every accusation that they hurl at Trump and the conservatives and all of us applies much more

00:00:41.180 clearly to themselves. A new poll from ABC News and the Washington Post, not exactly right-wing

00:00:47.840 outlets, shows that just 35% of Democrats and Democrat-leaning independents want Joe Biden to

00:00:56.440 be the Democrat nominee for president in 2024. That's not 35% of Americans, which would be pretty

00:01:03.220 astounding even in and of itself. We're talking about 35% of Democrats who think that this guy

00:01:11.100 should be president. Obviously, it's a much lower percentage of Americans overall who think that

00:01:16.240 the guy should be in the Oval Office. The most basic takeaway from this poll is that for all their

00:01:23.000 praise of our sacred democracy, the Democrats actually don't care all that much about our

00:01:28.500 alleged democracy and are more than happy to impose their radical views and agenda on the majority of

00:01:34.820 people that rejects them. But the more important takeaway is a lesson that radical leftists learned a

00:01:42.520 long time ago, a lesson that conservatives seem to forget. Political movements don't need majority

00:01:50.520 support to get things done, to be successful. In fact, virtually every significant political movement

00:01:57.480 in history has been brought about, not by the majority, but by distinct minorities. From the

00:02:05.700 Jacobins, to the Bolsheviks, to the radical elites of our own times, who, despite constantly ignoring the

00:02:13.400 will of the people on pretty much every issue, on immigration, on industry, on foreign policy,

00:02:18.440 on obviously the weird sex stuff, on everything in between, nevertheless, always seem to find

00:02:25.340 themselves entrenched in power. And we conservatives can mock them, or we can complain, or we can shout

00:02:33.640 our frustration from the rooftops, but maybe the better strategy would be to learn from them. And

00:02:41.400 maybe, just maybe, take a little bit of power back ourselves. I'm Michael Knowles. This is the Michael

00:02:46.680 Knowles Show. Welcome back to the show. My favorite comment yesterday is from Laura's Heart, who says,

00:03:00.220 very proud to be Italian right now. Funny how nobody on the left will congratulate Georgia Maloney

00:03:06.540 for being the first woman prime minister in Italy. Oh, well, of course, she's not a woman.

00:03:11.180 She's not a woman. She would only be a woman if she were a liberal politician. But she's a

00:03:16.720 conservative politician, a successful conservative politician, and a conservative politician who is

00:03:21.420 successful, who is talking about things that actually matter, not just stupid marginal tax rates,

00:03:26.560 but immigration, life, family, culture, tradition, all the stuff that actually matters to people.

00:03:32.920 And so the libs write her off. I remember I was running a great blog when I was, I think it was my

00:03:38.000 senior year of college, a pal and I started it, which was, we would just post actual quotes from

00:03:43.200 gender studies departments and like, like publish gender studies papers. We would just post quotes

00:03:48.380 of them. And that was the whole blog. And one of them was a quote from a published work of gender

00:03:53.460 studies, which said that Sarah Palin is not a woman because she is conservative. By being conservative,

00:04:01.000 she relinquished her womanhood. What is a woman? I don't know. People have been asking that question,

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00:05:23.360 package. That is EpicWill.com promo code Knowles. The Democrats obviously are catering to a very

00:05:34.420 radical minority of the American people right now on all the big issues that they're pushing on

00:05:38.860 immigration, on really even the structure of our society, on certainly this weird sex stuff and the

00:05:45.000 drag queen story hour and the gender bathrooms and all that crap. The Democrats are not speaking as

00:05:50.440 the voice of the majority of the American people. They're speaking to a very, very fringe

00:05:54.160 minority. All the while, they're ignoring mainstream bread and butter issues. And not even just the

00:05:59.640 issues that conservatives care about in the rural parts of the middle of the country. We're talking

00:06:03.340 about regular old urgent issues that even liberals living in cities care about. Issues like crime.

00:06:10.480 Karine Jean-Pierre, the president's spokesman, was just asked, does Joe Biden believe that today,

00:06:17.220 in Biden's America, America's big cities are safe? Karine Jean-Pierre pretended not even to understand

00:06:25.100 the question. Does President Biden think America's big cities are safe? Can you say more? Well, we know

00:06:32.580 that deaths and robberies are up about 20% in the first half of this year. So I'm wondering if he thinks

00:06:38.620 America's big cities are safe. Are you talking about the New York Times story specifically?

00:06:43.220 Is that what you're referring to? The murder rate's still 30% above its 2019 level. They're all from

00:06:49.060 the Council on Criminal Justice. So we've seen some high profile examples of this. The Washington

00:06:55.600 commander's running back was being mugged. He got shot. Karen Bass, member of Congress, had her house

00:07:01.820 robbed. These are high profile people. So should everyday Americans who are not in the public eye feel safe?

00:07:09.220 So I'll say this, that same story also stated that the crime is complicated and multifaceted.

00:07:17.340 Look, this is a president who has secured historic funding to make sure that law enforcement has what

00:07:24.340 its needs, especially, and he was able to do this in the face of opposition from Republicans.

00:07:30.960 So her first reaction is to pretend like she doesn't understand the question. Very simple question,

00:07:35.180 by the way. Are the cities safe? I'm sorry, you're going to need to, what? What do you mean? It depends

00:07:41.460 on what the definition of city is. What do you mean by safe? I mean, like I won't get shot.

00:07:47.920 I don't, are you referring to a news story? I'm referring to a simple question. Are the cities safe?

00:07:52.200 Well, look, it's complicated. Crime is really complicated. Like sometimes they want to steal your

00:07:57.540 watch, but other times they want to steal your purse. So, and sometimes they stab you and other times

00:08:02.120 they shoot you. So it's really complicated. And I know it's just like, we can't oversimplify

00:08:06.180 by, and so first she pretends not to understand the question. Then she does that thing that all

00:08:11.540 the libs do. And they always do this in academia, especially. They just say, well, we've got to,

00:08:15.320 we've got to complicate it. We've got to problematize. It's really, nothing's really

00:08:19.160 simple anymore. And then, then she denies it, right? Then she says, well, it doesn't make any sense

00:08:25.520 because Joe Biden has all these great policies that are supposed to fix crime, right? And then,

00:08:31.720 but the obvious answer to that is right, but they're not doing that. They're not fixing crime.

00:08:36.280 No, no, no. But Peter, you don't understand. He secured a lot of money to fix the crime for his

00:08:40.240 policies. Right. I know there would seem to be a disagreement between the theory that you guys

00:08:47.860 are pushing and the reality, the consequences of your policies in the real world. And when there's

00:08:54.300 a disagreement between reality and theory, what normal sane people do is they throw out the theory.

00:09:03.920 What Democrats do is they throw out the reality. And they, this has been a consistent pattern,

00:09:08.560 specifically from Corrine Jean-Pierre, and she's just the mouthpiece for the White House. So it's

00:09:12.200 the pattern from the White House is they just deny that it's happening. We're in a recession. Oh,

00:09:17.320 no, we're not. What do you mean we're not? We've had two consecutive quarters of negative GDP growth.

00:09:22.060 No, no, that's not what a recession is anymore. No, we're not in that anymore. We've got record

00:09:28.720 high inflation. No, we don't. What are you talking about? We don't have inflation. The goods now cost

00:09:35.880 eight and a half percent, at least above what they did last year. Yeah, no, but that's not how we're

00:09:40.060 going to measure inflation anymore. Now we're just going to go month to month. And it's actually still

00:09:43.700 up a little bit month to month, but it's not, it's no, no, nevermind. Nothing to see here.

00:09:48.380 What about all the crime? People are getting robbed and stabbed and killed. And no, no,

00:09:54.040 Biden secured funding. These are not the droids you're looking for. Pay no attention. So for issues

00:09:58.940 that really matter to people, I'm not talking about those of us who think about politics a lot.

00:10:03.700 And those of us who have maybe a little more of a systematic view of the way politics ought to work

00:10:10.080 and a view of the world, which if you are listening to this show, I'm not flattering you just, but

00:10:14.220 it is simply a fact. If you are listening to this show, you are very plugged into politics.

00:10:18.500 You think about these things. You have, you have a certain viewpoint. You have a way that you want

00:10:22.500 the world to look. And for most people, probably they don't spend all that time on that. Maybe they're

00:10:27.940 spending their time thinking about other things. They're, they're not political nerds reading all the

00:10:32.020 latest reports and watching the latest press conferences. And, and for those people,

00:10:37.560 the important political issues are, are not industrial policy. The hot, the, the, you know,

00:10:45.400 abstract sort of industrial policy. It's not even abortion. A lot of us care a lot, a lot about

00:10:51.920 abortion. For, for most people, they don't pay that much attention to it. It's not a top priority,

00:10:56.780 but I promise you one of the top priorities, safety. Can I walk outside? Can I, is my, is my family,

00:11:06.300 is my property going to be safe? My home, my car, these things going to be safe. And the White

00:11:13.160 House says, we ignore that. Who cares? We don't care about any of that stuff. Okay. To say nothing

00:11:19.940 of then, when you get to the more ideological questions, what is a man? What is a woman? What

00:11:24.260 is human life? Are we going to kill babies? Are we going to let men go into the little girl's room?

00:11:28.080 Are we going to sell away our sovereignty to transnational organizations? Are we going to let

00:11:32.960 woke corporations that are being pressured by the Biden administration be the kind of

00:11:38.240 enforcement mechanism for the sorts of things that the Biden administration wants to do that

00:11:43.440 they're not legally permitted to do, like censor their opponents in the public square? All of those

00:11:47.560 questions, the libs are totally the aggressors here. Okay. And they're out of step with the American

00:11:53.600 tradition and they are really ramping up some pretty radical policies. Okay. But even on the bread and

00:11:58.360 butter, normal stuff, can you leave your home? Even on that, they're completely failing. And so

00:12:02.880 when I look at that situation, I look at Biden's poll numbers and I look at the just absolute dismal

00:12:08.040 state of the country on pretty much every metric, I think there is no way that a normal person could

00:12:15.040 support these people. And the numbers back me up. Normal people are not supporting these people.

00:12:19.220 The ones who are supporting Biden right now are the radicals and the enshrined established powers that

00:12:28.940 be. And specifically a subset of that group, the squish Republicans. I'm talking about people like

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00:14:02.860 the smartest way to hire. Liz Cheney is a threat. She's saying that if Donald Trump is the nominee

00:14:13.160 in 2024 for the Republicans, she might leave the Republican Party.

00:14:20.120 I think that Donald Trump is, he's the only president in American history who refused to

00:14:27.180 guarantee a peaceful transition of power. And so, um, now the fact that my party has refused

00:14:34.600 in the months since then to stand up to him, I think does tell you how sick the party is.

00:14:41.840 I'm going to make sure Donald Trump, the majority of that can, to make sure he's not the nominee.

00:14:46.800 And if he is a nominee, I won't be a Republican. Okay. Thank you.

00:14:53.240 Liz Cheney out of the Republican Party? Don't threaten me with a good time.

00:14:57.840 Liz Cheney, of course, is not a Republican. She might pretend to be a Republican. She might,

00:15:03.120 when she goes on to all of the Democrat news networks to attack the Republicans,

00:15:06.820 she might put an R next to her name. But she was, first of all, she was kicked out of her own state

00:15:11.640 party. The Wyoming Republican Party booted her out. But let's say she identifies as a Republican.

00:15:19.080 For practical purposes, she is not a Republican. And why not? I don't want to play psychobabble.

00:15:24.560 I don't want to say it's because of her pride. I don't want to say it's because she got Trump

00:15:28.380 derangement syndrome because Donald Trump attacked her and attacked her father and

00:15:32.360 some of the administrations she worked for. I don't know why Liz Cheney is doing this,

00:15:37.980 but it is simply a fact she is, for all intents and purposes, a Democrat. She voted for

00:15:41.800 Joe Biden last time. And that's simply unacceptable. We talked about this a little bit yesterday on the

00:15:47.280 show. Joe Biden sent his jackbooted thug FBI agents to the home of a pro-life author and advocate,

00:15:54.600 a man who peacefully demonstrates outside of abortion clinics. And he sent these jackbooted

00:15:59.380 FBI thugs to point their rifles at this man and his family and his seven children and terrorize the

00:16:05.840 family. And it's just the latest acceleration of an attack by the Biden administration on Christians,

00:16:14.160 on conservatives, on pro-lifers in particular. The Biden administration, which describes parents who

00:16:21.840 don't want their kids to be taught critical race theory and weird sex stuff in school as a domestic

00:16:26.700 extremist threat, basically calling these people terrorists. The Biden administration, don't forget

00:16:31.500 Joe Biden back in the Obama administration, that administration sued nuns because the nuns didn't

00:16:38.280 want to want to kill little babies and go along with the left's radical sexual revolution agenda. Joe

00:16:43.880 Biden, who refers to half the country, who refers to you as semi-fascists and extreme threats to our

00:16:50.360 democracy. Joe Biden, who is hiring up 87,000 IRS agents to attack you. Joe Biden, who time and time again

00:16:58.880 is attacking conservatives, now imposing abortion, despite the court's ruling in Dobbs, imposing abortion

00:17:05.740 in pro-life states. Okay? It is not acceptable. Joe Biden, who is now imposing child transgenderism

00:17:14.760 through his federal bureaucracy, castrating little kids. Joe Biden, who's hiring overt Satanists,

00:17:23.160 guys who actually have pentagrams on their chest. Okay? It's not acceptable to defend this stuff,

00:17:28.420 to say nothing of the lawlessness, the open borders, the attacks on pretty much every American

00:17:36.220 way of life. It's not defensible. I don't want to hear, oh, Liz Cheney, she's just got a different

00:17:39.960 point of view. Oh, well, you know, it's sort of reasonable. Reasonable minds can disagree. Sure,

00:17:44.560 but reasonable minds cannot support Joe Biden. Okay? Joe Biden says, we're in a war for the soul of our

00:17:48.980 nation. And he allies himself with actual Satanists and actively promotes castrating little

00:17:55.180 kids and putting them on cross-sex hormones and killing a bunch of other little kids and keeping

00:18:00.160 the border open and flooding the country with foreigners and suppressing our political rights

00:18:03.780 and censoring us and throwing grannies who showed up to the capital, Rotunda, into solitary confinement.

00:18:10.120 Meanwhile, encouraging BLM and Antifa to riot and kill people. I just don't want to hear it.

00:18:15.300 I just don't want to hear it. Yeah, we are in a battle for the soul of our nation.

00:18:19.320 And you've got to pick a side. There is no neutrality. There is no reasonable minds disagree here.

00:18:23.260 And Liz Cheney has said, and the squishes that she stands for, there aren't very many of them,

00:18:29.380 but some people are saying, yeah, I'll vote for Joe Biden when the going gets tough.

00:18:34.380 Okay, fine. But then you're not a Republican. It's not reasonable. And I have absolutely no

00:18:40.860 respect for the woman. It's just like we were talking about those FBI agents yesterday.

00:18:45.260 I try to distinguish between the good FBI agents who do good work and who sometimes have to follow bad

00:18:52.000 orders and the corrupt Biden officials who are running the FBI and the DOJ. But sometimes you

00:18:57.600 can't let the agents off the hook. And when those agents got the call to go raid the home of the

00:19:02.140 pro-lifer and his, and his wife and his seven kids for no reason, then I don't let those agents off the

00:19:09.240 hook. I, I hold them personally, morally responsible for what they're doing. Okay. And I think that they're,

00:19:14.380 they should be greatly ashamed and they should apologize and they should resign and they should

00:19:17.500 refuse the order. And I don't want to hear, oh, well, you know, it was a very confusing time.

00:19:21.800 It's very complicated. Like Kareem Jean-Pierre says, it's not that complicated. But Ronald Reagan

00:19:26.820 said that the path forward sometimes is simple, not easy necessarily, but simple that there's really

00:19:32.440 no difference between a left and a right, only an up or a down. Well, pick a side, pick a side.

00:19:38.160 You want to see what they're doing in Chattanooga, Tennessee, Chattanooga,

00:19:43.200 Tennessee. That's supposed to be a right-wing place. They just held a youth gay pride event.

00:19:50.520 These are words that should not go in the same sentence ever. They hold a youth gay pride event

00:19:55.740 at which a little girl was, was massaging, stroking the, the groin of one of the performers.

00:20:04.800 I don't even know if the performer was a man or a woman.

00:20:06.640 This clip by way of Robbie Starbuck, we've blurred out the girl's face and it's really

00:20:14.000 horrifying, but you can still make it out a little bit blurry. She's just stroking this

00:20:18.820 person's pelvis. I don't know if it's a man. I don't know if it's a woman. He's, he or she is

00:20:23.980 dressed up in a mermaid costume. Then you've got some other pervert jumps out in drag, wearing a

00:20:29.780 tiny little mini skirt, lifts his leg up for it to a tiny little kid. Then you got another one

00:20:34.660 walking around with, this one is clearly a dude dressed up in drag, shaking his exposed

00:20:41.840 derriere to a, what looks like, I don't know, an eight or nine year old boy.

00:20:48.160 That's happening in Chattanooga, Tennessee. So if you vote for the Democrats, if you vote for the

00:20:52.500 libs, you're voting for this stuff. And that's a lot different than, well, I think we should have

00:20:56.240 slightly more immigration. Well, I think we should maybe raise tax rates on corporations a little

00:21:00.180 bit. That is, this is some sick demonic stuff. And if you vote for these people,

00:21:04.060 you are supporting this. And I think, I think you're going to be held morally accountable for

00:21:09.260 this. Okay. In, in this life, in the life of the world to come, more importantly, I just,

00:21:15.500 it's not good for your soul. It's not good for the country. There's no reason to support these

00:21:19.060 people. I have to ask myself, why is this happening in the middle of the country?

00:21:23.820 You actually don't see stuff this crazy in San Francisco or in New York city. You see plenty

00:21:31.780 of crazy stuff out there, but you would, you would expect to see crazier things in San Francisco

00:21:35.880 and New York and Chicago and wherever, but you don't. It's, it's these weird towns in Iowa or

00:21:41.700 Mississippi or now Chattanooga, where you're seeing the craziest version of this stuff.

00:21:47.380 Little kids actually stroking the genitals of these drag pervert performers to a bunch of clapping

00:21:53.980 seals who are, who are their, their parents who should have their kids taken away from them and,

00:21:58.980 and the other adults in the room. Why? I think that shows you the power of this kind of cultural

00:22:05.160 imperialism that you're seeing from the libs, especially in the coastal cities, because the,

00:22:11.040 the libs in the coastal cities, no matter what they preach, they do tend to want nice things.

00:22:18.020 They tend to be richer. They tend to be more established and they, they want to keep their own

00:22:22.920 kind of semi-civilized way of life going on, but they preach all this crap to everybody. And then

00:22:30.800 it's, it's very often in the smaller towns that are not as, I don't know, immune to the craziest

00:22:37.940 predations of this radical culture. That's where you see it really explode where there's, there are

00:22:43.680 no guardrails whatsoever and it goes completely off the rails. But, but we would be fooling ourselves

00:22:48.540 if we say, well, that's San Francisco for you. That's why, okay. That's why I'm, I'm in a good

00:22:53.040 old red state like Tennessee. Yeah. Tennessee is, I I'm breathing much freer air here in Tennessee,

00:22:57.240 but this crap is coming to Tennessee and it's coming to Iowa and it's coming to Mississippi and

00:23:02.760 it's coming to, it's coming to a red state near you and a red town near you. Okay. So it's really,

00:23:08.600 really a big problem. And we are not going to solve it by burying our heads in the sand.

00:23:16.220 What are we supposed to do about it? Well, if you think that that is the end of the line,

00:23:20.940 if you think that that's the bottom of the slippery slope, I got another thing for you.

00:23:23.820 Pink news, which is not a satire website. It's not a homophobic website. It's an LGBT website.

00:23:31.420 They have a headline. Why can't gay or lesbian twins have sex with or marry each other?

00:23:36.620 Why is incest wrong between same sex siblings? And I know the first reaction to this is going to be

00:23:42.240 one of absolute revulsion. And then a kind of mockery from, from people on the left, the people

00:23:47.800 on the left who didn't write this and who aren't running pink news. Clearly those leftists are

00:23:52.440 taking it seriously. But some people, the kind of moderate libs are going to say, oh, come on,

00:23:56.880 come on. That's a slippery slope argument. Right? Like all of the, all of the correct arguments

00:24:02.060 about this weird sex stuff. Come on, that's a slippery slope argument. Come on. We all know why

00:24:05.920 it's wrong. Okay. Then here's my challenge to you. Tell me why it's wrong. Given the premises

00:24:12.700 on marriage, on sex, on individual liberties or whatever that we've all accepted in our modern

00:24:18.740 American way of life. Tell me why it is wrong for gay or lesbian twins, siblings who they're not at

00:24:26.720 risk of procreation, not at risk of creating a child who's, you know, at, at higher risk for

00:24:32.380 certain abnormalities. And therefore you might make some, some argument. Well, the child didn't

00:24:37.600 consent or whatever kind of lame moral arguments the modern libs make. Tell me, there's no risk of

00:24:42.740 having a kid. Why is that? Why is incest between gay siblings wrong? If you, if you can't explain it,

00:24:55.320 then you, I'm, I think you've got a very bad case of liberal modernity.

00:25:02.380 Now, pink news wants to know why can't gay or lesbian twins have sex with or marry each other?

00:25:10.560 Well, the reason is because to quote the great bioethicist and philosopher and theologian Norm

00:25:17.340 McDonald, sex is a filthy, shameful thing. That's obviously only meant for procreation,

00:25:21.720 which is not that answer from Norm is actually about 85%, right? There's a little more to it than

00:25:29.600 that. Well, why? Well, because sex is a very powerful human thing. And so we have this,

00:25:35.720 um, this institution, which happens to be the fundamental political institution, which is

00:25:39.260 called marriage that actually helps us to make sense of our sexual desires and our sexual nature.

00:25:44.720 And marriage is the union of one man and one woman, uh, for the sake of the generation and

00:25:49.920 education of children. And everyone understood this until about five minutes ago. Now that's all

00:25:54.820 gone out the wayside. And now we say, what is marriage? Tell me what marriage is. Since 2015,

00:26:00.400 since a distinct political minority radically redefined marriage against the will of the

00:26:05.720 American people, kind of weird, kind of like how a lot of political movements take shape,

00:26:10.740 regardless of their democratic pretensions. When that happened, then marriage became

00:26:16.680 the union of two people who love each other, regardless of their sex. Okay, but my best friend

00:26:24.200 and I, we love each other. Not that way, but you know, we love each other. So are we married? No,

00:26:28.780 we're not married because you have to, I guess you maybe have to have sex to be married, but no,

00:26:32.860 you don't have to have sex to be married. There's no requirement that you will have sex. I mean that

00:26:37.040 traditionally you had to consummate a marriage for it to be considered a marriage, but that we've

00:26:42.240 redefined marriage. That's not in there. So what is it? Is it, well, if sexual difference isn't at

00:26:49.180 the heart of marriage, okay, then what is marriage? If it's just about two people who get a certain

00:26:55.160 romantic pleasure from one another, then why can't the twins do it? To consenting adults, right? Well,

00:27:01.220 my answer, the conservative answer is because consent is not all that matters. There are some

00:27:06.120 behaviors that are wrong, many behaviors that are wrong actually, that remain wrong and ought to be

00:27:12.940 suppressed, including by the heavy hand of the state, even if the adults sort of consent to it.

00:27:19.560 The relationship between a drug dealer and a drug addict, that is a seemingly consensual sort of

00:27:26.540 relationship, even though addiction compromises our ability to consent, just like all sin compromises

00:27:32.760 our ability to consent because the man who sins is a slave to sin. But let's say that you got the

00:27:37.100 relationship between a drug dealer, the heroin dealer, and the heroin addict. Today, at least for now,

00:27:42.620 at least in most of America, we say that that consensual relationship is illegal. They cannot

00:27:48.840 do the thing that the drug dealers and the drug users do together because there is a higher moral

00:27:54.200 consideration than consent. And we used to understand this about sex. That's certainly one of the arguments

00:27:59.660 against incest. But if we can't do that, if we're not allowing ourselves to articulate moral

00:28:05.860 considerations that are deeper and higher actually than mere consent, then we're totally sunk. Then we're

00:28:12.320 totally lost. We're starting to work our way back there a little bit. You're seeing this in the

00:28:18.780 fight over the pediatric gender clinics. Even though still, that moral argument is still focused

00:28:24.720 on consent, right? And the argument is the kids can't consent. And the parents are consenting on

00:28:28.860 behalf of the kids, but the parents are extremely deranged if they're willing to take their kids in

00:28:33.420 to get their body parts chopped off so that little boys can seem more like little girls. And so we're

00:28:37.380 saying that there's no real consent going on here. We got to shut it down. And there's great news.

00:28:41.420 Tennessee lawmakers are now looking at legislation to crack down on the child gender transitions.

00:28:49.000 This is in large part thanks to Matt Walsh. And Matt Walsh broke the story personally. And then it was

00:28:54.740 thanks to a lot of the research by the team here at the Daily Wire that was able to do that.

00:28:58.560 So now you're seeing some legislation to stop the kid gender clinics. I think we need to go further

00:29:06.140 than that though. And I floated this idea yesterday and some people thought I was kidding. I'm not

00:29:11.400 kidding. Because I think we need gender clinics. I actually think it's good to have gender clinics.

00:29:18.000 And right now what the gender clinics do is they take confused little boys who think that they're

00:29:24.080 little girls. And then they mold them, sometimes surgically, to look more like little girls.

00:29:30.480 And certainly psychologically, they mold them to seem more like little girls. And vice versa.

00:29:34.300 They take little confused girls and they mold them to seem more like little boys.

00:29:40.640 And that's horrible. The next best thing that we could do would be to get rid of those gender

00:29:48.040 clinics. But really the best thing that we would do is have gender clinics that take confused

00:29:53.700 little boys and mold them to be more like little boys. And take confused little girls and mold them

00:29:59.500 to be more like little girls. So you might call the little girl one the beauty salon. You know,

00:30:07.440 the hair styling place. The mani-pedi shop. That's what the doctor should do. The doctor should see the

00:30:14.360 confused teenage girl comes in and says, I think I'm a boy. Say, okay, well, you're obviously not a boy.

00:30:19.120 So I'm going to write you a prescription for one mani-pedi. Here you go. Go to the beauty salon and get

00:30:23.600 your nails done. Or the boy comes in. We used to have these kinds of gender clinics. You know,

00:30:28.920 the boy would be a little confused. I think I'm a girl. No, I don't think you are. I'm going to

00:30:32.260 prescribe you one year in Boy Scouts. You know, you're going to go camping, you know, and start a

00:30:37.880 fire. Or maybe if it's an older teenage boy, you say, I'm going to prescribe you two cigars at the

00:30:43.040 local cigar lounge talking to men about man stuff. There you go. I'm going to prescribe you

00:30:49.620 to three hours at the gym. I actually missed that particular gender clinic. That was never my cup

00:30:55.460 of tea. I more favored, you know, the other one. But I mean this sincerely. I know it sounds like

00:31:02.260 I'm joking. And it's a kind of funny idea. But I mean it sincerely. It's kind of like the free

00:31:08.240 speech issue. Conservatives used to understand free speech. And then we kind of lost our way for 20 years.

00:31:15.860 And now we're starting to get it a little bit again. This is what my book Speechless was about.

00:31:20.560 There's no such thing as neutrality. There's no such thing as we need free speech for everybody.

00:31:24.260 And we should have no taboos and no standards and nothing's off limits at all. That's never

00:31:27.180 existed in any society. It's not possible. Cultures and societies are defined by our taboos and what's

00:31:34.500 off limits and what's held sacred and all the rest. So the question is not free speech versus

00:31:40.780 censorship. It's what the standards are and what is it going to be. Used to be that you could teach

00:31:46.040 the Bible in school. You couldn't teach porn in school. Now it's the opposite, right? You can't

00:31:49.000 teach the Bible in school and they do teach porn in school. So we got to fight over those standards.

00:31:53.000 What's the same thing here? There's no neutrality when it comes to gender. In fact, that's what the

00:31:58.260 libs want. The libs want there to be a neutrality where we're all just kind of asexual gray blobs

00:32:02.960 who are completely androgynous and use whatever bathroom they're in. But no, actually human nature

00:32:08.980 has something intrinsically to do with sexual difference. The fact that there are men and

00:32:16.040 women in this world is one of the most beautiful aspects of the world. And men have an obligation

00:32:22.720 to act like men, even if they don't want to, even if they're kind of confused. And women have an

00:32:27.580 obligation to act like women. Gender expression is real. It's not made up. It's real. And the men

00:32:35.920 should act more masculine and the women should act more feminine. Speaking of women's issues,

00:32:42.060 a 19-year-old TikToker has just gone viral because, very sad story, she just got a blood clot

00:32:48.500 and she got the blood clot from her hormonal birth control. Take a listen.

00:32:53.400 So she's got the text here on the TikTok. Starts to get a slight headache. She's in a hospital bed.

00:33:03.240 Takes Tylenol, hoping it'll go away. Headache doesn't go away. Turns into a pounding migraine.

00:33:13.640 And she takes Excedrin, hoping the migraine will go away. Seems like she's in good spirits as she

00:33:19.860 recovers. And then the migraine continues for days. Starts sweating profusely. Starts to vomit.

00:33:27.840 She's getting really, really sick. Heads to urgent care. Give a cortisone shot. They say it's really

00:33:36.680 just a bad migraine. But it's not just a bad migraine. Then the cortisone thing works for a little bit.

00:33:45.000 Then she goes to the ER because she's still got this horrible pounding headache. Gets blood work

00:33:49.460 and MRIs. Turns out she's got a blood clot in the brain because she's been taking birth control for

00:33:55.860 three years and that's what caused it. So you got to give credit to this TikToker because she turns

00:34:00.120 even a life-threatening, horrifying experience into great content. She's kind of dancing in the

00:34:06.160 little hospital bed and she seems to be in decent spirits as she recovers. But she could have died.

00:34:12.200 Easily could have died from that. And then you got to ask yourself, what would she have died for?

00:34:20.420 She would have died for the possibility of having promiscuous sex. And I'm not even shaming her for

00:34:29.840 this. Young girls all over America are pressured into taking hormonal birth control. It is like a given.

00:34:36.760 Even when I was a wee lad, not that long ago, when I was growing up, all the girls in suburban New York

00:34:45.560 were put on birth control from age 12 onward probably. Their parents put them on it. And

00:34:50.080 sometimes there'd be some excuse. Oh, it regulates their menstrual cycle or something. But it was

00:34:53.900 really just to put them on it so that when they did have promiscuous sex, they wouldn't get pregnant.

00:34:58.700 That's what it was about. For what? This woman almost died for something that

00:35:06.060 really is only desired by men. I know that women have convinced themselves because of feminism

00:35:13.340 that they really want to have promiscuous sex with lots of men, but they don't. Men and women

00:35:19.240 relate to sex differently. And men have every sort of natural drive to have promiscuous sex with lots

00:35:26.200 and lots of women. And women don't really have that. Women have different incentives because of

00:35:30.160 the fact of pregnancy and because of their biochemistry and because of just what makes

00:35:34.080 a woman a woman. So you think, why would she do this? There obviously are side effects. You're not

00:35:38.700 allowed to talk about that. You're not allowed to talk about the side effects of birth control.

00:35:41.340 You're not allowed to talk about the side effects of the COVID vaccines, heaven forfend. You're not

00:35:44.920 allowed to talk about any of the side effects of our public health establishment and all the kind of

00:35:49.620 crap that they pump us with. But it's all there. And for what? This woman, this young woman would be

00:35:56.420 much healthier and much happier if she didn't take this stuff. And it seems radical today. It seems

00:36:01.040 radical today to live in a way that people lived 50 years ago. Forget 50, even 30, 40 years ago.

00:36:08.800 It seems so radical. That's how much the libs, this radical minority of people has shifted the

00:36:15.340 Overton window. But it doesn't need to be this way. Young girls, teenage girls, you don't need to

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00:37:39.040 to apply. Speaking of birth, great news out of Arizona. And this is one of these delightful sort

00:37:48.460 of political stories, not only in the effect it has on policy, but just in the way it came about.

00:37:55.560 Arizona outlawed abortion. Arizona didn't outlaw abortion after Dobbs or even right before Dobbs.

00:38:04.640 Arizona outlawed abortion in 1864. That was law on the books. And then there were a bunch of

00:38:12.620 challenges to it in the years right before Roe v. Wade. And then it was overturned. It was called

00:38:17.700 unconstitutional for whatever reason. And then it was sort of reinstated. And then you get the Roe v.

00:38:22.840 Wade decision, which says there's a national right to abortion somewhere in the invisible text of the

00:38:27.140 constitution. And so the 1864 abortion ban in Arizona goes on ice. But now Roe v. Wade is not the law

00:38:34.000 of the land. Planned Parenthood v. Casey, not the law of the land. And a judge, the Arizona Superior

00:38:39.740 Court judge, Kelly Johnson, has just ruled that Arizona's near total abortion ban, which goes back

00:38:46.700 to 1864, can take effect. Really good stuff. Obviously it should. The Libs were going to try

00:38:52.220 to figure out some way to undermine the will of the people, right? This is a democratically passed law.

00:38:57.020 And some people are going to say, well, yeah, but it's democratically passed, but it was passed back

00:39:01.640 in 1864. Right, that's true. Laws don't need to be passed again and again and again every single

00:39:07.380 year. That's not what democracy is. In fact, democracy in practice involves not just the people

00:39:14.300 that are walking around today, but a much broader group of people. It includes even the democracy of

00:39:20.600 the dead, to use Chesterton's phrase. That's how a political order remains stable and grows over time.

00:39:28.580 And this was a democratic law and the Libs wanted to suppress the will of the people and it didn't

00:39:32.100 work. This is really great news. It's great news because it will, at least for now, severely limit

00:39:37.400 the number of abortions in Arizona, which is awesome and which most people certainly will get on board

00:39:42.820 with. More importantly than that, though, it is a reminder that pro-life, the pro-life movement and

00:39:52.440 perspective is really, really deep in the American tradition. What the Libs have tried to argue is

00:39:58.020 that, oh, abortion, it was not really a big deal and no one even thought about this. And when they did,

00:40:02.980 they favored abortion. Abortion's totally fine. It's just these radical new Republicans starting,

00:40:08.100 I don't know, around the 1960s or 70s. That's when they really came after abortion. And that's just not

00:40:12.720 true. That is just not true. Going all the way back, not just to 1864, but actually, if you go back

00:40:20.420 to the time before the American Revolution, if you go to Blackstone's commentaries even, which is so

00:40:26.980 important to English common law, which we heavily rely on here in the American legal tradition,

00:40:33.840 our political tradition, our ancestors considered babies in the womb to be human beings.

00:40:38.900 Okay, there's a strong argument that the 14th Amendment actually outlaws abortion at a national

00:40:44.080 level. Certainly in the Civil Rights Acts passed just after the Civil War, you see this. The American

00:40:51.080 tradition is pro-life. The radicals who pretend otherwise, who pretend that there's some constitutional

00:40:56.580 right to an abortion or whatever, they're making it up out of whole cloth. And the people who want

00:41:00.680 abortion on demand without apology until the moment of birth, it's not the majority of people.

00:41:04.440 It's a distinct minority of people. In terms of people who want just abortion access whenever,

00:41:10.940 it's something like 6% of the American people. It's nobody, okay? 94% of Americans oppose that.

00:41:18.660 Doesn't matter. They got their way for 50 years. Brings us right back to what we were talking to at the

00:41:23.080 top of the show. Conservatives, we can mock this. We can complain. We can say it's not fair. We can say

00:41:29.360 it's so wrong. Yeah, sure. We should learn from that too. Political movements that are effective

00:41:34.400 are always a minority of people. A dedicated, devoted, focused, courageous minority. That's

00:41:43.340 who gets things done. I mean, just even think about our sacred democracy. In our sacred democracy,

00:41:48.800 only half the country votes anyway. Half the country votes, and then half of that half votes for one party,

00:41:54.600 and half of that half votes for the other party. So even when we're talking about the broadest level of

00:41:58.460 American politics, we're only really talking about a quarter of the country doing anything,

00:42:02.140 electing a president or whatever. And when we're talking about these specific kinds of movements,

00:42:07.680 the sexual revolution, obviously, abortion activism, the drag queen story hour insanity,

00:42:12.460 we're talking about a really small sliver of Americans who are getting things done because they

00:42:16.640 have the political will to do it. Well, why don't conservatives take a lesson from that? Because we don't

00:42:21.580 want to do anything. Because the conservatives are still stuck on a bunch of silly platitudes from the

00:42:27.580 last 20 years. Well, I don't want the government involved. I don't. Well, then what are you running

00:42:31.300 for office for? If you're not going to wield the government to do good things in a just way within

00:42:35.660 the confines of the law and the Constitution, then I don't want you in office. I just think that

00:42:40.760 actually, if you elect me, I'm not going to do anything. Okay, then go away. That's fine. Go join

00:42:45.140 Liz Cheney and the other losers. I want a conservative who's actually going to do stuff,

00:42:49.160 not arbitrarily, not capriciously, but who's actually going to go in and follow the justice

00:42:57.420 and truth and the American political tradition to restore this country, to make America great again.

00:43:04.180 That's what I want. Okay. Is that so much to ask? I don't think it is. Speaking of the abortion issue,

00:43:11.920 think about how our opponents are wielding the state. So Joe Biden sends these jackbooted thugs in

00:43:18.520 to attack the pro-lifer. And now the FBI is denying it, sort of. The headline is FBI denies

00:43:25.200 sending a SWAT team to arrest pro-life activist Mark Houck. Now, listen to how this is being

00:43:32.900 reported. And this is even in Breitbart. So Breitbart's giving at least the context,

00:43:36.080 the full story. But this is how it's being reported in the mainstream media.

00:43:38.920 The FBI has denied sending a SWAT team of 25 to 30 agents to arrest Mark Houck. Okay,

00:43:45.080 so what happened then? Well, what happened is,

00:43:50.760 in a statement to Fox News, a spokesman with the FBI Philadelphia field office denied that the SWAT

00:43:58.180 team had been used. Quote, there were inaccurate claims being made regarding to the arrest of Mark

00:44:02.300 Houck. No SWAT team or SWAT operators were involved. FBI agents knocked on Mr. Houck's front door,

00:44:08.980 identified themselves as FBI agents, and asked him to exit the residence. He did so and was taken into

00:44:13.360 custody without incident pursuant to the indictment. But the FBI did not deny that 25 to 30 armed agents

00:44:22.320 were on the scene and armored agents were on the scene. Did not deny that Houck's children saw the

00:44:27.340 ancients point rifles at their father and mother to arrest him. And do not deny that they then threw

00:44:36.500 him the back of a car and took him away. So they're admitting that all this stuff happened. The only

00:44:44.000 thing they're denying is that it wasn't a SWAT team. No, no, this is being completely misreported in the

00:44:49.920 conservative media. No, we sent some of our nicest agents there. They weren't the sort of special

00:44:55.780 agents. They're just regular agents pointing rifles at this man and his wife while his seven kids are

00:45:01.860 looking on in terror, showing up 25, 30 agents at his door, tossing him in the back of the car.

00:45:07.480 Why? Because he thinks that maybe we shouldn't kill so many babies every year. Because he peacefully

00:45:12.880 protested outside of an abortion clinic. That's why. And their denial is, oh no, come on.

00:45:21.340 No, we didn't send the exact category of agents you think we sent. They did all the stuff that you're

00:45:25.860 alleging. But you know, it was a different, it was a different division. Fake news, 25 Pinocchios.

00:45:31.580 Give me a break. And they're doing, how are they getting away with this? This would have been

00:45:35.820 unimaginable, unimaginable in America, at least for me. Maybe it was a failure of imagination on my part.

00:45:41.640 I didn't think that there were so many evil people in our government doing such evil things.

00:45:46.480 Maybe that was my own naivete. But now I know, now I know this stuff is not popular. This would not

00:45:53.220 play in PR yet. It doesn't matter. They're doing it anyway. They got the power and they're willing

00:45:57.680 to use it. Are we willing to win some political power back? Or more importantly, are we willing

00:46:02.300 to flex that political power when we win it? I hope so. Otherwise, I guess we don't deserve to win.

00:46:07.800 Because what we're hearing, you're seeing this huge movement of violence from the left.

00:46:12.900 And then the libs, the same libs who are inflicting the violence, they go on TV and they say,

00:46:17.480 gosh, you know, those Trumpers, they're so violent. John Heileman on MSNBC just came out. He said,

00:46:22.560 these Trump supporters, they're going to take up arms against the Democrats.

00:46:27.780 One in 2020, Donald Trump got more votes in 2020 than he got in 2016. By a lot. Millions more votes,

00:46:34.900 right? He still got whomped by Joe Biden in the popular vote. And yet he came within a few thousand

00:46:40.640 votes because of our electoral college system in three states of winning electoral college victory.

00:46:45.640 There's lots of ways that Donald Trump, as he did in 2016, as he came close to doing in 2020,

00:46:49.620 can become president without winning a popular vote majority. That's one thing. And I think

00:46:55.140 that's very much in his head. He's been told over and over again by strategists that that is the path

00:46:59.300 for him. Not he can't win, but he couldn't in 2016. He couldn't in 2020. And he won't in 2024

00:47:04.420 win a majority vote. He has to straight yet to thread the needle and string together those 270

00:47:10.880 electoral votes and be a minority president. Number one. Number two, I don't think he cares about,

00:47:17.360 he wants, he wants to, he knows that this, the core, that the path for him forward is always about

00:47:23.140 division, anger, energy, the division, divide in the country, reducing the core of his base down,

00:47:29.940 but at the same time making that like into a sauce of a kind, right? It's like he reduces it down.

00:47:34.040 It gets stronger, more virulent, more toxic, more energized, also more violent. Does Trump think

00:47:41.020 about the, is he trying to necessarily stoke violence or does he not care? So this is really

00:47:46.120 important. To the first point that he makes, he says, Trump never won the popular vote. Right.

00:47:49.800 Because the presidency is not decided by the popular vote. If the presidency were decided by

00:47:54.580 the popular vote, I bet you Trump would have won it. He didn't win it because his campaign strategy,

00:48:00.860 like all sensible campaign strategies, is going to focus on the battleground states.

00:48:06.060 So Trump doesn't campaign in California. He doesn't campaign in New York.

00:48:09.660 No Republicans do. That would be a waste of time. That's not how you win the game.

00:48:12.980 But if you won the, if you won the presidency based on popular vote, you'd see massive rallies

00:48:17.600 in California, massive rallies in New York. You would see the votes shift. I bet you he would

00:48:21.380 win the popular vote, but it's a moot point. That's not how the presidency is decided to this

00:48:26.240 guy's second point. Do you see Republicans getting violent? I don't. I see Democrats running over 18 year

00:48:34.060 old conservatives for being conservative. I see major Democrat politicians calling for violence

00:48:38.620 against Republicans. I see the president of the United States calling half the country fascist and

00:48:42.360 saying we're an existential threat to the country. That's what I see. And I see leftists burning the

00:48:46.660 country down for eight months at a time with the, with the rhetorical and financial support of the

00:48:52.560 Dems, of leading Democrats. That's what I see. Okay. And so I don't buy any of this crap. This is

00:48:58.600 the same kind of tactics that you would see from dangerous, radical political minorities

00:49:04.020 throughout history, from the Bolsheviks, from the Jacobins to all of it. The Libs are doing that.

00:49:08.580 Okay. And they're doing it pretty successfully. Maybe it's because conservatives were outraged.

00:49:13.580 We mock them sometimes. We complain about it. We shout. Maybe we need to learn. Maybe we need to

00:49:17.980 open up our ears a little bit and take a look at their successful tactics and then apply them not

00:49:22.960 in the unjust way, immoral way that they are doing, but apply the same principles in a moral and just

00:49:28.040 way. You know, the rest of the show is continuing now. You do not want to miss it. We are going to be

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