Ep. 1106 - Madonna Is Gay
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Summary
Madonna has come out as gay. Is it a recent development, or is it part of a long history of affairs with other men? And what does it mean for the future of the anti-gay movement? Plus, a conspiracy theory about COVID.
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Huge cultural news on this most sacred liberal festival of national coming out day.
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64-year-old pop singer Madonna has come out as gay.
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Here she is on TikTok, says, if I miss, I'm gay. And she throws her underwear and it misses.
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And then she kind of throws her hand in the air to say that she is gay. Incredible news
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that Madonna is finally accepting her true self, her most authentic identity as gay.
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We just didn't know all this time, but that's her true self. Incredibly. It is incredible because
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Madonna has famously dated lots and lots of men. Tony Ward, Sean Penn, Lenny Kravitz, Tupac,
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Dennis Rodman, Carlos Leon, David Blaine, Vanilla Ice, Guy Ritchie, A-Rod,
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Brahmin Zaibat, Timur Steffens, Ala Malik Williams. Those are just the first ones that pop up on
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Google and the first result on Google, okay? She's been married twice, both times to men,
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obviously. And I don't mean to broadcast the lady's secrets, but they're not secrets.
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This has been her brand for over 40 years. If Madonna is a lesbian, this would appear to be a
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rather recent turn of events. But the LGBT activists tell us, or at least they used to tell
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us until very recently, that sexual orientation is something that you're born with, that it's
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completely unchangeable. That's why we have to ban the so-called conversion therapy. Until the last few
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years, when not only sexual orientation, but sex itself became something that changes constantly.
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And however it changes, whenever it changes, that is your true, authentic self until tomorrow,
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when it will probably change again. And then no one can ever bring up all the stuff that you said
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and did, the person that you were just yesterday. National Coming Out Day is the perfect holiday
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for a culture devoted to erasing its past, to denying its traditions, to maligning everything
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that happened before this very moment. A culture that insists upon questioning every ancient truth
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and bans you from questioning anything that happens to be in fashion among the ruling elite
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right now. I'm Michael Knowles. This is The Michael Knowles Show.
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Welcome back to the show. I'm going to come out as a lesbian too. Many, many years now,
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people have noted the similarities, the resemblance between me and Rachel Maddow. So let's do it.
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It's National Coming Out Day. I am officially a lesbian. I don't think this will affect my marriage,
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my relationship with my wife. My orientation will remain the same. But from now on,
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in honor of National Coming Out Day, to get a little bit more attention, just like Madonna is
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crying out for. I, Michael Knowles, am a lesbian. My favorite comment yesterday is from Dave M.,
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who says, a friend of mine had a 37-year-old co-worker who did not return to work after his
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third COVID shot. Three days later, they found him dead in his apartment, heart failure. Terrible
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story. Many such cases. I have a relative who is very liberal and was, like all the liberals,
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was COVID crazy and everyone has to get a thousand shots and everything. And she said,
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Michael, COVID's really scary because my friend's father died about two weeks after getting the
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shot. And I said, oh, are you, so you acknowledge that there are risks to the shot, that the shot is
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causing heart problems and killing people? And she said, oh, no, Michael, you're crazy. What a crazy
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conspiracy there is. I just mean, he had these heart problems because he had had COVID months prior.
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No, no, no. The shot that he had a couple weeks before, or maybe it was even one week before.
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No, that has nothing to do with it. No, it was obviously the COVID that he had six months prior.
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That's what killed him. That's why you need to get the shot. People seriously think this. That's
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what the whole culture told us to do. And then you have these sad stories, like you're describing
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slash Knowles. National Coming Out Day is not the only sacred liberal feast that we're celebrating this
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week. I should have spoken more about this yesterday. I forgot. It's now, it's the most
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important, it's the most important liberal sacred holiday of October 12th, 2022. That of course would be
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Indigenous Peoples Day. Yes. No, that was, it was, I'm sorry, it was October 10th. Today is the 11th
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National Coming Out Day. Tomorrow, I don't know what's tomorrow going to be, Transgender Awareness Day.
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But yesterday was Indigenous Peoples Day, also known as Columbus Day. Columbus Day is a real holiday
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that we've celebrated off and on since 1891, 1892. But certainly since the 1930s,
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we've celebrated it very regularly until a bunch of liberals decided that they hate Christopher
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Columbus because he discovered America and he brought Christianity and Western civilization
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to the new world. And they've decided this is very, very bad. Even as they sip their Starbucks lattes and
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type on their iPhones and enjoy all the privileges of being an American, they pretend that they would
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rather live under the Aztec empire, having their hearts ripped out by maniacs on top of a pyramid.
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So that's what they tell us. And it's not just the fringe people telling us this.
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That's what Kamala Harris tells us. The vice president tweeted out yesterday,
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on Indigenous Peoples Day, we pay respect to tribal nations and Indigenous history.
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Today and every day, let us continue to celebrate and uplift the rich contributions
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of Indigenous peoples. Their leadership has made our country stronger.
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Now, of course, this doesn't really make a whole lot of sense because we are told,
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on the one hand, the Indigenous peoples are so important. They've made our country stronger.
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They're such an important part of our country. Also, we're really, really evil because we killed
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all the Indigenous peoples. So which is it? Do they still exist and they make our country stronger?
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Did we kill all of them and that's why we're so bad? Who are the Indigenous peoples that we're
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talking about? Because when I think about the arrival of Columbus, 1492, Columbus sailed the ocean
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blue. He arrived. And it's true that this experience of colonialism had some problems with it.
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There's no question about that. Although it's worth correcting the historical record. Most of the
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things that people accused Christopher Columbus of having done, he just didn't do. It was other
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people. It was other Spaniards. In fact, Christopher Columbus very often was taking the side of the
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Native Americans against some of the more aggressive and violent of the Spanish conquistadors and
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explorers. The original crew, not the later crews, but the original crew that came with Columbus.
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And actually, a lot of the crimes that he was accused of, he was accused of them by Francisco
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de Bobadilla, who was his political rival and who took over his spot as governor of the West Indies.
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So yes, it's true that there is essentially one document that says that Columbus did all these
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terrible things. But it was written by his chief political rival. That would be like trusting an
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account of Donald Trump's life written by Joe Biden. That just wouldn't make a whole lot of sense.
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And in fact, he was the victim of a whole lot of calumny. But forget about that. Let's say that
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Columbus did every single thing that they said that he did. All of the crimes that Columbus is accused of
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in his entire life do not equal the horrors and crimes of one four-day period in 1487 at the
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consecration of Tenochtitlan, when the Aztecs ritualistically slaughtered an estimated 84,000 people,
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young people, women, ripped their still beating hearts out of their chests and kicked their bodies
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down the side of the temple. It's a four-day period. And it wasn't just the Aztecs. Yes,
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the Aztecs were particularly nasty. And yes, when the Aztec empire was overthrown, the conquered peoples
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who were frequently sacrificed by the Aztecs celebrated. Of course they would have. But it
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wasn't just them. It was the Carib Islanders. The Carib Islanders who gave us the word cannibal.
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The word cannibal in our language comes from the Caribs because they were cannibals and they did all
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sorts of crazy things. And when Christopher Columbus arrived in the New World, he met this nice group of
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Indians called the Tainos and some of them had marks on their bodies. The marks were from the Caribs who
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were complete savages. And it wasn't just the Caribs, by the way. Going all the way up into North America,
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all the way up into upstate New York, the Iroquois practiced cannibalism. So many of the Native
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American tribes practiced cannibalism. Christopher Columbus, for all his sins, the man never ate
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people. Okay? And so why do we celebrate Indigenous Peoples Day? If you're comparing Christopher Columbus
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and the Indigenous Peoples, qua the Indigenous Peoples, you know, them as a people, Columbus was a
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zillion times better than they were. They did crazy stuff. They worshiped demons and slaughtered one
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another constantly and then ate their bodies. You know, the Carib Islanders raised babies to eat, human
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babies, and they considered that a particularly toothsome morsel, according to the biography by Samuel L.A.
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Morrison, who's one of the most respected historians in America, in American history. So no, there's no
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comparison here. I hate to put too fine a point on it, but Tony Soprano got this exactly right.
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His history teacher, Mr. Cushman, is teaching your son that if Columbus was alive today, he would go on
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trial for crimes against humanity like Milosevic and, you know, Europe. Your teacher said that?
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It's not just my teacher. It's the truth. It's in my history book.
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So you finally read a book and it's bullshit. Tony.
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Look, you had to work in Columbus's shoes to see what he went through. People thought the world was
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flat, for crying out loud. Then he lands on an island with a bunch of naked savages on it. I mean,
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that took a lot of guts. You remember when we went to Florida, the heat, and those bugs?
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Well, like it took guts to murder people and put them in chains.
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He discovered America is what he did. He was a brave Italian explorer. And in this house,
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End of story. Absolutely true. But that's not the end of the story for the liberals now. Robert Reich,
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who is that sort of diminutive fellow who worked in the Clinton administration. He goes on cable news
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sometimes, very left wing. He said, get Columbus Day out of your vocabulary.
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Today is now Indigenous Peoples Day. And why? Who cares? It's just a holiday, right? Who cares?
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The libs care. The libs care a lot. They focus a lot of time and energy and money on getting us all
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to hate Christopher Columbus and take down the statues and to celebrate the Indigenous Peoples.
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We're going to have Aztec Tenochtitlan Day or something. Why? Because it is a sign of cultural
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conquest and political conquest. Because human beings need holidays and liturgy. Human beings need
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order to their lives. What we celebrate, what we worship defines our culture. And previously,
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we were a confident culture. We celebrated the man who brought Christianity to the new world,
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the man who brought European civilization to the new world, the man who gave us our traditional
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country, who started the chain of events that led to our traditional country. The libs hate all of
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that. And they finally amassed enough political power that they seem pretty able to blot it out.
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You Google what day is it on October 10th this year. You Google it. It's going to say Indigenous
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Peoples Day. You talk to the Democrat Party. They're going to say Indigenous Peoples Day. You
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talk to your teachers. They're going to say Indigenous Peoples Day. They have conquered that
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holiday. It's a sign of a conquest, not of the Native Americans, not of the new world.
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madness is we're told, look, Columbus was terrible to the people that we would now call the Hispanic
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people. Christopher Columbus, of course, invented the Hispanic people. Hispanic people are the
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combination of Spanish people and Native Americans. But the people who have this indigenous blood
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ancestry in America, they absolutely hate Columbus. And it's so offensive to celebrate Columbus Day.
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And that's why we've got to celebrate Indigenous Peoples Day. Here's a poll just came out. This is a
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poll from WPA Intelligence. It was on behalf of the Latino advocacy group Bienvenido, surveyed a little
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under 1,100 respondents. And it asked, how do you view Christopher Columbus? The majority of the
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respondents view him favorably. Of course. There's a whole country named after him down there.
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Columbia, remember that country? It's named after Christopher. It's not named after the town in
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Ohio. The town in Ohio is also named after Christopher Columbus. So the majority of Hispanics
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view Columbus favorably. About 53 percent. Only 24 percent view him unfavorably. So his net favorables
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are 29 points. It's pretty good. Meanwhile, the same polling firm asked Hispanics their view of Joe
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Biden. Only 49 percent of Hispanics view Biden positively. 42 percent have a negative view of him. That gives
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him a net favorable of seven points. So Christopher Columbus is much, much, much more popular among
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Hispanics than Joe Biden is. But it gets better because they asked him about their views on Kamala
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Harris. So only 45 percent say they have a favorable view of Kamala Harris. 41 percent view her unfavorably.
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So that's a net favorable of four points. Obviously, Christopher Columbus is much, much more popular.
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So what does this tell us? Forget about Columbus for a second. Forget about Hispanics. Forget about
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Biden and Harris. This tells us that the cultural revolution that we are seeing,
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the canceling of historical figures and traditional objects of veneration, the reordering of our language,
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of our holidays, of our liturgical calendar, all this craziness is not the result of a change in
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public opinion. This is not the organic bubbling up from the people whose views are changing. Get on
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board, you old fogies. The kids are creating a new world. It's not that at all. This is being imposed
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top down from liberal elites. Liberal elites who are pretending, they're pretending to be offended on
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behalf of the Hispanic people. Well, we have to. We can't celebrate Christopher Columbus because that
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would be so mean to Hispanics. The Hispanics like Christopher Columbus. They don't like you,
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actually. And by you, I'm sorry. I don't mean you, the listener. I mean you, Joe Biden, and Kamala
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Harris. The Hispanics are pretty clear they don't like you guys that much. They do like Christopher
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Columbus. So why are you guys canceling Christopher Columbus on behalf of the Hispanics who don't like
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you? Because it has nothing to do with the people. It has everything to do with imposing this from the
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top down. Liberalism is not the voice of the people. And the liberals who are always attacking
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the far right conservatives. And I'm talking about the liberals on the left and even the squishy ones
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in the center and on the center right. The ones who are a little afraid. Well, we can't legislate
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morality. We can't impose our views on others. We can't. We've got a, you know, it's got problems,
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but liberalism, you know, it's the best thing we've got. At least the classical kind of liberalism or
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just liberalism, you know, it just gives people freedom to voice their opinions. It doesn't.
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It doesn't. That's what it pretends to do. But that is not what liberalism in practice does.
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Liberalism, like all political movements, is the movement of a small, motivated political minority
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imposing its views on other people. That's almost always true in politics. And there's a silver lining
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to that. There's a bright side to that, which is that sometimes conservatives get a little discouraged.
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We get pretty blackpilled because we'll say, well, there just aren't enough of us.
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You look at the polling numbers, there just aren't enough of us who support life,
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who support our traditional freedoms and civil liberties, who support the traditional American
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nation, you know, apple pie and truth justice in the American way. We're just, we're not a majority
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anymore. So what? So what? Who cares? Public Christianity is on the decline. Church attendance
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is on the decline. Yeah. Okay. So what? Were the Bolsheviks the majority of Russians? No.
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They were a distinct minority, a very, very small minority of political radicals.
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And they had a great effect. Do you think the leftists here in America were a majority of America
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by the time they reordered our culture? They're not a majority of America today, not even close.
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No, we can do this stuff. We can defend everything we hold dear from the American border
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to the American family, to our communities, to our Second Amendment rights, to our religious
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protections, all the way to Christopher Columbus. We can defend these things, even if we don't have
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a majority of the people or whatever. You think the libs have a majority of the people? Not even close.
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Our views are much more popular than their views are. Transing the kids and killing all the babies
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and opening up the borders and shipping our jobs overseas and fighting wars of adventure in the middle
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of nowhere for some abstract vision of global liberalism so we can raise a pride flag in Kandahar
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or whatever is just, none of that stuff is popular at all. The conservative views are much,
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much more popular. So why are we losing? Because popularity is not all that matters in politics.
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It's not even the most important thing that matters. We don't have the institutions. We don't
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have the power. And most importantly, we don't have the guts to wield political power on the rare
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occasions we get it. But please do not tell me that all hope is lost because only 45% of Americans
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support our views. That's ridiculous. It just requires a little clarity and vision and courage,
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without question. The liberal agenda is being imposed by elites from above. Nowhere is this clearer
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right now than in Ukraine, specifically on the expedition of the president of the American
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Federation of Teachers to Ukraine. Yes, Randy Weingarten, who is this crooked union boss that pulls a lot of
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strings in the Democrat party. Randy Weingarten, for some reason, is in Ukraine. She's there to,
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in her words, assess the damage after the Russian invasion and bombardment of Ukraine.
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Why? Why? For so many people, so much of the Ukraine war does not make a lot of sense.
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People are asking, why are we involved in Ukraine? Why are we sending all this money to Ukraine?
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Why does this seem so important to so many of the kind of beltway type people, but it doesn't seem
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important to ordinary Americans? And now you look at this, you say, why the hell is the teacher union
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president in Ukraine? None of this makes sense. This doesn't make sense if you think that America
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is a nation run like they told you it's run in Schoolhouse Rock. You know, I'm a bill up on Capitol
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Hill, and the funding bills originate in the House, and then they go to the Senate,
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and then they're signed by the president, and then that's how our government works. And if you
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want to make some change in this world, just call your congressman, and that's it. It's just laid
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out in the Constitution. That's not how the government actually works. Most of the laws,
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the actual laws that affect our actual lives in this country, are not passed by legislators that we
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elect. Most of those laws are written by unaccountable careers, bureaucrats who don't give a damn what
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happens in the elections. And nowhere is this clearer than on foreign policy. Since at least
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the end of World War II, the American public has not had very much to say about foreign policy.
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A little bit here, a little bit there, but as a rule, and anybody in Washington will tell you this,
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foreign policy is essentially run by the deep state. And there are some good arguments for this.
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If the American foreign policy were entirely contingent on elections that happen in some cases every
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two years, then you would have no continuity. You would have nations around the world not being
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able to plan or trust in the American foreign policy. You would have major institutions, especially
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major financial institutions, corporations, not being able to plan ahead. You certainly would not
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be able to have the U.S. dollar be the global reserve currency, right? Because the U.S. dollar is the
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global reserve currency is predicated largely on the fact that America is not a nation like they say
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in Schoolhouse Rock. America is a global empire. We are the global hegemon, at least for now. And so
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we run the entire world. And that's why the whole rest of the world buys into the U.S. dollar and allows
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us to have the once strong economy that we had. If you understand that America is not a nation like you
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were taught in fifth grade, but America is a global liberal empire that is governed by a liberal elite
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managerial blob, then it makes a lot of sense that Randy Weingarten would fly to Ukraine. Because the
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war in Ukraine is a war to protect the American empire. At least that's our involvement in the war.
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The war from the perspective of Russia, which invaded, is to expand the Russian territory and to oppose the
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expansion of NATO. The war in Ukraine, it actually is the only way that it makes sense that we're
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involved in the war in Ukraine. Obviously, Russia's not bombing New York yet. Russia's not bombing Los
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Angeles. But America views Kiev, America views Ukraine as part of its strategic interest. Whether
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or not it is part of America's strategic interest, that is a question that remains open. But that is
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the argument, at least. And so Randy Weingarten, no, she's not a congressman. She's not a U.S. senator.
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She's not a governor or anything like that. She's actually more important than really any of those
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people. Because Randy Weingarten is the head of one of the most powerful unions. And that union has a
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lot of influence in the liberal blob establishment. And so Joe Biden is going to pay a lot more attention
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to Randy Weingarten's opinion than he is to some random Democrat congressman, without question.
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He's going to pay a lot more attention to the heads of certain woke liberal corporations. He's going to
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pay a lot more attention to the heads in academia, to the press, to Silicon Valley. Those are the
00:24:29.900
people that wield power. And they don't just wield power within our borders. We don't have borders
00:24:32.900
anymore. They wield power over the entire American liberal empire. Now, the problem with managing this
00:24:41.620
liberal empire is you get pulled into all sorts of wars that you don't necessarily want to be
00:24:46.320
involved in, notably Ukraine, which, according to Joe Biden, is bringing us to the brink of nuclear
00:24:52.780
Armageddon. Those aren't my words. Those are his words. He mentioned this at a fundraiser. And so on
00:24:58.160
ABC News, the anchor on ABC asks John Kirby, who's the Pentagon spokesman, hey, what about Biden's crazy
00:25:04.640
comments here on nuclear Armageddon? Here's what the Pentagon says. Joining me now is White House
00:25:10.500
National Security Council spokesman John Kirby. Good morning, John. Let's start with President
00:25:16.500
Biden's comments saying we are facing the potential of a nuclear Armageddon. I know the White House has
00:25:21.940
said these are consistent with comments he has used in the past, but he's never said anything quite as
00:25:26.960
stark as this. So is the president right? Are we facing a potential nuclear Armageddon?
00:25:32.460
The president was reflecting the very high stakes that they're in in play right now, Martha, when you have
00:25:38.680
modern nuclear power and the leader of that modern nuclear power willing to use irresponsible rhetoric
00:25:44.300
the way that Mr. Putin has several times in just the last week or two, as well as the high tensions
00:25:52.000
in Ukraine over just the course of the last few days. So the president, I think, was accurately
00:25:56.680
reflecting the fact that the stakes are very high right now. So there's Kirby, who I misspoke. He's no
00:26:02.540
longer the Pentagon spokesman. Now he's the National Security Council spokesman. He doubles down. He says,
00:26:06.760
oh, the president called it a risk of nuclear Armageddon. Oh, yeah, that's what it is. He's
00:26:13.860
accurately describing the stakes and the risks. I'll tell you, I know that Trump was a really bad guy.
00:26:20.600
Trump was such a bad guy. He sent all those really mean tweets about Mika Brzezinski's face. He was just,
00:26:25.620
wasn't he just awful? I will say, though, we weren't on the brink of nuclear Armageddon under Trump.
00:26:30.860
You know, and so I think unbalance, like I could get mean tweets about Mika Brzezinski's face and
00:26:41.780
no nuclear Armageddon, or I could get that wonderful return to normalcy with good old Joe
00:26:48.500
Biden, who just wears his aviators and licks ice cream cones and falls off of bicycles,
00:26:52.000
but be ever closer to the risk of nuclear Armageddon. I think I'm going to pick the orange
00:26:57.560
guy. Call me crazy. I know I don't want to be politically incorrect, but of course that would
00:27:02.080
make sense, right? But they're all doubling down because it's true. As I've said from the beginning
00:27:07.800
in Ukraine, wars have started for a lot less. World wars have started for a lot less than what we're
00:27:12.500
seeing right now in the first major war in Europe in 70 years. And so in response to this,
00:27:17.660
are you seeing an off-ramp? Are you seeing a de-escalation? No. Vladimir Zelensky,
00:27:24.460
the president of Ukraine, is now calling on NATO to launch preemptive strikes on Russia.
00:27:30.800
What should NATO do? Eliminate the possibility of Russia using nuclear weapons.
00:27:38.600
But what is important, I once again appeal to the international community as I did before February
00:27:43.720
2014. We need preemptive strikes so that they'll know what will happen to them if they use nukes,
00:27:51.600
nukes, and not the other way around. Don't wait for Russia's nuclear strikes and then say,
00:27:56.440
oh, since you did this, take that from us. Reconsider the way you apply pressure. This
00:28:03.920
is what NATO should do. Reconsider the order in which it applies pressure on Russia.
00:28:07.520
I think I've had enough of this guy. I don't know about you. I think that we fought a Cold War
00:28:17.120
for, what was it, 60 years almost? A little bit less than that. 50 years or so? Without ever once
00:28:27.200
getting into a direct public confrontation with Russia. And we did that in such a painstaking way
00:28:34.800
because we knew that there was such a thing as mutually assured destruction. And we knew that
00:28:39.400
it's not a good idea to get into a direct public shooting war with a nuclear major power.
00:28:47.000
And we did it and it was very, very difficult to do, but it took really wise, careful statesmen
00:28:52.080
to, and we got very close to the brink sometimes. Actually, a lot of foreign policy analysts are
00:28:57.840
saying we are now as close to direct nuclear war as we have been since the Cuban Missile Crisis,
00:29:02.500
which was the closest we got in the Cold War. But thankfully there was an exit ramp there.
00:29:06.820
And then this freaking guy is telling us to launch direct strikes. The whole thing that we spent the
00:29:11.200
entire Cold War avoiding. This guy, Vladimir Zelensky says, come on, do it, do it, do it. For
00:29:16.100
what? For what? I get it. I get it that Zelensky wants to keep his country and he wants to stay in
00:29:21.520
power. I get it that it is evil to go in and invade a country and bomb all sorts of, I get it.
00:29:29.040
War is a dirty, rotten, horrible business and Ukraine's in a very dangerous part of the world
00:29:33.780
and that's been true for a very long time. I get it. People are comparing Vladimir Zelensky
00:29:37.460
to Winston Churchill. In a way, he's exactly like Winston Churchill, not only because he is
00:29:41.660
demonstrating some courage and standing up and defending his country, but because he's trying
00:29:45.240
to drag America into war. That's why. That's what makes him Winston Churchill.
00:29:49.880
Well, but whereas the United States might have some particular interest in a war that could
00:29:58.280
dominate the entire European continent, do we really think the same stakes are at play here
00:30:02.480
in Ukraine? Do we really think there's no off ramp here? What about when Joe Biden said not that long
00:30:10.120
ago that if Russia just invades the eastern part of Ukraine, it won't be a big deal? Remember that?
00:30:13.420
Just a minor incursion. Where was all this tough talk about the territorial integrity of Ukraine back
00:30:19.560
then? What about when Barack Obama said that if Putin wants to exhibit greater strength and power in
00:30:28.600
his traditional sphere of influence, that's not a big problem. What about then? What about on the more
00:30:32.320
conservative side of the aisle when you had people like, I don't know, Henry Kissinger, Daniel Patrick
00:30:37.080
Moynihan, George Kennan, all saying maybe NATO should not expect, forget those guys,
00:30:42.940
Pat Buchanan for that matter, that NATO should not be expanding eastward and should be a little
00:30:48.500
more careful about how they do that. What about those voices? Huh? But no, what are we hearing now?
00:30:54.980
I don't blame Zelensky for asking for more Western support. He's doing what he thinks he has to do in
00:31:02.060
the best interests of his country. So I don't really blame him. I do blame the liberal blob that is
00:31:06.940
completely destroying our foreign policy by indulging in this kind of stuff. It's completely insane.
00:31:12.940
It was completely insane to dangle NATO membership in front of Ukraine. It was completely insane to
00:31:19.000
dangle EU membership in front of Ukraine. It is completely insane not to try to find some kind
00:31:24.960
of off-ramp here. I was speaking yesterday with a member. He's a foreign policy expert. He worked for
00:31:33.700
the CIA. He was a major Russia guy at the CIA. He worked for Vice President Dick Cheney. He's hopped
00:31:40.920
around think tanks. Very serious guy who pointed out, look, showing American strength is a good
00:31:46.140
thing. But the way that we were able to avert catastrophe in the Cuban Missile Crisis was to
00:31:52.540
show American military strength, institute a blockade in all but name, but then also to do the
00:31:57.760
behind-the-scenes diplomacy to find an off-ramp, which they managed to do. Are you seeing that anywhere
00:32:02.360
here? Here? I'm not seeing that anywhere in the U.S. policy with regard to Russia. I'm only seeing
00:32:12.500
the military escalation, but I'm not seeing any diplomatic off-ramp. There was a guy from the
00:32:17.460
Atlantic Council, Alex Pleatsas. He worked for the Pentagon. He worked for the intelligence community.
00:32:22.940
Now he's a fellow at the Atlantic Council. He posted yesterday this long thread about how we've got to
00:32:28.260
stop complicating this matter of the war in Ukraine. He says, after the time in Ukraine that I've spent
00:32:34.840
there, I can confirm Russia is running a strategic influence campaign inside the United States
00:32:38.700
targeting GOP voters before the midterm election in an attempt to undermine support for Ukraine and
00:32:43.660
cut off weapons and support. Russian propaganda is spreading lies. Their objective is to try and sway
00:32:49.520
a new Congress to cut off support. Russia is spreading false narratives about money and weapons
00:32:53.320
leaving the country on the black market. That isn't true. If that was happening, they wouldn't be
00:32:56.600
pushing the Russians back in a counter-offensive. Russia is also spreading nonsense about Nazism in
00:33:01.500
Ukraine, of which I saw none. The Ukrainians need what they've been given and are asking for.
00:33:06.360
Those who are spreading any of those narratives mentioned above are pushing Russian propaganda
00:33:09.680
and undermining national security. Okay, what is he saying? So this guy, this Atlantic Council fellow,
00:33:15.220
is saying that the Russians, Putin, is targeting American conservatives with propaganda
00:33:22.480
to convince them to not want to fund as much of the war in Ukraine and that if the Republicans give
00:33:31.420
into this and we stop funding the war in Ukraine, we're just going to be Putin puppets and undermining
00:33:37.800
national security. That's kind of a weird part at the end, right? Undermining national security.
00:33:43.440
What is the American national security interest in Ukraine? There isn't one. There is an American
00:33:51.700
international interest in Ukraine. There's an interest to the American global empire in Ukraine,
00:33:56.740
perhaps. But there is no American national security interest in Ukraine whatsoever.
00:34:03.460
Russia could conquer all of Ukraine today. It would not change American national security.
00:34:09.740
Might be a very sad thing. Might be terrible for the state of the world. Might upset the world order.
00:34:14.120
I'm not questioning that. But national security, it's going to undermine, because of what?
00:34:18.600
Because you're going to see the Russians start firing missiles from Kiev instead of Moscow? It's
00:34:24.580
ridiculous. But okay, what about his main argument? Putin targeting the American conservatives with
00:34:32.260
his propaganda, saying that there is a Nazi problem in Ukraine, the nonsense about Nazism in Ukraine.
00:34:39.120
Okay, let's take a look at how Putin is targeting those conservatives. How about this article?
00:34:44.880
Ukraine's Nazi problem is real, even if Putin's denazification claim isn't. That's an article
00:34:50.640
from that right-wing outlet NBC News. Is that where the Republicans get all their news from,
00:34:56.720
those American conservatives? No, you know where they probably get their news from? CNN. That's
00:35:02.520
probably it, right? A far-right battalion has a key role in Ukraine's resistance. Its neo-Nazi history
00:35:07.240
has been exploited by Putin. So this is the version of Republicans' pounce for international
00:35:13.220
politics. Putin pounces. He's exploiting this. But they're admitting, this is CNN is admitting not
00:35:17.740
that long ago, after the war started, March 30th, says, yes, Ukraine has this neo-Nazi issue in the
00:35:23.260
country. Okay, that's how Putin is pressuring. That's how he's using the media to influence
00:35:29.680
conservatives is by publishing things in CNN. That doesn't make a lot of sense. The nation?
00:35:33.300
How about the nation? Nation, one of the most left-wing outlets in the country. Neo-Nazis in the far
00:35:38.200
right are on the march in Ukraine. Gosh, Putin's propaganda machine needs to get a little bit
00:35:42.640
better targeting, don't you think, if he really wants to influence those Republicans with all that
00:35:46.460
nonsense about Nazism in Ukraine? Salon, salon.com, even further left probably. Are there really neo-Nazis
00:35:53.240
fighting for Ukraine? Well, yes, but it's a long story. Okay, there we are, also from Salon. And then
00:35:57.500
here's the piece de resistance. This is my favorite one. Ukraine's got a real problem with far-right
00:36:03.700
violence. And no, Russia Today didn't write this headline. It goes on to say that
00:36:10.780
there are Nazi groups such as the C-14 group that have ties to neo-Nazis and promote national
00:36:24.820
patriotic education projects in the country. They're connected to the Azov Battalion, the national
00:36:29.240
militia. And so where is this article from? Oh, this is from the Atlantic Council. This is coming
00:36:36.500
from the same think tank that this guy is a fellow at. This guy, Alex Plitsas, who says that if you
00:36:44.140
ever suggest that Ukraine is a complicated place and you maybe bring up the prospect of Nazism having
00:36:50.900
a role in Ukraine, that you're pushing nonsense and Putin propaganda. So this guy's own think tank is
00:36:56.800
pushing Putin propaganda, according to him. But of course, it's preposterous. It's the very same
00:37:03.380
liberals who are telling us now we can't raise any questions about the nature of the war in Ukraine
00:37:08.340
and what exactly the American role should be in that war. And if we should really just keep pushing
00:37:13.080
for nuclear Armageddon and launch strikes on Moscow for Ukraine. The very same people were the ones who
00:37:18.340
were telling us not that long ago that Ukraine's got this Nazi problem. It's a terrible place. It's awful.
00:37:24.160
Remember, they impeached Trump for allegedly colluding with the Ukrainians. With the Ukrainians,
00:37:30.100
they said. But that was then. This is now. And so from the beginning, my view on the war in Ukraine
00:37:36.380
is the least popular view. It's that it's complicated. People think I'm too soft on Putin.
00:37:43.440
People think I'm too soft on the West. People think I'm too, I'm just, I just think it's a complicated
00:37:50.900
conflict. And we should approach that conflict with care and caution and nuance. Because as the
00:37:57.040
President of the United States says, we are on the verge of nuclear Armageddon. That's my view.
00:38:01.680
But we're not allowed to have that view. Since at least the end of World War II, Americans are not
00:38:06.620
really permitted to have much say over American foreign policy. And partly this is for the good
00:38:13.460
reason that if American foreign policy changed every two years, certainly we couldn't have a global
00:38:17.380
empire. Nations wouldn't really trust us. We couldn't have, our corporations would not be
00:38:22.720
able to plan ahead into the future. So there is, I understand the reasoning for why basically
00:38:27.780
the liberal establishment took foreign policy out of the realm of self-government. But we're supposed
00:38:34.340
to have a self-government, right? We're supposed to have a republic. We should at least have some say
00:38:37.900
over our foreign policy, right? Shouldn't we at least be able to ask some questions?
00:38:42.420
Before the war in Ukraine broke out, you were not allowed to tweet support of this group that is at
00:38:48.780
issue here, the Azov Battalion on Facebook. That was called promoting Nazi propaganda. Your posts would
00:38:55.180
be taken down. Then all of a sudden the war in Ukraine starts. And because Facebook is supportive
00:39:00.340
of the war in Ukraine, and because the liberal establishment is supportive of it, all of a sudden you
00:39:04.800
are allowed to post nice things about the neo-Nazi group. And maybe there's a good reason for that.
00:39:09.500
Maybe they say, well, the invasion by Russia is so serious and such a threat to the world order that
00:39:14.260
we have to, but that's not my point. My point is that again and again, the left tells us,
00:39:21.180
hey, everything we told you yesterday, yeah, forget about that. That's not real.
00:39:26.200
Yesterday, Oceania was at war with Eurasia. No, no, no, it wasn't. Oceania is at war with East Asia.
00:39:35.040
Oceania has always been at war with East Asia. It's the same issue with Madonna going lesbian.
00:39:39.740
It's the same issue. It's the same issue with everything that the libs push us. It's the
00:39:44.140
same issue with, we talked about this yesterday on the show. The Boston Children's Hospital says
00:39:49.180
that a baby in the womb knows that he's transgender, and that's why we need to trans the kids.
00:39:53.820
Day before that, they were saying that there's no such thing as a baby in the womb. It's a stupid
00:39:56.900
blob of cells. It's not human. It's not alive. It's not a person. It doesn't know anything. It can't
00:40:00.980
know anything. It's just, it's nothing. But that was then, and this is now. We're not allowed to say
00:40:05.260
what they told us yesterday. It's constantly changing. That's why they have to erase the past.
00:40:09.300
There has to be an endless present. George Floyd's death literally set the world on fire,
00:40:14.700
divided America, and gave rise to the activist group Black Lives Matter. They raised $80 million
00:40:18.460
through fundraising, but no one ever asked where the money went until now. Tomorrow,
00:40:22.960
Wednesday, October 12th, Candace Owens will reveal the truth in her new documentary,
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00:40:41.300
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00:41:14.440
The conclusion of all this foreign policy talk is that for the past 70 or so years, Americans have not
00:41:27.660
been allowed to have much of a say over foreign policy. The foreign policy is just going to keep
00:41:32.140
on going on. It doesn't matter which party gets elected. It's going to basically be the same
00:41:35.100
foreign policy. So who's running it? Who's running the national security state?
00:41:39.880
Well, here's one of the people who's running the national security state, just to make you feel
00:41:43.840
extra super duper confident. This would be Joe Biden's Secretary of the Army, Christine Wormuth,
00:41:49.120
who wants to assure you that the army is not woke.
00:41:51.500
In terms of soldiers coming from marginalized communities or demographics that are not widely
00:41:59.840
represented in the army, that's part of why we've got to emphasize positive command climates and
00:42:05.860
inclusion. We get criticized, frankly, sometimes for being woke. I'm not sure what woke means. I think
00:42:13.040
woke means a lot of different things to different people. But first of all, I would say if woke means
00:42:20.140
we are not focused on war fighting, we are not focused on readiness, that doesn't reflect what
00:42:25.680
I see at installations all around the country or overseas when I go and visit. But I think we do
00:42:32.860
have a wide range of soldiers in our army, and we've got to make them all feel included. And that's why a
00:42:40.620
lot of our diversity, equity, and inclusion programs are important. They're not woke. They just have so many
00:42:47.880
diversity, equity, and inclusion programs because of the marginalized people who go into the army.
00:42:54.000
And they need to feel included. They need to feel really, really good about themselves and their
00:42:58.220
identities. And especially if they're a trans, lesbian, Zoroastrian. But we're not woke. We spend all of
00:43:07.480
our time focused on completely useless, puffy, liberal nonsense. And none of our time on winning wars
00:43:14.580
are coming up with a sensible foreign policy, which is why our global empire is in complete collapse.
00:43:20.920
That's it. That was the subtext of what she was saying. The very fact that this woman is the
00:43:26.860
secretary of the army shows you how woke the army is. No secretary of the army should know half the
00:43:33.460
words she just said. No secretary of the army should know diversity, equity, and inclusion. Those words
00:43:41.200
should not be in the secretary of the army's vocabulary. Do you know who I want for the
00:43:45.060
secretary of the army? I want the reincarnation of George Patton. I want every third word out of the
00:43:52.480
mouth of the secretary of the army to be an expletive. I want the army to bully its members to the point
00:44:01.720
of absolute breakdown. By the way, this was military training until about five minutes ago.
00:44:08.160
You break people down just so you can build them back up again and toughen them up.
00:44:14.100
The only thing I want the army to talk about is preparedness. I don't want to hear, and she's not
00:44:19.800
just the problem. I don't mean just to single her out. Look at Mark Milley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs
00:44:22.940
of Staff, talking about how the army needs to waste its time reading liberal books about white rage.
00:44:29.000
I am feeling white rage listening to these people speak because these people are gutting American
00:44:34.800
national security. Forget about gutting the traditional American nation. Even if we have
00:44:40.480
a global empire, okay, that is what it is. Play the hand you're dealt, but they're screwing all that up
00:44:44.320
too. They're bringing us to the brink, to quote again the president, of nuclear Armageddon because
00:44:50.240
of their liberal delusions and fantasies and stupid priorities. Insane. The next Republican president,
00:44:59.740
if we are permitted to have another Republican president, got to watch those mail-in ballots.
00:45:04.960
But the next Republican president, next time we have any political power in this country,
00:45:08.760
you got to fire this lady. She's just a career apparatchik for the Democrats. She's just a liberal
00:45:15.040
bureaucrat careerist. Got to get rid of her. Got to get rid of Milley. Got to get rid of all these
00:45:20.840
people. We think it's a minor issue. We think, oh, who cares? So she said diversity, equity,
00:45:27.920
inclusion. It's not a big deal. It's a few training sessions. Okay, it's a few changes to
00:45:33.300
our vocabulary. Okay, we're going to have a transgender bathroom. Okay, we're going to change
00:45:38.760
Columbus Day to Indigenous Peoples Day. Okay, it's this minor change, minor change, minor change.
00:45:43.480
Well, eventually your whole culture is different. And it is changed not for the better. It's changed
00:45:49.380
for the worse. Speaking of the army, though, there is one little silver lining here,
00:45:55.880
which is the Biden administration was just asked to clarify its stance on the draft.
00:46:02.620
The libs are pushing to draft women, though that remains controversial. As of now, the men
00:46:07.880
have to sign up for the draft. But what about the trans women? What about the men? They're men,
00:46:19.440
but then now they identify as women. And the Biden administration insists that they really are
00:46:23.580
women. And the Biden administration insists that these people who are totally women really need
00:46:28.540
to be allowed to serve in the military. So okay, but what about the draft? Women are not drafted at
00:46:37.560
the moment. Do the men who identify as women have to sign up for the draft? Because the answer to that
00:46:46.180
question is going to tell us what they really believe about transgenderism. And I am somewhat
00:46:52.220
relieved to say that the Biden administration knows that these people are not actually women. Biden
00:46:59.840
administration says, this is the new guidance on requirements for selective service. U.S. citizens or
00:47:04.700
immigrants who are born male and changed their gender to female are still required to register. Individuals who
00:47:11.140
are born female and changed their gender to male are not required to register. So there it is. Now,
00:47:17.080
you might say this is hypocritical. This is incoherent. Sure. But as Roche-Foucault points out,
00:47:22.140
hypocrisy is the tribute vice pays to virtue. And the Biden administration is admitting here for all
00:47:27.880
their claptrap talk about the transgender women are women. And we need all, they all, these hulking men
00:47:34.280
in leotards need to be able to swim on the girls swim team. And they need to be able to use the bathroom
00:47:38.720
in the locker rooms with the girls. But for all that crap, when it comes down to it, when it comes
00:47:43.000
down to brass tacks, they do know that these men are not actually women. They know it. They're just
00:47:51.880
deceiving everybody. And they're trying to even deceive themselves. I think also Biden is realizing
00:47:57.080
he's gone too far. He looks at the polls. And yes, the rule of the liberal establishment does not rely
00:48:03.700
entirely or even largely on public opinion. But public opinion still plays some role. The opinion
00:48:09.560
of the people still has influence over the kind of government that we're going to have, at least to
00:48:14.320
some degree. And I think Biden's looking at it. He says, man, we've gone way too far.
00:48:19.140
I'm very, very unpopular. I'm underwater on every single issue. And so now Biden
00:48:22.980
is really focusing in as we head, we're less than a month out from the midterm elections.
00:48:27.860
He's focusing in on two words. Let me start off with two words. Made in America.
00:48:40.260
Two words. That's right. I've just got one word for you. Madonna is a lesbian. I've just got three
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words. My name is Michael Knowles, and this is the Michael Knowles Show. I've got two words,
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made in America. Everyone is focusing in on Biden's senility and his inability to count or speak,
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which is very funny. Biden gaffes are always very, very funny. To me, the more interesting
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thing about this clip, though, is what it seems to signal about Biden's political views, or at the
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very least of the political views of the administration that wrote that line. Made in
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America. Hold on. Is this the same Joe Biden who said a rising China is great for everybody?
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Is this the same Joe Biden of the same Democratic Party that's all in favor of shipping our jobs
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overseas and not protecting American manufacturing? And regularly mocking, actually, the people who've
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worked in American manufacturing and said, well, they just got to learn to code. Yeah, those people
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whose jobs were shipping overseas or shipping down to Mexico, yeah, they're just dumb idiots.
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You know, they should have gotten a degree in coding or journalism. They should get a blue
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checkmark on Twitter. They're dumb idiots. You know, forget about made in America. Who cares?
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Make everything overseas and then it'll be a little bit cheaper. And that'll somehow even out. That'll
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somehow, is that the same guy? Because it sounds to me like when Joe Biden says, we've got a made in
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America agenda. It sounds like he's kind of channeling the America First movement or the Make
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America Great Again movement. It sounds to me like he's channeling Donald Trump. Donald Trump is the
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first major politician, certainly presidential candidate in many years, who put a focus on
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bringing manufacturing back to America in either party, in either party.
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And now, what's most interesting to me about this clip is that Joe Biden realizes if he wants to be
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more popular going into the midterm elections and going into the general in 2024, he's got to be
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more like Trump. It's an admission. And it's why I tell you, do not lose heart. Do not think that all
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your views, you're pro-life. You support marriage as it's been understood for all of human history.
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You like your borders and your American flag and your apple pie and your hot dogs on the 4th of
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July. And you like Christopher Columbus. And you don't think that 65-year-old pop singers should
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just become lesbians all of a sudden. But your views, they're outdated. No one shares your views.
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You're an old fogey. You're an artifact. They're just waiting for you to die. I'm just telling you,
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your views are much more popular. Your views are not dead. The thing about the tradition is that
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it's not some old, dusty, dead thing from the past. It's the most vibrant thing that we have
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in the present because it has endured so much struggle, so many new fashions through history.
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And it has endured because it is strong. And your views are strong. And it's not just me telling you
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that. The President of the United States, in honest moments, the Democratic Party, in their honest
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moments, they know that you're right too. And they know that those views resonate as well.
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So stick by them. The rest of the show is continuing now. You do not want to miss it.
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Okay, I'm bringing on the man that I'm playing at Fantasy Football this week. That would be
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Jake Crane of Crane & Company. I made the huge mistake of allowing my producer Ben Davies to
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choose my fantasy football team, which is why I think I'm in dead last right now. So for some reason,
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I'm still making another bet on whether I'll win this week. I'm assuming I'll probably lose this one.
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Last time I lost, I had to electrocute myself on camera. Who knows what we'll do this time?
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Be sure to head on over there. The member block begins right now.