The Michael Knowles Show - December 22, 2022


Ep. 1151 - Biden Dumps A Hoard Of Illegal Aliens In This Republican State


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ICE has a new plan to release single adult illegal aliens into the state of Tennessee, but no one seems to be paying attention. Is this a Democratic ploy to distract us from the other big stories in the news? Or is it part of a larger political strategy?

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00:00:00.000 You know how when you're watching a magician perform a trick, he very often will make an
00:00:05.100 elaborate show of something with one hand in order to distract you so he can pull the trick
00:00:10.060 with the other hand while you're not watching? You know that? Politicians use the same technique.
00:00:15.960 So right now, we're all supposed to be talking about the $1.7 trillion omnibus spending bill.
00:00:23.520 And if that weren't enough, the White House visit from the Ukrainian president,
00:00:28.160 Vladimir Zelensky. That's really, really big news. Lots of strong emotions. We'll get to those
00:00:34.220 issues in just a moment. But when big, showy political events like that happen, it is always
00:00:41.640 good to look into which other news stories they are pushing out of the headlines. And today,
00:00:50.080 what do you know? ICE has just made a major announcement that everybody seems to have
00:00:55.340 been too distracted to notice. Namely, that the Biden administration will be releasing single
00:01:01.520 adult illegal aliens into the state of Tennessee. The illegal aliens will not be going to Martha's
00:01:07.340 Vineyard. They won't be going to Rehoboth Beach, Delaware. They won't be going to any blue state
00:01:13.340 where Democrats don't need their votes. They'll be going to Tennessee, just like so many other
00:01:19.280 illegal aliens being shipped by the Biden administration into Republican areas.
00:01:23.540 The move is part of the meta-political strategy that Democrats have been pursuing for decades.
00:01:30.080 If the Americans in any particular place don't like the Democrats' policies,
00:01:35.680 the Democrats just need to import new people who will. There are plenty of sanctuary cities and
00:01:42.480 sanctuary states in this country, plenty of blue places that say that they want more of these
00:01:48.340 illegal immigrants. Democrats could very easily send them there. But they know that there'll be a 1.00
00:01:55.060 bigger political benefit to the Dems in the red states. If Republicans were serious about fighting back,
00:02:04.080 the state of Tennessee would organize to arrest these illegal aliens on the spot when they land. 0.70
00:02:10.720 The federal government won't do it, but the state still has police forces. The state has the National
00:02:18.040 Guard. If a Democrat-ordered invasion does not call for the cops to come arrest people, what does?
00:02:28.140 But Republicans aren't supposed to do things like that. We're not supposed to even say things like
00:02:34.100 that. In fact, we're not even supposed to notice. I'm Michael Knowles. This is The Michael Knowles Show.
00:02:47.160 Welcome back to the show. My favorite comment yesterday is from Saddle Tramp, who says,
00:02:51.580 thanks for going over the pagan Christmas false reality. Well, it might sound silly, but I was one
00:02:57.020 of those people that believed what she mentioned. I think this is referring to a video I have, by the way.
00:03:01.820 It's the woke Christmas TikTok reaction, which is on my YouTube channel right now, so go check that
00:03:06.900 out. It says, well, I was one of those people that believed what the woman in the video mentioned to
00:03:12.020 be true, so fell away from some of the Christmas traditions, not wanting to partake in any weird
00:03:16.640 pagan rituals, just like I did with Halloween. I think I'll be putting up a tree next year with a
00:03:21.760 big star on top. I'm so glad to hear that. The alleged pagan origin of Christmas is one of those
00:03:28.720 things that everybody seems to know that just isn't true, okay, as I explained in the video. So go
00:03:36.560 check it out, the woke Christmas TikToks. When you want to read your Bible, you got to go check
00:03:42.900 out Bible in a Year with Father Mike Schmitz. Right now, head on over to ascensionpress.com
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00:04:43.460 slash Knowles, K-N-O-W-L-E-S, to download the reading plan for free. Who is an American these 0.60
00:04:49.980 days? I don't know. The Democrats tell us that the foreign nationals invading our country,
00:04:54.180 they're all future Americans. They're undocumented Americans. But you, Americans, you're not Americans. 0.92
00:05:01.420 This is according to Stanford University. Stanford University has something called the
00:05:06.940 Elimination of Harmful Language Initiative. Because, of course, it is a, quote, multi-phase,
00:05:15.500 multi-year project to address harmful language in IT at Stanford. Finally, the guide's purpose is to
00:05:23.460 eliminate many forms of harmful language. And this includes racist, violent, and biased language. And
00:05:32.060 by biased language, they say that means disability bias, ethnic bias, ethnic slurs, gender bias,
00:05:37.380 implicit bias, sexual bias on Stanford's websites. Wow, that's a lot of biases. That's a lot of
00:05:44.160 language. That's a lot of jobs for gender and ethnic studies majors who are otherwise unemployable. 0.97
00:05:50.320 Okay, well, what are some of the words they want to get rid of? They want to get rid of the word
00:05:54.080 American. I'm not joking. They say that Americans should not say that they're American. Instead,
00:06:03.460 Americans should say that they are U.S. citizens. Because American often refers only to people from
00:06:11.840 the United States, thereby insinuating, Stanford writes, that the U.S. is the most important country
00:06:17.420 in the Americas. Can you imagine? Can you imagine the gall of some Americans, excuse me, U.S. citizens
00:06:23.660 to believe that the United States might be more important than Bolivia? Can you imagine how
00:06:28.820 outrageous is that? To believe that the United States might be just a little, tiny, teeny bit
00:06:35.740 more important than Chile? Shocking. Outrageous. So you can't do it. You can't say that you're American 0.99
00:06:43.480 because you're just a member, a citizen of one country. And we've got North America, Central
00:06:49.040 America, South America. Now, of course, they don't apply this standard to anybody else.
00:06:55.160 Think about the term anti-Semitic. Anti-Semitic refers to what? Refers to Jew hatred. But Semitic 0.65
00:07:04.800 doesn't only refer to Jews. I mean, now it is taken only to refer to Jews. But Semitic refers to
00:07:10.380 a whole family of languages, including Hebrew, Aramaic, Arab, Phoenician, Akkadian, other languages,
00:07:19.700 other peoples. But we don't refer to Arabs as Semitic. If you're anti-Semitic, it doesn't mean
00:07:25.480 you hate Arabs, right? So there you have a broad term referring to a particular group of people.
00:07:32.220 How about Chinese? When we refer to the Chinese, we do not refer to the Taiwanese.
00:07:40.440 But Taiwan, the name of Taiwan, we call it Taiwan, but it's really called the Republic of China.
00:07:46.720 But we don't refer, we call the Taiwanese Taiwanese. Why do the Chinese, that's just one particular, 1.00
00:07:52.040 albeit a very large and prominent subset of the Chinese people. Why does China get to refer to
00:07:59.500 China? China meaning the communist country, not the Republic of China. What about those poor Taiwanese? 0.98
00:08:08.080 We don't talk about them. What about African-Americans? We don't refer to Elon Musk as
00:08:12.420 African-American. He is African-American. I mean, I refer to him that way because I think it's funny.
00:08:17.860 But most people do not. When we refer to Africans, we're only referring to black people
00:08:22.480 from Africa. We don't refer to Boers, Afrikaners, people in Zimbabwe, formerly Rhodesia or South
00:08:29.920 Africa. We don't refer to the white people. We only refer to the black people. So we use this term. 0.79
00:08:34.920 There are white Africans. There are lots of white Africans who've been there for many generations at
00:08:38.600 this point. So all over the world, for all sorts of people, we use broad terms to refer to a particular
00:08:46.460 group. But you can't do it for Americans. That's the issue. And it's true of all the language policing.
00:08:52.740 It's true of all of political correctness. And it's true of the whole leftist game.
00:08:56.240 It's not about broad principles at all. It's not about fairness. It's not about eliminating
00:09:02.880 deceptive or harmful language. It's just about denigrating and degrading Americans. First Western 0.98
00:09:10.720 civilization, and specifically Americans, or men, or straight people, or Christians, or it's all,
00:09:19.300 whoever falls afoul of the liberal intersectional hierarchy. So especially the worst of the worst would
00:09:28.020 be a white, straight, male, American, right? All of that intersects there. Those people are not allowed 0.99
00:09:38.620 to be anything. They're not allowed to have any sort of identity. Their only identity should be
00:09:43.740 shame and silence. But everybody else, it doesn't matter. The rules do not apply. I think I'm going
00:09:49.580 to keep calling myself an American. I don't know about you. I think I will do that. Speaking of
00:09:53.700 American sovereignty, Representative Louie Gomer has such a good idea, and all the Republicans should
00:10:03.440 get behind it. Representative Louie Gomer, who I should point out is a former judge, says that in
00:10:12.580 the criminal trial of any individual for the commission of a criminal offense in the District
00:10:18.380 of Columbia, the individual on trial should be able to choose the venue for the proceedings and trial
00:10:25.180 to be in the district court for the district and division, embracing that individual's primary
00:10:33.800 residence. Let me translate that into what it's really referring to. January 6th, defendants, excuse
00:10:43.600 me, January 6th, the worst day ever in history, defendants, should not be forced to be put on
00:10:52.180 trial in Washington, D.C. because the people who would be on jury in Washington, D.C. are not really
00:10:58.940 a jury of their peers. Washington, D.C. is a really weird place, okay? And these people don't
00:11:03.700 live in Washington, D.C. The January 6th people, they flew in from all over the country. And what
00:11:08.820 Louie Gomer is saying is they're going to be put on trial. We're not saying they're not going to be put
00:11:12.740 on trial, but they should be put on trial before a jury of their actual peers in their home districts.
00:11:18.320 I think this is a great idea. The objection to it will be, well, they committed their crimes or
00:11:24.840 alleged crimes or overblown crimes or trumped up charges in the District of Columbia. Therefore,
00:11:32.020 that's where they should be tried. Okay, that's generally a rule of criminal proceedings, except
00:11:37.400 for this. The District of Columbia is a federal district. We forget that now. We pretend that the
00:11:44.300 District of Columbia is just a regular old blue city, or a lot of people say it should
00:11:49.120 be a state, but it should not be. The whole point of Washington, D.C., the reason that
00:11:52.980 that's the nation's capital is because it is not a state, because no state should have
00:11:57.600 a monopoly over the nation's capital. It is a federal district. The Congress has the right
00:12:02.840 to control basically everything that happens in the District of Columbia. They have allowed
00:12:08.000 D.C. to have its own mayor. They've allowed D.C. to have some local rule. Largely a mistake,
00:12:14.840 by the way. But the Congress runs D.C. This is a perfect opportunity for the Republicans to justly
00:12:22.440 wield political power when they take it. It'll be stymied in the Senate. It'll be stymied at the 0.98
00:12:27.700 White House. Do it. I want every single Republican to back this bill. This is important not only to bring
00:12:34.880 some semblance of justice to the accused from January 6th, but it's also important. Forget
00:12:41.500 about January 6th. Forget about the people on trial for a second. It's very important that the
00:12:45.960 Congress reasserts control over the District of Columbia, which in recent years has just steadily
00:12:52.600 crept toward becoming the next blue state to tilt the balance of power in this country toward the
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00:14:06.500 slash Knowles. Speaking of Washington, D.C., major, major event yesterday. Vladimir President,
00:14:15.840 Vladimir President, Ukrainian President, Vladimir Zelensky, flew in from his war zone to meet with
00:14:22.260 Joe Biden. And then to go meet with the members of Congress. This news had been leaked. And then
00:14:30.480 Zelensky and Biden confirmed it. Zelensky tweeted out, on my way to the US to strengthen resilience
00:14:35.600 and defense capabilities of Ukraine. In particular, the president and I will discuss cooperation between
00:14:41.100 Ukraine and the US. I will also have a speech at the Congress in a number of bilateral meetings.
00:14:46.260 And then whoever is running Biden's Twitter account response says, I hope you're having a good flight,
00:14:50.020 Vladimir. I'm thrilled to have you here. Much to discuss. So this is a stunt. It's a pure political
00:14:57.520 stunt. But it's not just a stunt by the Ukrainians trying to get one over on the Americans. It's not 0.54
00:15:06.300 just a stunt by Zelensky trying to squeeze some more money, even more money than he's already gotten
00:15:11.100 out of the Americans, or to drag America into World War III, as he's been trying to do for a year now.
00:15:15.400 This is also a stunt by the Democrats. The Democrats are using Zelensky just as much as
00:15:23.680 Zelensky is using the Democrats. Why is Zelensky flying in now? This war has been going on for what,
00:15:30.900 10 months now? 11 months almost? He's flying in now because the Democrats are trying to pass the
00:15:38.920 omnibus. And the omnibus includes $45 billion for Ukraine, on top of all the money that we've
00:15:46.440 already given them. So Zelensky is here basically on a fundraising trip, okay? He's here just to
00:15:52.460 secure that money, to keep buying arms, to prolong the war with Russia. The Democrats are having him
00:16:01.020 come now because while the Democrats want to get the $45 billion for Ukraine, and they've all changed
00:16:05.380 their Twitter names to include the Ukrainian flag or whatever, the Democrats don't really care all
00:16:11.100 that much about the Ukraine funding. They want all the other goodies in the $1.7 trillion omnibus bill.
00:16:15.720 And they know that if they can trot out Vladimir Zelensky, who they and the media have turned into
00:16:21.240 the image of Winston Churchill, super mega wonderful Winston Churchill, even better than the original, 0.99
00:16:27.160 then they can pressure the Republicans to vote for their stupid omnibus bill. 0.99
00:16:31.480 This is no different than when Democrats pull out a cute kid to lobby for gun control. 1.00
00:16:39.280 It's emotional manipulation. It has very little to do with the actual realities being debated and
00:16:45.020 discussed, but it's a little trick, and so they're going to do it. The question that this raises,
00:16:50.540 though, because it is so clear, especially with Zelensky's groveling visit to get some more money,
00:16:56.820 it is very, very clear that the war is not really between Ukraine and Russia. If the war were just
00:17:03.400 between Ukraine and Russia, it would have been over after about three days. The war is really between
00:17:09.100 Russia and the United States and the U.S.-led coalition of NATO and the European Union and
00:17:15.800 the entire West. That's who the war is between. Ukraine is a buffer state and has always been a buffer 0.96
00:17:22.500 state. And when Ukraine was a little too pro-Russia, the Americans came in and tried to pull Ukraine
00:17:30.480 back more pro-Western. Then after 2014, after the Biden revolution, Ukraine went more pro-Western.
00:17:36.460 Russia said this is unacceptable, that Ukraine is talking about joining NATO. So Russia invades,
00:17:41.420 and it's been this escalating conflict. With Zelensky coming, hat in hand, saying,
00:17:47.040 give us more money. Please, Congress, please, Joe Biden, give us more money. It raises this
00:17:52.080 question. Do Americans want to control a global empire all the way up to Ukraine? That's what it
00:18:02.700 is. Vladimir Zelensky is a sort of vassal of the United States. He's like a governor. The governor,
00:18:11.400 you know, when a bad storm hits in Florida or Texas or wherever, the governors will go up and
00:18:20.240 ask the federal government for money, and then the federal government usually will give the money.
00:18:23.520 It's the same thing here. Zelensky is essentially an imperial governor out there in Ukraine. He's
00:18:29.060 saying, hey, U.S., we're kind of part of your broad empire, and so we need some money. Does the U.S.
00:18:35.420 want to do that? I don't know that there's an easy answer on this. A lot of people will reactively,
00:18:41.400 say, well, we're a nation. We're not supposed to have entangling alliances. We're not supposed to
00:18:44.920 have a global empire, so let's just get out of everywhere in the world and just come back to
00:18:50.240 our own shores. But the fact is, we do have a global empire. We've had a global empire for 70
00:18:54.220 years now. And as Pericles pointed out in ancient Athens, maybe it wasn't a great thing to accumulate
00:19:03.760 the empire that we have, but we've got it now. Okay, I think it was Pericles. We've got it now,
00:19:10.980 so it would be very dangerous to give up the empire that we already have. That's the question
00:19:18.760 that Americans are debating right now. But it goes back to those magic tricks, okay? The surface level
00:19:25.380 story, Ukrainian independence, and we need to stand up for the community of nations. It's an imperial
00:19:34.960 war. It's a war between two empires, the great American empire and a formerly great empire,
00:19:42.040 Russia, which is trying to rebuild its empire. That's what the war is about. Do we want to be 0.99
00:19:46.800 involved in that war? Do we want to vote for this omnibus bill? The omnibus includes so much
00:19:55.560 terrible stuff. The omnibus, I went through a lot of what the omnibus includes yesterday.
00:20:00.960 I forgot to mention, it includes $286 million in Title X funding for voluntary family planning
00:20:09.520 projects, money that will go toward abortion bills. That's what that means. Voluntary family 0.56
00:20:17.240 planning projects means abortion. So that's going to include a lot of money for Planned Parenthood.
00:20:23.220 The super radical pro-abortion groups are furious about this because it's roughly the same amount
00:20:31.840 of money that we give these people every single year. But they say, well, in the wake of the Dobbs
00:20:36.400 decision, now that Roe v. Wade has been Hoover ruled, you need to give us way more money because
00:20:40.760 abortion is way more under threat. My reaction would be quite the opposite. Republicans in recent years
00:20:49.340 have gone along with this kind of abortion funding because a lot of them are squishes and because a 0.98
00:20:55.220 lot of them aren't particularly principled. But the excuse that they gave was, look, we live in America
00:21:00.340 with Roe v. Wade. You're not going to really do all that much about abortion as long as Roe v. Wade is
00:21:05.880 up in the books. And so we give them a few hundred million dollars, no big deal.
00:21:10.340 But we are not living in Roe v. Wade America right now. We are living in post-Roe America. 0.65
00:21:18.680 We are living in Dobbs America. We do not have to fund abortion. There is no federally recognized
00:21:27.460 right to abortion. That is gone. Lump that away with the Easter bunny. If there was any argument to
00:21:36.000 give hundreds of millions of dollars to Planned Parenthood, it was that. There is a federal right to
00:21:40.040 abortion. That's over. We don't need to give these people any money, zero dollars. And furthermore,
00:21:46.140 Republicans do not have to vote for this bill. The Democrats have tried to back Republicans into a
00:21:51.360 corner where they feel like they have to vote for this omnibus bill. If the Republicans don't vote for
00:21:57.300 the omnibus bill, then the government will shut down. Okay, who cares? The government's shut down
00:22:03.560 plenty of times. We're about to retake the House. That's why the Democrats and the squish Republicans 0.98
00:22:07.980 are trying to ram this thing through before the Republicans retake the House. Because if they can
00:22:12.680 get this funding package through, then there's nothing for the House Republicans to do. They'll
00:22:17.400 hold some investigations. They'll hold some hearings and yell at some people, but they won't actually do
00:22:22.460 anything. Because the Congress doesn't really pass individual bills anymore. They just every so often
00:22:28.020 pass one of these massive multi-trillion dollar omnibus packages. So once they take care of that,
00:22:33.000 with the Dems still in charge of both houses of Congress and the White House, then it's over.
00:22:38.180 And then there's nothing left for the House Republicans to do. B.S. I'm getting a little
00:22:44.000 salty with my language. I'm going to try to rein it in and be very mature and responsible
00:22:49.600 and diplomatic about this and say, Republicans, you don't have to vote for it. If you don't want
00:22:56.560 the government to shut down, you can pass a short-term spending package that will get you
00:23:00.380 through January or even February, then hash this thing out for real. It is absolutely absurd that
00:23:09.520 the Congress was given three days to read a 4,200-page bill, let alone debate and then vote
00:23:18.980 on it. No way. Do not vote for this thing, guys. Any Republican who votes for this $1.7 trillion
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00:24:40.860 Republicans don't need to vote for these things that the Democrats are ramming down our throat. 0.94
00:24:46.040 Increasingly, the people are on our side when it comes to the issues. And people that you might
00:24:52.200 not always expect. We talk about Joe Rogan, Bill Maher, Tulsi Gabbard, these Democrats, Elon Musk,
00:24:58.960 these Democrats who have come over and sided more with the conservatives recently.
00:25:04.260 It goes way further than that. Tim Robbins, one of the biggest lib actors in one of the biggest lib
00:25:10.620 industries, obviously, in Hollywood. He just came out and he admitted to Russell Brand that
00:25:17.000 the COVID lockdowns changed his mind.
00:25:21.260 We went into lockdown with healthy people, with children, and that didn't seem to be wise
00:25:30.620 to me. So I'm not a scientist. I'm not a doctor. I don't know the intricacies of data on this.
00:25:41.080 All I can respond to is as someone that is concerned about what the result of those doctrines,
00:25:52.780 that policy had on us as human beings. And it's not good. We turned into tribal, angry, vengeful people.
00:26:05.840 And I don't think that's something that is sustainable for the earth, that we start demonizing
00:26:16.140 people that don't agree with our particular health policies and turn them into monsters.
00:26:24.560 Look, I'm not a scientist. Look, I don't, I didn't, I didn't know, but this wasn't good.
00:26:32.660 That is the opinion of a lot of liberals who initially bought into all the COVID hysteria
00:26:41.400 and Dr. Fauci and lockdown and six feet apart and wear the hanky on your face and trust the science.
00:26:48.780 They started out seriously believing that. Some of us didn't start out believing that, okay? Some of us,
00:26:54.100 I don't want to name any names here, okay? I don't want to toot my own horn. Some of us
00:26:57.500 understood what COVID was from the very beginning. Some of us, when they tried to lock us down
00:27:03.900 and actually forced us to lock down in California, some of us were back in the office
00:27:08.240 within 36 hours because some of us called up Jeremy Boring and said, Jeremy, I'm not doing this. 0.59
00:27:13.340 This is all ridiculous. I'm showing up to work tomorrow. And he said, okay, understood. I'm already
00:27:16.240 at the office. Okay, so I'm not saying who would have done such a thing. It was me. It was me.
00:27:21.280 Some of us knew it, and I'm sure many of you knew that from the beginning as well. But there were a
00:27:25.840 lot of liberals who very earnestly believed the science and the lab coats and the masks and the
00:27:33.520 Fauci and then realized, wait a second, are we the baddies? They had that reaction. Wait, the thing
00:27:43.560 that we all clamored for, huh? Maybe those crazy right-wing fanatical Republican extremists, maybe, 0.97
00:27:50.980 maybe they were onto something. COVID-19 is being called the Great Reset, not just by tinfoil hat
00:28:00.740 people, but by very, very powerful elites. Klaus Schwab, the head of the World Economic Forum,
00:28:07.060 his various associates, Yuval Harari, one of the philosophers behind the Great Reset in the World
00:28:14.720 Economic Forum, Bill Gates, world leaders. You see this with King Charles of England. You see this
00:28:22.360 with lots of other political leaders who say, COVID-19 is the opportunity to reset our economy
00:28:28.100 and our food production and our political order and our technology. And what does the Great Reset
00:28:35.940 always amount to? It amounts to eat the bugs, live in the pods, give up your rights, own nothing and
00:28:42.520 be happy, surveillance everywhere, no political sovereignty. It's a, it's a reset of our very
00:28:51.420 humanity. That's what they want it to be. And that's insane and terrible and we should fight it tooth and
00:28:57.820 nail. But COVID-19 provides another opportunity for another great reset. COVID-19 provides an
00:29:05.540 opportunity to reset political alliances. I don't think that I am being overly optimistic here or
00:29:12.340 hyperbolic. There are lots of people who got very red-pilled during COVID, during the lockdowns.
00:29:19.900 A lot of people who trusted the entire liberal establishment for their whole freaking lives who
00:29:25.940 said, wait, they lied to me about this. They lied to me in such an egregious way. What else have they been 0.56
00:29:32.560 lying about? And this is the moment for Republicans and conservatives and just normal people to
00:29:40.660 capitalize on that and say, yeah, come on in. Come on in, Tim Robbins. The water is warm.
00:29:47.460 This is, this is not just your 1980s battle between the left and the right and the Democrats and the
00:29:54.180 Republicans. Politics means applying eternal principles to changing circumstances. And that
00:30:00.360 means that political alliances will change over time. And one of the problems with the squishes 0.98
00:30:04.600 where they really err, and I think they err earnestly and unwittingly and sincerely, but they
00:30:09.540 find a lot of comfort in play acting the political battles of the 1980s. And they use all the language
00:30:17.200 of the 1960s through the 1980s, the period that they consider to be the halcyon days of the conservative
00:30:23.380 movement, the days of William F. Buckley Jr. and Ronald Reagan. And so they'll use these terms.
00:30:28.080 They'll say, we've got to fight the collectivists. We need free markets for the smallest minority of
00:30:34.080 all the individual. And they use all these cute lines that they heard in reruns from Milton Friedman
00:30:37.880 and Bill Buckley and all the rest of them. And they pretend that they're still fighting Soviet
00:30:42.740 communism as an international conspiracy. The conspiracies have changed. The Soviet Union 0.69
00:30:46.940 doesn't exist anymore. The threats are different, okay? So I'm not saying that we need to chuck out all
00:30:52.160 the things we learned during that movement, but we have to have the guts and the political vision
00:30:56.660 to fight the battles that are actually happening right now. And one of those battles,
00:31:01.100 probably the biggest battle, is not between left and right and Republican and Democrat and all the
00:31:06.140 rest of it. It's between the secular globalists and the traditional nationalists, the conservatives,
00:31:17.300 the people who like their communities. Donald Trump pointed this out. He said,
00:31:23.060 the battle of our age is between globalism and nationalism. And by globalism, we're not talking
00:31:28.440 about the Catholic empire of the Middle Ages. We're talking about Klaus Schwab and the World Economic
00:31:34.240 Forum and the UN peddling abortion and contraception and weird bugs and mass migration and destroying our
00:31:45.240 economies and all the terrible stuff that you have seen that the libs have used COVID-19 to promote.
00:31:52.040 That's what it's about. And so this is our opportunity. Are we going to welcome in the
00:31:56.600 Tim Robbinses? Are we going to win them over or not? Are we going to keep play acting the battles
00:32:00.680 from the 1980s? People are moving over to our side. Chris Cuomo is moving over to our side, okay?
00:32:08.760 Chris Cuomo, a member of the Cuomo family, the number one Democrat family in the state of New York.
00:32:17.080 Chris Cuomo, who for years now has played this far left lib on CNN. He gets canned from CNN. He goes
00:32:26.180 over to the news channel News Nation. And he is clearly pivoting to the center. Actually,
00:32:32.920 just the other day, I was invited on Chris Cuomo's show. And I said that I would go on the show or,
00:32:39.220 you know, I would try to make the timing work. But I said that I was at least interested.
00:32:42.300 And for whatever reason, the appearance didn't happen. I don't know, maybe he got spiked by a
00:32:46.960 senior producer or something like that. The very fact that they reached out shows you, though. I
00:32:51.380 said, gosh, I assume I'm too much of an authentic conservative for Chris Cuomo to have on the show.
00:32:59.360 You know, usually Chris Cuomo just has CNN conservatives, by which I mean liberal Democrats.
00:33:04.320 He never has actual conservatives on the show. Wow, that must mean that they're pivoting strategy.
00:33:11.760 And then I looked at the segment that Chris Cuomo aired on News Nation. I was very, very impressed.
00:33:16.760 It was a segment about detransitioners.
00:33:22.460 Detransitioner is not who you are and what you are. That is the role that you're playing in this story. 0.62
00:33:27.700 And that's where it ends. In terms of people understanding your situation, do you believe that
00:33:35.160 your predicament of deciding whether or not transitioning was right for you was about the
00:33:41.500 process that got you into it? Or was it that you had a change after transition?
00:33:48.260 I think it really came from the fact that I, since I transitioned so young, I just kind of,
00:33:55.900 I grew up and I matured a bit more. And I really like thought about my future in ways that I was
00:34:02.440 just not capable of at the time of like the medical interventions. Like I thought about like,
00:34:09.860 do I want biological children? And I kind of had like an oh shoot moment because I realized what
00:34:16.040 could have been done there and that I could have really damaged that chance. Along with just like,
00:34:23.700 like I said, really just getting older and growing up a little bit more and being able to actually
00:34:28.460 process what these feelings were. It's a fabulous interview. And Chris Cuomo became the first,
00:34:35.560 as far as I can tell, the first person to host a detransition panel on television news.
00:34:42.540 That's very impressive. Why is he doing it? I don't, I don't mean to question his motives or
00:34:51.740 maybe he's really moving to the right. Could be. Getting canned by CNN probably would do that to a
00:34:58.180 person. So maybe it's totally sincere. But at the very least, Chris Cuomo is a very sharp political
00:35:05.280 actor. The Cuomo's are very, very sharp political people. And Chris Cuomo, I'm sure is seeing, wow,
00:35:13.980 this crazy transgender stuff. This does not play in Peoria. All right. This is a minority, 1.00
00:35:21.020 minority opinion in America that a man can really become a woman and a woman can really become a man. 0.96
00:35:26.080 And we should pump 16 year old girls full of hormones and, and potentially sterilize them and 1.00
00:35:31.300 destroy their voice forever. And this is not good stuff. Okay. And it's, it makes for much more 0.75
00:35:38.860 interesting TV, by the way, this is much more interesting than just whatever stupid talking 0.99
00:35:42.920 points CNN sends down at the top of the day. You've got to talk about Russia. You talk about 0.99
00:35:47.620 how the walls are closing in for the 10 millionth time. Yeah. Talk about how Trump paid his taxes or
00:35:54.080 whatever. Yeah, that's good. No, this is obviously much, much more interesting. And it's much more
00:35:57.820 interesting when people can think a little bit more independently. It's a line. I always quote
00:36:03.380 Dante, quote Dante all the time. But when Dante is seeing his ancestor in paradise, Caccia Guida,
00:36:09.080 Caccia Guida gives him some political advice. He gives him two pieces of political advice.
00:36:12.800 And actually the first one relates to the top of the show. He says that letting in too many immigrants 1.00
00:36:18.920 ruin cities. So he's saying this from heaven. Okay. But the second thing he says is you can't just tie
00:36:25.460 yourself entirely to a political party and make that your whole identity. You're going to get
00:36:29.860 totally burned. Okay. Ultimately you need to transcend those petty little squabbles and become a party
00:36:36.680 unto yourself. And that's true for all of us. And you are seeing them happen, especially on the left
00:36:43.780 right now. So what does that mean? When, when these people are waking up and thinking in a little bit
00:36:48.240 more of an independent way, we can win them over. We don't need to cave to the libs. We don't need to
00:36:55.100 feel pressured to vote for their stupid $1.7 trillion spending bill that everybody hates. 1.00
00:36:59.580 Come on, conservatives, grow a spine. I know that conservatives have a spine. Come on, 1.00
00:37:05.340 congressional Republicans, grow a spine. The things that you want to do, generally speaking,
00:37:12.620 are the right things to do. And on top of it, they're political winners because the people are on
00:37:17.140 your side. It amuses me when people use that phrase, educate yourself, as a retort. Because
00:37:24.740 the people who use that phrase are, ironically, usually among the least educated people out there.
00:37:32.020 They are the ones who need the education. They would do well to tune into Ben Shapiro's book club,
00:37:35.780 which is back tonight at 8, 7 central, exclusively on Daily Wire Plus. This month's book is The Screwtape
00:37:40.140 Letters by C.S. Lewis. Tune in to hear Ben discuss the novel and share his notes with you.
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00:37:53.400 Knowles today. Speaking of opinions changing over time, great news out of a court. This is the
00:38:02.200 Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals has just ruled that the Biden administration cannot enforce its COVID
00:38:08.160 vaccine mandate on federal contractors. This according to a ruling on Monday. It was a two-to-one
00:38:15.740 decision. So again, those judges matter. You know, it wasn't a unanimous decision. But the Fifth Circuit
00:38:20.680 says that another vaccine mandate pushed by the federal government is not legit. Cannot happen.
00:38:30.220 Really good news. You remember the first one of these vaccine mandates that got struck down
00:38:34.180 was the private sector mandate. And the Daily Wire led the lawsuit. We were the first company
00:38:38.880 to bring the suit against the federal government. We won in the Supreme Court. But federal contractors,
00:38:45.500 first responders, or healthcare workers rather, federal employees, the list goes on. They all still
00:38:51.100 had to take the Fauci ouchie. And now slowly we're seeing those crumble as well.
00:38:56.140 Which is a good moral victory. But it's not a political victory. It's not a real political
00:39:05.660 victory. Because the federal contractors already took the shot. Or they lost their jobs.
00:39:14.140 The Libs knew that a lot of this would be rendered unconstitutional. The liberals knew this
00:39:22.160 when they passed their mandates and all their crazy emergency measures. They knew it, okay?
00:39:27.400 But what they also knew was by the time that these things were struck down by the courts,
00:39:32.640 it wouldn't matter. They knew that by the time they were struck down by the courts,
00:39:37.420 they would have already gotten what they wanted. It reminds me of an historical example that I keep
00:39:43.740 coming back to. The 1948 Senate race in Texas. LBJ is running. LBJ cheats. He stuffs ballot boxes.
00:39:51.240 He barely wins with enough votes. Everyone knew that the race was stolen. The race litigation goes
00:39:58.920 all the way up to the Supreme Court. The Supreme Court finally says, look, we don't have jurisdiction
00:40:02.560 here. We don't want to hear about it. You've sort out your own election. Sound familiar, by the way?
00:40:06.300 Does that sound like any elections we've had recently? So LBJ enters into the Senate. Then JFK
00:40:13.340 picks LBJ to be his vice president. Then JFK is assassinated, potentially by the CIA. I'm not making
00:40:19.960 that claim. But I did see this week, there were certain documents released about the JFK assassination
00:40:25.060 that hadn't been released before. And they suggested that at the very least, the CIA had some kind of
00:40:29.700 relationship with Lee Harvey Oswald. And anyway, the whole thing is, it's a topic for another time.
00:40:34.360 But anyway, JFK gets assassinated. Then LBJ becomes the president. LBJ passes the Great Society.
00:40:41.200 Terrible legislation. Ramps up the war in Vietnam. Just awful stuff. He leaves office. He dies.
00:40:51.240 And in the 1990s, his biographer, Robert Caro, shows that he stole the 1948 Senate race.
00:40:59.860 What a great moral victory. Doesn't matter. He already had his whole career. He already got
00:41:07.500 exactly what he wanted. Republicans, conservatives, are very good at being proven right later on.
00:41:16.500 Totally. I mean, we were proven right about the vaccines. Vaccines, not anywhere near as safe and
00:41:23.360 effective as we were told they were. We were proven right about the masks. We were proven right about
00:41:26.840 the six feet social distancing. The public health officials eventually admitted they plucked that out
00:41:30.420 of thin air. We were right about the origin of the Wuhan virus. We were right about U.S. funding of
00:41:35.260 the origin of the Wuhan virus. We were right. And that's just one issue. That's just one issue
00:41:40.840 among a zillion. We've been proven right about pretty much everything after the fact.
00:41:48.220 It would be much better, rather than losing a political battle and then being proven right later,
00:41:53.540 it would be much better to win. Okay? So we've got to keep fighting. Now, I'll give you another
00:42:00.820 example on election fraud. A 2020 election fraud lawsuit in Fulton County has just gotten some new
00:42:08.300 life. 2020. We're now approaching 2023. We're still fighting over 2020. And the libs and the
00:42:14.920 squishes don't want us to keep fighting over 2020, but some conservatives are keeping it alive.
00:42:18.700 This was a case that was initially dismissed by a judge in October of 2021. It has been working its
00:42:25.280 way through the court system. Now, it's being sent back to the appeals court,
00:42:28.580 thanks to an order from the Georgia Supreme Court about ballot fraud and absentee ballots in 2020.
00:42:38.660 Central to this case is the issue of standing. You're only allowed to bring suit if you have
00:42:44.980 standing, if you can prove that you have some particular injury as a result of some issue.
00:42:50.980 And so a lot of the cases over election fraud have flopped because the court will say, well,
00:42:56.280 you don't have any standing. There's no reason for us even to hear the case out. This one continues to
00:43:02.000 go through. And I strongly suspect that it is going to find evidence, or at the very least,
00:43:08.720 strong evidence will be presented of fraud in Georgia. Of all the states where alleged fraud
00:43:15.000 occurred, Georgia looked like one of the worst in 2020. Great. I hope we win. I hope we prove that
00:43:23.100 the 2020 election was completely stolen by the Democrats. That would be a great moral victory, 0.81
00:43:28.060 but it won't matter because the big issue here is not being proven right. The big issue is time.
00:43:35.620 We might be proven correct, but to what effect? We need to win. It would be far better than litigating
00:43:45.980 all of this out years after the elections. It would be far better for Republicans to change the
00:43:53.160 laws back, get rid of early voting, get rid of all these absentee ballots, reinstitute voter ID,
00:44:00.460 and then get into some ballot harvesting ourselves, and then be proactive and start using the same kind
00:44:06.620 of machine techniques that the Democrats are using. That would be a much better strategy so that we
00:44:11.840 actually win the elections on the night of, rather than litigating this thing out for years, and then
00:44:16.180 maybe getting the moral victory. Oh yeah, look, it actually turns out you were right, guys. Hey,
00:44:20.380 you were totally right. They stole Georgia. Anyway, never mind. Going back to my pod now to eat the
00:44:27.500 bugs because the Democrats have been winning for years based on all of this sort of shenanigans,
00:44:33.220 and you can't do anything about it. Not great. The Democrats are really, really smart about this issue of
00:44:40.200 time. Democrats in 2022 took a ton of money from Sam Bankman-Fried. Sam Bankman-Fried was the head of
00:44:49.040 FTX. This was probably the biggest financial scam in American history that just collapsed.
00:44:55.000 All these Democrats took a ton of money. Sam Bankman-Fried contributed roughly $39 million
00:45:00.760 to Democrat nominees during the 2022 midterms, according to data from Open Secrets.
00:45:06.180 So the Democrats have just announced they are going to give some of the money back.
00:45:13.020 The Senate Majority PAC, which exists to elect Democrats, announced that it will return $3 million.
00:45:23.640 Wow. What about the other 36? What about the other 18 times that amount of money that the Democrats
00:45:33.860 also took? Are you going to return that, guys? No. Now, this one Democrat PAC is going to return a
00:45:41.180 relatively small amount of money, but the rest of it, no big deal. $3 million is a drop in the bucket
00:45:47.780 compared to what was going on. They're very good about this. They're very smart when it comes to time,
00:45:55.460 and they're going to run out the clock. And then eventually, maybe they'll say, okay, we'll give a
00:45:58.820 little bit more money back. Doesn't matter. They already got all their money. They already won the
00:46:02.220 election. Doesn't matter now. Speaking of disparities in money, Oprah Winfrey is under a ton of fire right 1.00
00:46:09.920 now. She was asked, she was walking out of some event to give a recommendation for a Christmas gift.
00:46:16.260 Here's what she said.
00:46:19.660 Favorite gift from my mom. She's not doing well.
00:46:23.900 You know, a wonderful thing is that jewelry box that I had on favorite things. A beautiful red
00:46:30.480 jewelry box with a little... That's too expensive for me. So it's not. It's really not. It's like
00:46:34.980 a hundred and some dollars. A little lower on my price budget.
00:46:38.200 Lower than a hundred dollars?
00:46:39.960 Mama, she has sentimental gifts. 0.99
00:46:42.640 Okay, then this is the perfect gift for your mom. You do a list of your top 10 reasons why you love
00:46:49.320 her. And you make a beautiful card, and it's your top 10.
00:46:53.300 That is, that's, that's perfect. And it's sentimental, right?
00:46:55.620 And it's sentimental. Your top 10.
00:46:58.040 Oprah is being attacked for this because she said, well, it's only a hundred dollars. 0.72
00:47:03.040 It's a little bit out of my price range. A hundred dollars? What, are you super poor or something like
00:47:06.960 that? Can't afford a hundred dollar gift? What's wrong with you? And so people are attacking her for this. 0.98
00:47:11.600 There are so many reasons to attack Oprah. Oprah herself might be a sign of the apocalypse. Like 1.00
00:47:18.180 Oprah is, has done so much damage to the spiritual state of Americans and people all over the world 0.95
00:47:27.060 peddling her new age gobbledygook, just liberal, awful, Malthusian, terrible. I mean, I could go on 0.92
00:47:34.320 and on and on about all the terrible things Oprah's done. I thought that was fine. She, Oprah is a
00:47:40.740 billionaire. And she gave you a recommendation for something that costs like a hundred dollars,
00:47:45.600 which most people can afford if it's going to be their main Christmas gift for their mother.
00:47:52.520 There are some people who can't afford it. And especially now it's tough financial times
00:47:55.380 and inflation is very bad. So I'm not, yes, that's true. But, and then she immediately gave
00:47:59.840 a great response. Said, okay, well, if you can't afford that, just write around a list of the top 10
00:48:05.380 reasons why you love her so much. That would be a very meaningful gift, very sentimental,
00:48:10.200 probably more so than the jewelry box. That was, I thought that was a good answer.
00:48:13.920 Okay. Maybe it's just the spirit of the season. I'm feeling very charitable. I've got to even say
00:48:17.340 nice things about Oprah. Now, speaking of Christmas, speaking of all sorts of misinformation going
00:48:26.700 around. I mentioned at the top of the show, there's this TikTok of woke Christmas facts.
00:48:35.540 I debunk it. It's going wild on my channel right now, so you can find it over on the YouTube channel.
00:48:40.600 Well, anyway, the gal who I was reacting to, she's out with more facts, more facts that happen not to
00:48:48.340 be correct. As Ronald Reagan said, the problem with our liberal friends is not that they're ignorant. 0.98
00:48:52.020 They just know so much that isn't so. So that we will be getting into it right now. 0.94
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