The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 1194 - Libs’ Disgusting Attempt To Blame Derailment On Trump Fails

00:00:00.000 After the train full of toxic chemicals derailed in East Palestine, Ohio,

00:00:04.940 poisoning the town and the surrounding communities, the Biden administration did

00:00:09.900 pretty much nothing. Then a week later, the Biden administration continued to do

00:00:18.440 pretty much nothing. Then a week after that, President Trump showed up with water and Big

00:00:24.940 Macs and demanded that the federal government show up and help these poor people.

00:00:28.400 And then the Biden administration still basically did nothing. But at that point,

00:00:36.920 after Trump showed up, Biden supporters did something. They agreed upon a new talking point,

00:00:45.620 which is that the whole thing was actually Trump's fault.

00:00:51.800 What do you make of the fact that he went there, despite the fact that the regulations that he

00:00:57.980 rolled back were partly responsible for this tragedy?

00:01:02.260 I mean, it was definitely an ironic thing to do. You know, you take down regulations,

00:01:08.300 you water down regulations, you weaken the power of the administration to deal with freight railroad

00:01:15.180 companies. And then you show up wanting to be a great friend of the people who have been impacted

00:01:20.760 by a rail disaster. This wasn't just background noise conspiracy theorizing. This wasn't just

00:01:26.780 finger pointing from the fringes. These were leading liberal figures from the media and the Biden

00:01:33.500 administration itself, claiming that Trump had cut regulations that then caused the train to derail.

00:01:41.040 This is the talking point echoed by all the libs today. And it turns out that the talking point

00:01:49.020 is completely false. Completely false. Even a handful of honest libs in mainstream outlets are

00:01:58.020 admitting this. The Washington Post just did an analysis headline. So far, Trump's rollback of

00:02:04.940 regulations can't be blamed for Ohio train wreck. Quote, we decided to examine every possible

00:02:12.980 regulatory change made under Trump that could be related to the accident and assess whether it could

00:02:19.600 have had an impact. From our analysis, none of the regulatory changes made during the Trump

00:02:25.960 administration at this point can be cited as contributing to the incident. That's the Washington

00:02:29.800 Post. New York Times, quote, he said later that he believed Mr. Trump's presence would help keep

00:02:36.200 the pressure on federal officials to take action. Asked about criticism from the White House on the

00:02:40.840 Republican opposition to rail safety measures, Mr. Vance, this is the Ohio Republican Senator J.D.

00:02:45.420 Vance, said attempts to politicize the issue would not help residents. New York Times says, quote,

00:02:50.180 according to the website PolitiFact, a rail safety rule repealed as part of a broad regulatory

00:02:54.640 rollback under the Trump administration would have had no impact on the East Palestine derailment.

00:03:01.040 WAPO, Super Lib, New York Times, Super Lib, New York Times cites PolitiFact, Super Lib. They all admit

00:03:06.900 nothing that Trump did. None of the deregulation could have in any way caused this derailment.

00:03:14.840 Even Joe Biden's own National Transportation Safety Board chairman, Jennifer Homody, made a point to

00:03:21.540 explain that the regulation Trump allegedly cut had nothing to do with the derailment. She tweeted,

00:03:27.160 quote, some are saying the ECP electronically controlled pneumatic brake rule, if implemented,

00:03:33.740 would have prevented this derailment. False. Even if the rule had gone into effect, this train

00:03:38.460 wouldn't have had ECP brakes. But falsehood flies and the truth comes limping after it. The lie shows up

00:03:47.360 in prime time on page A1 of the paper. Everybody sees it. The correction, where does that show up?

00:03:54.480 It gets completely buried. The wrong guy gets the blame. Nothing gets fixed. And Biden prepares

00:04:02.000 for the next catastrophe by doing what he does best. Nothing. I'm Michael Knowles. This is the Michael

00:04:08.980 Knowles Show. Welcome back to the show. Do not forget to smash that like button. Subscribe.

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00:04:29.080 as YouTube clamps down on some of the perfectly true things that we say on this show, perfectly ordinary

00:04:34.660 things that the libs don't like, that we keep juicing the algorithm a little bit. Maybe we take

00:04:40.620 a little bit of a stand against some of the censorship that we're seeing throughout big tech.

00:04:44.760 My favorite comment yesterday is from Top10guy1, who says, a transportation secretary is just like 0.99

00:04:50.520 an umpire in baseball. If you know their name, it means they did a horrible job. So true. So, so true.

00:04:58.240 There is no reason these people should blend in with the furniture. If you know who they are,

00:05:03.060 it is because they are doing a horrible job, just as Pete Buttigieg is. You want these, you want the

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00:06:30.360 pass the buck for everything. We talked yesterday about Lori Lightfoot, the dismal mayor of Chicago, 0.99

00:06:37.360 losing her re-election bid as murder skyrocketed throughout the city. The city is essentially a

00:06:44.080 war zone now. Some voters finally threw that bum out. What does Lori Lightfoot have to say about it? 1.00

00:06:49.220 To what does she attribute her loss? Her lack of care for the people, her extraordinarily arrogant 0.99

00:06:56.180 attitude when called out on her failures, the fact that people in Chicago can't walk down the street

00:07:02.260 without taking their lives in their hands. No, no, no. She of course blamed it on her race and on her

00:07:10.600 sex. Lori Lightfoot is a black lady and so that's why she was not re-elected. Now, of course, one would 1.00

00:07:18.840 have to ask if Lori Lightfoot did not win re-election because Chicago residents hate black people and 1.00

00:07:25.700 hate women, how did she win election in the first place? That part doesn't quite make a lot of sense. 0.98

00:07:31.660 But then two, you got to look at Chicago's demographics. Lori Lightfoot says, I'm a black

00:07:37.380 woman in America. Of course, race and sex, race and gender, she was answering, contributed to that loss. 0.67

00:07:45.360 Chicago is 29% black. America is about 13% black. Chicago is more than twice as black as America

00:07:56.660 broadly is. Chicago is 51% female. There are more women in Chicago than men. 1.00

00:08:04.060 The blame it on your race, blame it on your sex stuff doesn't really play anywhere as far as I'm

00:08:11.960 concerned. But it especially does not play in Chicago because Chicago is one of the blackest 1.00

00:08:17.800 American cities and it's more female than male. What do we think is most likely to have contributed 1.00

00:08:24.660 to Lori Lightfoot's loss? The identities that she represents, which are disproportionately represented

00:08:32.760 among the electorate or her utter failure in the fact that residents of Chicago, black, white,

00:08:38.060 yellow, and brown, male, female, and these days, I guess everything in between just don't want to be 0.99

00:08:43.620 shot as they're walking down the street. I strongly suspect it would be the latter.

00:08:48.000 That kind of irresponsibility I find very, very funny. Why'd you lose re-election? Oh,

00:08:54.160 it's because I'm black. That's very funny. That's a silly thing. Sometimes the Libs' irresponsibility 0.87

00:08:59.220 is much less funny. As we saw yesterday, there's a woman who showed up to Congress 1.00

00:09:03.940 to put a human face on the opioid epidemic that most of our politicians, certainly the liberal

00:09:10.500 politicians, but many establishment politicians broadly, just don't seem to care very much about.

00:09:16.140 Her name is Rebecca Kiesling. Her sons, Caleb and Kyler, were killed along with another friend

00:09:23.860 of a fentanyl overdose. This was just a few years ago. Her sons were 20 and 18 years old.

00:09:33.460 And Mrs. Kiesling is asking, why won't the Congress do anything about this epidemic?

00:09:41.060 I lost my two sons. Caleb was age 20 and Kyler was age 18 on July 29th of 2020.

00:09:53.640 It was absolutely a perfect storm. There was also a 17-year-old girl, Sophia Harris, who died along

00:10:04.060 with them. And the drug dealer, Lorenzo Bravo, was spared by Narcan. And he ended up getting 8 to 15

00:10:16.580 years for killing three people. He was another addict. And so because he survived, they had leads to who he

00:10:26.140 got it from. And they actually could try to start tracing it back. And the law enforcement made it

00:10:34.120 clear to me that this fentanyl came from Mexico. It came from our southern border.

00:10:40.000 You talk about children being taken away from their parents.

00:10:45.660 My children were taken away from me.

00:10:47.600 It's an amazing line. It's an amazing moment. One of the most impressive moments I've ever seen

00:10:55.940 in congressional testimony. This mother who lost two of her sons so young, completely preventable

00:11:04.100 deaths. Deaths caused not just by teenage irresponsibility, which is basically universal,

00:11:09.900 but by the decisions of people in Congress to keep that border open and to go soft on drugs.

00:11:15.180 This is not just something that's happening naturally and you can't prevent it. In the year

00:11:21.300 2000, 20,000 Americans died of drug overdoses. Today, 100,000 Americans, more than 100,000 Americans

00:11:28.200 die every year from drug overdoses. 5X today, what we saw just a little over 20 years ago.

00:11:34.880 That's not just an accident. That's not just the natural changes of politics. That is because of

00:11:40.080 specific policies. That's because Democrats and some establishment Republicans won't close the 0.75

00:11:45.720 border. That's because Democrats and some squish Republicans want to go soft on drugs. Not just

00:11:51.060 not enforce the law, but actually stop enforcing. Not just not enforce the law, but loosen up the law.

00:11:57.580 Liberalize the drug laws. Make it easier for drug dealers to peddle poison. That's why this is

00:12:03.340 happening. And what do we hear? We say, well, look, we know that fentanyl is pouring across the border.

00:12:10.180 They say, well, what do you want to do? You want to stop those future dreamer Americans from coming 1.00

00:12:13.900 across? Yes. Yeah. I want to stop the drug cartels from poisoning America across the border.

00:12:20.280 Say, well, don't you know that when we enforce border policies, parents are separated from their

00:12:24.260 children? That woman says, well, you know, my children were separated from me too.

00:12:27.720 And I'm an American. What about me? What about me? It's not a complicated issue.

00:12:34.500 Ronald Reagan made this point in the 80s. He said, illegal immigration is not complicated. It's

00:12:38.340 illegal. End of story. This is not, we were talking about gangs and drugs and breaking the law

00:12:46.560 in El Salvador this week. El Salvador was able to cut its murder rate by 58%. And it wasn't all that

00:12:52.940 complicated. It was actually pretty simple. If you arrest the criminals, the murder rate goes

00:12:57.620 down. How do you prevent these drug deaths? 100,000 plus per year. You enforce the immigration 1.00

00:13:05.300 policies and you enforce the drug laws. Not rocket science. We can do it. The liberals and the squishes 1.00

00:13:15.160 in the Republican Party don't want to do it. This is the consequence. Okay, that's fine. They have

00:13:20.160 their reasons for it. They want cheap labor. They want foreigners to flood the country. They think 1.00

00:13:27.040 that people have a right to do drugs that will kill them. Okay, that's what, then look the victims in

00:13:32.600 the face. And look at the consequences of those actions. And don't say, well, it's just, this is

00:13:38.460 the tides of history. No, it's because of specific decisions being made by very, very irresponsible

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00:14:54.260 The fentanyl problem is not just a little uptick in drugs in America. It is something we have never

00:15:01.760 seen before. Fentanyl is just pure poison and fentanyl is pouring across our border as part of

00:15:11.440 a concerted effort to weaken our country by foreign actors, by our enemies, by China to begin with, 0.66

00:15:19.380 and then through Mexico because they know that effectively we don't have a border.

00:15:23.540 U.S. Customs and Border Protection, who were assigned to the Andrade Port of Entry in California,

00:15:30.260 just hit a new port record by seizing nearly $1 million of fentanyl and meth.

00:15:38.060 That was in one car. They were hiding it in the gas tank. $1 million worth of fentanyl and meth.

00:15:47.740 How many people, not only could that amount of drugs have killed, how many people would that

00:15:52.600 fentanyl have killed had that car made it through? We don't know. Chances are,

00:16:00.680 if you don't know somebody who has died of a fentanyl overdose in the last five years,

00:16:08.140 I promise you, you know somebody who knows somebody.

00:16:13.060 I know people who died of these overdoses, people I grew up with. Everybody does. And it's not like I

00:16:19.600 grew up in Breaking Bad, okay? I didn't grow up in some totally drug-ridden community. I grew up in a

00:16:24.020 pretty nice suburb in New York. It's everywhere. And so we can celebrate, oh good, CBP was able to

00:16:31.600 catch a million dollars worth of this stuff. That's what we caught. Imagine what's getting

00:16:37.780 through. Sometimes the liberals who try to make excuses about this, they say, yeah, it's good.

00:16:41.500 Border protection's working. We were able to catch these people. They'll say, well, we were able to

00:16:46.400 catch the criminals that were trying to sneak over illegally, who usually are then just released

00:16:51.140 back into the public. Or they'll say, oh, we were able to catch the drugs. Yeah. Imagine how much

00:16:57.240 in the way of drugs is getting through. You don't have to imagine, because 100,000 plus Americans

00:17:01.460 every year are dying from it, a 5x increase. It's just total irresponsibility. Why won't the

00:17:09.100 Biden administration do something about this? Well, because the Biden administration is directing

00:17:13.780 its federal resources toward much more pressing issues, like terrorizing parents who don't want their

00:17:19.100 kids to get transed, and terrorizing pro-lifers, and infiltrating Catholic masses, and trying to 0.83

00:17:26.600 harass Christians for going to church on Sunday. Josh Hawley grilled the Attorney General Merrick

00:17:32.840 Garland just yesterday on that latter FBI initiative to infiltrate churches such as my own, churches where

00:17:43.800 Catholics just want to go on Sundays and worship God in a traditional way that has existed for at least 0.97

00:17:49.460 1,200 years. I notice a pattern, though. The FBI field office in Richmond, on the 23rd of January of

00:17:58.280 this year, issued a memorandum in which they advocated for, and I quote, the exploration of new avenues for

00:18:05.280 tripwire and source development against traditionalist Catholics, it's their language, including those who

00:18:12.320 favor the Latin mass. Attorney General, are you cultivating sources and spies in Latin mass

00:18:20.980 parishes and other Catholic parishes around the country? The Justice Department does not do that.

00:18:25.060 It does not do investigations based on religion. I saw the document you said. It's appalling.

00:18:31.220 It's appalling. I'm in complete agreement with you. I understand that the FBI has withdrawn it,

00:18:36.580 and it's now looking into how this could ever have happened. How did it happen? That's what they're

00:18:40.420 looking into. How many informants do you have in Catholic churches across America?

00:18:44.460 I don't know, and I don't believe we have any informants aimed at Catholic churches.

00:18:48.940 There it is. So Merrick Garland, he's a very talented politician. He's been in the upper

00:18:54.080 echelons of Washington for a long time, and he gives the right answer to Hawley. And let's say he's being

00:18:59.620 sincere. I was appalled, Senator Hawley. I can't believe this was happening.

00:19:04.100 I've ordered them not to do it anymore. I was totally appalled. Okay, that's good.

00:19:10.180 But then did you notice that second answer that Garland gave? Hawley says, before we go,

00:19:16.960 how many informants do you have in the Catholic churches? And Garland makes a big mistake.

00:19:22.400 He says, I don't know. Oops. I mean, I don't think we have any. Wait, hold on. You just said,

00:19:29.040 I don't know. Implying that you've got some, you just don't know what the number is.

00:19:37.320 Implying that your first answer was kind of disingenuous, right?

00:19:42.540 I was appalled. I can't believe that the FBI is going in there and harassing these Catholics. I'm

00:19:48.240 going to get to the bottom of this. How exactly? I'm not going to tell you, but I'm absolutely

00:19:52.660 infuriated. Okay, well, just, all right, before we get to any of that, you know, do what you can.

00:19:58.380 How many people do you have spying on the Catholics? Oh, I don't know.

00:20:04.360 I mean, none. Yeah, okay. Okay, so Hawley is grilling Garland, and then we get Senator Cruz.

00:20:14.780 I don't say it just because he's a friend of mine. I don't say it just because we hosted a podcast for

00:20:19.400 three years together. This guy is just the best at grilling witnesses in the Senate. There is nobody

00:20:27.320 better than Cruz. So Cruz goes in, he's going after Garland, and he brings up the case of Mark

00:20:33.400 Houck, a pro-life activist who was threatened with jail time. The DOJ showed up at his house with his

00:20:40.700 kids, terrorized him, arrested him, all for pushing back on a pro-abortion fanatic who was screaming at

00:20:48.840 his son. Often just like, hey, get away from my son. You got the men in the windbreakers showing up,

00:20:54.760 the federales show up to your door and arrest you and threaten you. Cruz says, what gives?

00:20:59.240 Why do you send two dozen agents in body armor to arrest a sidewalk counselor who happens to be 1.00

00:21:07.140 prone to life, but you don't devote resources to prosecute people who are violently firebombing

00:21:14.100 crisis pregnancies? It is a priority of the department to prosecute and investigate and

00:21:19.300 find the people who are doing those firebombings. They are doing it at night and in secret,

00:21:23.720 and we have found one group, which we did prosecute. You found one. How many have there

00:21:29.560 been? How many attacks? There have been a lot, and if you have any information specifically as to who

00:21:33.720 those people are, we would be glad to have that. Did you personally authorize 20 agents going to

00:21:39.320 Mr. Houck's house, and he offered to turn himself in through counsel, but you didn't want that.

00:21:44.160 The Department of Justice wanted to make a show of it. Did you personally authorize it,

00:21:48.400 and do you want to apologize to Mrs. Houck and her seven children for being terrorized?

00:21:54.000 The decisions about how to do that are made at the level of the FBI agents on scene.

00:22:00.420 So there we go. It's the same kind of answer from Garland that we saw when he was answering Hawley.

00:22:05.260 He says, I don't know. I didn't make these decisions. This was not me. This was lower level

00:22:10.680 FBI agents. I don't. We're looking into it. I'm very, very responsible, Senator Cruz.

00:22:17.200 How dare you impugn my motives or my integrity? And okay, that's fine. But then Cruz, he also,

00:22:24.740 he's just kind of gets in there. I remember once he was grilling Mark Zuckerberg at Facebook,

00:22:29.540 and what Cruz really shines in is he's doing the grilling, and he's asking all these questions over

00:22:36.600 here, over here, with this hand over here, and then he just hits you with the other hand right

00:22:41.140 when you're not expecting it. So he's grilling Mark Zuckerberg on whatever. I don't remember.

00:22:44.700 And then out of nowhere, he goes, why was Palmer Luckey fired? Because there was a rumor that a

00:22:50.160 major Facebook executive had been fired for being a conservative. And he just off-footed him,

00:22:56.080 and Zuckerberg didn't know what to say because he was so focused on this other topic.

00:22:59.180 So we saw Cruz do this again. Cruz is grilling Garland on all sorts of issues. And then he says,

00:23:05.200 hey, one quick question just before you go. Is it illegal to protest on the grounds of a judge's

00:23:13.620 house while a case is pending? Here's the answer.

00:23:17.800 General Garland, is it a federal crime to protest outside of a judge's home with the intent of

00:23:24.100 influencing that judge as to a pending case?

00:23:26.980 The answer to that is yes, but I also want to at least respond to your characterization of the

00:23:31.640 department, which I vigorously disagree with.

00:23:35.320 Huh? Oh, what? Yes, the thing you said is true. But let me get off this for a second,

00:23:40.300 because what Cruz was doing there was quoting the US code verbatim, which says that the protests

00:23:48.340 that we saw after the Dobbs decision was leaked, all the pro-abortion fanaticists who showed up to

00:23:54.740 Alito's house, who showed up to Kavanaugh's house, who showed up to the homes of the conservative

00:23:59.180 justices to protest, terrorize them, terrorize their kids in the middle of the night. One guy showed up

00:24:04.520 to assassinate Brett Kavanaugh, and the local police and the federal police just allowed this to happen.

00:24:11.580 It was completely illegal. And so now Garland's answer to Hawley and to Cruz of, oh, I didn't know.

00:24:18.860 I wasn't aware. We're investigating. We're looking into it. Had I known we would have done things

00:24:22.720 differently. It's exposed as complete BS. He's Garland says, yes, what they did was illegal.

00:24:30.700 I know it was illegal. I know it was happening. It was all over the news, and I let it happen.

00:24:36.440 I'm the attorney general of the United States, and I permitted this kind of lawlessness

00:24:41.320 when it benefited my political party. I brought down the full force of the federal government

00:24:48.520 to terrorize a pro-lifer and his wife and his kids for having the temerity to protest outside of,

00:24:53.860 or not even to protest outside, to pray outside and to peacefully demonstrate outside of an abortion

00:24:59.260 clinic. Oh, yeah, we're going to terrorize those people. But when left-wingers violate federal law

00:25:07.720 outside the homes of Supreme Court justices, one of whom goes and tries to kill the guy,

00:25:11.760 that I knowingly allowed to happen. Absolutely humiliating day for Merrick Garland on Capitol

00:25:21.200 Hill. Great job to those Senate Republicans. So we need some new leadership. 0.99

00:25:27.840 President Trump, obviously, would like to reclaim the mantle of leadership. And one area where Trump

00:25:35.640 has really shined is on foreign policy. This is, in this race, clear because he's the only candidate

00:25:44.380 really with a foreign policy. That's no knock on DeSantis or Haley or Vivek or anybody else. It's just

00:25:50.420 that Trump is the only guy who's gotten to be president before. And so he's the only guy who's had

00:25:54.160 an opportunity to articulate a foreign policy. And Trump went on our pal Seb Gorka show a couple of

00:26:02.800 days ago. And he articulated his foreign policy vis-a-vis Ukraine. And a deal has to be made.

00:26:10.600 It would have never happened. But that has to stop. And it has to stop right now. And a deal can be

00:26:16.100 negotiated by the right president. You have a president that knows what he's doing. You can

00:26:24.300 negotiate a deal even right now. Would have been a lot easier early. I always said, you know,

00:26:29.720 Putin put those soldiers on the border. And I said, oh, he's looking to negotiate. I was actually

00:26:35.580 a little surprised he did it because nothing happened during my, you know, during my term,

00:26:40.200 he didn't take over anything. It was the only one. Typical Trump take on foreign policy, which is,

00:26:46.020 if I were in charge, things would be totally fine. That's Trump's foreign policy. He's not

00:26:51.780 articulating some grand strategy. He's not articulating some foreign policy doctrine. He's

00:26:56.940 saying, you put me in charge, it'll be all right. And the funny thing is, it seems like that is true.

00:27:06.020 In fact, the fact that there is not some overarching strategy that you can put down in a five-point

00:27:11.860 manifesto, this is the Trump foreign policy doctrine, that seems to be the strongest part of it.

00:27:16.240 It is simply a fact the world was more peaceful during Trump's tenure than at any other time in

00:27:27.160 my life. Trump had a more successful foreign policy in terms of preserving the peace than

00:27:34.120 Obama, Bush, Clinton, Bush, even other Bush and Bush one was pretty good at preserving the peace.

00:27:41.520 Reagan, even. Trump did a great job. Why? Because Trump was unpredictable.

00:27:48.100 And because Trump was unpredictable, sometimes you thought he was going to go send in the troops

00:27:52.140 and he was a total dove. Sometimes you thought that Trump was going to stay away and he goes in

00:27:57.140 and assassinates the top Iranian general or drops the mother of all bombs. And you just don't know.

00:28:02.420 And so if you're Xi Jinping, if you're Vladimir Putin, even if you think that Trump is only 5%

00:28:10.600 serious when he says, I'm going to blow you to smithereens if you do something I don't like,

00:28:15.800 even if you think 95% chance he's bluffing. In fact, Trump went on record. He said,

00:28:21.500 I told Vladimir Putin, if you invade Ukraine, I'll blow up Moscow. And so you're Vladimir Putin and you

00:28:26.080 think there's no way he's, he's bluffing, but because he's unpredictable, you've got to think

00:28:32.340 in your head, there's a 5%. There's a, there's a 2% chance that this crazy mother lover is going to do 1.00

00:28:39.980 it. And so you hold back. And in fact, this is not just Trump bragging about how things might have 0.98

00:28:47.320 been in a conditional and a hypothetical had he been president. Ukrainian president Vladimir Zelensky

00:28:54.460 says the same thing. Zelensky says that the, the proximate cause of the war was that Joe Biden

00:29:03.220 lifted the sanctions off of Russia and Joe Biden then invited Russia to invade. Joe Biden said,

00:29:08.880 if it's just a minor incursion into Ukraine, we won't really do anything about it. That's what

00:29:12.120 Zelensky pointed out. And Zelensky and Trump seem to agree on that point. Unfortunately though,

00:29:19.460 we have irresponsible leadership. And so we seem to be hurtling ever more toward war. There was a,

00:29:23.700 an insane press conference yesterday with the secretary general of NATO. That would be Jens

00:29:29.180 Stoltenberg and the Finnish prime minister, Sanna Marin, about how, even though we haven't all really

00:29:36.240 voted on it yet, or even though the people of these countries seem to be pretty opposed,

00:29:41.380 Ukraine is totally going to join NATO.

00:29:44.220 So what NATO allies have agreed that Ukraine will become a member of our alliance. But at the same

00:29:53.020 time, that, that is a long-term perspective. What is the, what is the issue now is to ensure that

00:29:59.120 Ukraine prevail as a sovereign independent nation and that therefore we need to support Ukraine.

00:30:04.700 I see that the future of Ukraine is to be part of European union and also member of NATO.

00:30:13.780 We have taken many steps forward.

00:30:16.580 So this press conference was insane for a number of reasons. One, if Ukraine joined NATO today,

00:30:23.860 we would instantly be in world war three. We might already be in world war three, but we would

00:30:29.480 instantly formally be in world war three because Ukraine is currently occupied by Russia. So this

00:30:35.500 would trigger the NATO treaty and we would all be at war. It's insane for another reason because

00:30:41.320 buffer states serve a purpose. Historically speaking, when you've got big aggressive empires

00:30:49.620 bordering right up on each other, that creates a lot of tension that often is a cause for war.

00:30:55.420 So there are such things as buffer states, which are caught in the middle of great powers and the

00:31:01.600 way that they exist is they play the great powers off of one another. And it does a pretty good job,

00:31:06.820 historically speaking, of preserving peace for the people and of keeping the greater powers from

00:31:11.220 killing each other. But then the craziest part of this press conference is that that woman that the 0.72

00:31:17.320 NATO Secretary General was speaking with is the Prime Minister of Finland, who if you recognize her at

00:31:25.700 all, you will recognize her because she is famously the hottest world leader ever. People know her 1.00

00:31:33.660 because of her tabloid exploits, where she's this young, good-looking woman who goes out to the club, 0.99

00:31:38.240 who stays out dancing and partying all night. And so that alone doesn't give you a ton

00:31:43.760 of faith in her judgment that she famously will miss phone calls about matters of state because

00:31:50.860 she's out just dancing at the club and hanging out with all of her friends, getting kind of weird.

00:31:55.660 So absurd in itself. But then also because the Prime Minister of Finland is not the one who would

00:32:04.360 be making these foreign policy decisions. That would actually go to the President of Finland,

00:32:08.700 the President of Finland who doesn't have a lot of power generally, but it's a different position

00:32:11.920 and it does still have a lot of control over foreign affairs. But then most of all, because

00:32:16.000 Finland is not in NATO. Finland is not in NATO. Why is Finland making decisions for NATO? Forget it.

00:32:24.640 Why is the NATO Secretary General saying, oh yes, Ukraine will join? Does the United States have

00:32:29.240 any say over this? NATO is just the American imperial arm when it comes to the military, okay? And we

00:32:35.760 shouldn't pretend otherwise. It's preposterous to suggest, oh, the United States, we're just one party

00:32:40.680 among many in NATO. No, NATO's our thing. It's our military imperial arm. And now you're just going

00:32:47.580 to say, oh, and Ukraine's going to join NATO. Do the American people have any say over that?

00:32:52.260 Apparently not. And I'm sure our liberal leaders, irresponsible as they are, would love that.

00:32:58.760 Completely insane. Speaking of foreign affairs, this is a big foreign affairs day. 0.71

00:33:04.540 Very sad story out of Iran. Headline, dozens of schoolgirls in Iran taken to hospital after

00:33:12.820 poisoning. Suspected attack on students in city east of Tehran is latest in spate of incidents over

00:33:20.180 the past three months. So Iran, traditionally not so in favor of women going to school and higher

00:33:28.200 education. So there have been these incidents where girls going to school in Iran have been poisoned.

00:33:34.540 Terrible. And we sit here in America and we say, gosh, could you imagine? That's awful. You send

00:33:39.900 your daughter to school in Iran and you got to worry that she gets poisoned. We would never do

00:33:45.720 that here in the United States, would we? No. Here in the United States, when we send our girls to 0.96

00:33:52.480 school, they don't get poisoned with arsenic or cyanide. They get poisoned with puberty blockers and

00:33:58.140 cross-sex hormones. And then they're put on the path to have their bodies mutilated. Very often without 0.59

00:34:03.940 the knowledge of parents. Yeah, it's very different. We're not like those awful Iranians 1.00

00:34:08.980 where a small number of girls have been attacked with poison at school. We're Americans, where a

00:34:16.820 large number of girls are being attacked with poisons at schools with the ascent of the teachers

00:34:21.480 and the scientific establishment and the federal government, which is now fully in support of

00:34:28.880 transing little kids at school. Wait a second. Hold on. I thought we were, aren't we supposed to 1.00

00:34:37.340 be the good guys? Why are we doing the stuff that the bad guys do? Why are we doing the stuff that the

00:34:41.500 bad guys do in some ways in a more egregious way than the bad guys are? That's not great.

00:34:47.840 We look around at foreign affairs. We like to believe that we're much better than the rest of the world.

00:34:52.880 Traditionally, we have been. We're the place that everybody wants to come to. So we look over at

00:34:58.200 China. We say, China, they're surveilling their citizens. They're spying on all their citizens. 0.94

00:35:02.240 There's no privacy. There's a social credit score there. If you violate that social credit score,

00:35:06.900 you can't engage in commerce. You really can't participate in society. And we have cameras everywhere.

00:35:15.460 And our government intercepts all of our data and analyzes all of those data.

00:35:19.540 And if you fall afoul of the government, you behave in a way that's politically incorrect.

00:35:24.560 Well, you can be kicked out of, not just de-platformed from social media sites.

00:35:30.680 You can be fired from your job. You can be expelled from your school. You can be banned from apps to get

00:35:37.380 around like Uber. You can be banned from places to stay like Airbnb. You can actually be debanked.

00:35:42.720 You can be kicked out of your bank in the United States if you contradict politically correct

00:35:47.420 orthodoxy, huh? Aren't we supposed to be the good guys? How come, if we're the good guys,

00:35:53.060 how come we keep doing stuff that the bad guys are doing? What? That's not to say that we should

00:35:59.540 behave like the other countries, but it's not to say we should behave like the bad guys. Quite the

00:36:03.220 opposite. We should stop behaving like the bad guys. We should behave like we used to. We should

00:36:09.760 maybe look back to that traditional American way of life. Those other countries, those other

00:36:15.060 countries target political dissidents. Not like us here in the United States. No, no. Here in the

00:36:20.540 United States, if you're a political dissident, the FBI will knock down your door and will arrest you and

00:36:25.940 throw you in solitary confinement for drinking a beer in the Capitol Rotunda. Hmm, wait a second.

00:36:30.260 I thought we were the good guys. We can be the good guys, but we can't be the good guys with

00:36:36.040 irresponsible, disingenuous, rotten leadership, which is what we currently have. You know, the European

00:36:45.000 Union officially enacted a statute allowing food producers to incorporate cricket powder into its

00:36:49.960 flour-based products. Not because the bugs taste better, but because the political elites have deemed

00:36:57.420 that eating the bugs is better for the environment. So right down to the food you eat, the world wants

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00:37:26.000 conservative thinkers in America and distill it all down to its essence. He covers such topics as

00:37:32.740 the consequences of secularism. Is human nature basically good? My Dennis could use a little

00:37:42.220 bit of work. But I've spent a lot of time with him. Subscribe to my YouTube channel and pass me a

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00:37:57.580 dailywire.com slash subscribe to become a member and watch PragerU's Master's Program and more.

00:38:03.440 That's dailywire.com slash subscribe today.

00:38:10.500 Speaking of transing the kids in schools, there's a lawsuit out of New York alleging that a trans teacher

00:38:21.140 forced fifth graders, a fifth grade student, one in particular, to change her name and her pronouns.

00:38:29.580 A New York male to female transgender teacher manipulated a fifth grade girl to adopt a male

00:38:35.180 name and pronouns, which then caused the child to have suicidal thoughts according to a new lawsuit.

00:38:43.000 This elementary school teacher, who goes by Deborah Rosenquist, I don't know what his real name is,

00:38:47.420 allegedly forced this young girl to use a male name and pronouns. And then the girl later drew a

00:38:52.660 picture that said, I want to kill myself. The family's lawyer says that this man, quote,

00:38:57.880 manipulated a preteen female into changing her gender identity when the child did not feel any

00:39:01.520 inclusion to do so. The student reportedly met with a school psychologist, said she was confused about

00:39:08.400 her gender identity. The transgender fellow, quote, the lawsuit uses female pronouns to refer to this

00:39:18.520 fellow, so I will substitute them for male pronouns, pursued his own agenda outside the curriculum, which

00:39:23.040 included persuading his fifth grade students to try being gay or being another gender, even when they

00:39:29.180 were not. To further his agenda, Rosenquist read and provided his students graphic books about gender

00:39:33.900 and sexuality, which were not in the curriculum. Of course, does anybody find this surprising in the

00:39:41.800 least? I do not. My first reaction when I read this story was, can you imagine sending your kid

00:39:48.720 to a school where the teacher is going to be so disturbed and confused that he's not going to know

00:39:56.460 what sex he is or what sex she is? Could you imagine that? You send a student to school so that that 0.98

00:40:03.980 student can learn about the world, make sense of reality, cultivate virtues, suppress vices,

00:40:10.980 cultivate the rational will, and go on and become a functioning member of society.

00:40:18.140 If you are sending your student to do all of those things with someone who is so

00:40:24.180 ill adapted to the world that he doesn't know what his sex is, you are not setting that student up

00:40:30.300 for success. Now, in fairness to the parents, what are the parents going to do? What are the parents

00:40:34.880 going to do? In many cases, people can't afford private school. People don't have the time for

00:40:41.440 homeschool. There's no school choice available in a lot of places in the country. And the school says,

00:40:46.460 no, this is your teacher. Sorry, you got to be taught by this extraordinarily confused and

00:40:52.660 disturbed individual. Sorry. What are the parents going to do? Now, in this case, it's a little bit

00:40:57.020 weird because the parents seem to be okay with the idea of transgenderism. If that's what the child 1.00

00:41:02.540 really wants, it just so happens that the child doesn't really want it. So now I want to be as

00:41:06.420 fair and charitable as I possibly can to this teacher and to this school. The teacher seems like

00:41:13.480 a total perv and should for sure be fired and probably institutionalized. But let's be as charitable

00:41:19.000 and fair and generous as we possibly can. Let's say that this teacher was just making a judgment

00:41:26.260 call. The 10-year-old says, I'm confused about my sex. I don't know what was the exact line,

00:41:33.560 confused about my gender identity. And so the teacher has to say, okay, am I going to encourage

00:41:40.180 this girl to acknowledge that she's a girl? Or am I going to encourage this girl to explore the

00:41:48.520 possibility, fantastical though it may be, that she's really a boy? She's got to make a judgment

00:41:53.780 call. Let's say that the teacher in question were not sexually confused himself. Let's say that he were

00:41:58.840 just a regular, normal person. Let's say that it was a female, a caring woman like most elementary

00:42:06.520 school teachers. And she just doesn't know what to do here. How is she supposed to make the judgment

00:42:11.120 call? The whole culture says, when in doubt, trans the kid. When in doubt, you have to trans the kid 0.84

00:42:17.600 because if you don't, if you tell the potentially gender confused little girl that she really is a 0.96

00:42:23.420 girl, you are engaging in conversion therapy. That's right. Conversion therapy. You remember that?

00:42:31.040 That's a term that was first applied to homosexuals. Now it's being applied to transvestites. 0.75

00:42:36.920 And they're saying conversion therapy is when you tell someone that they shouldn't engage in same

00:42:44.580 sex relations. When you tell someone that men really can't become women, that's conversion therapy.

00:42:50.060 That's, that's got to be banned. That's so harmful. But what about in the other direction? Let's say the

00:42:56.260 girl is just confused. If you encourage the confused girl to act like a boy, aren't you just engaging in

00:43:04.860 conversion therapy in the other direction? What do you mean conversion therapy? It's just, it's a

00:43:12.540 euphemism. It's a, it's a political slogan used by activists who want to promote sexual absurdity 0.62

00:43:21.460 and eccentricity, that sexually absurd ideologies that are deeply harmful to people and lead them

00:43:29.480 in many cases to have suicidal thoughts like this little girl did. That's, that's what they're

00:43:35.520 leading toward. So what do you do? What's the rule? I've made this point on the show. I got in all sorts

00:43:39.740 of trouble from my, the usual suspects from all the sort of publicists over at Media Matters. So

00:43:45.300 it's good trouble to be in. But I made the point, I said, if you, if you actually want to preserve

00:43:51.740 women's spaces, if you want to preserve women's bathrooms, if you want to preserve the women's 0.94

00:43:55.260 locker room, if you, if you want to prevent girls from being abused like this at school, you have to 0.99

00:44:03.900 ban transgenderism entirely. Meaning you cannot tolerate the expression of this absurd ideology in 1.00

00:44:14.600 public. No man has the right to present himself as a woman in public. No man has the right to use the 1.00

00:44:20.540 women's bathroom. No man has the right to dress up in stilettos and call himself Sally. No, that, 1.00

00:44:25.780 that doesn't exist. And you have to do it for everybody. Because if you just say, wait until

00:44:30.840 eight, wait until eight. And then at nine, you can trans the kids. Then women lose their bathrooms. 1.00

00:44:36.120 Then women lose their locker rooms. You're not afraid of a two-year-old walking into the women's 1.00

00:44:39.880 locker room. You're afraid of a 22-year-old walking into the women's locker room. That's who's doing it. 1.00

00:44:44.160 So it's got to be a rule for everybody. You have to have a shared anthropology.

00:44:50.100 If you were going to live together in society, it's, it's inescapable.

00:44:56.080 There's, there is no conciliatory middle ground. And I know how the squish Republicans are going to 1.00

00:45:00.060 try to work it. They're going to say that the libs are going to say, we need to trans the two-year-olds. 0.97

00:45:04.360 Then the conservatives are going to say, we need to trans the 18-year-olds. And then, but no one

00:45:08.720 younger than 18. And then they're going to meet in the middle and they're going to say, okay,

00:45:11.400 we'll trans the 12-year-olds. And then what's going to happen? The Overton window is going to have 0.88

00:45:15.000 shifted to the left. And the libs are going to say, we need to trans the newborns. And then the 0.91

00:45:19.340 conservatives are going to say, no, no, no, we need to just stay and only trans the 12-year-olds.

00:45:22.480 Then they're going to meet in the middle and they're going to trans the six-year-olds. That's 0.81

00:45:24.880 already happening. That's happening here in schools right now. The only thing you can do, the only

00:45:31.800 solution that is compassionate and defensible and coherent is to say, no, we're just going to ban it

00:45:42.760 entirely. No, we're going to believe that men can't become women and women can't become men.

00:45:50.300 And that's an anthropological fact. And so therefore it applies to everybody. And the confused men like

00:45:58.280 this teacher who abused this little girl in school, according to the lawsuit, these confused men who

00:46:02.940 think that they're really women, they just need help. We need to get them to some psychologists and 1.00

00:46:08.460 you're going to call it conversion therapy. But you are the groomers who are pushing conversion

00:46:12.400 therapy on our kids to convince confused little girls that they're boys. Our version of conversion

00:46:17.600 therapy is taking confused people and persuading them of reality and attempting to dispel them of

00:46:24.640 their delusions. Your version of conversion therapy is attempting to take confused people 0.98

00:46:29.300 and indulge their delusions and encourage them to go further down the path to delusion.

00:46:33.880 It's all conversion therapy. We're all trying to persuade people of something. We have to have

00:46:38.440 some understanding of what human nature is. The question is, whose are we going to go with?

00:46:44.780 The liberals have a clear answer to that. Trans everybody. That's why they have to trans the kids 1.00

00:46:50.360 because they understand if you're going to trans anybody, you got to trans everybody or everybody

00:46:54.380 at least has to accept the premises of transgenderism. They get that. They're actually have a much clearer

00:46:59.740 view about that than the conservatives do. And the conservatives want to have some

00:47:04.060 middle of the road solution. Trans this group, but don't trans this group and let's not talk about it 1.00

00:47:08.980 in any way. Come on, move along, move along, move along. If you stand in the middle of the road,

00:47:13.140 especially on basic questions of nature, you are going to get hit by a truck as conservatives had,

00:47:19.880 as our culture has, and as have so many unfortunate victims of this terribly pernicious ideology.

00:47:26.380 Speaking of women and men, we have a very important expert panel coming up.

00:47:33.840 Some people have asked me. Well, people always ask me about dating, relationships, marriage.

00:47:38.840 And the topic has come up about a certain celebrity who only dates women until they turn 25 and then

00:47:44.520 he dumps them. I don't want to name names. He happens to be a movie star. He was in Titanic.

00:47:50.220 It's Leonardo DiCaprio. He famously will dump his girlfriends right when they turn 25 and then

00:47:55.740 he'll start dating younger girls again. And some people are very divided about this. Some people

00:48:01.820 say it's actually very traditional for older men to date younger women. Some people are saying this

00:48:05.360 is degenerate kind of sexual behavior. Well, I've decided I'm going to talk to the women about this. 1.00

00:48:12.000 I want to get a lady's perspective, okay? So head on over. Your official love guru, 0.99

00:48:18.120 Dr. Romance, the Lothario of the Daily Wire, will be discussing this important topic

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The Michael Knowles Show - March 02, 2023

Ep. 1194 - Libs’ Disgusting Attempt To Blame Derailment On Trump Fails

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