The Michael Knowles Show

00:00:00.000 The political world is still trying to understand why Fox would fire its highest-rated host,

00:00:05.500 the highest-rated host in the history of cable news, at the height of his powers.

00:00:11.480 Several theories are swirling. Some have said it's because of a recent defamation lawsuit

00:00:17.240 related to the 2020 election. But that theory falls flat when you remember that plenty of

00:00:23.200 other Fox hosts went way further than Tucker on election fraud claims, and they still have their

00:00:28.580 jobs. Another theory is that Tucker just chose to leave. That one falls flat when you remember that

00:00:35.420 he signed off his Friday show telling viewers that he'd be back on Monday. Now, Vanity Fair has a third

00:00:42.320 theory. The theory is that Tucker was fired for a speech he gave at the Heritage Foundation over the

00:00:48.540 weekend. Maybe we should all take just like 10 minutes a day to say a prayer about it.

00:00:53.760 I'm serious. Like, why not? And I'm saying that to you not as some kind of evangelist. I'm literally

00:01:02.260 saying that to you as an Episcopalian, the Samaritans of our time. I'm coming to you from the most humble

00:01:10.520 and lowly theological position you can. I'm literally an Episcopalian, okay? And even I have concluded it

00:01:19.900 might be worth taking just 10 minutes out of your busy schedule to say a prayer for the future. And

00:01:25.040 I hope you will. The whole speech was excellent. I was not able to attend that dinner because I was

00:01:30.640 already booked to speak at another conservative gathering in Colorado that night. I do wish I

00:01:36.080 could have made it to the dinner, though. It turns out that Heritage Foundation dinner might have been

00:01:40.300 one of the most consequential in the history of conservative media. According to Vanity Fair,

00:01:45.340 the head honcho over at News Corp didn't like Tucker's religious recommendation. A Fox source

00:01:52.480 reportedly told Vanity Fair, quote, that stuff freaks Rupert out. I don't know what really motivated Fox

00:02:00.760 to fire Tucker. Of all the theories out there, this one is the most absurd. Episcopalian extremism.

00:02:08.580 The jokes write themselves. That's the joke that Tucker made as he gave his advice. It's the craziest

00:02:14.940 motive you could think of, which is why it's also the most convincing. In this fallen world,

00:02:21.080 you can call for the slaughter of babies, the castration of children, the wholesale denial of

00:02:28.840 truth, and you will be celebrated as a wise man and a hero. You will be rewarded. But gently suggest

00:02:37.040 that people humble themselves and pray to God. The principalities and powers and spiritual wickedness

00:02:44.260 in high places that you might have heard about, the prince of this world, they don't like that so

00:02:48.620 much. That's the sort of thing that can get you taken off the air. And that's the sort of thing

00:02:53.900 that proves Tucker's point. I'm Michael Knowles. This is The Michael Knowles Show.

00:03:05.320 Welcome back to the show. A really rousing, beautiful speech, speaking of speeches,

00:03:10.420 from a man who ran as a woman in the London Marathon. Talked about girl power. We'll get

00:03:16.040 to that in just a second. First, though, on the Tucker cancellation that has rocked the media and

00:03:21.580 political worlds, at least one person is celebrating. I think a lot of the left is celebrating right now,

00:03:27.660 but one leftist figure in particular, AOC, could not be happier.

00:03:32.620 Tucker Carlson is out at Fox News. Couldn't have happened to a better guy.

00:03:42.560 What I will say, though, is while I'm very glad that the person that was arguably responsible for

00:03:52.960 the some of the largest driving some of the most amounts of death threats and violent threats,

00:03:58.920 not just to my office, but to plenty of people across the country. I also kind of feel like

00:04:04.500 I'm, like, waiting for the cutscene at the end of a Marvel movie after all the credits have rolled.

00:04:11.000 And then you see, like, the villain's, like, hand reemerge out to grip over, like, the end of a building or something.

00:04:20.000 But deplatforming works, and it is important. And there you go. Good things can happen.

00:04:31.120 So, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. Deplatforming works. That's her thesis.

00:04:37.600 And putting all the blah, blah, blahs aside, and you just get to the central thesis of her argument,

00:04:42.580 she's right. Deplatforming does work. The left knows that. That's why the left deplatforms people

00:04:51.900 and severely hampers their ability to communicate. And the right, some people on the right know that,

00:04:59.060 but some people on the right engage in magical thinking where they believe, well, the more you

00:05:03.540 suppress me, the more you censor me, the more people will talk about me. It'll have an ironic,

00:05:09.900 it'll have a paradoxical effect, where actually, if you try to suppress my speech, it'll just go

00:05:15.480 everywhere. That isn't true. Think of the major figures who were kicked off of social media.

00:05:21.760 They just kind of went away. Big people in the media, deplatformed, they just kind of went away.

00:05:29.720 They may have maintained a small power base, but their reach was greatly diminished. This is true

00:05:35.640 even of Donald Trump. Donald Trump, every thought that passed through his head, he would tweet out,

00:05:41.700 and it dominated the news cycle for years and years and years. Then they booted him off of social

00:05:46.600 media. And even Trump, who had been a celebrity for 40 years, he had been the president of the United

00:05:51.560 States. He diminished. He faded in the national conversation. Some people still talked about his

00:06:00.020 press releases and his truth social posts, but nowhere near the kind of press coverage that you

00:06:06.400 saw at the height of his powers. De-platforming works. And conservatives should embrace that.

00:06:13.880 Not the arbitrary or unjust kind of de-platforming that the libs push, where you say, oh, he said a

00:06:20.560 true thing. We got to shut him up. Oh, he said men aren't really women. Oh, we got to censor that guy.

00:06:26.020 Oh, he said babies are actually human beings. We got to shut him up. We got to stop him from saying

00:06:32.620 that. No, but we do support some kind of de-platforming. We want to de-platform drag

00:06:37.800 queens in the elementary school, don't we? Okay, so there we go. We're admitting that

00:06:41.340 de-platforming works. We want to de-platform the leftists who are making direct threats against

00:06:46.460 conservatives, don't we? Okay, de-platforming works. We want to de-platform Maya Kababi,

00:06:51.060 the author of Gender Queer, which is gay porn in the libraries for kids. Yeah, okay,

00:06:55.600 de-platforming works. You're right, it does work. AOC's got a point.

00:06:59.360 Now, in the case of Tucker Carlson, is Tucker totally done? No, I hope not. I hope he's got

00:07:02.940 plenty of other outlets that would be more than happy to platform him. I know Daily Wire certainly

00:07:07.160 would. Jeremy pointed out when Tucker got the can at Fox, he said, listen, I assume Tucker's already

00:07:15.140 got his own plans, but we are willing to break out a comically sized cardboard check if he's willing

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00:08:37.860 Speaking of deplatforming,

00:08:39.020 A widow named Jessica Bates wants to adopt children out of the foster care system.

00:08:49.120 She lives in the state of Oregon. She can't do it. She can't do it. Why? Because she's Christian.

00:09:00.660 Jessica Bates was widowed some six years ago in a car accident. She was already months into the

00:09:10.060 adoption process when she noticed an emphasis on supporting LGBTism, the LGBT movement.

00:09:20.120 Specifically, respecting, accepting, and supporting the sexual orientation or gender identity of any

00:09:27.460 child placed into her home. So she could get a little boy to take in and care for out of the

00:09:33.600 foster care system. And then one day the boy says, I'm actually a little girl. And the adoption system

00:09:40.340 says, you have to treat the little boy as a little girl. She says, well, I can't do that. That would be

00:09:43.840 a lie. It's just not true. And it's certainly out of line with my Christian beliefs. And so the

00:09:52.300 foster care system says, okay, well, you can't have a kid. You can't adopt a kid.

00:09:58.740 The thruple, the gay thruple, three dudes that we talked about on the show last week,

00:10:05.280 they can adopt a child, no problem. But this lovely Christian widow is not allowed to adopt a child

00:10:12.600 out of the foster care system, not even a newborn child. Newborn children are harder to adopt. She

00:10:16.840 can't even take in a poor kid out of the foster care system because she's Christian. According to

00:10:23.340 the system, it would be child abuse if she took in that kid. The gay thruple takes in a kid. That's

00:10:29.460 wonderful. That's so beautiful. That should get headlines all over the world. But a Christian

00:10:34.400 woman takes in a kid. No, that's child abuse. And it has to be one or the other.

00:10:41.180 It has, the answer to this problem is not tolerance. The answer to this problem is not

00:10:48.740 diversity. The answer to this problem is not, wow, can you believe how crazy the foster care

00:10:53.380 system is? Yeah, it is crazy. But think about it from their perspective. The foster care system

00:10:58.700 believes, the foster care system in this case just being an arm of the state representing the crazy

00:11:05.680 ideas that have recently been enshrined in our law. They view the situation as some men are born in the

00:11:13.600 bodies of women. Some women are born in the bodies of men. There is no higher moral calling than to do

00:11:19.820 whatever feels good sensually and physically. And so if you think you're a woman, but you're in the

00:11:28.380 physical form of a man, you need to have access to cross-sex hormones. You need to have the ability to

00:11:35.680 you need to wear stilettos and a dress. You need to be called she and her. You need to. Otherwise,

00:11:40.880 you'll contradict your true self. You'll become anxious. You'll become depressed. You'll become

00:11:45.120 suicidal. It would be child abuse for a trans kid to be raised in a Christian home. That's what they

00:11:52.240 believe. That's the idea enshrined in our law, certainly in Oregon, but in a lot of places around

00:11:56.600 the country. Frankly, even at the federal level because of those two stupid Supreme Court decisions in

00:12:01.060 2020, Bostock and the Harris Funeral Homes case, which enshrined the idea of transgenderism in the

00:12:06.260 federal law until we can undo it once we get enough conservative judges and enough political momentum.

00:12:11.940 That's probably not going to happen anytime soon. Might have to wait a little while as we had to

00:12:16.320 wait with Roe v. Wade, but we can build toward that. And we have to do that because the consequence

00:12:22.520 of enshrining that into law is that Christian women are not allowed to adopt kids, but gay throuples are.

00:12:27.380 It has to be that way. Or, conversely, if boys can't really be girls, and if sexually confused

00:12:38.000 little boys and girls should not be pumped full of poison and have their genitals chopped off,

00:12:42.180 and if the science shows, the largest data set on this shows that actually the transgender procedures,

00:12:49.880 surgical and hormonal, do not alleviate depression and anxiety and suicidality and all the other

00:12:54.660 conditions associated with transgender ideology, if actually, at least in one case, in the case of

00:12:59.700 anxiety, they make the condition worse, well, then that would be child abuse. In that world,

00:13:06.800 if all of that stuff is true, which it obviously is, then to raise a child and raise a little boy and

00:13:12.620 pretend he's a little girl, that's child abuse. And that person should not be allowed to adopt

00:13:16.720 children. And the gay throuple with all the crazy sexual ideas and anthropological ideas,

00:13:20.980 that trio should not be allowed to adopt kids. But it has to be one or the other.

00:13:26.300 Because the state has a legitimate interest in preventing child abuse. And so, therefore,

00:13:30.980 the state has to form ideas on what child abuse is. So, what's child abuse? Raising a kid to believe

00:13:37.220 in God and believe in all the stuff that all the wise people from our generation, I'm sorry,

00:13:42.960 from our civilization have always believed across the generations? Or to tell a kid that he's really the

00:13:48.540 opposite sex and pump him full of poison and chop him up, which is child abuse. We all know the answer

00:13:53.560 to that. But our present day culture will not tolerate the true answer. Because a small handful

00:13:59.860 of liberal elites are working in concert with the principalities and the powers of this world

00:14:05.980 to suppress the truth and to promote evil. It's exactly what Tucker alluded to in his Heritage

00:14:10.940 Foundation speech. And that's the sort of thing you're not allowed to say. You're at least not allowed

00:14:15.800 to say it on mainstream cable TV. On the biggest name in news, you're not allowed to say that.

00:14:22.480 It's too true. We got to pick one. What are we going to live according to? As Tucker made

00:14:28.800 beautifully clear in his speech, we used to think of politics as you write your white paper and I write

00:14:33.520 my white paper. And we have a debate of ideas over which policy is going to be conducive toward

00:14:39.240 the end that we all agree on. That's over. That's over. Now the question is, do kids get to be raised

00:14:47.860 in a Christian household, period? Or are they going to be raised by the throuple transing them?

00:14:55.020 You pick. It's your society. It's supposed to be your society. It's supposed to be a self-government.

00:15:00.220 Is it still? I'm not sure. Speaking of sexual politics, there's a new lawsuit against Trump dropping.

00:15:05.140 That's about that time of the week, right? It's about that time of the week to have a new lawsuit

00:15:09.160 against Donald Trump. This one is from a lady named E. Jean Carroll. She is 79 or 80. It's actually

00:15:17.140 unclear what her age is. I guess a lady never tells. She was a comedy writer and a journalist

00:15:22.320 some decades ago. And she's claiming that Trump raped her in 1995 or 1996.

00:15:30.920 Details are a little blurry, as I guess they would be from 25, 30 years ago.

00:15:41.080 The year is a little blurry. The accusation is a little blurry. The fact that the accusation only

00:15:46.700 came out some 20, 30 years later, that's kind of a little bit weird. It's not credible. We've seen a

00:15:56.360 lot of not credible allegations against politicians, against regular ordinary people in recent years.

00:16:03.420 I think you think of the Duke Lacrosse case. You think of the Jackie Rolling Stone gang rape case

00:16:10.320 about, was that the University of Virginia? You see countless hoaxes, especially on campus adjudicated

00:16:19.360 by kangaroo courts. I just gave a speech on this topic not too long ago. I forget which school,

00:16:23.560 but it's up on the YAF, Young America's Foundation YouTube channel. And then you've seen a lot of

00:16:28.140 these accusations against politicians, especially Brett Kavanaugh. Think about the whole Kavanaugh

00:16:32.280 confirmation was some complete loony tune making an absurd, totally unsubstantiated allegation

00:16:37.900 against Kavanaugh. And then the libs cynically and opportunistically tried to pretend that Brett

00:16:42.960 Kavanaugh, one of the most milquetoast men in the American government, was some kind of serial

00:16:47.100 rapist or something. Completely absurd. And here too, obviously Trump has lived a little bit of a looser

00:16:51.500 life and he's a well-known billionaire playboy. But if this were a credible case, don't you think

00:16:57.420 it might've come up before he were the Republican candidate for president? Don't you think it might've

00:17:02.560 come up sometime earlier than 30 years later? What does this show? What it shows is the libs will do

00:17:11.980 absolutely anything to stop this man from becoming president again. They'll indict him in New York over a

00:17:20.720 not even misdemeanor after the expiration of the statute of limitations because he made an in-kind

00:17:26.680 contribution to his own presidential campaign. They'll go after him in DC for, I don't know,

00:17:35.880 I don't even remember what they're going after him in DC for, or something about the insurrection or

00:17:39.560 whatever. Then in Georgia, they're going to go after him for calling the secretary of state

00:17:43.800 and requesting some clarity on a, an election that had a lot of shenanigans in it. And now they're

00:17:52.860 going to go after him again for allegedly raping a woman either in 95 or 96 or whatever. Who cares?

00:18:00.880 I don't know. It was a long time ago. Anyway, can we send him to jail yet?

00:18:03.620 And what that tells me is we shouldn't totally write Trump off. The fact that the libs would

00:18:13.660 continue to make absurd, obviously false allegations against him to try their best

00:18:19.460 to get this guy into an orange jumpsuit tells me that he, despite all of his faults,

00:18:26.720 you shouldn't count Trump out. If they hate him this much, he's got to be at least somewhat

00:18:34.500 over the target. Now, speaking of who's running in 2024, Joe Biden is running for reelection.

00:18:43.360 Okay, moving on. No, I'm joking. Well, we can talk about it for 30 seconds.

00:18:47.000 He released a video. He didn't do a big live speech. He doesn't have the energy or the ability

00:18:51.700 to articulate a vision for that. So he released some video. He says he's running again. Okay,

00:18:55.760 who cares? Bad news for him is that there's an NBC News poll found out that 70%, 70% of Americans

00:19:03.100 think that Joe Biden should not run for reelection, which means that obviously the Republicans don't

00:19:08.380 think he should run for reelection, but also 51% of Democrats don't think that he should run for

00:19:13.100 reelection. That's a majority of Democrats by my mathematical calculations there. Only 26%

00:19:18.420 of Americans think that Biden should run for president. Now, I think he does intend to run.

00:19:28.900 I know a lot of people have said, no, he's not going to run. He's too old. He knows it's over.

00:19:33.020 He's just biding his time. He doesn't want to be a lame duck, but then he's going to drop out at the

00:19:36.680 end. Maybe he will. I mean, his stamina has obviously declined. So maybe something will happen and he will

00:19:43.560 have to drop out. But I don't think he intends to drop out because Joe Biden has wanted to be

00:19:48.080 president since he was in the womb. And Joe Biden doesn't like the people in his party.

00:19:54.220 What do you think? You think Joe Biden is just going to step down the thing he's wanted his whole

00:19:58.140 life that he's run for since the 1980s? You think he's just going to give it up? So what? So he can

00:20:03.420 clear the way for Kamala Harris? He hates Kamala Harris. He's going to clear the way for the woman

00:20:07.580 who called him a racist, a national television that was her entire presidential campaign?

00:20:12.120 I don't think so. You think Biden is going to step down so he clears the way for Mayor

00:20:17.040 Pete? The only guy in America who could screw up being transportation secretary? It's one

00:20:21.980 of the easiest jobs in the government. He somehow manages to screw it up, probably because he

00:20:25.580 didn't show up because he was chest feeding for months. Yeah, I don't know. I don't think

00:20:29.580 he's going to do that. You think that Biden's going to step down to clear the way for Governor

00:20:34.420 Bateman, American psycho Gavin Newsom, so that Gavin Newsom can take the thing at a much younger

00:20:39.940 age that Biden's been working for his whole life? I don't think so. Why would Biden do

00:20:46.140 it? What's the guy? Yes, he's diminished. What's the guy got to gain? What's the guy

00:20:52.080 got to lose? This is it. It doesn't get any better than this for Joe Biden. So he's running

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00:22:18.380 and fewer of us are on the same page when it comes to the fundamentals. This is obviously a

00:22:22.460 huge problem when it comes to our relationship to each other and our relationship to God. But

00:22:27.380 this is not a new phenomenon. The consequences of this disunity date back all the way to the

00:22:32.860 time of Moses. Just listen to what Jordan Peterson has to say about it in the 16th episode

00:22:37.040 of Exodus. There's an irony here that for all the insistence upon equality, the very foundation

00:22:48.040 for that equality in Western culture, i.e. the idea that human beings are made in the imago

00:22:54.660 Dei, in the image of God, has been lost, of course. So it's almost as if because of the erosion of this

00:23:01.740 foundation, the drive for equality is stressed all the more. That's exactly what Nietzsche,

00:23:09.280 that's exactly what Nietzsche claimed would happen when he wrote, well, when he's particularly in Beyond

00:23:14.300 Good and Evil. He said that was an inevitable, that would be an inevitable consequence.

00:23:18.920 One of my main conclusions from this episode is that I need a cool accent. So I'll be working on

00:23:23.900 that. You should work on watching the show. Jordan is joined by a roundtable of big thinkers

00:23:27.660 from different backgrounds who explore a seminal book of our whole civilization and,

00:23:33.620 of course, of the Bible. It is thoroughly engrossing stuff. We are heading into the conclusion

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00:23:45.340 slash subscribe to watch Exodus. Okay, Biden's going to run. Who's running for the Republicans?

00:23:52.540 Well, it certainly would seem as though Ron DeSantis is running for president. He's really

00:23:57.360 ramped up the campaigning here. And DeSantis has a new line of attack against Donald Trump.

00:24:02.700 It's probably his most effective line of attack yet. Leaders take the bull by the horns and make the

00:24:09.260 decisions for themselves. They don't subcontract out their leadership to health bureaucrats like

00:24:15.340 Dr. Fauci. Shade, cast, burn, sizzle. This is a pretty good line of attack. It's the best line

00:24:23.440 of attack against Trump, I think, that there is. You could go after Trump on this policy or that

00:24:28.360 policy. But I think the most effective one will be to say Trump gave the country away during COVID.

00:24:34.980 Now, the response to that is, would anybody at the federal level being told that if you don't

00:24:41.440 follow these recommendations, millions and millions of Americans are going to die and it's going to be

00:24:45.680 your fault and they're going to send you to The Hague probably, would they have done anything

00:24:49.900 different? I don't know. Ron DeSantis can make a fairly credible case that he would have done

00:24:53.560 something different because although he was cautious about COVID in those initial months,

00:24:58.160 he reopened Florida very quickly. And then all the businesses and all the events and all of social

00:25:03.880 life just went down to Florida. And so people got to see in real time that things were different.

00:25:10.540 Certainly the best line of attack yet. Now, DeSantis is trying to be clear, though,

00:25:15.100 that he is not yet a candidate. Governor, I'll show you falling behind Trump. Any thoughts on that?

00:25:24.240 I'm not a candidate, so we'll see if and when that changes.

00:25:28.500 Okay, so he says, I'm not a candidate yet, buddy. Now, the reason that the I'm not a candidate yet

00:25:35.940 line is not totally persuasive is that Governor DeSantis made these comments from Japan.

00:25:42.560 As you know, Florida doesn't have a ton of foreign negotiations usually with other nations and it

00:25:53.040 doesn't have a ton to do with Japan. But Governor DeSantis is using some economic plan in Florida

00:25:58.980 as an excuse to go around and do a little bit of a world tour. This is something that

00:26:03.600 presidential candidates have done for a very long time. And so it's natural that he would be

00:26:08.740 on the campaign trail. So what do you think about the polls? You know, Trump is still pretty strong in

00:26:14.340 the polls. You're falling behind a little bit. And DeSantis, I think, is just trying to make a

00:26:19.040 little joke here, which is, well, just wait until I kick off my campaign. But it's difficult to do

00:26:25.100 that with a straight face, of course, when you're an American governor and you're in some foreign

00:26:29.640 country right before you're expected to announce your presidential campaign. Now, speaking of those

00:26:36.140 polls, Trump, seeing a threat from DeSantis and maybe even from other people, we'll get to that in

00:26:42.360 just one second, is saying that he might not participate in a Republican primary debate.

00:26:49.940 What Trump has said is, I see that everybody's talking about the Republican debates, but nobody

00:26:54.640 got my approval or the approval of the Trump campaign before announcing them. When you're

00:26:59.200 leading by seemingly insurmountable numbers and you have hostile networks with angry Trump and MAGA

00:27:04.280 hating anchors asking the questions, why subject yourself to being libeled and abused? Also, the second

00:27:10.800 debate is being held at the Reagan Library, the chairman of which is, amazingly, Fred Ryan,

00:27:15.220 publisher of the Washington Post. No. So he starts out skeptical of debates. By the end, he says,

00:27:20.760 no, we're not doing that. What is he doing here? Is he really saying that he won't debate? Well,

00:27:26.220 if he's high up enough in the polls, I guess he could try to get out of it. And he is very high in

00:27:30.340 the polls right now. But is he high enough, especially this early on, that he doesn't have to debate?

00:27:36.340 I doubt it. I suspect this is more of a bluff, a little bit of a threat to try to gain some

00:27:42.780 leverage. If it is, as President Trump is describing it, that he's had really no say in how these

00:27:48.240 debates will take place, then yeah, he has every right to say, listen, folks, you guys can set

00:27:54.480 whatever debates you want, but I'm the big dog in the race here. And so you're going to have to deal

00:27:58.640 with me and we're going to need to make sure this isn't totally stacked against Trump. That said,

00:28:03.480 he should debate. In 2016, that was his greatest strength. He didn't do great in the debates in

00:28:10.780 2020, in part because incumbents usually lose the first debate. And then with all the COVID craziness

00:28:17.640 and all of the upending of the election rules, Trump didn't really have a chance to win it back,

00:28:24.180 to fight back in a way that, say, Reagan did. But Trump was great in the debates in 2016. He

00:28:28.700 absolutely destroyed the other candidates on the stage. So I think it's to his advantage,

00:28:33.600 especially because he's among the top tier candidates right now. He is the most charming,

00:28:39.500 whether you like him or not. He's the most charming. He's the most show busy.

00:28:43.000 He's the most relatable on a stage. So I think he should go for it, but he'll try to throw his weight

00:28:50.080 around as much as he can to make sure that the debates aren't totally hostile to him.

00:28:53.500 Now, I have a theory. I told you that there were other threats to Trump. And I have a theory,

00:29:00.960 and I know you're going to laugh at me. So if you're driving, I want you to pull over. I don't

00:29:04.540 want to be responsible for any car crashes. I think there is a dark horse candidate.

00:29:11.760 I have a theory that, no, it's not. Well, DeSantis is not a dark horse candidate. He's one of the top

00:29:19.980 two candidates right now. And it's not Pompeo. He's not running. It's not Cruz. He's not running.

00:29:24.260 It's not, I don't think it's Mike Pence. I don't think it's Nikki Haley necessarily. Even she is

00:29:28.740 running. I don't think it's Vivek. Vivek's doing great stuff. But the secret dark horse candidate

00:29:35.580 that nobody's talking about, Chris Christie. I know you're laughing. You say, Michael, there's no way

00:29:43.320 we're going to see a chrysosance. I think we might be on the cusp of a chrysosance. Hear me out.

00:29:51.920 Chris Christie is the governor, was the governor of New Jersey, very successful two-term governor of

00:29:57.280 New Jersey. He was talked about as a potential presidential candidate far back as 2012.

00:30:02.080 Chris Christie, being a Northeastern governor, is more liberal, centrist, moderate, whatever you want

00:30:09.120 to say than a lot of people in the party. The establishment loves that. But Chris Christie,

00:30:15.380 being from New Jersey, is extremely obnoxious and pretty funny. And he's got a kind of gruff,

00:30:21.720 tough sense of humor, which is something that appeals to the base. It appeals to me. It appeals

00:30:28.020 to a lot of people. It's one of Trump's great strengths is that he's got that New York fighting

00:30:32.980 sensibility. So in Chris Christie, you get a candidate who is palatable to the establishment

00:30:39.500 much more so than a Trump, but has the sizzle and the fight that appeals to more rock-ribbed,

00:30:48.160 bloodthirsty types on the right, which the other non-Trump candidates don't really have quite as much.

00:30:54.080 Don't forget, I know you're still laughing at me, okay? But I'm just, I want to remind you,

00:30:58.700 Chris Christie, though he's probably polling at zero percent right now, he's really great on a

00:31:04.500 debate stage. Do you remember what he did to Marco Rubio? Let's dispel with this fiction that

00:31:08.880 Barack Obama doesn't know what he's doing. He knows exactly what he's doing. He is trying to

00:31:13.560 change this country. He wants America to become more like the rest of the world. We don't want

00:31:17.860 to be like the rest of the world. We want to be the United States of America. And when I'm elected

00:31:21.740 president, this will become once again, the single greatest nation in the history of the world,

00:31:26.140 not the disaster Barack Obama has imposed upon us. You see, everybody, I want the people at home

00:31:30.720 to think about this. That's what Washington, D.C. does. The drive-by shot at the beginning with

00:31:35.740 incorrect and incomplete information, and then the memorized 25-second speech that is exactly what

00:31:42.180 his advisors gave him. See, see, Marco, Marco, the thing is this. When you're president of the United

00:31:51.780 States, when you're a governor of a state, the memorized 30-second speech where you talk about

00:31:56.060 how a great America is at the end of it doesn't solve one problem for one person. They expect you

00:32:00.800 to plow the snow. They expect you to get the schools open. This notion that Barack Obama doesn't know

00:32:05.500 what he's doing is just not true. There it is. He knows exactly what he's doing. There it is,

00:32:08.140 the memorized 25-second speech. There it is, everybody. I'm not saying Chris Christie should be the

00:32:14.780 nominee, obviously. Far from it. I'm not saying he's going to be the nominee. I'm not saying he's

00:32:20.280 even going to ever pull that high. But I would not be surprised if Chris Christie had a moment.

00:32:27.640 Okay, I'm telling you, if Chris Christie ever does run, and he's signaling that he will run,

00:32:32.760 and if Chris Christie pops up on any of the betting sites, I'll probably put a little bit of money on

00:32:37.820 Chris Christie. Weirder things have happened in presidential races. And for the people right

00:32:44.400 now who believe that this race, forget even Chris Christie for a second, if you believe that

00:32:48.500 this race is just totally set in stone, you haven't paid attention to 2016, 2012, 2008, 2000,

00:32:57.660 96, 92. You haven't paid attention. Crazier things have happened even than the Chris Assange.

00:33:06.140 Now, speaking of candidates who are also something of a dark horse candidates, though,

00:33:11.480 in this case, a candidate who is much better liked and probably getting much more support right now

00:33:19.840 would be my friend Vivek Ramaswamy. And Vivek just has a great take, not on the state of the race.

00:33:26.260 Everyone's always talking about the horse races and the numbers and everything. Vivek just came out

00:33:29.580 with a great point on why the libs are so opposed to nuclear energy.

00:33:35.920 Well, the first thing that's going on is that actually it has nothing to do with the climate.

00:33:39.580 It has to do with an anti-growth agenda in the United States itself, an agenda that says that

00:33:46.420 part of the problem is that we should live with less. We should learn to live more simple lifestyles,

00:33:52.660 that we should learn to apologize for our modern way of life and our success in America so the rest of

00:33:58.080 the world can catch up. And nuclear energy throws a wrench into that plan. Because if you adopt

00:34:03.240 nuclear energy in America, you might actually, God forbid, solve their own climate disaster crisis,

00:34:11.700 their energy, clean energy crisis, and yet do it in a way that still allows GDP growth to remain

00:34:18.140 on a steep slope in America, which would solve, which would prevent them from addressing the deeper

00:34:23.880 problem they want to address, which is their agenda of global equity. That's what this is about.

00:34:28.080 It is about making the West and America in particular apologize for its sins of GDP growth

00:34:32.740 in the past by applying shackles then to future growth to allow places like China on the other

00:34:37.880 side of the world to catch up. It's a really smart take from Vivek, as many of Vivek's takes are,

00:34:44.620 it's a very, very smart one. Because this is something that always has puzzled a lot of

00:34:48.880 conservatives. They say, hold on, you environmentalists, okay, you think that gasoline and oil are bad for

00:34:54.700 the environment. We could have a debate about that, but okay, fine. And you think coal is bad

00:34:58.500 for the environment. Okay, I guess I kind of get it. But then why are you guys totally opposed to the

00:35:04.520 only clean energy source that could power our whole country and is relatively safe and is relatively

00:35:14.740 clean and is relatively extremely efficient? Why are you opposed to nuclear? If you want to solve

00:35:21.640 this environmental problem. And Vivek points that, he says, the last part is the key.

00:35:29.480 If they want to, but they don't want to solve the environmental problem. Because if they solve

00:35:34.940 the environmental problem, then they no longer, which real or imagined, okay, I'm not saying that

00:35:40.200 we're on the brink of an environmental catastrophe, far from it. But they say that. And they don't

00:35:44.620 want to fix that. Because they need to be on the brink of catastrophe in order to justify the rest of

00:35:49.280 their program. We need to be on the brink of Armageddon. The world has to be about to end in 12

00:35:53.600 years. It's always 12 more years. I don't know. Every year, it just gets pushed back a year, but it's

00:35:57.880 always about five to 10 to 12 years. The world is going to end if you don't give us all your money,

00:36:04.240 give us all the political power, let us totally upend the political economy, let us upend your diet,

00:36:09.220 let us upend the way that you drive and commute and live. That's why. The anti-nuclear stance from

00:36:19.460 the left is the giveaway that none of this is about solving any supposed environmental catastrophe on

00:36:25.260 the horizon. The catastrophe is there to serve the broader political purpose of reordering society.

00:36:32.400 My favorite comment yesterday is from Louis Henson, who says, how about we make a documentary about

00:36:37.300 Booker T. Washington played by Michael Knowles? It's a great idea, and it's a better idea even than

00:36:42.560 you know, because not many people know that Booker T. Washington's middle name, the T, stands for

00:36:48.780 Taliaferro, which is an Italian name. It means iron cutter. Now, it was Booker of Italian descent. I don't

00:36:57.820 think so. He is half white, but I don't think his father, whom he didn't know and about whom we know

00:37:02.860 nothing. I don't think he was of the Mezzogiorno. Somebody tells me he wasn't Italian, but he did

00:37:09.440 take the name Taliaferro, and so there you go. I have a good argument for the casting director.

00:37:14.000 Certainly a better argument than the new Cleopatra movie has for its casting decisions.

00:37:19.400 Now, speaking of women, speaking of women in the media, moving from Cleopatra onto the London

00:37:28.940 Marathon, one of the women running in the women's section of the London Marathon is someone named

00:37:39.180 Glenn, who for the last two years has gone by Glennique. Glenn Frank, who just gave an interview

00:37:48.800 to the press on what his performance in the London Marathon means for Girl Power.

00:37:55.540 Not your first marathon, I believe.

00:37:57.560 No, this will be 17, and I'm doing the six majors. I've just done Tokyo and New York last year,

00:38:05.580 and then this year, Chicago, Berlin. 2024 will be the number six, and then that's a week before London,

00:38:13.320 and so a week rest, but girl power. Girl power.

00:38:22.300 You have to laugh a little bit because the other choice would be to cry. If this news reporter had

00:38:31.340 interviewed any actual woman, do you think the woman would have ended her interview by saying,

00:38:37.060 girl power, yeah, yeah, you know, well, listen here, John and George always love to talk about

00:38:42.900 girl power. That's the only British accent I can really do is Paul McCartney. No, they wouldn't have.

00:38:47.720 They wouldn't feel the need to call attention to the fact that they are women because they know

00:38:53.380 that they're women and everyone knows that they're women. Okay, we can move on.

00:38:56.540 The transgender movement insists upon this. This is why they wear the most ridiculous clothing.

00:39:03.980 This is why they're constantly talking about womanhood. This is why they're constantly harping

00:39:08.320 on their pronouns and how wonderful it is to be a woman. This is why Dylan Mulvaney has made his entire

00:39:14.600 now quite lucrative career on what it is to be a woman every single day.

00:39:21.540 This isn't just about some people with some quirky sexual ideas trying to pass and live their own

00:39:30.100 lives in society. It's never been about that. It's always about forcing this preposterous ideology

00:39:36.880 down everybody's throat. Every single public expression of transgenderism amounts to this guy's

00:39:45.120 interview. Yeah, girl power. Yeah, I'm a woman. 365th day of being a woman.

00:39:51.600 I'm a woman. Oh gosh, being a woman, it's so hard. We got to go out shopping, buy dresses. Oh,

00:39:58.340 I just love being a woman. I'm a woman. Look at me. Look at me. And they do this

00:40:04.000 because they want you to lie. They want it to be impossible for you to ignore or politely sort of

00:40:13.120 turn your eyes away from their absurdity. You have to engage with it and you have to go along with it

00:40:23.600 and you have to assent to it. You have to affirm it. You have to lie. You have to lie. If we

00:40:31.720 establish transgenderism in public life, you will have to lie. That is the point. There's no getting

00:40:40.660 away. There's no live and let live. It was never about live and let live. Speaking of living and

00:40:46.060 dying, do you know about the proxy war that we're engaged in in Sudan? Probably not. It hasn't made

00:40:53.280 a lot of news. There's a civil war right now in Sudan. And the only reason you may have

00:41:00.600 potentially heard about this is because news reports are out that one faction of the Sudanese

00:41:07.380 civil war has now occupied a biological lab and the World Health Organization is warning that a

00:41:13.160 quote, extremely, extremely dangerous situation is threatening public health. After the fighters in

00:41:20.280 central Sudan occupied a laboratory carrying samples of deadly diseases, including polio,

00:41:27.100 including cholera, a WHO representative there, Nima Saeed Abid, says there is a huge biological risk

00:41:34.420 associated with the occupation of the central public health lab by one of the fighting parties.

00:41:40.940 So what's the civil war in Sudan all about? The civil war in Sudan obviously has a domestic component to

00:41:46.720 it, but increasingly it's being viewed, and you can read about it at Washington Examiner and you can read

00:41:52.240 about it elsewhere, it is being viewed as a proxy war between the United States and Russia.

00:41:57.100 Because the factions, the two factions in Sudan are being backed alternately by the United States

00:42:03.080 and by Russia. What does this mean for us? It means that when we engage in diplomacy and when we engage

00:42:15.140 in war and when we escalate war and when we recklessly escalate war, as the Biden administration has done

00:42:24.340 in Ukraine, it's very difficult to contain that war. It's very difficult to predict exactly what's going

00:42:33.560 to happen. There are a lot of people, these days mostly in the liberal establishment, previously you

00:42:42.340 heard this kind of rhetoric from the neoconservatives, who I guess are kind of in the liberal establishment

00:42:46.280 too, but they're a little bit distinct, who were so boastful. So any of these wars around the world,

00:42:53.620 we could go in, we'd clobber the enemy in two seconds. Oh yeah, the whole war it'll take two weeks

00:42:59.120 and then we'll just move on. There we go, American might is exercised, American hegemony is preserved,

00:43:07.100 we'll come home. They'll greet us as liberators, it'll take two seconds, all of our enemies will back

00:43:11.500 down, we'll be out of there, you won't even know we went. And that just isn't how it has turned out.

00:43:17.040 It's not how it turned out in Iraq, it's not how it turned out in Afghanistan, it's not how it turned

00:43:21.420 out in Libya, it's not how it turned out in Ukraine. And in the Ukraine war, it's the U.S. fighting a

00:43:26.740 proxy war with Russia in Ukraine, which is pretty dangerous when you have the global superpower fighting

00:43:31.980 a war, a hot war according to Russian ministers, with a former superpower that has nuclear weapons,

00:43:39.460 with whom we fought a cold war for the last half of the 20th century. But then you think, oh, it's

00:43:44.220 okay, we'll just contain it to Ukraine until, oh look, now there's a proxy conflict breaking out

00:43:50.200 in Sudan. And oh look, while the U.S. is mired in this conflict, it looks as though China is beginning

00:43:55.820 to aggress in the South China Sea and Taiwan. And oh look, circumstances spin out of control

00:44:02.360 before our genius master of the universe ruling class knows what hit them.

00:44:09.940 World wars have started for a lot less than this. And they've started under the leadership of much

00:44:15.520 more serious statesmen than this. And that's going to be an important question in the 2024 race.

00:44:23.120 Not just are men and women different? Not just are we going to not kill the babies? Not just are we

00:44:29.620 going to take care of immigration? Not just are we going to revive the economy? Also, who do you

00:44:34.160 trust to wage a world war? Because increasingly we appear to be spinning toward such a thing.

00:44:42.220 Seeing a lot of violence around here. There's just one example of this on the domestic front. A Utah

00:44:49.300 state senator. His home was just attacked by a transgender identifying vandal. And the state

00:44:55.900 senator. State senator Mike Kennedy said his home was vandalized. He posted a photo with the words

00:44:59.880 fash. The libs and especially the trans activists. They call anyone who is in any way tethered to

00:45:06.960 reality. They call us fascists. And he says, these trannies bash back. It was spray painted on a red

00:45:13.880 house. These trannies bash back. Get it? Say, these trans activists are going to get violent.

00:45:19.840 Oh, you're the ones who will? Oh, yeah. We haven't seen any violence from the pro-transgenderism

00:45:27.680 political activists. Yeah, we haven't seen that anywhere. You're right. I don't see that every

00:45:32.500 time I go to a college campus just about. We haven't seen that in much more aggressive and horrific ways

00:45:38.360 just in the last month. No, no. These pro-trans activists, we bash back.

00:45:44.800 As I have said before, it's always the ones you most expect. And when one's ideology is premised on

00:45:53.880 irrationality and denying reality and denying the truth and purely imposing one's will untethered

00:46:01.740 from intellect, well, you can probably expect irrational behavior. Now, it's Woke Wednesday

00:46:07.460 speaking of irrational behavior. So we've got two woke TikToks, I think, on the transgender issue that

00:46:13.280 Mr. Davies wants me to see. The show continues now. Dailywire.com slash Knowles. Use code Knowles

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