The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 1253 - DeSantis To Announce His Run For President

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00:00:30.300 Ron DeSantis is planning to announce his bid for president today.

00:00:34.740 That part is not all that interesting.

00:00:36.880 Everybody knew that he was going to run.

00:00:39.200 The interesting part is how he's choosing to do it.

00:00:43.160 Elon, take it away.

00:00:45.280 So, yes, we'll be interviewing Ron DeSantis and he has quite an announcement to make.

00:00:55.440 Um, and we'll be the first time that something like this is happening on social media and with real time questions and answers, uh, not, not scripted.

00:01:05.640 DeSantis is going to announce his presidential bid in a conversation with Elon Musk on Twitter.

00:01:12.220 Now, if I were running, I would announce my campaign in a conversation with Tom on MySpace or perhaps with the Winklevoss twins on Zanga because I am a little more old school.

00:01:24.700 But what DeSantis is doing, it's a great move.

00:01:27.920 It's a great move for Twitter, which needs to make itself indispensable, which needs to become the hub of conversation or it's going to go bankrupt within a year.

00:01:38.520 It's a great move for the DeSantis campaign, which needs to innovate or else it's going to lose because Trump is currently up by 41 points nationally.

00:01:47.900 And this is great news for American public discourse, which currently has only one prominent medium that is not completely tyrannically left wing.

00:01:58.920 I'm Michael Knowles.

00:01:59.620 This is The Michael Knowles Show.

00:02:00.500 Welcome back to the show.

00:02:09.900 Very important breaking news.

00:02:11.740 Another longstanding, well-known American company has gone gay.

00:02:17.040 We are T-minus.

00:02:18.820 Seven days out from the beginning of everything being painted rainbow.

00:02:25.320 We, I guess it's already really started, but we will get to that.

00:02:27.740 We will get to the new gay company in just a little bit.

00:02:32.220 First, though, don't want to skip over this Twitter stuff.

00:02:35.260 This is great, great news.

00:02:37.960 Smart for DeSantis also because if DeSantis just gives a conventional campaign announcement, one, he's going to be running a conventional campaign.

00:02:46.700 And if he runs a conventional campaign, he is going to lose to Trump.

00:02:49.360 That is almost guaranteed.

00:02:50.880 So he's got to run an unconventional campaign.

00:02:52.640 If he holds a conventional kind of press conference, the questions are going to be about Trump.

00:02:57.080 That's not going to make DeSantis look very good.

00:02:59.860 He's got to mix it up a little bit.

00:03:02.420 Now, does launching your campaign on social media, does that go too far?

00:03:07.380 Does that close you off from boomer voters, from not very online voters?

00:03:15.500 I don't know.

00:03:16.020 Maybe that's a little bit of the risk here.

00:03:17.620 But don't forget, the cable news host, who is most beloved by an older conservative audience, is Tucker Carlson.

00:03:26.920 Tucker is bringing his show to Twitter.

00:03:29.200 He's doing that in part because of the constraints imposed on him by cable news and by Fox News in particular.

00:03:35.640 But he's going to do it.

00:03:36.540 And the bet there is I can bring my largely boomer audience over to social media.

00:03:42.940 But forget about Ron DeSantis.

00:03:44.480 Even forget about Tucker Carlson for a second.

00:03:46.300 I've got more important news, which is that we are going to Twitter.

00:03:51.740 We here at The Daily Wire are bringing all of our shows to Twitter.

00:03:56.040 We're going to remain on YouTube.

00:03:57.340 We're going to remain on Apple Podcasts.

00:03:58.560 We're obviously going to remain for our members, the Crème de la Crème inner circle over at Daily Wire Plus.

00:04:04.060 That's going to be the premier outlet for the shows.

00:04:06.040 But we're also now going to be airing our shows on Twitter.

00:04:08.200 In part, we are doing this because our buddy Matt Walsh irritated the YouTube overlords.

00:04:15.320 And so he was demonetized on YouTube.

00:04:17.520 And he was constrained.

00:04:18.980 He was forced to find other outlets.

00:04:20.900 He put a show on Twitter.

00:04:21.940 And it's worked out very well.

00:04:23.240 So then Jeremy the God King Boring, who's never, never seen an opportunity that he hasn't taken in politics and in business and in the media.

00:04:35.120 He said, okay, great.

00:04:37.460 You libs wanted to present us with a problem.

00:04:39.600 Well, now we've found a solution out of that.

00:04:42.400 And so we're going to bring all of the shows to Twitter.

00:04:45.000 And this is great news for Elon, too, because this Twitter company is not on good footing.

00:04:50.420 It had been almost running to the ground by the time that Elon had took over.

00:04:54.560 And now Elon's saying, okay, we're going to have a real place for traditional American standards of speech in the country.

00:05:02.160 And we're all moving to that.

00:05:03.880 We'll see how it goes.

00:05:04.680 Now, meanwhile, the libs are very, very upset by all of this, especially that DeSantis is running.

00:05:10.440 Vanity Fair headlines sums it up.

00:05:12.200 Report, Ron DeSantis will formally announce his 2024 bid with Elon Musk because apparently David Duke wasn't available.

00:05:22.740 David Duke, who's a guy who has not been politically relevant in like 30 years.

00:05:27.180 David Duke, he's the symbol of racism. 0.99

00:05:30.660 And DeSantis, he's a racist. 1.00

00:05:33.200 He's a neo-Nazi. 0.99

00:05:35.600 He's, this is good news for DeSantis to be called all of these things. 0.77

00:05:38.980 If you are not called these things by the Democrats, you are not making any meaningful attack on what they hold to be sacred, on all of the crazy lib policies.

00:05:50.820 If they're not calling you a racist, if they're not calling you a phobe, if they're not calling you a bigot, then you just don't matter to them.

00:05:57.040 And so this is good.

00:05:57.820 Great news for Ron DeSantis.

00:05:59.240 Great news for Elon. 0.89

00:06:00.000 Elon Musk, the most prominent African-American in the entire world, they have the audacity to compare Elon Musk with David Duke, a white supremacist, neo-Nazi.

00:06:13.840 We have an update on the neo-Nazis.

00:06:16.340 The attack from a couple of days ago.

00:06:19.480 You remember that U-Haul at night drove in to Lafayette Square, hit a post.

00:06:24.680 And it was a little bit weird because they opened up the back of the U-Haul.

00:06:28.000 There's not much in there.

00:06:28.680 There's just this one really nicely pressed, clean, brand new Nazi flag.

00:06:34.440 And so, of course, it's being reported.

00:06:36.420 The neo-Nazis are taking over again.

00:06:39.100 We need to clamp down on conservatives.

00:06:40.840 And when this happened, I said I was a little bit skeptical.

00:06:44.420 It's kind of, the details didn't really add up.

00:06:46.740 I thought it was pretty lackluster in terms of spectacle.

00:06:51.340 I didn't think there was really a Nazi sitting in that truck.

00:06:55.840 And I would appear to have been proven correct.

00:06:59.000 We now know the identity of the driver driving the Nazi truck with the perfectly ironed, placed swastika flag for the press to take pictures of.

00:07:08.800 His name, Sai Varshith Kandula.

00:07:14.320 Sai Varshith Kandula.

00:07:16.200 Does that sound like a neo-Nazi name to you?

00:07:18.740 Maybe if I say it with a German accent.

00:07:20.400 Ja, Sai Varshith Kandula.

00:07:23.100 Kandula.

00:07:23.900 Weine Steine.

00:07:24.640 Weine Geine.

00:07:25.580 Does that?

00:07:26.140 No, I don't think so.

00:07:27.020 I think he's a subcontinental sort of fellow.

00:07:30.080 So you might say, okay, he's not a neo-Nazi.

00:07:33.460 It's all a big misunderstanding because the swastika is an ancient Indian symbol.

00:07:36.940 So maybe they just got their wires crossed.

00:07:39.700 Or maybe, I don't know, maybe it's something else.

00:07:42.100 Whatever it is, all they found in this truck, backpack, duct tape, notebook with pages full of writing, and this brand new Nazi flag.

00:07:53.060 If you were skeptical of this attack, you are justified in your skepticism.

00:07:56.780 You are vindicated once again.

00:07:59.000 Once again, an important reminder, we all need it from time to time.

00:08:03.500 When you see these headlines, Elon's a Nazi, DeSantis is a racist, Trump, he extolled the virtues of Hitler at Charlottesville, or whatever they said about him. 0.84

00:08:15.100 The Nazis are attacking Lafayette Square. 0.92

00:08:17.640 Just don't believe it.

00:08:20.460 99.99999999999% of the time, it's fake.

00:08:28.400 It's not real.

00:08:29.040 Remember the last Nazi attack was a Hispanic guy?

00:08:32.360 Yeah.

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00:09:59.900 Speaking of racial attacks, forget about the Nazi white supremacists. 1.00

00:10:06.320 Or I'm sorry, forget about the Indian Nazis and the Hispanic white supremacists. 1.00

00:10:11.400 You've also got to pay attention to the black faces of white supremacy. 0.99

00:10:19.820 That, of course, would be not just Larry Elder in California, but Clarence Thomas and Tim Scott. 0.96

00:10:25.380 The View, the white ladies of The View, very, very upset at that white supremacist Tim Scott running for president. 0.94

00:10:32.820 He's one of these guys who, you know, he's like Clarence Thomas, black Republican,

00:10:37.280 who believes in pulling yourself by your bootstraps, rather than, to me, understanding the systemic racism

00:10:42.780 that African Americans face in this country and other minorities.

00:10:46.240 He doesn't get it.

00:10:47.400 Neither does Clarence.

00:10:49.000 Right.

00:10:49.320 And that's why they're Republicans.

00:10:51.020 Yeah.

00:10:53.840 I know.

00:10:55.320 He doesn't get it.

00:10:56.500 Now, let me, Joy Beha, I'm going to tell you all, it's almost like a Fauci voice.

00:11:01.440 Well, they're both from New York.

00:11:02.540 I'm going to tell you about the black experience in America, because Clarence Thomas,

00:11:07.280 and Tim Scott, they don't understand it.

00:11:10.080 Everyone's making fun of her for this.

00:11:11.580 Some people are feigning outrage.

00:11:13.980 Some people are genuinely offended.

00:11:15.660 And everyone is mocking this idea that Joy Behar is advancing, that Tim Scott and Clarence Thomas

00:11:21.960 could misunderstand the black experience in America.

00:11:26.160 In Joy Behar's defense, it's not totally absurd in principle.

00:11:31.520 In this case, it is.

00:11:33.020 This is absurd because Joy Behar is totally out of touch, and Clarence Thomas and Tim Scott

00:11:38.460 are far more closely grounded to reality, and they have a far more accurate perception

00:11:43.240 of the world. 0.88

00:11:44.020 But it's not totally out of the question that black people could not like black people or 0.90

00:11:51.240 something like that. 0.96

00:11:52.680 Black people could not like black identity racial politics. 0.99

00:11:55.980 That's, of course, not out of the question. 0.96

00:11:57.200 Think about women who oppose feminism.

00:12:01.500 Is it absurd to suggest that some women oppose feminism? 0.97

00:12:05.100 No.

00:12:05.580 The women who oppose feminism have a far keener perception of reality than the pro-feminism 0.88

00:12:11.420 women. 0.81

00:12:12.960 And they're still women, and they recognize the complementarity of the sexes. 1.00

00:12:17.200 And so they espouse a worldview that is contrary to the dominant liberal worldview.

00:12:21.940 But that's very possible.

00:12:25.220 People's views of reality, moral reality, physical reality, political reality, do not derive inevitably

00:12:35.820 from physical characteristics.

00:12:39.240 They don't.

00:12:40.880 And I fear sometimes the conservative response to ridiculous babblings, the kind of which we 0.77

00:12:47.880 just heard from Joy Behar, are to suggest that they are. 0.97

00:12:50.300 Well, black men absolutely understand the black experience in America. 0.93

00:12:54.440 And by virtue of being black, they totally get it better than a white person does. 0.97

00:12:57.760 That's not necessarily true. 0.61

00:13:00.740 That's not, you don't need to experience something directly to have an understanding of it.

00:13:07.720 In fact, sometimes having a little bit of a remove, having a little bit of perspective

00:13:10.660 can help.

00:13:11.760 The reason that Tim Scott and Clarence Thomas are right is because not only do they have some

00:13:18.420 experience, but they have highly attuned faculties of reason, and they perceive the world correctly,

00:13:24.840 and they begin from correct premises, and they're just right.

00:13:27.080 They're right because they're right, because they view the world correctly.

00:13:30.180 They're not wrong because of the color of their skin.

00:13:32.040 They're not right because of the color of their skin. 0.98

00:13:34.660 They're just right.

00:13:35.720 They're right because they're on the right.

00:13:36.820 Okay, and it's a subtle distinction, but we don't want to take the bait from the libs

00:13:41.980 and fall into their mistaken thinking.

00:13:44.360 I'm just feeling very charitable today.

00:13:45.840 I don't know what to say.

00:13:46.880 I'm trying to give libs the benefit of the doubt left and right.

00:13:49.660 Corrine Jean-Pierre, she's getting raked over the coals because she said Democrats don't

00:13:53.460 have a spending problem from the White House podium.

00:13:57.700 Everybody, she was asked the question very directly because we're in this debt ceiling fight.

00:14:00.900 Here's her answer.

00:14:01.440 Speaker McCarty said yesterday in front of the White House that the reason why we are

00:14:08.260 in this problem is because every time Democrats wanted to make a deal, they wanted to make

00:14:13.600 a deal about spending more money.

00:14:15.580 So do you agree with Speaker McCarty that Democrats have a spending problem?

00:14:20.300 No.

00:14:24.080 To it.

00:14:27.120 No, to it.

00:14:28.880 Look, I'll say this.

00:14:30.800 The president's budget reduces the deficit, as you know, by nearly $3 trillion over 10

00:14:37.540 years, right?

00:14:38.760 This is a president that believes in dealing with the deficit in a real way.

00:14:42.640 That's on top of the $1.7 trillion that the president has been able to reduce the deficit

00:14:48.100 the last two years.

00:14:48.960 So the president takes this very seriously.

00:14:51.420 Okay.

00:14:51.960 Democrats don't have a spending problem. 0.86

00:14:53.620 And then she gives these pretty weak and dubious numbers, the numbers which almost certainly

00:14:58.020 are not accurate and the numbers which are deceptive anyway, because the spending has gotten so

00:15:02.340 insane in recent years that if you dial the volume up to 75 and then you take it back down

00:15:10.100 to 65, but really your volume should be on a 1 to 10 scale.

00:15:13.740 You can say, well, I reduced the volume from the loudspeaker, but it's still insanely loud.

00:15:18.140 It's still going to blow out your eardrum, right? 0.97

00:15:19.700 So all of that is a little ridiculous. 0.71

00:15:24.240 But to her point, the Democrats do not have a spending problem. 0.74

00:15:30.240 She's right.

00:15:31.500 She's totally right.

00:15:33.600 And I know conservatives are going to pull their hair out over this and say, you're lying,

00:15:37.220 Karine Jean-Pierre.

00:15:37.920 How could you possibly say such a thing?

00:15:39.420 She could say such a thing because it's not a problem to the Democrats. 0.81

00:15:42.080 It's the point.

00:15:43.020 Democrats don't have a spending problem. 0.86

00:15:44.580 Democrats have a spending solution.

00:15:45.940 Democrats' solution is we are coming up against a traditional culture that we've done a very

00:15:53.240 good job of cracking and disassembling, but there's still a lot of common sense in America

00:15:58.460 and we haven't attained total perfect cultural hegemony yet.

00:16:01.820 So how are we going to do that?

00:16:03.360 We're going to wield the power of the state in an unprecedented way.

00:16:10.080 And in order to wield the power of the state, we need a lot of money to do it.

00:16:13.160 And that's going to have a double effect because if we spend a lot of money, that's also going

00:16:17.400 to weaken the order of our society, which is going to give us an opportunity to take

00:16:23.180 even more power.

00:16:24.140 And so the way that we're going to get more control over the culture is to spend an insane

00:16:28.280 amount of money in debt America to her enemies and pummel our political opponents into submission. 0.99

00:16:37.040 It's very bad.

00:16:38.200 It's a bad thing to happen, but it's intentional.

00:16:41.040 It's effective.

00:16:41.840 It's a solution.

00:16:44.000 When are the Democrats going to address the spending problem?

00:16:46.360 Never, never.

00:16:47.700 They're never going to do that.

00:16:49.420 That's what they're there for.

00:16:51.160 They're there to wield that kind of power.

00:16:53.780 Are we going to observe that and acknowledge that and try to turn the political situation

00:16:59.180 to our advantage? 0.99

00:17:00.180 Are we going to say, wow, golly, she's crazy. 1.00

00:17:02.140 Imagine if the shoe were on the other foot. 0.94

00:17:03.420 Imagine if the shoe were on the other foot is going to be the epitaph on the headstone of

00:17:06.860 conservatism, being so charitable to my political opponents.

00:17:12.800 I want a cookie for this.

00:17:14.560 I want an award for how charitable I'm being.

00:17:16.640 I'm going to take a charitable read of politics all the way to the extreme.

00:17:22.120 Project Veritas has a new undercover report out.

00:17:27.580 It's an extremely disturbing report.

00:17:29.900 They infiltrated a pedo ring that's on the internet, and they were able to track down

00:17:34.500 some of the people who were participating in this pedo ring.

00:17:36.980 People saying the most horrible, horrific, disturbed things you can imagine, trading in

00:17:42.400 the most demonic kind of images you can imagine, some people then going out and acting out their

00:17:49.440 extraordinarily disordered desires on real kids.

00:17:54.700 Watch with your own discretion.

00:17:57.700 Proceed with caution.

00:17:59.440 I've got just a little clip here, which we've cleaned up.

00:18:01.900 It's still basically acceptable for wholesome viewing, of Project Veritas going in, finding

00:18:09.540 one of these guys and interviewing him.

00:18:11.600 And here's what he has to say.

00:18:13.060 The first man, Jonathan, we found living in New York in government subsidized housing.

00:18:18.580 How's it going, Jonathan?

00:18:19.960 Yeah.

00:18:20.600 So, uh, is your email E-L-A-

00:18:24.140 Is that Gmail?

00:18:26.720 Okay.

00:18:27.200 This stuff has kind of come up because he was, like, addicted to a porn.

00:18:31.740 Yeah.

00:18:32.020 Um, so it's like, I actually now limit his internet's access, but he doesn't have a phone.

00:18:38.240 Like, he's been asking for a tablet and a computer and being insistent about it.

00:18:41.840 And, um, yeah, I see why.

00:18:44.080 Um, will he act upon it?

00:18:46.460 Will he do it?

00:18:47.200 I don't think so.

00:18:49.860 We had a meeting on treatment plans.

00:18:52.500 And he was, like, they were talking about the amount of porn all he's watching.

00:18:55.700 He said, I can't even brush my teeth.

00:18:57.500 He can't even brush his teeth?

00:18:58.780 And then he said, I stop, and then I do what I need to do, and I watch them.

00:19:02.140 He said, because I just can't brush.

00:19:03.240 He said, it's all over-focus.

00:19:04.640 So that's when we decided to limit his internet, and we limit everything.

00:19:08.660 And we said, slowly, we do it.

00:19:10.100 And he is in therapy.

00:19:11.580 Not for this, but in therapy.

00:19:13.540 It is.

00:19:14.160 Overall.

00:19:15.380 And they go on, and they interview this guy who is just a husk of a man. 1.00

00:19:21.400 I mean, his brain has just been melted by pornography. 0.99

00:19:24.320 He is just completely addicted. 0.96

00:19:25.900 He's living in government housing.

00:19:30.760 His life has totally fallen apart.

00:19:35.200 Obviously, this is awful.

00:19:36.600 It's great that Project Veritas is going in, shedding a light on this.

00:19:39.440 I think they got one of these websites shut down.

00:19:41.080 They've referred a lot of cases to prosecutors.

00:19:43.240 Unfortunately, the prosecutors aren't doing very much about it.

00:19:46.460 I think, in part, because the prosecution has gone soft on crime recently.

00:19:50.380 But also, there's just so much of this.

00:19:52.360 There's so much to prosecute that they don't even get to it.

00:19:54.780 That's a little bit frustrating.

00:19:55.900 So, Project Veritas has shined a light on that.

00:19:57.860 That's all great stuff.

00:19:59.760 But when I watch the guy be interviewed, and then the person we just heard from, this guy's

00:20:05.680 government-appointed landlord, I feel a great deal of pity.

00:20:11.680 I feel a great deal of pity, not just for that guy, for all of us, for our whole culture,

00:20:17.180 which is in the throes of vice and addiction.

00:20:21.240 Obviously, with the weird sex stuff, but with everything.

00:20:24.340 Forget just the sex stuff.

00:20:25.360 With drugs, with constant stimulation from computers and screens and social media, even of a non-pornographic

00:20:33.880 variety, with an obsession with stuff and consumerism and food and just everything.

00:20:41.480 We are so addicted and concupiscent and incontinent and unable to control our base appetites.

00:20:49.280 That's a social problem.

00:20:50.360 This guy is the extreme of that. 0.73

00:20:53.800 It is hard to imagine a more extreme, crazy example than this guy.

00:20:58.300 He can't brush his teeth. 0.99

00:21:00.520 He's so addicted to porn, to the most disgusting, horrific kind of porn you can imagine, that 0.89

00:21:06.060 he can't take 20 seconds to put some toothbrushes, brush his teeth really quick. 0.96

00:21:12.060 He can't do that.

00:21:13.580 That's how addicted he is.

00:21:14.900 To me, that is a cautionary tale.

00:21:16.200 We've talked about porn a lot recently because we had a guest on to talk about how one of

00:21:21.800 the drivers of the transgender identity movement, all this mania, is pornography, which is ubiquitous. 0.98

00:21:28.780 It's a technological kind of problem that society has never dealt with before.

00:21:32.520 This is a product of an increasingly libertine political order, but then just the technological

00:21:37.920 innovation of high-speed internet.

00:21:39.340 It's everywhere.

00:21:40.100 People write in about this all the time who say,

00:21:42.380 I'm addicted to pornography or I see pornography everywhere.

00:21:46.280 It's all over society.

00:21:47.960 I think that's the extreme of that.

00:21:49.580 And so the value I see in the investigation from Project Veritas is, one, I hope it can

00:21:56.100 clean up some criminal enterprises.

00:21:58.620 I'm a little skeptical the prosecution will do that.

00:22:00.640 But two, look at that guy.

00:22:03.620 Do you want to end up like that guy?

00:22:05.380 Because that's the logical conclusion of indulging vice. 0.83

00:22:11.640 That's the logical conclusion directly of porn, I guess, but of all of it. 0.97

00:22:18.140 Drugs, slothfulness in your job, pride, gluttony, weird sex stuff. 0.77

00:22:27.300 The logical conclusion of that is that you will become a slave to your addictions, that

00:22:33.440 you won't be able to brush your teeth.

00:22:36.520 And the only other option is to be a slave to righteousness.

00:22:41.480 In the gospel, when Christ says, my yoke is easy and my burden is light, some people hear

00:22:46.620 that and they hear that to mean there is no yoke, there is no burden to choosing God over

00:22:54.040 evil.

00:22:54.820 That's not, no, the yoke is easy and the burden is light.

00:22:59.080 There is a yoke, there is a burden, but it doesn't look like that.

00:23:04.060 It doesn't look like I can't brush my teeth because I'm so addicted to vice.

00:23:07.920 It looks like growing from vice and addiction into mere incontinence.

00:23:14.060 So you want to do bad things or you want to do good things in your mind, but you still

00:23:19.920 do a lot of bad things to continence, which is you want to do good things.

00:23:24.600 And you mostly can control yourself to do the good things to ultimately virtue.

00:23:29.920 I was speaking with a priest friend last night who said people now, they don't even think

00:23:34.000 that virtue is possible.

00:23:35.060 And you don't even need to be a practicing Christian to understand this.

00:23:37.340 This is a traditional idea.

00:23:39.120 This is just going back to good old uncle Aristotle and others as well.

00:23:42.320 But if you don't practice those habits of virtue, you're going to practice habits of vice and

00:23:49.840 you're going to end up down the path to that guy.

00:23:52.920 It's some of the most important investigative journalism I've seen in weeks.

00:23:56.560 And it has almost nothing to do with the story itself.

00:23:59.220 It has to do with the story of all of us and how the society is operating.

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00:25:59.860 Speaking of cautionary tales, this headline from USA Today, this takes the cake.

00:26:08.880 This takes the absurdity cake.

00:26:10.320 This is more absurd than Vanity Fair calling Elon Musk David Duke, calling Ron DeSantis a white supremacist. 0.90

00:26:16.640 USA Today, black women looking for black sperm donors struggle with harsh reality of shortage.

00:26:27.900 When Marja Shea, Julian West, and her wife decided to become moms through in vitro fertilization, 0.82

00:26:38.380 they knew they definitely wanted black babies. 1.00

00:26:41.680 They just didn't know how hard it would be. 0.70

00:26:43.320 Whatever laws we need to pass to make that paragraph unintelligible, or less intelligible

00:26:53.840 than it already is, to make it implausible in society, we need those laws.

00:26:59.700 A woman and her wife, that's not real. 1.00

00:27:03.760 That is not a semantically meaningful phrase.

00:27:09.900 That is not the sort of thing that ought to be culturally accepted or understood.

00:27:14.320 And it certainly shouldn't be legal.

00:27:16.160 It's meaningless.

00:27:17.560 You can't...

00:27:18.860 Someone cannot be her wife, because marriage necessarily involves sexual difference. 0.95

00:27:24.540 That's the first part.

00:27:25.460 They decided to become moms. 0.89

00:27:26.740 Two women can't simultaneously be the mom of one person, because people are created by a mom and a dad. 1.00

00:27:38.260 You need both of those things.

00:27:39.580 As these women realize, which is why they're trying to purchase sperm from men who donate that sperm 1.00

00:27:46.540 by selling their progeny, the prospect, the potential for progeny, for money, which is extremely disordered

00:27:53.900 and obviously should be illegal.

00:27:55.720 And then they commit an act that is immoral and should not be encouraged by the culture or the state. 0.99

00:28:00.720 And then the cherry on top is, they don't want those defective white babies or biracial babies. 1.00

00:28:07.300 They want those good black babies. 1.00

00:28:08.920 And they're very upset that they can't go to the black baby store and buy a black baby, 0.99

00:28:13.100 because there aren't enough black men who are selling out their future progeny and committing grave mortal sins 1.00

00:28:20.280 so that the banks can take the money and sell the black babies. 1.00

00:28:29.160 We were just mind blown, says this lady, Mar Doche, Julian West. 1.00

00:28:33.620 There are black lesbians. 0.96

00:28:35.080 There are black queer people. 0.97

00:28:36.020 There are straight people who have fertility issues. 0.97

00:28:37.600 There's just a huge demand.

00:28:39.320 So it was insane.

00:28:40.380 I remember feeling angry, resentful, and robbed.

00:28:43.000 She feels robbed because she feels that she is owed a baby, not just any baby.

00:28:45.920 She can get the baby, even without marrying a man. 0.99

00:28:49.600 But she can't get this totally black baby, and she feels robbed. 0.97

00:28:53.040 She feels entitled to it. 0.78

00:28:53.840 But of course, when it comes to procreation, the only person who can be said to have any rights is the baby.

00:29:00.760 Babies have a right to a mother and a father.

00:29:03.500 Babies have a right to be conceived through the conjugal action of their natural mother and father.

00:29:11.560 People don't have a right to babies. 1.00

00:29:13.580 Babies are wonderful.

00:29:14.340 I got two babies.

00:29:15.860 But not everyone gets to have a baby.

00:29:17.220 Some people struggle with infertility.

00:29:19.060 Some people choose not to get married.

00:29:20.880 Some people pursue other sexual desires, and they prioritize that over having a family.

00:29:25.760 And that's that.

00:29:26.880 It pays your tickets, and it takes your seats.

00:29:28.320 Okay, that's it.

00:29:31.820 A lack of black donors is nothing new, experts say.

00:29:36.660 But an increased demand for them in recent years has turned a small problem into a big one,

00:29:40.740 causing families to wait for years for the right donor, spend thousands of dollars in the process,

00:29:45.500 and often make compromises on the race of their children.

00:29:50.200 Compromises.

00:29:52.500 You've got to compromise.

00:29:53.500 I know what the epitaph of the headstone of conservatism says,

00:29:58.720 but let's just take that Vanity Fair article that called Elon Musk a white supremacist,

00:30:03.940 and Ron DeSantis a white supremacist,

00:30:05.460 and then imagine if Ron DeSantis and Elon Musk said,

00:30:08.280 oh, we had to compromise on the race of our...

00:30:09.700 We wanted a beautiful white baby, but then we had to compromise,

00:30:13.240 and he's a little bit black, and we didn't want that. 1.00

00:30:15.380 And we're angry about this. 0.86

00:30:16.840 To quote this woman, I want people to be angry about this. 0.95

00:30:19.820 You know, we didn't want to have a black baby or any part black. 1.00

00:30:22.260 We want a perfectly pristine Aryan white baby. 1.00

00:30:24.400 But then we had to settle for this partially black baby, 1.00

00:30:28.400 because that was the sperm that we were able to buy, or whatever. 0.68

00:30:30.680 Could you imagine?

00:30:31.560 We don't have to imagine, because that's what we're hearing now.

00:30:35.260 Except, of course, when the people who are angry are of a favored race,

00:30:41.140 rather than a disfavored race,

00:30:43.180 then this is reported on quite sympathetically by USA Today.

00:30:47.040 USA Today is not Vanity Fair.

00:30:48.300 It's not Slate Magazine.

00:30:49.360 It's not Salon.com.

00:30:50.740 USA Today is the newspaper that shows up at your door at a hotel, okay?

00:30:56.200 It's a very mainstream paper.

00:30:57.940 This is a very mainstreamed idea.

00:31:01.080 How are we going to fix that?

00:31:02.140 Are we going to fix that by boycotting the sperm banks or something? 0.99

00:31:05.140 Are we going to fix that by boycotting USA Today?

00:31:07.240 No.

00:31:07.740 We can wield our cultural and commercial power.

00:31:10.140 The only way to fix that is by wielding political power.

00:31:13.940 The only way to fix that is by changing the law and then enforcing the law,

00:31:18.100 and then having the law be a teacher and changing the culture and the process.

00:31:22.820 What a media story.

00:31:24.280 And speaking of the media, I've got an article here from the American Pravda, the Associated Press,

00:31:30.500 which used to be a little more center-left.

00:31:32.640 Now it has become a far extreme left-wing news outlet.

00:31:36.960 And the AP is reporting on John Fetterman, Senator John Fetterman, who had a stroke on the campaign trail.

00:31:43.200 He gets elected.

00:31:44.020 His brain is not working properly. 0.99

00:31:45.780 He can't really speak.

00:31:46.880 There were already news reports that he was getting frustrated,

00:31:49.160 and he couldn't understand what people were saying to him,

00:31:51.640 and he couldn't do even the basic jobs of a U.S. senator.

00:31:54.360 He then checked himself into a clinic, ostensibly for depression.

00:31:59.840 No one really knows the details of this.

00:32:01.720 He gets out some months later.

00:32:04.160 He's been appearing at hearings.

00:32:05.660 You can take a listen.

00:32:07.000 Obviously, things are not working very well for him.

00:32:09.680 Is it a staggering responsibility that the head of a bank could literally crash our economy?

00:32:19.200 It's astonishing.

00:32:19.920 That's like if you have, I mean, like, and they also realize is that now they have a guaranteed way to be saved,

00:32:32.420 again, by no matter, by how, you know?

00:32:36.220 So it's, you know, isn't it appropriate that those kinds of, this kind of control should be more stricter?

00:32:43.500 Okay, it goes on.

00:32:44.620 It gets much worse.

00:32:45.560 There's no need to play the whole clip and humiliate him.

00:32:47.960 It's very sad that his family and his colleagues are allowing this to happen.

00:32:54.300 If you've ever known a stroke victim, they need to recuperate,

00:32:58.760 and they don't need to be on national television in a high-stress job,

00:33:02.160 unable to speak on television when their job is to speak.

00:33:05.960 So how's the AP reporting on this?

00:33:09.380 Back in hoodies and gym shorts, John Fetterman tackles Senate life after depression treatment.

00:33:16.240 So he's been showing up.

00:33:18.580 He's wearing hoodies and sneakers around the Senate.

00:33:21.060 It's scandalous.

00:33:22.840 It's sad.

00:33:24.780 Everyone knows this guy is not well.

00:33:26.360 How are they reporting on it?

00:33:27.420 People close to Fetterman say his relaxed, comfortable style is a sign that the senator is making a robust recovery

00:33:36.480 after six weeks of inpatient treatment at Walter Reed Medical Center.

00:33:41.060 Oh, yes.

00:33:41.560 The fact that he can't speak and can't even dress himself in most of the time in the Senate,

00:33:46.340 that's a sign of how well he's doing.

00:33:48.140 Great leader, great supreme leader John Fetterman, doing wonderful, causes sun to rise in the morning.

00:33:54.640 More from North Korean television coming up.

00:33:57.300 This would make a North Korean news anchor blush. 0.98

00:34:01.820 This kind of, this would make a Soviet apparatchik news editor in the height of the USSR working for Pravda blush.

00:34:12.420 It is so preposterous.

00:34:14.680 He's setting a new dress code.

00:34:18.520 Jokes.

00:34:19.880 Vermont Senator Peter Welch.

00:34:22.420 He was struggling and now he's a joyful person to be around.

00:34:26.540 Okay.

00:34:27.600 Yep.

00:34:28.040 Sure.

00:34:28.280 He's great.

00:34:29.220 He's great.

00:34:29.960 Never better.

00:34:30.800 Wonderful supreme leader.

00:34:33.220 Nobody believes that.

00:34:35.060 The AP editors don't believe that.

00:34:36.880 The people reading it don't believe that.

00:34:38.340 John Fetterman and his family don't believe that.

00:34:39.580 Nobody believes that.

00:34:40.780 But we are all supposed to live in lies. 0.98

00:34:44.180 Because we have a sclerotic and incompetent ruling class.

00:34:50.740 Now some people are trying to see some opportunity there.

00:34:53.800 So we're talking about Ron DeSantis making his big announcement today.

00:34:57.340 Hillary Clinton.

00:34:58.840 The former future president of the United States.

00:35:01.160 Hillary Clinton.

00:35:02.860 Never, never quite goes away.

00:35:05.600 She was being interviewed about the Democrat side of this election.

00:35:09.460 And she was asked, do voters have a right to be concerned about Joe Biden's age and senility?

00:35:13.960 Her answer?

00:35:15.720 Why, yes, they do.

00:35:17.020 Well, I mean, it's a concern for anyone.

00:35:19.880 And we've had presidents who've fallen before who were a lot younger.

00:35:23.020 Um, and people didn't go into, you know, heart palpitations.

00:35:27.500 Um, but he, his age is an issue.

00:35:29.900 And people have every right to consider it.

00:35:32.840 But, you know, he has this great saying.

00:35:34.840 And, and, you know, I think he's right.

00:35:37.100 You know, he, you know, don't judge him by running against the almighty, but against the alternative.

00:35:41.720 And I am, you know, of the camp that, uh, I think, you know, he's determined to run.

00:35:51.020 He has a good record that three years ago people would not have predicted would have gotten done.

00:35:57.060 Uh, he doesn't get the credit yet that he deserves for what is happening out in the country in terms of,

00:36:02.760 you know, jobs and growth and, and planning for the future with chips and other stuff.

00:36:07.700 So, I obviously hope he stays, you know, very, you know, focused and able to, uh, compete in the election.

00:36:15.780 Because I think he, I think he can be reelected.

00:36:19.100 And that's what we should all hope for.

00:36:22.100 Not the most rousing endorsement.

00:36:25.120 Is it, was that a rally cry?

00:36:27.940 He is determined to run.

00:36:31.520 He has a good record.

00:36:34.840 And he will probably run.

00:36:41.300 Hmm.

00:36:42.380 Can I run yet?

00:36:44.060 Can I?

00:36:44.640 Is there an opening?

00:36:45.700 Is there an opening for Hillary? 1.00

00:36:46.860 Do not count this woman out. 0.97

00:36:49.820 Joe Biden doesn't know which end is up.

00:36:51.980 Joe Biden has, in recent years, not met a flight of stairs that hasn't proven a monumental challenge to him.

00:37:00.220 Joe Biden is past his prime and his prime was never all that great.

00:37:04.160 There are lots of people waiting in the wings.

00:37:06.780 Obviously, Buttigieg and Kamala are trying to fight over who jumps in if Biden falls down every single day. 0.92

00:37:12.220 Both of them are total jokes.

00:37:13.640 They're going nowhere.

00:37:14.840 Gavin Newsom is the serious candidate waiting in the wings out there in California.

00:37:18.640 That's why he's going on a national tour to run against Ron DeSantis.

00:37:22.760 Because they're the two sort of shadow candidates.

00:37:25.300 And then there's Hillary. 1.00

00:37:26.460 Do not count her out.

00:37:27.520 When people want to make predictions about the 2024 election, a year and a half out, they say, oh, it's totally Trump's.

00:37:34.460 Done.

00:37:35.120 Oh, it's totally DeSantis.

00:37:36.580 Trump is cooked.

00:37:37.580 Oh, it's totally this.

00:37:38.580 It's totally that.

00:37:39.680 The only thing you can expect in a presidential election is the unexpected.

00:37:43.800 Hillary Clinton has wanted to be president every single moment since she was in her mother's womb back when she was denying that she was even a human being. 1.00

00:37:51.240 And Hillary Clinton has never lost that desire.

00:37:54.760 It has only grown greater and greater with age.

00:37:58.640 Do not be surprised if we see a Hillary 2024.

00:38:02.340 Speaking of disreputable New Yorkers such as Hillary Clinton, a little update to the Jordan Neely story.

00:38:09.540 Jordan Neely, he's the career criminal, 42 plus arrests, who was taken down by a hero Marine on a New York subway when he was threatening people.

00:38:18.780 He's the guy who punched an old woman, a woman of a certain age in the face, gave her black eye, broke her nose, attacked another senior citizen.

00:38:27.640 So the uncle of Jordan Neely, Christopher Neely, was just arrested this week after officials had been searching for him for a string of larcenies, allegedly.

00:38:37.140 And then he was trying to run from the NYPD.

00:38:39.800 They recognized him.

00:38:41.080 He was caught carrying credit cards from numerous victims.

00:38:43.780 He was armed with a gravity knife.

00:38:46.460 Bad dude. 0.63

00:38:47.700 He was a bad dude. 0.53

00:38:48.920 Still is a bad dude.

00:38:50.020 They arrested him.

00:38:52.120 In the spirit of charity that I'm extending to all of the Libs today, to Corrine Jean-Pierre, to even people in the throes of the worst kinds of crimes, this helps to explain Jordan Neely himself.

00:39:07.060 Doesn't exonerate Jordan Neely.

00:39:08.320 Doesn't mean the Marine was wrong to take him down.

00:39:09.920 The Marine was absolutely right to take him down.

00:39:11.540 But it is a reminder that no man is an island unto himself, entire of himself.

00:39:17.500 This is something the Libs get right when the Libs point out that we live in society and we're not just atomized individuals floating in outer space.

00:39:23.680 And what we do actually does affect other people.

00:39:26.000 Conservatives have tended to deny that on the economic front.

00:39:29.800 And liberals have tended to deny that fact on the social front.

00:39:32.960 So they say, whatever I do, man, it doesn't affect you.

00:39:35.000 I can be in a polyamorous throuple with two dudes and a billy goat.

00:39:38.900 It's total.

00:39:39.280 That doesn't affect you.

00:39:40.640 Man, get your head out of my bedroom or whatever. 1.00

00:39:42.880 And the conservatives have said, get your head out of my wallet. 0.98

00:39:45.880 Get your head out of my bank account. 1.00

00:39:47.500 But that's not real.

00:39:49.600 Those are both false conclusions that come from the false premise of liberalism that we are fundamentally individuals and we're not.

00:39:56.320 We're social creatures.

00:39:57.420 Had Jordan Neely been raised in a normal environment, in a normal culture, with a better family, without criminals all around him, I'm not saying he would have turned out great.

00:40:06.320 He might have turned out rotten even then, but he would have had a better chance.

00:40:10.320 And so when we want to fix our problems and all these individuals who are acting crazy, who are in the throes of all sorts of vice, some of whom look like that guy in the Project Veritas video, the way that we're going to fix that is not just by saying, hey, look at the man in the mirror and pull yourself up by your bootstraps.

00:40:24.840 There's a role for that.

00:40:25.860 There's a place for that.

00:40:26.720 People should take a hard look in the mirror.

00:40:28.240 People should get down on their knees and pray.

00:40:29.840 And also, we should do that as a community because man is not just an individual floating in outer space.

00:40:35.120 Man is the political animal.

00:40:38.160 My favorite comment yesterday is from Peter England, who says, Democrats say that, oh, it's the North Carolina governor says, we're going to set education back a generation, dot, dot, dot, so SAT scores will go up.

00:40:52.500 That's so true.

00:40:53.520 When the libs whine and complain about school choice and they say, oh, no, you're going to set education back a generation, that would be a good thing.

00:41:00.940 Let's hope that we could set education back two or three or four or five generations.

00:41:05.700 Then students might actually read books.

00:41:09.780 There was a piece going around the internet yesterday, and it was from a foreword to the Odyssey by Homer.

00:41:18.840 And this man was writing about 100 years ago, maybe a little more than 100 years ago, writing about how when he was teaching school, the school students who were 8 to 12 years old asked him for a fun little treat if they could read the Odyssey as a break from all their much more rigorous work.

00:41:35.980 Today, school children probably don't know what the Odyssey is, and they surely wouldn't ask to read it.

00:41:40.700 They'd probably just ask to watch cartoons in the classroom or something like that.

00:41:44.680 Now, let's set education back 10 generations.

00:41:50.700 Can you imagine what an educated society we would have?

00:41:53.360 Okay, we're a few days out now, week out from Rainbow Month, so another company has gone gay. 0.65

00:42:01.380 This is a commercial, actually, from some years ago.

00:42:05.060 I think it's about two years ago.

00:42:06.540 It's just come back up, though.

00:42:08.540 It has made it and gone viral in the wake of Transheiser Bush destroying the most popular beer in America, Bud Light. 1.00

00:42:16.140 Which company is it?

00:42:18.500 This certainly would pain the founder of this company. 0.99

00:42:22.560 Ford Motor Company, super duper gay. 1.00

00:42:26.200 Take it away, Ford. 0.99

00:42:26.860 Commercial opens.

00:42:32.040 Do not attempt to recreate or reenact this scene.

00:42:35.080 And then where it should have a warning label, you know, the rating for, like, a movie, it's the pride flag.

00:42:42.440 It says progress.

00:42:43.460 Rated for progress.

00:42:46.360 Here we go.

00:42:47.080 We got two mud-soaked Ford trucks.

00:42:51.400 Go, baby.

00:42:52.960 One looking neer than the next.

00:42:54.860 They're off-roading.

00:42:57.940 They're driving hard.

00:42:59.660 They're driving fast.

00:43:01.740 Driving through the water. 0.99

00:43:04.380 And the, oh, but then the water washed all the mud away, and it's gay. 1.00

00:43:12.020 The truck has been painted in some pink with a rainbow on it, which for virtually all of human history was a sign, a symbol given by God of his covenant with mankind that he would never again destroy the world in a flood. 0.96

00:43:23.840 Now, it just symbolizes weird sex stuff, and pride, the queen of all sins.

00:43:30.260 And then what happens?

00:43:31.940 The rainbow truck wins.

00:43:34.900 So it's not just that the gay truck, the LGBTQ, the trans truck, is accepted. 0.74

00:43:41.260 It's in the race. 0.97

00:43:42.380 It wins.

00:43:42.860 It has to win.

00:43:44.280 The trans truck has got to win. 0.99

00:43:47.440 Probably now, Ford would not make that commercial.

00:43:53.580 Reason being that Bud Light has been destroyed.

00:43:57.620 I'm not sure Bud Light can ever recover.

00:43:59.740 Formerly the most popular beer in America, I think Transheiser Push, destroyed that.

00:44:03.500 And they destroyed it in part because they wanted to stand in the middle of the road.

00:44:06.000 So they couldn't totally embrace the Dylan Mulvaney beer can, but they also couldn't totally disavow the Dylan Mulvaney beer can because the audience, the consumer base, hated the Dylan Mulvaney trans can.

00:44:18.680 But the investor class, the liberal establishment, the media, the powers that be, they love the trans can, and they exert a lot of control over the companies through things like ESG, through things like Garm, through all of these international associations and agreements, which say that if you want access to advertising, if you want access to capital, you've got to tow this crazy woke line.

00:44:45.360 And so Bud Light has been wrecked by that.

00:44:49.220 Now some companies are trying to dial it back.

00:44:51.700 Target decided to hire a Satanist to promote weird trans clothing lines to all sorts of people. 0.69

00:44:56.680 There are children's trans clothing lines.

00:44:58.700 There's been backlash against that.

00:44:59.960 Now Target executives reportedly are scrambling.

00:45:02.540 Ford, I assume, is going to try to suppress this commercial.

00:45:04.940 It ain't 2021 anymore.

00:45:06.220 What changed?

00:45:07.080 What changed here is conservatives were able to institute an effective boycott of Bud Light.

00:45:11.880 It just took it a little bit too far, and frat boys and construction workers actually stood up and said, no, we're not going to drink this stuff anymore.

00:45:19.220 And furthermore, Bud Light became so egregious that it became a meme.

00:45:23.320 So now if you're at a bar, you say like, hey, guys, what do you want to drink?

00:45:26.700 All right, I'm going to get some yingling.

00:45:29.320 Maybe I'm going to get some shots of Jameson.

00:45:31.600 And then if you want to make fun of your buddy, you'll say, and Johnny over there, I'm going to get him a Bud Light.

00:45:37.000 Yeah, take that, Johnny.

00:45:39.080 I'm making fun of you. 0.98

00:45:39.940 I'm calling you effeminate. 0.94

00:45:40.760 He'll say, I don't want a Bud Light. 0.94

00:45:42.540 Don't give me a Bud Light, man.

00:45:43.900 Come on.

00:45:44.400 And so it's become a joke, and it's very hard to recover from being a joke.

00:45:48.880 I mean, that's really brutal.

00:45:51.440 Same thing probably happening to Ford here.

00:45:53.940 We've got to keep up that pressure.

00:45:56.760 Matt made this point.

00:45:57.880 He articulated it directly, but this has been the point that has been building for months now, which is we need to make that symbol toxic.

00:46:08.600 The pride flag symbol.

00:46:10.520 We need to make that toxic. 0.97

00:46:12.560 We need to have companies think twice about it.

00:46:16.080 Everyone was talking about the Dylan Mulvaney incident as being harmful to the Bud Light brand.

00:46:22.940 That's true.

00:46:23.400 But more importantly, it was harmful to the Dylan Mulvaney brand.

00:46:27.740 Now other companies are going to think twice before sponsoring Dylan Mulvaney because they don't want to lose $6 billion in market cap in two days.

00:46:34.980 That's what we've got to do.

00:46:37.900 And then once we make these things culturally toxic or as we're making these symbols culturally toxic, we've got to bring in the cavalry.

00:46:45.840 We've got to come back in with more political force to ban some of this stuff, to say no.

00:46:52.480 We talked about it yesterday with the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, this anti-Christian drag troop that is being honored by the L.A. Dodgers. 0.96

00:46:58.980 The L.A. Dodgers are either going to exalt the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence or they're going to exalt the Carmelite nuns.

00:47:05.860 They're going to exalt regular normal Christian sisters. 1.00

00:47:08.900 They're either going to exalt LGBT-ism, pride-ism, or Christianity. 0.81

00:47:13.560 It's going to have to be one or the other.

00:47:15.000 They're conflicting moral views.

00:47:16.620 And we are going to operate according to some moral view.

00:47:18.760 Which one's it going to be?

00:47:20.400 Don't back down now.

00:47:21.380 The progress that conservatives have made on this just between 2021 and 2023, the fact that companies are trying to suppress these videos now, back off them, that shows we are winning, keep pushing much, much harder.

00:47:37.380 Before we go, Kathy Hochul, she's the governor of New York. 0.98

00:47:41.340 Kathy Hochul has responded to the migrant crisis, which has been a disaster for Democrat politicians.

00:47:48.480 You see, even the liberal Democrat Eric Adams in New York, he's saying, we don't want this migration crisis. 0.99

00:47:53.580 Stop sending the buses here.

00:47:54.620 This is evil.

00:47:55.120 This is awful.

00:47:55.880 We can't keep it up.

00:47:56.900 We've got to stop it.

00:47:57.700 We need law and order here.

00:47:59.260 Kathy Hochul, the Democrat, has come in.

00:48:01.380 She's taking the side of the illegal immigrants. 1.00

00:48:04.720 When you think about what we have open right now, I know upstate.

00:48:09.700 I know exactly where it starts, too.

00:48:12.840 There are over 5,000 farm jobs.

00:48:15.400 5,000 farm jobs open as we speak.

00:48:18.480 The cows don't wait to be milked.

00:48:22.520 The plants need to be maintained and harvested in a few months.

00:48:26.760 The crops.

00:48:27.960 We have more than 5,000 food service jobs right now.

00:48:31.780 I'm a former waitress.

00:48:33.140 I made pizzas, chicken wings, waited tables, cleaned floors, did pots and pans.

00:48:40.500 Doesn't take a lot of skill.

00:48:41.800 I was 15 years old.

00:48:43.780 Those jobs are available.

00:48:45.860 4,000 openings for janitors, cleaners and housekeepers.

00:48:50.080 As I mentioned, the jobs for farm workers as well.

00:48:53.060 So, we're grateful that the Biden administration has instituted a new border process, starting with the suspension of Title 42 on May 11th.

00:49:02.060 We all know that date well.

00:49:03.160 And that will allow asylum seekers from other countries to seek sponsorship and to apply from their home countries.

00:49:10.120 And if they don't, they will be turned back.

00:49:12.200 So, that is a shift in policy which we hope will be successful and mitigate the flow of new arrivals here. 1.00

00:49:19.300 We want these people to apply.

00:49:21.420 We want them to come here, though.

00:49:22.340 We've got to have them do these jobs. 0.99

00:49:23.780 It's good. 0.96

00:49:24.420 Come on over here, illegal immigrants. 1.00

00:49:26.980 We want you.

00:49:28.120 What does this mean?

00:49:29.220 This means that Kathy Hochul thinks that her bread is buttered more by the political class than by the people.

00:49:36.880 The people have made their opinion on illegal immigration clear.

00:49:39.500 The people have been pretty articulate.

00:49:41.580 Populism is doing just great.

00:49:43.540 Okay.

00:49:43.820 A lot of the liberal elite institutions are on the run, but some politicians are betting against the people, against clear majorities. 0.96

00:49:51.000 The vast majority of the people think transgenderism is insane.

00:49:53.760 The vast majority of the people don't want their kids being taught critical race theory and weird sex stuff in schools. 0.65

00:49:59.540 The vast majority of the people want to drastically reduce migration.

00:50:02.820 So, why are there some politicians who are still supporting these things?

00:50:06.960 Some, I guess, have firm ideological beliefs.

00:50:09.680 Kathy Hochul is not one of those people.

00:50:11.020 Why are some of the convenience, sway-in-the-wind politicians still supporting the unpopular policies?

00:50:16.740 Because they believe that the political class can do more for them and more against them than the people can.

00:50:23.320 So, what do we have to do?

00:50:24.640 We need to show that the people still have some power in this country.

00:50:28.020 We need to wield our pocketbooks.

00:50:29.980 We need to boycott.

00:50:30.780 We need to say no to Transheiser Bush. 1.00

00:50:32.760 We've got to say no to Target.

00:50:33.920 We've got to say no to—

00:50:34.940 And then we also need to infiltrate that political class, start wielding the state.

00:50:39.460 We've got to convince the Kathy Hochuls of the world, the liberal establishment, shill, Joe Biden, empty suit, hack politicians of the world, that there are going to be consequences, too.

00:50:50.000 That you can't totally turn against the people and their common sense and not face any consequences.

00:50:56.160 You've got to crack that ruling establishment.

00:50:59.140 Now, today's Woke Wednesday, baby.

00:51:00.900 We got a lot.

00:51:02.380 Mr. Davies assures me we have a very important video today.

00:51:04.860 The show continues now.

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00:51:09.880 We'll see you next time.

The Michael Knowles Show - May 24, 2023

Ep. 1253 - DeSantis To Announce His Run For President

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