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00:00:00.000 I am sitting here with my father, and we would like to understand why the commitment made has

00:00:06.680 not been fulfilled. Tell the director that I would like to resolve this now before it gets

00:00:12.780 out of hand, and now means tonight. And Z, if I get a call or text from anyone involved in this

00:00:18.780 other than you, Zhang, or the chairman, I will make certain that between the man sitting next

00:00:24.340 to me and every person he knows and my ability to forever hold a grudge that you will regret not

00:00:30.620 following my direction. I am sitting here waiting for the call with my father. That is a text message

00:00:40.640 from Hunter Biden to Henry Zhao, an influential member of the Chinese Communist Party, whom the

00:00:46.340 first son was shaken down for money on July 30th, 2017. It's about as smoking a smoking gun on

00:00:56.080 corruption as there is, and maybe Hunter was bluffing. Maybe, I want to be as fair as I can be,

00:01:03.220 maybe Joe Biden wasn't really sitting next to his son when his son sent that text. We know that Joe

00:01:10.680 has gotten involved in Hunter's crooked affairs in the past. We know that Joe Biden threatened to

00:01:16.680 withhold a billion dollars in American aid to Ukraine unless Ukraine fired a prosecutor that

00:01:21.500 was investigating a shady Ukrainian company that paid boatloads of cash to the Biden family.

00:01:26.420 We know all of this. We've got texts and photos and videos, unfortunately. We know that no Biden

00:01:35.240 or Clinton or any elite Democrat is going to be prosecuted for it. Hunter Biden might get probation

00:01:44.420 on a tax misdemeanor or two. As the GOP presidential primary heats up, the main debate right now between

00:01:54.560 all the candidates is over electability. Is Trump too obnoxious to win moderates? Is DeSantis too

00:02:01.940 straight-laced to fire up the base? Fair questions. But those are secondary questions. In 2020, liberal

00:02:09.900 elites were so hell-bent on stopping a second Trump term that they shut down the country and changed

00:02:15.400 all the voting rules to benefit them. Our current president and his family can commit egregious

00:02:22.280 corruption and crimes documented by gigabytes worth of texts, photos, videos. They all get off scot-free.

00:02:30.880 The leader of the opposition, Donald Trump, kept some presidential documents, like all of his

00:02:37.640 predecessors have, mishandled classified information, maybe, like the big prominent Democrats have,

00:02:46.360 and they're trying to lock that guy up for life. The chief question of electability is not whether a

00:02:51.060 candidate can appeal to suburban moms. The chief question of electability is whether the system

00:02:57.260 will still allow a Republican presidential candidate to get elected at all. I'm Michael Knowles. This

00:03:03.020 is the Michael Knowles Show. Welcome back to the show. Really important news breaking, which is that

00:03:15.060 Bud Light is digging the hole even deeper for themselves. Just digging and digging and digging.

00:03:20.500 They've got a new commercial out. Can't wait to get to it. First, though, on electability.

00:03:24.440 That's what this campaign's about. Trump is running on the Trump campaign.

00:03:30.220 DeSantis is also running in the Trump lane. You've got a bunch more moderate candidates or

00:03:36.840 candidates running a campaign like it's 2008, and they're not going anywhere. There are still some

00:03:42.140 candidates coming out of left field, but if you look at the poll numbers, it's Trump versus DeSantis.

00:03:47.020 They both have the same campaign platform. So the campaign is about electability, who can win and

00:03:52.600 then wield power. And there's a new poll that just came out from Emerson College, which I think shakes

00:03:59.960 up some of the conventional wisdom on this. Conventional wisdom right now is DeSantis has a

00:04:05.160 much better shot at being elected than Donald Trump. Maybe that's true. Maybe with polls,

00:04:10.580 you know, polls and a buck 50 will get you a cup of coffee. But according to this poll,

00:04:14.300 both DeSantis and Trump lose to Joe Biden. And according to this poll, actually, according to

00:04:21.940 this poll, Trump does better than DeSantis against Biden. According to Emerson, 44% would vote for

00:04:26.880 Biden, 43% would vote for Trump, and 43% would vote for Biden versus DeSantis, and only 37% would vote

00:04:34.400 vote for DeSantis. But here's where it gets kind of weird. If Cornel West, the leftist populist

00:04:41.940 candidate, is in the race on election day, then only in that circumstance does the Republican win.

00:04:51.760 Trump, 41%, Biden, 40%, Cornel West, 6%. You know me, I am the most skeptical of polls and statistics

00:05:00.920 broadly, as anybody gets, but especially this far out, especially national polls.

00:05:06.480 But this is really interesting, not because of what it says about Trump and DeSantis, not even

00:05:10.740 really what it says about those guys versus Joe Biden. It's the Cornel West thing. Cornel West

00:05:16.520 pulls votes not from Trump, but from Biden. Cornel West has something in common with both Trump and

00:05:23.280 Biden, which is that he's a leftist, so he has something in common with Biden, but he's a populist,

00:05:28.660 so he has something in common with Trump. And what we see here is that when a leftist populist

00:05:33.740 gets in the race, he pulls from the leftist candidate, which would help the right-wing

00:05:39.060 populist candidate, and which tells you that there is lots of room for a populist movement to grow.

00:05:45.860 In 2016, there were a lot of voters who came out and said, I've never voted before, or I've always

00:05:50.180 been maybe a Democrat, but now I'm voting for Trump. The phenomenon of the Trump Democrats,

00:05:55.740 just like you saw the Reagan Democrats back in 1980. Some people think, well, there's just a

00:06:01.440 ceiling on the support that Trump can get. There's a ceiling on the support that a populist

00:06:05.960 candidate can get. This poll suggests that's not true. I think there's a lot of room for a populist

00:06:11.860 candidate to grow. Now, maybe Trump's got his supporters, and there's not a ton of room for that

00:06:17.920 to grow, unless Joe Biden completely craters, which is a totally plausible scenario. But in terms of

00:06:25.260 populism generally, cracking up the sort of uniparty monopoly, and the stale old talking

00:06:31.800 points, and the stale old priorities of both parties, there's a ton of room it would seem to

00:06:36.420 grow. You'd grab 5% from the libs immediately. And if you had a candidate who was better than

00:06:42.400 Cornel West, you could probably grab a lot more than that. If you think that populism

00:06:49.300 is over or on the decline, as I think a lot of establishment Republicans are hoping is the case,

00:06:55.100 I think a lot of establishment Republicans, frankly, are hoping that if Trump gets a nomination in 2024,

00:07:00.700 that he loses, and then the GOP can finally reset to the good old happy days of Mitt Romney,

00:07:06.220 and I don't know, Asa Hutchinson, and all these squishes, and they can become Democrat light again.

00:07:10.920 I don't think that's going to happen. I don't think that's what the numbers show. And people

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00:08:22.560 PureTalk, wireless for Americans, by Americans. Now, I want to get back to Hunter Biden because Hunter

00:08:28.240 Biden, who I have not hammered on this show, I know some right-wing hosts, they talk about Hunter

00:08:33.900 Biden all the time. Most of his shenanigans, I think, are not all that interesting. They're just

00:08:37.820 sort of depraved and gross and sad. But these really are interesting. The man is the poster child

00:08:45.260 for the corrupt elite. And he's committed all sorts of crimes in virtually every genre, I think.

00:08:51.480 And he gets off without so much as really even a slap on the wrist. He'll get maybe some probation

00:08:57.260 for the tax misdemeanors. And then he goes into a diversion program for his gun charge. But I think

00:09:03.860 Jenna Ellis found this still on the DOJ website. It would appear that Hunter Biden is not even

00:09:11.280 eligible for this diversion program, which is a way to avoid jail time and eventually have the gun

00:09:15.920 charge expunged from his record. Because the DOJ says, absent approval by the Office of the Deputy

00:09:20.360 Attorney General, any pretrial diversion program created by a U.S. Attorney's Office shall exclude

00:09:25.820 any individual who is accused of an offense related to child pornography, accused of an offense

00:09:30.980 related to serious bodily injury or death. And then here's number three. Accused of an offense

00:09:35.200 involving brandishing or use of a firearm or other deadly weapon. We can see, we have photographs

00:09:42.640 of Hunter Biden brandishing his weapon. So they're probably at the DOJ, they're going to try to be

00:09:51.020 really, really specific about the definition of brandishing to exclude whatever Hunter did.

00:09:57.080 Or they're just going to ignore it like our prosecutors do so often now, when it involves

00:10:04.220 politically favored people and groups. They're going to say, okay, never mind. Now, one of the

00:10:08.400 criticisms of this corrupt elite ruling class and the way that Hunter Biden is just getting off with

00:10:13.400 a ton of crimes, no big deal, is they're going to say, well, you know, the lower class never gets

00:10:18.200 off with these kinds of crimes. Oh, it's those rich, politically connected people. They get away with

00:10:24.420 murder, but the poor people on the street, they never get away with anything. And that's not exactly

00:10:29.460 true. These diversion programs are largely for lower class people on the street with all sorts

00:10:37.520 of records and all sorts of bad neighborhoods. Plenty of street criminals and gangsters get these exact

00:10:43.340 deals. I mean, this is the whole point of the Soros prosecutors. The leftist installed prosecutors

00:10:52.560 who get into their jobs and they stop prosecuting street crime. Because they'll say, well, if we

00:10:57.380 prosecute certain crimes, it's more likely to involve black people and that would be racist. And for

00:11:03.700 racial equity, we're going to let gangsters back onto the street. We're going to put them into

00:11:07.340 pretrial diversion programs and we're going to give them, you know, bond and we're going to let them

00:11:12.400 off on probation and all the rest of it. And they go commit more crimes. The distinction here with the

00:11:18.000 corruption of the DOJ and the prosecutors more generally is not that it's the rich get one set

00:11:23.520 of rules and the poor get another set of rules. Donald Trump's pretty rich and they're going to

00:11:26.620 try to throw him in prison for the rest of his life because he kept his own presidential documents

00:11:30.960 for a little bit. Because he committed crimes that all of his credit crimes that all of his

00:11:35.660 predecessors committed and that Democrats who never even were president have committed.

00:11:40.960 No, it's not a, it's not a rich versus poor thing. It's just a politically favored versus

00:11:45.080 politically disfavored thing. If you are a black street criminal in a Democrat city,

00:11:52.180 you are more likely to get off the hook for crimes. You'll be put in one of these programs.

00:11:56.820 And if you are the degenerate first son, the son of the president who commits all sorts of crimes,

00:12:02.480 you're more likely to get off too. And if you're a conservative and if you threaten the ruling

00:12:06.000 class, whether you're poor, whether you're in the middle, whether you're rich,

00:12:10.620 they're going to throw the book at you. You could be a poor deplorable hillbilly

00:12:15.060 irredeemable white guy from the, from the red States. You could be a Midwestern granny who was

00:12:20.960 taking some photos in the Capitol rotunda on January 6th, the worst day in history. Or you

00:12:26.320 could be a billionaire president of the United States. Doesn't matter. If you oppose the ruling

00:12:30.700 class, that's when they go after you. Last thing with Hunter, there's another story out.

00:12:36.480 As I've said, I don't really like to dig in too much to all of his personal saucy, disgusting scandals

00:12:42.500 because they're just tawdry and they don't shed much light on things. This one does though. Hunter

00:12:49.440 Biden was a member of an elite LA sex club called Sanctum. Sanctum. It's just like all businesses that

00:13:00.320 were started around 2012 and 2013, all these millennial businesses from, you know, consulting

00:13:07.360 startups to sex dungeons. Apparently they took the vowels out. So it's S N C T M. Sanctum.

00:13:15.720 It's a private members club that prioritizes the safety and privacy of their esteemed members above

00:13:22.520 all. And it involves a ton of Hollywood celebrities and big people in the news media. And

00:13:30.020 I won't, I won't name the names, but they're, you can read about them. They're really

00:13:34.500 very prominent, famous people. And apparently the club was founded

00:13:38.800 after the movie Eyes Wide Shut came out. So it's not just that Eyes Wide Shut parties really exist.

00:13:45.520 Remember Madison Cawthorne, the Republican congressman mentioned that there were Eyes Wide Shut

00:13:48.920 parties in DC. And then he was immediately just ejected from Congress. Well, well, it turns out

00:13:54.020 the Eyes Wide Shut parties, they happen in Hollywood. They're real. They involve very wealthy, famous

00:13:58.260 people. And they're consciously Eyes Wide Shut parties. They're based on the movie Eyes Wide Shut.

00:14:03.200 So anyway, the club costs 75 grand a year to become a member and includes actors, rock stars, CEOs,

00:14:08.620 even city officials, according to the LA Times. And Hunter Biden was a member of this club.

00:14:13.740 What's most striking about the existence of this club is not that it involved Hunter Biden. If

00:14:20.060 something is degenerate in America over the last 15 years, there's a good bet that Hunter Biden was

00:14:25.380 involved in it. What's striking about this club is that it's no different from activities that have

00:14:36.040 taken place since the dawn of human history among depraved, elite, esoteric, immoral people. It's

00:14:46.240 been going on forever. Just after I read the piece about the elite LA Eyes Wide Shut sex club, I read a

00:14:53.780 piece about an ancient Egyptian cult that got high on psychedelics and drank bodily fluid cocktails.

00:15:00.880 This is just a story. I think it was on the Drudge Report. 2,500-year-old ancient Egyptian cult

00:15:07.020 used to get high on psychedelics, drink fluid from places that they shouldn't drink it from,

00:15:12.100 and also had all sorts of alcoholic drinks and drugs. An archaic vase from the era resembling the

00:15:20.180 deity Bez, who is some demon that the ancient Egyptians worshipped, of fertility and war,

00:15:25.120 showed traces of psychoactive substances. The cult members who took the drug would experience

00:15:31.280 delirium, hallucinations, and heightened libido. They would use this to trip during their religious

00:15:37.220 ceremonies, and the religious ceremonies would involve orgies, would involve all sorts of orgies and

00:15:45.320 weird, gross activities. This is the same thing as the LA Eyes Wide Shut sex club.

00:15:50.740 The LA Sex club is called Sanctum. Sanctum, meaning holy, coming from the word to consecrate.

00:15:57.200 The LA Sex club, I guarantee you, involved a lot of alcohol and drugs.

00:16:02.560 And then it involved a lot of weird ideas about what a human being is, and how we relate to one

00:16:09.340 another, and what is sacred. It's not just that these guys were getting their jollies by bumping

00:16:16.320 uglies in some weird dungeon in Los Angeles. They considered this to be holy. The way that our

00:16:22.300 society talks about Pride Month and all the weird sexual rituals involved with pride, they speak about

00:16:28.140 it as though it is holy, as though it is virtuous, as though it is a kind of religion. Because it is,

00:16:33.560 it's the same old kinds of cults. It's the same old kinds of demon worshipping cults that we've had

00:16:39.060 since 3,000 years ago in ancient Egypt. And people often don't realize when they're in a cult.

00:16:49.140 People often don't realize when they're engaging in religious rituals. I bet a lot of the guys at

00:16:53.320 that sex club, they just think they're having a fun time, and they're cool, and they're modern,

00:16:56.360 and they don't believe in anything, man. They're doing the exact same thing as an ancient Egyptian

00:17:01.200 cult consciously worshipping demons. Can't get away from it. Human nature just,

00:17:05.500 just remains the same. And speaking of parties and weird sex stuff, Bud Light has a new ad out.

00:17:15.380 I'm just going to catch up really quickly on the timeline. Bud Light sponsors,

00:17:19.140 puts them on a beer can. The Bud Light sales tank. People revolt against it. Bud Light doesn't

00:17:29.040 apologize. Bud Light sort of doubles down. Then Bud Light blames it on some VP of marketing.

00:17:35.500 And puts her on leave. And I think maybe fires her. I don't remember. I think she's probably gone.

00:17:40.000 Then Bud Light doubles down on it. Then Bud Light makes a commercial about horses.

00:17:46.720 Then Bud Light still won't apologize for the beer can, as the sales continue to tank. Then Bud Light

00:17:52.900 begs people to buy their beer again. But Bud Light still won't apologize. And now Bud Light has this

00:17:59.800 commercial. A true work of art. A truly, completely ignorant, wrongheaded work of art on why you should

00:18:10.520 buy Bud Light again. There we go. It's an older white guy rubbing Bud Light on his face.

00:18:21.240 Good times. People hauling a Bud Light keg.

00:18:34.260 Guy keeps dropping his Bud Light. What a bunch of goofy, dumb, stupid,

00:18:38.000 hick, idiot, rude Bud Light drinkers. They keep stumbling and falling.

00:18:42.640 Now it's kind of windy. Oh, look at this dummy. He can't even get into a hammock.

00:18:51.660 Yeah, oh, this guy can't even. They've got to know how to tap the keg. Stupid Bud Light drinkers.

00:19:00.040 There we go. We've got more middle-aged white guys.

00:19:13.280 I don't know. I don't know what the commercial is trying to tell you other than middle-aged white

00:19:21.800 guys and kind of fratty looking guys, the two main constituencies for Bud Light.

00:19:27.280 They're just a bunch of stupid, klutzy idiots. Now buy our beer, dummies.

00:19:33.280 It started out with the VP of marketing saying, we hate how we've got this kind of fratty vibe of

00:19:40.840 Bud Light. We just hate, we want to switch it. So we want to embrace the cultured, beautiful,

00:19:47.220 serious, sophisticated people. And then the actual audience for Bud Light went away.

00:19:53.240 They said, all right, you sloppy, filthy deplorables, whatever. Here, here's a couple

00:19:58.020 pictures you stumbling around because you don't even know how to put two feet in front of you.

00:20:01.040 Yeah, okay, drink it up. Drink up our slop. You going to buy it yet? No, that's probably not going

00:20:05.500 to work. Not very effective. Even if they're just trying to return to normal and say, hey, Bud Light

00:20:08.940 is just what you drink at a party. It's easy to drink. Please buy our drink again. Here's what I have to

00:20:12.860 say. Until Bud Light tweets out my CPAC speech, the eradication speech, in its entirety with three

00:20:22.760 thumbs up emojis, the boycott continues. I hereby decree, and I think you will see that reflected in

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00:22:52.340 who says, I am so thrilled that Elon Musk has banned the word cis. The marginalization of normal

00:22:57.880 people has finally come to an end, or at least maybe the beginning of the end, or at least normal

00:23:02.580 people are pushing back. I love this. I love this. I got into a little dispute with some more

00:23:07.900 libertarian-minded people on Twitter over this issue because they said, well, if Elon bans the

00:23:15.360 word cis from Twitter, that's no different from the libs banning us from calling a man a man and a

00:23:22.580 woman a woman. There is a difference because we shouldn't marginalize normal people, to use the

00:23:29.400 phrase of Norm MacDonald, because true things are different than false things, and good things are

00:23:34.120 different than bad things, and we should treat them differently. Just because they're things doesn't

00:23:38.740 mean they're all the same. Baking a pie for a widow is different from, I don't know, kicking a little

00:23:46.980 baby across the street. They're both things that you can do, but we treat them differently. The

00:23:53.340 substance of them is quite different, and so it is great stuff. We need to stop marginalizing normal

00:23:58.640 people. Speaking of the rainbow flag, speaking of very smart people, Senator Ted Cruz had a beautiful

00:24:08.500 exchange with the head of the Human Rights Campaign. The Human Rights Campaign, perhaps the most

00:24:12.960 preposterously named organization in world history. It's this radical, pro-rainbow sex stuff group,

00:24:20.300 and the head of it, Kelly Robinson, was testifying before the Senate, was asked a very simple question

00:24:26.460 from Ted Cruz. We all know the question that Matt and Marsha Blackburn popularized, which is,

00:24:33.040 what is a woman? Matt popularized it in the culture, and then Marsha popularized it in the U.S. Senate.

00:24:38.040 That's not the question that Senator Cruz asked. He asked the next level question.

00:24:46.460 Ms. Robinson, do you agree with Ms. Gaines that there's a difference between women and men?

00:24:52.600 If the question is about trans women... I'm just asking, is there a difference between women and

00:24:57.340 men? What I can say is that the NCAA has rules in place. They've had rules in place for the last

00:25:02.000 decade, and when this competition happened, the rules were clear. Do you believe there's a difference

00:25:06.220 between women and men? It's a yes-no question. Do you believe there's a difference?

00:25:10.180 Oh, I think that we're talking about this case with the NCAA.

00:25:12.320 No, I'm asking a question. Do you believe there's a difference between women and men?

00:25:16.220 Most people could answer this very simply. I'm curious if you're willing to do so.

00:25:20.860 Oh, absolutely. I'm just putting it into the context of the conversation that we're having.

00:25:24.900 I think that there are definitions related to sex, but I also think that...

00:25:27.220 Is that a yes? So I'm trying to get a yes or no. I'm not trying to get a speech.

00:25:31.280 Is there a difference between women and men?

00:25:33.280 I think that there are definitions for biological sex.

00:25:36.140 So you're not answering that. Let me ask you...

00:25:37.940 This is so great, and Ted is just so good at this. He's so good at grilling people in the Senate

00:25:44.520 because he's extremely intelligent, and because he realizes here, after the what is a woman phenomenon,

00:25:53.520 where you get these sputtering pro-trans people to not be able to answer a very simple question,

00:25:59.460 then you ask, where do you go from there? Is there anywhere to go? No, we've reached the

00:26:04.480 heights of absurdity. That's it. That's all we can say. But that's not true, because there is an

00:26:08.900 even simpler question that you can get them to answer or try to answer, which is, is there a

00:26:16.800 difference between men and women? What is a woman is a fairly complicated question. I don't want to

00:26:23.560 sound like some lib hippie, you know, like, well, what do we even mean by gender, man?

00:26:27.800 But it is a little bit complicated. We all know what a woman is, but to define a woman is a little

00:26:33.220 tricky. When the materialist types want to define a woman, say, a woman is two X chromosomes and a

00:26:38.020 uterus. I think, well, I think a woman's more than that, right? I frankly think that a woman is more

00:26:43.700 closely defined as sugar and spice and everything nice than as just a couple chromosomes. I don't know

00:26:49.160 what a chromosome is. No, what is a woman? Okay. It's a little bit more complicated. But the

00:26:54.320 question, are men and women different? That is the simplest version of it possible. And they can't

00:27:00.320 even answer that one. The other reason that this is a really brilliant question is it involves more

00:27:05.300 than just the transgender phenomenon. It involves the whole sexual revolution. This is the sort of

00:27:12.140 thing I've been talking about. Actually, I gave it in my CPAC speech, though this part of my speech was

00:27:16.260 not covered. And I've talked about it since then from time to time, which is that if you think that

00:27:21.140 the rainbow activism right now is really crazy, then you've got to go a little further back than

00:27:26.540 just the trans movement. Right now, conservatives had been fighting this battle on just at what age

00:27:32.500 it's okay to trans somebody. Do you do it when they're seven years old? Do you wait till they're

00:27:35.480 eight years old? Then now some people finally are talking about, okay, do we just reject

00:27:40.320 transgenderism entirely? But it goes further than that. The way we got transgenderism was by

00:27:46.660 redefining marriage because we said men and women are basically the same. And the way we redefine

00:27:50.180 marriage is from the sexual revolution where we said men and women are basically the same.

00:27:54.020 And the place we got the sexual revolution was from feminism, which said men and women are

00:27:58.040 basically the same. So it goes much, much deeper. Senator Cruz goes on.

00:28:02.680 Let me ask you this question then.

00:28:04.220 Why do women's sports exist? If you can't define a difference between women and men,

00:28:10.760 why not abolish women's sports and just tell little girls to swim with little boys and see who wins?

00:28:15.440 Oh, I'm simply saying that sex is different than gender. And I do believe that women's sports

00:28:20.840 have a great value. I mean, Senator, I'll tell you right now.

00:28:23.020 Ms. Robinson, please answer the question I'm asking you.

00:28:25.520 Absolutely.

00:28:26.040 Why do women's sports exist?

00:28:28.680 I think that there are so many positive benefits to sports.

00:28:31.200 But why have a separate category for women? If there's no difference between women and men,

00:28:35.540 why to have women's sports?

00:28:37.520 I'm saying that there's a difference between sex and gender and that the NCAA has rules in place,

00:28:42.720 which they have for the last decade.

00:28:44.240 Mr. Chairman, I would like to.

00:28:45.840 And she won't answer it. She can't answer it. And Cruz is so smart here because Cruz could have

00:28:52.420 a philosophical discourse on what makes a human being. Senator Cruz could go into Aristotle

00:29:00.900 and St. Thomas Aquinas and all matter of anthropology. And he's not doing that because

00:29:06.640 that would fly over virtually everybody's head. He's asking an historical question here.

00:29:12.860 Why do we have women's sports at all? And that historical question is not really quite as contentious

00:29:20.680 and up for debate as the philosophical or anthropological question or theological questions

00:29:26.840 related to it. Just a basic one. Hey, why did we pass Title IX? Hey, why did we create women's

00:29:34.180 sports leagues? The answer is because men and women are different and because men are physically

00:29:38.360 stronger than women. That's why. It's that simple. And even if you think that that is not true and

00:29:45.920 that that wasn't a good basis to start women's sports, or maybe you don't think women's sports

00:29:49.400 should be started at all, you can't deny that was the reason that the sports leagues were started.

00:29:55.120 And the very fact that that was the reason is damning because it shows you that everyone for

00:30:00.440 all of human history understood that men and women are different until today. He asks,

00:30:04.940 is there a benefit to women's sports? Is that a good thing that we have women's sports? And she says,

00:30:11.160 oh, sports are a good thing. I didn't ask you if sports are a good thing. I'm asking a very

00:30:14.980 simple question. They can't answer it because they know that when you do answer it, you've got the

00:30:21.620 authority of pretty much every human being ever versus their cockamamie fantasies.

00:30:28.680 There is a big danger, by the way, in taking on the transgender cult.

00:30:35.040 Senator Cruz deserves a lot of credit here. There's a story just came out.

00:30:38.820 Top Tennessee Republicans received suspicious packages. Radical trans activism suspected this

00:30:46.540 because the transgender activists have been protesting what the Republicans are doing

00:30:54.460 about stopping transing of the kids. There have been other Kansas lawmakers who have received

00:31:01.740 similar threatening packages. I'll tell you, I've gotten involved in some political debates over

00:31:07.660 the years and irritated various different groups. The degree of threats that come in from the trans

00:31:15.240 activists, it's not even close to the other groups. It's on a completely different level,

00:31:20.180 which of course makes sense. Why are the pro-trans activists so particularly violent?

00:31:25.500 It's because their view of the world is particularly divorced from reality. That's why.

00:31:30.860 Other groups are violent too. I'm not denying it. But the trans groups,

00:31:36.040 because they are so unhinged, because they are so untethered to reality, they get particularly

00:31:43.680 violent. A really, really sad story that just came out. Four kids aged between five and ten,

00:31:50.020 taken into care after being found at a drag party with a dead trans woman's body on the floor and

00:31:54.620 drugs and sex toys scattered throughout the hoarder home. I won't go into too many of the details about

00:31:59.680 the story from the Daily Mail. Really, really sad story. I'm not saying that all of the transgender

00:32:05.360 culture is like that. Obviously, that is a particularly headline-making terrible story.

00:32:10.440 But I'm not saying it's not totally like that, or it's not like that generally either.

00:32:18.360 The reality of transgenderism is a lot closer to that than it is to Will and Grace or RuPaul's

00:32:26.080 Drag Show or whatever. And we are told in our culture that the transgender identity and lifestyle

00:32:32.980 and ideology is really great and wonderful, and it's rainbows, and it's fabulous, and it's fun,

00:32:36.800 and everyone's expressive and happy. And that's completely BS. And the reality of it is a lot closer

00:32:43.360 to this gory headline that you'd make a horror movie out of. You know how I know that? Because 41%

00:32:48.520 of people who identify as trans kill themselves or try to kill themselves. That's how I know that.

00:32:52.680 And that's a sad fact. And that's one of the reasons why I so vocally discourage people from

00:32:58.960 adopting the transgender ideology. That's one of the reasons why I say the ideology has to be

00:33:02.860 eradicated from public life. Because it is misery-inducing, because it's untethered from reality.

00:33:08.040 And 41% of the time, it leads people to try to kill themselves. And that's not something that the

00:33:13.000 regime is going to tell you, and that's not something that the media and your teachers and

00:33:17.340 they don't want to tell you that. The transgender ideology and identity are growing. They're being

00:33:22.540 adopted. Now, every single year, multiples more people are identifying with this ideology.

00:33:29.140 And if we had an accurate portrayal of it in our culture, it would look a lot more like this

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00:34:56.080 Finally, finally, we've arrived at my favorite time of the week when I get to hear from you in the mailbag.

00:35:01.180 The mailbag is sponsored by Pure Talk. Go to puretalk.com slash Knowles, K-N-O-W-L-E-S to get

00:35:06.500 50% off your first month. Take it away. Hey, Michael. This is Camille, and I have a quick

00:35:12.640 question for you. So I'm in the market for a new roommate and a guy friend of mine who is just a

00:35:18.600 friend, but it can get kind of flirty sometimes, asked if he could be my roommate. He says he thinks

00:35:23.320 we'd be great. We get along really well, and I do love him as a friend, but I just wanted to know,

00:35:28.580 do you think this is not a good idea, even if we are just friends? Thanks.

00:35:33.520 What do you think, Camille? What do you think I think about that?

00:35:36.560 What do you really think about that? I think by your very question, you know the answer.

00:35:42.300 That's not a good idea. Look, we're just friends. It's totally platonic. I mean,

00:35:47.480 it's a little flirty sometimes, but it's not, and it's fine. I kind of like him,

00:35:51.000 but mostly just as a friend. Is it a good idea if we move in together with all of our hormones

00:35:57.020 and all of our natural attractions? Is that, do you think that'll work out well?

00:36:02.860 No. Maybe you should date this guy. I don't know. But if you date the guy, you definitely

00:36:07.840 shouldn't just like move in together before you start dating. Forget about before you start getting

00:36:12.940 married. Good grief. No, Camille, bad idea. If you have a roommate, you should have a girl roommate.

00:36:20.400 Sometimes a little flirty. Come on, Camille. Next question.

00:36:23.900 Good morning, Mr. Knowles. This is Murder of Crows. I highly appreciate you taking your

00:36:29.440 community's thoughts and questions. I have a thought that I would love your reaction to.

00:36:35.200 I will not be voting for Donald Trump this election cycle. Primarily, as you have pointed out in the

00:36:40.620 past, that Trump is only going to be able to serve for years. His continual attacks on Ron

00:36:47.380 DeSantis currently give me pause. Specifically, if Donald Trump is not thinking forward in the future,

00:36:55.760 his attacks currently on Ron DeSantis will greatly inhibit Trump's ability to support Ron DeSantis

00:37:04.020 in four years. Regardless of who wins, on the high assumption that Ron DeSantis will run again

00:37:11.420 in the next election cycle, how is Donald Trump going to then back Ron DeSantis with all of the

00:37:18.860 predation that he's putting on Ron DeSantis currently, and then switch sides and say,

00:37:25.440 no, Ron DeSantis is a really great guy. I'm going to support him in four years.

00:37:31.200 Thank you for your time. You have a wonderful day.

00:37:33.220 Very easily. Trump does that all the time. You remember when Trump said that lying Ted was the

00:37:40.440 most dishonest person he ever met? He puts his hand on the Bible, and then he lies, lies, lies,

00:37:45.700 L-Y-I-N apostrophe, lying Ted. And then what happens when Senator Cruz is running for re-election

00:37:51.820 to the Senate? Trump comes in and he says, oh, we got beautiful Ted over here. Yeah, maybe I used to

00:37:57.340 call him other stuff, but now he's beautiful Ted. I love Ted. He's great. He's a great senator. You

00:38:01.240 should all vote for him. So Trump does this all the time. That would not be hard for him to support

00:38:05.020 DeSantis, say, in four years. But beyond that, Trump is going to attack DeSantis because DeSantis

00:38:14.340 is his chief rival in the race. That's normal. That's just called running for president.

00:38:18.180 And DeSantis is going to attack Trump. And then if Trump is the nominee, DeSantis is probably going

00:38:22.360 to endorse him. And if DeSantis is the nominee this time, Trump, I don't know if he would endorse him,

00:38:27.960 but if it were next time, say, if Trump had served another term and then DeSantis were up,

00:38:31.900 he'd probably endorse him if he were the nominee, maybe even beforehand. That's rough and tumble

00:38:36.440 politics. But furthermore, I think what DeSantis understands very keenly is political timing.

00:38:42.160 DeSantis is the man right now. He is at, I think, the height of his political powers as governor of

00:38:49.580 Florida. I don't think he's going to become more prominent and more powerful the later into his

00:38:54.240 second term it gets because he's going to get term limited out in 2026. So then there's going

00:38:58.120 to be two years between the time he was governor and the time that he could run for president.

00:39:03.600 That's a lifetime in politics. And some new Ron DeSantis might pop up in the meantime.

00:39:08.720 So I think the governor sees, okay, this is my moment. I have to run now. But running against Trump

00:39:14.380 is a surefire way for Trump not to pick you for vice president. So if Trump were able to serve four

00:39:19.960 terms, he'd probably endorse whoever he picked as his vice president, assuming that that person

00:39:24.540 didn't get on his bad side during his administration. And so DeSantis just recognizes,

00:39:30.940 okay, we're not playing low stakes here. I'm going to try to kind of curry favor with Trump.

00:39:35.380 We're going to run a kind of a nice primary that maybe he'll endorse me next time. This is all or

00:39:39.040 nothing. He says, this is my moment. I'm going to run. And if I don't win, then maybe I can try to

00:39:44.940 run next time. But this is my moment right now. And Trump is thinking the same thing. And then

00:39:50.200 who knows? In four years, you could have a totally different guy. Four years ago, did Ron DeSantis

00:39:54.760 look like he would be one of the leading candidates for president? No, he didn't. A handful of people

00:40:01.140 saw that he had a lot of political potential, but among the white voters, no, not really.

00:40:05.500 Same thing with Trump. Four years before 2016, did people think Trump was going to be the nominee?

00:40:08.660 No. Politics moves very, very fast. These big boys with thick skin, they know what they're getting

00:40:13.360 into. Next question. Hello, Mr. Noel Slayer of Neocons and owner of Libs. Long time viewer here.

00:40:20.240 First time messaging in using a friend's account, actually. And I would like to thank her for that.

00:40:25.240 Anyway, I've got two questions. First one is how does it feel to be the best host at The Daily Wire?

00:40:30.920 And the second question is to what extent do you think the Second Amendment applies? Like starting

00:40:35.540 with machine guns, going up to tanks and nuclear bombs. My view is we should basically have access to

00:40:41.360 anything the government would realistically use against us as long as someone's willing to sell

00:40:45.840 and sellers are not immoral. This would mean nukes are off the table because I don't think no matter

00:40:51.140 what the corrupt people in power would ever have the cojones to nuke American soil. This would mean

00:40:56.760 repealing the NFA and abolishing the ETF. Very interested to see what you think because this is

00:41:03.180 looked at as a more libertarian view. And I'm a traditional Christian conservative,

00:41:06.920 not a naive, thumb-sucking libertarian. Thank you for your time. I look forward to your response.

00:41:13.660 That might be the most beautifully written question I've ever received on this show.

00:41:18.560 That's real. How does it feel to be the best host at The Daily Wire? It feels great.

00:41:21.900 And you are a traditional Christian conservative and not, in your words, a naive, thumb-sucking

00:41:26.880 libertarian. So you are espousing a more libertarian point of view here, but I get it. I feel you. The

00:41:33.840 Second Amendment is very important. The right to protect ourselves is very important. My answer

00:41:38.820 on these questions and my interpretive principle, I guess, for how to make sense of the Second

00:41:43.160 Amendment is one that takes into account history, takes into account the original public meaning,

00:41:49.100 sure, of the Second Amendment, and also takes into account prudence. And I think that's what

00:41:53.820 you're saying as well. You say, I think the people should have access to any weapons that the

00:41:58.680 government has. Well, the government has nuclear weapons, which you address. And you say,

00:42:02.480 I just don't think they'd ever actually use that on us. Maybe that's true. Maybe that's not true.

00:42:07.000 But now you're introducing an element of prudence here to distinguish between the weapons that the

00:42:12.240 civilians can have and the weapons that the government is permitted to possess. And so I would

00:42:16.580 apply that as well. And I would strongly curtail the anti-gun, anti-Second Amendment activities of,

00:42:25.100 you know, the federal government through the ATF or whatever. I'd be happy to do all of that.

00:42:29.400 But I wouldn't give you some firm, you know, this is the cutoff weapon. The Tommy gun is okay,

00:42:35.740 but the bazooka is not okay, or whatever. I think you ought to apply this rule prudentially.

00:42:43.920 And practically, by the way, one of the biggest reasons why the libs have been unable to curtail

00:42:51.320 our Second Amendment rights is because Americans have so many guns. It would just be, if Americans had

00:42:56.500 fewer guns, they would have confiscated them already. The fact that there are many more guns

00:43:00.240 than people in the United States is one of the reasons why they just kind of give up. And so

00:43:04.880 another practical way that I would defend the Second Amendment is I would encourage people to just

00:43:09.980 buy guns and be responsible with them, obviously, store them properly, know how to use them,

00:43:14.840 especially. But the way to defend a right is less effective through a judicial ruling and much

00:43:23.640 more effective through practice and tradition, which is what I would base my interpretive principle

00:43:27.620 on. Next question.

00:43:29.460 Hi, Michael. This is the Schuckmeister. I wanted to thank you for inspiring me to finally read Dante.

00:43:34.900 I just finished The Inferno, and it was so good, I couldn't put it down. I'm starting Purgatorio,

00:43:40.380 but I was wondering which part of the Divine Comedy is your favorite and why? Love the show. Thanks.

00:43:45.700 Great. Probably Paradise, actually. The Divine Comedy is three parts. Most people have heard

00:43:51.400 of Dante's Inferno, but there's the second part, which is Purgatory, and the third part is Heaven.

00:43:57.660 And The Inferno is very sexy because it's got all these brutal punishments. And which part have I

00:44:04.040 read the most? Probably The Inferno over the years because it's just so saucy and it's the one that

00:44:08.020 everyone reads. But Purgatory is really brilliant. I love lots of Purgatory and the images in Purgatory.

00:44:16.860 But then in Paradise, you'll just cry. It's just so beautiful, especially at the end of Paradise.

00:44:23.420 And there's all sorts of brilliant stuff throughout the whole canticle. But in particular, I sometimes

00:44:28.100 refer to when Dante meets his ancestor, his illustrious ancestor, Caccia Guida, in heaven.

00:44:32.620 And Caccia Guida complains about immigrants coming to Florence and ruining the city.

00:44:35.740 It's just great. And gives him some other political advice on partisanship.

00:44:40.220 But, and then there's, oh goodness, there's so many wonderful parts of the poem. But then at the

00:44:45.380 end, when Dante is beholding the Godhead, the last time I read it, this is sort of embarrassing.

00:44:50.700 I was sitting there, I was catching up. And I was reading an English translation of it because I was

00:44:54.400 preparing to do it for the book show at PragerU. And I'm sitting there reading the last three contos,

00:45:00.380 and I'm just sitting at my desk crying. Crying like a little baby because it's so beautiful.

00:45:05.740 So, yeah, you know, make it all the way through. Even if you look at medieval manuscripts of Dante,

00:45:10.420 you'll see that there are all sorts of notes, you know, marginalia in Inferno. And then it kind

00:45:15.700 of slows down over time. So if you've never made it to the end of the poem, you're in very good

00:45:19.240 company. It's true even of medieval monks. But you should try to make it to the end because it's

00:45:23.000 very, very good. Okay, today's Fake Headline Friday, baby. The rest of the show continues now.

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