The Michael Knowles Show - July 20, 2023

Ep. 1291 - Libs Cancel Jason Aldean for Supporting Small Towns

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While you were all busy watching Marjorie Taylor Greene show off Hunter Biden's homemade porn, don t worry, we ll get to it. While you were busy watching Rep. Hunter Biden porn, something more significant was happening on Capitol Hill. IRS whistleblowers were blowing the lid on Biden family corruption. And the most damning clip did not even come from Republicans grilling tax agents in a committee hearing. The most damning testimony came from a liberal reporter on CBS News.

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00:00:00.000 While you were all busy watching Marjorie Taylor Greene show off Hunter Biden's homemade porn,

00:00:05.540 don't worry, we'll get to it, something more significant was happening on Capitol Hill.

00:00:10.660 IRS whistleblowers were blowing the lid on Biden family corruption.

00:00:15.400 And the most damning clip did not even come from Republicans grilling the tax agents in a

00:00:20.040 committee hearing. The most damning testimony came from a whistleblower speaking to a liberal

00:00:25.920 journalist on CBS News. Did you uncover evidence that President Biden financially benefited from

00:00:33.860 his son's deals? I don't feel comfortable answering that question. Why is that?

00:00:38.160 Any time we potentially wanted to go down the road of asking questions related to the president,

00:00:45.300 it was, that's going to take too much approvals. We can't ask those questions. And I mean,

00:00:49.940 it created an environment that was very hard to deal with. It's a politically sensitive case,

00:00:55.920 wouldn't it require additional approvals? Yes, I do understand that, that aspect. But it would

00:01:01.140 be like, well, let's think about it. Let's put that on the back burner.

00:01:04.920 Now, the story here is not that Joe Biden benefited from Hunter Biden's corrupt business dealings.

00:01:10.520 Everybody already knew that. We've seen the receipts. We've read the emails. We've seen the

00:01:14.580 texts. 10% for the big guy. Everyone knows and has known for a long time that the big guy is on the

00:01:21.960 take and selling American influence to the highest bidders, including our enemies. The story here

00:01:27.320 is that CBS aired this interview. The story here is that the liberal establishment has soured on Joe

00:01:35.840 Biden and is prepared, should the opportunity present itself, to push him out of the race.

00:01:41.380 I'm Michael Knowles. This is the Michael Knowles Show.

00:01:50.040 Welcome back to the show. As I mentioned, we will get to the weird Marjorie Taylor Greene,

00:01:55.580 Hunter Biden porn in the congressional committee. We have to get to it. Don't worry. We've blurred it

00:02:01.360 more even than Congressman Greene did. But first, speaking of presidents and our adversaries,

00:02:11.020 President Trump is in big, big trouble among the libs and among his opponents on the right.

00:02:20.480 Because President Trump here, he goes again, putting his foot in his mouth. He praised

00:02:25.440 Chinese leader Xi Jinping. I love you too. I will tell you that. But think of President Xi,

00:02:33.360 central casting, brilliant guy. You know, when I say he's brilliant, everyone says,

00:02:36.820 oh, that's terrible. He runs 1.4 billion people with an iron fist. Smart, brilliant, everything

00:02:44.260 perfect. There's nobody in Hollywood like this guy. I got them to pay us $28 billion because

00:02:49.980 they screwed our farmers for years. And I had the secretary of agriculture come up and I said,

00:02:57.580 give me a number. They said, it's $28 billion. Comes back a week later, it's $28 billion. I said,

00:03:03.460 that's a lot. I said, well, we're going to take it from China. I got $28 billion for the farmers.

00:03:09.300 Who got a check? Headline, Trump praises Xi Jinping. There's two layers to this story. It's

00:03:19.220 a very disingenuous headline. But the first layer is when Trump says, oh, Xi is brilliant,

00:03:27.520 which he obviously is. He's a very successful popular leader of a gigantic country that's

00:03:32.440 developed rapidly and that is now challenging American hegemony. Obviously, he's a pretty

00:03:37.060 talented leader. But when he says that, when Trump says, oh, he's big and smart and talented

00:03:43.380 and skilled, why is he saying that? Because then the very next sentence is, and I beat him.

00:03:50.880 He's praising his opponent in the way that a guy who gets in a street fight brags about how big the

00:03:57.200 other guy was. Oh, this guy, he was walking around. He's the biggest. It was Goliath walking

00:04:01.420 down the street. And then me, I went in there and boom, socked it to him. That's right. He's really

00:04:06.620 big. And the fact that I beat him means that I'm even bigger and I'm even more talented and I'm even

00:04:11.320 more brilliant. So that's obviously what he's doing here. He's not expressing his political

00:04:17.960 philosophy and his deep knowledge of Chinese history or anything like that. He's just bragging

00:04:23.720 about what a good job he did when he was negotiating with Xi. Okay. Now there's another layer to this,

00:04:28.800 which is at a deeper level, there is a strain of American conservatism that, well, it doesn't like

00:04:38.900 Xi Jinping necessarily. It doesn't love Xi Jinping. It has a grudging kind of admiration and respect for

00:04:46.100 Xi Jinping. And I know that this is going to seem totally insane to the libertarian minded people on

00:04:51.860 the right. But the reason that one might have a kind of grudging admiration or respect for Xi Jinping,

00:04:59.560 even in the West, is because Xi Jinping commands authority. He runs his nation in an orderly way.

00:05:07.600 And he governs according to some conception, albeit a mistaken conception, of the common good.

00:05:15.520 That's why. Please don't shoot the messenger. I'm just explaining to you that there is a strain

00:05:22.220 on the right that is represented in the intellectual circles on the right. It's represented in the rank

00:05:29.820 and file and the grassroots on the right that admires strong leaders who can run their countries

00:05:38.000 according to their own traditions, according to their own political vision, according to their own

00:05:45.040 conception of the common good, and can resist the imperial liberalism that has been attempted to

00:05:51.620 be foisted on it for a long time. You see this especially in certain post-liberal circles in

00:05:57.940 common good conservatives. There was a really good interview with Harvard law professor Adrian Vermeule

00:06:03.380 in the Beijing Review explaining some of the reasons for which an American conservative might look to

00:06:12.300 China and not merely criticize everything, but try to learn some things as well. If you read some

00:06:17.980 speeches of Xi Jinping, some of what he says would fit in perfectly well at an American conservative

00:06:23.680 conference. And so it's true that the libs, some of the far left, they like Xi Jinping because he's at

00:06:31.460 least nominally a communist. Practically speaking, he's not even really a communist. He doesn't go on and

00:06:36.520 on about Marx and Engels and Lenin and Stalin. But that's why the hard left might like Xi Jinping. But the reason

00:06:43.340 why some conservatives might somewhat admire Xi Jinping is because of the reasons I mentioned. Because he commands

00:06:51.580 authority, because he's not liberal, and because he's governing according to a deeper tradition. Conservatives,

00:06:58.300 especially of the traditional variety, respect the right of cultures to practice their own traditions

00:07:08.220 within reason. Not in a way that is totally relativistic and says, well, if you want to go

00:07:13.420 off into your crazy, evil murder land, that's your right because in your region you're allowed to rule 0.74

00:07:20.460 as you wish. No, we believe in certain eternal principles and eternal truths, but we have far greater 0.97

00:07:25.280 respect for traditions and culture than the liberals do. The liberals who want to homogenize everything

00:07:31.500 and govern according to whatever the ideological fashion is in 2023. That's why. I don't know that

00:07:41.400 Trump was getting at that deeper philosophical. He might have just been bragging. But Trump, being a

00:07:47.440 representative of the populist right and being a voice, witting or unwilling, for a more traditional

00:07:52.540 classical conception of conservatism and politics, I wouldn't be surprised if just in his gut he

00:07:58.980 recognizes, oh, it's good to have an orderly society. A lot of what China is doing is really bad. We would

00:08:03.980 not want to do that here in the West. We don't really have much of a tradition of doing that here

00:08:07.220 in the West. But it is good for the law and for the government to command authority and govern in a way

00:08:13.820 that is consistent with a national tradition. That's why. Don't shoot the messenger. But that's a real

00:08:19.620 strain. And by the way, that's the strain that's gaining on the right, far more so than the

00:08:26.100 quasi-libertarianism of the past 30 years, which is, oh, do whatever you want as long as it doesn't

00:08:31.340 affect me and I don't need to pay more taxes for it. Yeah, you can chop people up and you can go do

00:08:35.400 whatever weird stuff you want in the street and you can completely redefine all of education and

00:08:39.860 culture. Just don't make me pay for it. That very shallow view of politics, that's on its way out.

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00:10:09.940 Speaking of conservative messages for the Trump campaign, Steve Bannon showed up a few days ago

00:10:16.180 at the Turning Point Action Conference, and Bannon went pretty far in the theme for the Trump campaign.

00:10:24.340 This is a crusade. This is a holy war against the deep state. Donald Trump is our instrument for

00:10:34.620 retribution. I don't want to hear Glenn Youngkin in a vest. I don't want to hear Kemp with his

00:10:41.720 Georgia axe. I don't want to hear it. Donald Trump is our instrument for righteous ignignation.

00:10:49.620 But Steve, what do you really think? I just wish he wouldn't be so reticent. You know,

00:10:54.720 he's such a wallflower. What do you think? It's a holy war. It's a crusade. What's going on?

00:11:00.640 Bannon was the top strategist to Trump for at least part of the 2016 race. He worked in the White

00:11:06.480 House for Trump. He left the White House. He sort of booted out, but then he came back into Trump's

00:11:10.520 orbit. So what exactly is going on here? Is this the Trump campaign theme? Is this just Steve Bannon

00:11:16.320 going off? What this is, is the Trump campaign testing campaign messages and campaign themes

00:11:26.060 without it coming out of Trump's mouth. That's where we are right now. We are so early on. I know

00:11:31.960 a lot of people want to say the primary is over. The election is over. Just move on. It's all done.

00:11:36.880 We are so far away, not only from the general election, but even from the Iowa caucuses.

00:11:42.040 This is still silly season in politics. And so you're going to see Trump and DeSantis and

00:11:48.220 Vivek Ramaswamy and other guys just throw spaghetti at the wall. And one safe way to do it,

00:11:53.420 as I've pointed out before, this primary is defined, I think, by everyone playing it safe

00:12:00.620 right now. Trump's not showing up to a candidate forum with Tucker Carlson.

00:12:04.820 Ron DeSantis is playing his role as Trump 2.0. He's not veering too far off that script,

00:12:12.200 which has proven to work in the past. The only candidate who is really getting a little bit

00:12:17.100 eccentric and creative is Vivek Ramaswamy. And he's the only one being rewarded for it too,

00:12:20.980 because his poll numbers are increasing pretty dramatically. Everyone is playing it safe. All

00:12:25.280 the other candidates who are in the single digits right now, they're just playing it safe. So

00:12:28.980 the safe way to test out campaign themes is to do so through surrogates like Steve Bannon.

00:12:33.780 We'll see if that one plays. It might be a little bit much for the voters in Pennsylvania and New

00:12:38.600 Hampshire, but maybe not. It depends how fervent the populist appetite of the country is right now.

00:12:44.420 The libs, for one, do not like this kind of talk about holy wars and crusades and cultural wars.

00:12:50.580 Tommy Tuberville, the Republican senator, has been holding up some defense appropriations and

00:12:56.340 promotions of people in the DOD because the DOD has gone super woke and the Pentagon is

00:13:03.760 spending its time not fighting terrorists, but worried about white rage and every other woke,

00:13:09.340 fashionable ideology. So Tuberville is saying, hey, we got to get this nonsense out of the military

00:13:14.100 or I'm not going to give you your promotions. David Brooks, the kind of conservative by liberal

00:13:21.120 standards, but kind of just center lib columnist, he took Tuberville to task and he said the military

00:13:27.120 is no place for a culture war. This was a bipartisan enterprise. What do you make of this effort by

00:13:34.160 Republicans to use this bill as a cudgel in the culture wars and to really virtue signal to members

00:13:41.300 of their base? Yeah, I mean, there are two things going on here. One is the amendments, which I'm

00:13:45.160 basically fine with. Like having the Pentagon pay for people to travel for abortion, that's a policy

00:13:49.940 choice. The Pentagon made a policy choice. It's based on a set of philosophies. And some other

00:13:55.300 Republicans have a different philosophy. And so they can try to vote it down. And that's fine.

00:13:58.880 That's to me, that's the democratic process. The terrible thing that's happening is Senator

00:14:02.740 Tuberville is blocking promotions until he gets his abortion policy correct. And that just weakens 1.00

00:14:09.760 the military. It's fine to have a debate. It's fine to have amendments. It's fine to have

00:14:12.780 a policy process. It's not fine to weaken our military because of your philosophy.

00:14:18.940 Did you follow that? I had a little trouble following that. He started out fine. He said,

00:14:27.400 look, the libs who are running the DOD, they want to fund abortion all over the place. And if a state 1.00

00:14:35.720 passes a law to protect unborn babies, it's fine for the military to spend your taxpayer dollars

00:14:42.440 to circumvent those duly passed laws by paying to murder babies in other states. That's, look,

00:14:48.480 that's their philosophy. And look, Tommy Tuberville and the Republicans, they have their other

00:14:52.920 philosophy and they want to fight that out. They want to duke it out. That's fine.

00:14:56.720 But what's really awful is that the Republicans are actually fighting. Look, it's fine to have a

00:15:03.880 debate. This is what David Brooks was saying. It's fine to have a debate as long as the Republicans

00:15:08.300 lose. It's okay. Look, the Republicans don't want to murder babies. The liberals at the Pentagon,

00:15:13.100 they fanatically want to murder babies. And so it's fine to go to the Congress and you can have 0.98

00:15:19.400 your debate on the C-SPAN cameras. That's the democratic process. But the conservatives actually

00:15:24.900 winning and actually fighting, that's not the democratic process. That's very, very undemocratic

00:15:31.000 and very, very bad. What democracy means is that we have a facade of a debate. We have a pretend

00:15:37.720 debate that the conservatives always lose and that the conservatives always fight without any actual

00:15:46.980 strength or prospect of winning. David Brooks was once considered the conservative at the New York

00:15:55.260 Times. In some quarters, David Brooks is still considered kind of a conservative,

00:16:00.500 conservative. Which makes perfect sense, doesn't it? Because David Brooks's role was to go to the

00:16:07.120 New York Times and be the kind of pretend conservative, but then give up all the conservative

00:16:11.420 priorities and gracefully lose or concede those priorities so that the libs always win. So that

00:16:17.860 you have the appearance of a debate. So that you have the appearance of democracy. But you don't have

00:16:23.460 to deal with the actual consequences of that. This is what the libs do all the time. This is why 0.96

00:16:27.420 when the voters of Hungary go out and they overwhelmingly elect a conservative government,

00:16:32.180 that's a threat to democracy. This is why when the voters of Italy go out and they overwhelmingly elect

00:16:37.940 a woman who campaigned as a conservative, she hasn't really governed as a conservative,

00:16:41.320 but she campaigned as an ardent conservative, and then she wins, that's a threat to democracy. 1.00

00:16:46.340 Same thing with the Brexit, same thing with the elections in Sweden, same things with the elections in Trump.

00:16:50.160 We, the conservatives, are supposed to just not only lose graciously, but basically concede. We're not even

00:16:59.440 really supposed to fight. Okay. And a lot of conservatives in the last five, six, seven years,

00:17:05.120 around this time that you've seen the rise of the populist movements, and Trump, and Brexit, and Maloney,

00:17:10.100 and Orban, and Sweden, and movements all around the West, that we've been told that's the greatest threat

00:17:16.620 ever. And this is why you're seeing the bureaucracy in Brussels and in Washington, D.C. come in to try

00:17:22.100 to undermine those victories. Because for the first time in a very, very long time, the conservatives

00:17:28.000 are actually fighting and actually winning. Now, speaking of the culture war, Jason Aldean

00:17:35.300 is canceled. I don't follow a lot of popular music. I've heard Jason Aldean is a great guy.

00:17:41.200 We have some mutual friends. Had never listened to his music actively. I don't listen to really any

00:17:47.660 pop music actively. And Jason Aldean had this song. All I heard about it was, this song is racist,

00:17:53.860 and controversial, and awful, and terrible. And so it's been pulled from country music television.

00:18:00.820 So I said, okay, I guess I've got to listen to this song. 0.99

00:18:02.700 Suck a punch, somebody on a sidewalk. Carjacking old lady at a red light. Pull a gun on the owner of a liquor store. 1.00

00:18:13.620 You think it's cool, act a fool if you like. Cuss out a cop, spit in his face. Stomp on the flag and light it up. 1.00

00:18:24.660 Yeah, you think it's tough.

00:18:26.480 Try that in a small town. See how far you make it down the road.

00:18:36.580 Around here we take care of our own. You cross that line, it won't take long for you to find out.

00:18:44.900 I recommend you don't. Try that in a small town.

00:18:50.240 Okay, it goes on, but you basically get the gist. There's the verse, there's the chorus.

00:19:00.420 And this is deeply, terribly, awfully offensive. According to, here's a writer for Raw Story,

00:19:06.680 a liberal outlet, Mark Chapman, I'm sorry, Matthew Chapman says, I'll say this much,

00:19:10.720 this song absolutely captures everything about the American right, from the paranoid threats of

00:19:15.180 violence, to the irrational fetishization of communities where everyone acts and thinks the

00:19:20.860 same, to the fact that the singer, in fact, grew up in a city. I guess he grew up in a slightly

00:19:26.060 larger town. Okay, you guys are a popular entertainer, all right? I think you can have

00:19:29.200 a little artistic license. The paranoid threats of violence. Paranoid, meaning we think there are

00:19:38.160 threats where there are none. After BLM burned down the country for eight months, after, I'll just speak

00:19:43.820 from my own experience, after Antifa tried to blow me up in Pittsburgh like two months ago,

00:19:47.780 and the FBI finally arrested them, and the DOJ has charged them. After increasing violence in all

00:19:53.780 of our cities, and specifically increasing violence against conservatives. The irrational fetishization

00:19:59.420 of communities where everyone thinks and acts the same. First of all, who do you think is a bigger

00:20:04.460 promoter of homogeneity right now in culture? The left or the right? Who's the one pushing that

00:20:10.220 same rainbow flag on every community around the country? Who's the one insisting on the exact same 0.97

00:20:15.420 standards and norms and behaviors for everyone around the country? A blanket kind of censorship

00:20:19.280 for anyone who differs from the prevailing orthodoxy of the day? Is it the left or the right? It's

00:20:24.300 obviously the left that's pushing all of that. But people are getting wrong, I think, why Jason Aldean

00:20:32.780 was censored. People think it's because he talks about how to fight off the people sucker punching

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00:23:46.700 thing. Some of the big tech oligarchs don't want us to show you. Now, speaking of censorship,

00:23:54.300 Jason Aldean is censored for this song, Try That in a Small Town. People think, as they call it,

00:23:59.220 racist and, I don't know, sexist probably and paranoid and right-wing and all the rest. 0.90

00:24:04.120 They think that he's talking about the lyrics, sucker punch somebody on a sidewalk, carjack an 0.99

00:24:08.420 old lady at a red light, pull a gun, on the owner of a liquor store. That's not what he's talking

00:24:13.020 about. It's pretty amazing that the libs are now openly defending sucker punching somebody on a

00:24:17.020 sidewalk. But that's not what irritated them. What irritated them is that last two words,

00:24:24.940 small town. What they don't like is that he's defending small towns. Because when you defend

00:24:31.960 small towns, what you're defending is federalism, subsidiarity, the idea that different communities

00:24:38.540 are going to have different traditions from you within your own nation and among all of the

00:24:43.680 nations. When we can respect people's right to engage in certain cultural traditions and not

00:24:50.000 seek to impose all of our culture, every single aspect of our culture, everywhere else in the world.

00:24:56.280 Subsidiarity, very conservative, very Christian principle. Also because it's those small towns 0.82

00:25:04.360 that are the impediments to the libs just taking over and controlling everything. And what's the

00:25:10.180 smallest unit of the small town? It's the family. So the libs constantly try to destroy the family 1.00

00:25:15.260 ultimately. The libs try to destroy local rule and subsidiarity after that. Then the libs take away

00:25:23.160 state rights. And then the libs even try to give away national sovereignty so that we're just living 0.91

00:25:28.140 in some big liberal global blob. That's the problem. It has nothing to do with racism or violence or

00:25:35.500 anything like that. The libs hate the deepest theme of the song, the small town. Speaking of libs wanting

00:25:44.220 to make their cultural radicalism a matter of national and even international policy, we have to turn to

00:25:49.680 assistant health secretary Dick Levine. Dick Levine has just engaged in an interview with Nightline

00:25:56.660 where he extols the importance not merely of the rainbow LGBT agenda, not merely of embracing

00:26:05.560 transgenderism, but specifically of transing the kids. What would you say to folks who think that

00:26:11.580 they're being reasonable by saying, why can't children just wait till they're 18? Adolescence is hard and

00:26:16.680 puberty is hard. What if you're going through the wrong puberty? What if you inside feel that you are

00:26:23.580 female, but now you're going through a male puberty? What if inside, let's just take his question as he

00:26:31.080 asks it. What if inside you're going through female puberty, but you at a non-physical level feel

00:26:41.100 that you're a male? You know what will happen in almost every case? You'll grow out of it.

00:26:49.520 That is what will happen. I'm not denying that some people feel confused about their sex and gender,

00:26:54.000 but if you have those confusions, just statistically, and then you go through puberty and you just act

00:26:59.260 normal for a little while, in the vast majority of cases, those feelings of confusion will just go

00:27:05.220 away naturally. And then you won't need to worry about all of the terrible things that come along

00:27:10.640 with the transgender transition, like osteoporosis, like, I don't mean to laugh, it's just so dark, 1.00

00:27:17.520 osteoporosis, like sterilization, like anxiety and depression and suicidality to the tune of 41%.

00:27:25.360 That. That's what would happen. In virtually all cases, you just get better. But let's take his

00:27:36.900 ideology to its logical conclusion, because he's got a little bit of a point here. He's got more than

00:27:41.900 a little bit of a point. Why would you want someone to go through the wrong puberty? If we as a society

00:27:50.540 at any level, in any way, hold that transgenderism is true, then we must believe that a child can go 0.99

00:28:01.120 through the wrong puberty. Now, transgenderism isn't true. Men can't really be women. And so it is not 1.00

00:28:10.040 possible, it is not logically possible for a child to go through the wrong puberty. Any puberty that a

00:28:18.300 child goes through is by definition the right puberty, if we hold the view of human nature that

00:28:23.560 pretty much everyone held for all of human history everywhere in the world. But if you are even of the

00:28:29.720 view that, well, you know, look, we shouldn't trans these kids, but once they turn 26 or 30 or 1.00

00:28:36.380 something, then they can do whatever they want. Because, you know, look, maybe they are really born

00:28:39.460 in the wrong body or something. Maybe a man really can be a woman. If you hold that, then it is the case 1.00

00:28:45.700 that a boy can go through the wrong puberty, a girl can go through the wrong puberty. And in that

00:28:49.760 case, to Dick Levine's point, that would be cruel to force a child to do that. When there are medical

00:28:57.160 ailments that a child faces, we do our best to treat and cure those ailments. Not just for adults,

00:29:03.740 but even for little kids, even in utero. When there's a medical problem with a baby in the womb,

00:29:09.220 surgeons can now operate on that baby in the womb. So why wouldn't we do that for a kid who's going

00:29:13.180 through the wrong puberty? The reason we wouldn't do that is because it's not possible.

00:29:18.040 And so we've got to be clear on it or you're never going to escape transing the kids. 1.00

00:29:23.660 To put it succinctly, for the good of society and especially for the good of the poor people who

00:29:29.040 fall in prey to this confusion, transgenderism must be eradicated from public life entirely, 0.99

00:29:33.800 the whole preposterous ideology at every level. There's no middle ground. If you seek a middle 0.68

00:29:40.720 ground in any way, even to allow a 50-year-old man to pretend to be a woman in public life,

00:29:44.580 if you grant that premise, you're going to end up where Dick Levine is right now. And you're going

00:29:49.260 to insist on pumping little kids full of hormones and castrating them and chopping their body parts 1.00

00:29:54.420 off. You have to do that. That is the logical consequence of that mistaken premise. 1.00

00:30:00.920 Have I made myself clear these last three or four months? Speaking of weird sex stuff,

00:30:05.640 I said I would get to it. I guess we will. Marjorie Greene, Republican congressman,

00:30:11.260 just featured quite an obscene and pornographic display in a House committee hearing. She was 1.00

00:30:20.220 referring to the evidence that was found on Hunter Biden's laptop, which showed that he paid a hooker 0.79

00:30:27.020 out of his law firm's bank account. And she featured semi-blocked out, semi-censored images of Hunter

00:30:34.820 engaging in weird sex acts with said hookers. We here at the Daily Wire, at the Michael Nolte Show,

00:30:41.440 have blurted out even further. This is a family program. Here is what Congress Lady Greene had to 1.00

00:30:45.840 say. I will let Ms. Greene wrap up in five seconds, and then I'll give Mr. Mifume additional time.

00:30:55.860 Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Mr. Shapley, you started an investigation into Hunter Biden,

00:31:01.880 codenamed Sportsman, which opened in November of 2018. It was an offshoot of an investigation the

00:31:09.860 IRS was conducting into a foreign-based amateur online pornography platform. This is evidence

00:31:17.380 of Hunter Biden making sex, excuse me, this is my time, making pornography. 0.96

00:31:24.820 Should we be displaying this, Mr. Chairman? This is obscene. This is pornographic. You hear 0.99

00:31:36.560 the Democrat off camera yelling and screaming and crying because Marjorie Greene is showing 0.99

00:31:40.960 censored pictures of Hunter Biden engaging in an oral sex act. Okay. Fair enough. Liberals in the 0.99

00:31:49.420 media started whining immediately after the Congress Lady did this. And I agree. I totally agree with the 1.00

00:31:54.340 criticism. It's obscene. It's pornographic. It has no place in the House of Representatives.

00:32:02.480 But unfortunately today, those same people who are raising all of those objections,

00:32:07.160 they're insisting that more graphic displays of even more obscene and depraved sexual acts

00:32:16.120 belong in elementary school classrooms. Because all those very same people who are clutching their 0.91

00:32:22.500 pearls, how dare you, Congress Lady Greene, how dare you show a censored picture of Hunter Biden 0.96

00:32:29.120 engaging in some sex acts. Those very same people are promoting gender queer, the book by Maya Khababi,

00:32:35.260 in elementary school classrooms. And when conservatives like Ron DeSantis go in and they say,

00:32:39.840 no, we're going to ban that book from elementary school classrooms because it's depraved gay porn 1.00

00:32:45.680 showing more depraved versions of the same sex acts that Marjorie Greene showed censored at the House 0.99

00:32:50.700 of Representatives. They say that belongs in kindergarten. That belongs in your elementary

00:32:55.020 school library. So can the Democrats please explain to me why this kind of pornography has no place in 0.95

00:33:03.360 the House of Representatives to be viewed by adults as a matter of debating national policy and national

00:33:09.820 political scandal. But it does belong in the classroom of five-year-olds in an even more obscene

00:33:16.240 way. Why is that? Something tells me they're being a little disingenuous about their opposition to

00:33:21.420 pornography and obscenity and the pearl clutching. Look, man, I'm all for it. We have obscenity laws on

00:33:28.200 the books. I think we should enforce them. We have a long tradition in America of banning pornographic

00:33:34.240 and obscene materials. I think pornography is one of, if not the biggest, basically not spoken of

00:33:42.440 social problems in the country because it's ubiquitous and it puts people in a state of

00:33:46.200 perpetual mortal sin and it puts a huge percentage of the population in that state. And it's very

00:33:50.600 difficult. It's actually impossible to have a good republic when you've got people constantly engaging

00:33:55.440 in vice that's degrading. So I'm all for it. Let's do it, baby. Let's ban this stuff from,

00:34:00.840 certainly from the Congress. Let's ban it from all sorts of places. But you want to put it into

00:34:06.100 elementary school. So what the left tells me then is it loves the obscenity. It loves the depravity.

00:34:12.920 It loves the pornography. It wants to present all of this stuff to the most innocent people in our

00:34:20.480 country. It just doesn't want to get caught in the act of the consequences of that depravity.

00:34:27.500 The country that presents porn everywhere is the country that becomes a nation of Hunter Bidens 1.00

00:34:34.600 that actually does this stuff. But they want to cover up the consequences. They want all of the

00:34:39.640 titillation. They want all of the degradation. They just don't want to get caught in their own

00:34:45.000 depravity and corruption, of course. Now, speaking of students, really shocking footage just came out

00:34:51.920 of Canada, America's top hat. Canada has a teacher in Windsor, Ontario, an elementary school teacher

00:35:00.680 caught on tape berating Muslim students for having committed the sin of skipping LGBT LMNOP Pride Day.

00:35:09.560 You need to understand how hurt and disappointed we are in those actions. And take that home to

00:35:24.760 your parents because they're the ones who made you stay home. It was an incredible show of hatred.

00:35:43.520 And it is sad. It was hatred towards a community of people.

00:35:53.920 And it was incredibly disgusting to have witnessed. I do not want to be a part of this school.

00:36:09.480 Okay. This woman, this woman is yelling at kids who are 10 years old at the oldest. She might be 1.00

00:36:18.200 yelling at five-year-olds. We don't, it's only audio, so we don't know which age of elementary

00:36:22.020 student. She's yelling at, she's yelling at Muslims for being Muslim. She's yelling and she's not 0.94

00:36:28.800 singling out Muslims. She, she is in the sense that they are the students who didn't want to show up to

00:36:34.920 the Pride Day. But a Christian student practicing his faith wouldn't want to show up to the Pride Day. 0.97

00:36:39.460 A Jewish student practicing his faith wouldn't want to show, an Orthodox Jew wouldn't want to show up to 1.00

00:36:42.780 the Pride Day. A traditional, just kind of normal agnostic wouldn't want to show up to the Pride Day. 0.82

00:36:48.380 And she's saying, hey, you, you, disgusting, you're, it's disgusting. If you believe in God 0.99

00:36:53.260 and the Bible at all, if you believe in traditional morality in any way, you're disgusting, 1.00

00:36:59.340 10-year-olds. I'm just, I don't want to be part of this school anymore. 0.98

00:37:06.500 The lesson here is not just that the libs are preying on little kids and they hate Christianity

00:37:10.060 and, and even the associated Abrahamic religions. The other lesson is that politics makes strange

00:37:16.420 bedfellows, which we'll get to in a second. First though, despite the lackluster economy,

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00:37:54.380 dailywire.com slash careers. That is dailywire.com slash careers today. My favorite comment yesterday

00:38:01.000 is from Dr. Calibrations, 7984, who says, quoting me, once Trump is dead, they'll dig him up and indict

00:38:10.420 him. Rare Michael Knowles L, the libs would not indict a brand new liberal voter. Great point. You're,

00:38:17.640 you're so true about that. They will indict Donald Trump every remaining day of his life until eventually

00:38:23.500 he dies. But then they will start to really like him once he dies, because that will be when he

00:38:29.220 registers as a Democrat. Great point. You make a great point. Back to the lib teacher screaming at the

00:38:35.300 Muslim students in Canada. An important lesson, and it gets back to what we were talking about at the top

00:38:40.360 of the show. Politics makes strange bedfellows. So in this case, we spent 15 years of my life,

00:38:53.280 from about 2000, 2001 to 2015 call. It's 14 years. The conservatives in America were broadly opposed

00:39:01.840 to Islam because we were fighting a war on terror, because of the 9-11 terror attacks, because we

00:39:08.480 believed in the idea that there was a clash of civilizations between Christianity and Islam,

00:39:14.100 with some good reason. Let's not forget, Islam has been attempting to invade the West with more and 1.00

00:39:20.300 less success since about the 7th century. Let's not forget that the Battle of Poitiers was fought

00:39:25.500 150 miles outside of Paris, not Mecca in the early 8th century. Let's not forget the Battle of Lepanto,

00:39:32.380 another attempted Muslim invasion of the West. Let's not forget the Battle of Vienna, another attempted 0.93

00:39:36.320 Muslim invasion of the West. So there is precedent for that. I'm not saying that the conservatives were

00:39:41.580 totally crazy. But now in the year of our Lord, 2023, do you think as a conservative that the

00:39:46.740 biggest threat to your civilization comes from Islam? I certainly don't think that in America.

00:39:52.080 In fact, in many ways, I think I have common cause with Muslims who, despite our theological and cultural

00:39:57.500 differences, oppose the radical sexual ideologies coming out of the left, as you heard on that tape

00:40:04.180 from Canada. As you see at a community board meeting in Michigan, when it's the Muslim board that's

00:40:12.280 saying no to the radical sexual ideological agenda of the left. Now we've got common cause.

00:40:19.780 You're seeing a similar thing play out here when Trump praises someone like Xi Jinping.

00:40:24.720 Does that mean that we love Xi Jinping? We love the Chinese communists or the Chinese pseudo-communists, 0.99

00:40:30.400 the party that used to be much more communistic but is now, I don't know what it is, just totalitarian

00:40:35.780 broadly. No, it doesn't mean that we are in line now with the Chinese communists or anything like

00:40:42.160 that. But it does mean that politics makes strange bedfellows. And when you see a ruler in China

00:40:47.380 saying no, also to that very same radical leftist sexual agenda, we say, oh, there's some common cause

00:40:54.160 there. When you see a leader in China who's at least speaking of the common good, who's at least

00:40:58.580 speaking in a way that is vaguely reminiscent of the classical political tradition in the West

00:41:04.060 that crucially opposes liberalism, then conservatives can recognize that at the very least in that

00:41:09.820 narrow case, we've got some kind of common cause there. Politics makes for strange bedfellows. And

00:41:16.520 the people who are politically shallow will get very angry about this. They'll pull their hair out.

00:41:23.660 They'll say, hold on, 10 years ago, you opposed this person or this idea or this group of people.

00:41:30.080 But now you're making common cause with that thing against this other thing that you now perceive to

00:41:35.500 be a greater, more urgent threat. But people who have been around politics for a while, who've thought

00:41:41.100 about politics for a while, will say, yeah, that's politics, man. Politics is the application of

00:41:47.860 eternal truths to changing circumstances. Politics is a practical art and science that involves real

00:41:57.520 people and real geography and real economies and real cultures and real stuff in history, in time and

00:42:06.140 space, which changes. It's not frozen. It's not frozen in amber. Now, all of a sudden, you look at those

00:42:14.000 Muslims up in Canada and you say, hey, fellas, you're a lot closer to the right track than the crazy 1.00

00:42:19.380 leftists that are destroying America's top hat. Speaking of Muslims and foreign policy, Travis Scott 0.98

00:42:25.880 has just had his concert canceled in Egypt. Who is Travis Scott? I don't really remember. I only remember

00:42:32.080 him as being this kind of eccentric popular musician who performs bizarre occult rituals and uses satanic and

00:42:42.880 occult imagery in his public performances. Overt imagery. This is not a satanic panic looking for

00:42:49.100 devils under every rock. This is very overt. The stage for one of his concerts was a depiction of

00:42:55.760 Hieronymus Bosch's, you know, hellish images. And he regularly uses this kind of satanic language and

00:43:05.220 imagery. So anyway, he was supposed to perform a concert at the Giza Pyramid and Egypt just said no.

00:43:12.780 Egyptian authorities said, no, thank you. We don't want your weird occult satanic stuff.

00:43:17.880 Since the general syndicate is part of the fabric of this beloved country, it is keen on its stability

00:43:22.580 and security and refuses to tamper with societal values and Egyptian and Arab customs and traditions.

00:43:29.000 Based on research and documented information about strange rituals at Travis's concerts that are

00:43:33.840 inconsistent with our authentic societal values and traditions, the board of directors has decided to

00:43:37.840 cancel the license issued to hold this type of concert that contradicts the cultural identity

00:43:41.520 of the Egyptian people. Very based, very good, wonderful stuff. And we should seek to emulate that

00:43:49.280 sort of thing in the West. Similar to Trump saying a nice thing about Xi Jinping. Does it mean now that

00:43:55.380 we want to model our country after Egypt and the Muslim leaders of Egypt? No, it doesn't. But they're right about 1.00

00:44:01.360 this issue. Just like Xi Jinping can be right about a thing or two also. And in political humility, we can look

00:44:09.460 toward other cultures and try to take the best of what they're doing and try to learn from

00:44:13.440 them. And in the West, in recent years, the occult imagery that has cropped up is so bizarre and so overt Sam Smith

00:44:23.600 dancing around as a devil. All of this kind of imagery. It's much more prominent in the West than it used to be.

00:44:31.180 And we seem to have lost the ability to say no to it. Now we have Baphomet statues inside public spaces, inside

00:44:38.500 government buildings, in the name of religious liberty. Now we have satanic clubs in elementary

00:44:45.720 schools. We've reported on it on this show before. Openly, overtly. And why is this happening? Because

00:44:52.580 we in the liberal West have lost the ability to say no. And other nations that many of the liberals

00:44:58.300 would deride as authoritarian, ironic because the liberals are much more authoritarian than anybody else

00:45:03.160 in the country, certainly more so than the conservatives. Some of those other nations that have a deeper

00:45:07.940 political tradition and that look a little deeper than consent as the be-all and end-all moral

00:45:13.180 criterion for public policy and who recognize that there are other things and other virtues to take

00:45:17.720 into account as well in policy. They just look at that and they say, oh no, you got the satanic singer

00:45:22.080 and he wants to sing by the pyramid? Yeah, no thanks. That's not in line with our values in Egypt.

00:45:28.020 Conservatives, I think, need to learn that lesson. We need to be able to say, no thanks.

00:45:30.980 Religious liberty doesn't give you, religious liberty, certainly not as the founders and framers

00:45:35.380 understood it, doesn't give you any right to have a Baphomet doll in a public space, doesn't give you

00:45:40.960 a right to practice satanism, doesn't give you a right to have a satanic club in an elementary school,

00:45:44.660 doesn't give you a right to perform all sorts of other sick, bizarre rituals that are sometimes

00:45:48.820 overtly occult and sometimes are merely implicitly so in the weird ideologies that the libs are forcing

00:45:57.280 everywhere, especially in the month of June. We should just say no to that and we need to figure

00:46:03.180 out, well, on what grounds can we say no? Liberalism exalts consent and individual autonomy

00:46:11.120 above all else and the consequence of that is it erodes the cultural foundation that allowed it to

00:46:17.100 operate in the first place. What are we going to replace that with as we think a little bit more

00:46:21.620 deeply about what it means to be a conservative, what it means to be an American, what it means to live

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