The Michael Knowles Show

00:00:00.000 The libs indicted Trump again, four more times to be precise, all over

00:00:05.600 January 6th, the worst day in the history of this or any republic.

00:00:16.900 Now, given the number of times that they've done this already and are sure to do it again in the

00:00:21.900 future, this would not even be a headline news story, save for the unfortunate fact that this

00:00:28.600 case is being tried in Washington, D.C., a town far less favorable to Trump than Florida where the

00:00:35.540 last charges are scheduled to be tried. The other thing that makes this trial a little bit more

00:00:41.280 newsworthy than the usual Democrat attacks against Trump is that one of the punishments for the

00:00:46.900 charges in this case is death. I'm Michael Knowles. This is The Michael Knowles Show.

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00:01:08.840 Knowles today. I want to get to the only story that I actually want to talk about today, which is

00:01:16.400 that Barbie is great. I saw the Barbie movie yesterday. Ben is completely wrong. A lot of

00:01:23.280 conservatives, mostly who haven't seen the movie, are wrong to think it's terrible and woke.

00:01:29.740 The movie is splitting the right. I've noticed that a lot of the conservative, traditional,

00:01:35.700 kind of hardcore right-wingers really like Barbie, and a lot of the, I don't know, more libertarian or

00:01:42.920 center-right-minded people don't like Barbie. We'll get into not even the politics of it. We'll just get

00:01:47.460 into why Greta Gerwig is a genius director. Then we'll get into some other stories, too. We also have

00:01:50.940 a lawyer for President Trump, who I think is going to call in to just lay out some of the charges in

00:01:56.580 this case. This really dropped out of nowhere yesterday. We'll get to that. One of the potential

00:02:02.660 punishments here is death. They want to kill him. It's not just they want to undermine his campaign

00:02:11.380 in 2016 and spy on him and tap Trump Tower. It's not just they want to impeach him over some nonsense.

00:02:17.200 It's not even just they want to get him to drop out of the presidential race,

00:02:20.600 or they want to even put him behind bars. They want to kill him. They want him dead.

00:02:25.580 They would dance in the streets if this man died, and they would gleefully kill him.

00:02:32.200 This, according to 18 U.S. Codes, Section 241, one of the charges here is conspiracy against rights,

00:02:39.420 and includes a penalty of up to 10 years in federal prison. But it says this, if death results from the

00:02:46.840 acts committed in violation of this section, or if such acts include kidnapping or an attempt to

00:02:52.980 kidnap aggravated sexual abuse or an attempt to commit aggravated sexual abuse or any attempt to

00:02:56.580 kill, they shall be fined under this title or imprisoned for any term of years or for life or both,

00:03:02.220 or may be sentenced to death. So you might say, well, look, it's just one potential punishment involved in

00:03:11.400 just one of the charges here. And it's only if anyone dies, if death results from these acts

00:03:16.720 committed. But the liberals have been arguing since day one that Trump is responsible for death

00:03:22.540 on January 6th. And the way that they made that argument is first, they just lied. And they said

00:03:27.920 that police officers died because the pro-Trump mob killed them on January 6th. That is a complete lie.

00:03:34.520 It never happened. The newspapers had to correct the story. There is one death that did occur,

00:03:40.600 though. Ironically, the only death from political violence on January 6th was the death of a Trump

00:03:48.800 supporter killed by a trigger-happy cop at the Capitol. Nevertheless, you read 18 U.S.C. section 241,

00:03:57.240 they say, well, all right, death did result from the acts allegedly committed by Trump here. Again,

00:04:03.100 the notion that he committed these acts is absolutely laughable. But they've made it this

00:04:10.620 far, guys. They impeached him twice, but they impeached him over this. They are bringing so far,

00:04:18.240 what, three separate indictments, three separate batches of indictments against him. They're going

00:04:22.580 to have a lot more to come. And they want to kill him. They want to kill him. They mean business.

00:04:28.180 This is, forget about Trump for a second. This is the payoff of the media constantly lying.

00:04:37.620 Sometimes people ask, why are the media constantly telling these small lies about people?

00:04:43.800 They did it to me earlier this year. Remember, I went to CPAC. I said that for the good of society,

00:04:49.040 especially for the good of the poor people who've fallen prey to this confusion,

00:04:51.940 transgenderism must be eradicated from public life entirely. The whole ideology at every level

00:04:58.400 could not have been clearer what I was talking about. They accused me of genocide. They libeled me.

00:05:04.200 They actually had to change the headlines, I think, because their lawyers called them.

00:05:07.400 But why tell a lie like that? What's the end goal of that? The purpose of telling these small lies,

00:05:15.320 Trump incited people to violence, Trump killed people, whatever nonsense, it's so obvious,

00:05:21.100 is so that they get the payoff later on. Later on, when they're building this whole case and it's just

00:05:28.320 faded into memory, what happened on January 6th? Oh, I heard there was a lot of violence. I heard

00:05:33.480 the pro-Trump people killed people. Okay, that's fine. It justifies it. This is why President Trump

00:05:38.140 is using this campaign line, which is, I think, one of his most effective ones. He says, look,

00:05:43.700 they're not coming after me. They're coming after you. They're not indicting me. They're indicting

00:05:46.920 you. You know, they're not indicting me. They're indicting you. I just happen to be standing in

00:05:52.280 their way. That's all it is. But what you're witnessing is a continuation of the single greatest

00:06:07.580 witch hunt of all time. This is prosecutorial misconduct and its primary purpose is to

00:06:14.660 steal another election. They're all in a very coordinated attack trying to take away our

00:06:23.400 election of 2024. They rigged the presidential election of 2020. We're not going to allow them

00:06:30.260 to rig the presidential election of 2024. It's a great line. He's tested this out before. And it's

00:06:37.380 true. Even if you hate the guy, I think you have to recognize the line is true. Why are they going

00:06:43.720 after Trump? Is it because he kept classified documents? No, we know it's not that because

00:06:50.600 lots of other politicians in both parties and especially the Democrats have done that.

00:06:54.940 The OJ doesn't go after them. Is it because he incited people to riot? Even let's say you think

00:07:01.820 he did that. It's obviously not for that. The Democrats have openly called for violence against

00:07:07.320 Republicans for years now. Maxine Waters, go to their homes where their children sleep, push back

00:07:12.200 on them. Hillary Clinton, don't be civil with Republicans. Eric Holder, the list goes on and on

00:07:16.180 and on. And then the Democrats actually did it for eight months straight. They burned the country down

00:07:19.800 sea to shining sea. So it's not that. What is it? Is it because he, what are the other stupid

00:07:25.440 charges against him? Oh, they said that he manhandled a woman in a Bergdorf Goodmans,

00:07:30.280 which was completely preposterous. Really? You want to bring that up? We're talking about the

00:07:35.380 Democratic Party of Bill Clinton and Bob Menendez and actually Joe Biden if we're talking about these

00:07:41.580 kinds of allegations. No, I don't think so. What is it? Is it because he made an in-kind

00:07:47.520 contribution to his own campaign allegedly through this porn star payoff, whatever? Are you

00:07:52.080 kidding me? You want to talk about dodgy campaign contributions? The Democrats are going to accuse

00:07:57.120 us of that? Pot calling the kettle black? No, it's just not. It's none of those things. It's because

00:08:02.340 Donald Trump represents a populist, conservative, traditional, nationalist strain on the American

00:08:08.360 right. It's a strain that the libs thought they had neutered for about 50 years and they hadn't.

00:08:14.000 It came back again and they're going to throw everything at him. They're not indicting him

00:08:17.320 they're indicting you. You might even think that he's a deeply imperfect representative of you. You

00:08:21.600 might not even like the guy. He represents you in the mind of the liberals. Okay, we've got

00:08:27.300 an attorney for the president on the line to help explain this indictment very, very quickly.

00:08:32.340 Jared Roberts of Binal Law Group, who is a zealous litigator, I hope extremely zealous,

00:08:40.740 so that he can win this case. Jared, thank you for coming on the show.

00:08:43.700 Hey, thanks for having me, Michael. Just to clarify, not litigating, not an attorney in this

00:08:50.600 case specifically. I'm representing the president in other cases currently, but do have some insight

00:08:55.740 to share for this one. This case just cropped up about 12 hours ago, so I'm sure the dust is still

00:09:01.500 settling on this. What's going on in this case? And broadly, what's going on with the Trump's defense

00:09:07.800 against the 7 billion indictments that are coming down before 2024? So you were just talking about

00:09:13.520 why they're bringing these indictments. How I view it is the president, President Trump is looking

00:09:19.560 great in polling in recent polls and that the left is honestly terrified that they're going to lose to

00:09:25.300 him again and that they're going to lose power because they know what's going to happen when President

00:09:30.080 Trump gets back into office, that they're all going to lose their jobs. And so now they're in full panic

00:09:36.660 mode. And you look at the charges that were brought against President Trump yesterday, and they're really

00:09:43.120 just preposterous charges. I mean, a lot of them involve the First Amendment, first of all, covers

00:09:50.180 the majority of what President Trump did on January 6th. The president had a right to petition the

00:09:56.960 government. That's within the First Amendment. So to charge the president with a civil rights charge

00:10:03.440 for using his First Amendment, I mean, that opens up the statute into a point where a court could even

00:10:09.500 find that down the road to be unconstitutionally vague. The same can be said with the charge regarding

00:10:15.420 interference with an official proceeding. All he did was engage in an election contest as a candidate

00:10:22.140 and as a president and saying that that's a crime. I mean, this is a statute that the DOJ

00:10:26.940 loves to use all the time. And now this could really hamper the DOJ's efforts elsewhere if this

00:10:32.760 statute becomes so broad that a court rules it unconstitutional. So, I mean, what we're seeing

00:10:37.460 here is Jack Smith is desperate and he's really trying to stretch the law to create something when

00:10:41.920 there's nothing there. So of all the legal threats, I agree. In my untutored view, looking at this

00:10:47.820 indictment, this one seems particularly weak, at least legally, though politically it seems a bit

00:10:52.820 stronger because unlike the documents case, which is being tried in Florida, a generally friendlier

00:10:57.860 state with a friendlier judge, this is being tried in D.C., a less friendly district with a much less

00:11:02.800 friendly judge. So politically, I guess it could be kind of risky, even if the charges are flimsy.

00:11:07.340 Of all the charges that Trump is looking at, past, present, and future, what do you think,

00:11:12.660 if any, pose a significant threat to the campaign or to the man's freedom?

00:11:18.920 Listen, I've reviewed all the charges, analyzed them, and I mean, there's nothing there for any

00:11:26.000 of them. Obviously, the most risky one is going to D.C. Tanya Chukin is not the greatest drawing

00:11:36.100 that the president could have gotten as a judge. She's a former colleague of Hunter Biden, actually.

00:11:43.540 Not a good sign?

00:11:44.140 No. So it's not, I mean, although these are the weakest charges that are brought,

00:11:49.060 they're all weak, but these charges especially are preposterous. This is a very unfavorable

00:11:54.640 jurisdiction, and there's a reason that Jack Smith is pulling President Trump out of his home district

00:12:00.740 into D.C. because he's looking for an easy win, and he's really willing to stretch the rule of law

00:12:08.320 no matter the cost. Do you, looking down the pike now before 2024, you've got the documents case

00:12:15.420 scheduled for May 20th, I think it is. You've got this new case coming up. How many of these are

00:12:21.080 actually going to go to trial before the election? I can't tell you the answer to that. We're currently

00:12:27.920 involved in majority civil litigation. However, I can tell you that Judge Chukin especially is going

00:12:36.540 to want to move this case along very quickly. However, there's going to be a lot of motions

00:12:41.720 practice, and things are going to be drawn out. I mean, President Trump has great lawyers that will

00:12:47.460 be representing him in D.C., and one motion that I think will be interesting that could be brought is

00:12:52.700 under the impeachment judgment clause. President Trump was already acquitted for these charges,

00:12:58.820 and what I think that emotion under this would definitely be beneficial whether or not Judge

00:13:06.360 Chukin honors it or not. That's a different story, but it's important to remember that President Trump

00:13:11.660 has already been acquitted. So that's a really interesting point. So you're saying just as for

00:13:17.420 any ordinary citizen, you can't be tried twice for the same thing. If you're tried and you're acquitted,

00:13:22.300 they can't just bring you to trial again for the exact same charges. What you're saying is we already

00:13:26.720 had a trial here. It was called the impeachment trial, and Trump was acquitted. He wasn't convicted,

00:13:31.220 and so, okay, bye. This is over. In theory, I think that can be the case. Yeah. I mean,

00:13:38.140 the Constitution lays out the, if Congress views the president exceeded his duties and went outside of

00:13:46.320 that, the only remedy against the president is impeachment. They went through that process.

00:13:52.440 President Trump was acquitted, and now to bring him again on these new charges is absurd.

00:13:58.120 All right. That's a little glimmer of hope there. Jared, I have to let you go there. Thank you so

00:14:03.140 much for making the time to hop on. We will probably have to have you back as these indictments just

00:14:08.840 keep rolling in, it seems, by the week. Thank you very much for coming on.

00:14:12.760 I appreciate it, Michael. Thank you.

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00:15:35.880 Forget about the presidential race, the political order, the direction of our country.

00:15:41.100 I saw Barbie yesterday. They asked me to see Barbie. The Daily Wire asked me to see Barbie because

00:15:47.540 Ben talked about it and Ben's very harsh critique of Barbie made national news. And so before the

00:15:54.740 backstage show last night, which is where I gave most of my view on Barbie, I won't belabor it too

00:15:58.380 much now. They said, okay, see it and see if you agree with Ben or if you disagree with Ben,

00:16:03.080 because it's probably going to come up on the show. I said, okay, meet sweet little Elisa.

00:16:06.700 We go watch the movie. I intentionally did not watch or read any reviews before the movie. I saw

00:16:14.880 that Ben hated it. So I saw the little clip of him throwing the Barbies and setting them on fire

00:16:20.040 in the trash can. I saw that some other people hated it and I saw that some other people liked it.

00:16:27.300 And I noticed without reading any reviews or watching any reviews, I saw that some people

00:16:34.380 and some social media accounts that I really like and admire liked Barbie. One of my favorite all-time

00:16:39.640 Twitter accounts, Edmund Smirk. Eudaimonia, very, very sharp fella. Eudaimonia's girlfriend,

00:16:46.020 Shuan Head, who's a leftist, but she has interesting takes. I noticed they all kind of liked it. I noticed

00:16:50.880 that my friend Brett Cooper here liked it. But then a number of my other buddies on the right,

00:16:55.040 up to and including Ben Shapiro, they hated Barbie. So I wanted to go in with a totally fresh slate,

00:17:01.040 not colored by anyone else's views. I hadn't even really, maybe I watched the trailer. I don't even

00:17:05.380 really remember watching the trailer. And I go in. It's great. It's great. I was primed to like it

00:17:15.280 because one, it's always fun to disagree with Ben, but sometimes Ben and I agree. And two,

00:17:22.360 because Greta Gerwig did a great job with Lady Bird. Her movie that came out in 2017, I thought was

00:17:27.380 really, really excellent. So I already had the sense that Greta Gerwig is not some just crazy

00:17:31.940 radical who gets everything wrong. Lady Bird is a very conservative movie. And so I watched it.

00:17:38.620 Guys, from the very beginning, it's not even particularly ambiguous that Barbie is a conservative

00:17:44.600 movie. The short version of it is, it opens up with this homage to 2001 A Space Odyssey. It's these

00:17:50.500 little girls playing with their baby dolls and they're having a nice time. Then Barbie comes in

00:17:55.100 as this icon of feminist progress. And the girls start killing their babies, which if that doesn't

00:18:03.560 sum up feminism, I don't know what does. Then they go into Barbie land, which is a feminist utopia.

00:18:09.480 And they show all the different types of Barbies, Dr. Barbie, President Barbie, this Barbie, that Barbie.

00:18:14.240 Then they get to pregnant Barbie. And the narrator comes in and says, oh yeah, that one was discontinued.

00:18:18.820 We can't have pregnant Barbie here in Barbie land. A woman can be anything, but she can't be

00:18:23.180 pregnant. Already, that's a very strongly, two very strongly anti-feminist moments. Clearly

00:18:30.380 intentional, clearly very precise. Then you go on through Barbie land. Everything's fine. It's all

00:18:34.500 about Barbie. All the men are just simps. All the Kens are just kind of simp cocks who just do whatever

00:18:40.840 Barbie wants and they have no identity outside of Barbie. And then something starts to crack.

00:18:45.680 Barbie becomes dissatisfied with this eternal present. Barbie starts to wonder about death.

00:18:50.680 Says, wait, am I ever going to die? What's time? What's progress? What's love? What's consciousness?

00:18:54.340 She becomes self-conscious. And then this guru feminist Barbie, weirdo Barbie, this is all spoiler

00:19:00.480 alerts, by the way. So if you do want to watch the movie, maybe skip a few seconds here. Guru feminist

00:19:05.800 Barbie comes in and says, okay, you can choose the red pill or the blue pill. You can choose either

00:19:10.980 the high heels, pretty high heels, or you can choose Birkenstocks of reality. And so Barbie says,

00:19:19.900 okay, I want the pretty high heels. I want the blue pill. And this is really significant, I think.

00:19:26.680 Feminist Barbie goes, oh, no, I was presenting you with the illusion of a choice, but you don't

00:19:30.240 really have a choice. You have to do the gritty, awful, terrible Birkenstock thing, which is

00:19:36.300 reminiscent, I think, of Simone de Beauvoir, the French feminist, who in a debate with Betty Friedan

00:19:40.420 once said, we can't give women a real choice. Yeah, we can sort of, we pretend that women have

00:19:45.500 a choice to either stay at home or go out into the workplace, but they can't really have that choice

00:19:48.860 because if women have the choice to stay home and live a traditional life, too many of them are

00:19:52.740 going to choose family and children and husbands. So they have to basically be forced out into the

00:19:58.200 workplace. And that's what you see in Barbie land. So then Barbie goes into the real world

00:20:01.740 and Ken goes with her and Ken says, wow, the real world is a patriarchy. Oh man, this is great.

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00:21:24.620 Barbie and Ken go into the real world and they see that the real world is not controlled by all

00:21:31.100 these feminist girl bosses. The real world is controlled by men. The people in the C-suites,

00:21:35.840 in the really public positions of power, they're all men. Now, that's not the end of the story

00:21:43.260 because what one begins to notice is the people who are actually driving the narrative of this movie

00:21:52.140 forward. It's not the men. The men are kind of goofy. It's these women in private little actions.

00:21:58.620 A woman who's drawing a Barbie, a woman who's having thoughts about Barbie, is actually the one

00:22:03.400 who's changing the world and driving the whole plot forward. And then we find out by the end

00:22:08.540 that the woman who invented Barbie, or that the person rather who invented Barbie is a woman,

00:22:15.620 this woman played by Rhea Perlman. And she has a very significant line here. When Barbie finds her

00:22:21.200 and says, hey, wait, women work at this Mattel company too? Women? Women work in this real world

00:22:27.760 too? Rhea Perlman's character, this godlike creator character who built Barbie, she leans in,

00:22:35.800 she says, women do more than work here. Women do more than work. Feminism tells you that a woman going

00:22:42.600 out and working and having a job is the only thing that matters. It's the most important thing.

00:22:46.200 The conservatives will tell you, what are you talking about? Going out and having a job,

00:22:49.020 it's fine. But there's so much more important, there are so many more important things in life.

00:22:55.940 Having children, having a family, being the hand that rocks the cradle is the hand that rules the

00:23:00.260 world. That line, very hard to see how that line is not intentional. Anyway, Ken gets radicalized.

00:23:06.880 He says, wait a second. In this real world, it's the men who call the shots, not the women. So they go

00:23:10.960 back and Ken becomes this nanosphere kind of guy. He has the Kaza, Kaza Bunga, I forget what he calls

00:23:20.660 it, but it's kind of a funny name for the Ken house now. And in the Ken-dom, he dresses up in

00:23:26.140 this really peacocking way, but he doesn't know how to be a real man. And this, I'll skip over some

00:23:32.780 stuff in the middle. I wish I could go on for hours about Barbie, but we don't have time for it.

00:23:37.020 But by the end, Ken realizes, no, I just, Barbie, all I want is you. Even when I'm peacocking and

00:23:43.480 bragging, all I really want, I just feel like I'm only built for you and I'm just here to serve you.

00:23:47.320 And I have no identity outside of you. And Barbie doesn't choose Ken. This is one of the reasons why

00:23:52.280 the conservatives have been saying this is a woke movie. Because Barbie and Ken should end up

00:23:56.300 together, right? No, no. Barbie land is a feminist utopia. It seems in theory kind of nice, I guess.

00:24:07.500 It's really just a fantasy for little children. But it's not, something's deeply wrong here.

00:24:12.720 Ken is a product of feminism. And so when Barbie says, hey, Ken, you've got to, before you just try

00:24:19.500 to throw yourself at me and we get married or whatever, you need to figure out who you are.

00:24:22.700 Because Ken is not the big alpha, giga, chad, traditional man leading his family.

00:24:27.820 He's a product of feminism. He's kind of a simp. He's kind of a cuck. He doesn't,

00:24:32.720 he's not the kind of man that a woman actually wants to marry. So when she says, you've got to

00:24:37.680 figure out who you are, this is a message for boys who were raised in this feminist

00:24:41.960 world that unfortunately we live in. It's not a knock on the boys. This is how they were raised.

00:24:48.020 But they've got to figure out how to be a man. Not just going, going along to get along with the

00:24:53.460 feminist world and not just reacting against it in some childish way that doesn't actually

00:24:57.520 build them up as proper men. You've got to figure out how to be a man in the real sense of things.

00:25:02.400 So then Barbie chooses to leave. This is another example. The, a lot of the conservatives seem to

00:25:08.460 think that Barbie land is considered the good place and the real world is considered the bad place.

00:25:12.180 Barbie land, feminist, good, real world patriarchy, bad. Barbie chooses the real world.

00:25:20.360 The Barbie land is, is the bad place. The Barbie land, that's why there are all these jokes about

00:25:27.200 patriarchy. She says the word patriarchy like a dozen times in there. That's a joke. That's a

00:25:31.460 punchline. We know it's a punchline because the Rhea Perlman creator character at the end admits at the

00:25:35.100 end of the movie, she says, oh yeah, people, in order to cope with the ambiguous nature of this fallen

00:25:40.700 world, you know, in order to cope with the craziness of this world, we just make things up. We make

00:25:45.520 things up like Barbie. We make things up like patriarchy. Does this mean we make things up like

00:25:53.260 the actual structure of the patriarchy that controls everything or we make things up like the concept of

00:25:57.180 the patriarchy, just like the concept of Barbie? I think it's the latter. And Greta Gerwig in interviews

00:26:01.900 has said everything in this movie is intended to operate on two levels. The movie has clear Christian

00:26:08.740 imagery. I mean, she's admitted that herself. Greta Gerwig has said in interviews, a lot of this

00:26:13.300 comes from her Catholic school upbringing. Even though I don't think Greta Gerwig is a practicing

00:26:18.760 Catholic, that's how she was educated. You see it throughout all of her movies. And then to me,

00:26:23.740 the part where Greta Gerwig really shows her hand is at the very end of the movie, after she admits

00:26:29.680 the patriarchy, yeah, it's just, that's like a fake make-believe concept to cope with the difficulties

00:26:33.800 of the world. Barbie's happy vision of the future, which is why she chooses reality, which is supposedly

00:26:39.320 a patriarchy, is not being a girl boss and going to work at some widget factory. It's motherhood.

00:26:46.380 It's family. Even the mother and daughter in the real world, which is a driving theme in the film,

00:26:51.920 it's not even just like a single mother who's angry at the world. She's married. She's in a kind

00:26:55.920 of traditional relationship, even though her husband in the real world is kind of a Ken. He's been,

00:27:03.380 he's been castrated by the feminist culture as well. So there's a problem to work out there in

00:27:08.760 the real world. And the things that women complain about in the real world and in Barbie land,

00:27:13.140 they're complaints about what feminism has done, not about what tradition has done.

00:27:18.120 We're expected to be girl bosses. We're expected to have jobs. The final scene, Barbie walks in,

00:27:22.420 you think it's going to be the apotheosis of the whole feminist journey in the movie,

00:27:25.340 and she's going to go get her job in the real world. No. You say, what are you here for, ma'am?

00:27:29.060 She goes, I'm here to see my gynecologist, which is a surface level joke about how Barbie dolls

00:27:34.700 don't have genitalia. It's a deeper joke, which ties in with the entire thesis of the movie and

00:27:40.380 every theme from the very first shot of the movie, which is, oh no, what really matters here?

00:27:46.660 Motherhood. One of the lines, one of the key lines from this exasperated real world woman talking in

00:27:51.640 Barbie land, she says, I want a Barbie. I don't want a Barbie that's the president. I want a Barbie

00:27:56.420 that's a doctor. I want a Barbie that says it's okay just to be a mom. That's one of the realizations

00:28:04.220 this woman has during the movie. Gerwig is great. Now, I know some people are saying,

00:28:09.500 Michael, you're reading too deeply into this. First of all, Greta Gerwig literally says in

00:28:12.920 interviews, hey, you should realize there is a double meaning here to the movie as there was in

00:28:17.180 Lady Bird. But first, I guess my other answer to that is, what do you think is more likely that

00:28:26.360 Greta Gerwig just accidentally fills all of her movies with these very precise, deeply meaningful

00:28:36.100 points from beginning to end of all of her movies? Or that she's doing it intentionally,

00:28:42.820 or at least artistically. It's not just an accident. It's not just, oh yeah, you're reading

00:28:49.660 a little too much into every single moment of her movie that's coherent. The argument against Barbie

00:28:56.240 to say it's so super woke, the best argument people can muster is, oh, it's an incoherent movie. I don't

00:29:00.440 think it's incoherent. I think it's extremely coherent. I've explained a little bit of how coherent

00:29:03.700 it is. What's more likely? Seems to me, also it's just a nice piece of filmmaking because it's fun and

00:29:10.920 the performances are good and they're singing and dancing and it's very colorful. It's a good movie,

00:29:16.060 guys. It's a good movie. Really, I don't think I'm allowed to remain a heterosexual married man

00:29:24.460 with children if I talk about Barbie for even one second longer. But I left the movie more optimistic

00:29:32.320 about the culture. There are a lot of people out here, Drew made this point last night at Backstage,

00:29:36.980 there are a lot of young women who wouldn't call themselves traditionally conservative or

00:29:40.300 Christian or right-wing or whatever, who are waking up and recognizing feminism is really bad.

00:29:45.980 People who in recent years would have called themselves left-wing feminists, liberals, whatever,

00:29:50.240 who are turning against birth control, who are turning against the hookup culture,

00:29:53.360 who want to get married, who want to have children, who want to do normal things.

00:29:58.880 I think this would be a sign of those times. Speaking of feminism, while people are turning

00:30:04.880 against feminism, the liberal media are embracing it all the more. Washington Post has just run a story

00:30:15.480 about this tragedy of a teen couple, woman gets pregnant, and they're not able to abort the kids,

00:30:27.040 not able to kill the children. So the Washington Post runs a story, not just on the couple now facing this

00:30:32.560 dilemma. But years later, say an abortion ban made them teen parents. This is life two years later.

00:30:43.980 And it goes on to a very lengthy piece written by Carolyn Kitchener. And this story talks about how

00:30:51.300 this 19-year-old has twin daughters, and this girl wasn't ready to start a family, and she and her

00:30:59.180 now husband are trying to work it out, but it's really hard. And because the nearest abortion

00:31:04.940 clinic was 13 hours away, they didn't kill the babies because Roe v. Wade was overruled. And so now

00:31:11.040 she's got these kids. The tone of the story, though, seems to me, is that this is a bad thing.

00:31:21.780 Oh, no, they can't. They're having a tough go of it, and the husband and wife don't really get along

00:31:26.680 very well. And now they've got these two kids they've got to deal with. This is pretty ghoulish

00:31:31.140 stuff. I think the effect of the story is to be pro-life because I think normal people reading

00:31:37.840 this story are going to say, well, hold on, Washington Post, are you lamenting that these

00:31:43.280 cute little two-year-olds are alive? You're complaining about that? What kind of stone-cold

00:31:49.080 psychos are you? But I don't know. I think at least the editors who greenlit this

00:31:53.720 actually were sincerely making that point. Oh, look at this tragedy. This is the consequence

00:32:00.420 of overruling Roe v. Wade. These cute little girls have to live. And now their parents have

00:32:08.400 to take care of them when they could have just murdered them. Isn't that a tragedy?

00:32:15.260 Normal people are convinced of baby's humanity when they see it. This is why if a woman is considering

00:32:23.400 abortion and she goes in and has an ultrasound, she is overwhelmingly likely to keep the baby,

00:32:30.100 not to kill the baby. She doesn't have an ultrasound. It's anybody's game. But if she

00:32:35.180 sees the ultrasound, this is why a lot of conservative legislation says, okay, if you're

00:32:38.500 going to have an abortion, if we can't outlaw abortion, you at least have to have an ultrasound

00:32:43.600 to see the baby first because that's going to save the baby the vast majority of the time.

00:32:47.840 Normal people, when they see a baby, are convinced of the baby's humanity and know that it's wrong

00:32:52.260 to kill that baby. Some psychos, like serial killers and deeply demented people and journalists,

00:33:01.640 they're not. They're not convinced of the baby's humanity or they just don't care.

00:33:07.300 Shows you yet again a big chasm, a big gap between the liberal ruling class, the establishment

00:33:12.960 in the government and the academia and the media and the people. Big, big difference here.

00:33:21.020 And I think, once again, accidentally, when normal people see this thing,

00:33:27.900 they're going to draw the opposite conclusion that the media want us to draw. Now, speaking of

00:33:32.400 liberals mistreating children, there is some positive news from the Biden front, which we'll get to in

00:33:38.320 one second. First, though, the libs believe that good intentions absolve them of bad behavior.

00:33:43.460 This type of thinking is quite hypocritical, of course, and wrong. But being a good person requires

00:33:49.000 more effort than just trying to signal your own virtue. That is for sure. You've got to be self-aware,

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00:35:01.260 exclusions do apply. My favorite comment yesterday is from Abraham Cardenas, 13,

00:35:07.560 says, Libs, don't vote for Trump. He'll get us into World War III. Five years later,

00:35:13.520 we must get into World War III to save a country that I can't make out on a map.

00:35:17.920 So, so true. You have liberals and squishes on the right saying that we need to do what we managed

00:35:26.440 to avoid for the entirety of the Cold War. We need to enter into a hot, direct conflict with a

00:35:31.040 nuclear former superpower over a thousand year geopolitical conflict of a place in Eastern

00:35:38.220 Europe that the vast majority of these people couldn't point to on a map. That's what we're

00:35:44.760 hearing. It was amazing how right after that Russian invasion of Ukraine, how many Eastern

00:35:53.580 European foreign policy experts there were on the liberal left? It's just amazing how quickly that,

00:36:00.120 I thought you had to study things. No, just overnight. Overnight. Really, really good point.

00:36:06.000 And now getting back to liberals mistreating children, Joe Biden has finally acknowledged

00:36:11.620 his granddaughter that he has been refusing to accept for four years now. Joe Biden has very

00:36:19.240 officiously, intentionally left his seventh grandchild out of any acknowledgement at the White House,

00:36:27.500 in public comments. But he issued a statement on a Friday night because presumably this was polling

00:36:34.020 really terribly. And he said, okay, we're going to start acknowledging our granddaughter now. And he's

00:36:38.820 now sat down on a podcast and said as much in person. I have seven grandkids, four of them all, five of them

00:36:46.900 old enough to talk on the phone. You know, every day I either text them or call them. So it used to be,

00:36:55.200 I've got six grandkids until like a week ago. I've been, I've had six grandkids. I talk to them every

00:36:59.300 day. Now it's, I have seven grandkids, five of them old enough to talk on the phone. This is a way to say,

00:37:05.000 I don't talk to my seventh grandchild. I wouldn't even acknowledge her until a week ago. But yeah, now I'm

00:37:13.320 acknowledging her. Why? Because the liberals are finally turning on this. It was polling terribly. Maureen Dowd at

00:37:17.860 the New York Times came out and said, you seem heartless, Joe Biden. You have to acknowledge this

00:37:22.140 granddaughter. And then a couple of weeks later, he finally acknowledges her. Totally cynical, totally

00:37:27.920 transparent. I guess good for the little girl, at least, that her grandfather isn't being, he was at least

00:37:33.780 bullied into not being such a deadbeat, cruel degenerate. But it's really, really a little,

00:37:39.620 a little late, better late than never, I guess. In any case, speaking of Joe Biden, Trump and Biden

00:37:43.900 are tied nationally right now. There's a new, new poll out. This is by New York Times, Siena College,

00:37:50.180 so you can't call it a conservative poll. Trump, Biden, 43, 43. What's the breakdown? The breakdown is

00:37:58.300 much more interesting than the top line national numbers. Trump is leading among white voters by 10

00:38:03.960 points. It's a decent lead. Biden is leading among black voters by 59 points.

00:38:13.640 Biden is leading among Hispanic voters by three points. So the other interesting aspect when we

00:38:21.980 break this down is that Trump has more support among his base than Biden has among his. Trump,

00:38:28.820 in a huge field with 10 candidates, has more support in the GOP than Joe Biden, who is the

00:38:35.600 incumbent and theoretically should be running unopposed. He's got Bobby Kennedy's running against

00:38:39.820 him than Biden has as an incumbent among his base. Really, really pathetic for Biden and really bad news

00:38:46.060 for the other GOP candidates. Trump, in this contested race, has more of a lock on his party

00:38:51.780 than Biden does in, practically speaking, an uncontested race. That's a terrible signal for

00:38:58.080 the other Republicans in the race. But what is the message broadly for the GOP here? The message for

00:39:04.400 the GOP is that the GOP needs to focus on driving the white vote. Trump's got a 10-point lead.

00:39:10.380 Okay, that's fine. He's got to increase that lead. Joe Biden has a 59-point lead among black voters,

00:39:18.120 and black voters make up a much, much smaller percentage of the electorate than white voters

00:39:22.400 do. So any one or two-point gain among white voters would be worth five times that among black

00:39:32.620 voters. And the GOP, I know we want to focus on the black vote because the Democrats constantly,

00:39:38.240 disingenuously accuse us of being racist or whatever. And I'd love it if all the black voters

00:39:42.980 came out to the GOP. That would be totally wonderful. But as a matter of resources and

00:39:47.700 effort, it's just a pure numbers game. It is much smarter for the GOP to focus on increasing Trump's

00:39:54.200 lead among the white vote. And the Hispanic vote, too. Don't forget, 12-13% of the population is black.

00:40:00.620 20% of the American population is Hispanic. 60% is white. So you're going to get your highest returns

00:40:06.760 by focusing on the white vote, your second highest returns focusing on the Hispanic vote,

00:40:11.440 which is much more competitive, much more winnable for the GOP. And then it'd be great to win over all

00:40:16.980 the black voters, but the vast majority have not come over yet. And we've got limited resources,

00:40:22.360 limited time. Focus on the whites and Hispanics if you want to increase your likelihood of winning

00:40:26.980 the race. Speaking of white people and black people, some troubling news out of South Africa.

00:40:32.560 A member of parliament in South Africa, leader of the Economic Freedom Fighters Party, Julius Malema,

00:40:40.540 took to a rally on Saturday and called explicitly for the murder of whites in the country.

00:40:47.860 So this is a full stadium, totally packed with people.

00:41:04.260 Kill the boar.

00:41:05.660 Kill the boar.

00:41:07.580 Boar is a descendant of the white Dutch who settled in South Africa.

00:41:13.540 Kill the boar. Kill the farmer.

00:41:15.580 Kill the white farmers.

00:41:18.580 So this is troubling and you probably haven't heard about this story because it's being shut up in

00:41:22.920 the media. Elon Musk is trying to call attention to it because he's South African. A great African

00:41:27.680 American leader, Elon Musk. Elon said they're openly pushing for genocide of white people in

00:41:32.940 South Africa. Cyril Ramaphosa, who's the leader of South Africa, why do you say nothing? Why is the

00:41:38.640 leader of South Africa, successor to Mandela, supposed to be so peaceful and wonderful and

00:41:43.600 kumbaya uniting everybody? He's saying nothing while a member of parliament in South Africa is

00:41:49.060 calling for the genocide of whites for being white. And the media are basically saying nothing too.

00:41:55.700 Why? Because it's politically incorrect even to mention this. You're not allowed. Even if a

00:42:02.800 sitting politician, sitting office holder comes out and says, we want to murder all the white people,

00:42:08.680 genocide all the whites. If you, especially if you're a white person, if you call any attention

00:42:15.420 to that, you're the one who's transgressed. That's a little politically incorrect. You might be a little

00:42:20.260 bit racist if you say that the white people shouldn't be genocided. Let's just not touch it. It's a

00:42:26.360 little awkward. President of South Africa is not going to mention it. The media, they're not going to

00:42:31.680 talk about it. So reviled are white people by the political establishment that even when prominent

00:42:40.000 politicians in office say, kill whitey, murder them all, you can't, don't, let's not, let's just let

00:42:49.200 them do it. Let's just, you know, actually, didn't those farmers have it coming to them? You know, the

00:42:53.780 descendants of the Dutch who settled there hundreds of years ago, didn't they're kind of, I think they

00:42:59.060 have it coming. So we've talked about whites, we've talked about blacks, we've talked about Hispanics.

00:43:03.660 We should talk about the Japanese. This will be my little tease. You know, I'm such a tease. I have,

00:43:09.340 there's a guy, there's a Japanese guy who just spent $14,000 to dress up as a border collie. He got a

00:43:17.100 really nice lassie costume. This is not, if you think of, there's a sexual fetish called furry,

00:43:23.080 furryism, where you dress up like anthropomorphic animals. This isn't that. This guy looks like lassie.

00:43:27.960 It's, I mean, he doesn't really look like lassie. You can still tell he's a dude in a dog suit. You can

00:43:32.820 tell something he's off, but it's a very good costume. You can see why he would spend $14,000 for this

00:43:37.560 if this were his kink. In any case, I guess we're going to have to hold off and get to it tomorrow.

00:43:44.880 There's much to be said about this in our culture of transition. There's much to be said for those

00:43:50.280 trans canines. And we'll get to that tomorrow. The rest of the show continues now. It's Woke Wednesday.

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