The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 1332 - Are Republicans Secretly Helping Trans-heuser Busch？

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00:00:37.680 Republican leadership is secretly trying to rehabilitate Transheiser Bush, also known as AB InBev, the company that makes Bud Light.

00:00:47.260 You have not seen this report anywhere because the campaign is clandestine, like so many of the influence operations that define our politics.

00:00:56.100 I only heard about it because some friends of mine in D.C., some little birdies, saw it firsthand and gave me the heads up.

00:01:04.880 I'm going to start out by saying I hope this isn't true.

00:01:07.820 I hope it's a big misunderstanding and people just saw things and heard things and had conversations that were all a big miscommunication.

00:01:15.380 Because I like Kevin McCarthy, I think he's been basically fine, pretty good actually, as House Speaker.

00:01:21.820 And I just hope it isn't true.

00:01:25.580 But here's what's happening, according to credible sources in our nation's capital.

00:01:31.520 A consulting group named Miller Strategies is lobbying around Capitol Hill to get Republicans to carry water for Transheiser Bush, specifically in their districts.

00:01:41.740 Typical lobbying, no surprise there.

00:01:45.620 But what makes this particular lobbying effort different is that Miller Strategies is headed up by a guy named Jeff Miller, who's a top aide to House Speaker Kevin McCarthy.

00:01:56.720 This is a man described as McCarthy's field general.

00:02:01.240 Miller Strategies is currently squeezing House Republicans, particularly vulnerable Republicans in swing districts.

00:02:07.980 The kind of Republicans who need leadership support and funding from those House leadership packs.

00:02:15.140 And they're squeezing them to drop the boycott of Bud Light and start carrying water for the woke beer company in their districts.

00:02:24.780 The Bud Light boycott has been the most successful conservative pressure campaign that I've ever seen, certainly in recent memory, perhaps ever.

00:02:35.460 Months later, months into this boycott, the boycott remains strong.

00:02:41.340 Transheiser Bush's stock has been decimated.

00:02:44.000 New reports have just come out that Bud Light is on track to start losing shelf space at retailers this fall.

00:02:50.100 So this is crunch time.

00:02:51.620 This is the kind of time when you might hire some lobbyists to try to squeeze people to stop the boycott.

00:02:56.580 It's a total conservative victory, the most effective pushback yet against the radical trans agenda. 0.63

00:03:03.580 And now Republicans are eager to clutch defeat from the jaws of victory if House leadership and their enforcers have their way.

00:03:13.760 According to my friends in the swamp, Miller Strategies had a big party to inaugurate their new headquarters across from the old Trump Hotel about a week ago.

00:03:23.420 All sorts of Republican bigwigs were there.

00:03:26.180 And just in case any members had not gotten the message, guess what beer they were serving?

00:03:32.460 You guessed it.

00:03:34.080 Bud Light, baby.

00:03:34.940 The most telling about the whole campaign is the secrecy.

00:03:39.460 If you look at the Miller Strategies client list, you will not see Transheiser Bush listed.

00:03:44.960 You won't even see their public name, AB InBev.

00:03:47.460 Well, that would look terrible.

00:03:49.680 If you contact the speaker's office, if you file a FOIA request, you're not going to find any emails or meetings openly advocating for going soft on Transheiser Bush.

00:03:59.680 That would look terrible, too.

00:04:01.060 Instead, it would seem that House leadership is relying on their secretive forces in the supposedly private sector to put the squeeze on our duly elected representatives and convince them to thwart the biggest grassroots conservative victory in ages.

00:04:20.580 As I said, to date, Kevin McCarthy has been a fine speaker.

00:04:26.040 He has exceeded most conservatives' expectations.

00:04:28.700 And so, I hope it's not true.

00:04:32.520 I hope it's a big misunderstanding.

00:04:34.800 But if it is true, this kind of thing is completely unacceptable.

00:04:40.460 Transheiser Bush has never apologized for its embrace of the radical trans movement.

00:04:46.800 I don't care how much money they're paying to those Republican leadership lieutenants around D.C. 1.00

00:04:52.480 I don't care how much money they're offering to throw into elected Republicans' coffers.

00:04:56.900 If conservatives give up now on a campaign so successful to fight an ideology so dangerous and evil, we lose all credibility in subsequent fights.

00:05:11.340 Call your congressman.

00:05:13.140 Call House leadership.

00:05:15.460 Call your local lobbyist. 1.00

00:05:17.500 Tell them to cut the crap. 1.00

00:05:18.820 The Transheiser Bush boycott ends when we say it ends. 0.99

00:05:22.640 And as far as I have anything to say about it, I don't see any end in sight.

00:05:26.800 I'm Michael Knowles.

00:05:27.520 This is The Michael Knowles Show.

00:05:28.420 Welcome back to the show.

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00:06:00.840 Most men think of the Roman Empire every single day.

00:06:03.640 We will get to that important news story in just a moment.

00:06:05.920 First, though, speaking of swampy things, a man disguised as security or potentially a law enforcement officer,

00:06:16.520 a guy who put on a badge, tried to make himself look like an actual security professional,

00:06:23.160 who was armed with multiple firearms, was just arrested trying to approach Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

00:06:32.200 at a campaign stop in Los Angeles.

00:06:34.700 According to the LAPD, oh, I'm sorry, according to Kennedy's team,

00:06:38.880 the man claimed to be part of Kennedy's security team, told RFK Jr.'s actual protectors with urgency that he needed to be taken to the candidate immediately.

00:06:48.540 Observing that the man had a handgun, Kennedy's security team removed the man from the area, isolated and surrounded him, then notified LAPD.

00:06:55.920 He was spotted and detained before this speech.

00:06:59.940 That's good.

00:07:00.500 The man was wearing two shoulder holsters with loaded pistols, spare ammunition magazines, carrying a U.S.

00:07:06.380 marshal badge on a lanyard and a belt clip, federal ID, and identified himself as a member of Kennedy's team.

00:07:13.520 Then LAPD comes in, LAPD takes custody of a second man who came to the campaign with the first guy who got arrested.

00:07:24.300 Protectors observed that that man was seeking access to the event, had a backpack,

00:07:30.360 and that backpack had at least one other handgun, multiple knives, and some extra ammunition.

00:07:38.800 Good thing that Kennedy's team caught them.

00:07:40.480 Kennedy has been requesting Secret Service protection.

00:07:45.760 He's a presidential candidate, sort of a major presidential candidate.

00:07:52.000 Presidential candidates who reach a significant degree of notoriety and profile are afforded Secret Service protection.

00:08:01.140 Bobby Kennedy has not been.

00:08:02.720 Joe Biden has turned down that request, even as people who sure look like assassins show up to his campaign events.

00:08:08.880 Now, you might say, well, there's some weirdos.

00:08:10.600 Weirdos show up to a lot of political events.

00:08:12.960 I think there should be a rule.

00:08:14.900 If your father and uncle are both assassinated while running for president and serving as president, respectively,

00:08:23.340 and then you run for president, I think you automatically should be entitled to Secret Service protection.

00:08:29.640 Don't you?

00:08:30.040 Some have pointed out, well, a lot of good the Secret Service did to his father and his uncle.

00:08:35.200 Fair enough.

00:08:36.960 Seems to me completely insane that Joe Biden won't offer Secret Service protection to a guy who's polling 20% against him,

00:08:47.500 whose family has been picked off by political assassins for 70 years.

00:08:51.560 Doesn't that seem a little strange?

00:08:55.340 I'm glad Kennedy has a good security team, and I'm all for shrinking government spending.

00:09:00.820 But I don't know.

00:09:01.420 I think, especially now that you had what sure seems to be an assassin or two show up to the Kennedy event,

00:09:07.560 I'm willing for a few of my tax dollars to go to protect the major presidential candidate and Democrat threat to Joe Biden.

00:09:14.980 I think as we send $100 bazillion, gazillion dollars overseas to Vladimir Zelensky to take on the Ruskies, 0.61

00:09:22.200 I think we can spend, what's it going to cost?

00:09:24.260 Like a few hundred grand to stop another Kennedy from being assassinated.

00:09:28.240 It seems like a good investment to me.

00:09:31.360 Now, speaking of things that begin with K, turning from the Kennedys to Kansas, not my best transition.

00:09:37.260 Kansas will no longer allow people to change the sex on their birth certificates.

00:09:44.980 Kansas has just passed this law.

00:09:49.680 I guess previously you could not only transition, go through the surgeries, the hormones, everything,

00:09:56.480 but you could change your birth certificate.

00:09:58.900 And now Kansas is saying, no, this is very good.

00:10:02.820 I'm glad people have gotten the message that there can be no middle way with transgenderism. 1.00

00:10:08.320 It's either all or nothing.

00:10:09.400 Either men can be women or they can't. 1.00

00:10:11.080 And for the good of society, and especially for the good of the poor people who have fallen prey to this confusion,

00:10:15.160 transgenderism must be eradicated from public life entirely, the entire ideology at every level. 1.00

00:10:19.120 I'm glad that that message is beginning to percolate. 0.74

00:10:22.820 Because I don't see what the other option is here.

00:10:25.500 You're going to hear the pro-trans activists whine and complain and say this is discrimination and oppression.

00:10:30.960 But the fact remains, changing your birth certificate does not turn men into women.

00:10:39.840 Changing one's birth certificate merely makes birth certificates unreliable.

00:10:45.880 It doesn't change human nature, doesn't change anthropology, doesn't change anybody's sex.

00:10:51.240 All it does is it means that an important document in our society to convey facts and to ground us in reality will become unreliable.

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00:12:21.760 Speaking of murder, do you remember a story?

00:12:26.900 This was from months and months ago, I guess over a year ago, that Catholic schools in Canada had been murdering indigenous children.

00:12:36.700 How is the story?

00:12:39.800 This was two years ago.

00:12:41.240 A tribe in Western Canada announced that they had engaged in some ground penetrating radar investigation and discovered anomalies in the soil around the schools.

00:12:52.460 And what were those anomalies that they suspected were mass graves where these Catholics had been educating the indigenous children at residential schools.

00:13:03.840 And immediately, all of the liberal establishment in Canada flew into action.

00:13:08.960 The prime minister lowered flags to half staff.

00:13:12.460 The pope issued an apology all the way from the Vatican.

00:13:16.800 And then, this is the most important part of the liberal establishment, springing into action.

00:13:22.460 And then, activists started burning down Catholic churches.

00:13:27.260 Because don't forget, the liberal power structure, it's not just the elected people.

00:13:30.040 It's not just the media.

00:13:30.900 It's not just the teachers.

00:13:32.360 There's also the paramilitary wing.

00:13:34.000 In America, that's BLM.

00:13:35.580 That's Antifa.

00:13:36.980 And in Canada, you have these activists.

00:13:39.480 Same kinds of people.

00:13:40.740 They burned churches all over Canada.

00:13:43.140 Statues were covered in graffiti.

00:13:44.720 Statues were pulled down.

00:13:45.860 Catholic statues.

00:13:46.640 For two years, this was going on. 0.71

00:13:48.440 Because the Catholic schools had been murdering all these indigenous kids and burying them in mass graves. 0.61

00:13:54.800 And then, we turned out, that wasn't true.

00:13:57.940 Then, we found out, oopsie daisy, yeah, none of that was true.

00:14:01.800 Two years of investigations.

00:14:03.900 Zero evidence that any of that ever happened.

00:14:07.060 No mass graves.

00:14:08.940 None.

00:14:09.380 Now, what did happen is the churches burned down.

00:14:14.520 And what did happen is the flags were lowered and the statues were pulled down.

00:14:20.300 And what did happen is an actual blood libel was committed against Catholics in Canada by the liberal establishment.

00:14:29.840 People who were going to those churches, they don't have churches to go to now.

00:14:33.960 But, oopsie daisy, no harm, no foul.

00:14:37.680 Moving on.

00:14:39.380 68 churches in Canada were desecrated, damaged, or destroyed.

00:14:47.340 And is anyone going to be held responsible for that?

00:14:49.500 No.

00:14:49.760 Is Trudeau, Justin Castro, you know, the leader of Canada, is he going to be prosecuted for spreading this blood libel?

00:14:58.080 No.

00:14:59.740 Any of the activists?

00:15:00.900 No.

00:15:02.060 You know what they're going to do?

00:15:02.820 They're going to move on to the next hoax.

00:15:04.240 And I tell you, the craziest thing is going to be, whatever the new bogus excuse is, the end result is going to be the same.

00:15:11.380 Statues are going to come down.

00:15:12.940 Churches are going to burn.

00:15:14.460 Traditions are going to be upended.

00:15:15.840 And the liberal project is just going to go marching on.

00:15:20.640 This is this tribal chief, Derek Nepenak.

00:15:23.680 They've excavated 14 locations under the church.

00:15:27.480 They got nothing.

00:15:29.680 Now, speaking of Roman things, did you know that most men think of the Roman Empire every single day?

00:15:37.440 This fact has gone viral as a meme because a woman asked her husband.

00:15:43.400 You see on the TikTok where the woman says, did you know that most men think of the Roman Empire daily?

00:15:48.080 And she asked her husband and he says, yes, I do.

00:15:51.500 Now, I know what you're thinking.

00:15:52.560 You're thinking, there is no way that my spouse thinks about the Roman Empire daily.

00:16:00.260 I asked my husband last night in jest, and do you know what this man said?

00:16:03.740 He said, well, in some capacity, probably every day.

00:16:07.960 Why?

00:16:11.020 Why?

00:16:13.200 So when I saw the meme go around, I thought to myself, because I wasn't conscious of the fact that I think of the Roman Empire every day, but I do.

00:16:21.520 The minute I saw it, I said, oh, yeah, I guess I do.

00:16:24.140 What, do women not think of the Roman Empire every day? 0.98

00:16:26.740 And then I was sitting at home and sweet little Alisa turned to me. 0.99

00:16:29.120 She goes, Mac.

00:16:29.900 She saw the meme.

00:16:30.620 She goes, Mac, do you really think of the Roman Empire every day?

00:16:35.260 I thought, girl, you live with me.

00:16:37.660 I basically talk about the Roman Empire every day.

00:16:39.620 Are you kidding?

00:16:40.000 Why is that?

00:16:40.640 So why do men think of the Roman Empire every day?

00:16:45.240 To me, it seems pretty obvious.

00:16:47.880 Because the Roman Empire was the last time that we had a unity of all of Western civilization. 0.90

00:16:56.540 A perfect unity of it.

00:16:58.180 You had a total political unity of all the lands and the peoples.

00:17:01.820 You had a theological unity after the Edict of Milan, after Catholicism then becomes the official religion of the Roman Empire.

00:17:11.840 You have a unity of religion.

00:17:14.000 You have a unity of politics.

00:17:16.460 You have a unity of land.

00:17:18.040 You have a unity of everything.

00:17:20.020 And then with the fall of Rome, which is the main historical event that people compare anything to, then you see this breakup that you're always trying to get back.

00:17:29.300 There was then a bit of a resurgence with the Holy Roman Empire, though I consider that to be sort of an extension of the Roman Empire.

00:17:37.460 And so I think that counts.

00:17:39.420 If I think about the Habsburgs or something, I think that qualifies as thinking about the Roman Empire every day.

00:17:45.700 But Dante was writing about this in the Middle Ages, how there was just this yearning in the Western mind to return to the Roman Empire because of that unity that we were all seeking.

00:17:57.920 We're all just so fragmented.

00:17:58.820 And now we're so extraordinarily fragmented.

00:18:00.760 That's why people make these comparisons to the fall of Rome all the time, because they know that that was a bad thing.

00:18:08.300 But the other side of the men think about Rome every day story, and my friend Spencer Clavin pointed this out, what's so delightful about it is it's the first time in a while we've seen one sex stumble upon a fact about the opposite sex and get a kick out of it.

00:18:28.940 So often today, when one sex finds out something about the other sex or comes to some observation about them, it's an observation made in disgust or revulsion.

00:18:39.520 This is obviously true of the feminists when they discover anything masculine, they call it toxic. 1.00

00:18:44.520 And it's true even of the red pill bro men who just don't like women that much and attack women all the time.

00:18:50.980 But this is a good example of women discovering something they previously didn't know about men and thinking, huh, that's kind of cute.

00:18:59.480 I don't know, that's sort of delightful.

00:19:00.980 It's kind of fun, which is, of course, how it's supposed to be.

00:19:02.920 Because men and women are different no matter what our cultural elites tell us today.

00:19:07.260 And that difference is not a cause of pain and revulsion and political problem, as our elites tell us today.

00:19:17.120 It's actually a cause of delight and one of the great aspects of life as a human being.

00:19:23.500 Vive la différence.

00:19:26.200 Speaking of men and women, a story that I'll touch on very briefly because it would appear to be one of the top stories in the news.

00:19:32.860 My friend Lauren Boebert has gotten in a bit of hot water because there was a hidden camera in a dark theater catching her getting frisky or something. 1.00

00:19:43.900 Lauren has since apologized and she said, yeah, you know, going through stuff in my life and I fell into this temptation of bad behaviors.

00:19:54.460 And anyway, I'm sorry, it's really embarrassing and really sad.

00:19:58.920 Good enough for me.

00:20:00.000 Some people were saying, how could anyone accept Lauren Boebert's apology?

00:20:05.740 I think, well, I don't know, because she's on our team and it's not hypocritical to extend a little bit more grace to the people who are your allies.

00:20:14.120 That's called politics, first of all.

00:20:16.120 And it's a good thing to do when your side is promoting good things and the other side is promoting very bad things.

00:20:23.280 I think if someone, generally if people apologize, it's good to accept the apology.

00:20:26.920 But certainly if it's someone on your team, I think that's fine.

00:20:30.040 And two, I think she is legitimately embarrassed by it and we've all done embarrassing things.

00:20:36.100 And we've all done a lot of embarrassing things when we thought we were sitting in the dark.

00:20:39.460 And then when there are security cameras that can see in the dark, that can be even more embarrassing.

00:20:44.560 And also the third reason, and I think the strongest reason for accepting an apology like this, is Lauren is saying, look, I did something bad.

00:20:55.520 I fell short of my standards and I'm ashamed of it.

00:20:58.280 And I regret falling into the temptation of bad behavior for doing things that the liberals exalt as positive goods.

00:21:06.040 Anything you can accuse Lauren of doing, the liberals say is good, it's empowering, it's wonderful, it's expressive, it's virtuous.

00:21:14.020 And so when they attack her for it, it's obviously disingenuous because the only crime according to the libs now is hypocrisy.

00:21:25.900 By which they don't even really mean hypocrisy, they mean having standards and failing them, which is called sinning, which is called being human.

00:21:32.080 So the only people who really would have any standing to attack Lauren for this are conservatives.

00:21:37.500 And had she not apologized, I would totally get it.

00:21:39.460 But she apologized.

00:21:40.500 I think she's embarrassed, and I think it's fair enough to, you know, move on.

00:21:45.440 We'll get to women in politics and these double standards in just a moment. 1.00

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00:23:43.800 Speaking of women in politics and all sorts of saucy things, 1.00

00:23:50.200 Susanna Gibson, I now said, initially I didn't even want to say this woman's name

00:23:54.240 on the show when the story came out. 0.73

00:23:56.520 She's the Virginia House delegate candidate who produced a lot of porn of herself to make money. 1.00

00:24:03.740 Now, I mean, the story's pretty in the mainstream.

00:24:05.720 I don't think, I don't think the cause of chivalry is served all that much by not naming her.

00:24:10.600 Susanna was a porn performer until very recently.

00:24:17.280 And did these things with her husband and made money off of it and off of these poor, desperate guys.

00:24:22.000 And now she's running for Virginia House delegates. 1.00

00:24:24.240 Well, she, she may have violated the Commonwealth's prostitution laws. 1.00

00:24:29.840 Virginia law says that, quote, any person who for money or its equivalent engages in sexual intercourse

00:24:34.540 or other sexual acts with another person, quote, is guilty of prostitution,

00:24:38.580 which is punishable as a class one misdemeanor.

00:24:40.920 A former prosecutor, Sean Klein and a defense attorney in Virginia Beach

00:24:45.120 said it's his view that it is a chargeable offense.

00:24:50.520 The statute is very clear, he says to the Daily Wire.

00:24:54.020 You cannot for money or its equivalent perform sex acts.

00:24:56.420 It doesn't matter who's paying for the act.

00:24:57.680 If it's an observer or the recipient, you can't receive money.

00:25:00.180 Okay.

00:25:00.460 So this woman's in hot water, understandably. 1.00

00:25:03.020 I almost feel bad for her because her culture is so normalized porn that she probably never thought

00:25:06.840 that she was violating the law.

00:25:07.960 Well, but still, very bad thing.

00:25:10.920 My question on this has nothing to do with the Virginia delegate race, has nothing to do with Susanna.

00:25:16.860 How is porn legal?

00:25:18.200 How is porn, period, legal?

00:25:22.440 It's apparently not legal in Virginia.

00:25:23.880 How's it legal anywhere?

00:25:26.000 Prostitution is illegal most places.

00:25:30.220 So if prostitution is illegal, if it's illegal to take money for sex acts because it degrades the human person,

00:25:37.420 reduces the human being to nothing but a mere object, a sack of meat for sensual pleasure,

00:25:43.240 and so because that is degrading to everyone and degrading for society and inflames lusts and vices,

00:25:48.960 we've just had a law throughout the country that that sort of thing is not legal.

00:25:53.480 How is that all illegal?

00:25:54.540 But if you put a camera in the room, it's legal.

00:25:57.560 Doesn't make a lot of sense.

00:25:58.720 How is it illegal to sell your body for sex to one person,

00:26:01.740 but it's legal to sell your body for sex to 10 million people?

00:26:06.400 Doesn't make a lot of sense.

00:26:07.820 In recent years, some extreme radical liberals and libertarians have argued that porn is protected as free speech.

00:26:17.260 That has never been true anywhere.

00:26:20.040 That has never been true in any state.

00:26:22.500 That has nothing to do with the traditional conception of free speech or the First Amendment or any of those things.

00:26:29.440 As even most libertarians will admit to you,

00:26:32.660 appeals to the prurian interest, obscenity, are not protected speech.

00:26:36.200 So why don't we use this kind of thing?

00:26:39.120 Why don't we use the case of Miss Susanna in the House delegate race in Virginia 1.00

00:26:45.480 as what the Libs call a teachable moment?

00:26:49.400 And use the opportunity to, rather than just, I mean, focus on the woman, get her out of the race, do whatever. 0.97

00:26:55.220 But maybe we use that to our advantage to keep pressing forward on an issue on which I think we will win.

00:27:02.400 Now, speaking of missteps on issues that I think we will win, President Trump just got into a bit of hot water.

00:27:10.080 I finally watched at least part of the Megyn Kelly interview.

00:27:14.320 President Trump struggled to answer if a man can become a woman.

00:27:18.640 Can a man become a woman? 1.00

00:27:19.960 Um, in my opinion, you have a man, you have a woman. 1.00

00:27:27.620 I think part of it is birth.

00:27:31.340 Can the man give birth? 0.91

00:27:32.660 No.

00:27:33.540 No.

00:27:34.000 Although they'll come up with some answer to that also.

00:27:38.160 It's not a great answer.

00:27:39.920 It should be a simple answer.

00:27:41.280 The answer is no.

00:27:42.100 To say, well, no, I don't exactly think so, but, and I can't give birth, but, you know, I don't know.

00:27:48.540 I mean, you know, I sort of like Bruce Jenner, but it's a disappointing answer.

00:27:52.800 It's a disappointing answer.

00:27:54.760 Other candidates have given good answers on this.

00:27:58.380 Ron DeSantis, notably, has given a good answer on this.

00:28:01.380 So what's going on here with Trump?

00:28:03.040 It's so obvious to me that he is playing this safe or playing it in a way that he thinks is safe

00:28:11.380 because he is already running in the general election.

00:28:15.620 Donald Trump is not focused on the primary.

00:28:17.400 I know that the enthusiasts and the campaign workers for other candidates are unhappy about this,

00:28:23.020 and they say the primary has even barely gotten started because we haven't even had the Iowa caucuses yet.

00:28:29.180 We, not one single vote in a primary has been cast.

00:28:33.040 Yeah, but Trump's at like 60%, and he's leading in every primary state by like 20 points, and that's in a field of 10.

00:28:44.540 And currently, the number two guy, the chief challenge to Donald Trump, is closer in poll numbers to Chris Christie,

00:28:51.720 much closer than he is to Donald Trump as the frontrunner.

00:28:55.820 And nothing has changed for about 15 months.

00:29:00.100 Everyone's been waiting.

00:29:01.600 Oh, well, when this candidate declares, then you're going to see the polls change.

00:29:05.060 Oh, well, when they have the debate, then you're going to see the polls change.

00:29:07.840 And nothing has changed.

00:29:09.820 The only thing that's changed is that Trump's numbers have gone up by a little bit,

00:29:12.860 and the other candidates have mostly gone down by a little bit.

00:29:17.320 So Trump is running in the general.

00:29:18.780 And Trump thinks that it helps him to be soft on this issue.

00:29:25.880 Now, I don't think that's true.

00:29:27.700 I think you look at someone like Glenn Youngkin in Virginia.

00:29:30.880 Virginia's a Democrat commonwealth, purple at best.

00:29:35.020 And Glenn Youngkin ran hard against transgenderism in schools.

00:29:38.220 And he won his election largely because of that.

00:29:43.900 You see, DeSantis has been successful in Florida largely on issues like that.

00:29:49.160 Trump, I think, wants to sidestep it.

00:29:51.740 So in this case, I think Trump believes that it is helpful to him to avoid the issue.

00:29:59.880 I just think he's wrong on that.

00:30:01.680 And then you have Trump's answer on abortion.

00:30:04.580 Trump was asked, what do you think of Ron DeSantis' six-week abortion ban in Florida?

00:30:13.560 And Trump said, oh, it's a terrible thing.

00:30:16.360 He said, it's a terrible thing, and I wouldn't have done it.

00:30:21.040 And, you know, don't worry.

00:30:22.340 We're going to have a solution on abortion. 0.93

00:30:25.460 It's going to be a national solution.

00:30:26.600 It's going to make everybody happy.

00:30:28.360 And you think, you know, the only terrible thing about a six-week abortion ban is the six weeks.

00:30:33.640 That's the only terrible thing is that some babies are still being killed.

00:30:37.480 There's nothing bad about saving babies' lives.

00:30:40.000 So again, what's going on here?

00:30:41.620 This answer, I think, look, he's clearly running in the general.

00:30:45.460 He wants to try to neutralize this political issue.

00:30:49.360 On this issue, he's at least got more grounding from a political strategy perspective.

00:30:54.740 Because since Roe v. Wade was overruled, the abortion in some form or other has come up

00:31:01.500 on ballots about seven times, and the pro-lifers have lost every one of those times.

00:31:06.260 So this is not to say that life is a losing issue.

00:31:08.580 I think in the long run it's a winning issue.

00:31:10.620 But we've got to be wise as serpents and innocent as doves.

00:31:13.460 And so I can at least understand why Trump might think that neutralizing this issue and

00:31:19.340 speaking in really vague terms about it is to his benefit if he is already focused on

00:31:24.700 the general election, as obviously he is.

00:31:27.620 He's not even showing up to debates.

00:31:28.980 He's obviously focused on the general.

00:31:32.780 All in all, very disappointing.

00:31:34.940 If another candidate had said those things, it would cause me to pull my hair out.

00:31:39.860 But I think the difference here, though, is we don't just have to go by words.

00:31:44.800 We can also go by actions.

00:31:46.940 And my friend Ali Stuckey tweeted out, she said, given these answers, why would anyone

00:31:51.980 vote for Trump over Asa Hutchinson?

00:31:54.700 And the answer is because in practice, we know that Trump has been president.

00:32:01.000 We've seen what he's done on these issues.

00:32:02.160 And in practice, Trump has been extremely pro-life and extremely anti-trans.

00:32:09.860 Both times on pro-life, he picked the judges who overruled Roe v. Wade.

00:32:16.940 And he did it fairly consciously, I think.

00:32:20.120 That was the reason that we wanted the conservative judges.

00:32:23.320 And he picked plenty of Republicans that picked squishy, weak judges.

00:32:27.240 You think of George H.W. Bush picked Souter.

00:32:29.880 You think of Ronald Reagan even picks Sandra Day O'Connor.

00:32:33.120 You think George W. Bush tried to put Harriet Myers on the court.

00:32:35.780 Trump picks strong conservative judges who dig in for the toughest political vote of their entire

00:32:43.660 judicial careers and save a lot of lives.

00:32:46.360 That's good stuff.

00:32:47.480 Even beyond that, though, Trump is the first sitting president ever to speak at the March for Life.

00:32:52.360 March for Life's been going on for 50 years.

00:32:54.900 How come he's the first president to actually address the crowd?

00:32:58.680 That's pretty good.

00:32:59.340 But to me, those actions, I don't know.

00:33:02.540 Look, maybe it's Trump's second term.

00:33:03.960 He'll be terrible on the issue of life.

00:33:06.020 I guess that could be the case.

00:33:06.980 But if I'm going to judge a guy, I'm going to weight actions more than words.

00:33:12.040 And we know that Trump's rhetoric has always been kind of loosey-goosey and all over the place.

00:33:15.960 Even in 2016, he spoke on trans issues in this way.

00:33:19.160 Even on abortion, he spoke in a very untutored way.

00:33:21.440 But his actions were pretty good.

00:33:22.880 So that's the answer.

00:33:24.520 That's why I'm not saying you should give him grace on the issue.

00:33:27.680 I'm not saying that his comments are totally excused or whatever.

00:33:33.720 But I do think actions speak louder than words.

00:33:35.800 And I also just think it's a fact.

00:33:38.420 The guy is up 40 to 50 points in the primary.

00:33:45.400 So unless any other campaign can show me their path to victory to reclaim,

00:33:51.880 well, the polls are fake.

00:33:52.900 They're fake by 50 points in every state?

00:33:56.520 Are you kidding me?

00:33:57.960 What dreamland, what fantasy land are you living in?

00:34:03.440 Unless you can show me the alternative.

00:34:07.140 I just predict this will not hurt Trump that much.

00:34:12.580 And maybe other campaigns are going to be inclined to shoot the messenger.

00:34:15.260 But that prediction that I have been making for over a year now has consistently proven to be true.

00:34:25.500 Okay, speaking of Republicans making missteps.

00:34:28.260 Today is just deal with Republicans missteps day.

00:34:34.040 There's a report, allegedly.

00:34:35.780 It's a report.

00:34:36.340 I don't know if it's true.

00:34:36.960 It could be completely bogus.

00:34:38.300 And I have no reason to believe that it's true.

00:34:40.560 But anyway, it's the report.

00:34:41.740 And it's a big news story.

00:34:44.840 Allegedly, Kristi Noem, Republican governor of South Dakota, is having an extramarital affair.

00:34:50.280 You see plenty of sex scandals in politics.

00:34:53.220 Why is this story coming out now?

00:34:54.720 It seems pretty clear to me the reason is that South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem just endorsed Donald Trump.

00:35:01.520 And five seconds later, there's a news report almost certainly dug up by APA researchers that she, or planted, or fabricated, that she's having an extramarital affair.

00:35:12.900 Okay, I don't know if it's true.

00:35:15.140 I'm not interested in this story.

00:35:16.500 If they prove it without a shadow of a doubt, they got her dead to rights.

00:35:19.580 Okay, that's her political career. 0.99

00:35:21.480 Again, I'm not really focused on that kind of thing.

00:35:24.120 The story is interesting to me because these things do happen.

00:35:28.240 So whether or not it's true of Kristi Noem, we've seen this story, what, a hundred times before, a thousand times before.

00:35:35.220 Some politician on top of the world, big ambitions, throws it all away for a sex scandal. 0.58

00:35:39.880 You think of Mark Sanford.

00:35:40.940 Remember that guy, governor of South Carolina, just ran away from the governor's mansion to have an affair with some lady in South America?

00:35:47.860 I mean, people do this time and time again. 1.00

00:35:50.900 And my takeaway from that is it requires intense effort and discipline and prayer for God's grace not to act like a total idiot. 0.99

00:36:03.340 Our inclination, our human nature is such in this fallen world that we are at every moment deeply inclined to act like complete idiots and to throw away all the good stuff we have for nothing, for momentary pleasure with degenerates. 1.00

00:36:24.200 All of us. 0.99

00:36:24.840 All of us.

00:36:24.920 We are all inclined that way.

00:36:26.380 And if you think you're not, if you're the kind of person who says, oh, no, I treat my job too seriously.

00:36:31.560 Oh, I would never cheat on my spouse.

00:36:33.620 Oh, not me, not me.

00:36:34.760 Then you're the most likely to do it.

00:36:38.300 These are people.

00:36:39.140 Drew Klavan observes this.

00:36:41.020 And there's a famous joke about a guy who has an orange for a head.

00:36:45.240 And the punchline, I won't even tell the whole joke.

00:36:46.720 The punchline is, how did the guy wind up with an orange for a head?

00:36:50.260 He asked for it.

00:36:52.320 That's the perversity of human nature in a fallen world.

00:36:56.540 Don't do it.

00:36:58.000 Do not, whatever the momentary pleasure is, I probably, look, it's easier said than done, but I promise you it will not be worth the shame and the embarrassment and throwing away all the good stuff you've got.

00:37:08.280 Do not do it.

00:37:09.600 And the way to stop yourself from doing it is to avoid the near occasion of sin, and the way to do that is to cultivate habits of virtue and tamp down habits of vice, and most of all, to pray for grace.

00:37:18.880 My favorite comment on Friday is from Cools and Hots, who says, Dove gave her, this was a fat liberation activist, Dove gave the fat liberation activist an endorsement because they figured that her followers can get more soap over much more body, thus increasing profitability.

00:37:35.540 It's a brilliant theory.

00:37:39.340 And that's capitalism, folks.

00:37:41.640 That's how capitalism works.

00:37:43.100 So, so true.

00:37:45.860 Speaking of women not looking so great, now we turn our attention to the Democrats. 1.00

00:37:49.220 AOC just got shouted down in New York over the issue of immigration.

00:37:54.820 Close the border!

00:37:57.280 Close the border!

00:37:59.320 Close the border!

00:38:01.380 Close the border!

00:38:03.000 Right, I can't even hear AOC, which is fine by me.

00:38:18.040 That's great.

00:38:18.640 You can hear those women. 1.00

00:38:19.880 Thank you, you got the point.

00:38:21.220 You can hear those women chanting. 0.97

00:38:23.260 Those are not right-wing Republicans shipped up from Texas, okay?

00:38:27.780 They don't have a Tennessee accent.

00:38:29.380 Those are New Yorkers.

00:38:30.520 Look, I'm a New Yorker by birth and upbringing. 0.95

00:38:33.360 There are plenty of conservative, normal people in New York who are just drowned out politically by the crazy libs. 0.68

00:38:40.160 But those are normal New Yorkers who show up and they say, hey, close the border.

00:38:44.060 Even Eric Adams, the liberal Democrat mayor, is saying that immigration is going to destroy New York City because the country is getting flooded because the southern border is open.

00:38:51.200 And the Republican governors down south have had enough of it, and they're not going to deal with it on their own.

00:38:56.000 They're going to ship them up to New York and Rehoboth Beach and Martha's Vineyard.

00:39:00.860 This has always been the trick of immigration for the Democrats. 0.87

00:39:05.420 Immigration is great for the Democrats long term. 0.99

00:39:09.200 But immigration is very bad short term. 0.98

00:39:13.100 Long term, it gives them more voters.

00:39:15.640 And I know Ronald Reagan said that Hispanics are Republicans.

00:39:18.100 They just don't know it yet.

00:39:19.020 Well, he said that in, what, 1982, and we're still waiting.

00:39:22.140 It's been 40 years, 41 years now.

00:39:25.720 They haven't turned Republican yet.

00:39:28.780 Some Hispanic voters have shifted a little bit, depending on the election.

00:39:31.820 Certain groups of Hispanics tend to be more Republican than others, like the Cubans.

00:39:35.500 But broadly speaking, Democrats know that Hispanic migration across the southern border is a net boon for them.

00:39:43.640 That's why they encourage it.

00:39:44.860 That's the only reason that they encourage it.

00:39:46.300 But short term, Democrats don't like the chaos that this causes.

00:39:52.180 Because the effects of migration, despite what we've been told, are not generally positive.

00:39:58.060 In fact, you hear this from Karen Bass, who's not only a liberal out in California. 0.60

00:40:01.580 She's actually a communist.

00:40:03.080 She worked for communist organizations.

00:40:05.180 She is a radical leftist.

00:40:07.440 She was a member of Congress.

00:40:08.600 Now she is the mayor of Los Angeles. 0.88

00:40:12.320 And here's her somewhat contradictory take on migration.

00:40:16.880 What they're trying to do is destabilize cities because it's Chicago, it's Washington, D.C., it's New York.

00:40:24.000 It's the narrative that these are Democratic-run cities and that we don't know how to govern and that everything is chaotic here.

00:40:30.780 We live in a city that welcomes immigrants.

00:40:33.980 And so I think we have been able to handle it.

00:40:36.060 But I am fearful that any day, planes could start coming.

00:40:42.540 Why are you fearful?

00:40:44.820 Why are you fearful that this wonderful thing could come to your city?

00:40:48.900 Because you see, immigration is good.

00:40:50.980 That's why you welcome immigrants.

00:40:52.140 It's good.

00:40:53.000 Diversity is our strength.

00:40:54.640 We're a nation of immigrants.

00:40:56.340 You're all good.

00:40:56.800 Let's have more nation.

00:40:58.140 Let's have more strength.

00:40:59.000 Strength, why are you fearful that all this good thing would happen to you?

00:41:05.900 Why would it be chaotic?

00:41:09.020 It's strength.

00:41:10.000 Strength isn't chaotic.

00:41:12.380 Strength is strong, cooperative, edifying.

00:41:18.460 Democrats are very worried that this could be a big election issue.

00:41:22.020 That's what this is about.

00:41:23.160 They have been surreptitiously changing the voting base of the United States for 60 years now.

00:41:33.700 And when that immigration issue, I can't call it a trickle.

00:41:41.320 It was a lot more than a trickle, but it was still largely unnoticed.

00:41:43.860 It was 1,000 people a day, 1,500 people a day.

00:41:47.820 Certainly about when it was 500 people a day.

00:41:49.300 And then it got to be 2,000, 3,000, 4,000, 5,000.

00:41:55.800 Then it got to be insane surges of migrants with no end in sight. 1.00

00:42:01.640 And the people noticed.

00:42:03.720 And people noticed, and they started to turn on it.

00:42:06.900 This is the same thing with the LGBT movement.

00:42:09.920 When it was just Greenwich Village.

00:42:13.760 When it was just Will and Grace on TV.

00:42:16.400 When it was just something that consenting adults did privately.

00:42:20.760 Most people didn't care.

00:42:23.140 The moment that ideology entered the classroom, especially the younger classrooms, that was the flip.

00:42:30.380 That was the binary switch of people noticing.

00:42:35.500 Speaking of global politics, before we go, we'll zoom out to the 30,000-foot view.

00:42:42.840 There's a headline in Bloomberg.

00:42:46.400 World disappointed by the UN now looks elsewhere for answers.

00:42:52.740 A brutal grinding war in Ukraine.

00:42:54.600 Governments overthrown in Niger and Gabon.

00:42:57.120 Lingering hostility over the COVID-19 pandemic and the unequal distribution of life-saving vaccines.

00:43:03.040 Yeah.

00:43:03.380 With dozens of world leaders descending upon New York for the UN General Assembly's annual gathering,

00:43:08.060 global problems are showing up fast and thick at the world body's door with no solutions in sight.

00:43:13.580 Many countries are starting to look elsewhere to do something about them.

00:43:16.120 Yes, that's true.

00:43:17.020 That's always got to happen.

00:43:18.740 The notion of the United Nations is politically incoherent.

00:43:22.560 The only thing even potentially recommending the United Nations is that it is a front group for U.S. hegemony around the world.

00:43:30.360 It is just a facade in front of the U.S. as an imperial power imposing its vision on the world and attacking its enemies and supporting its friends.

00:43:43.320 If the UN is not just that, if the UN is really supposed to be some kind of world government where we're all citizens of the world singing kumbaya holding hands,

00:43:54.220 then it is completely incoherent and completely impossible because politics requires a distinction between your allies and your enemies.

00:44:02.800 It has to because you have to know in as much as people disagree about anything, in as much as people have interests and desires and faculties of reason and disagree because this is a fallen world and our faculties of reason aren't always perfect and our perception sometimes has defects,

00:44:22.840 in as much as man remains the political animal as Aristotle called us, then politics will be a team sport.

00:44:31.680 We will disagree.

00:44:33.080 We'll form coalitions to deal with those disagreements and figure out how to live together.

00:44:37.420 And in as much as that occurs, we are not all going to be unified, all the nations of the earth.

00:44:45.360 It is not possible.

00:44:47.200 The libs are going to lament the decline of the UN as a politics-making body for the whole world.

00:44:56.700 It never really was that.

00:44:59.020 And what the libs are really lamenting is the decline of their own power and the people of the world, in whose name the liberals supposedly govern and rule,

00:45:06.980 the people saying, hey, this is not working for us anymore.

00:45:10.960 So then the liberals will try to tamp that down and they'll say, that's populism, that's nationalism, that's this-ism, that's that-ism.

00:45:18.860 What does that mean?

00:45:19.300 It means nations want to have their own nations.

00:45:21.720 What does populism mean?

00:45:22.520 It means that people want to have a say in government.

00:45:24.840 These are just terms of insult.

00:45:27.620 These are just slurs hurled about by people who I think have been caught as emperors without clothes.

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Ep. 1332 - Are Republicans Secretly Helping Trans-heuser Busch？

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