The Michael Knowles Show

00:00:00.000 After Hamas spent the weekend murdering at least 900 Israeli civilians, including at least 140

00:00:06.100 children and babies, the terror group has received worldwide condemnation from everyone

00:00:11.300 with an even mildly functioning moral conscience, which explains how it managed to receive an

00:00:17.820 endorsement from Black Lives Matter. The official Black Lives Matter Chicago chapter took to social

00:00:23.820 media yesterday to express support for the Islamic terror group with a picture of a paraglider,

00:00:29.440 above the text, I stand with Palestine. The paraglider, of course, refers to the method by

00:00:37.200 which the terrorists circumvented Israeli blockades and landed in the country. Above the endorsement,

00:00:43.700 BLM wrote, that is all, that is it. Meanwhile, the BLM grassroots account took to social media

00:00:51.220 to echo the endorsement, writing, quote, here it is, Black Lives Matter grassroots stands in solidarity

00:00:58.340 with our Palestinian family who are currently resisting 57 years of settler colonialism and

00:01:04.260 apartheid. As Black people continue to fight to end militarism and mass incarceration in our own

00:01:10.820 communities, let us understand the resistance in Palestine as an attempt to tear down the gates of

00:01:16.900 the world's largest open air prison. As a radical Black organization grounded in abolitionist ideals,

00:01:23.660 we see clear parallels between Black and Palestinian people. Clear parallels between Black and Palestinian

00:01:33.880 people. The parallels being that both are human and neither are particularly white. That's about it.

00:01:41.600 Though the Palestinians actually look sort of white. They look more white than many Italians,

00:01:46.060 actually. And until recently, they would have been considered white in U.S. demographic statistics.

00:01:51.400 So no, there aren't very many parallels at all between Black people and Palestinian Arabs.

00:01:57.740 There are, however, many parallels between pro-Hamas activists and BLM activists. That's the key for all

00:02:06.500 of us. Because the language used by pro-Hamas activists is exactly the language used by BLM activists

00:02:16.220 and Antifa and the American left. And the American left more broadly. What Hamas did to the Jews over

00:02:22.660 the weekend is precisely what BLM and the rest of the left wants to do to all of us. And we deny that

00:02:31.200 fact at our own peril. I'm Michael Knowles. This is the Michael Knowles Show.

00:02:46.220 Welcome back to the show. You guys remember that time that the former CIA director suggested

00:02:59.580 assassinating a sitting U.S. senator for opposing abortion? Do you remember when that happened? That

00:03:04.700 was yesterday that happened. We'll get into that in one moment. First, though, I don't want to move

00:03:07.880 off of BLM just yet. I think a lot of people are reading the BLM endorsement of Hamas. Not even,

00:03:13.980 by the way, a BLM endorsement of the Palestinian people or Palestinian, I don't know, statehood or

00:03:22.820 something. The endorsement was of one of the paragliders who came in and massacred the civilians.

00:03:30.060 They didn't massacre uniformed troops. They shot uniformed troops too. They massacred civilians and

00:03:35.480 women and children and babies. It was an endorsement explicitly of Hamas. And a lot of people are

00:03:40.500 looking at that and they're saying, well, yeah, of course BLM did that because BLM, they're idiots

00:03:44.720 or because BLM, they're evil or because BLM, they have a completely morally invuded view of the world.

00:03:52.980 Maybe all of that is true. But the main reason, the main reason that BLM is endorsing Hamas

00:03:59.420 is because the arguments are exactly the same. BLM doesn't know anything about the historical region

00:04:07.720 of Palestine. BLM doesn't know or particularly care about Arabs. BLM is endorsing Hamas because

00:04:16.440 Hamas happens to be making the same argument that BLM is making. Hamas making it in the context of Jews,

00:04:23.540 BLM making it in the context of white people, and Hamas making it in the context of the nation

00:04:29.260 state of Israel, BLM making it in the context of the United States. I've got to give a hat tip as

00:04:34.580 usual to libs of TikTok here, which found some random white person making the decolonization link

00:04:42.940 between what Hamas is doing and what the left wants to do in America.

00:04:46.100 BLM colonization is in its reckoning period. Across so much of West Africa and Central Africa,

00:04:59.440 we're seeing coups and we're seeing uprisings. And, you know, I'm not an expert on the politics of

00:05:09.740 Israel and Palestine. You don't say. But it is also deeply unsurprising to me seeing what's

00:05:16.580 happening in Palestine. Can you pause it right there? You're going to hear a lot about this.

00:05:23.020 This is going to be a common refrain, and most people aren't going to notice it. And the refrain

00:05:27.080 is, look, I don't really know anything about the Israel-Palestine conflict, but here's my opinion.

00:05:32.720 Here's what I think is going. I don't know a damn thing about it. I've never cracked the cover of a

00:05:36.800 book one time. But here's my very important opinion that you should all listen to. Keep going.

00:05:42.520 Everyone is acting, like some people are acting confused. And the instinct here,

00:05:52.020 given the complexity, is to see things in terms of this is horrific, what's happened to Israel.

00:05:59.540 But when you all examined colonization and decolonizing, what did you actually think

00:06:10.020 that would look like? What did you think it would look like? This woman who has an Australian or New

00:06:17.480 Zealand or some kind of, you know, silly, just slightly off British accent. I don't know where

00:06:21.920 she is. She could be in the United States. She could be in Australia. She could be in Timbuktu.

00:06:25.200 And she's making this argument for all of the oppressed people who have been colonized by the

00:06:32.220 evil white man in Europe, and in particular, the British man. They're going to throw off the shackles

00:06:39.000 and they're going to rise up and liberation and decolonization. Well, you know what it looks like?

00:06:45.900 It looks like murdering women and children. And that's what they're calling for. And they're calling

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00:08:09.820 The decolonization argument is key here. People care about what happens in the Holy Land. They

00:08:17.160 care in part because we hate to see innocent people killed or treated cruelly or with injustice.

00:08:23.120 People care about what happens in the Holy Land more than, say, what happens in Ukraine or something

00:08:27.280 because it's the Holy Land, because we all have an interest in the Holy Land. We all have a natural

00:08:32.080 inclination toward a longing for the Holy Land, a connection that we might not even be able to quite

00:08:37.360 articulate, but we feel that connection to the Holy Land. That's in part why people care more about

00:08:42.720 what's going on there. But even if you don't care at all, you don't care about the nation state of

00:08:48.160 Israel, you don't care about the Palestinian Arabs, you don't care about Lebanon, you don't care about

00:08:51.380 Egypt, you don't care about Iran or any of that stuff. The arguments for what Hamas did and is doing

00:08:59.420 apply to the U.S. as well. And why is that? Why is BLM, why do BLM and Hamas sound exactly the same

00:09:09.480 when they're talking about what seem to be totally different issues? The reason for that is the

00:09:14.120 historical circumstances in which the modern nation state of Israel came to be are extremely

00:09:21.540 similar to the historical circumstances in which the United States came to be. I'm not talking about

00:09:26.680 the historical and theological claims that justify the existence of the nation state of Israel. I'm

00:09:33.060 not talking about the claims that go back to antiquity. I'm talking about the historical

00:09:38.340 circumstances in which those claims came to have a practical effect. I'm talking about the 19th

00:09:45.340 century. The origins of the modern nation state of Israel date back to the 19th century to the rise

00:09:51.620 of Zionism. And then Zionism really starts to take off in the latter part of the 19th century.

00:09:56.940 It then gets a land grant, a promise from the British in 1917. And then the nation state of

00:10:03.560 Israel is founded in 1948. Those circumstances going back to the early 19th century are the circumstances

00:10:11.680 of nationalism. Don't forget, 1848 is the year that all of Europe was set on fire. 1848 is the year,

00:10:18.920 and it's probably not even really taught in schools anymore. 1848 is the year of revolutions. You had

00:10:24.100 revolutions in Italy, France, Germany, Belgium, Sweden, Switzerland, everywhere. Everywhere you have

00:10:31.500 revolutions that begin around 1948. Why is that? Because of a surge in nationalism. You saw a decline

00:10:40.000 of empire, you saw a decline of monarchy, and that really all collapses, that culminates in the First

00:10:44.760 World War. No coincidence in the First World War, when the British issued the Balfour Declaration

00:10:51.680 that says, we're going to reserve some land in the Holy Land for the Jews to have a nation state.

00:10:58.140 The very fact that it was the British who gave the United States our country, and we kind of fought

00:11:04.000 them a little bit for it, but the British were pretty involved in setting the whole thing up.

00:11:07.620 And the British were also pretty involved, the British empire was pretty involved in setting up

00:11:10.840 the nation state of Israel, is, I think, a lot of the reason why you're seeing similarities between

00:11:16.300 the BLM argument and the Hamas argument. Even going back to the American Revolution,

00:11:23.880 which was an attack on the age of empire. It was an attack on the British empire.

00:11:29.420 It was a turning away from monarchy toward this new modern nation state way of doing things.

00:11:36.460 And so as history has rolled along, and you've seen a reconsideration, an outright vilification

00:11:44.460 of empire, of tradition, of basically anything that came before the latest surges in political fads,

00:11:52.120 you are seeing the rhetoric be mirrored in all of those places. And so it's sometimes said that

00:12:02.380 Israel's enemies are America's enemies, which as a practical matter is largely true. It's not

00:12:08.420 totally true, but it's largely true. But it doesn't mean that Hamas is going to come over here and set

00:12:14.720 off a bomb. It could. We've had Islamic terror attacks in the United States. That certainly could

00:12:18.860 happen. But I think the deeper meaning of that is the argument against the nation state of Israel

00:12:26.440 can pretty much just as easily be applied to the United States and is being applied to the United

00:12:34.700 States. And if that argument is allowed to succeed and gain currency, it's going to redound to our

00:12:41.720 detriment here in the good old US of A. Speaking of nationalism, I know Ukraine is kind of yesterday's

00:12:48.700 news. No one really talks about Ukraine anymore. The people have lowered the flags now. That's not

00:12:52.780 in the news. But you remember there was that American transvestite who was the spokesman for

00:13:00.400 the Ukraine military for some reason. And then the American transvestite decided to threaten to

00:13:06.560 murder American journalists. And then US Senator J.D. Vance raised some questions about this. And then

00:13:13.540 this American transvestite, Michael Cirillo, was put on leave. He's been reinstated.

00:13:19.340 The psycho-American transvestite who threatened to kill us all. He not only was reinstated by the

00:13:29.120 Ukraine military, but he was reinstated to the applause of NATO. NATO has said,

00:13:35.520 we have managed to clear Sarah, that's what this guy goes by now, Sarah from all allegations and sort

00:13:40.980 out all misunderstandings. She is an extraordinary example of Americans who stand shoulder to shoulder

00:13:46.500 with Ukrainians in our fight for independence and democracy. Great. He says, shoulder to shoulder,

00:13:53.780 very broad shoulders for a lady, but she's got very beefy, strong, broad, very masculine shoulders.

00:14:00.300 And she is standing shoulder to shoulder with the rest of the Ukrainians.

00:14:07.480 Why would this person, why would this person be the spokesman? Is this just an elaborate sketch? I know

00:14:14.220 that Vladimir Zelensky, the president of Ukraine, was a TV comedian. Is this just an SNL sketch? Is

00:14:20.300 this mad TV? It doesn't look real. It doesn't look like a real spokesman for a real military and a real

00:14:27.860 war in a real country. It all looks fake and farcical and ridiculous. How could this happen? And then how

00:14:34.360 could NATO applaud this person for threatening to kill me and any other conservative commentator or

00:14:43.620 journalist or anyone really who raises any questions about the war in Ukraine? Over the

00:14:49.380 objections of a sitting US senator, NATO says, oh, this person's wonderful, a shining, extraordinary

00:14:53.360 example. How did this happen? This is happening because our empire has become a joke.

00:15:03.480 The United States, whether we want it or not, we are an empire. We're the global hegemon.

00:15:08.040 We run the entire world. The entire rest of the world looks to the United States for leadership,

00:15:12.400 at least as of now. We say jump, the rest of the world says how high? At least that used to be the

00:15:18.240 case. The reason that our imperial projects, like what's going on in Ukraine, are farcical is because

00:15:27.720 our empire has become farcical. Because the empire now, previously it stood for Christianity, truth,

00:15:34.700 justice, the American way. Now it stands for mass migration and LGBT, LMNOP rights, quote unquote,

00:15:43.420 and what? And consumerism? And what? McDonald's? What do we stand for? McDonald's is the best thing on

00:15:53.160 that list. What does the American empire mean? What are our values? When we go into Afghanistan,

00:16:00.140 what are we bringing there? If we're bringing truth, justice, Christianity, that's great. Oh,

00:16:06.660 I'm all for it. We need to be prudent about the way that we spread those truths. We need to be just

00:16:13.040 about it, but those are good things to spread. If we're raising pride flags in Kandahar, I want

00:16:17.500 nothing to do with that. What are we doing in Ukraine? Are we, are we, we're spreading

00:16:23.620 transgenderism to Ukraine? Well, stop. Are they trying to get us to root for Putin? If what America

00:16:30.520 stands for is murderous psycho transvestites who threatened to kill journalists? No, thanks. I

00:16:36.380 don't want that. Why is the trouble breaking out in Middle East right now? Not just the Hamas terror

00:16:42.680 attack, but the ensuing war that's going to bring in all of these other, not only regional powers,

00:16:46.780 but world powers. Why is that happening? It's happening because our empire has become a joke.

00:16:52.360 This didn't happen under Trump. Maybe you love Trump. Maybe you hate Trump. Maybe you feel

00:16:56.940 broadly indifferent to Trump. That's probably unlikely, but it is simply a fact. When that

00:17:01.500 man was president, we had relative world peace like everywhere. We didn't have Vladimir Putin invading

00:17:10.060 new countries. We didn't have wars breaking out in the Middle East. We had peace in the Middle East.

00:17:14.240 We had the Abraham Accords and the radical Muslims used caution when they were dealing with the region

00:17:22.100 and Saudi Arabia made peace with the state of Israel and things were pretty cool.

00:17:28.660 Kim Jong-un was calming down because Donald Trump threatened to blow him up and called him short and

00:17:33.280 fat. When we had a leader who for all of his eccentricities stood for basic normal things

00:17:42.320 and the good old basic normal American way, the world was at peace. And now we have a joker who

00:17:48.840 may or may not even be alive, this president. He's strung up on marionette strings, who's promoting

00:17:53.580 transgenderism in Eastern Europe and all around the world, who's funneling money for some reason to

00:17:59.720 the Iranian mullahs, who's opening up our border to millions of invaders. And surprise, surprise,

00:18:06.960 surprise, surprise, we get chaos and war. We want to turn away from that. We need to,

00:18:15.360 if we want to be able to maintain the relative order that we've been able to maintain in recent

00:18:20.500 years, we need to stop being a joke ourselves and we need to eradicate preposterous ideologies

00:18:25.740 from public life. They don't help anybody. Bringing all of this together, how do you bring together BLM

00:18:31.800 and the war now in the Middle East and the weird LGBT stuff? You do it in the context of Rashida Tlaib,

00:18:41.000 a Democrat Congress lady who has a lot of flags outside of her office. She's got on the door of her

00:18:51.380 office. It's the United Auto Workers. Stand up to save the American dream. Probably the main reason

00:18:57.240 the UAW is even striking is because of the regulations passed by Joe Biden to destroy their industry.

00:19:03.400 But that's a topic for another time. Then in the flag in the most prominent position outside of

00:19:08.400 Rashida Tlaib's office is the Palestine flag, the red, green, white, and black. Then next to that flag

00:19:16.960 is the flag of the state of Michigan. Okay. Then the flag of the city of Detroit. And then the gay

00:19:22.480 flag. Not even the new gay flag. It's the old gay flag. She doesn't even have the triangle with the

00:19:28.640 militant transvestite quarter of the flag. That's not there yet. She needs to update that. That's a

00:19:35.540 very outdated and offensive old-timey gay flag. You notice a flag that's missing? There's one flag.

00:19:44.340 She's got a lot of flags there. She does not want for flagpoles around her office. And yet there's

00:19:50.000 one flag that's missing. That would be the American flag. Not there. Not there. If this picture doesn't

00:19:58.400 sum up the American left, I don't know what does. You've got the Palestine flag on one side and the

00:20:05.040 gay flag on the other. And if one of the guys that the gay flag represents ever made his way into the

00:20:12.280 West Bank or Gaza, he would be thrown from a rooftop. But Rashida Tlaib sees no contradiction

00:20:18.520 here. I don't know how many Palestinian refugees are marching in West Hollywood pride parades.

00:20:25.360 Probably not very many. Those two flags don't have a lot to do with one another.

00:20:30.500 But they do at a deep level, which is they are flags to upend the current order. They are flags

00:20:41.240 that oppose the oppressors. And they agree on who the oppressors are. They agree on who the people,

00:20:50.540 the bad people are who need to be taken care of. And the bad people are us. The bad people are just

00:20:55.060 normal, ordinary, largely American, Western, traditional kind of people.

00:21:01.940 And the solution that Rashida Tlaib has for that, the solution that the BLM people have for that,

00:21:10.700 the solution that the American left broadly, whether they're willing to admit it or not,

00:21:13.760 and a hell of a lot of them are willing to admit it, is the solution that you saw Hamas use over the

00:21:19.660 weekend. The paragliders that BLM endorses. The attacks on civilians. Because the left makes no

00:21:27.180 distinction between political and private. They don't really make a distinction between civilian

00:21:30.640 and uniformed soldier. That's it. That's what it's about. The bad guys are the ordinary,

00:21:39.360 traditional Americans. That's why there's no American flag outside of Rashida Tlaib's office.

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00:23:48.700 Speaking of claims of oppression, big story in the LA Times. Black people are fleeing the United

00:23:55.180 States because of the oppression and the colonialism and the imperialism and the ism and the racism and

00:24:00.560 the ismism. America does not deserve me why black people are leaving the United States, says the LA

00:24:08.200 Times. Now, because this is the LA Times, I have a good hunch going into this article that whatever it

00:24:14.360 says is not true. But here's what the article says. Filmmaker Jamila Nuruddin was locked down in LA

00:24:22.800 during the pandemic, watching as the nation convulsed in protest over the murder of George

00:24:26.780 Floyd when she had an epiphany. America does not deserve me. As a black woman, Nuri Dean always

00:24:32.160 tried to work twice as hard as those around her, thinking if I'm smart enough, pretty enough,

00:24:36.480 successful enough, then finally people will treat me as a human being. But she grieved yet another

00:24:43.820 unarmed black man killed by police. She decided she was done trying to prove herself to a society that

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00:24:55.960 her days working for U.S. clients in chic cafes in the Caribbean, leading healing ceremonies at a local

00:25:02.860 waterfall and trying to figure out who she is exactly outside of an American context. It's like leaving an

00:25:09.140 abusive relationship, she said, of exiting the United States. Okay. A lot in there. But the major claim is

00:25:18.200 black people are fleeing the United States because of racism and injustice. And that is just not true.

00:25:26.680 And here's how I know for a fact that that's not true.

00:25:31.420 How many, what was the net movement of black people into and out of the United States over the last,

00:25:37.800 say 20 years? Roughly 3 million into the United States. Not out. It wasn't a mass exodus. It was

00:25:49.220 people moving in. 2 million from Africa, 1 million from the Caribbean. They moved into, they immigrated

00:25:56.820 into the United States. Why would they immigrate into the United States if America is terribly racist

00:26:00.600 and evil and unjust? And racist cops go around slaughtering black men, innocent people all the

00:26:07.320 time. Why would they do that? Because they know that that's not true. Because they know that it's

00:26:13.620 actually pretty good in the United States for black people and for most other people. Because they know

00:26:18.860 that not only will they not have trouble getting a job because of the color of their skin, they know

00:26:25.320 that they'll have extra help getting a job because of the color of their skin. Not only will they not

00:26:29.880 have a harder time getting into college because of the color of their skin, they'll have an easier

00:26:33.080 time getting into college because of the color of their skin. Because we have not only de facto,

00:26:37.540 but de jure racial discrimination in the United States on behalf of black people and Hispanic people

00:26:43.380 to a lesser degree and against white people and Asian people to a lesser degree. That has technically

00:26:50.000 been struck down in recent months because the Supreme Court struck down affirmative action in college

00:26:56.020 admissions. But the colleges all just admitted they're just going to figure out a way to hide it now. And

00:27:00.420 they'll hide it in the personal statement. Just completely made up. But this narrative, the reason I bring

00:27:09.440 it up, this narrative, which we know, you know, I'm skeptical of statistics, but certain statistics like how

00:27:15.040 many people come in, how many people go out are pretty solid. At least when it comes to legal

00:27:21.080 immigration, illegal immigration, the Biden administration is a little weaker on. But on

00:27:24.540 legal immigration, it's pretty clear that black people are coming into the United States. We can

00:27:27.860 know for a fact that that is the behavior. And yet this narrative prevails. And the narrative is very,

00:27:34.880 very powerful. That narrative burned down half the country for about eight months during the George

00:27:39.440 Floyd riots. That narrative shapes many, many people, not just black people. It shapes the views

00:27:46.280 of white liberals. It shapes the views of all sorts of people, all sorts of liberal people who are

00:27:52.100 mistaken. But those mistaken ideologies can have horrific effects and impel people to do very, very

00:27:58.280 terrible things. That's what you're seeing in this campaign for decolonization, which is aiming toward,

00:28:06.380 we saw it over the weekend, proof positive. We saw it in the endorsements of BLM. It is aiming toward

00:28:12.940 violence against civilians, against men, women, children, and little babies. They want to come

00:28:19.880 kill us because they've convinced themselves of a bogus narrative. Even if that historical narrative

00:28:24.880 were true, and it's not, it still would not justify their actions. There is no moral or ethical

00:28:30.060 justification for the targeting of civilians. They don't know that. These are very, very confused people.

00:28:36.380 And what's very dangerous is not just that they're confused. It's a fallen world and people have

00:28:39.980 defects of intellect and will. What's dangerous is that narrative has been pushed by the most elite

00:28:45.760 segments of our country, in the media, in academia, in government, in entertainment, everywhere,

00:28:54.680 everywhere. And so it's taken hold. It doesn't necessarily matter that it's not true. It can have real

00:29:00.340 effects in the world. Speaking of immigration, a little bit of good news. As America lets in millions,

00:29:05.620 millions of illegals across the border every single year, they decided they were finally going to

00:29:11.400 exercise immigration law and enforce it by kicking out a nice conservative Christian German

00:29:17.280 homeschooling family. Forget about MS-13 that's raping and pillaging and murdering and peddling drugs

00:29:24.160 across the border. Those guys get to operate with impunity. They're the poor oppressed dreamers. Ignore their

00:29:29.360 face tattoos and their Satan-worshipping rituals. No, no, no. They're future undocumented,

00:29:34.640 happy, dreaming Americans. We need to just release them into the interior. But the nice German family

00:29:40.740 that minds its own business and takes care of itself and is actually fleeing political persecution

00:29:45.100 in Germany, where they're not allowed to homeschool and raise their kids according to their faith,

00:29:49.100 and the ones who pay their taxes and do their jobs and have kids and are just normal and reasonable and

00:29:57.160 decent, they have to be deported. So that story came out a few weeks ago, even though they've been in

00:30:04.040 the United States since 2008. Well, a source has just reported yesterday that the family has received a

00:30:09.680 one-year reprieve from deportation. Why? Did immigration enforcement, did the Biden administration

00:30:17.480 realize the error of their ways and the injustice here? No, of course not. They just got caught,

00:30:24.220 and they were getting pressure from Congress. They were getting pressure from some conservative

00:30:28.700 leaders who still have a modicum of political power in the U.S., and they knew this was a bad look,

00:30:33.320 and they knew it was just so transparent that the Biden administration is going to invite into the

00:30:38.100 country its allies, namely terrorists and gangsters and drug dealers and rapists and murderers,

00:30:44.360 they were going to invite them in and release them into the country with impunity, but they were going

00:30:48.100 to deport the Biden administration's enemies, namely nice Christian homeschoolers from Germany

00:30:54.760 who have a nice family. They had to go. And it was so transparent that the way that this

00:31:02.360 administration operates, the way the liberal establishment broadly operates, is not according to

00:31:05.940 the rule of law, of course. The border's wide open. They operate according to rewarding friends and

00:31:11.560 punishing enemies. Two tiers of justice. BLM doesn't barely get a slap on the wrist, and the

00:31:19.860 Midwestern grannies on January 6th, the worst day in history, they get thrown in solitary confinement for

00:31:24.560 40 months. It just looked so bad. Okay, this one gets away. This one, they get one more year, and then

00:31:30.200 hopefully it dies down in the news and they can deport them then. It's good news. I'll take the

00:31:35.580 win. Well, we've got it. But the problem is far from over. You want to talk about our corrupt, deep

00:31:40.980 state. The former CIA director, Michael Hayden, responded to a post on Twitter, now known as X,

00:31:50.120 which is, should Republican Senator Tommy Tuberville be removed from his committee? And a general former

00:31:57.960 CIA director, Michael Hayden, says, how about the human race?

00:32:05.040 Ha ha ha. Ha ha ha ha ha ha. If I were Tommy Tuberville, I'd be sleeping with one eye open,

00:32:12.480 because that's not an empty threat. It's something that the CIA has been known to do once or twice

00:32:21.620 to engage in political assassination. It's something we've seen increasing political

00:32:27.900 violence in recent years. We've seen calls, forget about the CIA, we've seen calls from

00:32:31.200 liberals more broadly to attack conservatives. Not armed soldiers, but conservative leaders,

00:32:40.560 some public officials, push back on them, go to their homes where their children sleep. We heard

00:32:45.300 that from Maxine Waters. You can't be civil with people who disagree with you. That was Hillary

00:32:49.980 Clinton. Eric Holder, former Obama attorney general, all these guys. Not exactly an empty

00:32:57.400 threat. It does give a decent picture of our government. And here's the decent picture.

00:33:01.860 There's a little silver lining to the former CIA director calling for the assassination of a sitting

00:33:07.500 senator. The silver lining is if the CIA actually wanted to take this guy out, they probably would

00:33:14.300 do it. If the CIA were what people imagine the CIA to be, if the deep state were omnipotent as people

00:33:22.520 believe it to be, then they would just do this stuff, right? They wouldn't post about it on Twitter.

00:33:26.400 They would just start killing senators. And they don't do that because the deep state,

00:33:30.840 even the CIA, the vaunted CIA, they're not ubiquitous. They're not omnipotent. And they're

00:33:37.340 not ubiquitous for that matter. And they're not, they've got a lot of power, but they don't have

00:33:42.420 total power. And they control enough to become irate when our duly elected leaders exercise power.

00:33:52.320 That's the most telling part about this to me, is the indignance that you see from Michael Hayden.

00:33:57.940 What, why does he want to assassinate Tommy Tuberville? Because Tommy Tuberville is asking

00:34:06.300 the Pentagon to rescind its new policy to pay service members to go all around the country to

00:34:13.880 kill their babies. He says, that's a bad use of Pentagon funds. That's a bad policy. It's a new

00:34:17.880 policy. We don't like it. So stop, stop that. We want the U.S. military to kill our enemies,

00:34:23.960 not to kill American babies. We think about the horror when we read in the news of babies being

00:34:30.520 murdered. Been in the news quite a lot, I'm sorry to say, recently. Tommy Tuberville shares that horror.

00:34:36.400 Says, well, the United States government is now making that its policy. The Pentagon is now making

00:34:42.380 it a top priority to kill the children of American service members or else what? Tommy Tuberville says,

00:34:49.600 if you don't rescind the policy, I'm going to hold up your promotions. So you're not going to have as

00:34:53.560 many generals as you want. You're not going to have as much of the top brass of the Pentagon,

00:34:57.960 which is the real problem here. The real problem isn't the enlisted guy in the middle of the country.

00:35:02.000 The real problem isn't the normal guy who kept his head down at West Point or the Naval Academy

00:35:06.720 and became an officer or went through OCS and he's perfectly ordinary and he doesn't want to put up

00:35:12.780 with all this woke nonsense. The real problem is that top brass. It's the top brass that's whining and

00:35:17.900 huffing and puffing about white rage and the need to read critical race theory to be a fighting force.

00:35:23.240 The top brass is the one pushing the transgender bathrooms and military policies. They're the

00:35:27.880 problem. And the top brass, they're the ones that are promoting infanticide for American service

00:35:33.300 members. And Tommy Tuberville says, no. If you're really, and then the Pentagon says, well, you're

00:35:40.500 endangering national security. Oh, no, you're endangering national security. If you think that America

00:35:45.580 faces an existential threat right now and you need the promotions, then rescind your new and insane

00:35:50.720 infanticide policy. And then you get your generals. Well, no, we're not willing to do that. Oh, so I,

00:35:55.960 okay, you would rather an attack on the American homeland, you would rather the American military

00:36:01.160 not be able to fight and defend our national interest, then give up your infanticide policy.

00:36:05.780 Okay, tells me everything I need to know about the top brass. Good. None of you are getting your

00:36:09.180 promotions. Good. And what this tells you then about the deep state and the CIA types like Michael

00:36:14.980 Hayden is not that they actually pull every single one of the strings. No, Tommy Tuberville pulls some

00:36:20.400 strings here. The US Senate still pulls some strings. But it shows you that these unaccountable

00:36:26.840 people have enough influence that they would become irate when the Senate, especially Republicans in

00:36:32.980 the Senate, actually exercise their power. That's such a rarity. Republicans aren't supposed to do that.

00:36:37.520 Republicans are just supposed to send out fundraising emails, supposed to send out some tweets,

00:36:41.840 maybe write some strongly worded letters, but they're never supposed to wield power for conservative

00:36:45.460 ends. That's crazy. Uh-uh. They don't, they're not supposed to set policy. We're supposed to set

00:36:51.180 policy in the deep state. My favorite comment yesterday is from Graham Trezis, 1114, who says,

00:37:00.200 finally, someone corrects. I could care less. Thank you, Michael. It's my pleasure. I try not to.

00:37:06.980 I remember I read, I think it was in Strunk and White, that unless you were an English teacher,

00:37:11.840 you should not correct somebody's English. But when I see some lib on TikTok or something, some

00:37:18.420 left-wing prominent person, and they use a phrase like that, it just, it grates, and I take the liberty

00:37:25.340 to correct them. If you could care less about something, it means you care about it somewhat.

00:37:31.600 But the phrase is, you could not care less. Because then, you don't care about it at all.

00:37:39.140 The more you know. I want one of those NBC little star logos to come across.

00:37:44.880 Speaking of duly elected leaders, we have a race for the House Speaker on right now.

00:37:50.200 This information is going to become outdated the moment I say it. In fact, even in real time as I'm

00:37:54.880 speaking, it's probably all changed. But the way the race is set up, you've got Jim Jordan,

00:38:01.860 a favorite of conservatives, and Steve Scalise, who conservatives also like, but he's a little bit

00:38:06.280 less conservative. And he's been in House leadership a little bit longer. He's been on the leadership

00:38:10.720 track, unlike Jim Jordan, who is chairman of the Judiciary Committee. There is a behind-closed-doors

00:38:19.240 kind of debate conversation with the two candidates. So they're going to hash out their differences.

00:38:24.060 This is not meant for the public, because the public doesn't vote on the House Speaker.

00:38:27.700 The House Speaker is elected by the members of Congress. So they had that last night.

00:38:32.780 According to DW Nominate, which is not run by us, sadly, but it's a metric that political scientists

00:38:39.020 sometimes use to gauge people's political views. According to that, Jim Jordan is the more

00:38:44.260 conservative candidate. The first dimension of DW Nominate describes how liberal or conservative

00:38:51.880 the members are. And then the second dimension reveals how closely aligned the members are with

00:38:57.240 the establishment. So those are not synonymous issues, and they're both kind of relevant.

00:39:04.540 So according to DW Nominate, the average Jordan backer is more conservative than 69% of House Republicans.

00:39:11.760 So all in all, pretty solid. Not more conservative than 99%. Not total Rock Rib Attila the Hun style,

00:39:21.280 but more conservative than most House Republicans. That's a pretty good sign. And more anti-establishment

00:39:26.120 than 73% of them. That's a good sign. Scalise's average supporter is more conservative,

00:39:31.540 only than 37% of the GOP membership. That's not a good sign. And Scalise's average supporter

00:39:40.400 is more anti-establishment than just 30% of the GOP caucus. So that's not good. Scalise is fine. He

00:39:49.220 would probably be better than some previous speakers that we've had. I really like Jim Jordan.

00:39:54.980 I think he could be a good speaker. The only reason I hesitate to endorse him is, one, the speaker's

00:40:00.520 always going to disappoint you because they've got to herd cats with that Republican conference. But two,

00:40:05.160 it's the worst job in Washington, and I wouldn't wish it on a good guy like Jim Jordan. The other

00:40:09.640 thing is, it could also be McCarthy. So if Scalise and Jordan are not able to get a clear win here,

00:40:15.560 and with a razor-thin majority for Republicans, you know, the Democrats might end up picking the

00:40:20.040 speaker, which is one of the reasons that it was a little bit risky to oust Kevin McCarthy. It could

00:40:25.360 be McCarthy, too. McCarthy said he's not going to run for it again, but he might just get elected.

00:40:29.480 He might, you know, campaign behind the scenes or say that he'd be willing to do it,

00:40:32.900 and then he could just wind up the speaker again. There's one other option, which is the one that

00:40:38.020 I know we're all holding out for. Not because it would necessarily be the most effective thing

00:40:43.080 or conducive to conservative policy, but it would certainly be the funniest, and that is

00:40:49.100 Speaker Trump. Donald Trump has suggested that he might consider being a temporary speaker. The man

00:40:57.860 does not want to be the actual speaker of the House, and he doesn't want to be the speaker of the

00:41:01.840 just because he's running for president, and he's up 50 points on his opponents, and I'm not sure he

00:41:06.180 can win the general, but he's almost certainly going to lock up the GOP nomination, and so he

00:41:11.580 says, I want to be speaker when I can get the real job. But he has suggested he might be willing to step

00:41:17.660 in temporarily. I think this would be great. I strongly encourage this, even if it's only for five

00:41:22.260 seconds, because Donald Trump is a world historic figure. Whether you love him or hate him, he's just

00:41:32.640 different from the other presidents that we've had before, and so it would be very charming if he could

00:41:37.520 be the president and the Speaker of the House. And then what he has to do, and I don't know if the

00:41:41.880 timing will work, but if he does somehow manage to make it back to the White House, he's got to nominate

00:41:46.040 himself for the Supreme Court so that he can have served in all three branches of government, ideally

00:41:50.740 for Chief Justice. Again, not because he's qualified to be on the Supreme Court, not because he's

00:41:58.860 necessarily the best choice for speaker. I do think he was an excellent president, but really just because

00:42:05.880 it would be super duper funny, and I would really enjoy that. Now, speaking of a return to decent

00:42:12.920 government, this is really good news, and especially coming after Columbus Day. You know Columbus Day is

00:42:18.660 one of my favorite holidays. Christopher Columbus, much maligned. The American left was too busy

00:42:25.080 simping for Hamas this year to engage in their usual attacks on Christopher Columbus, one of the great

00:42:30.540 men of history who helped to found our entire civilization in the New World, and a wonderful product of the

00:42:37.780 old world too, and a great devout Catholic and just a very impressive man who made it across the ocean

00:42:44.180 blue with dead reckoning in his own grit and prayers and faith. But I was off on Columbus Day. I like the

00:42:52.560 idea of taking Columbus Day off, okay? I like the idea of acknowledging this good man and this good

00:42:58.260 holiday. There's some good news. As the statues have been falling for years and years, and they malign

00:43:05.400 Columbus with the same arguments that you hear from the pro-Hamas side and the BLM side and Antifa

00:43:09.800 and the left. They say he was a colonizer. He was an imperialist. He was a white man. He was bad. He

00:43:17.300 was just, he was Catholic. Oh, it's the worst thing. He's Catholic. Oh, no. Well, we hear all of that in

00:43:22.840 recent years. One little town in Providence decided to put a statue back up. Or one little town in Rhode

00:43:29.260 Island, not Providence, put a statue back up. That would be Johnston Memorial Park. In Johnston Memorial

00:43:38.460 Park, in Johnston, Rhode Island, they took a statue that had been taken down in Providence, and they

00:43:45.360 moved it over to this town, and they put it back up. This was thanks to former Providence Mayor Joe

00:43:52.140 Paolino, good son of Italy, who purchased the old statue and brought it over to this nice town.

00:43:57.500 Why is this such a great story? It's such a great story, not because we're all going to take trips

00:44:03.520 to Johnston, Rhode Island, though maybe we should. Not because it's not a bad thing that the bigger

00:44:08.800 towns and the bigger cities, Providence and all over them, even New York wants to take these statues

00:44:13.900 down. It's not that we've made it out of the woods, that they're going to keep their statues up.

00:44:19.120 But it means that we can restore things. We don't need to just shrug our shoulders and accede to

00:44:29.220 the left's absolute destruction of our civilization. The lib cities want to take down the Columbus

00:44:36.740 statues, the conservative towns can put them back up. The lib cities want to take away parents' rights,

00:44:41.820 the conservative towns can say, come on over here if you want to raise your kids.

00:44:44.520 The liberal cities want to enshrine the rainbow flag and trans the five-year-olds. The conservative

00:44:52.180 towns can say, we're not going to tolerate that here. We've got bathrooms for men and bathrooms

00:44:56.940 for women. And if you're an adult and you talk to kids about weird sex stuff, you're going to get

00:45:00.920 arrested. And if you are an adult and you try to put some weird, obscene material into schools and

00:45:07.720 libraries, you're going to get arrested. We can do that. No, Antifa's not there tearing that statue

00:45:13.820 down in Johnston, Rhode Island. Not just yet. You could do it in your town, too. Hope is not lost.

00:45:19.940 We can return. We're not going to go back in time. We're going to keep going forward in time.

00:45:25.640 But we can turn toward the right direction. The rest of the show continues now. You do not want

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