The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 1410 - Supreme Court Allows Biden To Cut Open The Border

00:00:00.000 The Supreme Court ruled 5-4 yesterday that President Biden can tear down barbed wire in

00:00:05.880 Texas, put up and paid for by the state of Texas to try to stop the historic invasion of cartel

00:00:11.900 criminals and other foreign nationals invited and encouraged to enter Texas illegally by the 0.95

00:00:18.640 Biden administration. Four of the court's conservatives voted to allow Texas to even

00:00:24.340 somewhat slightly attempt to protect its territorial integrity while Amy Barrett and

00:00:30.900 John Roberts sided with Biden and the court liberals to tear down the meager 30 miles of

00:00:38.460 wire. Texas had been erecting nothing, 30 miles of barbed wire to try to stop this unprecedented

00:00:44.940 historic influx, multiples more than anything we've ever really seen in American history.

00:00:49.220 And Border Patrol kept cutting it down. So Texas takes Biden to court and the court rules 5-4.

00:00:56.900 Nope. Sorry, Texas. You're not even allowed to protect the territorial integrity of your own state

00:01:03.880 from a mass influx of foreign nationals. And you know what? I'm not surprised. The libs hold all 0.99

00:01:11.100 sorts of terrible, disordered, and deadly things dear. Abortion, weird sex stuff, racial discrimination. 0.98

00:01:18.280 You go down the list. And the Supreme Court has struck some of that down. Sometimes we win on

00:01:26.140 some of those issues. But this issue was too much. Because more than any other issue, mass migration is

00:01:33.740 sacrosanct to the liberal establishment. Because mass migration in the long run is how the liberals plan

00:01:41.600 to win on all the other issues. Not just here, but all around the West. Wherever you look, Britain,

00:01:48.820 Hungary, Italy, Germany, France, America especially, mass migration is deeply unpopular with voters.

00:01:56.460 Not even just the right-wing Republicans, the conservatives. Deeply unpopular with most voters.

00:02:02.020 But so are the liberal elites and all their terrible policies. So there's only one option

00:02:08.560 for the liberals. The mass importation of new voters who are overwhelmingly statistically more

00:02:14.880 likely to side with them. It's a cynical scheme, but the liberals in charge are dead set on it.

00:02:21.580 And nothing as insignificant as the law or the Constitution or a conservative court majority

00:02:29.040 is going to stop them. I'm Michael Knowles. This is The Michael Knowles Show.

00:02:51.580 Welcome back to the show. Dana White, the head of UFC, just schooled a reporter on free speech with

00:02:59.220 facts and logic. And his answer is even better, I think, than perhaps Dana White knows, which we'll

00:03:04.460 get to in just a little bit. First, though, on court decisions. Got a really, really bad one yesterday.

00:03:10.880 The court just totally squished. Amy Barrett, in particular, and John Roberts, we always expect 0.95

00:03:15.540 him to squish the chief justice. But in recent years, we have had some big court wins. So it's

00:03:21.500 not all doom and gloom. The biggest one, of course, is Dobbs. The Dobbs decision, which reverses Roe v.

00:03:26.740 Wade, which saves who knows how many babies into the future. And President Biden, a supposed Catholic,

00:03:37.240 supposedly a member of a religion that says that abortion is completely unacceptable, that it's not

00:03:41.720 just a mere political matter, but that the right to life is the fundamental right on which all of the

00:03:47.180 other rights depend. President Biden marked the occasion by whining and complaining and hoping

00:03:51.980 that more babies will be killed in the future. He said, quote, 51 years ago today, Jack, some hairy 0.98

00:03:59.240 legged fella came down. No, he didn't say that. He said 51 years ago today, the Supreme Court recognized

00:04:03.540 a woman's constitutional right to make deeply personal decisions with her doctor, decisions to murder her 0.97

00:04:10.840 child, free from the interference of politicians. Then, a year and a half ago, the court made the extreme

00:04:15.800 decision to overturn Roe and take away a constitutional right. Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. The best part of

00:04:21.480 this statement, the best part of this anniversary of the Dobbs decision is that now it feels like old

00:04:29.240 news. That's my favorite part of it. Well, no, I guess my favorite part is all the babies who aren't

00:04:33.780 being killed. But my second favorite part is how it feels like old news. Because when it happened,

00:04:38.940 we were told in the lead up to that decision, we were told it's going to cause a civil war. You remember

00:04:43.940 in the lead up to it, the liberals tried to murder Supreme Court justices to stop the decision from

00:04:47.920 coming out. They tried to kill these guys. And Alito, rather, had to go into hiding. A liberal 0.97

00:04:54.420 traveled from California to Washington, D.C. to murder Brett Kavanaugh and started going up to his

00:05:00.160 house. Okay, this was, we were told this was going to be the big issue. And then it happened.

00:05:05.500 And then what? Everyone just kind of accepted it. And now lots and lots of babies are alive and will

00:05:13.620 grow up to be adult human beings because of that decision. And the liberals who whine and say,

00:05:21.240 but it's the law of the land. It's the constitutional right. I want to kill more babies. They seem more and

00:05:27.920 more ridiculous. Because not only is their claim about the Constitution, not only is their claim about 0.98

00:05:34.600 human life and the supposed right to murder innocent people, not only is that absurd, but even just

00:05:40.360 their historical legal argument seems silly because it's been a couple years now. And now it's not a

00:05:46.100 constitutional right. For the vast majority of American history, no one has believed that killing a kid is

00:05:51.720 a constitutional right. They didn't think it for most of our history until the early 1970s. Then we got

00:05:57.440 confused for that a little under five decades. And now we're not confused anymore. And that's that.

00:06:02.300 This vindicates something that I mentioned on the show yesterday, which is this idea of the Lindy

00:06:08.840 effect. The notion that the longer a non-perishable thing endures, the longer you can expect it to

00:06:17.580 endure. So, you know, if a Broadway show has run for six weeks, you can expect it to run for another

00:06:22.780 six weeks. If a Broadway show has run for three years, you can expect it to run for another three

00:06:27.040 years. Recently, Nassim Nicholas Taleb, the writer, has articulated this. It comes from a

00:06:32.340 mathematician, a fractalist named Benoit Mandelbrot. It actually goes back even further than that.

00:06:37.560 Well, it's true in war. It's true in show business. It's true in New York delis. And it seems rather

00:06:45.060 true in law and jurisprudence. Because I was thinking about how long Roe endured.

00:06:52.360 Roe is decided early 1970s, then fast forward about 20 years, and it's up for reconsideration

00:07:03.000 in Planned Parenthood v. Casey. And what happens? Planned Parenthood v. Casey decides, another

00:07:08.340 conservative squished on the court, they decide that there is a right to abortion somewhere in

00:07:13.140 the Constitution, even though they totally rewrite the justification for it that was given in Roe v.

00:07:17.040 Wade. And then what happens? Roe endures for almost the same amount of time that it had previously

00:07:24.220 endured for. It goes a little bit over doubling, actually. And then it's up for consideration

00:07:28.780 again, and it gets shot down in Dobbs. So the key here for conservatives is, what we've got to do

00:07:35.520 is just build up that inertia. What we've got to do is just make the Dobbs decision normal,

00:07:41.640 just protect it at all costs. Because right now it's a little dangerous. The Dobbs decision is

00:07:47.240 kind of fresh, kind of new. The libs are still very motivated to overturn it. The way they're 0.68

00:07:51.220 going to overturn it is they're going to put liberal justices on the court. The way they're

00:07:54.900 going to get liberal justices on the court is they're going to keep Democrats in the presidency. 0.97

00:07:58.340 So it is very, very important. If we want to protect Dobbs, if we want to protect innocent

00:08:03.580 little babies, we need to get a Republican president in office soon. This is a weak conservative 0.98

00:08:10.160 majority on the court, obviously. They just rubber stamped Joe Biden's invasion by foreign

00:08:16.240 nationals of the country to give him more voters. So obviously it's a weak conservative majority,

00:08:21.520 and it's only been a couple of years here. Very easy to overturn that kind of a decision.

00:08:26.880 So we've got to get the Republican president. And right now the Republican presidential primary

00:08:31.760 is all but over. Tonight is the New Hampshire primary. We'll see what happens. There is still

00:08:37.580 a chance Nikki Haley pulls out a victory. I wouldn't put my money on it. Even if she does,

00:08:41.380 there's still no path to victory for her. So for all intents and purposes, Trump is the nominee.

00:08:45.260 And I'm very pleased to see that he is now pivoting, even after this very rough, mean,

00:08:50.100 brutal primary, he's pivoting to try to bring the party together and say very nice things

00:08:54.000 about his most recently vanquished rival, Ron DeSantis.

00:08:58.000 Before we begin, I'd like to take time to congratulate Ron DeSantis and, of course, a

00:09:06.860 really terrific person who I've gotten to know his wife, Casey, for having run a great campaign

00:09:13.460 for president. He did. He ran a really good campaign. I will tell you, it's not easy.

00:09:18.860 They think it's easy doing this stuff, right? It's not easy. But as you know, he left the campaign

00:09:24.220 trail today at 3 p.m. And in so doing, he was very gracious and he endorsed me. So I appreciate it.

00:09:34.320 I appreciate that. And I also look forward to working with Ron and everybody else to defeat

00:09:41.820 crooked Joe Biden. We will have to get him out. We have to get him out. He's put our country at great

00:09:49.140 peril, at great peril. So I just want to thank Ron and congratulate him on doing a very good job.

00:09:56.640 It's a tough situation. It's a tough thing to do.

00:09:59.860 He just said, will I be using the name Ron DeSantis? I said, that name is officially retired.

00:10:09.920 Hold on a second. Wait. Oh, you just heard for over a year that Rob DeSantis is a terrible

00:10:16.860 governor and he's awful and he's the worst. But now you're saying you like him and he's a terrific

00:10:23.080 guy and he's done a good job. And then even jokes there at the end, he goes, that name,

00:10:30.160 Ron DeSantis, officially retired. It's done. It's going to drive some people up a wall.

00:10:40.060 It doesn't drive me up a wall. In fact, this is one of my favorite things about Trump.

00:10:44.280 Because what this kind of a reaction 0.99

00:10:47.980 disproves is one of what I think is the dumbest arguments against Trump. One of the dumbest lines 1.00

00:10:56.440 of attack where people say Donald Trump is totally undisciplined. He's just a ball of emotion. He takes 1.00

00:11:04.600 everything personally. Everything we know about Trump shows the opposite to be true.

00:11:12.060 Perhaps he's undisciplined in that he makes errant comments on Twitter back when he had a Twitter or

00:11:18.720 something. But he's not an undisciplined campaigner. He's an extremely disciplined

00:11:23.760 campaigner, actually. He sticks to his message, at least when he's talking about friend and foe,

00:11:28.760 which some have called the fundamental distinction in politics. He sticks to his message with extreme

00:11:34.580 discipline. When you are opposing Trump, you are the worst person in the world. You are the devil on 0.98

00:11:40.280 earth. He will bring the fires of hell. He will bring 10 times the power of the sun against you 1.00

00:11:45.800 to destroy you. And then the moment that you flip over and you're on his team again, that's all done.

00:11:52.600 He doesn't hold a grudge. You know the evidence of him not holding a grudge? Forget about even

00:11:57.780 Governor DeSantis for a second. Go back to 2016. You think the Trump-DeSantis primary was bad? Do you

00:12:02.900 remember the Trump-Cruz primary? Cruz was the number two guy in 2016? It was a vicious, brutal primary

00:12:10.220 between these two men. And Trump coined the term Lion Ted, L-Y-I-N apostrophe, Lion Ted. And it was

00:12:17.580 just so, so nasty. And then what happens? Senator Cruz drops out, votes for Trump. They work together

00:12:27.240 very well. And Trump ends up campaigning for him. Here's what he says. Ted and I got along very well,

00:12:34.480 very late into the campaign. And I said, don't worry about it. It's only a question of time.

00:12:39.460 And then it became very nasty. And then it was over. And when it was over, we'd gotten along great.

00:12:45.600 Now, I liked it. If you remember, he was the last one that we really had. I mean, I went very late

00:12:52.660 into the campaign. We actually held a rally together late into the campaign. I said, it will end. And

00:12:58.660 it did. And then it got back. So we're very close. We've done great on tax cuts. We've done great on

00:13:04.780 regulation cuts. Well, he's been really terrific. What is he beautiful, Ted? I call him Texas Ted.

00:13:14.160 No, now he's beautiful, Ted. Now he's Texas Ted. I know the people who hate Trump are going to say,

00:13:21.120 well, this shows he doesn't believe anything or he does it. No, it doesn't show that. It shows that

00:13:25.180 he knows how to campaign. It shows that he sees politics as a team sport. It shows that he's

00:13:30.180 going to be really, really tough. And maybe you think he's going to go over the top when he's

00:13:34.440 campaigning. But I think that probably applies to every single politician, but that he's not going

00:13:39.940 to take it personally. A politician who took it personally would take his ball and go home.

00:13:44.540 A politician that takes it personally would still be talking about that terrible Ted Cruz. I hate that

00:13:48.860 Cruz. It's Ron DeSantis. He's mean. And he said this mean thing about me. A politician who doesn't

00:13:53.280 take it personally, who appears not to take really anything personally, he treats it like business.

00:14:00.320 You know, it's Michael Corleone talking to Sonny. When Sonny says, what, you want to go kill a cop 0.88

00:14:05.000 because he slapped you around a little? Come on, you're going to get his blood on your Ivy League suit. 0.99

00:14:08.500 Don't take it so personally. And Michael Corleone says, it's strictly business. Politics is a

00:14:14.280 is a contact sport. OK, it's a team sport. It's a contact sport. As I said from the beginning of

00:14:20.280 this primary, these are all big, tough guys. They've all run plenty of races. None of them are

00:14:25.580 little wallflowers. OK, and they ran a bruising primary. Trump won. And now the question is,

00:14:33.100 can they come together? Can they not take it personally? Can they come together? Are they going

00:14:38.960 to live up to what they've all been talking about, which is this is about party. This is about

00:14:42.000 principle. This is about doing good for the American people. OK, well, in order to do that,

00:14:46.440 you've got to put personal ego aside. I don't know. It's a very difficult thing to do, especially

00:14:50.820 when you're running a bruising primary. I know it's hard, but I love that Trump does it.

00:14:57.960 And by the way, the minute DeSantis attacks him again, he's going to be back to attacking DeSantis.

00:15:01.900 And then the minute DeSantis is nice to him again, he's going to be nice to DeSantis. And the same

00:15:05.820 thing is going to be true of Haley. Same thing is going to be true of Chris Christie, I bet. OK,

00:15:09.280 it's going to be true of everybody. And from my vantage, where I don't particularly care about

00:15:15.460 the personal lives of these people and I don't care about their personal emotions at any given

00:15:20.760 point, I just want good victories for a conservative vision of America so we have a

00:15:25.760 good country again. That is fine by me. Don't take it personal. Keep it business. Let's go out

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00:16:40.760 race for Trump ahead. Some Florida Republicans are suggesting that we cover, that not we,

00:16:47.380 I'm not a Florida resident, that the Florida taxpayer cover President Trump's legal bills

00:16:52.380 with taxpayer funds. This proposal was filed by Senator Iliana Garcia in Miami.

00:16:59.640 It doesn't specifically name Trump, this bill, but the bill says that legal fees incurred as a result

00:17:07.440 of criminal charges brought by a U.S. public entity on qualified persons who have been subject to

00:17:13.620 political discrimination would be covered by state funds. So obviously, this is about Trump. Trump is

00:17:21.640 covered here. DeSantis has come out and said, I'm going to veto this if this makes it to my desk.

00:17:25.840 We are not spending taxpayer money to cover Donald Trump's legal fees. I actually think they're both

00:17:31.180 right in this instance. I side with the state senator on the general thrust of the legislation,

00:17:37.820 and I agree with Governor DeSantis that the Florida taxpayer should not be on the hook for this.

00:17:43.120 I think this should be paid for by the federal government.

00:17:45.300 This should be paid for by the taxpayer because it's not going to be,

00:17:50.280 not what red cent is going to come out of a taxpayer here. Okay, President Trump's legal fees,

00:17:55.280 we've never seen anything like this in America. They are throwing everything they can to destroy

00:17:59.040 this man. His legal fees amount to, according to him, about $100 million right now.

00:18:03.200 In 2022, according to the Government Accountability Office, the U.S. government wasted $247 billion

00:18:12.740 just in improper payments. I'm not saying they wasted it on some stupid study, you know, 0.99

00:18:20.480 like lesbian obesity in seahorses or something. I mean, just in payments the government should not 1.00

00:18:26.580 have made that they did make for no reason whatsoever. They spent $247 billion. Trump's

00:18:34.720 legal fees are $100 million. So you divide that number in half, then you go an order of magnitude

00:18:42.120 lower, and you'd still have a lot of change left over. But this should be paid for by the government.

00:18:49.020 It wouldn't be paid for by the taxpayer, but it would be paid for by the government.

00:18:52.120 Truly, you could cut just even a tiny sliver of a sliver of an iota waste to cover

00:18:56.520 this in two seconds. It should be covered by the government because otherwise you're creating

00:19:01.020 an incentive for the ruling party to persecute the leader of the opposition, to prosecute

00:19:09.600 specifically, but then at a broader level to persecute, to try to destroy, to bury in legal

00:19:15.340 fees the leader of the opposition. And that's bad for both parties, and that's bad for the citizens.

00:19:19.420 If the ruling class can just destroy all opposition by burying them in legal fees when they're not

00:19:25.420 running against a billionaire or a former billionaire, I can't imagine Trump even has a

00:19:30.940 billion dollars anymore. They've taken his money away. That's a very bad situation. You want to

00:19:35.900 talk about a threat to American democracy? That's a major threat to American democracy. It has such

00:19:39.900 a chilling effect over anyone who wouldn't want to run, certainly, who wouldn't even want to work

00:19:44.260 in an administration where the ruling liberal establishment afterward will prosecute you,

00:19:50.700 throw you in jail, or take away all your money.

00:19:52.000 So I think it would be a very, very good thing for the federal government to be accountable here

00:19:56.560 and say, no, you know, if you're going to try to behave like some tinpot dictatorship or some,

00:20:02.420 you know, Stalin-esque totalitarian state, then, you know, you're going to have to pay for it at

00:20:09.500 least. You're going to at least have to pay the legal fees for it. Absolutely. It really, these legal

00:20:14.300 battles are really not about Trump. You want to talk about not making this personal? It's not about

00:20:20.400 Trump. What are they over? Because Trump made a phone call to the Secretary of State of Georgia

00:20:24.320 because Trump handled documents in a similar way to every other president in recent memory,

00:20:28.480 including Joe Biden. Trump less egregiously mishandled classified documents than Joe Biden did

00:20:33.600 because Trump, what, because some gossip columnist says she met him in a Bergdorf Goodman 30 years ago

00:20:39.400 and ravished her. And she spoke sort of glowingly about this for a while, and she's obviously pretty

00:20:45.680 kooky. And then now you're going to get him. Are you kidding me? Are you kidding me? Absolutely not.

00:20:52.020 Absolutely not. Got to hold the government accountable for that stuff. Now, speaking of

00:20:56.480 a system being turned against normal people, Elon Musk was over in Poland yesterday with a friend of

00:21:04.000 mine. There's a fella I know by the name of Ben Shapiro. They were over there touring Auschwitz.

00:21:09.760 And then afterward, they had a conversation. And Elon made the claim that DEI is anti-Semitic.

00:21:20.560 The diversity and equity inclusion. You should always be wary of any name that sounds like it

00:21:27.380 could come out of a George Orwell book. That's never a good sign. Because it sounds like, sure,

00:21:34.680 diversity, equity, inclusion, these all sound like nice words. But what it really means is

00:21:39.940 discrimination on the basis of race, sex, and sexual orientation. And it's against merit.

00:21:49.520 And thus, I think, is fundamentally anti-Semitic.

00:21:53.380 Fundamentally anti-Semitic. Some people saw that as a non-sequitur. I do not. I think

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00:24:21.300 Elon says diversity, equity, and inclusion, D-E-I, is anti-Semitic. Totally agree. Totally agree with 1.00

00:24:31.180 them. It is because the Jews have done very well. The Jews perform very well. They succeed at very

00:24:39.800 high levels. You could be the most Jew-hating anti-Semite in the world. You have to admit, 0.98

00:24:46.480 they've been pretty successful over the millennia, haven't they?

00:24:52.280 If you're a Christian, surely you would say the Jews are obviously a gifted people. What other people 1.00

00:24:56.640 could bring forth the Virgin Mary? What other people would bring forth our Lord and Savior?

00:25:01.180 The Lord and Savior, the Lord of Lord and King of Kings, Master of the Universe. No other people.

00:25:07.000 And even if you're less religiously inclined, you look and you see the Jews do very well in all these

00:25:11.840 industries. They score very well on IQ tests. So D-E-I, which says that we need to factor in

00:25:20.640 other things. We need to prioritize other things than merit and work and success and IQ and blah,

00:25:27.800 blah, blah. That's going to be effectively anti-Semitic. You saw this in university admissions

00:25:33.500 in the U.S. a hundred years ago. There were Jewish quotas because the Jews were getting into the schools

00:25:37.500 too much. But you wouldn't say that D-E-I is just anti-Semitic. You would say it's also anti-Asian,

00:25:45.000 because Asians share a lot of those attributes as well. Certainly in affirmative action,

00:25:51.840 you would say that that's anti-Asian. We just had a major court case about this,

00:25:56.420 that the schools say, oh, yeah, you've done very well on your SAT. You've scored very well. You're

00:26:00.000 the valedictorian. Yeah, but you're Asian. So sorry, we're going to give your spot in a university 1.00

00:26:05.180 to someone of a more privileged race than you are. Ironically, we're going to say they're a less 0.97

00:26:10.240 privileged race. So we're going to give them a special privilege and they're going to take your spot. 1.00

00:26:13.080 Sorry. So you'd say it's anti-Asian. You could make all of those claims. The one thing you can't

00:26:19.880 say is that it's anti-white. That's the weird part. Because white people also do pretty well. 0.79

00:26:26.600 You know, historically, they've done pretty well on the statistics and they score well on the tests

00:26:30.260 and everything. But you're not allowed to say that D-E-I is anti-white. That's not one of the

00:26:35.260 reasons for which you can criticize it. Anti-Semitic, that's okay. Anti-Asian, that's okay. 0.99

00:26:41.720 Anti-white, not so much. It's even deeper than that. It's not only that you can't do anything 0.59

00:26:51.540 about these policies that explicitly discriminate against white people because they are white in

00:26:58.700 hiring, in university admissions, in promotions, in everything. You can't even talk about it.

00:27:04.940 You can't even mention it. Unless you are willing to suffer social consequences for it. Unless you

00:27:13.460 work for a company that lets you speak your opinion. I work for a conservative company.

00:27:18.360 My job is to state my opinion. And I have accepted the fact that I will incur social ostracization

00:27:24.600 and all sorts of calumny in the press for stating simple truths. I have accepted that. And so in my job,

00:27:30.500 I'm allowed to at least point out that these policies explicitly and intentionally discriminate

00:27:36.780 against white people. But if you're a middle manager at some company, you can't really say

00:27:41.540 that. You could lose your job. If you're at a university and you're just trying to get a good

00:27:45.180 grade and graduate, you can't really say that too openly or you will be discriminated against.

00:27:50.660 If you work for the government, oh my goodness. If you work for a university and you ever said that,

00:27:55.740 you would lose your job in two seconds. That is a major political problem.

00:28:01.240 I agree. I just think Elon is scratching the surface here when he says, yeah, DEI is anti-Semitic.

00:28:07.160 It totally is. And that is one of the reasons to oppose it. And these sorts of policies are anti-Asian.

00:28:14.240 Yeah, that's true. That's another reason to oppose it. And it's anti-white. I consider that a pretty 0.94

00:28:20.460 big reason to oppose it. And we have a political climate right now where you're not even allowed

00:28:28.900 to mention that. It is so not only legally acceptable to discriminate against white people, 0.53

00:28:35.380 but socially encouraged to malign white people all the time. That if you ever speak up and say,

00:28:42.100 hey, maybe we shouldn't legally discriminate against them, you'll be called a Nazi for that.

00:28:47.060 But that is actually a deeper political problem than the direct effects of any of these DEI

00:28:54.620 policies. Say yes and, Elon. Yes and, but it's so much worse than all that.

00:29:01.400 Now, speaking of racial politics, Nikki Haley, theoretically the last Republican other than 0.93

00:29:08.060 Donald Trump in the primary, in the lead up to New Hampshire on NBC News, has played the race card.

00:29:13.480 We were the only Indian family in our small southern town. I was teased every day for being brown.

00:29:24.460 So anyone that wants to question it can go back and look at what I've said on how hard it was to

00:29:31.100 grow up in the deep south as a brown girl. Anybody can look at my record and see when Walter Scott was

00:29:38.160 shot down by a dirty cop, how I made sure that the Walter Scott family didn't suffer because we put the

00:29:45.220 first body camera bill in the country in place. Anybody can look at the fact that when we had nine

00:29:50.840 amazing souls die in Mother Emanuel Church, I did something that no Republican or Democrat ever wanted

00:29:56.760 to touch, which was call for the Confederate flag to come down because it would take two thirds of the

00:30:01.680 House and Senate and was an impossible feat. I don't know what you're implying with that, but

00:30:06.700 what I will tell you is saying that I had black friends is a source of pride. Saying that I had

00:30:12.320 white friends is a source of pride.

00:30:14.860 You know, I really like Nikki Haley personally and I like a lot of the candidates in this race and

00:30:22.140 all of the candidates at some point will say something that's a little hyperbolic or that

00:30:26.280 I don't quite believe. And I got to tell you, I'm a little skeptical that Ambassador Haley was

00:30:33.940 bullied every single day of her life as a child for being brown. And the reason I'm a little skeptical

00:30:40.960 is had she not told me, I would not know that Nikki Haley was brown. She's very light-skinned. 1.00

00:30:48.400 Her parents are Indian. They're Punjabi. So that's Northern India where there are a lot of people who

00:30:52.940 are very light-skinned. And I'm not even saying that no one ever made a comment about it when she

00:30:57.000 was a kid. Probably someone did at some point. Maybe someone figured it out. But every day she

00:31:05.020 was bullied for being brown. I'm a little skeptical. Why is Ambassador Haley saying this? I suspect she's

00:31:12.260 saying this because she's doing an interview on NBC and they're accusing her of being a racist like

00:31:17.600 they do to every single Republican. And this is her natural reaction. And this is the natural reaction

00:31:22.100 of many, many Republicans. Nikki Haley is far from alone in this kind of a response. But I think this

00:31:27.380 kind of response is ill-advised. Because what this response amounts to is accepting the leftist

00:31:34.600 framing. Nikki Haley, are you racist? I'm not racist. I'm oppressed. I hear this all the time.

00:31:41.460 One time I was in Washington, D.C. and the black Hebrew Israelites were on the street. They're the ones 1.00

00:31:45.760 who scream out and they say white people are the devil and they're disgusting and they're demons and 1.00

00:31:50.200 the ice people and whatever. They have all these crazy racial theories. And they yell mean things 1.00

00:31:54.980 at women and all this stuff. And so I was standing in line at a coffee shop afterward. There was a gal 1.00

00:31:59.140 in front of me, this little white gal wearing a North Face jacket. And she goes, oh, did you hear

00:32:03.560 those people out there? Oh, yeah, yeah. Could you believe they called me a white devil and an awful

00:32:09.280 woman and everything? And I told them, this is crazy. I'm a woman. I'm oppressed too. 0.99

00:32:16.180 And I couldn't, I just turned away from her when I heard that. I thought, lady, you took,

00:32:21.760 you've taken exactly the wrong lesson from this. You're trying to play a game that you will certainly

00:32:26.720 lose. First of all, young affluent white girl in a North Face in Washington, D.C., you're not oppressed,

00:32:33.980 okay, at all, at all. By historical standards, you are the least oppressed human being that has

00:32:40.120 ever existed, ever. We're all oppressed by sin and the fallenness of this world. But you in particular,

00:32:48.700 uh-uh. But a lot of people think, well, look, that's just the culture right now. It's just this

00:32:57.340 race hustling oppression Olympics and I've got to play it or I'll be totally cast out. So no,

00:33:03.140 no, I'm actually oppressed somehow. There are men today. I'm not, I actually remember this starting

00:33:07.700 when I was in college. There are straight guys who will call themselves non-heterosexual. They'll

00:33:13.900 call themselves queer. They could be dating women. They could be not, they've never done anything 0.97

00:33:18.480 weird, never even tap danced, okay? And they'll say, I'm non-heterosexual or I'm queer because they

00:33:24.580 just need a struggle. You know, if you're a rich, successful white guy, you need some kind of a

00:33:29.820 struggle in this oppression Olympics. I just think it's, it's going to make you lose from the

00:33:36.920 beginning. If Nikki Haley wins by accepting and framing that the South is evil and white people 0.98

00:33:43.580 oppress the brown people and it's, you know, this is a systemically racist country. I'm not saying 0.95

00:33:48.960 she's going to go that far, but that's what she's leaning in toward in this kind of an answer. If she

00:33:52.460 does that, then even if she wins, she lost. You know, if we as Republicans do this,

00:33:57.320 then any victory will be a Pyrrhic victory because we will only have won by embracing all of the 0.86

00:34:03.960 left's premises. This is what happens when the libs or when the conservatives rather, they tout

00:34:09.100 how, you know, we, we have conservative transgender activists. You know, you don't, listen, I,

00:34:17.840 if you're a transgender activist, you don't need to be with those liberals. You can vote with us.

00:34:22.900 Well, not, not really. Right. You know, like we, if you think a man can become a woman, then

00:34:28.660 you're, you're not really conservative at all. No, no, but they support low taxes too. Okay. Well,

00:34:36.500 you know, life's about more than low taxes guys. If we just embrace all of the left's fundamental

00:34:40.540 points, then we just surrender. And even if we're in office, we're just kind of like zombies,

00:34:45.760 just doing the bidding of the left, totally infiltrated by the left possessing our minds.

00:34:50.880 Don't do that. Not, not good stuff. Now, speaking of people who have been attacked for being Brown

00:34:56.080 and I've seen it and heard it, Senator Tim Scott has just announced some happy news. He is getting

00:35:02.680 married. Senator Scott is, you know, a little bit older. He's 58 years old. Many thought he would

00:35:11.280 remain a bachelor. He's obviously a very busy guy. He's a politician. Politicians don't always have time

00:35:15.940 for a family, but he just proposed to his girlfriend, Mindy. He said, she said, yes,

00:35:21.020 Mindy, thank you for making me the luckiest man in the world. He who finds a wife finds what is good 0.92

00:35:25.800 and receives favor from the Lord. That's from Proverbs chapter 18, verse 22, as Senator Scott

00:35:33.260 tweeted out. It was great for him. He's 58. She's 47, though a lady never tells. So obviously this is a

00:35:39.660 later in life marriage, but a wonderful. I think it's terrific. And I wish the many,

00:35:43.000 many years of happiness and I've had the pleasure of meeting Senator Scott on a couple of occasions

00:35:47.000 and he's a really terrific guy. So I think that's all great. But there is a little voice inside me,

00:35:54.180 a little voice of that political cynic crying out inside me that makes me wonder, hold on a second

00:36:00.860 here. Is Senator Scott in the running to be Trump's VP? Because not everyone is called to marriage.

00:36:11.520 Senator Scott made it 58 years without getting married. And if you make it to 58 without getting

00:36:16.780 married, you probably could go the rest of your life without getting married. He's getting married

00:36:20.920 now, just after he drops out of the presidential race, before the nominee who he's endorsed picks

00:36:27.780 a running mate. Even today in our very loosey-goosey culture, I think you probably have to be married to

00:36:32.900 be a vice presidential contender. Haven't had all that many bachelors in American history,

00:36:37.320 serve as president. Is this sending signals about who Trump is going to pick? We know that Senator

00:36:44.340 Scott is in contention for it. I don't know. And maybe, I'm not saying it's totally cynical and

00:36:48.820 they're just getting married as a political arrangement or something. They might love each

00:36:52.060 other very much and I think it's good to get married. So it's all wonderful. But

00:36:54.820 if there already was chatter on the veep stakes about Senator Scott, I think the chatter

00:37:01.380 has increased in volume. My favorite comment yesterday is from Aus10C who says,

00:37:06.820 if you're going to eat pork, do it until your mouth drips. Winston Churchill. So true. 1.00

00:37:13.560 I am what I am and that's all that I am. Winston Churchill.

00:37:17.660 Churchill. That's all folks. Every quotation is Winston Churchill. People who quote Churchill

00:37:26.000 with things that he's never said in casual conversation, one usually lets it go. But if

00:37:32.380 you are a speechwriter, especially a speechwriter for a presidential campaign, no, that's not good.

00:37:38.260 You got to watch out for that, guys. Come on. Not a great look. I'm just saying it just popped

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00:38:20.720 meat for life with code DAILYWIRE. Good Ranchers, American meat delivered. Speaking of women and 1.00

00:38:28.080 politics, a trans-identifying golfer, a fella who identifies as a woman, is complaining now that

00:38:36.540 women don't want to compete against him. Of all the shots that she has hit over the years, 1.00

00:38:43.580 Hayley Davidson never expected to find herself at the center of a political storm around transgender

00:38:49.460 athletes competing against women in elite sport. For a lot of people, because you were born a man,

00:38:56.000 you clearly have an advantage. Do you accept that? Honestly, I 100% agree. You know,

00:39:01.060 the men do have advantages. You know, say you get a trans person on hormones for a year, 0.97

00:39:07.720 no surgery, nothing. Of course, for the most part, yeah, they're going to have an advantage.

00:39:13.640 I don't believe trans people should be banned from sports, but I do believe there need to be 1.00

00:39:18.040 guidelines in effect. Why do you think people have such a big problem with you competing in

00:39:23.940 women's golf in particular? I don't understand that. I don't get what the fear of me, one person,

00:39:30.600 is doing. The 31-year-old, who was the first male-born golfer to win a professional women's

00:39:36.040 event, is speaking out. I think that's why. I think, what an amazing brain arrest. What an amazing

00:39:47.800 bit of cognitive dissonance there. He says, yeah, men obviously have an advantage, and so

00:39:53.580 you know, if you haven't done all that much, and you know, you're kind of, you just started your

00:39:57.480 hormones, and you're just, yeah, obviously, you've got a huge advantage because you're a dude.

00:40:02.260 Why do you think women don't want to compete against you? Oh, I have no idea. Me, this hulking

00:40:07.540 dude sitting here, a man much larger than my male interviewer here, just a giant among men and women.

00:40:15.100 Yeah, I have no idea why women would be upset against competing against me. So-and-so, 0.95

00:40:19.660 transvestite golfer was the first fella to beat the women in golf. Oh, I think that explains it. 0.98

00:40:27.080 The first part explained it, and the second part explained it, and that's why. That's why. I'm not

00:40:31.860 a huge golfer, but when I've golfed, I've noticed that the tees for the men are further back than

00:40:39.320 where you put your tee if you're a woman, because the men are much stronger, which is why they beat the 1.00

00:40:45.420 women in the sports. By the way, this guy is not the first guy to beat women in golf. Any man who

00:40:50.020 has ever golfed against a woman has beaten a woman in golf. This guy is just the first guy to do it

00:40:56.440 while calling himself a woman, doing it in a professional competition. His answer was pretty 0.80

00:41:04.940 good, actually. His answer was pretty honest at first when he said, look, yeah, men obviously have

00:41:13.100 advantages. But where he lost it is he tried to distinguish himself and his experience from the

00:41:20.100 other undeserving trans-identifying people, where he says, well, sure, if you've only been on the

00:41:26.380 hormones for a little bit of time and you haven't chopped off some of your organs or the right organs

00:41:31.600 Yeah, then it's unfair. But for me, I'm a woman. He probably really believes it. That guy can hulk

00:41:38.100 over the male interviewer. But in his mind, because he has a form of body dysmorphia, he really thinks

00:41:44.880 he's a woman. He thinks there's no difference between him and some actual woman. So he has a 0.86

00:41:48.980 form of mental illness. I don't really blame him. So I blame him to some degree in as much as his own 0.87

00:41:55.100 behaviors might have fed into this delusion. But I mostly blame society for allowing this guy to do it

00:41:59.980 when he's obviously not in his right faculties. What he's getting at here is something that's

00:42:06.240 actually deeply American. And in small doses, it's good for Americans, but in large doses taken

00:42:12.720 to an extreme, it's really bad, which is this notion that in America, you can be whatever you

00:42:17.120 want to be. That's true. You could be a poor immigrant who comes over here with not two pennies 1.00

00:42:23.220 to rub together, and you can become a titan of industry. It's happened. You can come over here.

00:42:29.060 You can have nothing. You can come from some slum somewhere. You can rise up to the heights of 0.99

00:42:35.300 prestige and power and influence. You can. It's amazing. Basically, nowhere else on earth can that

00:42:40.900 happen. Or it's rare, at least in other places. Here it can happen. But you can't be anything.

00:42:47.480 If you're a man, you can't be a woman. There's no amount of effort that you can put in. There's no 1.00

00:42:56.980 amount of money you can spend. There's no amount of determination you can exhibit that will ever make

00:43:02.960 you a woman. There is simply a natural limitation on you, and you have to accept that, or you'll go 1.00

00:43:08.560 completely insane. The extreme version of the American ideology is one that does not respect

00:43:17.320 limits. It's good to have ambition and to push yourself and to recognize that you can do a lot.

00:43:24.480 That's good. That's the wonderful side of the American ideology. The bad side is when you think

00:43:29.580 that you're God. The bad side is when you think you have no limits whatsoever. That's crazy,

00:43:36.260 and that will lead to a great deal of confusion, as it has with this guy. There are just some things

00:43:42.120 you cannot change, and you can accept that in a spirit of resignation, and you can excel in

00:43:47.900 accordance with reality, which will lead to genuine human flourishing, or you can run up against a wall 0.78

00:43:54.080 and make yourself look ridiculous and fail at that and despair because of your failure. 0.96

00:44:02.000 Choice is yours, I guess, in America. You can do whatever you want in that regard, 0.99

00:44:05.480 but there is clearly a better choice than the other. Now, speaking of tough love, Dana White,

00:44:14.340 head of UFC, comes out, and he destroys a reporter. He didn't hold a press briefing. He held a press

00:44:23.280 beating for some reporter who questioned what sort of things UFC fighters can and cannot say.

00:44:31.360 You obviously give a long leash to your fighters about what they can say when they are up there

00:44:38.160 with a UFC microphone, and you are getting into territory of homophobia, transphobia.

00:44:43.000 Like, is there...

00:44:44.000 I don't give anybody a leash.

00:44:45.780 Well, I'm saying you...

00:44:47.280 A leash?

00:44:48.540 I'm saying...

00:44:49.220 Free speech.

00:44:51.280 Control what people say.

00:44:53.320 Going to tell people what to believe. Going to tell people...

00:44:57.000 I don't f***ing tell any other human being what to say, what to think, and there's no leashes

00:45:01.340 on any of them.

00:45:04.300 What is your question?

00:45:06.320 I was asking that question. I'll move on, though.

00:45:09.040 Yeah, probably a good idea. That's ridiculous to say I give somebody a leash.

00:45:14.060 Free speech, brother. People can say whatever they want, and they can believe whatever they want. 0.64

00:45:19.760 Good answer. Though...

00:45:22.720 It's a good answer. He destroyed this reporter.

00:45:26.140 Though...

00:45:26.820 In the reporter's defense, do we really think Dana White would be totally fine with his fighters

00:45:34.920 saying anything, or saying anything from a UFC platform?

00:45:40.660 You know, if his fighters came out and said, we need to trans all the kids.

00:45:45.800 We need to go and trans all the kids behind their parents' backs. 1.00

00:45:50.480 And, you know, he came out and he was wearing a big rainbow leotard while he said,

00:45:53.700 do you think Dana White would be totally fine with that? 0.51

00:45:55.420 What if... Take the weird sex stuff out of it.

00:45:57.800 What if a UFC fighter came out and said, we need to support ISIS. 0.99

00:46:01.280 We need death to America. 0.72

00:46:03.540 We need to support all of the terrorist regimes around the world. 0.99

00:46:08.320 And we would be much, much better off.

00:46:10.580 Forget about that even.

00:46:11.500 Do you think Dana White would support it if some UFC fighter came out and he said, 1.00

00:46:14.660 black people, they're the worst people in the world. We should kill them all. 1.00

00:46:17.320 Yeah, yeah, absolutely. That's what I said at my UFC press conference. 1.00

00:46:21.540 No, I don't think so.

00:46:22.220 I think Dana White would probably have a problem with all of those things, rightly so. 1.00

00:46:25.420 But Dana White doesn't need to worry about his fighters doing that because Dana White 0.98

00:46:30.700 has cultivated a stable and unified culture at UFC.

00:46:35.560 Everyone is broadly on the same page.

00:46:37.660 They might disagree on this issue or that issue and this thing or that thing,

00:46:40.280 but they all share basic premises.

00:46:42.600 They got the same basic attitude.

00:46:44.300 They all work together and fight together.

00:46:46.420 They all seem to get along together pretty well.

00:46:48.160 That's why it works.

00:46:49.640 That is why Dana White is able to afford his employees so much freedom of speech because it's true freedom.

00:46:58.180 These are very disciplined guys.

00:46:59.320 If you're fighting in the UFC, you are a very disciplined person, okay?

00:47:03.020 You work very hard.

00:47:04.540 You know how to control yourself.

00:47:06.000 You understand how to respect limits that are imposed by you on yourself.

00:47:09.960 That is how American free speech worked for most of our history.

00:47:14.720 The reason it broke down is because of the breakdown of the limits, ironically.

00:47:20.740 It's not that we just started imposing limits all of a sudden.

00:47:23.300 It's because of the breakdown of those self-imposed limits.

00:47:26.160 There will be order, okay?

00:47:28.580 There will be some kind of cohesion.

00:47:30.640 It will either be something cultivated and habituated from within,

00:47:35.260 or it will be imposed from without with a very heavy hand.

00:47:38.500 But there will be order.

00:47:39.440 Okay, that's our show.

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The Michael Knowles Show - January 23, 2024

Ep. 1410 - Supreme Court Allows Biden To Cut Open The Border

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