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00:00:00.000 A family court judge in the Bronx is under fire for allegedly attempting to have a menage a trois

00:00:05.240 with a mother whose case she's adjudicating. According to screenshots provided by Sydney

00:00:11.200 Sutherland, the mother in question, Judge Cynthia Lopez pinged her on an app called

00:00:16.700 3Fun, on which the judge describes herself as bisexual with a partner named Ant.

00:00:24.200 Apparently, the judge and her paramour, quote, love thick girls just as much as they love petite

00:00:30.000 girls, though, quote, at the end of the day, it's all about personality. Still, she prefers guys to,

00:00:35.740 quote, be stocky, and I will leave her other anatomical preferences to the imagination.

00:00:42.040 The mother, purportedly propositioned by the judge in her own case, responded, quote,

00:00:47.480 B-I-T-C-H, you know who the F-I-M, at which point the judge reportedly blocked her on the app.

00:00:54.220 And the mother has a long list of run-ins with the law and reportedly claims to have been married

00:00:58.400 nine times, but that doesn't excuse the judge who has since recused herself from the case,

00:01:03.760 lending some credibility to the allegations. So the mother seems nuts, but the mother isn't a

00:01:09.500 member of the New York bar. She isn't a judge. Bad enough for the mother to be on the creepy

00:01:14.480 threesome app, but a judge? I don't even care, really, that the judge asked the mother out.

00:01:20.640 That's secondary. If the allegations are true, the judge should be disbarred just for being on the

00:01:27.420 app. That's why the Bar Association has a good moral character requirement to practice law,

00:01:34.940 certainly to act as a judge. The problem is, what was once universally understood to be creepy

00:01:40.960 degeneracy is now considered by our political elite to be some sort of human right.

00:01:46.340 If the judge were disbarred for her side hustle soliciting threesomes,

00:01:52.380 she could probably sue the Bar Association for discrimination against the LGBT orgy community.

00:01:58.780 If the judge in the case, in that case, were anything like her, she would win.

00:02:03.160 Because the law is only as just as the people who practice it. And that's why today our temples of

00:02:09.940 justice more closely resemble brothels. I'm Michael Knowles. This is The Michael Knowles Show.

00:02:14.880 Welcome back to the show. President Trump is comparing himself to Elvis. We'll get to that

00:02:37.600 very important news story in a second. First, though, a much more important news story,

00:02:41.360 a long-awaited news story. Months in the making, Mayflower Cigars, baby, are not quite back in

00:02:50.100 stock, but they are available for pre-order. You know, we launched Mayflower Cigars, what is it now,

00:02:56.620 four months ago or something? And well, I guess it is almost exactly four months because we sold out

00:03:01.040 of four months of stock in 24 hours. And this shocked the cigar industry. We're working with very

00:03:06.740 prominent production and distribution partners in the cigar industry. They were completely blown away.

00:03:11.020 Even by our aggressive production plan, it sold out instantly. We got a few little dribbles of

00:03:16.840 orders that came in in the meantime. Those also sold out instantly. So we now have, I think every

00:03:24.420 single Mayflower product is available for pre-order. The order that we put in was absolutely huge. I

00:03:30.580 guess this is probably the biggest cigar launch ever in the history of tobacco, which is really great.

00:03:35.660 Thank you to all who have tried them out so far. I know there are many, many of you who have written

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00:04:35.900 what you think of them. Okay. Now, speaking of good news, we return to the topic of the law and

00:04:42.740 weird sex stuff, but we've got some good news on that front via the New York Times. Whoever thought

00:04:47.360 I would say that? New York Times op-ed came out just a couple of days ago. As kids, they thought they

00:04:55.480 were trans, they no longer do. Op-ed in the New York Times suggesting that perhaps we ought to cool

00:05:06.420 it on transing the kids. Quote, at no point during her medical transition, Powell says, they profile

00:05:14.040 some kids who got transed as kids and then regretted it. At no point during her medical or surgical

00:05:20.640 transition, did anyone ask her about the reasons behind her gender dysphoria or her depression?

00:05:25.960 At no point was she asked about her sexual orientation. At no point was she asked about

00:05:30.520 any previous trauma. And so neither the therapists nor the doctors ever learned that she'd been

00:05:34.960 sexually abused as a child. I wish there had been more open conversations, Powell, now 23 and

00:05:39.860 detransitioned, told me. But I was told there is one cure and one thing to do if this is your problem,

00:05:44.780 and this will help you. Then the Times goes on. Right-wing demagogues are not the only ones who

00:05:50.940 have inflamed this debate. Transgender activists have pushed their own ideological extremism,

00:05:55.240 especially by pressing for a treatment orthodoxy that has faced increased scrutiny in recent years.

00:05:59.540 Gee, if only someone had told us so. If only someone like perhaps those right-wing demagogues,

00:06:04.660 who are they talking about there? Something tells me yours truly might be included in that group.

00:06:11.320 If only someone had told the New York Times, right? Except we all did. And what happened when we did?

00:06:16.760 When some of us suggested that the transgender identity had much deeper psychological and

00:06:25.000 philosophical problems, and that a man can't actually become a woman, and therefore this

00:06:29.400 pernicious ideology that harms everyone it touches ought to be eradicated from public life entirely

00:06:34.580 for the good of society, and especially for the good of the poor people who've fallen prey

00:06:38.260 to this confusion. Some of us were accused of genocide by the White House. Do you remember

00:06:43.860 that? You remember when Joe Biden's spokesman, Corrine Jean-Pierre, accused me of all sorts of

00:06:49.200 nasty things from the White House podium? Do you remember when we were banned from YouTube for,

00:06:55.220 I think it was a week or more? Do you remember when all the big prominent libs in the country accused

00:07:00.560 us of all sorts of nasty things? Now it turns out, hate to say I told you so, the New York Times agrees

00:07:04.920 with us because it was obviously true. So what accounts for the shift? Did they finally just

00:07:10.160 come around to watching Matt's movie and it persuaded them? Did they finally listen to my

00:07:13.720 CPAC speech and it persuaded them? No. Emily Zanotti, my friend Emily Zanotti, who you might remember

00:07:20.500 from Daily Wire fame, she had a really incisive tweet on this, which is, I think it was Emily,

00:07:25.900 who said it was all about the trial lawyers, which some predicted early on too, that the way that this

00:07:34.700 hideous science experiment that has been performed on poor, vulnerable little kids

00:07:41.780 would come to an end is when the lawyers got involved, when the kids grew up, when they inevitably

00:07:47.940 came to regret this, when they started suing their medical providers and their parents and their teachers

00:07:52.400 and their school counselors, and when cold, hard cash entered into the picture, that's when this

00:07:57.640 would stop. And we have now, unfortunately, allowed this ideology to go on long enough that people

00:08:02.700 are beginning to get litigious. The kids who were exploited are suing and all of a sudden

00:08:09.320 people are urging a little bit of caution. If only we had urged some caution earlier,

00:08:14.260 we might have been able to save a generation of kids from mutilating themselves, castrating themselves,

00:08:19.340 giving them bone diseases, and giving themselves early death. Unfortunately, we missed out on many

00:08:24.980 years to do that, but it's never too late. Time to stop now. You got me, Matt Walsh,

00:08:31.940 the New York Times, J.K. Rowling. You got a really broad cross-section of people all pointing out that

00:08:38.460 this is barbaric and obviously evil, so just cut it out. And if you don't want to listen to all of us,

00:08:43.880 listen to the trial lawyers who are going to take you people to the cleaners if you keep pushing this

00:08:48.220 stuff. At the very least, they should be taken to the cleaners and bankrupted. Frankly,

00:08:52.460 they should be prosecuted and thrown into jail, at which point we can throw away the key.

00:08:57.740 Now, speaking of LGBT activism, some really good news from someone who's a little bit on the right,

00:09:06.000 but he's a libertarian, so he's kind of on the left and he's kind of on the right.

00:09:09.180 But I like the guy, Brad Palumbo. Brad Palumbo has a really great article out that you should check

00:09:14.680 out. If you're not familiar with Brad's work, Brad pinch hit when I was supposed to date that

00:09:20.040 trans-identifying professor at the University of Pittsburgh. And then Antifa showed up and threw

00:09:26.540 an explosive at the building. And the trans professor pulled out long before that because

00:09:30.080 he didn't want to debate me. And Brad pinch hit, which was really great of him. Anyway,

00:09:34.660 he's got a great piece. Brad is obviously very sympathetic toward a lot of LGBT activism,

00:09:39.960 but he's got a great piece that just came out called, No, There's No Epidemic of Transgender

00:09:45.060 Violence. Highly recommend you check it out. The Human Rights Campaign, which is this group

00:09:49.480 that made its symbol, the equals sign. They were advocating very strongly for redefining marriage

00:09:57.060 to include same-sex unions. And then the moment the Supreme Court gave it to them,

00:10:00.680 they instantly pivoted and became the pro-trans group because they had achieved their goal and

00:10:05.740 they didn't want the money to run out. So then they quickly became a pro-trans group. Anyway,

00:10:09.040 they had this big report on the epidemic of anti-transgender violence. And it was promoted

00:10:18.280 everywhere by the left-wing propaganda news. ABC News ran headlines about it. The USA Today,

00:10:24.040 The Hill, NBC, all of them, they got this stupid report in everywhere. But anyway,

00:10:28.420 Brad analyzed the report and he found out it's totally fake. According to the report,

00:10:34.280 the authors have identified a grand total of 33 transgender or gender non-conforming Americans

00:10:40.180 who were killed over the one-year time period ending on November 20th, 2023, which the activists

00:10:46.220 call the Transgender Day of Remembrance. Because, you see, there's this epidemic of slaughter of the

00:10:53.720 transgender people. But it turns out it's not true. By the way, that 33 people, as Brad points out,

00:10:59.040 were not killed because they were transgender. They were just killed and they happened to identify

00:11:04.860 as transgender. Which means, to quote Mr. Palumbo, if that number, 33 deaths in a nation of about 330

00:11:12.260 million people, strikes you as low by the standards of most epidemics, your impression would be correct.

00:11:17.080 HRC's own data suggests that far from being victimized by an epidemic of murderous violence,

00:11:23.060 transgender Americans are less likely to be killed than members of the population at large.

00:11:28.640 Of course. Of course. And when you dig into, by the way, the trans-identifying people who are killed

00:11:34.140 where the killing did have something to do with their identity, often it's because they're committing

00:11:39.540 other crimes and they're in even more dangerous positions. Prostitution, drugs, and the rest of it.

00:11:46.260 Everything, everything you have been told about transgenderism is a lie. Everything you have been

00:11:54.520 told by the supposedly credible authorities is a lie. There is no epidemic of violence against the

00:12:01.680 so-called transgender people. No one is attempting to commit a genocide against them. The puberty

00:12:08.500 blockers have very terrible effects for kids. These so-called treatments are not, in fact, reversible in

00:12:14.900 a lot of cases. The data do not show that these kinds of treatments, hormonal and surgical,

00:12:19.880 help trans-identifying people to overcome anxiety, depression, and suicidality. In fact, in the case of

00:12:27.040 anxiety, the largest data set we have on this, which comes out of Great Britain, shows that these so-called

00:12:31.160 gender-affirming surgeries and procedures actually make the problem worse. Right down to the central

00:12:37.280 fact of transgenderism. Transgenderism, the ideology states that a man can become a woman. That is not

00:12:43.400 possible. That will never happen. You can wish it so. You can have a bunch of scientists in a laboratory

00:12:49.020 trying to concoct some magical potion. It'll never happen. The whole thing is a lie. It should be any

00:12:55.560 of the propaganda pushed out by the pro-trans outlets should be disregarded. It should be banned

00:13:00.660 from classrooms. It should be taken out of the news media because it's so dishonest. And the ideology,

00:13:07.100 it might have taken us a year. We're coming up on my next CPAC speech. My last CPAC speech was almost

00:13:12.080 exactly a year ago and I was maligned and vilified for it for saying something that now everybody

00:13:17.560 would appear to believe or would be approaching appearing to believe is true. It's an awful

00:13:26.960 ideology, terrible for everyone. It should be totally eradicated from public life. Now, we got to talk

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00:14:41.720 and hustling, there's a racial justice advocate who's gone viral, thanks to our friend over there

00:14:46.540 at Libs of TikTok. She's gone viral for explaining to her audience why showing up on time is white

00:14:55.640 supremacy. As a racial justice advocate, I'm often invited to give talks or to do workshops where I

00:15:00.820 talk to white people about race. A big part of my practice is to offer real life stories, examples,

00:15:05.720 that type of thing that help white people to be able to identify white supremacy in everyday life.

00:15:10.000 My husband's family is white, and I often use the cultural differences between my family and his

00:15:13.700 family as a way to help white people see their whiteness. There's one example that I use that always

00:15:18.880 gets a ton of pushback. My husband and I were late to our first Thanksgiving with his family.

00:15:23.460 I say late because it started at 12. We got there at 1210, but whenever we got there at 1210,

00:15:29.160 everybody was already sat down and eating. I didn't know that. I use this illustration to

00:15:33.700 point out that different cultures have different understandings of time, lateness, and what it means

00:15:37.720 to be polite. Without fail, a white person will push back and say that lateness is impolite.

00:15:42.300 I always use this as a teachable moment. I usually ask a series of pointed questions that challenge

00:15:46.660 their assumptions. Sometimes it takes a lot of work, but by the end, they're able to identify how

00:15:50.760 white cultural dominance works in this one small area of life, which opens the door for them to

00:15:54.680 start peeling the onion. Okay, we've all seen this video a million times. Not this exact video,

00:16:00.660 but versions of this video with versions of this woman. So what's it about? Why? Why are people

00:16:08.260 being so mean to the white people? Why is it so real? Now you're saying that just showing up on time

00:16:13.220 is white supremacy. Why? Why is this woman doing this? You know why this woman's doing this?

00:16:18.440 Because her white audience wants her to. That's why. Really, we cannot blame the black people,

00:16:27.360 even the BLM activists for this. They are giving their audience what they want. Who is this woman's

00:16:32.840 audience? This woman's audience is liberal white people. Her job is to go to liberal white people

00:16:37.860 and make them feel guilty, and then they pay her money for that. It's like a dominatrix who has a

00:16:44.980 bunch of weirdo clients who want her to beat them up or so whip them with chains or something. That's

00:16:50.480 what this is. And she gives the audience what they want. The customer is always right.

00:16:55.800 This woman obviously doesn't hate white people because this woman's husband is white. Or at the

00:17:02.800 very least, the woman's husband was adopted by a white family, right? She says, my husband's family

00:17:08.840 is white, which means either he's white or he's adopted, and he's culturally white. Either way,

00:17:13.840 though, she's got a lot of familiarity with white culture and white people, and she involves herself

00:17:19.680 in them. She probably spends most of her time with white people because the people she works with are

00:17:23.400 white, and the people that she has her romantic life with are broadly white. So it's not that she hates

00:17:30.960 that. She's mow-mowing the flat catchers because they're asking her to. That's what this is really

00:17:35.060 about. This is about a masochistic perversion. And, you know, we talk a lot about perversions in our

00:17:44.340 culture because we live in a very perverted and decadent time. But this is just another example of

00:17:48.320 it. This is just another example of people desiring something that is harmful to them, ultimately bad for

00:17:58.000 them, but they want it anyway. Just like someone who's a bit fat wants more candy bars than he ought to

00:18:04.500 have, just like someone who is sexually decadent wants all sorts of sterile and hedonistic sexual

00:18:12.280 activities, so too with the racial grievance. This is entirely about masochistic white. If the white

00:18:21.720 people stopped being masochistic, if the white liberals stopped feeling guilty for the color of

00:18:25.640 their skin, this whole industry would disappear overnight. All of the BLM stuff, all the Georgia,

00:18:31.220 it would disappear overnight. But it's still here because the audience wants it. Okay, so we focused

00:18:39.560 on the really important news stories, the fact that Mayflower cigars are back in stock, the racial

00:18:46.320 grievance lady, some weird transgender stuff. Now let's focus on a much less newsworthy news item. The

00:18:52.880 United States is bombing Iraq and Syria. I almost didn't even include it in the show because it's like

00:19:01.220 Yeah, we're bombing. Of course we're bombing Iraq and Syria. Every US president has to bomb Iraq and

00:19:07.140 Syria. For my entire life, every single US president has bombed Iraq or Syria. They've all bombed Iraq

00:19:18.160 with maybe the exception of Trump. I know Trump bombed Syria. I guess he probably bombed Iraq,

00:19:23.140 right when he was wiping out ISIS. George H.W. Bush, Clinton, Bush 2, Obama, Trump, Biden. So okay,

00:19:34.060 we're bombing Iraq and Syria. Why are we bombing Iraq and Syria? Because we want to hit Iran. But we

00:19:39.300 don't really want to hit Iran, but we kind of want to hit Iran. So this is according to CENTCOM,

00:19:44.580 the US Central Command. At 4 p.m. Eastern, February 2nd, US Central Command forces conducted airstrikes

00:19:51.500 in Iraq and Syria against Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, Quds Force, and

00:19:58.100 affiliated militia groups. US military forces struck more than 85 targets, with numerous aircraft to

00:20:04.840 include long-range bombers flown from the US. We deployed more than 125 precision munitions.

00:20:10.940 The facilities that were struck included command and control ops, centers, intel centers,

00:20:17.860 rockets, missiles, unmanned aerial vehicle storages. The list goes on and on. Okay.

00:20:23.700 I guess that's fine because Iran's proxies attacked a US base and killed three US troops

00:20:30.240 and injured many more. And we know that Iran-backed terrorists have been targeting US ships and trying

00:20:38.120 to shut down trade. So we're going to strike them back. Okay. I really don't want to go to war with

00:20:43.580 Iran, but in principle, I understand the notion of retaliating here or establishing deterrence.

00:20:48.660 The problem is this doesn't do that. We told Iran we were going to do this ahead of time.

00:20:55.720 We said, yeah, we don't really want to kill any of your guys. We just want to take out some of the

00:21:01.320 munitions. We need to retaliate somehow. Look, we'll start giving you pallets of cash again soon,

00:21:06.200 but we're looking pretty bad here and it's an election year. So can you just, is it cool?

00:21:10.520 It's going to be this time and here. So make sure you evacuate and get all your stuff that you need

00:21:15.280 to pack up. We'll give you a few days and then we're going to hit it. Is that okay?

00:21:19.720 Ayatollah, is that fine? It's just so pathetic because it's the worst possible strategy.

00:21:26.440 Trump was basically a dove, except when he would just blow things up randomly.

00:21:30.660 Trump did not want war. He was very reluctant to use military force and then he would take out

00:21:37.020 Iran's top general and everyone would just be on edge. All of our enemies would just think,

00:21:42.020 you know, I'm going to hold off for a little bit. Even Putin, Putin probably figured there was a 95%

00:21:48.280 chance Trump would not do anything. But Trump reportedly told Putin, hey, look, if you further

00:21:53.320 invade Ukraine, I'm going to blow up Moscow. And I'm sure Putin was thinking, he's probably bluffing.

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00:24:35.620 the best way to treat your Valentine and to treat yourself. Speaking of the Biden foreign policy,

00:24:44.240 it would appear to be going from bad to worse. Biden's National Security Advisor, Jake Sullivan,

00:24:50.520 has now outlined the Biden administration plan for long-term peace in the Middle East.

00:24:55.720 What is the endgame here? Do you see any prospect at all? He seems to have been ruling it out,

00:25:00.100 Prime Minister Netanyahu, of some kind of a long-term deal that leads to a Palestinian state.

00:25:05.620 Well, the U.S. position on this is very straightforward. The only long-term answer

00:25:10.320 to peace in the region, to Israel's security in the region, is a two-state solution with Israel's

00:25:16.660 security guaranteed, a Palestinian state that also has security guarantees for Israel. That's what we're

00:25:22.460 going to keep working for. We were doing that before October 7th. I think since October 7th,

00:25:27.080 the need to work on that has only increased. And we would like to deliver an outcome over time that

00:25:34.220 has eluded administrations of both parties for decades that is in the best interest,

00:25:39.600 we believe, of everyone in the region and in the wider world.

00:25:42.460 What is this guy talking about? I know he's saying a lot of words, and they're the same kind of words

00:25:49.380 that you read in the New York Times and that you hear in NPR and that, I guess, that you hear on

00:25:54.960 ABC News. But what does this mean? Well, obviously, the long-term solution for peace in the Middle East

00:26:00.260 is a two-state solution in Israel-Palestine. Yeah, how? How? How do you think that's going to work?

00:26:05.640 Palestine, the Palestinian people, for whom I have great sympathy, they feel like they're up against

00:26:15.560 a wall. And so they elected a cartoonishly evil terrorist group to be its government. And the

00:26:22.000 terrorist group in its charter says that we're going to destroy the state of Israel. There will

00:26:26.860 be no state of Israel. So that's the Palestinian position. Now, the Israeli position is that these

00:26:33.480 people elected Hamas, and they want to destroy the state of Israel, and they're going to keep

00:26:38.300 attacking us and doing pogroms and things like that. So we want Gaza, and frankly, we want the

00:26:44.260 West Bank too. That's the Israeli position. They want the whole area. Both groups want the whole area,

00:26:49.980 okay? And neither side is willing to concede anything, and neither side believes that any

00:26:57.340 concession at all will help them. It will only hurt them because the long-term goals are the

00:27:03.300 same. So what's the two-state solution? Also, how is the two-state solution going to satisfy the

00:27:11.900 Palestinian people? A two-state solution is not going to get the Palestinians their land back.

00:27:16.180 If the point of view of the Palestinians is these Israelis had no right to come in when the UN

00:27:20.500 established the state of Israel, and they took our land, and we want it back, then there's no

00:27:24.540 two-state solution that's ever going to accomplish that. Also, how are you going to have a two-state

00:27:27.600 solution when you've got two parts of your country separated by another country, the Gaza and the

00:27:31.700 West Bank? It's just pie in the sky. It's ridiculous. I have a great deal of sympathy for

00:27:36.680 the Israelis. I have a great deal of sympathy for the Palestinians, actually. The group I don't have

00:27:41.840 sympathy for are these liberal utopians who just keep making these stupid

00:27:47.360 inclinations, these stupid little platitudes about how here's how we have peace in the Middle East,

00:27:56.720 by giving each side nothing that they actually want and just putting off an inevitable conflict

00:28:02.700 again. It's just so childish. It's unbelievable. And these are supposed to be the adults in the

00:28:07.820 room. When Trump got elected, we heard, oh, he's going to bring another war in the Middle East.

00:28:12.360 Oh, no, Trump, he's going to bring on World War III. And what happened? We got the period

00:28:16.760 of greatest peace in the Middle East in my lifetime. We got the Abraham Accords. We got

00:28:24.600 the Saudis sitting down with the Israelis. Who thought that was going to happen? It was working

00:28:28.520 pretty well. But now we're back to business as usual. And business as usual is going to be more

00:28:33.260 and more war in the Middle East. All the while they tell you, this is the only path to peace. Give me a

00:28:38.800 break. Now, speaking of Joe Biden, some good news. Joe Biden has the lowest January approval rating

00:28:45.280 of any president in an election year ever recorded. This is according to a CNN poll.

00:28:52.160 Biden's popularity is 38%. That is five points below where Trump was in January of 2020. And

00:28:59.500 we're told that Trump lost the 2020 election, remember? So by how much more will Joe Biden

00:29:05.040 lose the 2024 election? Right? Right? Maybe not. Biden's popularity is nine points worse than Obama's

00:29:11.600 at the same point in his tenure. So this should make us feel really good. And to some degree,

00:29:15.280 it does. Here's the problem. I was in Los Angeles last week. I was doing a lot of episodes of the

00:29:22.740 PragerU Book Club, which will be coming out soon. And I was doing another PragerU five-minute video.

00:29:26.520 I have another five-minute video that just came out this week on President Chester Alan Arthur,

00:29:30.880 one of our nation's most underrated presidents. Then I went up to Santa Barbara. I did the Whatever

00:29:35.200 podcast. You can catch my three-hour debate with some feminists. It was three-to-one feminists versus

00:29:42.240 me on the Whatever Show. That was three hours. And then there was a six-hour dating podcast. So you're

00:29:47.360 going to have a week's worth of viewing. But while I was up there, I had lunch with my friend Alan

00:29:53.320 Estrin. And he runs PragerU. And he made a brilliant point. The brilliant point was Republicans are very

00:30:01.840 concerned with getting votes. So we say, okay, this policy proposal, this alliance is going to help us

00:30:08.340 with this community. And we're going to win over here. And this is how we're going to perform better

00:30:12.020 among the working class in this state and blah, blah, blah. Democrats are not concerned with getting

00:30:18.900 votes. The Democrats' priority is getting ballots. So when the Democrats are pushing for their

00:30:25.960 election shenanigans, it's always to destroy voter ID. It's always to increase voter registration,

00:30:35.340 even potentially of non-citizens. It's always to permit ballot harvesting. It's always to place

00:30:44.080 ballot drop-off boxes, often illegally far away from the county clerks. It's always to have

00:30:52.940 widespread mail-ins for longer periods of time with this, that, and the other thing.

00:30:58.120 The Republicans are concerned with votes. The Democrats are concerned with ballots.

00:31:02.920 Guess which wins elections? Now, you might say, okay, well, this time they're not going to have

00:31:06.520 COVID as an excuse. Sure. But a lot of the COVID, quote-unquote, COVID measures that they put into

00:31:12.880 place to rig the election last time, a lot of them are still in place. Have we done anything to fix that?

00:31:19.500 Mark Zuckerberg invested a ton of money into liberal organizations that practically took over

00:31:26.100 mail-in voting, practically took over a lot of the elections in 2020, in some cases in violation of the

00:31:34.000 law. Have we fixed that? No. So I feel good about this poll. I'm glad to hear that Biden's doing much,

00:31:42.320 much worse than Trump was the year that Biden supposedly beat Trump. But is it really all

00:31:48.220 about the popularity polls, or is it more about ballots? I'm pleased to see that the GOP is doing

00:31:54.660 a lot more this time around for get-out-the-vote efforts. TPUSA action has been working very hard.

00:32:00.720 Charlie Kirk's been working very hard to increase turnout among conservatives. But we still have that

00:32:07.560 fundamental distinction that Alan pointed out very wisely. Votes and ballots, what are we going to do

00:32:14.480 to get those ballots? Or more to the point, to keep the Democrats from having control over them.

00:32:22.500 Speaking of Trump, a lot of people are scratching their heads over a Trump truth social post that came

00:32:31.300 out yesterday. And it was a picture. Half the screen is Elvis Presley, and half the screen is Donald

00:32:38.980 Trump. And the tweet, it says, lots of people have said that I look a lot like Elvis. For so many

00:32:51.200 years, many people have been saying that. What do you think? People are scratching. What? What is he even

00:32:59.120 talking about? This is, beyond policy, this is my favorite part of Trump's political style.

00:33:07.120 Because this kind of a post is funny, it's weird, and it's totally disarming.

00:33:16.940 The libs have to respond to it. It drives them crazy. And they have to call him an idiot,

00:33:21.460 and they have to call him distracted. But the thing that the libs are most upset about when it comes to

00:33:26.560 these sorts of posts, and Trump makes them all the time, is that it makes it much harder for them to

00:33:32.020 portray Trump as Hitler. This levity, this kind of bizarre little show, it makes it very hard.

00:33:41.760 Hitler doesn't make a post like that. Hitler never does the picture where it's half Hitler,

00:33:46.500 half Elvis, or half, I don't know. I don't know who the singer would be in those days.

00:33:49.800 Half, I actually don't know who it would be, the Mills brothers or something, probably not.

00:33:57.060 That doesn't happen, right? Trump has this bit of levity. And this is something that a lot of the

00:34:03.100 critics that Trump has driven mad don't really understand, is that they see Trump as being this

00:34:09.300 totally narcissistic, self-serious guy. He's not self-serious at all. And even below that level

00:34:16.420 of braggadocio, you know, he puts his name in gold letters on buildings, and he talks about how great

00:34:20.160 he is. Below that, Trump seems to me to demonstrate more humility than most politicians. I was reminded

00:34:28.440 of this when the Brett Kavanaugh hearing was going on. And remember Justice Kavanaugh, he was asked about

00:34:37.320 a party he went to in high school when he was 16 or something. They said, did you drink beer in high

00:34:42.520 school, Justice Kavanaugh? And he said, oh, I like beer. Yeah, I drink beer. And they asked President

00:34:47.220 Trump about this. And he gave what I felt was the perfect answer. I can honestly say I never had a

00:34:53.300 beer in my life, okay? Right. It's one of my only good traits. I don't drink. Whenever they're looking

00:35:00.080 for something good, I say, I never had a glass of alcohol. I've never had alcohol. I've just, you know,

00:35:04.080 for whatever reason. Can you imagine if I had what a mess I'd be? Would I be the, I'd be the world's

00:35:09.900 worst? It's a great line. And you hear a lot of those kinds of lines from Trump, right? Which

00:35:16.560 I'm the greatest, I'm the smartest, only I can save the country. But then you get this bit, he goes,

00:35:21.580 look, I can say, I'm probably the only president can say I've never had beer in my life. That's the

00:35:27.120 only good thing you can say about me. It's my only good trait. Could you imagine if I had beer? I'd be

00:35:32.200 the worst. I'd be, could you imagine, right? That's an example of humility. It's self-effacing.

00:35:39.420 A lot of the braggadocio is just the New Yorkers are better able to spot this kind of thing from

00:35:48.000 Trump. I remember in 2016, when Trump came onto the scene really as a prominent candidate and

00:35:53.400 everyone in the conservative movement hated him, Drew Clavin and I were two of the only people who

00:35:57.320 said, oh, I don't know, he's kind of, he's kind of funny. I kind of like him. No coincidence,

00:36:01.160 I think, that Drew and I both grew up in New York. And this is how New Yorkers talk.

00:36:06.580 And it's, it's just, it's fun. I like it. The weird Elvis post, it reveals the man to be human.

00:36:12.680 That, that post was not written by political consultants, okay? He was probably just batting

00:36:18.900 it around one day, even if it were written by political consultants. It's, it's funny. It's weird.

00:36:24.960 It's, it's just, it's not the kind of thing that any other politician posts. It makes you think

00:36:29.540 this guy's human. We know he writes his own tweets back when he was on Twitter. We know he writes a

00:36:33.960 lot of this, all caps, the misspellings, talking about Mika Brzezinski's face. And you, you might

00:36:38.760 say, well, that's not disciplined. It's not focused on the message. Yeah, whatever. At least I know I'm

00:36:42.620 talking to a human being. And that goes a long way in politics. And whether you love the guy or

00:36:47.540 whether you hate the guy, a lot of career politicians have tried to ape that style in

00:36:53.800 recent years, unsuccessfully. That is a, that is a kind of political talent that you pretty much

00:37:00.760 cannot learn. So I'm just trying to give you a little window into Trump's political skill. And

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00:38:29.500 full offer details. My favorite comment yesterday is from Gary Lancaster8612 who says, I don't blame that

00:38:36.320 young woman. Oh, this is the woman who was complaining about having to work 40 hours a week and

00:38:40.940 she didn't have money for rent. She didn't have time to do anything. I don't blame that young

00:38:44.280 woman for being upset. She's been promised all sorts, but now is working full-time and her post-rent

00:38:48.660 income is less than 400 bucks a month. Yeah, I agree. I agree. I know a number of conservatives just

00:38:54.160 made fun of her and said, you know, quit your bellyache and snowflake. You know, I would have

00:38:59.300 to walk uphill both ways in the snow to go to work for 400 hours a week and whatever, you know, but I

00:39:04.220 have a great deal of sympathy for her, actually, even a degree of empathy. Yeah, she was promised a bunch of

00:39:10.220 lies and she was told to order her life in a certain way that's unnatural and contrary to her

00:39:15.280 happiness. And the political economy has also been arranged in such a way that is contrary to the

00:39:20.420 happiness of a lot of people. And I think it's fair to recognize that that's wrong. If we recognize,

00:39:26.120 if we conservatives recognize that something about the political status quo is not quite right,

00:39:31.220 then we should be gratified when young people are recognizing the same thing that we're recognizing.

00:39:37.260 that, right, they're on our side. You're right, we should change something about the way

00:39:42.460 the political economy is structured. Now, speaking of the presidential race,

00:39:47.460 Nikki Haley is in a little bit of hot water because Nikki's campaign posted a couple of pictures

00:39:54.500 reportedly of notes that she has received, letters of encouragement she's received. So one of them

00:40:02.100 supposedly from Mary A., and you can see the picture, it's on lined notebook, ruled and lined

00:40:08.920 notebook paper like you would have had in fifth grade or something years ago. I don't even know

00:40:14.100 if kids still use notebooks. They probably just use tablets and computers. And it's written in a font.

00:40:20.520 This was obviously typed, but it's supposed to be handwritten, I guess. And it says,

00:40:26.900 I want to encourage Nikki Haley to keep pressing on, three exclamation marks, all curiously exactly

00:40:32.760 identical because it's clearly a font. We need a competent and committed leader to stay the course

00:40:39.580 in the bid for the presidency. I'm an independent and I voted for the best candidate every election

00:40:44.180 cycle on this year. It's Nikki. And another identical exclamation point, Mary A. Then the next note that

00:40:54.040 the Haley campaign posted is even more embarrassing. It's in an email box and it says, to Nikki Haley,

00:41:01.360 subject blank. And it says, please do not give up the fight, all caps. In a world that's become crazy

00:41:09.060 with strife, we need a level-headed conservative leader to navigate us through the insanity. No one is

00:41:13.400 more capable than you are to right the ship and heal this great nation. We need you, Nikki. This

00:41:17.740 country needs you. Our allies and the beautiful people of this world need you. I don't want to

00:41:21.780 see you give up. And I guarantee you there are millions more out of there who feel exactly as I

00:41:25.660 do. Michael B. And then you get to the bottom and you see the send button. So you realize this is

00:41:32.800 not an email that one has received. It's an email that one has composed. And obviously the two Nikki

00:41:41.380 Haley, you know, there'd probably be an email address in there. And this was just written by

00:41:45.860 some campaign flag for Nikki. And it's really not only embarrassing, but it's really, really

00:41:53.020 transparent. Now they're trying to do damage control and they're posting pictures and screenshots that

00:41:59.120 at least look somewhat more legitimate. But it really sad. I've said from the beginning,

00:42:05.640 Nikki Haley is a very skilled politician. Look, she's made it to the last person in the race other

00:42:09.460 than Donald Trump. And she was successful as the governor of South Carolina. And then

00:42:14.200 she was pretty centrist there, more from the liberal side of the Republican Party.

00:42:18.400 And then she ends up working as Trump's UN ambassador. She was very popular in that role,

00:42:22.640 including among the conservative side of the party. Then she leaves and Trump said nice things

00:42:27.440 about her. And then she turned on Trump. Then she embraced Trump again. Then she turned on him.

00:42:30.620 And she's very skilled at it. It takes a very good politician to be able to do all of that.

00:42:35.480 Her campaign is not very skilled, I'm afraid. And I don't even know that this is entirely their fault

00:42:43.020 or her fault. Nikki Haley is going to have an increasingly difficult time attracting good

00:42:49.160 campaign talent because there is no path for her to win the presidency. Even a lightning bolt from a

00:42:55.480 Democrat or from the sky against Donald Trump still would not give her the nomination because the RNC

00:43:01.640 would probably just give it to someone else who's more from the Trump side of the party,

00:43:05.040 not from the Nikki Haley side of the party. She's made herself, by running in the only lane that was

00:43:10.780 available to her, she's made herself the candidate of a minority of Republicans.

00:43:16.000 So even Trump, God forbid, falling out of this race, it wouldn't give her the nomination.

00:43:23.660 Now, I still think there's a good argument for her to continue to run. It makes her the leader

00:43:27.840 of the liberal or establishment wing of the party, which is something, makes her essentially George

00:43:32.820 H.W. Bush in 1980. It gives her, I don't know, it'll raise her speaking fees. It'll get her a

00:43:38.560 bigger book advance. It will give her some more influence in politics. It'll probably get her on

00:43:43.820 the board of more companies. And so there's plenty of reason for her to stay in. She's still got money.

00:43:48.700 And as a wise political friend told me, the only reason that presidential campaigns ever end is

00:43:55.640 because they ran out of money. And she's still got money. She got that Cook Network money.

00:43:59.460 So she'll stay in for a while. But there's not much reason for campaign workers to support her

00:44:05.480 bid, other than to just get a quick buck. But you don't work on a political campaign to make money,

00:44:09.900 because there's actually not that much money in it. Some of the TV consultants can make some money.

00:44:14.180 But really, the reason that you work hard on a presidential campaign is so that you can get an

00:44:18.500 appointment once the person becomes president or vice president or cabinet secretary.

00:44:21.760 And that's just not going to happen here. So expect more errors from the Haley campaign. It's just

00:44:27.800 kind of in the cards. Okay, speaking of women, J.K. Rowling, the author of Harry Potter, has been

00:44:34.160 accused of transphobia. And a teacher just gave a master class in how to handle that kind of

00:44:41.600 accusation. This from one of his students. We're going to treat this as a thought experiment. I'm not

00:44:47.120 going to say what's right or wrong or which way to think. The whole point is to learn how to think,

00:44:50.760 not what to think. Yeah, yeah. So when you say bigot, you're starting with the conclusion that

00:44:55.060 given her bigoted opinions. Yeah. So first, let's start with, does she have bigoted opinions? So

00:45:00.860 when you say bigoted opinions. She has had a history of being extremely transphobic, I've heard.

00:45:06.440 And you've heard. So what, can you give me an example? In 2019, she said, dress however you please,

00:45:12.760 call yourself whatever you like. Sleep with any consenting adult who will have you live your best

00:45:20.640 life in peace and security, but force women out of their jobs for stating that sex is real.

00:45:29.640 So you find that bigoted? What do you find about it?

00:45:32.900 It was, it was deemed transphobic. Like I, myself, do you find that transphobic yourself?

00:45:40.980 Uh, I don't really have an opinion on it, but I'm just going with what a lot of other people have

00:45:46.960 said. So let's pause it. Let's not go with what other people are saying. Let's try and learn how to

00:45:51.560 critically think. So let's analyze the tweet ourselves. So that statement, do you see anything

00:45:56.940 problematic? Disregarding other people's opinions? Is that transphobic to you? So to me, no. Like you

00:46:06.940 said at the beginning of this conversation, you said, given the fact that JK Rowling is transphobic,

00:46:12.560 how do you feel about Harry Potter? Now, retroactively looking at that statement,

00:46:17.440 do you think that that was the best way to phrase? No, I feel like an idiot now.

00:46:21.880 Beautiful, beautifully done. The whole video is much longer. It's four, four and a half minutes

00:46:25.920 worth taking a look. It's very simple what he does though. What this teacher does is what all

00:46:31.900 of us should do when we're speaking to people who are just totally programmed by the liberal

00:46:37.700 establishment. And that's to ask, why do you think that? Well, everybody knows that. Oh, I don't know.

00:46:46.460 Maybe I'm a dumb. Maybe I'm a little bit stupid. Why do you think that? Well, uh, hmm.

00:46:52.260 Um, cause she said this, right. Do you think that? No, I guess you're right. But it was deemed,

00:46:58.460 yeah, forget about what other people say. What do you think? What do you think? Why? Why do you

00:47:02.180 think that? Why do you think that? Why do you think that? I don't mean to sound condescending

00:47:08.140 to our liberal friends. They could be otherwise intelligent people, but the vast majority of them

00:47:14.560 have no idea why they think what they think they think. And in part, the reason for that is they

00:47:20.140 are not required to analyze their own views in a culture that is totally dominated by their fellow

00:47:25.780 travelers. Conservatives have to examine every single one of our views. This is why the conservatives who

00:47:31.920 go to liberal colleges tend to have read a little bit more, tend to have thought a little bit more

00:47:37.120 about their views because they have to, because the ideological bullets are flying every single day.

00:47:41.560 Right. Liberals don't have to do that at all. And the, the views that they think that they hold

00:47:48.520 are extremely immature and childish. And so when you're, when you're in a culture that has been

00:47:56.360 degraded to the level of two-year-olds, then you need to speak like a two-year-old. What does a two-year-old

00:48:00.680 say? Why, why, why, why, why this? Why that? Why this? That's, you got to meet people where they are.

00:48:06.180 If you ever want to persuade them of anything, this, this has been my debate style for quite

00:48:11.480 some time now. Some debate styles are all about just totally pummeling the opponent into the

00:48:15.400 ground. That's fun. There's a, there's a time for that. But most of the debates I have, if they're

00:48:19.760 at all in good faith, I try to just persuade people. And if you're going to persuade people,

00:48:24.140 you got to kind of meet them where they are. And if you're going to meet people in this culture

00:48:27.580 where they are, you got to talk like a two-year-old. That's a great question. Why do you think that?

00:48:32.880 Why? Yeah, but why? Yeah, but why? And you get down to first principles. Then we figure out if

00:48:38.640 those first principles are persuasive or not. Most of the time they will not be. The rest of the show

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