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00:00:00.000 Perhaps the most controversial moment at last week's State of the Union address came because

00:00:05.180 President Biden refused to say the name Lakin Riley, the young Georgia student who was murdered

00:00:11.240 allegedly by an illegal alien. Republicans wore buttons. I wore a button. I was given one by the

00:00:16.720 congressman who invited me, Andy Ogles. A lot of the Republicans down there even heckled the

00:00:21.460 president to say her name, which after enough pressure, he finally did.

00:00:26.880 It was a dramatic moment. He didn't get her name right. He actually named the head of the USC

00:00:43.420 football team. But I think he tried to say her name. It had been a huge oversight that this major

00:00:50.860 case over the major crisis going on right now, the border crisis, Biden had not put into the speech.

00:00:56.740 So he said it after he was shamed into doing it. Now, President Biden has formally apologized.

00:01:02.620 But he didn't apologize for attempting to exclude the young American victim from his speech.

00:01:09.220 Instead, he apologized for referring to her illegal alien murderer as an illegal.

00:01:16.880 During your response to her heckling of you, you use the word illegal when talking about the man who

00:01:23.540 allegedly killed Lakin Riley.

00:01:25.980 An undocumented person. And I shouldn't have used illegal. It's undocumented. And look,

00:01:31.580 when I spoke about the difference between Trump and me, one of the things I talked about in the

00:01:35.340 border was that his, the way he talks about vermin, the way he talks about these people polluting the

00:01:40.320 blood. I talked about what I'm not going to do, what I won't do. I'm not going to treat any,

00:01:44.780 any, any of these people with disrespect. Look, they built the country. The reason our economy is

00:01:50.900 growing, we have to control the border and more orderly flow. But I don't share his view at all.

00:01:57.000 So you, you regret using that word?

00:01:59.100 Yes. Yes. Yes. Because foreign murderers built the country. Foreign murderers who crossed illegally

00:02:05.580 with the help of satanic gangs and then were arrested multiple times and then murdered an innocent

00:02:10.360 little college girl. They built the country. They're the backbone of this nation, of course.

00:02:15.280 The left has tended to take the side of our nation's enemies and persecutors for many decades now.

00:02:21.400 But now I think we have reached the apotheosis of this suicidal trend. The president of the United

00:02:28.360 States is now apologizing for telling the truth even once and thereby possibly hurting the feelings

00:02:36.540 of a foreign criminal who broke into our country to murder a young American girl whose name he

00:02:43.160 doesn't know. I'm Michael Knowles. This is The Michael Knowles Show.

00:02:45.780 Welcome back to the show. One last gasp of infighting in the GOP as former presidential candidate Ron

00:03:11.060 DeSantis knocks former presidential candidate Nikki Haley for not endorsing Trump, who is now the

00:03:17.060 nominee of the party as Trump is consolidating his total control over the RNC. We'll get to that in

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00:03:44.960 today. No surprise that Biden would side with the illegals. He's done it repeatedly. This is the

00:03:52.580 defining crisis of his presidency. This is a presidency defined by crises, and yet this is the distinctive

00:04:00.800 one, the defining one, even among those crises. Forget about World War III breaking out potentially in

00:04:06.340 Eastern Europe and the Middle East. Forget about the economic turmoil. This is it. I mean, we've never

00:04:10.960 seen a border quite so open. We've never seen the federal government quite so actively ushering in

00:04:18.120 a foreign invasion and refusing to prosecute even the most criminal elements of that invasion to the

00:04:25.180 point that when they go and murder an innocent little college student, Biden apologizes to the murderer.

00:04:30.240 Now on the streets of New York, MS-13, which is not only a foreign gang, it's not only one of the

00:04:37.220 gangs facilitating the invasion of foreigners into our country, it's a satanic gang. It is a gang that

00:04:43.080 actually engages in overt satanic rituals. I mean, these are some of the worst people on the face of

00:04:49.940 the earth. MS-13 is now in the open on the streets of New York selling fake green cards. So right now for

00:04:58.180 between $80 and $250, according to the New York Post, you can go out, go along Roosevelt Avenue in

00:05:06.200 Queens, and you'll find a bunch of guys. The Post spotted at least 10 men camped out in broad daylight

00:05:12.780 on four different corners right there on Roosevelt Avenue selling the bogus documents. And these forged

00:05:18.900 social security numbers can then be used to open up a bank account, potentially to obtain a real

00:05:23.500 driver's license. I'm sure the Democrats would be thrilled if this helps them to register to vote.

00:05:28.160 My question here is not, can you imagine the shock? I'm not shocked at all. I'm not surprised this is

00:05:35.320 happening really at all. Even that it's happening in broad daylight, even that the cops could arrest

00:05:40.800 these guys. But even if they did arrest these guys, the DAs aren't going to prosecute. Even if the DAs

00:05:45.500 did prosecute, Biden's Immigrations and Customs Enforcement wouldn't actually deport, because Biden wants

00:05:50.560 them here because he's invited them in. What is striking to me is how many things had to go wrong

00:05:58.820 for this to happen. You had to have the border not be secure, which means you had to have the federal

00:06:06.260 government make the call not to secure it. You had to have the states try to secure it, and the federal

00:06:12.080 government shut down the states like Texas from securing it. You then had to elect a ton of left-wing

00:06:18.440 DAs all around the country. You then had to persuade the American people, rank and file Democrat voters

00:06:24.380 at least, for decades in the education system that they had no right as Americans to secure their own

00:06:29.760 border, that they had no right to have their own laws and to enforce their own laws. You furthermore

00:06:37.120 had to totally destroy America's confidence in her own national identity to the point that not only

00:06:43.520 would you not be able to refer to illegal aliens as illegal aliens, it's probably the most clinical

00:06:48.580 neutral term you can use for these people. But furthermore, you had to believe that they were

00:06:54.200 somehow entitled to the rights of citizens. No other country on earth believes this about themselves.

00:07:00.240 Somehow we've been able to do that. And then you had to even normalize the satanic gang, MS-13.

00:07:06.200 So I guess you'd have to normalize crime and Satanism for that matter, both of which have been

00:07:10.820 normalized in recent decades. And now, and only after that process, can you go to Roosevelt Avenue

00:07:17.100 and buy a fake green card? It's not as simple even as deport. Obviously, these guys should be

00:07:21.980 deported. They should be arrested. They should be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law,

00:07:26.520 and then eventually deported. But the rot goes so much deeper than that. That's like the tip of the

00:07:33.500 iceberg over this rot that the left has wrought. Meanwhile, the left-wing leaders and commentariat

00:07:40.880 are mocking American voters for even meekly voicing their objections to this. Jen Psaki,

00:07:48.320 former spokesman for the president, and Rachel Maddow, my doppelganger, my liberal alter ego,

00:07:54.540 were on MSNBC laughing about Virginia voters. So we're not even talking about far right-wing Texas,

00:08:02.380 Tennessee voters. We're talking about Virginia. Virginia is a purple commonwealth. The fact that

00:08:06.520 Virginia voters are very concerned, according to surveys, about illegal immigration, they think

00:08:13.540 this is downright hilarious. I mean, if you look at some of these exit polls, I mean, I live in

00:08:17.760 Virginia. Immigration was the number one issue. I mean, again, these could change in Virginia.

00:08:24.160 Well, Virginia does have a border with West Virginia. Very, very contested area.

00:08:28.380 What? All right. You heard my doppelganger there. That was the punchline. Well, you know,

00:08:33.280 Virginia has a lot of borders with Mexico, doesn't it? No, it doesn't, of course. That's what's so

00:08:39.760 silly. Virginia, it's all the way up, halfway up the East Coast. So why would Virginia voters be

00:08:46.300 concerned about illegal immigration? Well, one, because we live in America. We live in a single

00:08:51.200 country. So even if illegals are brought into Texas or Arizona or California, that affects us. It

00:08:56.560 affects the apportionment of congressional seats. Don't forget, the apportionment of congressional

00:09:00.540 seats, how much representation different states get in the U.S. Congress is based on the census,

00:09:05.880 and the census is based on pure population. It's not based on citizenship. It's not based on voter

00:09:12.220 eligibility. So you flood the country with illegals. Whoever gets those illegals is going to get more

00:09:17.280 representation in the Congress. But furthermore, put that aside for a second.

00:09:20.740 The illegals are ending up in Virginia, too. What the Psaki and Maddow mockery here displays is not

00:09:29.680 only a perverse political ideology that they share, it displays ignorance of the basic facts of illegal

00:09:37.800 immigration. The Biden administration is flying these illegals all over the country. And it's not

00:09:44.360 just Republicans pointing this out, by the way. It's New York City Mayor Eric Adams who's saying,

00:09:49.180 stop these illegals from coming to New York. Stop sending them here. It's destroying New York

00:09:53.400 City. And he tried to have an appointment to meet with Joe Biden about this at the White House.

00:09:58.700 And then coincidentally, just before that meeting was to take place, there was a corruption

00:10:02.200 investigation launched into Eric Adams. And then he started to back off the illegal immigration issue.

00:10:06.720 The Democrats are flying these people all over the country. These illegal aliens are making it to

00:10:11.940 Virginia. You can't flood the country with millions and millions of illegals every single year

00:10:16.240 and think it's all going to be confined to El Paso or something. There's a lot in El Paso,

00:10:21.140 but this is a big, wide country. And it's affecting voters. Can you imagine how out of touch you've got

00:10:26.300 to be? Not just on ideology, not even just on facts, but with the desires of voters. When the voters are

00:10:34.440 coming to you and they're saying, hey, this problem is a big problem. This is really bothering me.

00:10:40.340 This is a top priority for me, this election. It's like Principal Skinner in The Simpsons. You look at it,

00:10:44.580 you say, well, all the children are telling me. Is it possible that I'm out of touch?

00:10:48.800 No, it is the children who must be wrong. And on mass migration, it's even crazier because this

00:10:53.620 has been an issue, one, that got Donald Trump elected in 2016, two, that might get him elected

00:10:58.360 again in 2024, but three, got us the Brexit in the United Kingdom, helped to get Viktor Orban

00:11:03.900 installed in power in Hungary, helped to elect Georgia Maloney the first time around,

00:11:09.640 even though Maloney hasn't been all that strong on migration, helped to push right-wing movements

00:11:13.660 all throughout the West. And Matt Aounsaki and the liberals look at that, they say,

00:11:18.000 hmm, for 10 years now, at least, the right throughout the entire Western world has said

00:11:25.480 that illegal immigration is a big problem. Nah, they're probably just mistaken. They probably

00:11:30.360 don't really care. That leads to a lot of political instability.

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00:12:01.260 Speaking of liberals being out of touch, a liberal Congress lady, Susan Wild from Pennsylvania,

00:12:11.160 she's got a really novel, really insightful take on abortion, which is cropping up again.

00:12:16.580 You know, President Biden's State of the Union focused largely on abortion and other matters

00:12:20.920 of human dignity, the origin and destiny of human life. He was pushing the surrogacy industry a lot.

00:12:25.040 And Susan Wild, she's solved the debate. Here's her remarkably insightful take on abortion.

00:12:35.820 Some people do believe that abortion is wrong, that it's taking the life of a child. And the answer

00:12:42.580 to that is those people are not being required to have an abortion.

00:12:47.020 Oh, okay. That clears it up. Gee, I've never heard that before. You know, it's funny. I obviously

00:12:56.060 have heard this stupid line before. If you object to abortion, then just don't get an abortion.

00:13:02.440 Yeah, okay. If you object to genocide, then just don't do a genocide. Okay. Yeah, yeah. That's fine.

00:13:07.300 If you object to kicking orphans in the head, then you just shouldn't kick orphans in the head,

00:13:12.140 but don't infringe on all of our rights to kick orphans in the head. Okay, lady. But I guess in

00:13:17.180 a certain sense, I haven't heard it put this way before because she accidentally gave away the game.

00:13:25.560 She didn't merely say, if you oppose abortion, just don't get one, which is usually what you hear.

00:13:30.040 She said, look, some people think that abortion is murder, that it's killing an innocent baby.

00:13:36.780 And if you think that, then you don't have to get one. That's a little bit different. The way it's

00:13:43.600 usually framed is as a preference. You know, you like chocolate, I like vanilla. And so we don't need

00:13:49.520 to make any hard and fast rules about ice cream here. You just, you know,

00:13:53.500 that's why restaurants have menus. But here, the Democrat Congress lady, almost certainly unwittingly,

00:14:02.000 is introducing the prospect of reason, of a reasoned argument. She says, some people think

00:14:09.980 they've used their reason to come to a conclusion about reality, which applies to all of us. And they

00:14:15.860 have, through their reason, arrived at the conclusion that happens to be correct, that

00:14:19.960 killing an innocent baby is killing an innocent baby, and therefore is morally unacceptable.

00:14:25.260 And then she undermines all of that by saying, so look, if you sincerely think that, and perhaps

00:14:32.020 it's even reasonable to think that, then you don't have to do it. But we love killing innocent

00:14:36.820 little babies. We love murdering the most vulnerable people in the country. So stop trying to get us

00:14:43.300 to put an end to it. Really stark relief. Really, really stark relief. It shows you,

00:14:51.460 even beyond the abortion issue, that individualism is ultimately incoherent as a political organizing

00:14:58.720 principle. Because individualism presumes that we're all just individuals. You know,

00:15:04.940 we're all atoms floating in outer space. But politics begins when more than one of us is living

00:15:13.720 together. Sometimes politics, the etymology is defined as poly, meaning many, and ticks,

00:15:19.880 meaning blood-sucking leeches. So politics, that's what politicians are like. But there's

00:15:24.520 actually some truth to that, in that politics refers to the polis, the city-state, where we

00:15:29.100 all live together. It involves the public. Wherever two or more are gathered, not only is there a

00:15:36.680 religious implication to that, as our Lord tells us in the gospel, but there's also just a basic

00:15:40.440 political implication, which is we've got to figure out how to live together. And so individualism,

00:15:46.440 look, we all have individual rights, we all have individual preferences, but individualism as a

00:15:50.120 governing philosophy doesn't make sense. It doesn't make sense when we're talking about it on the

00:15:54.360 extreme right of libertarianism. You know, do whatever you want, just don't make me pay for it

00:16:00.520 kind of thing, because then society degrades and you are affected by that. Even your wealth,

00:16:04.220 even your property is affected by that. But it also certainly doesn't make sense on the extreme

00:16:08.180 left of liberalism. They say, look, maybe you've correctly arrived to the conclusion that abortion

00:16:15.700 is murdering an innocent baby, but don't yuck my yum, man. I want to, and you don't have any right

00:16:22.020 to tell me not to. It just doesn't make sense. Also, this issue alone makes it unacceptable for

00:16:28.220 Christians to vote for Joe Biden. I made this point in 2020, certainly. I may have made it in 2016.

00:16:35.700 Not all issues are created equal, okay? Some issues, there can be reasonable disagreement

00:16:43.960 over, say, tax rates, over, say, immigration policy to some extent. Even over a matter such

00:16:49.560 as the death penalty, there can be some reasonable disagreement. On certain issues, like slaughtering

00:16:55.840 innocent babies, there really can't be. Because even if we're looking at politics from the perspective

00:17:01.040 of rights, which I think is usually misguided, but it's the way people talk today, but even if you're

00:17:07.580 looking at politics from the perspective of rights, some rights are more fundamental than others.

00:17:12.760 The right to drive a car, it's actually not a right, it's a privilege, is less fundamental than

00:17:17.900 the right to self-defense, which we see enshrined in the Second Amendment. The right to life is the

00:17:24.000 fundamental right without which none of the other rights can possibly exist. So it is contrary to

00:17:30.420 reason, it's contrary to common sense, and it's contrary to the natural law to undermine the right

00:17:38.680 to life and to enshrine murder as a, not only as acceptable, but now as a good, as a positive good,

00:17:47.240 according to the President and the Democrats. It is unacceptable. The Catholic Church has been very

00:17:53.540 clear about this, consistently clear forever, which is that when you have an option to vote for a

00:18:01.060 candidate who supports the mass slaughter of infants and a candidate who does not,

00:18:07.220 you got to pick the one who does not, okay? There's some, a little bit more complexity to it,

00:18:14.380 but not very much. And in this case, Biden has made it absolutely clear. He takes a fanatically

00:18:19.680 downright sacramental view of abortion. All the Democrats do. This lady, Susan Wilde in Pennsylvania,

00:18:26.400 rather, does. That's that. That basically does it. And so we're looking ahead to 2024.

00:18:31.720 Who's the nominee? President Trump is the nominee. I have predicted from the beginning that Trump would

00:18:36.940 be the nominee. I said during the primary, I'm not going to endorse a candidate in the primary.

00:18:42.240 I like the primaries happen generally. I really like Governor DeSantis, obviously a big supporter

00:18:48.340 of what he's done in Florida. I personally really like Nikki Haley, actually, even. I know she's kind

00:18:53.340 of on the other end of the Republican Party to where most of the conservatives are these days.

00:18:57.220 And obviously, I've been a big supporter of President Trump as well. So I said, hey,

00:19:01.880 we'll let the primary take place. And a lot of times on the show, I probably said more nice things

00:19:07.740 about the other candidates even than I did about Trump. But I always said, and I said it from the

00:19:12.280 beginning, I always knew Trump was the nominee. Just as a pure political matter. It's just he'd

00:19:21.260 been running for much longer. He had much more of a head start. He dominated the zeitgeist in 2016 and

00:19:29.860 2020. He had redefined the Republican Party in so many ways. He was the real thing. And he had been

00:19:36.680 the president. So he was running as a quasi-incumbent already. And then, hate to say I told you so,

00:19:42.120 that prediction turned out to be true. Now the president has remade the Republican Party after

00:19:46.840 his own image. He's catching a lot of flack for this. Ronna McDaniel is out of the RNC officially.

00:19:53.000 Michael Watley, the North Carolina Republican who backed Trump pretty consistently, he is now the

00:19:59.020 party's new national chairman, or he's set to be elected that way. And Laura Trump, who is the

00:20:05.560 president's daughter-in-law, has become the co-chairman of the Republican Party. And

00:20:10.920 oh boy, the anti-Trump forces specifically on the right are furious about this. They're saying this

00:20:18.800 is nepotism. This is so unseemly. This is contrary to the great dignity of the party of Ronald Reagan.

00:20:28.500 But the thing that they forget is that Ronald Reagan did the exact same thing.

00:20:32.280 And the thing that, not only did he install his daughter-in-law to be the co-chairman,

00:20:37.480 that's not what happened exactly. He installed his actual daughter. So you go back, I just Googled

00:20:42.880 this. It was 1980s, I think it was 1987. Maureen Reagan, Ronald Reagan's daughter, became the co-chairman

00:20:50.780 of the GOP, of the RNC. Which reminded me something that many of the self-styled Reaganites today hate.

00:21:00.680 They hate to acknowledge this. Donald Trump is very clearly the political heir to Ronald Reagan

00:21:08.000 in the Republican Party. It's not even really all that close right now. There is so much more to say,

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00:22:28.980 puretalk.com slash Knowles. Like it or not, maybe you hate Donald Trump. Maybe you like him.

00:22:35.100 Maybe you love him. Donald Trump is clearly the most credible political heir to Reagan.

00:22:41.980 His appointment of his daughter-in-law to the number two spot in the GOP is just the latest

00:22:48.040 similarity. But if you're saying, hey, who do we compare to Ronald Reagan here? And for the last

00:22:52.880 30 years in Republican politics, the game has been who can most resemble Ronald Reagan? Well,

00:22:59.840 let's consider it. Is it some lawyer or politician who worked his way up as defines probably 85% of the

00:23:07.060 GOP? Or is it the eccentric Hollywood celebrity, check, check, who has a little bit of a controversial

00:23:18.880 personal and married life that was a political issue for both of them early in their careers,

00:23:23.800 check, check, check, who represented a more populist wing of the party over the more established wing

00:23:31.460 and Washington, D.C.-based wing, check, check, who supported tariffs over the objections of the

00:23:40.680 doctrinaire free traders, check, check, who was rhetorically more bellicose than most establishment

00:23:49.120 Republicans, but practically more of a dove when it comes to foreign policy, check, check, who was,

00:23:55.960 I mean, the list goes on and on, who was older than most of the Republicans running for the right,

00:24:03.580 on and on and on. So it's not a one-to-one. History doesn't actually repeat itself. But

00:24:09.000 Trump has clearly modeled his political career after Ronald Reagan. He uses Reagan's slogan,

00:24:17.320 make America great again. That was a Reagan slogan first. And Trump took it. I think there was some

00:24:24.040 charity auction years ago where I read that Trump bought one of Ronald Reagan's watches. He clearly

00:24:29.320 has an admiration for Reagan. And a lot of the self-styled Reagan conservatives, the Reaganites,

00:24:35.760 or even the Buckleyites of today, I think that had they been around for the men in their times,

00:24:42.320 a lot of them are much younger and came about at the very end of the Reagan and Buckley movements,

00:24:48.260 or maybe even after those guys were off the scene. I think a lot of them would not have supported the

00:24:53.840 men in their prime. Now it's sort of safe to be a Reaganite. Now it's safe to be a Buckleyite because,

00:25:00.440 you know, they're dead and the history already happened. But in the moment, it was quite controversial.

00:25:06.620 It was a remaking of the Republican Party. And that's what we're witnessing today, another remaking

00:25:11.740 of the Republican Party. So speaking of Hollywood celebrities, a lot of them are terrified about

00:25:17.300 Trump potentially winning a second term. Robert De Niro just came out and he said,

00:25:21.680 if Trump wins re-election, he's going to come looking for De Niro.

00:25:25.600 Nothing at all, nothing redeemable in him. And we have to, and whoever the people are who want to

00:25:32.400 vote for him, and they look like intelligent people around there. So I mean, for some reason,

00:25:37.020 it can't be, it cannot be. If he is, he wins the election, he, you won't be on the show anymore.

00:25:46.060 He'll come looking for me. He'll, they'll, they'll be, they'll be things that happen that none of us

00:25:53.120 can imagine. Um, that's what happens in that kind of a dictatorship, which is what he says.

00:25:58.960 Let's believe him. Take him at his word. I did from the beginning. Yeah. I mean,

00:26:03.140 I said from the very beginning, this guy is never going to concede power and he still hasn't.

00:26:08.000 No, he still hasn't. He just admitted, admitted he lost the last election and he advertises that

00:26:12.700 he will go on. He thinks he says he's been cheated out of one term. So maybe we should get

00:26:16.840 rid of the only, a president only gets two terms thing. It seems to me that I've heard this song

00:26:23.740 before. It's from an old familiar score. Uh, we know that this stuff won't happen

00:26:29.380 because this kind of language might've worked when Trump was running the first time. It doesn't

00:26:35.660 work now because he's already been president and he did leave office. Even after they rigged the

00:26:40.020 election, he left office. He gave a few angry speeches about it, but he left office and now he's

00:26:45.040 running again and he didn't jail Robert De Niro. He probably doesn't think about Robert De Niro all that

00:26:49.560 much. And he didn't take Bill Maher's program off TV. And he, none of that happened. You want to talk

00:26:55.900 about narcissism. And then even again, getting back to this point about Trump and Reagan, now the

00:27:02.740 liberals have a strange new respect for Reagan. Oh, the great old days of Ronald Reagan.

00:27:07.400 If Donald Trump wins, he is going to try to repeal term limits for the president.

00:27:13.420 Ronald Reagan spent his post-presidency doing exactly that, that people forget this now because they,

00:27:18.580 they selectively edit out the history of these men that now so many of the squishes revere.

00:27:24.460 Bill Buckley, he was a great, so urbane, so anodyne. Bill Buckley was a, was a McCarthyite.

00:27:30.760 Bill Buckley wrote a book defending Joe McCarthy and McCarthyism. He said, McCarthyism is a moral

00:27:37.560 crusade around which all Americans have strong moral fiber can rally. Okay. Oh, we forget about that.

00:27:43.680 Bill Buckley said we need a more closed, not a more open society where we jail Nazis and communists

00:27:50.660 simply for their political views. All of the, you know, free speech absolutists today, they forget

00:27:55.600 about that part. Ronald Reagan spent his post-presidency campaigning for two things. It was

00:28:00.000 cut a bit short, obviously, because he was diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease and he left public

00:28:02.940 life. But for the few years where he was in public life, he campaigned for gun control and a repeal of

00:28:07.820 the 22nd amendment, which term limits presidents. Donald Trump, he might do it. Yeah. Okay. If it

00:28:13.680 did, I guess if he did that, he'd be even more like Ronald Reagan. But, but it's not just Reagan

00:28:18.100 and Trump, by the way, Bill Clinton has suggested the same. Bill Clinton leaving the presidency said

00:28:23.780 that the 22nd amendment, if, if it doesn't need to be totally repealed, it should be edited. It should

00:28:29.740 be altered because people are living longer. So Bill Clinton's suggestion was, okay, a president can

00:28:34.660 only serve two consecutive terms, but then he ought to be able to leave office and then run for another

00:28:39.420 term. So you actually have bipartisan consensus, Reagan, Clinton, two of the most popular presidents

00:28:45.160 of their respective parties in recent memory. And Donald Trump was the current nominee. So popular,

00:28:50.000 he's the nominee again, all calling for the thing that, that Bill Maher describes as a, a mark of

00:28:56.380 tyranny and dictatorship or something. It's just very silly. It speaks to the same issue that we're

00:29:01.100 talking about with Psaki and Maddow, which is it's not merely that the libs and the squishes in the

00:29:05.440 Republican party all have an ideology that is perverse or disordered. It's that they are ignorant

00:29:11.020 of really basic facts of really recent political history. So finally the race is solidified, right?

00:29:17.800 We've got Biden's a nominee for the Democrats, even though they want Newsom, even though they want

00:29:21.640 whatever it's, it's Biden who want Michelle Obama, whatever they're talking about. And for the

00:29:27.180 Republicans, it's Trump. And now you've got, got to the point where Ron DeSantis, who was the most

00:29:33.880 credible threat for most of the race against Donald Trump has now endorsed Trump and is attacking Nikki

00:29:39.540 Haley, who at the end of the race became the most credible threat against Trump, but it was never a

00:29:43.440 very serious threat. He's attacking Haley for not endorsing Trump. I signed the pledge and you signed

00:29:50.280 the pledge saying that you're going to not take your ball and go home. And so I honored the pledge and

00:29:55.900 she's going to have to make a decision about whether she wants to or not. But the idea that

00:30:00.520 somehow circumstances have changed, I think we all knew what we were doing when we did that.

00:30:06.760 And you got to make a judgment about whether that's meaningful to you. And so for me, I tell

00:30:11.380 people, you know, if I say I'm going to do something, I'm going to do it.

00:30:14.220 I think that's the right thing to do. I think not only is it the right thing to do morally, but I think

00:30:19.620 politically it's the smart thing to do too. So if I were advising Nikki Haley, don't forget,

00:30:25.320 that while the race was still going on, I said that Nikki Haley has every right to stay in the

00:30:30.100 race. And even when all the Republicans were calling for her to drop out, I said, look, she

00:30:33.560 doesn't have necessarily a political incentive to drop out right now. And she doesn't quite have

00:30:38.980 the political ability. So I was all for her running as long as she wanted to. But now that she has

00:30:43.440 dropped out, it looks really bad for her to come out and say, well, yeah, I said that I would endorse

00:30:49.460 the eventual nominee so that I could get on the debate stage. But that was just a cynical lie. I don't

00:30:53.920 actually want to do that. Politically, it's a bad look. And so I don't know why Nikki Haley's

00:31:00.120 advisors are telling her to do that, but I think it's hurting her long term. I think she actually

00:31:04.960 still does have a pretty strong political future. I think that's why she stayed in the race for a

00:31:08.180 long time. I think she played her cards very well and is a talented politician. But this is a very bad

00:31:13.580 look. And I think DeSantis is totally right here. Trump is the nominee. This is why now I've just

00:31:19.680 accepted an invitation for an event. It's for a great group called Catholics for Catholics.

00:31:25.180 I love that name. It really tells you exactly what the group is about. It's a political group,

00:31:32.220 Catholics for Catholics. And they're doing an event to support a Catholic political vision for 2024

00:31:38.240 and specifically to pray for President Trump. And so this is going to be an event at Mar-a-Lago.

00:31:43.760 Would I have accepted this invitation while the GOP primary was still going on? Probably not,

00:31:50.720 because I don't think it's really my role to be campaigning for candidates. We don't even really,

00:31:56.580 as a general rule, we don't hit the campaign trail too often here at the Daily Wire.

00:32:00.640 We just don't think that's really our role in the conservative movement in the party.

00:32:05.280 But in this case, there's no more primary race. There's no more campaign.

00:32:08.960 It's now Trump versus Biden. And so I'm excited to join this group down there at Mar-a-Lago.

00:32:16.640 And I think it's very important. In this case, this is for Catholic political action. I think

00:32:22.940 it's true broadly for religious people to make your voices heard. President Biden has made it very,

00:32:29.920 very clear that he is attempting to undermine, to continue to undermine his putative faith.

00:32:37.020 The man says he's Catholic, and yet he undermines core aspects of Catholic teaching,

00:32:43.160 specifically on political issues. We know that the atheists and the secularists and the liberals

00:32:48.140 are very, very aggressive at persecuting Christians, Catholics in particular. Don't forget,

00:32:52.860 Biden sicked his DOJ and FBI on Catholic churches to go spy on us. And the memos, whether Biden did it

00:33:00.140 consciously or whether it was just his administration that did it remains to be seen. I don't know that

00:33:04.540 Biden knows his own name, but we know the administration did it. We know the administration

00:33:07.920 lied about it. We know they're going after all sorts of religious people and pro-lifers and

00:33:11.580 homeschoolers and all the rest insinuating that we're domestic terrorists or something because we

00:33:15.780 think boys and girls are different because we think that God exists because we think that parents

00:33:19.700 ought to have some right to raise their children in a proper way and not according to the disastrous

00:33:26.040 delusions of leftism. Well, if you believe that, then maybe you want to take some actual political

00:33:34.080 action. It's a little bit different. It's good to give money to charity. You should do that too,

00:33:38.460 you know, directly going out, helping the poor. But we should not fall into a political quietism,

00:33:44.960 a religious and political quietism that says, you know, Christians should never do anything in

00:33:50.480 politics. I think that's been a huge mistake in recent decades. It's totally not in keeping with

00:33:57.200 many, many centuries of the Christian tradition. And it's contrary to even America's founding.

00:34:04.680 You know, America was founded to be a model of Christian charity, a shining city on a hill.

00:34:09.800 You know, our early ancestors were pilgrims who came here on the Mayflower. You know, our early

00:34:15.760 statesmen gave thanks to God. We believe in our Declaration of Independence that we are endowed by our

00:34:20.020 creator with certain unalienable rights. That's the fact that the nation is predicated on.

00:34:25.960 So if you believe that, it's very important to take some political action. And political action means

00:34:30.720 you got to support real things in real time in politics during real elections.

00:34:37.940 That's an important thing to do. And now the time of the primary is over. The candidates had their

00:34:42.980 chances and it was probably already baked in from the beginning. But now there's a nominee.

00:34:48.700 And most of the candidates have gotten on board, like Ron DeSantis here. Some have not yet. But

00:34:53.980 conservatives need to now stand up and do things. Unity is a very important aspect of politics.

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00:36:31.500 It says, this was not a State of the Union address. It was a State of My Election campaign address.

00:36:36.020 That's true, and it's true in more ways even perhaps than you are intending to mean, which is

00:36:42.920 that the State of the Union always serves a campaign purpose because, at least during an election year,

00:36:48.920 obviously a lot of eyeballs are on the president who, if he's running for re-election, wants to

00:36:53.860 capitalize on that. But it's also the state of his campaign right now because he was just weak and

00:36:59.700 screaming the whole time. And I think it's because the Biden campaign knows they're in a lot of trouble

00:37:03.620 right now. And the polls, which thus far in the GOP primary at least have been quite accurate,

00:37:08.020 the polls are not looking good for Joe Biden, and the forecast is not looking good for Joe Biden

00:37:12.320 either. It's a good sign for us, isn't it? It's a very good sign. And one final point on how we

00:37:18.580 undertake political action, by the way. I've noticed some of the Never Trump accounts are upset that I'm

00:37:25.100 doing this event for Catholics for Catholics at Mar-a-Lago on the Feast of St. Joseph because they

00:37:30.280 don't like that prayer is associated with religious political action. Prayer is not the last resort.

00:37:39.980 Prayer is the first resort to religious political action. If you are religious and you are engaged in

00:37:45.980 politics, you should, of course, go to prayer first. You would hope that religious political action

00:37:50.940 would entail some prayer. And so this is the sort of thing, look, if you want to go and fund a big

00:37:56.660 political campaign, then you can show up to these kind of fundraiser dinners. But you don't need to.

00:38:03.180 You don't need to be in the Palm Beach area to do that. You can pray. And prayer is very good. And

00:38:08.640 prayer is very effective. And at decisive moments in the history of our civilization, I'm thinking of

00:38:14.840 some of the most famous ones, the Battle of Poitiers, the Battle of Lepanto, the Battle of Vienna.

00:38:19.380 Prayer has probably been the decisive factor in God's all-ordaining providence. Okay. Now, speaking of battle

00:38:28.620 lines becoming clearer, RuPaul, he's a, I guess, I actually don't really know who RuPaul is. I know the name.

00:38:37.000 I've seen him for many years. I guess he's a drag queen, but he's a guy and I don't know, but he's a TV

00:38:42.780 celebrity. And RuPaul has a side project. It's an all-inclusive bookstore, all-inclusive. And RuPaul

00:38:50.880 initially did not even just mean all-inclusive in the way that all the liberals do, which is all

00:38:56.640 the liberal stuff. He said, no, we're going to have everything here. On this website, they sold

00:39:02.220 Mein Kampf. Okay. This is a book that virtually nobody in the United States would defend, Adolf Hitler's

00:39:10.120 memoir. He said, we're putting it up there. We want Mein Kampf. That's a sort of, that's so

00:39:15.200 controversial. We're going to have all the books here. And we're going to have genderqueer. This

00:39:18.860 is the gay porn that the libs are pushing on elementary school students. And we're going to

00:39:22.740 have conservative books, a number of conservative books. I don't know if my books were included,

00:39:26.580 though they certainly should have been. I can't even check now because the conservative books have

00:39:30.680 been banned from the shop. Unclear if Hitler's book is still there, but the American conservative books

00:39:36.520 have been banned. So they open up, they say, we're a marketplace for all books and all stories

00:39:41.640 with a focus on elevating marginalized voices. You may find books you disagree with. Allstora has

00:39:46.720 made the decision to carry all books. Censorship of any book, perspective, or story is incompatible

00:39:52.440 with the survival of democracy. Banning books is never the answer. I'm just reading from the website,

00:39:57.840 what used to be written on the website before they deleted all this stuff, before they deleted all

00:40:01.080 the conservative books. We cannot fight the ideologies of hate if we lack the ability to

00:40:05.980 study, understand, and react to them. We do that by reading books. Oops, JK, never mind, delete.

00:40:12.840 They deleted because they got a lot of pushback from their audience, which is fair enough.

00:40:17.980 As you might not be surprised to hear, I'm on the side of the bookstore here.

00:40:23.800 If I open a bookshop, I don't want to carry Mein Kampf unless I'm opening some very neat,

00:40:31.080 niche, historical kind of bookshop. I don't really see the need to do that.

00:40:35.980 I guess if I were a huge bookseller, Barnes & Noble, then I would maybe sell a much wider

00:40:42.220 array of books of historical import and the rest. But if I were a little curated side project

00:40:49.600 bookstore here, I probably would. Certainly not going to carry gender queer.

00:40:55.880 Certainly not going to carry this gay porn that they're trying to push on 10-year-olds.

00:41:01.040 Why would I do that? What's the point of that? The conservatives here are going to point to these

00:41:07.300 liberals and say, aha, see, you're not really for all voices. You support book bans. You might support

00:41:15.540 book burning. By the way, don't forget, book burning is just a more evocative, visible expression

00:41:20.840 of book banning. They signify the exact same thing. So one seems more provocative. One seems more

00:41:30.720 in your face. But it's the exact same thing. When the liberals are censoring some conservative tweets

00:41:38.160 or whatever, when the conservatives are kicking perfectly ordinary books out of their bookshops,

00:41:42.300 they are doing effectively the exact same thing as any rally burning books would do.

00:41:50.400 But then again, wise thinkers for all of history on all different parts of the political spectrum

00:41:56.220 have defended book bans and even book burning. You're not really allowed to say it these days,

00:42:01.300 but the libs are doing it. The libs are doing it all the time. And conservatives probably ought to

00:42:06.040 get hip to the jive too. Because what the libs are saying here is, look, we want, we have an audience

00:42:12.540 and our audience doesn't want this stuff. Our audience wants to live according to certain norms

00:42:16.640 and standards. And they think that certain views are just beyond the pale and actually would undermine

00:42:23.700 the kind of community and the standards that we have cultivated here. And they don't want to

00:42:29.380 have to deal with it. I think that's perfectly normal. That's how all people always have been.

00:42:34.100 And conservatives ought to adopt that view too. RuPaul, in principle, he's right. In practice,

00:42:41.140 all these books are wrong and he needs to swap them out for the books that he banned, like

00:42:44.320 all the American conservative authors. But in principle, he's right. Now, speaking of weird

00:42:50.800 sex stuff, wouldn't be a show if we didn't get to a little weird sex stuff. Great news, great news

00:42:56.340 out of the Republic of Ireland. Ireland, which had been the Catholic country,

00:43:04.100 hardcore, you know, those fighting Irish, those stubborn Irish. They just wouldn't give up on

00:43:09.760 their culture. In recent years, they've gone a little bit lib. They've started normalizing all

00:43:17.280 sorts of nasty sexual revolution stuff. Well, they just had the opportunity to amend their constitution

00:43:24.640 to enshrine woke family policy, to take away the specific role of women in and mothers in Irish

00:43:35.240 society and to redefine the family, to include, you know, a couple of dudes or a couple of chicks or

00:43:41.600 three dudes and a billy goat or whatever people say that is now. And despite this negative trend for

00:43:47.420 10 years in Ireland, voters overwhelmingly rejected the woke family referendum, two thirds, more than

00:43:57.480 two thirds voted no to alter the wording in the constitution to include families which are not

00:44:04.800 based on marriage. Second proposed change on the wording around the role of women in the home

00:44:13.300 was defeated by an even wider margin. 73.9% of voters rejected it. Not only was this a devastating loss

00:44:23.600 for the leftists in Ireland, this is the highest ever no vote percentage in an Irish referendum,

00:44:31.240 completely destroyed with facts and family. Yet another reminder, there are a lot of Irish in

00:44:38.140 America and the political trends in Ireland are not quite so different as they are from the trends

00:44:43.820 in America. This is a reminder to Republican politicians, the libs who are trying to tinker

00:44:48.940 with the family and who, who insist that it's all been done. It's all over because Anthony Kennedy

00:44:53.980 and the Supreme court decided to write some romantic poetry in the Obergefell decision.

00:44:58.600 The understanding of marriage and family that has existed everywhere for all of human history until

00:45:03.000 five minutes ago, that's out the window. It's gone. We can never get it back. It's a loser issue for

00:45:07.580 Republicans. Move on. We need to accept the obliteration of the difference between men and

00:45:12.580 women. We need to accept transgenderism. We need to accept this fake definition of marriage. We need

00:45:16.600 to be able to buy and sell babies on the open market of the surrogacy industry. We have to all

00:45:21.060 normal family policies at the window. Not so, not so, and not so fast because even in Ireland,

00:45:31.240 which was trending the wrong way, they shoot this thing down. Pro family, pro tradition, pro life,

00:45:39.960 pro don't sell babies on the open market like they're commodities of the surrogacy industry,

00:45:44.240 pro norms in the behavior between men and women, pro men and women are different. Pro normal

00:45:52.460 is a winning political issue for conservatives. The issues that the libs try to convince us are huge

00:45:59.080 losers are immigration, guns, self-defense, and family and the right to life. They sell us. Those

00:46:06.620 are huge losers. Not what the data show. Why did Trump get elected in 2016? Immigration and that open

00:46:16.520 court seat. And why the open court seat? What are the big issues that the court has decided that have

00:46:21.220 really encouraged conservative voters in recent years? Guns and pro life. That's it. That's what it was

00:46:28.160 about. That's what the election of Donald Trump was about. And now the squishes in the libs are trying

00:46:32.300 to convince us it's all the opposite. And we need to embrace some ridiculous abolition of the family

00:46:37.360 and the abolition of our borders and the abolition of the right to life. Nonsense. Nonsense. Head into

00:46:43.980 the storm. The libs are trying to create a storm around those issues because those are winning issues

00:46:49.580 for us. The pendulum seems to be swinging in our direction. Now, I know conservatives are very good

00:46:56.620 at stealing defeat from the jaws of victory. Do not do it. Resist that urge. You know me. I'm a little

00:47:03.620 bit of a tease on this show. There's a story that ties into everything we've been talking about in a

00:47:10.340 very particular way. And it relates to Giselle Bündchen and Tom Brady, who have gotten divorced,

00:47:16.080 and there's all sorts of tabloid gossip about that. But Giselle Bündchen has come out,

00:47:22.380 and she has inadvertently highlighted one of the really, really evil aspects of divorce.

00:47:30.380 And it's something that all children of divorce know, all parents who have gotten divorced,

00:47:35.300 they're aware of. And no one really talks about it. But it gets to the very heart of what's so

00:47:39.640 wrong about divorce as a personal and political matter. And she said, the kids have different

00:47:44.800 rules at Tom's house. We'll get to what that means tomorrow. But for today, it is Music Monday.

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