The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 1449 - The Fake News Lies About Trump's ＂Bloodbath＂

00:00:00.000 Eight years after President Trump did not collude with the Russians,

00:00:03.820 seven years after President Trump did not call neo-Nazis very fine people,

00:00:09.500 after so many Democrat hoaxes over the years, the libs have landed on a new one for 2024,

00:00:16.400 that Trump is going to cause a bloodbath.

00:00:21.780 We just have to win this election because he's even predicting a bloodbath. What does that mean?

00:00:27.060 He's going to exact a bloodbath? There's something wrong here. How respectful I am of the American

00:00:34.940 people and their goodness. But how much more do they have to see from him to understand

00:00:40.740 that this isn't what our country is about? Sounds really scary. Is he going to exact

00:00:47.160 a bloodbath? Sounds like the sort of thing that's completely out of character for Donald Trump.

00:00:54.280 Sounds like the sort of thing that's being alleged by Nancy Pelosi, who has been allergic to the truth

00:00:59.760 for many, many years now. So I'm just not sure I really believe Pelosi's characterization of Trump's

00:01:06.600 comments. What did Trump actually say? Mexico has taken over a period of 30 years, 34% of the

00:01:15.940 automobile manufacturing business in our country. Think of it. Went to Mexico. China now is building 0.96

00:01:22.560 a couple of massive plants where they're going to build the cars in Mexico and think they think

00:01:28.280 that they're going to sell those cars into the United States with no tax at the border. Let me tell

00:01:33.320 you something to China. If you're listening, President Xi and you and I are friends, but he

00:01:38.080 understands the way I deal. Those big monster car manufacturing plants that you're building in

00:01:44.560 Mexico right now. And you think you're going to get that. You're going to not hire Americans and you're 0.99

00:01:50.560 going to sell the cars to us now. We're going to put a 100% tariff on every single car that comes

00:01:56.280 across the line and you're not going to be able to sell those cars if I get elected. Now, if I don't

00:02:02.040 get elected, it's going to be a bloodbath for the whole. That's going to be the least of it. It's going

00:02:06.980 to be a bloodbath for the country. That'll be the least of it. But they're not going to sell those

00:02:11.420 cars. They're building massive factories. OK, you heard it. You heard it straight from the

00:02:16.100 president's mouth. Does that sound like Trump is threatening to massacre people? I don't think so.

00:02:23.920 I don't think any honest person would conclude that that is the meaning of Trump's comment.

00:02:31.080 Seems to me he's probably speaking figuratively of what's going to happen if the Democrats keep

00:02:35.580 running the country. Even if it's trying to think, even if Pelosi is right, even if Trump is calling

00:02:41.000 for a bloodbath as though this were a good thing, even if Donald Trump, the lovable tabloid figure

00:02:47.740 who's been world famous for 40 years, who already served a full term as president, all without

00:02:52.260 slaughtering anybody, even if he were inclined to inflict a bloodbath on people in the event of his

00:02:58.140 loss, he obviously would not be able to do that because he wouldn't have any political power.

00:03:04.260 In that case, the liberals would possess all the political power as they do now when ironically

00:03:12.440 there already is a bloodbath, both figurative and literal, thanks to an intentionally opened border

00:03:20.120 that has directly caused not only gang violence and murder, but the worst epidemic of mass poisoning

00:03:26.320 in American history because of the fentanyl crisis that is being encouraged, not only not stopped,

00:03:31.360 it's being encouraged by Joe Biden and the Democrats. As usual, the Democrat accusations here

00:03:38.280 are confessions. One shudders to think what the libs will accuse Trump of next.

00:03:45.740 I'm Michael Knowles. This is the Michael Knowles Show.

00:04:01.360 Welcome back to the show. A top legendary Democrat campaign strategist and consultant says that if

00:04:15.640 the Democrats lose this election, it will be Israel's fault. We'll get into that in just a moment. 0.97

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00:04:45.020 Dailywire.com slash shop. Get them before they're gone. The Democrats believe that they're in trouble.

00:04:56.680 That is why they are becoming so hysterical and hyperbolic.

00:05:04.220 But the reason that they're not totally melting down over 2024 is because they know that they can

00:05:11.020 control the media cycles. They know that Trump makes some totally anodyne comment in a speech

00:05:17.200 about car manufacturing. And then Nancy Pelosi gets to go on CNN and say, he's going to slaughter

00:05:23.260 everybody. It'll be a bloodbath. And then all the liberal outlets, they say, Donald Trump's going 0.95

00:05:27.900 to kill us all. He's going to slaughter every single person. The bloodthirsty Democrats who never 1.00

00:05:33.280 saw a baby they didn't want to slaughter. The Democrats who now are the party of wanting to go

00:05:37.700 all over the world bombing anybody they can find. The Republican Party, quite clearly the party of

00:05:43.140 life now on a whole host of issues. We're supposedly going to slaughter everyone when we don't even have

00:05:49.700 political power. I don't know how they make sense of that. But the libs can get away with it because 0.99

00:05:54.540 they control the media. And Eric Holder, who is the attorney general for Barack Obama,

00:06:00.880 just said that quiet part out loud. He just went on, I think it was, what was the show? Bill Maher's

00:06:09.060 show, I think. Yeah, it was Bill Maher's show. And he said that you don't need to worry about the

00:06:14.220 polls right now, Democrats, because we got the media when we really need to change the narrative.

00:06:20.440 We should not be too alarmed by these March polls. We've got to take them into consideration.

00:06:25.180 But March is a fundamentally different month than October and November. And we'll see where these

00:06:29.540 things turn out when we get to that part of the calendar year. Hmm. Okay. But I mean, the deal is

00:06:36.820 there's work to be done. But I'm actually optimistic that if we stay committed, focused,

00:06:42.300 and as the media turns its attention to making this a binary choice between a person who's got

00:06:49.100 some age and cognitive issues, that would be Trump, against somebody who is actually,

00:06:55.720 you know, against somebody who's actually accomplished a lot, I think we'll be just fine.

00:07:02.360 Okay, I get it. You think he's talking about Biden, but he's talking about Trump,

00:07:05.740 even though no one really believes that. Even Bill Maher's frivolous audience there is only

00:07:11.660 half applauding. Oh, yeah, right. Except Joe Biden can't pronounce his own name,

00:07:15.240 and Donald Trump has more energy than he ever did. This is true. Not the conclusion, but the

00:07:23.240 first part. He says, don't worry about the polls now. They're going to change when the media focus

00:07:28.420 on this as a two-person race. When it's no longer Trump versus DeSantis versus Haley versus

00:07:34.100 and Joe Biden with this weird Bobby Kennedy thing in the middle. When it really just comes down to

00:07:38.840 Trump versus Biden, the media are going to totally change their coverage. They're all

00:07:42.340 going to get in line. They're going to defend Joe Biden. And so you're going to see Joe Biden's

00:07:46.160 negatives go down. You're going to see his positives go up, and you're going to see the

00:07:51.160 race even out. That's probably true. It is the quiet part out loud, and a very prominent Democrat

00:07:56.760 politician, Eric Holder, is admitting it. But it's really all they've got left. They're saying,

00:08:02.940 okay, the political realities for Biden are really bad. And when the media are not totally,

00:08:09.240 constantly, actively carrying water for him, his approval ratings plummet, and he's losing

00:08:14.240 to Donald Trump in all the important swing states nationally by a significant margin.

00:08:19.760 So the only way that we're possibly going to win this election is to have the media rig it.

00:08:25.820 Even with the media being totally in Biden's pocket, even with Biden surrounding himself with the most

00:08:32.000 sycophantic people he can find, things are looking pretty bad for him. Joe Biden was giving a speech

00:08:37.300 on St. Paddy's Day. He had to tell the audience to clap. Ireland now is one of the top 10 investors

00:08:44.760 in the United States economy, and our country stand proudly for liberty and against tyranny.

00:08:51.020 We stand together and oppose Russia's brutal war of aggression in Ukraine. You can clap for that,

00:08:55.860 please. Okay, that's bad. It calls to mind an infamous moment of the 2016 race when Jeb Bush

00:09:04.560 was up there in New Hampshire, and he's going off about who knows what, and the people don't do

00:09:09.680 anything at the end, and he says, please clap, and then they clap. Okay, and Joe Biden does almost

00:09:14.620 the exact same thing here. However, what happened to Biden is actually worse than what happened to Jeb.

00:09:20.620 Jeb is on the campaign trail during a very lively Republican primary

00:09:24.160 in New Hampshire, where voters who might, maybe some voter supports Trump, maybe some voter supports

00:09:28.920 Cruz, maybe some voter support, they can show up to the Jeb event and challenge him. So that room,

00:09:34.580 you would expect to be much more hostile or potentially hostile than the White House,

00:09:40.760 which is where Joe Biden was giving that speech. The only people in this room are people who support

00:09:45.720 Joe Biden a lot, who have been vetted by the Biden political team a lot. And even in that room of the

00:09:52.620 people most inclined to support this guy, he has to say, can you please clap for me? That was a good,

00:09:57.680 and then, oh, yeah, sorry, sorry, sorry, yeah, right, sorry, we fell asleep during your tirade.

00:10:03.480 Really bad stuff. Joe Biden right now is going to lose in Michigan, Arizona, Pennsylvania,

00:10:10.820 North Carolina. He might lose the White House, though, is the problem. He might, if they took a poll

00:10:16.300 of who people support in the Biden White House, I'm not sure the guy would win it right now.

00:10:20.060 Now, I'm being only slightly hyperbolic. The Democrats know this is a bad situation

00:10:26.920 for them, and they have no other option. There is so much more to say. First, though,

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00:11:40.860 The Democrats are already playing the blame game for what happens if Joe Biden loses.

00:11:47.060 James Carville, probably the most famous Democrat strategist in America. He's up there with Axelrod.

00:11:54.380 Probably Axelrod is the only one who's actually on his level. Maybe David Plouffe.

00:11:59.240 Carville, though, much more colorful than all those guys. Carville going back to the Clinton days.

00:12:04.160 He knows that things are bad for Biden, and he is not just blaming the border, and he's not just

00:12:09.960 blaming the MAGA Republicans. He's pointing his finger at the state of Israel.

00:12:16.380 This Gaza stuff, this is not just a problem with some snot-nosed Ivy League people. This is a problem 0.59

00:12:23.000 all across the country. And I hope that the president and Blanken can get this thing calmed down,

00:12:30.720 because if you don't get calmed down before the Democratic convention, it's going to be a very

00:12:34.920 ugly time in Chicago. I promise you that. They're going to have to tell B.B. Netanyahu,

00:12:39.360 hey, dude, we're not going to lose our election because you're scared to go to jail. You got to

00:12:44.100 think of something else, because the negligence of this man was breathtaking. And why are we over

00:12:49.500 there begging him? We ought to be putting pressure on him every way that you can to de-escalate this

00:12:55.980 thing and quickly. From the Democrat perspective, James Carville is totally right. He's 100% right

00:13:04.820 about this. From the Democrat perspective. From the Republican perspective, sorry. Sorry, man. Yeah,

00:13:11.780 you are right, James Carville, and that is very bad for you. I am not all that interested in the

00:13:18.460 domestic politics of Israel. But the Democrats are, because Israel is a major wedge issue for

00:13:26.400 Democrats. Israel didn't used to be a major wedge issue for Democrats, but it is now, because the

00:13:32.720 Democrat base doesn't like the state of Israel. The elites in the Democrat party still basically like

00:13:38.140 the state of Israel, generally. But the Democrat base does not. The Democrat base goes campaigning for

00:13:45.140 the pro-Palestine liberation movement. The Democrat base hates Israel because they view the Jews in

00:13:51.160 Israel as white people. Even though a lot of them aren't white, but they say they're white, and they 0.96

00:13:55.460 hate white people. And they view the state of Israel as a colonial settler endeavor, and they hate that, 0.97

00:14:00.100 and they hate it in America, and they hate it when the Europeans do it, and they hate it when the Jews 0.93

00:14:03.140 do it, too. And they just hate Israel. They hate it. And this is a big liability for the Democratic 0.99

00:14:08.220 Party because the Democrats are in power right now, and the Democrat base is angry that Biden isn't doing

00:14:14.400 more to stop Israel from just chilling, from just calming down with the bombing campaign. 0.69

00:14:21.840 But from the Israeli perspective, from Netanyahu's perspective, they are looking at the October 7th

00:14:27.500 massacre, and they're saying this was a major attack on Israeli civilians, and we are not going to stop

00:14:33.900 until the political threat from Hamas is neutralized in Gaza, and that's going to be brutal, and it's going

00:14:39.740 to draw condemnation from basically everywhere in the world. But we're not going to stop,

00:14:43.900 even if Joe Biden asks us really nicely. And you have a leader in Israel right now who's relatively

00:14:49.920 rather right-wing, and so he's even less inclined to seek some kind of a diplomatic solution.

00:14:57.040 So what's Biden going to do? You got James Carville there saying, hey, let's get those Israelis in line. 0.59

00:15:02.240 Let's get them to cut it out. But they're not going to do it. Bibi Netanyahu's not going to listen to

00:15:06.640 Joe Biden. So now what? So now you got to get the other Democrats involved. You get the senior-most

00:15:12.460 Democrat in the Senate, Chuck Schumer, who also happens to be Jewish, to come out and to say, hey,

00:15:18.340 I've been a lifelong supporter of Israel. Obviously, I've got deep ties to the very idea of the nation

00:15:23.720 of Israel, but I hate Netanyahu, and he's got to go. Minister Netanyahu has lost his way

00:15:29.920 by allowing his political survival to take the precedence over the best interests of Israel.

00:15:37.340 He has put himself in coalition with far-right extremists like Ministers Smotryk and Ben Gavir,

00:15:45.680 and as a result, he has been too willing to tolerate the civilian toll in Gaza, which is pushing support

00:15:52.120 for Israel worldwide to historic lows. Israel cannot survive if it becomes a pariah. 0.64

00:16:00.800 Prime Minister Netanyahu has also weakened Israel's political and moral fabric through his attempts to

00:16:06.440 co-op the judiciary, and he has shown zero interest in doing the courageous and visionary work

00:16:12.240 required to pave the way for peace even before this present conflict. As a lifelong supporter of

00:16:20.740 Israel, it has become clear to me the Netanyahu coalition no longer fits the needs of Israel after

00:16:29.280 October 7th. The world has changed radically since then, and the Israeli people are being stifled right 1.00

00:16:38.280 now by a governing vision that is stuck in the past. Okay, as I mentioned earlier, I don't really care

00:16:46.140 all that much about the internal politics of which party in Israel is ruling the country. It doesn't

00:16:51.020 really interest me. It certainly doesn't affect my day-to-day or even much of my geopolitical vision,

00:16:56.780 but there's a lot of interesting stuff in that clip. For starters, sometimes people who just

00:17:03.920 reflexively don't like the Jews, they paint the Jews as this monolith, but here, obviously,

00:17:10.160 they're not a monolith. Chuck Schumer's a Jew. He's calling on Bibi Netanyahu, who's also a Jew,

00:17:15.940 to step down. And Schumer's saying Bibi Netanyahu's got to step down because Schumer supports the state

00:17:21.880 of Israel. But Netanyahu and the Netanyahu supporters are going to say, no, Chuck Schumer,

00:17:26.600 you dummy. If we do what you say, then the state of Israel is going to stop existing because the 0.84

00:17:33.320 Hamas people are going to get to run roughshod over us, and we're not going to be able to defend 1.00

00:17:36.580 ourselves. And so they're all arguing over who should lead, what they should do. So many of the

00:17:42.020 pro-Palestine demonstrators in America are liberal Jews. So probably the most prominent critic of the 0.90

00:17:50.040 state of Israel in the world is a Jew, Norman Finkelstein. So they just don't seem to be 0.93

00:17:55.620 totally monolithic to me. And in this case, Chuck Schumer is the one who's coming out really leading

00:18:01.100 the charge for Netanyahu to step down because he has some credibility, because he is a Jew. 0.64

00:18:06.480 But then this raises another problem, which is, haven't we just, in America, been lectured

00:18:12.900 for eight years on the terrible, inexcusable threat to democracy caused by foreign election 1.00

00:18:25.520 interference?

00:18:26.700 A hundred days away from the election. How worried are you on a scale of one to 10

00:18:32.000 about interference in the election?

00:18:34.200 I'm very worried. They did it before. It's a lot of, a lot of countries are trying to do it.

00:18:39.600 We have to be prepared. We have to be guarded. We have to make sure they don't.

00:18:44.020 There was less of it in 2018 than 2016, but no one knows if that's because some of these

00:18:49.200 countries decided to lay off and give us a sense of complacency or not. But we should be

00:18:54.880 ever vigilant, ever vigilant. This, if, if people think that a foreign country helped determine

00:19:00.320 our election and lose faith in our democracy, that's the beginning of the end of this grand

00:19:05.560 experiment in democracy that's been so successful for more than 200 and some odd years.

00:19:10.980 Okay. So foreign governments, let's try to, let's try to take this apart. There's a lot,

00:19:14.980 there's a lot there that Chuck Schumer just said.

00:19:18.780 The foreign governments, the nefarious foreign governments that are undermining our democracy 1.00

00:19:24.060 interfere in our elections, but only when Republicans win. When Republicans don't win,

00:19:29.840 then they didn't interfere. But when Republicans do win, that is basically prima facie evidence

00:19:34.920 that they did interfere. And in elections where the Republicans like went a little bit,

00:19:39.300 but the Democrats win more, and then they didn't really only interfere a little. Why? They're laying

00:19:43.760 low. Yeah, that's why you see they're laying low. They want us to let our guard down for until the

00:19:49.500 next time a Republican wins. And then they definitely interfered. And, and, and here's the second

00:19:54.960 point. Foreign interference in elections is really, really bad. It's an attack on the democracy of that 0.83

00:20:02.300 country. Unless Chuck Schumer does it. When Chuck Schumer does it, you see, it's actually a great

00:20:08.800 defense of democracy. Actually, unless the Democrats broadly do it. Like when the Democrats send their

00:20:13.300 political operatives to go to foreign countries and mess with their elections. Like when Obama

00:20:18.420 sends his campaign flax to try to boot Netanyahu out of Israel. When was that? That was nine years ago

00:20:23.660 at this point. Or when Joe Biden sends his flax and his operatives to try to oust Viktor Orban in

00:20:29.860 Hungary, a very popular democratically elected leader. No, that that's not foreign interference.

00:20:34.560 That's not a threat to democracy. That's actually a defense of democracy. Because if the people are

00:20:38.960 allowed to vote for the right wing figures in foreign countries that they want to vote for,

00:20:42.400 that would undermine the democracy. That's why we need to go in and either invade openly or just

00:20:48.340 secretly kind of infiltrate their program and undermine the desires of the majority of the people of that

00:20:54.140 country so that we can defend democracy. But if anyone does that to us in any way,

00:20:58.400 that would be the end of democracy, you see. Pretty much democracy is whatever Chuck Schumer wants

00:21:03.220 and Joe Biden and Nancy Pelosi. Whatever they want ever on any subject anywhere in the world,

00:21:09.020 that's democracy. And whatever they oppose is a grave, grave threat.

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00:22:32.740 conditions apply. Speaking of election interference, there's some real election

00:22:39.480 interference going on in the Republican Party right now, but it's not being caused by the

00:22:43.260 Russians, and it's not being caused by the Chinese, and it's not even being caused by

00:22:46.780 the Democrats. It's an intra-Republican election interference. This is targeting my friend Lauren

00:22:55.560 Boebert. Lauren Boebert is a member of Congress from Colorado, and I'll take you through the

00:23:04.380 timeline. There's another Colorado Republican member of Congress. His name is Ken Buck.

00:23:10.540 Ken Buck said that he was going to retire at the end of this cycle. Now, Lauren, who won her race

00:23:19.160 last time by a pretty tight margin, Lauren, who's dealt with a lot of attacks from the liberal media

00:23:24.760 and scandals and all the rest of it, she decides she's going to run in Ken Buck's district.

00:23:31.740 She's not going to have to primary him. He's going to leave. It's a more conservative place.

00:23:36.860 She feels better off running there than in her present district, so she's just going to run there

00:23:41.940 for the next cycle. This happens. The districts change sometimes. The members of Congress, they'll

00:23:48.320 start out representing New York's 19th district. Then it turns out they represent New York's 18th

00:23:53.120 district. That sort of thing happens. However, when Lauren made clear that she was going to run 1.00

00:24:00.360 for Ken Buck's old seat, Buck decides he's not going to serve the rest of his term. Buck is going

00:24:07.160 to quit immediately, which triggers a special election. Now, you'd say, okay, well, if it triggers

00:24:14.840 a special election before the main election in November, then I guess Lauren can just run in the 1.00

00:24:21.680 special election, right? Wrong. Because Lauren, who's the most visible candidate who would be 1.00

00:24:27.000 running for that seat, would have to resign her current seat in Congress in order to run in the 1.00

00:24:31.800 special election to replace Ken Buck, because she's not going to be able to hold two seats in Congress.

00:24:35.960 Okay, so then what? So now what's going to happen is there's going to be a special election

00:24:41.780 on primary day, and someone is going to be running in the special election to replace Buck, who's

00:24:51.200 retiring early, and obviously for the next cycle, which is going to be coming up months later.

00:24:59.980 So then what happens? You've got the most extreme version of having to split a ticket that you've

00:25:06.200 ever seen. You vote for one guy to win the district in the special election, and then vote for Lauren

00:25:10.640 Boebert or whoever else you might want to elect there in the main election. Crazy. How did it happen?

00:25:19.220 It's obviously a way to get Lauren out of Congress, because a lot of people in the Republican Party 1.00

00:25:25.600 don't like her, especially from the squishier wing of the party, don't like her. They feel she's too

00:25:30.040 outspoken. They feel she's too eccentric, and so they want to get her out. Now, I'm not a voter in

00:25:37.740 Colorado. I don't occupy either of these districts. The voters can make their own decision. Maybe

00:25:43.820 there are other candidates. Lauren's the most visible one because she's a sitting member, but

00:25:47.520 there are other people who are running for this seat. My only observation is that the fact that

00:25:54.420 the establishment GOP is so hell-bent on getting her out of Congress that they would go to these 1.00

00:26:00.820 extraordinary lengths to prevent her from winning re-election in November seems to be pretty decent

00:26:08.920 evidence that we should keep her there. That's it. That's all I'm saying about Colorado. I don't

00:26:14.580 know. The voters of Colorado can make their choice, but the squishy part of the GOP is really going to

00:26:20.280 great lengths to get rid of this lady, which to me speaks in her favor. Speaking of Republican 1.00

00:26:26.380 infighting, the former vice president to President Trump and current cycle presidential candidate,

00:26:33.100 though he's obviously since dropped out, Mike Pence, was just asked, will you endorse Trump now

00:26:38.820 that the primary is over? Remember, everyone at the presidential debate signed that pledge saying

00:26:44.180 they would support the eventual nominee, and then it seems a number of them are going back on that

00:26:48.560 pledge. Ron DeSantis honored the pledge. A number are going back on it. Here's Mike Pence's answer.

00:26:53.120 It should come as no surprise that I will not be endorsing Donald Trump this year. During my

00:26:58.400 presidential campaign, I made it clear that there were profound differences between me and President

00:27:04.480 Trump on a range of issues. Donald Trump is pursuing and articulating an agenda that is at odds with the

00:27:11.080 conservative agenda that we governed on during our four years, and that's why I cannot in good

00:27:16.920 conscience endorse Donald Trump in this campaign. Okay. Fair enough. Those guys have some pretty

00:27:24.800 personal beef. If I were Mike Pence, I probably would not be very happy with Donald Trump. So I get it.

00:27:30.600 I get it. I totally understand. In as much as the Republican presidential candidates said they would

00:27:36.500 back the eventual nominee, I guess they should do that. But I get it. At a personal level, I totally get

00:27:42.520 why Mike Pence doesn't want to back this guy who went after him when he was serving with him when

00:27:50.580 Trump went after him pretty hard and effectively ended Pence's political career. I get it. Okay.

00:27:56.920 That's a personal beef. It's not really a political argument. So again, I'm not judging Mike Pence at

00:28:04.520 all. I totally understand. It's fine. What about the other guys? What about the other candidates?

00:28:12.440 I'm not talking about DeSantis here, but I'm talking about some of the other Republican

00:28:15.180 presidential candidates who refused to endorse Trump. What's their argument? What about some of

00:28:20.460 the squishes, the liberal Republicans who seem like they'll either sit on their hands or might even

00:28:28.360 consider voting for Biden? What's their excuse? Mitt Romney. I know, I get it. All these guys,

00:28:34.500 they have a little bit of personal beef. With Pence, I think it's a little more intense and Pence's

00:28:39.840 anger at President Trump is a little bit more understandable than say someone like Mitt Romney.

00:28:45.800 But what's their, put the personal stuff aside. I don't care about their personal beef.

00:28:49.680 I care about the direction of the country. For all these liberal Republicans who don't have intense

00:28:56.180 personal grievances with regard to the president. What's the argument? I don't see one. I don't see

00:29:04.200 any good argument, political argument involving policy, involving the public, involving the fight

00:29:11.280 against Joe Biden and the Democrats. I don't see one good argument not to reelect Trump if you are in

00:29:17.220 any way conservative, if you are in any way Republican. Barring some intense personal grievance like you

00:29:23.940 served the guy's vice president, you had a terrible falling out. I don't. What's the political

00:29:28.060 argument? Can anyone articulate that to me? There are still some squish Republicans who are saying,

00:29:31.760 oh, I don't, I'm not voting for this guy. I can't, I'm too angry about the primary. Okay,

00:29:36.620 what's your, so your political argument is it's better for Biden to win? The country's better off

00:29:41.080 if Biden wins? Give me a break. Totally ridiculous. Now, does that mean that everything Trump is saying is

00:29:49.640 absolutely perfect? Does that mean that every policy that has been outlined is absolutely,

00:29:54.700 but not exactly. No. Does that mean that Republicans are going to agree on everything?

00:29:58.940 Certainly not. President Trump just recently, and I think it's probably being overplayed by the media,

00:30:06.040 but he turned off or at least raised red flags for some conservative voters in an interview he did on

00:30:10.860 Fox News. If the Republicans spoke about it correctly, it never hurt me from the standpoint of

00:30:16.300 elections. It, it hurt a lot of Republicans. I think you have to. What's he talking about? He's

00:30:21.260 talking about abortion. I don't think it ever hurt me politically, but it has hurt Republicans

00:30:27.060 politically. And so here's how I think we should talk about it in 2024. And no matter actually really

00:30:34.200 what you think about abortion or what you think about Trump, everyone is going to find something to

00:30:37.960 hate in this comment. You have to have the three exceptions because it's just, now there are a few

00:30:43.780 places where you don't. But I tell people, number one, you have to go with your heart. You have to go

00:30:50.560 with your heart. But beyond that, you also have to get elected. Okay. And if you don't have the three

00:30:56.480 exceptions, I think it's very, very hard to get elected. We had a gentleman from Pennsylvania who was

00:31:02.060 doing pretty well. He refused to go with the exceptions and he got, he lost in a landslide for

00:31:06.880 governor. Nice man, lost in a landslide. You have to go with the exceptions and the number of weeks I'll

00:31:13.500 be coming out with a recommendation fairly soon. I think the recommendation will be accepted.

00:31:18.280 Okay. What is Trump saying here? He says, you got to go with your heart, but when it comes to abortion

00:31:25.040 policy, you got to get elected. Mitch McConnell said something similar, just broadly speaking about

00:31:31.160 political issues. He said, the winners go to Washington, the losers go home. So Trump says,

00:31:36.080 politically, you got to go with the exceptions. Now, does this mean that the exceptions saying that

00:31:41.880 abortion is okay in the case of rape, incest, or a threat to the life of the mother? And the last one

00:31:46.220 is particularly tricky because the liberals interpret that to mean, you know, a mother feels a little

00:31:51.120 upset one day that she's pregnant. So that causes her such a psychological, not an actual threat to her

00:31:56.300 life, but it causes her emotional distress. So that justifies killing the baby. Obviously, 0.98

00:32:00.840 you'd have to really circumscribe something like that. But what is Trump doing here? Is he coming

00:32:04.960 out and saying a baby who is conceived in a tragic way doesn't have a right to life, that that's a

00:32:12.640 lesser kind of human being? Is he making some grand philosophical or theological or anthropological

00:32:18.760 point? No, obviously not. He makes it very clear, I think, in his language. He's saying, look,

00:32:24.180 we're talking about abortion. If you want pro-life policies, if you want pro-life judges,

00:32:27.640 if you want to overrule Roe v. Wade, which is the biggest pro-life victory in 50 years,

00:32:32.020 and it came about because of Trump's election and because of the judges that he picked and because

00:32:36.080 he stood by those judges, he's saying, as a political matter, that's how you're going to

00:32:41.240 have to talk about it. That part's probably not all that controversial. And there are so many things

00:32:46.260 to say about the principle of double effect when we're talking about a threat to the life of the

00:32:53.560 mother and all the rest of it. I've talked about abortion at length recently. I gave a speech just

00:32:59.300 last week at UW-Madison, which you can check out on the AF YouTube channel. But then he says something

00:33:02.960 much more controversial, which is he says, when it comes to the number of weeks, we're going to

00:33:10.480 release a policy soon, and I think everyone's going to be happy. Now, of course, if you believe

00:33:16.440 that life begins at conception, which by definition it does, and if you believe in defending vulnerable,

00:33:21.760 innocent human life, then you can't just pick some arbitrary week. Okay, a baby should not be

00:33:29.620 murdered at 15 weeks, but should be murdered at 14 weeks. That doesn't make any sense. What's the

00:33:36.260 argument for that? Oh, no, a baby at 24 weeks, that's a real baby. But the baby at 23 weeks and

00:33:41.520 six days, chop him up, kill him. Of course not. That doesn't make any sense at all. But what is Trump 1.00

00:33:47.300 talking about here? Again, I think a lot of people want to rush to the worst version of what

00:33:51.700 Trump is saying. But Trump has a lot of credibility on this issue because in practice, he's the most

00:33:56.080 pro-life president ever. He's the first one to address the march for life. Even if you want to

00:34:01.340 say, well, the other presidents didn't have the opportunity to overturn Roe v. Wade. Well,

00:34:04.740 maybe they could have if they picked better judges. Trump did pick better judges. But two,

00:34:08.140 why didn't they address the march for life? Why was Trump the first Republican president to do that?

00:34:13.620 Because in practice, the guy's been the most pro-life president. But then what is he saying here?

00:34:17.920 We're going to come to a compromise on the weeks. Well, if you take the worst possible read of that

00:34:25.880 and say he's going to enshrine a right to kill a baby up until a certain amount of time, yeah,

00:34:30.060 I guess that'd be really bad. As a federal matter, I thought the whole argument that was being made by

00:34:34.360 the originalists was that we have to send the issue back to the states, not the federal government.

00:34:38.300 Okay, if that's what he's saying, I guess that's pretty bad. What's your evidence that that's what he's

00:34:42.680 saying? Mightn't it be the case that what he is advocating is not a minimum number of weeks at

00:34:50.760 which you can kill a baby after which the states legislate, but perhaps a maximum? That would make

00:34:56.080 sense. That would bring the United States much more in line with the rest of the civilized world.

00:34:59.920 America has absolutely barbaric abortion policies. You think of places like France and France,

00:35:05.960 which enshrined abortion to some degree in their constitution recently, or other parts of

00:35:10.540 Europe, which have, we think, really awful abortion policies. Ours are much worse. At least

00:35:15.200 there are limits in those places, national limits. America's abortion policies are barbaric on par 1.00

00:35:21.880 with Canada, America's evil top hat, and North Korea and communist China, where there are basically 0.85

00:35:26.800 no limits, at least in certain places. So what if when Trump is talking about this, he's saying,

00:35:31.380 we're going to have a maximum. So if we say 10 weeks or whatever it is, there's a 10-week

00:35:38.580 abortion limit that means that no one can pass an abortion, can pass a pro-abortion law that allows 0.89

00:35:45.040 you to kill the baby after 10 weeks. But a conservative state like Tennessee, a conservative

00:35:48.780 state like Texas or Alabama, you can pass a law banning it outright. What if that, I don't know,

00:35:55.200 I'm not, I don't have evidence that that's what he's saying either. I'm just pointing out that I

00:36:01.460 think is not only a more charitable read of what he's saying, but is probably a more likely read,

00:36:05.920 at least constitutionally and legally and politically. And in that case, that would be a

00:36:11.220 win. What the point that Trump is making here, which is that in politics, you got to, you got

00:36:15.480 to take your wins when you can get them. And then you build on those wins. That is obviously true.

00:36:21.300 And it's something that some conservatives don't want to acknowledge. They want all or nothing and

00:36:25.600 they get nothing. But if we can, if we can work with the most pro-life president in our lifetime

00:36:31.020 to build on the win of overruling Roe v. Wade, to, to more and more chip away at the barbaric

00:36:37.160 infanticide going on in the country, that's a win. And the way you do that is you got to win the

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00:37:49.940 Hardboiled Entertainment, who says, so just when lefties were sure that Willie was parked with them,

00:37:56.200 he just had to get on the road again. Life I love is making music with my friends. So true.

00:38:04.520 So true. I love a good pun. And Willie Nelson is defending Border Patrol, and that's a very good

00:38:10.780 sign for 2024. Okay. Speaking of the libs, a new study. If you drive and pull over, if you're

00:38:19.000 standing up, sit down. This one's going to shock you. The study finds that people who have woke

00:38:25.760 attitudes are more likely to suffer anxiety, depression, and unhappiness. What are the odds?

00:38:33.260 I should do a series of just scientific studies that never needed to be conducted. Huge wastes of time

00:38:40.380 and money in laboratories and in academia because they tell you things that everyone just already

00:38:45.600 knew through common sense. This new psychological assessment is detailed in the Scandinavian Journal

00:38:52.300 of Psychology. It's a Finnish study. It finds out that there is a stronger alignment with woke beliefs

00:39:01.940 and heightened instances of anxiety and depression and overall unhappiness. Now,

00:39:06.920 there is a caution here in the study, which is that these associations were more strongly correlated

00:39:12.820 with the participants' political orientation than with critical social justice attitudes per se.

00:39:18.920 What does that even mean? Saying that the likelihood of anxiety and depression and unhappiness

00:39:25.420 is there's a greater likelihood just if you're a lib. And another indicator, though not as strong,

00:39:35.020 is if you hold specific woke attitudes on specific woke issues. Yeah, okay, the two are synonymous.

00:39:41.940 I guess if you identify as a big lib, then you're saying I embrace pretty much all of the woke views.

00:39:47.840 So it's a stronger indicator that you're going to be anxious, depressed, and unhappy. But the upshot of

00:39:54.460 the study is that the libs are basically nuts. And that's obviously true, and I don't mean it to be 0.94

00:40:00.420 needlessly provocative. It's just a fact. Why is that the case? Because liberalism has a view of human

00:40:11.940 nature and society that is at odds with reality in important ways, in the way the individual relates

00:40:20.260 to his environment, in the importance of the family, in the way their body relates to our soul,

00:40:25.680 in regard to our purpose in the world, how we relate to eternity and our creator and all the rest.

00:40:34.380 The further that your ideology strays from reality, the more anxious and the less happy and the angrier

00:40:41.260 you're going to be, the more depressed you're going to be. Because if you have a vision that is utopian,

00:40:46.920 as I think liberalism is, then utopia means no place. You, no, utopia, place. No place. You're not going to

00:40:54.960 have it. And so when you can't achieve your political vision, you're going to be a little depressed,

00:40:58.960 certainly. It stands to reason, if you're conservative, you're generally a little more

00:41:06.760 content with reality. That's why you want to conserve it. You might not be content with your

00:41:10.960 present political circumstances. I mean, Joe Biden drives me up a wall, and I think he's a terrible

00:41:16.420 president, and the liberal policies are awful. But I'm not ultimately anxious or depressed or unhappy

00:41:22.980 because I recognize that even bad governance is part of a fallen world. And I try to take the

00:41:29.720 winds when we can get them. I certainly push for the winds as hard as I possibly can. But I recognize

00:41:34.320 it's a fallen world. I don't put my faith in princes. I don't put all my political hopes in

00:41:39.940 the achievement of some egalitarian, totally liberated, utopian society. I wouldn't like it if

00:41:45.580 we got that kind of a society. And frankly, I just know that we can, so it doesn't bug me when we

00:41:49.860 don't. And there's a lot of suffering that comes from the liberal political activism, but even that

00:41:55.480 is kind of baked into my view. I don't like it, but I accept it and I expect it for that matter.

00:42:01.440 The libs, they don't expect any of those things. Just another survey, though. If you're a young

00:42:08.760 person, you're encountering this video or this podcast, you're listening to it somewhere, and

00:42:14.660 you're not all that political, or maybe you think you're liberal. You certainly don't think you're

00:42:17.740 conservative. One good reason why you might consider exploring a conservative political view

00:42:25.700 is the fact that you'll more likely be happy if you're a conservative. The proof of the pudding is

00:42:35.380 in the tasting, okay? The tree is judged by its fruit. If these ideas are so good, why do they make

00:42:40.560 people so miserable? If these liberal ideas are so wonderful and so beautiful, why do those views

00:42:50.480 immiserate everyone who holds them? It's really strange. Really strange, huh? Maybe you got to

00:42:55.760 change your mind. Okay. Speaking of jarring behavior, I'll end on this note. Remember last week,

00:43:04.100 we talked about Kristi Noem, who is the Republican governor of South Dakota. And Kristi Noem has done

00:43:10.220 things that seem rather conservative at times, and she's done things that don't seem all that

00:43:14.400 conservative, like when she caved on the transgender issue. A little bit of a mixed bag there. And she,

00:43:19.600 one thing about Kristi Noem, she's somewhat unpredictable. So anyway, last week she did something 1.00

00:43:28.940 really strange, which was that she did an infomercial for a dental clinic in Texas,

00:43:36.160 not even her state, Texas. And I thought, why is the sitting governor doing an infomercial for any

00:43:40.120 business, much less one in a different state? And she got a lot of flack for it. It was really weird.

00:43:44.780 We got no explanation for why the sitting governor of South Dakota is now a dentistry pitch man. Well,

00:43:52.740 without responding to any of the criticism, she just did another infomercial,

00:43:57.040 this time, at least for a South Dakota company, for, for custom insoles.

00:44:03.320 We are at Fit My Feet in Rapid City, and these guys are amazing. They have totally built me inserts

00:44:08.120 for running, separate ones for my cowboy boots. I'm going to be perfect. I'm going to be like

00:44:13.540 bionic woman now, right? So come see these guys out in Rapid City. Actually, what towns are you in?

00:44:19.080 Rapid City, Sioux Falls, Rochester, Minnesota, Fargo, North Dakota, Sioux City, Iowa, and Brookings.

00:44:24.480 Just wait. I'm going to be amazing.

00:44:28.900 What? You know, I never want to overstate my case or my perspicacity or anything like that.

00:44:38.700 When I bring up a story, I said this last time she did this. When I bring up a story, usually

00:44:44.560 I have a take on it. And I like to think it's a take that sheds more light on the issue than,

00:44:49.400 you know, anyone else, because I don't want to just repeat what other people are saying. I don't

00:44:53.220 want to just bring up a story if I have nothing to add to it. I have pretty much nothing to add

00:44:58.200 to this. I have no idea what would possess this woman to keep doing infomercials for any company. 1.00

00:45:05.000 Even you might say, well, she's promoting South Dakota business. I guess, but why is she promoting 0.96

00:45:10.660 that in-soul business over the in-soul business competition of other South Dakotans? I don't,

00:45:17.160 what is it? Here's some speculation. Here's the best I can muster.

00:45:20.100 There was a lot of talk that Kristi Noem was going to be Trump's running mate.

00:45:24.520 And so this is pure speculation. I have no evidence of this whatsoever.

00:45:28.820 Maybe she, she found out that she's not going to be the running mate. So she's throwing caution

00:45:34.720 to the wind and doing all sorts of crazy things that one would expect would preclude her from

00:45:38.120 being the running mate, which she was clearly gunning for and which was potentially on the table.

00:45:44.280 I guess, I guess, I guess that's the best explanation I can hear. But the thing is,

00:45:50.100 it would explain why Kristi Noem would not, not do it. You know, the in-soul company says,

00:45:56.540 we want you to be our pitch man. And she should say, well, actually I'm being considered for vice

00:46:00.120 president of the United States. So I can't become your pitch man dentistry company.

00:46:03.560 And I, it would explain if she, if she, if that, if that thing that she was hoping for,

00:46:08.200 the running mate thing, if that were off the table, we explained why she would not, 0.94

00:46:11.700 not do the commercial, but why would she do it? She's a sitting governor. 1.00

00:46:14.660 Does she need the money? Does she need the fame? Does she? I don't know. 0.99

00:46:22.780 Takes a very humble and handsome man to admit when he doesn't know something. And

00:46:26.300 this is the one, this is the one story that's come across the news in many months where I just

00:46:32.280 think I really, I don't know. And I'd be very curious to hear your explanation as to why the

00:46:36.620 sitting governor of South Dakota is selling insoles in the comment section. There is no member block

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Ep. 1449 - The Fake News Lies About Trump's ＂Bloodbath＂

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