The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 1464 - The Eclipse Proves Climate Change According To The Libs

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00:00:37.720 While the internet raged with competing theories over yesterday's eclipse, was it a direct sign

00:00:44.600 of the world's imminent end? Was it a warning about some red heifers in the Holy Land? Was it

00:00:51.260 something else? While all that idle chatter was going on, the views sunny Austin,

00:00:58.120 came up with the obvious answer. The eclipse was caused by climate change.

00:01:05.720 We've got a solar eclipse. We've got the earthquake.

00:01:08.400 She ran down the hallway. 0.51

00:01:09.020 She ran down the hallway. 0.51

00:01:10.120 The rapture is here.

00:01:11.380 The rapture is here. And then also I learned that the cicadas are coming.

00:01:15.180 Cicadas.

00:01:15.840 Cicadas.

00:01:16.320 Although I love the cicada cicada.

00:01:18.900 No, no, no.

00:01:19.400 A hundred years.

00:01:20.120 No, no, no.

00:01:21.000 Two different, well, this is what I read.

00:01:22.860 There's two different times.

00:01:23.760 There's two different kinds of cicadas coming.

00:01:25.120 Yes, two different times are coming.

00:01:27.160 The good cicadas and the bad cicadas.

00:01:28.580 But for the first time in many, many years.

00:01:31.280 No.

00:01:32.060 Every 17 years this happens.

00:01:34.020 Well, that's not what I read, but maybe, you know, maybe you know better.

00:01:38.300 In a way.

00:01:38.900 I would say all those things together would maybe lead one to believe that, you know,

00:01:44.740 either climate change exists or something is returning.

00:01:49.160 Earthquakes are not at the mercy of climate change.

00:01:51.000 It's underground.

00:01:51.840 I don't think that's it.

00:01:52.560 It happens.

00:01:53.520 And the eclipse, they've known about the eclipse coming because eclipses happen and they actually

00:01:58.980 can say when these things are going to happen.

00:02:01.660 So all these folks who are saying, you know, it's a sign from God.

00:02:05.000 God doesn't give you warning.

00:02:07.460 Well, hold on.

00:02:08.480 Whoopi was actually being the voice of reason there until right at the very end when she

00:02:13.060 said, God does not give you warning.

00:02:15.280 He does.

00:02:16.340 He does.

00:02:16.880 He gave a warning to Noah, for instance, with the ark.

00:02:20.080 You know, he gave a warning to Lot about Sodom and Gomorrah being destroyed.

00:02:25.500 He gave a warning.

00:02:27.380 He gives a warning through his prophets, you know, Jonah and Nineveh.

00:02:29.900 He gives warnings.

00:02:31.440 But other than that minor theological error, Whoopi Goldberg is the voice of reason on the

00:02:38.240 view.

00:02:38.460 That is a very sad thing to say about the view because her co-host, Sunny Hostin, doesn't

00:02:44.580 know what a cicada is.

00:02:46.300 Got the story about the cicadas wrong.

00:02:48.560 And then I guess more importantly, I thought that earthquakes and an eclipse of the sun are

00:02:55.880 caused by climate change.

00:02:57.460 Because you drive your Hummer around, because you have a big Ford Raptor, the gas has made

00:03:06.700 it all the way up past the atmosphere into outer space.

00:03:10.180 It's coalesced and then pushed the moon off its course so that it will block the sun for

00:03:18.240 like four minutes once every 700 years.

00:03:22.240 If you thought that religious eschatology sounded crazy, you know, the heifers and the end of

00:03:29.060 the world and the, if you thought that, well, just wait until you hear secular eschatology.

00:03:36.540 I'm Michael Knowles, this is the Michael Knowles Show.

00:03:53.300 Welcome back to the show. 0.97

00:03:59.640 Muslims are chanting death to America in Dearborn, Michigan. 1.00

00:04:03.440 In the defense of the Muslims, they don't really sound all that different from American 0.99

00:04:08.900 college leftists. 0.96

00:04:10.200 So, you know, there's a lot of death to America to go around.

00:04:13.260 I am here on a college campus at the University of Utah.

00:04:16.520 We had a great event last night.

00:04:18.820 My speech was called Transgenderism, America's Problem. 1.00

00:04:22.000 You can catch it on the YAF YouTube channel.

00:04:25.640 I do need to make a sort of an apology.

00:04:27.840 There were a lot of people who showed up yesterday.

00:04:29.460 There was apparently an underestimation of the size of the crowd that would be there.

00:04:35.600 There were a lot of protesters, but I guess we all underestimated how many people were

00:04:40.100 going to show up to the event.

00:04:41.000 So we ended up having to turn away hundreds of people.

00:04:44.520 Some people drove in from Missouri.

00:04:46.400 Some people drove in from very great distances.

00:04:48.280 So if you showed up and did not make it in, and you were in good company, I guess, but very,

00:04:55.280 very sorry for that.

00:04:56.260 You can catch the speech on YouTube for now, and we will make sure at the next speeches

00:05:01.680 that we will demand that the university give us a much larger room for that.

00:05:08.420 We got some breaking news yesterday while I was flying in.

00:05:11.700 I couldn't pay too much attention to it because I was busy writing my speech, which I always

00:05:15.060 leave until the very last minute.

00:05:16.180 But President Trump released his much-anticipated, long-awaited platform on abortion.

00:05:25.180 A lot of people were nervous about this, myself included, because Donald Trump is the most

00:05:31.020 pro-life president of my lifetime.

00:05:33.460 And yet, in recent weeks, he has insinuated that he was going to moderate his position.

00:05:40.040 He seems to think that abortion has been a tough issue for Republicans in recent elections,

00:05:47.260 that the Democrats have run successfully on it.

00:05:49.520 And Trump points out that you've got to win elections if you want to accomplish anything

00:05:52.740 in politics.

00:05:53.400 So many people were afraid that Trump would call for a federal minimum number of weeks,

00:06:01.220 until which point you could get an abortion. 1.00

00:06:03.820 Or that he would call for, I don't know, some other kind of federal policy.

00:06:08.860 Here is what we got.

00:06:09.880 It's a little bit of a lengthy statement, but it's very, very important.

00:06:13.580 It's attracted a ton of criticism.

00:06:15.600 Even the pro-life movement is divided over how to react.

00:06:19.300 Even some of my friends and I are divided over how to react.

00:06:21.580 So, enough of my words.

00:06:23.280 President Trump, take it away.

00:06:24.220 Under my leadership, the Republican Party will always support the creation of strong,

00:06:30.680 thriving, and healthy American families.

00:06:33.620 We want to make it easier for mothers and families to have babies, not harder.

00:06:38.680 That includes supporting the availability of fertility treatments like IVF in every state

00:06:44.880 in America.

00:06:45.900 Like the overwhelming majority of Americans, including the vast majority of Republicans,

00:06:51.480 conservatives, Christians, and pro-life Americans.

00:06:54.220 I strongly support the availability of IVF for couples who are trying to have a precious

00:07:00.340 baby.

00:07:01.360 What could be more beautiful or better than that?

00:07:05.020 So, I get it.

00:07:07.940 I get why, as a pragmatic political matter, it is probably politically suicidal for Republicans

00:07:16.820 to come out strongly against IVF right now, make it a top issue on the campaign.

00:07:21.660 And I'm not suggesting anyone do that.

00:07:23.200 But I think President Trump is receiving bad advice here when it comes to doubling down,

00:07:28.960 making the Republican Party the party of IVF.

00:07:31.220 The fact is, the surrogacy industry, the whole IVF thing, it seems really nice.

00:07:39.200 The people who engage in it have the very best of intentions, usually.

00:07:42.600 The road to hell is paved with good intentions.

00:07:45.600 This is a bioethically indefensible program.

00:07:49.820 It's a very novel issue.

00:07:52.060 And so, a lot of people haven't thought through it.

00:07:53.680 I give them a lot of grace for it.

00:07:54.860 And I'm not saying we need to run on the issue in 2024.

00:07:57.260 But I think it is ill-advised to make the Republican Party the party of surrogacy.

00:08:01.600 Because what surrogacy does is turn human beings into commodities to be bought and sold.

00:08:08.840 What surrogacy does is establish, as a premise, that people have a right to a child.

00:08:15.660 But you can't have a right to another human being.

00:08:18.220 Because human beings are not objects.

00:08:19.720 They're proper subjects with rights themselves.

00:08:22.700 What the surrogacy industry does is further entrench disordered structures of the family.

00:08:30.020 We saw that video last week.

00:08:31.440 It was the most horrifying video I've ever seen.

00:08:33.600 Of a little girl, a four-year-old girl, FaceTiming her mother, also known as the egg donor,

00:08:41.300 once a year on her birthday.

00:08:43.120 And the mother says, oh, happy fourth birthday.

00:08:45.460 So nice to FaceTime you once a year.

00:08:47.540 And then the two homosexual men who purchased this child, like a product, 0.99

00:08:53.000 they kind of giggle about it.

00:08:54.400 And at the very end, the girl says, I love you, mommy.

00:08:56.860 I love you, mommy.

00:08:57.440 What was that girl? 1.00

00:08:58.180 What did you say?

00:08:58.640 I love you, mommy.

00:09:00.100 But the mommy doesn't love her. 1.00

00:09:01.340 The mommy sold her like chattel. 1.00

00:09:03.560 The mommy sold her like a slave, like a product, 1.00

00:09:06.140 to two homosexual men who maybe have the very best of intentions. 0.98

00:09:09.240 I think probably a lot of them do.

00:09:11.000 But it is an intrinsically wrong and evil thing

00:09:14.900 to intentionally create a child with the purpose of depriving that child of her mother or of her father.

00:09:23.360 These are some of the most important basic relationships in life.

00:09:27.080 So the surrogacy industry, what that does is with the current legal regime of defining the family and marriage into nothing,

00:09:33.540 it further incentivizes single women, single men maybe, two men, two women, three women and a billy goat, whatever, 0.99

00:09:43.640 to just purchase a child in a way that violates the legitimate rights of that child.

00:09:49.260 It's just very, very wrong.

00:09:51.720 I've articulated my view on this enough.

00:09:53.600 Pragmatically, I understand why the GOP is not going to run on it right now

00:09:57.920 because it's going to take a little while for people to process this very novel idea

00:10:02.560 and to come to understand why it is that, you know, your brother who did IVF

00:10:08.160 or, you know, your lesbian cousins who purchased a kid through surrogacy, 0.99

00:10:14.080 why what they're doing is not right,

00:10:17.380 even though you love your family members

00:10:19.600 and they, you know, you want to extend them grace

00:10:21.580 and they probably have the best of intentions.

00:10:23.500 It's going to take a while.

00:10:24.620 Okay.

00:10:25.680 All that said, the GOP does not right now need to become the party of surrogacy.

00:10:32.320 This, I think, was a miss for President Trump.

00:10:34.780 The broader point, I get, and he's probably politically right,

00:10:38.220 but how about we just downplay it?

00:10:40.360 How about we just take it slow?

00:10:41.920 Anyway, keep going.

00:10:43.280 Today, I'm pleased that the Alabama legislature has acted very quickly

00:10:48.500 and passed legislation that preserves the availability of IVF in Alabama.

00:10:54.240 They really did a great and fast job.

00:10:57.040 The Republican Party should always be on the side of the miracle of life

00:11:01.020 and the side of mothers, fathers, their beautiful babies, and that's what we are.

00:11:06.020 IVF is an important part of that,

00:11:07.980 and our great Republican Party will always be with you

00:11:11.120 in your quest for the ultimate joy in life.

00:11:15.260 Many people have asked me why...

00:11:18.500 Just one quick point here.

00:11:19.700 When President Trump says the Republican Party is going to be on the side of mothers and fathers,

00:11:23.140 yes, that's a great point, and President Trump is totally right about that.

00:11:26.220 The problem with the surrogacy industry is it's not on the side of mothers and fathers.

00:11:31.220 Sometimes it's on the side of fathers, but no mothers. 0.54

00:11:33.720 You're going to steal the child away from his mother.

00:11:36.280 Or they're on the side of mothers, but no fathers.

00:11:38.780 You're going to deprive that child of a father.

00:11:42.060 We want to be on the side of mothers and fathers in marriage,

00:11:45.840 which is the building block of society.

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00:13:04.640 Okay, President Trump, what is the abortion policy?

00:13:07.520 What my position is on abortion and abortion rights, especially since I was proudly the person

00:13:13.480 responsible for the ending of something that all legal scholars, both sides, wanted and,

00:13:20.000 in fact, demanded be ended.

00:13:22.640 Roe v. Wade.

00:13:24.480 They wanted it ended.

00:13:25.880 It must be remembered that the Democrats are the radical ones on this position because

00:13:30.980 they support abortion up to and even beyond the ninth month.

00:13:36.160 The concept of having an abortion in the later months and even execution after birth,

00:13:42.220 and that's exactly what it is, the baby is born, the baby is executed after birth,

00:13:48.280 is unacceptable, and almost everyone agrees with that.

00:13:52.340 My view is now that we have abortion where everybody wanted it from a legal standpoint,

00:13:58.000 the states will determine by vote or legislation or perhaps both, and whatever they decide must be

00:14:04.500 the law of the land, in this case, the law of the state.

00:14:09.060 Many states will be different.

00:14:11.040 Many will have a different number of weeks or some will have more conservative than others,

00:14:17.040 and that's what they will be.

00:14:18.580 At the end of the day, this is all about the will of the people.

00:14:22.340 You must follow your heart or, in many cases, your religion or your faith.

00:14:27.700 Do what's right for your family and do what's right for yourself.

00:14:31.420 Do what's right for your children.

00:14:33.140 Do what's right for our country and vote.

00:14:36.140 So important to vote.

00:14:37.680 At the end of the day, it's all about will of the people.

00:14:41.600 That's where we are right now, and that's what we want, the will of the people.

00:14:45.860 I want to thank the six justices, Chief Justice John Roberts, Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito,

00:14:52.840 Brett Kavanaugh, Amy Coney Barrett, and Neil Gorsuch, incredible people,

00:14:58.240 for having the...

00:14:59.340 Put a pause here.

00:14:59.680 So do you notice, President Trump names the justices, all of them, including John Roberts,

00:15:05.460 including kind of the squishy ones.

00:15:07.340 He does this, presumably, not because of the issue of abortion,

00:15:11.400 but because the election cases are going to come up to them.

00:15:14.980 And they might well decide President Trump's political fate before the November elections.

00:15:21.700 So he's like, listen, justices, some of whom I appointed, Amy Coney Barrett,

00:15:26.780 Brett Kavanaugh, Neil Gorsuch,

00:15:28.920 you're wonderful people, love you, John Roberts, you're a great guy.

00:15:32.740 Don't you destroy the Constitution by not letting me become the president again.

00:15:37.180 Don't you let the Democrats steal this election from me, you guys.

00:15:40.980 So I really like that, tactically, that's wise.

00:15:43.800 What's the argument that he's making here on abortion?

00:15:46.680 He's saying it goes back to the states, and the states are going to make their own laws,

00:15:49.600 and some are going to tolerate abortion, some are not,

00:15:51.440 some are going to tolerate it to a greater degree, some to a lesser degree.

00:15:54.760 He's getting a lot of criticism for this from people on the right,

00:15:57.520 and from some portions of the pro-life movement.

00:16:02.180 Let me ask you a question.

00:16:04.840 Which Republican president or presidential candidate?

00:16:09.500 Let me go further.

00:16:10.520 Which actual prominent Republican politician

00:16:14.920 ever in American history has had a more pro-life position than President Trump?

00:16:21.160 None.

00:16:24.200 None.

00:16:26.100 Which Republican president or presidential candidate or politician

00:16:30.300 has done more to advance the pro-life cause than President Trump?

00:16:35.440 None.

00:16:36.260 None of them ever.

00:16:37.500 This guy is, has been, and is currently,

00:16:41.900 the most pro-life, prominent Republican politician

00:16:45.160 ever.

00:16:46.580 I won't even say just of my lifetime, ever, ever.

00:16:51.040 So, people are knocking him.

00:16:54.620 But since abortion became a political issue,

00:16:57.020 and it only really became a political issue

00:16:58.620 about 50 years ago, a little more than 50 years ago,

00:17:01.860 this guy is as right-wing as they get.

00:17:04.840 What's the, is the problem that Trump says states get to make their own rules?

00:17:12.600 Yeah, that, that is unfortunate,

00:17:15.240 because a baby in New Jersey has the same worth as a baby in Tennessee,

00:17:19.800 and it is just as wrong to murder a baby in New Jersey

00:17:22.520 as it is to murder a baby in Tennessee.

00:17:24.620 Yeah, we all agree on that.

00:17:26.620 But what are we trying to do here?

00:17:28.080 Is the purpose here for a Republican presidential candidate

00:17:33.480 to articulate an unprecedentedly pure,

00:17:38.320 philosophically precise point of view

00:17:42.500 that will almost certainly loosen the election?

00:17:46.660 Or is the point to move the ball down the field,

00:17:50.380 save more babies,

00:17:52.340 allow a culture of life to grow and advance,

00:17:54.960 as it has grown and advanced for 50 years,

00:17:57.020 with major steps taken by that guy himself?

00:17:59.560 What is it?

00:18:00.940 I don't know.

00:18:01.420 My goal here is not to get a really nice soundbite

00:18:04.460 that we can all feel really good about before losing an election.

00:18:07.460 If, if President Trump were sincerely compromising with evil here,

00:18:11.260 if President Trump said,

00:18:12.360 I support a 10-week abortion limit at the federal level, 1.00

00:18:16.260 so we're going to guarantee you the right to kill your babies 1.00

00:18:18.520 up until 10 weeks at the federal level, 0.99

00:18:20.000 well, that would be moving the culture in a more pro-abortion direction. 0.96

00:18:22.780 That would be completely unacceptable.

00:18:24.060 I would strongly criticize President Trump for that.

00:18:28.180 That's not what he's doing.

00:18:30.360 To me, the question for pro-life activism is always about the direction.

00:18:36.080 Are we moving more pro-life, or are we moving more pro-abortion?

00:18:39.580 There is no doubt.

00:18:40.560 Every Republican president has said,

00:18:42.460 well, you know, we need to leave it to the states.

00:18:43.940 That was the argument, even in the Dobbs decision.

00:18:46.840 Do I prefer stronger arguments that recognize that babies have a right to life?

00:18:51.080 I do, but those, those are not even close to being implemented.

00:18:57.500 Those are not even close to the political mainstream.

00:19:00.380 So what, what's, what's the direction here?

00:19:02.640 President Trump's abortion policy is moving more in a pro-life direction,

00:19:06.560 not more in a pro-abortion direction.

00:19:09.640 That's not good enough?

00:19:10.960 From the guy who got Roe overturned?

00:19:14.100 Give me a break.

00:19:15.640 Keep going.

00:19:16.000 For having the courage to allow this long-term, hard-fought battle to finally end.

00:19:21.760 This 50-year battle over Roe v. Wade took it out of the federal hands

00:19:26.240 and brought it into the hearts, minds, and vote of the people in each state.

00:19:31.260 It was really something.

00:19:32.900 Now it's up to the states to do the right thing.

00:19:35.820 Like Ronald Reagan, I am strongly in favor of exceptions for rape, incest, and life of the mother.

00:19:42.080 You must follow your heart of this issue, but remember, you must also win elections to restore our culture

00:19:48.060 and, in fact, to save our country, which is currently, and very sadly, a nation in decline.

00:19:55.200 Our nation needs help.

00:19:57.220 It needs unity.

00:19:58.560 It needs us all to work closely together.

00:20:01.480 Democrat, Republican, liberal, conservative, everyone.

00:20:05.220 We have to work together.

00:20:06.660 We have to bring our nation back from the brink, and that's where it is.

00:20:11.360 It's at the brink, and we will.

00:20:13.460 We will do it.

00:20:14.600 I promise you.

00:20:15.800 We will do it.

00:20:16.980 Always go by your heart, but we must win.

00:20:20.440 We have to win.

00:20:22.100 We are a failing nation, but we can be a failing nation no longer.

00:20:27.200 We will make our nation great.

00:20:29.400 We will make our nation greater than ever before.

00:20:32.660 Thank you very much.

00:20:33.820 Okay, I like the reference here to President Reagan.

00:20:36.860 Sometimes Reagan is invoked a little bit too frequently and too much.

00:20:40.580 We should let the guy, you know, rest in peace.

00:20:42.440 But here it's important because the pro-life movement loves Ronald Reagan.

00:20:46.320 The pro-life movement rallied around Mitt Romney, and the pro-life movement rallied around

00:20:49.140 John McCain, for that matter.

00:20:50.120 And the pro-life movement rallied around all these Republican politicians.

00:20:53.360 And then Trump, who is at least as pro-life as all those guys, and is, in fact, much more

00:20:57.260 pro-life in practice, in effect, than all those guys.

00:21:00.120 And now all of a sudden we're saying, well, you know, he calls for exceptions for rape,

00:21:04.260 incest, and life of the mother. 0.96

00:21:06.180 First of all, it's not as though President Trump is expressing that in principle, babies

00:21:13.300 conceived as a result of rape or any other tragic circumstance don't deserve to live 0.61

00:21:16.960 or we should go around murdering them. 0.99

00:21:17.980 He's not saying that. 0.97

00:21:18.520 He's just saying, I recognize that the chief political virtue is prudence, and I am going

00:21:25.260 to adopt the most pro-life position that I possibly can without almost guaranteeing that

00:21:31.860 I would get blown out of the water in the elections.

00:21:33.920 Reminds me of a line from Cocaine Mitch, and whether you like Mitch McConnell, whether you

00:21:37.380 hate Mitch McConnell, one thing you got to say is Mitch McConnell knows how to be effective

00:21:41.160 in Washington, D.C.

00:21:42.080 Mitch McConnell knows how to get elected.

00:21:43.780 He knows how to amass power.

00:21:44.900 He knows how to wield power.

00:21:45.780 And Cocaine Mitch made a great point, which is true in all politics, and that is the

00:21:50.200 winners go to Washington and the losers go home.

00:21:54.320 This is not even a, we say we don't want to compromise with evil.

00:21:57.540 As far as I can tell, this isn't even a compromise with evil.

00:21:59.920 This is just accepting where the culture is, moving as far in the pro-life direction as possible,

00:22:05.640 and then leaving open the possibility of pushing it further.

00:22:09.040 Do I hope and pray and work for a day when the culture is much more pro-life than this?

00:22:13.480 Absolutely.

00:22:13.880 Absolutely.

00:22:14.700 Do I hope and pray for a day when New York restricts and one hopes even just outlaws abortion?

00:22:21.140 Absolutely.

00:22:23.060 We're not there yet, and I would much rather be part of the solution to bring us there

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00:23:57.880 My favorite comment yesterday is from Judd Zimmerman 328, who says,

00:24:01.680 I hope you all got your eclipse vaccine.

00:24:04.220 I got my fourth this morning.

00:24:05.720 That's really, that's smart.

00:24:07.560 Because otherwise, who knows?

00:24:08.940 If the world ends, you don't want to be caught without your booster.

00:24:13.860 You know, that would be, that would be very bad.

00:24:16.060 You got to slow the spread of, of the, uh, the end of the world.

00:24:20.000 Speaking of the eclipse, uh, President Trump, then I'll move off Trump,

00:24:23.440 but there's a great post.

00:24:24.640 After his actually significant and important, uh, statement regarding abortion and life

00:24:30.120 issues, uh, President Trump also posted, uh, on, on his social media platform, Truth Social,

00:24:35.640 about the eclipse.

00:24:37.920 And I think it's really important that we take it all in.

00:24:40.000 Now, for those of you just listening right now, I'll describe it to you.

00:24:47.060 It's the sun.

00:24:47.660 It says, the most important moment.

00:24:50.500 See, it's zooming out on the sun here.

00:24:52.900 The most important moment in human history.

00:24:59.360 All sorts of people staring up.

00:25:02.860 They've got their, their goggles on.

00:25:06.140 The most important moment in human history is taking place in 2024.

00:25:11.200 And then you start to see, is that, is that the moon that's moving in front of the sun?

00:25:15.400 People applauding, the U.S. Navy.

00:25:21.560 Oh, my God.

00:25:23.360 There it is.

00:25:24.420 Well, hold on.

00:25:25.440 Wait, that's not the, that's not the moon.

00:25:27.480 That's a giant silhouette of Donald Trump's head.

00:25:34.420 Frowning.

00:25:36.900 Brows furrow.

00:25:40.300 He's got his hair.

00:25:41.600 He's straight down.

00:25:42.460 We will save America.

00:25:49.340 Native Americans in there.

00:25:51.120 All these different people who certainly did not consent.

00:25:55.900 Maybe they did.

00:25:56.940 I don't think we'll, and we'll make it great again.

00:26:00.660 There it is.

00:26:01.440 I'm just as Trump 2024.

00:26:02.920 I just, how do you not love the guy?

00:26:05.340 How do you not find this guy so funny and endearing?

00:26:09.540 I don't know.

00:26:10.200 I don't know how you cannot. 0.91

00:26:11.460 This is, people are going to say, Donald Trump, what a narcissist, what an egotist. 0.64

00:26:16.260 He's saying it's his election.

00:26:18.280 His second election is the most important event ever.

00:26:20.500 He, Donald Trump, he's all about Trump.

00:26:23.800 No, this is self-effacing.

00:26:25.800 This is kind of funny. 0.89

00:26:27.060 He even used a silly picture of his face.

00:26:28.900 He didn't use a silhouette of his face that looks really, you know, handsome. 0.68

00:26:32.160 And if he used like the most silly caricature picture of his face, he just pulls it up there.

00:26:36.260 And it's funny. 0.78

00:26:37.300 This kind of thing resonates.

00:26:39.180 This guy is larger than life.

00:26:42.200 He is the size of an eclipse in politics.

00:26:45.440 Love him or hate him.

00:26:47.020 That is a fact.

00:26:48.500 Speaking of now, we're turning back, I suppose, to weird sex stuff.

00:26:52.500 There was a great statement put out by the Vatican yesterday.

00:26:59.460 There were some theological complexities, and some people are making some theological criticisms of the statement, and one certainly could do that.

00:27:06.540 But for the purposes of practical politics, applied morals, this was a very good statement that came out of the Vatican, and this was called Dignitas, Infinitas, I think, Infinite Dignity.

00:27:18.460 This statement describes the Pope's view on transgenderism, on surrogacy, on all these life and weird sex issues. 0.79

00:27:29.160 And this Pope, Pope Francis, has received lots of applause from the liberal corners of the world.

00:27:36.540 And sometimes the Vatican seeks to explain this away, and they say, oh, the Papa Francesco wasn't misinterpreted, you know.

00:27:43.840 That's not exactly what the Papa said.

00:27:46.620 But sometimes it does kind of seem like what he said, and it's somewhat ambiguous.

00:27:50.120 His pontificate has sometimes been compared to Peronism in Latin America, Peronism being this kind of, you know, appealing to everybody, vacillating from one extreme to another political mode.

00:28:07.020 Though, you know, in the history of the church, I don't think that political ideologies and tactics really apply to the church.

00:28:14.420 They don't map on one-to-one because the church measures her life, not in days and weeks and years, but in centuries.

00:28:21.460 So here, the Pope is not saying anything, really, that should be novel or shocking, but it is shocking to the lips.

00:28:28.060 He came out and he reaffirmed his view that trans ideology is an extremely dangerous instance of ideological colonization,

00:28:36.700 a concession to the age-old temptation to make oneself God,

00:28:40.680 entering into competition with the true God of love revealed to us in the gospel.

00:28:43.540 It says that trans ideology is a denial of the foundational, most beautiful, most powerful, 0.89

00:28:49.700 and greatest imaginable difference that exists between living beings, that is the difference between men and women.

00:28:55.880 He warned that the trans ideology threatens the anthropological basis of the family. 0.99

00:29:00.780 He goes even further.

00:29:01.700 He says that biological sex and the sociocultural role of sex, meaning gender, can be distinguished but not separated.

00:29:10.620 So the libs will say, and I will agree with this, that sex and gender are not, in fact, the same thing.

00:29:16.080 One is the way that we interpret sex through society, through roles and behaviors, and the other is the biological sex itself.

00:29:24.580 And Pope Francis is saying, yeah, he's agreeing with every reasonable person on this.

00:29:29.120 And he's saying, yes, of course these two things can be distinguished, but they can't be separated.

00:29:36.280 That's the key.

00:29:36.980 The libs, the trans people, they say, well, maybe I have the body of a man, but I'm going to have the sociocultural role of the woman.

00:29:44.400 Pope Francis is saying, uh-uh, ain't going to work, not going to work.

00:29:47.180 Finally, he concluded that all attempts to advance trans ideology are to be rejected.

00:29:52.660 He went on, he said, surrogacy is, I don't have his exact words in front of me, but the upshot was that it's gravely evil, totally to be rejected, a commodification of human life.

00:30:03.400 All the sort of things that I've been saying on it for a while.

00:30:05.620 And that's no coincidence because we have the same view of it, which is the Catholic view, which is the traditional view, grounded in the basic fundamental premises that have animated our civilization for millennia.

00:30:20.260 That's just a fact.

00:30:22.000 And so great stuff from the Holy Father.

00:30:24.860 Not that the supposedly Catholic president, Joe Biden, is going to pay attention to any of it.

00:30:29.800 Or if he does pay attention, he'll immediately dismiss it, most likely.

00:30:33.660 But in any case, good stuff here.

00:30:36.180 Everybody, including the supposedly liberal pope, agrees.

00:30:40.680 Trans ideology, very, very bad to be rejected.

00:30:43.260 The surrogacy industry, the buying and selling of human beings, little babies, absolutely evil to be rejected. 0.99

00:30:49.780 Good stuff.

00:30:50.160 Now, speaking of foreign affairs, turning from Rome now to the Muslim world, and then turning back to America, we have a lot of Muslims in Michigan, specifically in Dearborn, Michigan. 0.95

00:31:02.660 And some of them are chanting death to America.

00:31:06.900 We've been asked in the past, why are our protests on the International Day of Quds, why are they so anti-America? 0.63

00:31:17.320 Why don't we just focus more on Israel and not talk so much about America?

00:31:21.640 Gaza has shown the entire world why these protests are so anti-America.

00:31:30.400 Because it's the United States government that provides the funds for all of the atrocities that we just heard about.

00:31:37.080 And this is why Imam Khomeini, who declared the International Day of Quds, this is why he would say to pour all of your chants and all of your shouts upon the head of America. 0.81

00:31:50.040 He means death to America.

00:31:56.760 I don't speak Arabic, but that's the translation.

00:31:58.820 Malcolm X said, and I quote, we live in one of the rottenest countries that has ever existed on this earth.

00:32:07.220 It's not genocide, Joe, that has to go.

00:32:09.420 It's the entire system that has to go.

00:32:12.020 We live in one of the rottenest places on earth.

00:32:14.700 You know, his English is pretty good for a guy who hates America so much.

00:32:17.400 He sounds fairly American.

00:32:20.220 I don't know if this guy is an immigrant himself.

00:32:22.360 He sounds more like second generation.

00:32:25.140 He sounds more like a guy who was raised here and is maybe trying to prove his cultural bona fides.

00:32:31.600 This is the problem with mass migration.

00:32:35.660 It's not even really a problem specific to the Muslims.

00:32:39.760 So it's a broader problem when you flood the country with people who are not from here, who have totally different loyalties and longstanding feuds and antagonisms and cultural practices and religion and all the rest of it. 0.99

00:32:53.380 When you just flood them into a new country and then you don't encourage them to assimilate, you actually discourage assimilation. 0.66

00:32:59.140 Well, this is what's going to happen.

00:33:00.260 You're going to get people who say, death to America, death to America.

00:33:05.580 We're told that anyone can become an American.

00:33:07.460 The moment you come here, you know, as long as you read a poem on the Statue of Liberty and you believe in freedom in the abstract, then you're an American.

00:33:16.240 I don't believe that, obviously, but the liberals seem to think that.

00:33:19.660 How is this guy an American? 0.98

00:33:20.860 He chants death to America, or he at least, you know, addresses a political rally where death to America is being chanted. 0.95

00:33:30.300 He says America is the rottenest country on earth. 0.88

00:33:33.080 He says we need to stop focusing so much on Israel and just focus more on America, how terrible it is.

00:33:38.540 He's got the flag of a different country behind him.

00:33:41.960 He believes in a religion that is not the religion that built up America.

00:33:47.720 So much so that he opposes America, in fact.

00:33:50.100 How is he an American?

00:33:51.600 What's American about him?

00:33:53.540 The one thing that is really American about him is how much he hates America.

00:33:58.360 I guess that's the one thing.

00:33:59.920 Because in this guy's defense, and in defense of the Muslims and even the pro-Palestine liberation people,

00:34:06.740 he doesn't sound all that much different from a college leftist in America.

00:34:10.740 And in fact, who does he quote?

00:34:12.680 Is he quoting, you know, the Ayatollah?

00:34:16.460 Is he quoting Saeed Qutb?

00:34:21.420 Is he quoting Osama bin Laden?

00:34:23.580 No, he's quoting Malcolm X.

00:34:25.500 He's quoting a black power leader in America who also said all these terrible things. 0.63

00:34:30.260 Who was also sort of Muslim. 0.95

00:34:31.980 He was kind of like the weird version of Muslim. 1.00

00:34:34.960 Not the Arab version of Muslim, but the like American black version of Muslim. 0.98

00:34:38.960 But in any case, very unfortunate.

00:34:42.640 And you might stem the problem by severely restricting immigration, which most Americans want to do.

00:34:49.120 You might help to solve the problem by encouraging greater assimilation of the people who move here.

00:34:55.560 And splitting up some of the enclaves.

00:34:57.800 So, you know, if 100,000 Muslims from wherever this guy's family is from move to America and they settle all throughout the country, 0.56

00:35:07.140 that is going to encourage assimilation more than if they all settle in Dearborn, Michigan and have greater access to organizing their Death to America rallies, right? 0.79

00:35:15.240 So, you could do that.

00:35:17.360 But none of these things are going to totally solve the problem.

00:35:20.160 And you've got to solve the Malcolm X problem. 0.75

00:35:21.780 Because you've got to solve the radical American leftist problem.

00:35:24.560 You've got to, and the way you're going to solve that problem is by defining with limits what it means to be an American.

00:35:34.340 If right now, being an American is just whatever you want me.

00:35:36.820 And it's kind of like the trams of patriotism.

00:35:39.280 You know, if you say you're an American, you're an American.

00:35:41.920 And I need to affirm your identity.

00:35:43.720 No, you're not.

00:35:44.960 There's actually some limits.

00:35:46.680 You've got to act a certain way.

00:35:47.780 You've got to talk a certain way.

00:35:49.200 You've got to believe a certain way.

00:35:50.820 You've got to have certain legal.

00:35:53.040 On top of that, you need to have certain legal status.

00:35:56.020 You need to be an American citizen.

00:35:57.700 You need to be within certain borders.

00:36:00.260 You need to eat hot dogs on the 4th of July.

00:36:03.140 And you've got to like fireworks.

00:36:04.140 And you've got to watch the Yankees, okay?

00:36:05.920 To be an American means a thing that is not just floating in outer space.

00:36:11.200 It is part of incarnate life that moves through time and space and history.

00:36:16.820 And has a, not just an individual, but a community aspect.

00:36:20.020 You've got to have bonds, tides of friendship and kinship, one hopes, to other Americans.

00:36:27.620 That's what you've got to do.

00:36:29.380 And until we do that, we are going to lose.

00:36:33.360 The patriots and the conservatives are going to lose on this issue, just as we've lost on

00:36:37.320 the trans issue.

00:36:38.200 If we can't define what a man is, if we can't define what a woman is, if we can't define

00:36:41.300 what a marriage is, if we can't define any of these things, then we're going to keep losing

00:36:45.040 on the trans issue.

00:36:46.540 And if you can't define what an American is, you're going to lose on that issue too.

00:36:50.420 Now, speaking of swing states turning from Michigan to Wisconsin, Wisconsin voters have

00:36:56.660 just done something really, really great.

00:36:58.340 They have banned the private funding of elections.

00:37:05.220 Wisconsin voters approved an amendment, this was last week actually, banning the private

00:37:11.000 funding of elections.

00:37:11.960 Now, you might say, wait a second, what do you mean private funding of elections?

00:37:14.760 We don't, we fund our elections publicly, don't, you know, like, no, we don't actually.

00:37:19.720 In 2020, Mark Zuckerberg spent $400 million to kick Trump out of the White House.

00:37:27.120 And the way he did it was not just by donating to Joe Biden, wasn't even primarily by donating

00:37:31.420 to Joe Biden.

00:37:31.980 The way Mark Zuckerberg did it was privately funding the elections.

00:37:35.760 And the way he did that was by funding leftist organizations that worked with the government

00:37:42.260 to change the way the elections were conducted.

00:37:44.880 In some cases, illegal.

00:37:46.600 In some cases, putting ballot drop boxes too far away from the county clerk's office, for

00:37:50.520 instance.

00:37:51.160 But doing so in such a way that it gave a major advantage to the Democrats.

00:37:55.100 And that's all because one guy, Mark Zuckerberg, hated Donald Trump so much that he was willing

00:37:59.200 to sink almost half a billion dollars into doing it in a very clever way.

00:38:01.980 That should not happen.

00:38:04.800 That is very, very wrong.

00:38:06.980 So the amendment that the Wisconsin voters voted for directs that, quote, donations and

00:38:12.200 grants may not be applied for, accepted, expended, or used in connection with the conduct of any

00:38:17.760 primary election or referendum.

00:38:20.340 Really, really great stuff.

00:38:22.080 And it passed pretty clearly.

00:38:24.120 Wasn't a total blowout, but it was 54.4% to 45.6%.

00:38:29.100 This is not only a good rule for moving forward, this is also a recognition of an injustice that

00:38:38.100 happened last time.

00:38:39.580 So we hear now from the libs that the 2020 election was perfect.

00:38:43.260 There's been no more perfect election ever conducted.

00:38:45.540 Joe Biden won fair and square by 10 bazillion votes. 0.97

00:38:48.960 And anyone who questions that is an evil, terrible, insurrectionist, terrorist.

00:38:53.020 And we all know that isn't true.

00:38:54.880 We all know something was very, very fishy about the 2020 election.

00:38:58.120 We can point to certain examples, like the state of Pennsylvania violating its own state

00:39:02.140 constitution to permit widespread mail-in ballots using COVID as an excuse.

00:39:06.080 That's just one example.

00:39:07.240 But it's not just Pennsylvania.

00:39:09.020 And it's not just some of the irregularities in Georgia.

00:39:11.200 Even in Wisconsin, we know that that stuff was up.

00:39:14.420 And it's not just us saying it.

00:39:16.360 It's the Wisconsin voters.

00:39:18.320 They're saying, hey, Mark Zuckerberg rigged this election in an unjust way.

00:39:24.560 And that's bad.

00:39:26.100 And I'm not saying we can just push Trump into the White House now with that we're so simple.

00:39:30.280 But we are not going to let it happen again.

00:39:33.220 2020 was severely rigged.

00:39:37.320 We're doing stuff to change it moving forward.

00:39:39.920 And maybe, given how terrible a job Joe Biden has done, given how many voters he has alienated,

00:39:46.960 for goodness sakes, he's irritated the Muslims. 0.56

00:39:49.320 He should have had a lock on that vote. 0.82

00:39:50.660 He's banning menthol cigarettes as his black support was already declining dramatically.

00:39:55.100 He's turning away young people because they hate his policy in Israel and the Gaza War.

00:40:00.100 He, a lot of his core constituencies are falling away.

00:40:03.020 Maybe, just maybe, Republicans really have a chance.

00:40:05.900 Tonight is the series premiere of Judged by Matt Walsh.

00:40:10.160 This will be on Daily Wire Plus.

00:40:12.360 Matt Walsh, as a judge, is exactly what you would imagine.

00:40:17.120 It's even funnier, in fact, because the cases are real.

00:40:21.220 And his decisions actually are somehow legally binding.

00:40:26.060 They did a lot of prep.

00:40:27.180 I've known about this project for six months now.

00:40:29.640 And I am very, very excited for it to come out.

00:40:31.660 Take a look at some of what you can expect on this season of Judged by Matt Walsh.

00:40:36.920 All rise to the Honorable Judge Walsh.

00:40:46.140 Please be seated.

00:40:50.580 Miss Goldstein.

00:40:51.500 Mr. Bentley.

00:40:52.220 Mr. Outerbridge.

00:40:53.360 Mr. Slicer.

00:40:53.900 Your Honor.

00:40:54.180 Mr. Barney.

00:40:54.840 Yes, Your Honor.

00:40:55.260 Miss Singh.

00:40:55.680 Yes.

00:40:56.060 At 30,000 feet, my lips exploded. 1.00

00:40:58.380 Why would I pay rent to somebody who had sex with my sister? 1.00

00:41:00.920 A dog bit my finger. 0.98

00:41:01.960 He's allergic, like the grass.

00:41:03.580 If he didn't want me to drop the car, he would have took the key.

00:41:05.400 I had it with him. 0.80

00:41:05.880 As I haven't told you, you're the worst negotiator that's ever lived.

00:41:10.960 I've never been more annoyed than I am in this moment. 0.94

00:41:21.000 Not even close.

00:41:22.540 That does it.

00:41:23.480 Please get the hell out of my courtroom. 0.99

00:41:24.460 Wait until you see real petty court in action where anything you say to Judge Walsh can and

00:41:38.660 certainly will be used against you.

00:41:40.920 Be the first to see Judge by Matt Walsh tonight at 8 p.m. Eastern, Daily Wire Plus.

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00:41:54.440 I actually don't know what the code is because they didn't put it in my teleprompter.

00:41:56.740 So there's a very important case that is coming through our legal system.

00:42:03.660 And the case involves Morgan Wallen, who is a Nashville local, a country music star.

00:42:10.620 I don't really know how to think about it.

00:42:13.620 I'm no expert in the law.

00:42:15.940 So I was very fortunate to be able to sit down with the Honorable Judge Matt Walsh to get his advanced legal opinion.

00:42:24.620 Judge Walsh, thank you so much for taking a moment to condescend and come on to give your legal advice.

00:42:32.900 Of course.

00:42:33.460 I can give you five minutes.

00:42:35.640 Okay.

00:42:36.420 Your Honor, you know that...

00:42:40.740 Continue.

00:42:41.620 You know the details of this case.

00:42:47.220 Morgan Wallen, a neighbor of mine, I guess, a fellow Nashvilleian, was at a rooftop bar in downtown and he threw a chair off the roof.

00:43:00.200 This landed in front of some cops. 0.66

00:43:03.680 They went up and they arrested him.

00:43:05.220 So in your legal opinion, was this sufficient cause to arrest the country singer?

00:43:11.620 Will he be given a fair trial?

00:43:15.040 And what should the sentence be?

00:43:17.740 I mean, certainly.

00:43:18.680 You've got multiple charges here, all worthy of arrest.

00:43:23.480 You know, first of all, what are you doing?

00:43:26.620 Morgan Wallen lives in Nashville, doesn't he?

00:43:29.420 He's actually a resident of Nashville, I believe.

00:43:31.180 Yeah, yeah.

00:43:32.000 So what are you doing down on Broadway over the weekend?

00:43:36.780 Everyone knows Broadway is for, like, white girls from New Jersey, not for actual residents of Nashville. 0.99

00:43:42.020 So what are you doing on Broadway?

00:43:44.820 What are you doing at a rooftop bar as, I think he's in his 30s now, as a 30-year-old man?

00:43:52.380 And then, you know, you add those two charges on top of throwing the chair, which could have killed, you know, could have killed, could have killed 10 people, depending on how closely they're packed together, depending on how heavy the chair is, which we don't have that information.

00:44:05.660 But I think it all adds up to a death sentence on multiple charges. 0.80

00:44:11.260 So I would execute him. 0.99

00:44:12.640 I would execute Morgan Wallen. 1.00

00:44:14.360 He should be killed. 1.00

00:44:16.040 That's my legal analysis. 0.99

00:44:19.280 But you probably won't be trying the case, right?

00:44:25.560 I don't think, will this be coming before your court, or will this be coming before, you know, I don't know, I guess maybe The Hague, given your legal interpretation?

00:44:33.920 No, I mean, I won't be trying the case.

00:44:37.100 I don't, unfortunately, we don't get cases like that in my courtroom.

00:44:41.360 I don't think it quite, it doesn't quite rise to the level of the sort of cases that we see in this courtroom.

00:44:48.520 It's not quite at that, quite at that, you know, level of importance.

00:44:52.560 So what are some of the cases that you adjudicate?

00:44:56.780 Well, listen, we have, you know, our premiere episode.

00:45:00.160 We have two very important cases, and I don't want to get into any spoilers or anything like that, but I will say that one of the cases has to do with a woman and her lips exploding while she was on a plane.

00:45:12.540 She was given, she took injections into her lips, you know, the botulism, the Botox or whatever it is.

00:45:19.960 I didn't really pay attention to that part, but she put something in her lips, and then the lips exploded on a plane. 0.97

00:45:24.960 So we have exploding lips. 0.54

00:45:26.460 We have cases that have to deal with a woman who got her finger bit by a dog, and she actually had a cut.

00:45:34.420 She had a laceration on her finger because a dog bit it. 0.99

00:45:37.140 We have a case that's to do with a man who didn't want to cut the grass because he has an allergy to the grass, and there was a very intense dispute between him and his roommate about who would cut the grass because one doesn't want to, the other has an allergy.

00:45:51.500 So these are the sorts of cases that we deal with, and the cases that, you know, so-called real courts wouldn't take, and they bring to me, and I give them the seriousness that they deserve, I think.

00:46:05.460 Judge, could you remind me where you went to law school?

00:46:12.040 It's not about that.

00:46:13.780 You know, this is not, what I found is that trying these cases doesn't have anything to do with education.

00:46:21.120 You don't need to have read books.

00:46:23.600 You don't have to be able to cite, you know, legal precedent.

00:46:28.860 Because I'm tapping into something deeper and more primal than that.

00:46:37.260 Do you think, Judge, that, you know, I know that the cases that you adjudicate are going to take the country by storm.

00:46:46.740 Do you think there's a chance that you could receive a federal appointment in a second Trump term?

00:46:52.220 And who knows, you know, if Thomas or Kagan retire, do you think you could make it to the Supreme Court?

00:47:00.700 Well, I would certainly hope so.

00:47:01.600 I mean, what I will say is that, obviously, I'm pretty busy with the judge show, I'm pretty busy with the podcast and other projects.

00:47:09.180 But I am willing to throw my hat into the ring and to say that I'd be willing to at least consider, if I was brought up for an appointment to the Supreme Court, you know, something, you know, a federal court at a lower level than the Supreme Court, I would consider it.

00:47:26.980 I would not, I wouldn't be insulted by the suggestion, I'll say that.

00:47:32.100 Supreme Court, I would probably, I would probably accept that, even with everything I've got going on.

00:47:37.260 And as I think is well established now, I am now America's foremost and most preeminent legal expert.

00:47:45.760 So I would expect, especially with Trump in the White House, that I would at least be considered for that role.

00:47:50.480 And while the Senate, you know, considers the potential Judge Walsh appointment, could you give them a little sense of your interpretive principle?

00:48:03.660 You know, are you a, an originalist?

00:48:05.820 Are you a textualist?

00:48:07.480 Or do you take a more liberal or even classical approach to constitutional interpretation?

00:48:14.040 Yes.

00:48:14.560 Great, great.

00:48:19.220 Your Honor, thank you so much.

00:48:20.780 I don't want to take up any more of your time.

00:48:22.060 I know that you're very, very busy.

00:48:24.280 People can catch these important cases on Daily Wire Plus today?

00:48:30.840 They can.

00:48:32.100 If today is Tuesday, then they absolutely can.

00:48:36.600 Thank you, Your Honor.

00:48:38.140 Thank you so much.

00:48:38.920 Daily Wire.com slash subscribe to catch all those important cases when judged by Matt Walsh.

00:48:47.740 Today is Trans Tuesday.

00:48:50.080 I was hoping it would be Tee Hee Hee Tuesday, but we're on the road and we were talking about transgenderism last night.

00:48:55.700 And there were a lot of pride flags, like a zillion pride flags that the Utah people put up everywhere and in protest of my appearance here.

00:49:04.040 So it seems fitting.

00:49:05.320 We'll do a Trans Tuesday. 0.95

00:49:06.240 The rest of the show continues.

00:49:07.160 Now, you do not want to miss it.

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