Day 1 of President Trump's criminal trial in New York, the first of four trials Democrats have planned for him before Election Day, and the first criminal trial of a former president in American history is officially over. President Trump calls the charges brought against him an act of political persecution.
00:06:19.240There it is. Two big issues. One personal, one constitutional, one deeply relevant to the
00:06:29.080law and the politics of this case. The personal issue, this dirtbag judge, what's his name?
00:06:36.420Juan Mershan, New York Supreme Court Justice Juan Mershan, this dirtbag judge won't let President
00:06:43.660Trump go to his kid's high school graduation over this farce of a trial. He's going to punish an 18-year-old
00:06:51.640kid because they hate Trump so much. They're going to punish the American people by prosecuting a
00:06:57.660former president, taking us that much further into the territory of Banana Republic. They're
00:07:02.720going to punish the American people by prosecuting the current Republican nominee, the leader of the
00:07:07.740opposition during Joe Biden's reign as president. And then they're going to punish this 18-year-old
00:07:13.980kid in particular, just to twist that knife even further because they hate the orange man so much.
00:07:17.780What a dirtbag judge Juan Mershan obviously is. But then at the legal and constitutional level,
00:07:26.240because you have all of these prosecutions going on at once, just to get Trump, just throw spaghetti
00:07:31.080at the wall, anything they can to stop this man from being president again, so great a threat he poses
00:07:36.740apparently to the corrupt liberal establishment. There's going to be this appearance in Washington,
00:07:44.220D.C., before the Supreme Court that will pertain to immunity, whether or not a president of the
00:07:50.940United States has some immunity from prosecution after he leaves office for things he does while he
00:07:55.940is in office. This is obviously pretty important to all of the prosecutions against Donald Trump right
00:08:02.360now. It's very important to our constitutional order. It's very important to the 2024 presidential
00:08:06.300election. And this dirtbag judge, Juan Mershan, I don't even know if I'm pronouncing his name
00:08:11.940correctly, is not going to let Trump appear before the Supreme Court because we've got to keep up this
00:08:20.000circus, this farce over an issue that never should have been prosecuted. Forget all the tabloid
00:08:25.940tawdriness of this. Oh, there was this porn star. There was this porn star, like whatever it was,
00:08:30.16020 years ago. And she alleges that she slept with Trump, even though then she said she didn't sleep
00:08:36.300with Trump. And now she says she does sleep with Trump. But that's not even what the case is about.
00:08:40.820The case is about whether or not Donald Trump is allowed to make an in-kind contribution to his
00:08:45.680own presidential campaign, which he is. So then what's the case about? The case is about did Trump
00:08:49.780file the right paperwork or whatever with the FEC? Give me a freaking break. A total joke. But this is
00:08:57.020the kind of lawlessness that one can expect from a late stage republic that has fallen into corruption.
00:09:06.300You know, I don't think I'm being hyperbolic here. This is what happens to different types of
00:09:10.820government. I won't belabor the point because I say it on the show a lot. There are all sorts of
00:09:15.900different types of government. There's monarchy, there's oligarchy, there's democracy, and there are
00:09:20.200bad forms of it, which is tyranny and oligarchy and mob rule. And the distinction between the two is when
00:09:25.900one is governing for the common good and when one is governing for self-interest. I think it's pretty
00:09:30.200clear here that the factionalism, the political partisan self-interest has reached a fever pitch.
00:09:36.940We've never seen anything like it in American history. And so this circus continues. And Trump,
00:09:42.180got to hand it to him, man. That guy does not blink. That guy stands very, very tall,
00:09:48.360even when they throw everything at him that they've got. Speaking of injustice in New York,
00:09:52.540a man has just been arrested after punching a nine-year-old girl in Grand Central Station.
00:09:59.280Just walked up to a nine-year-old girl and sucker punched her in the face.
00:10:03.600This guy, his name is Jean Carlos Zarzuela. He's 30 years old, punched the nine-year-old girl. But
00:10:11.460that's not the whole story. It's New York. Crazy things happen in New York, right? I think he's a
00:10:15.100homeless guy. He's obviously some kind of lunatic, probably on drugs. The crazy part of this story
00:10:20.500is that he sucker punched the nine-year-old girl after he was arrested and released for punching
00:10:30.760another woman. That's the crazy part here. This guy, this maniac, homeless bum, goes up,
00:10:42.240punches a woman in the face, allegedly. I have to say allegedly every single time we mention anything
00:10:47.720about this guy's reported activities. Then it gets arrested. Then, because it's New York City,
00:10:55.800just gets released. And then does it again in a more egregious way because he sucker punches,
00:11:00.880allegedly, a nine-year-old girl at Grand Central Station. Why is this happening? This was obviously,
00:11:08.500at least the punching of the nine-year-old was totally preventable. Why is it happening?
00:11:11.820It's happening because we're not allowed to acknowledge patterns. That's why. Because
00:11:17.620liberalism and political correctness in particular, and now we call it wokeism,
00:11:21.920and this has now been written into our law and the enforcement of our law or the non-enforcement
00:11:26.460of our law prohibits us from acknowledging patterns. Criminals tend to commit crime.
00:11:35.020We can't say. How dare you suggest that a man who goes up and punches a woman on the street
00:11:40.620might do that sort of thing again? No, no, no. No reason to believe that. Release the man.
00:11:46.020Let him out of there. No, no, no. That's anti-criminal discrimination. This is what happened
00:11:50.860in New York with stop and frisk. Do you remember the stop and frisk policy? This was about 10 years
00:11:54.180ago, maybe a little bit more now, under the mayoralty of Mike Bloomberg, building on the
00:11:59.180the crime crackdown policies of Rudy Giuliani, the best mayor in the history of New York City.
00:12:05.540They had this policy stop and frisk. Stop and frisk was when the cops would go into bad
00:12:10.720neighborhoods and stop criminals from committing crimes. That's what stop and frisk was.
00:12:14.820And everyone was up in arms in New York. All the liberals, rather, were up in arms because it was
00:12:20.320allegedly racist. Why was it racist? Well, because these cops were going into predominantly black and
00:12:27.780Hispanic neighborhoods and they were stopping and frisking predominantly black and Hispanic people
00:12:34.000who were often criminals. So it's racist right on its face, right? Now, what the liberals did not
00:12:40.980acknowledge was that it's true. The neighborhoods were predominantly black and Hispanic and the
00:12:46.020criminals predominantly were black and Hispanic. Also, the people calling the police asking for
00:12:51.760protection were predominantly black and Hispanic and the cops in New York Police Department were
00:13:00.080predominantly black and Hispanic. It's a majority minority police force. But the focus was only ever
00:13:06.560on the criminals. So they said, oh, no, this is discrimination. Well, what about the poor innocent
00:13:10.600people who were the same race as the criminals who wanted protection from the criminals who were the
00:13:14.240same race? No, no, you can't. How dare you profile people? Any police work, any kind of law enforcement
00:13:24.800requires profiling people. Otherwise, you're just going to be stopping everybody or you're going to
00:13:30.120stop nobody. And that is what's going on in New York right now. It's like the TSA. The fact that I
00:13:36.640stand in the TSA line at the airport and some old granny from Peoria gets pulled out of line
00:13:43.620and frisked is a complete joke. Why does that happen? Even I sort of understand why I would get
00:13:49.660pulled out of line. I'm a roughly fighting age guy. You know, I don't know. I look maybe I look a little
00:13:55.020bit Middle Eastern, you know, or of Sicilian descent. It's a little ethnically ambiguous. OK, I mean, what's
00:14:01.500the point of the TSA? The TSA is there to stop Middle Eastern Muslim terrorists from blowing up
00:14:06.580airplanes. That's why we have the TSA regime. But we're not allowed to say that. We're not allowed to notice
00:14:11.360any patterns. So we have to pull out the Midwestern granny and we got to frisk nine-month-old babies
00:14:15.720all for what? To pretend that it's ever those people who blow up the planes? It's not. But we're
00:14:21.340not allowed to recognize any kind of patterns at all. Or we necessarily do recognize them,
00:14:27.540but we're not allowed to acknowledge them. And so what's the consequence of that?
00:14:33.140The criminals' feelings don't get hurt? That's that nine-year-old girls get punched in the face in
00:14:37.440Grand Central Station. OK, wow. Congratulations. Great job, guys. There's so much more to say.
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00:15:47.940Speaking of violence, very violent show today. There's a story that's one of the top stories in
00:15:54.300the world right now with videos that have gone viral. A bishop of the ancient Church of the East,
00:16:02.080which is a sort of sect of a sect of Christianity, was just stabbed in an attack during a church
00:16:11.980service. And some young guy walks up and just starts attacking this guy. And it's an amazing scene.
00:16:17.600It happens very, very quickly. But the bishop holds up a small cross. This guy, this young man,
00:16:25.220has a knife. And the bishop has a small cross. And the bishop is totally fine. And the young man
00:16:31.700reportedly chopped his own fingers off. Because, call it a miracle, it's being reported, you know,
00:16:37.520as a miracle. And it certainly would seem to be. The knife malfunctioned. Just as the bishop is holding
00:16:43.280up the cross to stop the knife malfunctions. So, according to authorities, the kid, the kid,
00:16:49.740he's like 15, I think, according to the news reports, chopped off one or more of his own fingers.
00:16:55.700Other people were injured. I mean, this bishop was injured. He was treated, though, for non-life
00:16:59.760threatening injuries. But no one really knows very much about the motivations here. Because it's a 15
00:17:05.320year old kid, they're not releasing the name, they're not releasing much of the background. And so
00:17:09.240people are filling in the gaps. I've seen all sorts of theories, often baseless theories, on
00:17:16.220social media. So I'll just focus on two of them, because they're the two that have gone the most
00:17:21.620viral. The first theory that I saw floating around social media was that this was a reprisal against
00:17:28.200the bishop. Because the bishop is pro-Palestine and anti-Israel. So this was a reprisal by a supporter
00:17:37.000of Israel, by a Zionist, or something like that, because of preaching such as this.
00:17:43.080I said, open the door. He said, I'm not taking the risk. I said, we pay you because I said,
00:17:46.480This bishop is talking about a visit that he made to Gaza. Open the door. I want to say hello to this
00:17:50.480little girl. Palestinian, Muslim girl, my sweetheart. Yeah? I don't care. This is a little angel.
00:17:59.460Stop killing little angels. Okay, so this video has been going viral. They say, see, this is a reprisal
00:18:05.620because the bishop is not sufficiently pro-Israel enough. Now, I saw that, and I said, you know,
00:18:10.720speaking of noticing patterns and noticing the way these crimes sort of take place, I said,
00:18:16.160you don't often hear about knife attacks against clerics by the Zionists or whatever, you know,
00:18:24.920by the pro-Israel people. But that's not, you know, if there's going to be any pattern,
00:18:30.740it's usually going to be on the other side of that conflict. So then there was another theory going
00:18:34.340around with another associated clip that says that the motivation for this attack
00:18:39.180was that the bishop is anti-Islam because of preaching like this.
00:18:44.640So Isa in Arabic is taken from the Greek word isos, Jesus, Yeshua.
00:18:51.460But that Isa in the Qur'an is not the Jesus of the Bible. They've got nothing to do with one another, please.
00:19:00.460Nothing to do with it. Totally different Jesus altogether. And Mary in the Qur'an, nothing to do with the Holy Mother of the Bible.
00:19:10.880Absolutely not. So if somebody comes and says, like, we believe in Isa, but that Isa is not my Jesus.
00:19:17.040This person has got nothing to do with the Jesus of the Bible. Absolutely not.
00:19:22.780That Jesus in the Bible is the Son of God, is God. That Jesus in the Bible was crucified and he is the Savior and the Redeemer of the world.
00:19:29.840Do you believe in this or not? Don't tell me he's a prophet. What prophet? What am I going to do with a prophet?
00:19:35.880A prophet can't help himself, let alone help me. But it's ironic, ironic how they come back and they say
00:19:42.620that Isa went up to heaven alive and will come back alive. Muhammad is dead and rotted in the grave.
00:19:49.000Yet this one went up alive and when he comes back, he will judge the living and the dead.
00:19:54.080I just want to know, who is the judge of the living and the dead? Isn't it God?
00:19:58.780Now the other thing is, wouldn't you want to follow someone who is living instead of someone who is dead?
00:20:03.960Looks like this guy's done much better at work.
00:20:06.420Okay, so there's more to it. That's just a brief clip. And then there's the possibility
00:20:11.580that the motivation was not religious at all. That this is just some crazy kid. Because don't
00:20:16.660forget, just days ago, there was another stabbing, a mass stabbing, also in Sydney, Australia, as this
00:20:22.980stabbing was. And the perpetrator, according to reports, was just some crazy guy who was upset that
00:20:28.920he couldn't get a girlfriend and decided to go out and kill people and stab a lot of other people.
00:20:32.440So we don't know. We don't know. And because of the age of the perpetrator here,
00:20:37.940we're probably not going to get a ton of details. So which is it?
00:20:42.460So it's the stabber is a pro-Israel. He didn't really look like a pro-Israel guy. Let's put it
00:20:46.900that way. Is the stabber a Muslim terrorist? I guess I have my suspicions, just judging by
00:20:57.660how these events usually occur. Or is the attacker not motivated by any religion at all?
00:21:05.280He's just a crazy guy who wanted to go out and stab a bishop one day. We don't really know. So
00:21:10.400what's the main takeaway here? The main takeaway is something that we often forget, which is that
00:21:15.320bishops are under attack. Priests are under attack. Christians broadly are under attack.
00:21:22.000In the West, how many churches have been burned down by arsonists in Canada, in Europe, even in
00:21:29.760America, have been attacked in just the past few years based on lies? Remember the lie in Canada
00:21:35.720that Catholic schools were murdering indigenous Indian children 200 years ago? There was that
00:21:43.660lie. It was completely made up based on false mass graves that they supposedly found. How many attacks
00:21:49.260on the churches in Europe? Right now, there's a genocide that is beginning in Armenia,
00:21:57.360fueled by the Azerbaijanis growing out of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict. After 100 years ago,
00:22:03.260there was a Muslim genocide of Christian Armenians. We call it the Armenian Genocide. A reminder that
00:22:09.840much as you hear about the plight of all sorts of other religious groups, Christianity is and remains
00:22:16.840the most persecuted religious group in the world, according to any survey that you could take
00:22:24.720on the subject. And often, often it goes unnoticed. You know, the uncensored and deleted episodes of
00:22:34.180Michael and my long-form interview series are available now exclusively to members of Daily Wire Plus.
00:22:41.280These Michael and interviews, they're probably my favorite thing that I'm doing right now. I just
00:22:47.220love them. They're usually not debates. A couple of them have been debates when the guests are
00:22:54.400primed for that. Most of them are just conversations, long conversations of people who usually are not
00:23:01.840that famous, who have stories that are really interesting, that are really pertinent to what's
00:23:05.460going on in the world today. Here's a teaser from one that I'm not allowed to discuss all that openly
00:23:10.620on a certain social media platform. I think you'll get the idea from the clip.
00:23:16.560I had forgotten about being pushed down the stairs. The stuff that he tried to get me to do
00:23:20.800in the bedroom, that sexual abuse, trying to coerce me into being, acting like we're lesbians,
00:23:27.680him dressing up as a woman. In 2010, the kids were ordered and told they could no longer call their
00:23:33.460father-dad. I think you probably have an idea of what the topic of that conversation would be.
00:23:43.980Well, the full episode, Totally Uncensored, and many more of those episodes are now available to
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00:24:02.440Speaking of Islam, an Indian-American pro-Palestine protester has been arrested for threatening to
00:24:13.440murder the Bakersfield City Council if the council did not vote for a ceasefire in Gaza.
00:24:23.240B.T. Patel crying, wearing her. Not an orange jumpsuit against a brown jumpsuit.
00:24:30.800Not guilty, please, on Patel's behalf to eight counts of threatening a public official and
00:24:35.520ten counts of making terroristic threats. She's due back in court later this month.
00:24:41.440Okay. It's always sad to see a woman cry, even if the tears are a direct consequence of her
00:24:50.380actions. The strange thing here to me is what was going in her mind. Not as she was threatening to
00:24:59.580kill these guys. But before that, what did she think was going to happen if she succeeded at
00:25:07.100intimidating the Bakersfield City Council? She goes there. She says, I'm going to kill you guys.
00:25:12.120I'm going to murder you if you don't pass a non-binding Bakersfield City resolution
00:25:18.600calling for a ceasefire in Gaza. And then what was going to happen?
00:25:23.640You're going to zip across the world. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, he calls a major
00:25:28.540press conference. He says, hello, hello, my fellow Israelis. My fellow Israelis, I'm afraid the war is
00:25:35.160over. The war against Hamas is over. I wish that the war could continue. But the Bakersfield City Council
00:25:45.100in California has passed a non-binding resolution calling for a ceasefire. My hands are tied.
00:25:52.220I cannot. The war is over. Peace has been reestablished in the Middle East because the
00:25:59.820seven members, I don't even know how many people are on the city council. I don't, what was supposed
00:26:03.920to happen? What? Oh, man, how leftist political activism, just like a worm, just burrows its way
00:26:14.800through your brain and leaves your brain as nothing but mush. This woman is facing pretty serious
00:26:22.880criminal penalties for an action that never possibly could have accomplished anything.
00:26:31.520Many, many such cases. Let that be a warning to you if you're on the left, if you're on the right,
00:26:39.600if you're engaged in politics in any way. Do not, don't, first of all, don't act like a total wacko
00:26:46.400generally. But don't throw your life away for nothing, for not even the possibility of accomplishing
00:26:57.300anything. Now, speaking of crazy leftist politics, Chaston Glesman, better known by his stage name,
00:27:06.460Chaston Buttigieg. He is Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg's paramour. He just went on MSNBC
00:27:15.840to accuse President Trump of effectively killing LGBT LMNOP people, saying that Trump and the
00:27:23.860Republicans are, in effect, telling suicidal LGBT people to pull the trigger.
00:27:32.960It's really hard. But for me, getting to grow up to be this person was a miracle. When I was 13,
00:27:39.92014 years old and sitting in my parents' basement, I would stare at my dad's gun cabinet.
00:27:43.400And I thought that was the only way out. I would never know love. I would never know family.
00:27:48.020I'd never know community. I thought I was the only gay person in the world. And I felt like
00:27:51.460the world was telling me, pull the trigger. I very much feel like this election is about
00:27:56.640one candidate who looks at that kid and says, I've got your back. And another candidate who
00:28:01.880surrounds himself with people who are actively saying, pull the trigger. That is what they
00:28:06.840believe. They do not support LGBTQ people. They do not support families like my own. And they are
00:28:12.700not doing anything actively to make life better or safer for kids like my own, for families like my
00:28:18.860own, and for many other people around this country. This is very disgraceful behavior,
00:28:25.020but it's also crazy boyfriend, crazy girlfriend behavior. This is textbook, crazy boyfriend,
00:28:32.540crazy girlfriend. We've all heard of the crazy boyfriend, crazy girlfriend. Maybe you have
00:28:36.260experienced the crazy boyfriend, crazy girlfriend who says, if you break up with me, I'm going to kill
00:28:41.840myself. If you do anything that I don't like, I'm going to kill myself. We've all heard of that.
00:28:50.200Many people have experienced it. That's exactly what Jason Buttigieg is doing here.
00:28:54.240So disgusting. So narcissistic. So like everything in the whole world revolves around
00:29:02.340him in his own mind. But think about the implications of that because he pulls on your
00:29:09.200heartstrings a little bit. Yeah, I do. If a young man is confused about his sexual desires or is
00:29:17.360experiencing some kind of deviant or disordered sexual desires, and he feels that that alienates him
00:29:22.780or isolates him. I feel for that kid, of course. And you don't want that kid to feel bad about
00:29:27.820himself or hurt himself or anything like that. Obviously, that's very, very sad. You want that
00:29:33.920guy to be integrated into society and to have a good life, right? But what Chaston Glesman,
00:29:43.420now called Buttigieg, says is, well, the only way, the only way to make me feel better, the only way
00:29:51.520to stop me from killing myself is for you all to tell a big lie. First, that's the first thing.
00:29:58.560First thing is, in order for me not to kill myself, you all need to pretend that marriage is something
00:30:03.660different than it is and that it has always been acknowledged to be. For all of human history,
00:30:07.980everywhere in the world, we have recognized that marriage has something to do with sexual
00:30:12.780difference. Sexual difference, the complementarity of men and women, is the thing that distinguishes
00:30:20.240marriage from other kinds of relationships. A business colleague or a best buddy or gal pals,
00:30:28.480the sexual complementarity, the fact that there's a union can make children and that man is a coupling
00:30:33.960creature and then you get married and you raise those children and it's a lifelong commitment,
00:30:39.160that that is what distinguishes marriage. And what Chaston is saying here is, yeah, lie about that.
00:30:45.460You have to lie about that and say that sexual difference has nothing to do with marriage or
00:30:49.920I'll kill myself. And a lot of people are going to say, okay, well, I don't want you to kill yourself.
00:30:53.920So sure, I'll lie about that. Even though I don't believe it, to make you feel better and so you
00:31:00.060don't kill yourself like a complete lunatic. Okay, I'll lie and say that marriage is totally
00:31:05.020different than it always has been everywhere in the world and that it obviously is today.
00:31:08.620Okay, sure. Yeah, it's different. And then what's the next thing? He says, okay, and now if you don't
00:31:14.020want me to kill myself, you need to let me go out and purchase a child. Actually, go out, pay money to
00:31:20.720a company to create a child by purchasing the eggs of one woman and then renting the womb of another
00:31:26.560woman so that I can create a child with the express intent of denying that child his mother.
00:31:31.860One of the most important relationships that a human being will ever have in his whole life,
00:31:35.880especially to a little baby who just cries out, mama, mama, love you, mama, mama, mama, come here.
00:31:40.360Yeah, I'm going to create a kid intentionally to deprive that kid of that relationship. And if you
00:31:45.780don't let me do that, I'll kill myself. You don't want me to kill myself, do you? That's what he's
00:31:51.740saying. All of a sudden, he's tugging on my heartstrings a little less. When he was just talking
00:31:55.680about being the kid, the depressed teenage boy, I was with him. I sympathized at least, okay? You
00:32:01.880don't want a teenage boy to feel bad about himself. But now, hold on. Then you're going to make me lie?
00:32:07.060I'm not going to lie for you, Chase. I'm not going to commit an action that is intrinsically immoral
00:32:12.100just to spare you your feelings. I don't think that's going to help you. It's definitely not going
00:32:16.180to help me, and it's just wrong in itself. But now we're not even just talking about saying a lie or
00:32:21.860establishing a lie as a matter of our law. Now we're talking about abusing a child.
00:32:31.600Maybe not intentionally abusing a child, but just by definition, abusing a child by creating that child
00:32:37.760to deprive that child of his mother. And your feelings are not worth that, Jason. No one's feelings
00:32:45.820are worth that. That is real, real evil. And your justification for that, which is that if we
00:32:52.320don't give you every single thing that you want, no matter how disordered, no matter how fantastical
00:32:56.620and false, that you're going to kill yourself, that is psycho behavior. And we cannot tolerate that.
00:33:03.580Society cannot function if that is the baseline. Give this maniac anything he wants so that he
00:33:12.040doesn't kill himself. No matter how disordered, no matter how many people it hurts, no matter how
00:33:16.880many people it scandalizes and causes to stumble and sin. Give me a break. Crazy boyfriend, crazy
00:33:24.080girlfriend stuff. Now you, not being crazy, you being very sensible and rational, you should subscribe
00:33:31.880to the Michael Knowles YouTube channel. And you should destroy that like button and ring that bell
00:33:36.780with facts and with logic. Speaking of weird sex stuff, can't believe it. We made it all the way
00:33:43.460to Tuesday with that weird sex stuff. A substitute teacher has been arrested after sleeping with a 17
00:33:51.100year old student. How many times do we get this story? This one, and what's always, it's always in
00:33:57.640the comment section, you know, oh man, where were those teachers when I was in school, right? This one's a
00:34:01.380little less funny in the sense that often these stories, they make it to the news because it's,
00:34:07.060you know, a 22 year old teacher and an 18 year old student. You say, well, they're actually so
00:34:11.020close in age, 17 year old student or something. They're so close in age. Maybe it's not, it's not
00:34:15.460quite as weird. Well here, it's a little clearer why this kind of relationship is so disordered.
00:34:21.220It's this woman who's 45 years old. They discovered her and a 17 year old student undressed in her
00:34:27.380Honda pilot parked at a dead end road at three o'clock in the morning. And so there you say,
00:34:33.280okay, 45 and 17. Now it's a little harder to joke about this. You know, 22 and 18 is one thing,
00:34:42.540but 20, 45 and 17, I don't know, man. And then the cops find these two and the kid, 17 year old,
00:34:51.280just is mostly naked, drives off in the car and then crashes. The car gets out, runs. And then
00:34:58.220the cops finally find him about an hour later. The kid's obviously a little bit shaken up about
00:35:02.840this. The reason that these stories really are never funny, despite all of the comments of where
00:35:09.740were these teachers when I was a kid is because I can't help but notice virtually all the people
00:35:16.040involved in weird sex stuff as adults had some weird sex stuff happen to them when they were young.
00:35:25.200Whether we're talking about, you know, really direct, you know, particularly egregious stuff,
00:35:30.920or whether we're just talking about exposure to pornography or bad relationships or whatever.
00:35:37.180I can't help but notice that this stuff really can scandalize people. It really can traumatize people.
00:35:42.040This is the one area where I think the libs consistently say something that is true
00:35:49.480about sex. They're always talking about sex. It's not me. It's not me. Despite the fact that
00:35:55.500we cover weird sex stuff on the show with some regularity, it's, I'm not the one making up these
00:36:01.320stories, right? It's the libs who are making these into news stories. I'm just observing them. So don't
00:36:05.560blame me. You got to blame the libs who were the aggressors in the sexual revolution and in the
00:36:09.120culture war. But when the libs say, you know, sex is really important, and that's why we need to
00:36:14.620think about it and talk about it all the time. They're right in that it is important. It is
00:36:19.300important. You're right. Because the distinction between the sexes is the fundamental distinction
00:36:25.180within human nature. So yeah, it is important. You're right. And when people are indoctrinated in
00:36:34.000crazy sexual ideas as kids, which is what the libs are trying to do all the way down to elementary
00:36:38.080school and succeeding at doing. And then when the kids are trained in bad sexual habits,
00:36:44.660which the libs are also training them in doing, not just 45-year-old substitute teachers, but
00:36:48.800just broadly in our culture, all sorts of sexual education these days is cultivating these bad
00:36:56.820habits. And then, you know, the rise of teenage culture and a lot of unsupervised time between
00:37:02.380teenagers and the notion that sex is not a big deal and you should, you know, have a lot of it when
00:37:06.800you're really young and everything, even outside of marriage. That's cultivating moral and intellectual,
00:37:14.320you wouldn't say virtues, you would just say habits, that are really going to mess you up.
00:37:18.960And they're going to lead to a lot more of this weird stuff that we see so prevalent in society.
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00:38:25.160My favorite comment yesterday is from Dave C. Thompson 81, who says,
00:38:29.460someone tell the Daily Wire that a three-minute explanation does not take 49 minutes and 51
00:38:35.100seconds. That's common core math, actually, that our producers use. So when they title these videos,
00:38:39.940you know, such and such explained in three minutes and the video is an hour long,
00:38:42.500that is because our producers are younger and they were raised on common core math.
00:38:46.640So don't blame us. Blame the Democrats. Speaking of Democrats, AOC is paying dues to the Democrat
00:38:56.820Congressional Campaign Committee for the first time. Who cares? Why is that a big story? That is a huge
00:39:04.860story, even though most people are going to miss this story, because it represents AOC, the firebrand,
00:39:12.920the outsider, the populist, burning down the establishment. It represents her joining the
00:39:19.060establishment. AOC, she held off for a long time. She was first elected, what, 2018? It's six years
00:39:26.340later. It's the first time she's ever paying dues to the campaign committee for the Democrats in the
00:39:32.740U.S. Congress. Why is she doing that? It can mean one of two things. Maybe it means a little bit of
00:39:39.520both. On the one hand, it means AOC is now willing to play ball with the establishment. She came in,
00:39:46.740I'm an outsider. I'm going to burn it down. I'm going to unseat a long-term establishment incumbent
00:39:50.260and I'm not going to listen to anybody and leadership's going to hate me and I'm going to
00:39:54.520take over this place. And now she's bending the knee. She's playing ball. But on the other hand,
00:40:01.960what it could represent is the AOC-ification of the Democrat establishment. This is not your
00:40:09.840parents' Democrat party anymore. Tonight, I'm going to be at the University of Illinois,
00:40:14.780Urbana-Champaign, and I'm going to be discussing abortion. It's a very urgent matter now when it comes
00:40:22.660to the 2024 elections. And it's an important issue because it shows just how far the Democrats have
00:40:33.520moved. When it comes to abortion, the GOP has not really changed its opinion at all in about 50 years.
00:40:40.520You're going to hear that the GOP is so much more extreme on abortion. It's not true. The view of the
00:40:45.740real national candidates on abortion in the GOP has not really changed much in 50 years since Roe v.
00:40:52.540Wade and before. At the time of Roe v. Wade's decision, Democrats and Republicans basically
00:40:59.520agreed on abortion. During the presidential race between Jerry Ford and Jimmy Carter, 1976,
00:41:08.000the two candidates held almost exactly the same view. They were both opposed to abortion. They both
00:41:12.500wanted to restrict abortion. Jimmy Carter disagreed with Ford only as much as Ford wanted
00:41:18.960a constitutional amendment to allow states to pass their own laws. But otherwise, they basically
00:41:23.600totally agreed. That line held until, gosh, I don't know, five years ago, certainly less than 10
00:41:34.720years ago. Hillary Clinton was campaigning on safe, legal, and rare. Now it's shout your abortion,
00:41:39.220scream it from the rooftop, kill babies after they're born. We're going to pass laws and do
00:41:42.480New York that allow that. And then we're going to light up the Empire State Building pink to
00:41:45.860celebrate killing more babies. Okay. Very, very different. So is this AOC bending the knee?
00:41:52.560More than that, I think it's the establishment bending the knee to AOC. And AOC paying her dues
00:41:59.480because she won. Speaking of Washington, D.C., Washington, D.C. has just topped the list.
00:42:06.220You're not going to believe this. I believe it, but you might not. D.C. has topped the list of the
00:42:11.380hardest working cities in America. I know. It seems counterintuitive because we think of D.C.
00:42:18.820as a bunch of lazy cocktail going, you know, leeches on our system. And there's a little bit of that
00:42:25.000too. But they work hard. They work hard. According to this ranking, which comes from,
00:42:30.880I don't even know where the study's from. It's just linked in a news report. So, you know,
00:42:40.200I take all social science with a grain of salt, but I guess you could take this one especially
00:42:43.640with a grain of salt. It's by Wallet Hub. There it is, Wallet Hub. Washington, D.C. ranks number one,
00:42:51.540followed by Irving, Texas, Cheyenne, Wyoming, Virginia Beach, Anchorage, Alaska. So these are kind
00:42:57.720of all over the place. But D.C. is number one. Yeah, of course. Because people in D.C. are really
00:43:08.800gung-ho about what they do. Okay? People are more motivated to work when we see our work as part of
00:43:16.920something bigger than us. And people in D.C. do that. They don't make a ton of money. If you work
00:43:22.160for the government in D.C., you don't really make a ton of money. The lobbyists make a lot of money,
00:43:25.400but the government workers don't. But they see that what they're doing is part of something
00:43:29.380bigger. So they're willing to work more. This is a great insight from St. Josemaria Escriva,
00:43:35.120who said, sanctity for the vast majority of people implies sanctifying their work,
00:43:42.340sanctifying themselves in it, and sanctifying others through it. As a pure number of hours worked,
00:43:47.820I work a lot. I work most, like, all the time, basically. But in terms of feeling like I'm working
00:43:54.400a lot, you know, I'm not exactly in the coal mines, right? I'm doing something that I really
00:43:58.920enjoy doing and that I think is important to public life in my own little way. And so
00:44:05.300it doesn't really feel like work. Yeah, you get tired and all these things, but I'm more motivated
00:44:09.880to do it. A lot of people in D.C. feel that way. And this can be true of all work. You don't need to
00:44:14.080just be working in politics. It's of all work. The key to it here is not the ego boost. It's not the
00:44:21.780self. It's not even the shallow political campaign. It's finding the work to be sanctifying,
00:44:29.700right? That it's serving something bigger because ultimately our work, by the sweat of our brow,
00:44:34.640we're to earn our keep. And that work is ultimately to serve God. The Industrial Revolution was a little
00:44:41.700bit of a setback in this regard in the sense that the Industrial Revolution compartmentalized all work.
00:44:46.780No longer did people seem to be full integrated human beings doing all different parts of the
00:44:54.180production of any particular product. All of a sudden, people were compartmentalized and really
00:45:01.000just came to be viewed as cogs in a machine. And that can be demoralizing. That's not just a personal
00:45:05.680problem. It's not just, you know, chin up, pull yourself up by your bootstraps. That's an actual
00:45:09.260political problem. It's a systemic problem that we have to address. But the reason to address that
00:45:16.780is that we are human beings and we do have to work and we do want to work more and we want to feel
00:45:21.180that our work is worth it. Because when we feel like it's worth it, it doesn't really feel like
00:45:26.420work. Now, speaking of the DC swamp, the swampy creatures are accusing President Trump.
00:45:33.180They've thrown everything they have at him. Now they're just thrown mean insults. They're accusing
00:45:39.140him of being a low-down con man using boogeyman politics. Here on MSNBC is Al Sharpton.
00:45:45.500He was the same guy that stood on television as President of the United States and said it'll be
00:45:50.980over in two weeks. Don't worry about it. Then finally, he told us to take bleach. So now we're
00:45:56.600going, I think the collective amnesia that a lot of Americans are having is the challenge the
00:46:03.460Democrats have to put out there is say, this is the guy you voted out. Remember now he ran for
00:46:11.100reelection. You didn't want him back again. Don't let him con you now with this boogeyman politics.
00:46:18.800The boogeyman's coming. The boogeyman's coming. He was the boogeyman. And you talking about the
00:46:24.320economy, do CEOs really want to explain to the world why a man convicted of felonies of hush money
00:46:31.300to a porn star who sells Bibles after he goes to court defending that he had sex with a porn star
00:46:41.740and get my Bible. I'm giving you a discount. $59.99. You don't have to pay $60. That's how low
00:46:49.380down a con man he is. That's how low down a con man he is. You heard that straight from
00:46:54.920Reverend Al Sharpton, baby. That's right. Reverend Al Sharpton, the hoaxer behind the Tawana
00:47:00.820Brawley nonsense. This guy launched his career. This guy launched his career on a rape hoax.
00:47:06.900Tawana Brawley. Didn't actually happen. Ruined people's lives. This guy set off race riots.
00:47:12.460Remember Crown Heights? It was one of his lines,
00:47:16.080Jaime, I'm coming to get you or something like that. This is a guy whose job was to be a fake
00:47:22.560con man preacher. The Reverend Al Sharpton. This is a guy. And so what I love, what I find so delicious
00:47:28.980about this is not how unfair it is a bit unfair against Trump, but that every single thing that
00:47:38.460they attack him for, they themselves have done a hundred times over. He's a con man. Yeah,
00:47:45.560you're Al Sharpton. Are you joking? Are you kidding me? All you people, you're all hoaxers.
00:47:50.840All these hoaxes over the, the Russia hoax, the this, that. Well, Donald Trump, he didn't want to
00:47:54.600concede his election. Yeah, you guys pretended Stacey Abrams was the governor of Georgia. You guys
00:47:58.840pretended Al Gore won the 2000 election. You guys pretended Hillary Clinton won the 2016 election.
00:48:02.800None of you ever really gave it up. Well, this guy, he's using boogeyman politics. You say this guy's
00:48:08.100Hitler and that he's, and not only is he Hitler, but he's also a KGB stooge for Vladimir Putin.
00:48:12.540Well, this guy, this Donald Trump, man, he's selling Bibles. He's, he's exploiting religion
00:48:18.880for politics. You're Reverend Al Sharpton. You're a fake preacher. Are you kidding me?
00:48:25.280This is, it's so delicious. It's, this is how Trump really is the retribution because he baits them
00:48:31.500with his eccentric personality and his, you know, 40 years of celebrity. So they attack him,
00:48:36.340but any way they try to attack him, just boomerangs back on them because anything they accuse him of,
00:48:43.140they have done a hundred times over. I find that very funny. You know what else I find funny?
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