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00:00:00.000 Yesterday at the White House, President Biden hosted a Juneteenth celebration with lots of

00:00:05.240 black people. But because it's June, the president also invited a transvestite.

00:00:12.080 You can see him there. He's standing totally still. You have Kamala Harris.

00:00:17.620 Next to her, you have Mr. Kamala Harris. Then you have a black guy in a dress.

00:00:23.540 I can't tell if he's that tall or if he's just wearing high heels. It might be the high heels.

00:00:28.120 Amid all of the puzzling aspects of that video, one stands out in particular.

00:00:35.040 Yesterday wasn't Juneteenth. It was June 10th, which sounds like Juneteenth and Joe Biden is

00:00:41.480 senile, so fair enough. Except the event wasn't organized by Biden. It was organized by his staff,

00:00:48.620 most of whom are not senile. And they had so many choices that could have made sense.

00:00:53.860 Juneteenth was contrived as a national holiday about five minutes ago. They say it's June 19th,

00:01:01.100 but June 18th works too. Even June 17th or 16th or 15th or 14th or even 13th. But they didn't pick

00:01:10.760 any of those days. They picked June 10th because I suppose now Juneteenth, like the simultaneous

00:01:17.640 celebration of pride, is no longer a day, but a season. And as far as I'm concerned,

00:01:23.760 it is the perfect representation of the American political order in 2024. A comatose president

00:01:29.740 standing slack-jawed next to a giant black man jiggling in a sequined ballgown to celebrate a

00:01:35.100 race thing on the wrong day of a month otherwise dedicated to homosexuals and transvestites.

00:01:41.200 I'm Michael Knowles. This is The Michael Knowles Show.

00:02:02.340 Welcome back to the show. John Fetterman, Democrat senator from Pennsylvania,

00:02:06.000 no longer identifies as a progressive. We will get to that in one moment.

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00:03:22.580 I just learned. A friend recently informed me that I am on a Ukrainian hit list.

00:03:30.380 I just, I found this out. I guess Robbie Starbuck tweeted about this a few days ago. I must have

00:03:37.020 missed it. There's, there's a Ukraine enemies list that was put out not by the government of Ukraine,

00:03:44.120 because these sorts of things are pretty much never put out by the governments. It's put out by an NGO,

00:03:49.600 a non-governmental organization. In this case, it's an NGO with ties to the US State Department

00:03:55.840 crafting this policy. And it's an enemies list, a list of people and institutions that are apparently

00:04:06.200 to blame for Ukraine's battlefield losses, put together by texty.org.ua.ua is the Ukrainian

00:04:14.580 URL. And it was founded by Anatoly Bondarenko. Bondarenko has been an instructor for the US

00:04:26.100 State Department's Tech Camp program. This provides training to all sorts of assets that we mobilize

00:04:31.900 around the world from the US State Department. That includes foreign journalists and other NGOs

00:04:36.800 and activists. So now you got the State Department plucking this guy out of obscurity, training him.

00:04:45.540 This guy working for Ukraine is adding American citizens, yours truly included, to a Ukraine enemies

00:04:54.940 list, which is tantamount to a hit list. And the funniest part of it is, I'm not even categorically

00:05:01.880 opposed to helping Ukraine. Not in principle, at least. I have been for a very long time on the

00:05:10.140 side of statesmen like George Kennan, author of the Long Telegram and American Cold War policy,

00:05:15.240 people like Henry Kissinger, people like Sam Nunn, people like Daniel Patrick Moynihan,

00:05:19.620 who urged caution after the fall of the Soviet Union. After the fall of the Soviet Union,

00:05:24.840 we were managing the collapse of the evil empire. And these foreign policy realists said,

00:05:30.520 hey, NATO should not just start expanding willy-nilly. That could be really, really

00:05:35.000 provocative. It's good to have some buffer states. We need to manage this as we are now the global

00:05:39.580 hegemon. We don't want to needlessly provoke our former adversary, Russia. And of course,

00:05:46.280 the utopians and the liberal imperialists and the globalists and all the rest, they said, yeah,

00:05:50.220 whatever, shut up. And they went out and they recklessly expanded NATO. And they got NATO involved

00:05:55.060 in offensive wars. And it's been disastrous for US policy. So that's been my perspective.

00:06:01.080 I think buffer states are good. Ukraine was a pretty good buffer state. There's no reason

00:06:04.500 recklessly to invite Ukraine to join NATO or Ukraine even to join the European Union. It just

00:06:09.600 seems kind of crazy to me. But okay, the die is cast. We already did that. And I guess categorically,

00:06:16.180 I'm not necessarily opposed to helping Ukraine. Until now. Before, I sort of thought, ah, well,

00:06:24.500 whatever. It's just a US client state. It's a satellite for America and Eastern Europe and

00:06:29.840 whatever. We give them a little bit of money. Not ideal. But you know what? Now, if you're going to

00:06:33.960 put me on a hit list, Putin can take it for all I care. Forget about it. I don't care. Zelensky,

00:06:39.200 he can go take a long walk off a short pier as far as I'm concerned.

00:06:43.020 I know Zelensky himself didn't put me on this list, but this is outrageous. And it wasn't just

00:06:48.000 me. It was a ton of mainstream conservatives. Just around my name on this list, and the list goes

00:06:53.760 very far. I saw Ben. I saw Brett. Daily Wire is an institution. Lots and lots of non-Daily Wire

00:07:00.660 figures. So that's fine. All right. You know what I now think about Ukraine? Because the nation of

00:07:09.080 Ukraine is just so terrible at winning friends and influencing people that they've turned off

00:07:13.880 people who possibly could have been on their side. But I look at that conflict now, and I sort of

00:07:20.940 think, well, only one of the belligerents in this conflict has ever put me on a hit list. And it

00:07:26.960 wasn't Vladimir Putin. So you know what? Ukraine, good luck. Good luck. Enjoy. I am now, as of today,

00:07:33.780 totally opposed to aid to Ukraine. That's what you get. That's what you get. You get what you get,

00:07:40.180 and you can't get upset. Speaking of violence, Nancy Pelosi, in leaked video footage, has come out

00:07:47.760 and taken responsibility for the political violence of January 6th.

00:07:55.920 We have responsibility, Terry. We did not have any accountability for what was going on there,

00:08:03.820 and we should have. This is ridiculous. You're going to ask me in the middle of the thing when

00:08:09.880 they've already breached the inaugural stuff that should we call the Capitol Police? I mean,

00:08:19.180 the National Guard? Why weren't the National Guard there to begin with?

00:08:25.380 They thought that they had sufficient resources.

00:08:27.380 No, there's not a question of how they have been. They don't know. They clearly didn't know,

00:08:32.940 and I take responsibility for not having them just prepare for more.

00:08:39.180 She takes responsibility. Nancy Pelosi takes responsibility. Who filmed that? That was my

00:08:43.200 first question. Is this a setup? Is this a strategic leak from the Democrats? Her daughter filmed that,

00:08:48.660 apparently. It was for a documentary. And why are we seeing this footage now? Because the House

00:08:54.120 Oversight Committee was able to get the footage. So this was filmed. The Democrats realized this

00:08:58.840 doesn't make them look good. They never released the footage. Now the Republicans took the footage,

00:09:02.380 and they're releasing it. This is pretty good stuff because the whole Biden campaign,

00:09:10.480 the whole Democrat campaign against Donald Trump right now, pretty much comes down to Donald Trump

00:09:15.920 tried to overthrow our democracy on January 6th, the worst day in the history of this Iranian

00:09:19.880 republic. That's what it comes down to. And it's always been a bogus and unpersuasive line.

00:09:26.720 But now it's especially unpersuasive and revealed to be bogus because Nancy Pelosi is saying,

00:09:31.380 I am responsible for how things got out of hand on January 6th. It is my responsibility.

00:09:38.200 So this fundamentally undercuts the Democrat argument. Democrat campaign, Trump is responsible

00:09:45.640 for January 6th, almost destroyed the country. Nancy Pelosi, actually, I was responsible for

00:09:50.660 January 6th. What are Democrats going to say now? What do they say? If you really believe that

00:09:57.340 responsibility for January 6th is disqualifying, then you got to kick Pelosi out of Congress.

00:10:04.640 And of course, they're not going to do that. So this really weakens the basis of their campaign.

00:10:10.020 Just a word of caution, however, to the conservatives. The bait here, the vulnerability

00:10:16.720 here is that conservatives are going to make a meal out of a cupcake with this.

00:10:23.700 And they're going to say, that's right, that Nancy Pelosi is responsible for January 6th,

00:10:28.360 the worst day in the history of this or any republic. Hold on, wait, wait, hold up.

00:10:31.260 The conservative argument for the past three years has been that January 6th was basically

00:10:36.480 not that big a deal. And yeah, things got a little bit rowdy, but it was nothing compared

00:10:41.720 to the eight months of BLM marauding and raping and pillaging and burning all over the country.

00:10:46.600 And it was nothing compared to most other left-wing aggressive protests and riots.

00:10:52.120 And the libs are selectively outraged in making a mountain out of a molehill.

00:10:59.180 So the temptation for Republicans right now is going to be, yeah, January 6th was the worst day

00:11:03.360 in the history of this country. And Pelosi is responsible. No, no, no, no, no. We have to

00:11:08.040 simultaneously hold both arguments, which is easily done. January 6th has been greatly exaggerated

00:11:15.940 in its significance by the Dems. And also, in as much as anyone was responsible for it,

00:11:21.920 Nancy Pelosi was responsible for it, as she admits. That's a one-two punch.

00:11:27.840 We don't need to give up everything. We don't need to contradict ourselves and blow up our

00:11:31.060 argument. Just hit them with that one-two punch. Good, good stuff. Now, speaking of talking to people,

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00:13:01.060 back to the show. Speaking of political figures caught on tape, all the libs, they've got him

00:13:06.520 now. I'm not even talking about Trump. That's usually who they've got now. But no, no, no.

00:13:12.860 Number one target for Democrats is Trump. Number two is Sam Alito. They've been going after Justice

00:13:19.360 Alito, who authored the Dobbs decision that overruled Roe v. Wade. They've been going after him really

00:13:23.140 hard. They've been trying to get him to recuse himself from cases. They've been trying to get

00:13:26.500 him to step down from the Supreme Court. And they throw a bunch of nonsense at him. They say,

00:13:30.760 Justice Alito flew a revolutionary war flag commissioned by George Washington's aide to

00:13:36.900 camp at his home. Throw him off the court. Oh, no. Justice Alito, he and his wife flew an upside down

00:13:49.420 American flag, which is a maritime symbol of distress. Throw him off the court. Oh, Justice Alito,

00:13:54.040 he one time started walking across a crosswalk when the red hand was flashing. Throw him off the

00:14:00.600 court. So here's the latest one. Rolling Stone, breaking exclusive story. Justice Alito, caught on

00:14:07.640 tape discussing how the battle for America can't be compromised. Okay, just that headline.

00:14:15.320 The battle for America can't be compromised.

00:14:17.160 I, is there, would anyone disagree with that? No, the battle for America can be compromised.

00:14:26.280 Screw America. Is that, that's the liberal position? That's the, that's the supposed moderate

00:14:31.940 position? No, everyone, at least in principle, should agree America, battle for America can't

00:14:36.260 be compromised. Then subheader, in a new secret recording, the Supreme Court justice says he agrees

00:14:41.640 that the U.S. should return to a place of godliness. So, so is the liberal position now

00:14:49.240 that America should not be godly? That America should be demonic? I mean, that practically,

00:14:55.500 that is their position. That's what they want. But they usually don't admit that. Usually the

00:14:59.600 Democrats would pretend to say, no, we want a good country. We want our country to be good

00:15:04.820 and virtuous and just. We want a godly country. They don't really mean it, but that's what they

00:15:09.960 would at least say that. But now, this is the gotcha. Ha ha! That judge, he wants America to be

00:15:16.100 good. Ha ha! But we want it to be evil. So, he's compromised. We got to get him off the court.

00:15:21.820 What is this recording? This recording took place at some sort of historical society, and

00:15:28.980 it was recorded by this woman, Lauren Windsor, who is some lib documentary filmmaker who approached

00:15:36.000 Justice Alito and pretended to be a conservative Catholic. And Lauren Windsor, maybe she's a fine

00:15:43.900 director. Maybe she's a fine producer. She's not much of an actress because she opens up presenting

00:15:51.120 herself as this conservative Catholic. Doesn't really convince me. Considering everything that's

00:15:57.180 been going on in the past year, you know, as a Catholic and as someone who, like, really

00:16:03.620 cherishes my faith, I just don't, I don't know that we can negotiate with the left in the way that,

00:16:11.880 like, needs to happen for the polarization to end. I think that it's a matter of, like, winning.

00:16:19.960 Okay, just before we get to Alito's answer, Justice Alito, I am quite confident, did not believe that

00:16:29.540 this woman was an actual conservative Catholic because she sounds like a caricature of a purple

00:16:37.020 haired lib girl. Conservative Catholics, I think perhaps without exception, do not use the word like

00:16:46.440 as a comma. So, like, Justice Alito, I, like, really love God and stuff. And, like, I want,

00:16:55.980 I hate the gays and everything. And I, I want to do Christian Sharia and, like, want America, like,

00:17:07.020 to be more, like, good and, and churchy, like, you know? So, like, shouldn't we get all the libs and

00:17:13.740 kill them all? I'm sure Alito, who is one of the most intelligent people in the country,

00:17:20.480 certainly in public life, I was listening. Here we go. We got another wacko. I can just say,

00:17:25.160 from my own rather modest perch in public life, where you go to events and people come up and

00:17:31.140 they're usually great and they ask you insightful questions. But sometimes, every so often, you get

00:17:35.320 a wacko and you just kind of have to give them whatever answer you can and try to move on. I

00:17:41.500 promise you that that was Alito's perspective, listening to this woman do a terrible impression

00:17:48.300 of a conservative Catholic. Without further ado, here's his answer.

00:17:52.480 I think you're probably right. I think one side or the other, one side or the other is going to win.

00:17:58.080 I don't know. I mean, there can be a way of working, a way of living together peacefully,

00:18:10.380 but it's difficult, you know, because there are differences on fundamental things that really

00:18:16.520 can't be compromised. You know, really can't be compromised. So, it's not like you're going

00:18:22.280 just what the difference is. And that's what I'm saying. I just, I think that the solution

00:18:29.060 really is, like, winning the moral argument. Like, people in this country who believe in God

00:18:35.320 have got to keep fighting for that to return our country to a place of godliness.

00:18:41.540 Oh, I agree with you. I agree with you.

00:18:44.940 Okay, that's pretty much it. It goes on and this woman keeps babbling for a while and then you can

00:18:48.800 hear other people trying to cut in because it's ridiculous, this woman. So,

00:18:52.700 that's it. That's the big gotcha clip. He says, yeah, I agree. You can live together peacefully

00:19:00.220 and you can work together, but sometimes it's hard because sometimes there are fundamental

00:19:05.480 differences and those really can't be compromised. On some issues, you really can't split the baby.

00:19:10.600 So, I guess one good example of this, not that Alito brings it up, is if you think abortion is

00:19:17.540 murder, which it is, then you can't support it. And if you think abortion is not murder,

00:19:23.500 if you've somehow convinced yourself that a baby is not really a baby, then maybe you do support it.

00:19:28.220 But there's no compromise, you know, as King Solomon shows us, there's no coherent middle ground there.

00:19:36.660 On certain issues, you just have to pick a side and one side is going to win or the other.

00:19:41.120 Either marriage is going to be what it has always been understood to be everywhere in the world,

00:19:46.960 or marriage is going to be some totally new thing, but it can't simultaneously be both of those things.

00:19:51.860 And the Libs are trying to point to this and say, this is an example of Alito being a crazy,

00:19:59.020 wild extremist opposed to the American tradition. No, it's Sam Alito just read Aristotle's law of

00:20:06.040 non-contradiction. Sam Alito has even a basic degree of education. He actually has a rather

00:20:12.300 advanced degree of education, but you don't need an advanced education to understand that two opposing

00:20:17.880 ideas cannot simultaneously be true. And two opposing policies cannot simultaneously be enforced.

00:20:28.820 What does this say about the left? That they think this is a gotcha. Ha ha, he wants a godly country.

00:20:35.120 Got him. I think most people want a godly country, even if they don't do godly things, even if they don't

00:20:42.640 practice virtue, even if they don't go to church, even if they're not even all that conscious of it.

00:20:46.540 I think most people know, because we have a moral conscience that's inscribed in every human heart,

00:20:53.200 an understanding of the natural law that is inscribed in every human heart, I think most

00:20:56.480 people know that good is to be preferred to evil. And now what they're trying to say is, see,

00:21:04.000 Alito's not neutral. He's not neutral. Judges are not supposed to be neutral. Judges are supposed to

00:21:11.220 be just. Judges are not supposed to be neutral between good and evil. That would totally undermine

00:21:18.840 the purpose of a judge. And in this case, a judge on the Supreme Court is called a justice. So it

00:21:24.900 tells you right there what they're supposed to do. They're supposed to be just. So there's nothing just

00:21:31.140 about neutrality between good and evil. There's nothing just about neutrality between the law and

00:21:38.140 lawlessness. There's nothing. They don't even understand what a judge does. There's so much

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00:22:47.220 FDIC. Terms and conditions apply. Speaking of political appeals, President Trump has just come out.

00:22:55.280 He was campaigning in Las Vegas, Nevada, and he proposed something that's going to make the

00:23:00.320 establishment Republicans. It's going to make the hair stick up on their backs. It's going to,

00:23:08.220 oh, it's going to bother them deeply, but it's really brilliant politics.

00:23:12.340 Trump says he wants to end taxes on tips for service workers.

00:23:16.640 This is the first time I've said this, and for those hotel workers and people that get tips,

00:23:21.940 you're going to be very happy because when I get to office, we are going to not charge

00:23:27.520 taxes on tips, people making tips.

00:23:36.120 We're not going to do it, and we're going to do that right away. First thing in office, because

00:23:41.780 it's been a point of contention for years and years and years, and you do a great job of service.

00:23:49.200 You take care of people, and I think it's going to be something that really is deserved.

00:23:54.160 More importantly, popular or unpopular. I do some unpopular things, too, if it's right for the

00:23:58.340 country. I do what's right. But so those people that have jobs in restaurants, whatever the job

00:24:03.640 may be, a tipping job, we're not going after for taxes anymore. This will be ended.

00:24:11.500 And I announced that for the first time. First time I've brought it up. First time anyone's

00:24:15.920 brought it up. I think it's never been brought up before, and I also think it's very appropriate.

00:24:20.880 Great. This is great. Let's approach it in two sections here, because there's two aspects to

00:24:26.680 this policy. What it means for the government and revenue and policy and all the dorks pushing their

00:24:31.860 glasses up on their nose, and what it means politically at the ballot box in November.

00:24:38.320 As a matter of policy, best numbers I could find go back to 2018. $38.3 billion

00:24:46.560 were earned in tips by 6 million service workers in 2018. That's it. $38.3 billion.

00:24:58.060 Most service workers are going to pay a tax rate of about 12%. Because it's a tough job. It's not the

00:25:03.500 highest paying job. If you are a, you know, really, really successful server, maybe you're paying a

00:25:09.660 22% tax rate. If you're like the highest paid server in the country, maybe you're paying a 24%

00:25:13.920 tax rate. But more likely it's going to be about 12%. 12% of $38.3 billion is, hold on, let's see,

00:25:23.420 I'll just do the math here. It's about $4.6 billion. $4.6 billion is 0.075% of the federal budget.

00:25:33.240 It is a rounding error, a rounding error of a rounding error of the federal budget.

00:25:38.680 The amount of money that Donald Trump is saying the federal government will not receive

00:25:42.640 because he's going to get rid of the taxes on tips is 1.38 the amount of money that we have sent to

00:25:51.520 Ukraine alone. Ukraine, which put me on a hit list, so they're dead to me and I don't want them to get

00:25:55.840 another single penny until they apologize to me personally and apologize to the rest of the Daily Wire.

00:26:03.240 And Charlie Kirk and the American Conservative and Candace and all the rest of them.

00:26:09.280 I think we can handle it. I think we, can we, do you think we can afford that? I think we can.

00:26:14.900 Now, some, especially libertarian types are going to say, hey, this is playing favorites.

00:26:20.120 This is, this is the government getting involved in tinkering in the market.

00:26:23.220 This is no different than, than Joe Biden forgiving student loans. No, I think it's pretty

00:26:27.640 different actually. First of all, the student loan forgiveness is going to cost a lot more money,

00:26:33.120 especially in the longterm. But also student loan forgiveness, more to the point, is giving a

00:26:39.080 handout to people who statistically are going to make much more money than the average American worker.

00:26:44.500 That, that is a, a, a, just a, a payoff to people who are already doing relatively pretty well.

00:26:53.020 Here, you're talking about service workers. It's a really tough job. And a tip is a, is a gratuity.

00:26:59.920 And by the way, when service workers were tipped in cash, a lot of them weren't paying taxes on it

00:27:04.460 either. So in a way, this is kind of just rectifying a change in technology because a lot of people now tip

00:27:09.940 on card that is recorded and now they're more likely to pay taxes on it. And so, yeah, is it,

00:27:15.680 is it a favor to a certain sector of the economy? Yeah. But that's called politics because on the

00:27:20.840 electoral side of this, Nevada has the absolute highest, or it's at least at the very top tier,

00:27:32.020 location quotient of waiters and waitresses by state. So you're looking at the dominance of this line

00:27:39.200 of work in the state. Nevada's at the very tippy top. There's some other places here, you know,

00:27:44.740 you got, uh, Rhode Island. I don't think, I don't think Trump's going to win Rhode Island.

00:27:48.840 You got South Carolina. We're probably good. Florida. We're probably good. Nevada though.

00:27:53.540 Trump might win Nevada. Trump might lose Nevada. Nevada is a swing state. It would be really,

00:27:57.660 really helpful if Trump could win Nevada. This is a really easy way to do it. And he says,

00:28:01.640 I'm not just doing it because it's popular. He knows it's popular. He says, I'm also doing it

00:28:05.180 because it's right. I think it's a totally justified policy, especially when you think

00:28:10.220 of all the other ways we waste money in this country. It's smart. It's really smart. We win

00:28:16.240 Nevada. We're a lot further down the line to winning back the White House. And then we get a

00:28:21.300 lot of good policy and the winners go to Washington and the losers go home to quote cocaine Mitch.

00:28:26.520 Speaking of realignment, John Fetterman, Democrat from Pennsylvania, who is, you might recall,

00:28:33.340 suffered a stroke on the campaign trail. He was really out of it for a while. He could barely

00:28:38.680 speak. He then checked himself into a medical center. I think it was Walter Reed because he

00:28:46.080 said he was suffering from depression because first of all, I think anybody who goes and works in

00:28:50.080 Washington, works certainly in the Congress or the U.S. Senate is going to suffer from some

00:28:54.580 depression. It's kind of a depressing job. And then if you're also struggling to speak, which is the

00:28:59.340 tool of the trade when it comes to politics, that's going to make you a little bit more depressed and

00:29:03.940 all the rest of it. He goes in, he checks himself out, but he's been recovering. And as he has recovered

00:29:09.040 from this major brain injury, he has become much less progressive.

00:29:14.240 I want to ask you personally about your own sort of journey, as the kids say. Some progressives have

00:29:22.620 criticized you for being a different senator than you suggested you would be when you were a

00:29:29.440 candidate for Senate. What do you say to that? Well, I wasn't. I was very clear for saying that

00:29:37.300 for years I'm not a progressive and I just identified myself as just a regular Democrat. So it really

00:29:43.700 wasn't any new news. Now, eight years ago, I was a progressive, but the situations change. And I've

00:29:50.500 been very clear that I didn't leave that label. That label leaves me. And I think it's much more

00:29:56.120 important to be focusing on Donald Trump. Okay. So he says, look, I'm not a progressive.

00:30:05.000 I haven't been a progressive. Eight years ago, I was a progressive. Is that a contradiction? I'm not.

00:30:10.100 Maybe it was, but I think what he's saying there is when I was campaigning for the Senate seat,

00:30:15.460 I said, no, I'm not a progressive. I'm just a Democrat. A while ago, eight years ago,

00:30:20.080 I was a progressive, but now I'm not. And he used the old line that Reagan used that a lot of people

00:30:25.500 use. I didn't leave my party. My party left me. But usually it's the case that people actually do

00:30:29.800 leave their party. And that seems to be what Fetterman is actually implying here.

00:30:37.780 Great news. I'm glad. He's bucked the Dems on a few issues.

00:30:44.220 I urge a little caution here. I always urge a little caution. Just say, we'll see if it bears fruit.

00:30:48.560 Because what Fetterman might be doing here is continuing to vote party line Democrat,

00:30:55.180 continuing to vote with the loonies in his party, but just trying to play the moderate because the

00:31:00.060 moderate plays a lot better in his state in Pennsylvania. And he's going to need to use

00:31:04.900 that kind of language in order to get reelected. So look, I'm hopeful. I'm not calling him a liar.

00:31:11.000 I think the Babylon Bee headline was prophetic, actually, when it said,

00:31:18.560 a man becomes more conservative as he recovers from brain injury. And that seems to be the line

00:31:26.040 that Fetterman himself is now taking. But we'll see if it bears fruit. You know the tree by the

00:31:30.700 fruit. If Fetterman continues to move to the right, if he starts taking votes with some Republicans on

00:31:36.960 issues, if he starts really bucking his party on major contentious issues, then that's great.

00:31:42.820 And he'll be a great example of what happens. As your brain recovers, you become more right-wing.

00:31:47.320 Speaking of the realignment and Democrats suffering some losses here, CNN is furious. They're up in arms.

00:31:53.020 Their chief data analyst just presenting on TV a major swing, a 20-point swing in Trump's favor among

00:32:03.480 Hispanic voters. Look at this change in the vote. All right. This is the polls at this point among

00:32:08.360 Hispanic voters nationally. You know, at this point in 2020, Joe Biden had a very clear advantage,

00:32:12.500 right? 59 percent, 32 percent. That's a 27-point lead. Look at this tremendous shift. Oh, my goodness

00:32:18.480 gracious. Now to 2024. Biden's dropped by 8 points, 51 percent. Trump is up 12 points to 44 percent.

00:32:25.480 And you have what was a 27-point margin has been shrunk to 7. That margin has been shrunk by 20 points

00:32:31.820 now versus this point four years ago. So it's no wonder that Donald Trump thinks he can play for

00:32:36.280 the Hispanic vote. And it's no wonder that Joe Biden thinks he has to defend against Trump's

00:32:39.780 advances. Okay. This is really good news. And I do think this is true. And I think we've actually

00:32:44.960 seen this borne out, not just in a lot of different polls, but even at the ballot box. And conservatives

00:32:49.340 have been able to win over Hispanics in large numbers. Still, though, those numbers aren't great.

00:32:55.760 The absolute disaster for the Democrats is that they're only getting a bare majority of the

00:33:01.140 Hispanic vote. So even in the scenario where Hispanic public opinion shifts 20 points to the

00:33:08.280 Republican, Democrats still get the majority of the Hispanic vote, which is why they still encourage

00:33:13.240 mass migration from Latin America, because they feel that in the long run, it's going to help them.

00:33:18.340 It's going to give them a permanent electoral majority. Even as the Hispanics become way more

00:33:25.360 right wing. It's just, there's so much ground that Democrats can afford to lose before the Hispanics

00:33:32.220 become a political problem for them, that they're still going to encourage that mass migration. That's

00:33:36.040 still going to be something that conservatives need to worry about. In principle, I like the Reagan

00:33:41.520 line, Hispanics are conservative. They just don't know it yet. And a lot of the people crossing the

00:33:46.540 border are Christian, like Catholic, but a lot of Protestants too. And they have big families and all

00:33:53.500 the rest of it. So the ingredients are there, but it just has not yet coalesced into a conservative

00:33:59.860 political identity. Maybe that 20 point trend will just continue unabated. And maybe soon enough,

00:34:07.020 we'll see Republicans winning the majority of Hispanics or a major majority of Hispanics. Boy,

00:34:11.020 wouldn't that be great? But again, we take the good trend lines, but don't declare victory yet.

00:34:19.020 We'll see if it actually bears fruit. We've all been fooled before. Now, speaking of our political

00:34:24.400 system, we were talking earlier, especially about our judicial system. Our judicial system is broken,

00:34:30.140 okay? There are a lot of judges out there who seem more interested in left-wing politics than

00:34:34.960 injustice. There's one man who stands above the fray. I am talking, of course, about Judge Matt Walsh.

00:34:41.100 The final episode of Judged by Matt Walsh, season one, is now streaming exclusively on Daily Wire+.

00:34:46.240 When I first heard that Matt Walsh was given the official title of Judge Walsh and that his

00:34:51.580 decisions would be legally binding, I was skeptical. Who would trust Matt Walsh with the power to make

00:34:57.920 final decisions on legal disputes? Only lunatics, like the people lining up to enter his courtroom.

00:35:04.740 They were eager to have their cases judged by him for their settlement and for our entertainment.

00:35:09.420 Matt Walsh promised us a court filled with the pettiest disputes, and he has delivered.

00:35:13.020 Check out a sneak peek of the final episode of Judged by Matt Walsh.

00:35:17.360 Coming up on Judged, you are over the age of 11. You're big into Halloween. What does that mean

00:35:21.440 exactly? I have a very large display, animatronics. Kids enjoy it. My kids enjoy it.

00:35:26.260 So you're trying to lure the kids in the neighborhood to your house?

00:35:30.920 For candy. For candy?

00:35:33.020 Does that make it better? That does not make it better at all.

00:35:35.160 I went to console one of the dogs, and I said, he was a big boy, and I rubbed his belly, and I assumed...

00:35:42.980 The question was not directed at you. Or was it? Were you fat shaming the bailiff?

00:35:46.600 Watch as Judge Walsh slams the gavel one last time this season. It is the finale of Judged

00:35:58.100 by Matt Walsh, streaming now exclusively on Daily Wire Plus. My favorite comment yesterday

00:36:03.660 is from Scurvy Dog 20, who says, Michael's description of ideology is why I always say

00:36:08.920 gays were not oppressed, they were suppressed. You oppress an innocent, you suppress an evil

00:36:15.060 or harmful. That actually wasn't my favorite comment. I don't know. I guess the producers

00:36:18.960 in the control room were just extremely homophobic or something like that. No. It's Pride Month,

00:36:24.780 and I will not tolerate such a comment. Strike that comment from the record.

00:36:30.380 Now, speaking of Trump's shifting support, there's a Pew survey app shows that Trump supporters

00:36:38.760 are far more likely than Joe Biden supporters to say that society should prioritize marriage

00:36:44.940 and having children. The survey here... Here it is. The survey here is entirely unsurprising,

00:36:57.580 of course. If you just had to get, without looking at any data, you say, hey, who do you think's

00:37:03.460 more into marriage and having kids and being normal and having a good life? The conservatives

00:37:09.100 or the purple-haired transvestites? Not a difficult choice. So among all voters, 39% say they are

00:37:22.560 interested in getting people to get married and have children, making that a priority.

00:37:30.300 Among Trump supporters, it's 59%. Among Biden supporters, it's 19%.

00:37:33.740 Fewer than one in five Biden supporters think that society does better when people get married and

00:37:40.200 have kids. Men are more likely to think it than women overall. But for the Trump-supporting men and

00:37:50.300 women, it's pretty close. White people and Hispanic people are much more likely to think this than

00:37:58.320 black people and Asian people. 60% of white Trump supporters say society's better off when people

00:38:04.940 get married and have kids. Only 17% of white Biden supporters. So for black people, it's just much

00:38:12.840 narrower, the range. Only 34% of black Trump supporters think that society is better off.

00:38:20.280 Actually, I'm sorry, I have to correct that. Black Trump supporters don't even show up in the poll.

00:38:25.500 Oh no, there it is right there. That's really unfortunate. So you've only got all voters and

00:38:31.800 black voters, but you can't even really see a distinction for Trump supporters. Okay, that's

00:38:35.880 too bad. But in any case, the range there is just 29 to 34. So the black Biden supporters are much more

00:38:43.260 likely to favor getting married and having kids than the white Biden supporters. But it's still a pretty

00:38:49.600 small number. Hispanics is broader. Asians, it's more condensed. Among college graduates who support

00:38:58.120 Biden, 66%. So the most likely people to say getting married and having kids is good for society

00:39:03.560 are actually college graduates who support Trump. That result might be kind of surprising because you

00:39:08.640 think people get indoctrinated in college. But if you graduate college and you remain a conservative,

00:39:13.380 then you're going to see not only at a gut level why getting married and having kids is good, but

00:39:18.280 you're going to have processed some of the philosophical and historical arguments maybe

00:39:23.140 for why that's true. And then that's a huge, the college grad Biden supporters pretty much the least

00:39:30.240 likely to support that. Okay, no surprise whatsoever. The modern Democrat party is a death cult.

00:39:35.820 It's simple as they want to kill the babies in the womb. When they can't kill the babies in the womb,

00:39:42.020 they want to castrate the kids when they get out of the womb and they want to limit their life

00:39:46.620 expectancies by pumping them full of cross-sex hormones and give them all sorts of bone diseases

00:39:50.340 and sterilize them so that they can't have kids themselves. And then when they get a little bit older

00:39:55.360 and they suffer from some chronic pain or something, they're going to try to kill them through

00:39:59.300 so-called euthanasia, assisted suicide, murder at every step of the way, sterility at every step of

00:40:07.460 the way. Because in the meantime, they're also going to push contraception. They're also going to push

00:40:12.640 sterilization. They're going to push all the rest of it. It's kind of weird. It's kind of weird how

00:40:18.000 every Democrat policy that could possibly touch on life opposes life. It's not just abortion.

00:40:26.660 It's abortion. It's the euthanasia. It's contraception. It's the sterilization. It's this.

00:40:34.180 It's just on and on. It's discouraging marriage. It's discouraging having kids. It's all the rest.

00:40:39.800 The one, I guess you could say the one Democrat policy that is not totally opposed to life

00:40:46.220 is their endorsement of IVF in the surrogacy industry, which does lead to people being born,

00:40:52.260 but it also just, it just sells babies. It commoditizes human life and sells babies and

00:40:57.240 treats human beings as something less than human. So there's a trade-off there. Okay. And that one,

00:41:01.320 they don't want to kill the babies. They just want to, they just want to treat human beings as

00:41:04.260 property to be bought and sold. It's weird. It's weird. It's, it's almost as though there is a

00:41:10.940 spiritual aspect behind all of those policies that is extraordinarily dark. I'm not accusing the

00:41:17.540 Democrats of, you know, explicitly and intentionally worshiping demons. Sometimes they do. There is a

00:41:23.940 lot of occult imagery, and especially with all the pride stuff, which is the deadliest of the seven

00:41:27.020 deadly sins. They have a whole month dedicated to it. But if all of your policies end up with

00:41:37.240 murder and sterilization and the degradation of human beings,

00:41:41.680 maybe you got to ask what, what spiritual aspect lies behind those policies,

00:41:49.040 which the Wall Street Journal is asking. The Wall Street Journal just has a headline. It's one of

00:41:53.680 the funniest headlines I've read in a while. Story in the journal about sleep paralysis.

00:41:59.540 And if you've ever, if you've never had sleep paralysis, it's when you, you kind of wake up,

00:42:04.000 but you can't really move and you hear demons screaming, you know, or you hallucinate really scary

00:42:09.920 things. It's really scary. It's only happened to me once or twice, but it's, it's scary, man. You

00:42:14.240 have auditory hallucinations and a lot of people have this, at least at some point in their lives.

00:42:19.760 So the headline is, if not demons, what causes sleep paralysis? And that headline to me kind of

00:42:28.520 reads like, like, if not light, what causes photosynthesis? If not water, what causes things

00:42:36.460 to become wet? You know, like you're taking out what is, in my view, an explanation that should

00:42:44.120 not so readily be dismissed. But, but let's say, let's just say that there is some convincing,

00:42:53.280 purely physical, empirical explanation for sleep paralysis. There might well be. I'm sure there is.

00:42:58.180 I'm sure there is some physical explanation. Whether or not the scientists have discovered it yet is

00:43:02.040 another matter, but I'm sure there's some way to observe what happens during sleep paralysis and

00:43:07.000 to give a purely physical account of what that is. The mistake here is not to say that there's a

00:43:13.980 physical explanation for things. The mistake that the libs at the Wall Street Journal and that the

00:43:19.780 libs in America broadly make is they say that a physical explanation precludes a metaphysical

00:43:28.340 explanation. The, the mistake they're making is, is that they're denying that physical things have

00:43:36.800 meaning. That's the mistake they're making. It might well be the case that if you have too much coffee

00:43:43.180 and, uh, provolone cheese before bed, you're more likely to fall into sleep paralysis, which is when

00:43:48.840 your muscles sort of seize up and, uh, certain chemicals aren't firing off in your brain in the right way.

00:43:54.680 And therefore you're hearing these sounds that, uh, that oddly enough, just always seem to be really

00:44:00.440 demonic and everything. It might well be the case that that is true. And also there's a demon in your

00:44:05.080 bedroom because, because we know that there, there are physical things like my leftist tears tumbler

00:44:12.360 here or my microphone or my note cards. And we know that there are things that are not physical,

00:44:18.000 like justice and mathematics and love. And if you take religion seriously, angels and demons and God,

00:44:28.240 God who becomes physical, uh, but who is beyond the physical world, which he created.

00:44:35.280 So the, the two things coincide. And I, I know that in our modern really

00:44:41.140 degraded and materialist age, a lot of people think that's silly, but we, we all acknowledge

00:44:48.080 that non-physical things exist. So if you wake up in the middle of the night and you can't move

00:44:53.160 and you see a demon crawling on top of you and you're, you hear demons screaming at you or something,

00:44:57.840 I, is it that much of a stretch to say there's such a thing as evil that has a personality?

00:45:05.040 Is it, is that such a stretch? I don't, I don't think it's a huge stretch. Now,

00:45:08.020 speaking of the meaning of physical things, I'm going to give you a little tease. You know me,

00:45:11.540 I'm a tease. This is a story. It's a story many years in the making now. Hey, I really hate to say

00:45:18.940 I told you so about this. Some years ago, I mentioned that the libs were going to try to

00:45:23.200 get us to eat bugs. And there was a meme going around at the time that the libs wanted to get us

00:45:28.300 to eat bugs and live in a pod and own nothing and be happy. Well, some people said, that's crazy,

00:45:35.800 Michael. That's just a conspiracy theory, right-wing fever dream. Yeah. Well, well,

00:45:42.660 you know what, you know what they say about conspiracy theories. This wasn't six to 12

00:45:46.120 months, I guess it was more like 18 to 24 months, but it's happening. Aldi, the grocery store

00:45:51.740 is considering selling you bugs so that you can get your protein. Well, the political elite enjoy

00:46:01.200 wagyu beef or whatever they eat. We'll get to what the edible bugs mean tomorrow. But for right

00:46:08.880 now, I'm very excited to say we have a guest coming on the member block. That is my friend,

00:46:13.340 Mary Margaret Olihan. And I'll be taking obviously your questions, your comments, your exclamations,

00:46:21.300 your ejaculations in, let's say that's a rhetorical term. Thank you very much. Get your

00:46:26.980 mindset of the gutter. That will happen in the member segmentum. The rest of the show continues

00:46:31.640 now. You don't want to miss it. Become a member and use code Knowles, Canada, B-U-L-E-S at checkout

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