The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 1526 - Furious LGBTQ Activists Protest A Bill To Protect Children

00:00:00.000 Members of the California State Senate have proposed a bill, SB 1414, that would raise

00:00:05.400 penalties on people who solicit minors for prostitution. Right now, soliciting a minor

00:00:11.880 for prostitution is a misdemeanor punishable by a mandatory minimum punishment of two days in

00:00:18.520 county jail, which seemed a little light to legislators who have proposed raising the offense

00:00:24.420 to a felony punishable by up to four years in state prison. Some would say that that sentence

00:00:30.240 is still too light, but not LGBT LMNOP activists who instead are protesting the anti-child prostitution

00:00:39.480 bill and calling it an attack on the LGBT community. We believe that SB 1414 takes an overly punitive

00:00:47.320 approach that fails to address the root causes of these issues and will not effectively stop

00:00:52.260 sexual violence. We are particularly concerned that the harsher penalties proposed in this

00:00:56.620 bill will disproportionately impact marginalized communities, especially members of the LGBTQ

00:01:01.980 community, who already suffer from systematic biases within the criminal justice system,

00:01:07.340 particularly when it comes to sexually based offenses. Studies have shown that LGBTQ people, 0.99

00:01:12.380 particularly gay and transgendered individuals, are more likely to be charged with sex offenses

00:01:16.600 compared to their heterosexual counterparts. For instance, LGBTQ individuals are nine times more 0.99

00:01:22.180 likely to be charged with sodomy. Measures like SB 1414 lead to higher rates of incarceration,

00:01:28.380 longer sentences, and increased difficulties in finding housing and employment.

00:01:32.280 Today, EBC must strongly oppose Senate Bill 1414 for the reasons I will state. We stand against

00:01:38.600 any punitive measure that perpetuates systemic injustices, and we emphasize instead the need for

00:01:44.440 community-based solutions. We strongly support investments in victim services.

00:01:49.220 They just said that. Their argument is that a law that increases penalties for raping kids

00:02:03.080 will harm LGBT adults. Had I said that, I would be called the worst homophobe, this phobe, 0.99

00:02:14.980 that phobe, I'd be kicked off of social media. The LGBT activists just said, you California legislators 0.86

00:02:23.540 cannot increase punishments on child rape, or that will negatively impact LGBT adults.

00:02:33.380 The protest recalls another scene in the California Capitol four years ago when the unfortunately named

00:02:40.200 state Senator Scott Weiner, the man who wants to replace Nancy Pelosi in Congress,

00:02:44.080 made it his legislative mission to reduce punishment for pederasts. That was it. That was the whole 1.00

00:02:50.400 crusade. Reduce punishments for adult men who molest underage boys. Now, some other state senators

00:02:55.900 want to water down another bill's punishments for soliciting sex from kids. Forget about the 0.97

00:03:01.680 particulars of these disgusting bills for a second, and the particulars of watering down good bills.

00:03:07.960 This is an important data point, especially in a contentious election year. They're doing this

00:03:14.960 publicly. They're campaigning on this stuff. Whatever even semi-respectable Democrat party you

00:03:22.200 remember from your childhood, it's gone. These people are desperately demanding leniency for child

00:03:29.160 sex crimes. There is no limit on the depths of the Democrats' present depravity. I'm Michael Knowles. 0.83

00:03:36.200 This is The Michael Knowles Show. Welcome back to the show. Lest I be accused of being overly partisan,

00:04:00.080 we've got to talk about Patriot Front, this group of supposed right-wingers that marched through my

00:04:07.780 town, Nashville, just a couple of days ago with their faces covered, carrying all sorts of flags,

00:04:14.980 Confederate flags, American flags too, and they're being called fascists. And so a lot of people have

00:04:20.620 different theories. Are they fascists? Are they right-wingers? Are they secretly left-wingers? Are

00:04:25.420 they feds? Are they this? Are they that? I will give you the correct view of all of it in just a

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00:06:27.560 of the Democrat Party, Joe Biden has come out and said he is staying in the race. So amid all of

00:06:35.660 these calls for Biden to drop out, coming from his party leadership, members of Congress,

00:06:43.020 campaign consultants, donors, voters, Biden is saying, quote, let me say this as clearly as I can.

00:06:51.200 I'm the sitting president of the United States. I'm the nominee of the Democratic Party. I'm staying

00:06:54.680 in the race. I think this is totally right of him to do. I think he's smart here.

00:07:02.600 He is the nominee. He isn't officially the nominee yet, but he has won all of the primary votes that

00:07:10.120 are required for him to become the nominee, to be officially declared the nominee. I think he is

00:07:14.060 actually even drooling a stronger candidate than the other Democrats in the race, and he has no reason

00:07:20.160 to back down. What does he owe Kamala Harris? What does he owe Gavin Newsom? What does he owe

00:07:24.620 the Democrat establishment? No, what does he care? He's Joe Biden. He's been in politics for over 50

00:07:29.440 years. He's wanted to be president since he was in the womb. Why would he give it up? Especially when

00:07:34.620 the other Democrats are so weak. Why would he give it up? I think he's totally right to take this

00:07:39.500 position. Furthermore, he's going on the offense. He called into MSNBC. He didn't show up on the show,

00:07:45.200 but he called into Morning Joe and Joe Scarborough, one of the people who's been shocked by Joe Biden's

00:07:52.400 decline and one of the chattering class who were suggesting maybe Biden should step aside.

00:07:56.200 He calls into Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski's show on MSNBC, and he challenges

00:08:02.960 any Democrat who wants him to drop out. How would you feel if Donald Trump beat you? How would you feel

00:08:10.320 after you lost? And you said, well, as long as I did the best I could do, that's the most important

00:08:17.980 thing. I'll pause it right there. So Joe Scarborough is being very nice to Joe Biden here because that

00:08:24.120 is not what Joe Biden actually said. Joe Biden said, if I lose to Trump, but I did the goodest job

00:08:29.880 that I could, then that's all that really matters. So the president's word was goodest.

00:08:36.140 Joe translating that into English, which would be best as the superlative form of good.

00:08:42.440 But Joe is still setting up the question, hey, man, what if you lose? Aren't you going to feel bad

00:08:48.720 about that? Isn't the point of a presidential race not to make you feel good personally, but rather to do

00:08:55.320 good things for your constituents and the people voting for you? Here's Biden's answer.

00:09:00.660 That's caused Democrats concern who believe that losing is not an option. What would you say to

00:09:09.460 those who are concerned by that answer? It's not an option and I've not lost. I haven't lost. I beat

00:09:16.740 him last time. I'll beat him this time. And this is a guy who we talk about debate. Look at his

00:09:22.660 performance of debates. He lied over, you know, 50 lies. I mean, look, this is a guy who says 10%

00:09:30.640 of the universe. Yeah, I want to get into Bennett. He's just a liar. And he hasn't done a damn thing

00:09:36.160 since the debate. Remember all this talk about how I don't have the black support? Come on, give me a 0.97

00:09:40.860 break. Come with me. Watch. Watch. I'm getting so frustrated by the elites. Now, I'm not talking about

00:09:48.300 you guys, but about the elites in the party who they know so much more. But any of these guys don't

00:09:55.020 think I should run against me. Good. Announce the president. Challenge me at the convention.

00:10:03.120 There's so much to dissect in that statement. First of all, he says, come on, you're saying I'm

00:10:07.480 I'm not totally with it anymore. Come on. But Trump did 50 lies. He said about the and

00:10:15.820 never, never mind. And anyway, anyway, I hate the elites. Not you, Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski. 0.75

00:10:26.040 Not you, MSNBC hosts, one of whose father is one of the most prominent Democrat political

00:10:32.240 establishment elites of the last half century. And you, Joe Scarborough, a former member of

00:10:36.420 Congress who's been a cable news fixture for 25 years. No, no, not you guys. You're you're the

00:10:42.540 regular Joe's. I'm talking about the elites anyway. They want me to drop out. That's ridiculous. So

00:10:47.180 total flop of an answer until he gets to the final point, which is, hey, anyone who's criticizing me

00:10:54.880 right now, I challenge you to run against me. Go on, run against me. Oh, who are you going to do

00:11:02.360 better, David Axelrod? OK, run against me. Oh, you're going to do better, random Democrat 0.95

00:11:08.520 congressman. OK, run against me. Challenge me at the Democrat convention. Not that it's even

00:11:13.500 probably going to get to that stage, at least as things stand now. But challenge me at the

00:11:18.400 convention. Kamala Harris, you want to be president? You challenge me. Gavin Newsom, you run. See how

00:11:24.260 many votes you get. The Democratic Party is fairly fractured at the moment. So that's how Biden emerged

00:11:33.460 in the first place. Biden was the best candidate that they had in 2020. Biden has been around since

00:11:39.000 1972 in national politics. Yeah. For all this talk about the strong, vibrant next generation of

00:11:48.960 Democrats, who did they have? Liz Warren, joke. Kamala Harris, joke. Bernie for his 75th attempt to win

00:11:57.320 the White House, joke. Who did they have? I don't even remember who was on that stage in 2020.

00:12:07.040 And Joe Biden. And Joe Biden won it by default, not because he's a particularly impressive

00:12:12.060 politician. Don't forget, Joe Biden had been running for president since 1988. But that's how

00:12:17.080 weak the party is. And I think his analysis is totally right. Now, the only little wrinkle here

00:12:23.060 to Joe Biden just being the nominee. Don't forget, the Democratic National Convention is in late

00:12:29.660 August. So there's a lot of time between now and then. However, because of state ballot deadlines,

00:12:36.120 the Democrats might have to nominate Joe Biden or whoever their nominee is virtually before the

00:12:41.480 convention, which kind of undermines a lot of the purpose of the convention. But they might have to do

00:12:46.280 that as early as July 21st. So is it just Biden? Is he the nominee? Democrat Senator Joe Manchin from

00:12:56.980 West Virginia, a self-styled moderate, he usually goes along with the Dems, but he's a little bit

00:13:02.080 more moderate than some of the people in this party. He just gave a very curious answer to the

00:13:08.700 question of whether or not he still supports Joe Biden.

00:13:11.540 But are you personally confident that he has what it takes to not only continue this election,

00:13:17.840 but then to serve for another four years? Well, I think that, you know, if you just wait until this

00:13:23.660 week and there'll be more comes out, I believe that we'll be able to have a better, clearer view of

00:13:27.960 what's happening. His health and well-being, I think it should be at everyone's first and foremost

00:13:32.940 concern, his and his family's and all of us. And he's fine. He's been, doctors are saying he's fine.

00:13:38.900 So I'm going to take that for its word and go from there. So I'm just going to wait.

00:13:44.480 What? Excuse me, Joe, what was that? Are you willing to say, Senator Manchin, that you still

00:13:50.860 support Joe Biden? Well, look, I think we all just ought to wait for this weekend. You know,

00:13:57.700 I think the president's health is a big concern to all of us. But then notice, then he dials it back.

00:14:04.280 And, you know, the president said he's in good health. So, you know, obviously,

00:14:06.980 I take him at his word and everything, but let's just wait for this weekend, shall we?

00:14:12.360 Hmm. What is he getting at? Something's going to happen this weekend. I don't, obviously,

00:14:18.880 we know the Democrat members of Congress want Biden out. We know the Democrat governors had

00:14:23.740 a phone call. They want Biden out. We know that a lot of Democrats would like to be the nominee

00:14:28.740 themselves. I know Joe Manchin certainly would, though. I don't think he's really top of the list.

00:14:32.820 Well, you know, Kamala Harris is just salivating. You know, Gavin Newsom is just salivating. A lot

00:14:39.040 of people want Biden out. And so far, everyone has been, all the serious Democrats have been

00:14:45.280 standing by Joe Biden publicly. Bill Clinton, Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, Nancy Pelosi,

00:14:51.380 Chuck Schumer, all the Kamala Harris, all of them, Gavin Newsom. But the moment that it looks like

00:14:58.480 Biden could actually go down, they'll all turn on him. Right now, it looks like Biden's going to hold

00:15:05.900 on to it. There's no real path for him to leave this race. If he suggests a willingness to leave 0.63

00:15:11.260 the race, if he is clobbered by the 25th Amendment, I don't know, or anything in between,

00:15:16.500 all of those people will turn on a dime. And in a way, they have to. Because while I agree that

00:15:22.760 Biden remains the strongest candidate to beat Donald Trump, I still don't think he would be

00:15:28.180 Donald Trump today, but he would be stronger than Kamala Harris, say, or even Gavin Newsom. 0.82

00:15:33.020 All of these prominent Democrats have come out and said the man's brain is mush. And they can't 0.74

00:15:37.240 take that back. If he remains the Democrat nominee, every Republican ad from now until November

00:15:43.160 is going to be Joe Scarborough and the New York Times and the Washington Post and this Democrat

00:15:49.260 member of Congress and this Democrat governor and this Democrat senator all saying that the

00:15:52.940 president is not fit to be the nominee, much less the president. There's so much more to say.

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00:17:11.920 there's a lot going on in the Republican Party right now that we need to address.

00:17:17.200 Just one little button on Biden. I know it's fun. I know it's fun to make fun of the applesauce that

00:17:24.740 Joe Biden has in his head right now. Okay? I know it's fun to point out that we have been right the

00:17:30.100 whole time. The man is obviously in the throes of dementia. Dementia is the kind of disease that

00:17:33.880 accelerates, and he can't win for losing. I know it's fun. I am breaking my own rule, even as I say

00:17:41.560 it. But it's nevertheless good advice, so I'll put it out there anyway. Republicans should lay off

00:17:47.580 mocking Biden and attacking Biden until after he is officially declared the nominee of the Democrat

00:17:53.560 Party. I don't think that some mean comments on the Michael Knowles show are going to convince

00:17:59.440 Democrats to abandon their nominee. But I do think that as all Republicans keep pointing out that

00:18:07.720 this guy is in a ton of trouble, he's not going to be able to connect with voters, his poll numbers

00:18:12.320 are decreasing, that is going to more likely spook the Democrats into thinking there's no way they can

00:18:17.920 win with Biden, and it's going to impel them to take extraordinary measures to try to replace him,

00:18:22.700 and that would not be great for us. I think we want this Joe Biden to be the nominee of the

00:18:28.180 Democrat Party. And so all I'm saying is from now until, what is it? It's July 9th or something.

00:18:35.300 We've got how many more days? A dozen more days till July 21st. Maybe he's the nominee by then.

00:18:40.860 Then you can let it rip. But until now, I'm going to break my own rule. I know.

00:18:45.240 But probably we should play it a little bit softer and try to get this excellent, excellent nominee

00:18:50.780 for us. Now, turning to the Republican nominee, big news. It's upsetting a lot of Republicans and

00:18:56.960 conservatives. Donald Trump has disavowed Project 2025. What is Project 2025? It is a project of

00:19:04.800 the Heritage Foundation, which is the greatest of the conservative think tanks. I mean greatest in a

00:19:11.240 very technical sense. It's the biggest. It's the oldest. It's the most established conservative

00:19:17.980 think tank. It is right now led by a guy named Kevin Roberts, who is a national treasure. He's

00:19:22.920 done an excellent job at Heritage. Sometimes Heritage has been run by real conservatives.

00:19:27.420 Sometimes Heritage has been run by squishes. Kevin is the real deal. And Kevin helped to bring about 0.87

00:19:35.520 this Project 2025, which is in partnership with other conservative organizations, to deal with one

00:19:41.960 problem and one problem only. Staffing. Personnel. A big problem for Trump's first term is that he had

00:19:49.160 trouble getting really good people. You know, he only hires the best people. But the trouble is the way

00:19:54.960 that Washington works and the way that his administration had been set up by forces that were largely outside

00:20:02.280 of his control, it was hard for him to attract really good people. And the bureaucracy is 2 million people.

00:20:06.600 So it's very difficult to get your guys in there in such a way that you can actually turn that ship

00:20:11.900 of state. So Project 2025 exists for personnel, because personnel is policy. And Project 2025 has

00:20:19.380 come under fire because it's this nebulous sounding thing. And you hear all sorts of different statements

00:20:24.540 that come out of it from various people, some of which might be official, some of which might not

00:20:29.620 be official. Certain things you hear might even contradict themselves. You know, it's just a

00:20:33.400 conservative movement project right now. It hasn't really coalesced into anything firm because we

00:20:37.920 don't have the administration yet. In any case, Trump just distanced himself from it. He said,

00:20:42.820 I know nothing about Project 2025. I have no idea who's behind it. I disagree with some of the things

00:20:46.940 they're saying. And some of the things they're saying are absolutely ridiculous and abysmal. 0.99

00:20:49.800 Anything they do, I wish them luck, but I have nothing to do with them. 0.86

00:20:51.940 So this has disappointed some conservatives.

00:20:58.760 My take on it is that it is true that Trump has nothing to do with Project 2025.

00:21:05.480 He didn't come up with the thing. He's not writing the papers. He's not,

00:21:08.780 he really has no direct involvement whatsoever. It is also true that Project 2025 is great.

00:21:15.300 It is being led by great people, and the whole thing is a great idea. And it is also true that

00:21:22.000 Trump is probably smart to say that he has nothing to do with it, which is true. He's not even lying

00:21:27.160 when he says he has nothing to do with it. He really doesn't. It is being built to serve him.

00:21:31.840 Initially, it was being built to serve any Republican nominee. Then when he got the nomination,

00:21:35.000 it was being built to serve him. All those three statements are true. Politics is messy.

00:21:41.380 If Project 2025 is a big target that can allow Democrats to try to attack Trump,

00:21:47.300 who otherwise has done a pretty good job avoiding their policy attacks, they're too busy attacking

00:21:51.780 him for, I don't know, some gossip columnist story about Bergdorf Goodman in the 90s. They're

00:21:57.360 focused on things that are really irrelevant to voters and probably fictitious anyway.

00:22:03.400 Then distancing himself from that is probably smart politics. But all those things can remain

00:22:09.640 simultaneously true. He has nothing to do with it. It's great. And it's smart to keep a distance

00:22:17.840 during a campaign so as not to open himself up. A lot of people aren't going to be satisfied with

00:22:22.720 that. Politics is messy. Politics is not a pristine and pure abstract science. It is an art that involves

00:22:32.660 a lot of dissatisfaction and messiness, but it's within the contingencies of the historical order

00:22:40.260 and Trump wants to win. In this episode of Michael And, the most recent one out there, I sat down with

00:22:48.020 Justin Waller, an entrepreneur who overcame a difficult childhood to create a construction empire. He is most

00:22:54.860 known for his social media discussions on marriage, masculinity, and politics. Check out this teaser.

00:22:59.160 I grew up very poor, South Louisiana, in and out of trailer parks, 11 custody court battles, violence,

00:23:07.280 two house fires, no understanding of finance or wealth, and build the life that I want. If you don't

00:23:13.940 think you're going to go bankrupt about every four years, you're not doing shit anyway. 0.90

00:23:18.020 Obviously, you've had this great career. People don't really know you from that. People know you 0.88

00:23:21.400 from going on YouTube and other platforms and giving advice to young men. Are you married now?

00:23:25.340 I would never bring the state into my affairs. I don't chase women, Michael. I absorb them. 0.98

00:23:30.240 I love women. Let me be very clear about this. And in fact, I have quite the reputation for loving

00:23:35.800 them a bit too. And my wife helps, by the way. Wait, your wife helps? We got girlfriends, G. 0.88

00:23:41.460 Really? Yeah, man. I am not promoting this. I guess that, to me, that's the most interesting

00:23:46.380 thing you're saying. I am not. If it's good for you, why is it not good for some other guy?

00:23:55.340 Watch the episode now on the Michael Knowles YouTube channel. Be sure to catch the totally

00:24:01.380 uncensored versions on Spotify and ad-free on Daily Wire+. Speaking of right-wingers and distancing

00:24:10.080 oneself from political movements, you probably saw the story if you read any of the left-wing media

00:24:14.220 over the weekend about Patriot Front, a group of right-wing extremists, fascists marching through

00:24:22.940 Nashville. And they had American flags, and they had Confederate flags, and they had masks on their

00:24:28.560 face, like they were Columbia University students or something. Like they were marching with the

00:24:32.780 Democrat Intifada for Palestine. But they're not, they weren't marching for that. They're right-wingers,

00:24:37.160 ostensibly. And they had glasses on, and they had hats. Okay, and they're all matching.

00:24:41.680 Khaki chinos and blue polos, which is why, I think it was the outfits largely, are why,

00:24:48.880 if you were reading the right-wing media, you read that these were a bunch of feds.

00:24:54.220 Because they looked like those guys who showed up at the Justice for January 6th rally. I don't

00:24:58.980 think we have a picture of it. Do you remember there was the anniversary commemoration of January

00:25:04.480 6th, the worst day ever. And it was obviously a fed honeypot. It was some, you know, half-baked

00:25:10.540 idea from Quantico. And the guys who showed up to it just looked like they actually got out of the

00:25:17.640 barber's chair in the basement of Quantico. You know, they had all these shirts on with no logos.

00:25:23.660 They were all very fit, looked like they had military or police training. They're all, you

00:25:28.200 know, they're standing around. Everyone's checking their sixes all the time, shades on. I mean, just,

00:25:32.840 it might as well have been military or law enforcement issue clothing. And frankly,

00:25:38.060 it probably was. All with their matching Garmin watches. And so that, I think, pretty clearly,

00:25:43.720 and I think the FBI has actually admitted as much that the FBI has informants and agents on the

00:25:50.000 ground in some of these rallies and different political events just, you know, to maintain

00:25:58.700 order or whatever, gather information. But that doesn't tell us much about Patriot Front.

00:26:02.940 What is it? Is Patriot Front, as the left-wing media would have us believe, the, you know,

00:26:11.140 marching physical representation of the MAGA Republican movement? Or is Patriot Front,

00:26:16.860 as the right-wing would have us believe, just a bunch of feds? I don't think it's really either.

00:26:23.160 I don't think it's really either. I am sure, I have no hard proof of this, but I would bet my bottom

00:26:28.100 dollar that there are a bunch of feds in Patriot Front. And my reasoning for this, I guess I do

00:26:33.460 have a little bit of evidence. My reasoning is federal investigators and law enforcement always

00:26:38.860 infiltrate these movements on the left and on the right. They always get guys into the Black Panthers. 0.97

00:26:43.140 They always get guys into the Ku Klux Klan. So I have no doubt that a bunch of these guys actually 0.97

00:26:48.760 are federal agents, but, or at least federal informants and assets. However, the guy who runs it,

00:26:56.180 Thomas Rousseau, who's this young guy who started this organization, I think it was initially called

00:27:02.140 Vanguard America, then it rebranded as Patriot Front after some schism within the group, because these

00:27:07.480 groups always splinter off into a million other groups. I think he at least at one point was a true

00:27:11.680 believer. Maybe he still is a true believer. They might be feds, they might not be feds. To me, that's not

00:27:19.720 the important question. What is important about something like this Patriot Front march through

00:27:25.620 Nashville is how are the mainstream conservatives reacting to it? This tells you everything you need to know

00:27:32.900 about political violence on the right and the left. Patriot Front marches through Nashville. They're not

00:27:38.560 violent. It would seem that Patriot Front, all they ever really want to do is just kind of march. They've got

00:27:43.840 whatever a hundred people say, and they march, and they have their big flags, and they make a big

00:27:47.420 to-do, and then they go away. And it's a little suspect the way they dress and how they don't show

00:27:52.500 their faces, but whatever. Let's say they're totally legit and they're sincere, true believers.

00:27:56.420 They have nothing to do with law enforcement. What happens after they march?

00:28:01.660 All the mainstream conservatives ignore or condemn them. That's what happens.

00:28:07.420 Let's look on the left. What happens when Antifa marches? Better yet, what happens when BLM marches 0.73

00:28:14.840 through a town? Well, Antifa and BLM are not quite so peaceful. They make just as much of a ruckus,

00:28:22.200 they make just as much of a spectacle of themselves as the Patriot Front does. And then they also rape, 0.98

00:28:28.000 kill, pillage, and burn. They also loot stores. They also, BLM killed dozens of people during that 0.99

00:28:33.880 summer of love that burned cities down, sea to shining sea. And then even beyond the group,

00:28:40.300 how do the mainstream Democrats and liberals react? They embrace the groups. Mainstream Democrats and

00:28:47.200 liberals and journalists have defended Antifa. Mainstream Democrat politicians have bailed BLM rioters 0.89

00:28:57.620 who committed crimes out of prison. Kamala Harris, the sitting vice president who might be the Democrat

00:29:02.320 nominee in 2024. She raised money to bail BLM criminals out of jail during that summer of love. 0.77

00:29:09.980 Staffers for the current president of the United States, Joe Biden, raised money to bail those

00:29:16.160 leftist rioters out of jail. That's the difference. Let's say that Patriot Front, it's not just a bunch

00:29:22.640 of feds. Okay, when the fringe people on our side march around and make a fuss, we ignore or reject

00:29:31.300 them. When the fringe people on the left go out and commit visible crimes and harm people and make

00:29:39.020 a big fuss, the mainstream left embraces them. That's all you need to know. That is all you need

00:29:45.360 to know about extremism in America. We hear so much about right-wing extremism. Give me a break.

00:29:51.200 There is no such thing for all practical purposes as right-wing extremism in America.

00:29:56.020 If Patriot Front is the best example they've got, it's a joke.

00:30:00.840 You want to see political extremism. You want to see real consequential political extremism.

00:30:05.520 Show me BLM. Show me Antifa. 0.52

00:30:07.180 All the talk of political violence, Newsweek says Donald, or the New Republic rather, says Donald

00:30:13.660 Trump is Hitler. Okay, show me Donald Trump embracing Patriot Front. I don't see it. Not that

00:30:20.460 Patriot Front is looting businesses or murdering people in Nashville. Meanwhile, the left totally

00:30:27.380 embraces BLM and to some degree Antifa as well. Now, speaking of disreputable displays of political

00:30:33.260 speech, a big free speech case just came down. And conservatives are going to be tempted to think

00:30:39.920 of this as a win for our side because it's supposedly a win for free speech. And it's not. It's a big

00:30:45.760 loss. A federal judge just ruled that a woman who had an F them both 2024 sign installed on her front

00:30:55.180 lawn is able to keep the sign up. It's not an obscene sign. She doesn't have to take it down even though 0.97

00:31:03.780 her neighbors don't like it. She doesn't have to pay a fine. It's totally fine. F them both is her political 0.99

00:31:08.300 view. And there it is. You can see a picture of the sign if you're watching the show right now. It's kind of

00:31:14.300 funny, but it's vulgar because it doesn't just say F. It's a vulgar word. And call me old fashioned. If I were in

00:31:20.700 that neighborhood, I wouldn't, I wouldn't want my kids to walk by a sign like that. I wouldn't have

00:31:25.640 to look at a sign like that because it's degraded and it's de classe and it's going to lower my property

00:31:31.880 values. And it's just ugly. I just, I don't, I don't need that around me. I want to live in a nice,

00:31:36.980 beautiful neighborhood. And that's, uh, that's why I'm a defender of HOAs. I think that we have a

00:31:41.740 political right to live in nice neighborhoods. Frankly, that was a big part of Donald Trump's 2016

00:31:48.400 campaign. It irritated the individualists and the libertarians, but Trump said, I'm running for

00:31:52.700 president because I want you to have a good, safe neighborhood, a nice, beautiful, safe neighborhood.

00:31:56.600 And I want you to be able to have just a good way of life, which was extremely conservative,

00:32:03.580 very traditional. Yeah. It's basic stuff. I know they don't, they don't write that in the,

00:32:07.780 in the white papers that come out of the libertarian think tanks, but that's actually a good answer.

00:32:12.260 And that's what most people want. Unfortunately, this court just said, no, she has a right to, 1.00

00:32:16.900 to make your neighborhood ugly and vulgar and degraded. Why? Well, in fairness to the judge,

00:32:24.420 because according to the current test for obscenity, that sign is not obscene because

00:32:29.240 the current way that we can, that we determine obscenity, it's called the Miller test. It comes

00:32:34.760 from 1973, 1973, which gave us a lot of bad court decisions, notably Roe versus Wade. Okay. A lot,

00:32:41.800 really bad Supreme court in 1973 with really bad decisions that upended our country. One of

00:32:46.880 which was the obscenity decision in order for something to be declared obscene. It has to

00:32:52.520 satisfy all three of these criteria. The average person applying contemporary community standards

00:32:59.080 would have to find that the work taken as a whole appeals to the prurient interest that is,

00:33:04.240 it has to arouse lust in you. The sign doesn't do that. Whatever you want to say about the sign,

00:33:11.420 it's not, you know, it's not sexy. Second thing that it has to satisfy, whether the work depicts

00:33:16.780 or describes in a patently offensive way, sexual conduct or excretory functions.

00:33:21.980 That's, it does do that. You know, just the first verb there, I guess, does, does describe a sexual

00:33:27.340 function. And then number three, whether the work taken as a whole lacks serious literary, artistic,

00:33:32.540 political, or scientific value. I would say it certainly does. I'm sure some Philistine would say 1.00

00:33:38.840 that it does have political value because it's making a statement on our political order.

00:33:42.820 I don't think it satisfies. So number three is arguable. It's not obscene according to the

00:33:46.520 Miller test. So the judge probably made the right decision according to a really stupid standard that 1.00

00:33:52.280 we have. Before the Miller test, what was our standard for obscenity? 1966 from the memoirs versus 0.99

00:33:58.980 Massachusetts case, the Supreme Court refined the previous test to say that it's material that is

00:34:07.940 patently offensive and utterly without redeeming social value. Okay, that's pretty good. Now,

00:34:15.920 in 1957, we had the Roth test, which defines it as material whose dominant theme taken as a whole

00:34:25.200 appeals to the prurient interest of the average person applying contemporary community standards.

00:34:29.640 And only material that met this test could be deemed obscene. Okay, before that, there's been a

00:34:35.920 lot of obscenity in American history. Before that, we had the Comstock laws. It banned any material that 0.97

00:34:41.500 tended to, quote, deprave and corrupt those whose minds are open to such immoral influences. Okay,

00:34:47.140 whoa, that's pretty good. Now we're getting somewhere. And that was based on the Hicklin test,

00:34:52.540 which comes from England, 1868, which defined obscenity on the basis of whether the tendency

00:35:01.320 of the matter is to deprave and corrupt those whose minds are open to such immoral influences

00:35:04.420 and into whose hands a publication of this sort might fall. Okay, all of that is to say,

00:35:09.440 the Hicklin test had it pretty much about right. That is what obscenity is. We have made obscenity so

00:35:17.500 narrow that we now have pornography everywhere. We have vulgar language everywhere. We've got 0.96

00:35:22.940 pornography in elementary schools at this point. And conservatives are complaining about it. And

00:35:27.560 moderates are complaining about it. And even some center-left people are complaining about it. So

00:35:31.280 it's not just the prudish right-wingers. You know, a lot of people recognize we've just got way too much

00:35:35.940 obscenity here. On top of that, it's more difficult to prosecute pornography these days,

00:35:42.300 in part because of the nebulous meaning of contemporary community standards, what people

00:35:47.680 would find normal these days. And we know that that constitutes a public health crisis,

00:35:53.880 a political crisis. There's broad agreement on this. There have been efforts to try to

00:35:59.620 beef up what we mean by obscenity and to be able to take some political action against it. You saw this

00:36:06.040 in the 90s, bipartisan efforts, the Communications Decency Act, the Child Online Protection Act.

00:36:12.840 This should be a priority for conservatives. I know it seems like it doesn't matter as much as

00:36:17.160 the border or as the economy or as World War III potentially breaking out in Europe.

00:36:22.980 This really matters, though, because, you know, we used to say politics is downstream of culture.

00:36:28.260 And there's some truth to that, though culture is also formed by laws and by politics and by

00:36:32.120 Supreme Court decisions. And if you live in a culture that's really vulgar and depraved and

00:36:37.600 without discipline and ugly and nasty, that's your country. And that's going to be your communities 0.83

00:36:45.020 and your family is going to take on some of those characteristics because man is a social creature

00:36:49.040 and we live in a body politic. If you want to live in a country that's good and has a nice flourishing

00:36:55.980 way of life and it's beautiful and it's pleasant, you got to take things like obscenity very, very

00:37:03.480 seriously. And so, yeah, good. Let's overturn Roe v. Wade. That was good stuff. Let's overturn

00:37:08.620 Chevron deference. A lot of conservatives wanted to do that. That's great. Let's overturn that Miller

00:37:13.360 test, too. Let's get back to the Hicklin test. That's just my humble suggestion. The conservative

00:37:20.520 legal movement's been very effective recently. Well, let's keep going. Ladies and gentlemen,

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00:39:21.220 My favorite comment yesterday is from SlapMyBase3826, who says,

00:39:24.620 if Biden can identify as a black woman, then my identification as a Nicaraguan immigrant stands.

00:39:30.460 I want my amnesty and my high-quality cigars. Well, I can get you one of those things.

00:39:35.060 I don't, I probably can't help you with the amnesty, but I don't think you need much help

00:39:39.720 with the amnesty. Biden is more than happy to provide it. Speaking of relics of the 19th century,

00:39:49.120 Joe Biden has hosted a Parkinson's specialist at the White House, allegedly. There is a neurologist

00:39:57.780 and Parkinson's specialist who has made nearly a dozen trips to the White House medical unit,

00:40:04.220 according to visitor logs, over just the past 20 months. Now, first question people are asking,

00:40:11.020 does Joe Biden have Parkinson's disease? With Parkinson's disease, aren't you supposed to

00:40:14.160 shake and aren't there supposed to be more visible signs? To hear a Parkinson's specialist,

00:40:20.380 sure, the person maybe has published some papers on Parkinson's or maybe does have a specialty in

00:40:24.840 Parkinson's. But we're talking about a degenerative disease. We're talking about a neurological problem,

00:40:31.580 okay? And so Joe Biden, we don't know what kind of dementia he has, what the actual form of his

00:40:38.000 senility is. He's got something. It's pretty obvious he's got something. And now even the White 0.87

00:40:42.900 House visitor logs are showing that. This guy, Dr. Kevin Kennard, a Bethesda neurologist and movement

00:40:50.280 disorder specialist who is affiliated with Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, has visited

00:40:54.900 the White House a lot of times, as recently as March 28th. Kamala, not Kamala Harris, was that,

00:41:04.120 did I just do a racism or a sexism? I don't know. Karine Jean-Pierre has come out and

00:41:09.340 cannot exactly explain why this guy's been at the White House so much.

00:41:14.320 It was a very basic, direct question. Wait, wait, wait, wait. Hold on. Wait, wait, wait. Wait a

00:41:21.060 second. Eight times or at least once in regards to the president specifically. Wait, hold on a second.

00:41:27.000 Not much you should be able to answer by this point. Wait, no, no, no, no, no, no. No, wait a minute.

00:41:31.060 Ed, please, a little respect here, please. So every year around the president's physical examination,

00:41:42.800 he sees a neurologist. That's three times, right? So I am telling you that he has seen

00:41:48.680 a neurologist three times while he has been in this presidency. That's what I'm saying.

00:41:54.140 I am telling you that he has seen them three times. That is what I'm sharing with you, right?

00:41:59.700 So every time he has a physical, he has had to see a neurologist. So that is answering that question.

00:42:05.960 No, it's not. No, it is. No, it's not. You're asking me. I also said to you, Ed, I also said to

00:42:13.900 you, for security reasons, we cannot share names. We cannot share names. Okay, here we go. For

00:42:20.300 security reasons, we already have the name. I just told you the name. Notice how she phrases this,

00:42:25.620 though. Her phrasing is so strange here. Okay, okay, okay. Hold on, hold on, hold on. Please,

00:42:30.040 some respect, some respect. She's got to clear the room of the questions. And then very specifically,

00:42:33.900 she says, the president has a physical every year. So that's three years. And he sees all sorts

00:42:40.500 of doctors during those physicals. So he has seen a neurologist three times. The statement he has seen

00:42:48.260 a neurologist three times does not mean he has seen a neurologist only three times. I've had five

00:42:59.400 cigars in my life. I've had five cigars. I've had more than five cigars. I've had six cigars and seven

00:43:06.000 cigars and eight cigars and probably 5,000 cigars in my life. But within the 8,000 cigars that I've

00:43:12.540 had, it is also true to say I've had five cigars and many more than that. President Biden has certainly

00:43:18.660 seen a neurologist three times. And notice she gets so specific. And so every time he has a

00:43:25.480 physical, he has seen a neurologist. Yeah, we know that he sees doctors at his physical. What

00:43:31.080 about the 10 other times that the neurologist has come to the White House? I cannot, for privacy

00:43:37.380 reasons, I cannot talk about that. What do you mean you were just talking about his physical? Why can't

00:43:42.720 you talk about it? Why can't you talk about the other visits? It's for privacy. It's for policy.

00:43:47.840 So let me just utter the meticulously worded non-answer that I came up with in the back room.

00:43:56.420 The president has seen a neurologist every time he's had a physical and he's had three physicals

00:44:00.500 since he's been in the White House. Sure. Do they want us to believe that this neurologist is coming

00:44:06.720 to examine other people at the White House? You know, I think that the junior deputy assistant

00:44:12.180 deputy, deputy speech writer to the head of the Department of the Interior can probably go to

00:44:19.300 Walter Reed on his own dime and on his own time. That's not why a neurologist is coming to the

00:44:24.960 White House. Certainly not a neurologist who's examined the president of the United States.

00:44:30.380 Now, when the neurologist comes to the White House, is he always meeting with Biden? Maybe not.

00:44:35.720 Maybe he is. Probably he is. But maybe not. In any case, really weak stuff. She thought she was

00:44:42.120 going to slip through there with that kind of clever warning. But it was so clunky that the

00:44:46.380 reporters were not buying it. On top of this, we've got our own reporting here at DW from our

00:44:53.460 friend Luke Rosiak, who's observed that by analyzing official transcripts and official transcript

00:45:01.460 corrections from the White House, Joe Biden's speaking errors have doubled in the last year.

00:45:07.160 So Biden has never been the brightest bulb in the pack. I don't mean that to insult him. It's just

00:45:12.860 a fact. Joe Biden, and he's kind of made that part of his shtick. You know, I'm just a regular

00:45:18.700 Joe. I'm Amtrak. I'm not some super genius. I'm just regular old Amtrak Joe slapping you on the back.

00:45:24.880 However, he used to be pretty good at talking. That was the one thing he could do really well.

00:45:29.220 And now he's not good at talking. And we saw this in 2020. And then we saw it a little bit

00:45:36.540 more in 2021. Then we saw it a little bit more in 2022. And it's gotten much worse. The fact that

00:45:41.820 his errors in speech have doubled in a year tells you something that I mentioned briefly earlier.

00:45:50.880 Dementia is an accelerating disease. If you've ever had a grandparent or a parent

00:45:57.180 who's suffered dementia, you know, it can start to move real fast.

00:46:05.720 It seems beyond a shadow of a doubt at this point that Biden has some form of dementia.

00:46:10.480 So today, we see how he does. We saw him with the sundowning during the debate with Trump.

00:46:17.240 Then we see him. He's a little bit feistier on the morning shows when he calls in, but he still can't

00:46:21.980 get his words in order. And he flubs up everything. And that's in early July.

00:46:29.700 And I think, and I still hope, that he secures the Democrat nomination for 2024.

00:46:34.180 The Joe Biden you are seeing today might be Superman compared to the Joe Biden you see in

00:46:41.500 September, October, and November. These diseases, once they start really moving,

00:46:46.760 they start moving real fast. And at the very least, you can expect to see neurologists come

00:46:52.420 to the White House a lot more frequently. Now, some Democrats don't care about this. 0.71

00:47:01.440 Whoopi Goldberg, I hate giving the view more views, but Whoopi Goldberg on the view says she

00:47:06.120 doesn't care if the president soils himself. She is voting for Joe.

00:47:10.320 So, I mean, I'm just gonna add my two cents because I wasn't here on the day that y'all

00:47:16.660 talked about it. I don't care if he's pooped his pants. I don't care if he can't put a sentence

00:47:26.560 together. Show me he can't do the job. And then I'll say, okay, maybe it's time to go.

00:47:33.000 What does Whoopi Goldberg think the job is? The job of the president is to talk. That's the job.

00:47:41.760 He's not there, you know, fixing the resolute desk. He's not putting screws in. He's not there

00:47:49.020 welding. He's not there doing spreadsheets. His job is to talk. His job is to talk and inspire the

00:47:58.780 nation and lead a political movement. His job is to talk to foreign leaders and preserve the world

00:48:03.720 order and the American interest. His job is to talk to his subordinates and lead the government

00:48:08.840 to effect his policies, policies which he conveys by talking. That's the job. And to talk requires

00:48:20.280 that one can think. David McCullough has this great line. He says, to write well is to think

00:48:25.780 clearly that's why it's so hard. But we're not even asking Joe Biden to write. We're just asking

00:48:30.080 him to talk. And he can't even do that. I get the Whoopi Goldberg point. The streamer,

00:48:35.940 the liberal streamer Destiny made this point when I was on Piers Morgan's show with him. He said,

00:48:40.500 I don't care if Joe Biden's an urn, I'm going to vote for him. And I get that degree of partisanship.

00:48:45.400 I think it's a little silly, but I understand that degree of partisanship, which is why I just hate 0.98

00:48:49.600 Trump and solve, I'd vote for a cadaver over Trump. But Whoopi's point here is even more bizarre. 0.80

00:48:56.760 She's saying, he can't talk, but show me he can't do the job. That's the job.

00:49:01.120 And he manifestly can't do it. That's why the Democrats are in this horrible predicament.

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