The Michael Knowles Show - July 09, 2024


Ep. 1526 - Furious LGBTQ Activists Protest A Bill To Protect Children


Episode Stats

Length

49 minutes

Words per Minute

168.5407

Word Count

8,294

Sentence Count

674

Misogynist Sentences

13

Hate Speech Sentences

17


Summary

Lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LMNOOP) activists are fighting a bill that would increase penalties for soliciting minors for prostitution. They say it's an attack on the LGBTQ community. But LGBT advocates say it would hurt them, too.


Transcript

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,
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
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,
00:02:14.980 that phobe, I'd be kicked off of social media. The LGBT activists just said, you California legislators
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
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
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.
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
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.
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
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
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.
00:15:33.020 All of these prominent Democrats have come out and said the man's brain is mush. And they can't
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
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.
00:20:49.800 Anything they do, I wish them luck, but I have nothing to do with them.
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
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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.
00:23:18.020 Obviously, you've had this great career. People don't really know you from that. People know you
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.
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.
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?
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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.
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
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
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,
00:28:28.000 kill, pillage, and burn. They also loot stores. They also, BLM killed dozens of people during that
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
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.
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.
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
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
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,
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
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
00:33:52.280 we have. Before the Miller test, what was our standard for obscenity? 1966 from the memoirs versus
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
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
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
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
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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
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.
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
00:48:49.600 Trump and solve, I'd vote for a cadaver over Trump. But Whoopi's point here is even more bizarre.
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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