The Michael Knowles Show

00:00:00.000 Venezuela held a presidential election on Sunday, and while polls conducted before the election

00:00:04.880 showed that centrist opposition leader Edmundo Gonzalez Urrutia was likely to win by a large

00:00:11.800 margin, the Venezuelan regime and its establishment media have declared socialist incumbent Nicolas

00:00:17.900 Maduro the winner, leading to protests in the streets by ordinary citizens convinced that the

00:00:23.860 election was stolen. Now, Jorge Rodriguez, the socialist leader of the Venezuelan National

00:00:29.880 Assembly, is calling his opponents fascists and demanding that the opposition leaders be thrown

00:00:35.720 in prison. With fascism, there can be no contemplation, he says. With fascism, there is

00:00:43.880 no dialogue. Fascism is not given procedural benefits. Fascism is not forgiven. Fascism,

00:00:51.900 when it was forgiven, almost ended with the planet, almost ended humanity. When they were

00:00:57.780 pardoned, when the English talked to Hitler, they generated a war of more than 30 million

00:01:03.100 Europeans killed or died in the war. Our opponents are like Hitler, aren't they? With fascism,

00:01:09.560 you don't compromise. You apply the laws to it. With this, I mean that the public prosecutor's

00:01:17.860 office must act as it is acting. Maria Corina Machado, she has to go to jail, one of the

00:01:25.940 opposition leaders. Edmundo Gonzalez Urrutia, he's the head of the conspiracy, fascist conspiracy

00:01:32.340 that they're trying to impose in Venezuela. This is a command of violent action. They're trying to

00:01:40.020 sow a civil war in Venezuela. This is what they tried to do yesterday. I was just waiting for him to

00:01:45.160 call it an insurrection. Absolutely outrageous behavior from this socialist, denying the people's

00:01:52.680 legitimate concerns about a rigged election, baselessly smearing a huge number, perhaps the

00:01:58.840 majority of citizens as fascists, attempting to throw the opposition leaders in prison.

00:02:04.160 Who does this man think he is? Joe Biden, I'm Michael Knowles. This is the Michael Knowles Show.

00:02:15.160 Welcome back to the show. The media are continuing the Harris campaign talking point,

00:02:35.540 which is not about any issue in particular. They're just the Harris campaign, like a mean girl on a

00:02:39.800 schoolyard is saying that J.D. Vance, the vice presidential nominee for the Republicans, is weird.

00:02:44.960 And to advance that line of argument, they've trotted out what appears to be a woman wearing

00:02:48.660 a man's business suit, but actually turns out to be a man who identifies as a woman wearing men's

00:02:53.720 clothing to prove that J.D. Vance is the weird one. Huh, that's kind of weird, I guess you would say.

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00:05:07.660 Back to Venezuela, which I'm very happy to say does not grow tobacco, so I don't need to worry. If

00:05:12.920 there's a civil war in Venezuela, I'd be very sad for many reasons, but there should not be any

00:05:16.840 disruptions to my cigars, which is great. Reuters is reporting that the Venezuelan opposition says

00:05:23.940 its victory is irreversible. 73% of votes have been tallied. The opposition leaders have won.

00:05:33.560 The socialist incumbent regime has lost. That's it. It's irreversible, right?

00:05:39.000 No. No, it's very much reversible, actually. I remember, I'll give you a hypothetical. Let's say

00:05:48.340 it's election night in a developed country, and it looks like one candidate is winning by a lot,

00:05:52.960 and then they just stop all the counting, and then they wait days and weeks even to finish the

00:05:56.460 counting, and then all of a sudden, everything gets reversed. That happens sometimes. And this is

00:06:02.080 some political insight that you get, not just from a tinpot dictator, well, a kind of tinpot dictator,

00:06:07.680 I guess, not just from some third world banana republic. This is the kind of advice and insight

00:06:13.660 you get from one of the most powerful presidents in the history of the United States to another one

00:06:19.620 of the most powerful presidents in the history of the United States, albeit before he was elected.

00:06:24.980 Franklin Roosevelt wrote a letter to his protege, Lyndon Johnson. This was in, I believe it was 1941,

00:06:32.800 after Johnson had lost a Senate race. And this is reported in the great biography of Lyndon Johnson

00:06:41.320 by Robert Caro. This is Path to Power, the years of Lyndon Johnson. FDR writes,

00:06:47.740 Lyndon, apparently you Texans haven't learned one of the first things we learned up in New York State,

00:06:52.620 and that is when the election is over, you have to sit on the ballot boxes.

00:06:57.040 Famous line from Franklin Roosevelt. Oh yeah, Lyndon, you campaigned all right,

00:07:03.280 but you forgot the most important part, which is who's counting the votes. This is,

00:07:08.360 if you think of that meme of the brain, you know, turning, you got the brain dead version,

00:07:14.520 then you got the guy starting to think, then you got your brain starting to work,

00:07:17.760 and then you've got really galaxy brain. The brain dead understanding of politics is that

00:07:23.920 politics is about winning arguments. Look, I like to think that logic, rhetoric, oratory has

00:07:31.520 something to do with politics, but that's, that's basic stuff. The smarter version is when people

00:07:39.040 say, politics, it's not about winning arguments, it's about winning popularity. Okay, that's true,

00:07:44.220 but popularity in a buck fifty, I'll get you a cup of coffee if you don't turn out on election day.

00:07:48.140 So then the smarter people, they say, no, politics, it's not about winning arguments,

00:07:51.640 it's not about winning popularity, it's about winning votes, you got to get the votes. Okay,

00:07:55.700 yeah, well, that's closer, you're getting closer. The galaxy brain take is that politics is not about

00:08:01.600 winning arguments, not about winning popularity, it's not even totally about winning votes.

00:08:07.580 It's about counting votes. Who counts the votes? Who watches to make sure that the person counting the

00:08:15.700 votes isn't cheating? Who's sitting on the ballot box? That's the insight that President Roosevelt

00:08:21.860 gives to future President Johnson. That is the insight that the socialist regime in Venezuela

00:08:28.140 understands right now, and it seems that Reuters and a number of other people in the media have

00:08:33.540 forgotten that. It looks like the people voted for the opposition leader, but

00:08:39.540 does Venezuela possess the political structures to oust the socialist dictator from power?

00:08:47.580 Right now, that remains rather dubious. But the victory is irreversible. Oh yeah, tell that to Maduro.

00:08:54.300 Tell that to the Venezuelan army. Tell that to the guy who's still sitting in power. Now, speaking of

00:09:00.820 shady government activity, there are explosive new revelations from the investigation into the near

00:09:07.740 assassination of President Trump just a few weeks ago. We know that there were massive security

00:09:17.500 lapses. The Secret Service has finally admitted that this was a colossal failure. We are now learning

00:09:22.940 that the shooter was rather sophisticated. We know that the shooter had a drone over the site to scope out

00:09:32.080 the whole area where President Trump was going to be speaking. We know that the Secret Service did not

00:09:37.260 use drones. Kind of a basic technology these days. The 20-year-old shooter used this technology. The

00:09:43.300 U.S. Secret Service didn't. And what we've now discovered, thanks to a grilling from Senator Josh

00:09:47.640 Hawley, a grilling of one of the deputy directors of the FBI, we know that the Secret Service was

00:09:56.400 offered the use of drones and turned it down. That seems like a pretty basic fact. I'm also told

00:10:03.340 that local law enforcement suppliers offered the Secret Service drones and you declined them. Is

00:10:09.920 that true? So, Senator, one, I've been very transparent and forthcoming.

00:10:15.240 Your agency has not been transparent and forthcoming, so please, let's not go there.

00:10:20.220 I have been forthcoming, sir. That remains to be seen. You've been on the job a few days.

00:10:25.160 So far, you've fired nobody. Now, the drones.

00:10:27.940 Thank you, sir. Were you offered drones?

00:10:29.400 Senator Hawley.

00:10:29.820 So there was an offer to fly a drone on that day.

00:10:31.800 And why did you deny it?

00:10:34.220 Again, I think the ability of local law enforcement to provide an asset,

00:10:39.660 we probably should have taken them up on it if it was offered.

00:10:43.780 Whoa. What an admission. So we were offered the drone. We turned it down.

00:10:55.740 I have no explanation for why we turned it down. Yeah, oopsie-daisy, actually. I guess we probably

00:11:00.800 should have used it. I love Hawley's smackdown of, sir, I've been very forthcoming. Actually,

00:11:05.660 your agency lied, and you've been on the job for five minutes, so spare me. There's zero evidence

00:11:11.580 that you guys have been forthcoming. There's a lot of evidence that you haven't been. We don't

00:11:14.840 know anything about you, deputy director, other than you don't have an answer to a basic question.

00:11:19.320 Why did you turn down a basic security measure? Why did you reject it? Because it would be one thing

00:11:27.940 if the Secret Service came out and said, we just didn't think those were necessary. We didn't want

00:11:33.040 to use drones on that day. Local law enforcement offered it to us. We said, we don't need that. We

00:11:37.860 don't want that. But we found out in testimony that the Secret Service actually did want to use

00:11:44.860 drones, and something about their drone technology on that particular day in Pennsylvania just didn't

00:11:51.600 work. Director Rowe, can you explain why the shooter's drone worked? Because there was no

00:11:58.120 counter-UAS present, sir. Well, you had a drone system, but you had bandwidth problems. The bandwidth

00:12:06.120 apparently was adequate for the shooter's drone, but not for the Secret Service. Can you explain

00:12:11.700 that? I have no explanation for it, sir. We also know that in the military context, electronic

00:12:19.820 warfare or jamming capabilities are commonly used on the battlefield. Does the Secret Service

00:12:28.340 have jamming capabilities or drones? We have drones, sir. And when it comes to, I have to be very careful

00:12:40.460 about how I answer this one in an open forum. What I can tell you is that we have technical security

00:12:45.480 measures, sir, to address, I think, what you're asking me. Huh? Hold on. Wait. You're telling me

00:12:54.160 that this 20-year-old kid that we know nothing about, we'll get to now, there's even more revelations

00:13:00.360 about how little we know about this guy coming from the government, but this 20-year-old kid that

00:13:05.260 we know nothing about, some apparent total loser, loner, weirdo, that word's become popular lately,

00:13:13.160 just we don't know anything about him. He was able to get his drone off the ground, but the United States

00:13:18.680 Secret Service wasn't able to do the same, that the 20-year-old lone gunman that we know nothing

00:13:25.180 about had better technology, more functional technology than the U.S. Secret Service.

00:13:30.000 And then on top of that, when your drones didn't work, local law enforcement offered you the use of

00:13:34.840 their drones, and you said, no, we're good. We're good, actually. No thanks. And you testify that you

00:13:40.860 have no explanation as to how that happened, how the drones didn't work, how your drone systems

00:13:45.660 broadly didn't work, and why you would turn it down from local law enforcement. You got nothing,

00:13:51.960 but you're so forthcoming. Something is really, really weird about these explanations.

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00:14:38.020 Remember last week, the FBI director, Christopher Wray, came out, and he said that he didn't know

00:14:45.240 if Trump was even shot by a bullet. Remember that? Wray comes out and says, corrects legislators,

00:14:54.080 and says, well, you know, actually, we don't know. There's some question, was Trump hit by shrapnel?

00:14:58.040 Was it a shard of something? Oh, we don't even know if he was really shot. And the American public

00:15:04.080 said, hold on, we saw him get shot. We heard the gunshot go off. We saw him get shot. You can even,

00:15:07.840 if you look at the photo, you can see the bullet going out of his ear. You're telling me,

00:15:12.980 FBI director, that now you're, we shouldn't believe our lying eyes, that Trump wasn't really

00:15:17.760 shot. So the FBI deputy director is asked about this, and he comes clean.

00:15:23.380 Deputy director of the FBI, is that correct?

00:15:26.620 Yes, Senator.

00:15:27.120 Is there any doubt in your mind, or in the collective mind of the FBI, that President Trump

00:15:41.500 was shot in the ear by a bullet fired by the assassin crooks?

00:15:48.760 Senator, there is absolutely no doubt in the FBI's mind whether former President Trump was

00:15:56.800 hit with a bullet and wounded in the ear. No doubt there never has been.

00:16:03.280 I've been part of this investigation since the very beginning, and that has never been raised.

00:16:08.320 You're sure?

00:16:09.340 Yes.

00:16:10.320 It wasn't a space laser?

00:16:13.680 No.

00:16:14.240 It wasn't a murder hornet?

00:16:18.260 Absolutely not.

00:16:19.540 It wasn't Sasquatch?

00:16:21.820 No, Senator.

00:16:23.040 It was a bullet?

00:16:24.340 It was a bullet, Senator.

00:16:25.880 Fired by crooks?

00:16:27.740 Yes, sir.

00:16:28.380 That hit President Trump in the ear and almost killed him?

00:16:31.460 100%, Senator.

00:16:32.820 Okay. Glad we cleared that up.

00:16:34.940 Okay. Love it. Love Senator Kennedy here, and love the clarity from this deputy director of the FBI.

00:16:41.400 lie. There's no question that Trump was shot with a bullet, and there never was. So does that mean

00:16:49.720 the director of the FBI, Christopher Wray, was lying? It means one of two things. It means this

00:16:54.760 man is so ignorant, so totally incompetent, that he doesn't know the most basic facts of the most

00:16:59.940 important matter that's come before the FBI in decades. Or he lied. That's all it can mean.

00:17:07.400 Or this deputy director's lying, and all of our eyes are lying because we didn't really see Trump

00:17:13.620 get shot. Stinks to high heaven. But then on top of that, here is the cherry on top that really

00:17:21.380 makes this whole thing look weird. The FBI is now claiming, reportedly, that the shooter had

00:17:31.540 one social media account. Remember, we were told he's got no social media trace, and a lot of people

00:17:36.600 reacted to that. They said, hold on, you're telling me a 20-year-old in the year of our Lord 2024

00:17:40.240 doesn't have any social media? Doesn't make any sense. No one believes that. Everybody has a social

00:17:45.800 media trace. Well, okay, now they're saying he had this one social media account, and it shows that

00:17:52.100 he was anti-immigrant and anti-Semitic. So Andrew Torba, who is the head of Gab, one of these

00:17:59.540 right-wing social media platforms. He came out, and he said, look, I don't usually disclose law

00:18:07.700 enforcement requests that we get, but in this case, it's a matter of such public opinion. I will,

00:18:12.240 though I'll redact it somewhat. But yeah, they're talking about us. Apparently, it's our platform that

00:18:18.540 this shooter had the social media account on, and they're not telling you the truth about it.

00:18:24.100 Torba says that this description that the shooter was anti-immigrant, anti-Semitic,

00:18:31.360 this is not consistent with Gab's understanding of the shooter's motives based on an emergency

00:18:36.640 disclosure request we received from the FBI last week for the Gab account Epic Microwave,

00:18:41.100 which, based on the content of the emergency disclosure request, the FBI appeared to think

00:18:45.440 belonged to Thomas Crooks, the shooter. The account for which data was requested was

00:18:50.940 unequivocally pro-Biden, and in particular pro-Biden's immigration policy. To the best of

00:18:58.960 Gab's knowledge, as of 2021, Crooks was a pro-lockdown, pro-immigration, left-wing Joe Biden supporter.

00:19:08.940 That would be consistent with the shooter making his only political donation ever to a left-wing

00:19:15.180 Democrat group, though it's still inconsistent with the fact that the shooter was apparently

00:19:19.700 registered as a Republican. But that's what we're hearing from social media. Now,

00:19:24.860 I don't know. I don't know who's telling the truth. But I know something's real fishy.

00:19:29.940 And what is fishy is not that someone tried to shoot Trump. That's not fishy at all. The

00:19:35.080 leading Democrats in America established the premise that justifies an assassination of Trump

00:19:40.780 years ago, and they've been repeating it for years. For years, the leading Democrats up to and

00:19:45.240 including Joe Biden and Kamala Harris have said that Trump is Hitler, he models his career after

00:19:49.960 Hitler, he wants to do things that Hitler did, and he poses an existential threat to our country.

00:19:54.940 That premise, which is false, but that premise, if it were true, would justify assassinating Trump.

00:20:01.340 Unless you think we should go soft on Hitler. Unless you think, no, actually, Hitler's a nice guy,

00:20:05.340 we should just talk to him. Unless you think that a country shouldn't defend itself against an

00:20:09.560 existential threat. Existential. So it's not fishy that someone tried to shoot Trump.

00:20:15.560 That's what the Democrats' language has been leading toward for many years. What's fishy

00:20:21.660 is that the U.S. Secret Service and the FBI have been caught lying about it. In the case of the FBI,

00:20:29.500 perhaps multiple times, the Secret Service came out and said, Trump did not ask for more security.

00:20:35.340 That was a lie. We found out that Trump did request more security, and those security requests were

00:20:41.080 denied. So the Secret Service was lying. That looks like a coverup. The FBI has been caught lying.

00:20:47.060 The director of the FBI said, maybe Trump wasn't even shot. The deputy director comes out and says,

00:20:51.880 we have always known that Trump was shot. It has never even been a possibility that crossed our minds

00:20:57.060 that Trump was not shot. So that's a lie. Now, the FBI is claiming that the shooter had the social

00:21:06.920 media profile that said one thing. The man who runs the social media network says that's not actually

00:21:11.100 what his profile said. That looks like another lie. What's so fishy is not that a controversial

00:21:18.060 politician was assassinated or was nearly assassinated. What's fishy is these major U.S.

00:21:24.020 government institutions, the Secret Service and the FBI have lied about it at least once each,

00:21:29.520 maybe twice in the case of the FBI. Why are they lying? What are they covering up? Could be that

00:21:33.980 they're covering up their own incompetence, or it could be more nefarious. All I know is every time

00:21:38.720 they lie, every time they try to cover something up, it looks a lot worse for them.

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00:22:57.780 When the libs are not attacking Trump, they are attacking J.D. Vance. And the latest line,

00:23:05.560 it's a word I've now used, ironically, many times in this show, weird. That's the new attack. They

00:23:11.940 can't really hit Vance too much on policy. He has very standard, in some ways, moderate conservative

00:23:19.640 policies, very popular policy views. Vance is obviously intelligent. He's very accomplished.

00:23:26.080 He came from nothing, and he really made something of himself. The guy's totally unimpeachable.

00:23:30.580 An ordinary person, a sensible person, would say he's actually quite normal and has done really

00:23:36.340 great things in his life from a normal perspective, the perspective of norms and standards and living

00:23:44.400 in a way that is conducive to flourishing. The libs are calling him weird, and so CNN just ran

00:23:49.760 another J.D. Vance's weird segment by inviting on screen one of J.D. Vance's former classmates.

00:23:55.860 This is someone from Yale Law School. There's really no lower level. Well, actually, Dante says

00:24:03.800 this overtly and explicitly. There's no lower level of sin than those who betray their benefactors and

00:24:09.780 their friends, the treacherous. And you see this especially at some of the prestigious universities

00:24:15.520 where, I don't know, some people's careers do better than others, and that green-eyed monster comes

00:24:20.400 out. And I don't know, some Yale Law School person wants to get 15 minutes of fame on TV

00:24:26.360 by having known a notable person 15 years ago or something. So that's what happens here.

00:24:32.300 But the irony of the whole thing is, in order to make the case that J.D. Vance is weird,

00:24:37.460 CNN has trotted out what appears to be a woman named Sophia Nelson wearing a man's business suit.

00:24:45.700 Sophia, thank you very much for sharing all of this with us. I know you did it after great

00:24:51.020 consideration, and I appreciate it. I know everyone watching does, too. So thanks.

00:24:55.440 Thank you for your time, Erin. And yeah, absolutely. This was a difficult decision for me because,

00:25:00.500 again, I do care about J.D., and I'm a private person. I've never been on national TV before.

00:25:06.220 This is not comfortable for me, but I thought the American people had a right to know, and I thought

00:25:13.160 trans kids needed to know that these MAGA people, they're not actually scared of you. They don't

00:25:19.080 think there's anything wrong with you. They're engaged in political opportunism, and you're

00:25:23.280 going to be all right.

00:25:24.780 All right, Sophia, thank you.

00:25:26.180 So hold on. Got to correct the record here. To prove that J.D. Vance is weird, not only did CNN

00:25:30.960 trot out a lady dressed up like a man, but they trotted out a lady dressed up like a man

00:25:35.840 who advocates the castration of little kids. But J.D. Vance is weird. And I think I have to make

00:25:41.780 a further correction, maybe. When I posted about this on social media, I was informed

00:25:48.760 that this woman is actually a man who identifies as a woman with a woman's name, but who dresses like a

00:25:59.040 man still. But now it's just totally unclear from the articles and the mentions in the media. And

00:26:06.920 so I don't know, it could just be that she's a woman who kept a woman's name, but dresses like a

00:26:12.680 man and kind of has a woman's voice or who is a man who has taken the hormones to do the voice or

00:26:18.680 whatever. So you know what I'm going to do? I'm going to use, I'm going to go back to the Oxford

00:26:21.680 English dictionary. And I'm going to use the pronoun he because he is the gender neutral

00:26:27.740 singular pronoun. But I am not necessarily calling this person a man. I just don't, I just don't know.

00:26:35.800 At the very end, Aaron Burnett ends that segment and says, okay, well, thanks for coming on and

00:26:39.240 trashing your former friend. And then this person, Mr. Nelson says, yeah, but before we go,

00:26:46.620 we need to trans all the kids. We got to castrate those kids. You know, it's really,

00:26:49.920 really, I'm really, I'm motivated to come on and tell my story because of how important it is

00:26:55.900 to mutilate little kids' genitals and to stop them from going through puberty and to confuse them and

00:27:01.900 to dress them up like the opposite sex. I think that's really important. In different words, but

00:27:06.800 that was the gist. And what's, what tells you the whole story is when CNN broke that clip out,

00:27:12.860 when they clipped it, you know, to put on social media, they didn't include that last minute.

00:27:16.860 That guy went off script a little bit at the end. No, didn't you get the story? We're here to talk

00:27:21.520 about how weird JD is. So can you maybe ixnay on the Anzing the kids tray? Can you know, can you,

00:27:28.000 can you cool it with all the weird sex stuff? We're trying to prove that JD, a normal, hardworking,

00:27:35.840 successful family man, beautiful wife, beautiful kids, turning from private enterprise to service

00:27:42.400 country and public service that, no, we got to make him look like the weird one.

00:27:47.380 Maybe just for now, cool it with transing the kids. They can't do it. They cannot do it.

00:27:54.780 Molly Jong Fast, who is a left-wing journalist of sorts, left-wing character, at least,

00:28:01.400 went on MSNBC to make the claim that, usual left-wing claim that anyone they don't like

00:28:09.500 is racist and sexist and this and that. But she really stepped in it. She did even less research

00:28:14.280 than most liberal journalists do, and they're already quite lazy and ignorant.

00:28:19.460 She said that JD Vance, he only wants there to be more white children in America.

00:28:26.600 The stats are there. More and more Americans choosing not to have kids, which again emphasizes

00:28:30.820 why JD Vance's comments about childless Americans, childless cat ladies, could be so politically damaging.

00:28:35.620 Well, so what's interesting is this is this natalism that comes from an authoritarian playbook,

00:28:40.600 right? That there need to be more white children, right? That's the idea that there's, you know,

00:28:45.560 this is about great replacement theory racism, right? This is what this is. So don't misunderstand

00:28:51.080 it for him wanting more children. He wants a certain kind of, you know, racist thing.

00:28:57.520 JD Vance doesn't want there to be more children. When he says it's good to have families and have kids,

00:29:01.540 he doesn't want there to be more kids generally. He only wants there to be more white kids,

00:29:07.280 which is why he married an Indian woman and has biracial children. Wait, what? Whoops. Huh? What?

00:29:17.240 This woman, this woman, if Molly Jungfast did not exist, the conservatives would have to invent her.

00:29:24.020 She goes, she doesn't even Google the man. She doesn't even look at a picture of his family.

00:29:30.100 She's doing a segment. She's pontificating on JD Vance's understanding of family. She doesn't even

00:29:34.800 Google JD Vance's family to realize he's married to an Indian and he has biracial children.

00:29:42.240 No, he just, he only wants, he's probably a racist. He's a conservative. He's probably a racist.

00:29:48.860 This reminds me some years ago, a woman, a black liberal activist went on David Webb's show

00:29:54.520 and she accused David Webb, a conservative radio host of white privilege. That's a radio show.

00:30:01.880 So you call into the radio show. You're not on TV. You don't see people. And David Webb just starts

00:30:06.420 laughing. Why are you laughing at me? And he says, lady, if you knew who I am,

00:30:11.420 I don't think you would be accusing me of white privilege because I'm a black guy.

00:30:17.020 And it was a beautiful interview. I hope we can find the clip somewhere in the annals of the

00:30:22.200 internet because it showed you how disingenuous all these accusations are. It's just the knee-jerk

00:30:28.540 reaction. So-and-so is racist. So-and-so is white privilege. So-and-so just, they don't care.

00:30:32.100 They don't even Google it. And even if they did Google it, Google rigs the search results anyway.

00:30:35.960 So they probably wouldn't see anything even resembling the truth.

00:30:38.340 But it's hilarious when it turns up. Now, before we move on from Molly Jungfest,

00:30:45.400 I want to point out her first remarks. She says this natalism. Natalism is a fancy left-wing

00:30:52.080 scare word for thinking it's good to have kids. That's what it means. You know the thing that

00:30:57.820 statistically everyone forever has thought? Yeah, now that's a terrible, scary, evil,

00:31:03.220 far-right ideology. She says that wanting to have kids is an ideology that is authoritarian,

00:31:11.360 far-right, racist. If you want to have kids, you're probably a fascist. You're basically Hitler

00:31:17.520 if you think it's good to have children. Her saying this totally vindicates J.D. Vance's

00:31:26.000 joke that he made on a TV show years ago that the libs are trying to make a big deal out of.

00:31:30.220 On the TV show, he said, you know, we're being governed by all these childless cat ladies.

00:31:34.400 That's a problem. He's obviously not making fun of people who have suffered infertility. He's

00:31:38.580 obviously not making fun of people who, for whatever reason, haven't had children. He's

00:31:42.060 not making fun of nuns. He's not making fun of people in consecrated celibacy. He's making fun of

00:31:47.040 a political type. He's making fun of a political ideology. And Molly Jungfast is proving it.

00:31:55.160 Right. The rejoinder from the libs to J.D. Vance's, how dare you mock people who don't have

00:32:03.000 children? How dare you mock people who, through personal circumstance, haven't had children or

00:32:07.400 haven't been able to have children? But obviously, J.D. is making a political point. And Molly Jungfast

00:32:11.300 admits it. She says, yeah, yeah. I view having kids as a political action. This is about a political

00:32:17.560 ideology. We're going to call it natalism. And it's evil. And I condemn it. And we should discourage

00:32:22.540 people from having children because having children is far right and fascist and evil

00:32:26.340 and extreme. And oh, you're proving J.D. Vance's point. You are. Thank you, Molly Jungfast. That's

00:32:32.060 so beautiful. And you're also proving J.D. Vance's point that you guys have no idea what you're

00:32:36.540 talking about. Because you call him a racist white supremacist who only wants white kids and

00:32:42.640 his kids are half Indian.

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00:33:21.240 Speaking of Indians, Kamala Harris. This was a doozy. It made the rounds last night. Kamala

00:33:28.420 Harris is hitting the campaign trail, and people are noticing a change in Kamala Harris. Not

00:33:33.340 a change in how she looks, not a change in how she dresses, but a little bit of a change

00:33:38.080 in how she talks. And you all helped us win in 2020, and we're going to do it again in 2024.

00:33:45.780 Yes, we will. Yes, we will.

00:33:51.960 So let's get right.

00:33:53.680 And we're going to do it again, man. You know that across 110th Street,

00:33:59.340 Pimp's trying to find a woman that's weak. You know what I mean, man?

00:34:03.740 Jive turkey? That's right. Well, we're moving on up.

00:34:08.300 That's not how I remember Kamala Harris speaking. I'd listen to Kamala Harris a fair bit, more than

00:34:12.880 I'd like to. And she always, she seems to speak differently than that. That sounded a little bit

00:34:18.760 more, I don't know, a little bit more jive to me, didn't it? It kind of reminded me of when Hillary

00:34:24.840 Clinton hit the campaign trail in 2008, and she started to sound a little bit different than she used

00:34:30.520 to. I don't feel no ways tired. I come too far from where I started from. Nobody told me that

00:34:41.540 the road would be easy. I don't believe he brought me this far to leave me.

00:34:48.760 In Kamala's defense, Hillary's black voice was way worse and sillier than Kamala's. I'm not saying

00:34:58.940 Kamala's was subtle. It's not. I'm not saying Kamala's was natural. Kamala Harris, though she

00:35:06.140 is now presenting herself as, you know, I don't know, Malcolm X, the lady, Malcolm SX or something.

00:35:13.920 She's half Indian and then half Afro-Caribbean. So she really doesn't have any link to the African

00:35:21.120 American culture whatsoever. And she just speaks like an ordinary American. She doesn't have it.

00:35:27.860 So even if she came out and, you know, sort of put on a little bit of an Indian accent,

00:35:31.800 that would be crazy, but you'd at least, okay, I guess maybe she heard that in the house as a child

00:35:37.140 from, I don't know. Or if she, you know, if she came out like, well, you know, we're going to come

00:35:40.880 to Jamaica and feel all right, man, you know, one love. Then you'd say, well, again, kind of strange

00:35:47.200 Kamala, but maybe there's some heritage thing there. But for her to put on the accent, the caricature and

00:35:52.860 stereotypical accent of American black vernacular is completely disingenuous. She has no connection

00:36:02.260 to that whatsoever. She's doing it for the same reason Hillary Clinton did it, for the same reason

00:36:08.240 a lot of politicians do it, which is that politicians, all people are mimetic. We imitate

00:36:13.980 others. That's how we, this is the theory of Rene Girard. It's how we cultivate even our desires. It's

00:36:19.160 how we cultivate our behaviors and our tics and our speech patterns and all the rest. And politicians

00:36:23.260 are even more in tune with this than other people because their job is to appeal to people and to find

00:36:29.740 common ground with people. So, you know, I give politicians a little bit of grace on it. Even

00:36:35.000 Hillary, I don't feel no way is tired. I've come too far. She's probably doing that unwittingly,

00:36:41.280 unconsciously. I think Kamala Harris does most things unconsciously. I don't think she's necessarily

00:36:46.480 the most self-aware human being that there is, but it is an amazing identity transformation.

00:36:56.340 She once posited herself as the, you know, one of the first Indian Americans, Indian American women

00:37:05.060 to do this, to do that. And that's changed now, the dynamics of a presidential campaign.

00:37:09.820 I mean, it, it serves her purposes much better to be the first black woman. And so now

00:37:16.280 get ready. We are, we live in an age of identity transitions. She's about to undergo a big one.

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00:37:42.140 Become a daily wire plus member now at dailywire.com slash subscribe. My favorite comment yesterday is

00:37:49.200 from Gage Lawrence 8443. Dudes for Kamala. Wait, how do they know what a dude is? Great point.

00:37:56.040 Even the group that Kamala spun up was white dudes for Kamala. But I've been told by the left that

00:38:01.560 there's really no such thing as a white identity. Whiteness is invented and we, that's why we need

00:38:06.960 to abolish it. It's not real. It's ephemeral. And then dudes, of course, there's no such thing as a

00:38:12.120 man or a woman, but we can be whatever we want, man. So, but it's kind of funny how at election time,

00:38:16.280 they know what a white dude is. When it comes time to shore up one of their most vulnerable

00:38:22.320 demographics, then all of a sudden they figured it out. That's good. Maybe they can remember after the

00:38:28.200 election. Speaking of political displays, President Trump has weighed in on that sacrilegious and

00:38:35.640 generally disgusting Olympics opening ceremony that mocked Christ and that exposed a man's

00:38:41.100 genitals next to a child on international television. Here's what, we know that Jill

00:38:47.520 Biden said it was spectacular. It was just so wonderful, wasn't it? Here's what Trump has to

00:38:51.740 say about it. Have you watched any of the Olympics? I thought that the opening ceremony was

00:38:57.260 a disgrace, actually. I thought it was a disgrace. The mocking of the Last Supper. I thought it was

00:39:05.080 Catholics and Christians across the globe are outraged. I mean, they can do certain things.

00:39:09.620 I thought it was terrible. Can you say at the next Olympics, if you're present, there won't be,

00:39:15.320 you'll have enough influence on the organizers that we won't be, you know, insulting Christians.

00:39:19.900 We won't be having a Last Supper as portrayed the way they portrayed it the other night. I just think,

00:39:26.480 look, I'm for everybody. I'm very open-minded. You understand. You know me better than most people

00:39:31.860 know me. I'm very open-minded. But I thought what they did was a disgrace.

00:39:36.940 I love this take from Trump here because it's so measured. The libs always want to portray him as

00:39:45.820 some extreme radical, but his take is actually very moderate. What does he say? He says, yeah,

00:39:50.740 that mockery of Christ and disrespect shown to Christians and that just generally, that was

00:39:57.400 really, that was bad, you know? And look, I'm for everybody. I'm open-minded. What is he advocating

00:40:05.260 here? He's advocating for religious toleration and respect of other people. That's what he's advocating

00:40:14.800 for. He is advocating for a moderate position, the position that was universally held by everyone,

00:40:20.980 or at least people, everyone said that they held this position until very recently when the left

00:40:26.520 decided that they were just going to wage an overt war on Christianity. They were just going to

00:40:32.500 regularly, openly mock Christianity. This began in earnest with Barack Obama condemning those people,

00:40:41.660 those people who cling to their guns and religion. You know, they cling to their Bibles when they get

00:40:48.000 a little nervous. That was the beginning of the mockery of Christianity at that national level.

00:40:54.440 You didn't really see that from Bill Clinton. You certainly didn't see it from guys like Jimmy

00:40:56.900 Carter. Obama did it. Then you start to, it becomes a little bit more out in the open. And now you've got

00:41:03.260 the Olympics mocking Christ at the Last Supper, the moment right before his passion, before he dies to

00:41:08.660 redeem all of mankind. And the first lady of the U.S., married to the supposedly devout Catholic

00:41:14.320 president, says it was spectacular. And Trump's view is not, we need another crusade, deus volt.

00:41:19.460 That's not his view. It might be kind of cool if that were his view, but it's not. His view is just,

00:41:23.260 hey, let's just treat everybody with respect. And let's not, I'm not saying we're going to pass some

00:41:28.780 law, but just let's not flagrantly using public money in public spaces attack religion. That just

00:41:38.840 seems kind of wrong, doesn't it? Very moderate. I think very moderate centrist voters will like

00:41:44.420 that take. So there's a question now, though, that's hit the internet. The Libs, you know,

00:41:49.780 falsehood flies before the truth can get out of bed. The Libs are now claiming that Trump said

00:41:55.560 he's not a Christian. So we made all this controversy over the hideous parody of the Last

00:42:01.120 Supper. Trump supposedly at a turning point action conference said that he's not a Christian. Now,

00:42:10.540 I pulled the clip. You tell me what you hear. And again, Christians get out and vote just this time.

00:42:17.440 You won't have to do it anymore. Four more years. You know what? It'll be fixed. It'll be fine.

00:42:27.120 You won't have to vote anymore. My beautiful Christians. I love you, Christians. I'm a Christian.

00:42:31.860 I love you. Get out. You got to get out and vote. In four years, you don't have to vote again. We'll

00:42:37.360 have it fixed so good. You're not going to have to vote. Okay. So two things that really leap out at

00:42:41.240 people. One headline, Trump says you won't have to vote in four years. Why? Because he's going to

00:42:45.060 become a dictator or something. It's obviously not what he's saying. But second of all, he says,

00:42:49.540 Trump says he's not a Christian. That's not what I heard. His voice did get caught a little bit.

00:42:55.080 But what I heard was, I love you, Christians. I love my Christians. I'm a Christian.

00:43:03.100 But what they're saying is he said, I'm not a Christian. But I didn't hear nada. And it doesn't

00:43:09.700 make any sense as to why he would say he's not a Christian. I don't think he's ever come out and said,

00:43:15.060 I'm not a Christian. He's regularly talked about how much he loves Christianity. And he's held

00:43:18.880 that Bible. And he sells a Bible, for goodness sake. So I think that's obviously totally fake

00:43:24.180 news. If anything, it was Trump. Trump will go out and say, I love autoworkers. He'll say,

00:43:30.040 I love this guy. He said, I love that guy. I love that. But in this case, he said, I love Christians.

00:43:35.100 And I think it dawned on him. Wait a second. I am a Christian. That's why I also love Christians.

00:43:37.860 I love myself too. But then on this other point, you're not going to need to vote again.

00:43:43.700 And the Libs say, he's going to upend elections. He's going to become a dictator.

00:43:49.940 Because they clipped out that last bit. The last bit, he clearly says, because it's going to be

00:43:52.980 so good, you're not going to need to vote. He's not saying you're not going to be able to vote.

00:43:56.220 He's saying you're not going to need to vote because we're going to fix things.

00:43:58.720 Just put me in. I'm going to fix things up. So what is he arguing for? What is he talking about?

00:44:03.300 With all of this discussion of Christianity and the relation of politics to the church,

00:44:07.280 I think the view he's articulating is a view advocated actually by my main man, Dante,

00:44:13.200 one of the first guys to advocate this view, which is that you need some distinction between

00:44:18.620 church and state, but not a total separation. It used to be a really tight unity. And for a while,

00:44:24.200 some of the popes like Boniface VIII were calling for the subservience of the state to the pope.

00:44:31.400 Dante very courageously said, no, no, no, that's bad. Actually, the state derives its authority from God.

00:44:36.520 The emperor derives its authority from God. And the pope also derives his authority directly

00:44:40.620 from God. The state is a natural institution. It actually precedes the church. The church is

00:44:45.280 formed within the empire. So one leads man toward his natural ends. One leads man towards his

00:44:52.460 supernatural ends. But they relate to each other in this crucial aspect. Dante argues that the

00:45:00.220 distinction between church and state should not be taken so literally as to mean that the Roman prince

00:45:05.600 is not in some sense subject to the Roman pontiff, since this earthly happiness is in some sense

00:45:10.520 ordered toward immortal happiness. Let Caesar, therefore, show that reverence towards Peter,

00:45:15.980 which a firstborn son should show his father, so that, illumined by the light of paternal grace,

00:45:21.600 he may the more effectively light up the world over which he has been placed by him alone,

00:45:27.600 who is ruler over all things spiritual and temporal. A beautiful, a beautiful description.

00:45:33.340 He's saying, we want a distinction between church and state. We want the political power to have its

00:45:41.720 realm. But we want the political power to be enlightened by the spiritual power. Because if

00:45:47.660 the political power is totally divorced from spiritual reality, well, things could go really,

00:45:51.420 really bad. Then you could get tyrannies. Then you could get totalitarian dictatorships that are

00:45:57.040 totally contrary to truth and goodness and beauty. No, no, no. But you also don't want the church just

00:46:03.700 dominate, like the hierocrats would want, just dominating the state. You want there to be

00:46:08.220 a distinction, the state and the temporal realm, the church and the spiritual realm, and the temporal

00:46:13.360 realm to receive some light from the spiritual realm. Because man's natural ends, all the goods,

00:46:18.380 you know, feeding your family, having a successful household, you know, being fruitful and multiplying,

00:46:24.440 having harmony within your community. That's not the end of the story. That's not sufficient. That's

00:46:30.160 all good stuff. But ultimately, we're all going to die. We're all on a pilgrimage. This is not

00:46:35.880 our ultimate home. And so man's natural happiness is in some sense also ordered toward his supernatural

00:46:43.200 happiness. Really, really good. Speaking of religious and civil matters, by the way, we've run out

00:46:48.440 of time. I should point out though, Israel just zapped the head of Hamas. This is one of the

00:46:54.200 biggest news stories in foreign policy in years at this point. Certainly the biggest one since the

00:47:00.380 Israel-Gaza war broke out. They zapped the guy, who was the head of the organization that carried out

00:47:06.140 the attacks on October 7th of last year, which led to this long war. They got him and they got him in

00:47:11.840 Iran. So this could mean the end of the war. That'd be great. Or it could mean that Iran will

00:47:18.940 make good on its promise for revenge and that we're in World War III. But either way, we'll see

00:47:24.340 how things play out over the next few hours. And maybe we'll talk about it tomorrow. Now, however,

00:47:29.340 it's time for the Membrum Sigmentum. And I have my friend Mary Morgan coming up. The rest of the show

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