The Michael Knowles Show - August 02, 2024


Ep. 1544 - Olympic Boxing Controversy EXPLAINED In 3 Minutes


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45 minutes

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180.73706

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8,146

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571

Misogynist Sentences

27

Hate Speech Sentences

40


Summary

A California father has won full custody of his kid after the little boy s mother tried to raise him non-binary, which is mostly good news. President Trump criticizes the deal as yet another example of American weakness under Joe Biden. Argentina's security forces are planning to use artificial intelligence to predict future crimes.


Transcript

00:00:00.000 The U.S. and Russia agreed to a major prisoner exchange yesterday, the most significant exchange
00:00:05.160 since the Cold War. Four U.S. residents were released, mostly journalists, Evan Gershkovich,
00:00:11.380 Paul Whelan, Alsu Kormashiva, and Vladimir Karamurtza. In exchange, we released a bunch of
00:00:18.380 Russians, including spies, fraudsters, and a hitman. President Trump criticized the deal as yet
00:00:25.180 another example of American weakness under Joe Biden. But what really raised eyebrows was Joe
00:00:31.200 Biden's response. President Trump has said repeatedly that he could have gotten the
00:00:35.460 hostages out without giving anything in exchange. What do you say to that? What do you say to
00:00:40.340 President Trump now, former president? Why didn't he do it as president?
00:00:44.660 He didn't do it while he was president because they hadn't been taken hostage yet. One of them
00:00:54.380 had. But three of the four, Gershkovich, Kormashiva, and Karamurtza, were taken on Joe Biden's watch.
00:01:00.600 And they were likely taken hostage because of the war that Joe Biden invited and then mismanaged.
00:01:07.020 I am reluctant to give Kamala the credibility conferred by the incumbency. But with Biden's
00:01:13.860 inability to remember even basic facts pertaining to when he became president, one has to consider,
00:01:21.460 at least, invoking the 25th Amendment. Except for the fact that a conscious Kamala would likely be
00:01:29.340 as bad or worse as a demented Biden. And exhibit A is that it was Kamala's campaign that posted that
00:01:36.280 clip. I'm Michael Knowles. This is The Michael Knowles Show.
00:01:51.460 Welcome back to the show. A California father has won full custody of his kid
00:02:02.500 after the little boy's mother tried to raise him non-binary, which is mostly good news. It's
00:02:09.360 basically a good story, but there's a lot of negative aspects to it, too, that no one's talking
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00:03:11.800 Speaking of crime, Javier Millet, the leader of Argentina, is raising all sorts of eyebrows on the
00:03:23.000 left, on the right, by promising to use AI to predict future crimes. Argentina's security forces
00:03:31.640 have announced these plans to use artificial intelligence to, quote, predict future crimes.
00:03:38.120 And of course, the left and a number of people on the right are raising all sorts of a ruckus to say
00:03:45.120 that this is going to infringe on people's rights and this is, you know, like Minority Report or
00:03:49.020 something like that. And it's kind of funny because Javier Millet has positioned himself as the most
00:03:55.460 libertarian national leader in the entire world. So hold on. Doesn't this oppose civil liberties?
00:04:01.700 Isn't this some horrible, dystopian, tyrannical future? It's hard for me to get too worked up about this.
00:04:07.180 I actually think this is probably a good idea because I'm going to let you in on a little
00:04:11.240 secret. This is a very politically incorrect secret. You don't need AI to predict crimes.
00:04:19.820 I'm talking about broad neighborhoods type of crime. You don't need AI to predict that.
00:04:26.140 You just need common sense. You need pattern recognition. But we're not allowed to have common
00:04:31.880 sense or recognize patterns in our politically correct, woke, liberal, whatever euphemism you want
00:04:36.740 to call it, age. So if Javier Millet were saying that we're going to scan people's faces and then
00:04:44.540 we're just going to predict with 87% certainty that they might commit a crime in the future and then
00:04:48.480 we're going to arrest them. Yes, obviously that would be a violation of people's rights. That
00:04:52.680 would be Minority Report. That would be very terrible. But that's not what they're saying.
00:04:57.100 They're saying they're going to use AI, first of all, to find people who are on the lam.
00:05:00.860 So they'll scan people's faces to find out if they are currently wanted for crimes. That seems
00:05:05.160 like a good use of AI. And then furthermore, they're going to use machine learning algorithms
00:05:10.800 to analyze historical crime data to predict future crimes. That's a good idea.
00:05:15.360 That's good. The reason that we're not allowed to do that, the reason we're not allowed to look
00:05:19.720 at crime data and recognize patterns and then take proactive measures to police those areas is
00:05:25.320 because the moment you do that, you're accused of profiling. This is what happened in New York
00:05:29.680 with the stop and frisk policy. It turns out, you're going to be shocked to hear this, that
00:05:34.980 more crime is committed in Bed-Stuy than on Park Avenue on the Upper East Side. And it turns out
00:05:43.120 different types of crime. On the Upper East Side, they might be committing, I don't know, tax fraud
00:05:47.100 or insider trading. But the kind of crime committed in Bed-Stuy is a little bit more violent,
00:05:51.520 a little bit more street crime. However, you're not allowed to acknowledge that. So New York had this
00:05:56.380 policy. It was a very successful policy called stop and frisk. And the policy exists elsewhere
00:06:01.260 in the country. It's known as a Terry stop. It's based on a Supreme Court decision some years ago.
00:06:06.720 And it would allow cops to look at the people who were obviously committing crimes and just talk to
00:06:13.220 them a little bit. And in some cases, even frisk them. Because you go to some project in some awful
00:06:18.180 part of Queens or Brooklyn or the Bronx, and you see these gangsters, you know who they are,
00:06:23.920 and you know they're running drugs, and you know they're pimping women, and you know they're doing
00:06:27.780 all sorts of terrible things. So you stop and you talk to them. And this was called racist because
00:06:34.800 a disproportionate number of the criminals were black and Hispanic, or a disproportionate number
00:06:39.060 of the people stopped for these presumptive crimes were black and Hispanic. What they didn't tell you,
00:06:43.300 of course, was that the cops were black and Hispanic too. And the people who were calling in the crimes
00:06:47.400 are black and Hispanic too, because the neighborhoods are black and Hispanic. And so the focus was on
00:06:52.320 protecting the criminals on the basis of their race, but there was never any focus on protecting
00:06:56.580 the victims on the basis of their race. It was totally silly. So now we have to pretend.
00:07:03.120 This is why when you read about crimes being committed, Ann Coulter has a rule, which is that
00:07:08.680 if the longer you read the article and it doesn't mention the race, and it doesn't mention the sex,
00:07:15.900 you can be certain that the perpetrator is not a white man. Because whenever a white man commits a
00:07:21.520 crime, it's always the top of the headline, that's perfectly fine with political correctness.
00:07:24.780 But if it's a different race, if it's a woman, if it's a queer, you know, LGBT, LMNP, whatever,
00:07:30.400 then they don't mention it. Seems like common sense to me. And I think it's good. Call me crazy.
00:07:36.380 I guess I'm not the biggest libertarian in the world. I think it's good to have order,
00:07:40.400 peace, stability. I actually think that's pretty much the whole point of the state.
00:07:45.620 So I think that's fine. I have no problem with what Malay is doing down there.
00:07:48.360 Speaking of common sense, the plot thickens on this fighter, Imani Calif, who has fought at the
00:07:57.100 Olympics. Imani Calif, I think actually a fair bit of my segment on this fighter was censored from my
00:08:04.240 show yesterday because of the big tech rules around discussing this. So I'll be very careful in my
00:08:11.680 language. But this is a very important story. Imani Calif is a fighter who's fighting against women in
00:08:18.380 women's boxing. And the way this has been portrayed in the press is that Imani Calif is a man who
00:08:24.360 identifies as a woman who's fighting these women. And that's what a lot of the discussion has
00:08:28.320 surrounded. Now, there is some question, actually, as to whether Imani Calif really is a man.
00:08:33.900 There have been conflicting reports over Imani Calif's chromosomes, over Imani Calif's testosterone
00:08:43.480 levels. Is Imani Calif really a woman born with some sexual abnormalities or a man born with some
00:08:51.680 sexual abnormalities or intersex or maphroditic or what? And we don't really know. There's a lot of
00:08:57.340 conflicting information. We do know that Imani Calif was prohibited from fighting women according
00:09:05.140 to one of the major boxing associations. But then the Olympics cleared Imani Calif to fight this
00:09:10.740 Italian. And then they get in the ring for 46 seconds, one punch. And the Italian girl says,
00:09:15.700 I'm out. This person's going to kill me. I've never been punched that hard in my life. And so that's
00:09:20.380 why there's an uproar. So what I said yesterday on the show is very controversial. I said, look,
00:09:23.960 the leftists are all claiming that it's perfectly fine for a man, in principle, to box a woman.
00:09:32.540 The liberals, modern liberals, classical liberals, progressive liberals, libertarians, the liberal
00:09:37.440 types are saying it is wrong for a man to box a woman. Only women should box women. I said, but
00:09:44.540 there's actually a third perspective here. And that's the conservative perspective. And that's my
00:09:47.960 perspective, which is that women shouldn't box. It's wrong. I can't watch it. I think it's,
00:09:54.980 and I, furthermore, I think it is wrong politically for society to establish and encourage and fund and
00:10:02.300 promote spectacles in which women are getting their skulls cracked in. I think that's wrong. I think
00:10:07.900 that's disordered and disturbing. And there were many, many people who came out and said, Michael,
00:10:14.020 you're far too extreme. You're a far right authoritarian. Many people who would call
00:10:18.860 themselves conservatives said that I pointed out, I said, hold on, you want to conserve the great
00:10:23.540 tradition of women's boxing. When do you think women's boxing began in the Olympics? 2012, women
00:10:29.140 were banned from boxing in the Olympics until a dozen years ago. Okay. When do you think women's
00:10:34.400 boxing became a thing worldwide? Outside of a handful of rare occasions that were quickly
00:10:42.100 snuffed out, women's boxing only began to hit anything even resembling the mainstream
00:10:48.500 at the turn of the, of the second millennium, 1998 in the UK, 99, 2000. So hold on, you're telling me
00:10:55.960 that my extreme far right, authoritarian, fascist, conservative position
00:11:00.360 is something that everyone agreed with 25 years ago, that everybody, regardless of your political
00:11:06.460 views, you're telling me that you, you, I look, I'm a conservative, but I strongly support women
00:11:12.080 knocking their skulls in on TV. Your, your view, which is supposedly conservative today,
00:11:19.060 that would have been a radically leftist view 25 years ago, frankly, even a dozen years ago.
00:11:25.400 So I, all of that as context to say, what now? Imani Califf, some are saying is not really
00:11:35.260 biologically a man that actually there's some sexual ambiguity is raising the prospect that
00:11:40.220 this person might be intersex or might be a woman. And we just don't know. So what then
00:11:45.020 if this person is intersex, it's a rare, but, but real medical condition, you know, some with someone
00:11:51.260 with sexual abnormalities, should that person be allowed to fight? Or do we need yet another
00:11:55.040 boxing league? We need the intersex boxing league. Do we, or do we need, we just test testosterone
00:12:00.560 and then we meld the women's and the, and the men's boxing leagues or what, or what do you think?
00:12:06.040 Let's just, let's take it even further. Let's say this, this person is a woman biologically
00:12:10.320 and is just like the strongest woman ever. Let's say that the claims made by the Imani
00:12:15.840 Califf supporters are true. And this person is biologically, at least plausibly a woman.
00:12:21.140 And she's just for whatever reason, super strong. And, and that's why after 46 seconds,
00:12:27.800 this Italian lady had to jump out of the ring because she was about to have her skull cracked in.
00:12:32.560 Do you support that? You think that's good? Well, it's when it's two women, they agreed to fight.
00:12:38.580 So, you know, let's go crack her skull and let's watch that woman bleed from the head.
00:12:42.300 No, I don't, that's not my view. At least I think it's still wrong. Not because a man or a woman is
00:12:50.440 doing the punching, but because it is a woman who is being punched in a public spectacle. I think
00:12:57.280 that's just wrong. And if your best defense of that is, well, look, they agreed to do it.
00:13:02.820 Look, they wanted to do it. They agreed to do it. If your politics always comes down to
00:13:09.200 a matter of voluntary actions, you're a lib. And look, there are many such cases. There are a lot
00:13:18.860 of libs these days. We've, we've lived in liberal modernity for a long time, but that is a very
00:13:23.260 liberal point of view. Cause I think, call me crazy, call me an old fuddy daddy. I know this is,
00:13:29.080 this is my crazy extreme view that virtually everyone agreed with until not so long ago.
00:13:33.640 Uh, I think politics is about more than just acts of the will. I think it's about more than just
00:13:40.840 consent. Consent is an important thing, but I think there's more to it. I think people can consent to
00:13:45.980 things that are really bad and should be proscribed. I think, uh, like doing heroin, you know, I think
00:13:52.700 you could consent to that, but I think it's, that's bad. You know, I don't think we should legalize
00:13:56.960 heroin or, um, I don't know, snuff films, filming like dead people and people dying. I don't, you
00:14:05.240 know, I think that's probably bad being killed. You know, I don't know. That's, that's kind of,
00:14:08.880 I think, um, cock fights even generally you could, I guess you could get animals can't consent to
00:14:14.040 anything. The cock, the, uh, the chicken owners could, could I guess, you know, consent to it,
00:14:18.720 but I don't think we should dog fighting and stuff. I don't know. I just think there's a lot.
00:14:23.300 That's my conservative view. And furthermore, I think it is especially disordered to watch some
00:14:28.440 poor woman get her head cracked in for whatever reason by anyone. Call, call me old fashioned.
00:14:34.340 I'm just, I'm just one of those really old fashioned guys who thinks like everyone did in 2012.
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00:15:46.400 this is a really funny headline. This is the funniest headline I've seen all week. This is
00:15:50.220 from the Washington Examiner. Why doctors say that Ozempic patients on birth control should use
00:15:58.500 condoms. So it seems like a Mad Lib, you know? Well, they are Mad Libs actually who do these sorts
00:16:04.940 of things. But it seems like a Mad Lib. You just fill in why doctors say that Ozempic patients on birth
00:16:11.820 control should use condoms. Okay. And I guess because the Ozempic weakens the efficacy of the
00:16:17.300 birth control contraception pill, so then you have to use a more physical, tangible method of
00:16:23.960 contraception. Again, we're talking about what a fuddy-duddy I am. You know, what an old-timey
00:16:29.720 figure. What if, just hear me out, what if you didn't do any of that? What if instead of
00:16:40.940 using condoms because the Ozempic is messing up your birth control, what if instead you just,
00:16:46.260 you didn't use any of those things, and then you got married, and you had kids, and you aged gracefully?
00:16:55.680 Is that, is that, can we even propose that anymore? Well, and I know, there's, you're going to say some
00:17:02.560 people need Ozempic because they're 800 pounds. Okay, sure. In some extreme case, some extreme
00:17:07.980 measures might be called for. Okay, sure, maybe. But you got to ask yourself, if you're one of these
00:17:14.340 people who's just maybe like a little bit overweight, and you get some Ozempic because you want to lose,
00:17:17.880 you want to look better in your swimsuit or something like that, and then you're taking the
00:17:22.980 birth control pill, and then, but the birth control pill's not working anymore, so you got to use the
00:17:26.780 condoms, and I guess you got to ask yourself, why are you doing any of that? Why? You're, you're taking
00:17:36.020 the birth control pill so that you can have promiscuous sex and not have children. Why though?
00:17:42.460 Why are you doing, I know why, I mean, because it like feels good, sure, but isn't, wouldn't it be
00:17:46.500 better to have children? Wouldn't it be better rather than go out and hook up with people who
00:17:51.400 don't care about you, who don't want any accountability, who don't want to realize love
00:17:56.540 between two people and make it so real that it actually becomes another person and welcome the
00:18:00.280 greatest gift that God can give you, you know, in this terrestrial plane? What's the point of it all?
00:18:08.680 What's the point? And even with Ozempic, taking out the extreme cases, just the people who are kind
00:18:13.540 of, you know, using it to lose some weight, why are you trying to look super hot when you're 50?
00:18:19.160 50-year-olds aren't supposed to be hot. You know, they can look beautiful. Women of a certain age,
00:18:23.760 men of a certain age can have an elegance to them, but you're not supposed to be on the cover of
00:18:30.500 Sports Illustrated when you're 50 or 60 or 70. That's not what it's for. And you're not, the
00:18:36.080 purpose of your sex drive, which is something so close to the heart of human nature, the purpose of
00:18:41.440 it is not to just like go out and meet some random person and bump uglies and then maybe not even get
00:18:46.160 that person's phone number. And then heaven forfends you get pregnant, you know, that would be,
00:18:50.600 constitute some kind of sexually transmitted disease, some horrible fate to
00:18:53.700 be avoided. That's not what any of that stuff is for. It's not going to make anybody happy.
00:18:58.200 Listen, I come from New York. I lived in LA. I went to a very liberal university. I have a lot
00:19:02.020 of friends who do this kind of stuff. None of them are happy. It doesn't make any, you know,
00:19:06.620 the people who are happy, the ones who are just kind of normal, generally speaking, that means
00:19:11.480 getting married, working to get married and being open to the possibility of life and having a family.
00:19:17.120 And I tell you, I've traveled the world. You know, I've, I've had lots of really wild,
00:19:21.580 wacky experiences. Nothing compares to looking my kid in the face. None of it. I've traveled to South
00:19:27.920 Asia. I've been in the Middle East or all over Europe. Oh man, it's cool. I've had a zillion
00:19:32.260 brunches. I've gone to a billion bars. It's, it can be fun. Not, not any of that equals one little
00:19:39.080 look from my cute little kid. Okay. And so many people desire that and they can't do that. It just
00:19:43.920 drives me crazy that people are actively cutting themselves off from it for tantalizing goods that are
00:19:49.920 really not so good after all. They're not really going to make anybody happy. Is it any wonder
00:19:54.520 marriage rates are collapsing? Birth rates are collapsing. The country's collapsing. Is it any
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00:21:27.640 Says, it's funny that Joey, Joe Biden, literally said diversity, equality, and inclusion just before
00:21:33.740 saying Kamala's name. It's perfect. You couldn't have scripted it better. Kamala's a DEI hire. How
00:21:39.900 dare you say Kamala's a DEI hire? Biden said Kamala's a DEI. That's not my words. That's not
00:21:45.460 the Republican words. That's what you guys said. No, no, it's different. When he said it, he meant it
00:21:49.900 as a good thing. So then she was a DEI hire. But now that you're saying it's a bad thing, she's not a DEI
00:21:54.780 hire. Okay, got it. Speaking of marriage and family, there is a basically good story. A California
00:22:02.000 father has won full custody of his son, his four-year-old son, after the four-year-old's mother
00:22:08.680 tried to raise him as non-binary. Here's the story. So the story's mom started identifying that way
00:22:14.620 herself, to the best of my knowledge, and she started trying to call him they all the time,
00:22:19.280 weird, neutral pronouns like that, as well as some incidents where, you know, she tries to put
00:22:26.380 dresses on him or forces him to wear some sort of girly clothing or attire.
00:22:44.460 So it says,
00:22:45.100 The Cali dad told a host, I know he's a boy. He wants to be a boy. He gets angry when you say he's
00:22:49.580 not a boy. He was overjoyed to learn that his then-girlfriend was pregnant in 2019, but she
00:22:54.960 abruptly really changed, you know, and now she started identifying as a they-them. And he was
00:23:01.440 finally able to meet the boy when the boy was 15 months old. And then the boy's mother was arrested
00:23:07.220 for felony child endangerment, so that really motivated him to try to get custody. After some unspecified
00:23:12.220 incident, Child Protective Services recommended that the father be granted custody. And then
00:23:19.920 the New York Post points out this is not the first relationship to fail after one of these
00:23:23.860 trans ideology phenomena started to crop up. Yeah, that's true. So this is generally good.
00:23:32.720 Generally good stuff, right? Sure, the woman got pregnant out of wedlock,
00:23:38.800 but they chose not to kill the kid. That's good, you know? And then the father wanted to be involved
00:23:44.560 in the kid's life, but then the mother had all these sorts of problems. And so then he won the
00:23:49.420 custody. So luckily this derelict mother was not able to trans her kid, her poor little boy. And so
00:23:54.960 a lot of good stuff here. I can't help but notice, though, a through line in a lot of these stories,
00:24:02.120 custody battles over the trans ideology, a through line is divorced and unwed parents, right? Isn't
00:24:12.300 that, that's kind of the through line in a lot of cases, it's some divorced father suing his wife
00:24:17.240 because the wife now either has become a lesbian or the wife just embraces the gender ideology and
00:24:23.740 wants to raise the kid as, you know, they, them or whatever. And at the heart of basically all of
00:24:30.200 these stories is a cracked up family. So there's a cracked up family and no surprise, there's going
00:24:36.020 to be a cracked up ideology that's going to try to crack up a kid, of course. I wonder how many of
00:24:42.620 these cases of the, of the gender ideology would exist if we had significantly lower rates of divorce.
00:24:52.200 Even, even when it's not one parent trying to peddle the ideology on the kid or, you know,
00:24:56.360 fighting the other parent about it, just divorce traumatizes kids, you know, and, and then they spend
00:25:02.020 a lot of time online and they go on various social media platforms. I've interviewed detransitioners
00:25:07.140 about this and they spend a lot of time and they've got all these complex emotions to process and they
00:25:12.220 look for an outlet and this is, this is the latest identity fad. Just wonder if you, we're always trying
00:25:19.880 to, to treat the symptom of a social pathology, but we, we don't seem to get to the actual cause of the
00:25:27.620 pathology. So you see this, especially today, we were talking about this a little earlier, that everyone
00:25:32.680 agrees, all sensible people agree, we need to stop this transing the kids. You know, transing the kids
00:25:39.160 is really bad. Okay. Yeah, that's really bad. But what about transing the adults? The reason transing the
00:25:44.560 kids is bad is that a man can't become a woman. So if that's true, then, then why do we let the adults
00:25:48.940 trans themselves? Well, because our politics just all comes down to acts of volition and consent.
00:25:54.140 Okay. Well, if a kid looks up and sees that uncle Jerry is now uncle Jane, if a kid in the entire
00:26:00.020 popular culture sees constantly, uh, this propaganda that a man can become a woman, that's going to
00:26:06.180 incline him to, to believe that a man can become a woman. So you actually can't solve the transing the
00:26:11.680 kids problem without dealing with the transing the adults problem. But, but how do we get to the
00:26:16.160 transing the adults problem? Well, because we've said for decades now that men and women for all
00:26:21.320 intents and purposes are the same and interchangeable. We've done that by changing the definition of
00:26:25.000 marriage and pretending that a husband can be a wife and a wife can be a husband. And you can have
00:26:28.400 a marriage of two husbands or two wives. And even before that, we, we established this premise by,
00:26:36.060 by embracing feminism and the notion that a woman needs a man like a fish needs bicycle.
00:26:41.120 So it goes way, way deeper. And one of the fruits of feminism, maybe one of the causes of feminism
00:26:47.720 was the ease of divorce, no false divorce, which was unheard of in American history until relatively
00:26:53.580 recently. And what's driving a lot of this behavior and a lot of, a lot of the, these social
00:26:59.520 pathologies, probably divorce because the family is the bedrock political unit. So if you have a crack
00:27:04.840 in your bedrock political union, you're probably going to have a crack in your broader polity.
00:27:08.520 There's good stuff here, but we can't call this a win that a father got custody of his kid from
00:27:14.360 some crazy mother because there's so, there's so many problems beneath the surface of that news story.
00:27:22.240 Now, speaking of aging gracefully, president Trump has a great proposal in my humble opinion.
00:27:29.160 He just posted on Truth Social, seniors should not pay tax on social security.
00:27:35.860 Q, we've been a little tough on the libertarians today, but Q, some of the libertarians and the
00:27:41.780 beltway types who are really focused on entitlement reform, which is an important thing in, in due time.
00:27:49.260 Trump, I think is, is really getting it here. I think this is a really smart proposal. Why?
00:27:53.600 A lot of people don't even know that you have to pay tax on social security. You've had to pay tax
00:27:59.060 on social security since 1983. Ronald Reagan signed this into law, and the purpose of it was to shore
00:28:03.700 up the solvency of the social security trust fund. There is a tax of up to 50% on social security
00:28:10.560 benefits if your income is between $25,000 and $34,000. There's a tax of up to 85% on benefits
00:28:17.060 when income is over $34,000. That's according to the social security administration. So pretty low
00:28:22.120 threshold. Unmarried couples, up to half the benefits are subject to income tax. If the combined
00:28:28.200 income is between $32,000 and $44,000, past $44,000, you're talking about 85% of the benefits taxable.
00:28:35.160 So why not? What's the argument for continuing to tax social security benefits? Or rather, I should
00:28:44.000 say, what's the argument for Trump not making this campaign promise to win over the votes of seniors?
00:28:48.000 The argument is, well, this will lead the social security trust fund to become insolvent sooner.
00:28:52.960 Okay, well, let's look at the analysis. How much sooner? According to the Committee for a Responsible
00:28:58.420 Federal Budget, which is obviously quite opposed to proposals like this, the social security trust fund
00:29:04.780 is expected to run out in 2037. And under this new proposal, it would run out about a year earlier.
00:29:10.760 So the difference here, the difference for Trump in making this promise is, do I win the election or
00:29:17.560 do I lose the election? Do I win seniors who are motivated to vote or do I lose seniors?
00:29:24.020 And the difference from the perspective of public policy is, does social security run out in 2037
00:29:28.600 or 2036? It's not that big a difference, guys. We blow money on so much stuff. Taxing social security
00:29:36.280 or not taxing social security is not even close to the tip of the iceberg of entitlement reform.
00:29:41.520 Why not? The libs buy off groups all the time. And the libs do it in a far less just and defensible
00:29:47.580 way. The way the libs do it is they say, hey, college kids who are likely to make more money
00:29:52.480 than most Americans. Hey, college kids, you know, we're talking about, what, a quarter to a third
00:29:57.380 of Americans who are four-year college graduates. Yeah, we're going to forgive your student loans.
00:30:02.680 We're going to make the poorer people pay for it. And we're going to do it because you're likely to
00:30:06.260 vote for us. Whereas in this case, you have Trump saying, hey, senior citizens who've worked hard and
00:30:11.360 you paid into this system, we're going to let you get a little bit more of a benefit out of that.
00:30:15.840 To me, that's a no-brainer. Smart stuff. Now, I know that the ideologues are going to say,
00:30:21.320 well, no, that's irresponsible. And that's a violation of the sacred principles of,
00:30:26.120 of, I don't know, not the sacred principle of needing to cut entitlements or something. But
00:30:33.660 okay, good. You can, you can enjoy those sacred, rather dubious principles under the Kamala Harris
00:30:40.740 administration. And I don't know, I think I'd rather give seniors a little bit extra money
00:30:47.180 under the Trump administration, which is actually going to fix our problems because it'll have the
00:30:50.700 political power to do so. So much more to get to, but it's time to get to the mailbag.
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00:31:28.060 Hi, Michael. I just graduated from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and I earned a commission into
00:31:37.200 the army as a second lieutenant. Since I don't start my army career until September, I decided
00:31:43.360 to take up a job at Starbucks to earn a little bit extra money and to truly understand how the
00:31:48.840 other side lives. Over the course of the past few months, I've grown quite fond of my job and have
00:31:55.700 decided to remain quiet on any political topics that come up while I am at work. However, since
00:32:01.500 it's my last week there, I'm really considering coming out to all of them as a staunch Trump
00:32:06.120 supporter. How should I go about this or should I just remain quiet? Thanks, Michael. P.S. I really
00:32:13.580 enjoyed when you came to our campus to speak back in the spring. Oh, well, it's wonderful to hear from
00:32:18.980 you again. Look, I like Starbucks. I know conservatives dunk on Starbucks and it drives
00:32:23.980 me crazy that period where they were de-Christmasing the Christmas cups and, you know, I know there
00:32:29.960 are problems with it. But overall, I think it's a good corporation and there are a lot of secret
00:32:34.360 conservatives at Starbucks. I know a lot of the baristas dress kind of crazy and everything,
00:32:38.640 but I've met a number of secret conservatives there. So, I see why you're fond of your job.
00:32:43.160 The question you got to ask yourself is, what purpose would coming out as a conservative serve?
00:32:51.880 If the purpose is to win over your colleagues, who you seem to like, even though some of them
00:32:58.960 might be pretty lib, then yeah, I think that's a good idea. And how do you do it? The way you do it
00:33:06.620 is not some kind of big reveal. Ha ha, look, I've been lying to you the whole time. Mega, mega,
00:33:10.860 mega. The way you do it is you just insert it casually into conversation. Oh, yeah, I like him.
00:33:16.340 I know people don't like Trump, but I think he's great. I think country is better off under him.
00:33:19.980 And you see what they do. If they like you, if you've grown fond of your job and you, you know,
00:33:23.940 you get along with your colleagues, they might, probably they'll try to chop your head off. But
00:33:28.820 one or two of them might just say, oh, interesting. I thought all Trump supporters were evil,
00:33:34.360 but I know this person isn't evil. So I guess maybe I have to reassess my premise. That's what
00:33:42.660 I would do. If your purpose in doing it is just some fireworks to say, hi, you know, suckers, I got
00:33:48.220 you. I wouldn't do that. There's really nothing to be gained from that. But if you're going to
00:33:51.760 persuade them, I think it's a good idea. Next one. Hey, Michael, this is EJ Colmel. I wanted to ask
00:33:58.000 you what exactly the establishment is supposed to be in the Republican Party. For all my life,
00:34:02.680 I've heard conservatives and Republicans complain about the establishment trying to undermine
00:34:07.180 conservative values in the Republican Party and serve their own interests. But I've yet to meet
00:34:11.460 a single person who can define what the establishment is. If we go by political or financial support,
00:34:17.360 then that would currently make Trump the establishment candidate from the outset,
00:34:20.820 because 90% of Congress endorsed him before the primaries began, and over half of the GOP donor class
00:34:26.980 backed him, along with almost every single major political pundit on the right. Yet I still hear
00:34:32.640 people talk about the GOP establishment trying to sabotage him, Trump. To be honest, it just seems
00:34:38.860 to me that establishment is just a buzzword people throw around to blame all their electoral problems
00:34:45.260 on someone else so they don't have to self-reflect or take responsibility for their own mistakes.
00:34:49.820 And to be clear, I don't reject the idea that we have elites in this country, or even the notion
00:34:54.620 that there are high-class donors or politicians out for their own interest. But right now, I see all of
00:34:59.900 those things being mobilized to silence any disagreement with Trump, rather than
00:35:03.900 it being used against him. So again, I'm left asking, what is the
00:35:07.840 establishment, and how do we define it? Thanks.
00:35:10.960 So, good question. No, the establishment is not just
00:35:13.920 political support. It's not just popularity. Establishment
00:35:17.780 refers to institutions. Think of like, you know, a church establishment in England,
00:35:22.040 for instance. So, the GOP establishment is made up, not of
00:35:25.900 individuals, not even of donors, exactly, but of institutions. And what are those institutions?
00:35:32.360 Some think tanks, I don't know, it's the Heritage Foundation, or AEI, or Cato, even.
00:35:38.000 Some media organizations, News Corporation, Fox News would be the biggest one among them.
00:35:43.360 Now, Daily Wire is pretty young, but I don't know, we've grown so big, so fast. In a way,
00:35:48.400 maybe, we're probably not exactly the establishment, but we could almost maybe throw our weight around a
00:35:52.900 little bit in these, maybe. Certainly, if we stick around longer, we might be able to throw
00:35:56.900 our weight around a little bit there. Certain lobbyist groups, certain trade organizations,
00:36:02.440 the Chamber of Commerce would be a good example of that. And so, when you examine
00:36:06.100 the established institutions, then you ask yourself, okay, who do they support? And in some
00:36:12.500 cases, look, Heritage seemed not to be super pro-Trump, but now is reasonably pro-Trump.
00:36:19.960 You know, maybe even more than, you know, moderately pro-Trump at this point.
00:36:25.600 Fox News was kind of anti-Trump until they had to be pro-Trump. They kept, in 2016, as in 2024,
00:36:32.960 they tried to find another candidate, and it didn't work, so now I guess they'll be kind
00:36:36.560 of pro-Trump again. You think of the National Review. National Review magazine, founded by
00:36:40.220 William F. Buckley Jr., considered the flagship magazine of the conservative movement. They hated
00:36:44.520 Trump. You know, they did the, they had the against Trump movement, and many of them were
00:36:47.560 still never Trumpers. Chamber of Commerce was a little opposed to Trump, maybe more than a little
00:36:54.300 bit opposed to Trump. And so, when you, and you could keep going, AEI doesn't seem to really like
00:36:58.680 Trump that much. You know, I don't want to speak for any of these groups, because there are lots of
00:37:02.140 different people within them, and someone at one of these think tanks or media outlets might say,
00:37:07.500 no, I'm very pro-Trump. But the institutions themselves were broadly, by and large, opposed
00:37:15.320 to Trump, which is the reason that Trump can still, even after having already been president,
00:37:19.940 having been the nominee, now he's the third time he's the Republican nominee for president,
00:37:23.500 he can still credibly claim to be outside of the establishment, because the establishment
00:37:27.720 is the institutions, and most of the institutions don't really like him that much. Next question.
00:37:33.120 Hi, Michael Simcha here, big fan of the show. So, you've been saying pretty consistently that
00:37:40.840 the war in Gaza and Israel is complicated, but you'd rather be on the side of people who are
00:37:45.700 not burning the American flag. I don't really see why it's very complicated. The Jews just don't want
00:37:50.760 to be killed, and Hamas, and largely the Palestinian population, vows to kill the Jews, as have many
00:37:58.760 people throughout all of our history. We just don't want to be killed, and that's why the whole notion
00:38:04.320 of a ceasefire is preposterous, because they don't want to have a ceasefire. They themselves say that
00:38:09.220 they want to kill all the Jews, and that's why we're going to fight to keep our indigenous land that
00:38:14.520 we've been living for thousands of years before Islam was even invented. So, I don't really see why
00:38:22.000 it's very complicated. Maybe you can enlighten me.
00:38:24.740 I can. It's a good question, though. The reason it's complicated is that the state of Israel was
00:38:30.960 founded in 1948, which is quite recently. And how was the state of Israel founded? It was founded
00:38:37.100 because of a push by the United Nations, and before that, the United Kingdom, and the backing of the
00:38:44.580 United States, which is the successor to the British Empire. What was this area of land before
00:38:50.900 the state of Israel was established? It was the British Mandate of Palestine, okay? What was it
00:38:59.820 before Mandatory Palestine? It was the Ottoman Empire, okay? What was it before the Ottoman Empire?
00:39:05.820 Well, if you go back far enough in history, you see a lot of people conquering this land, some Muslims,
00:39:10.800 then you get some crusades, and then you go all the way back, and you ask, okay, when was the last time
00:39:15.240 the Jews had political control, even some political control in this land? And you get back to the second
00:39:21.160 century. You get back to the Bar Kokhba revolt, after which, this was the third of the Roman Jewish
00:39:27.420 wars. The Romans basically destroy them, and many Jews flee and spread. And the first of the Roman
00:39:36.600 Jewish wars happens when? In the first century, and it culminates in the destruction of the Second
00:39:41.780 Temple, okay? And then there's fighting over the land even before that, which we all read about in
00:39:47.040 our Bibles, and you know, there's their Philistines, their Canaanites, and it goes back a while.
00:39:51.580 So, why is it complicated? Well, because the Jews have not had political control over this land for
00:39:57.200 something like 1,800 years. Now, you say, well, we're indigenous to this land. Sure, like maybe,
00:40:03.380 but the Iroquois are indigenous to New York State. That's not very persuasive. We're not going to give
00:40:07.280 New York State back to the Iroquois. So, then why should we support the state of Israel?
00:40:13.400 There's a religious argument, the religious argument that God gave the land to the Jews. Okay,
00:40:18.740 that's not going to persuade people who are not Jewish. It will persuade some people who are not
00:40:22.920 Jewish, but many people who hold differing religious views are not going to be persuaded
00:40:28.880 by the religious case for Zionism. How about the historical case for Zionism? Again, that is not
00:40:34.980 going to persuade many people who are not Jewish. It will persuade some Christians. It actually won't
00:40:41.040 even persuade some Jews, which is a separate matter. So, then what's the case for Israel?
00:40:47.380 My case for Israel, my pro-Israel case, is as a prudential matter, which is, for the Jews,
00:40:54.400 it would be nice for them to have a place where they're not getting pogromed all the time. You know,
00:40:57.880 it'd be nice for them to have a little bit of political autonomy. And two, you know, I think
00:41:06.020 I'd rather have our Jewish friends, you know, looking after the holy sites than other groups
00:41:11.220 sometimes are not as nice about the holy sites and don't make it as easy to go visit and everything.
00:41:15.440 And so, and as a prudential matter, we just sort of, there's more alignment between the political
00:41:21.460 views of the state of Israel and Western civilization than between, I don't know, like the pro-Palestine
00:41:26.260 movement. And oh, by the way, here's a rule of thumb. At the pro-Palestine protests, people burn
00:41:31.360 the American flag. And at the pro-Israel protests, they don't. So, even if you don't know anything
00:41:35.260 about the history of the region, you might say, okay, it looks like those guys are more on my side
00:41:39.560 than those guys. So, that's why I say, as a prudential matter, there's a strong case to be made
00:41:45.740 for defending Israel, but it's a complicated issue. Of course, it's a complicated issue. And I think to
00:41:51.340 deny the complexity of the issue is not going to persuade anybody. Next question.
00:41:58.120 Mr. Knowles, I'm wondering if you could help me with this quandary. Apparently, there are two
00:42:04.500 Michael Steele's. There's the Michael Steele who was the RNC chairman. And then there's the Michael
00:42:12.740 Steele who apparently is the MSNBC chairman and sends around pictures of Kamala Harris flexing
00:42:22.080 dressed like Captain America. Those two things seem polar opposite to me. And I'm wondering if you
00:42:30.220 could help me figure out what in the world happened to Michael Steele.
00:42:36.560 Yes. For those who don't remember, Michael Steele was the chairman of the Republican National
00:42:40.760 Committee during the Obama years. And he was succeeded by Reince Priebus. And then he became
00:42:46.660 a huge lib. Maybe he was always a huge lib, but now he goes on NBC and talks about how terrible
00:42:51.520 Republicans are. So, what happened? It's not just Michael Steele. This happens to a lot of
00:42:56.780 Republicans. It happens to a lot of Republicans because the people who run the Republican Party
00:43:01.720 very often feel that they have more in common with liberal elites than they do with their own
00:43:07.180 constituents. Many of them look with disdain on their own constituents. And part of the reason
00:43:11.940 is that man is a social creature. And these guys live in Washington, D.C. It's a very liberal town.
00:43:17.400 Or they live in New York. Or they live in L.A. even. Or they live in cities where there is some
00:43:24.800 political power. But especially Washington, D.C. And their friends are more liberal. And their social
00:43:34.860 milieu is more inclined toward liberalism than conservatism. And they go where their buddies
00:43:41.900 are. And they go where their paycheck is. NBC is not going to pay Michael Steele to go talk about
00:43:46.540 how great Donald Trump is. The rest of the show continues now. You do not want to miss it.
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00:43:53.420 Republicans are Nazis. You cannot separate yourselves from the bad white people.
00:44:10.300 Growing up, I never thought much about race. It never really seemed to matter that much. At least
00:44:14.280 not to me. Am I racist? I would really appreciate it if you love. I'm trying to learn. I'm on this
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00:44:29.860 And what you're doing is you're stretching out of your whiteness. This is more for you
00:44:33.140 than less for you. Is America inherently racist? The word inherent is challenging there.
00:44:37.060 I want to rename the George Washington Monument to the George Floyd Monument.
00:44:40.220 America is racist to its bones. So inherently. Yeah. This country is a piece of shit.
00:44:44.140 White. Folks. Trash. White supremacy. White woman. White boy. Is there a black person
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