The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 1545 - Libs Panic After Trump Says ＂I Got Shot Because Of That＂

00:00:00.000 President Trump's running mate, J.D. Vance, is in hot water again with the liberal press

00:00:04.100 after appearing at a rally in Georgia and pointing out all the ways the liberals have

00:00:09.160 tried to stop a second Trump term. So they tried to impeach him.

00:00:13.380 They failed at that, so they tried to put him in prison. They even tried to kill him.

00:00:18.260 Now, reasonable people out there probably did not bat an eyelash at what J.D. said.

00:00:22.880 He's just describing the things that we've all seen. But the libs are up in arms.

00:00:27.460 Liberal podcaster and MSNBC contributor Tim Miller tweeted out, quote,

00:00:32.120 J.D. Vance just said they even tried to kill him about Trump. This is deeply irresponsible.

00:00:40.960 It's a lie. If he had one iota of integrity left, he would stop.

00:00:47.440 Does Tim Miller think the shooter who nearly blew Trump's head off

00:00:51.240 was just trying to trim his sideburns a little bit? What does he think happened

00:00:55.700 exactly? Unless the issue is not with the word shoot, but with the word they.

00:01:02.560 This is the latest liberal spin, that it's irresponsible to say they tried to kill him

00:01:10.540 because there was only one shooter. And we don't know what his motivations were.

00:01:15.300 Who's this they that the right wingers are talking about? Let's put aside for a second

00:01:20.880 all of the unanswered questions about the near assassination of President Trump,

00:01:25.440 which is still being investigated. Let's put aside that we know the Biden administration refused

00:01:32.040 Trump's requests for additional security. Let's put aside that a Democrat member of Congress tried

00:01:37.100 to strip President Trump of his security. Let's put aside that we know Biden's FBI and Secret Service

00:01:43.080 both lied about the attempted assassination, about the security requests, about the fact that Trump

00:01:48.780 was even shot, and possibly about the shooter's one discovered social media account. Put all of that

00:01:54.340 aside. The Democrats, up to and especially Joe Biden, have spent years calling Trump an existential threat

00:02:04.240 to our country, to democracy itself. That's different than saying Trump's really bad or Trump's making

00:02:12.300 our country worse or something. The premise that a political figure constitutes an existential threat

00:02:19.140 justifies assassinating that political figure. Existential threat. The Democrats' persistent

00:02:28.240 justification of assassination in principle constitutes trying to kill Trump. So J.D. spoke perfectly well.

00:02:37.240 They, the liberal establishment, tried to kill him. And as their own words attest,

00:02:44.320 they're still doing it today. I'm Michael Knowles. This is The Michael Knowles Show.

00:02:58.240 Welcome back to the show. A major Democrat strategist, really smart left-wing thinker,

00:03:14.740 David Axelrod, is warning Democrats that the exuberance for Kamala might be a little bit irrational.

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00:03:52.180 They tried to kill him. They did try to kill him. Regardless of what happened in a field in

00:03:58.540 Pennsylvania, regardless of what this investigation will reveal, because we really don't know anything

00:04:05.080 right now about the conditions of that shooting. We know very, very little. Nevertheless,

00:04:10.140 they tried to kill him. The moment you say, so-and-so is Hitler, so-and-so is modeling his 0.86

00:04:17.480 rise on the rise of the Nazis, so-and-so has a Hitlerian program, and especially, this is the key,

00:04:23.580 so-and-so constitutes an existential threat to our country, you are justifying the assassination of 1.00

00:04:31.480 that person. That's what they're doing. You must recall, I am not a free speech absolutist or anything

00:04:39.080 like that. I'm perfectly willing to acknowledge the consequences of speech. And the speech from

00:04:44.540 Democrats, up to and including Joe Biden, at the very, very top, the speech has established the

00:04:50.080 premise according to which assassination would be justified. Totally right. Not irresponsible in the

00:04:57.660 least, precise for J.D. to say they tried to kill him. And Trump is making this exact point at his

00:05:05.280 rallies. Remember the words they use? They are a threat to democracy. They've been saying that about

00:05:11.420 me for seven years. I think I got shot because of that, okay? People said, he's a threat to democracy.

00:05:17.960 No, I'm the one that is saving democracy. It's true. They're a threat.

00:05:27.660 Thank you.

00:05:40.280 Wow. That's nice.

00:05:43.500 This is powerful stuff. Listen to how long, I cut off the applause actually before it even ended.

00:05:49.620 You hear Trump there, wow, that's nice. Because Trump is in the speech, we'll get into some of the

00:05:53.380 highlights. But he's going through, I'm going to support this policy. And my opponent supports

00:05:58.120 this policy. And there's applause and there's cheering, but nothing like this. This is the key

00:06:03.660 here. Okay, this is why the libs are so furious to try to stop anyone from suggesting they tried to

00:06:12.600 kill Trump. This is why the libs have gone into overdrive to memory hole the near assassination of

00:06:17.240 Trump. It seems as though there have been 500 news cycles since then. It seems as though the

00:06:21.800 near assassination was in the distant past. It wasn't in the distant past. It just happened.

00:06:26.540 Because this is really inspiring. The left was irresponsible and malicious for years. And they

00:06:34.180 smeared Trump and they lied about him. And they said that this man is an existential threat to the

00:06:38.160 country, which establishes the premise to assassinate him. Then someone goes out and nearly does

00:06:44.120 assassinate him. The only reason he survives is because of an inexplicable by natural causes,

00:06:48.620 sudden turn of the head at the very last moment. As Trump says, the reason I'm here is by the

00:06:53.640 grace of God. It has nothing to do with me or anything like that. And he says, the irony of it all

00:07:00.540 is, they called me the threat to democracy. They're the threat to democracy. They tried to take me off

00:07:05.540 the ballot because they didn't want you to be able to vote for me. Then they tried to throw me in jail

00:07:08.740 because they didn't want you to be able to vote for me. And then they, at the very least,

00:07:11.700 established the justification to kill me so that you wouldn't be able to vote for me.

00:07:16.940 Me, the most popular presidential candidate in the race. They are projecting. Their accusations

00:07:23.880 are confessions. They say, I'm a threat to democracy. They're the threat to democracy.

00:07:27.940 And people get on their feet and they cheer. That's really powerful stuff.

00:07:32.160 Trump is even surprised by how powerful his own rhetoric is. He says, wow, okay, that's nice.

00:07:35.880 That's good. This is the campaign. This is the moment that you have. You cannot let the

00:07:43.340 Libs memory hold this. Keep coming back to this. I wish he still had the bandage on his ear.

00:07:48.720 They are so, because the shooter missed. Had the shooter actually blown Trump's head off,

00:07:56.700 at least the Libs wouldn't have to deal with Trump anymore. It would have upended the presidential race, 0.99

00:08:01.280 but they wouldn't have to deal with this guy Trump, the man that they've called an existential threat

00:08:05.440 for years and who they're still calling an existential threat. But the shooter missed.

00:08:11.660 Trump survived. He should, this should be the moment that he goes back to again and again and

00:08:17.040 again. Then Trump gets into the meat of his argument. The meat of his argument is that this

00:08:21.400 Kamala is bad news.

00:08:22.660 She ruined San Francisco, ruined California. As California attorney general, she defined and 1.00

00:08:30.060 redefined child sex trafficking, assault with a deadly weapon and rape of a unconscious person,

00:08:37.500 an unconscious person raped as nonviolent. These were nonviolent crimes. We shouldn't

00:08:42.980 even prosecute these people to help spring child predators and dangerous criminals out of prison all

00:08:49.320 over the state. And during the left-wing riots of 2020, you saw that she urged her followers to

00:08:55.260 donate to bail rapists and murderers out of jail while saying that the violent mobs should not stop.

00:09:02.360 They should not stop. She said she was endorsing defund the place and the police. And she said,

00:09:09.320 violent mobs, let the violent mobs keep going. Let them keep going. We love what they're doing.

00:09:17.240 We love what they represent. This is the lunatic that the fake news is trying to build up to be

00:09:23.780 the next Margaret Thatcher. You know?

00:09:29.520 Okay, this is good stuff. This is good meat of the argument. Because while the libs are trying 0.94

00:09:36.620 to memory hole the most powerful moment of the Trump campaign, they nearly blew his head off.

00:09:41.400 They're also trying to memory hole Kamala's entire career. Why are they doing that? Why are

00:09:46.820 they lying about Kamala's career? Why are they editing old news articles about her? Why are they

00:09:52.500 trying to deny the fact that she was the most left-wing senator, that she endorsed Medicare for

00:09:56.860 all, for illegal aliens? Everything, the whole thing. Because it's not popular with the American

00:10:05.080 people. So all Trump has to do for the meat of his argument, for the jabs of the fight, is he's just

00:10:12.720 got to say what she has done and say the positions that she has held. Once he gets that out past the

00:10:21.440 establishment media gatekeepers, that is going to really hurt her favorable ratings. It's going to 1.00

00:10:27.780 further depress her poll numbers. But that's not the headline of the campaign. The headline of the

00:10:32.900 campaign is not, Kamala's really bad. She constitutes an existential threat to the republic, or whatever 1.00

00:10:37.300 kind of nonsense the Dems would say. I spoke to Vivek right when Kamala became the presumptive nominee,

00:10:44.040 and he said, Republicans had better not fall into this trap of making this all about Kamala. It's not

00:10:50.000 really all about Kamala. We can't have just been running for 12 months, again, or three years, I guess,

00:10:56.200 against Joe Biden and say he's the worst guy in the country, and then on a dime say, oh, no, actually,

00:11:01.540 no, she's the worst person in the country. Forget about Joe Biden. It's just going to look disingenuous.

00:11:05.860 It's going to look kind of weak. People don't know as much about Kamala Harris. Vivek pointed out what

00:11:10.120 I think is correct, which is we're running not against an individual as much as we're running

00:11:16.120 against a whole system. The story that tells me everything that I need to know comes out of the

00:11:22.780 Clinton campaign. I guess the Clintons aren't running for anything in particular right now, but they're

00:11:28.320 always kind of running for something, aren't they? They've always got their political machinations.

00:11:33.140 Here's a headline. It just came out of, I think, the New York Post.

00:11:38.100 Chelsea Clinton wants to be ambassador to the United Kingdom, according to a source close to

00:11:44.960 the Clintons. That's a reason why Bill and Hillary came out in the first five minutes to support 0.53

00:11:48.760 Kamala's presidential bid. They were currying favor. Chelsea Clinton wants an ambassadorship. 0.99

00:11:53.480 She actually wants the most plum ambassadorship in the country, usually goes to the top donor to a 1.00

00:11:58.220 campaign or one of the top donors, the ambassador to the court of St. James, or if not that, maybe

00:12:03.020 the ambassador to France, or if not that, this ambassador or that ambassador or whatever.

00:12:08.940 There's a debate right now among Republicans. Is Kamala a far left radical? Is that why she's so bad? 1.00

00:12:15.720 Or is Kamala just an empty suit representative of the liberal establishment? Which is it? More of the

00:12:24.680 same? Or is she a radical like AOC or something? And the real answer is yes. The real answer is

00:12:33.460 both. Yes, Kamala is the latest representative, the latest expression of the Democrat establishment.

00:12:42.080 But the Democrat establishment has become extremely radically leftist. It wasn't just some crazy fringe

00:12:53.020 activists who gave us transing the kids. It was the Democrat establishment. It was Joe Biden defending

00:12:59.780 transing the kids repeatedly. It wasn't just some radical fringe activists who gave us abortion on

00:13:08.160 demand. It was the Democrat establishment that endorsed abortion on demand. It was the Democrat

00:13:13.120 establishment, Kamala in particular, that endorsed the BLM riots and that bailed some of the rioters

00:13:18.160 out of prison. It was the Democrat establishment that gave us prosecuting our political rivals like

00:13:23.080 we're a banana republic, like we're some tin pot dictators. It was the Democrat establishment that

00:13:27.380 gave us the justification for murdering our political rivals. That wasn't the fringe people

00:13:32.360 dancing around with keffias on Columbia University's campus. Or rather, I guess it sort of was those 1.00

00:13:38.300 people, but it's just those people occupy the heights of power in the Democrat political

00:13:44.860 establishment. It wasn't just the Marxist professors. The kids of those Marxist professors now have some

00:13:50.620 of the most prominent positions in the government. I'm thinking of Pete Buttigieg, whose dad was one of

00:13:54.940 the most prominent Marxist professors in the country. And I'm thinking of Kamala Harris, whose dad was a

00:13:58.900 Marxist economist at Stanford. The distinction between the crazy radicals and the Democrat

00:14:06.760 establishment, it's very, very blurry now. So yeah, you're going to get the Clintons currying favor,

00:14:11.920 Clintons as establishment Democrat as it gets. They're going to be currying favor. They're going

00:14:16.960 to try to position themselves for some spot in the administration. And the administration is going

00:14:22.560 to be extremely leftist too. It's the same. And that's really, really scary because now you've got

00:14:28.220 the fringe radical ideologues with most of the political power in the country.

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00:15:49.140 problem for the Democrats, which is that their policies are not very popular. Their presumptive

00:15:55.460 nominee has never been all that popular. She almost lost her AG race in California. And

00:16:03.600 their political establishment seems increasingly corrupt. So what do you believe? Do you believe

00:16:11.800 the news reports that Kamala's got all this momentum behind her? She's totally upended the 1.00

00:16:16.780 race. Trump is now running and playing defense. Well, I've said for a long time now, I don't think

00:16:23.880 the fundamentals of the race have really changed all that much. And do you know who happens to agree 0.60

00:16:27.600 with me? You don't need to take my right wing word for it. You don't need to just wonder if I'm wish

00:16:32.260 casting. One of the most prominent Democrat strategists in the country, David Axelrod, the man behind

00:16:37.620 Barack Obama's rise to power, seems to agree. Anyone, you know, there's a lot of irrational

00:16:43.980 exuberance on the side of, on the Democratic side of the aisle right now, because there was despair

00:16:49.640 for some period of time about what the November was going to look like. Now people feel like there's

00:16:55.240 a chance, but it is absolutely Trump's race to lose right now. He is ahead and he is ahead most of

00:17:02.220 the battleground states. They're close. They could be won by either candidate, but there is a lot to

00:17:08.400 be determined in the next 90, whatever days, 96 or whatever it is left. So yeah, I think it's a wide

00:17:17.320 open race, but Trump has the advantage right now and nobody should, nobody should be, nobody should

00:17:23.060 be, everybody should be sober about that on the Democratic side. I think he's totally right.

00:17:28.460 There is exuberance. Kamala's poll numbers are okay. People seem more excited about her than they

00:17:34.760 were about Joe Biden. So there is an exuberance, but it's an irrational exuberance because the

00:17:40.480 fundamentals of the race have not changed. The economy is as bad as it was. The border is as bad 1.00

00:17:46.800 as it was. Actually now you're, you're running not just against the president, Joe Biden, under whose

00:17:52.820 watch the, the border situation has gotten so terrible, but you're actually running against the

00:17:57.360 border czar. The woman who was put in charge of fixing the border problem and she totally failed 1.00

00:18:01.480 at it. So in that way, maybe this is an improvement for Republicans. Foreign affairs hasn't really

00:18:06.660 changed. We seem to be inching ever closer to World War III. Trump still was very nearly assassinated

00:18:15.060 a few weeks ago. Trump still avoided putting on an orange jumpsuit and has been prosecuted by his

00:18:22.520 political rivals. Trump still had a better presidency than Biden did and the Biden Harris administration.

00:18:29.100 So the fundamentals are the same. You've just got to, you've, you've just got to tick away at some of

00:18:35.660 that irrational exuberance. It's a lot, it's a lot easier to get rid of irrational exuberance than it

00:18:42.380 is to get rid of rational exuberance. And I think Axelrod is totally right. The, the relief that Democrats

00:18:47.760 are feeling, Oh, thank goodness. We don't have to run this cadaver is fleeting because they're,

00:18:54.340 they're running a woman who frankly is not, not much better. So the question then is, should Trump

00:19:00.720 debate Kamala? You want to hear the most dishonest headline I've read? Well, I don't know in days now

00:19:05.640 there are dishonest headlines every day, but, but here's the most dishonest one I've read in a while.

00:19:09.480 It was from New York times. Of course, Trump cancels a debate with Harris on ABC news and

00:19:16.580 fixes one pitches one on Fox news instead. That is a complete lie. President Trump did not cancel

00:19:25.880 a debate with Harris. President Trump never agreed to a debate with Harris. President Trump agreed to

00:19:32.360 two debates with Joe Biden, the then Democrat nominee for president, one on CNN, one on ABC.

00:19:39.900 And then Trump so destroyed Biden at the first debate on CNN, even though all the rules were

00:19:45.060 stacked against Trump and in favor of Biden, he's so obliterated Biden on the debate stage that Biden

00:19:50.560 is no longer the nominee. It's the most decisive debate win in American presidential history.

00:19:57.500 So now there's a new presumptive nominee. She's not even the official nominee yet.

00:20:02.360 We haven't even had the Democrat national convention yet. She's never won a single primary

00:20:08.360 vote while she was running for president. So no, Trump didn't cancel a debate with her.

00:20:18.820 Joe Biden canceled a debate with him by refusing to run for president after he got beaten so badly.

00:20:24.340 Now they can agree to do a debate, but they got to propose a new debate. We got a new candidate here.

00:20:31.340 So Trump has done just that. Trump has proposed a debate on Fox News. He posted on Truth Social.

00:20:38.180 Kamala Harris doesn't have the mental capacity to do a real debate against me scheduled for 1.00

00:20:42.560 September 4th in Pennsylvania. She's afraid to do it because there's no way she can justify her

00:20:46.080 corrupt and open borders, the environmental destruction of our country, the Afghanistan 1.00

00:20:49.640 embarrassment, runaway inflation, terrible economy, high interest rates and taxes, and her

00:20:52.900 years long fight to stop the words Merry Christmas. I love that. I love it. He just weaves in

00:20:57.680 the really heavy structural economic issues with the, I think, just a serious, in some ways,

00:21:03.800 maybe more serious, cultural and social issues. He goes, I'll see her on September 4th or I won't

00:21:08.080 see her at all. She's acknowledged to be the worst vice president in history, which works very nicely 1.00

00:21:11.720 against the worst president, crooked Joe Biden. The combination of these two low IQ individuals

00:21:17.000 have destroyed our country, but we will make America great again. I love this, but does it mean

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00:23:35.640 Quick little button on the Trump-Kanala debate. Should he debate her? Yes.

00:23:46.440 I think what Trump is engaging in when he suggests the Fox News debate is a little bit of negotiation,

00:23:51.540 a little bit of the art of the deal here. Democrats are trying to change all the rules, 0.81

00:23:54.580 all the terms of the agreement, so Trump is going in, and he's not going to let them get away with

00:23:57.940 that. And he says, now, how about we debate on Fox News? We did one on CNN. Let's do one on Fox News,

00:24:02.600 huh? How about we not do two on left-wing networks? And what are we going to do? We're

00:24:07.860 going to do ABC. Who's going to moderate that? You're going to get your old White House communications

00:24:11.060 director, George Stephanopoulos, to do that? Give me a break. No. Now, I think he should debate Kamala.

00:24:19.100 The reason he should debate Kamala is there's a reason that she doesn't really do press conferences. 1.00

00:24:27.280 There's a reason that she doesn't really do off-the-cuff remarks. She's really bad on her feet. 1.00

00:24:30.920 She's not a particularly good debater. She didn't do very well against Mike Pence in 2020.

00:24:37.500 Most of her debate style is just her saying, excuse me, excuse me, I'm talking. And she just

00:24:42.900 kind of interrupts in this really ugly way that I think turns off most people who are not already

00:24:47.400 on board. And I think she's a very clever political operative. I don't know that she has 0.97

00:24:53.400 the greatest command of facts or the English language. So I think, you know, and Trump has

00:25:02.260 eccentric diction himself, but I still think Trump would do much better in a debate against her. So

00:25:06.780 he should do the debate. It would be better for him. But he's engaging in a negotiation here.

00:25:11.620 Maybe the compromise that they reach is they go right back to CNN and they get the exact same

00:25:17.300 moderators and they have a replay of the first debate. That first debate was meant to give Biden

00:25:25.100 all of the advantage. You have all these two liberal moderators on a liberal network with rules

00:25:29.920 that benefit the liberal candidate. Trump happened to just hit a grand slam. Okay, maybe we go back.

00:25:35.920 We do the same thing. I'm giving in to you, Kamala. You get your liberal moderators. You get your

00:25:41.200 liberal network. You get your liberal rules. But you're giving in to me because you're going into the

00:25:45.400 same place where I destroyed your predecessor, so much so that now you're the nominee.

00:25:50.320 At least one person is apparently excited for Kamala. That would be 99-year-old former president

00:25:58.300 Jimmy Carter. Jimmy Carter has been in hospice now since I think the late 90s. And no, he's been in

00:26:05.880 hospice for something like a year and a half or something now. I mean, it's really impressive.

00:26:10.620 And he's still alive. Usually people stay in hospice for days or weeks, maybe a few months.

00:26:17.700 Jimmy Carter has now been there for a real long time, since last February. He will turn 100 if he

00:26:25.520 makes it to October 1st. And he says he's going to try to make it, not to turn 100. According to

00:26:30.700 Jimmy Carter's son, Chip, he says, I'm only trying to make it to vote for Kamala Harris.

00:26:36.300 Now, some people are a little skeptical that Jimmy Carter actually said this.

00:26:41.960 You know, Jimmy Carter showed up to the funeral for his wife, and he was looking pretty frail.

00:26:48.520 However, he was still talking to people. This guy, he's got real tenacity. So maybe he did say this.

00:26:56.500 It sounds a little bit like those stories, you know, I told my three-year-old that Roe v. Wade was

00:27:01.200 overruled. And she wrote this poem or something, you know, and then everyone in the TSA line

00:27:06.740 applauded. And it sounds a little fanciful, but I don't know. Maybe he really said it. Maybe he

00:27:09.580 really said, I am only trying to make it so that I can vote for Kamala Harris. But if that is true,

00:27:17.080 the joke's on him. Because if Jimmy Carter goes to his eternal reward before November,

00:27:23.860 then it's guaranteed that he'll vote for Kamala Harris. You know, in some ways,

00:27:27.760 he is more likely to vote for Kamala Harris if he does pass on into the life of the world to come

00:27:35.560 before November than afterward. Just knowing how Democrat voting goes. Jokes aside,

00:27:44.980 I can't be partisan about this. I can't be, you know, Carter was a terrible president and all that

00:27:50.940 shit. I can't be partisan. It is impressive. It is impressive how much tenacity this guy has,

00:27:57.360 how he is holding on, how he will not go into that dark night. He, Jimmy Carter at 99 and a half

00:28:07.000 is probably more with it and capable than Joe Biden. And frankly, the real deep read of this is,

00:28:14.680 why is he holding on? He's not holding on to reach 100. He's not holding on to vote for Kamala.

00:28:18.880 He's holding on because at this rate, Jimmy Carter might well be the Democrat nominee

00:28:22.540 for 2024. Speaking of tenacity, Imani Califf, you know, this boxer who some are calling a man,

00:28:31.980 some are insisting it's a woman, some are saying this person, regardless of whether a man or a

00:28:36.760 woman should not be boxing in the women's league. The Olympian who's made all the headlines 1.00

00:28:41.480 just destroyed another woman boxer. This would be Hungary's Anna Luka Hamori. 1.00

00:28:48.620 No surprise there. If you look at pictures of Imani Califf and you look at pictures of the women

00:28:53.900 that this person is to fight, you don't need to be a brilliant gambler to know you'd put all your

00:29:00.460 money on Califf. So at the same time that this news breaks, Redux magazine comes out and says,

00:29:08.680 the European vice president of the World Boxing Organization has come forward to confirm

00:29:12.460 that Algerian boxer Imani Califf is male. Istvan Kovash says he warned the Olympic committee

00:29:19.860 about several male boxers in the woman's category, but nothing was done. So again, I'm just reading to

00:29:27.560 you what Redux Mag is reporting. I'm not coming to any conclusions on whether this boxer is a man

00:29:33.740 or a woman or simply confused. On top of that, the IOC president, the president of the Olympics,

00:29:44.660 had to correct himself on the matter of Imani Califf. The IOC issued a correction,

00:29:52.580 said in today's IOC Paris 2024 press briefing, IOC president Bach said, but I repeat here,

00:29:57.840 this is not a DSD case, meaning disorder of sexual development. This is about a woman taking part in

00:30:04.740 a women's competition. And I think I've explained it many times. What was intended was, but I repeat

00:30:11.180 here, this is not a transgender case. This is about a woman taking part in a woman's competition. And I

00:30:16.800 think I've explained this many times. So what the IOC president is saying is, no, no, no, it's not that

00:30:21.260 Imani Califf is transgender. It's not that this is a man who identifies as a woman. It would seem that

00:30:28.040 the implication from the correction is, this is a DSD case. And DSD means disorder of sexual

00:30:33.060 development, difference of sexual development. That can refer to basically any sexual birth defect

00:30:40.960 where the sex is ambiguous, where genitalia are atypical, where chromosomes or gonads or really

00:30:49.160 anything pertaining to sexual development is a little bit off. So we don't know what this means.

00:30:55.400 We don't know what gonads this person was born with. We don't really know what the chromosomes of

00:30:59.820 this person are. We've heard reports, but we don't really know. We just, we don't know, okay?

00:31:05.600 And so I think, again, this further affirms the wisdom of my perspective about this, which is,

00:31:14.640 hold on, why are women boxing in the first place? But, but I discussed that on the show on Friday, 0.99

00:31:21.540 even after a lot of it was censored for my show on Thursday. The scandal here is not that the boxer

00:31:29.140 might be a man. The scandal is that the debate is even possible. That's the scandal.

00:31:35.820 Is Imani Califf a man? I don't know. I don't know. What are you asking me for? I don't know.

00:31:41.980 The Olympics seems to disagree with the boxing group, with the this and the that, and who knows?

00:31:48.420 The reason this debate is possible is because we no longer can define what a woman is. 0.97

00:31:53.920 And I know some, some people say, well, a woman is an adult human female. Okay. That's a,

00:31:58.940 that's a pretty reductive definition of a woman. The fact that we don't know what a woman is

00:32:06.060 shows you something about how our culture has atrophied, how, how our collective intelligence

00:32:11.220 has atrophied, how our, how the very meaning of sex has atrophied. It used to be that you could

00:32:19.900 identify a woman, not merely by her chromosomes, but by how she dressed, how she acted.

00:32:28.940 How she talked. By the kinds of things that she would do, the activities that she would take part

00:32:35.660 in. Used to be not so long ago, about a dozen years ago, certainly 25 years ago, that if a person

00:32:42.980 was boxing, you could know with pretty much 100% certainty that person was a man. Because boxing was

00:32:51.000 not the sort of thing women did. Used to be, call me an old fuddy-duddy, I don't know, 10, 20, 1.00

00:32:57.700 30 years ago. When someone was wearing a dress, that person was with 99%, 100% certainty, a woman. 0.95

00:33:08.680 Maybe the exception for a glam rock star or someone in a red light district. But generally speaking,

00:33:15.020 that was a woman. Used to be the case that when, it used to be the case that sex was not merely 1.00

00:33:23.280 biological. Now sex isn't even biological. The left says sex has nothing to do with biology.

00:33:29.840 The right says sex has everything to do with biology. No, it used to be, yeah, there's a

00:33:34.060 biological basis, there's a physical expression of it, but then there's a social and enacted expression

00:33:39.380 of it. You dressed a certain way. You behaved in a womanly way, if you were a woman. When a man 0.94

00:33:45.520 behaved in a womanly way, that was actually called womanish. That was bad. Womanish carries a negative

00:33:50.020 connotation. Womanly carries a positive connotation, and it's based on who's doing it, who's performing

00:33:54.960 the role of a woman. It used to be that there was a role to perform, and there was a role for men to 0.99

00:33:58.640 perform if you wanted to be a man, and that that wasn't a bad thing. Now that's considered a punchline.

00:34:06.560 The notion that a man ought to act like a man or a woman ought to act like a woman, that's considered 0.72

00:34:10.680 the height of barbarism. Only the sort of thing a knuckle-dragging troglodyte would suggest.

00:34:18.040 It seemed to me society worked a little bit better back then.

00:34:22.060 When girls were girls and men were men, Mr. We could use a man like Herbert Hoover again.

00:34:28.120 Speaking of scandals, Kamala Harris's husband apparently cheated on his first wife.

00:34:33.260 So Kamala Harris is this guy's second wife. He was previously married, has kids from his first

00:34:40.040 marriage, but his marriage broke up, and now apparently this might have had something to do

00:34:45.640 with him cheating on his wife. I'm not exposing a private sin here. I even hesitated to talk about

00:34:51.460 it, but I think it's politically relevant. This is now being widely reported. So according to the

00:34:57.740 Daily Mail, he cheated with the nanny, with his daughter's nanny, and this really damaged his

00:35:05.320 marriage, and obviously the marriage ultimately broke up. And then he had a second marriage,

00:35:11.860 and he knew that this was going to come out at some point. I think this story matters,

00:35:17.060 and I think it's worth talking about. Not because I want to get into the personal sins,

00:35:21.080 though no sin is totally private, but not because I want to get into the tawdry,

00:35:24.920 tabloid gossip about these figures. I certainly don't want to get into the tabloid gossip about

00:35:30.100 politicians' families. It's ugly stuff. It's already being reported, so we're not breaking

00:35:36.120 any news here. The reason this story matters is it takes the wind out of the sails of this

00:35:42.320 election as a referendum on Trump's supposedly bad character. This was one of the things Biden pitched

00:35:48.680 when he ran in 2020. He said, we're going to restore dignity to America, okay? We're going to

00:35:53.920 restore the soul of America. Bring dignity back to the White House. That's what George W. Bush ran on

00:35:58.380 against Bill, after the Bill Clinton era of the 1990s. But these people don't have better character

00:36:04.960 than Trump. Okay, you can attack anything Trump's done. Oh, he shouldn't have done this. He shouldn't

00:36:08.860 have done that. Yeah, maybe. But his opponents do not have better character than Trump does. In fact,

00:36:15.920 I think their character is much worse. This is why Willie Brown matters. Kamala's married early

00:36:22.960 boyfriend in politics who really helped her get a rise in politics. The reason it matters is it shows you

00:36:27.760 that these people, at the very least, have no better character than Trump. It takes that issue

00:36:31.920 off the table of restoring dignity to the White House. Kamala Harris and Joe Biden and really most

00:36:39.120 of the people around them, they're disreputable people. Kamala Harris is disreputable. She's a liar 0.99

00:36:44.280 on top of that. She lies about her own record. She lies about Biden's degeneration. She lies about a lot

00:36:51.740 of things. Kamala Harris wasn't democratically elected to be the Democrat nominee in 2024. 1.00

00:36:59.340 The threat to democracy argument, that flies out the window there too. Part of the reason to mention

00:37:04.380 stories like this is just to clear away all of the left-wing propaganda used to attack Trump

00:37:10.140 so that we can get to the issues. The border, the economy, foreign affairs, military policy,

00:37:17.600 all the things that really do matter. Because when you get to the issues, Trump wins.

00:37:22.320 Trump's positions on most of these issues are more popular than Kamala's position.

00:37:27.320 So they try to muddy up the waters with all of these personal attacks on Trump.

00:37:30.960 So we have to point out the personal problems with Kamala now and previously with Biden

00:37:37.740 to show that these personal attacks on Trump are totally disingenuous. You want to get back to the

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00:38:09.240 My favorite comment on Friday is from Charit2123, who says,

00:38:13.440 They've taken everything from women, sports, our unique purpose in this universe to give birth, 1.00

00:38:17.720 motherhood, or safety, or voice. We have gone backwards. Yeah, and that's funny how progress with a capital P

00:38:23.640 seems to lead us backward to very unpleasant conditions before the great glories of Christian 1.00

00:38:31.120 civilization, which we are now told are regressive and were bad for women. You think Christian 0.89

00:38:35.740 civilization was bad for women? Just wait until you find out about un-Christian civilization. 1.00

00:38:39.520 Boy, oh boy, that is a lot worse for women. Now, speaking of scandals, let's get to some more 0.99

00:38:45.400 substantive scandals. This was a crazy one. The White House apparently was working on a plea deal

00:38:51.640 for the mastermind of 9-11 and his accomplices. The alleged, I have to say alleged, because he hasn't

00:39:00.060 really faced a trial. The alleged mastermind of the September 11th terror attacks and two other

00:39:04.720 terrorists being held in Gitmo would have been spared the death penalty under a deal with

00:39:10.580 prosecutors. These must be the same prosecutors who wrote up the Hunter Biden plea deal. You get a

00:39:17.120 slap on the wrist. You're basically facing no penalties if you admit to some low crimes, and then

00:39:23.640 it all goes away. Well, these prosecutors have the mastermind of 9-11 and other terrorists at Gitmo,

00:39:30.740 and they give him a plea deal. They say, you'll avoid the death penalty. You just admit you did it,

00:39:36.640 and we won't kill you, and who knows? If another Democrat administration comes into office, maybe

00:39:43.800 they'll just go ship these guys off to a luxury penthouse in Qatar like they do to other terrorists 0.70

00:39:48.220 at Gitmo. A spokesman for the Office of Military Commissions, which is prosecuting the case,

00:39:54.620 confirmed it had entered into pretrial arrangements with Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the accused principal

00:39:59.620 architect of the 9-11 attacks, and two alleged co-conspirators, Waleed Mohammed, Salik Mubarak

00:40:05.440 bin, Natasha, that's a mouthful, and Mustafa Ahmed, Adam al-Hasawi, all of whom have been held at Gitmo

00:40:13.180 since 2003. In exchange for the removal of the death penalty as a possible punishment, these three

00:40:19.240 accused have agreed to plead guilty to all of the charged defenses, including the murder of 2,976 people

00:40:24.300 listed on the charge sheet. Okay. Well, good. It's good for them to fess up to what they did, but

00:40:29.840 call me harsh. Call me old-fashioned. I don't think we really need to give plea deals

00:40:39.680 to terrorists at Gitmo who admit to their crimes. They can admit to it. They cannot admit to it. I

00:40:47.180 don't really care. Why are we giving them plea deals? Why are we lessening their punishments, 0.80

00:40:52.180 especially as we have released so many terrorists from Gitmo to go right back to the battlefield?

00:40:58.400 When there's actually, not only if you defend a retributive justice, but even just from the

00:41:04.960 perspective of protecting the common good, protecting the national defense, why would you

00:41:12.520 even raise the possibility that these people could go back out there? So Lloyd Austin, the defense

00:41:19.880 secretary just finally issued a memo killing the deal. But this raises a lot of questions,

00:41:25.920 which is, hold on, if they already pled guilty, if they already accepted the plea deal, it was

00:41:29.440 offered to them. They accepted the plea deal. They said, okay, we did it. We did 9-11. And now you say,

00:41:34.380 ha ha, okay, well, too bad. We're taking your plea deal away. Well, hold on. Do they have any legal

00:41:40.020 rights here? They held up their side of the bargain. Does the US government have to uphold its side of

00:41:44.160 the bargain? I don't even know that it's possible at this point for the defense secretary to withdraw

00:41:48.680 the plea deal. I hope he does, but I certainly don't trust the Democrats on this. This has been

00:41:54.640 a Democrat soft spot for over 20 years. Democrats for 20 years now have been railing against Gitmo and

00:42:02.780 the poor terrorists who are being held at Gitmo. Barack Obama ran, the first time he ran for

00:42:08.940 president, he ran on closing Guantanamo Bay and emptying it out and letting the terrorists run free.

00:42:13.400 So this has been building for a long time. It's especially a soft spot for the Democrats now

00:42:19.460 because they have the intifada within their own ranks. They have the pro-Palestine protesters

00:42:23.220 who are wearing keffias talking about, you know, the poor beleaguered Islamists, 1.00

00:42:28.340 which is good news for Republicans. This is a hard issue that it didn't just come out of nowhere.

00:42:36.740 The Democrats have been squirming on this issue for a long time.

00:42:41.760 If they don't go soft on Islamic terrorists, their base is going to hate them. That's been 0.83

00:42:49.240 true for a long time. Obama had to campaign on it. But if they do go soft on Islamic terrorists, 0.94

00:42:55.460 normal Americans are going to hate them and they're not going to vote for them in November.

00:43:01.000 Now you add on to this, the Democrats need to maintain the Muslim vote, especially in a swing 0.95

00:43:08.540 state like Michigan. But if they, now zooming out to the, one of the present global conflicts,

00:43:17.160 if they curry too much favor with the Muslim vote in Michigan, they're going to turn off the pro-Israel

00:43:22.600 vote, which they need. But if they go too heavy on the pro-Israel side, they're going to alienate

00:43:27.360 the Muslims in a swing state, which could flip it to the Republicans. They're in a really tight spot.

00:43:33.900 And so what do I want to see happen? Well, I'd like the people behind 9-11 to be behind bars

00:43:40.280 or executed, you know, either of those, I guess is fine with me, but I want them to face the

00:43:47.040 harshest punishments that there are, the most serious punishments that there are. As a matter

00:43:52.060 of electoral politics though, I just want the Democrats to squirm, keep squirming on this.

00:43:57.360 Hey, leftists, hey, keffiyeh-wearing activists, you're going to put up with this? These Democrats

00:44:03.720 are holding the poor beleaguered Islamists at Gitmo for over 20 years now without a trial, 0.58

00:44:10.540 without a plea deal? You're going to let them get away with that? Come on, I want you to take to

00:44:14.160 the streets, leftists. You demand justice for Khalid Sheikh Mohammed. Go on out there and make sure

00:44:20.640 you wave big Democrat signs when you're at those rallies. Maybe burn some American flags. You usually do 0.64

00:44:25.700 that, so make sure you get that in the image too. I want you to really bring some pressure to bear

00:44:30.980 on this Democrat administration. Make them sweat. You're already seeing this from some of the really

00:44:38.160 prominent activists, because there's a big question now. Who is Kamala going to pick for

00:44:41.900 her running mate? Assuming she's, it would appear that she's the Democrat nominee, so who's she going

00:44:46.500 to pick for her running mate? One of the leading contenders would be a smart choice. It'd be Josh

00:44:50.360 Shapiro, who's the governor of Pennsylvania. Democrats have to win Pennsylvania. This is a

00:44:55.760 must-win state. All the swing states matter, but Pennsylvania really matters. Josh Shapiro is a

00:45:00.660 popular governor there, but Josh Shapiro's got a real weakness right now, namely his last name,

00:45:08.580 because the Dems are not so hot on a certain ancient nomadic tribe right now. So Cynthia Nixon, 0.79

00:45:14.120 who's a very popular left-wing activist, and she was an actress, she was a bunch of shows,

00:45:17.240 she is begging Kamala, don't pick Shapiro. Cynthia Nixon says Trump's VP pick was a serious

00:45:23.180 unforced error. Please don't make that same mistake, Kamala. Will you be about more of the

00:45:28.060 same decaying old school politics or someone who unifies and energizes the base? Shapiro is a serious

00:45:34.600 unforced error. And this is in response to a post about Palestinian rights and Palestine

00:45:42.380 liberation movement. So what's funny here is pretty much all of the VP contenders that have been raised

00:45:50.200 for Kamala have roughly the same view on Israel-Palestine. So why is Shapiro the unforced error?

00:45:59.840 It would seem to me because of his last name and his membership in the aforementioned ancient tribe.

00:46:07.260 And I just, I love this conundrum for the Democrats. On the one hand, he's the best choice because they

00:46:13.640 got to win Pennsylvania. On the other hand, he's the worst choice because the Democrat grassroots

00:46:18.300 activists hate the Jews. So what are they going to do? For me, I hope she picks Shapiro because I'm

00:46:26.200 nervous about losing Pennsylvania, but I think the Democrat activist base right now hates the Jews in

00:46:31.460 Israel more than they want to win Pennsylvania. And I think Cynthia Nixon is proving me right. 0.99

00:46:37.620 And I think the campus in Tifada is proving me right. And so go ahead, Kamala, let's go.

00:46:42.340 Your best choice is also your worst choice. That is a position that I want my opponent to be in.

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Ep. 1545 - Libs Panic After Trump Says ＂I Got Shot Because Of That＂

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