The Michael Knowles Show


Ep. 1584 - Biden-Harris DOJ Sues To Allow Non-Citizen Voting


Summary

The Biden-Harris administration is suing the state of Alabama for removing non-citizens from its voter rolls. Is this an election ploy to keep eligible voters off the rolls? Or is it part of a Democratic strategy to prevent non-citizen voters from voting?


Transcript

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00:00:26.120 31st, 2025. TD. Ready for you. The Biden-Harris administration is suing the state of Alabama
00:00:33.480 for removing non-citizens from its voter rolls. On August 13th, Alabama's secretary of state
00:00:41.380 announced a campaign to, quote, remove non-citizens registered to vote in the state. The DOJ has now
00:00:49.560 said that Alabama has no right to do that. No surprise there. Democrats have long fought to
00:00:55.680 protect voter rolls padded with people who should not be there. What is surprising though is the
00:01:02.940 argument that the DOJ is making to keep the people on the voter rolls. Usually Democrats argue that
00:01:09.700 efforts to restrict the voter rolls to eligible voters only are wrong because they will also kick
00:01:16.740 people who should vote off the rolls or that those measures will make it unnecessarily difficult for
00:01:24.040 eligible voters to vote. So the argument they usually make is not that the non-citizens, the ineligible
00:01:30.840 people should vote. It's that, well, we don't want to pass these measures that could inadvertently
00:01:36.940 keep eligible voters from voting. That's usually how they phrase it. In this case, however, the DOJ is
00:01:43.260 basically admitting that the people who would be affected are non-citizens who have no right to vote.
00:01:49.440 The Alabama effort here would only affect 3,251 registered Alabama voters who had been, quote,
00:01:57.980 issued non-citizen identification numbers by the Department of Homeland Security.
00:02:03.600 We are talking about a relatively small number of voters identified by the federal government as
00:02:09.780 ineligible to vote. And still, that same federal government is suing to keep them on the voter rolls.
00:02:16.440 And the only argument they're making is that Alabama waited a little too long to remove them.
00:02:22.800 They should have done it 90 days out, but instead they waited 86 days out.
00:02:27.600 Now, of course, Alabama is a solidly Republican state and 3,000 voters won't affect the election,
00:02:32.700 certainly not there. So what's going on? What's going on is the Biden-Harris DOJ
00:02:37.640 is sending a message that it will not tolerate even the most common sense attempts to prevent
00:02:45.120 non-citizens from voting? Because non-citizen voting, first, the importation of millions of
00:02:51.220 foreigners into the country, then the registering of those foreigners to vote, then the prohibition
00:02:55.760 on removing them from the voter rolls, that is the Democrats' long-term election strategy.
00:03:02.320 You don't need to believe me. You don't need to hear from crazy conspiracy theorists.
00:03:06.340 The DOJ is admitting it itself. Thus far, sorry to report, that strategy appears to be working.
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00:04:27.840 to ensure your title is still in your name. Lots of crazy stuff going on that could possibly
00:04:32.860 affect the election. Every time we say, okay, that's it. That's the last inflection
00:04:38.020 point. Now nothing can change between now and the election. Something happens.
00:04:42.520 They said this when Biden debated Trump. Okay, that's the last chance we have to really shake
00:04:50.220 things up before the election. Then they tried it after the assassination attempt,
00:04:56.800 the very near assassination of Trump. Oh, that's it. That's the last inflection point.
00:05:00.340 Then what? Democrats, well, swapped out their candidate for one.
00:05:03.720 Then there was another assassination attempt on Trump. Then there was the escalation of the war
00:05:10.300 in the Middle East could really change things for Democrats. Then there was this awful, horrific
00:05:14.320 hurricane that absolutely devastated North Carolina and parts of Tennessee over the weekend.
00:05:19.900 We still don't even really have a lot of news out of there because the roads have been shut down,
00:05:23.020 so everyone's praying for them. That's a major potential turning point. Beyond the human tragedy,
00:05:27.060 it's a major turning point just for national politics. And now we have another possible wrinkle.
00:05:32.900 That is, the longshoremen might strike. This is a story you probably haven't read very much about.
00:05:41.960 This could swing the whole election. There is a strike potentially on the horizon that could shut
00:05:50.080 down as many as 36 ports in the United States that handle nearly half the cargo going in and out of the
00:05:55.280 United States. This has been brewing for some time now, but it could finally boil over.
00:06:01.280 Half the ports in the United States could shut down. This would dramatically affect the economy.
00:06:06.460 If the work stoppage goes on for more than a month, this would cause a major shortage of consumer
00:06:12.740 products. This would almost certainly affect Christmas shopping. For every single day of a
00:06:18.720 port strike, experts say it could take four to six days to recover. So if this thing goes on for one
00:06:24.040 week, this is going to create major problems. This would be the first national work stoppage
00:06:28.720 by this union since 1977. All these little things, if all of a sudden the economy really starts to
00:06:36.860 falter, if people can't get the goods and services they need, there's a very good chance they're going
00:06:40.140 to blame the incumbent administration, which is why it's another one of these weird situations where
00:06:44.000 a strike by the longshoremen, the longshoremen don't get what they're asking for.
00:06:48.780 That would be bad for the country. It'd be bad for me personally, because it would be bad for
00:06:54.020 Mayflower cigars, which I need to import into the US ports. It would be bad for Joe Biden,
00:07:00.260 which means it would probably be bad for Kamala Harris, which means it would probably be good for
00:07:04.140 Trump, which means it would probably be good for America in the long run, because it would show what
00:07:09.060 the mainstream media don't want to show, which is just how bad the economy is, just how bad the
00:07:12.880 government has become under Biden and Harris, which would get enough people to vote for Trump that he
00:07:18.140 could get through the election, then we'd have a good economy. One of these very strange situations,
00:07:22.520 I mentioned this about the war in Israel, the Israel-Gaza war, as it escalates, that's basically
00:07:28.500 bad for America, because we are then more likely to get drawn into war. But that's also bad for Biden,
00:07:33.920 which means it's bad for Kamala, which means it's good for Trump, which means it's good for America,
00:07:37.860 and it's good for world peace. So it's this very strange, paradoxical situation. And on that front,
00:07:44.160 this is probably the biggest news out of the war in the Middle East in months, which is that on Friday,
00:07:50.220 Israel assassinated the head of Hezbollah. So Israel already took out the head of Hamas,
00:07:55.700 the organization that runs Gaza. Now they took out the head of Hezbollah, which is the terrorist
00:08:00.660 organization, not to Israel's west, but to Israel's north. They took him out in a bunker buster bomb.
00:08:07.200 This is after they blew up the walkie-talkies held by the Hezbollah members. That's after they blew up
00:08:13.800 the pagers that were being held by Hezbollah members, which didn't succeed in killing many
00:08:19.040 people in Hezbollah, but it did seriously demoralize them. If you just think about where
00:08:24.100 you hold a pager, where you keep that usually in your pocket, on your waist, on your belt,
00:08:28.580 real way to demoralize a terror group. This, again, terrible for Kamala. Anytime Israel is in
00:08:39.240 the news, this is bad for Kamala because Israel is a wedge issue for the Democrats. The activist
00:08:43.460 base hates Israel. The young voters really hate Israel. The older voters and the more establishment
00:08:48.980 donor class broadly likes Israel. So it's just an issue. Anytime Israel comes up into the news,
00:08:53.740 anytime the Biden-Harris administration is responsible for responding or not responding
00:08:59.220 or really just being at the wheel while Israel goes in and wages this war, that's going to be
00:09:05.020 bad news for the Democrats, which is good for America. People are having a hard time making sense
00:09:10.620 of this war in the Middle East. I think I'm going to give a speech on this. I'm supposed to speak at UC
00:09:18.520 Berkeley on October 7th, which is the anniversary of the Hamas terror attack in Israel, which then
00:09:25.600 kicks off this big war that has led to all these campus protests. October 7th is also the Feast of
00:09:31.820 Our Lady of Victory, Our Lady of the Holy Rosary, which is the anniversary of the Battle of Lepanto,
00:09:36.340 one of the most important battles in the history of civilization when Muslim Turks should have destroyed
00:09:42.900 the European forces in the Holy League. If you just look at the numbers of the actual military
00:09:48.100 forces, it's inexplicable that the Holy League and the Christian West would have won, but we did,
00:09:53.820 and that victory is attributed to the intercession of Our Lady, which is why the Feast of the Holy
00:09:57.920 Rosary was instituted. This, of course, followed the Battle of Tours, which was the first time that
00:10:03.940 the Muslims very nearly conquered all of Europe in 732, 150 miles outside of Paris. These battles have
00:10:10.840 been going on for a long time, and so I think people really misunderstand what these holy wars in
00:10:16.280 the holy land especially are about. So I think I might give a speech about the Crusades, which were
00:10:23.400 a defensive war and were extraordinarily justified, and without an understanding of which, you can't
00:10:29.400 really understand this war in the Middle East, which to me seems ultimately to come down to.
00:10:34.960 From the perspective of a Christian, who's better to administer the holy land?
00:10:38.360 Muslims, Arabs, maybe Turks, especially Turks, who were the enemy combatant in the Crusades,
00:10:48.480 or the state of Israel? That doesn't seem to me to be a very difficult question, but we will get
00:10:54.680 into all of that in maybe at UC Berkeley. We'll see how it goes. It seems like a good opportunity,
00:11:00.840 at the very least, to discuss holy war and why people don't really understand holy war anymore.
00:11:04.880 They don't understand Islam. They don't understand Christianity, and that's why they misunderstand
00:11:08.920 the Israel-Gaza conflict. Now, speaking of holy war, something phenomenal happened yesterday.
00:11:17.120 It was a post on social media by President Trump. I am downright elated by this post. I'm still
00:11:23.500 thinking about it with joy even this morning. Trump posted a picture, one of my favorite paintings.
00:11:31.640 It's the Guido Reni painting from the 17th century of St. Michael the Archangel.
00:11:38.980 My patron, of course, I'm named Michael. I have this exact painting somewhere on this set,
00:11:46.700 though it's a little bit hidden, so you've got to try to figure out where it is. But it's in my show
00:11:49.680 every single day. And Donald Trump tweeted out the St. Michael prayer. St. Michael the Archangel,
00:11:54.780 defend us in battle, be our defense against the wickedness and snares of the devil. May God rebuke
00:11:57.700 him, we humbly pray, and do thou, Prince of the Heavenly Host, by the power of God thrust into hell,
00:12:01.020 Satan and all evil spirits are proud about the world, seeking the ruin of souls. That's all he
00:12:04.060 posted. Robert Reich, who was the labor secretary under Bill Clinton, he's a huge lib. Well, he's
00:12:12.640 not huge. Physically, he's got a form of dwarfism or something, so sometimes people point that out
00:12:18.620 about him. But he's a huge political figure. He's been a big figure in politics for a long time.
00:12:22.360 He typified, he exemplified the left-wing reaction to Trump posting this prayer. He says,
00:12:30.780 Trump increasingly suggests that he is God's chosen instrument of wrath and that his opponents
00:12:37.700 are evil spirits to be cast into hell. If you don't find this terrifying, you're not paying attention.
00:12:45.480 It's because Trump posted the St. Michael prayer on the Feast of St. Michael. The Feast of St.
00:12:51.900 Michael, also known as Michaelmas, has been celebrated by Christians for about 1,500 years.
00:12:58.000 Veneration of St. Michael has gone on much, basically for the whole history of the church.
00:13:01.860 But even the celebration of a feast to St. Michael has been going on for about 1,500 years.
00:13:08.460 It is celebrated by all sorts of Christians, Catholics notably, but also the Eastern Orthodox,
00:13:17.460 also many Protestants, Anglicans, and Lutherans notably. This is pretty mainstream, pretty widespread,
00:13:23.920 and it goes back a very, very long time. This prayer that Donald Trump posted was a prayer composed,
00:13:30.880 I believe, in 1886 by Pope Leo XIII, one of the great popes, recent popes. You'd say recent popes
00:13:38.100 because the church goes back a long time. He composed it after he had a mystical vision
00:13:43.220 of a conversation between God and Satan, in which Satan said that he would attempt to destroy the
00:13:51.240 church over the next hundred years, and God was going to give him in his permissive will
00:13:54.440 the opportunity to do that, to prove that the gates of hell will not prevail against the church,
00:13:59.580 and the church will endure. Also, the 1880s is this time when communism is really beginning to
00:14:06.600 spread. Pope Leo XIII took a very hard line against communism. This prayer was recited after every
00:14:14.720 low mass in the world from 1886 until about 1964. This has obviously spiritual import, but it was also
00:14:25.180 specifically to oppose the scourge of communism, which is a demonic ideology that was spreading at
00:14:31.020 that time, and which took as its chief enemy God in the church. So Trump posts this prayer,
00:14:39.620 and my friend Seamus Coughlin over at Freedom Tunes pointed this out. He posts this prayer,
00:14:44.080 which was composed specifically to threaten demons and pray for God's help and St. Michael's
00:14:51.400 intercessory help to oppose demons and the devil. And then all these libs got really scared about it.
00:14:57.040 He said, oh no, hold on, wait. Hold on, you've got this prayer that's supposed to punish demons?
00:15:04.640 Ah, get that out of here. We can't tolerate that. Shows you just, first of all, shows you how
00:15:12.120 wicked the left has become. Although I guess the left has been wicked forever. Going back to the
00:15:18.640 French Revolution when they were beheading kings and queens and opposing order and civilization and
00:15:23.980 the church. But also, Robert Reich's and the left's reaction to this broadly shows you that
00:15:31.540 religious and historical ignorance among our elite class in America has reached record highs.
00:15:41.180 I'm not saying I expect all of these people to be Christian. I'm not saying I expect all of these
00:15:45.160 people to be moral or virtuous or anything like that. I do expect them to know really basic stuff.
00:15:53.160 I do expect them to know really basic historical aspects of the faith that has defined our whole
00:15:59.980 civilization. I do expect them to have basic biblical and religious history. I do expect them to at least
00:16:09.760 like Google stuff before they react to it. And they can't. They don't do that.
00:16:15.560 The blithe ignorance of our elite class is troubling, even beyond the questions of good and evil, even beyond the
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00:18:00.800 there is an official in the state of Oklahoma who is trying to reverse some of the ignorance that has
00:18:09.280 set in in the last 70 years of education. That would be the school's chief in Oklahoma who is
00:18:17.520 making sure that there will be a Bible placed in every single school in the state of Oklahoma to combat
00:18:25.660 the woke, leftist, dumb curricula that are in those schools today. We will be chatting with that
00:18:32.080 Oklahoma school's chief a little bit later on in the show, so stay tuned for that. First, though,
00:18:36.760 on the question of free speech, which is certainly up for debate everywhere, but including in these
00:18:42.660 curricula fights, the left just thought that it got a real hit on Elon Musk. The left just posted
00:18:54.120 this article, it's in The Bite, about how Twitter bans are up under the supposed free speech absolutist,
00:19:03.260 Elon Musk. And this article was going viral. It was listed on Drudge Report. Twitter under free speech
00:19:08.940 absolutist, Elon Musk, is actually suspending way more people than before. This is not the gotcha that
00:19:16.820 they think it is. They think it is. They think it's proof of Elon's hypocrisy. I think it's actually
00:19:23.040 proof that Elon Musk understands free speech a lot better, certainly than the woke libs, but also
00:19:29.300 better than the self-styled free speech absolutists. I won't read the whole article. It's worth checking
00:19:34.480 out. It says, how frequently Twitter cooperates with government requests under Musk's stewardship
00:19:40.860 is perhaps what contradicts this free speech vision the most. As the Washington Post noted,
00:19:46.900 the site complied with 71% of the thousands of legal requests it received to takedown posts on its
00:19:52.080 platform in the first half of this year. The highest it had been before that was just over
00:19:57.160 50% in 2021, with most pre-Musk years falling even lower. So you're saying, government requests to
00:20:05.720 takedown posts on Twitter have been accepted. Elon's been playing ball with the federal government,
00:20:13.800 more so even than his predecessors. But notice it doesn't say which requests.
00:20:19.020 Because in the pre-Elon days, the federal government requests Twitter to censor, for instance,
00:20:25.260 the Hunter Biden laptop story that single-handedly could have thrown the 2020 election to Trump
00:20:30.240 rather than Biden, according to exit polls after that election. Pre-Elon Twitter complied with those
00:20:37.100 requests, didn't comply with some other requests. Elon's Twitter does not censor stories
00:20:42.020 that are harmful to Democrats. Does not censor stories that are helpful to Trump.
00:20:48.720 So, I don't know, maybe Elon's Twitter is taking more requests to remove, I don't know,
00:20:53.100 things like child pornography or threats or the promotion of drugs or other crime. Sure.
00:20:58.980 But the politically relevant stories, Musk is not complying with those requests, manifestly.
00:21:05.620 That's a substantive difference. The article goes on. The most high-profile instance came from Brazil
00:21:13.100 after a high court judge threatened to block Twitter in its borders if the site didn't ban
00:21:16.860 several accounts that were deemed to be spreading misinformation. Musk initially resisted clinging to
00:21:21.020 his free speech values, but eventually gave into the demand. See, Twitter decided to play ball in
00:21:26.160 Brazil so that the company wouldn't be banned in Brazil. See, Musk is a huge hypocrite.
00:21:32.480 Any big social media site will require some moderation, but Musk's track record has shown
00:21:36.860 that he doesn't apply his rules equally. Here we go. In addition to personally reinstating the
00:21:41.320 accounts of people he liked, often prominent right-wingers, including Donald Trump, he has
00:21:44.700 also banned journalists that were vocal critics of him and his allies. Elon Musk doesn't treat
00:21:52.580 good, truthful accounts that are conducive to political flourishing the same as he treats
00:21:59.140 bad, lying accounts that are in any case harmful to political flourishing. What a hypocrite.
00:22:05.940 You hear this from the left sometimes when they disingenuously say, you promote good things,
00:22:11.220 but you suppress bad things. What a hypocrite. No, it's not hypocritical to treat different things
00:22:16.760 differently. And then finally, the article concludes, just this week, the platform suspended
00:22:20.820 the account of a journalist for sharing a link to a hacked dossier on J.D. Vance,
00:22:24.540 Trump's pick for VP. Musk has endorsed Trump and is reportedly bankrolling his campaign.
00:22:28.900 This is the way. This is the way, folks. Two big charges in this article. Elon plays ball with
00:22:35.820 the government sometimes, and Elon is softer on conservatives than he is on radical leftists.
00:22:43.520 Both of those things are very good. The social media platforms exist within a political order.
00:22:53.040 So they have to play ball with the government. If they don't play ball with the government,
00:22:56.040 they're going to end up like Telegram and Elon's going to get arrested in Paris or something like
00:22:59.920 that. They're going to end up like these other social media networks that are targets of all sorts
00:23:04.680 of different governments because they're not really within the political order of any government.
00:23:10.040 Twitter does not exist outside of the political order. It's part of the political order. It's
00:23:15.440 part of the public square that exists within nations, within certain polities. And furthermore,
00:23:22.180 good and bad are not the same, and we can't be neutral about those things.
00:23:25.500 And we can't just have total, absolute free speech because that's never existed anywhere,
00:23:30.060 and it can't exist anywhere because people have standards and norms and taboos,
00:23:32.960 which is the subject of my book, Speechless, Controlling Words, Controlling Minds.
00:23:36.040 Thank you. Every platform, every society, every association is going to have certain standards
00:23:42.360 and norms that it enforces. The question is, what kind of standards and norms? Currently,
00:23:47.260 all of the public square basically is rigged in favor of radical leftism against conservatism.
00:23:53.940 Elon is saying, no, we're going to privilege normal stuff over radical, harmful leftist stuff.
00:23:59.380 That is good. That is the way. You want to protect free speech, whatever we mean by free speech?
00:24:05.000 Change. Follow what Elon's doing. It is great. There's so much more to say. First, though,
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00:25:46.840 Elon Musk, he's probably the most famous African-American in the world. There is an article
00:25:52.380 by the Washington Post, a little study that is making the rounds because of its apparent racial
00:25:59.040 implications. The Washington Post did a survey of the most left-leaning names and the most right-leaning
00:26:05.980 names in politics. We're talking about names today. We're talking about Michael Miss. My name is
00:26:10.780 Michael. I have to say Michael. Most left-leaning names by age, and it breaks it down, women and men,
00:26:20.720 and then by age. 24 and under, 25 to 35, 35 to 45, and so on. Most left-leaning names.
00:26:30.240 Just guess. Get some guesses in your mind. Imani, Nia, Ashanti, Fatima, Ayana, Imani, Nia,
00:26:39.800 Shaniqua, Tamika, Saeed, Latoya, Lashanda, Latoya, Tamika, Lashanda, Lakeisha, Latanya, Althea. Okay,
00:26:50.480 you get the point. Well, I'll even refrain from making the point until you hear. These are the men's
00:26:57.420 names. Malik, Jalen, Jalen, Darius, Jermaine, Javon, DeAndre, Shaquille, Jamal, Demetrius,
00:27:03.280 Jamel, Jermaine, MD. I guess that's short for Muhammad. Jermaine, Demetrius, Darnell, Abdul,
00:27:08.940 Muhammad, Darnell, Cedric. Okay. Okay. You got a picture. You got a picture in your mind of what
00:27:16.220 people with those names look like. Now, the most right-leaning names by age.
00:27:20.220 Women, then men. Gracie, Regan, Ashlyn, Allie, Bailey, Ashton, Carly, Kylie, Lacey, Bobby, Mandy,
00:27:27.400 Rebecca, Darla, Svetlana, Svetlana, Christy, Ginger, Dixie. Okay. And then men. Brock, Colton,
00:27:35.520 Dalton, Lane, Colton, Lane, Brock, Brayden, Heath, Clint, Tanner, Cody, Cody, Scotty, Clint, Heath,
00:27:41.320 Chad, Ty. Okay. You get close your eyes. Do those names suggest any pictures to you? Do they? No.
00:27:50.240 In our politically correct age, we're not allowed to admit that you close your eyes and you think,
00:27:54.660 huh, what does someone whose name is Shaniqua or Lakeisha look a little different than someone
00:28:01.040 whose name is Ginger or Chad or something like that? So of course, people who are not acquiescing
00:28:08.280 to political correctness are coming out and they're saying, okay, well, hold on. All the left-leaning
00:28:12.080 names are black people names and all the white-leaning names are white people names. And it's
00:28:16.840 not even ambiguous. It's the most left-leaning names are the most characteristically black people
00:28:25.220 names and all of the most right-leaning names are like the whitest names you ever heard in your entire
00:28:31.400 life. So I think some people are concluding from this that we just have this permanent racial divide
00:28:38.780 on politics. And of course, black people overwhelmingly vote for Democrats, 90% plus,
00:28:44.160 and white people are certainly more split, but black people, it's very clear they vote for Democrats.
00:28:49.500 So is that it? It's just this permanent racial divide. That's all there is to it.
00:28:52.720 That's certainly what Democrats are thinking. That's why Democrats are importing people into the
00:28:56.860 country who come from the ethnic and racial groups that they think are going to give them a permanent
00:29:01.140 electoral majority. I think it's a little more complicated than that though. Because while the
00:29:07.720 superficial read on this is that there's just some permanent racial divide, first of all,
00:29:12.960 black people have been Republicans for a significant portion of American history and
00:29:17.220 it's complicated how the parties have developed. But first of all, think beyond just the racial
00:29:23.800 caricature and the stereotype. Think specifically of the name. So we say, okay, all the most left-leaning
00:29:29.920 names are names associated with black people. But I notice on that list of the most left-leaning
00:29:36.800 names, there are not a lot of Clarences or Ben's or Thomas's or Byron's. Those are all names associated
00:29:48.780 with very famous black people. Clarence Thomas, Ben Carson, Thomas Sowell, Byron Donalds. The list goes
00:29:57.880 on and on. But you don't see those names. Not a lot of Clarences, not a lot of Ben's, not a lot of
00:30:02.440 Thomas's. So what is that? Well, a lot of these names, by the way, a lot of the names that are
00:30:08.660 really associated as a matter of caricature with black people are of relatively recent vintage. A lot of them
00:30:14.560 come out of the black power movement. A lot of them come out of the various forms of Islam that took
00:30:19.560 hold in American black communities in the 1970s. The names themselves are a reflect, I'm not saying
00:30:26.620 they have nothing to do with racial identity and culture, but they are reflections of an ideological
00:30:34.120 orientation and culture. That the name is where it is. It's not that it goes down to the DNA or
00:30:40.380 something. It's that there's something about a name that is actually even deeper and more significant
00:30:47.880 than race or geography or location or something like that.
00:30:56.200 One thing that conservatives ought to do is recognize we're probably not going to win over
00:31:02.480 people named like, um, Malcolm X, uh, Elijah Muhammad, the fourth, you know, that's going to be tough
00:31:10.960 because that implies certain ideological, uh, predispositions, but there's no reason that
00:31:19.220 Republicans can't win over black people and Hispanic people. And there's no, there's no necessary reason,
00:31:26.240 but it, the people we're going to win over, I think are going to be less predictable based on race
00:31:31.180 than they are based on things like religion, based on things like education, based on things like
00:31:36.380 habituation and culture. And it's going to be, it's going to be people named Clarence and Byron and Ben
00:31:44.160 and Thomas. That's what it's going to be. It's going to be, there's, there's a lot to a name and we,
00:31:50.540 we have to be much more careful about that. This is of course, why the left spends so much time
00:31:54.440 trying to control language because if they, they can control the language, they believe they control
00:31:58.160 the whole, the whole political order. Now, speaking of, uh, inducements to the right or to the left
00:32:05.740 Newsweek, this is my, this is my favorite political article that's come out in, in months,
00:32:12.100 if not years. Newsweek has a hot scoop. Pull over your car. If you're driving, please sit down. If
00:32:17.700 you're standing up, how hot girls became the right's new obsession. Stop the presses. These crazy
00:32:30.240 right wingers are, are attracted. They like beautiful women. And it opens up, it all began
00:32:38.360 with Sydney Sweeney's cleavage. And it talks about how, you know, people on the right sort of like that,
00:32:42.980 that Sydney Sweeney. I think we've reached peak sexual confusion. It's been building for a long
00:32:50.580 time, certainly since the 1960s, probably since the 1760s. But, but we've now reached the point
00:32:58.880 where left wingers are scratching their heads, drooling and befuddled because conservatives
00:33:04.200 like beautiful women. It is good for those who are confused, for the Newsweek editors, it is good
00:33:15.180 to have an affinity for beautiful women. More broadly, it is good to have an affinity for beautiful
00:33:23.520 things and persons and creatures and ideas in general. That's good. It's good to be attracted to
00:33:32.540 beautiful things. And it is good to be repelled by ugly things. And we don't want to be superficial
00:33:38.500 about that. Certain people can, you know, be a little more homely or deformed or something. And
00:33:43.820 that, but, and the physical isn't all there is. So there's an interior reality that can be quite
00:33:47.400 beautiful and that we should be attracted to also. But, but what the left educates for today
00:33:52.320 is a perverse attraction to things that are ugly, to things that are discordant,
00:33:57.920 to things that are contrary to reason, to things that are absurd. That's what they educate for.
00:34:04.120 And don't forget, we bring up Aristotle, what, at least three times a week on this show. But
00:34:08.420 Aristotle has a lot to say about education. And he points out that education begins not just by
00:34:13.220 stuffing facts into your head, but by cultivating tastes. That's why the left goes into the elementary
00:34:19.740 schools and tries to cultivate not even a strong leftist ideology, but just tries to cultivate
00:34:27.880 disordered desires and appetites. That's why it's putting all the gay porn into kindergartens,
00:34:31.760 which we'll get to in just a moment. So it really is at first a matter of taste. This is why the left
00:34:38.480 feels so threatened by like pretty women. Now it opens up on the bit about Sidney Sweeney's cleavage.
00:34:45.500 Of course, the attraction to beautiful things needs to be circumscribed by morality and ethics. And we
00:34:52.700 don't want to become lecherous. We don't want to become vain or, you know, lustful or anything like
00:34:58.960 that. That's also going to redound to the benefit of the left. But the basic attraction to beautiful
00:35:03.480 things, that is the key political flame for conservatism. If you have just in your gut,
00:35:15.500 a desire to preserve beautiful things rather than to destroy beautiful things in pursuit of
00:35:22.820 ugliness as the left has, you are much more likely to be a conservative. That's why they got to snuff that
00:35:28.180 out. And when they find out that there's even one young man in America who is not gay, trans,
00:35:37.960 castrating himself on all sorts of drugs. And when they find out there's one young man in America
00:35:43.480 who thinks that Sidney Sweeney is hot, they got to snuff that out. That is really bad.
00:35:48.560 That's really terrible. Because it's really not about Sidney Sweeney or the cleavage or anything
00:35:53.600 like that. It is about a much deeper left-wing aversion to beauty because beauty leads us to
00:35:59.780 the other transcendentals, goodness and truth. And the libs can't have that. You know, the 2024
00:36:05.900 vice presidential debate between J.D. Vance and Tim Walsh is coming to Daily Wire Plus tomorrow night.
00:36:10.020 But these debates are better with friends, especially friends who can spot every lie
00:36:14.040 and false promise. That is why we're doing a special backstage with pre-show analysis from
00:36:19.600 Ben Shapiro, Matt Walsh, Andrew Klavan, Jeremy Boring, and yours truly. And you can stick around
00:36:25.620 for a post-debate breakdown with insights you will not hear anywhere else. The VP debate is tomorrow
00:36:31.300 night, 8.30 p.m. Eastern time on Daily Wire Plus. My favorite comment yesterday, or on Friday,
00:36:37.500 I suppose, is from Crizzo9505, who says, in other words, we lost another election already. No!
00:36:45.500 It's my favorite comment because a lot of conservatives think this way, but I don't
00:36:49.380 like the sentiment. No. This is, I suppose, in response to all these illegals, non-citizens
00:36:55.800 being registered to vote. No. We have not lost the election already. That is doomer,
00:37:02.580 black pill, loser behavior. That is the kind of, I don't, if you have that attitude,
00:37:09.840 I don't want, get out of my team. I don't want you on my team if you have that kind of attitude.
00:37:14.420 That is the attitude that the libs want to cultivate. We know that the libs don't think
00:37:20.280 they have the election in the bag. You know why we know that? Because they're spending a ton
00:37:23.660 of money on TV ads because they're justifying multiple assassination attempts against Trump,
00:37:28.900 because they're trying to lock him up in prison, because they're trying to register non-citizens
00:37:32.620 to vote, because they're doing everything they can to get any additional advantage in the election,
00:37:38.380 which means they don't think they have it in the bag. The left has a lot of political power.
00:37:43.580 The left controls basically every institution in the country. The levers of government are broadly
00:37:49.960 rigged for the left. That's all true. But these people are not omnipotent. And you doomer,
00:37:54.340 black pill people who say it's all for naught, drive me up a wall because you make the left into
00:37:58.740 God or something like that. The left is not God. Okay. Enough of that. No doomerism in early October.
00:38:06.420 Okay. Is it October yet? No, it's almost October. Okay. We got like a little over a month left.
00:38:10.840 Cut it out. Stop discouraging people. Good grief. Now, there's a lot more going on in the
00:38:19.300 presidential election. We'll get to that tomorrow. There's plenty of time to talk about that. I have
00:38:23.160 to talk about something in schools right now. We found this. Our team here at The Daily Wire got a
00:38:29.400 tip about this. In Kent, Ohio, there is a school that has created a list of banned books
00:38:36.260 and then instructed 14-year-olds to read them. So they have this big sign up there,
00:38:41.380 read banned books, which of course, if you are literate or in any way reasonable, you would notice
00:38:47.040 if a public institution is encouraging you to read a book, it is not a banned book, obviously.
00:38:53.140 But it says, read banned books. Check out a banned book today. Caution, caution, caution.
00:38:57.660 So we looked into what these books are, just to give you a sense. One of the books is This Book is Gay.
00:39:03.400 It's written by this guy, James Juno Dawson. He's a man who says that he's a woman. It targets
00:39:08.100 sexually confused adolescents, and it contains extremely graphic sexual instructions. He writes
00:39:13.140 about what he calls girl-on-girl sex. He tells teenage girls that they might like to have, quote,
00:39:18.900 stuff poked up their derrieres. He writes about the bodies of trans women. This is to, like,
00:39:24.600 very young girls. He instructs girls as young as 14 to do, I don't even, I'm not even going to read it
00:39:30.020 on the air, because I have a nice show, and I don't want it to be polluted with this guy's
00:39:33.540 disgusting, perverse sex stuff. But he instructs them to do unnatural things. He instructs little
00:39:39.400 boys to do unnatural sex things in disgusting language. We reached out to the school for
00:39:45.460 comment. You're going to be shocked to hear. We got a little bit of the runaround. You know,
00:39:48.940 they sent us around, no, you got to call this person. No, you got to call that person.
00:39:52.100 Eventually, we're referred to the superintendent, Tom Larkin. I haven't gotten a response back yet.
00:39:56.540 This is in a Trump voting county. This is in a GOP state congressional district. This is not San
00:40:04.480 Francisco. This is not New York City. This is not Gomorrah-by-the-Sea Los Angeles. This is
00:40:09.060 Trump country. This is Ohio, okay? What they call banned books are obviously not banned books.
00:40:19.580 Many Republicans are arguing we should not ban books. But we necessarily do ban books all the time.
00:40:26.200 There's always, you know, there are only so many weeks in a semester. There are only so many books
00:40:29.740 you can actually read in school. There are choices that have to be made with finite resources.
00:40:33.520 No one's, no one thinks, as far as I know, no one thinks we should put the anarchist cookbook
00:40:37.900 teaching kids how to make bombs in elementary schools. Maybe that's the next one that left is
00:40:42.140 going to push. But we obviously have to circumscribe certain things. The question is not,
00:40:48.020 are we going to ban books or not ban books? The question is, what books are we going to have in
00:40:50.420 schools? In the 50s, you could teach the Bible in schools. You couldn't teach gay porn in elementary
00:40:55.080 schools. Today, you basically have to teach gay porn in the elementary schools, but you're not allowed
00:41:00.620 to teach the Bible in any school. Seems to me we had it better in the 50s. Call me crazy, call me old
00:41:06.340 fashioned. I'm not the only person who thinks this, though. We have the chief of Oklahoma schools
00:41:15.480 on the show to discuss his plan, which he just announced to put a Bible in every Oklahoma school.
00:41:25.700 Here's just a little clip of that announcement. The first thing I want to talk about is a request
00:41:31.080 that we're going to be making in this budget, and it will be a request for $3 million to provide
00:41:37.960 Bibles to the Oklahoma classrooms. We have talked about ensuring that our history courses include
00:41:45.880 the role the Bible played throughout American history. We've talked about the efforts of left-wing
00:41:53.140 groups and the teachers unions to drive the Bible out of school. I believe it's important for historical
00:41:59.660 context for our kids to understand the role the Bible played. And so that $3 million ask is provided
00:42:07.360 in the budget in front of you. That would be in conjunction with the $3 million that we're
00:42:12.360 putting forth currently to provide Bibles in the classroom. So this would give us the ability
00:42:17.480 to utilize $6 million in less than two years to ensure that the Bible hasn't been driven out of
00:42:23.920 Oklahoma classrooms and would be a significant step for the state of Oklahoma to ensure that we're not
00:42:29.900 allowing the left to censor American history. The man behind that very excellent plan joins the show
00:42:36.800 now, Ryan Walters. Ryan, thank you for coming on the show.
00:42:40.080 Thank you for having me on, Michael.
00:42:41.880 You have done something that would have been not only uncontroversial, unobjectionable,
00:42:49.960 just, I don't know, five, six decades ago. You're doing something that would have been common sense.
00:42:55.640 People would have scratched their heads at your plan for the schools because it's so obvious. Why are
00:43:01.820 you even, why are you even announcing this? Today, however, the left is losing its mind
00:43:07.720 over your plan. What motivated you to do it? Well, you know, what we've seen in our school
00:43:13.000 since the 1960s, you saw the United States Supreme Court have all these rulings against prayer and the
00:43:18.160 Bible in schools. And look at what's happened to society since then. What's happened to society when
00:43:22.920 we started telling kids that the only influences in American history were secular, that the Bible and the
00:43:28.600 Christian faith and the Judeo-Christian values of so many in this country didn't play a role. Well,
00:43:33.540 that's not what the individuals in our history said. They quoted the Bible extensively. They
00:43:38.560 talked about it throughout all of their actions that were significant. And so when you look at our
00:43:43.040 history classes and you look at our school rooms, you see the Bible that has been removed, forcibly,
00:43:47.820 they threaten lawsuits for any teacher that quotes the Bible, uses a Bible verse, even when it's just a
00:43:53.000 quote from someone throughout our history. And then, as you pointed out earlier in your show,
00:43:56.500 on the other hand, in our state, we had the teachers union forcing books like Flamer and
00:44:00.900 Gender Queer End. So in their mind, inclusivity means graphic gay porn for first graders, but no
00:44:08.240 historical context of the Bible. I mean, it's absurd. We're not going to put up with it. Our young
00:44:13.180 people need to understand the role that the Bible played in American history, and every student in
00:44:17.600 Oklahoma is going to understand that. So let me just ask what the left is promoting all over the
00:44:24.420 country right now. Are you in Oklahoma now forcing school children in public taxpayer-funded schools
00:44:33.900 to be Christian? They've got to practice the Christian religion. You theocrats in Oklahoma,
00:44:40.240 is that what you're doing? Absolutely not. Look, we're not pushing a religion on kids. We're not
00:44:45.040 forcing a religion on kids. What we're doing is teaching history. And here's the reality. How do
00:44:49.120 you teach the history of America? Let's just use a few examples. Why did the pilgrims come to America?
00:44:54.660 Good luck explaining that without mentioning their faith, without mentioning the Bible. You look at
00:44:59.540 every president extensively quoted Bible verses. I'm going to give you one more recent example.
00:45:04.660 In our schools, we require the school districts to talk about Martin Luther King's letter from a
00:45:09.000 Birmingham jail. An incredible letter, right? Remember, he's in a jail. He's been in prison. He has people
00:45:13.660 out criticizing him very vocally. How can you justify breaking the law if you're some moral
00:45:18.760 upstanding citizen, right? And he says, well, listen, I'm a Christian. He quotes in his letter
00:45:24.200 from a Birmingham jail, the examples of Daniel, Shanrak, Meshach, and Abednego and says, listen,
00:45:29.520 I'm a Christian. I follow biblical examples, which tell me sometimes I don't have to obey the law if it
00:45:35.180 doesn't coincide with God's law. How do you explain Martin Luther King's position if you take out the Bible
00:45:41.660 and his Christian faith? It's absurd. It's lying to kids. It's academic malpractice to pretend like
00:45:48.020 faith didn't have a major role in American history. I think this is the key, really.
00:45:53.840 There are deeper educational points about how education can never be neutral. This was,
00:45:59.200 I think, a trick the left played on us. They pretended that atheism and radical leftism is
00:46:04.180 somehow neutral. You know, anything that was previously taught or believed in our country or
00:46:09.740 civilization, that was somehow partisan and extreme and sectarian. But this radical leftism
00:46:15.880 that now, you know, pretends that little boys can be little girls and encourages them to go on
00:46:19.700 puberty blockers, that's somehow neutral and scientific and beyond these philosophical and
00:46:26.280 theological debates. That's obviously absurd. There's no such thing as neutrality. Education has
00:46:30.640 to teach something. The point of education is to seek and inculcate the truth, and the truth is
00:46:35.720 exclusive. It excludes things like falsehood and that which contradicts the truth. But put all of
00:46:40.320 that aside. Put aside even the fact that education necessarily has a moral component. It is to cultivate
00:46:45.600 good habits that allow one even to perceive and, you know, attain the truth. Put even that aside for
00:46:54.720 a second. You know, you're not going to be, you're not going to do very well in education if you're
00:46:57.580 shooting up heroin and, you know, sleeping in until 12 noon. Put all that aside. It's a long preface.
00:47:04.880 How can you be an educated person without knowing the Bible? You go into a museum. How do you understand
00:47:12.060 the paintings on the wall from like any historical period if you don't understand the Bible? How do you
00:47:19.480 read the speeches of Abraham Lincoln, which are basically imitations of the King James Bible? How do you
00:47:26.400 know anything? I mean, even if you're an atheist, Ryan, it would seem to me you have to admit the
00:47:32.940 Bible is the most significant book ever written. Look, that's exactly right. And here's the reality
00:47:40.460 is, look, the left can be offended by it. They cannot agree with it. They cannot like it, but they
00:47:45.340 can't rewrite our history. And that's the reality is, and I pose this question to some of our critics on
00:47:52.120 the left. So how do you determine what books are in schools in a literature class? If, if, if the
00:47:57.440 basis is, well, what was being read by the population, what influenced society? Okay. Well, how is the
00:48:02.180 Bible not in that discussion? I mean, if the Bible, the most read book in American history, the most
00:48:06.560 cited book in American history isn't included in the context of American literature to understand
00:48:11.540 society. I mean, it's really a joke. And this is to your point, what the left has, has pulled over
00:48:16.780 on our, on our, on our education institutions. They have pretended like this is neutral, that
00:48:21.940 excluding and removing and censoring the role faith played in American history is somehow a neutral
00:48:26.420 position. And I laid it out in our meeting last week. Listen, that's a choice, you know, not taking
00:48:32.300 action and allowing the left to drive this out of our schools is a choice. You are choosing to lie to
00:48:37.240 our kids that the people who had such an influence in this country, their faith didn't play a role when
00:48:42.560 those people said it did play a role. When those individuals like John Adams said, morality is
00:48:48.060 essential for this Republic to work moving forward. These are quotations. These are what they said in
00:48:53.740 their time, what influenced them and what they thought was important in this nation's history.
00:48:58.280 And again, regardless of whether you're an atheist or whether you're another religion, that doesn't
00:49:02.240 matter. This is our history. You have to understand our history in order for us to make proper
00:49:06.580 decisions moving forward as a country. Of course, of course. I'm now even thinking, how do you make sense of
00:49:11.900 the American Revolution, which derives one of the earliest flags was an appeal to heaven? Justice
00:49:18.520 Alito got in trouble for flying this classic American flag at his home. An appeal to heaven.
00:49:24.280 What does that come from? It comes from a line from John Locke's Second Treatise of Government.
00:49:27.440 The appeal to heaven suggests that one can appeal even above the head of a king to heaven. How do you
00:49:33.580 make sense of that if you don't have some sense of the Bible? How do you make sense of the Civil War?
00:49:38.180 We think of the battle hymn of the Republic.
00:49:39.440 Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord. He is stamping out the vintage where the grapes
00:49:43.060 of wrath are stored. If you have no biblical literacy, how do you make sense of that? To your
00:49:47.840 point, the Civil Rights Movement is so frequently grounded in the Bible, in religion. It's so obvious
00:49:55.960 to me that the consequence of taking God out of schools is not that students are freer thinkers or
00:50:04.120 somehow more open-minded. I suppose it's that they're so open-minded their brains have fallen
00:50:08.900 out and they don't actually really know anything anymore. So there's obviously going to be a ton
00:50:13.540 of pushback. I'm already over time, but what you're doing is just so good and important. And it's frankly
00:50:20.360 a scandal that every other Republican in your position in the country is not also doing this.
00:50:25.320 It's just so obvious and common sense. So thank you for having the courage to do it.
00:50:30.640 When the legal challenges come, what are the odds that you prevail? What are the odds that we actually
00:50:36.100 see Bibles back in schools in Oklahoma and around the country?
00:50:42.020 Oh, look, I'm incredibly confident legally because here's the reality too. President Trump has actually
00:50:46.620 put originalists on the court so we can actually have a better understanding. They're not just going
00:50:50.840 to pull a decision out of thin air on this 1960s decision. They're going to go back and look at
00:50:55.440 the constitution. And frankly, they're going to look at American history. And even the New York
00:50:59.280 Times, Michael, quote, fact-checked me, right? And said, well, he technically is right. Until the 1960s,
00:51:04.460 a Bible would have been in every classroom. So when you even have the New York Times admitting that
00:51:08.100 historically, until magically, Supreme Court justices knew better than everyone else in the 1960s,
00:51:13.640 the founders themselves, individuals throughout our history, didn't see an issue with it,
00:51:17.960 didn't see any kind of legal problem. Until then, I feel very confident about our chances in the
00:51:22.540 courts moving forward. That is great news. Ryan Walters, thank you for what you're doing.
00:51:27.640 I know that we have some Republican lawmakers and people in positions in government who listen to
00:51:33.340 the show. Follow suit, guys. Do what Ryan is doing. This is obvious. It's obviously the right
00:51:40.140 thing to do. It requires guts and clarity. But if you don't have that, what are you doing in
00:51:44.800 politics? Ryan, thank you so much. Thank you, Michael. All right. The Membrum Segmentum is
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