Ep. 1593 - Lib Governor Mouth-Feeds Journalist In Gross Anti-Christian TikTok
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Democrat Governor of Michigan Gretchen Whitmer makes a blasphemous, vaguely pornographic video with a prominent liberal journalist, Joe Biden calls on the Prime Minister of Israel to help with the hurricane in Florida, and Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker is a clone?
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Democrat Governor of Michigan Gretchen Whitmer makes a blasphemous,
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vaguely pornographic video with a prominent liberal journalist.
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Joe Biden calls on the Prime Minister of Israel to help with the hurricane in Florida.
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And Star Wars Trance is a clone. I'm Michael Knowles. This is the Michael Knowles Show.
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ever seen in politics yesterday. I don't know how else to put it. You probably saw it too.
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This video went everywhere. I'm not being hyperbolic. I'm not exaggerating. I'm not
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falling into the error of believing that things happen now or for any reason more extraordinary
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than things that have happened in the past. This is the weirdest video that any politician
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has ever put out in my lifetime or your lifetime. It is a video of Democrat Governor Gretchen Whitmer
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sensually, and I think blasphemously, feeding Doritos to a prominent liberal journalist who has
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made programs with Vox Media, with NBC News. This is not even some random fringe TikToker,
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like a regular, pretty mainstream, left-wing journalist. If you are only listening on podcast
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or radio, I will narrate this brief, bizarre video for you.
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Lib Giorno on her knees, opens her mouth, sticks her tongue out, smiles, rolls her eyes in the back of
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her head. And then there's Gretchen Whitmer, stone-faced, wearing a Harris Walls camo hat,
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And J.D. Vance is weird. Don't forget that. Don't forget. Because J.D. Vance thinks it's good
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to have families. So he's a huge weirdo. Pay no attention to the sacrilegious dominatrix
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softcore porn video that the sitting Democrat Governor of Michigan, a swing state in the 2024
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election, just put out. A lot of people scratching their heads. And I'm trying not to just jump to
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one conclusion above others. But any conclusion I draw about this seems weird, seems bizarre,
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seems inappropriate. Some have suggested that the TikTok video is just a play on this meme that has
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gone around, where some lady, some dominatrix-looking lady, is feeding milk to a lady on the ground.
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So it's a meme about porn. Not directly pornographic, but it's a meme about porn.
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So that's one explanation that people have come up with. And unfortunately, that's the most charitable
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explanation. That's the most gracious explanation to whatever Gretchen Whitmer is doing here.
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Because I think the more likely explanation is that this is a mockery of Holy Communion of the
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Eucharist. For non-Catholics out there, or even Catholics who are really modern, who are not familiar
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with the traditional liturgy, they might miss what's going on here. But when a Catholic at the Holy
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Mass receives communion, traditionally, one does so on one's knees, on the tongue, not receiving in the
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hand. And the priest is standing, and he administers the Holy Sacrament. That does appear to be what's
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going on here. Except in this case, the host, the body, blood, soul, and divinity of our Lord Jesus
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Christ is replaced with a Dorito. So it's a kind of mockery of the Eucharist. And a Dorito, I think,
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because Kamala Harris has said that's her guilty pleasure. Even the fact that we're talking about
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guilt, or shame, or sin, I guess, I think plays a role in this scene. I don't think I'm looking too
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deeply into it. Because I don't know how to look into it in a more shallow way. I don't know what's the
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innocent explanation. It's either porn, it's either alluding to porn, or mocking Christ.
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What is that? Especially, you know, the Democrats really need to win Catholics,
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especially in Pennsylvania right now. And the race is really tightened up. And a lot of places
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are putting Trump ahead of Kamala right now. We'll get to that in just a moment.
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Who thought this was a good idea? Well, it's a meme. It'll go viral. It'll get attention.
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Yeah, not all attention is good, though. You know what I mean? Like,
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Jeffrey Dahmer got a lot of attention. Why are they doing this? I'll tell you why they're doing this.
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Any explanation you come up with? No, it's a porn thing. No, it's a sacrilege thing. No, it's a...
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This is who the Democrats are. This is who they are. I think it was Peter Kreeft who pointed out
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that the Democrats have exalted abortion in recent decades, not merely to the sort of
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unfortunate, necessary evil that should be safe, legal, and rare, but to a positively good thing.
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They've elevated it to the level of a sacrament, and they do so by satanically inverting the language
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of the sacrament. When the host is consecrated in the Holy Mass, the priest says, reciting the words
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of our Lord, this is my body. This is my body, which will be given up for you. This is my body.
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And the sacrament of abortion, which does not give life but takes life, uses the exact same phrase.
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This is my body. My body, my body, my choice. And so this sacrilege, this attack on the faith,
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this attack on God is baked into the left from the beginning. That when the terms left and right
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come to be applied to politics, it is in the context of the French Revolution at the National
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Assembly when the Christians are on the right side of the aisle and the secularists and the atheists
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and the levelers are on the left side of the aisle. So that's always baked in there.
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As for the sex stuff, well, the libs can never stop talking about the sex stuff. And what's ironic
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is they accuse the right of having an obsession with sex. But of course, we're not the aggressors
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in the culture war. The right would be perfectly happy never to talk about weird sex stuff again.
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The only reason we talk about it is because the left initiates the conversations. The left is the
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group that insists upon pornography being legalized. The left is the group that insists on prurient
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content all over the internet and even on billboards and on television. The left is the group that wants
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to talk about this stuff in front of your kids. The left is the group that wants to abolish sexual
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distinctions in bathrooms and locker rooms, say. The left is the group that wants to relax public
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indecency laws. So it's the left that's pushing all this stuff. Because why? Why? There is an
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ideological reason. There is a reason that comes from their view of liberation. Also just because
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it's their sex freaks, man. I don't know what to tell you. That's why they are sex freaks. And they
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like doing weird sex stuff. And it's not all that much more complicated than that. So it's who they
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are. This is who they are. And even if it's going to hurt them among Catholics, their intellect is so
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clouded and their will is so compromised that they just do it anyway. This is something that people
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kind of forget about sin and specifically about serious sin. It not only compromises your will.
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If you're a religious person, you would understand that it might compromise your salvation. And it has
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all these spiritual effects that are really bad. But it also clouds your intellect. And even if you're
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a secular person or you're agnostic, you should probably recognize this too. When a person engages
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in persistent sin, like it does a bunch of drugs or scams people or robs people or does weird sex stuff
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or just in any way engages in persistent sin, it clouds your intellect. You're not thinking straight.
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Think of the drug addict is a perfect example. You're not the kind of person who thinks straight.
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You do things that are irrational. People who become real dirty, rotten, filthy, degenerate sinners,
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they do things that are evil and wicked and vicious, but they also do things that are just stupid and
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irrational and contrary to their own interests. That's because sin is irrational and it clouds
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your intellect. That's what's going on here as well. Now, speaking of Michigan, we've got some good
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news. While the libs are making sacrilegious dominatrix videos with their sitting governor,
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Trump is pulling ahead in Michigan. The real clear polling average now has Trump winning Michigan,
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which means that if Trump wins Michigan, it's got him winning Arizona, got him winning Pennsylvania.
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That means that Trump vans 296 electoral votes to Harris Walls' 242. The only poll that matters is on
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election day. Do not get complacent. A friend of mine just asked me as I was walking into work this
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morning said, hey, Michael, I got a relative in Texas, but this relative is not going to be in
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Texas for the election. But I don't know. I've got all sorts of questions about the mail-in ballots.
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And so is it better not to vote or is it better to send in the mail-in? Send in the mail-in. I'm not
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saying there's no risk that something bad happens with the mail-in, but send in the mail-in. The libs are
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hoping that they suppress your desire to vote with all of the shenanigans they pull. Send in that mail-in.
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Vote now. Vote early. Verify your vote often. There's nothing we can do about shenanigans that
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have been permitted to take place, but we can fight real hard. Right now, things are looking up.
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And the proof that things are looking up for Trump, it's not just what the RealClearPolitics
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average is showing. It's not just because of the weird sacrilegious porn that the governor of Michigan
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is posting. It's because Kamala Harris herself is looking increasingly desperate. There's so much
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what you can. Preborn.com slash Knowles. Kamala seems to want another debate. That's how desperate
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she's getting, okay? The people are already voting, and they say, no, let's do another debate. Let's do
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another debate. Trump has put the kibosh on this, I suspect for the final time, in a beautifully written,
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this is poetic diction, truth social post, of course, in all caps. I'm going to read you this post in its
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entirety, so there's no question about what Trump means and how he interprets Kamala's actions.
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All caps, so I'm not going to scream, but you can imagine. I won the last two debates, one with
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Crooked Joe, the other with Lyon Kamala. I accepted the Fox News invitation to debate Kamala on September
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4th, but she turned it down. J.D. Vance easily won his debate with Tampon Tim Walls, who called himself
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a knucklehead. I'm also leading in the polls, with the lead getting bigger by the day, and leading in all
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swing states, the first thing a prize fighter does when he loses a fight is say that he demands a
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rematch. It is very late in the process. Voting has already begun. There will be no rematch. Besides,
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Kamala stated clearly yesterday that she would not do anything different than Joe Biden, so there's
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nothing to debate. Thank you for your attention to this matter, exclamation point. Donald J. Trump.
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When Trump first came out after his debate with Kamala and said, I won, you know, prize fighter wants
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a rematch. I don't want a rematch. I thought, okay, that's good spin. I don't, does he really believe
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this? Might there still be a second debate? I don't know. I mean, we'll see, but that's good,
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good spin. Now I'm convinced he's totally right in his read of the situation. Kamala is obviously
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desperate. This is the reason that her campaign is allowing her and actually forcing her to do media
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interviews, all of which are disastrous, but they have to force her to do it because Kamala needs
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something, something to shake up the race at this late stage. She might've been able to get that
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from a debate with Donald Trump. Who knows? Those things are kind of unpredictable. And the libs would
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try to rig it as they rigged the first and only debate between Trump and Kamala. But otherwise,
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the only thing Kamala can do to try to shake it up now is go on and do these interviews herself,
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like that 60 Minutes interview, which was terrible for her and terrible for her campaign.
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So if I'm Trump, I'm thinking, oh, great. She's on the ropes. She's flailing around.
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She's in a bad position because every single thing that she can do right now to improve her
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position, other than debate me, which I wisely won't do, every single thing she can do has a
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great risk of also hurting her. And so far, every time she's done it, it has hurt her,
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which is good. That makes me feel that I'm not saying the Republicans are going to win it.
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It's far from in the bag, but it means Republicans could win it. Meanwhile,
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while Trump is trying to get the job back, while Kamala is trying to get the job for the first time
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as the sitting vice president, there is this question, which is who is currently the president?
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The official answer is Joe Biden. Joe Biden seems a little confused about that though,
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because Biden responding to some taunt from President Trump just came out and had this to say
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about the man that I think we all thought was the former president.
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Mr. President Trump, former President Trump, get a life, man. Help these people.
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Will you hold him accountable? You said you were going to hold those accountable.
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I'll put the hold of account. You better impress hold of account because you know the truth.
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Will you plan to speak with former President Trump?
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He's just walking off in that, really, I don't mean to make fun of his stiff gay because it's
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obviously a medical condition, but he's walking off like the characteristic grandpa just storming
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out of a room, kind of unclear where he's even going. Just, no, it's grumpy. You know,
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no, I don't want to. Because he just said this thing that didn't make any sense. He said,
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my message, Donald Trump, Mr. President Trump. Wait, is he the president? No, hold on. He's
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the former president. Mr. Mr. Former President Trump, help these people, meaning the victims of
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the hurricane. How is Trump supposed to help those people if he's not the president?
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Joe Biden. This is like Kamala Harris pretending that she's the president and complaining that
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Ron DeSantis won't take her call. But Ron DeSantis says, look, I'm the governor of Florida. I've
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worked on a lot of hurricanes. Kamala Harris has never called me once. She has no role in this
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process whatsoever. I'm speaking to the president. The president is Joe Biden. But then Joe Biden is
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asked if he's talked to Donald Trump. He said, absolutely not. But Mr. President Trump,
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you need to help these people. But how can he help these people when he's not the president?
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Joe Biden clearly doesn't think he's the president. Kamala Harris isn't the president.
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Ron DeSantis is not the president, though he's doing a very good job in Florida.
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Who's the president? It does not appear to be Joe Biden. When you look at Joe Biden,
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increasingly, everything this guy says, it is clear that the lights are on, but no one's home.
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Joe Biden was just asked again about the hurricane. He was giving his status update,
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the hurricane response. And he somehow managed to tie Bibi Netanyahu, the prime minister of Israel,
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Mr. President, what did you, what did Prime Minister Netanyahu tell you about his plans
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Now, you, I was trying to figure out, you know, it's kind of like the Gretchen Whitmer video. I was
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trying to figure, is there anything I'm missing here? And then I thought, well, okay, if you go
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really deep into the lore, I guess Biden is saying maybe they, they really do control the weather.
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Is that, I don't, I don't think they do control the weather. So I don't really know what Biden is
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talking about here, but is he, he was asked a question about, obviously about Netanyahu's
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next moves vis-a-vis Iran or Lebanon or even Gaza. And he says, he, Benjamin Netanyahu PM of Israel is
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coming over to help with the storm, which would be very nice of him if he did that. Netanyahu's got
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some other things on his plate right now. So I'd be surprised if he came over to clear trees and
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branches away, this guy, Joe Biden, not Netanyahu, not the reporter, Joe Biden is not, he's not
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there. He's not in control. We have a country without a president right now. I'm not saying
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we have a country without a political order. We obviously have a political order. In fact,
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we have a political order that exerts a lot of control even over the president when there is an
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active president. And we call that the administrative state or the deep state or the blob or whatever.
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So that still exists, but we don't actually have an executive right now, it appears. Now,
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turning back to DeSantis and talking about this storm, the libs have this stupid talking point
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that the storm is being caused by global warming. And this is evidence that Republicans need to
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take global warming seriously because Republicans are really responsible for this storm.
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Get one year free of Daily Wire Plus Insider. My favorite comment yesterday is from Adrian
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Bardan, 782, who says, if it quacks like a duck and it walks like a duck, keep it away from Ohio.
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Very, very good advice. Some Lib reporter just tried to set up Governor DeSantis with a question about
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how the hurricanes are caused by global warming, how they're really Republicans' fault because
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Republicans don't support communism or whatever. They don't want to nationalize industries.
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I think you could go back and find tornadoes for all of human history, for sure. And especially,
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you know, Florida, you know, how does this storm rate in kind of the history of storms?
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I think it hit with a barometric pressure of, what was it, about 950 millibars when it hit?
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Which I think if you go back to 1851, there's probably been 27 hurricanes that have had lower
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barometric pressure. So the lower the barometric pressure, the stronger it is. I think there have
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been about 27 hurricanes that have had lower barometric pressure on landfall than Milton did.
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And of those, 17 occurred, I think, prior to 1960. And the most powerful hurricane on record since the
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1850s in the state of Florida occurred in the 1930s, the Labor Day hurricane. Barometric pressure on that
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was 892 millibars. It totally wiped out the keys. We've never seen anything like it. And that remains
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head and shoulders above any powerful hurricane that we've ever had in the state of Florida.
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The most deadly hurricane we've ever had was in 1928. The Okeechobee hurricane killed over 4,000
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people. Fortunately, we aren't going to have anything close to that on this hurricane. But even ones like
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Ian, where you had, you know, wasn't even close to that. So I just think people should put this in
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perspective. They're absolutely destroyed with facts and logic. I love it. Because DeSantis has
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this great ability to speak, just kind of like a regular guy who's a baseball player. And it probably
00:25:12.540
hurt him a little bit in the presidential race because he doesn't have that Ronald Reagan kind
00:25:16.800
of, well, you and I have a rendezvous with destiny. He doesn't have that soaring rhetoric. It's not
00:25:22.960
not Lincolnian exactly. He doesn't have Trump's ability to do stand-up comedy wherever he goes.
00:25:30.380
But DeSantis has what earlier political observers have called the charisma of competence.
00:25:41.180
So sometimes during the presidential, people knocked his charisma. They said he didn't have
00:25:44.600
enough riz to, but he has the charisma of competence, which, and, you know, I think he's also a
00:25:51.120
charming man in his own way, a friendly man in his own way. But this is where he shines.
00:25:56.240
This is it. Because Ron DeSantis is extremely intelligent. And he can speak in a way that is
00:26:03.440
understandable, that is simple for normal people who are not as intelligent as Ron DeSantis to
00:26:11.380
understand. Yeah, so I think pretty much tornadoes have existed before industrialization. I think
00:26:20.320
there's been tornadoes before. And so if you look, you know, around like 1850, you're probably going
00:26:25.480
to see about 27, you know, and you know, he, you know, he had these statistics crystal clear in his
00:26:32.780
head. But he's, you know, he's just kind of talking in a folksy way. And then you're going to see this,
00:26:37.120
this many with this kind of barometric pressure and this number here. And since 1922, it was this and
00:26:42.300
that, and it just, the, the effect of it, of the sum total of his speech is to just completely
00:26:47.700
destroy this narrative that climate change or global warming or whatever is responsible
00:26:54.100
for hurricanes. That is how you do it. Absolute masterclass. Now, speaking of climate and climate
00:27:00.620
change, the liberal reporter, Matt Iglesias, just had a speech that he was giving interrupted by some
00:27:07.720
of these climate lunatics who climbed on stage and started yelling about the sun monster.
00:27:12.680
All right, Matt Iglesias, we're here to call you on your stance on fracking,
00:27:17.400
dangerous fossil fuel funded lie. The fracking of methane is the future for our world. How do you
00:27:24.800
move things between two of the worst hurricanes as Milton is on the doorstep? We cannot afford this.
00:27:30.820
So what do you say? How do you mean economic needs? When we have disasters that cost tens of
00:27:39.380
billions of dollars and it's only getting worse. You see, if you're not watching, you see all these
00:27:45.260
kind of weirdos with the sign. And then Matt Iglesias just kind of smiling with an amused look
00:27:52.120
on his face. The main instigator wonk it off the stage. So Matt Iglesias just gets up, kind of walks
00:28:03.760
off stage with security. You have a son. Won't you send out a future? I don't support hitting women
00:28:11.900
under any circumstances, but a woman yelling at me about my son, that might tempt me. Okay. But
00:28:16.800
Iglesias doesn't do it. Iglesias doesn't yell at them. He doesn't become visibly angry. He just
00:28:21.640
kind of laughs, sits down. And as they're still surrounding him and yelling at him, he says,
00:28:26.500
this is, well, would you like to read an article? And that's kind of funny, but it reminded me
00:28:30.780
of a similar stunt that was pulled on a West Virginia moderate Democrat Senator Joe Manchin
00:28:38.960
up at the Harvard Kennedy school back in March. I think it was some of these climate wackos come in,
00:28:44.100
they pull the same stunt. Notice how Manchin's response is different than Matt Iglesias's response.
00:28:51.640
And then security throws this guy on the floor. He gets out of the room. That's a better response.
00:29:07.320
I thought Matt Iglesias did fine. He didn't really allow them to intimidate him. He just kind of laughed,
00:29:12.700
you know, and then they walked him off stage. He could have engaged them a little bit more,
00:29:16.260
but he was fine. I'm not, you know, he's a super lib journalist who sometimes attacks his own side.
00:29:23.240
He's kind of like a neoliberal, a little bit more establishment than some of the far leftists.
00:29:28.420
It was okay. Manchin's response was better though. Somebody starts talking about your kid.
00:29:34.500
Somebody starts, in this case with Manchin, starts using profanity, calling you all sorts of nasty
00:29:39.380
names. One ought to turn the other cheek, sure, but one ought never to cower. One needs to turn the other
00:29:51.200
cheek, not to discard one's dignity, but to preserve one's dignity, in fact. So what does Manchin do?
00:29:58.320
He squares right up on this guy. Manchin was a football player. He's a pretty big guy. But then,
00:30:02.660
even if you're not a big Joe Manchin, then security comes up in between them and just takes this kid
00:30:08.340
who was interrupting this little seminar and who was yelling profanity at a sitting U.S. senator.
00:30:16.560
The security takes this kid, picks him up, and hurls him out of the room onto the ground.
00:30:21.720
That's the correct response. I know that some of the free speech absolutists on the left and the right
00:30:28.180
might not support that kind of action, but that's the right kind of move. It is good to enforce
00:30:35.960
civilization. We don't need these mouthy little brats behaving in a way that is contrary to
00:30:41.900
civilization, that is contrary to standards and norms and decency, running their lips. We don't need
00:30:48.300
that. Nobody really benefits from that. Certainly not interrupting a private event at a serious place
00:30:56.020
or an ostensibly serious place, the Harvard Kennedy School, with a sitting U.S. senator. We don't need
00:31:02.580
to put up with that. Don't need to put up with that at all. We don't need to cede the stage to
00:31:06.900
these people because of some false notion of free speech. It's good when security throws these guys
00:31:14.960
to the ground, when they are obscene and getting up in the face of sitting senators. Now, there's a story
00:31:21.700
I have to get to. Really important story, and I've promised my nerd associate producer that I would
00:31:28.540
get to it because people are drawing all the wrong conclusions from this. Star Wars apparently still
00:31:36.200
exists. You thought that Disney had just taken this popular franchise out in the backyard like old
00:31:41.320
yeller and put a bullet in its head, but no, it's still limping on. Star Wars has just transed a clone
00:31:50.520
trooper. What is a clone trooper? I had to ask Professor Jacob about this, and he gave me his
00:31:56.660
apparently expensive model clone trooper helmet. It's different than a storm trooper, which are in
00:32:02.980
the original movies, but it looks kind of like the storm trooper. But the difference, I'm going to put
00:32:07.700
this nerd relic down here. The difference is the clone trooper in the lore all descend from one
00:32:16.180
person. It's clones of this guy, Jango Fett, whose son, Boba Fett, is like a bounty hunter or I don't
00:32:23.140
know, whatever. So this is important to transing a character because they're all genetically exactly
00:32:30.480
the same, all of these clone troopers. So how is it the case that in this new book, which is a canon
00:32:35.940
book, it's not just fan fiction, it's a canon book, Star Wars, The Secrets of the Clone Troopers,
00:32:39.780
it is revealed that there's this trans clone trooper. Captain Rex describes the trans clone
00:32:46.040
this way, quote, when one of our kind expressed her gender identity differently than her fellow
00:32:51.660
troopers, she feared she'd have to hide who she truly was inside. Fortunately, her brothers in the
00:32:56.420
Seven Sky Corps gave her the name Sister as a constant reminder that she belonged. Okay, so it's silly to
00:33:01.400
inject this modern gender ideology in a galaxy far, far away. But Star Wars is just a, you know,
00:33:06.400
it's a myth, right? And myths tell us something not just about a distant past that may or may not
00:33:11.260
have literally existed, but they tell us about our own times. That's what they, what's the, what
00:33:14.960
they're for. So Professor Jacob, my nerd producer, observed, it's kind of silly that the, this clone
00:33:23.420
trooper has the trans flag on his helmet because it's a galaxy far, far away, you know, a long, long
00:33:29.180
time ago. And so how do they have the exact same trans colors as we have now? That's the least of it,
00:33:33.880
guys. This is actually kind of based, this is actually pretty right wing. Because by transing
00:33:41.020
a clone, Star Wars, wittingly or unwittingly, is admitting that transgenderism is not biological.
00:33:49.540
Star Wars is admitting that transgenderism is a social phenomenon. It's, it's a product of
00:33:56.220
environment and a defect of the will, but it's not biological. If Star Wars had transed any other
00:34:02.880
character in the entire universe, they would have been preserving pretty much all of the
00:34:10.260
transgender ideology by transing a clone, a character that is biologically of necessity,
00:34:17.080
identical to all the other clone troopers. Star Wars is asserting that transgenderism is not
00:34:25.840
biological, is not natural, is not innate, is not, that transgenderism is a social fad and a social
00:34:33.620
phenomenon brought about by environmental factors and the individual will. And I totally agree.
00:34:41.280
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Hey, Michael. Hey, Mr. Nostradamus. As an aspiring 14-year-old who wants to be deeply involved in
00:35:41.520
politics in the future, and as someone who is currently writing a book about politics and about
00:35:47.460
how the radical left have destroyed this country and destroyed its Christian and traditional
00:35:53.760
values that it was initially built upon, I was just going to ask exactly how do you write a book
00:36:01.500
about politics? How do you form a book about politics? And since I know you have a lot of
00:36:06.340
experience with writing books about politics, I wanted to ask you that. Okay, thank you, Michael.
00:36:12.440
Thank you for all that you do in saving this country from the radical left. Thank you.
00:36:17.520
Very kind. Good question. You're obviously intelligent and precocious and ambitious and
00:36:24.820
serious. So that's all good stuff. That's why you want to write a book. And that is why you should not
00:36:29.720
write a book. Eventually, you can write a book. You should not write a book at 14. No 14-year-old should
00:36:36.040
write a book. The reason for that is you have not read enough books to write a book. You have not
00:36:45.460
lived enough life to have the experiences that are helpful in writing a book. Your brain has not
00:36:53.320
developed to the point that you are at your prime powers to write a book. And you probably don't have
00:37:00.080
a sufficient command of grammar and syntax and English composition to write a book. There's no
00:37:07.100
knock on you. No 14-year-old does. I think even of John Stuart Mill, who I think he spoke Latin by
00:37:15.080
three and ancient Greek by five. This is one of the last really almost perfectly educated men in the
00:37:24.080
West. He had a glaring omission in his education because he never learned anything about religion,
00:37:29.340
which is why his philosophy was bunk. But still, otherwise, a pretty well-educated guy. Even he
00:37:35.420
should not write a book at 14. Nobody should write a book at 14. So what could you do? You should read
00:37:41.520
a lot. You should read books that are challenging, that are books that maybe an 18-year-old or a 22-year-old
00:37:48.000
should read. If you're this precocious, you should read, I don't know, just off the top of my head,
00:37:51.800
The Closing the American Mind by Alan Bloom. After Virtue by Alistair McIntyre. Even, I don't know,
00:37:59.260
Escape from Skepticism by Christopher Derrick. These are just books that are coming to mind.
00:38:03.800
You should read those. C.S. Lewis is really good for a 14-year-old to read because his ideas are
00:38:08.860
really profound, but he's writing in a way that is somewhat accessible. Read all that stuff.
00:38:15.180
If you want to write, write an essay. Learn how to write essays. Most books should be essays. Most
00:38:19.340
essays should never be written. So try that. Write an essay. Write a letter. Work on your composition.
00:38:24.900
This is a good time to work on your command of the English language. Buy Strunk and White,
00:38:29.120
Buy the Elements of Style. Read that. Sometimes I get a little, I'm a little tough on my colleagues
00:38:35.540
because they don't, they haven't read like the basics of English composition. These are books
00:38:42.140
that it's not even their fault. They're not really taught in school as much anymore. But if you read
00:38:46.120
the Strunk and White's Elements of Style, which is like 50 pages or something, if you read that,
00:38:50.380
you will be better at writing than most adults today. But do all that stuff now. 14 is not the
00:38:56.060
time to write a book. 14 is the time to read books. Next question. Hey there, Michael. I'm
00:39:01.320
Catherine and I'm new to your show. Thank you for all you do. I wanted to ask you a quick question.
00:39:06.660
I am in the Pentecostal, charismatic, evangelical space. I go to a fairly large church and I'm
00:39:14.800
noticing a trend that is, and I'm single by the way, and I'm noticing a trend that's very weird.
00:39:21.680
I'm noticing married men that don't wear wedding rings and it's weird. What's the deal with that?
00:39:30.700
You know, as somebody who's single in her upper thirties, I want to be at church and find somebody
00:39:37.040
who is, you know, similar in values and all the things. And then these guys show up to church and
00:39:43.480
they're attractive and, you know, kind, and it looks like they have a brain cell. And, um,
00:39:50.580
then they find out they're married because they didn't have their wedding ring on. What's the deal
00:39:53.480
with that? Uh, help me out. Thanks. Bye. So this is actually not a new thing. This is a very old
00:39:58.280
thing. Traditionally, men would not wear wedding rings. It's, it's a relatively recent vintage that
00:40:04.560
men, men wear wedding rings. I wear a wedding ring. You know, I'm quite traditionalist, but I,
00:40:08.540
I wear a wedding ring as a practical matter because if I'm out somewhere, I, I don't want a woman coming
00:40:15.820
up and hitting on me. And, you know, listen, you boy, sometimes, sometimes ladies talk. Okay. I'm
00:40:20.960
really, I'm not, I'm not saying it's all the time. I'm not saying I'm Brad Pitt, but it happens. And I,
00:40:25.520
I don't want that to happen. I don't want to create a scandal. I don't want even the appearance
00:40:31.280
of something untoward. So I wear the wedding ring for, for that reason. So a lot of guys don't like
00:40:36.020
wearing jewelry, a lot of guys, and, and also just traditionally men did not wear the ring. So
00:40:39.700
that might be why, however, you know, uh, symbols and signs change over time. Now, uh, this is a
00:40:48.900
sign that one is married man or woman. So I do think men as a practical matter probably should wear them,
00:40:55.500
but I don't think they're, they're not wearing their rings because they're cads or something like
00:40:59.020
that. Traditionally, men did not wear them. If we lived in a different time, I don't know that I
00:41:02.840
would wear one, but because we live in the time we do now, uh, I, I would, and I would encourage
00:41:07.180
other guys to as well. Next question. Hello, Michael. My name is Aaron. I'm 35. Uh, my wife
00:41:15.140
of 11 years passed away from stage four breast cancer at 34, just over a year ago. I just wanted
00:41:20.940
your opinion. When do you think it's an appropriate time to move on and get back into the game and get
00:41:26.760
back out there? I don't feel ready yet, but what are your thoughts? Thanks for taking my question
00:41:32.900
and God bless. So sorry. So sorry to hear about that. That is truly the stuff of nightmares.
00:41:38.700
Really, really awful. Um, so I hope, you know, hope you're doing okay. And you know, time is healing
00:41:44.480
wounds and all that there, there is a, an answer like an actual answer from etiquette, which is that
00:41:50.940
the mourning period would traditionally be about a year. So you would, you know, you would not certainly
00:41:56.740
not date for a year. You would not, you know, maybe you would wear some black clothing or something
00:42:00.960
like that. There, there were in the past have been more formal mourning rituals. Most of those are
00:42:05.580
gone now, if not all of them are gone, but that would be the answer as a matter of etiquette. It
00:42:09.780
would be like a year. Um, but, but it's however long you like, if you say you're not ready, then don't
00:42:14.280
date. Then, then don't, you know, I mean, maybe, maybe you never want to get remarried. I think it was
00:42:19.120
Hilaire Belloc, who I've mentioned recently. I was just reading a book of Hilaire Belloc's, uh, but he,
00:42:23.520
I think when his wife died, I don't think he ever remarried. I think he would like kiss her bedroom
00:42:28.400
door every time he walked by, you know, he, he, uh, he just, he said, you know, I got, I had the
00:42:33.400
best. Why do I need the rest? Uh, so you could do that too. I think that's, that's totally, uh,
00:42:39.620
totally fine. But if you're lonely and you, you know, man is a coupling creature and you want to,
00:42:44.660
you do want to remarry, uh, I'd say after a year, you're, you're basically, you're good. So sorry,
00:42:51.300
though. We can certainly pray for you. Uh, next question. Hello, Mr. Knowles. I've never been to
00:42:57.720
a Latin mass before, but it's something I'm very interested in attending. I'm curious as to what
00:43:02.300
your first Latin mass experience was like, as I think I would feel a little out of my element.
00:43:06.700
Of course there is the language change, but I did study Latin for six years. So I'm looking forward
00:43:10.880
to that part of it. Uh, just don't get me started on the Italian influenced accent. Here we go. Uh,
00:43:16.140
the whole Pacem, Pacem debate, but that aside, I'm, I'm also excited for the smells and bells. Um,
00:43:22.100
I, outside of that, I do have a bit of trepidation though. You previously answered a question of mine
00:43:27.120
where I stated I have a six month old, incredibly beautiful baby daughter. She is now an eight
00:43:32.260
month old, incredibly beautiful baby daughter. And I'm concerned about bringing her. The closest Latin
00:43:37.740
mass to where I live is about 45 minutes to an hour away. And I'm, my concern is that it will be
00:43:44.320
too much for her with the travel. Uh, I'd love to hear your thoughts on this and even how you and
00:43:49.480
sweet little Lisa handle bringing your, your own boys to mass. Um, also in regards to the smells
00:43:54.480
and bells listeners, go get your Wiseman candle at the candle club.com. Don't forget the the use
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promo code Eric's incredibly beautiful baby daughter for no discount. Thank you, Michael. And God bless.
00:44:07.280
Really good stuff. All good questions and concerns. Take your kid to the Latin mass. It's it's,
00:44:13.020
it'll be fine. Don't worry. I, I find I have three under four. My kids do better at the Latin mass,
00:44:21.580
the traditional Latin mass than they do at the modern mass. Even though the traditional Latin mass
00:44:26.060
as a matter of minutes and seconds is longer, it feels shorter. Whereas the modern mass, which
00:44:33.280
according to your watch is shorter, it feels longer. It's just in the liturgy. Now, is your kid
00:44:38.140
going to fuss and cry and yell? Yup. Totally. Let the kid cry. It's okay. If the church ain't crying,
00:44:44.120
it's dying. You know, man, let the kid cry. It's all right. You want there to be babies. It's a good
00:44:48.420
sound in a church. It augments the smells and the bells. Then as for the drive. Yeah. You know,
00:44:57.360
you hope your kid doesn't, doesn't mess up the nap or whatever. Yeah. It's, I know it's a real,
00:45:01.060
it's a hassle, man. It is a hassle, but it's good for your kids to have that traditional liturgy in,
00:45:06.280
in my humble opinion. It'll be good for everybody. And, and you're, I'm sure your Latin is much,
00:45:11.160
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