The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 1599 - Trump Joins McDonald’s Drive Thru

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00:00:27.260 Did you check the organ donor box on the back of your driver's license?

00:00:31.300 If you did, you might want to uncheck it.

00:00:34.900 Because an apparently dead man just woke up while doctors were preparing to harvest his organs.

00:00:40.920 No, I'm not talking about Joe Biden.

00:00:43.820 I'm not talking about registered Democrat voters in the swing states.

00:00:48.260 I'm talking about a real individual who really woke up,

00:00:52.060 and it tells you a whole lot about our political confusion.

00:00:54.500 I'm Michael Knowles. This is The Michael Knowles Show.

00:00:57.260 Welcome back to the show.

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00:02:29.400 Trump works at McDonald's and the Yankees clinched the American League Championship

00:02:33.340 and all the political significance of all of that, latest in the campaign.

00:02:36.720 But the story that I can't get out of my head since I read about it on Friday is a man who was

00:02:43.380 apparently dead, who was being wheeled in to have his organs harvested, woke up.

00:02:51.600 And it's even creepier than that, because he showed signs that he was alive and waking up

00:02:56.660 long before the doctors finally gave up on taking all of his organs.

00:03:01.040 And the doctors downplayed all of it, and they said, no, no, never mind, no big deal,

00:03:05.380 nothing to see here. This is T.J. Miller, whose family had this to say.

00:03:12.040 That's when they were told he was a registered organ donor.

00:03:15.360 To honor his wishes, the next two days were spent testing T.J.'s organs to see what was viable,

00:03:21.380 including a cardiac catheterization to test his heart.

00:03:24.780 And during his honor walk, his eyes started opening up, and we kind of, you know,

00:03:28.580 he was tracking, his eyes were tracking, looking around.

00:03:31.080 And we were told, you know, by the ICU supervisor that it was just reflexes.

00:03:37.700 It was just a normal thing.

00:03:39.040 T.J. was then taken into the organ retrieval surgery.

00:03:42.220 Probably about an hour into, they come out and got us, and the doctor did,

00:03:47.620 and told us that he wasn't ready, that he had woke up.

00:03:50.100 But we also hadn't been told that during his heart catheterization that morning, that he woke up then.

00:03:58.360 And because if we'd known that, then clearly we would have known he wasn't brain dead.

00:04:02.920 Rohrer was told to take T.J. home and make him comfortable, as he wouldn't live long.

00:04:08.120 Rohrer's been caring for her brother for three years now.

00:04:11.080 And he made several attempts to, hey, I'm here.

00:04:18.420 But it was kind of ignored.

00:04:20.540 It was kind of ignored.

00:04:22.580 This guy is moving around.

00:04:25.020 He apparently was moving on the operating table.

00:04:28.580 The doctor said, oh, that's just reflexes.

00:04:30.160 He opens his eyes.

00:04:31.780 His eyes are tracking things around the room.

00:04:33.900 They say, oh, no, it's just reflexes.

00:04:35.260 No big deal.

00:04:35.800 Give me those organs. 0.59

00:04:36.460 Then finally, it's so obvious that the doctors say, okay, all right, I guess we can't do this now.

00:04:43.420 There was apparently controversy.

00:04:44.980 People were quitting.

00:04:46.200 They said, we're not going to do this.

00:04:47.500 And then they finally spilled the beans to the family.

00:04:51.300 According to Natasha Miller here, said he was moving around kind of thrashing, like moving, thrashing around on the bed.

00:04:58.380 And then when we went over there, you could see he had tears coming down.

00:05:01.260 He was crying visibly.

00:05:03.300 This 36-year-old guy who's now been alive for three years.

00:05:06.460 Since he nearly had his organs harvested.

00:05:09.460 There have been investigations into some of these abuses.

00:05:15.500 Is this the only time this has ever happened?

00:05:17.820 Not quite.

00:05:18.800 Here's just one piece of testimony before our government committee by just one expert.

00:05:25.320 It's not infrequent that something comes up around the donor and whether or not the donor's dead.

00:05:30.100 And the problem is that we've got 40 years where there's been no oversight at all of the OPOs.

00:05:35.340 The Kentucky Attorney General's office says they are now looking into this case.

00:05:40.340 So the OPO is the Association of Organ Procurement Organizations.

00:05:45.160 Dr. Robert Cannon, you just heard, that guy who you just heard from is an expert at Vanderbilt.

00:05:50.220 Dr. Robert Cannon is a transplant surgeon at the University of Alabama at Birmingham.

00:05:53.740 He described a similar incident during a congressional hearing.

00:05:57.840 Quote, we actually were in the operating room.

00:06:00.080 We had actually opened the patient and were in the process of preparing their organs, at which point the ventilator triggered.

00:06:06.480 And so the anesthesiologist at the head of the table spoke up and said, hey, I think this patient might have just breathed.

00:06:11.740 If the patient breathes, that means they're not brain dead.

00:06:15.940 Now, at this point, according to Cannon, a representative from the Association of Organ Procurement Organizations wanted to proceed anyway.

00:06:25.740 He said, yeah, maybe he breathed or whatever, but go get those organs out before he breathes too much. 0.96

00:06:30.120 So he goes on, he says, we were kind of shocked that an OPO person would have so little knowledge about what brain death means that they would say, oh, you should just go ahead.

00:06:39.920 And we thought, no, we're not going to take any risk that we murder a patient because that's what it would be if the patient was alive.

00:06:46.140 So what's at issue here is this question of brain death.

00:06:51.440 Brain death is kind of fake news.

00:06:53.780 Brain death is a concept that came about in the late 1960s.

00:06:56.860 Harvard had a committee, an ad hoc committee, that investigated the matter of brain death.

00:07:03.040 When does death really occur?

00:07:05.720 And they said, well, there's this thing, well, they didn't quite call it brain death, but it's what led to the concept of brain death.

00:07:11.340 This idea that there's an irreversible coma, that someone, you know, the lights might be on, but no one's home.

00:07:17.240 There's no cognitive activity.

00:07:18.820 And if there's no cognitive activity, even if machines are keeping your organs alive, you're not really alive.

00:07:24.480 Brain death, however, is pretty controversial.

00:07:27.320 There was a New England Journal of Medicine article in 2008 that noted this uncomfortable fact that is going to make a lot of people start to question whether or not they should check that box on their driver's license.

00:07:39.340 The uncomfortable fact is that organs are harvested from living people, by definition.

00:07:48.980 The New England Journal of Medicine says, quote,

00:07:51.760 The uncomfortable conclusion to be drawn from this literature is that although it may be perfectly ethical to remove vital organs for transplantation from patients who satisfy the diagnostic criteria of brain death,

00:08:02.840 the reason it is ethical, the reason it is ethical cannot be that we are convinced they are really dead.

00:08:09.180 At worst, this is still the New England Journal, at worst, this ongoing reliance on the conflation of brain death, quote, unquote, with real death.

00:08:18.300 This reliance suggests that the medical profession has been gerrymandering the definition of death to carefully conform with conditions that are most favorable for transplantation.

00:08:27.920 At best, the rule has provided misleading ethical cover that cannot withstand careful scrutiny.

00:08:34.460 I used to check the box on my driver's license.

00:08:36.820 Some years ago, I unchecked the box.

00:08:38.820 Why did I uncheck the box?

00:08:40.040 Not even because I had given all that much thought to brain death.

00:08:43.260 I think most people have never really considered it for more than two seconds.

00:08:46.040 They believe, because the medical industry has gerrymandered the definition of death, that brain death really is death.

00:08:52.420 But brain death isn't really death.

00:08:54.320 When you're brain dead, you're still really alive.

00:08:56.680 And if you're a religious person, this raises all sorts of questions.

00:08:59.520 Even if you're not religious, per se, but you just have any sort of philosophical thought whatsoever, you have to ask yourself,

00:09:05.880 okay, well, at what point does my soul separate from my body?

00:09:10.520 At what point am I really dead?

00:09:12.920 I unchecked the box, though, for an even simpler reason.

00:09:16.040 But I don't trust the ethics of the medical industry anymore.

00:09:21.040 And I unchecked the box before COVID.

00:09:23.800 I think after COVID, when the medical industry lied to so many people, when the medical industry lied about that virus, about how to prevent the virus, about the risks of the virus, about the six feet and the masks and the vaccines and all the rest of it.

00:09:37.260 But a lot of people questioned the ethics of the medical industry.

00:09:40.940 I'm not saying they questioned the technical proficiency of the medical industry.

00:09:46.020 This is where a lot of the libs will try to trip up conservatives. 0.99

00:09:49.180 They'll say, what, you don't trust modern medicine?

00:09:51.940 Well, what happens when you get a disease?

00:09:53.940 You're going to go to the doctors.

00:09:54.920 You're going to trust their advice.

00:09:56.520 You think you know better than the doctors?

00:09:57.860 No, I'm not saying we know better than the doctors most of the time when it comes to the technical aspects of disease advancement and treatment.

00:10:06.720 What I doubt, what I seriously doubt, is the ethics of the medical profession.

00:10:12.560 And this kind of case, which is not a one-off case, drives that home.

00:10:19.040 The medical genius elites are very good at harvesting organs.

00:10:24.360 It's impressive that we can harvest organs from people and transplant them to other people and have them work a lot of the time.

00:10:28.980 However, their ethical education has not kept up with their technical education.

00:10:38.180 Their ethical education is probably worse than a fifth grader 50 years ago.

00:10:42.160 And so, as the New England Journal of Medicine is saying, what they've done is they've used euphemisms.

00:10:47.360 They've changed the meaning of words, just as we see the libs do so much these days.

00:10:52.160 Undocumented Americans to mean illegal alien or a trans woman to mean a man.

00:10:56.940 They use these euphemisms, they use these words to persuade you that living is really death.

00:11:05.140 And they do this for the utilitarian reason that they believe, well, look, you're going to die anyway.

00:11:08.620 Or if you don't die, you're going to have some brain damage and you're going to be a burden to society.

00:11:13.460 You're going to require a lot of care. 1.00

00:11:14.620 So, better to just kill you and then use your organs for someone who might live than to try to give you the fullest medical treatment. 0.99

00:11:23.820 That's not a scientific judgment or a medical judgment. 0.99

00:11:26.460 That's an ethical judgment.

00:11:28.500 And these people are not qualified to make those ethical judgments.

00:11:31.100 The uncomfortable reality is what kills you, what kills the organ donor, is retrieving the organs.

00:11:39.160 That's what actually leads to the death.

00:11:41.780 And that creates an ethical question that the modern, technocratic, genius, utilitarian libs who run our institutions do not want us to think about.

00:11:52.200 But is it any wonder?

00:11:53.860 Is it any wonder that a medical industry and a liberal establishment that can't differentiate between a man and a woman, a medical industry that will put little boys on cross-sex hormones because they don't know the difference between a man and a woman, that that same medical industry can't tell the difference between life and death?

00:12:12.080 No surprise whatsoever.

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00:14:02.400 Speaking of the trans issue, Josh Siter, who was a contestant on The Bachelorette, I'm told,

00:14:10.280 apparently has been faking a transgender transition.

00:14:16.000 Here he is in his own words.

00:14:16.920 And I think a lot of trans women are turned on at the thought of themselves being women.

00:14:23.280 Guess what?

00:14:23.680 It doesn't magically make them women. 1.00

00:14:25.240 It doesn't mean we have to accept that they're women. 1.00

00:14:27.420 They are simply men turned on at the thought of themselves being women.

00:14:31.240 That's great.

00:14:31.800 We live in a free country.

00:14:33.280 You can do whatever you want, but don't make your fetish my truth.

00:14:36.840 I don't have to accept it.

00:14:38.120 To go to the second part of your question, how did I come up with this?

00:14:40.920 I was talking with some friends, and we said, this is patently false.

00:14:45.380 Men do not magically become women.

00:14:47.420 I said, let's look at the medical literature and what it says.

00:14:50.180 It says that trans people don't have to transition, don't have to have gender dysphoria, don't have to get surgery, and don't have to get hormones.

00:14:58.000 If they feel they are a different gender than their biosex, then they are trans and they are valid. 0.96

00:15:05.000 And I said, understandably, this is ridiculous.

00:15:07.520 Then I can present exactly how I am, and I can be trans and valid if I say that's my gender identity. 0.93

00:15:14.560 And so I said, let me prove how ridiculous this is using reducio ad absurdum by being trans for five, six months, and hopefully people will understand then how ridiculous this is. 0.94

00:15:27.620 Okay, so he pretended to be transgender for six months, and now he's hoping people understand how ridiculous this is. 0.98

00:15:33.900 It's a funny troll. 0.98

00:15:35.420 It's clever.

00:15:35.840 I see how he came up with it. 0.94

00:15:37.980 However, people are not going to see how ridiculous this is as a result of him pretending to be trans. 0.93

00:15:45.260 Because it is not possible to pretend to be trans, because trans is pretend. 0.98

00:15:50.800 So it's not, the people, first of all, if the story even gets out there, I'm not sure that you're going to hear about it far beyond, that was Alex Stein's show or maybe my show.

00:15:58.860 But you're not going to hear about it far beyond that, but you're not going to hear about it far beyond that.

00:16:02.400 Even if people do, there's no difference between what that guy did and what any trans person did. 0.98

00:16:08.640 It's all pretend.

00:16:09.640 It's all pretend.

00:16:10.140 It's by definition pretend.

00:16:12.120 So you can't pretend to be trans. 0.98

00:16:14.520 It's just called being trans, which is to say it's just plain pretend. 0.98

00:16:17.720 Also, transgenderism is not the end that the libs are seeking. 0.65

00:16:24.760 Transgenderism, like gay marriage, like the whole sexual revolution, is just a stop along the way to an even more radical end. 0.97

00:16:33.320 And you're beginning to see the next stage of the sexual revolution for the left, which is not men pretending to be women or women pretending to be men.

00:16:42.160 It's the abolition of sexual difference altogether.

00:16:45.340 It's everyone becoming a kind of formless, sexless blob.

00:16:51.100 It's sterility and it's mutilation and it's everyone looking just kind of androgynous. 0.91

00:16:58.180 It's pretty girls making themselves look ugly and men making themselves look effeminate and everyone just looking like Pat from SNL.

00:17:06.160 You know, just everyone looking like this type of person where you can't tell, are they man, are they woman? 0.94

00:17:12.840 And the joke on the old SNL sketch was that you should be able to tell whether the person is a man or a woman, but sometimes you can't.

00:17:23.440 The reality of it now is that it is by design that you can't tell if a person is a man or a woman.

00:17:29.900 Because ultimately, the real end of transgenderism is transcending humanity. 1.00

00:17:38.020 It's called transhumanism among some of the weirdo ideologues out there.

00:17:42.040 But you hear it spoken of in the mainstream, that we're going to upload our consciousness, that we're going to live forever somehow.

00:17:48.240 We're going to become cyborgs.

00:17:50.480 We're going to enhance our bodies through the fourth industrial revolution to meld with technology so that sexual difference won't even really matter anymore. 0.83

00:17:58.060 The left-wing writer and ideologue Yuval Harari says, we're going to become homo deus, not homo sapiens.

00:18:05.520 We're going to consciously create a new kind of creature.

00:18:09.400 We're going to make ourselves evolve beyond that to homo deus, to man as a kind of god. 0.97

00:18:14.760 So that's really what they're after in the long run.

00:18:17.980 It begins not with transgenderism.

00:18:21.220 It begins not even with gay marriage or the sexual revolution.

00:18:24.640 It goes all the way back to the Garden of Eden when the serpent tells Eve, ye shall be as gods.

00:18:29.500 And it's that pride, which is the original sin, that leads people to do this, to transcend the natural limitations of humanity.

00:18:37.100 Be they the moral limitations that you saw blown up during the sexual revolution.

00:18:42.020 Be they the anthropological, even the political limitations that you see in the institution of marriage.

00:18:47.500 Followed by the anthropological limitations that you see in the difference between men and women.

00:18:52.000 Now you're seeing it blown up.

00:18:54.280 Just the humanity itself is seen to be an impediment to, paradoxically, to humanity's own flourishing and development.

00:19:03.620 Now, speaking of a culture beyond parody, a U.S. Marine has just been booted off of a flight, a Delta flight.

00:19:15.020 And I love Delta.

00:19:15.700 I had one issue with Delta one time.

00:19:16.980 They made it right.

00:19:17.720 So I've always had a good experience with Delta.

00:19:19.960 But this is absolutely insane.

00:19:21.820 A U.S. Marine was booted off a Delta flight for wearing a pro-veteran T-shirt.

00:19:27.680 This U.S. Marine, a lady Marine even, even more egregious to kick a lady off a flight, 1.00

00:19:34.880 Catherine Banks, a 22-year veteran of the U.S. Marines, was on a Delta flight at San Francisco Airport.

00:19:42.280 Of course, first red flag.

00:19:44.600 She was there going to visit family, and she wore a T-shirt that said,

00:19:48.700 do not give in to the war within, end veteran suicide.

00:19:53.260 Is that not the least controversial message you've ever heard in your life?

00:19:57.680 Servicemen and women should not kill themselves.

00:20:02.780 This is a major problem.

00:20:04.440 A lot of veterans kill themselves.

00:20:06.540 A 22-year Marine veteran is saying, hey, veterans, don't kill yourself.

00:20:11.520 Have hope.

00:20:12.420 Don't despair.

00:20:13.420 Let's support our troops.

00:20:14.480 Let's support our veterans.

00:20:15.400 This should be as uncontroversial a message as there is.

00:20:17.820 She was asked to leave.

00:20:20.040 According to the New York Post,

00:20:25.180 the flight attendant came up and said,

00:20:27.000 the shirt you're wearing is threatening.

00:20:29.520 You need to get off the plane.

00:20:33.060 So the woman, now this is her recounting the story, said, are you kidding me?

00:20:37.440 She said, I'm a Marine Corps vet.

00:20:38.540 I'm going to visit my sister.

00:20:40.740 I've been in the Marine Corps 22 years.

00:20:42.020 I've worked for the Air Force for 15 years.

00:20:43.380 I'm going to visit her.

00:20:45.420 Shirt says, you know, just don't give in to the war within.

00:20:48.580 And then the guy, according to this woman, says,

00:20:50.420 I don't care about your service, and I don't care about her service.

00:20:53.200 The only way you're going to get back on the plane is if you take it off right now.

00:20:57.640 So she said, okay, well, I'm not even wearing a bra, you know, how do I do it?

00:21:04.980 They kicked her off the plane. 0.97

00:21:07.240 Delta says they're dealing with this.

00:21:08.920 This was a big mistake.

00:21:10.700 However, you see a lot of these mistakes these days.

00:21:13.240 You see a lot of people.

00:21:14.260 I just heard about it.

00:21:14.940 I was on a flight, spoke to a woman, lovely woman, who told me her son was at a very fancy,

00:21:22.760 famous prep school, and her son faced severe disciplinary action, could have been expelled

00:21:28.580 because he had a thin blue line flag in his room, and someone saw it on a Zoom meeting,

00:21:36.340 a thin blue line flag, just to support our cops flag.

00:21:40.500 You see a lot of these issues.

00:21:43.100 Kids being kicked out of school.

00:21:44.540 Remember that young kid was threatened with disciplinary action for having a Gadsden flag.

00:21:49.620 This is an early American Revolutionary War flag.

00:21:53.400 If the woman, if this Marine Corps veteran had been wearing a pride flag on a Delta flight,

00:21:59.220 obviously there'd be no problem.

00:22:00.960 She'd probably be celebrated.

00:22:02.320 They might give her a free drink.

00:22:04.900 And the pride flag is legitimately scandalous. 0.98

00:22:08.640 I don't want to seem like I'm clutching my pearls around the church lady here,

00:22:11.420 but you take your kids out somewhere, your little kids, and they see the pride flag,

00:22:15.700 which is just draped everywhere in cities in America today.

00:22:19.140 Your kids are going to ask questions about that, and it is legitimately scandalous to them.

00:22:23.920 Because what are you supposed to say?

00:22:25.960 Oh, some people are a deviant.

00:22:27.760 Some men think they're women. 0.96

00:22:29.040 Some women think they're men. 1.00

00:22:30.100 And you're going to put that.

00:22:30.880 That's legitimately scandalous.

00:22:32.640 The pride flag legitimately probably should not be permitted in civilized spaces. 1.00

00:22:37.400 If you're wearing a pride flag t-shirt on an airline,

00:22:39.680 you probably shouldn't be allowed to board that airline.

00:22:42.020 Or you should have to put a sweatshirt on or something.

00:22:44.120 That's scandalous.

00:22:44.820 We don't want that.

00:22:45.800 I'm all for, you know, I'm all for limits.

00:22:47.360 I'm all for standards.

00:22:48.080 I wrote a whole book about it called Speechless.

00:22:50.160 The, are we going to get the bell?

00:22:51.560 Thank you.

00:22:52.800 So I'm all for that.

00:22:54.880 But what we're doing now is we're saying, you know, pride flag, scandalous stuff, 0.91

00:22:58.560 all sorts of obscenity.

00:22:59.880 You should have that in public.

00:23:01.220 But a U.S. Marine wearing a shirt that says, hey, Marines, take care of yourselves.

00:23:05.400 Have hope.

00:23:05.900 Don't despair.

00:23:07.180 That's not allowed.

00:23:09.180 That is, that's a greater scandal than the Marine shirt or the pride flag. 0.60

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00:24:37.780 Kamala Harris is black. 0.97

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00:25:36.560 Speaking of military operations, Kamala Harris, she just keeps shooting herself in the foot. 1.00

00:25:42.520 Kamala Harris was on the campaign trail.

00:25:44.180 She was asked by one of the Democrat Intifada, the keffia-wearing pro-Palestine leftists,

00:25:50.540 what she thinks of the Israeli genocide of the Palestinians.

00:25:58.340 So that was the premise of the question.

00:26:00.340 And Kamala actually agreed with the protester that Israel is committing a genocide of Palestinians.

00:26:07.080 I know what you're speaking of.

00:26:09.600 I want the ceasefire.

00:26:10.800 But what about the genocide?

00:26:12.800 I want the war to end. 0.85

00:26:14.340 What about the genocide?

00:26:15.140 And I was fed to right speak.

00:26:16.920 But I am speaking right now.

00:26:18.380 Woo! 0.99

00:26:18.960 Yeah!

00:26:19.520 Yeah!

00:26:21.640 What about genocide?

00:26:22.980 Billions of dollars, 2,000 people dead, 19,000 children are dead.

00:26:27.260 You better call them, 19,000 children are dead.

00:26:29.760 So, listen, what he's talking about, it's real.

00:26:39.320 And so that's not the subject that I came to discuss today, but it's real.

00:26:43.320 And I respect his voice.

00:26:46.240 So listen, here we are.

00:26:48.680 You all have the right and the ability to have opportunity available to you at each step of the way.

00:26:57.340 Okay, so there you have it.

00:26:58.580 What he's talking about is real.

00:27:02.580 I didn't come here to talk about that today, but I respect his voice.

00:27:06.520 What he's talking about is real.

00:27:07.900 What's he talking about?

00:27:09.480 He is saying repeatedly that the state of Israel is committing a genocide of the Palestinians.

00:27:15.660 And, you know, his evidence of it is all of the dead Palestinians as a result of the war that followed the October 7th attack.

00:27:21.160 Kamala Harris' view is now officially more radical than the view of the supposed Palestinian state.

00:27:31.800 If you go to the website, now, we have to recognize there is no such thing as a Palestinian state.

00:27:37.420 But there are entities that claim to be Palestinian states.

00:27:40.420 They have a website.

00:27:41.040 Despite the Palestinian state, so-called, admits on its website, quote,

00:27:46.120 despite the displacement of more than 1 million Palestinians in 1948 and the displacement of more than 200,000 Palestinians, majority of them to Jordan after the 1967 war,

00:27:57.020 the Palestinian world population was 14 million by the end of 2022, which means that the number of Palestinians in the world has doubled about 10 times since the Nakba,

00:28:05.760 the Nakba being the ethnic displacement of the Palestinian Arabs at the founding of Israel.

00:28:11.180 And more than half of them lived in historical Palestine by the end of 22.

00:28:15.360 Number of Palestinians in the world more than doubled 10 times since the beginning of what these people are calling a genocide.

00:28:24.360 I think, by definition, that means there hasn't been a genocide.

00:28:31.580 And I'm not even particularly partisan or extreme on the issue of the Israel-Gaza, Israel-Palestine conflict.

00:28:38.160 I recognize it's a complex issue, one of the most complex and thorny political issues in foreign policy.

00:28:44.760 However, I've said many times, it's a difficult conflict because the rational political goal for each side of the conflict is the ethnic cleansing of the other. 0.61

00:28:58.260 And some people hear that and they think that ethnic cleansing means genocide.

00:29:00.560 It doesn't.

00:29:00.940 Those are different things.

00:29:02.180 Ethnic cleansing means the displacement of a people from an area.

00:29:05.400 Genocide means the destruction of the people.

00:29:07.340 So those are different things.

00:29:08.700 They're not totally unrelated, but they're different.

00:29:10.760 And for Israel, especially after the October 7th attack, they cannot tolerate the security risk of an independently governed Palestinian state that close on its border. 0.87

00:29:22.800 They can't tolerate that.

00:29:24.340 I don't think anybody thinks they could.

00:29:26.300 And in terms of Gaza and the so-called state of Palestine and Hamas, they overtly say from the river to the sea, Palestine will be free.

00:29:33.940 They are overtly calling for the ethnic cleansing and even the genocide of the Jews.

00:29:37.540 So that is very clear.

00:29:39.500 However, it just obviously isn't a genocide.

00:29:44.220 Part of the evidence here is the Palestinian population has exploded. 0.97

00:29:47.980 That doesn't happen during genocides.

00:29:49.460 But the other reason is if Israel wanted to commit a genocide, it could. 0.70

00:29:53.920 Not to put it too bluntly, but they obviously could.

00:29:57.100 They have all of the military advantage here and they're backed up by the global hegemon.

00:30:01.760 So they could.

00:30:02.600 They haven't done that.

00:30:03.580 I bring it up not even to get into the Israel-Palestine issue, to point out how radical Kamala Harris is.

00:30:11.840 She knows this is a bad issue for her.

00:30:13.380 This is why she said she didn't want to talk about it.

00:30:15.200 But the official position of Kamala Harris right now, as she just stated, you heard it with your own ears, is the state of Israel is committing a genocide.

00:30:25.780 Okay.

00:30:26.060 Well, lady, first of all, that's a pretty audacious claim.

00:30:29.080 But if that's what you really believe, how can you continue to support the state of Israel?

00:30:34.360 She is currently the vice president of the United States.

00:30:36.720 Her administration is arming Israel and has been arming Israel to the teeth for years.

00:30:41.360 If she seriously believes that the state of Israel is committing a genocide, that means that Kamala Harris is admitting to being complicit in genocide.

00:30:50.260 Does she really believe that?

00:30:51.480 The only conclusion that one can draw is that this woman doesn't know anything. 1.00

00:30:59.920 She is woefully ignorant and not nearly intelligent enough to be the president of the United States. 1.00

00:31:04.980 Or that she's wickedly evil and is happily consciously helping to commit a genocide. 1.00

00:31:13.020 And in charity to Kamala Harris, I think it's the former.

00:31:17.440 I think she has no idea what she's talking about.

00:31:19.260 I think she has no idea what she believes about anything.

00:31:21.120 And in charity to Kamala Harris, I think it's the former.

00:31:21.480 And I don't think she has the mental faculty to be the president or really even a U.S. senator or maybe even a local mayor or dog catcher.

00:31:31.220 She's just not.

00:31:32.100 I'm not saying there's no place for her in society. 0.56

00:31:34.540 I'm sure there's something she can do.

00:31:36.700 But this ain't it.

00:31:39.700 Major, major blunder that reveals her complete inadequacy for the job. 1.00

00:31:47.980 Now, speaking of the Harris campaign, Kamala Harris has an agenda for black men.

00:31:54.060 Kamala Harris has rolled out an agenda for black men that got her into a little bit of trouble. 1.00

00:31:58.860 Because her campaign plan, her agenda for black men promised, quote, one million loans that are fully forgivable to black entrepreneurs, capital B black, black entrepreneurs, and others to start a business.

00:32:10.100 Education, training, and mentorship programs that help black men get good-paying jobs, legalizing recreational marijuana and creating opportunities for black Americans to succeed in this new industry, and helping black men provide care for their aging parents.

00:32:24.240 Do you catch what's maybe a little bit of a problem about this plan, this agenda for black men? 1.00

00:32:32.100 It's probably illegal is the problem with it.

00:32:36.600 She's coming out.

00:32:37.220 She's saying, yeah, the government is going to discriminate in favor of black men.

00:32:43.420 But if you discriminate in favor of one race, that means necessarily that you're discriminating against other races.

00:32:51.600 So another way to write the Kamala agenda for black men is we are going to deny loans, fully forgivable loans, to white people and Hispanic people and Asian people. 0.63

00:33:02.660 We are going to deny education, training, and mentorship to whites, Asians, and Hispanics so that whites, Asians, and Hispanics have a harder time getting good-paying jobs. 0.97

00:33:13.500 Then the marijuana one is my favorite one. 0.99

00:33:15.300 She goes, yeah, all you black guys, you love just like smoking dope, right? 1.00

00:33:18.040 Yeah, we'll give you a lot more dope if you want. 0.99

00:33:19.640 Whatever, vote for me, please. 0.88

00:33:21.320 What kind of opinion does this woman have of black men? 0.98

00:33:23.920 Yeah, hey, I'll give you guys some fat blunts if you give me your vote. 1.00

00:33:27.960 Come on, isn't that what you blacks like? 1.00

00:33:29.880 How outrageous? 1.00

00:33:31.460 That's it.

00:33:32.340 Right below the, we'll get you good-paying jobs, we'll give you educational training, we'll help you start a business.

00:33:36.800 Yeah, we'll give you a bunch of drugs. 1.00

00:33:38.060 If all that other stuff didn't work, you want some drugs, black guys? 1.00

00:33:40.560 Good grief. 0.98

00:33:42.700 Then after that, we'll help black men provide care for their aging parents, meaning we will not help white people and Hispanics and Asians to care for their parents. 0.99

00:33:53.040 So the Harris campaign realized this was not a good look.

00:33:55.680 And they announced on Monday that it's an agenda for everyone.

00:34:01.060 It's a, hold on.

00:34:03.540 It's an agenda for black men or it's an agenda for everyone?

00:34:06.840 Well, that phrase, and others, is doing a lot of work.

00:34:10.160 We're going to, we've got this program for black entrepreneurs and others.

00:34:13.860 Well, if it's for others, then it's not for black entrepreneurs, and it's for everybody. 0.97

00:34:17.980 But it obviously is for black entrepreneurs, and this is the problem for the left. 0.99

00:34:21.240 The left very much wants to discriminate on the basis of race.

00:34:26.380 Very much wants to, and has enshrined that in law, especially in civil rights law.

00:34:31.160 However, the left also has cynically used the notion of equal protection and non-discrimination to advance their agenda.

00:34:42.620 So they also have to say we will not discriminate on the basis of race, and there's just an irreconcilable contradiction here.

00:34:48.380 So they're going to use little weasel phrases like, and others, or whatever, to advance what they really want, which is racial discrimination against whites, against Asians, slightly in favor of Hispanics, and especially in favor of black people.

00:35:01.820 They're going to use that kind of weasel language to pretend that they believe in some kind of racial equality.

00:35:07.360 Why do they have to do this?

00:35:08.800 Why is Kamala going so far as to say, hey, black guys, we'll give you drugs? 0.99

00:35:13.000 Because the Harris campaign is hemorrhaging support among black men, according to many polls for many months now.

00:35:18.620 Polling shows Harris has 12 to 15 percent less black voter support than Joe Biden did in 2020.

00:35:26.900 So they say, okay, we'll give black people all this stuff. 0.90

00:35:29.760 And then the lawyers come in, they say, hey, that's illegal.

00:35:32.200 And they say, okay, well, actually, it's going to be available to everyone on a, quote, race-neutral basis. 0.79

00:35:37.280 Okay, well, now your specific appeal to black men looks even more cynical.

00:35:40.280 Is that going to help you pick up that 12 to 15 percent?

00:35:43.320 Seems unlikely.

00:35:44.100 So then, now the Kamala campaign is trying to win, especially among black voters, by going to church.

00:35:50.940 The Kamala campaign has shown up to church for the first time, I think, ever.

00:35:55.060 Here's an article from NBC News.

00:35:57.260 Harris goes to church highlighting the absence of religion in the 2024 campaign.

00:36:01.460 In an increasingly secular country, Kamala Harris and Donald Trump are highlighting their personal faiths less than other recent candidates.

00:36:11.560 But, you know, over the weekend, Harris went to New Birth Missionary Baptist Church outside Atlanta.

00:36:17.320 And Tim Walsh went to Victorious Believers Ministries in Saginaw, Michigan.

00:36:21.420 All right.

00:36:21.680 This is a scandalous headline.

00:36:26.100 Scandal seems to be the theme of the show.

00:36:28.560 It's a scandalous headline that it's headline news when political candidates do go to church.

00:36:36.220 Used to be headline news if they didn't go to church.

00:36:38.320 Now it's headline news if they do go to church.

00:36:39.860 A little reminder that Christians, specifically Catholics, Eastern Orthodox, and more traditional Protestants,

00:36:47.760 believe that it is an obligation to go to church on Sunday.

00:36:52.120 It's not something good that you can do, and maybe it's helpful to you, and, you know, man, it's kind of nice.

00:36:57.860 No, no, no.

00:36:58.960 Christians traditionally believe it is an obligation to go to church.

00:37:04.920 Harris and Walsh decide they're finally going to start going to church.

00:37:08.120 Why?

00:37:08.560 Because they're losing voters in Georgia and Pennsylvania and Michigan, and so they're trying to shore that up.

00:37:14.700 They're going to cynically use religion.

00:37:16.440 I see no evidence that Harris or Walsh have ever really been practicing Christians.

00:37:23.920 I mean, Harris obviously comes from a household that was not Christian.

00:37:26.500 I think her mother was Hindu.

00:37:28.420 But now I guess she sort of pays lip service to Christianity, but obviously contradicts non-negotiable aspects of the political expression of Christianity, 0.71

00:37:37.640 notably on killing little babies and on marriage and on a lot of stuff.

00:37:41.800 So what do we say? 0.89

00:37:43.720 People are going to criticize the Republicans here.

00:37:46.380 They say, well, Trump's not the biggest churchgoer either.

00:37:49.500 Yeah, maybe he's not the biggest churchgoer.

00:37:50.800 It seems like he's become a lot more religious since nearly being killed.

00:37:53.720 He talks about God a lot more than he used to.

00:37:55.900 But even before that, President Trump came out with the Bible.

00:37:59.020 Remember the Trump Bible?

00:38:00.220 And a lot of people criticized him for that.

00:38:02.100 Where President Trump, during all the unrest in D.C., held up a Bible in front of St. John's Church, which the libs wanted to burn down.

00:38:12.560 And he's invoked God in a number of speeches.

00:38:15.760 And he said, we're going to make America godly.

00:38:17.420 You know, we've got to turn back to God.

00:38:19.520 And people will point to him and say, well, Trump, you're not the most pious man.

00:38:24.140 You're not the most holy man in the world.

00:38:27.420 I think, yeah, so first of all, all of us are fallen.

00:38:30.600 All of us commit sin.

00:38:31.560 But even if Trump really didn't believe it, and I think he really sort of is becoming a bit more religious now.

00:38:38.120 Even if it were all just cynical.

00:38:40.220 There's a great line from La Roche-Foucauld, which is that hypocrisy is the tribute vice pays to virtue.

00:38:46.660 Simply by saying, we think the Bible is a good thing. 0.75

00:38:49.780 We want more people to read the Bible.

00:38:51.720 Simply by saying, we think churches are a good thing.

00:38:53.400 We don't want the churches to get burned down.

00:38:55.080 Simply by saying, we need a country that prays, that recognizes one nation under God.

00:38:59.840 Even if the person is not the most pious.

00:39:01.720 That is in itself a good thing.

00:39:03.620 Because it is acknowledging an objective standard.

00:39:07.620 And a good objective standard.

00:39:09.360 Namely, that God is God and we should worship him.

00:39:13.840 That, it's become fashionable to be an atheist in recent decades.

00:39:17.900 However, that is going to pass away.

00:39:21.040 I can promise you one thing.

00:39:22.200 Even if you don't believe you're not the most religious person.

00:39:24.480 You don't go to church every Sunday.

00:39:25.780 You know, I can promise you.

00:39:28.240 Atheism will pass away.

00:39:29.340 God will not pass away.

00:39:30.500 God will win.

00:39:31.160 Even if you're a total secularist.

00:39:32.820 If you just read history, God is going to win.

00:39:35.080 Okay?

00:39:35.360 God keeps coming back.

00:39:37.040 And the fashionable fad of atheism crops up every so often and it falls away.

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00:40:18.200 My favorite comment on Friday is from Adam Howard, 4775.

00:40:22.340 He says, Tim Walsh couldn't be here tonight, but don't worry because he'll say that he was.

00:40:26.120 So true.

00:40:26.840 So that's a really way to excuse, a fabulous way to excuse anything that Walsh does or does not do on the campaign trail.

00:40:34.880 You can just lie about it.

00:40:37.940 Is religion ready for a comeback? 0.66

00:40:41.160 Just building off this point we were making about Kamala and Walsh going to church.

00:40:45.600 Excellent article in the New York Times.

00:40:47.000 I don't say that very often.

00:40:47.980 But there's an excellent article in the New York Times by Ross Douthat, who is the best columnist at the New York Times.

00:40:53.760 Is the world ready for a religious comeback? 1.00

00:40:56.560 The heyday of the new atheism in Western life when anti-God tracts by Richard Dawkins and Christopher Hitchens bestrode bestseller lists did not arrive.

00:41:04.380 These brilliant new arguments for God's existence were suddenly discovered.

00:41:07.400 Rather, it was because of specific events and deeper forces making the time ripe.

00:41:11.460 This, I think, is the key here.

00:41:12.700 I highly recommend you read the whole column.

00:41:17.160 Douthat is saying, we might be ready for a religious comeback because the cause of our fashionable atheism that's really dominated for the last 20 years.

00:41:26.980 It's starting in the early to mid-2000s and petering out probably five or six years ago beginning to wane.

00:41:33.440 It didn't come about because of some philosophical discovery or some theological insight or even some material scientific discovery.

00:41:41.800 It came about because of passions owing to particular historical events.

00:41:48.820 That's why it happened.

00:41:50.400 Douthat's making the point.

00:41:51.900 The reason the new atheism hit was not because Christopher Hitchens made some good argument.

00:41:56.520 He didn't really make any good arguments.

00:41:57.640 He certainly didn't make any new arguments or Richard Dawkins or anyone.

00:42:00.660 It's because of the 9-11 attacks because 9-11, when Muslim radicals decided to fly planes into buildings, that made people skeptical of extreme religion, serious religion. 0.72

00:42:12.880 Now, of course, different religion than our religion.

00:42:15.320 Islam is a rather different religion than Christianity. 0.97

00:42:18.280 But the atheists and the secularists seized upon it opportunistically so that they could attack religion broadly and really specifically Christianity.

00:42:26.620 So it was about that.

00:42:27.240 It was about the passion that came out of that.

00:42:28.560 It was because of the much-publicized sex scandal in the Catholic Church.

00:42:33.160 Of course, the Catholic Church has not experienced—I mean, all sex scandals are horrific and terrible.

00:42:39.540 I'm not downplaying any of it.

00:42:40.720 But the Catholic Church has not experienced sexual abuse at a higher rate than any other religious group.

00:42:46.680 It's actually lower than certain religious groups.

00:42:48.240 And it's about half the rate of public school teachers.

00:42:50.500 Again, that wasn't publicized either.

00:42:52.380 So that made people skeptical of religion.

00:42:54.120 In any case, the New Atheism was about passions that came from particular historical events.

00:43:01.660 And if passion and history can lead us into certain bad ideas, that means that passion and history might be able to lead us out of certain bad ideas.

00:43:10.460 I think we're seeing passions aroused by certain historical events right now leading us back to God.

00:43:16.720 For starters, the trans ideology, the fact that the supposed elites and geniuses in our country are trying to put your kid on puberty blockers, castrate your kid, lead him into all sorts of self-harm and probably shorten his life. 0.99

00:43:28.440 Based on science against religion, that's going to turn people against science, and it's going to turn people back toward religion.

00:43:37.180 Not that I think ultimately there's any real conflict.

00:43:39.860 What else?

00:43:40.500 The decay of the American empire.

00:43:41.920 The fact that we were promised by the atheists, if we just embrace atheism, we'll be more powerful, we'll be stronger, we'll be more rational than ever.

00:43:50.820 We become much less rational, and we become much less powerful.

00:43:53.980 How about the self-undermining of the whole scientific endeavor?

00:43:58.200 The fact that our so-called genius scientists are now telling us things that are patently false.

00:44:04.960 They're telling us men can become women, they're telling us babies aren't babies, and they're telling us that living people are dead, and they try to harvest their organs.

00:44:11.060 The self-undermining of the scientific endeavor, when you take God out of it and necessarily weaken morality, that is going to do it too.

00:44:22.180 Kind of hopeful.

00:44:22.880 I know conservatives aren't supposed to be hopeful.

00:44:24.640 You know, we're supposed to say everything is getting worse, and it's going to get much, much significantly more worse as we keep going.

00:44:31.600 I agree with Douthat.

00:44:33.260 I think the world is ready for a religious comeback. 0.90

00:44:36.040 I think that Tocqueville's observation in democracy of America is probably right, that America is either going to take religion more seriously.

00:44:45.840 America might even become Catholic, as Tocqueville pointed out. 0.84

00:44:49.140 You're seeing an outsized influence of Catholicism.

00:44:52.360 At the very least, we can say traditional religion, or it's going to give up religion altogether.

00:44:57.980 And I don't know.

00:44:58.500 I feel kind of hopeful.

00:44:59.780 Call me crazy.

00:45:00.540 Now, speaking of comebacks, a really important story.

00:45:04.760 The New York Yankees have just clinched the American League Championship.

00:45:08.760 This is the first time that that has happened in, what, 15 years now?

00:45:13.640 It's the 41st AL Championship.

00:45:15.220 Now, the Yankees are hoping for their 28th World Series win.

00:45:18.520 Why do I care about this?

00:45:19.820 Why am I wearing my little Yankee pin today?

00:45:21.940 Because sports are a serious thing.

00:45:25.740 I was trying to, I was thinking to myself, why do I like the Yankees so much?

00:45:28.360 I'm not the most athletic guy.

00:45:29.660 You know, I don't follow sports all that much.

00:45:32.080 Why?

00:45:32.360 I follow baseball, but specifically, I really follow the Yankees.

00:45:34.800 Why?

00:45:34.940 Because not all sports are made equal.

00:45:40.240 Is it just because I'm a New Yorker?

00:45:41.640 No, I'm not.

00:45:42.040 I don't follow the Rangers.

00:45:43.040 I don't follow the Islanders.

00:45:44.420 I don't follow the Knicks.

00:45:45.480 I don't follow the Giants.

00:45:46.480 I don't follow the, whoever, the Jets.

00:45:48.780 No.

00:45:49.560 Baseball.

00:45:49.980 Why do I like baseball?

00:45:50.720 Because baseball is complex.

00:45:55.300 Baseball requires skill and knowledge.

00:45:57.240 Baseball is at once individualistic.

00:45:59.320 It's just this battle between the pitcher and the batter.

00:46:01.640 But baseball is also, in the context of a team,

00:46:04.940 unlike, say, football, it's pretty much all team.

00:46:07.220 Unlike tennis and golf, it's pretty much all individual.

00:46:09.600 Baseball combines the two as any human life must, as any polity must.

00:46:13.540 It's complex.

00:46:14.340 It's not, soccer, very simple.

00:46:15.980 I know some people like soccer.

00:46:17.400 It's very simple.

00:46:18.020 Anyone can pick up a soccer ball and play it.

00:46:19.920 Baseball, you've got to know something.

00:46:21.220 You've got to develop certain specific skills.

00:46:24.220 Why the Yankees?

00:46:25.000 I'll tell you why.

00:46:26.260 Because the Yankees, unlike other sports franchises, are clean cut.

00:46:30.360 They have rules.

00:46:30.740 They used to not let their players wear beards back when George Steinbrenner was alive.

00:46:34.740 They're clean cut.

00:46:35.940 A lot of teams are prone to scandals.

00:46:38.500 The Yankees weren't really prone to all that many scandals, even during the height of steroids.

00:46:42.680 You never saw Derek Jeter caught up in steroids.

00:46:45.080 You never really saw Jeter stumbling out of nightclubs at night.

00:46:48.100 Okay?

00:46:48.900 Today, same thing could be said of Aaron Judge or any of these guys.

00:46:51.440 You know, these guys have three things that I think are really important in sports.

00:46:57.240 Tradition, integrity, victory.

00:46:59.420 Long-storied tradition, the most winning franchise ever in the history of sports.

00:47:03.700 They have integrity.

00:47:04.540 They don't get caught up in all sorts of crazy scandals.

00:47:06.940 And they win.

00:47:08.060 Okay, man?

00:47:08.600 They win.

00:47:09.160 And that's good.

00:47:09.880 So I know some people hate the Yankees.

00:47:11.680 And it's okay.

00:47:12.340 If you can hate the Yankees, it's fine.

00:47:15.040 But sports should emulate baseball.

00:47:18.920 And sports teams should emulate the Yankees.

00:47:20.620 Even if you hate the Yankees and even if you find baseball boring.

00:47:23.580 Because it's not all the same.

00:47:25.780 It's not all created equal.

00:47:27.800 And sports are really important to a polity.

00:47:30.300 The games are really important to how a society understands itself.

00:47:33.660 And so if we play games that are scandalous and simplistic,

00:47:39.000 then we're going to resemble simplistic and scandalous countries.

00:47:42.940 And if we play games that are filled with integrity and complexity and all the rest,

00:47:47.140 we are going, we're going to be a more thriving country.

00:47:50.520 America at its height had its national pastime as baseball.

00:47:53.820 America today, you'd say its national pastime is what?

00:47:56.280 Maybe football, maybe someone.

00:47:57.720 But America's a little bit on the decline from where we were before.

00:48:02.320 We need to make America great again.

00:48:03.600 Before we go, I know we're running late.

00:48:04.860 I don't care.

00:48:05.280 I'm getting to Trump at McDonald's.

00:48:07.000 President Trump has now officially worked at McDonald's for about 15 minutes longer than Kamala Harris. 0.99

00:48:12.740 Here he is at the drive-thru.

00:48:14.220 I could do this all day.

00:48:15.400 I wouldn't mind this job.

00:48:17.140 I like this job.

00:48:18.140 I think I might come back and do it again.

00:48:19.820 Thank you.

00:48:21.520 Look at that.

00:48:22.320 Look at that.

00:48:23.880 Thank you, Mr. President.

00:48:25.160 Nice to see you.

00:48:27.160 You made it possible for ordinary people like us to meet you.

00:48:30.500 You're not ordinary.

00:48:31.180 I mean, thank you so much.

00:48:32.640 You are not ordinary.

00:48:33.700 I can see.

00:48:34.500 We pray for you.

00:48:35.540 Thank you.

00:48:36.100 And you are the type of person who want to be the president.

00:48:38.740 Thank you.

00:48:39.300 Thank you so much.

00:48:40.180 Thank you for taking the bullet.

00:48:41.560 Thank you very much. 0.87

00:48:42.640 Yeah, I took a bullet.

00:48:43.600 That's right.

00:48:43.900 Thank you, Mr. President.

00:48:44.700 When you think about it, I guess that's right.

00:48:46.340 Thank you.

00:48:46.780 Thank you.

00:48:48.140 That's right.

00:48:48.460 Phenomenal.

00:48:48.980 And the key here is that one line.

00:48:50.780 You are not ordinary.

00:48:53.700 This is an insight of C.S. Lewis and a number of Christians.

00:48:59.040 You are not ordinary.

00:49:00.200 He says, oh, what you do for the ordinary people?

00:49:03.060 You're not ordinary.

00:49:03.660 Nobody's an ordinary person.

00:49:06.960 We're individuals.

00:49:09.080 Every man is my master.

00:49:10.160 I can learn from him.

00:49:11.800 That's not just a nice little platitude to make the poor masses feel better about themselves.

00:49:17.620 That is a fact, Jack.

00:49:19.540 Okay.

00:49:19.940 And Trump seems to really believe that.

00:49:22.320 You know, you saw it when the Marines hat got blown off as Trump was mounting the airplane

00:49:26.500 or the helicopter.

00:49:27.180 And he leans down, puts the guy's hat on his head.

00:49:28.900 Didn't even think about it.

00:49:29.600 Why?

00:49:31.720 Because this is a man.

00:49:32.640 You know, this Marine, this is a man.

00:49:34.200 Trump's not better than this guy.

00:49:35.960 He's got a different job.

00:49:37.500 In some ways, he's got a more important job or at least a more prominent job.

00:49:41.420 But nobody is just ordinary.

00:49:45.560 And no work is just ordinary.

00:49:47.520 All work can be extraordinary if you consecrate that work, especially to God.

00:49:54.020 If you treat that work with integrity and you recognize the role that it plays in our country.

00:50:01.220 You know, this is a great troll because Kamala says she worked at McDonald's and there's no evidence she did. 0.92

00:50:05.900 But it's also, it really hits her campaign.

00:50:09.040 It hits the Democrats, specifically on labor, where Republicans are doing better now than we used to.

00:50:14.080 And Democrats are doing worse.

00:50:16.400 The Democrat view is that working at McDonald's, that's below you.

00:50:20.620 That's below us.

00:50:21.920 Working at McDonald's, picking grapes and fields, you know, cleaning houses.

00:50:26.000 That's below us.

00:50:27.240 We don't want to do that.

00:50:29.020 That's why we got to bring in all the foreigners. 1.00

00:50:31.120 You know, that's jobs for them. 0.92

00:50:32.100 These are jobs Americans won't do.

00:50:35.900 Never be too good to do work.

00:50:38.380 I hear people, they criticize, you know, baristas or something.

00:50:42.060 I love my barista.

00:50:43.320 My barista does a good service for me.

00:50:45.980 Does honest work.

00:50:47.760 Much more honest work than many people who work white-collar jobs.

00:50:52.680 And there's honest work in white-collar jobs too.

00:50:55.880 Some jobs the Americans won't do. 0.99

00:50:57.960 What a disgusting view of labor. 0.97

00:50:59.600 What a disgusting view of work.

00:51:01.880 There are 6.8 million U.S. men in their prime working years right now.

00:51:05.900 Who are not employed and are not seeking employment.

00:51:08.580 There are a lot of Americans who should be working.

00:51:12.060 Who maybe want to be working but have despaired of it.

00:51:15.100 Or who need a little, they need a little encouragement.

00:51:18.820 And Trump is saying, hey, I'm going to work this job.

00:51:20.460 I think he had a great time.

00:51:21.640 He trained up on that job for what, five minutes before he went to the window.

00:51:25.340 He did a good job at it.

00:51:26.280 He seemed to enjoy it.

00:51:28.400 And he's, this is the other thing.

00:51:29.920 He sincerely loves McDonald's.

00:51:31.900 And as someone who also sincerely loves McDonald's, I totally get it.

00:51:35.600 There's nothing inauthentic about that.

00:51:37.480 He's not faking it.

00:51:38.820 He's not faking his love of Big Macs.

00:51:40.480 He's not faking his love of American labor.

00:51:44.000 And ordinary Americans.

00:51:45.200 Even some of whom have funny accents and call themselves ordinary people.

00:51:49.100 Trump says you're not ordinary.

00:51:50.200 You're extraordinary.

00:51:51.760 If you recognize that.

00:51:52.880 If you don't have this plutocratic view that the Democrats have adopted.

00:51:55.980 If you recognize we can get every American engaged.

00:51:58.180 That's the only way we're going to make our country great again.

00:52:00.680 That, that is a persuasive message.

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00:52:37.820 I've been told because I'm a white male, kind of at the top of the pile.

00:52:41.680 How do I get down from the top?

00:52:43.520 I don't think you necessarily can.

00:52:45.900 They get past all the talk about racism.

00:52:48.520 We have to love each other.

00:52:49.800 It can't be that simple.

00:52:50.980 How do we get to a point of racial harmony? 0.60

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00:52:59.060 I think you got some journeying to do.

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00:53:02.060 We have an epidemic.

00:53:02.580 20 million crimes a year.

00:53:05.060 6,000, 7,000 hate crimes.

00:53:06.700 No, there's no epidemic.

00:53:07.720 Why are we talking about statistics?

00:53:09.220 This is not a matter of statistics.

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The Michael Knowles Show - October 21, 2024

Ep. 1599 - Trump Joins McDonald’s Drive Thru

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