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00:00:30.660 A battle over bathrooms takes over Capitol Hill,

00:00:33.680 and we are actually pretty close to the center of it.

00:00:36.780 I'm Michael Knowles.

00:00:37.480 This is The Michael Knowles Show.

00:00:38.340 Welcome back to the show.

00:00:58.620 I mentioned on the show five or six days ago

00:01:01.340 that this trans issue on Capitol Hill

00:01:05.820 was going to be a big deal,

00:01:07.400 and the libs were going to try to put a man

00:01:09.620 in the women's bathroom,

00:01:10.540 and Republicans were going to have to deal with this fight.

00:01:12.500 It was inevitable.

00:01:13.900 And Congressman Nancy Mace

00:01:15.560 has taken up the issue

00:01:18.060 and actually stood up for sanity and reality

00:01:20.820 and the rights of women,

00:01:21.920 and Nancy Mace is going to be on the show.

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00:02:00.720 We'll get to that in a moment.

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00:03:27.980 This is a good day.

00:03:38.040 This is a good day

00:03:38.600 for a lot of reasons.

00:03:41.280 Mike Johnson,

00:03:42.360 Speaker of the House of Representatives,

00:03:44.480 has been asked questions

00:03:45.580 about this issue that

00:03:46.640 really, you know,

00:03:48.500 I hate to say I told you so,

00:03:49.560 but we kind of brought this

00:03:50.300 to the forefront

00:03:50.840 and now Congressman Mace

00:03:52.860 is running with this

00:03:53.980 on Capitol Hill.

00:03:54.940 And so leadership

00:03:55.520 has to deal with it.

00:03:56.680 And yesterday,

00:03:57.740 Mike Johnson was asked

00:03:59.060 what he is going to do

00:04:00.220 about Tim McBride,

00:04:01.740 this man who thinks he's a woman,

00:04:03.840 wanting to use

00:04:05.100 women's bathrooms

00:04:05.920 on Capitol Hill.

00:04:07.000 Here is Mike Johnson's response.

00:04:10.900 Mr. Speaker,

00:04:11.940 is freshman-elect Sarah McBride

00:04:14.340 a man or a woman?

00:04:16.580 Look, I'm not going to get into this.

00:04:19.040 We welcome all new members

00:04:20.680 with open arms

00:04:22.300 who are duly elected

00:04:23.600 representatives of the people.

00:04:25.160 I believe it's a,

00:04:26.680 it's a command

00:04:28.580 that we treat all persons

00:04:29.740 with dignity and respect.

00:04:30.960 And we will.

00:04:31.780 And I'm not going to engage

00:04:32.720 in silly debates about this.

00:04:35.320 There's a concern about

00:04:36.400 the uses of restroom facilities

00:04:38.080 and locker rooms

00:04:38.740 and all that.

00:04:39.280 This is an issue

00:04:39.840 that Congress has never

00:04:40.860 had to address before.

00:04:43.040 And we're going to do that

00:04:43.660 in deliberate fashion

00:04:45.260 with member consensus on it.

00:04:47.740 And we will accommodate

00:04:49.060 the needs of every single person.

00:04:50.440 That's all I'm going to say

00:04:51.040 about that.

00:04:51.340 Do you plan on bringing

00:04:53.380 Nancy Mesa's transgender bill

00:04:55.500 and putting that

00:04:56.100 into the rules package?

00:04:58.120 We're not,

00:04:58.660 I'm not going to address

00:04:59.260 the plans on any of that.

00:05:00.180 I just told you

00:05:00.740 what I'm going to say

00:05:01.360 about the issue.

00:05:02.020 I'm not going to engage in this.

00:05:03.020 We don't look down

00:05:03.640 upon anyone.

00:05:04.660 We treat everybody

00:05:05.280 with dignity and respect.

00:05:06.280 That's a principle

00:05:06.860 that I pursued my whole life.

00:05:08.080 And we will take care

00:05:08.900 of this, you know,

00:05:10.340 issue of first impression

00:05:11.380 for Congress

00:05:12.000 as we will any other thing.

00:05:13.820 We'll provide

00:05:14.840 appropriate accommodation

00:05:15.700 for every member of Congress.

00:05:17.820 Okay, Mike Johnson

00:05:18.600 was raked over the coals

00:05:19.640 by conservatives

00:05:20.300 for this answer.

00:05:21.440 And I give him

00:05:22.940 a little more grace on it.

00:05:25.000 Because we're called

00:05:25.840 to be wise as serpents

00:05:26.880 and innocent as doves.

00:05:28.040 And I am hopeful

00:05:29.860 that Mike Johnson

00:05:31.060 will do the right thing

00:05:32.020 as the Republican leader

00:05:33.360 in the House of Representatives.

00:05:34.720 I am hopeful

00:05:35.600 that he is going to say,

00:05:38.060 no, boys can't go

00:05:38.740 into the girls' room.

00:05:40.000 And so if he doesn't want

00:05:41.880 to take the reporter's bait

00:05:43.260 on a question like this,

00:05:44.500 I'm okay with it.

00:05:45.400 So long as he does

00:05:47.060 the right thing in the end.

00:05:48.360 Now, the outcry

00:05:49.400 against his response here,

00:05:50.800 simple question,

00:05:51.760 is Tim McBride

00:05:52.980 a man or a woman?

00:05:54.080 He doesn't want

00:05:54.580 to take the bait,

00:05:55.240 I get it.

00:05:55.760 But it's a simple question.

00:05:57.160 He ended up clarifying

00:05:58.860 his statement

00:05:59.380 later in the day.

00:06:00.720 Hello, everybody.

00:06:02.400 I just want to make

00:06:03.200 a statement for all of you

00:06:04.260 here and be very clear.

00:06:05.960 I was asked a question

00:06:06.940 this morning

00:06:07.420 at the leadership gaggle

00:06:08.540 and I rejected the premise

00:06:09.700 because the answer

00:06:10.720 is so obvious.

00:06:13.040 For anybody who doesn't know

00:06:14.300 my well-established record

00:06:15.400 on this issue,

00:06:16.680 let me be unequivocally clear.

00:06:18.800 A man is a man

00:06:20.200 and a woman is a woman.

00:06:22.180 And a man cannot become

00:06:23.420 a woman.

00:06:25.060 That said,

00:06:26.200 I also believe,

00:06:27.400 that's what scripture teaches,

00:06:28.740 what I just said,

00:06:30.120 but I also believe

00:06:31.220 that we treat everybody

00:06:32.320 with dignity.

00:06:33.280 And so we can do

00:06:34.880 and believe all those things

00:06:35.860 at the same time.

00:06:36.960 And I wanted to make

00:06:38.000 that clear for everybody

00:06:38.760 because there's lots

00:06:39.300 of questions.

00:06:39.840 But that's where I stand.

00:06:40.660 I've stood there

00:06:41.240 my whole life

00:06:41.880 and those are facts.

00:06:43.460 Okay, so you see

00:06:44.540 Mike Johnson here

00:06:45.280 saying, look,

00:06:46.640 he's a man.

00:06:47.620 That's what the scripture teaches.

00:06:48.880 And sure,

00:06:49.240 that is what scripture teaches,

00:06:50.420 but it's also what

00:06:51.220 biology teaches.

00:06:52.220 It's also what

00:06:52.820 our eyes teach us,

00:06:54.540 what our functioning

00:06:55.480 faculties of reason

00:06:56.420 teach us.

00:06:57.680 He's a guy.

00:06:59.240 And so he's a very

00:07:00.140 confused guy.

00:07:01.680 He obviously has

00:07:03.340 a defect of his perception

00:07:04.700 that is leading him

00:07:06.060 to believe that he's a woman

00:07:07.280 or else he has a defect

00:07:08.420 of his will,

00:07:09.920 which is leading him

00:07:10.980 to desire to be a woman

00:07:12.340 against all reality.

00:07:13.760 But in any case,

00:07:14.520 Tim McBride is not a woman.

00:07:16.620 He's a man.

00:07:18.020 And Republicans

00:07:19.020 are going to have to

00:07:20.120 deal with this.

00:07:21.900 Okay?

00:07:22.680 There is no avoiding

00:07:24.560 this issue for Republicans.

00:07:27.320 I think a lot of Republicans

00:07:28.240 risk averse on Capitol Hill.

00:07:29.660 They want to avoid

00:07:30.920 this issue entirely.

00:07:32.140 There's no avoiding it.

00:07:33.560 Either you invite this man

00:07:35.880 into the women's bathrooms

00:07:37.080 and you violate

00:07:38.080 the legitimate rights

00:07:38.980 of women

00:07:39.400 and you implicitly

00:07:40.780 accept trans ideology

00:07:41.740 or you tell the guy

00:07:43.760 he can't go into

00:07:44.420 the women's bathroom

00:07:45.160 and then the press

00:07:46.200 calls you mean

00:07:46.720 for a little bit.

00:07:48.640 Those are the only

00:07:49.360 two options.

00:07:50.220 The guy is going to have

00:07:51.840 to use the bathroom

00:07:52.480 at some point.

00:07:53.560 And so this question

00:07:54.460 will have to be answered.

00:07:55.820 The Republicans

00:07:56.280 are the leaders

00:07:57.080 in the House.

00:07:58.180 We're going to talk

00:07:58.800 to the woman

00:07:59.240 who is leading

00:08:00.140 the charge on Capitol Hill

00:08:01.360 to defend reality

00:08:03.080 and sanity

00:08:03.700 and the legitimate

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00:09:09.840 We are extremely

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00:09:16.160 what we think

00:09:16.700 is going to happen

00:09:17.300 on Capitol Hill

00:09:18.080 with the McBride fight,

00:09:19.800 the question of

00:09:20.240 whether or not

00:09:20.680 women on Capitol Hill

00:09:21.500 still get to have

00:09:21.940 their own bathrooms.

00:09:22.740 We actually get to

00:09:23.560 speak to the woman

00:09:24.200 who is leading the charge

00:09:25.660 to defend reality

00:09:27.340 and the rights of women.

00:09:28.540 That would be

00:09:29.240 Congressman Nancy Mace.

00:09:30.780 Representative Mace,

00:09:32.260 thank you so much

00:09:32.860 for taking the time

00:09:33.500 to come on the show.

00:09:34.940 Yes, sir,

00:09:35.500 and thank you

00:09:36.040 for talking about

00:09:36.880 this really important topic.

00:09:38.480 Do women have rights or not

00:09:39.640 is the question

00:09:40.260 at the end of the day

00:09:41.020 and it needs to be answered.

00:09:42.340 It's a simple question.

00:09:43.780 I was hoping

00:09:44.540 that all of your colleagues

00:09:46.100 in the Republican conference

00:09:47.300 would leap at this

00:09:48.320 and say, you know,

00:09:48.840 this is so obvious.

00:09:50.080 As a matter of justice,

00:09:51.340 women deserve

00:09:51.720 their own bathrooms.

00:09:52.920 Even as a matter of politics,

00:09:54.440 the vast majority of Americans

00:09:55.620 are on board

00:09:56.640 with reality

00:09:57.480 on this issue.

00:09:58.880 And yet,

00:10:00.040 so far,

00:10:00.980 you are basically

00:10:02.860 the lone voice.

00:10:03.860 So please tell me

00:10:04.800 a little bit,

00:10:05.180 what is this resolution

00:10:06.000 you are proposing

00:10:06.740 and what are the next steps?

00:10:08.340 Well, I filed a resolution

00:10:09.620 this week

00:10:10.400 that would ban

00:10:11.220 biological men

00:10:12.200 from women's private spaces.

00:10:13.820 So that would be

00:10:14.360 the bathroom,

00:10:15.140 changing rooms,

00:10:15.900 locker rooms

00:10:16.400 up here on Capitol Hill.

00:10:17.940 But I'm not going

00:10:18.460 to stop there.

00:10:19.260 I'm also filing a bill

00:10:20.560 that we're giving you

00:10:21.980 exclusive copy to

00:10:24.060 and copy with

00:10:24.860 that would ban

00:10:26.080 biological men

00:10:27.660 from women's restrooms

00:10:28.760 and women's private spaces

00:10:29.900 in every federal property

00:10:31.140 across the entire country.

00:10:32.760 So I'm going to do

00:10:33.900 everything I can

00:10:34.700 to protect women

00:10:35.620 and girls here on the Hill,

00:10:36.860 but also all across

00:10:38.640 the nation.

00:10:39.480 I mean,

00:10:39.640 this question needs

00:10:40.540 to be answered.

00:10:41.220 Do women have rights

00:10:42.080 or not?

00:10:42.880 Are we going to allow

00:10:43.740 these men to bully us

00:10:45.460 into submission?

00:10:46.440 And I say,

00:10:47.280 no,

00:10:47.760 no more.

00:10:48.340 I'm done with this.

00:10:49.140 I mean,

00:10:49.420 I was built for tough.

00:10:50.700 There's no amount

00:10:51.260 of bullying

00:10:51.800 and threats

00:10:52.340 on my life

00:10:52.860 that they've made

00:10:53.400 this week.

00:10:54.220 That's going to stop

00:10:55.200 me from this.

00:10:56.360 And I was the first woman

00:10:57.320 to graduate from the Citadel,

00:10:59.140 the Military College

00:10:59.980 of South Carolina.

00:11:01.300 I was built for tough

00:11:02.640 and I am not going

00:11:03.860 to back down

00:11:04.700 and I'm urging my colleagues

00:11:05.760 to join me in this fight.

00:11:07.560 This is common sense.

00:11:08.680 This isn't controversial.

00:11:10.340 So you mentioned

00:11:10.960 this is an exclusive.

00:11:12.500 Thank you for

00:11:13.080 breaking the news here.

00:11:14.860 You're not merely

00:11:16.020 introducing a resolution

00:11:17.200 into the House

00:11:17.860 to say,

00:11:18.580 look,

00:11:19.480 female members of Congress

00:11:20.820 get to have their own bathrooms.

00:11:22.180 You are going further

00:11:23.580 to say,

00:11:24.820 we're going to defend reality

00:11:26.320 and the rights of women

00:11:26.980 on all federal properties.

00:11:28.200 My first take is,

00:11:29.620 wow,

00:11:29.980 that's so ambitious

00:11:31.520 and radical.

00:11:32.280 And then I have

00:11:32.860 to correct myself.

00:11:33.600 I say,

00:11:33.800 wait a second.

00:11:34.640 This is the way

00:11:35.200 things always were.

00:11:36.120 This is just common sense.

00:11:37.900 But I guess common sense

00:11:38.740 isn't so common right now.

00:11:40.480 Well,

00:11:40.760 common sense is out the window.

00:11:42.500 There are literally

00:11:43.020 members of Congress today

00:11:44.360 that are saying

00:11:45.600 I'm a bigot

00:11:46.360 and that I'm a bully

00:11:47.700 because I'm defending

00:11:48.800 my right to privacy.

00:11:50.520 Now,

00:11:50.680 a lot of people

00:11:51.140 may not know

00:11:51.840 I'm a survivor of rape.

00:11:53.120 I was raped

00:11:53.580 at the age of 16.

00:11:55.060 I'm also a survivor

00:11:56.000 of domestic abuse

00:11:56.920 and sexual abuse.

00:11:58.100 And so,

00:11:58.720 I'm absolutely triggered

00:11:59.820 by the idea

00:12:01.080 of a man's genitalia

00:12:03.160 being in my bathroom

00:12:04.580 or a locker room

00:12:06.220 or a space

00:12:06.900 where I'm changing.

00:12:08.240 That is a hard pass for me.

00:12:09.920 And it will come to throes.

00:12:11.760 There will be fists

00:12:12.440 if this happens.

00:12:13.460 I mean,

00:12:13.560 I just can't even,

00:12:14.760 I'm absolutely triggered

00:12:15.540 by the idea

00:12:16.200 that women don't have rights

00:12:17.300 in this country.

00:12:17.860 And I'm going to make sure

00:12:18.960 that I protect them.

00:12:20.420 And this shouldn't,

00:12:21.380 this shouldn't be controversial.

00:12:22.280 I came from a district

00:12:23.460 that's as purple as my dress.

00:12:25.440 And as you say,

00:12:26.780 independents are with us.

00:12:28.300 There are most Democrats

00:12:29.220 that are with us.

00:12:29.960 It's just the radical left

00:12:31.220 that are forcing

00:12:32.320 this crazy gender ideology

00:12:34.260 down the throats

00:12:34.860 of our children

00:12:35.540 and other Americans

00:12:36.640 across the country

00:12:37.400 for one half of 1%.

00:12:38.520 I'm not giving up

00:12:39.680 women's rights

00:12:40.200 for one half of 1%

00:12:41.480 of people in this country.

00:12:43.140 And these,

00:12:43.520 they clearly,

00:12:44.120 there's a mental illness here.

00:12:45.400 There are mental health issues.

00:12:46.380 I'm being threatened

00:12:47.260 by some of these men

00:12:48.560 dressed as women.

00:12:49.340 They're literally

00:12:49.940 threatening to kill me

00:12:50.940 if they can't use

00:12:51.720 a women's restroom.

00:12:52.520 And I ask why.

00:12:53.800 Like,

00:12:54.060 it's insanity to me.

00:12:56.260 Of course.

00:12:56.800 In many ways,

00:12:57.460 you're the perfect champion

00:12:59.520 for this issue

00:13:00.600 because,

00:13:01.420 well,

00:13:01.680 you're a woman

00:13:02.300 despite the modern confusion.

00:13:05.440 But two,

00:13:06.980 you come from

00:13:08.140 a purple district.

00:13:09.020 You are not the most

00:13:09.980 far right-wing representative

00:13:11.760 by any stretch.

00:13:12.520 You're willing to reach

00:13:13.200 across the aisle

00:13:13.820 and work with people.

00:13:14.600 As you say,

00:13:16.100 you are the victim

00:13:16.880 of sexual violence yourself.

00:13:18.420 So you know the consequences

00:13:19.720 of blurring these boundaries

00:13:21.360 and taking away

00:13:22.220 women's private spaces.

00:13:24.000 This really is scandalous to me.

00:13:26.840 I know that politics,

00:13:28.100 there are all sorts

00:13:28.580 of crazy fights that happen.

00:13:30.100 But it is really scandalous to me

00:13:31.800 that in the year

00:13:32.620 of our Lord,

00:13:33.080 2024,

00:13:34.380 women are being told,

00:13:35.760 hey,

00:13:36.060 if you insist on having

00:13:37.180 your private spaces

00:13:38.020 that you've had

00:13:38.680 for time immemorial,

00:13:40.860 if you insist on

00:13:42.040 not being in vulnerable positions

00:13:43.660 in front of men,

00:13:45.180 that you're somehow

00:13:46.400 a bigot.

00:13:47.040 I mean,

00:13:47.180 what do you say

00:13:47.620 to these colleagues

00:13:48.720 of yours

00:13:49.300 who are accusing you

00:13:50.620 of bullying

00:13:51.260 this new member

00:13:52.400 of Congress,

00:13:53.120 Tim McBride?

00:13:54.600 Well,

00:13:54.840 I can't say

00:13:55.600 what I want to say

00:13:56.400 because it'd be

00:13:56.860 a four-letter word.

00:13:58.260 To be frank,

00:13:59.600 I went to a military college

00:14:01.120 and I use very colorful language.

00:14:02.500 It's not okay

00:14:03.160 because I'm literally

00:14:04.240 being bullied

00:14:05.100 and they're trying

00:14:05.760 to bully me

00:14:06.740 into submission.

00:14:07.960 And it's just,

00:14:08.460 it's not going to work.

00:14:10.180 This is a fight.

00:14:10.820 I mean,

00:14:11.280 if Democrats want

00:14:12.080 to die on this

00:14:12.600 still not once

00:14:13.120 but twice,

00:14:13.900 they didn't learn

00:14:14.640 from the election

00:14:15.520 two weeks ago.

00:14:17.200 Women's issues

00:14:17.840 were on the ballot

00:14:18.560 and women overwhelmingly,

00:14:20.540 they supported Republicans

00:14:21.940 more so than they supported

00:14:23.460 Biden four years ago.

00:14:24.840 I mean,

00:14:25.040 Kamala didn't win women

00:14:26.900 overwhelmingly

00:14:27.780 the way that Joe Biden did

00:14:29.060 because Joe Biden

00:14:30.020 didn't have these crazy

00:14:31.000 far-left policies.

00:14:32.400 He didn't want to pay

00:14:33.080 the government to pay

00:14:33.780 for gender surgery,

00:14:35.280 for illegals.

00:14:36.020 I mean,

00:14:36.160 this stuff is crazy.

00:14:37.640 And, you know,

00:14:39.160 we have to draw

00:14:39.740 a big fat red line

00:14:41.080 in the sand

00:14:41.640 and say no more

00:14:43.500 because my rights

00:14:45.180 are worth fighting for.

00:14:46.540 Your daughter's,

00:14:47.520 my daughter's rights

00:14:48.280 are worth fighting for.

00:14:49.180 I'm going to die

00:14:49.720 on this hill

00:14:50.300 and I'm not,

00:14:51.360 I'm not going to allow it.

00:14:53.000 And this is just the start

00:14:54.100 to see the left

00:14:55.540 just become totally unhinged

00:14:57.220 means that we're winning.

00:14:58.240 They're now,

00:14:58.920 not only are they

00:14:59.680 threatening to kill me

00:15:00.520 but, you know,

00:15:01.180 now they're making

00:15:02.240 all these personal smears

00:15:03.580 and taking shots at me,

00:15:05.580 you know,

00:15:05.820 and I'm like,

00:15:06.260 bring it.

00:15:07.200 I'm not going to go

00:15:08.100 quietly in the night.

00:15:09.200 I'm just going to double down

00:15:10.520 on a really important issue

00:15:12.160 for women all across the country

00:15:13.380 because conservatives

00:15:14.460 and Republicans,

00:15:15.480 we're going to be the party

00:15:16.260 that protects women.

00:15:17.480 It ain't going to be the left.

00:15:19.000 It's going to be conservative women

00:15:20.400 protecting women

00:15:21.120 across the country.

00:15:22.020 That's right.

00:15:22.520 Certain issues,

00:15:23.460 tax rates,

00:15:24.080 you know,

00:15:24.300 you can have a middle ground.

00:15:25.880 You want 20%,

00:15:26.860 I want 40%.

00:15:27.740 Okay,

00:15:28.080 we'll do 30%.

00:15:28.860 But in this case,

00:15:30.740 it's one or the other.

00:15:31.540 Either women get to have

00:15:32.400 their own bathrooms

00:15:32.960 or they don't.

00:15:33.820 And I think your point

00:15:34.900 is so good on the election,

00:15:36.080 which is,

00:15:37.560 look,

00:15:38.400 I mean,

00:15:38.760 as a matter of justice,

00:15:39.680 this is how things

00:15:40.520 obviously ought to be.

00:15:41.760 But Republicans,

00:15:43.340 take the win.

00:15:44.160 This is a winning issue.

00:15:45.300 This is an issue

00:15:45.860 that flipped Virginia red.

00:15:47.240 This is an issue

00:15:47.660 that helped DeSantis

00:15:48.320 win re-election in Florida.

00:15:50.440 Take the win, guys.

00:15:51.600 I mean,

00:15:51.900 Republicans,

00:15:52.680 they seem to have

00:15:53.400 this nasty habit

00:15:54.660 of clutching defeat

00:15:55.460 from the jaws of victory.

00:15:56.480 So in terms of

00:15:57.580 the raw politics of it,

00:15:59.100 on both the resolution

00:16:00.660 and on the bill

00:16:02.280 to, you know,

00:16:03.440 enshrine reality

00:16:04.780 in all the federal properties,

00:16:06.160 is it going to pass or no?

00:16:08.640 Well,

00:16:08.960 we'll have to see.

00:16:09.960 I mean,

00:16:10.100 the leadership promised me

00:16:11.160 that this provision

00:16:12.860 would be in the rules package.

00:16:14.120 And now there sounds

00:16:15.120 like there might be

00:16:15.680 some waffling

00:16:16.360 or some quote

00:16:17.040 they call nuance.

00:16:19.260 I'm not here for nuance.

00:16:20.700 There's nothing nuanced

00:16:21.800 about men and women,

00:16:23.380 especially when you're trying

00:16:24.700 to protect women from abuse.

00:16:27.080 And I'm not going to allow it,

00:16:28.840 not on my watch.

00:16:29.820 And I'm going to fight like hell

00:16:31.320 for women and girls on the hill,

00:16:32.960 for women and girls

00:16:33.580 across the country.

00:16:34.580 And the raw politics of this

00:16:36.380 is that this is reality.

00:16:37.680 And we have to fight

00:16:38.700 for our reality.

00:16:39.580 We have to fight for our rights.

00:16:40.540 And it's crazy that in 2024,

00:16:42.080 here we are,

00:16:42.600 just over 100 years

00:16:43.800 since women's suffrage,

00:16:45.040 we're here having to

00:16:45.940 have this debate.

00:16:46.800 To me,

00:16:47.120 there is no debate.

00:16:48.420 This is not up for debate.

00:16:50.200 Women get private spaces.

00:16:52.020 And I'm not going to allow

00:16:52.740 some guy

00:16:53.300 with his genitals

00:16:54.420 out me walking around

00:16:55.340 in front of other women

00:16:56.120 and girls.

00:16:56.640 It's not going to be the reality,

00:16:58.820 not in my country,

00:16:59.640 not on my watch

00:17:00.280 and over my dead body.

00:17:01.500 It's so offensive.

00:17:02.500 It's dangerous to women

00:17:03.440 as we've seen time and time again.

00:17:05.020 And it is deeply disrespectful

00:17:06.880 to force all of us to lie.

00:17:09.700 You know,

00:17:09.920 it's one thing,

00:17:10.520 you want to live in delusion,

00:17:11.640 okay,

00:17:11.980 but you're going to force

00:17:13.000 all of us to lie.

00:17:13.900 You're going to violate

00:17:14.380 the legitimate rights of people.

00:17:16.000 I don't think so.

00:17:16.960 I mean,

00:17:17.200 I give a lot of grace

00:17:18.540 to Republican leadership

00:17:19.600 in the House.

00:17:20.420 I know it's like herding cats.

00:17:22.060 It's a tough job.

00:17:23.280 But on this one,

00:17:24.740 I don't know.

00:17:25.420 I really hope

00:17:26.180 if leadership is watching

00:17:27.880 or if staff members

00:17:29.220 for leadership are watching,

00:17:30.740 this is a yes or no

00:17:33.300 kind of issue, guys.

00:17:34.300 This has got to be clear as day.

00:17:35.900 The voters just gave Republicans

00:17:37.720 a mandate to govern,

00:17:39.400 unified government

00:17:40.400 on basic common sense stuff.

00:17:42.280 If they're going to fumble

00:17:43.100 the ball right out the gate

00:17:44.160 like this,

00:17:44.660 Republicans don't deserve

00:17:45.780 to govern.

00:17:46.560 What you're doing,

00:17:47.400 Nancy,

00:17:47.720 is fabulous.

00:17:48.860 It is really,

00:17:49.400 really important.

00:17:50.120 Thank you for having courage

00:17:51.180 even when a lot of people

00:17:52.260 don't have spines

00:17:53.100 amid all of our anatomical

00:17:54.680 confusion on the Hill.

00:17:56.020 Best of luck to you.

00:17:57.320 For anyone listening,

00:17:58.500 please support Nancy Mace's efforts

00:17:59.960 and call your congressman

00:18:01.740 and call leadership

00:18:02.680 and make sure

00:18:03.360 that they do what is right

00:18:05.620 and they ensconce common sense

00:18:07.320 in our law.

00:18:08.160 Congressman Nancy Mace,

00:18:09.140 thank you for coming on.

00:18:10.320 Thank you.

00:18:10.720 Let's get them on board.

00:18:11.600 Thank you.

00:18:12.360 Really, really good.

00:18:13.260 I'm glad some people

00:18:13.980 have courage up on the Hill.

00:18:15.520 Aren't you?

00:18:16.040 It's in short supply

00:18:17.460 these days, I guess.

00:18:19.180 What the left is saying

00:18:21.240 in response to this

00:18:22.160 is that if you want to have

00:18:24.340 women's bathrooms,

00:18:26.080 that it's far-right extremism.

00:18:27.500 That's what Tim McBride has said.

00:18:28.920 He says,

00:18:29.300 quote,

00:18:29.540 this is a blatant attempt

00:18:30.840 from far-right extremists

00:18:32.160 to distract from the fact

00:18:33.400 that they have no real solutions

00:18:35.040 to what Americans are facing.

00:18:36.800 We should be focused

00:18:37.600 on bringing down

00:18:38.300 the cost of housing,

00:18:39.300 health care,

00:18:39.700 and child care,

00:18:40.640 not manufacturing culture wars.

00:18:44.520 Delawareans sent me here

00:18:45.880 to make the American dream

00:18:46.800 more affordable and accessible.

00:18:48.400 That's what I'm focused on.

00:18:49.260 I actually bet Delawareans,

00:18:52.020 I bet many Delawareans

00:18:53.320 sent this guy to Congress

00:18:54.580 without even knowing

00:18:55.480 that he's a man.

00:18:57.200 This is not a presidential race, okay?

00:18:59.620 This is a down-ballot race.

00:19:01.780 He calls himself Sarah.

00:19:03.460 There's Photoshop

00:19:04.220 for palm cards and TV ads.

00:19:06.120 I don't think he campaigned

00:19:07.420 on the trans issue

00:19:08.240 because the trans issue

00:19:09.760 is repellent to so many voters

00:19:11.840 because it is an insult

00:19:13.260 to our intelligence

00:19:14.060 and it makes clear

00:19:15.460 that the person

00:19:17.240 who is holding this identity

00:19:19.420 has defective judgment

00:19:21.020 and defective perception.

00:19:22.700 He's saying

00:19:23.020 the far-right extremists,

00:19:24.800 you think women

00:19:25.300 should have their own bathrooms,

00:19:26.300 that makes you

00:19:26.640 a far-right extremist these days.

00:19:29.760 He wants to get back

00:19:31.000 to the important work

00:19:31.840 that the Delawareans

00:19:32.760 sent him to do.

00:19:33.620 Hold on a second.

00:19:34.600 Congress hasn't even started yet.

00:19:35.880 We're just talking about

00:19:36.480 basic ground rules

00:19:37.620 that we previously

00:19:38.660 didn't have to talk about

00:19:40.800 because they were just common sense

00:19:42.400 and everyone agreed with them.

00:19:43.780 Now, this guy goes on MSNBC

00:19:45.640 and he accuses us

00:19:47.380 of manufacturing a culture war.

00:19:50.220 He accuses us, Republicans,

00:19:51.500 of trying to distract

00:19:52.940 with this issue.

00:19:54.920 Because whenever you see

00:19:56.780 a politician

00:19:57.520 or a political party

00:19:58.600 focus in on an issue

00:20:01.120 that impacts a handful of people

00:20:03.040 in a handful of places,

00:20:04.620 you have to ask yourself why.

00:20:07.280 And the answer to that

00:20:08.360 is they are trying to distract.

00:20:09.780 They are trying to distract

00:20:11.280 from what they are actually doing.

00:20:13.180 And over the next four years,

00:20:14.420 every single time

00:20:15.280 we see any member

00:20:16.280 of the Trump-Vance administration

00:20:17.820 talk about trans people,

00:20:19.760 talk about immigrants,

00:20:21.260 talk about Muslims,

00:20:22.220 talk about any vulnerable group

00:20:23.740 in this country,

00:20:25.140 look what they're doing

00:20:26.060 with their right hand.

00:20:26.980 Because I can guarantee you

00:20:28.160 at that same moment,

00:20:29.640 they are working to pick

00:20:30.640 the pockets of American workers.

00:20:32.280 They're working to flee seniors

00:20:33.520 by privatizing Social Security

00:20:35.160 and Medicare.

00:20:36.120 There it is.

00:20:36.940 There, he just gave up

00:20:37.700 the whole game.

00:20:38.160 His premise is faulty.

00:20:40.940 His premise is,

00:20:41.920 if anyone ever talks about

00:20:43.200 enforcing immigration law,

00:20:45.120 curtailing the mass invasion

00:20:46.540 of our country,

00:20:47.340 they're just trying to distract.

00:20:49.160 Even though most voters

00:20:50.260 rank that number one

00:20:51.460 or number two of the issues.

00:20:53.200 No, no, no.

00:20:53.500 They say that's just a distraction.

00:20:55.600 If anyone ever talks

00:20:56.660 about transgenderism,

00:20:57.960 hold on.

00:20:58.740 We Republicans didn't start

00:21:00.460 the transgender issue.

00:21:01.640 We're not that,

00:21:01.980 we didn't wage

00:21:02.700 this cultural battle.

00:21:04.160 The left started waging.

00:21:05.460 It was the left that said

00:21:06.240 men need to go

00:21:06.780 into the women's bathroom.

00:21:07.740 The left that said men

00:21:08.620 need to compete

00:21:09.280 against women in sports

00:21:10.140 and give them concussions

00:21:11.220 and lifelong paralysis.

00:21:12.620 The left that is forcing

00:21:14.140 this on us.

00:21:14.620 We're just responding

00:21:15.280 to the left.

00:21:16.740 Okay, so it's not,

00:21:17.340 we're not,

00:21:17.780 even if you want to call

00:21:18.480 that a distraction,

00:21:19.220 it would have been

00:21:19.560 coming from the left.

00:21:20.640 But he gives the game away

00:21:22.160 when he says,

00:21:22.720 the Republicans

00:21:23.460 are just distracting

00:21:24.320 from their attempts

00:21:25.020 to privatize Social Security.

00:21:27.100 Hold on.

00:21:28.600 Accused Trump

00:21:29.100 of whatever you want.

00:21:29.960 The guy's not going

00:21:30.560 to privatize Social Security.

00:21:31.740 He's made that clear.

00:21:32.700 He's made that clear

00:21:33.440 for a decade now.

00:21:34.360 He's changed

00:21:35.340 the Republican position

00:21:36.280 on entitlement reform.

00:21:38.860 There is 0% chance

00:21:40.340 that Trump,

00:21:41.220 I mean,

00:21:41.340 there are many Republicans

00:21:41.920 who want him

00:21:42.520 to try to privatize

00:21:43.520 Social Security.

00:21:44.820 Ain't going to happen.

00:21:46.180 That is a completely

00:21:47.420 made up issue.

00:21:48.760 So then when you listen

00:21:49.760 to that,

00:21:50.280 you have to come

00:21:50.780 to the conclusion,

00:21:51.360 wait a second,

00:21:52.840 maybe it's this guy

00:21:53.720 who's trying to distract.

00:21:55.100 We're just talking

00:21:55.840 about a simple thing here.

00:21:56.600 Can we all agree

00:21:57.160 women get to use

00:21:57.720 their own bathroom

00:21:58.160 on Capitol Hill?

00:21:58.940 He says,

00:21:59.280 no, no, no,

00:21:59.700 Republicans are trying

00:22:00.540 to distract.

00:22:01.500 Let's talk about

00:22:02.280 privatizing Social Security.

00:22:03.480 No one's talking

00:22:04.040 about privatizing

00:22:04.700 Social Security,

00:22:05.440 Buster.

00:22:05.760 You're the one

00:22:06.160 who's trying to distract.

00:22:07.700 You're the one

00:22:08.300 who's trying to distract

00:22:09.140 because you know

00:22:09.760 that your position

00:22:10.420 is completely untenable.

00:22:12.000 It is repellent

00:22:12.620 to most Americans.

00:22:13.500 It's totally disconnected

00:22:14.380 from reality.

00:22:15.840 So look,

00:22:16.480 I'm not saying we need

00:22:17.760 to expel this guy

00:22:18.480 from Congress,

00:22:19.300 though perhaps we should

00:22:20.460 because he obviously

00:22:21.200 has very defective

00:22:22.100 judgment and perception.

00:22:23.620 That said,

00:22:24.300 if psychiatric problems

00:22:25.340 were caused

00:22:26.140 to expel people

00:22:26.940 from Congress,

00:22:27.620 we'd probably lose

00:22:28.480 most of our government.

00:22:29.280 So we're not saying

00:22:30.600 expel him from Congress.

00:22:31.620 We're not saying

00:22:31.900 don't seat him.

00:22:32.900 But you've got to

00:22:35.040 respect women's rights.

00:22:36.220 Respect is a two-way street man.

00:22:38.440 And to accuse us

00:22:40.500 of distraction

00:22:41.240 when you are just

00:22:42.300 making stuff up

00:22:43.280 at this point

00:22:43.800 is quite rich.

00:22:45.860 There's so much more

00:22:46.460 to say.

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00:24:51.700 All right,

00:24:52.400 enough about

00:24:52.980 transsexualism

00:24:54.200 on Capitol Hill.

00:24:55.220 I want to turn

00:24:55.780 to other important matters

00:24:58.280 in the long run,

00:24:59.040 maybe more important,

00:25:00.980 at least to your wallet,

00:25:01.780 and that is

00:25:02.400 President Trump's picks.

00:25:03.800 President Trump

00:25:04.220 has just announced

00:25:04.840 his pick for Commerce Secretary,

00:25:06.380 and it is Howard Lutnick.

00:25:09.200 Howard Lutnick

00:25:10.000 is the chairman

00:25:11.540 and CEO

00:25:11.960 of Cantor Fitzgerald.

00:25:12.920 Cantor Fitzgerald,

00:25:13.760 a legendary company

00:25:14.960 in New York

00:25:15.560 because most of the company

00:25:17.620 was wiped out

00:25:18.340 in the 9-11 attacks.

00:25:19.320 It was just so awful.

00:25:20.260 I remember my mother knew

00:25:21.400 a friend of hers

00:25:22.660 worked there.

00:25:23.660 A lot of New Yorkers

00:25:24.420 knew people who worked there.

00:25:25.360 It was wiped out.

00:25:26.240 Howard Lutnick did great work,

00:25:27.940 charitable work

00:25:28.460 for the families

00:25:29.080 of those who were killed,

00:25:31.220 rebuilt the company.

00:25:32.660 Trump has announced,

00:25:33.640 I'm excited to announce,

00:25:34.720 that Howard Lutnick,

00:25:35.820 chairman and CEO

00:25:36.280 of Cantor Fitzgerald,

00:25:36.880 will join my administration

00:25:37.880 as the Secretary of Commerce.

00:25:39.740 He will lead our tariff

00:25:40.660 and trade agenda

00:25:41.280 with additional direct responsibility

00:25:42.760 for the office

00:25:43.480 of the U.S. trade rep.

00:25:44.540 Okay, this is interesting choice

00:25:47.600 because Lutnick clearly

00:25:49.960 wanted to be Treasury Secretary.

00:25:52.180 He was up against

00:25:52.780 a couple other people,

00:25:53.640 Kevin Warsh,

00:25:54.180 who was a former Fed governor,

00:25:55.900 and Scott Besant,

00:25:57.940 who was hedge fund manager

00:26:00.340 for George Soros,

00:26:01.140 which is kind of funny.

00:26:02.880 So you got,

00:26:04.080 but I don't know,

00:26:05.020 I guess there are conservatives

00:26:05.640 who work for George Soros.

00:26:07.580 Lutnick did not get

00:26:08.640 Treasury Secretary.

00:26:09.380 So he's now in charge of trade,

00:26:14.540 and Lutnick was the most pro-tariff

00:26:16.860 of those choices,

00:26:18.020 but he's not going to have

00:26:18.920 the really big job

00:26:19.960 of Treasury Secretary.

00:26:21.920 And it looks like Scott Besant

00:26:23.220 will be up for

00:26:24.020 National Economic Council chairman.

00:26:26.860 All of this to say,

00:26:28.420 Trump is going to keep

00:26:29.200 threatening the tariffs,

00:26:30.440 but I'm not so sure

00:26:31.960 that he's going to carry through

00:26:33.040 on the full-on

00:26:33.980 William McKinley,

00:26:35.640 new era of tariffs for America,

00:26:38.180 you know, let's rip up

00:26:39.460 the income tax

00:26:40.100 kind of radicalism

00:26:41.220 that he was threatening

00:26:43.140 on the campaign trail.

00:26:44.920 It looks as though

00:26:46.040 President Trump

00:26:46.680 is going to be a little bit

00:26:47.500 more responsive

00:26:48.160 to markets, perhaps.

00:26:49.700 And some people

00:26:50.260 are going to cheer that on

00:26:51.200 in the conservative movement.

00:26:52.180 Some people are going to wish

00:26:53.180 that he would go further,

00:26:54.320 but that's my read on it.

00:26:55.600 He's going to keep making

00:26:56.520 noise about the tariffs.

00:26:57.820 He might institute some tariffs,

00:26:59.360 but he's not going to put

00:27:00.340 the most pro-tariff guy

00:27:01.520 in the biggest job.

00:27:03.120 So he's kind of hedging

00:27:04.320 a little bit on that.

00:27:05.860 Liberal media is still furious

00:27:07.060 over Trump's cabinet picks,

00:27:08.420 not just Letnick,

00:27:09.980 not just anyone else he picks,

00:27:12.200 but specifically Pete Hegseth

00:27:14.160 for Defense Secretary.

00:27:15.660 Bob Woodward,

00:27:17.060 the chairman of the board

00:27:18.600 of liberal establishment

00:27:20.180 journalists,

00:27:21.520 he went on Jen Psaki's show,

00:27:23.760 Joe Biden's first press secretary,

00:27:25.560 to whine and complain

00:27:26.640 about Trump's choice

00:27:27.800 of Hegseth for the Pentagon.

00:27:29.940 You know,

00:27:30.780 that's what we're living in now.

00:27:32.480 This is the era of fear

00:27:36.700 because he's going to be president

00:27:38.840 for four years.

00:27:41.200 And if this is the idea,

00:27:44.940 it is so,

00:27:46.900 it's almost unconstitutional.

00:27:50.440 Literally, it's not.

00:27:52.460 But look at it.

00:27:54.580 Why do you want somebody

00:27:56.920 who doesn't know

00:27:58.300 what they're doing?

00:27:59.360 Check engine light

00:28:01.160 has just gone off

00:28:03.320 and we've pulled in

00:28:05.480 to the wrong store.

00:28:07.780 Makes no sense.

00:28:09.560 And it is a form

00:28:11.820 of giving

00:28:13.580 his middle finger

00:28:16.340 to the American people.

00:28:18.700 Trump picks Pete Hegseth,

00:28:20.860 who Woodward says

00:28:21.660 is totally unqualified,

00:28:23.140 picks Pete Hegseth

00:28:24.020 to be Defense Secretary

00:28:25.000 and Woodward says

00:28:26.280 this is Trump giving

00:28:27.060 the middle finger

00:28:27.560 to the American people.

00:28:28.520 Au contraire, mon frere.

00:28:30.240 It was the American people

00:28:31.760 who gave the middle finger

00:28:33.420 to the liberal establishment

00:28:34.500 when it elected Trump.

00:28:37.060 So the Trump picks

00:28:38.620 for his cabinet

00:28:39.420 that make Bob Woodward's

00:28:41.080 head explode,

00:28:42.140 that is not giving

00:28:43.100 the middle finger

00:28:43.600 to the American people.

00:28:44.440 That is following through

00:28:45.460 on the American people's

00:28:47.540 middle finger

00:28:48.020 to the lib establishment.

00:28:51.040 This is what Woodward

00:28:52.240 is reduced to.

00:28:52.940 Listen to this.

00:28:53.640 Listen to this

00:28:54.300 mindless whining.

00:28:55.800 He says it's basically

00:28:57.520 unconstitutional.

00:28:58.800 I mean, it's literally not,

00:29:00.100 but what?

00:29:01.180 Hold on.

00:29:01.760 What are you even saying?

00:29:03.660 It's kind of unconstitutional

00:29:05.980 to pick a military veteran

00:29:09.620 with degrees

00:29:12.140 from Princeton and Harvard

00:29:13.200 who has a popular morning show,

00:29:15.520 who's worked with veterans.

00:29:16.640 It's sort of unconstitutional

00:29:20.260 to pick that guy

00:29:20.960 to run the defense department.

00:29:22.120 I mean, it's literally not,

00:29:23.180 but okay,

00:29:23.540 then what are you saying?

00:29:25.000 But it's just, you know,

00:29:26.460 it's just not good.

00:29:27.760 He's not the guy

00:29:28.360 I would have picked.

00:29:29.100 Right.

00:29:29.820 That's why Pete Hexeth got it.

00:29:31.160 It's because he's not the guy

00:29:31.860 you would have picked.

00:29:33.420 Bob Woodward

00:29:34.300 has a career

00:29:36.520 because

00:29:37.640 in the 1970s,

00:29:40.180 he partnered up

00:29:41.320 with the deep state

00:29:42.480 to overthrow

00:29:43.200 another very popular

00:29:44.740 U.S. president,

00:29:45.900 Richard Nixon.

00:29:46.700 Bob Woodward

00:29:47.400 with Carl Bernstein,

00:29:48.640 he was the journalist

00:29:49.620 who teamed up

00:29:51.880 with Mark Felt,

00:29:53.220 who was an assistant secretary

00:29:56.640 or assistant director

00:29:57.500 of the FBI

00:29:58.060 to leak a bunch of nonsense

00:30:00.420 about Richard Nixon

00:30:02.120 to throw him out of office

00:30:03.400 after he won his re-election

00:30:04.360 in a landslide.

00:30:06.780 Richard Nixon engaged

00:30:08.060 in a typical dirty trick

00:30:09.440 that virtually all political campaigns

00:30:11.580 have engaged in,

00:30:12.320 and the deep state

00:30:13.920 threw him out of office for it.

00:30:15.640 And so Woodward

00:30:16.640 was a propaganda outlet.

00:30:18.920 He was a tool

00:30:20.760 for the administrative state,

00:30:22.780 the bureaucracy,

00:30:23.540 to overthrow

00:30:24.220 a popularly elected president.

00:30:25.560 And he's still kind of

00:30:26.100 doing that now.

00:30:26.660 He's still opposing

00:30:27.240 popularly elected presidents now.

00:30:29.660 But it's just not working as well.

00:30:31.500 The deep state

00:30:31.940 did try to overthrow Trump.

00:30:33.300 The FBI specifically

00:30:34.300 tried to overthrow Trump

00:30:35.300 with the ridiculous

00:30:36.260 Russia collusion story.

00:30:38.480 And that went nowhere.

00:30:40.440 Crossfire hurricane,

00:30:41.360 that went nowhere.

00:30:42.140 It's Mueller time, baby.

00:30:43.160 That went nowhere.

00:30:44.060 Impeaching him twice,

00:30:45.000 that went nowhere.

00:30:46.700 Trying to prosecute him

00:30:48.220 four times,

00:30:49.120 that went nowhere.

00:30:50.840 Kicking him off the ballot,

00:30:51.840 that went nowhere.

00:30:52.560 Justifying his assassination,

00:30:53.760 which almost occurred twice,

00:30:54.740 that went nowhere.

00:30:56.820 So now he's just reduced

00:30:58.580 to whining on a show

00:30:59.700 that very, very few people watch.

00:31:01.520 These guys are much

00:31:02.680 less relevant today

00:31:03.620 than they were

00:31:04.320 even five years ago.

00:31:06.080 There's a report

00:31:06.840 that just came out from AP.

00:31:07.900 less and less relevance

00:31:10.280 for the establishment media,

00:31:12.120 including the Associated Press,

00:31:13.760 for that matter.

00:31:14.680 One in five Americans

00:31:15.960 gets his news

00:31:17.740 primarily from influencers.

00:31:20.900 That's the headline.

00:31:21.860 This is what they're all

00:31:22.460 whining about.

00:31:23.560 Can you imagine?

00:31:24.480 They're not reading

00:31:25.040 the New York Times anymore.

00:31:25.800 They're not reading the AP.

00:31:26.540 They're not listening to Bob Woodward.

00:31:27.700 They're getting their news

00:31:28.520 from influencers.

00:31:30.060 Oh, what a disgrace.

00:31:32.140 But what does that mean?

00:31:33.080 This is a finding

00:31:36.480 drawn from a survey

00:31:37.280 of 10,000 adults.

00:31:38.320 So it's a big survey.

00:31:40.060 But what does it mean

00:31:40.760 to get your news

00:31:41.980 from influencers?

00:31:43.700 Does it mean

00:31:44.480 just some random chick

00:31:45.800 on TikTok?

00:31:46.840 No, it means other people.

00:31:48.400 It means podcasters.

00:31:50.680 It means streamers.

00:31:52.100 It means people

00:31:53.440 who have actually

00:31:54.480 as much credibility

00:31:57.020 or I think

00:31:57.660 significantly more credibility

00:31:58.880 than the establishment media

00:32:00.520 who have beclowned themselves,

00:32:01.720 who have not only

00:32:02.420 done the bidding

00:32:02.960 of the state,

00:32:05.040 but who have lied

00:32:06.280 on behalf of the state,

00:32:07.080 who regularly

00:32:07.580 get stories wrong.

00:32:08.380 The New York Times

00:32:08.780 constantly getting stories wrong.

00:32:11.320 That's why people

00:32:12.280 are tuning them out

00:32:13.040 and tuning into

00:32:13.760 the streamers.

00:32:14.940 MSNBC's Mike Barnacle,

00:32:16.240 kind of funny

00:32:16.620 that his name's Barnacle,

00:32:17.640 and he's lamenting

00:32:18.400 his irrelevance

00:32:19.620 and how the times

00:32:20.980 they are are changing.

00:32:22.040 Mike Barnacle just came out

00:32:23.200 and he wondered,

00:32:24.200 he said,

00:32:24.400 I don't know

00:32:25.120 how to make cable news

00:32:26.340 relevant again.

00:32:28.000 I don't know

00:32:28.720 how we make ourselves

00:32:30.820 relevant again

00:32:31.640 because we can't compete

00:32:32.760 with 20-second snippets

00:32:34.080 on an iPhone

00:32:35.180 walking up the streets,

00:32:36.380 getting your entire

00:32:38.220 news digest

00:32:39.340 of the day

00:32:40.420 in less than a minute

00:32:41.820 on your phone

00:32:42.520 as you're walking

00:32:43.160 in the crowd

00:32:43.860 with coffee in one hand

00:32:45.100 and your phone in the other.

00:32:45.840 I don't know

00:32:46.400 how we catch up to that.

00:32:47.800 How do we compete

00:32:48.820 with these short-form people

00:32:50.380 who are deceiving,

00:32:51.620 gullible rubes

00:32:52.560 into pretending

00:32:53.320 they can get all their news

00:32:54.240 in 20 seconds?

00:32:54.840 Hold on.

00:32:56.280 Hold on.

00:32:56.640 Ironically,

00:32:57.640 that is not

00:32:58.460 what influencers do

00:33:00.000 and podcasters

00:33:01.300 and streamers.

00:33:02.020 That's not what they do.

00:33:03.660 Ironically,

00:33:04.300 that is what cable news did

00:33:05.900 and that is in large part

00:33:07.560 why they're tuning it out.

00:33:08.320 What's an influencer?

00:33:09.460 I think I'm technically

00:33:10.700 an influencer.

00:33:11.820 Ben Shapiro

00:33:12.440 is technically

00:33:13.020 an influencer.

00:33:14.320 Joe Rogan

00:33:14.760 is kind of an influencer.

00:33:15.700 He's not a cable news host,

00:33:16.640 that's for sure.

00:33:19.220 But does that mean

00:33:20.700 that we're presenting

00:33:21.460 news stories

00:33:23.000 in 20-second snippets?

00:33:24.700 No, that's what cable news does.

00:33:26.800 I've been on cable news

00:33:28.660 many, many times.

00:33:29.540 I've probably been

00:33:30.100 in a billion cable news segments,

00:33:31.740 roughly thereabouts.

00:33:33.080 And I'm happy to do it.

00:33:35.160 I'm happy to reach

00:33:35.820 older audiences

00:33:36.720 if I can.

00:33:38.140 But they're really stupid.

00:33:39.980 Not the people.

00:33:40.680 The segments

00:33:41.400 are really stupid.

00:33:42.400 Because you've got to fit

00:33:43.480 complex issues

00:33:44.340 into three minutes.

00:33:45.980 Two minutes sometimes.

00:33:46.860 A five-minute segment,

00:33:47.820 let's say.

00:33:48.920 And you can't really

00:33:50.020 get into nuance

00:33:50.720 and complexity.

00:33:51.240 You know where you get

00:33:52.160 into nuance and complexity?

00:33:53.700 On podcasts.

00:33:55.080 On streams.

00:33:56.920 On X spaces.

00:33:59.700 That's where you get into it.

00:34:00.500 You get into it

00:34:01.000 with the influencers,

00:34:01.900 actually.

00:34:03.120 He's got it

00:34:03.620 totally backwards.

00:34:06.960 Cable news has reigned

00:34:08.060 for about 30 years.

00:34:10.220 And cable news

00:34:11.080 replaced newspapers

00:34:13.560 and public affairs programs

00:34:15.060 like Firing Line,

00:34:16.320 for instance.

00:34:17.120 Long opportunities

00:34:19.020 to air out

00:34:19.920 contentious issues.

00:34:22.060 And cable news

00:34:22.540 dominated for a while.

00:34:23.520 But that was

00:34:24.620 not sufficient

00:34:25.220 for people.

00:34:26.320 People got sick

00:34:27.040 of the stupid

00:34:27.620 30-second soundbites.

00:34:29.040 That's why they

00:34:29.500 turned to podcasts.

00:34:30.680 Which is in many ways

00:34:31.480 not a destruction

00:34:33.360 of the old media.

00:34:34.620 It's a restoration

00:34:35.520 of the best parts

00:34:36.740 of traditional media.

00:34:37.740 Which these guys

00:34:38.660 totally blew.

00:34:40.060 But the whining continues.

00:34:41.320 Joy Behar

00:34:41.900 now whining

00:34:42.540 on The View

00:34:43.140 demanding that we

00:34:45.060 stop claiming

00:34:45.640 that Trump has a mandate.

00:34:46.460 And by the way,

00:34:48.700 this idea that Trump

00:34:49.740 won with some kind

00:34:50.580 of mandate

00:34:50.980 is not true.

00:34:52.240 I mean,

00:34:52.720 we have information

00:34:54.140 there.

00:34:54.460 He beat Kamala Harris

00:34:56.160 by 1.6%.

00:34:57.540 Joe Biden beat Trump

00:34:58.920 by 4.5%.

00:35:00.160 And nobody said

00:35:00.860 it was a mandate.

00:35:01.760 So get that out

00:35:02.580 of your lips,

00:35:03.160 out of your mouth.

00:35:03.800 These people were saying

00:35:04.540 it's a mandate.

00:35:05.140 It's not a mandate.

00:35:06.100 And another thing,

00:35:06.680 one more thing.

00:35:07.600 Why are all these

00:35:08.680 cabinet members,

00:35:09.620 people that he's seen

00:35:10.660 on television,

00:35:11.560 is he going to put

00:35:12.140 Vanna White in their mouth?

00:35:13.160 I mean,

00:35:13.980 every single one of them

00:35:15.540 is known to us.

00:35:16.820 Okay,

00:35:17.400 Joy Behar,

00:35:18.080 once again,

00:35:18.460 is very confused.

00:35:19.120 The reason that Trump

00:35:19.840 is said to have a mandate

00:35:21.020 here is not because

00:35:21.980 he won the election

00:35:22.760 by 1.6%.

00:35:23.740 He didn't win the election

00:35:24.880 by 1.6%.

00:35:25.840 He won the election

00:35:26.920 in a landslide.

00:35:28.620 He got 312 electoral votes.

00:35:31.140 Electoral votes

00:35:31.920 is what determines

00:35:33.500 who wins

00:35:34.700 the presidential election.

00:35:35.500 He only needed 270

00:35:36.440 to win.

00:35:37.100 And he got 312.

00:35:40.720 He totally destroyed

00:35:42.320 Kamala Harris.

00:35:43.460 That number,

00:35:44.120 the 1.6% or 1.8%

00:35:45.520 that she's referencing

00:35:46.320 is the popular vote.

00:35:47.540 Trump also won

00:35:48.320 the popular vote.

00:35:49.040 First time a Republican

00:35:49.720 has done that in 20 years.

00:35:51.600 Democrats have an advantage

00:35:52.560 in the popular vote

00:35:53.360 because Republicans

00:35:54.280 generally don't campaign

00:35:55.340 in the big Democrat states,

00:35:56.540 New York and California,

00:35:57.780 because the Democrats

00:35:58.480 are going to win it anyway.

00:35:59.360 It's a waste of campaign

00:36:00.180 dollars and time.

00:36:01.320 If they did campaign there,

00:36:02.220 they'd win the popular vote

00:36:03.080 by a lot more,

00:36:03.900 presumably.

00:36:05.540 So it was,

00:36:06.080 the fact that he won

00:36:06.660 the popular vote at all

00:36:07.560 means there was a mandate.

00:36:08.600 But even beyond that,

00:36:10.380 the reason there was

00:36:11.080 a mandate to govern

00:36:12.040 is that the voters

00:36:12.980 gave the Republicans

00:36:13.820 a unified government,

00:36:14.820 the House,

00:36:15.460 the Senate,

00:36:16.120 and the White House.

00:36:17.540 And the conservatives

00:36:18.400 already have the Supreme Court.

00:36:20.640 That's why it was a mandate.

00:36:23.100 Then she compares it.

00:36:25.120 She says,

00:36:25.440 well,

00:36:25.900 Biden won

00:36:26.600 by a far greater number

00:36:28.240 than the popular vote.

00:36:29.820 Well,

00:36:30.180 yeah,

00:36:30.340 sort of.

00:36:30.660 the Democrats changed

00:36:31.400 the Democrats changed

00:36:31.420 all the election rules

00:36:32.200 and there were a lot of,

00:36:33.120 a lot of sketchy changes

00:36:35.440 to how elections

00:36:36.160 were conducted there.

00:36:37.280 And when the rules

00:36:38.440 started to go back

00:36:39.180 in the other direction,

00:36:40.000 Kamala lost in a landslide.

00:36:41.860 Then furthermore,

00:36:42.540 she complains that Trump

00:36:43.360 picks people

00:36:44.000 who are good on TV.

00:36:45.760 Yeah,

00:36:45.940 look,

00:36:46.220 this is responsive government.

00:36:47.720 Okay,

00:36:48.040 in a popular government,

00:36:49.760 government of the people,

00:36:50.580 it's very important

00:36:51.620 for politicians

00:36:52.360 to be able to communicate.

00:36:54.000 So Trump picks people

00:36:55.100 who have good credentials,

00:36:56.520 generally,

00:36:57.000 who are really talented people,

00:36:59.340 who have achievements

00:37:00.320 under their belt,

00:37:01.120 and who also happen

00:37:02.240 to be able to communicate.

00:37:03.700 Good.

00:37:04.160 That is a vindication

00:37:05.100 of popular government.

00:37:06.760 That is what the people

00:37:07.740 asked for

00:37:08.400 when they gave Trump

00:37:09.480 a mandate to govern.

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00:38:14.780 My favorite comment

00:38:15.700 yesterday is from

00:38:16.720 Caseman434,

00:38:19.220 who says,

00:38:19.820 so funny that on this video

00:38:21.620 we're seeing a YouTube note

00:38:22.620 from the Associated Press.

00:38:23.720 Ha ha, yeah, I know.

00:38:24.760 It's the AP

00:38:25.400 and all these guys.

00:38:27.080 The New York Times

00:38:27.820 and Washington Post

00:38:28.420 both trying to pressure YouTube

00:38:29.960 to take our shows off the air

00:38:31.380 because the only way

00:38:32.540 these guys are going to

00:38:33.160 cling to relevance

00:38:33.980 is by coercion,

00:38:36.200 by force.

00:38:37.340 They're going to insist

00:38:38.200 on being the trusted sources.

00:38:39.640 They're going to insist

00:38:40.160 on making people read them.

00:38:41.200 They wouldn't read them

00:38:42.120 of their own accord.

00:38:42.880 But at least one person

00:38:47.100 in America

00:38:47.620 has learned a lesson

00:38:49.280 from the 2024 election.

00:38:51.740 That would be Ann Selzer.

00:38:52.860 You remember Ann Selzer?

00:38:53.640 She's the Iowa pollster

00:38:54.540 who actually has a relatively

00:38:57.180 quite accurate record.

00:38:58.480 She's got pretty high

00:38:59.980 accuracy scores,

00:39:00.860 but she totally blew it

00:39:01.900 in 2024.

00:39:03.140 She said that Kamala

00:39:04.000 was going to win Iowa

00:39:04.900 by three points

00:39:05.760 and then Trump won Iowa

00:39:06.660 by 13 points.

00:39:07.860 So it was a pretty big swing.

00:39:09.220 And Ann Selzer,

00:39:10.560 now just a couple weeks

00:39:11.320 after the election,

00:39:12.020 has announced

00:39:12.520 she's done.

00:39:14.040 She's retiring.

00:39:15.540 She's out

00:39:16.280 from election polling.

00:39:18.360 This is a classy move.

00:39:20.460 She says,

00:39:20.860 look,

00:39:21.000 I've had a good career.

00:39:21.980 I've got an A

00:39:22.920 or A-plus rating

00:39:23.780 on my accuracy.

00:39:25.080 Wish I'd gone out

00:39:25.900 on a good poll,

00:39:27.060 but anyway,

00:39:28.360 I'm done.

00:39:29.740 I think this is

00:39:30.540 the political equivalent

00:39:31.500 to seppuku.

00:39:32.760 You know,

00:39:33.020 the Japanese say,

00:39:33.700 I have dishonored my trade.

00:39:35.120 Oh, you know,

00:39:36.060 you put the samurai sword

00:39:37.440 right in you.

00:39:38.480 But it's a dignified

00:39:40.180 thing to do.

00:39:40.700 Okay,

00:39:41.200 I'm done.

00:39:41.720 Got it wrong.

00:39:42.180 I've had a good career.

00:39:43.140 I guess I'm starting

00:39:43.680 to slip.

00:39:44.220 I'm out.

00:39:46.300 That's the right move.

00:39:48.380 For most pundits,

00:39:50.100 for most people,

00:39:50.900 especially on the left,

00:39:52.800 they're going to say,

00:39:53.740 okay,

00:39:54.000 we got everything wrong

00:39:55.000 in 2024.

00:39:56.060 We were wrong

00:39:56.860 about Trump.

00:39:57.860 We said he was Hitler.

00:39:58.760 He's not.

00:39:59.120 We said he destroyed

00:39:59.680 democracy.

00:40:00.160 He won't.

00:40:00.980 We were wrong

00:40:01.560 about what the voters want.

00:40:02.880 We were wrong

00:40:03.540 about America's priorities.

00:40:05.060 We were wrong

00:40:05.380 about everything.

00:40:06.080 That's why you need

00:40:06.760 to listen to us now.

00:40:08.640 And CNN's ratings

00:40:09.500 go down the tube.

00:40:11.000 MSNBC's ratings

00:40:11.540 go down the tube.

00:40:12.780 No one wants the AP.

00:40:13.860 No one reads

00:40:14.300 the New York Times.

00:40:15.160 Doesn't matter.

00:40:16.180 They're going to stick

00:40:16.700 to their guns.

00:40:17.280 And they're going to try

00:40:17.840 to force you

00:40:18.420 to continue to listen

00:40:19.300 to them.

00:40:20.640 Ann Selzer here

00:40:21.320 showing a bit of class.

00:40:22.500 Okay, you know,

00:40:23.860 I guess time's up for me.

00:40:25.580 Now, speaking of

00:40:26.220 changing of the guard,

00:40:26.760 this is a story

00:40:27.540 that I've been meaning

00:40:29.460 to get to for a few days here.

00:40:30.700 I want to get to it.

00:40:32.160 A story out of CNN.

00:40:34.320 I guess I'm the last person

00:40:35.340 that reads CNN.

00:40:37.200 But observing a good trend,

00:40:39.620 or not a good,

00:40:40.000 a bad trend,

00:40:40.560 but an interesting trend,

00:40:42.200 there is a rise

00:40:43.180 in atheist chaplains.

00:40:46.740 What is an atheist chaplain?

00:40:48.440 Headline,

00:40:48.900 Atheist chaplains

00:40:49.560 are forging a new path

00:40:50.900 in a changing world.

00:40:54.100 I won't read

00:40:55.220 through the whole story,

00:40:56.600 but a growing number

00:40:57.660 of atheist chaplains

00:40:58.820 says being an atheist,

00:40:59.860 non-believer,

00:41:00.400 unaffiliated,

00:41:00.900 whatever you want

00:41:01.420 to call yourself,

00:41:02.220 lends itself really well

00:41:03.180 to chaplaincy

00:41:03.880 because we naturally

00:41:05.000 don't project our own stuff

00:41:06.700 on the people.

00:41:09.780 He says,

00:41:10.360 he isn't there

00:41:10.920 to preach or pray.

00:41:12.500 He just reassures people.

00:41:14.240 He'll go into hospices,

00:41:16.820 speak to people

00:41:17.400 who are dying,

00:41:18.960 and just say,

00:41:20.180 hey, yeah,

00:41:20.420 I'm not here

00:41:20.760 for any particular reason.

00:41:22.040 I'm just going to,

00:41:23.020 I can't really comfort you

00:41:24.080 all that much.

00:41:24.620 I'm just trying to be,

00:41:25.360 I'm going to be nice.

00:41:26.880 But he,

00:41:29.080 like so many people

00:41:30.240 in America,

00:41:30.620 doesn't really have

00:41:31.380 any clearly defined religion.

00:41:34.520 What's the point

00:41:35.100 of an atheist chaplain?

00:41:36.180 I like this story.

00:41:38.280 And the reason I like it,

00:41:40.500 as I puff on my delicious

00:41:41.720 Mayflower compact here,

00:41:42.980 Mayflower Dawn,

00:41:43.520 Petit Corona,

00:41:44.500 the reason I like this story

00:41:46.000 is not that I think

00:41:47.100 this is good for people.

00:41:48.240 It's not that I think

00:41:49.120 the atheist chaplain

00:41:50.740 is even a coherent

00:41:52.200 category of occupation.

00:41:54.780 It's that it's a reminder

00:41:56.780 that you can't stamp out religion.

00:42:00.960 You can't do it.

00:42:03.100 Atheist chaplains,

00:42:03.960 in a way,

00:42:04.220 have already existed

00:42:04.800 for a long time,

00:42:05.580 and we just call them psychiatrists.

00:42:07.080 It's just people

00:42:08.000 who have often,

00:42:09.860 sometimes purely

00:42:10.760 psychiatric problems,

00:42:11.580 usually, though,

00:42:12.100 it's deeper spiritual problems,

00:42:13.600 and they go,

00:42:14.400 and they want to,

00:42:15.880 what they really want

00:42:16.600 is to go confess

00:42:17.240 their sins to a priest,

00:42:18.200 but they can't bring themselves

00:42:19.080 to believe that

00:42:19.820 or think that that would be

00:42:20.640 a worthwhile endeavor.

00:42:21.780 So instead,

00:42:22.200 they go and confess their sins

00:42:23.120 to a psychiatrist,

00:42:23.760 and the psychiatrist,

00:42:25.400 unlike the priest

00:42:26.220 who can give you

00:42:26.740 the absolution of God,

00:42:27.940 the psychiatrist

00:42:28.400 just gives you drugs

00:42:29.820 to numb the pain

00:42:30.700 and blur up your head

00:42:32.760 a little bit.

00:42:33.720 But they do that.

00:42:34.500 People need to go

00:42:35.440 talk about their problems.

00:42:37.420 People still have

00:42:38.300 the eternal questions

00:42:39.220 on their mind.

00:42:40.780 What am I?

00:42:41.720 What am I here for?

00:42:43.140 Am I here for anything at all?

00:42:44.400 What happens after I die?

00:42:46.220 People will always demand chaplains

00:42:48.380 because people will always die,

00:42:50.540 and the ultimate questions

00:42:51.920 will always be before them.

00:42:53.760 No matter how many drugs

00:42:54.760 they take,

00:42:55.260 no matter how much

00:42:55.900 they try to get it

00:42:56.680 out of their heads,

00:42:58.080 there's always going to be

00:42:59.080 a demand for chaplains.

00:43:00.600 There's always going to be

00:43:01.560 a demand for priests.

00:43:03.680 And so we can have

00:43:05.140 harmful, unhelpful versions

00:43:09.260 of chaplains and priests,

00:43:11.040 you know,

00:43:11.220 self-help gurus

00:43:12.400 and, you know,

00:43:14.160 modern liberal yoga teachers

00:43:15.840 with face tattoos.

00:43:16.660 You're going to have that.

00:43:17.960 But you're still going to have

00:43:20.340 that longing

00:43:21.180 because man is fundamentally

00:43:22.320 a religious creature.

00:43:23.280 And because man is made

00:43:24.320 in the image and likeness of God,

00:43:25.580 we're always going to have

00:43:26.660 that longing.

00:43:27.520 We're always going to have

00:43:28.180 that there.

00:43:29.200 So the question is not,

00:43:30.020 as I say this for the Republicans

00:43:32.140 at the top of the show,

00:43:32.960 bring it full circle.

00:43:33.820 The question is not,

00:43:35.280 will you deal with

00:43:36.640 the transgender issue

00:43:37.900 on Capitol Hill or not?

00:43:39.540 The question is just,

00:43:40.720 what are you going to do about it?

00:43:43.060 Either you're going to

00:43:43.880 let the man into the woman's bathroom

00:43:45.280 or you're going to

00:43:45.860 protect women's bathrooms.

00:43:47.260 But you have to pick one

00:43:48.240 because the guy's got to

00:43:48.860 go to the bathroom.

00:43:50.280 The question isn't,

00:43:51.200 are we going to have

00:43:51.620 priests and chaplains?

00:43:52.620 Are we going to talk

00:43:53.160 about our problems?

00:43:53.980 Are we going to try to find

00:43:56.540 solutions to the eternal questions?

00:43:58.360 The question is just,

00:43:59.100 how are we going to do it?

00:44:00.940 Are you going to go talk

00:44:01.580 to some atheist chaplain

00:44:02.440 while you lay dying?

00:44:03.240 Or are you going to talk

00:44:03.700 to a priest?

00:44:05.360 Are you going to go

00:44:06.120 confess your sins

00:44:06.980 to some liberal

00:44:08.340 with a medical degree

00:44:09.560 who's going to give you Prozac?

00:44:10.880 Or are you going to go

00:44:11.680 confess your sins

00:44:12.340 to a priest?

00:44:13.260 Are you going to go

00:44:14.000 bring your questions

00:44:16.540 ultimately to God?

00:44:18.320 But you're going to have

00:44:18.820 to figure it out

00:44:19.500 because you're a human being

00:44:20.620 and you are going to die

00:44:21.620 and you're going to have

00:44:22.120 to face those questions.

00:44:23.000 Now, speaking of

00:44:24.280 causes of anxiety

00:44:27.560 and psychiatric issues,

00:44:30.240 Australia is doing

00:44:31.280 a very good thing.

00:44:32.320 And Australia is

00:44:33.020 a huge lib government

00:44:33.860 and they have

00:44:34.440 all sorts of problems,

00:44:35.380 but you've got to give credit

00:44:36.160 where credit's due.

00:44:37.380 Australia has a proposal

00:44:38.720 to ban social media

00:44:40.840 for kids under 16.

00:44:42.540 Children and teenagers

00:44:43.440 under the age of 16

00:44:44.440 could be banned totally

00:44:45.500 from social media

00:44:46.380 after the labor government

00:44:48.580 announced it would back

00:44:50.120 this higher cutoff limit.

00:44:52.180 The government

00:44:52.940 had previously said

00:44:54.020 that it would introduce

00:44:54.640 legislation

00:44:55.240 that would get kids

00:44:57.140 off social media

00:44:57.840 by the end of the year.

00:44:59.980 Now they're kind of

00:45:01.120 trying to work through

00:45:01.820 what the proposal looks like.

00:45:03.060 This is so obvious.

00:45:04.620 This might be a little bit

00:45:05.660 of a point of departure

00:45:06.460 between the conservatives

00:45:07.300 and the libertarians,

00:45:08.020 but I doubt it actually.

00:45:09.720 I think people realize

00:45:10.560 how pernicious

00:45:11.300 a social media can be.

00:45:13.160 It can give kids

00:45:13.800 all sorts of body image issues,

00:45:15.580 all sorts of anxieties.

00:45:16.780 It can do that to adults too.

00:45:18.300 Everyone's comparing

00:45:19.100 their lives

00:45:19.860 to the picture-perfect

00:45:21.300 curated version of life

00:45:22.520 that we all see

00:45:23.200 from everyone else.

00:45:24.800 It feeds on envy

00:45:27.340 and it helps to encourage

00:45:28.740 envy and pride

00:45:29.960 and vanity and sloth

00:45:31.140 and all sorts of bad stuff.

00:45:32.380 And you think,

00:45:33.120 okay, even if you're

00:45:34.020 the most hardcore libertarian,

00:45:36.060 you know,

00:45:36.220 do-whatever-you-want

00:45:36.860 kind of person,

00:45:37.780 we all still believe

00:45:40.720 that you can have

00:45:41.800 an age cutoff

00:45:42.460 for buying cigarettes

00:45:43.440 or cigars for that matter.

00:45:45.040 We all believe

00:45:45.980 in an age cutoff

00:45:46.920 for buying booze

00:45:49.560 or for pornography.

00:45:51.980 At least we should.

00:45:52.940 I mean, you know,

00:45:53.600 if you want to go buy

00:45:54.460 a Playboy at the magazine store,

00:45:55.980 you have to show an ID.

00:45:57.180 You don't have to do that

00:45:58.380 in most states now

00:45:59.160 for online high-speed porn,

00:46:00.840 but in some states you do.

00:46:01.700 Increasingly,

00:46:02.160 we're recognizing,

00:46:03.020 look, this is crazy

00:46:03.660 that we're just allowing

00:46:05.260 little kids

00:46:06.100 to be exposed to this.

00:46:07.000 This is really bad for them.

00:46:08.520 For goodness sakes,

00:46:09.040 we can ban scary movies

00:46:10.240 for minors.

00:46:11.320 We have an R rating

00:46:12.260 on scary movies.

00:46:13.880 You're not allowed

00:46:14.320 to go see a horror film

00:46:15.360 if you're 12 years old.

00:46:17.780 But you can go use TikTok,

00:46:20.380 Instagram,

00:46:21.540 totally crazy.

00:46:23.200 Really, really dangerous stuff.

00:46:25.240 We need bills like this too.

00:46:27.220 And it's going to upend

00:46:28.180 the way that Republicans

00:46:29.020 think about government,

00:46:29.820 but you're seeing this really

00:46:30.560 in the Trump fight right now.

00:46:32.120 You're seeing this

00:46:32.620 even in the picks,

00:46:33.820 in the internal roilings

00:46:35.460 within the presumptive

00:46:38.040 Trump administration.

00:46:39.880 This rift on the right.

00:46:41.500 Are we going to double down

00:46:43.140 on the old country club policies

00:46:44.580 of you do you,

00:46:45.440 we're not going to deal

00:46:45.980 with the social issues,

00:46:47.380 we'll let men do

00:46:48.080 whatever they want,

00:46:48.660 they can put on a dress,

00:46:49.400 go into the women's room,

00:46:50.240 just don't bother me

00:46:50.940 and don't raise my taxes.

00:46:51.960 Are we going to go

00:46:52.460 to that kind of Republicanism?

00:46:54.740 Or are we going to think

00:46:55.980 a little bit more

00:46:56.720 about what kind of society

00:46:58.560 we want to live in?

00:46:59.880 Standards, norms, virtue,

00:47:01.360 dare I say the common good.

00:47:03.020 Are we going to actually

00:47:03.700 dig in on these issues

00:47:04.840 and say, hey,

00:47:05.400 we're not just going

00:47:06.200 to have fights

00:47:06.800 about procedures,

00:47:08.120 how bills are going

00:47:09.940 to be passed,

00:47:10.880 you know,

00:47:11.120 if the federal government

00:47:12.480 is going to take up an issue

00:47:13.300 or if it's going to be

00:47:13.820 left to the states,

00:47:14.600 you know,

00:47:15.240 we're actually going

00:47:15.920 to also focus in

00:47:16.940 on the substance

00:47:17.940 of those issues.

00:47:19.500 Should kids really be allowed

00:47:22.900 into the wild, wild west

00:47:24.640 of social media?

00:47:27.860 Is that good for them?

00:47:29.300 Probably not.

00:47:30.060 All right?

00:47:31.740 So even, you know,

00:47:32.520 every man is my teacher

00:47:33.360 and I can learn from him.

00:47:34.320 Even Australia,

00:47:35.120 which is so nuts.

00:47:35.940 I mean, it's a nation

00:47:37.620 that was founded

00:47:38.200 as a penal colony

00:47:39.120 and they've, you know,

00:47:40.560 they've had extremely

00:47:41.720 far leftist policies.

00:47:43.060 But here I think

00:47:43.780 they've stumbled

00:47:44.940 on something right

00:47:45.680 and conservatives

00:47:46.520 should take that up too.

00:47:47.300 As we deal with the substance,

00:47:48.360 as we deal with the issues,

00:47:49.520 what is a person?

00:47:50.400 What is good

00:47:50.760 for a person's flourishing?

00:47:51.840 How are we going

00:47:52.160 to live well as a society?

00:47:53.560 How are we going

00:47:54.020 to come to some

00:47:54.540 common agreements

00:47:55.220 on even what the meaning

00:47:56.440 of the word woman is?

00:47:57.560 Well, this would be

00:47:58.260 a good place to say,

00:47:58.840 okay, maybe there's

00:48:00.040 an age limit.

00:48:00.520 No more 12-year-olds

00:48:01.240 on TikTok.

00:48:02.000 There's no member block today

00:48:03.040 because I need to finish

00:48:03.760 my cigar.

00:48:04.400 No, it's because I actually

00:48:05.440 have a fun project

00:48:06.080 I'm working on,

00:48:06.620 but I've got to fly out of town.

00:48:07.720 So,

00:48:09.000 no member segmentum.

00:48:10.840 Mi dispiace.

00:48:11.720 But we'll get to

00:48:12.780 the

00:48:13.400 chem lula chem

00:48:14.300 tomorrow.

00:48:15.020 Until then,

00:48:15.360 I'm Michael Knowles.

00:48:15.940 This is the Michael Knowles Show.

00:48:17.420 See you then.

00:48:17.820 The Michael Knowles Show.

Ep. 1621 - What Is A Man In A Women's Restroom？

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