A terrorist attack on New Year's Eve in a prominent American city leaves at least 15 dead and dozens wounded. What's the problem with the FBI? Is it incompetence, incompetence, or is it something even worse?
00:06:22.280There are plenty of mediocrities who work in the federal government.
00:06:25.660But the FBI has shown something beyond mediocrity and incompetence and neglect in recent years.
00:06:32.560The FBI has shown deceit, vindictiveness against ordinary good Americans who are just trying to live their lives and have a good way of life, a normal way of life.
00:06:42.020The FBI has shown that it will regularly undermine what good normal people want for their country in service of radical ideologies.
00:06:50.660Going so far as to collude with Democrats who colluded with Russians, ironically, in the Russia hoax going back to 2016.
00:06:59.600So I don't think it's that they're just so stupid, so dumb.
00:07:19.820Or there's another option, which is that sure there's corruption, sure there's deceit.
00:07:25.020But also the FBI is just so committed to the ideology of our ruling class, which is extremely liberal, leftist, crazy, absurd, contrary to everything that normal Americans consider to be good and true and virtuous.
00:08:35.560Of course, anyone with two brain cells to rub together could see you've got the Trump Hotel already going to tell you 99% chance this is political, which would be an act of terrorism.
00:08:45.440Because terrorism basically is the attack on civilians and civilian properties in the furtherance of a political goal.
00:09:03.000Terrorism is when you use violence against civilians to achieve a political end.
00:09:06.720Obviously, that's what's going on here.
00:09:08.420You've got the symbol of Elon Musk, who is now probably the most prominent confidant and supporter of Donald Trump in the world.
00:09:16.760You've got that symbol exploding just outside of a Trump property on New Year's Eve when Elon and Trump are spending New Year's Eve together.
00:09:25.600Now, the officials on the ground actually had a great compliment to play to Elon Musk here because the fact that this guy blew up a cyber truck, the fact that this guy was trying to make a point about the symbolism of the American right and this relationship between Musk and Trump actually probably saved a lot of people's lives.
00:09:54.360First, though, speaking of violence, speaking of subterfuge, speaking of espionage, I just sat down in my latest episode of Michael And, my long-form interview series, with Jack Barsky, who's a former Soviet spy, who's a KGB spy, illegal in the United States.
00:10:10.100For years and years, we talk about espionage.
00:10:13.120We talk about how he left it all behind.
00:10:14.980We talk about how he eventually got caught, even after he left it all behind.
00:12:33.540This is actually, and we can be a little light about it, I think, because no one was killed other than this animal.
00:12:40.720It's because of how well engineered this truck was.
00:12:45.720This is the greatest advertisement in the history of automobiles, this thwarted terror attack.
00:12:52.240So the question on everybody's minds, are these attacks connected?
00:12:57.360Seems like a hell of a coincidence, doesn't it?
00:12:59.340And we know for a fact, because Joe Biden has left the border open for four years now, has actually invited foreigners in, totally unvetted.
00:13:09.980We know that Muslim terrorists have entered that border.
00:13:13.340Sean Ryan did a show, when was it, some weeks ago, an interview with someone who said,
00:13:18.100oh yeah, we've got over a thousand ISIS terrorists or Al-Qaeda or other Islamic terrorists in the country.
00:16:10.300We're entering into a very dangerous time.
00:16:14.420And by the way, it's not going to stop when he's inaugurated.
00:16:16.180If there have been assassination attempts foreign, if there have been attempts to kick this guy off the ballot, to imprison him, raiding his home, the FBI raiding his home with deadly force authorized at Mar-a-Lago.
00:16:32.200If they, if the liberal regime has justified the assassination of Trump time and time again, Joe Biden started his campaign in 2020 on that, calling him a Nazi sympathizer.
00:17:11.660But that intentional policy did allow terrorists to enter the country.
00:17:16.700Is it because Joe Biden wanted terrorists to enter the country?
00:17:18.800No, it's because Democrats wanted to flood the country with foreigners because they think that it will give them a permanent electoral majority.
00:17:24.300And they're willing to take a few thousand terrorists if that's what it's going to take.
00:17:27.420They're willing to take hundreds of thousands of kids being missing and probably in sexual slavery.
00:17:31.540They're willing to take 60 to 80 percent of women and girls who cross the border illegally being raped or otherwise sexually assaulted along the way.
00:17:38.160That's just the cracking of the eggs that is required to make an omelet for the Democrats.
00:17:45.120And the real effect here is with all of this, not just the open border, but the corruption of the FBI, the failure of law, the undermining of law enforcement, DEI in American government.
00:17:57.520The upshot of all of that is 2025 starts with two terrorist attacks.
00:18:08.380Also worth pointing out, even with the New Orleans attack where we have more information than we do with the Cybertruck, we still don't know all that much about this guy.
00:18:16.340We don't know all that much about this guy because he's got an Arab name.
00:18:19.340But there are some reports that he has really no Arab connection, that he might just be a regular old black guy with an assumed name.
00:18:26.680You know, during the black power movement in the 70s, a lot of just regular black guys took on Muslim names because of the Nation of Islam and strange black nationalist ideologies.
00:19:12.140A huge fight broke out over H-1B visas.
00:19:16.280These are visas offered to foreigners to come work in the United States.
00:19:22.540The most prominent example would be Indians being brought over to work in tech.
00:19:26.700There aren't that many of these visas.
00:19:27.980I think it's something like 85,000 per year.
00:19:30.640Still, though, 85,000 is a big number if you're one of the 85,000 people that loses your job in America to a foreigner.
00:19:38.300And it became a major controversy and it exposed a big split within the American right.
00:19:43.700A big split even within the MAGA movement where you had immigration restrictionists, where you had traditionalists, cultural conservatives on one side saying we need to restrict immigration.
00:19:54.400And you had the more libertarian, more classically liberal types on the other side saying, no, no, no.
00:20:00.860We want to bring in all the best foreigners from overseas.
00:20:04.040And some Americans might lose their jobs.
00:20:06.200But the whole purpose of it is just to bring in all these super geniuses.
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00:21:53.360Should we take more Indians to fill our tech jobs?
00:21:56.660That was the big debate that broke out on the American right over Christmas.
00:22:02.120And Elon Musk, a man to whom we owe quite a lot, we conservatives.
00:22:08.360The man who put his money where our mouth is and bought Twitter, gave conservatives at least a little bit of a space to talk in big tech, $44 billion worth.
00:22:16.340The man who endorsed Donald Trump, I think, brought a lot of people over, who helped Republican candidates.
00:22:21.600He came out, he said, this issue, H-1B, is a major issue for him.
00:22:28.400He said, the reason I'm in America, along with so many critical people who built SpaceX, Tesla, and hundreds of other companies that made America strong, is because of H-1B.
00:22:37.220Take a big step back, and I'll clean this up for a family show, but it's all caps.
00:22:44.200I will go to war on this issue, the likes of which you cannot possibly comprehend.
00:22:49.160Now, he got a lot of pushback from people in the MAGA base who said, hey, what we want to conserve here is not the profits of various companies.
00:23:00.460What we want to conserve is the American way of life.
00:23:03.260We want to protect the American workers.
00:23:05.100So much of the realignment that took place over the last 10 years under Trump's leadership of the GOP is that the GOP is the working class party, the libs are the party of the elites.
00:23:18.800You can't sell out American workers just because you want to get some people from India to work the tech jobs and pay them much lower wages than you would have to pay to Americans.
00:23:26.860So on the pro-H-1B side, you have the corporations and the libertarians and the tech guys saying, no, no, it's not about lower wages.
00:23:37.320It's about a dearth of talent in America.
00:23:40.280We just don't have Americans who are smart enough, who are educated enough to fill these jobs.
00:23:45.460These dummy Americans, they just can't figure it out.
00:23:47.580But the anti-H-1B side said, no, you know, look, maybe Americans aren't great at these jobs yet, but that's because of failures of the schools.
00:23:56.800And actually, you know what, forget about that.
00:23:58.360Americans aren't good at these jobs and you guys are just trying to save some money.
00:24:00.900And you're importing foreigners and you're totally disregarding the desires of cultural conservatives and people who want to maintain a cohesive culture.
00:24:22.700So one of the critics of the pro-H-1B side was D.C. Drano, who pointed out, hold on, even when you get down to the nitty-gritty on who's getting these H-1B visas, it's not just the 0.001% super geniuses who start major corporations.
00:24:40.820It's people who make $22,000 a year to be a cook.
00:24:45.380One of the examples they pulled out, because you can look this stuff up, this federal information, you can figure out who gets the H-1B visas.
00:26:50.340What most Americans answer on public opinion polls is they want to stop illegal immigration
00:26:55.380and they either want the same amount of legal immigration or they want even more legal immigration.
00:27:00.280You know, we don't care who comes here just as long as they do it legally.
00:27:03.700They go, well, all right, anybody's welcome to come to America.
00:27:06.580America doesn't have any deeper cultural identity.
00:27:08.820Anybody can come here if they're going to strive and make money, but they got to do it legally.
00:27:13.940People answer that on public opinion polls.
00:27:15.860However, when you ask people, not are you pro or anti-immigration, when you ask them,
00:27:21.840hey, what do you think the ideal number of immigrants that we let in per year is?
00:27:27.780The answer people give, the majority of people give, is significantly lower than the number of legal immigrants we allow in each year.
00:27:35.720There was one poll, this was some years ago now from Harvard Harris, showed that the lion's share of Americans want immigration to be somewhere around 500,000 or less people per year.
00:27:53.760So that means that, practically speaking, the vast majority of Americans want to drastically reduce, cut it in half, the number of legal immigrants we take per year.
00:28:03.840But they don't think that that's their position.
00:28:06.060They think their position is illegal bad, legal good.
00:28:09.080But their actual position, if they knew the numbers, is to drastically reduce all immigration.
00:28:13.660It's just a case of our liberal establishment being so good at hiding how many people we brought into America that no one really knows.
00:28:23.420No one has any idea how many foreigners we bring into our country every year.
00:28:26.900And it's nothing against foreigners, especially Indians.
00:28:39.180But an immigration policy is not just based on which foreign countries you like the most or what kinds of flavors of dinners you like the most.
00:28:51.980We've just taken in so many foreigners.
00:28:54.440We have the highest foreign-born percentage of the population that we've ever had in America.
00:30:54.440There's another reason the corporations love H-1B is because the workers lose their visas if they leave the corporation.
00:30:59.720So it just gives them basically indentured servants, people that they can pay low wages to, who are totally beholden to them, or they get kicked out of the country.
00:31:06.800Musk, for his side, also walked back his comments a little bit.
00:31:11.620He said, no question that H-1B needs to be overhauled.
00:31:14.600My question, though, is, what do we mean by merit?
00:31:18.320The way this debate is being framed is it's merit versus entitlement.
00:31:26.360Merit could mean smart foreigners merit jobs in America because they're so smart and they're so good in engineering.
00:31:33.660And you might say, yeah, okay, they merit it.
00:31:35.020That's like the free market, libertarian, sort of libertarian view of merit.
00:31:41.920There's another view of merit, though, the critical race theory view of merit.
00:31:44.740The leftist view of merit is that non-white people merit special treatment and advantages at the expense of white people because of slavery or whatever, because of oppression.
00:31:58.900This is maybe my own view and the social conservative view, which is I think Americans merit priority in their own country.
00:32:06.800I think American citizens merit, they deserve being prioritized by their own government in their own country.
00:32:15.120And they shouldn't have to compete with foreign workers all over the world.
00:32:19.180Maybe we don't deny market dynamics, but maybe we give Americans a little bit of a special treatment, a treatment that they actually deserve and they merit.
00:32:27.660Because this word merit, we use this word meritocracy, I don't use that word meritocracy, but some people do, especially libertarians and more classically liberal people.
00:32:38.160But it's a euphemism that just conceals a conception of justice.
00:32:44.640And so that's what we're really arguing over.
00:32:47.420Is the conception of justice a total worship of the free market?
00:32:50.800Yeah, it's, you know, the world is flat.
00:32:52.980Everyone should compete with everyone.
00:32:54.240Maybe all the Americans lose their jobs, but hey, GDP will tick up a little bit.
00:32:58.000And don't you like Chinese food and Indian food?
00:33:08.200And, you know, so that's their version of justice.
00:33:10.340I prefer a classical view of justice grounded in the natural law, grounded in our Christian tradition, grounded in just the American heritage and how we've always kind of done things.
00:33:21.540So, to wrap it up a little bit, because I know what you're going to hear from the libs, I actually already heard this when I expressed this view, is they said, oh, Michael Knowles is embracing critical race theory.
00:35:06.300The classical liberal, the progressive liberal, they can't comprehend the basic element of politics, of political thinking, which is prudence.
00:35:17.840How about we just be a little prudent, guys?
00:35:24.1002025 wasted no time reminding us of the challenges that we face.
00:35:28.680Yesterday's terror attack in New Orleans and the cyber truck explosion outside of President Trump's hotel in Las Vegas showed that the fight for truth is more important than ever.
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00:35:56.720My favorite comment yesterday, I don't know, it was probably over a week ago, from SlapMyBase3825 says,
00:36:03.940Props to Michael for working the day before Christmas Eve.
00:36:06.320Most people would just start their vacations early.
00:36:09.080I actually, maybe I mentioned this on that show, I was Scrooge this Christmas because Jeremy, nice, generous Jeremy, tells people two weeks off, unless your supervisor says otherwise.
00:36:25.660But nice, generous Jeremy says, hey, the employees, you've worked very hard this year, it's been a crazy election, two weeks off.
00:36:30.420But I don't want to take two weeks off.
00:36:31.740First of all, because staying home and, like, juggling children all day is actually much more exhausting.
00:36:37.960Mr. Davies and I have discovered over the past two weeks.
00:36:41.020But also because I love the show, and there's a lot of stuff happening, and I miss all of you.
00:36:45.180So anyway, I'm glad that you support my Scrooginess and stealing Christmas away from the staff.
00:36:52.460One final point on this meritocracy, justice, H-1B, this whole thing.
00:37:02.980There's another little debate that's broken out on the internet right, and it's over the woke right.
00:37:33.680But then you ask other people on the right what the woke right is, and they'll say, you know, you ask the traditionalists, you ask the religious right, you ask the, I don't know, other non-liberal right-wingers.
00:37:45.640And they'll say, the woke right is people on the right who are too conservative, or sorry, who are too liberal.
00:37:53.940And so you say, hold on, the phrase means opposite.
00:38:00.760But the reason this debate matters, the H-1B debate matters, the reason the woke right thing, which I think is ridiculous, matters, is because this is a battle that's been simmering for a long time.
00:38:12.180The conservative movement, such as it is in America, the American right, has always been cobbled together of ideological factions that are incoherent together.
00:38:20.980Libertarians, traditionalists, the religious right, populists, neocons, country club set, the chamber of commerce, war hawks, doves, people who don't want to go to war, you name it.
00:38:34.800There are these incoherent factions on the right, and they come together to form a coalition to beat the libs sometimes, the left.
00:38:41.840I should say the left, because we have liberals who are on the right also.
00:38:45.240But the left has an advantage sometimes, which is they are ideologically totally unified.
00:38:58.640But on the right, we're just fighting over what it means.
00:39:01.800This is the same kind of debate that you saw in the 1950s, Frederick Hayek versus Russell Kirk.
00:39:07.920This is the same debate you saw in the 2000s between Pat Buchanan and the Bushies.
00:39:13.700In some ways, this is the same debate you saw in the 80s between Ronald Reagan and George Bush I.
00:39:20.080There's just competing sides that want to claim the American right for themselves.
00:39:26.260And I think this is the latest version of it.
00:39:27.920But no, guys, we don't need to just open our borders.
00:39:31.160We don't need to tell the American worker he's got to compete against the entire globe or he's going to lose his job.
00:39:35.900We don't need to sacrifice our society and our cohesion on the altar of the free market.
00:39:43.900We don't have to deny the reality of the family.
00:39:46.960We don't need to sell little babies down the river to people who want to kill them because we want to cut taxes more and we think that that'll help us.
00:41:23.040Now, the social conservatives will say, yeah, well, part of the reason Americans aren't having kids is because you can't raise a family on one income anymore.
00:41:28.660Part of the reason you can't do that is because we're competing in this race to the bottom with low wages from peasants from Latin America
00:41:34.840and tech workers from Asia and South Asia who are being paid cheap wages and basically indentured servants.
00:41:44.000So it's kind of a chicken and the egg issue.
00:41:47.840I love that Mr. Beast is engaged at the age of 26, especially because his channel had a problem where his sidekick decided to abandon his family,
00:41:55.200his wife and his child, to engage in some ridiculous fetishism, the trans ideology, and it was so disgusting.
00:42:02.140Finally, he got the axe on the Mr. Beast show.
00:42:03.880So I thought, oh, no, this is a very left-wing show.
00:42:06.280But I just love to see that a guy who has 340 million followers, who's got a massive platform, the biggest platform in the history of YouTube,
00:42:15.360YouTube, arguably the biggest media platform in the history of the world,
00:42:18.740that that guy is getting married, or at least is engaged to be married, six years younger than the current median age to get married.
00:42:28.100If you want, there are individual things we have to do.
00:42:31.740You want to fix corruption in the FBI?