The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 1648 - Newsom & Bass Share Blame For FIRE DISASTER—Here’s Why

00:00:00.000 As Los Angeles burns to the ground, at least 1,000 buildings destroyed, at least five people

00:00:05.340 dead so far, this is the message that Governor Gavin Newsom had for his constituents.

00:00:10.220 What is the situation with the water?

00:00:11.960 Obviously, Palisades ran out last night in the hydrants.

00:00:14.640 I was trying to fire a firefighter in this block.

00:00:16.220 They left because there was no water in the hydrant here.

00:00:19.360 Local folks are trying to figure that out.

00:00:21.300 I mean, just when you have a system where it's not dissimilar to what we've seen in

00:00:24.600 other extraordinarily large-scale fires, whether it be pipe, electricity, or whether it just

00:00:29.480 be the complete overwhelm of the system.

00:00:32.240 I mean, those hydrants are typical for two or three fires, maybe one fire.

00:00:36.040 You have something at this scale.

00:00:37.260 But again, that's going to be determined by the local.

00:00:40.140 One week ago, that man thought that he was going to be the next president of the United

00:00:44.300 States.

00:00:45.260 Now he's the governor whose most populous city is burning to the ground and whose only

00:00:50.120 response is that the locals will have to figure it out.

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00:02:47.020 President Trump is blaming Gavin Newsom for the fires in Los Angeles.

00:02:51.360 Trump writes, Governor Gavin Newsom refused to sign the water restoration declaration put

00:02:56.200 before him that would have allowed millions of gallons of water from excess rain and snow

00:02:59.480 melt from the north to flow daily into parts of California, including the areas that

00:03:04.280 are currently burning in a virtually apocalyptic way.

00:03:06.540 He wanted to protect an essentially worthless fish called a smelt by giving it less water.

00:03:11.000 Didn't work, but didn't care about the people of California.

00:03:13.400 Now the ultimate price is being paid.

00:03:15.460 I will demand that this incompetent governor allow beautiful, clean, fresh water to flow 0.99

00:03:19.080 into California.

00:03:20.160 He's to blame for this.

00:03:22.180 On top of it all, no water for fire hydrants, no firefighting planes.

00:03:25.100 A true disaster.

00:03:26.060 Okay.

00:03:26.400 Gavin Newsom is furious about this.

00:03:28.900 Newsom was asked about President Trump's response.

00:03:32.700 And here is Newsom's dismay.

00:03:36.160 We're in the public safety phase.

00:03:37.860 I hate to even ask this question, but the president-elect chose to attack you, blame you

00:03:42.320 for this.

00:03:43.660 One can't even respond to it.

00:03:46.420 I mean, it's, you know, people are literally fleeing.

00:03:51.660 People have lost their lives.

00:03:53.420 Kids lost their schools.

00:03:56.100 Families completely torn asunder.

00:03:57.980 Churches burned down.

00:03:59.940 This guy wanted to politicize it.

00:04:01.420 I have a lot of thoughts and I know what I want to say.

00:04:05.580 I won't.

00:04:07.180 I stood next to a president of the United States of America today and I was proud to be

00:04:11.360 with Joe Biden.

00:04:12.380 And he had the backs of every single person in this community.

00:04:14.720 He didn't play politics, didn't try to divide any of us.

00:04:18.280 Trump is politicizing the fire.

00:04:21.520 Now that is not quite true.

00:04:25.600 Trump is not now politicizing the fires.

00:04:28.740 Trump politicized the fires six years ago.

00:04:34.080 Trump politicized the fires in 2018 and 2019 and even earlier this year or last year, 2024,

00:04:42.020 when he warned Gavin Newsom repeatedly, sometimes to his face in person, that these fires would happen

00:04:50.880 if Newsom didn't change his policies and Newsom did nothing.

00:04:56.640 That's why Newsom is getting the blame here.

00:04:59.500 It would be one thing if no one could see this coming.

00:05:02.520 It would be one thing if no one had suggested various policies, simple policies that would have mitigated the fires,

00:05:09.040 like getting proper water, like funding the fire department, like clearing away brush and having proper forest management,

00:05:17.040 like dealing with homeless people who frequently, though perhaps not in this case,

00:05:20.940 but frequently start the fires in California and so on and so forth.

00:05:25.380 It'd be one thing if no one had predicted this or if people had predicted these fires but didn't have any solutions for it.

00:05:32.460 But that's not what happened here.

00:05:34.480 Trump going back to 2019.

00:05:38.060 Here's President Trump, 2019, talking to Gavin Newsom about this very problem.

00:05:42.960 It's cleaned out and protected.

00:05:45.840 We've got to take care of the floors.

00:05:47.400 You know, the floors of the forest is very important.

00:05:50.820 You look at other countries where they do it differently and it's a whole different story.

00:05:56.400 I was with the president of Finland and he said we have a much different, we're a forest nation.

00:06:02.660 He called it a forest nation.

00:06:04.640 And they spent a lot of time on raking and cleaning and doing things and they don't have any problem.

00:06:10.840 And when it is, it's a very small problem.

00:06:13.240 So I know everybody's looking at that to that end and it's going to work out.

00:06:19.680 Later on in 2019, President Trump said billions of dollars are sent to the state of California

00:06:24.860 for forest fires that with proper forest management would never happen unless they get their act

00:06:29.120 together, which is unlikely.

00:06:30.020 I've ordered FEMA to send no more money.

00:06:31.740 It's a disgraceful situation in lives and money.

00:06:34.440 Even earlier than that, in 2018, President Trump said there is no reason for these massive,

00:06:39.260 deadly and costly forest fires in California except that forest management is so poor.

00:06:43.200 Billions of dollars are given each year with so many lives lost all because of gross

00:06:46.780 mismanagement of the forests.

00:06:47.900 Remedy now or no more Fed payments.

00:06:50.460 Time and time again for years, President Trump was pointing this out.

00:06:57.520 Then clear as day, also 2019 on Twitter, November 3rd, 2019 on Twitter, then Twitter before it

00:07:04.540 was X, the governor of California, Gavin Newsom's done a terrible job of forest management.

00:07:08.040 I told him from the first day we met that he must clean his forest floors regardless of

00:07:11.880 what his bosses, the environmentalists demand of him must also do burns and cut fire stoppers.

00:07:17.140 So you got suggestion, suggestion, suggestion, new aspect of a suggestion, new aspect.

00:07:23.320 Every year as the fires range and California burns, it's the same thing.

00:07:27.580 And then he comes to the federal government for money.

00:07:30.640 Get your act together, governor.

00:07:31.780 You don't see close to the level of burn in other states, but our teams are working well

00:07:35.400 together and so on.

00:07:38.040 Even as recently as this election season, President Trump goes on Joe Rogan and he explains this

00:07:45.780 problem.

00:07:46.080 It's not just that President Trump occasionally makes a stray comment about forest fires in

00:07:52.080 California.

00:07:52.460 This is one issue that he has been hammering for years consistently in detail with specificity

00:08:00.040 as recently as the fall of 2024.

00:08:04.500 Water.

00:08:05.560 You know, in Los Angeles, you can't get proper amounts of water.

00:08:10.000 Right.

00:08:10.220 And it's unbelievably expensive.

00:08:11.920 And you might have a house in Beverly Hills and they're actually thinking about rationing

00:08:16.040 water.

00:08:16.360 Can you believe it?

00:08:17.640 I can believe it.

00:08:18.280 I was in the farm court country with some of the congressmen who were driving up a highway

00:08:23.540 and I say, how come all this land is so barren?

00:08:29.060 It's farmland and it looked terrible.

00:08:31.560 It was just brown and bad.

00:08:32.960 But I said, but there's always that little corner that's so green and beautiful.

00:08:39.120 They said, we have no water.

00:08:41.180 I said, do you have a drought?

00:08:42.380 No, we don't have a drought.

00:08:43.720 I said, why don't you have no water?

00:08:44.980 Because the water isn't allowed to flow down.

00:08:47.860 It's got a natural flow from Canada all the way up north of water.

00:08:51.000 More water than they could ever use.

00:08:52.560 And in order to protect a tiny little fish, the water up north gets routed into the Pacific

00:09:01.340 Ocean.

00:09:02.000 Millions and millions of gallons of water.

00:09:05.380 Sometimes they say with Trump that there's a tweet for everything, that this guy has a

00:09:10.080 bizarre prescience.

00:09:12.260 The years prior to some event kicking off in politics, he'll have made a tweet about it.

00:09:16.720 Well, in this case, it's what, half a dozen tweets, a dozen tweets, and repeated TV interviews

00:09:22.860 over the course of many years.

00:09:28.880 Newsom didn't listen to it.

00:09:30.960 Forget about it.

00:09:31.500 We haven't even gotten into the local politicians in Los Angeles, one of whom wasn't even on

00:09:35.640 this continent while the fires were raging.

00:09:37.500 We'll get to that in a minute.

00:09:39.500 But here, there is no question.

00:09:44.900 Trump called it.

00:09:45.620 Trump wears a hat now that says Trump was right about everything.

00:09:48.540 He was at the very least right about this.

00:09:51.400 Two political observations here.

00:09:53.460 One, people are treating Trump as the president.

00:09:56.200 This is true when it comes to foreign affairs.

00:09:58.380 This is true when it comes to inflation.

00:10:00.180 People are already treating Trump as the president.

00:10:02.220 He is not the president.

00:10:03.340 He is not in charge.

00:10:04.900 He's not going to be inaugurated until, what day is it?

00:10:08.380 All right, we're getting pretty close.

00:10:09.780 A little over a week.

00:10:10.540 But he's not the president yet.

00:10:12.200 And they're treating Trump as the president.

00:10:14.000 Because Biden is a non-entity.

00:10:15.440 No one really thinks Biden is running the country.

00:10:17.540 It seems like no one's running the country.

00:10:18.960 It seems like no one's running the state of California.

00:10:20.920 All of these suggestions, Newsom does nothing.

00:10:23.040 All of these suggestions, the mayor of Los Angeles goes to Africa.

00:10:26.340 No one's in charge.

00:10:29.100 That's the first political observation.

00:10:30.540 Second political observation, Gavin Newsom's presidential bid.

00:10:34.820 It's not quite dead, but it's on life support. 0.95

00:10:39.040 The only reason I say it's not quite dead is because Democrats are nuts and political memories are short.

00:10:46.040 And there is a world in which four years from now, people forget about the most devastating fire in the history of Los Angeles. 0.92

00:10:51.640 But I doubt it.

00:10:53.700 This is a colossal, historic failure for the chief executive of this state.

00:11:00.700 The most populous city burns to the ground because of his policy failures in large part.

00:11:06.760 Now, one week ago, one week ago, that man thought he was going to be the president of the United States.

00:11:14.700 I thought he was the strongest candidate in the Democrat field.

00:11:18.660 And in fact, I still think he was the strongest candidate in the Democrat field.

00:11:22.260 But reality reasserts itself at some point.

00:11:26.140 The bill comes due at some point.

00:11:28.420 And the bill for Gavin Newsom's terrible policies just came due in a tragic, horrific way.

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00:12:52.100 Democrats don't want to accept any blame for the many policies articulated clearly by the top Republican politicians

00:12:59.480 for years that led to these totally predictable fires.

00:13:02.060 They instead want to blame climate change.

00:13:04.740 Bernie Sanders says, 80,000 people told to evacuate, blazes 0% contained, eight months since the area has seen rain.

00:13:12.300 The scale of damage and loss is unimaginable.

00:13:14.700 Climate change is real, not a hoax.

00:13:16.840 Donald Trump must treat this like the existential crisis it is.

00:13:20.480 First of all, there you have it.

00:13:21.500 Senator Bernie Sanders, socialist from Vermont, seems to think President Trump is the current president.

00:13:30.420 He's not.

00:13:31.220 Donald Trump must treat this like the crisis it is.

00:13:33.620 What about Joe Biden?

00:13:35.000 I thought we've had Democrat governance for the last four years.

00:13:38.720 In fact, I thought we've had Democrat governance for 12 out of the last 16 years.

00:13:42.900 Why haven't you treated climate change like the existential crisis that it is?

00:13:48.580 Or if you have, why are there fires in California?

00:13:51.080 Historic fires burning the city to the ground.

00:13:53.180 You guys have been in control three quarters of the time for the last 16 years.

00:13:58.640 What gives?

00:14:00.220 This is like when the Democrats complain about health care.

00:14:02.600 When they exalt and celebrate the kid who murdered the health care CEO.

00:14:09.260 They say, well, it's because health care is just so awful in America.

00:14:11.860 I thought you guys fixed that.

00:14:13.180 I thought that was the whole point of Obamacare.

00:14:14.940 Joe Biden stands there next to Obama and says, this is a big effing deal, man.

00:14:17.640 We fixed health care for once and for all in America.

00:14:19.800 That's what they sold it.

00:14:21.200 Sold it as.

00:14:22.200 This is the fix finally for health care.

00:14:24.460 Health care is in a sorrier state than it was before Obamacare.

00:14:28.200 Democrats have been running the show for 12 of the last 16 years.

00:14:31.260 You didn't do anything about climate change.

00:14:33.600 You have to treat this like an existential crisis.

00:14:35.840 Okay, well, hey, man, show me some results.

00:14:38.360 But they haven't produced any results on the environment.

00:14:43.680 And obviously, the sun monster is not to blame for the fires in California.

00:14:47.800 Climate change is the leftist version of the dog ate my homework.

00:14:51.380 Climate change is the leftist version of that guy at your company.

00:14:55.740 You know that guy at your company who's got an excuse for everything?

00:14:58.400 Hey, why didn't this thing happen?

00:15:00.320 Hey, how come that thing that you're responsible for, why didn't that happen?

00:15:02.700 And he's got a million different excuses.

00:15:05.440 Oh, well, no, actually, you don't understand.

00:15:07.600 I was going to get that done.

00:15:08.880 But then actually, the power went out on this computer.

00:15:12.160 And then there was a solar eclipse.

00:15:14.880 And then my dog ate it.

00:15:18.420 And it goes on and on and on.

00:15:19.880 That's what climate change fulfills in politics.

00:15:23.680 It can't be the forest management failures.

00:15:26.320 It can't be the defunding of the fire departments.

00:15:29.580 It can't be rerouting the water.

00:15:31.440 It can't be the total neglect by local politicians.

00:15:36.040 It can't be letting homeless people camp out in dry brush.

00:15:39.340 It can't be any of that.

00:15:40.200 It can't be any of the obvious answers.

00:15:44.760 No, no, that's all.

00:15:45.900 It's got to be the sun monster.

00:15:48.420 It's got to be Zeus throwing down lightning from Mount Olympus.

00:15:51.860 That's what set off the fires in California.

00:15:54.660 Certainly has nothing to do with the policies enacted by the politicians who've been running

00:15:58.720 that state for our entire lifetimes.

00:16:01.940 How about the mayor of LA?

00:16:02.840 How about the local politicians?

00:16:05.680 Karen Bass, who is a communist.

00:16:08.200 Karen Bass, who was an actual member of a communist organization as a young adult.

00:16:13.720 Not even all that young adult.

00:16:17.020 Karen Bass, who was a member of Congress, who then became mayor of LA.

00:16:21.940 She hasn't been around LA during these fires because she decided to go take a little vacation

00:16:26.960 in Ghana.

00:16:27.880 So she goes over to Africa, taxpayer subsidized to go for the inauguration of a Ghanaian politician,

00:16:35.180 neglects her constituents.

00:16:36.540 These historic fires break out.

00:16:38.940 She's just hanging out in Africa.

00:16:40.400 She makes a phone call or two, but finally, this is so cataclysmic, she had to fly back.

00:16:48.560 And here's the help that she is offering the residents of Los Angeles.

00:16:53.720 Here's, don't worry, the mayor is back in charge.

00:16:57.340 And if you're worried about your property and your life and your family and your whole community,

00:17:03.400 don't worry.

00:17:04.260 Here's Karen Bass's advice.

00:17:05.800 Right now, if you need help, emergency information, resources, and shelter is available.

00:17:12.500 All of this can be found at URL.

00:17:16.360 Los Angeles together is how we will get through this.

00:17:20.480 Through the heroicism of our firefighters.

00:17:24.480 If you need help, if you need any support in Los Angeles, go to URL.

00:17:29.860 It can all be found at URL.

00:17:33.120 And she moves on.

00:17:34.520 Okay.

00:17:35.800 Good luck.

00:17:36.360 Good luck going to URL.

00:17:38.500 They couldn't, the speechwriter couldn't even put the website in there.

00:17:41.520 Not that anyone can go to the websites.

00:17:43.100 They don't have power.

00:17:43.700 They don't have homes anymore.

00:17:45.520 But Karen Bass, she showed up a few days late. 1.00

00:17:48.000 You know, a thousand homes have burned so far, about a thousand buildings.

00:17:50.940 But hey, don't worry.

00:17:52.680 I'm here to give you this really important advice.

00:17:54.180 Go to URL.

00:17:56.820 The cavalry ain't coming, Angelenos.

00:18:00.160 That's the message.

00:18:00.960 That's the message from Karen Bass.

00:18:02.500 That's the message from Gavin Newsom.

00:18:04.320 That's the message from Bernie Sanders.

00:18:06.880 Trying to blame these fires on everything, but what actually caused them.

00:18:11.520 The cavalry ain't coming.

00:18:13.400 No, that's actually not fair.

00:18:14.840 The cavalry has come.

00:18:16.020 The firefighters who are doing their very best, doing heroic work.

00:18:20.060 The first responders who are doing their very best, doing heroic work.

00:18:23.240 But guess what?

00:18:23.700 The firefighters can't work if there's no water.

00:18:26.000 And the firefighters are not responsible for there being water.

00:18:30.380 The politicians are.

00:18:32.140 Gavin Newsom is.

00:18:33.900 Karen Bass is responsible for the city working.

00:18:35.940 And they ain't showing up.

00:18:38.460 They're out to lunch.

00:18:39.880 They're having whatever people eat in Ghana.

00:18:42.460 That's what they're up to right now.

00:18:45.220 And if they have to be bothered to come back to the cities that they run while the cities burn to the ground, they're not even going to give you a website to go to.

00:18:54.440 They're not even going to read their remarks before they give them.

00:18:57.560 Yeah, hey, all right, I'm back.

00:18:59.200 What's going on?

00:18:59.920 There's some smoke or something.

00:19:01.340 Yeah, okay, whatever.

00:19:02.220 Open up your computers.

00:19:03.120 Figure it out.

00:19:03.580 The locals will figure it out.

00:19:04.620 All right, bye.

00:19:05.100 I'm going to go back on vacation.

00:19:07.460 That's it.

00:19:07.960 The liberal establishment, which has had the privilege of ruling our country for decades, and that has been ruling these left-wing cities for even longer, the liberal establishment is just checked out.

00:19:25.520 They're just not fulfilling the basic functions of their jobs.

00:19:29.700 They don't feel any need to answer for their failures.

00:19:32.600 They don't care.

00:19:33.860 They're dispirited.

00:19:35.020 They're done.

00:19:35.880 They're complacent.

00:19:37.800 Figure it out, locals, and go to URL.

00:19:39.680 Meanwhile, CNN, the liberal establishment in TV, is still insisting that the problem is Trump, the threat to the country is Trump, and that the GOP, the Republican Party itself, should have rejected Trump.

00:19:56.200 I mean, shouldn't your party have just rejected him, just flat-out rejected him, from Kevin McCarthy to Mitch McConnell to the whole lot of them?

00:20:04.460 How could your party let him be the nominee again?

00:20:08.500 I love this.

00:20:09.140 I love this from Jim Acosta.

00:20:11.360 This is just a few days ago.

00:20:13.880 How could you?

00:20:14.600 Why didn't you guys?

00:20:16.000 Your job, GOP establishment, you were supposed to stop Trump.

00:20:19.500 How could you?

00:20:20.160 Why would you nominate the guy who won you the popular vote for the first time in 20 years?

00:20:25.180 Why would you nominate the guy who won the election in an electoral landslide?

00:20:30.280 You were supposed to nominate Mitt Romney.

00:20:32.560 You were supposed to nominate John McCain.

00:20:35.600 You weren't supposed to nominate a winner.

00:20:38.500 Why did you let this happen?

00:20:40.900 That's what he's saying.

00:20:41.740 What was the GOP supposed to do?

00:20:46.780 Reject Trump.

00:20:47.800 Why were they supposed to reject Trump?

00:20:50.840 Because he's popular?

00:20:52.280 Because he's a winner?

00:20:53.500 Because he advocates what people want?

00:20:56.400 Because his campaign is so attractive that it pulls over one in five black voters,

00:21:00.760 and most women 45 and older, and most married women,

00:21:04.920 and 40% of women even under 30, and almost half of Hispanics,

00:21:08.440 and huge coal, and the Rust Belt, and the Sun Belt, and everybody?

00:21:13.620 I thought the Democrats were supposed to champion democracy and power to the people,

00:21:17.380 and no, but you can't, the GOP's not allowed to have popular politicians.

00:21:23.460 Come on, Republican establishment, you guys are supposed to be the gatekeepers.

00:21:28.040 You're supposed to be the junior partner in the governing project of America,

00:21:31.300 which is led by Democrats, it's led by the liberals,

00:21:33.900 and neither the leading party, the Democrats, nor the junior partner,

00:21:38.760 the squish Republicans, are ever supposed to give the people what they want. 0.98

00:21:42.000 We're supposed to agree, as a uniparty, 0.97

00:21:44.840 to just keep moving along with the liberal status quo,

00:21:48.220 which now is literally burning parts of our country to the ground.

00:21:53.080 And it's not just LA, it's not just the fire with the Santa Ana winds.

00:21:56.320 The liberal establishment burned Minnesota to the ground during George Floyd,

00:22:00.100 and a lot of other places in the country to the ground.

00:22:01.800 It's not just forest management.

00:22:07.460 It's crime management, it's border management, it's economic management.

00:22:13.080 And all the left can say right now, all the liberal establishment can say right now is,

00:22:17.400 wait, what?

00:22:19.320 You guys don't, we don't have the power anymore?

00:22:22.800 Wait, what?

00:22:23.960 Wait, hold on.

00:22:25.380 But we, all right, whatever, you guys figure it out.

00:22:28.620 Let the locals figure it out.

00:22:30.020 There's so much more to say.

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00:23:55.020 Speaking of President Trump's proposals, President Trump wants Greenland.

00:24:01.000 And the libs are pretending that he's really kooky and eccentric,

00:24:05.180 that this proposal to annex Greenland is out of left field.

00:24:09.060 In fact, the U.S. State Department has been trying to acquire Greenland for 150 years now or more.

00:24:14.300 We tried in the 19th century.

00:24:15.580 We tried after World War II.

00:24:17.120 President Truman tried.

00:24:18.400 This has come up again and again and again.

00:24:19.980 President Trump suggested it in the first term.

00:24:22.020 He seems to be pushing it even harder now.

00:24:25.600 And Europe is really upset.

00:24:29.140 The European Union, actually French Foreign Minister Jean-Noël Barreau,

00:24:33.640 told a radio station just yesterday that he considers Greenland to be a territory of the European Union.

00:24:39.200 He said that the French government's position is that it is, quote,

00:24:43.740 out of the question that the European Union could let other nations of the world, whoever they may be, attack its sovereign borders.

00:24:49.980 And this is a really funny response to Trump's proposal.

00:24:53.760 Because it's not Greenland coming out and saying, hey, we have our independence.

00:24:57.500 We're not selling to Donald Trump.

00:25:00.960 It's Europe saying, hey, America, get your hands off our territory.

00:25:06.480 Greenland's not part of Europe.

00:25:08.120 Greenland's much closer to America than it is to Europe.

00:25:10.440 But Greenland is ruled by Denmark, by this tiny little country in Europe.

00:25:15.300 So the whole argument is, Greenland, in our enlightened liberal age, full of independence and autonomy,

00:25:22.720 Greenland is not allowed to go on its own.

00:25:26.960 Greenland is certainly not going to be taken over by the United States.

00:25:29.880 Why, that would be imperialism.

00:25:31.880 That would be expansionism.

00:25:34.960 No, no, no.

00:25:36.260 Greenland is going to be ruled by us. 0.90

00:25:37.980 That's our territory.

00:25:39.020 Um, I don't think that's a persuasive argument.

00:25:43.920 I don't think Denmark has a particularly strong case to rule Greenland.

00:25:51.080 I think Greenland is a strategic territory.

00:25:53.660 It's much closer to the United States.

00:25:55.980 The people of Greenland don't want to be ruled by the European Union or Denmark.

00:26:00.420 Greenland is rich in resources.

00:26:02.520 Greenland is in a very strategic location.

00:26:04.480 And if we want it, I think it's pretty well within our sphere of influence to exert a little bit of control over Greenland.

00:26:14.980 And you know what I think about the EU?

00:26:17.800 Not very much.

00:26:20.060 The EU's argument is, you can't have Greenland.

00:26:22.700 Greenland is ours.

00:26:25.160 Greenland belongs to us.

00:26:27.060 Okay, fine.

00:26:28.020 Greenland right now belongs to you, Europe. 0.93

00:26:29.580 That's fine.

00:26:30.800 But you belong to us.

00:26:33.360 If you want to play that game, if you want to make that argument, well, then what's good for the goose is good for the gander.

00:26:39.360 Greenland belongs to you.

00:26:40.260 That's fine.

00:26:40.560 You belong to us.

00:26:41.700 Europe doesn't exist today without the United States.

00:26:45.180 Europe doesn't have a military.

00:26:46.540 For all intents and purposes, Europe doesn't have a military.

00:26:50.520 The European military is America's military. 0.79

00:26:54.620 When the European militaries do anything, they do it at the direction of the United States.

00:27:00.380 Now, the United States wants it that way.

00:27:01.900 It's not purely an act of charity.

00:27:03.700 After the Second World War, we said, look, we're going to provide all of your military's defense, just about.

00:27:09.560 And you're not going to have military so that your continent doesn't erupt in war again.

00:27:15.400 But you're going to basically just be vassals of the United States.

00:27:19.100 That's what Europe has been since the Second World War.

00:27:22.820 So now you're going to get a little big for your britches.

00:27:25.200 You're going to say, hey, America, you don't get to do what you want to do.

00:27:28.180 We're Europe.

00:27:28.840 You're going to stand up to us with what?

00:27:30.300 Your military?

00:27:31.940 You're going to stand up to us with what?

00:27:33.580 Your global hegemony?

00:27:35.180 You're going to stand up to us with what?

00:27:37.440 We protect you.

00:27:39.560 You work for us, okay?

00:27:41.720 You might say this is a bad system of world order.

00:27:44.100 You might say that this is wrong or this is contrary to your interests.

00:27:47.620 Maybe all that's true.

00:27:49.040 But that's how the world order works.

00:27:50.440 It reminds me of comments that John Bolton made many years ago, decades ago, at the United Nations.

00:27:56.740 I know that John Bolton is not as popular today as he used to be.

00:28:00.620 But here is Ambassador Bolton not even so much advocating a particular world order

00:28:07.500 as describing the way the world order works.

00:28:09.880 The point that I want to leave with you in this very brief presentation is where I started.

00:28:16.340 There is no United Nations.

00:28:19.780 There is an international community that occasionally can be led by the only real power left in the world,

00:28:27.700 and that's the United States, when it suits our interests, and when we can get others to go along.

00:28:34.420 The secretariat building in New York has 38 stories.

00:28:37.700 If you lost 10 stories today, it would make a bit of difference.

00:28:41.500 This kind of mindless creation of the United Nations as something different

00:28:50.020 than what it's in the United States' interest to do isn't going to sell here or anywhere else.

00:28:56.460 The United States makes the U.N. work when it wants it to work.

00:29:00.280 And that is exactly the way it should be because the only question,

00:29:04.360 the only question for the United States is what's in our national interest.

00:29:08.040 And if you don't like that, I'm sorry, but that is the fact.

00:29:10.900 That is the fact.

00:29:13.640 Prove me wrong.

00:29:15.840 You might not even like John Bolton anymore, but he's pretty clear there and I think pretty persuasive.

00:29:21.640 Even if you think there ought to be a more robust kind of United Nations,

00:29:25.120 or even if you think that Europe ought to provide its own military defense or whatever,

00:29:29.020 that's just what he's describing, certainly when he was describing it, is just true.

00:29:33.220 Now we have rising threats from China and other powers, but that's just a fact.

00:29:38.520 So please spare me, France. 1.00

00:29:40.060 If the United States does not acquire Greenland, it will not be because the French foreign minister whines about it.

00:29:47.720 The French foreign minister and one euro fifty will get you a cup of café au lait.

00:29:53.360 Some countries are not merely complaining about Trump's proposals, but they're countering President Trump's proposals.

00:29:58.600 President Trump suggested that Canada should be the 51st state, as Monsieur Trudeau was ending his political career.

00:30:08.260 Well, a member of parliament in Canada has just proposed countering what Trump wants with Canada's acquiring California and Oregon and Washington.

00:30:20.100 Hey, Donald, have we got a deal for you?

00:30:24.480 You think we want to be the 51st state?

00:30:26.660 Yeah, but maybe California would like to be the 11th province.

00:30:30.460 How about it?

00:30:31.900 California?

00:30:33.700 Oregon?

00:30:35.120 Washington?

00:30:35.640 I think I saw her in an insurance commercial.

00:30:42.660 How about that, Donald?

00:30:43.980 That woman is Elizabeth May.

00:30:47.540 She is a Green Party member of parliament.

00:30:50.860 Seems a little kooky, of course.

00:30:52.580 But I actually really like her commentary there because she's dropping the facade that we so often see with liberalism and globalism and the liberal world order.

00:31:05.880 She's dropping the pretense that borders are permanently fixed, that nations don't have interests, that the interests of nations and nations themselves don't change over time.

00:31:17.160 That history has come to an end, liberalism has won, and will remain in the Elysian fields of 1994 forever.

00:31:26.620 She's dropping that pretense.

00:31:28.580 Even in her little joke, she goes, oh, you want to take Canada?

00:31:30.860 You don't get Canada, but maybe we're going to go in and take California.

00:31:33.960 Would be fitting given the policies that have governed California, the failed liberal policies, much like we've seen in Canada.

00:31:39.240 Maybe we're going to take Oregon.

00:31:40.760 Maybe we're going to take Washington state.

00:31:42.460 To which, of course, America would respond, okay, lady, sure. 0.77

00:31:45.480 You know, lead your troops to conquer California.

00:31:48.640 See how that goes for you.

00:31:51.620 Because the beneficiaries of the pretense that the history has ended and borders are permanently fixed are the weak countries.

00:32:02.700 But that's not really how it works.

00:32:05.640 That's not an argument for countries to go in and invade their neighbors.

00:32:08.700 That's not a defense of someone like Vladimir Putin.

00:32:10.500 But the observation that borders are never permanently fixed is just an observation about how politics works.

00:32:18.600 Nations rise and fall.

00:32:20.320 They get stronger.

00:32:21.260 They get weaker.

00:32:22.160 They grow in population.

00:32:24.400 They die when they don't have any kids.

00:32:26.900 And as that happens, borders are going to change.

00:32:29.660 People move.

00:32:30.280 The very fact that people move, the very fact that people migrate, shows you why borders necessarily are going to change.

00:32:38.380 We're not all just permanently fixed.

00:32:42.340 The comments from this wacky Canadian MP serve as an acceleration of a return to normal geopolitics, which is what you're seeing.

00:32:51.840 After the Second World War, we had all sorts of fictions.

00:32:54.940 We pretended that there's this thing called the United Nations, which John Bolton was just making fun of.

00:33:00.260 We pretended that we were going to outlaw war.

00:33:04.260 We pretended that liberalism had won and there would be no more ideological struggles.

00:33:10.300 We pretended that history and culture and ethnic conflict no longer exists.

00:33:16.220 We're going to pretend that that's not real.

00:33:18.120 We pretended a lot of things that just haven't been proven true.

00:33:22.400 And now, as the mists of that post-war consensus begin to evaporate, we're returning to normal. 0.82

00:33:32.720 We're returning to a politics where strength matters.

00:33:36.680 A politics where we at least acknowledge that strength matters, which is why you need to have a strong country, which is why you need to make sure you make your country great again.

00:33:43.700 Now, speaking of a return to normal politics, Elon Musk has gotten into a lot of trouble because he's reinstating standards on Twitter.

00:33:52.560 There were all these leftist standards on Twitter.

00:33:55.080 And then Elon Musk buys Twitter, largely because the Babylon Bee was kicked off.

00:34:01.320 He buys Twitter.

00:34:02.120 He says, we're going to have free speech.

00:34:03.840 I'm a free speech absolutist.

00:34:06.120 And then he comes in and he says, hey, algorithm tweak coming soon to promote more informational entertaining content.

00:34:13.700 We will publish the changes to X.

00:34:16.600 Our goal is to maximize unregretted user seconds.

00:34:20.840 Too much negativity is being pushed that technically grows user time, but not unregretted user time.

00:34:25.640 We're also looking on ways for you to adjust the content feed dynamically so you can have what you want at any given moment.

00:34:31.780 Some people, on the right in particular, are furious at this change.

00:34:36.600 Here's Steve Bannon invading against Elon Musk in pretty brutal terms.

00:34:41.880 The danger of the guy, it's total, this is the CCP, this is a social credit score.

00:34:46.620 This is where he's gone to.

00:34:48.320 He's got a glass jaw.

00:34:49.520 He can't take, because of the, I don't know, the autism or where he's on the spectrum, he's clearly not.

00:34:54.120 He's got the maturity of an 11-year-old, you can tell that.

00:34:56.960 But he, it's obvious.

00:34:59.200 Okay, I agree with Steve Bannon on a whole lot of things, but I think he's dead wrong here.

00:35:05.000 When he says what Elon is doing is, is a Chinese social credit score.

00:35:11.300 No, it's not.

00:35:13.460 It's, it's a conservative social credit score, or it's a libertarian social credit score, or it's an American social credit score.

00:35:19.160 It's, it procedurally bears some resemblance to things that not just the Chinese have done, but that every country in the world has done, including America's, because we've had plenty of speech standards for our whole history.

00:35:30.680 What differs is the substance.

00:35:33.040 In China, you have to toe the party line of the CCP.

00:35:37.180 But the standards on X are going to be rather different from the party line of the CCP.

00:35:41.860 Just like the standards in your school, or your company, or your social club, or your home, or the bowling alley, or the restaurant, are all going to differ.

00:35:50.940 But there will be standards.

00:35:53.420 Elon says, look, we're going to, we're going to try to make this Twitter a nice place to be.

00:35:57.220 Yeah.

00:35:58.140 Yeah, that's just normal.

00:36:00.060 That's just how it works.

00:36:01.680 Elon Musk, though he's getting all of this hate right now, Elon Musk understands free speech better than his critics do.

00:36:10.360 Because Elon Musk understands that there is no such thing as total free speech in the abstract.

00:36:16.680 And Elon Musk recognizes that the battle over speech is not a battle between free speech and censorship.

00:36:21.140 It's a battle between competing sets of standards and norms.

00:36:24.380 There will always be speech that is off limits.

00:36:26.360 That's always been true in America. 0.95

00:36:27.600 That's been true as a matter of law.

00:36:29.020 That's been true as a matter of culture.

00:36:30.800 Always.

00:36:31.520 Both of them at all times.

00:36:34.460 America has always, at least in principle, held that there's no right to obscenity, or fraud, or threats, or libel, or any other number of forms of speech.

00:36:45.780 And then at a cultural level, we've always discouraged impoliteness, okay?

00:36:50.780 And every culture does that to some degree.

00:36:52.740 The question is over what?

00:36:53.960 The first precept of the natural law is good is to be pursued and evil avoided.

00:36:59.800 The left says evil is to be pursued and good is to be avoided.

00:37:04.040 Those are not the same.

00:37:05.920 Some people say those are the same because you're pursuing some things and avoiding others.

00:37:09.560 They're not the same.

00:37:10.760 Because good and evil are different.

00:37:12.620 What matters are the substantive differences here.

00:37:14.680 And so the question for Elon is, what is going to give us a positive experience on Twitter?

00:37:21.260 The question for conservative politicians is, what is going to give us a positive experience in our country?

00:37:27.080 What is going to, to use a more classical phrase, advance the common good?

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00:38:01.760 My favorite comment yesterday is from JoeBiden915.

00:38:05.260 He's not like the other 914 Joe Biden.

00:38:08.040 He's not the real one.

00:38:08.720 If Tony can be called Tina, the Gulf of Mexico can be called the Gulf of America.

00:38:14.480 Certainly.

00:38:15.760 The Gulf of Mexico can be called the Gulf of America, even if Tony can't be called Tina.

00:38:19.500 Speaking of standards, this is a story up in New York.

00:38:23.080 Metro North, a Metro North rider, this is the commuter train there,

00:38:27.400 has been stabbed in the chest after complaining about loud music on a guy's phone.

00:38:33.220 So, there's this guy, Abdul Malik Little, 46 years old.

00:38:38.800 Not a little kid.

00:38:39.860 We're talking about a 45-year-old, 46-year-old.

00:38:41.740 Was playing music on his phone.

00:38:44.400 Not into his earbuds, just on his phone.

00:38:47.200 And he took exception when a 31-year-old fellow rider complained about the noise.

00:38:53.100 It's a 31-year-old, comes up.

00:38:57.020 This is all according to authorities.

00:38:58.620 It's all alleged.

00:38:59.540 It's all, you know, he has the right to his day in court.

00:39:02.140 But we've all had this experience.

00:39:03.680 If you've been in New York, if you've ridden the subway, or in this case, this is a commuter train.

00:39:08.560 These are supposed to be nicer.

00:39:09.400 There's going to be a guy who's sitting there, who's dressed inappropriately, who looks like he's got problems,

00:39:17.280 who starts playing music really, really loudly on his phone.

00:39:21.320 Just begging for attention.

00:39:23.020 Just waiting for someone to say anything about it.

00:39:26.680 Very uncivilized people who should not be permitted into polite society.

00:39:31.280 But they're doing this.

00:39:32.660 And usually people ignore it because the cops are not allowed to do their jobs in New York.

00:39:38.160 And if you ever stand up to any of the bad guys on the trains, you could find yourself like Daniel Penny,

00:39:42.720 fighting to stay out of jail for the rest of your life or worse.

00:39:46.180 So most people just ignore it.

00:39:47.860 And our cities and our country are degraded.

00:39:51.420 But this guy, he politely asks Abdul Malik Little, allegedly, to turn his music down.

00:40:00.340 So this guy, allegedly, stabs him in the chest.

00:40:03.500 Now, happily, there are cameras.

00:40:08.460 And this guy didn't die instantly, the victim.

00:40:11.620 So as he's stumbling off the train, he identifies the guy to the police.

00:40:13.960 They arrest this guy.

00:40:14.960 Now he'll have his day in court.

00:40:17.480 This is not the subway in Bed-Stuy.

00:40:20.280 Okay?

00:40:20.600 This is not some place far flung out in Brooklyn or Queens in some bad neighborhood.

00:40:24.520 This is the commuter train in Grand Central, what is supposed to be the safest, most mainstream touristy part of New York City, just about.

00:40:37.140 Think of everything that had to go wrong for that to happen.

00:40:41.220 A lot of people who aren't as familiar with New York, they're going to say,

00:40:43.720 Oh, New York, there's crime in New York.

00:40:45.260 Uh-uh.

00:40:45.640 There's New York and there's New York.

00:40:46.740 Okay, if you're walking around some dodgy part of Brooklyn at 2 o'clock in the morning wearing a pink polo shirt with your collar popped, wearing a big gold Rolex, and you get mugged, okay, that's to be expected.

00:41:00.040 But you're riding a commuter train at Grand Central, Midtown East, really nice part of town, and some degenerate is playing music loudly on his phone.

00:41:11.120 You say, Excuse me, sir, would you mind? 0.97

00:41:12.380 And you get stabbed in the chest. 0.95

00:41:13.820 That's a whole other level.

00:41:14.920 Think of all the things that had to go wrong.

00:41:19.080 Criminals and psychos had to be allowed on the streets.

00:41:22.440 The conductors on the trains had to not enforce standards that existed. 0.60

00:41:28.880 Understandably so, because they don't want to get stabbed.

00:41:31.820 They know the cops are not allowed to do their jobs to have their backs.

00:41:34.620 And if they interfere too much, they might be called racists and have their lives ruined and go to jail.

00:41:38.100 And then the tough bystanders, the ones who are manly, who are willing to put these people in their place, had to be convinced not to intervene because they don't want to end up like Daniel Penny.

00:41:48.860 So many things had to go wrong.

00:41:50.480 To say nothing of, this guy, the alleged perpetrator here, had to be raised terribly, had to be permitted to get away with brutal animalistic behavior for most of his life that would convince him that it's okay to behave this way.

00:42:06.440 So many things had to go wrong.

00:42:10.360 But I made the point yesterday on the show with regard to the fires in Los Angeles.

00:42:16.000 It's in the little things that the rot begins.

00:42:18.740 Lots of little rot will take place over years, maybe over decades.

00:42:23.300 And then it takes one spark.

00:42:25.660 And the city can burn.

00:42:26.720 Speaking of society spinning out of control, and speaking of Hollywood, John Cryer, who is one of the stars of Two and a Half Men, John Cryer, who was just on the Bill Maher show, even today in the year of our Lord, 2024, 2025, defending, trancing the kids.

00:42:47.600 But don't pretend there isn't also a default setting.

00:42:51.260 And you can't rewrite the world so that every baby is just a jump ball.

00:42:55.620 Oh, it could be anything. 1.00

00:42:56.720 No, if it's got a dick, it's probably a boy. 0.99

00:43:00.160 And if it's not, we'll deal with that in a compassionate way. 0.99

00:43:04.760 Kids, Christ almighty.

00:43:07.100 I mean, the idea that I would, as a child, would have had to have dealt with something like this.

00:43:13.660 Well, again, the people that go through it don't say, this is the life I want.

00:43:17.340 No parent wants to be in the midst of those choices.

00:43:20.620 It's terrifying.

00:43:21.340 Some kids these days actually just do want to be trans.

00:43:23.440 I don't agree.

00:43:24.220 It's cooler, John.

00:43:24.740 I don't agree.

00:43:25.220 It's a thing.

00:43:25.620 Oh, come on. 0.87

00:43:27.280 I don't agree with Bill Maher.

00:43:29.280 I know.

00:43:29.880 That's the name of the show tonight.

00:43:31.120 Well, your eyes are not open to that, I think.

00:43:34.440 Well, okay.

00:43:35.120 There are some kids, especially, why is it like so much more prevalent like here than Indiana?

00:43:40.560 Well, are they suppressing it there?

00:43:42.220 Maybe a little.

00:43:42.980 Yeah, there's a societal suppression, but it's like left-handedism.

00:43:46.140 Being left-handed was suppressed for thousands of years amongst human beings.

00:43:52.500 But once they, it was, you know, apparently in the 30s, scientists basically said, there's

00:43:57.600 no, there's no, left-handedness doesn't actually do anything bad.

00:44:01.760 Right.

00:44:02.100 Left-handedness shot up.

00:44:03.800 People just stopped training themselves to be right-handed.

00:44:06.920 And this is a, this is a, you know, this has happened societally before.

00:44:10.660 And that's the, that's the closest analog that I can think of. 0.90

00:44:13.480 Chopping your kid's genitals off, it's kind of like letting a left-handed kid swing the 0.96

00:44:20.220 bat from the right side of the plate. 0.99

00:44:22.560 That's, that's John Cryer's argument.

00:44:25.880 Left-handedness.

00:44:26.740 Now, this is too much even for Bill Maher.

00:44:29.580 Bill Maher, who is a liberal, he says, look, I don't know, it just seems to me, come on,

00:44:33.860 you know, in some cases, even maybe someone's not male or female.

00:44:36.660 He's even, he's even going far enough to, to, he's going halfway to the trans ideology, 0.63

00:44:42.380 but that's not enough for John Cryer, who says, no, no, no, we just disagree, Bill.

00:44:49.180 We just disagree.

00:44:50.480 And sometimes you need to cast straight little kids.

00:44:52.780 You need to turn little kids into Unix so that you can post pictures of it on social 0.96

00:44:55.920 media and get likes from other perverts and weirdos. 0.75

00:44:59.800 And why do I bring this up? 0.96

00:45:00.980 I mentioned a few days ago, I'm sick of the trans story. 1.00

00:45:04.780 It's, it's enough.

00:45:05.580 We've had enough transgenderism. 1.00

00:45:07.100 People have rejected transgenderism. 0.92

00:45:08.860 It's totally absurd.

00:45:09.660 We are well on our way to eradicating transgenderism from public life entirely, which will be for 1.00

00:45:13.800 the good of society and especially for the good of the poor people who've fallen prey

00:45:16.520 to that confusion.

00:45:17.360 If we never have to talk about transgenderism again, that they will be too soon. 1.00

00:45:20.500 Okay, enough.

00:45:21.180 We've had enough.

00:45:22.120 And yet here we are talking about transgenderism, not to talk about the issue itself.

00:45:25.780 I think it's been resolved.

00:45:26.940 I think, I think the 2024 election proved that it's over.

00:45:29.820 The libs lost on that.

00:45:30.640 I guess it's really, the only reason I want to talk about the story is because it shows

00:45:36.200 that the left has given up.

00:45:39.860 The left really has nothing.

00:45:41.600 They've learned nothing.

00:45:43.340 They've, they've not developed in any way.

00:45:45.800 They've not matured in any way.

00:45:46.940 They're just playing the hits.

00:45:48.240 They're playing the same old song that has been rejected by new audiences.

00:45:52.200 A, an ancillary point here, just something a little, but it's worth taking note of.

00:45:59.100 It's interesting that Bill Maher takes the Lord's name in vain.

00:46:02.560 Bill Maher is an atheist Jew. 0.99

00:46:06.120 He is a member of two groups who you would expect not to use the Lord's name in any way.

00:46:13.080 But he takes the Lord's name in vain.

00:46:15.020 And that's bad.

00:46:16.200 It is bad always to take the Lord's name in vain.

00:46:18.320 But there is a silver lining in that storm cloud, which is, it, it shows that Bill Maher

00:46:23.740 is viewing the world at least in some way through a Christian lens.

00:46:29.820 He might say he's an atheist.

00:46:32.260 He is Jewish, at least ethnically Jewish, but he's viewing the world because we all, because

00:46:37.020 we all kind of view the world through a Christian lens.

00:46:39.960 Certainly in the West, we all, even if we want to deny it, even if we want to say, I reject

00:46:44.180 that.

00:46:44.600 No, it's actually the very language we use.

00:46:46.980 Certainly the culture we inhabit is Christian.

00:46:51.040 And it turns out that the new atheists, you know, a few viral clips of Christopher Hitchens 0.98

00:46:56.540 in the mid-2000s is not sufficient to destroy our civilization and the bedrock of civilization

00:47:03.380 and frankly, the bedrock of all creation.

00:47:05.800 Now, I'm very excited to have a guest on this show that I wanted to have on two days ago,

00:47:10.200 but the technological problems of the universe prevented us from doing that.

00:47:15.920 So we have her on now.

00:47:17.000 That is Aaron Hawley to discuss one of the most important issues that President Trump

00:47:22.880 will face in his first hundred days and that our whole country is facing right now, our

00:47:27.720 legislature and our judiciary.

00:47:29.940 A really, really important win that is right before us if we can only seize it.

00:47:36.100 We'll get to that in a moment.

00:47:37.200 The rest of the show continues now.

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00:47:44.800 I've often said that gender-affirming care is health care, it is mental health care, 0.62

00:48:06.720 and it can actually be suicide prevention care.

00:48:09.040 I think I'm going to take some medicine so I can kind of, like, transform into a boy, get surgery. 0.79

00:48:18.040 After the surgery, I didn't really feel any better.

00:48:21.620 When it stopped being a thing for adults, and it started to be a, let's teach this to kids.

00:48:26.640 Total lie.

00:48:27.780 Manipulation.

00:48:28.380 It's gaslighting.

00:48:29.260 Please stop.

00:48:30.120 He's a boy, not a girl. 0.99

00:48:31.740 How could she do this to my son?

00:48:33.220 What they're talking about is hormonal therapy or sex reassignment surgery on children.

00:48:39.500 I thought fixing me externally would fix me internally.

00:48:43.760 But of course I was wrong.

00:48:45.220 The fact that the state thinks that they're more important and have a better say in what

00:48:48.940 happens to your child over the actual parent's opinion is egregious.

00:48:52.720 Puberty blockers.

00:48:53.620 Surgeries.

00:48:54.220 Big money makers for hospitals, for physicians.

00:48:57.260 All I want to do is hold my son.

00:48:58.720 Are you asking me to lie to parents?

00:49:03.520 And he said, yes.

00:49:05.140 This is a weaponized use of a parent's sympathy and caring and concern by the left to destroy

00:49:12.380 your child.

00:49:13.460 Let's tell kids that maybe they can be the opposite sex. 1.00

00:49:17.020 Maybe they actually are the opposite sex. 0.99

00:49:19.560 It is an evil thing to tell children that happiness lies on the other side of puberty blockers

00:49:25.860 or double mastectomies. 0.99

00:49:27.140 The left so badly wants to blur these lines.

00:49:29.840 That's a five alarm fire.

00:49:32.460 It's criminal.

The Michael Knowles Show - January 09, 2025

Ep. 1648 - Newsom & Bass Share Blame For FIRE DISASTER—Here’s Why

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