The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 1651 - Make Greenland Great Again

00:00:00.000 Reminder, the Daily Wire will be live as we go to D.C. for the inauguration of Donald Trump.

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00:00:10.140 President Trump will not be inaugurated for another six days.

00:00:14.040 And the Congress is already working to give him Greenland.

00:00:17.040 One of my very favorite members of Congress has just introduced the Make Greenland Great Again bill.

00:00:22.600 He joins the show momentarily to discuss our future Arctic brethren.

00:00:27.600 I'm Michael Knowles. This is the Michael Knowles Show.

00:00:30.000 Welcome back to the show.

00:00:49.440 My friend Congressman Andy Ogles will be coming up with our future conquest of our snowy neighbors to the Northeast, Greenland.

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00:02:26.900 Before we get to the extreme weather friends up to the Northeast in Greenland,

00:02:32.820 I want to talk about extreme weather here in America because CNN is furious that Americans are not making the connection

00:02:41.760 between the wildfires still raging in Los Angeles and climate change.

00:02:49.520 I don't think Americans are making this connection.

00:02:52.840 And the way we can see this in right here and now, take a look at the monthly change in Google searches.

00:02:58.180 Look at the searches for wildfire up 2,400 percent.

00:03:03.120 My goodness gracious.

00:03:04.520 This is the most amount of people searching for wildfires ever, ever.

00:03:09.580 It's going back since Google Trends began back in 2004.

00:03:12.740 But look at climate change.

00:03:14.360 Look at the change.

00:03:15.020 It doesn't go hand in hand with wildfires.

00:03:17.060 It's actually down.

00:03:18.580 It's down 9 percent.

00:03:20.120 And I also looked in California.

00:03:21.880 There has been no increase in the number of searches for climate change.

00:03:25.460 So the bottom line is this.

00:03:27.320 Americans are definitely interested in learning about these wildfires.

00:03:31.580 They're interested in following the news about the wildfires.

00:03:34.280 But they are not making that connection with climate change.

00:03:38.060 That's the bottom line here.

00:03:39.640 That's true.

00:03:40.560 And that's the bottom line.

00:03:43.500 And that's happening because there is no connection between the wildfires and climate change.

00:03:48.680 That's why.

00:03:50.320 It would be as if this CNN guy is looking up there.

00:03:53.200 He says, look, searches on Google for wildfires are up 2,400 percent.

00:03:58.200 But searches on Google for Campbell's cream of mushroom soup are down 14 percent.

00:04:04.140 It boggles the mind, Jim.

00:04:05.960 People are not drawing the connection between the devastating fires in California and a delicious mid-century canned soup.

00:04:15.700 It's just, can you imagine, Jim?

00:04:17.180 Back to you.

00:04:18.500 Right.

00:04:19.020 They're not drawing the connection between those two things because those things are unrelated.

00:04:22.140 In what way could you possibly argue that LA burning down is connected to climate change?

00:04:31.420 Some people have tried to make this argument.

00:04:33.000 You've seen this in certain liberal media outlets.

00:04:35.640 They've said that the Santa Ana winds are unprecedented.

00:04:39.280 They're historic.

00:04:40.320 We've never seen winds upwards of 100 miles an hour before.

00:04:44.440 That just isn't true.

00:04:46.240 In fact, you can look in some of the very same liberal outlets, certainly the same type of liberal outlet.

00:04:50.740 You will see reports on winds exactly as fast as these, 97, 9,800 miles an hour, going back to 2011 or earlier.

00:05:01.260 It's Santa Ana winds.

00:05:02.040 I lived in LA for, what, six, seven years?

00:05:05.320 The very gusty winds this time of year have been common knowledge for a very long time.

00:05:11.480 What is tied to climate change?

00:05:14.380 The fact that sometimes LA catches fire.

00:05:16.260 LA has been catching fire since time immemorial.

00:05:18.800 That's why California used to have forest management policies that would clear brush, that would perform controlled burns, that would make sure that the water systems were ready to put out fires that cropped up.

00:05:29.920 All of those things failed in recent years.

00:05:32.640 President Trump himself warned Gavin Newsom about this going back to 2018 and 2019 and even more recently, even earlier this year.

00:05:42.420 He said, you know, California, you've got to get back to clear and brush, otherwise you're going to have a catastrophic fire.

00:05:47.060 Hey, California, you've got to stop pouring rainwater to the tune of 95% of your rainwater from the Delta into the Pacific Ocean.

00:05:55.100 You've got to save that rainwater.

00:05:56.800 You're not in a drought right now.

00:05:58.200 You're just wasting your fresh water, and so you're going to run out of water if there's a fire.

00:06:01.720 Hey, you've got to fill up those reservoirs.

00:06:03.380 Hey, you've got to make sure the fire hydrants work.

00:06:05.400 Hey, you've got to make sure that you take any precautions whatsoever.

00:06:10.240 I don't even, I'm not even making the broader argument that climate change is just a liberal cult.

00:06:16.900 I'll make that point elsewhere.

00:06:18.340 But just in this, what is the argument?

00:06:19.620 What is the argument that there's a connection between climate change and these fires?

00:06:22.560 The reason that this CNN guy is panicking over people not making the connection between climate change and the L.A. fires is not because of some crisis of scientific literacy.

00:06:35.760 Ordinary people are far more scientifically literate than the climate change alarmists.

00:06:40.580 The reason that the CNN guy is panicking, the reason that the liberal media are panicking more broadly, is because of the waning influence of a specific kind of propaganda. 0.65

00:06:51.960 Back in 2004, during the heyday of climate alarmism, during the era of Al Gore and that stupid movie with the PowerPoint that won him an Oscar, even though the PowerPoint was totally bogus.

00:07:03.020 That movie that had so many factual errors in it that the United Kingdom required classrooms to present a warning before playing the movie because it was so factually incorrect.

00:07:17.620 At that point, yeah, people were searching climate change.

00:07:20.060 And then it turned out the predictions being made by the climate alarmists weren't true.

00:07:24.160 Just like in the 1970s when the climate alarmists, not only in the media, but within the scientific community, were making warnings about global cooling.

00:07:33.020 And then it didn't come true.

00:07:33.940 At a certain point, you say, all right, guys, your predictive power is virtually nonexistent.

00:07:38.520 We're going to tune in to other people, especially here when climate change is being used so cynically as a way for bad and irresponsible politicians like Gavin Newsom and Karen Bass to deflect criticism.

00:07:50.020 Now, speaking of ridiculous propaganda, Joe Biden is making a claim as he leaves office that is even crazier than the economic claim he made two days ago.

00:08:02.860 Two days ago, he said, I'm leaving the American economy in the greatest shape ever.

00:08:05.900 It's terrific.

00:08:06.500 And that wasn't true.

00:08:07.760 Now he's claiming that when he became president, illegal border crossings came way down.

00:08:13.360 Let's get something in mind about the border.

00:08:17.840 When I became president, the numbers came way down, number one.

00:08:21.500 Number two, we had a circumstance where I pushed very hard for a bipartisan agreement to put more people on the border, more secret services.

00:08:32.940 And guess what?

00:08:34.240 He's on the phone saying, don't do it.

00:08:36.420 Don't do it.

00:08:37.100 Make me look bad.

00:08:38.580 Okay, two claims there.

00:08:40.740 Let's take the second claim first. 0.60

00:08:42.600 I had an agreement that was going to really tackle the issue of illegal crossings, which I had already tackled previously.

00:08:49.040 I just told you I'd already tackled that issue and it was not an issue anymore.

00:08:51.980 But now for the purposes of my second argument, it was a big issue and I was going to fix that issue, except Donald Trump didn't want to fix it.

00:08:58.920 That bipartisan border bill would have made the border crisis worse. 0.95

00:09:01.820 It would have given mass amnesty to people.

00:09:03.800 It would have left the door wide open until you reached a threshold of thousands and thousands of illegal crossings per day.

00:09:11.720 And then it temporarily would have shut down the border.

00:09:14.420 But it was only going to exacerbate the problem of illegal immigration.

00:09:19.440 Let's get to his first claim.

00:09:20.580 His first claim is that when he took office, illegal crossings went way down.

00:09:24.880 Here I have a graph from the BBC, not exactly a right wing news source that shows migrant numbers at the U.S. border, total number of encounters by U.S. border patrols per month.

00:09:38.900 Here's 2018 was Trump's president below 50,000, below 50,000, right around 50,000 here up until 2019, just a little bit above 50,000.

00:09:46.880 And then it spikes a little bit once the bureaucracy had undermined President Trump's ability to control the border.

00:09:55.600 It was clear after those early days of the Trump administration that a lot of people could still get through.

00:09:59.780 So it spiked.

00:10:00.500 But then it did go down again in no small part thanks to COVID.

00:10:03.840 COVID allowed President Trump to wield state power in such a way that he could really close down that border.

00:10:08.660 It dropped really, really low after 2020 down to something like, what was that, 15,000 crossings?

00:10:13.780 It ticks up a little bit again.

00:10:15.120 And then here we go.

00:10:16.040 Joe Biden takes office early 2021.

00:10:18.940 The numbers skyrocket.

00:10:21.920 What did they do?

00:10:22.840 They more than doubled, certainly more than doubled, at least went up, what, two and a half percent or two and a half times, maybe even more.

00:10:29.920 And then they've stayed up there and they spiked even higher in 2024.

00:10:33.020 So the numbers don't lie.

00:10:34.800 Joe Biden does lie.

00:10:36.300 The numbers don't lie.

00:10:37.820 This is a man totally disconnected from reality.

00:10:41.540 Just as we saw two days ago when he said that the economy was the strongest ever.

00:10:47.600 Americans just know that isn't true.

00:10:49.220 Americans go to the grocery store. 0.95

00:10:51.040 Americans realize that eggs are expensive.

00:10:52.880 Americans realize that it's harder to pay their bills.

00:10:55.500 You can't lie to people about the basic realities of their life forever.

00:11:00.000 However, this is this is how the Democrats lost in such a cataclysmic way in 2024 is that the Democrats were pursuing a strategy common to derelict Italians in New York, which is deny till you die. 0.93

00:11:15.360 They're saying, no, I got my story.

00:11:18.020 I'm sticking to it.

00:11:19.360 Oh, yeah, there are no illegal crossings.

00:11:21.680 We fix the border.

00:11:22.740 It's great.

00:11:23.400 No illegals coming in here and murdering people.

00:11:25.520 No, no.

00:11:26.080 And prices, they're really low.

00:11:28.340 We're great on inflation.

00:11:29.960 The economy healthier than it's ever been.

00:11:33.440 Despite all of the evidence, don't believe your lying eyes.

00:11:36.000 Believe us.

00:11:36.440 And the people, the majority of Americans with huge swaths of every demographic said, hey, that isn't true.

00:11:43.400 You're lying to us.

00:11:44.900 This is why the transgender issue was such an important one.

00:11:48.160 Because while it's not in a daily matter as important to people as inflation or the ability to pay their bills, it's so absurd.

00:11:58.520 It so represents that the Democrats have lost the common sense that they're now unmoored to reality.

00:12:04.400 It's part and parcel of the same system of lies.

00:12:09.100 You think the economy is bad?

00:12:10.960 Well, no, I'm going to tell you it's good.

00:12:12.380 You think the border's open?

00:12:13.580 I'm going to tell you it's closed.

00:12:14.680 You think that dude is a dude?

00:12:16.280 No, I'm going to tell you he's a woman and he's going to have to get changed in the public pool next to your little daughter. 1.00

00:12:21.420 And the American people said, oh, you're just not living in reality.

00:12:25.080 Either you're lying to me, which is very disrespectful, or you just have no idea what's going on.

00:12:29.860 You are completely untethered from the ground.

00:12:32.400 Either way, I'm voting for the other guy.

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00:13:49.840 Speaking of Joe Biden bragging about dubious accomplishments as he leaves office, one last brag.

00:13:56.760 Joe Biden is bragging about bringing a bunch of Afghans.

00:14:02.980 No, Afghans are the rugs. 0.99

00:14:04.180 I always confuse Afghan and Afghani.

00:14:06.000 I think Afghani is the person. 0.97

00:14:07.320 Afghan is the rug. 1.00

00:14:08.620 In any case, maybe he brought both in.

00:14:10.000 I don't know.

00:14:10.360 He, in any case, brought a number of Afghanis into the United States, and he touts this as a great accomplishment.

00:14:17.660 We've done so much to help thousands of Afghan families resettle in the United States.

00:14:25.360 So much.

00:14:26.300 We've brought so many people from the most backwards country in the world, so many people in the most notorious hotbed of terrorism in the world. 1.00

00:14:36.200 Well, we brought them totally unvetted into your communities. 1.00

00:14:40.440 You're welcome, America.

00:14:43.220 How is this an accomplishment?

00:14:44.640 First of all, to brag about bringing all these Afghanis here just reminds people that the reason he had to bring Afghanis here is because of his disastrous and deadly pullout from Afghanistan, during which the Taliban immediately took over again. 0.51

00:15:00.240 So the only reason we had to bring these people here is because they couldn't continue to live in Afghanistan because Joe Biden conceded Afghanistan to the enemy we had been fighting for 20 years.

00:15:10.400 So not a great accomplishment, so-called, to leave office on.

00:15:17.060 But then at a deeper level, this reveals Democrats' political problem right now.

00:15:22.080 The Democrats' biggest political problem right now is that their base supports things that most Americans hate.

00:15:30.120 So the things that they have to brag about to rile up their base are things that are going to turn off most Americans, like bringing a ton of Afghanis to America. 1.00

00:15:41.600 Their base might like that.

00:15:42.860 Most Americans will say, hey, hold on.

00:15:44.200 Can you not bring people unvetted from the most notorious terrorist country in the world to our country? 0.92

00:15:49.260 Maybe hold up on that.

00:15:51.560 The Democrat base loves it when Joe Biden says, we've got more illegal border crossings than ever before.

00:15:56.840 That's right.

00:15:57.460 We opened up the door and we said, come on in here, foreign nationals.

00:16:00.820 We want you to invade our country. 0.99

00:16:02.220 The Democrat base thinks that's great, but most Americans hate that.

00:16:07.620 When Joe Biden comes out, he says, we've got the strongest DEI policies in the country.

00:16:12.040 The base loves that.

00:16:13.220 Most Americans hate that.

00:16:14.400 When Joe Biden says that he understands the plight of Hamas or whatever, when he comes out and he defends people that most Americans don't like, maybe the base loves it.

00:16:25.340 Maybe Greta Thunberg wearing the keffiyeh is cheering in the streets. 0.67

00:16:29.140 Most Americans don't like that.

00:16:32.160 And so on and so forth. 0.95

00:16:33.560 When Joe Biden says, we're going to defend trans kids, we're going to trans your kids, parents, and you're not going to do a damn thing about it. 0.93

00:16:39.200 But the Democrat base loves it. 0.98

00:16:41.220 Most Americans hate it.

00:16:42.100 So what can Biden do?

00:16:44.980 A lot of political pundits will say, well, Biden just has to moderate.

00:16:48.080 He just needs to play to the middle.

00:16:49.680 Well, easier said than done.

00:16:50.960 When your base is so divorced from reality, you can't win an election without your base.

00:16:56.560 I have sympathy for Joe Biden and the Democrats' political problem here.

00:17:00.460 But it's why as he's leaving office, he's caught between a rock and a hard place.

00:17:06.900 Anything that he touts as a great accomplishment, as a great part of his legacy, some huge faction of his Democrat audience is going to hate it.

00:17:19.220 Now, speaking of legacies, President Trump has the opportunity for an even more historic legacy than he's already gotten.

00:17:26.320 He's looking pretty good right now.

00:17:27.620 President Trump is only one of two American presidents to win a non-consecutive second term.

00:17:32.340 He is simply a world historic figure.

00:17:34.620 He has recalibrated the Republican Party after decades of stagnation.

00:17:39.080 And now he might expand the territory of the United States by bringing in our Arctic neighbors and liberating them from their Danish tyrannical overlords.

00:17:49.300 And he will do that with the help of my friend, Congressman Andy Ogles.

00:17:54.620 Andy, thank you for coming on the show.

00:17:56.720 Absolutely.

00:17:57.440 Thanks for having me.

00:17:58.540 So, President Trump floated this back in the first term.

00:18:02.640 He said, we should have Greenland.

00:18:03.880 It's strategic.

00:18:04.620 It's close to us.

00:18:05.460 There's no reason that Denmark should be ruling Greenland.

00:18:07.880 The Greenlanders don't really like Denmark that much.

00:18:10.340 We want Greenland.

00:18:11.060 And everyone made fun of him and everyone laughed.

00:18:12.700 And then in the last month or so, President Trump brought up this Greenland idea again.

00:18:18.860 People still thought he was joking, but, you know, he's been telling this joke for a while.

00:18:23.640 Maybe it seems like there's some truth to it.

00:18:25.360 And then just yesterday, I believe, you introduced a beautifully named Make Greenland Great Again bill in the U.S. House of Representatives to do what?

00:18:37.800 What would this legislation do?

00:18:39.040 Well, it would authorize the purchase of Greenland.

00:18:42.920 And so, you know, essentially what would happen is that the president would begin negotiations with Denmark, come up with some sort of deal, and then he would transmit the details of that bill to Congress.

00:18:53.840 And look, it might sound crazy, and one might ask, why would you want Greenland?

00:18:58.840 But when you look at the activities of China and Russia in the Arctic Circle, they're literally operating on our doorstep. 0.87

00:19:06.180 Not to mention that Greenland is rich with resources, and China has been making a play for those resources.

00:19:12.980 So we have an obligation to the American people, to North America, quite frankly, to secure that territory.

00:19:19.560 And Denmark has acknowledged that they have failed in securing it.

00:19:23.660 I mean, we have a larger military security presence in Greenland than freaking Denmark does.

00:19:28.620 Look, they're pissed off at me, quite frankly.

00:19:30.440 Obviously, they called yesterday and demanded a meeting.

00:19:33.260 But look, at the end of the day, it's America first, right? 0.82

00:19:36.920 It's not America second.

00:19:38.460 We're not isolationists, but we have to take care of ourselves because when the world gets in trouble, who are they going to call?

00:19:44.560 They're going to call the United States of America.

00:19:46.680 And if we're not taking care of ourselves, it can be hard-pressed to take care of anyone else.

00:19:51.000 They're not calling Denmark, I'll tell you that.

00:19:52.560 But I think that the Greenland issue is a great political IQ test, actually.

00:19:59.280 Because if you ask the average Democrat establishment media listening lib on the street, you say, what do you think Trump wants to buy Greenland?

00:20:07.480 They'll probably pull their hair out. 0.96

00:20:08.560 They'll say it's the craziest idea. 1.00

00:20:09.780 He's a madman, whatever.

00:20:10.740 But if you just look at the political history of this question, it's not difficult. 0.94

00:20:15.620 You can just Google it.

00:20:16.980 One sees the United States has been attempting to purchase or otherwise acquire Greenland for about 150 years now.

00:20:24.480 This has been going on since the 19th century, shortly after the Civil War.

00:20:27.440 Then again, after World War II, President Truman tried to purchase Greenland because of its strategic significance, both as a matter of geography and also a matter of resources.

00:20:36.520 This is actually one of the most longstanding plays of the U.S. State Department.

00:20:43.040 So on the contrary, it's not some crazy shoot-from-the-hip kind of idea.

00:20:47.800 This is a pretty mainstream idea.

00:20:49.880 And to your point, Andy, with China and other adversaries moving in on our turf, it would seem to be actually incumbent upon us to protect our interests.

00:21:01.660 So nuts and bolts, what are the odds that this happens?

00:21:05.340 You know, some people will say the president can just try to acquire Greenland on his own.

00:21:10.640 Why does he need the U.S. Congress to authorize this sort of thing?

00:21:14.300 And how likely is it that Greenland actually becomes a part of the U.S.?

00:21:20.200 Well, to be determined, what I will say is that there's a poll out there, and the majority of Greenlanders would prefer to be a territory of the United States versus attached to some, you know, woke state in Europe.

00:21:31.020 That being said, you know, I think this has got more momentum than I think people realize.

00:21:37.280 Obviously, we've got to get to the 20th and all that is going to go on over the next few days.

00:21:42.380 It's a very exciting time here in D.C.

00:21:44.020 But that being said, is there's interest in the Senate to have a companion bill to actually push this thing through, to send a message to Europe, Denmark, and to Greenland that we're serious about this.

00:21:54.400 Like you said, this is a historical play.

00:21:56.460 This has been going on.

00:21:57.460 It's been in our best interest for a very long time.

00:21:59.540 And now we have bad actors, Russia and China, who are literally, literally operating on our doorstep. 0.98

00:22:05.380 And if we were to acquire Greenland, that gives us a 200-mile radius there, nautical miles that we would control and have sovereignty over.

00:22:13.100 So that's a big deal.

00:22:14.400 And what that does is that creates strategic buffer for the United States of America when you look at any sorts of aggression from anyone.

00:22:22.220 But again, look, there's three existential threats to the United States of America, our southern border, our debt, and China. 0.98

00:22:28.540 And one of those is literally operating on our doorstep in the Arctic Circle.

00:22:34.220 They want Greenland.

00:22:35.220 They want to have a military presence up there.

00:22:37.160 Why?

00:22:37.600 It's not because they're worried about Canada.

00:22:39.720 It's because they're worried about the United States of America.

00:22:41.600 They want to see us on our knees.

00:22:43.600 We have an obligation to think forward and to, again, this is 4D chess, right?

00:22:49.080 We've got to move and outmove China as they look. 1.00

00:22:52.820 Look, they think in terms of dynasties.

00:22:54.520 They're always thinking on a 100-year plan.

00:22:56.440 We think in the terms of Starbucks and the next drive-thru.

00:22:59.160 We've got to get out of that mentality and understand our adversary, China, wants us subservient to dynasties. 0.85

00:23:04.660 That's absolutely right.

00:23:05.800 And we have unified government right now.

00:23:07.840 So some people, we don't have physics class anymore so much.

00:23:10.260 But Congress has the purse strings.

00:23:11.860 I think it is quite wise and prudent for Congress to say, all right, we're backing this play, Mr. President.

00:23:18.460 If you want to engage in negotiations to acquire green, we're with you.

00:23:21.500 Hopefully, we can get the Senate on board as well, and hopefully Republicans can actually use the power that the voters have given them in a unified way and protect the interests of the U.S.

00:23:30.300 Andy Ogles, one of the very best in Washington, D.C.

00:23:33.860 Thank you for coming on the show, and I look forward to seeing you at inauguration later on this week and early next week.

00:23:40.160 Absolutely, my friend.

00:23:41.120 Thank you.

00:23:41.460 Very exciting, making Greenland great again, making America big and Arctic again.

00:23:47.700 I am all about it.

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00:24:38.940 Enough happy stuff.

00:24:40.180 We've got to get to something that is truly revolting.

00:24:43.300 But we'll get through it quickly, and there will be a lot of political significance to it.

00:24:49.000 Some horrifying, succubus-infected woman has claimed to have slept with 1,000 men in 12 hours.

00:24:55.940 I am not going to promote her or her video.

00:24:59.880 I'm not going to play the video of her bragging about this, though her video bragging about this has actually underscored a point that I made about how perverse our society has become.

00:25:11.280 I made this point last week, which is that the most prominent pornographic moments of the last few months have involved women not even taking their clothes off.

00:25:23.260 They've merely—they involved that one gal who said she slept with 100 men in one night, and she wanted to sleep with 1,000, and she broke down crying.

00:25:29.800 But the video that went viral wasn't some explicit video.

00:25:33.900 It was her crying about it in a documentary.

00:25:37.120 Then this gal, this horrifying woman, also went viral earlier this month for walking into a Five Guys burger place and saying, 1.00

00:25:47.100 Hey, can I have the Five Guys?

00:25:48.280 You know, where's the Five Guys on the menu?

00:25:49.580 And propositioning some young man.

00:25:51.180 Young man was great.

00:25:51.980 He said, I'm Christian.

00:25:52.620 I'm saving myself until marriage.

00:25:54.020 And then the video basically cut out there.

00:25:56.000 But even that, she was totally clothed.

00:25:59.940 This one here, she's just bragging about it. 1.00

00:26:02.020 Totally clothed.

00:26:02.720 She's not, you know, she's not shaking anything or stripping or anything like that. 0.52

00:26:06.960 It is as though what really titillates today is not exactly sex.

00:26:12.560 It's not even really—it's not even nudity.

00:26:14.640 It's just women debasing themselves. 1.00

00:26:17.360 That the thing that is most tantalizing and most pornographic to modern audiences is, at this point,

00:26:24.920 almost wholly divorced from sex and nudity.

00:26:27.340 It's just personal debasement. 0.75

00:26:30.160 That is real depraved.

00:26:32.100 Society has reached a new level of depravity. 0.94

00:26:34.640 Nudity, sexuality is ubiquitous.

00:26:37.420 So now you need more.

00:26:39.480 You know, it's like someone starts with marijuana, they move up to meth.

00:26:42.560 People need the stronger stuff to titillate them.

00:26:46.040 So this gal claims to have slept with 1,000 men in 12 hours.

00:26:50.140 I did some rough math on this.

00:26:52.040 I'm a little skeptical of her claims.

00:26:53.600 Sometimes I guess it depends on what the definition of slept is, you know.

00:26:58.160 And I don't want to really think about it more than that.

00:27:00.280 So who knows?

00:27:00.920 I mean, it would not be surprising if this woman who's engaging in extremely gross and sinful behavior would also lie to people. 1.00

00:27:10.220 So it could be that.

00:27:11.240 Maybe she did. 0.93

00:27:11.900 Maybe she's defining sex in a creative way.

00:27:15.880 But in any case, it got me thinking about the ubiquity of this kind of behavior because there's a story out of Newsweek.

00:27:24.440 I said, how many women are doing this? 1.00

00:27:27.100 Newsweek published a piece in December of last year.

00:27:32.280 You know, just December 6th.

00:27:33.380 Are 1.4 million American women using OnlyFans?

00:27:37.660 Here's what we know.

00:27:41.120 According to the Washington Examiner, which is being cited here by Newsweek, there are 3 million women, or I guess some men too, but mostly women, prostituting themselves on OnlyFans.

00:27:53.080 And 67% of the revenue goes to Americans.

00:27:56.720 So this platform isn't releasing its exact user numbers, but the examiner found that 1.4 million American women are OnlyFans creators.

00:28:06.540 The outlet went further saying 2% of American women aged between 18 and 45 are making pornography on that platform.

00:28:15.380 So I don't know if those numbers are true.

00:28:17.440 It's very difficult to arrive at those numbers, but let's say that that's right.

00:28:20.080 Let's say the Washington Examiner and Newsweek are correct.

00:28:24.080 That means that 1 in 50 American women between 18 and 45 are actively making pornography on OnlyFans.

00:28:33.420 1 in 50.

00:28:35.280 Now add on to that the women who have made pornography on OnlyFans and have quit. 1.00

00:28:41.480 Who knows what that takes the number to.

00:28:43.140 Then add on to that the number of women who have ever taken and sent a nude photograph to a boyfriend.

00:28:56.140 What percentage of American women have made pornography? 1.00

00:29:01.880 The number causes one to shudder.

00:29:05.840 Just to even consider what that number might be causes one to shudder.

00:29:08.880 And I know that people are going to say, Michael, you're making a false equivalency here between people who actively perform in pornography or take pornographic photos and women who just, you know, take nude photos and send them to a boyfriend.

00:29:21.540 That's not really pornography.

00:29:22.960 Is it not?

00:29:23.560 It fits the dictionary definition of pornography, which is to make an image or actually write a story.

00:29:31.880 But let's just make an image that involves nudity and sexuality and appealing to the prurian interest.

00:29:38.000 That's just, that's what that is.

00:29:40.620 Now, some people will object and they'll say, well, no, Michael, that's a private photo.

00:29:44.100 Private photo?

00:29:44.940 You think anything is private that you do on your cell phone?

00:29:47.380 It's a private photo between you, your boyfriend, and the NSA.

00:29:51.800 It's a private photo between you, your boyfriend, and the internet service provider.

00:29:56.960 Furthermore, you might break up with your boyfriend or you might have a dirtbag boyfriend who's showing that picture around to other people.

00:30:03.460 How many women, how many court cases have there been of these photos leaking? 1.00

00:30:07.540 The photos might leak even without the will of the boyfriend.

00:30:13.720 That's not, those pictures often don't remain private.

00:30:15.760 But even if they did remain private, it's still pornography.

00:30:18.780 And there are a lot of guys now who are thinking, well, I don't want to marry a woman who's involved in pornography.

00:30:26.760 And I am fully of the Christian belief that people can repent.

00:30:32.500 They can be forgiven their sins.

00:30:34.720 In the course of justice, none of us should see salvation.

00:30:37.400 I consider myself reasonably good, and yet I could accuse myself of such things that were better my mother had never born me.

00:30:42.880 Okay, all sin and fall short of the glory of God.

00:30:45.040 We can repent.

00:30:45.700 We can turn.

00:30:46.120 It depends what direction you're moving in.

00:30:48.640 However, that doesn't remove the real practical concern.

00:30:51.840 A lot of people don't want to marry someone who has engaged in pornography.

00:30:55.780 And yet, if these numbers are even close to being real, and then certainly when you add on sexting, you know,

00:31:01.740 women who have sent nude photos to sometimes multiple men that are just out there in the ether, that is a major problem. 0.99

00:31:11.300 I don't even bring it up to shame any individual women, just to show how pervasive this issue is. 0.95

00:31:17.380 I almost wonder at this point what percentage of women, at least of the Zoomer generation, have not engaged in some kind of pornography. 0.99

00:31:27.140 Big, big social problem.

00:31:28.680 And there are going to be squishes who say, oh, well, who cares?

00:31:31.600 It's no big deal.

00:31:32.240 Well, it's just a, you know, it's a matter of individual personal freedom or whatever.

00:31:35.800 I think it's a big social problem.

00:31:39.080 If this is going to discourage marriage, if this is going to pollute people's minds, 0.65

00:31:44.280 if this is going to lead some huge portion of American women to make themselves into a kind of prostitute, 1.00

00:31:49.940 that seems like a social problem.

00:31:51.940 That seems like a political problem that politicians need to address. 0.76

00:31:56.300 My favorite comment yesterday is from Diana Laubenberg, 7532, who says,

00:32:02.300 imagine, you know, John Lennon, imagine all the people.

00:32:05.320 Imagine is an evil song.

00:32:07.080 It seeps in while the mind is unaware.

00:32:08.940 Too many people love the music and never stop to think of what the words mean.

00:32:12.560 That comment of the day could have been written by Plato and sort of was written by Plato in the Republic.

00:32:19.940 This is the danger of music.

00:32:22.960 Music, more than any other form of art, bypasses the reason.

00:32:27.720 And it goes straight to the sensitive parts of the soul.

00:32:31.160 It just, it, it just go, it bypasses the brain.

00:32:34.080 Okay.

00:32:34.580 And so you'll be listening to the song.

00:32:36.480 The song sounds good.

00:32:36.920 It's done, done, done, done.

00:32:39.840 Boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, ba, da, dun, dun.

00:32:42.920 And then you realize the lyrics are just like, imagine God were dead and we were all communists.

00:32:49.940 Then we could just take each other's stuff and turn to worm food. 0.64

00:32:56.280 When we die, we would all take a dirt nap and life would be meaningless.

00:33:07.300 That's a horrible song, but it sounds really pretty when you're listening to it.

00:33:10.400 So pretty that Jimmy Carter, a supposed Christian, plays it at his funeral in a cathedral. 0.98

00:33:16.400 Totally nuts.

00:33:17.120 You got to watch out what you're listening to.

00:33:19.900 That can, it'll buy, it can bypass your reason and it can, it can corrupt your reason.

00:33:24.100 Plato had it right.

00:33:25.160 He had a lot of things right, actually.

00:33:26.800 Okay.

00:33:27.120 Now turning toward reasonable matters, trying to go directly to the reason.

00:33:32.940 I want to answer your questions in the mailbag, but you got to send them in to me.

00:33:36.720 And you got to do a few things to do that.

00:33:38.280 You got to go to dailywire.com.

00:33:40.280 You go to watch, you go to the Michael Knowles show page.

00:33:43.800 Then you click send in a mailbag question.

00:33:45.460 You can send in a written mailbag question.

00:33:47.020 That's easy enough.

00:33:47.700 An email pops up, you just send it in.

00:33:49.200 Or you can send in a voicemail back question, which are my favorites.

00:33:52.900 To do that, you just record your voicemail question.

00:33:56.460 Keep it to under a minute, please, so I can play it on the show.

00:33:59.420 Some people want to send me their life story, their audio book of six hours, less than a minute, 30 seconds is even better.

00:34:04.640 You record that, just attach it to the email, send it in, and then I can hear your mellifluous tones and your beautiful questions on Friday.

00:34:14.000 And I can give you my answers.

00:34:17.560 Now, happily, turning to some good news again.

00:34:21.500 At least one sexual norm is being restored, and that is at Facebook, and that is at the hands of Mark Zuckerberg.

00:34:26.720 Mark Zuckerberg, who has announced with great courage that he will remove tampons from the men's bathroom at Facebook offices. 0.98

00:34:38.120 We are so, we are so cooked.

00:34:42.120 To use the language of the Zoomers, we are, we are cooked.

00:34:45.020 We are, we are boiled and brew and, and fried and sauteed, and we are cooked.

00:34:50.240 That this is a great cause to celebrate.

00:34:54.280 That the, one of the biggest companies in the history of the world is finally taking tampons out of the men's bathroom.

00:35:01.460 Woohoo, we did it, conservatives.

00:35:03.300 Oh, man.

00:35:05.480 If these are the victories, we have simply lost.

00:35:08.060 But whatever, I'll, okay, I'll take the victory for what it's worth.

00:35:10.240 In Silicon Valley, in Texas, and in New York, Zuckerberg is reminding people that men and women are different, in at least a modest way.

00:35:19.760 There's criticism, though.

00:35:21.480 Michael McConnell, who is the co-chairman of the Meta Oversight Board, overseeing what's going on at Facebook,

00:35:27.800 says in an interview, that Zuckerberg is, quote, buckling to political pressure.

00:35:34.820 He says, I would have liked to have seen these reforms laid out in less contentious and partisan times,

00:35:39.420 so that they would be considered on the merits rather than, you know, Donald Trump is president, and now they're caving in.

00:35:46.880 Okay, so, Zuckerberg is right to get the tampons out of the boys' bathroom.

00:35:52.280 Kamala Harris lost, in part, because her running mate put tampons in boys' bathrooms. 0.94

00:35:55.740 It's really ridiculous to put tampons in boys' bathrooms. 0.69

00:35:59.080 However, the chairman or the co-chairman of the Meta Oversight Board is right.

00:36:03.880 Zuckerberg is obviously caving to political pressure.

00:36:05.980 That's what this is about.

00:36:07.020 Well, let me see.

00:36:07.680 Let me see what you think.

00:36:09.160 There are two ways to read this.

00:36:12.000 Either the multi-billionaire genius who invented Facebook after dropping out of Harvard,

00:36:19.240 just yesterday discovered that boys and girls are different.

00:36:23.000 He just figured it out, you know.

00:36:24.300 It took him a little, he's a little thick in the head, but he finally figured out boys and girls are different.

00:36:28.020 Or, Zuckerberg is caving to political pressure because Trump is about to become president in a matter of days,

00:36:34.420 and Republicans are going to have a unified government.

00:36:36.640 And Republicans have not yet forgotten how Facebook punished them for years.

00:36:43.240 How Facebook censored conservatives, tried to limit our reach, went all in on booting Trump out of office in 2020.

00:36:52.000 How Zuckerberg personally helped to rig that election to give Democrats an advantage in ballot drop boxes and in all of the rule changes that came into play because they used COVID as an excuse.

00:37:04.740 Zuckerberg realizes he is on the wrong side of the new sheriffs in town, and he is doing everything he can to get ahead of the investigations,

00:37:14.600 to plead and beg for mercy and to suck up to the Republicans who are coming into power,

00:37:20.080 and to make these minor little gestures to suggest to the Republicans that he's really on their team. 0.64

00:37:30.340 Okay, well, good.

00:37:31.400 I'm glad you're doing that, Buster.

00:37:32.820 That's great, you know.

00:37:34.000 But I remember when your company nearly destroyed my company.

00:37:39.220 I remember, and it's not just the Daily Wire, though Daily Wire was probably the most prominent on the right,

00:37:44.380 really probably the most prominent in news on Facebook.

00:37:47.560 And then one day, Facebook decided to limit our reach by, what was it, 90%?

00:37:53.220 It wasn't just us, it was other right-wingers as well.

00:37:56.640 Certainly other people within the MAGA orbit.

00:37:59.620 Was that because of a change in market dynamics?

00:38:02.280 No, that was because censors at Facebook, radical leftists, decided to put their fingers on the scale and try to control our public square.

00:38:09.860 And in a self-governing republic, if you control the public square, you more or less control the political order.

00:38:15.160 And I remember that.

00:38:16.500 So, good, get the tampons out of the men's bathroom, that's great. 0.99

00:38:19.340 Good, cave to political pressure, that's smart to do.

00:38:23.500 You don't get off the hook that easily.

00:38:26.560 That would be my message to members of Congress.

00:38:28.780 I would not let big tech off the hook that easily.

00:38:30.860 Because if Zuckerberg's going to cave to political pressure with Trump coming into office, guess what he's going to do when the Democrats win?

00:38:36.560 It's going to be the exact same thing.

00:38:37.720 We're going to be right back where we started.

00:38:40.580 Now, speaking of big tech, Steve Bannon is going to war with Elon Musk.

00:38:48.240 There is a fight within MAGA, within Trump world.

00:38:52.900 Steve Bannon, who was the chief strategist of the first Trump campaign, he was in the White House as a strategist.

00:38:58.540 Bannon has declared war on Elon Musk, who is now President Trump's right-hand man, who dumped an absurd amount of money into the campaign, who really injected a lot of excitement into the 2024 campaign, who purchased Twitter to give right-wingers at least a little bit of a foothold into big tech.

00:39:16.900 So he's got a lot of goodwill in his own right.

00:39:19.960 What does Bannon say?

00:39:22.080 Bannon says, I will have Elon Musk run out of here by election day.

00:39:25.440 He said this in an interview with the Corriere dell'Acero, which is an Italian newspaper. 0.86

00:39:29.100 He is a truly evil guy, a very bad guy.

00:39:33.480 I made it my personal thing to take this guy down, Bannon says of Elon, because before, because he put money in, I was prepared to tolerate it.

00:39:41.280 I'm not prepared to tolerate it anymore.

00:39:44.560 Then he went on.

00:39:45.820 This was really over the H-1B division.

00:39:49.480 Steve Bannon says we need less migration.

00:39:51.260 We don't want these H-1Bs. 1.00

00:39:52.760 And Elon Musk says we need more H-1Bs. 1.00

00:39:54.860 We want more Indians coming in and doing American jobs.

00:39:57.320 Elon goes on.

00:39:59.400 He says, Peter Thiel, David Sachs, Elon Musk are all white South Africans.

00:40:04.740 He should go back to South Africa. 0.97

00:40:06.680 Why do we have South Africans, the most racist people on earth, white South Africans? 0.98

00:40:11.580 We have them making any comments at all on what goes on in the United States. 0.91

00:40:14.620 Now, this is really shocking because the second part here is an attack from the left.

00:40:20.420 It's Bannon attacking Musk from the left.

00:40:22.640 He's saying Thiel, who's been a big supporter of conservative causes, big supporter of our vice president, soon to be vice president, J.D. Vance.

00:40:30.160 David Sachs, big supporter. 0.95

00:40:31.800 And Elon Musk, they're white South Africans, and white South Africans are racist? 0.97

00:40:36.580 Hold on. 0.98

00:40:36.920 Wait.

00:40:37.020 Am I hearing a radical leftist from the 1980s?

00:40:40.100 Hold on.

00:40:40.680 Where is it?

00:40:40.980 But what this tells you, Steve Bannon is not a leftist by any stretch of the imagination.

00:40:45.680 What this tells you is Steve Bannon is willing to fight as dirty as it's going to take to go after Elon Musk.

00:40:52.020 He's going to use any tool at his disposal.

00:40:54.060 And in modern America, at least until recently, the accusation of racism was a very powerful tool.

00:40:59.420 I'm not sure it's as powerful as it used to be, but he's going to use any attack from the right, from the left, from anything.

00:41:03.480 So what team are you on?

00:41:06.920 Are you on Team Bannon or are you on Team Musk?

00:41:11.400 I suspect there's going to be a divide with the audience here.

00:41:15.060 I think there's going to be a divide within MAGA and among Trump supporters.

00:41:20.400 Because this is a natural fault line within the American right that has existed for over 70 years now.

00:41:28.500 This is the fault line between the conservatives and the libertarians.

00:41:31.560 This is the fault line between the traditionalists and the more classical liberals.

00:41:38.160 This is the fault line between the paleo-conservatives and the neo-conservatives.

00:41:43.720 This has existed for a long time.

00:41:48.900 On the one side, you have the conservatives saying that America is more than an economy.

00:41:52.960 You know, we're a country and we have an economy, but we want the economy to serve the society, the common good of the people.

00:41:58.900 We don't want the tail to wag the dog.

00:42:02.880 So, yeah, it's true.

00:42:05.040 Indians who take low wages, who are well-educated, they can help our economy.

00:42:10.460 And there's nothing against Indians.

00:42:11.900 We like some Indians, but we've got to make sure that we keep social cohesion, that we defend American families, that we defend American workers, that we look after Americans first before we look to other people around the world.

00:42:23.860 And that we're not just merely cogs in a machine trying to tick the GDP number up a little bit, but we are American citizens who are trying to have a good, strong, thriving country for good, strong, thriving people.

00:42:35.480 A country that is made up of people.

00:42:38.140 It's not just full of interchangeable parts that can be traded out willy-nilly because America is an idea floating in outer space.

00:42:43.720 That's the conservative argument.

00:42:45.840 Now, the libertarians and the neocons and the liberals and that side of the conservative movement of the American right, they're going to say, look, we want efficiency.

00:42:57.280 We want creative destruction.

00:42:59.220 We want to be really strong economically.

00:43:02.100 That's what really matters.

00:43:03.080 That's how we have a great country.

00:43:04.560 And we believe in America.

00:43:06.720 We believe in the principles of America.

00:43:08.360 And some of those people out there in Uttar Pradesh, those guys are actually more American than the people who go back 10 generations in West Virginia.

00:43:18.220 Because those people believe in the ideas of America.

00:43:20.400 And they're going to work hard. 1.00

00:43:21.320 And these Americans have gotten lazy and stupid. 1.00

00:43:23.540 That's an argument that explicitly some people on that side have made. 1.00

00:43:27.260 And that's going to resonate for a lot of people too.

00:43:29.220 But I guess my only observation on this battle is to point out this is a perennial battle on the American right.

00:43:40.560 This is not going to be resolved in a week or two.

00:43:43.040 This did not come out of nowhere.

00:43:44.580 It's not because Steve Bannon woke up on the wrong side of the bed one morning.

00:43:47.280 It's not because Elon Musk decided to become an interloper in American politics in some unprecedented way.

00:43:52.440 This is a fault line that has existed for the entire history of the American right.

00:43:56.680 Certainly since the Second World War.

00:43:59.220 And those fissures could create a real political problem for Trump.

00:44:03.800 Because he has to keep that coalition together.

00:44:06.180 Which is why my resolution to this, withholding my personal views on particular aspects of this question of migration and the economy, is we need unity.

00:44:18.900 We need Republican unity for like 100 days.

00:44:23.080 And we're probably going to not get much more after that.

00:44:25.740 But we've been given unified government.

00:44:27.720 We have this major mandate for President Trump elected to a non-consecutive second term.

00:44:31.400 Wins the popular vote as a Republican for the first time in 20 years.

00:44:34.200 Just like keep it together, guys.

00:44:35.900 That's my whole argument.

00:44:37.100 Just keep it together for maybe 100 days.

00:44:40.560 And then we can go back to our typical division and dissension and trying to kill each other.

00:44:46.160 But just give us a shot.

00:44:48.120 Give President Trump a shot to do what he wants to do for 100 days.

00:44:51.240 Then we can all go back to fighting.

00:44:52.900 Now, speaking of the Trump team, the confirmation hearings begin today.

00:44:57.720 And this is really, really interesting.

00:45:01.100 In the last 60 seconds I have here, the Senate starts the confirmation hearings today.

00:45:06.100 They're going to get Pete Hegseth for Secretary of Defense.

00:45:09.120 Doug Collins, former congressman from Virginia.

00:45:12.120 Or I'm sorry, former congressman who is up to run the VA.

00:45:15.840 Doug Burgum, who's former governor, ran for president.

00:45:18.020 He's up for Secretary of the Interior.

00:45:19.880 Then tomorrow you get Rubio for Secretary of State.

00:45:22.860 Pam Bondi for Attorney General. 0.79

00:45:24.180 Kristi Noem at DHS.

00:45:26.100 The former Director of National Intelligence, John Ratcliffe for CIA.

00:45:29.480 The former OMB Director, Russell Vaught, to go back and take his job again at OMB.

00:45:34.300 Sean Duffy, former congressman for Transportation Secretary.

00:45:37.000 And the oil executive, Chris Wright, for Energy Secretary.

00:45:39.880 Then Thursday, you're going to get Lee Zeldin, former congressman, ran for governor of New York.

00:45:45.920 He's going to be up for EPA.

00:45:47.620 Hedge fund executive, Scott Besant for Treasury Secretary.

00:45:50.320 And the former NFL player, Scott Turner for HUD.

00:45:54.500 Who else?

00:45:55.360 Aren't there?

00:45:55.700 Where are the big guys?

00:45:56.760 I mean, it's interesting to talk about Scott Turner.

00:45:58.740 But what about Tulsi?

00:45:59.660 What about Bobby Kennedy?

00:46:00.980 What about Kash Patel?

00:46:02.060 When are their confirmation hearings?

00:46:03.980 We don't know yet.

00:46:05.380 They're not scheduled.

00:46:06.460 Maybe next week.

00:46:07.180 Maybe the week after that.

00:46:09.340 Now, at least Stefanik, who's also a shoe-in at the UN, she also hasn't been scheduled.

00:46:13.780 But I can't help but notice here, there's only one controversial confirmation hearing

00:46:18.700 scheduled this week.

00:46:20.860 And it's the very first day.

00:46:23.000 And that's Pete Hegseth.

00:46:24.500 The Libs really want to take down Pete. 1.00

00:46:26.340 I think Pete will be an excellent Secretary of Defense.

00:46:29.220 I think he's going to get through.

00:46:30.340 But the Democrats are going to throw everything they can at him.

00:46:33.000 So you get Pete.

00:46:33.640 Then you get a bunch of people who are shoe-ins.

00:46:36.320 And then later on, you get the other controversial ones.

00:46:38.700 Tulsi Gabbard, Bobby Kennedy Jr., Kash Patel.

00:46:41.580 What this tells me is Pete is the canary in the coal mine.

00:46:45.060 Pete is going to go in there to see how tough the Senate is going to fight to block Trump's

00:46:49.260 nominees.

00:46:50.240 If he gets through, it's going to be a little bloody.

00:46:53.200 But if he gets through, expect Tulsi, Bobby Kennedy, Kash Patel to have their hearings

00:46:58.260 lined up, ready to go.

00:46:59.580 We're going to have smooth sailing into January 20th.

00:47:02.080 But if they really hold up Pete, there's going to be some rethinking about how to move

00:47:06.820 forward with Tulsi, with Kennedy, with Kash Patel.

00:47:11.480 This is the test.

00:47:13.180 And let's wish Pete the best of luck.

00:47:15.840 Maybe we say a prayer for the success of this administration.

00:47:18.560 We'll know a lot more tomorrow.

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00:47:44.940 I've often said that gender-affirming care is health care.

00:47:48.000 It is mental health care, and it can actually be suicide prevention care.

00:47:52.960 I think I'm going to take some medicine so I can kind of like transform into a boy, get 0.99

00:47:59.740 surgery.

00:48:00.720 After the surgery, I didn't really feel any better.

00:48:04.240 When it stopped being a thing for adults, and it started to be a, let's teach this to

00:48:08.880 kids.

00:48:09.300 Total lie.

00:48:10.460 Manipulation.

00:48:11.080 It's gaslighting.

00:48:11.960 Please stop.

00:48:12.820 He's a boy, not a girl. 0.99

00:48:14.420 How could she do this to my son?

00:48:15.920 What they're talking about is hormonal therapy or sex reassignment surgery on children.

00:48:22.180 I thought fixing me externally would fix me internally.

00:48:26.380 But of course I was wrong.

00:48:27.880 The fact that the state thinks that they're more important and have a better say in what

00:48:31.640 happens to your child over the actual parent's opinion is egregious.

00:48:35.440 Puberty blockers.

00:48:36.300 Surgeries.

00:48:36.900 Big money makers for hospitals, for physicians.

00:48:39.480 All I want to do is hold my son.

00:48:43.360 Are you asking me to lie to parents?

00:48:46.160 And he said yes.

00:48:47.940 This is an weaponized use of a parent's sympathy and caring and concern by the left to destroy

00:48:55.060 your child.

00:48:56.140 Let's tell kids that maybe they can be the opposite sex. 1.00

00:48:59.580 Maybe they actually are the opposite sex. 0.99

00:49:02.240 It is an evil thing to tell children that happiness lies on the other side of puberty blockers or

00:49:08.780 double mastectomies. 1.00

00:49:09.940 The left so badly wants to blur these lines.

00:49:12.540 That's a five-alarm fire.

00:49:15.160 It's criminal.

00:49:15.840 It's criminal.

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The Michael Knowles Show - January 14, 2025

Ep. 1651 - Make Greenland Great Again

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