The Michael Knowles Show - January 15, 2025


Ep. 1652 - Pete Hegseth DESTROYS Smug Democrats In 5 Mins


Episode Stats


Length

47 minutes

Words per minute

166.9314

Word count

7,882

Sentence count

654

Harmful content

Misogyny

28

sentences flagged

Hate speech

16

sentences flagged


Summary

Summaries generated with gmurro/bart-large-finetuned-filtered-spotify-podcast-summ .

Pete Hegseth passed his confirmation hearing with flying colors. After Pete s testimony, the only concern left about his nomination is whether or not he committed war crimes. We have the highlights and much more on the Michael Knowles Show.

Transcript

Transcript generated with Whisper (turbo).
Misogyny classifications generated with MilaNLProc/bert-base-uncased-ear-misogyny .
Hate speech classifications generated with facebook/roberta-hate-speech-dynabench-r4-target .
00:00:00.000 Did you know that over 85% of grass-fed beef sold in U.S. grocery stores is imported?
00:00:05.240 That's why I buy all my meat from GoodRanchers.com instead.
00:00:08.900 Good Ranchers products are 100% born, raised, and harvested right here in the USA from local family farms.
00:00:14.600 Plus, there's no antibiotics ever, no added hormones, and no seed oils.
00:00:18.820 Just one simple ingredient.
00:00:20.360 That's meat.
00:00:21.280 Best of all, Good Ranchers delivers straight to your door for added convenience.
00:00:24.760 So lock in a secure supply of American meat today.
00:00:26.980 Subscribe now at GoodRanchers.com and get free meat for life and $40 off with code DAILYWIRE.
00:00:32.380 That's $40 off and free meat for life with code DAILYWIRE.
00:00:35.720 Good Ranchers, American meat delivered.
00:00:37.800 Inauguration Day, January 20th.
00:00:40.220 Watch it with us.
00:00:41.460 Vin Shapiro, Matt Walsh, Michael Knowles, Andrew Clavin, and Jeremy Boring.
00:00:45.400 Live from D.C.
00:00:46.460 Donald Trump's historic second term officially begins.
00:00:49.440 Coverage starts at 8.30 a.m. Eastern.
00:00:51.580 Watch live on Daily Wire+.
00:00:55.100 That's right, folks.
00:00:56.000 History is happening.
00:00:57.220 You can watch it live with us.
00:00:58.880 The Daily Wire will be in D.C. for Donald John Trump's inauguration as the 47th president.
00:01:04.800 Do not miss a second of it.
00:01:06.260 Plus, celebrate with 47% off your Daily Wire Plus annual membership.
00:01:10.240 Join us at dailywire.com slash subscribe using code 47.
00:01:16.080 President Trump's transition team faced its first major test yesterday when it sent its first cabinet nominee
00:01:22.820 and one of the most controversial cabinet nominees, Pete Hegseth, to Capitol Hill for his Senate confirmation hearings.
00:01:30.240 After Pete's testimony, I think the only concern left about his nomination is whether or not the man committed war crimes
00:01:37.960 when he so thoroughly destroyed the Democrat senators who were trying to tank him.
00:01:42.980 We have the highlights and much more on Michael Knowles.
00:01:46.500 This is the Michael Knowles Show.
00:01:47.320 Welcome back to the show.
00:02:07.340 A priest has been accused of a hate crime after he rightly did not permit a homosexual socialist mayor to receive Holy Communion. 0.73
00:02:16.400 There's so much more to say.
00:02:17.380 First, though, text Knowles, K-N-O-W-L-E-S, to 989898.
00:02:21.340 Increased tariffs on our trade partners, tax cuts, and regulation changes.
00:02:26.880 You are going to want to diversify your portfolio.
00:02:31.160 Make sure that you've got some stability in these times.
00:02:34.240 Gold is a viable diversification tactic now more than ever.
00:02:38.440 Birch Gold, the gold company that I trust, is releasing their ultimate guide for gold in the Trump era
00:02:43.660 with a foreword by Donald Trump Jr.
00:02:46.080 Get your free copy along with Birch Gold's free information.
00:02:48.460 Kid on gold, text my name, Knowles, K-N-O-W-L-E-S, to 989898.
00:02:52.980 Here are the facts.
00:02:53.620 National debt continues to increase.
00:02:55.440 Our interest payments on the national debt continue to increase.
00:02:58.420 Gold is still your hedge against a weakened dollar.
00:03:00.680 Birch Gold is still the company that I trust to help you convert an existing IRA or 401k into a tax-sheltered IRA in gold.
00:03:09.300 I have a fair bit of my portfolio in gold, which has made me very happy over this past year.
00:03:14.080 Text Knowles, K-N-O-W-L-E-S, to 989898.
00:03:16.380 Get your free copy of the ultimate guide for gold in the Trump era.
00:03:19.540 No obligation, only information.
00:03:21.380 A plus rating with the Better Business Bureau.
00:03:22.880 Countless five-star reviews.
00:03:23.760 Thousands of happy customers.
00:03:24.680 You can trust Birch Gold.
00:03:26.780 Text Knowles to 989898 today.
00:03:31.680 Pete Hegseth destroyed these Democrat senators.
00:03:35.560 If this were 2015, 2016, the YouTube video would read, Pete Hegseth destroys with facts and logic and poise and composure all of these Democrat senators who are trying to tank him.
00:03:47.880 This is really, really good news.
00:03:49.060 The top line executive summary for what happened yesterday is President Trump's transition team sent one of their most controversial nominees out first.
00:04:00.460 Pete Hegseth was the canary in the coal mine.
00:04:02.600 Let's see how tough these Democrat senators are going to be. 1.00
00:04:05.260 Then, after Pete, for today, tomorrow, for the foreseeable future, it all the really easy nominees who were going to sail through no problem.
00:04:14.900 Then the other controversial nominees, Tulsi Gabbard, Bobby Kennedy Jr., Cash Patel, they were all off in the future at some undetermined date.
00:04:23.360 Clearly, the transition team and the Republicans in the Senate were waiting to schedule all of those controversial nominees until after they figured out how Pete did.
00:04:34.080 Pete passed his test with flying colors.
00:04:37.180 He could not possibly have done better.
00:04:39.300 I don't just say it because I like the guy and he's a friend of mine.
00:04:41.640 It was a grand slam, which is good not only for Pete.
00:04:47.300 He's going to be the secretary of defense.
00:04:49.620 It's great news for Tulsi, for Bobby Kennedy, for Cash Patel, really for all of the nominees.
00:04:57.260 Pete's performance yesterday made President Trump's job much, much easier.
00:05:01.980 We are not going to have a repeat, I strongly suspect, of 2016, where it took days and weeks and months and years to get Trump's nominees through the Senate.
00:05:11.320 I think these guys are going to move very quickly.
00:05:14.700 So what were the highlights?
00:05:16.700 The worst performance, I think, on the Democrat side came from Kirsten Gillibrand, the senator from New York.
00:05:24.980 The Democrats were all focusing in on women, on girl issues.
00:05:28.820 One, they wanted to hit Pete for being a Casanova in his wayward youth.
00:05:33.040 And two, they wanted to hit Pete for saying that women should not serve in combat roles.
00:05:38.640 An obvious fact that everyone agreed on until about five minutes ago and now is supposedly controversial.
00:05:45.600 So here is Kirsten Gillibrand with a voice that just seems to get shriller and shriller with each passing second,
00:05:52.500 trying to grill Pete on whether or not big hulking G.I. Joe's or dainty ladies are better at killing terrorists. 1.00
00:06:00.880 We have hundreds, hundreds of women who are currently in the infantry, lethal members of our military serving in the infantry. 1.00
00:06:10.400 But you degrade them.
00:06:11.820 You say, we need moms, but not in the military, especially in combat units.
00:06:17.040 So specific to Senator Cotton's question, because Senator Cotton was giving you layups to differentiate between different types of combat.
00:06:26.800 And specifically, as secretary, would you take any action to reinstitute the combat arms exclusion for female service members,
00:06:35.720 knowing full well you have hundreds of women doing that job right now? 1.00
00:06:39.100 And the standards, your two-mile run, Tom, is about the Army combat fitness test.
00:06:46.640 It is not the requirements to have an MOS 11 Bravo, which is the infantry.
00:06:52.120 These are the requirements today for people serving in the industry, men and women.
00:06:57.300 They are gender neutral, and they are very difficult to meet. 1.00
00:07:01.120 They have not been reduced in any way.
00:07:04.400 Okay, so that's the claim.
00:07:06.580 Women in combat have not led the military to reduce standards in any way. 0.99
00:07:12.840 That is just not true.
00:07:15.340 The Army revised standards for the Army combat fitness test a little over two years ago,
00:07:21.440 because women could not meet the standards. 0.99
00:07:25.680 Julio Rosas at The Blaze just posted after this ridiculous grilling.
00:07:30.920 He said, never forget, the Marine Corps did a nine-month study on women in combat units versus male-only combat units, 0.90
00:07:36.560 which showed the male-only units outperformed the integrated units at nearly every event and sustained fewer injuries.
00:07:44.280 Obama's Navy Secretary, Ray Mabus, said the study was just sexist toward women.
00:07:48.980 Until the Obama administration, pretty much everyone agreed women should obviously not serve in combat roles, 0.99
00:07:55.200 not only because men are stronger than women physically, period, punto y basta, no further discussion required,
00:08:01.760 but also at a deeper level because it is a sick society that thinks that it is appropriate to send women out to the front lines to catch bullets from jihadis.
00:08:12.040 That's just wrong.
00:08:13.780 In civilized societies, men protect women. 0.98
00:08:16.640 In barbaric societies, men send women out to protect themselves.
00:08:22.480 That's two sides of this.
00:08:25.380 But on both sides, on the fitness of the military and also on how civilized societies behave, women should not be in combat. 1.00
00:08:33.460 And Kirsten Gillibrand, to defend women in combat, has to lie. 1.00
00:08:36.280 And she lies with that unbearably shrill voice that Pete Hegseth endured with great equanimity and dignity.
00:08:44.340 Joni Ernst, a Republican, who was rumored to be holding up Pete Hegseth's nomination,
00:08:52.040 Joni Ernst also gave him a little bit of a grilling on the question of women in combat.
00:08:57.640 Senator, first of all, thank you for your service, as we discussed extensively as well.
00:09:02.100 It's my privilege.
00:09:02.660 And my answer is yes, exactly the way that you caveated it.
00:09:07.840 Yes, women will have access to ground combat roles, combat roles, given the standards remain high, 0.99
00:09:14.780 and we'll have a review to ensure the standards have not been eroded in any one of these cases.
00:09:21.360 That'll be part of one of the first things we do at the Pentagon, is reviewing that in a gender-neutral way, 0.79
00:09:26.520 the standards ensuring readiness and meritocracy is front and center.
00:09:31.780 But absolutely, it would be the privilege of a lifetime, if confirmed, to be the Secretary of Defense for all men and women in uniform who fight so heroic.
00:09:42.200 They have so many other options.
00:09:44.040 They decide to put their right hand up for our country, and it would be an honor to have a chance to lead them.
00:09:49.040 Perfect answer, grand slam.
00:09:52.680 This answer is much like the conservative judicial nominees who went up before Roe v. Wade was overruled,
00:09:58.760 and they'd be grilled about Roe v. Wade.
00:10:00.340 That's all the Democrats wanted to talk about.
00:10:01.860 Will you uphold this ridiculous court decision that created a fictional constitutional right to kill babies?
00:10:08.560 Will you uphold that?
00:10:09.740 And their answer was, well, Roe v. Wade has settled law.
00:10:12.800 Now, if the conservatives had come out and said, we're going to overrule Roe v. Wade, their nominations would have been sunk.
00:10:21.000 So they couldn't say that, but they also couldn't lie and say, no, Roe v. Wade's great, and I totally support it, and it's wonderful.
00:10:27.040 So what they said was a true statement that had implications that different people could read into.
00:10:35.400 And the answer was, well, Roe v. Wade's settled law.
00:10:37.240 And that's true.
00:10:38.040 Before the Dobbs decision, Roe v. Wade was settled law.
00:10:40.140 Actually, Casey was settled law, but you get the point.
00:10:44.340 Everyone knew what they were talking about.
00:10:45.980 And then Dobbs came out, and Roe v. Wade no longer was settled law.
00:10:49.240 Same answer here with Pete.
00:10:50.940 Pete comes out and he says, I absolutely will support women in combat, given that standards are not eroded.
00:11:00.660 But, of course, given that is doing a lot of work there, because putting women in combat positions has eroded standards, period. 1.00
00:11:10.060 That's it.
00:11:11.060 When Pete says, I would be so proud to be the Secretary of Defense for all the men and women of the armed forces, that's a 100% true, obvious statement.
00:11:20.440 Women have always had roles in and around the military. 1.00
00:11:24.420 Women have always had roles in service of the national defense. 0.91
00:11:27.320 It's just that back when we were at least even slightly civilized, we didn't send women out to the front lines to catch bullets to protect the men.
00:11:36.880 But that's it.
00:11:37.620 Women have always had some roles in there. 1.00
00:11:38.880 And so Pete says, of course I want to be the Secretary of Defense for all men and women of the armed forces.
00:11:43.920 And you know what?
00:11:45.720 I'll go further, Senators.
00:11:47.580 I will support women in combat roles, provided that their presence there does not reduce standards, which it obviously has.
00:11:56.760 It necessarily does.
00:11:58.240 And so this is a really good answer and a sign of good things to come.
00:12:02.980 There's so much more to say.
00:12:04.160 First, though, go to goodranchers.com.
00:12:06.100 Use promo code Knolls.
00:12:07.320 You know my absolute favorite meat is from Good Ranchers.
00:12:11.040 You get steakhouse quality, individually sealed, so you're not going to have a lot of waste.
00:12:15.080 The steaks are out of this world.
00:12:16.520 I, in particular, like the New York Strip bone-in and the ribeye bone-in, but they're all fabulous.
00:12:21.500 The sirloin's great.
00:12:23.080 I'm not even a huge sirloin guy, and the Good Ranchers sirloin is terrific.
00:12:26.260 Their burgers are the best I've ever had.
00:12:28.300 They also have chicken and fish and all that kind of stuff.
00:12:30.740 Bacon, really good bacon.
00:12:31.960 Their ham is terrific.
00:12:33.760 It's just all amazing.
00:12:35.380 Seed oil-free chicken nuggets.
00:12:36.680 You can make sure that you are getting 100% American meat, free from antibiotics, free from hormones, just really, really good stuff.
00:12:45.200 This new year, spend less money ordering out, going out.
00:12:48.500 Just get that steakhouse right to your home. 1.00
00:12:50.600 With their New Year New Meat special, subscribe to any box.
00:12:53.280 Use my exclusive code Knolls to claim $25 off free express shipping.
00:12:56.420 and your choice of free ground beef, chicken, or salmon in every order for an entire year.
00:13:04.400 How do they make the numbers work?
00:13:05.680 I have no idea, but it's incredible quality, incredible pricing.
00:13:09.840 If spending more time with family, spending less going out to eat, enjoying quality, nutritious American food is on your resolution list,
00:13:15.220 go to GoodRanchers.com.
00:13:16.380 Use code Knolls.
00:13:17.520 GoodRanchers.com.
00:13:19.100 American meat delivered.
00:13:19.860 The greatest performance of the entire day came from a Republican senator.
00:13:26.380 This would be Mark Wayne Mullen, who, after all of these senators, came after him.
00:13:33.600 Elizabeth Warren.
00:13:35.380 What's her face?
00:13:36.220 Tammy Duckworth, complete lunatic. 1.00
00:13:38.980 Maisie Hirono.
00:13:40.360 Tim Kaine.
00:13:40.960 We'll get to Tim Kaine's in a moment.
00:13:42.200 Tim Kaine was particularly vicious.
00:13:44.260 Remember, Tim Kaine was Hillary Clinton's running mate.
00:13:46.100 He was almost one heartbeat away from becoming the second woman president of the United States.
00:13:50.420 Tim Kaine was absolutely nasty to Pete.
00:13:53.300 We'll get to that in a moment.
00:13:54.200 But after all of this, you had Mark Wayne Mullen, this Republican senator, come out.
00:13:59.300 And he said, hold on.
00:14:00.340 You want to talk about Pete's romantic history?
00:14:04.400 You want to insinuate that Pete has a problem with alcohol based on nothing?
00:14:09.960 You want to go, hey, how about you guys quit accusing Pete and take a look at yourselves?
00:14:15.740 Senator Kaine, or I guess I better use the senator from Virginia, starts bringing up the fact that what if you showed up drunk to your job?
00:14:24.000 How many senators have showed up drunk to vote at night?
00:14:29.780 Have any of you guys asked them to step down and resign for their job?
00:14:34.260 And don't tell me you haven't seen it because I know you have.
00:14:37.500 And then how many senators do you know have got a divorce before cheating on their wives?
00:14:42.420 Did you ask them to step down?
00:14:45.440 No.
00:14:46.840 But it's for show.
00:14:48.520 You guys, make sure you make a big show and point out the hypocrisy because the man's made a mistake.
00:14:54.980 And you want to sit there and say that he's not qualified?
00:14:58.140 Give me a joke.
00:14:59.640 It is so ridiculous that you guys hold yourself at this higher standard and you forget you got a big plank in your eye.
00:15:05.120 You got a big plank in your eye.
00:15:06.980 Such a great point.
00:15:09.320 These Democrat senators who are disreputable people, many of them are deeply disreputable people, have the audacity to attack Pete for what?
00:15:19.000 Based on nothing, truly based on nothing, they accuse him of being a drunk.
00:15:24.120 I've been around the U.S. Senate a little bit.
00:15:28.000 I've been around Washington, D.C. a little bit.
00:15:30.040 Some of these votes in the Senate, like Votarama, they'll go into the wee small hours of the morning.
00:15:35.720 You think those senators haven't been at dinner?
00:15:37.280 You think they haven't been thrown back a few glasses of wine, maybe a few martinis?
00:15:42.980 I can tell you with certainty, those guys toss back a few and sometimes they walk to the Capitol.
00:15:50.460 Okay?
00:15:50.960 And they're going to accuse Pete of showing up drunk to Fox News.
00:15:53.880 By the way, I've done Pete Hegseth's morning show on Fox very, very early, many times.
00:16:01.800 I've never worked at Fox News.
00:16:03.440 I've never been an employee of Fox News.
00:16:04.920 But I've been in that green room at Fox with Pete Hegseth at 6 o'clock in the morning.
00:16:09.660 I've been on air with him multiple times.
00:16:12.900 The guy was never anything but much more alert and energetic than I was.
00:16:17.560 To suggest he was hungover, it's completely absurd, I can tell you from first-hand experience.
00:16:24.640 But to Mullen's point, he's saying, look at all of you.
00:16:28.100 You're going to go after him for drinking.
00:16:29.220 You're going to go after him because he has a tough romantic history, a marital history?
00:16:34.420 How many of you guys are sleeping with your staffers?
00:16:37.300 How many of you guys are sleeping with lobbyists?
00:16:39.720 How many of you guys have gotten divorced because you cheated on your spouse?
00:16:43.680 And the answer in the U.S. Senate and the U.S. House is probably a little bit higher than the average American.
00:16:50.780 That number of people, the rate of divorce in checkered romantic history, a little bit higher probably than the civilian population.
00:17:01.080 You're going to go after Hegseth.
00:17:02.780 Really good.
00:17:03.380 It shut down a lot of the debate.
00:17:06.140 But I do want to get to Tim Kaine before we move on.
00:17:08.200 Tim Kaine, Hillary Clinton's running mate, decided that it would be a good idea to use Pete Hegseth's little kid as a cudgel to try to beat back his nomination.
00:17:22.600 Completely cleared.
00:17:24.140 Can you so casually cheat on a second wife and cheat on the mother of a child that had been born two months before and you tell us you are completely cleared?
00:17:33.900 How is that a complete clear?
00:17:35.200 Senator, her child's name is Gwendolyn Hope Hegseth and she's a child of God and she's seven years old.
00:17:41.580 And she was and you cheated on the mother of that child less than two months after that daughter was born, didn't you? 0.85
00:17:48.640 Those were false charges.
00:17:50.400 Well, no, fully investigated and I was completely cleared.
00:17:53.040 Absolutely revolting questioning from Tim Kaine.
00:17:57.520 Pete Hegseth had an unplanned child.
00:18:01.200 Tim Kaine supports murdering unplanned children.
00:18:03.940 Tim Kaine has voted repeatedly for years and years to murder at a national scale children who are born in inconvenient or unplanned circumstances.
00:18:15.540 Pete Hegseth doesn't support that.
00:18:17.560 Pete Hegseth thinks we need to defend children and protect the innocent.
00:18:21.200 And for that, for Pete Hegseth's moral clarity on a very important issue, Tim Kaine decides he's going to use that, going to use his own little kid to try to tank his nomination.
00:18:34.700 Absolutely revolting display from Tim Kaine.
00:18:37.800 He should be deeply ashamed of himself.
00:18:39.780 The words coming out of his mouth are the words of the devil.
00:18:42.620 That was disgusting.
00:18:44.100 Absolutely disgusting.
00:18:44.980 And it did not play well.
00:18:46.540 And Tim Kaine had that look on his face.
00:18:47.980 He looked like Jack Nicholson as the Joker in Tim Burton's Batman.
00:18:51.600 Wild hair.
00:18:52.360 Someone should have handed him a comb before he walked into the Capitol.
00:18:55.140 Wild hair.
00:18:55.700 Yeah.
00:18:56.320 And you had a kid.
00:18:57.980 Inconveniently.
00:18:59.240 Yeah.
00:19:01.900 Because Pete, unlike Tim Kaine, doesn't think we should murder children who are inconveniently conceived or born in unplanned circumstances.
00:19:10.200 Revolting, revolting.
00:19:11.600 And then Tim Kaine, almost worse, actually, in Tim Kaine's display, was when he came out and he just leveled all of these hypothetical questions at Pete Hegseth.
00:19:23.720 And then he didn't seem to know what a hypothetical question is.
00:19:27.100 Did you ever engage in any acts of physical violence against any of your wives?
00:19:31.380 Senator, absolutely not.
00:19:33.520 But you would agree with me that if someone had committed physical violence against a spouse, that would be disqualifying to serve as secretive defense, correct?
00:19:41.280 Senator, absolutely not have I ever done that.
00:19:44.480 You would agree that that would be a disqualifying offense, would you not?
00:19:48.880 Senator, you're talking about a hypothetical.
00:19:51.900 I don't think it's a hypothetical.
00:19:54.540 Violence against spouses occurs every day.
00:19:58.780 It literally was a hypothetical.
00:20:00.420 I don't know how to explain it in blunter terms to the U.S. senator.
00:20:06.640 But he said, first of all, he did the joke.
00:20:10.600 The joke is, hey, buddy, do you still beat your wife?
00:20:14.920 Which is a question that has no correct answer.
00:20:17.140 You say yes or no, you look bad.
00:20:19.820 So he actually does that.
00:20:21.180 There is no suggestion even anywhere that Pete Hegseth has ever been violent toward women.
00:20:26.040 And he says, do you still beat me to your wives?
00:20:28.240 He says, no, what are you talking about?
00:20:29.860 What?
00:20:30.420 He goes, yeah, but it would be disqualifying if you did, huh?
00:20:33.260 And Pete says, hold on.
00:20:33.900 I'm not going to engage in all these sorts of hypothetical questions.
00:20:37.720 Now, Tim Kaine said, if someone did such and such, that would be such and such.
00:20:46.260 And Pete says, that's a hypothetical.
00:20:48.600 I'm not going to engage with that.
00:20:50.400 Tim Kaine says, I don't think that's a hypothetical.
00:20:52.100 It's literally, when you're using the conditional tense, when you're using the subjunctive and
00:20:58.960 the conditional, and you're raising a hypothetical situation, that is a hypothetical question.
00:21:04.700 That might be the most scandalous aspect of this whole testimony.
00:21:08.080 That sitting U.S. Senators, all these Democrats, have a tenuous grasp, not just on the law and
00:21:15.500 political philosophy, they have a tenuous grasp on the English language.
00:21:19.280 And they did absolutely horribly, horribly.
00:21:23.140 Which is good for Pete, it's good for President Trump, good for America.
00:21:28.500 These nominees are going to sail through.
00:21:30.300 Now, other Democrat senators decided not to make the same mistake that Kirsten Gillibrand,
00:21:35.340 Tim Kaine, and Elizabeth Warren, and Tammy Duckworth, and all the rest of them were making.
00:21:40.280 John Fetterman, a man who, as he has recovered from a brain injury, has become more and more
00:21:45.840 right-wing, just went down to Mar-a-Lago to meet with President Trump.
00:21:50.700 Now, people are asking all sorts of questions.
00:21:52.380 There's a journal piece.
00:21:53.660 Is Fetterman moving to the right, or is he just kind of a cynical politician who sees which way
00:21:59.700 the wind is blowing?
00:22:00.740 To me, it's so clear it's the latter.
00:22:03.160 We joke about as he recovers from a brain injury, he's become more right-wing.
00:22:08.120 His previous positions, he's called himself a progressive.
00:22:11.040 He has supported Bernie Sanders.
00:22:13.800 He has supported letting criminals out of prison.
00:22:15.880 He's supported legalizing drugs.
00:22:18.580 He presently supports so-called same-sex marriage.
00:22:21.140 He has supported abolishing the filibuster in the Senate.
00:22:23.500 He has supported amnesty for illegals.
00:22:25.640 I think he's a man who is on the left who recognizes that the wind has blown in a very
00:22:32.680 different direction.
00:22:33.760 And that's great news for conservatives.
00:22:35.640 I'm happy to take Fetterman's support.
00:22:37.040 And who knows?
00:22:37.460 Maybe it is the case that as this man has grown in politics, as he has recovered from
00:22:41.900 an injury, he has become more conservative in a sincere way.
00:22:44.680 Maybe I'm perfectly open to that possibility.
00:22:47.600 But even if it's all just cynical and he just wants to succeed in the Senate during Trump's
00:22:51.580 administration, fine, I'll take it.
00:22:53.640 What that tells us, what John Fetterman going to Mar-a-Lago tells us is,
00:22:57.140 the conservative wing of politics is the mainstream.
00:23:03.940 Trump is the mainstream.
00:23:06.320 Mass deportations is a mainstream political position.
00:23:09.360 Woke, leftism, liberalism is in retreat.
00:23:15.280 And if you want to succeed in politics today, and I know it sounds implausible given what
00:23:21.080 we've gone through for the last 10 years, if you want to succeed in politics today, anywhere,
00:23:25.340 you want to get on Trump's good side.
00:23:29.640 I have a question for you.
00:23:31.880 Does Ben Shapiro have an okay radio voice?
00:23:34.800 Will I let my hair go gray, little touch of gray, pull a Mitt Romney?
00:23:39.660 Do reading glasses make conservatives look like lesbians? 1.00
00:23:42.680 These are just a few of the questions answered and finally put to rest in my latest episode
00:23:47.360 of Yes or No with Glenn Beck.
00:23:48.740 Check out this teaser.
00:23:51.160 The race card is more useful than an Ivy League degree.
00:23:54.840 You're one of those really, really educated, because I'm like a bus driver, okay?
00:24:00.140 You're talking to Ralph Crampton here, I have no idea.
00:24:04.800 You've seen the show.
00:24:18.160 Now you can join in the fun, by the way.
00:24:19.800 You know there is the yes or no game.
00:24:22.640 The game.
00:24:23.440 You can get it at dailyware.com slash shop.
00:24:24.920 I'll give you a little taste.
00:24:26.040 Here's a card right on the top.
00:24:27.860 It is possible for a Christian to be a socialist.
00:24:31.640 Mr. Davies, how would I answer that?
00:24:34.260 That's tough.
00:24:35.360 I say you would say yes, but they go to purgatory first.
00:24:41.920 It's a different question.
00:24:42.940 Is it possible to go to heaven even if you've been a socialist?
00:24:45.460 That, maybe.
00:24:46.980 But can a Christian, there's a simple answer. 0.98
00:24:49.700 You got it wrong, so you have to drink.
00:24:51.080 I don't know what kind of booze you have in the control.
00:24:52.560 This is the first loss I've gotten here.
00:24:54.020 Yeah, it's wrong, and do you know why?
00:24:56.580 You don't need to just use your own private understanding or anything.
00:24:59.360 It's because the Pope says so.
00:25:01.260 It's because Pope John XXIII said it is not possible for a Christian to engage even with
00:25:07.520 moderate socialism.
00:25:09.220 And he's following the logic of Blessed Pius IX, Pope Leo XIII, Pope Pius XI, then later on,
00:25:21.020 Pope John Paul II.
00:25:21.960 Some other popes haven't talked about it as much, but you can get your yes or no, the
00:25:26.900 game, with the expansion packs, lots of great expansion packs, to play with up to nine people.
00:25:32.120 Test your family's and friends' knowledge and opinions.
00:25:34.560 Go to dailywire.com slash shop to grab yes or no and watch the commercial-free and uncensored
00:25:39.460 episode of Yes or No with Glenn Beck exclusively on Daily Wire Plus.
00:25:43.220 So Fetterman went down to Mar-a-Lago to kiss the ring, meet with President Trump.
00:25:49.420 This is American Versailles.
00:25:50.900 It's beautiful.
00:25:51.360 I've been to Mar-a-Lago on a number of occasions.
00:25:53.420 Beautiful, beautiful place.
00:25:54.820 And it is effectively the center of power now, in much the same way that Louis XIV built
00:25:59.060 Versailles to be the center of power, outside of the imperial city, a little further away
00:26:05.280 so the devilish saboteurs have more trouble over there.
00:26:12.420 He goes down, and here's what Trump says about him.
00:26:16.780 It was a totally fascinating meeting.
00:26:18.980 He's a fascinating man, and his wife is lovely.
00:26:21.440 They were both up.
00:26:22.680 I couldn't be more impressed.
00:26:24.260 He's a common-sense person.
00:26:25.800 He's not liberal or conservative.
00:26:27.440 He's just a common-sense person, which is beautiful.
00:26:30.960 This is good stuff.
00:26:32.020 This would be my tactic as well.
00:26:36.780 This would be my response as well.
00:26:39.120 If you've got a guy who's on the other side of the aisle, who comes down to your home to
00:26:44.420 show you a little respect, you know, this is kind of like the mob.
00:26:48.160 He comes down, kisses the ring, shows a little respect.
00:26:51.440 You're going to be gracious to that person, and you're going to give him a reputation to
00:26:56.420 live up to.
00:26:57.540 Is John Fetterman a common-sense person?
00:26:59.480 Maybe he's done some things that could lead one, plausibly to conclude that.
00:27:04.460 Now, maybe he's just being cynical.
00:27:06.120 Maybe he's just testing something out.
00:27:07.460 But regardless, anyone who's ever run a company, anyone who's ever been a parent knows an effective
00:27:14.320 way to lead people is to give those people a reputation to live up to.
00:27:19.240 Oh, buddy, you wouldn't do that kind of naughty thing.
00:27:22.320 You're not the kind of person who would do that.
00:27:24.740 Talk to your employee.
00:27:25.740 You say, listen, I know you're capable of a lot.
00:27:28.760 I know you're really good.
00:27:29.940 You're going to do a great job.
00:27:32.100 You're giving them something to live up to.
00:27:33.580 And that's what Trump's doing here.
00:27:35.120 And I think this line is really important.
00:27:37.600 This, to me, sums up the whole election and the path forward.
00:27:41.340 Words like common sense.
00:27:44.900 Words like normal.
00:27:46.840 Really good.
00:27:47.520 This is how we have to think about it.
00:27:48.880 As I mentioned, I think, on a show earlier this week, the terms left and right come from
00:27:56.000 the French Revolution.
00:27:56.860 The right referred to traditional Catholic monarchists and the left referred to secular
00:28:01.060 liberal Republicans.
00:28:03.840 Those left and right don't exactly map onto our present political situation.
00:28:09.060 And now with everyone within the American right saying, you're secretly on the left.
00:28:15.140 No, you're on the left.
00:28:16.620 No, you're woke.
00:28:17.500 No, you're not a true conservative.
00:28:19.060 No, you're this.
00:28:19.700 No, you're that.
00:28:20.860 It's not helpful, especially with a coalition that just brought over a lot of Democrats,
00:28:25.900 brought over a Kennedy, Bobby Kennedy Jr., brought over another Democrat presidential
00:28:30.880 candidate, Tulsi Gabbard, brought over guys like Elon Musk, Joe Rogan, brought over
00:28:35.400 one of five black guys, brought over half of Hispanics, almost brought over 40% of women 0.93
00:28:39.540 under the age of 30.
00:28:40.900 A lot of people who consider themselves on the left, but just not with those guys, who
00:28:45.580 consider themselves independent or even kind of liberal.
00:28:49.340 These terms are not going to help.
00:28:51.320 You say, no, no, we like common sense.
00:28:53.140 Also because if you embrace common sense as your political moniker, then you are not going
00:29:00.080 to be bound up by fragile and insufficient ideologies.
00:29:06.520 And one of the tricks that the left uses on us, Solalinski writes about this in Rules
00:29:10.660 for Radicals, is the left forces us to live up to our own standards, standards that are
00:29:18.240 wise or unwise, right or wrong, but they force us to live up to our own standards.
00:29:21.620 They never play by those standards.
00:29:23.440 So they try to trip us up in ideology, ideology which in itself is dubious.
00:29:27.940 One way to avoid that is to just put ideology a little bit to the side and refer back to
00:29:34.320 common sense, refer back to just prejudice.
00:29:38.820 Recognize it in the words of Michael Oakeshott, ideology is the formalized abridgment of the
00:29:43.940 supposed substratum of rational truth contained in the tradition.
00:29:47.720 And we don't need it.
00:29:48.460 I know that's kind of a technical definition, but it's a good definition.
00:29:52.500 The formalized abridgment.
00:29:54.920 It's not the whole thing.
00:29:55.620 It's just this little abridgment of the supposed substratum of what we think lies at the very
00:30:01.800 heart of rational truth, our own little small stories of reason contained in the tradition.
00:30:07.600 We don't need to do that.
00:30:09.360 We don't need manifestos on a back of a napkin.
00:30:12.060 We can just be normal.
00:30:14.960 You know, you could just be normal.
00:30:16.680 We can just do the things that we've been doing before.
00:30:18.860 We can just use our common sense.
00:30:20.480 You don't need to write a 50-page essay to defend common sense.
00:30:24.520 You don't need to have 100 studies on why men shouldn't go into the women's bathroom. 1.00
00:30:29.280 You don't need to undertake years-long investigations with scientists and sociologists to explain why
00:30:36.600 face-tattooed Satan-worshipping criminal cartels should not be allowed to cross our border illegally.
00:30:41.820 Okay?
00:30:42.040 You can just do it.
00:30:43.160 Okay?
00:30:43.420 And if anyone has a problem with it, they can shut up.
00:30:46.000 You know, if some nerd says, oh, actually, we did a survey to show why Emma's 13 should
00:30:51.420 be allowed in America.
00:30:52.320 Like, give that guy a swirly.
00:30:53.620 Okay?
00:30:53.940 You don't need to study.
00:30:55.320 You don't.
00:30:55.800 You can just be normal.
00:30:56.900 It's okay.
00:30:57.900 And that's what Trump's saying to John Fetterman.
00:30:59.940 That's what John Fetterman's saying to his own party.
00:31:02.200 And that is a winning message for the American people.
00:31:06.380 Trump is normal.
00:31:07.440 He is normal now.
00:31:08.400 You want proof that he's normal?
00:31:09.520 Kerry Underwood is going to sing at his inauguration, and The View is furious about it.
00:31:14.540 I wouldn't do it, even though I can't sing.
00:31:16.200 You would not sing?
00:31:17.120 No, I would not.
00:31:17.920 I would not normalize him.
00:31:19.360 And she says, I love our country.
00:31:21.040 How do you love your country and support and normalize somebody who has a convicted felon
00:31:25.680 who really wants to destroy the country, in my opinion?
00:31:28.440 I don't understand how you say you love your country at the same time as you normalize
00:31:32.280 this convicted felon, which I can say now every day.
00:31:34.960 Respectfully, a lot of my family voted for Trump.
00:31:36.680 They love the country and vote for him.
00:31:38.020 I think that people make these decisions for a lot of reasons.
00:31:40.000 Okay, fine.
00:31:40.600 And I would not be the person to say, don't do it, because I believe in free speech and
00:31:44.400 everything about it.
00:31:45.420 I personally would not do it.
00:31:47.760 Joy Behar just said normal or normalize, what, three, four times there?
00:31:53.100 Joy Behar would not normalize the two-term president elected for only the second time in American
00:32:01.160 history to a non-consecutive second term who won the popular vote as a Republican for the
00:32:08.000 first time in 20 years.
00:32:09.620 A man who, before he ran for office, was the super famous, popular, billionaire mogul, beloved
00:32:19.720 host of a top-rated network television show for, what, 15 years?
00:32:25.100 I think he's normal.
00:32:28.860 Sorry to break it to you, Joy.
00:32:30.780 I'm pretty sure he's normal.
00:32:33.320 So you guys say, well, I don't want to normalize him.
00:32:35.360 Okay, he doesn't need you to normalize him.
00:32:37.800 He doesn't need Carrie Underwood to normalize him.
00:32:41.460 Trump is not normal because Carrie Underwood is singing at his inauguration.
00:32:46.680 Carrie Underwood is singing at his inauguration because he's normal.
00:32:50.240 He's the mainstream.
00:32:51.140 He's what most people like.
00:32:54.480 And if you want to win over most people, if you want to speak the language that most people
00:33:00.400 speak, you're going to get on board with him too.
00:33:04.800 Further proof of this, the chairman and CEO of Coca-Cola just took a picture giving President
00:33:12.160 Trump a commemorative inaugural bottle of Diet Coke, his favorite drink, Diet Coke.
00:33:17.460 I love this picture.
00:33:18.800 I love it, not because of the bottle, it's whatever, not because I care that much about
00:33:23.220 Coca-Cola.
00:33:23.720 I rarely drink Coca-Cola.
00:33:25.280 I love this picture because this is just the latest bit of evidence.
00:33:31.220 Following Mark Zuckerberg sucking up to Trump and giving him all that money for his inauguration
00:33:35.400 and changing the fact-checking rules after Trump's victory to finally let conservatives speak
00:33:41.400 on Facebook again.
00:33:42.660 And this Coca-Cola CEO is just the latest figure in corporate America to say, okay, you win,
00:33:51.540 buddy.
00:33:52.040 You win.
00:33:52.760 You're normal.
00:33:53.300 We're going to treat you.
00:33:54.580 And this is it.
00:33:55.120 This is all they're doing.
00:33:56.000 They're saying, we're going to treat you just like we would treat any other president.
00:34:01.400 That's it.
00:34:02.500 Corporations would give all sorts of funny little tchotchkes to other presidents, Democrat 0.92
00:34:06.420 and Republican.
00:34:07.160 They would donate to the inaugural committees of other presidents, Democrat and Republican.
00:34:14.060 It's not that they're giving Trump special treatment.
00:34:17.340 What's so gratifying is they're just finally treating him like any other president.
00:34:23.420 That was Trump's big battle.
00:34:25.600 We were told he was beyond the pale.
00:34:27.120 He was so crazy.
00:34:28.040 He was so extreme.
00:34:29.140 There's nobody like him.
00:34:30.080 We can't normalize this.
00:34:31.060 And he won the battle to be normal, to make his movement the normal movement.
00:34:40.500 It's massive.
00:34:41.540 So he's, in that way, he is much more significant than other presidents.
00:34:45.680 He's achieved much more than other presidents, obviously, just to the fact that he won a non-consecutive
00:34:50.180 second term.
00:34:51.600 But the sign of that is he is being considered among the other presidents.
00:34:57.600 We're normal again.
00:34:59.040 Who's on the other side?
00:34:59.940 This video, I cannot stop watching it.
00:35:05.060 Jennifer Rubin, who was the conservative columnist for the Washington Post, and a decade ago,
00:35:12.340 almost, she turned on Trump, and she would just constantly screech about how awful Trump
00:35:17.400 was, and how awful Republicans are, and how awful the conservatives are. 0.57
00:35:20.100 And she continued to pretend to be the conservative columnist for a while.
00:35:24.540 Then, when that was totally implausible, she said, well, you know, she's the pro-democracy
00:35:30.180 columnist.
00:35:31.260 She's one of those people, the principled conservatives.
00:35:34.720 The principled conservatives who support open borders, pro-abortion, marriage abolishing, 0.97
00:35:44.560 tax raising, America destroying Democrats.
00:35:47.980 But they're principled somehow, somehow because they oppose Trump.
00:35:49.960 So, she was doing that for a while.
00:35:51.920 She's just decided she's going to quit the Washington Post. 0.96
00:35:54.380 She is going to team up with Norm Eisen.
00:35:58.660 Norm Eisen, longtime Democrat staffer, worked for the ADL, one of the worst groups for censoring
00:36:06.080 people in the country.
00:36:08.000 Barack Obama's campaign, Barack Obama's White House.
00:36:11.040 He's just a big lib.
00:36:11.960 Jennifer Rubin is teaming up with him to bring back a major cultural movement to grab the
00:36:22.120 center of American politics and finally oust Trump.
00:36:25.020 This is what they're going to do.
00:36:26.520 Do politics.
00:36:28.020 We're going to do law.
00:36:29.100 But we know that any successful pro-democracy movement also has to be very vocal about culture.
00:36:37.380 We'll have a humor column.
00:36:38.940 We'll even have a cooking column, but we're going to sprinkle in a little bit of pro-democracy
00:36:46.120 flavor.
00:36:48.500 How do you do, fellow kids?
00:36:55.040 We're cool.
00:36:57.120 We have the culture.
00:36:59.580 We're going to write our screeds that people don't read anymore, but we're going to have
00:37:05.040 cartoons and recipes.
00:37:08.360 We know the culture.
00:37:09.980 Do you?
00:37:10.460 I don't know.
00:37:11.220 I have to correct something.
00:37:12.420 The producers just caught this.
00:37:13.960 When I described the American left and I talked about how they abolished marriage and opened 0.82
00:37:20.420 up our borders and destroyed our country. 0.88
00:37:22.120 These are the people these two have teamed up with.
00:37:24.960 Do you think this is the culture?
00:37:28.220 Do you think this is the mainstream?
00:37:29.880 They say it's pro-democracy.
00:37:31.540 They can't say it's conservative.
00:37:32.400 They say it's pro-democracy content.
00:37:34.580 What does pro-democracy mean when their opponents were just elected by most people?
00:37:42.740 It's not just that Trump won in the landslide in the Electoral College.
00:37:45.080 He won the popular vote and it wasn't particularly close.
00:37:48.960 What does pro-democracy mean when these anti-Trump lunatics take that title today?
00:37:57.800 What does pro-democracy mean when the democracy, any way you slice it, any definition of democracy,
00:38:04.700 the democracy supports Trump?
00:38:08.700 Are you tired of winning yet?
00:38:11.640 Are you not entertained?
00:38:13.160 This is not why you are here.
00:38:14.440 Are you tired of winning yet?
00:38:15.420 No.
00:38:16.980 No, the winning has only just begun.
00:38:19.620 The Daily Wire will be live in Washington, D.C. for the inauguration of Donald J. Trump as
00:38:23.780 he's sworn in as the 47th president of the United States.
00:38:26.500 We are not just going to watch history.
00:38:28.160 We're bringing it to you live and uncensored to celebrate the 47th president.
00:38:33.420 We are giving you 47% off new Daily Wire Plus annual memberships.
00:38:36.460 Plus, we're including a free $20 gift as a thank you for joining the fight.
00:38:40.140 Remember, Daily Wire Plus is the only place where you get our daily shows ad-free and uncensored,
00:38:44.540 plus unlimited access to premium entertainment, hit movies, groundbreaking documentaries.
00:38:48.700 Join the celebration.
00:38:49.540 Use code 47 at dailywire.com slash subscribe for 47% off your membership today.
00:38:56.600 My favorite comment yesterday is from Living Quite Simply.
00:39:01.460 Michael, I appreciate how polite you always are.
00:39:03.940 However, can you really call a woman who sleeps with 1,000 men a lady?
00:39:09.220 As a lady myself, I find it offensive.
00:39:11.640 Just as a gentleman must behave in a certain way, so does a lady. 1.00
00:39:14.360 I suppose that's fair.
00:39:16.800 I could call her a strumpet. 0.96
00:39:19.160 I could call her a hussy. 1.00
00:39:21.740 I could, I don't know.
00:39:22.860 There are all sorts of words I could call her.
00:39:24.660 Perhaps I was using the term with a hint of irony, and maybe also to give someone a reputation
00:39:30.360 to live up to, just as we were discussing earlier.
00:39:35.360 Now, speaking of the inauguration and the new administration and the confirmations and
00:39:40.080 what's going to happen in the first 100 days, President Trump has just announced
00:39:43.740 a really great idea.
00:39:46.500 This is not merely to reform the Internal Revenue Service, not merely, sometimes we hear conservatives
00:39:53.240 say they want to abolish the Internal Revenue Service, libertarians especially.
00:39:56.340 And look, I'd love to save money on my taxes, but Trump has a suggestion that I actually haven't
00:40:03.440 heard from anyone, but it's a very good suggestion.
00:40:05.640 He writes,
00:40:07.200 For far too long, we've relied on taxing our great people using the Internal Revenue Service,
00:40:12.780 IRS.
00:40:14.160 Through soft and pathetically weak trade agreements, the American economy has delivered growth and
00:40:18.180 prosperity to the world while taxing ourselves.
00:40:21.200 It is time for that to change.
00:40:23.140 I am today announcing that I will create the External Revenue Service to collect our tariffs,
00:40:29.820 duties, and all revenue that come from foreign sources.
00:40:33.120 We will begin charging those that make money off of us with trade, and they will start paying,
00:40:39.760 finally, their fair share.
00:40:42.580 January 20th, 2025 will be the birth date of the External Revenue Service, Make America Great Again.
00:40:49.400 I love this.
00:40:52.040 I love this.
00:40:52.620 There are going to be people, especially libertarians, who pull their hair out of their head because
00:40:57.400 they say they hate tariffs and tariffs are always bad.
00:40:59.380 And it's a betrayal of Republican and conservative principles to support tariffs, which is not true.
00:41:05.740 George W. Bush used tariffs.
00:41:07.740 Ronald Reagan famously used tariffs to protect U.S. steel.
00:41:10.740 We use tariffs.
00:41:12.500 The Republican Party, in fact, was founded on tariffs.
00:41:15.440 Abraham Lincoln said,
00:41:16.240 Give me a tariff, I'll give you the greatest nation on earth.
00:41:17.740 Abraham Lincoln, our first Republican president.
00:41:20.320 But
00:41:20.760 they'll still pull their hair out of their heads because they want total free trade. 0.94
00:41:27.160 But the problem is we don't really have free trade because all of our trading partners use tariffs themselves.
00:41:34.340 China manipulates its currency.
00:41:36.680 China subsidizes industries.
00:41:39.860 All sorts of countries use tariffs and rig trade agreements that are disadvantageous to us.
00:41:46.600 So, I love the way Trump uses this.
00:41:49.380 He says, we're going to make them pay their fair share. 0.96
00:41:50.960 The left and the right have been caught in this debate, running around in circles over who among the Americans to tax, to make them pay their fair share.
00:42:02.720 The 1%, they're the bad ones. 0.99
00:42:04.120 No, it's actually the bottom 50%.
00:42:05.280 Don't pay any taxes, practically.
00:42:06.920 And no, you're bad.
00:42:07.640 No, you're bad.
00:42:08.140 No, you're bad.
00:42:08.380 Hey, how about we make our adversaries, or if you want to look at it from a different perspective, our imperial subjects pay their fair share.
00:42:18.740 We're the global hegemon still, even though China's on the rise. 0.99
00:42:22.260 So, if you think about this in more classical political terms, usually empires grab money from the people that they have conquered.
00:42:31.080 And America conquers more through soft power and NGOs than through horrid military power.
00:42:35.660 But regardless, we're the global empire.
00:42:37.340 So, how about we benefit a little bit from that?
00:42:40.760 We have less internal strife, and then we don't need to worry about American citizens sleeping in tents in North Carolina because they haven't been able to recover from a hurricane.
00:42:49.300 We don't need to worry about people in Los Angeles who don't have homes because half that city burned down.
00:42:54.540 We don't have to worry so much about American veterans who don't have a pillow to lie their head on at night while we're sending all sorts of money all around to the rest of the world.
00:43:07.220 And then importing workers from the rest of the world to compete with American workers.
00:43:11.520 So, you know, everyone else gets all the benefits of the American empire, but the American citizens seem to be getting short shrift.
00:43:16.520 And Trump's saying, look, we're an empire, well, let's act like one, you know, and how about we give Americans some advantages as well, finally.
00:43:25.460 This gets to a broader point, though.
00:43:27.460 What should the newly elected Republicans do?
00:43:30.500 What do they do?
00:43:32.120 Trump won with a coalition that we have not seen in a very long time, really that we've never seen.
00:43:38.120 So, do we win over those new voters by saying all sorts of nice things,
00:43:43.760 but then just go back to doing the same thing Republicans have been doing for 30, 40 years?
00:43:48.500 Seems like a really great way to squander the new coalition we've made.
00:43:52.900 I was even thinking, I was talking with a friend of mine about this.
00:43:56.080 Why did Trump lose in 2020?
00:43:58.800 If you are of the sort that is inclined to say that he lost in 2020.
00:44:02.740 Let's just say Trump lost in 2020.
00:44:05.180 And there were not too many shenanigans.
00:44:07.820 Let's just say, let's just go with that.
00:44:09.220 Is it possible that he lost support from 2016 to 2020 in part because he didn't totally lean in to all of the promises he made to give himself that coalition that brought him to power in 2016?
00:44:23.420 You know, he didn't totally follow through on the tariffs.
00:44:25.820 He started to, COVID kind of interrupted that.
00:44:27.600 He didn't totally follow through on the wall and the deportations.
00:44:31.080 He didn't totally lean into immigration restriction.
00:44:33.520 He didn't totally, you know, what was the big legislative accomplishment was the tax cut.
00:44:38.480 And the tax cut was fairly unpopular fairly quickly.
00:44:41.580 I think, according to an NBC, Wall Street Journal poll in 2018, so about a year after the tax cut, the tax cut had something like 28% approval.
00:44:50.640 I like paying lower taxes.
00:44:52.280 I'm not complaining about a tax cut myself.
00:44:54.200 But politically, I don't know that it really worked.
00:44:57.780 And so maybe if Republicans want this coalition to be enduring, if we want to recognize, look, Trump broke the old kind of politics.
00:45:05.780 And he broke it for the better.
00:45:07.520 He assembled a stronger coalition than Republicans previously had.
00:45:11.200 But that means we got to live up to that now.
00:45:14.220 There are going to be a lot of entrenched interests that want to smack all that stuff down and just go back to business as usual and go back to the policies of George W. Bush and go back to the policies of the followers of Ronald Reagan, who in many ways, I think, betray Ronald Reagan's real legacy.
00:45:28.940 But regardless, are we just going to go back to that?
00:45:31.740 We're just going to pretend it's the 80s and the 90s and the 2000s again or no?
00:45:36.500 Are we going to follow through on President Trump's somewhat ambitious and clearly popular policies?
00:45:46.440 Trump's signaling he's going to move forward with this.
00:45:49.400 External revenue service.
00:45:50.640 We're not backing off of tariffs.
00:45:51.960 We're going to raise revenue from overseas.
00:45:54.900 And we're going to deport people who should not be here. 0.74
00:45:58.220 And we're going to lean into American greatness.
00:46:00.340 And we might even buy Greenland, for goodness sakes.
00:46:02.580 That – either we do that and maybe we keep winning in these landslide victories.
00:46:08.040 Or we can go back to business as usual and you can expect the same electoral results that we usually get.
00:46:12.860 Okay.
00:46:13.160 I have a really important guest coming on the show.
00:46:16.740 Adam Vina, who is the star of our new movie that we put out here, Identity Crisis.
00:46:20.260 Adam lost his child to the transgender ideology and to a mother who embraced the gender ideology. 0.98
00:46:31.300 We'll get into all of that in a moment.
00:46:32.960 The rest of the show continues now.
00:46:34.000 You do not want to miss it.
00:46:35.220 Become a member.
00:46:35.740 Use code NOLSKNWLES at checkout for two months free on all annual plans.
00:46:50.260 So who should be in the world.
00:46:53.380 They have fun and have fun.
00:46:54.880 Do not miss it.
00:46:55.440 And when you do not miss it.
00:46:56.300 You do not miss it.
00:46:57.320 No take care from it.
00:46:58.060 Go to heaven.
00:46:59.040 Go to heaven.
00:46:59.300 Go to heaven.
00:47:00.140 Go to heaven.
00:47:01.140 To me again.
00:47:10.680 Hail Sarah.
00:47:11.640 Sayka kaykaya kaykaya kaykaya.