The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 1672 - Woke State Rep. Sterilizes Herself To OWN Trump

00:00:00.000 A sitting Michigan legislator has sterilized herself to prove a point to President Trump.

00:00:05.760 A woke preacher in Tennessee urges his congregation to commit violence against

00:00:09.680 Elon Musk and other White House associates. A new report says Ilhan Omar really did marry

00:00:14.700 her brother, which is not only gross, but also immigration fraud. And to sum it all up,

00:00:20.420 psychologists are reporting that the new administration is driving the libs

00:00:25.700 clinically crazy. I'm Michael Knowles. This is The Michael Knowles Show.

00:00:30.000 Welcome back to the show. Everybody's talking about the Pope. I guess that shouldn't be any

00:00:52.540 surprise. You know, he's the Pope, but they're especially talking about him today because the

00:00:57.800 Pope sent a letter to bishops specifically concerning the mass deportations in the United

00:01:05.180 States. Even put a line in there about the Ordo Amoris, J.D. Vance's comment on the order of

00:01:11.300 charity. What does it all mean? Lots of criticism of the Pope right now. Is the Pope, is he just

00:01:19.780 being misunderstood? Is he really coming out against the Trump, Vance deportation policies?

00:01:26.660 Is Catholicism opposed to immigration law? So many questions that people have. And I will

00:01:33.620 endeavor to answer at least some of them by looking at what the Pope actually said.

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00:02:06.920 Now, speaking of babies and conception, there's this woman in Michigan. She's a state representative, 1.00

00:02:14.100 Lori Pahutsky, and she has sterilized herself in order to get back at Trump or something,

00:02:23.800 probably just to get back at her father, but Trump is in the figure of her father right now.

00:02:27.500 Now, this woman, she said, quote, just under two weeks ago, I underwent surgery to ensure that I

00:02:36.220 would never have to navigate a pregnancy in Donald Trump's America. I refuse to let my body be treated

00:02:42.700 as currency. What? By an administration that only sees value in my ability to procreate.

00:02:50.340 If you know people who are questioning how serious this is, I'm going to repeat myself, she says.

00:02:54.080 In case you weren't giving me attention before, I'm going to demand you give me attention.

00:02:59.000 She says, a sitting government official opted for voluntary sterilization because she was uncertain

00:03:04.780 that she would be able to access contraception in the future. Okay. This woman is apparently bisexual. 1.00

00:03:15.700 That's how she identifies. It's unclear if she's married. I tried to look it up. She might be

00:03:21.440 engaged to be married or she might be married. I don't know. It's hard to find. She doesn't seem

00:03:25.460 to have any kids. She's in her thirties, I think. So this woman has permanently foreclosed the 1.00

00:03:32.920 possibility of having biological children, unless, I don't know, unless she froze her eggs and plans 1.00

00:03:39.120 to do some witchcraft or something later on. But by all appearances, she has foreclosed the

00:03:45.420 possibility of having biological children. She has voluntarily sterilized herself because

00:03:51.520 Trump restricted abortion. Trump, because Trump last go around appointed judges who recognize that

00:04:02.540 there's no right to murder babies in the constitution. And so sent the issue back to the states,

00:04:07.560 the states, which have largely liberalized abortion, actually. Yikes, man, that is a level of crazy.

00:04:15.700 That is a level of self-harm that I have not seen even from the wackiest politicians out there. 0.99

00:04:24.840 You want to talk about cutting off your nose to spite your face? Also, implicit here, think about

00:04:31.260 what she's saying. Because what she's saying, contraception, but that's really a euphemism.

00:04:35.480 Because no one's suggesting that she won't be able to get condoms or something like that. No one's

00:04:42.440 suggesting that they're going to take the contraception pill off the market. There is some

00:04:48.840 debate about the legality of abortion and at what stage in pregnancy you're allowed to murder your

00:04:53.580 kid. That's all that's being debated. So when she says contraception, she's really talking about

00:04:58.280 abortion. This woman has now demonstrated through a permanent action that she's going to be 1.00

00:05:05.460 she would rather never conceive a child at all than not be able to murder her child. 0.74

00:05:14.800 That is a degree of moral perversion that astounds even me. And I pay close attention to politics and

00:05:22.900 very little surprises me. But that is some real crazy man. And if you are, if you're an undecided voter, 0.99

00:05:30.140 if you're in the center, if you're an independent, a disaffected dem or whatever, and you're looking

00:05:35.800 at both political parties right now, and you got the one side that says, hey, maybe we should have

00:05:40.020 borders and, you know, like bring costs down and just kind of live like a normal way. And then you

00:05:45.920 got the other side of women sterilizing themselves just to like get back at daddy Trump. Who are you 0.98

00:05:52.980 going to vote for? I don't know. That would not be a confusing decision for me. Now, speaking of

00:05:57.660 contraception, Elon Musk was in the Oval Office yesterday with his cute little kid. And he's

00:06:02.540 standing there next to President Trump, who's sitting at the Resolute desk. And Elon is fielding

00:06:07.060 questions from reporters, one of which concerned a claim that Doge, the Department of Government

00:06:14.340 Efficiency made. Doge claimed that the United States through USAID had been sending $50 million

00:06:20.060 of condoms to Gaza. Then it later came out that it appeared that maybe the $50 million of condoms

00:06:29.500 were going to Gaza in Mozambique, not Gaza in the Levant. So different Gaza. And this was somehow

00:06:35.940 supposed to make the funding better or less absurd. So Elon was asked about that. Here is his response.

00:06:44.340 And this is big numbers. It's talking about $100 to $200 billion a year. Serious money.

00:06:49.860 Mr. Musk, you said on X that an example of the fraud that you have cited was $50 million

00:06:57.300 of condoms were sent to Gaza. But after fact check this, apparently Gaza in Mozambique and the

00:07:05.620 program was to protect them against HIV. So can you correct the statements? It wasn't sent to Hamas,

00:07:11.460 actually. It was sent to Mozambique, which makes sense why condoms wasn't there. And how can we

00:07:16.740 make sure that all the statements that you said were correct so we can trust what you said?

00:07:21.380 I love this kid just like pulling his dad's hands.

00:07:22.980 Some of the things that I say will be incorrect and should be corrected. So nobody's going to

00:07:27.860 bat $1,000. I mean any, you know, we will make mistakes, but we'll act quickly to correct any mistakes.

00:07:32.980 I'm not sure we should be sending $50 million worth of condoms to anywhere, frankly. I'm not sure

00:07:41.700 that's something Americans would be really excited about. And that is really an enormous number of

00:07:46.100 condoms if you think about it. But if it went to Mozambique instead of Gaza, I'm like, okay,

00:07:51.860 that's not as bad, but still, you know, why are we doing that?

00:07:58.660 Love it. I love everything about this answer. Because one, he takes some responsibility. He

00:08:03.700 doesn't just totally deflect. He says, huh? Oh yeah. Okay. I guess we thought it was the one

00:08:07.780 Gaza, but it turns out it was the other Gaza. You know, okay. Honest mistake. But I don't know that

00:08:14.020 that makes it any better. You know, $50 million worth of condoms is a lot of condoms. Okay.

00:08:20.100 And this discussion of contraception is made all the funnier by the fact that Elon has his little

00:08:27.700 kid on his shoulders, tugging at his hat, you know, poking his face. And Elon is just like any dad

00:08:34.480 is just pretty much undisturbed by this. He kind of bats his kid's hand away. He's kind of playing

00:08:39.680 with him, pulling on his legs, whatever. But even just the fact that Elon brought a little kid into

00:08:45.920 the Oval Office, that's beautiful. Because think about this, Elon Musk is one of the busiest guys

00:08:51.300 in the world. Elon Musk has a bunch of kids. President Trump has a bunch of kids, but Elon

00:08:55.600 Musk has, I think, twice the number of kids or more. So Elon Musk has a lot of kids. He's running

00:09:00.740 some of the biggest companies in the country, and he's a senior advisor to the president of the

00:09:05.460 United States, and he's gutting zillions of dollars out of the federal government. He does not

00:09:10.080 have a lot of free time. So something tells me that if Elon Musk wants to see his kids,

00:09:15.600 he's got to integrate them into his extremely, perhaps singularly busy lifestyle. And that's

00:09:22.580 good. It's good to bring a little kid into the Oval Office every once in a while. It's good.

00:09:28.680 I remember I was at the Madison Square Garden rally right before the election, and I was sitting

00:09:33.080 right behind the Trump team little box down by the stage at the place where Elon was sitting.

00:09:39.460 Elon had his kid up on his shoulders there, too, and I thought it was very endearing.

00:09:43.860 If we want a culture that isn't dying, we need to have kids. And if we want to have kids,

00:09:49.980 we need to permit people to be with their kids in public places. Something that drives me really,

00:09:56.900 really crazy, you'll hear this at church sometimes. I don't care what denomination or flavor you attend.

00:10:02.840 You will see people get very, very angry when people's kids start crying in church.

00:10:10.640 But kids cry. That's what they do. And we want kids to be in church.

00:10:14.260 There's an old expression. If a parish is not crying, it's dying. Okay? I've been to plenty of

00:10:20.700 parishes where there aren't crying kids. And guess what? The median age is about 103 and the parish

00:10:25.980 isn't going to last very long. It's about to become a coffee shop or a mosque. All right? 1.00

00:10:30.820 That's what we need that stuff. I love it. It's like perfect. It's like that whole scene was

00:10:36.240 written in Hollywood or something. And it was actually written providentially, perhaps.

00:10:39.460 Because also, something the reporters fail to understand is there are Americans. I'm not even

00:10:44.020 saying it's the majority of Americans, but there are a lot of Americans who oppose sending condoms

00:10:49.320 anywhere because we don't think condoms are particularly moral or virtuous. We don't think

00:10:54.800 they're a good thing to be imposing on cultures, especially more traditional cultures.

00:11:00.480 Take a lesson from Elon and Trump. The most normal people in that room, weirdly enough,

00:11:05.780 they're extremely influential and successful and billionaires and all, but they have a real normality

00:11:12.460 to them. And the most normal people in that room have a bunch of kids and are cool with it.

00:11:17.600 And encourage that for others. It's the abnormal people who say, well, no,

00:11:23.720 we just need more condoms. $50 million of condoms to Gaza and, I don't know, maybe the other Gaza and

00:11:30.880 everywhere. But no kids. No, I don't. Yikes. We need to sterilize ourselves to prove a point to Trump. 0.76

00:11:36.700 No, you don't, lady. It's OK. It's all right. You just be normal. It's fine. There's so much more to 1.00

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00:12:48.900 President Trump keeps using military planes to deport illegal aliens, which I think is really

00:12:53.980 good and important. Military planes, you'll recall, were at the center of the first deportation

00:13:00.980 crisis of this second administration, which has only been around for like three weeks now. It

00:13:05.680 feels like it's been three years, but it was three weeks. Remember, Trump sent those military

00:13:08.840 planes full of illegals to Colombia. Colombia rejected them. Trump threatened to completely

00:13:13.260 nuke their economy. And then about an hour later, the president of Colombia sent the presidential

00:13:18.000 airplane to go pick them up. He actually was doing our job for us. So that was great. But at

00:13:23.820 the center of the face-saving side of that issue was this question of, well, can you put illegal

00:13:30.300 aliens on military planes? And the answer is yes. In fact, I think you must. Because the

00:13:35.200 United States needs to demonstrate that we are treating illegal immigration as a very serious

00:13:41.680 problem, as a national security problem, and we are willing to put the full weight and power

00:13:48.520 of the American nation and empire into solving this. And you know what the full weight of the

00:13:55.100 American power looks like? It looks like C-17s. That's what it looks like. 0.98

00:13:58.660 Okay. I'm not saying we need to, you know, strap them down and waterboard them while they're on

00:14:03.040 the airplanes, but we also don't need to send them first class on Emirates Airlines. Okay.

00:14:07.820 We can use these military planes to show that we're serious. Also, they have a pretty large capacity

00:14:15.940 because these images of illegal aliens being loaded up on military bases, that sends a message to people

00:14:23.720 who might make the mistake. They're on their way now from Venezuela or wherever, and they're crossing

00:14:30.260 through Mexico, and they might make the mistake because Joe Biden invited them in, that they're

00:14:34.500 going to be welcomed here, and they're going to get all sorts of financial benefits, and they're not

00:14:38.540 going to have to be subject to American laws. You get a few of those images. This is what Naive Bukele

00:14:44.120 learned in a much more severe way down in El Salvador. If you just post some images of people being

00:14:51.560 subject to the law in a serious way, crime is going to drop. People are going to stop breaking

00:14:56.140 the law. Now, big news on immigration. The Holy Father has weighed in. Pope Francis sent a letter

00:15:03.820 to bishops that has been widely reported in the media as condemning President Trump's deportation

00:15:11.220 policy, as even taking a shot at J.D. Vance and J.D. Vance's understanding of the order of charity,

00:15:17.220 the Ordo Amoris, which he brought to the national scene during a television interview with CBS a week

00:15:22.760 or so ago. What did the Pope actually say? If the Pope had really been coming out against

00:15:31.440 deportation generally, against immigration law, this would be a rather strange turn of events because

00:15:37.120 as Michael Haynes, the senior Vatican correspondent for LifeSite News points out, in December,

00:15:42.340 the Vatican made a base penalty of between one and four years in jail and a 10,000 to 25,000 euro fine

00:15:51.560 for anyone illegally entering the Vatican city-state. And then the penalties would increase

00:15:57.540 if the offender were to use guns, vehicles, disguises, or came in a group. So it'd be very strange

00:16:03.580 if the Vatican city-state, the last remnant of the papal states, if the Vatican were able to have

00:16:10.000 strict immigration laws, but the United States of America were not. So that can't possibly be what

00:16:14.600 the Pope was saying, right? All right, well, let's, because the Pope is often misinterpreted

00:16:18.660 in the press, and though there are sometimes real questions that are come up in this pontificate,

00:16:24.880 let's just read a little bit of what the Pope actually wrote. Dear brothers in the Episcopate,

00:16:28.580 I'm writing today to address a few words to you in these delicate moments that you are living as

00:16:32.640 pastors of the people of God who walk together in the United States of America. Okay, so right off the top,

00:16:36.880 we know, okay, we are focused on America here. This is about the U.S. It's going to be about U.S.

00:16:41.680 immigration policy. I like to recall, among other things, the words with which Pope Pius XII began

00:16:47.600 his apostolic constitution on the care of migrants, which is considered the Magna Carta of the churches

00:16:52.220 thinking on migration. Quote, the family of Nazareth in exile, Jesus, Mary, and Joseph,

00:16:58.240 emigrants in Egypt and refugees there to escape the wrath of an ungodly king are the model, 0.96

00:17:02.560 the example and the consolation of emigrants, emigrants, and pilgrims of every age and country,

00:17:08.820 of all refugees, of every condition who, beset by persecution or necessity, are forced to leave

00:17:15.040 their homeland, beloved family, and dear friends for foreign lands. Okay, so this is from Pope Pius XII.

00:17:21.200 Everyone loves Pope Pius XII. And he's saying that the Holy Family is the model of emigrants. Now,

00:17:28.400 it's worth remembering that the Holy Family never left the confines of the Roman Empire.

00:17:36.020 They did, in fact, flee. The family of Nazareth in exile did flee to Egypt,

00:17:41.340 which was also part of the Roman Empire. But it's true, they were fleeing a terrible local ruler who

00:17:46.220 wanted to slaughter our Lord. Certainly true. What does this mean, though? Even the word emigrant, 1.00

00:17:53.360 you know, an emigrant is one who leaves a country. An immigrant is one who comes into a country. 0.99

00:17:57.660 In practice, you know, the two are used interchangeably. But the Pope makes clear,

00:18:03.660 he says, we're talking about people who are forced to leave their homeland. So there's some people

00:18:08.320 who are being, you know, threatened with death, say, by a tyrannical government. And people flee

00:18:15.720 that country to escape death at the hands of some tyrant. That is not really what we're talking about

00:18:22.960 when we're talking about mass migration into America. That's what the liberals pretend is going 0.96

00:18:27.620 on. That's what a lot of the news reports say. Maybe there are some people in Rome who actually

00:18:32.600 believe those news reports. But by and large, the migrants who are coming into the United States

00:18:36.580 are economic migrants. They're not fleeing immediate persecution or the immediate threat

00:18:42.100 of violence. They just want to make more money in America. And I understand that they want to make

00:18:45.600 more money. But that's a different thing. The Pope here is saying that the Holy Family is the

00:18:50.200 representatives of the symbol for all those who are forced to flee their homeland. But when we're

00:18:57.800 talking about mass migration to America, by and large, that's not what we're talking about. Okay.

00:19:01.200 The Pope goes on. The rightly formed conscience cannot fail to make a critical judgment and express

00:19:06.740 its disagreement with any measure that tacitly or explicitly identifies the illegal status of some

00:19:13.480 migrants with criminality. This is the first line where I think, all right, this is a little bit 1.00

00:19:18.540 confusing. The Pope says the rightly formed conscience cannot fail to make a critical judgment

00:19:25.860 and express disagreement with any measure that says that illegal aliens have committed a crime.

00:19:34.000 Now, perhaps the confusion arises from just not understanding the U.S. code because the U.S.

00:19:40.420 federal law identifies illegal crossing as a crime. The first time that someone crosses the border

00:19:47.420 illegally, that's a misdemeanor. And if you do it multiple times, that's a felony.

00:19:53.400 So is the Holy Father saying that the rightly formed conscience must express disagreement with

00:20:00.980 the U.S. code on a basic question of immigration, longstanding law? That could not possibly

00:20:10.340 be what he's saying, right? So that, I don't know, that's a little bit confusing. Perhaps that line

00:20:14.020 calls for some clarification. Are we now saying the entirety, the most basic aspects of U.S.

00:20:20.600 immigration law must be rejected by a rightly formed conscience? That couldn't possibly be.

00:20:27.200 At the same time, the Pope says, one must recognize the right of a nation to defend itself and keep

00:20:31.440 communities safe from those who have committed violent or serious crimes while in the country or prior to

00:20:35.860 arrival. Yeah, okay, totally agree with that. Totally normal. We, no one would disagree with that.

00:20:42.300 Then here's where the rubber meets the road. This is the second kind of confusing line in this letter.

00:20:47.340 That said, the act of deporting people who in many cases have left their own land for reasons of

00:20:53.300 extreme poverty, insecurity, exploitation, persecution, or serious deterioration of the environment

00:20:59.200 damages the dignity of men and women and of entire families and places them in a state of 0.99

00:21:05.120 particular vulnerability and defenselessness. So this is to say, deporting people who are in the 0.51

00:21:10.820 country illegally, who have left, not just for immediate threat of violence or something like

00:21:16.360 that, but because they're poor, because they feel insecure, because their natural environment has

00:21:24.740 deteriorated, that that damages the dignity of men and women. So this is the line I think that people

00:21:31.820 are going to say means that the Pope is saying that we just can't deport people, period.

00:21:37.240 Now, I'm going to get into what other Popes have said on this, just to help clarify Catholic

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00:23:03.140 for many of the reasons that people have come here into America illegally, that that damages their

00:23:07.820 dignity. Now, Pope Benedict, Pope Benedict XVI, of blessed memory, he said on World Day of Migrants

00:23:14.700 2010, quote, states have the right to regulate migration flows and to defend their own frontiers,

00:23:21.660 always guaranteeing the respect due to the dignity of each and every human person.

00:23:26.780 Okay, yeah, okay, that makes sense, clear enough. Pope John Paul II, Pope St. John Paul II in 2001

00:23:31.860 said, quote, or he said even, quote, highly developed countries are not always able to assimilate

00:23:37.640 all those who emigrate. Certainly the exercise of such a right to emigrate is to be regulated

00:23:44.660 because practicing it indiscriminately may do harm and be detrimental to the common good of the

00:23:50.300 community that receives the migrant. So true. John Paul II, again in 1996, illegal immigration should 0.99

00:23:57.940 be prevented, but it is also essential to combat vigorously the criminal activities which exploit

00:24:03.880 illegal immigrants. So true. So then how could it possibly be that deporting illegal aliens damages

00:24:09.880 their dignity? Is this to say that deporting people who are here illegally, especially in this case with

00:24:18.060 President Trump, we're talking about people who've right now committed very serious crimes. Is it,

00:24:23.440 is that not a way to regulate migration? Is that not a way to prevent migration? It seems to me if you

00:24:28.920 don't deport at least some of the illegal aliens who are here, that you would be encouraging, you would 1.00

00:24:34.400 be incentivizing more illegal immigration. And in fact, you'd be encouraging the criminal cartels that 0.98

00:24:39.260 control the southern border and the illegal immigration flow. That's, this is a very confusing

00:24:43.440 statement. And, and it would be good perhaps to have some clarity on this statement from, from the

00:24:49.500 bishops, from the Holy Father, from Rome. Anyway, the Pope goes on. The true common good is promoted

00:24:54.840 when society and government welcomes, protects, promotes, and integrates the most fragile,

00:24:59.840 unprotected, and vulnerable. This does not impede the development of a policy that regulates orderly

00:25:04.480 and legal migration. Okay, well, there you go. That's good. Makes sense. You don't, you don't see

00:25:10.420 those lines really so much in the reporting, but there he's saying, yeah, yeah, states have the right to

00:25:13.860 regulate migration. Great. Then, final point. The Pope says, Christian love is not a concentric

00:25:20.760 expansion of interests that little by little extend to other persons and groups. In other words,

00:25:25.840 the human person is not a mere individual, relatively expansive with some philanthropic

00:25:29.560 feelings. The human person is a subject with dignity who, through the constitutive relationship

00:25:34.740 with all, especially with the poorest, can gradually mature in his identity and vocation.

00:25:40.940 You say, okay, what's he talking about here? Well, the Pope makes clear what he's talking about.

00:25:44.600 He says, the true ordo amoris, that's the line that J.D. Vance just used. So, this is clearly a response.

00:25:50.760 To Vice President Vance, the true ordo amoris that must be promoted is that which we discover

00:25:55.700 by meditating constantly on the parable of the Good Samaritan. That is, by meditating on the love

00:26:00.380 that builds a fraternity open to all without exception. Okay, hmm. Clearly a criticism of J.D.

00:26:08.180 Vance. But what is this? Christian love is not a concentric expansion of interests that little by

00:26:12.960 little extend to other persons and groups. Well, I don't think J.D. Vance would say that. I don't think

00:26:16.180 that's what he said at all. In other words, the human person is not a mere individual,

00:26:19.980 relatively expansive with philanthropic feelings. Yeah, yeah. I don't think J.D. Vance says that he

00:26:24.860 is. I don't. In fact, whatever is being described here by the Holy Father, I don't think that

00:26:32.060 represents what J.D. Vance was saying about the ordo amoris and doesn't represent what St. Augustine

00:26:40.140 said about the ordo amoris or what St. Gregory the Great or Bernard of Clairvaux or St. Thomas Aquinas

00:26:48.040 says about the order of charity, the ordo cartatis and the summa theologiae. Or I don't, so, hmm,

00:26:53.980 I don't know. Maybe something's just sort of lost in translation here. I think that's probably a way

00:27:00.720 to understand this. The vast majority, all of that to say, the vast majority of attacks on popes,

00:27:09.500 popes, including Pope Francis, are nonsense. Generally speaking, I've heard so many attacks

00:27:17.120 on popes. Generally speaking, they are attacks on things that popes have not actually said or done,

00:27:24.340 or they are just broad attacks on Catholicism by people who disagree with Catholicism, which,

00:27:30.440 you know, okay, fair enough. Your mileage may vary, but that's not really then a criticism of a pope.

00:27:35.300 It's a criticism of the faith. There are, it seems to me, I don't want to be accused of just

00:27:42.540 flacking for the pope, you know, reflexively. I have a reverence and love for the Holy Father

00:27:47.780 by virtue of the fact that he is the pope, but I don't want to be accused of just like flacking for

00:27:53.520 him. There are legitimate questions. There is, I think, a legitimate confusion that comes out of

00:28:00.120 this letter that merits reflection on the fullness of the Catholic tradition, and I think that merits

00:28:07.480 the prudential judgment of bishops to clear up ambiguities. Because in a couple instances here,

00:28:14.840 I don't, you know, it's just, it's a little, it's a little unclear. Something perhaps has been lost in

00:28:20.060 translation. Now, turning closer to home for the question of immigration, there is a new report out

00:28:26.080 that Ilhan, not Ilhan, Ilhan, very different people. Ilhan, good, Ilhan, not so good. Ilhan Omar

00:28:33.200 did, in fact, according to the Daily Mail, marry her brother. There was this rumor some years ago,

00:28:40.860 Ilhan Omar got married in a Somali ceremony, big Somali ceremony in America,

00:28:47.840 maybe wasn't registered with the government. It was just a religious ceremony. And then later on,

00:28:53.160 she married a second time, this random guy. But then she had a kid with the first husband

00:28:59.620 and this random guy. It didn't, it looked a little dodgy. And then some people suggested that it was

00:29:04.600 her brother. Now, Ilhan Omar initially denied that she married her brother. Then she and her office

00:29:11.320 stopped denying it quite so vociferously as more information came out. Well, now, I'm not the one

00:29:17.960 reporting, and it's the Daily Mail. It says, exclusive Ilhan Omar did marry her brother and

00:29:22.940 said she would do what she had to do to get him papers to keep him in the U.S., reveals Somali

00:29:28.040 community leader. So, according to this leader, Abdi Hakim Osman, she said she needed to get papers

00:29:37.440 for her brother to go to school. We all thought she was just getting papers to allow him to stay in

00:29:41.020 the country. And so, she married him, I guess. And this turned out much, much later. No one even

00:29:46.740 knew about the wedding, apparently, at the time. I have a little offbeat take on this as a conservative

00:29:53.240 and someone who doesn't like Ilhan Omar that much. If this report is true, there is something

00:30:00.060 actually charming about her desire to help her brother stay in America and go to school or whatever.

00:30:08.160 There's actually something sweet in a weird way about her willing to really extend herself

00:30:15.540 to help him in a way that is weird and might damage her reputation. However, this is the wrong

00:30:23.980 way to go about it. This is illegal. It's gross. I'm not saying they did the things married people 1.00

00:30:30.840 do. It's just gross to even think about. Plus, it's not as though the brother, speaking of refugees,

00:30:37.100 refugees were fleeing some war-torn country. According to this report, the brother had been

00:30:41.560 living in London and just fell under the sway of some bad hombres and was getting involved in kind

00:30:47.120 of weird London party scenes. And so, the father wanted him to come to Minnesota to dry out a little

00:30:51.520 bit. And so, this is not the way to do it. But it shows you, the reason this is politically

00:30:58.900 interesting, not just tabloid fodder, is it shows you the depth of our immigration crisis.

00:31:04.860 If this report from the Daily Mail is true, then a sitting legislator, a very prominent

00:31:13.400 sitting federal legislator, personally committed immigration fraud. That is a deep level of an

00:31:22.780 immigration crisis. The kind of crisis that it would seem to me would impel a just civil authority 0.96

00:31:32.320 to rigorously and thoughtfully begin to enforce the immigration law, lest we lose this whole system,

00:31:39.600 lest we lose the very distinguishing features of a nation. And if Ilhan Omar denies this, let her deny

00:31:47.700 let her show some kind of proof. Somalia didn't keep particularly good records around this time.

00:31:52.660 So, we might never know for sure, but it seems like the people in her community think the lady

00:31:57.300 did marry her brother, which is gross and illegal. It is also gross for legislators to violate basic

00:32:04.980 laws of their country. Now, speaking of weird sexual behaviors, there is a fella who thinks that 0.99

00:32:12.220 he's a lady, or at least pretends to be a lady, who is in Congress now, first ever trans-identifying

00:32:16.580 member of Congress, Tim, quote-unquote Sarah McBride, and Representative Mary Miller, one of my

00:32:22.540 absolute favorite Republicans in Congress, has just introduced Mr. McBride in a controversial way.

00:32:31.540 The chair recognizes the gentleman from Delaware, Mr. McBride, for five minutes.

00:32:38.660 Mr. McBride, very, very controversial. Why is this controversial? I can't quite

00:32:46.460 tell you why this is controversial. Because it's rude, allegedly. Is it rude? Seems to me it's rude

00:32:52.900 to lie to someone. It's rude to know the truth, but just to coddle someone, an adult, a member of

00:33:02.120 the federal legislature, because you think that person is just so crazy and so fragile and so

00:33:06.860 ready to go off his rocker that he can't handle even basic truths about his identity.

00:33:11.960 We have to do this. I do not want to hear a single Republican referring to this guy as Sarah

00:33:17.160 or as Miss or the lady or whatever. We have to do this. Not to be cruel, not to upset this guy's

00:33:25.420 feelings. If he's really that worked up and fragile, he should probably check himself into an asylum.

00:33:32.340 We have to do this because the moment that a Republican calls this man Sarah, which is a

00:33:42.540 girl's name, the moment a Republican calls this man Miss or Miss, whatever, you know, the lady from

00:33:49.840 Delaware, then we have just accepted the transgender ideology, which is a false account of human nature. 1.00

00:33:56.160 Then we've accepted this gnostic, bizarro, occult, just deeply damaging fake news about human nature.

00:34:06.540 And we're going to trans the kids because you have to, because if transgenderism is real, 0.99

00:34:10.580 then it's real for kids too. And if it's real for kids, you should trans them if they're trans. 0.68

00:34:14.520 If that's how human nature works, then you should do it, obviously. But it's not real. So we should

00:34:18.640 stop pretending for everyone. You got to do it. Clarity is charity. You know, when you join

00:34:25.140 Daily Wire Plus, you're making a statement, a refusal to be spoon-fed the nonsense shoved down

00:34:29.440 your throat by the establishment media. Becoming a Daily Wire Plus member is not just about access

00:34:33.160 to content. It's about standing up for truth in a world that treats truth like a disposable

00:34:37.880 inconvenience. Every dollar you spend goes directly into building the future because America's future

00:34:43.360 will not build itself. Join the fight today, dailywire.com slash subscribe. My favorite comment

00:34:48.160 yesterday is from Mr. Dillinger, who says, and I didn't pick this one. So this is the producers.

00:34:54.620 We're going to see if this is actually my favorite. Not naming JD as the successor means

00:34:59.220 that the opposition does not have a definite target. That's also true. That's a good point.

00:35:04.920 My take on it was, it gives incentives for the other members of Trump's cabinet. People like

00:35:10.240 Marco Rubio to keep working and doing a good job because you know that guy wants to run for

00:35:13.620 president. He's already run for president. So if Trump right now says, okay, JD is my successor.

00:35:19.080 Okay, immediately Trump is a lame duck. All the focus is on JD. The power flows to JD. 0.95

00:35:24.760 Rubio's totally disengaged. He might want to quit the administration, go start launching his campaign.

00:35:29.220 Other people who might want to run for president, same thing. But you're right. That's the carrot side.

00:35:34.260 The stick side of it is you don't want to make a target. Yeah, that's a fair point.

00:35:40.420 Okay. Now, speaking of members of Congress, Ayanna Pressley, member of the squad, she's kind of like 1.00

00:35:47.340 the Ringo of the squad. She's not the most prominent squad member. Congressman Ringo,

00:35:54.880 Ayanna Pressley, is complaining that the state of Iowa is too white. 0.83

00:35:59.880 Governor Reynolds, my Republican colleagues invited you here today to promote what they see

00:36:04.840 as a model of governance. Simply put, Republicans' vision of America is to be more like Iowa.

00:36:13.500 Governor Reynolds, let's learn more about the state. Do you know what percentage of Iowans are white

00:36:20.000 and what percentage are black?

00:36:23.220 I don't know the exact percentages now. We're by far a larger percentage of white population.

00:36:29.840 That's correct. Iowa is 90 percent white and only four and a half percent black.

00:36:36.700 So that is drastically different from the national population. So when Republicans suggest Iowa

00:36:42.060 should be a national model, they're advocating for a government that doesn't reflect our country.

00:36:47.680 Okay. So that's true. Iowa is a rather white place. 0.85

00:36:55.100 Ayanna Pressley's argument is it's too white to serve as a model for the country. Now, of course, 1.00

00:36:59.940 I hate, I don't even want to say this. I don't, it makes me feel icky because it, it brings me back

00:37:04.620 to the days when the conservative pundits would always say, could you imagine if the shoe were on

00:37:08.000 the other foot? Could you, what if the roles were reversed? But just, just, just to establish as a

00:37:14.080 premise of the argument here, this woman obviously would never drag, you know, the mayor of Oakland 0.99

00:37:20.120 or Chicago before the panel and say, excuse me, do you know that your city is disproportionately black? 0.96

00:37:25.940 Your city is too black to serve as a model for the nation. No, what they would do is they say, 1.00

00:37:30.060 oh, you're so much blacker than the nation. What a model of diversity. Everything you're doing must be

00:37:36.880 working so well. You are truly a multicultural model and diversity is our strength. If only your

00:37:43.500 city were a hundred percent black, all the better that would be. That's what you would hear. So this 1.00

00:37:48.300 is not a principled argument that Ayanna Pressley is making. It's an expression of disdain for white

00:37:53.360 people. It's just an expression of contempt, but it's not grounded in any kind of principle. 0.66

00:37:58.920 Uh, now she makes the final part of her argument. Governor Reynolds, the Iowa Legislative Services

00:38:06.900 Agency conducted a non-partisan analysis of that bill. Do you know how much money was saved

00:38:12.780 when you eliminated those commissions? Actually, it was not about saving money. It was about

00:38:17.600 putting more resources behind, uh, the Department of Human Rights so that we could actually provide

00:38:24.340 them more resources for minority communities. Reclaiming my time. Let me help you with the

00:38:32.540 math. Roughly $112,000 in your state budget was saved. So that is 0.001 percent. Barely a rounding

00:38:46.520 error. Wow. This shows you the, the degree of insight, uh, the, the adaptability of the Democrats

00:38:56.220 in the legislature. Ayanna Pressley went in locked and loaded to say, it is bad that you oppose DEI

00:39:02.720 because you didn't actually save that much money. That was her argument. And the line of attack was,

00:39:10.000 do you know how much money does DEI stuff cost? And Kim Reynolds, the governor of Iowa has a perfect

00:39:16.020 response. She goes, oh yeah, it wasn't about the money. That's, we didn't get rid of it because

00:39:20.240 of the, to save money. We got rid of it because it was bad. And we wanted, we, the only way the

00:39:25.300 money factors is we wanted to reallocate resources to, to better things. But the, the issue was the

00:39:30.640 principle. In principle, it was bad. She was reclaiming my, shut up, stop talking, stop. I had a good

00:39:35.440 argument going here. No, you actually had a bad argument going and I'm just correcting you because

00:39:38.940 you're, you're misunderstanding what my motives were. Not reclaiming, I'm reclaiming my time.

00:39:43.900 Who is a hundred thousand dollars or whatever. You think like, yeah, no, lady, that's not the 1.00

00:39:48.800 point. You completely, the point is completely flown over your head. That money spat, it was so good.

00:39:56.760 So like, oh, oh, Democrats, you don't even know what we're arguing about. Don't forget,

00:40:05.980 DEI was a major issue in this campaign. It was, when people went to the voting booth,

00:40:12.360 they were voting on DEI. Trump did not hide the ball here. Democrats did not hide the ball. DEI

00:40:17.240 was on the ballot. Most people voted against DEI. Huge swaths of every population, the white people,

00:40:24.960 the brown people, the black people, the, the people on this coast and that coast and up and down and

00:40:31.360 everywhere else voted against DEI. And Ayanna Pressley doesn't know the whole, the Democrats don't know how

00:40:38.200 to respond to that. They're trying to make these kind of technocratic arguments. Actually, it wasn't

00:40:44.580 that expensive. And actually this percentage of the population, this means that your state is

00:40:50.800 unrepresentative, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. No, forget your statistics. Forget the financial

00:40:59.120 tabulations. People voted on principle here. This was an ideological battle in this election.

00:41:06.320 We just rejected your ideas. No one likes that. That stuff ain't selling. Take that back to 2012.

00:41:14.160 Okay. Ayanna Pressley, that ain't, we're in 2025. Okay, lady, you know, your Jedi mind tricks don't 0.99

00:41:19.980 work on us anymore. Okay. Now turning to funnier differences of opinion, Snoop Diggity-Doo Dog,

00:41:26.660 I didn't want to miss this before we totally move on from the Super Bowl news cycle. Snoop Dogg,

00:41:31.560 before the game, he ripped Bill Belichick. It's Bill Belichick, who is up there in age. I believe

00:41:39.300 he's 72 years old. He now has a 24-year-old girlfriend. Here's Snoop Dogg's little riff on

00:41:45.500 it. Because I've been a football fan for a long, long time. I mean, I remember back when the Cowboys

00:41:52.620 was good. I remember back when the Chiefs was bad. And I remember, what was it? Bill Belichick's

00:42:06.120 girlfriend wasn't even born yet. Okay, that's, I cut to her. She's a little embarrassed. She's

00:42:19.120 giggling, wearing a somewhat revealing dress. I bring it up because it's an important lesson

00:42:27.260 for all of you. I remember when the news came out that Bill Belichick is dating this girl who's like

00:42:31.340 almost 50 years younger than him. And I said, oh, you know, she could be his granddaughter. It's

00:42:36.540 not even she's young enough to be his daughter. She's young enough to be his granddaughter.

00:42:40.120 And I thought, that's humiliating. No knock on Bill Belichick. I'm sure he's a fun guy to hang

00:42:47.080 around with. But I don't want to be that. No one wants, no one looks at that and says, yeah,

00:42:55.920 that's what I want for myself. Why? Because in principle, you think, especially if you don't

00:43:01.360 take moral considerations into it, you just think, oh man, this guy, he's like this older guy.

00:43:05.760 I mean, he's got this, you know, cute young thing, 24-year-old girl. Wow, that's every guy's dream,

00:43:10.500 right? Except it's not. You would be embarrassed to go out to dinner with your friends. People would

00:43:15.120 talk about you. Snoop Dogg would make jokes about you. Why? Because there's no escaping reality.

00:43:20.180 And that is a lesson that pertains to, well, we've talked about it a lot with the transgender

00:43:26.540 movement. You see it really broadly with the LGBT movement, the whole DEI movement, so much of leftist

00:43:34.000 utopian policies just come down to, man, you can't escape reality. You can yell, you can be really

00:43:40.380 angry that I don't call you a woman or whatever, but you just, you can't escape it. You can't, I know, 0.99

00:43:47.880 I know you're like a really rich, famous guy, and you're one of the greatest football figures ever

00:43:54.040 in all of history, and you want to date this smoking hot young girl, but people will still 0.93

00:44:00.920 make fun of you for it, actually. It's still kind of dishonorable, because even you, even you,

00:44:07.880 Bill Belichick, you can't escape reality. A lesson for all of us to take to heart. Okay,

00:44:12.020 before we go, there's one little clip here. Chattanooga, a Baptist pastor, has been encouraging

00:44:18.660 his congregation to commit violence against Elon Musk and Republicans. Take a listen.

00:44:24.360 And in this nation, I'm worried that we are on the verge of bloodshed.

00:44:30.240 This is an attempt to take us back to a day that we do not want to go, and we will not go.

00:44:37.180 Therefore, there will be conflict. I pray that the peace of God will win out and overcome the

00:44:44.900 madness that is attempting to take over this nation. And I will say to you, beloved, no one likes

00:44:51.000 violence, but sometimes violence is necessary. When Elon Musk forces his way into the United States

00:44:58.480 Treasury and threatens to steal your personal information and your Social Security check,

00:45:03.260 there is a possibility of violence. Sometimes the devil will act so ugly that you have no other

00:45:13.060 choice but to get violent and fight. Well, someone might say, now, Reverend, you know, you shouldn't

00:45:20.760 be talking about violence. This isn't the Christian thing to do. Well, I will say, why not talk this way? 1.00

00:45:28.880 Because Jesus did. Jesus said in this key verse, didn't he? The kingdom of heaven suffers what?

00:45:36.600 Violence. And the who? The violent take it by force.

00:45:42.560 Okay, first take. Reading Scripture out of context has been a disaster for the human race.

00:45:51.160 Because I think it's good to read Scripture liturgically, actually. But at the very least,

00:45:55.860 you have to read it within context, what is being described here, the ministry of St. John the

00:46:02.760 Baptist is what's being described in that verse of Scripture. Not going in and shooting Elon Musk

00:46:08.620 because you're afraid that he's going to cut some government programs or something.

00:46:14.880 There is no other way to interpret what that Baptist pastor said. He is calling for violence

00:46:21.080 against Elon Musk and associates because Elon Musk is following through on President Trump's

00:46:28.860 directive to make the federal government more efficient, which is entirely legitimate and

00:46:33.920 within the purview of the executive branch. Okay, this after Trump was shot in the ear,

00:46:42.140 nearly murdered twice. This after Steve Scalise was shot and nearly killed at the congressional

00:46:47.520 baseball game. This after Rand Paul was beaten to within an inch of his life, had a part of his

00:46:52.160 lung removed because his neighbor beat him up so badly. This after Brett Kavanaugh was nearly

00:46:56.300 murdered by a leftist who came across the country to assassinate him and maybe his whole family

00:47:00.300 in his home. And this is the kind of stuff we hear. Frankly, this Baptist preacher's comments make

00:47:07.360 the Pope's comments on migration seem relatively mild. The implicit criticisms of the administration

00:47:13.360 seem rather mild compared to, you need to be violent against these Republicans. But this is what we've

00:47:18.400 heard. We've heard this not just from preachers in Chattanooga in recent years. We've heard this kind of

00:47:24.020 stuff from Maxine Waters. You push back on Republicans when you see them in public, specifically with

00:47:29.760 regard to the Trump administration the first time. Hillary Clinton, you can't be civil with Republicans.

00:47:33.740 Eric Holder, all these major Democrat figures said this. Really, this is a deep madness,

00:47:44.400 a moral madness, and maybe a psychological madness, which some psychologists are actually reporting,

00:47:48.800 but we'll have to get to that tomorrow. The rest of the show continues. Now, you do not want to miss it.

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Ep. 1672 - Woke State Rep. Sterilizes Herself To OWN Trump

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