The Michael Knowles Show - February 13, 2025


Ep. 1673 - Wild Political Week RECAP


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A Democrat is trying to figure out why young women might want to get married and have kids, instead of working on an industrial assembly line. And she thinks she has identified the answer: it s called lady-facturing.

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00:00:37.780 Amid our many pressing national problems, a Democrat Congress lady has devoted her time
00:00:43.120 to figuring out why young women might want to get married and have kids
00:00:48.040 instead of working on an industrial assembly line.
00:00:51.640 And she thinks she has identified the answer.
00:00:54.940 Yesterday, I met with a manufacturing company, but they also are engaged in getting young people
00:01:04.620 more engaged in manufacturing.
00:01:08.980 So I asked them, so how many of those students that are signing up and want to do this, how many are women? 0.96
00:01:17.940 And they said, well, I know there's at least 13% or something.
00:01:26.540 It was a low number.
00:01:28.620 And you had mentioned trying to engage more women in manufacturing. 1.00
00:01:35.020 I'm just wondering if just the name manufacturing sounds like a guy.
00:01:40.740 Man-u-facturing sounds like a guy.
00:01:48.540 Now, some will observe that manufacturing actually comes from the Latin words for hand
00:01:54.360 and make, manu-factum.
00:01:57.280 But so what?
00:01:58.760 Maybe if we start calling it lady-facturing, maybe then little girls will put aside all those 1.00
00:02:05.040 daydreams about their wedding day and start fantasizing about operating heavy machinery
00:02:09.260 to produce widgets for a wage.
00:02:11.660 A tale of two political parties.
00:02:14.400 Trump and the Republicans are working to bring manufacturing, actual manufacturing, back to America
00:02:20.260 so that our economy and national security can thrive, so that towns and families stop breaking up,
00:02:26.720 and so that men stop dying deaths of despair.
00:02:29.560 Meanwhile, the Democrats are wondering what kind of euphemism can trick little girls into picking up a wrench.
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00:05:25.580 Speaking of names, what's in a name?
00:05:29.320 Pete Hegseth, the Secretary of Defense, has just re-renamed one of the most famous army bases
00:05:37.420 in America.
00:05:37.980 There it is.
00:05:43.640 Pursuant to the authority of the Secretary of Defense, Title 10, United States Code Section
00:05:48.340 113, I direct the army to change the name of Fort Liberty, North Carolina to Fort Bragg,
00:05:56.600 North Carolina.
00:05:57.520 That's right.
00:05:58.400 Bragg is back.
00:06:00.620 Bragg is back.
00:06:01.660 Now, why does it matter that Bragg is back?
00:06:03.680 Fort Bragg probably is the most prominent army base in the entire country.
00:06:10.040 Fort Bragg was renamed to Fort Liberty.
00:06:12.840 Why was it renamed Fort Liberty? 0.97
00:06:14.900 Because Bragg, Braxton Bragg, was a Confederate general, and he's a very, very bad, nasty man
00:06:23.020 because he was from the South, and he fought with the Confederates.
00:06:26.440 And even though Abraham Lincoln promised us malice toward none and charity for all, and
00:06:31.160 we're going to come back together and be a nation, then the woke libs got a hold of
00:06:34.960 things and started toppling over the statues of every Confederate.
00:06:38.720 And we all knew they weren't going to stop there.
00:06:40.380 As President Trump predicted, the minute they were done with the Confederates, they moved 0.60
00:06:43.860 right on to Washington and Jefferson and Lincoln, for that matter.
00:06:46.720 However, they claimed Fort Bragg.
00:06:50.720 So they renamed it from this real historic person who played an actual role in American
00:06:55.060 history to this generic concept, Fort Liberty.
00:06:58.600 Kind of reminds me of the French revolutionaries going in and knocking down statues of the Holy
00:07:04.700 Mother, an actual person in history, one of the most important people in all of history,
00:07:08.200 and replacing her with the goddess Reason, or even the notion of personifying Lady Liberty.
00:07:15.400 So you had Fort Liberty.
00:07:17.640 Now, Pete comes in.
00:07:19.740 Pete, so good for military morale.
00:07:22.360 Actually, just a great pick for Secretary of Defense, despite what the haters said.
00:07:26.280 He comes in, he says, now, you know what?
00:07:29.020 Here's one really easy way to boost morale again in the military.
00:07:32.140 Fort Bragg is back, okay?
00:07:33.540 It's Bragg.
00:07:34.400 However, there's a twist.
00:07:36.040 And the twist is Fort Bragg is not being re-renamed after Braxton Bragg, the Confederate
00:07:41.440 general.
00:07:41.800 It's being re-renamed after Roland Bragg, who is an army paratrooper who was awarded the
00:07:48.480 Silver Star and Purple Heart.
00:07:51.860 I think this is really clever.
00:07:53.880 Some people are going to say it's too clever by half.
00:07:55.720 Come on, go all the way, man.
00:07:57.020 Rename it after Braxton Bragg.
00:07:58.600 Let's make a point that we're not going to deny our history.
00:08:01.280 We're not going to let the libs knock over statues. 1.00
00:08:03.260 We're going to go right back to that old Confederate guy.
00:08:07.640 I think here, Pete is, and President Trump, the whole administration broadly, this is a
00:08:14.920 good example of being wise as a serpent, innocent as a dove.
00:08:18.540 Because everyone knows they're going back to Bragg because it's Fort Bragg and that's
00:08:22.760 that and enough of it.
00:08:24.600 However, if they had really gone and re-renamed it after the Confederate general, one, there'd
00:08:29.960 be a little political pushback.
00:08:31.340 But two, it's a guarantee that the next time you have a Democrat administration, they're
00:08:34.980 going to rename it again.
00:08:36.420 And it'll be Fort Equality, or it'll just be Fort Liberty, and it'll go back and forth,
00:08:39.400 Bragg, Liberty, Bragg, Liberty, and it'll be ridiculous.
00:08:42.520 By renaming it after this other Bragg that no one had ever heard of, I think Pete is insulating
00:08:49.020 the fort against the re-re-renaming, because now if the Democrats want to rename it, they're
00:08:55.620 going to have to explain why this perfectly nice, unobjectionable World War II army paratrooper
00:09:00.640 with the silver star and the purple heart, why he doesn't deserve to have a base named
00:09:04.520 after him.
00:09:06.460 This is probably smart.
00:09:07.420 It makes it harder to rename the next time.
00:09:09.880 A lot of people have worried in looking at all of Trump's executive orders.
00:09:14.280 Well, okay, these are all really good, but how are we going to protect them from the
00:09:17.540 next time a Democrat gets elected?
00:09:19.300 Well, this, on a relatively minor scale, is showing you a little bit how you do that.
00:09:24.080 You've got to make it sticky.
00:09:25.160 You've got to raise the cost of Democrats undoing what you have done.
00:09:29.780 And here, on this relatively minor point, I think Pete's done a great job, and hopefully
00:09:33.780 a sign of things to come from the Trump admin.
00:09:35.760 Now, speaking of controversial Trump nominees, great, great news.
00:09:42.080 Tulsi Gabbard has been confirmed as the Director of National Intelligence.
00:09:46.380 Here's Attorney General Pam Bondi swearing Tulsi in, in front of President Trump, in the Oval
00:09:52.040 Office.
00:09:54.100 I, Tulsi Gabbard, do solemnly swear.
00:09:57.380 That I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States.
00:10:01.560 That I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States.
00:10:05.400 Against all enemies, foreign and domestic.
00:10:08.100 Against all enemies, foreign and domestic.
00:10:10.480 And that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same.
00:10:15.060 And that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same.
00:10:18.400 That I take this obligation freely.
00:10:20.740 I take this obligation freely.
00:10:22.440 There she is.
00:10:23.800 A picture of elegance and class, despite the many unfair attacks on her that accused her
00:10:29.860 baselessly of being a Russian stooge, being unpatriotic. 0.98
00:10:33.180 This is a woman who served her country in the military, served her country in Congress,
00:10:36.920 had such independence of mind that she left her political party, the political party in
00:10:41.460 which she ran for president to support a guy from the other political party because she 1.00
00:10:47.140 felt that her party had become so corrupt.
00:10:49.180 Really good stuff.
00:10:49.940 She was confirmed by a vote of 52 to 48, mostly along party lines.
00:10:56.360 Mitch McConnell joined the Dems.
00:10:59.120 Because Mitch is the honey badger at this point.
00:11:00.960 He does not care.
00:11:02.260 He's not running for re-election.
00:11:03.800 He obviously hates Trump.
00:11:05.540 He is much more establishment within the GOP.
00:11:08.920 Tulsi, one could call her euphemistically a little outside the box, not McConnell's cup
00:11:14.580 of tea.
00:11:15.000 Okay, fine.
00:11:16.040 So then how did it end up being 52 to 48?
00:11:18.080 Because the usual swing votes, I'm talking Susan Collins, I'm talking Lisa Murkowski, I'm
00:11:26.500 talking even Todd Young in Indiana.
00:11:28.500 They voted for Tulsi.
00:11:31.000 Now, this is really interesting.
00:11:33.700 This is really the only part of this confirmation vote that's really interesting.
00:11:37.020 And it defends, I think, Trump's or it vindicates Trump's strategy here of forming a coalition
00:11:45.760 that includes some Democrats.
00:11:47.440 Because you'd expect, okay, hold on.
00:11:49.140 Tulsi Gabbard is one of the most controversial nominees.
00:11:51.340 That means that Collins and Murkowski, they're always the fence sitters.
00:11:55.120 Anything even slightly controversial, they're going to go vote with the Democrats.
00:11:58.240 Except, wait a second.
00:11:58.900 Tulsi is kind of a Democrat.
00:11:59.840 Except, hold on, wait a second here.
00:12:02.100 The knock on Tulsi is actually coming more from the GOP, and especially the hawk and
00:12:07.180 establishment wing of the GOP.
00:12:08.840 So, weirdly enough here, you're probably more likely, in fact, I know you are more likely
00:12:14.840 to get Murkowski and Collins to come along with a Tulsi Gabbard than you are to get them
00:12:18.620 to come along with a rock-ribbed, solid Republican like Pete Hegseth.
00:12:22.200 Wow, it's almost like unpredictability, it's almost like scrambling up coalitions can, if
00:12:30.220 you do it right, sometimes work to your advantage, as it has here.
00:12:34.540 This was arguably one of the toughest Trump picks to get through.
00:12:39.680 I knew after Hegseth got through, there was a dramatically increased chance that Tulsi was
00:12:45.940 going to get through.
00:12:46.560 He really opened the gates here.
00:12:47.780 But the weakness of this pick, the supposed weakness, namely that she's a Democrat and
00:12:54.880 a lot of Republicans don't like her.
00:12:55.940 In this case, I think it worked to her advantage, and she actually cleared with a four-vote margin. 0.94
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00:14:13.660 Speaking of Oval Office meetings, this one I love.
00:14:18.380 This comes from the Associated Press.
00:14:21.840 Quote, today we were informed by the White House that if the Associated Press did not align its editorial standards with President Donald Trump's executive order,
00:14:31.280 renaming the Gulf of Mexico as the Gulf of America, AP would be barred from accessing an event in the Oval Office.
00:14:38.640 This afternoon, AP's reporter was blocked from attending an executive order signing.
00:14:44.000 Love it.
00:14:45.480 Love that.
00:14:46.860 The Associated Press, most people don't know this.
00:14:49.520 Most people think, oh, the New York Times is fake news, or the Washington Post is fake news, or the CNN or whatever.
00:14:55.900 The Associated Press is probably the most egregious offender among the mainstream media outlets for radical leftist ideology.
00:15:05.040 Specifically on this point of its editorial standards, the AP is a full-on fake news outlet.
00:15:13.840 The AP has its AP style guide.
00:15:16.040 And for years now, AP has issued guidance saying, for instance, on transgenderism,
00:15:21.620 that AP is going to defer to the preferred pronouns of people who pretend they're the opposite sex.
00:15:28.940 That's just bad journalism.
00:15:30.440 It is bad journalism.
00:15:31.160 If a big, hulking dude pretends to be a woman, it is bad journalism to call him she.
00:15:37.120 But AP is a bad journalistic outlet.
00:15:40.660 Don't refer to the men by their real names.
00:15:44.180 Don't know.
00:15:44.700 We have to defer to the transgender ideology. 1.00
00:15:46.620 That's just on trans. 0.70
00:15:47.600 AP, a few years ago, the style guide came out and said, the term illegal alien is out.
00:15:53.320 Illegal alien is the most technically precise term to refer to the people who have crossed
00:15:59.400 into our country illegally and who remain here without any legal status. 0.95
00:16:03.680 Illegal, meaning not legal.
00:16:06.940 Alien, meaning foreigner. 1.00
00:16:08.880 That's what they are.
00:16:10.500 What term would you prefer?
00:16:11.500 Illegal immigrant?
00:16:12.220 They're not even really immigrants. 0.85
00:16:13.420 They're not permitted here according to our immigration system.
00:16:16.360 Undocumented Americans?
00:16:17.560 These sure ain't Americans. 0.98
00:16:19.320 Dreamers?
00:16:20.120 Everybody dreams.
00:16:21.100 That's the most precise term.
00:16:24.500 A journalistic outlet, supposedly, that says don't use the precise term is doing bad journalism.
00:16:33.580 The word woke, they struck the word woke from their reporting.
00:16:36.260 They didn't want to include woke anymore because they realized that that term, it's a polemical
00:16:41.000 term, but it's a term that was used originally by the left.
00:16:43.300 The right just started using the word that they themselves used to describe them.
00:16:48.060 And they said, no, we're going to stop using it because people have turned against woke,
00:16:52.980 and so that'll get them to turn against the left.
00:16:54.440 Even critical race theory.
00:16:55.920 They didn't want their reporters to use the term CRT.
00:16:58.940 They said, no, critical race theory is this really complicated, important thing.
00:17:02.200 So if you want to give explanation about it, that's fine, but don't use the word CRT.
00:17:05.540 Why?
00:17:05.820 Same reason, because the public had turned against it, because they found out what it was.
00:17:09.480 So the AP, frankly, should be barred from the White House, period.
00:17:12.580 They are one of the worst offenders of journalistic ethics out there.
00:17:17.600 They were one of the worst abusers of language in the media.
00:17:21.320 But then here, of course, the president of the United States comes out.
00:17:25.260 He says, hey, that body of water that is directly to the south of America, that body of water
00:17:32.420 that can trace a much longer American coastline than it can trace a Mexican coastline, that
00:17:38.720 body of water down there, we're calling it the Gulf of America now.
00:17:42.580 And the AP says, no, we're not.
00:17:44.340 I'm actually going to call it the Gulf of Honduras. 0.93
00:17:47.160 No, I want to call it the Gulf of you evil, terrible colonizers who came here and stole 0.97
00:17:52.480 the land from the Native American.
00:17:54.860 Okay, well, you guys aren't serious people, so why would we invite you to the Oval Office?
00:18:00.800 Great, love it.
00:18:01.940 Boot them out of the press room, too, for as I'm concerned.
00:18:04.940 Speaking of other announcements from the Oval Office, President Trump has a message for Hamas.
00:18:10.560 So you remember, you might remember there's this war going on in Gaza.
00:18:14.140 You might have heard a thing or two about it.
00:18:15.580 After the October 7th attack, when Hamas killed and raped and pillaged over a thousand Israeli
00:18:22.160 civilians, took a bunch of them, hundreds of them hostage.
00:18:25.580 This war has been going on.
00:18:27.120 Israel has just been absolutely pummeling and obliterating Gaza.
00:18:30.560 Now there's a ceasefire.
00:18:31.860 The ceasefire requires the return of the hostages that Hamas took out of Israel.
00:18:38.420 Hamas is now signaling that they're not going to return any more hostages.
00:18:43.420 So Hamas, the United States says, we're going to institute this ceasefire deal.
00:18:49.140 We're going to get this done.
00:18:50.220 But you need to fulfill your obligations.
00:18:51.840 We're the global hegemon.
00:18:52.900 Don't try us.
00:18:54.720 Hamas says, we think you're bluffing.
00:18:56.880 We're going to call your bluff.
00:18:58.280 Here is Trump's response to Hamas.
00:19:00.120 Mr. President, when you say all hell is going to break loose, are you speaking about retaliation?
00:19:06.680 You'll find out and they'll find out too.
00:19:09.220 Hamas will find out what I mean. 0.92
00:19:11.400 Mr. President, they're going to find out what I mean. 0.96
00:19:13.920 These are sick people and they'll find out what I mean.
00:19:16.960 Saturday at 12 and 12. 0.95
00:19:17.920 But no involvement.
00:19:18.920 You'll find out what I mean.
00:19:21.560 Oh boy, that's cold.
00:19:23.000 That's New York talk right there.
00:19:24.180 I remember when I was a kid, I would hear a little broken dialect, Calabrese, Italian
00:19:29.320 or Sicilian as a boy.
00:19:31.240 We didn't speak it at home, but I'd hear it from my grandparents sometimes.
00:19:34.220 And one of the phrases I remember the clearest was, ti faczi vedi io chi di che ti faccio?
00:19:39.780 I'm going to show you what I'm going to do.
00:19:41.680 You know, you never say exactly what you're going to do.
00:19:43.860 I never knew what my grandmother was going to do. 0.99
00:19:45.540 Ma ti faczi vedi io chi di che ti faccio?
00:19:48.680 In regular Italian, in Tuscan Italian, ti faccio vedere io quello che ti faccio.
00:19:52.740 I am going to show you.
00:19:54.120 Don't worry.
00:19:54.460 Just use your imagination.
00:19:55.680 It's like Alfred Hitchcock in the movies.
00:19:57.500 I'm not going to show you the killer or the monster.
00:19:59.520 You're going to imagine it, okay?
00:20:01.900 And that's what Trump's saying.
00:20:02.860 He's not going to show his hand.
00:20:04.680 But I think he is not bluffing because the credibility of the United States is on the line.
00:20:12.360 The way that Trump gets to be kind of a dove rather than a hawk, the way that Trump gets
00:20:18.520 to not expand wars, the way that Trump, unlike Bush, unlike Obama, unlike Biden, the way
00:20:28.420 that Trump gets to be a kind of a peace president is because every so often he drops the Moab.
00:20:35.360 And you don't know when it's going to be, but every so often he's going to kill the top 0.88
00:20:39.460 Iranian general.
00:20:40.700 And you don't, sometimes he's going to go, you know, hug Kim Jong-un and it's all going
00:20:46.940 to be happy, happy.
00:20:48.300 But sometimes he's going to just blow up a town.
00:20:52.880 And I'm not saying, because Americans do not want boots on the ground in Gaza.
00:20:57.720 Americans do not want Americans to become embroiled in that war between the state of Israel
00:21:01.240 and Gaza.
00:21:02.780 But he's going to have to do something.
00:21:04.620 And if you're Hamas, I think you got to give up the hostages. 0.98
00:21:09.400 The problem is the minute Hamas gives up the hostages, they're done.
00:21:12.240 They're signing their death warrants because at that point, the state of Israel has no reason 0.51
00:21:16.040 not to just send them, not six feet below the earth, but, you know, 600 feet below the 0.97
00:21:20.420 earth, just drop every bomb they have on them. 1.00
00:21:23.680 However, I don't know that they have much option right now.
00:21:28.060 Listening to Trump speak there, that does not sound like the kind of guy who's joking
00:21:31.920 around.
00:21:32.180 Now, speaking of foreign soil, Richard Gere, my cousin, Richard Gere is my cousin.
00:21:39.440 We shared an acting teacher in New York, and we also share a bloodline because Richard Gere
00:21:44.240 is a descendant of, I think, all of my Mayflower ancestors because he's a descendant of Lydia
00:21:52.740 Fuller.
00:21:53.340 And so I think actually, I think Richard Gere and I share at least one, but maybe up to
00:21:58.120 six Mayflower ancestors.
00:21:59.580 Mayflower, which is, by the way, a delicious cigar that is back in stock right now, and
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00:22:05.780 Richard Gere has just come out and bashed the United States on foreign soil.
00:22:14.680 Here's what he had to say.
00:22:16.500 I'm coming for a place now that we're in a very dark place in America where we have a 0.98
00:22:23.820 bully and a thug who is the president of the United States. 0.90
00:22:27.600 But it's not just in the U.S. 0.98
00:22:37.980 It's everywhere.
00:22:39.440 Everywhere.
00:22:40.440 You know, I read a really moving letter in the New York Times from a gentleman in Hungary,
00:22:47.720 and he was the slippery slope of how this happens everywhere.
00:22:52.700 Authoritarianism takes us all over.
00:22:54.040 However, we have to be vigilant, we have to be alert, we have to be energetic, we have
00:22:59.280 to be brave, we have to be courageous, and everyone who's watching this in the Spanish
00:23:05.060 speaking world and elsewhere, we have to be willing to stand up, tell the truth, be honest,
00:23:12.100 and that there's a place in all of our lives for basic kindness, for basic love and understanding.
00:23:19.740 Basic love and understanding, that's what we need to get back to.
00:23:24.400 This guy just flew to foreign soil to bash his own country, that alone, very disreputable. 0.99
00:23:32.080 But the way he did it was insulting not just to Trump. 0.99
00:23:35.380 He's just saying this creeping authoritarianism, this bully and this thug, 0.97
00:23:39.980 whom most American voters voted for. 0.95
00:23:43.240 Don't forget that part.
00:23:46.080 He can't even say, oh, it was just the electoral college and it was only a minority of Americans
00:23:50.460 foisted.
00:23:50.940 No, it was most Americans.
00:23:53.300 This guy, Richard Gere, who has been given a lot by Americans, by the way, this guy has
00:23:59.060 been given a really nice, cushy lifestyle and a lot of adulation for many decades at this
00:24:04.260 point by Americans.
00:24:05.080 He's just called the majority of his countrymen quasi-fascists on foreign soil.
00:24:13.000 Very disreputable because we need to be so nice and kind.
00:24:17.360 You know, just be kind.
00:24:18.680 Be kind, everyone.
00:24:19.700 Be nice.
00:24:20.240 Be lovely.
00:24:20.960 Hey, how about charity starts at home?
00:24:22.720 Isn't that what the Ordo on Maurice touches on?
00:24:25.520 We were just talking about that last week.
00:24:26.740 Like, how about before you express your deep-seated desire for kindness to people on the opposite
00:24:35.700 side of the world that you really don't know at all, you have nothing to do with, they don't 0.98
00:24:38.840 affect your life in any way, how about you try just not being a huge jerk to the people 0.98
00:24:43.040 closest to you? 0.98
00:24:43.900 How about we start there?
00:24:45.780 Before we just give a big old hug and kumbaya to all of humanity, how about you show some
00:24:51.520 genuine kindness and engage in an actual act of charity with the people who you interact
00:24:57.660 with daily?
00:24:58.680 Because if you can't muster that, I'm a little skeptical of the nice, nice, happy, happy,
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00:26:26.560 Speaking of the supposedly hostile takeover of our government, Elon Musk was just in the
00:26:30.820 Oval Office.
00:26:31.640 The Associated Press was not, but Elon Musk was there with President Trump, and he was
00:26:35.700 asked about this charge, that he is leading an opaque and hostile takeover of the government,
00:26:42.980 contrary to the will of the voters.
00:26:45.640 What say you, Elon?
00:26:50.060 Everyone's very quiet, brother.
00:26:52.240 Are people only as quiet?
00:26:53.620 You're detractors, Mr. Musk.
00:26:56.380 What?
00:26:57.040 Including a lot of Democrats.
00:26:58.940 I have detractors?
00:27:00.080 You do, sir.
00:27:00.700 I don't believe it.
00:27:01.440 Say that you're orchestrating a hostile takeover of government and doing it in a non-transparent
00:27:07.520 way.
00:27:08.240 What's your response to that criticism?
00:27:10.940 Well, first of all, you couldn't ask for a stronger mandate from the public.
00:27:16.840 The public voted, you know, we have a majority of the public voting for President Trump.
00:27:24.180 We won the House.
00:27:25.880 We won the Senate.
00:27:26.540 The people voted for major government reform.
00:27:33.260 There should be no doubt about that.
00:27:34.820 That was on the campaign.
00:27:36.860 The president spoke about that at every rally.
00:27:39.340 The people voted for major government reform, and that's what the people are going to get.
00:27:43.220 They're going to get what they voted for.
00:27:45.500 And a lot of times, you know, people that don't get what they voted for, but in this presidency,
00:27:50.380 they are going to get what they voted for.
00:27:52.060 And that's what democracy is all about.
00:27:53.880 Great answer.
00:27:56.240 Great answer here from Elon.
00:27:57.640 You see Trump nodding along with it.
00:27:59.380 He obviously agrees.
00:28:01.500 This was why it was so smart for Trump to bring Elon on the campaign trail and to bring Tulsi
00:28:08.520 and to bring Bobby Kennedy and to trot out all of the most controversial aspects of his
00:28:17.260 administration before the election.
00:28:20.360 It's for that mandate.
00:28:21.740 It's why it was so helpful for Trump to get the popular vote and to campaign in places
00:28:26.140 like New York to try to help him get it.
00:28:29.420 He wasn't just trying to squeak through and get in and, you know, hide the ball.
00:28:35.500 Remember Mitt Romney in 2012.
00:28:37.260 The whole campaign was just on how bad the economy was under Obama.
00:28:40.720 He didn't really speak about the things that he proactively wanted to do because he said,
00:28:44.820 if I can just get in on an anti-Obama sentiment, then I can do whatever I want, but not really,
00:28:50.220 actually. Because even if he had gotten in, if you don't build consensus for the things that you
00:28:56.860 plan to do, then the media are going to have an easier time attacking you and deflating you once
00:29:02.620 you actually start doing those things. But here, Elon can come in and say, yo, guys, I was at all
00:29:06.800 the rallies. We said exactly what we were going to do. The American people voted for that.
00:29:12.240 So, actually, media, you're on the wrong side of this. The media knew exactly what they were doing.
00:29:18.020 The fact that Elon Musk is such a famous guy is actually what makes him perfect to be the head
00:29:21.760 of Doge. Because they say, you're not being transparent. Not being transparent. Has Elon
00:29:26.380 Musk ever had an untweeted thought since he spent $44 billion to buy Twitter?
00:29:30.780 You're hiding the ball, being opaque. This is one of the most famous men on planet Earth
00:29:37.640 who is constantly telling you every single thing that he's doing on the major social media platform
00:29:45.620 that he bought and that he now owns. What are you talking about? This is what the people wanted.
00:29:52.040 It would have been a lot easier for the Senate to shoot down Tulsi Gabbard had she not been 1.00
00:29:56.940 campaigning with Trump. Okay, it'd be a lot easier for the Senate to shoot down Bobby Kennedy
00:30:02.040 had he not been campaigning for Trump. But all these guys within the Senate and even perhaps
00:30:08.500 to some degree, even some in the media, recognize, oh, yikes. It's not just that we have to fear the
00:30:13.560 wrath of Donald Trump or something. If we push too hard here, we got to fear the wrath of the voters
00:30:19.120 who made their choices clear. Caroline Levitt made this point beautifully. Doge is popular.
00:30:26.240 People wanted, nobody is out there campaigning or protesting for all the bloat in the federal
00:30:34.960 government, you know, USAID money being sent overseas for transgender ballets in Thailand or
00:30:41.620 something. No one is really actively campaigning for that. So the more that the left tries to make
00:30:47.740 an issue out of Elon or an issue out of Doge, the more that the White House can come out and say,
00:30:52.320 hey, you want to know what Doge is actually getting rid of? Caroline, take it away.
00:30:56.240 Before it was Elon Musk making our government efficient and accountable. It was some unnamed
00:31:02.300 bureaucrat that none of you knew. Elon Musk is the richest man in the world. He's also
00:31:07.460 now one of the most highly scrutinized men in the world alongside President Trump because
00:31:11.580 of what he's doing and the access that he is allowing. So there's great transparency.
00:31:16.240 As for the actual receipts, we are happy to provide them. And I actually brought some today
00:31:20.620 because all of you know, I love to bring the receipts. We have contracts upon contracts that
00:31:25.860 we can send and provide this information to you. Let me be very clear. We are not trying to hide
00:31:30.600 anything. We have been incredibly transparent and we will continue to be. These are screenshots of
00:31:35.680 contracts that Doge found across our government. This is a DEI contract, $36,000 for U.S. citizenship and
00:31:42.840 immigration services. That is against the president's policies and his America First agenda. This is a 0.74
00:31:47.920 $3.4 million contract, a council for inclusive innovation at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office,
00:31:55.840 Department of Commerce, another DEI contract that Doge identified. I can continue to go through these.
00:32:01.940 Oh, I love this one. $57,000 for climate change in Sri Lanka. What is this doing to continue the
00:32:09.400 interests of the American people? Absolutely nothing. This is just going to be a consistent 0.52
00:32:15.180 winner for Republicans. Great. Just keep, please keep going after Elon Media. I'm begging you,
00:32:23.400 please keep going after Elon. One of the most public and scrutinized men in the world, meaning he's
00:32:29.720 pretty durable. You can keep trying to attack him, but trust me, if they,
00:32:33.420 if it were possible to have taken down Elon with some reputation scandal, that would have happened
00:32:40.860 years ago. He's been scrutinized for a long time. This is in part why Caroline Levitt is a really good
00:32:46.920 choice for press secretary. She ran for Congress. She endured at least some degree of political
00:32:52.620 scrutiny. This is why I think it's smart for President Trump to pick media hosts for big positions
00:32:59.800 in his government. Pete Hex said that the Pentagon is a good example. If you are in public life,
00:33:05.140 if you are regularly on camera, or you've passed laws, or you run major companies, at least at the
00:33:13.480 degree that Elon has, because he has been such a celebrity, you have been subject to scrutiny.
00:33:19.840 So there aren't going to be all that many surprises, generally speaking. And so then the focus is just on
00:33:25.600 the program. Great. The program's a winner. This is like when Trump posted to Truth Social and then
00:33:30.120 actually signed an executive order saying that he's going to bring back plastic straws. Okay,
00:33:35.220 great. Now you've put Democrats in the position of defending paper straws. No one likes paper straws.
00:33:40.940 Now Caroline Levitt and Elon and Trump have put the Democrats in the position of defending,
00:33:47.860 sending a bunch of money overseas for climate change in Sri Lanka. You think the American people want
00:33:53.520 that? They don't. Wonderful. Great. You keep getting them to defend things that 15% of voters at most
00:33:59.960 support. Now, this brings us back to the broader problem that the Democrats have now, which is they
00:34:08.780 are not thinking straight. They're thinking gay because they're Democrats. No, I'm joking. They're 1.00
00:34:13.060 not thinking straight because they've been driven crazy by Trump. So they keep falling for his traps
00:34:19.680 because he makes them so angry with the way that he speaks and the people that he puts around him.
00:34:26.260 Like Elon, just why Elon? He's not even wearing a tie. Why is he? Why is he there? I hate him.
00:34:30.660 You know, they're just going so crazy that they keep making mistakes like defending paper straws
00:34:35.560 or a bunch of money for climate change in Sri Lanka or whatever. And this is possibly even a
00:34:43.020 clinical fact. There's an article out from the Daily Beast quoting a number of psychologists.
00:34:48.980 Psychologists are saying, they've seen an uptick in clients. It is because of Trump.
00:34:55.480 The clients are Democrats. They can't handle it. Quote, I think we can take so much of something
00:35:01.180 before the human brain just like peters out and says, I can't keep up. Sanam Hafiz, a New York-based
00:35:05.660 neuropsychologist, told Axios. This is being reported by the Daily Beast. The digital news site
00:35:10.800 interviewed a handful of psychologists and mental health experts about the impact on Americans.
00:35:16.500 Andrea Bonior, a Georgetown University professor and psychologist, told Axios she had seen an
00:35:22.780 increase in patients, largely Democrats, citing burnout and despair, in part due to the mounting
00:35:28.420 uncertainty generated by Trump's rapid-fire policies and the energy required to keep up.
00:35:32.940 So this is actually probably good for Democrats in the long run because it's showing them their own 0.81
00:35:40.360 mental, emotional, spiritual fragility. A politician that you don't like entering office should not
00:35:49.400 be enough to send you to the loony bin. If that does send you to the loony bin, you have underlying
00:35:55.520 psychological problems. You have problems of mental resiliency. You probably have spiritual problems. 0.99
00:36:02.560 You probably just don't understand the world all that well. I think probably the thing that is
00:36:08.080 driving the Democrats' craziest here, and you can see it in how crestfallen they seem right now,
00:36:13.040 how really despairing they seem, is that Trump won the popular vote. So they can't make sense of it.
00:36:18.940 I've spoken to Democrat friends of mine who've said, I just thought I understood the country and I don't.
00:36:23.880 I just thought I understood the country, but then almost half of Hispanics voted for Trump. What?
00:36:27.540 Even a disproportionate number of black guys, even a lot of women, even, wow, I guess I just didn't
00:36:34.980 understand the country. I think that's what they're most upset about is how embarrassed they are. They
00:36:42.060 just got it wrong. Either Richard Gere is right and the majority of Americans are fascists, or these
00:36:51.180 Democrats just kind of got it wrong. Good. That's a good opportunity for us. This is a teachable
00:36:55.120 moment, as people used to call it. I say, right, yeah, you were wrong about Trump, about voters,
00:37:02.280 about politics. Yeah. But good, this is an opportunity for your healing. Trump is here.
00:37:10.340 Trump is doing so much great stuff. Not only is he going to fix the economy and foreign policy,
00:37:14.520 he's even going to fix your brain, Democrats. Lucky you. You're getting a lot for this election. 0.70
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00:37:59.880 Aslan81, who says, apparently Siberia has such a large trans population, they were able to form
00:38:06.860 their own orchestra. And it's pretty good, too. It is pretty good. That's what, man, maybe we need to
00:38:12.500 ship all of the trans-identifying people off to Siberia and give them all cellos. Because I agree, 1.00
00:38:19.840 that orchestra is very, very good. Speaking of the political divide, evangelical pastor Rick Warren
00:38:30.860 has gone viral for making a political point through his understanding of religion. He posted a picture
00:38:42.180 of our Lord being crucified on Mount Calvary with the two thieves on either side. And Rick Warren
00:38:49.760 said, John 19, 18, they crucified Jesus with two others, one on each side and Jesus in the middle.
00:38:57.720 And then Warren adds, the guys on both sides were thieves. If you're looking for the hashtag real
00:39:04.420 Jesus, not a caricature disfigured by partisan motivations, you'll find him in the middle,
00:39:10.200 not on either side. Now, the problem with this analogy is that the thieves on either side of
00:39:19.860 our Lord were not the same. The thief to our Lord's right is in heaven right now, St. Dismas,
00:39:29.400 the first saint. And the thief to our Lord's left is in hell. So not, if the point that Rick Warren 0.81
00:39:39.920 was trying to make here is, don't look to the right or the left, man. You know, that's all bad
00:39:44.920 stuff. It doesn't work when the guy on the right is in heaven enjoying perfect beatitude with our Lord
00:39:51.620 right now, was with him that day in paradise. And the one on the left is burning in hell.
00:39:59.440 That doesn't, that's not the best analogy for Mr. Warren to prove his point. I don't really know
00:40:04.360 anything about Rick Warren other than I know he's a very prominent evangelical. And I thought that he
00:40:10.080 was on the right, but I guess in recent years, my friend, Megan Basham, who wrote a good book about
00:40:16.340 this, in recent years, I guess he's moved over to the left and a lot of, a lot of evangelicals who
00:40:21.400 used to be pretty rock solid for the Republican party, they've moved over to the left. And I don't
00:40:25.660 even, so Rick Warren has this weak analogy here about Calvary, but then even what is the point
00:40:33.940 that he's trying to make is the point that if you, if you want to understand how the faith should
00:40:42.080 inform your politics, because we're incarnate creatures, we move through time and space.
00:40:46.140 We have to engage in politics. We're the political animal. We got it. We live in a society. So it would
00:40:51.540 be better for our faith to inform our politics than for our faith to not inform our politics. That
00:40:55.960 sounds like a really bad idea. Okay. How should our faith inform our politics? It seems to me what
00:41:01.040 he's saying is you should just be a centrist according to whatever the standards the age embraces
00:41:07.060 at any given time. Isn't that what he's saying? You'll find the real Jesus, not, not on both sides,
00:41:15.600 not a caricature disfigured by partisan motivations, not on the right or on the left,
00:41:21.540 you'll find him in the middle. So that's like what Bill Clinton basically is that that is that
00:41:27.800 what he's saying? No, look, if you're a real Christian, you're not going to be over there 1.00
00:41:33.400 with those extreme conservatives on the right. You're, and you're not going to be even on the
00:41:39.780 left. You're going to be right in the middle with Bill Clinton and Tony Blair. What? Uh, I don't think
00:41:46.000 so. And hold on now we're using, we're actually using the spirit of the age in order to ascertain
00:41:54.680 what our Lord wants for us. Um, I was always told if you marry the spirit of the age, you'll find
00:41:59.960 yourself a widow in the next. I was always told not really to become too attached to worldly things.
00:42:05.160 What? It even then gets to the question of where these terms left and right come from left and the
00:42:12.000 right. I hope Rick Warren knows this. Maybe he doesn't the term, the terms left and right come
00:42:18.860 from the French revolution. When the Christians sat on the right of the national assembly and the 0.55
00:42:24.220 atheists and the secularists and the anti-religious people sat on the left. And broadly that just kind
00:42:31.140 of existence today. So I don't know, weak analogy, real, real confusing. I don't know what's,
00:42:37.640 what's gotten into a Mr. Warren here. Uh, well, I actually do know a little bit cause I've talking
00:42:43.120 to Meg, Meg Basham and other evangelical friends of mine who've said something's, something has cracked
00:42:48.180 among the evangelicals. I don't know. So they gotta, they gotta get back on track here politically.
00:42:53.040 I don't know. Whoever knows Rick Warren out there, someone's got to talk to him. Now, speaking of
00:42:58.940 critical thinking is a study out says that people who use and trust artificial intelligence
00:43:07.920 lose their critical thinking skills. This is a study that was conducted by Carnegie Mellon and
00:43:14.020 Microsoft found people who use AI regularly for basic routine tasks will lose their ability for
00:43:21.580 complex critical thinking. And then this from the outlet Futurism from social workers to people who
00:43:28.000 write code for a living, the professionals surveyed were all asked to share three real life examples
00:43:32.480 of when they used AI tools at work and how much critical thinking they did when executing those
00:43:36.460 tasks. Those who trusted the accuracy of AI found themselves thinking less critically. And the
00:43:43.980 researchers then concluded that AI can result quote in the deterioration of cognitive faculties that
00:43:49.900 ought to be preserved. This is not surprising. I should be expected. Now it doesn't mean you
00:43:55.060 shouldn't use AI. I use AI. In fact, now when I'm putting together, I don't know, a little bit
00:44:00.140 of research, whether for something that I'm writing or for a speech I'm going to give, or even for part
00:44:03.980 of the show, I will go to AI. In fact, you sort of have to go to AI because even if you go to Google,
00:44:09.200 Google now integrates AI. So I'll, I'll check with AI. It can be a good research tool, but I do not
00:44:15.000 trust AI because I've said, Hey, AI, I'm trying, I'm thinking of this, uh, you know, text from some
00:44:22.340 medieval or ancient writer. I forget exactly where it is. Can you pull up that text? And then AI will
00:44:27.620 sometimes generate a bunch of text and you say, okay, give me a citation for that. They'll say,
00:44:32.320 okay, that's from the Nicomachean ethics book for, you know, this line, this section. Okay.
00:44:37.480 Hold on. I don't quite remember that. Pull up a link for that. And if they will pull up a link,
00:44:42.960 then you click on it and you'll realize AI just made up the quote. They'll just, you know,
00:44:46.780 just totally made it up. And then you'll tell AI, you say like, you just made that up.
00:44:51.020 And AI will say, Oh yeah, sorry. I guess I did. So you can't trust it, but a lot of the time it can
00:44:57.060 be a good place to start, but then you have to go, you actually have to do the homework and check it
00:45:00.060 yourself. And even there, I find myself, I'm relying a little bit too much on it, but this,
00:45:05.580 this has been a complaint going back all the way to antiquity when, when poems were written down
00:45:12.260 for the first time and people complained, Oh no, this is going to, this is going to destroy people's
00:45:16.780 memory. Previously, epic poetry was the, would be the sort of thing you memorized. Someone would
00:45:20.420 memorize the Iliad and you'd go and recite the Iliad. As people started to write things down,
00:45:27.560 all of a sudden you say, Oh no, people, they're going to lose their memories. And it's, it's true.
00:45:30.860 People are really bad at memorizing things these days. C.S. Lewis saw this in abolition of man.
00:45:37.660 He said, with this kind of progress, every step forward for man is actually a step backward with
00:45:43.800 each, with each advance that we make, we lose a little bit of our humanity. So you think about
00:45:50.120 the technology of, uh, artificial reproduction, whether it's IVF or, uh, genetic engineering of
00:45:59.920 babies or genetic selection with each step, we're taking a step forward. Well, okay. Yeah. We can now
00:46:05.060 exert greater control over our children, the kind of children that we're going to have,
00:46:09.540 but it's a step backward because it means that the children, all future human generations will have
00:46:15.360 lost something. They will have become enslaved to the whims and caprices of their ancestors or of
00:46:22.620 the scientists that their ancestors hired to help develop them. Every step forward becomes a step
00:46:27.400 back. The more that we seed of our daily lives to machines, well, the less we have to do, the less
00:46:34.340 human that we will be. Now, speaking of AI, J.D. Vance just absolutely crushed it at the Paris AI
00:46:43.540 summit, but we don't have time to get to that today. Does it, you know, I'm a tease. I'm a little bit
00:46:49.400 of a tease, but I will point out J.D. Vance did such a good job defending American interests at the
00:46:55.760 Paris AI summit that shares of Intel, Intel, which had been, you know, huge tech company, which had
00:47:01.240 been being pummeled recently, shares of Intel closed 6% up after J.D. Vance gave his speech. Really
00:47:07.180 impressive performance because we are in a new arms race and it's not an arms race for the nuclear bomb
00:47:13.440 like we had during the second world war. It's not an arms race that built over the course of the cold
00:47:20.520 war as we stockpiled our nuclear arsenals. This is an arms race over AI and quantum computing.
00:47:27.500 Will we win remains to be seen. First though, got to say goodbye to the hoi polloi right now. We are
00:47:33.240 heading into the member room segmentum because we have got to discuss Justin Baldoni and Blake Lively.
00:47:42.200 Because I don't know anything about it. And I have to know. So many women in my life are talking 1.00
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