Ep. 1680 - Elon Musk Destroys The Bureaucracy With 6 Simple Words
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Elon Musk plans to destroy the corrupt federal bureaucracy with one simple trick and six simple words. Also, Joy Reid of MSNBC is losing her TV show and she s crying about it. And a lot of corrupt bureaucrats are going to lose their jobs.
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Elon Musk plans to destroy the corrupt federal bureaucracy with one simple trick
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and six simple words. I'm Michael Knowles. This is The Michael Knowles Show.
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Welcome back to the show. I want to be clear. The six simple words are not
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I'm Michael Knowles and this is The Michael Knowles Show. Those would be 10 simple words.
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in the meantime, a lot of corrupt bureaucrats are going to lose their jobs. And the reason
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they're going to lose their jobs is because of six simple words from Elon Musk. Elon Musk sent out
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an email last week. They're right at the end of the week. And the subject had six words in it.
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What did you do last week? Those were the words. What did you do last week? Now, the body of the
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email asked federal employees to reply with five examples of what they did over the previous seven
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days. Now, in the email, Doge said, do not reveal any classified information. Do not go further than
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your contracts allow you to go. Just in broad strokes, five little bullet points. What did you do
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last week? Musk also said that failure to respond to the email would be taken as a letter of resignation.
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Elon here is a total culture vulture. He's a meme king. I don't just say that because I know that he
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posts a lot of memes to X. I have some mutual friends with Elon Musk. The guy sends people memes
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a lot. He's a real culture maven. And this email comes directly out of the hit 1990s movie,
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You physically take the specs from the customer? Well, no. My secretary does that or the facts.
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So then you must physically bring them to the software people? Well, no. Yeah, I mean,
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sometimes. What what would you say you do here? Well, look, I already told you, I deal with the
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customers so the engineers don't have to. I have people skills. I am good at dealing with people.
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Can't you understand that? What the hell is wrong with you people? What would you say you do here?
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You could ask that question to perhaps half of the federal bureaucracy, and that would be the
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response. What are you? I mean, I don't like I don't like technically do anything, but I'm really
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good. I have people skills. Why are you firing me, Elon? Six simple words. What did you do last week?
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Now, for some of the government agencies, they said they actually instructed the employees not to
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respond. Because there is there is an insurrection, I suppose, a coup d'etat, an attempt at resistance
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among certain bureaucrats and managers against the duly elected government and against their
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legitimate bosses at the top of the executive branch. But most Americans think Doge is good.
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OK, this is been a hallmark of the first month of the Trump administration, of the second Trump
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administration, has been Trump just killing it on 80-20 issues. The paramount example being Trump
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coming out and saying, we're bringing back plastic straws, no more stupid paper straws,
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forces the libs to defend paper straws, which no one likes, including the libs.
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So here, most people know, most Americans understand there's a lot of bloat and waste and
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fraud and corruption in the federal government. So Trump and Elon and Doge open up going after USAID.
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The libs have to defend USAID. USAID is paying for transgender ballerina performances in the
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Philippines. The vast majority of Americans think that's a waste of money. At best, it's a waste of
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money. Actually, it's usually a cover for fraud and corruption and graft and all sorts of even more
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nefarious stuff. But most Americans get it, including really prominent Americans, really prominent
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Americans who have been Democrats for many decades. I'm thinking of one guy in particular,
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Jamie Dimon, probably the most successful banker in America. He's the CEO of JPMorgan Chase. He's been
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a Democrat for pretty much all of his life. He's been floated as a treasury secretary, first under
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Obama, then maybe if Kamala had gotten elected. Though in recent years, he said he's barely a
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Democrat because the party has moved so far to the left. And he just came out and endorsed Doge.
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He said that the government bureaucracy is inefficient. He said Doge needs to be done.
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This is very much in keeping with people who have any historical familiarity with the matter
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because we know that Doge is not unprecedented. We know it goes back over 100 years. It goes back
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to Woodrow Wilson's Bureau of Efficiency. After that, it goes to FDR's commission, the Brownlow
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Commission, which established the executive office of the president. Talk about a major shakeup.
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It goes to the Truman administration, which had the Hoover Commission, also a big major reorganization
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of government. Ronald Reagan had the Grace Commission. And then in the 1990s, you had
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Vice President Al Gore, who bizarrely, I was sitting two seats behind on a flight from Miami
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over the weekend. I don't know. Apparently, the global warming money's run up because he
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wasn't flying private. But Al Gore, during the 90s, had the National Initiative for Reinventing
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Government, got rid of a quarter million federal jobs, and consolidated 800 federal agencies.
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So Jamie Dimon, who is a Democrat, he comes out, he says, yeah, Elon, Doge, it's all good.
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Why? A lot of people are saying, why would these federal employees respond to the email?
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Why would Elon do it in this clunky way? Why not talk to the managers and the assistant managers
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and the this and the that? The reason is, Elon has said this. He's checking to see if these federal
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employees even look at their email. If they're so checked out that they don't even check their
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email, then yeah, they should be fired. Elon further is looking to see if these federal employees
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even exist. You know, back in the old days of the machine, before the civil rights reform of the 1880s,
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a lot of people just had no show jobs. People on the federal dole didn't even exist, maybe.
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So that's what Elon's checking here. Now, because of the pushback and the confusion,
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Musk just came out. He said, subject to the discretion of the president, they will be given
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another chance. Failure to respond a second time will result in termination. That's probably a good
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idea because who knows, maybe half the federal workforce didn't respond or more. So you're, I mean,
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some people would say, great, you know, ax them. But Elon here, he says, look, subject to the
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discretion of the president, we'll give him a second chance. But they do have to follow through
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at a certain point. Otherwise, Elon will lose credibility. Otherwise, Trump will lose credibility.
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But it's a good way to check. And the other, the technocratic libs will say, well, no, you don't
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even really need to look because, you know, there are all sorts of automated ways through the various
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computer systems, Slack channels, et cetera, to find out if the employees are being productive.
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That's not the point. You also want to hear it from the employees in their own words. You get
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different information that way. You get a sense of how the employees view their own jobs. You get a
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sense, a personal sense of whether they're actually engaged. And then ax the bad ones, man.
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The only people who want to defend bad, ineffective bureaucrats are corrupt politicians. And that's,
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Speaking of the White House, a dizzying whirlwind of gossip and rumors.
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Yesterday, Mr. Ben Davies says to me, he says, Michael, you got to cover the story on the show.
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The Eagles will not show up to the White House to celebrate winning the Super Bowl.
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And as with most stories that Mr. Davies offers me, I say, I don't know. Is that true? I don't know
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if I believe this. I'm not interested. He's a big sports guy. He's a big, tough athlete. Me,
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you know, a game of ping pong once a year is the height of my athleticism. So I said, I don't know,
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whatever. I didn't get to it. Then I check in and it's sure enough, that story was going around,
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but there was a wrinkle in it. President Trump had not yet invited the Eagles to the White House.
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So there was no invitation for them to reject. But then furthermore, the story got even juicier
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because later on, after all this criticism was hurled at the Eagles, I suggested that Trump invite
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the Chiefs instead. All of a sudden, an unnamed source close to the Eagles said they look forward
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to going to the White House. No, no, they don't want to snub Trump. Mind you, the Eagles did snub
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Trump in 2018 when they won the Super Bowl and Trump was president the first time.
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So good basis for assuming that they're not going to come this time. But after all that criticism,
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the Eagles, an unnamed source close to the Eagles came out and said, no, no, no,
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they really want to go to the White House. They can't wait to accept the invitation once Trump
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offers it. Trump still hasn't offered it. I don't know that he should offer it. I guess he should.
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I guess he should because Pennsylvania is a crucial state. The midterms are going to be tough.
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Midterms are tough in any administration. Certainly one where so many dynamic things are happening.
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So I guess he should invite them. But if I were Trump, I'd be half tempted to say, no,
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you had your chance in 18. You don't want to come. But now everybody's getting on board, huh?
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Back in 18, you thought you had a little Trump to push around, huh? Because I didn't win the popular
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vote. And I had the deep state gunning for me. And I was under threat of criminal prosecution.
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And I was told I was a KGB agent. I was told this, that, and the other thing. You thought you're
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going to remove me from office. Well, guess what, buddies? I just won the popular vote. I'm back.
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And all those prosecutions have been dropped. And all the corporations in America are sucking up to me.
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And there's a big political wind change. And all of a sudden, the Philadelphia Eagles want to start
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getting on the Trump train too little too late. You're out. You're out. I'd invite Harrison
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Butker to the White House. But that would be vindictive. Probably it would be cutting off
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your nose to spite your face. Okay, that's fine. I'm glad to just lick my finger, put it into the wind,
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realize there is a major change of momentum this year. At the very least, though, the White House
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maybe can let them sweat a little bit. Let that invitation come in a little bit later. Let them
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beg for it. That's what I want to see. Now, speaking of a vibe shift, speaking of desperation,
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speaking of tears, Joy Reid, probably the nastiest figure on MSNBC, the most left, the most vicious
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against conservatives and white people and men and all the rest, she has just been canned, fired,
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kicked to the side of the road. Her show is over. This saddens me a little bit because I did not yet
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have the opportunity to go on it. Occasionally, a conservative would sneak through. Chris Ruffo
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trolled Joy Reid into inviting him onto her show. We'll talk about Chris Ruffo a little bit later in
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this show. I never made it onto the show, so I'm a little sad for that reason. But otherwise,
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I ain't shedding any tears, unlike Joy Reid. But I've been through every emotion from anger, rage,
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disappointment, hurt, you know, feeling that, you know, guilt, you know, that I let my team lose their
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jobs. But in the end, where I really land and where I've landed on today is just gratitude,
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just pure gratitude. And gratitude, not just because people would take the time to get on a call
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like this or to take care of me, but also that my show had value. And that, I'm sorry, that what I was
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doing had value. Had value. And in the end, I'm sorry, I'm not, I try not to cry on TV. And I'd say,
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this is kind of like being on TV, so I apologize. You know why she's crying? Because of one word in
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there, had. That's, I think, why she's crying. I'm actually not celebrating Joy Reid's tears. I know
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some conservatives indulge schadenfreude every now and again. I really don't. I have some fellow feeling
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for her. It pains me to see any woman cry, even a woman who's generally contemptible, even a woman
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who has said genuinely vile things about the American right, her fellow countrymen, especially
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white men, especially Christians. You know, even then, I have a little fellow feeling for her. It's
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not her fault. Well, maybe it is her fault that she's ignorant and given to passions and vice and
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all the rest. But I still, I feel for her. You know, she's a human being. She's in my business,
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actually. You know, so I, but the reason she's crying here is that one word. She does this little
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Zoom call to meet up with her, her fans and followers, however many are left after the show
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gets canned. And she says, you know, I'm just so grateful that my show had value, that it offered
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something past tense because it doesn't have value anymore. It doesn't offer anything anymore.
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And that's what I'm celebrating. I am, I'm really not celebrating that this woman is sad. I hope she's
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not sad. I hope she becomes happy and has a good life. I am celebrating that there is no longer a
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market for her disgusting product. That's what I'm, that's what I'm genuinely happy about.
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There has been a major shift. Her show and shows like her show no longer have value. And that's not
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just because of Joy Reid's favorite villains. You know, the evil white man or the Christians or the
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conservatives. It's because like no one watches her show. The ratings are in, Daily Mail is reporting
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this. MSNBC lagged to just 45,000 viewers during the day and 63,000 during the peak hours of the night.
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Simultaneous feuds. That is devastating for, for a TV news network. You got to remember last month,
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there was a strong news cycle. It was the inauguration of president Trump. You had Trudeau
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announcing that he would be stepping down up at America's evil top hat. You had all of the
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nominations, the crazy fights over Pete Hegseth and Tulsi and Kennedy and Kash Patel. And still,
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the MSNBC ratings were in the gutter. And Joy Reid's in particular were in the gutter.
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Even worse for MSNBC, they lost nearly half of their audience in the 25 to 54 demographic,
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which is the demographic that spends money. That's the demographic that the advertisers
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care about. That's the demographic that pays for the whole network. That is a 65% collapse since
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the election. The network's numbers over last year are down a full 41%.
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So we're not even talking about down from the peak of the craziness of the election. Just
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this time last year, they're down 41%. There is no longer a market for this product.
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First of all, most voters voted for Trump. That includes huge swaths of demographics that the
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Democrats thought that they had on lock. But furthermore, those networks lied to their viewers.
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They said that Trump was going to lose. They said that Trump was going to go to jail.
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They said that Trump was a rapist. They said that Trump was a KGB agent. They said that Trump was
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all of these things that were preposterous. They said that Trump was deeply unpopular. He was this
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Hitlerian figure. And then most people liked him and most people like what he's doing. And the vast
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majority of people agree that he's keeping his campaign promises. That's worth celebrating.
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We don't need to celebrate our opponents being unhappy. But we can and should celebrate
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the change in political conditions that for now has made them unhappy. And maybe it can be a
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learning experience for them. And then maybe they can find a little joy in it. All that joy
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that they've been seeking since the election. There's so much more to say. First, though,
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press, you know, President Trump has kicked the Associated Press out of certain press events. Not
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all press events, but certain press events. Off Air Force One, out of the Oval Office, but the AP is
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still allowed in certain White House events. Anyway, the AP is furious about this. They're suing,
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and we just got some good news. A judge has just declined to grant the Associated Press
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an emergency injunction to force their way back into the White House.
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There was a hearing yesterday. Judge Trevor McFadden has asked for more details about what
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exactly has gone on in this AP ban. He did not find any reason to immediately stop the White House's
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ban, though he did warn. He said, you know, case law seems to be against the White House's ban on the
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AP, but there's no pressing reason that I need to stop the president from running his Oval Office.
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You know, I'm not, that would seem to be such an overstepping of the role of the judiciary.
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The libs right now are saying that the executive is assuming too much power, but it's preposterous.
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The main thing that Trump is doing is actually reducing the power of the executive branch by firing a
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bunch of bureaucrats. Very few authoritarian, you know, tyrannical leaders take as their first
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measures the reduction of their own power. But furthermore, it's not only that constitutionalists
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need to fear a growth of the executive branch, even if that is what we're happening. And I actually
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support a stronger and more robust executive branch. But we also need to worry about Congress
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overstepping its bounds. Now, that's not really a fear because Congress gave away all its power a long
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time ago. But I think we legitimately ought to be concerned with the judiciary overstepping its
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branch. I don't want this constitutional order to be completely dominated by one branch over the
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others, be that the executive or the judiciary. So what's the argument here? What's the AP saying?
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The AP is saying that it is illegal for the Trump White House not to invite it onto the airplane and
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into the Oval Office, that it's violating its First Amendment rights by barring them from these really
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special, super exclusive events that most press outlets don't get to go to. Now, why did Trump ban
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them in the first place? Because the immediate incident was that the Associated Press is continuing to
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refer to the Gulf of America as the Gulf of Mexico, even after President Trump, with the force of federal
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law, with his pen in an executive order, renamed the Gulf of Mexico, which was a totally reasonable
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thing for the president to do. The Gulf of Mexico used to share more coastline with Mexico before
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parts of Mexico became America. But now, it's America. America's the, first of all, even forgetting
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about the coastline, America's the dominant power. So yeah, it's the Gulf of America. What's wrong with
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that? By the way, when you're in Arabia, when you're in Dubai, let's say, and you pull up Google
00:25:43.560
Maps and you look at the body of water to your east, it says the Arabian Gulf. Now, if you were
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to fly to Tehran, it would say the Persian Gulf. But Arabia, the Arabian countries, refer to it as the
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Arabian Sea, as the Arabian Gulf, rather. And so I don't see any reason why America, the global hegemon,
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can't talk about the body of water that shares a lot of its coastline, as the Gulf of America.
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Why does the AP do this? Because the AP hates America. Because the AP is radically left-wing.
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They not only use their stupid language in their own outlet, but they actually set the standards
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for journalism. And I think this is what it's really about. This is really why the Trump
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administration is punishing the AP, rightly so. Because the AP style book sets journalistic standards,
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and it has become radically leftist. Forget about the Gulf of America.
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They insist on referring to men who pretend to be women as women. They insist on capitalizing the
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letter B when you refer to black people, but lower casing the letter W when you refer to white
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people, as if to say black people are superior to white people. That's just wrong. That's just very
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ugly and ridiculous. They refuse to permit their journalists to refer to illegal aliens. And in
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setting that standard in the style book, they're encouraging all the other journalists not to
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refer to illegal aliens. The AP is a fake news outlet. In the truest sense of the term,
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the AP manipulates language to lie, to deceive, and to force other journalists to do so.
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If anyone is to be punished, it should be the Associated Press. If anyone should be barred from
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events, it should be the Associated Press because they lie. They serve no legitimate function in these
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press events. The purpose of the press team at the White House is, one, to communicate what the
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government is doing to the people, and two, to take questions from the people through the media,
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media is plural of medium, to ask questions of the government. The Associated Press fails on both
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accounts. The Associated Press does not accurately represent what the government is doing to the
00:27:57.740
people. The audience, even for the Associated Press, is dwindling because of the changes in
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technology and media consumption. And the Associated Press is not accurately reflecting the questions of
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the American people. The majority of Americans who understand that men can't become women, and the
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majority of American voters who voted for Trump. So what's the, I don't even get the argument as to why
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the Associated Press should get this super special treatment, other than, well, they've had it for so
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long. Yeah, we've had a really corrupt system for so long, and the American people voted to change
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that. And part of that change is firing some bureaucrats, and part of that change is cutting some
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spending, and part of that change is sealing off the border, and part of that change, AP, is booting you
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out for lying. I mean, what the Trump administration is doing right here, I am very pleased and gratified to
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say, is straight out of my book, Speechless, Controlling Words, Controlling Minds. Recognize, thank you,
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recognizing that the way that the left, the chief way that the left has controlled the political order
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for about 100 years, has been the manipulation and tyrannical control of language. And the Trump
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admin, and big kudos to the press office here, they go in, they say, oh yeah, worst offender,
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we're kicking them out of the room. Brilliant stuff. Now, turning to the less public, more secretive
00:29:12.080
parts of the government. This is disreputable and gross, and I'm going to have to actually clean up
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what the government workers are saying here, because this is a family show. But I mentioned
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Chris Ruffo earlier. Chris Ruffo has a report out in City Journal with Hannah Grossman. The NSA's
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secret sex chats, this is the NSA, once called No Such Agency, the National Security Agency,
00:29:39.320
intelligence officials maintained a chat room to discuss polyamory, that is, you know,
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sleeping around with lots of different people and cheating. I guess you can't say cheating because
00:29:54.000
people are honest about it, but, you know, just being promiscuous with lots of different people
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and doing orgies and weird stuff. Polyamory and transgender surgeries, this is according to
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internal documents. According to internal documents that we obtained, writes, write Chris and Hannah,
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some intelligence agency employees have another on-the-job priority, sex chats. I'll just read
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the paragraph, one or two paragraphs here. I'll try to clean it up. We have cultivated sources within the
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National Security Agency, one current employee and one former employee, who have provided chat logs from
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the NSA's Intel Link messaging program. According to an NSA press official, quote, all NSA employees
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sign agreements stating that publishing non-mission-related material on Intel Link is a usage violation and
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will result in disciplinary action. So, if you're going to use the official NSA messaging channel,
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you got to keep it focused on the job. Seems basic, right? We're talking about one of the most
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intimidating, formidable agencies in the U.S. government. Nonetheless, write Chris and Hannah, these logs,
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dating back two years, are lurid, featuring wide-ranging discussions of sex, kink, polyamory, and castration.
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This is on the NSA board. One popular chat topic was male-to-female transgender surgery, which involves
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surgically removing the phallus, cleaning it up, and turning it into an artificial
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lady part. Mine is everything, said one male who claimed to have had gender reconstruction surgery.
00:31:21.340
I found that I like being, let's say, violated. Never liked it before gender reassignment surgery,
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but all the rest is just as important as well. Another intelligence official on the official messaging
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board boasted that genital surgery allowed him to, quote, wear leggings or bikinis without
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having to wear a gaff under it. I don't even know what that is. Okay, then the next paragraph gets so
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gross and lurid, I'm just not going to read it on the show. But this is the NSA. This is,
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I'm, what's so weird learning everything we're learning about the federal government,
00:32:00.320
what's so weird reading these chat logs from the NSA is I'm starting to wish that the CIA and the NSA
00:32:10.140
and all the alphabet agencies were, in fact, the evil super geniuses that we're told they are in
00:32:17.960
the conspiracy theories and in the fantasy movies. The CIA had a statement on this. The messages published
00:32:23.840
today from an NSA messaging platform allegedly involving a CIA official are unacceptable. They have
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no place of the agency. The CIA will be taking immediate action on this matter, which only
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further proves the need for serious reform, says the director of public affairs for CIA.
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You know, there are these, there's two views of agencies like the CIA and the NSA. The one is
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the James Bond view. These guys, these are masters of the universe. They control the whole world.
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They've got assets everywhere. The other is the burn after reading Coen brothers view,
00:32:50.440
which is that these guys can't win for losing. You know, they're just bumbling government
00:32:53.800
bureaucrats just like anyone else that Doge is targeting right now. And of course the reality
00:32:59.320
involves both of those things, but good grief, man, that it would be better for these agencies
00:33:08.720
to be run by evil super geniuses because at least then they could execute on a mission and there's a
00:33:13.000
chance that the mission would be good. At least if we had good political leadership. In this case,
00:33:17.560
though, we are reminded of a basic fact of human nature, which is that sin darkens the intellect.
00:33:25.960
And these people who have a lot of power, who have access to a lot of information about you,
00:33:31.460
they are spying on you 24-7, these people are perverts. A lot of them are just sick perverts,
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okay? And that is not good. That means that their ability to actually be effective in their job in
00:33:49.620
government is highly compromised. And the likelihood that the way that they will use
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government power, if they can use it effectively for gross, weird, disturbing, counterproductive
00:33:58.920
things is much higher than it otherwise would be. Sin darkens the intellect. How perverse do you have
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to be? How much has your brain needed to be turned to mush by over sexual stimulation and lust that you
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would even bring yourself to post these things on a government forum, on an NSA forum? Not a good
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sign. Elon, Elon, go over to the NSA. We got some for you. Go get them. You know, on Tuesday, March 4th,
00:34:29.280
President Donald Trump is addressing a joint session of Congress, 9 p.m. Eastern, laying out his
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America first vision, tackling immigration reform, economic revival, and national security.
00:34:42.980
You know that we are not going to sit this one out. Join us for Backstage Live at 8.30 p.m. Eastern.
00:34:49.360
This is going to be our big breakdown with yours truly, as well as Ben, Matt, Drew, and Jeremy. Then
00:34:57.320
we will watch the entire speech together live on Daily Wire Plus. And when Trump's done,
00:35:02.520
this is the event shaping America's future. So be there, because we'll be talking about it. Watch it
00:35:09.160
all live on Daily Wire Plus this Tuesday night. Not tonight, but next Tuesday night. Is that,
00:35:15.160
that's Mardi Gras, right? That's good. So are we going to be like, are we going to have beads and stuff
00:35:19.300
too? I don't know. We'll see. Maybe, maybe Matt will, you know, flash open the lumberjack flannel.
00:35:24.320
Who knows? Go to dailywire.com right now. My favorite comment yesterday is from Bogat
00:35:28.920
Molnir, 8645, who says, Michael, I'm a Hungarian. I have some good news for you. Victor Orban,
00:35:34.960
PM of Hungary, announced that the next Pride Parade will be banned in Hungary for the first
00:35:38.580
time ever. Glad that one of my very favorite prime ministers in the world, maybe my favorite,
00:35:44.500
he's definitely up there. Maybe he paid attention to the Jubilee episode. I don't know,
00:35:49.680
but I'm, that's great. I think he was on the right track anyway, before that. The prime minister said,
00:35:55.260
according to this comment, that we should protect our children from this madness. I absolutely agree
00:35:59.320
with him. And as just a note, I want to share with you, he said earlier, Europe can be saved by just
00:36:04.700
Christianity. That's true. And it can only be saved by Christianity, as a matter of fact. You know,
00:36:08.820
I am a great admirer of prime minister Orban and of Hungary. Generally, I got to see some Hungarian
00:36:13.940
friends when I was in DC for, what was I in? Oh, for CPAC. Got to see them last week. So anyway,
00:36:19.680
a great deal of fun, very exciting news in Hungary and the rest of Europe should take note.
00:36:28.000
Speaking of perverse people, Sonny Hauston, one of the ladies on The View, she just came out.
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And you got to give her credit for standing against massive unpopularity. She just came out at a time
00:36:42.920
when woke is at its absolute lowest. Nobody wants to claim that mantle anymore. She claimed that mantle.
00:36:49.680
And she said to oppose woke, actually, is ungodly and unchristian.
00:36:58.360
The conversations you and I have had would be so many times about the co-opting of the word woke.
00:37:04.180
And the fact that the right somehow has made it a dirty word. To be woke is a word that came out of the
00:37:12.600
African-American community. And it was about acknowledging social justice inequities, acknowledging
00:37:20.280
people's suffering. It is not a bad thing to care about other people, to care about the
00:37:28.160
sufferings of others, and to act upon it. And so Whoopi will often tell me, well, I've never been
00:37:33.340
asleep. And that's how I feel. My parents, you know, they grew up in the civil rights movement.
00:37:39.320
I grew up in the late 60s, 70s. I was always a part of it. And so I've never been asleep.
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And so it angers me when people are like, this woke stuff has got to go. That's telling me that you
00:37:51.660
don't care about my lived experience. You don't care about the oppression of the LGBTQ community.
00:37:57.380
You don't care about the oppression of the disabled. You don't care about the oppression
00:38:00.980
of immigrants. You don't care about your fellow neighbor. And that is ungodly. That is not Christian.
00:38:08.300
Okay. So we're talking about wokeness. To be woke, it seems right now at a minimum,
00:38:16.200
to be woke requires one to support murdering babies and castrating children, right? I don't
00:38:24.360
think you could be called woke if you don't support abortion and so-called trans rights, right?
00:38:30.540
So to be woke at a minimum, there's a lot more that goes along with it, but at a minimum involves
00:38:35.980
supporting the slaughter of millions and millions of babies, well over a million every year,
00:38:42.840
and the castration of little kids. And she says that if you oppose those things,
00:38:49.480
you are ungodly and unchristian. Even those two words placed together, she is equating
00:38:55.080
godliness with Christianity. So she's saying Christ is God. She's saying Christianity is the
00:39:01.020
true religion. But if you want to really be a Christian, if you want to really be godly,
00:39:07.740
you have to really be a Christian. And if you want to really be a Christian,
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you have to oppose non-negotiable tenets of Christianity, moral dicta and anthropological
00:39:18.680
teachings. Going back to the earliest Christian teachings that we have, going back to the earliest
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days of the church in antiquity, we have the didache, the first kind of catechism of the church,
00:39:31.980
which forbids abortion. The church has been consistent for 2,000 years that abortion is
00:39:39.800
unacceptable, immoral. But who knows better, 2,000 years of Christians, the succession of the popes
00:39:48.320
and the bishops and the priests and Christians for millennia, or Sonny Hostin? No, no, no. I guess
00:39:54.540
Sonny Hostin redefines what is Christian. Going back to the very earliest days, going back to
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scripture certainly, and the earliest days of the church, we recognize that God created man,
00:40:05.600
male and female created he them. That sex is a part of us. It is immutable. It is defined at our
00:40:15.940
conception, really. And that men and women leave their parents. The man and the woman cling to one
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another. They become one flesh. And they are told to be fruitful and multiply, which is why the church
00:40:30.880
opposes contraception, which is why the church encourages families, it actually demands that
00:40:38.540
families be open to life. And it's why Christians historically get married, stay married, can't get
00:40:45.480
divorced, and have a lot of kids. All things that Sonny Hostin here is saying, no, no, no. Men can become
00:40:51.200
women. Sex is not immutable. Not only is contraception fine, but sterilization is fine. And actually,
00:40:57.300
we should sterilize little kids. And we should only do that to the kids that we haven't already
00:41:01.760
murdered through abortion. What? How does she get there? I was with her when she equated godliness
00:41:08.860
with Christianity, but then she seems to undermine both. Because leftism is Christianity without Christ.
00:41:16.600
That's what it is. Leftism, I believe, just as an historical matter, a matter of intellectual history,
00:41:22.780
that woke progressive leftists are the descendants of some of my ancestors, I'm sorry to say. Some of
00:41:31.180
my Puritan or alternately Congregationalist or otherwise hardcore Calvinist ancestors in New
00:41:39.680
England, I think that the woke left today is the kind of intellectual ancestor of them. Now, I know
00:41:45.680
you'd say, hold on, Michael, those Puritans, your ancestors, the pilgrims and the hardcore
00:41:49.920
Calvinists in New England, they were really right-wing. Well, yeah, in a certain way.
00:41:55.640
But I can't remember who deserves credit for this quote. It's not an original observation.
00:42:00.480
But someone observed once, maybe it was Hilaire Belloc, I don't know, that Unitarianism is just
00:42:07.420
Calvinism with mercy. That this kind of Puritanical view, which is different than the traditional
00:42:13.500
understanding of Christianity, is a kind of outgrowth of, or rather that wokeness and leftism
00:42:24.540
is an outgrowth of this kind of Puritanical view of Christianity, which has just one weird change to
00:42:29.900
it. Namely, they took out Christ. That's it. It's a perversion. It's an inversion. It's proof of
00:42:38.160
what Chesterton observed in Orthodoxy, which is that when a religious scheme is shattered,
00:42:44.620
when you take Christ out of Christianity, for instance, it's not just the vices that run wild,
00:42:48.700
but the virtues that run wild. And the virtues actually run more wild because they're separated
00:42:54.280
from each other, and they do more damage. That's, I think, what we're seeing with Sonny. That's,
00:42:59.760
I think, what we're seeing with wokeness. It's just this perverse Christianity. Well, what was the
00:43:05.640
line? The old line from Niebuhr, the Protestant theologian who said that today, people are asking
00:43:11.980
for a God without wrath to lead people without sin into a kingdom without judgment through the
00:43:16.520
ministrations of a Christ without a cross. That's what they want. That's wokeness for you. That's
00:43:21.280
why we got to get rid of it. But it does seem that there's still a residual wokeness going around.
00:43:28.000
There's a story. Maybe this will have to be a tease. We don't have too much time to get into it.
00:43:31.500
But there's a story now out of Gallup polling that LGBTQ identification in the U.S. has risen to 9.3%.
00:43:43.160
25, 30 years ago, it was like 1%. 9.3% overall. And that's not even the kicker. The kicker is that
00:43:52.580
among Gen Z, the number is 23.1%. And actually, this is really trying to look at the glass half full.
00:43:59.440
That might be good news because NBC had a poll out a year or two ago which showed that almost 30%
00:44:06.900
of Gen Z identified as LGBTQ. What is going on? Who is not just turning the frogs gay but turning the
00:44:16.600
kids gay and lesbian and trans? I brought up this question on the Jubilee podcast. I said,
00:44:25.060
it seems to me LGBT identity is a social contagion. They got really, really upset. How else do you
00:44:30.300
explain that though? I don't know. Maybe we'll have time to get to it tomorrow. We don't have time
00:44:33.700
right now because it is LGBT Tuesday. No, there's no LGBT. It's just TEE Tuesday. Finally, after two
00:44:44.340
weeks of stupid snow days that locked me up in my home because they closed this studio or being on the
00:44:50.100
road or, you know, having good interviews come in. But we, I'm finally with you in the member
00:44:57.960
segment for TEE Tuesday. The rest of the show continues now. Not for the hoi polloi. If you
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