The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 1680 - Elon Musk Destroys The Bureaucracy With 6 Simple Words

00:00:00.000 Elon Musk plans to destroy the corrupt federal bureaucracy with one simple trick

00:00:05.280 and six simple words. I'm Michael Knowles. This is The Michael Knowles Show.

00:00:30.000 Welcome back to the show. I want to be clear. The six simple words are not

00:00:33.300 I'm Michael Knowles and this is The Michael Knowles Show. Those would be 10 simple words.

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00:02:19.300 in the meantime, a lot of corrupt bureaucrats are going to lose their jobs. And the reason 0.99

00:02:26.240 they're going to lose their jobs is because of six simple words from Elon Musk. Elon Musk sent out

00:02:33.500 an email last week. They're right at the end of the week. And the subject had six words in it.

00:02:40.100 What did you do last week? Those were the words. What did you do last week? Now, the body of the

00:02:50.980 email asked federal employees to reply with five examples of what they did over the previous seven

00:02:59.180 days. Now, in the email, Doge said, do not reveal any classified information. Do not go further than

00:03:06.980 your contracts allow you to go. Just in broad strokes, five little bullet points. What did you do

00:03:14.180 last week? Musk also said that failure to respond to the email would be taken as a letter of resignation.

00:03:24.480 Elon here is a total culture vulture. He's a meme king. I don't just say that because I know that he

00:03:31.320 posts a lot of memes to X. I have some mutual friends with Elon Musk. The guy sends people memes

00:03:37.700 a lot. He's a real culture maven. And this email comes directly out of the hit 1990s movie,

00:03:48.120 Office Space. He did this meme.

00:03:50.020 You physically take the specs from the customer? Well, no. My secretary does that or the facts.

00:04:03.460 So then you must physically bring them to the software people? Well, no. Yeah, I mean,

00:04:12.960 sometimes. What what would you say you do here? Well, look, I already told you, I deal with the

00:04:23.640 customers so the engineers don't have to. I have people skills. I am good at dealing with people.

00:04:30.660 Can't you understand that? What the hell is wrong with you people? What would you say you do here?

00:04:38.020 You could ask that question to perhaps half of the federal bureaucracy, and that would be the

00:04:44.100 response. What are you? I mean, I don't like I don't like technically do anything, but I'm really

00:04:48.580 good. I have people skills. Why are you firing me, Elon? Six simple words. What did you do last week?

00:04:56.020 Now, for some of the government agencies, they said they actually instructed the employees not to

00:05:01.600 respond. Because there is there is an insurrection, I suppose, a coup d'etat, an attempt at resistance

00:05:09.340 among certain bureaucrats and managers against the duly elected government and against their

00:05:16.300 legitimate bosses at the top of the executive branch. But most Americans think Doge is good.

00:05:23.940 OK, this is been a hallmark of the first month of the Trump administration, of the second Trump

00:05:30.040 administration, has been Trump just killing it on 80-20 issues. The paramount example being Trump

00:05:36.980 coming out and saying, we're bringing back plastic straws, no more stupid paper straws,

00:05:40.740 forces the libs to defend paper straws, which no one likes, including the libs.

00:05:45.980 So here, most people know, most Americans understand there's a lot of bloat and waste and

00:05:51.560 fraud and corruption in the federal government. So Trump and Elon and Doge open up going after USAID.

00:05:57.420 The libs have to defend USAID. USAID is paying for transgender ballerina performances in the

00:06:02.920 Philippines. The vast majority of Americans think that's a waste of money. At best, it's a waste of

00:06:07.980 money. Actually, it's usually a cover for fraud and corruption and graft and all sorts of even more

00:06:15.680 nefarious stuff. But most Americans get it, including really prominent Americans, really prominent

00:06:21.040 Americans who have been Democrats for many decades. I'm thinking of one guy in particular,

00:06:26.120 Jamie Dimon, probably the most successful banker in America. He's the CEO of JPMorgan Chase. He's been

00:06:32.820 a Democrat for pretty much all of his life. He's been floated as a treasury secretary, first under

00:06:38.420 Obama, then maybe if Kamala had gotten elected. Though in recent years, he said he's barely a

00:06:44.160 Democrat because the party has moved so far to the left. And he just came out and endorsed Doge.

00:06:48.440 He said that the government bureaucracy is inefficient. He said Doge needs to be done.

00:06:52.840 This is very much in keeping with people who have any historical familiarity with the matter

00:06:58.020 because we know that Doge is not unprecedented. We know it goes back over 100 years. It goes back

00:07:02.940 to Woodrow Wilson's Bureau of Efficiency. After that, it goes to FDR's commission, the Brownlow

00:07:09.100 Commission, which established the executive office of the president. Talk about a major shakeup.

00:07:13.160 It goes to the Truman administration, which had the Hoover Commission, also a big major reorganization

00:07:18.920 of government. Ronald Reagan had the Grace Commission. And then in the 1990s, you had

00:07:24.300 Vice President Al Gore, who bizarrely, I was sitting two seats behind on a flight from Miami

00:07:28.540 over the weekend. I don't know. Apparently, the global warming money's run up because he

00:07:32.720 wasn't flying private. But Al Gore, during the 90s, had the National Initiative for Reinventing

00:07:37.620 Government, got rid of a quarter million federal jobs, and consolidated 800 federal agencies.

00:07:41.660 So Jamie Dimon, who is a Democrat, he comes out, he says, yeah, Elon, Doge, it's all good.

00:07:48.440 Why? A lot of people are saying, why would these federal employees respond to the email?

00:07:54.580 Why would Elon do it in this clunky way? Why not talk to the managers and the assistant managers

00:07:58.780 and the this and the that? The reason is, Elon has said this. He's checking to see if these federal

00:08:07.000 employees even look at their email. If they're so checked out that they don't even check their

00:08:15.380 email, then yeah, they should be fired. Elon further is looking to see if these federal employees

00:08:21.580 even exist. You know, back in the old days of the machine, before the civil rights reform of the 1880s,

00:08:29.040 a lot of people just had no show jobs. People on the federal dole didn't even exist, maybe.

00:08:37.680 So that's what Elon's checking here. Now, because of the pushback and the confusion,

00:08:44.240 Musk just came out. He said, subject to the discretion of the president, they will be given

00:08:48.520 another chance. Failure to respond a second time will result in termination. That's probably a good

00:08:53.800 idea because who knows, maybe half the federal workforce didn't respond or more. So you're, I mean,

00:08:58.820 some people would say, great, you know, ax them. But Elon here, he says, look, subject to the

00:09:04.520 discretion of the president, we'll give him a second chance. But they do have to follow through

00:09:08.560 at a certain point. Otherwise, Elon will lose credibility. Otherwise, Trump will lose credibility.

00:09:13.760 But it's a good way to check. And the other, the technocratic libs will say, well, no, you don't

00:09:18.020 even really need to look because, you know, there are all sorts of automated ways through the various

00:09:23.800 computer systems, Slack channels, et cetera, to find out if the employees are being productive.

00:09:28.140 That's not the point. You also want to hear it from the employees in their own words. You get

00:09:33.340 different information that way. You get a sense of how the employees view their own jobs. You get a

00:09:39.040 sense, a personal sense of whether they're actually engaged. And then ax the bad ones, man.

00:09:45.440 The only people who want to defend bad, ineffective bureaucrats are corrupt politicians. And that's,

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00:12:07.360 Speaking of the White House, a dizzying whirlwind of gossip and rumors.

00:12:15.980 Yesterday, Mr. Ben Davies says to me, he says, Michael, you got to cover the story on the show.

00:12:20.140 The Eagles will not show up to the White House to celebrate winning the Super Bowl.

00:12:25.280 And as with most stories that Mr. Davies offers me, I say, I don't know. Is that true? I don't know

00:12:28.900 if I believe this. I'm not interested. He's a big sports guy. He's a big, tough athlete. Me,

00:12:33.080 you know, a game of ping pong once a year is the height of my athleticism. So I said, I don't know,

00:12:36.900 whatever. I didn't get to it. Then I check in and it's sure enough, that story was going around,

00:12:41.360 but there was a wrinkle in it. President Trump had not yet invited the Eagles to the White House.

00:12:47.980 So there was no invitation for them to reject. But then furthermore, the story got even juicier

00:12:54.320 because later on, after all this criticism was hurled at the Eagles, I suggested that Trump invite

00:13:01.000 the Chiefs instead. All of a sudden, an unnamed source close to the Eagles said they look forward

00:13:08.620 to going to the White House. No, no, they don't want to snub Trump. Mind you, the Eagles did snub

00:13:14.820 Trump in 2018 when they won the Super Bowl and Trump was president the first time.

00:13:19.080 So good basis for assuming that they're not going to come this time. But after all that criticism,

00:13:24.160 the Eagles, an unnamed source close to the Eagles came out and said, no, no, no,

00:13:26.960 they really want to go to the White House. They can't wait to accept the invitation once Trump

00:13:32.480 offers it. Trump still hasn't offered it. I don't know that he should offer it. I guess he should.

00:13:38.260 I guess he should because Pennsylvania is a crucial state. The midterms are going to be tough.

00:13:42.960 Midterms are tough in any administration. Certainly one where so many dynamic things are happening.

00:13:49.020 So I guess he should invite them. But if I were Trump, I'd be half tempted to say, no,

00:13:53.800 you had your chance in 18. You don't want to come. But now everybody's getting on board, huh?

00:13:57.980 Back in 18, you thought you had a little Trump to push around, huh? Because I didn't win the popular

00:14:02.860 vote. And I had the deep state gunning for me. And I was under threat of criminal prosecution.

00:14:08.980 And I was told I was a KGB agent. I was told this, that, and the other thing. You thought you're

00:14:12.760 going to remove me from office. Well, guess what, buddies? I just won the popular vote. I'm back.

00:14:18.320 And all those prosecutions have been dropped. And all the corporations in America are sucking up to me.

00:14:23.360 And there's a big political wind change. And all of a sudden, the Philadelphia Eagles want to start

00:14:28.780 getting on the Trump train too little too late. You're out. You're out. I'd invite Harrison

00:14:32.940 Butker to the White House. But that would be vindictive. Probably it would be cutting off

00:14:39.860 your nose to spite your face. Okay, that's fine. I'm glad to just lick my finger, put it into the wind,

00:14:49.260 realize there is a major change of momentum this year. At the very least, though, the White House

00:14:55.560 maybe can let them sweat a little bit. Let that invitation come in a little bit later. Let them 0.99

00:14:59.640 beg for it. That's what I want to see. Now, speaking of a vibe shift, speaking of desperation,

00:15:05.260 speaking of tears, Joy Reid, probably the nastiest figure on MSNBC, the most left, the most vicious 1.00

00:15:18.260 against conservatives and white people and men and all the rest, she has just been canned, fired,

00:15:26.460 kicked to the side of the road. Her show is over. This saddens me a little bit because I did not yet

00:15:32.760 have the opportunity to go on it. Occasionally, a conservative would sneak through. Chris Ruffo

00:15:38.460 trolled Joy Reid into inviting him onto her show. We'll talk about Chris Ruffo a little bit later in

00:15:42.940 this show. I never made it onto the show, so I'm a little sad for that reason. But otherwise,

00:15:48.060 I ain't shedding any tears, unlike Joy Reid. But I've been through every emotion from anger, rage,

00:15:56.880 disappointment, hurt, you know, feeling that, you know, guilt, you know, that I let my team lose their

00:16:05.180 jobs. But in the end, where I really land and where I've landed on today is just gratitude,

00:16:14.500 just pure gratitude. And gratitude, not just because people would take the time to get on a call

00:16:26.180 like this or to take care of me, but also that my show had value. And that, I'm sorry, that what I was

00:16:42.700 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,

00:16:49.760 this is kind of like being on TV, so I apologize. You know why she's crying? Because of one word in

00:16:55.740 there, had. That's, I think, why she's crying. I'm actually not celebrating Joy Reid's tears. I know

00:17:03.920 some conservatives indulge schadenfreude every now and again. I really don't. I have some fellow feeling

00:17:08.540 for her. It pains me to see any woman cry, even a woman who's generally contemptible, even a woman 1.00

00:17:13.860 who has said genuinely vile things about the American right, her fellow countrymen, especially

00:17:19.080 white men, especially Christians. You know, even then, I have a little fellow feeling for her. It's

00:17:25.320 not her fault. Well, maybe it is her fault that she's ignorant and given to passions and vice and 1.00

00:17:30.940 all the rest. But I still, I feel for her. You know, she's a human being. She's in my business,

00:17:34.740 actually. You know, so I, but the reason she's crying here is that one word. She does this little

00:17:42.040 Zoom call to meet up with her, her fans and followers, however many are left after the show

00:17:46.720 gets canned. And she says, you know, I'm just so grateful that my show had value, that it offered

00:17:54.600 something past tense because it doesn't have value anymore. It doesn't offer anything anymore.

00:18:03.540 And that's what I'm celebrating. I am, I'm really not celebrating that this woman is sad. I hope she's

00:18:08.540 not sad. I hope she becomes happy and has a good life. I am celebrating that there is no longer a

00:18:13.960 market for her disgusting product. That's what I'm, that's what I'm genuinely happy about.

00:18:20.480 There has been a major shift. Her show and shows like her show no longer have value. And that's not

00:18:28.120 just because of Joy Reid's favorite villains. You know, the evil white man or the Christians or the 1.00

00:18:36.040 conservatives. It's because like no one watches her show. The ratings are in, Daily Mail is reporting

00:18:42.740 this. MSNBC lagged to just 45,000 viewers during the day and 63,000 during the peak hours of the night.

00:18:50.560 Simultaneous feuds. That is devastating for, for a TV news network. You got to remember last month,

00:19:00.900 there was a strong news cycle. It was the inauguration of president Trump. You had Trudeau

00:19:06.580 announcing that he would be stepping down up at America's evil top hat. You had all of the

00:19:12.140 nominations, the crazy fights over Pete Hegseth and Tulsi and Kennedy and Kash Patel. And still,

00:19:18.980 the MSNBC ratings were in the gutter. And Joy Reid's in particular were in the gutter. 0.97

00:19:23.180 Even worse for MSNBC, they lost nearly half of their audience in the 25 to 54 demographic,

00:19:29.400 which is the demographic that spends money. That's the demographic that the advertisers

00:19:32.460 care about. That's the demographic that pays for the whole network. That is a 65% collapse since

00:19:38.820 the election. The network's numbers over last year are down a full 41%.

00:19:45.560 So we're not even talking about down from the peak of the craziness of the election. Just

00:19:49.860 this time last year, they're down 41%. There is no longer a market for this product.

00:19:57.240 First of all, most voters voted for Trump. That includes huge swaths of demographics that the

00:20:04.020 Democrats thought that they had on lock. But furthermore, those networks lied to their viewers.

00:20:10.720 They said that Trump was going to lose. They said that Trump was going to go to jail.

00:20:15.700 They said that Trump was a rapist. They said that Trump was a KGB agent. They said that Trump was

00:20:20.820 all of these things that were preposterous. They said that Trump was deeply unpopular. He was this

00:20:28.240 Hitlerian figure. And then most people liked him and most people like what he's doing. And the vast 0.93

00:20:34.360 majority of people agree that he's keeping his campaign promises. That's worth celebrating.

00:20:38.920 We don't need to celebrate our opponents being unhappy. But we can and should celebrate

00:20:44.660 the change in political conditions that for now has made them unhappy. And maybe it can be a

00:20:50.860 learning experience for them. And then maybe they can find a little joy in it. All that joy

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00:22:32.080 press, you know, President Trump has kicked the Associated Press out of certain press events. Not

00:22:38.520 all press events, but certain press events. Off Air Force One, out of the Oval Office, but the AP is

00:22:43.520 still allowed in certain White House events. Anyway, the AP is furious about this. They're suing,

00:22:49.060 and we just got some good news. A judge has just declined to grant the Associated Press

00:22:57.480 an emergency injunction to force their way back into the White House.

00:23:03.860 There was a hearing yesterday. Judge Trevor McFadden has asked for more details about what

00:23:10.140 exactly has gone on in this AP ban. He did not find any reason to immediately stop the White House's

00:23:17.620 ban, though he did warn. He said, you know, case law seems to be against the White House's ban on the

00:23:22.540 AP, but there's no pressing reason that I need to stop the president from running his Oval Office.

00:23:28.980 You know, I'm not, that would seem to be such an overstepping of the role of the judiciary.

00:23:34.060 The libs right now are saying that the executive is assuming too much power, but it's preposterous.

00:23:41.560 The main thing that Trump is doing is actually reducing the power of the executive branch by firing a

00:23:45.820 bunch of bureaucrats. Very few authoritarian, you know, tyrannical leaders take as their first

00:23:52.640 measures the reduction of their own power. But furthermore, it's not only that constitutionalists

00:23:58.720 need to fear a growth of the executive branch, even if that is what we're happening. And I actually

00:24:05.020 support a stronger and more robust executive branch. But we also need to worry about Congress

00:24:11.400 overstepping its bounds. Now, that's not really a fear because Congress gave away all its power a long

00:24:14.600 time ago. But I think we legitimately ought to be concerned with the judiciary overstepping its

00:24:21.580 branch. I don't want this constitutional order to be completely dominated by one branch over the

00:24:29.100 others, be that the executive or the judiciary. So what's the argument here? What's the AP saying?

00:24:37.340 The AP is saying that it is illegal for the Trump White House not to invite it onto the airplane and

00:24:42.680 into the Oval Office, that it's violating its First Amendment rights by barring them from these really

00:24:48.780 special, super exclusive events that most press outlets don't get to go to. Now, why did Trump ban

00:24:56.140 them in the first place? Because the immediate incident was that the Associated Press is continuing to

00:25:03.160 refer to the Gulf of America as the Gulf of Mexico, even after President Trump, with the force of federal

00:25:10.900 law, with his pen in an executive order, renamed the Gulf of Mexico, which was a totally reasonable

00:25:18.700 thing for the president to do. The Gulf of Mexico used to share more coastline with Mexico before 0.97

00:25:25.760 parts of Mexico became America. But now, it's America. America's the, first of all, even forgetting

00:25:32.480 about the coastline, America's the dominant power. So yeah, it's the Gulf of America. What's wrong with

00:25:37.620 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

00:25:50.440 to fly to Tehran, it would say the Persian Gulf. But Arabia, the Arabian countries, refer to it as the

00:25:57.000 Arabian Sea, as the Arabian Gulf, rather. And so I don't see any reason why America, the global hegemon,

00:26:03.580 can't talk about the body of water that shares a lot of its coastline, as the Gulf of America.

00:26:08.360 Why does the AP do this? Because the AP hates America. Because the AP is radically left-wing.

00:26:14.220 They not only use their stupid language in their own outlet, but they actually set the standards

00:26:21.720 for journalism. And I think this is what it's really about. This is really why the Trump

00:26:25.460 administration is punishing the AP, rightly so. Because the AP style book sets journalistic standards,

00:26:31.260 and it has become radically leftist. Forget about the Gulf of America.

00:26:35.140 They insist on referring to men who pretend to be women as women. They insist on capitalizing the

00:26:42.180 letter B when you refer to black people, but lower casing the letter W when you refer to white

00:26:47.340 people, as if to say black people are superior to white people. That's just wrong. That's just very

00:26:53.680 ugly and ridiculous. They refuse to permit their journalists to refer to illegal aliens. And in 1.00

00:27:00.380 setting that standard in the style book, they're encouraging all the other journalists not to

00:27:04.120 refer to illegal aliens. The AP is a fake news outlet. In the truest sense of the term,

00:27:10.340 the AP manipulates language to lie, to deceive, and to force other journalists to do so.

00:27:16.260 If anyone is to be punished, it should be the Associated Press. If anyone should be barred from

00:27:21.880 events, it should be the Associated Press because they lie. They serve no legitimate function in these

00:27:28.020 press events. The purpose of the press team at the White House is, one, to communicate what the

00:27:36.920 government is doing to the people, and two, to take questions from the people through the media,

00:27:44.760 media is plural of medium, to ask questions of the government. The Associated Press fails on both

00:27:51.880 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

00:28:02.180 technology and media consumption. And the Associated Press is not accurately reflecting the questions of

00:28:09.640 the American people. The majority of Americans who understand that men can't become women, and the

00:28:14.020 majority of American voters who voted for Trump. So what's the, I don't even get the argument as to why

00:28:19.180 the Associated Press should get this super special treatment, other than, well, they've had it for so

00:28:23.000 long. Yeah, we've had a really corrupt system for so long, and the American people voted to change

00:28:27.220 that. And part of that change is firing some bureaucrats, and part of that change is cutting some

00:28:31.640 spending, and part of that change is sealing off the border, and part of that change, AP, is booting you

00:28:36.980 out for lying. I mean, what the Trump administration is doing right here, I am very pleased and gratified to

00:28:42.920 say, is straight out of my book, Speechless, Controlling Words, Controlling Minds. Recognize, thank you,

00:28:47.880 recognizing that the way that the left, the chief way that the left has controlled the political order

00:28:53.160 for about 100 years, has been the manipulation and tyrannical control of language. And the Trump

00:28:59.640 admin, and big kudos to the press office here, they go in, they say, oh yeah, worst offender,

00:29:05.260 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

00:29:18.660 what the government workers are saying here, because this is a family show. But I mentioned

00:29:23.400 Chris Ruffo earlier. Chris Ruffo has a report out in City Journal with Hannah Grossman. The NSA's

00:29:30.120 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,

00:29:49.320 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

00:29:57.400 and doing orgies and weird stuff. Polyamory and transgender surgeries, this is according to 0.75

00:30:03.220 internal documents. According to internal documents that we obtained, writes, write Chris and Hannah,

00:30:09.880 some intelligence agency employees have another on-the-job priority, sex chats. I'll just read

00:30:16.920 the paragraph, one or two paragraphs here. I'll try to clean it up. We have cultivated sources within the

00:30:21.420 National Security Agency, one current employee and one former employee, who have provided chat logs from

00:30:25.800 the NSA's Intel Link messaging program. According to an NSA press official, quote, all NSA employees

00:30:31.900 sign agreements stating that publishing non-mission-related material on Intel Link is a usage violation and

00:30:37.080 will result in disciplinary action. So, if you're going to use the official NSA messaging channel,

00:30:41.420 you got to keep it focused on the job. Seems basic, right? We're talking about one of the most

00:30:45.320 intimidating, formidable agencies in the U.S. government. Nonetheless, write Chris and Hannah, these logs,

00:30:56.100 dating back two years, are lurid, featuring wide-ranging discussions of sex, kink, polyamory, and castration.

00:31:03.420 This is on the NSA board. One popular chat topic was male-to-female transgender surgery, which involves

00:31:10.240 surgically removing the phallus, cleaning it up, and turning it into an artificial

00:31:14.420 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, 1.00

00:31:28.040 but all the rest is just as important as well. Another intelligence official on the official messaging

00:31:33.480 board boasted that genital surgery allowed him to, quote, wear leggings or bikinis without

00:31:39.680 having to wear a gaff under it. I don't even know what that is. Okay, then the next paragraph gets so

00:31:45.280 gross and lurid, I'm just not going to read it on the show. But this is the NSA. This is,

00:31:55.200 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

00:32:28.020 no place of the agency. The CIA will be taking immediate action on this matter, which only

00:32:31.780 further proves the need for serious reform, says the director of public affairs for CIA.

00:32:36.100 You know, there are these, there's two views of agencies like the CIA and the NSA. The one is

00:32:42.880 the James Bond view. These guys, these are masters of the universe. They control the whole world.

00:32:46.620 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,

00:33:41.020 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

00:33:54.480 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

00:34:05.660 to be? How much has your brain needed to be turned to mush by over sexual stimulation and lust that you

00:34:14.120 would even bring yourself to post these things on a government forum, on an NSA forum? Not a good

00:34:20.980 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

00:34:34.980 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, 0.94

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. 1.00

00:36:35.700 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.

00:37:45.120 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. 1.00

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. 1.00

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? 0.80

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 0.51

00:38:55.080 godliness with Christianity. So she's saying Christ is God. She's saying Christianity is the 0.66

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,

00:39:11.200 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

00:39:27.140 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 1.00

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

00:40:00.620 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 0.54

00:40:15.940 conception, really. And that men and women leave their parents. The man and the woman cling to one 0.72

00:40:24.120 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 1.00

00:40:38.540 families be open to life. And it's why Christians historically get married, stay married, can't get 1.00

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, 0.93

00:40:57.300 we should sterilize little kids. And we should only do that to the kids that we haven't already 1.00

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 0.99

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 1.00

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 0.99

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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