The Michael Knowles Show - March 07, 2025


Ep. 1688 - DeSantis Picks a Fight with Andrew Tate

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transgenderism in sports American flags
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Michael Knowles
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Donald Trump Gavin Newsom Emmanuel Macron Tristan Tate Charlie Kirk Andrew Tate Simone Sanders Al Green Michael Steele Derek Chauvin Barack Obama Hitler Good Ranchers Sergei Lavrov Biden Pope Marie Glusenkamp Perez Anya Marcy Capter Patrick Bateman Hillary Clinton and 26 more
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In this episode of the Michael Knowles Show, host Michael Kinsley is joined by political strategist Charlie Munger to discuss all the latest breaking news and breaking events happening in Washington, D.C., and around the country.

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00:00:37.780 Bums usually can't recover until they hit rock bottom.
00:00:41.500 For Democrats, rock bottom seems to have come Tuesday night during President Trump's joint session address.
00:00:48.340 After which, top Democrat strategists excoriated their own party.
00:00:52.780 Ten Democrats in Congress joined the Republicans to censure that lunatic Al Green who was screaming so much he had to be dragged out of the chamber.
00:01:01.240 And the leading Democrat candidate for president in 2028 just came out against transgenderism in sports.
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00:01:31.500 So the Florida government, the attorney general there at, it would seem, the encouragement of the governor, have opened a criminal investigation into Andrew Tate and his brother Tristan Tate.
00:01:43.040 This after the Tates were on trial in Romania.
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00:03:07.440 Speaking of maintaining our health, I'm in New York right now.
00:03:12.220 You can tell if you're watching the show instead of just listening that I'm in a hotel room right now.
00:03:16.940 And apparently in hotel rooms in New York now, instead of giving you bottles of water, they give you little milk cartons of water.
00:03:25.200 And I don't know how to feel about it. 0.53
00:03:27.160 On the one hand, this seems very, very silly.
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00:03:48.880 In any case, there's a lot of flip-flopping going on.
00:03:51.940 We've got the Crunchies are now on the right.
00:03:53.940 We've got the Corporatists are now on the left.
00:03:55.980 And Gavin Newsom, in my mind, the leading candidate for president for the Democrats in 2028, even though he burned one of his major cities to the ground and is one of the worst governors in America.
00:04:08.660 Still, I think he's one of the leading candidates.
00:04:11.320 He just broke with his own party on the issue of transgenderism in sports.
00:04:19.160 Would you say no men in female sports? 0.99
00:04:20.980 Well, I think it's an issue of fairness.
00:04:22.620 I completely agree with you on that.
00:04:24.260 It is an issue of fairness.
00:04:25.160 So it's deeply unfair.
00:04:26.700 A Democrat strategist would say, oh, Charlie, you're weaponizing stuff.
00:04:29.740 Not you.
00:04:30.120 But that's a typical thing.
00:04:32.140 But the most effective ad of this election cycle, the most effective ad, you know what it is.
00:04:36.040 Yeah.
00:04:37.700 Devastating.
00:04:38.140 Trump's for you.
00:04:39.240 She's for they, them. 0.99
00:04:40.780 Devastating.
00:04:41.180 Again.
00:04:41.920 Devastating.
00:04:42.360 Devastating.
00:04:42.940 Devastating.
00:04:43.440 And she didn't even react to it, which was even more devastating.
00:04:45.960 And let's talk about why it was devastating.
00:04:47.320 Number one, it was the trans issue that was just monopolizing. 0.98
00:04:51.480 And this was, this was even more challenging because it's issues of people that are incarcerated.
00:04:56.020 And illegal.
00:04:56.860 And illegal incarcerated individuals getting taxpayer funding.
00:05:00.760 Yes.
00:05:01.080 And gender reassignment.
00:05:02.860 And that is a 90-10, not an 80-20.
00:05:05.260 And then she's like enthusiastically defending it, bragging, being like, I'm all for this,
00:05:10.060 I'm all for this.
00:05:10.720 And then you had the video that, oh, it was a validator.
00:05:13.260 Brutal.
00:05:14.120 Yeah.
00:05:14.580 And so.
00:05:15.180 Tens of millions.
00:05:15.860 Brutal.
00:05:16.540 The targeted focus from the, from the Trump campaign.
00:05:21.840 It was brutal.
00:05:23.460 It was devastating.
00:05:25.360 I think it's an issue of fairness.
00:05:27.000 I agree with you.
00:05:27.960 It's, it's deeply unfair to have men in women's sports. 0.99
00:05:30.740 Who is this guy?
00:05:32.680 This is Gavin Newsom, right?
00:05:34.080 Gavin Newsom is not a moderate.
00:05:36.760 He, he sometimes pretends to be a moderate because he looks like Patrick Bateman and he
00:05:41.180 looks like every other normal looking white guy that's ever been in political office in
00:05:45.100 America.
00:05:45.400 But he's not.
00:05:46.440 He's, he's a radical, including and especially on sexual issues.
00:05:50.160 When he was mayor of San Francisco in 2004, Gavin Newsom defied federal law to redefine marriage
00:05:57.340 and create these ceremonies where two fellows or two ladies could, could pretend that they
00:06:02.300 were being married.
00:06:03.020 This was long before Barack Obama ever came around on gay marriage.
00:06:08.940 This was long before the Obergefell decision.
00:06:10.560 2004, Barack Obama would campaign four years later.
00:06:16.140 Hillary Clinton would campaign four years after that saying marriage is a sacred institution 0.99
00:06:20.180 between a man and a woman.
00:06:21.560 Obama wouldn't change his view until 2011, 2012.
00:06:25.580 Obergefell didn't come down redefining marriage until 2015.
00:06:28.160 Gavin Newsom was one of the earliest figures in the country advocating for weird sex stuff
00:06:35.860 at our national scene.
00:06:36.800 Now, all of a sudden, he's the voice of reason on transgenderism. 0.78
00:06:39.900 By the way, you heard that voice, that other voice in the conversation.
00:06:43.020 That was Charlie Kirk.
00:06:43.940 But they were not on Charlie Kirk's podcast.
00:06:45.800 That was Gavin Newsom's podcast.
00:06:48.780 Gavin Newsom launches a show, and the first person he invites on is a Republican activist
00:06:54.580 so that he could agree with the Republican activist on an issue that has been defining
00:07:01.040 for Democrats.
00:07:01.900 And what's going on here?
00:07:04.840 Newsom realizes that the Democrats are currently on a path to oblivion.
00:07:09.960 If they keep down this road, they're going to lose more black male voters, they're going 0.93
00:07:13.640 to lose more Hispanic voters, they're going to lose more female voters, they're going 0.90
00:07:17.100 to get destroyed.
00:07:19.800 I think Gavin Newsom recognizes, and this show comes out after that debacle for the Democrats
00:07:25.880 at Trump's joint session address, I think Newsom realizes that even if he were the nominee
00:07:32.000 in 2028, if he kept to the current Democrat policies on immigration, on maybe even foreign
00:07:40.480 policy, certainly on gender, that he would go down in flames.
00:07:45.160 Now, the one reason that Newsom might not be the nominee, and if he were the nominee, the
00:07:48.900 reason he might not win, is because one of his major cities went down in flames because
00:07:52.560 he was a totally incompetent governor.
00:07:54.340 And in 2018, President Trump warned him, said, hey, you're not dealing with your forests,
00:07:59.620 you're not cleaning up the brush, your state is going to catch on fire because of those
00:08:05.020 Santa Ana winds.
00:08:06.540 And Newsom said, oh, anyway, yeah, never mind, I've got to get back to the French laundry,
00:08:09.780 have a little pate de foie gras.
00:08:12.900 Come on, man, you know, it's hip to be squared.
00:08:14.580 You like Huey Lewis in the news?
00:08:16.000 And so he totally ignored that, let the city burn to the ground, looks terrible, probably
00:08:22.640 his chances went down with him, except for this, except for this.
00:08:26.220 Who else is it going to be?
00:08:27.280 Like, he's one of the few prominent Democrats to say, all right, the party has gone a little
00:08:31.720 crazy.
00:08:32.240 Now, Newsom is going to have one other problem. 0.98
00:08:34.280 And this is a word to the wise for any Democrats who realize that this trans issue is killing 1.00
00:08:39.860 them and they have to change course.
00:08:42.780 You can't just oppose transgenderism in sports.
00:08:47.560 That doesn't make any sense.
00:08:49.560 There is no middle ground position.
00:08:51.280 This was the thesis of my CPAC speech that went viral a couple of years ago.
00:08:54.340 There are certain issues you can have a middle ground, like taxes or immigration or whatever.
00:08:59.600 Human nature, you can't have a middle ground.
00:09:01.940 Either our bodies have something to do with who we are or they don't.
00:09:04.920 So if you say, look, I accept transgenderism.
00:09:07.500 I accept transing the kids even.
00:09:09.200 I accept men in women's bathrooms. 1.00
00:09:11.720 I accept dudes walking around, wearing dresses, doing drag queen story hour.
00:09:16.080 But I draw the line at volleyball.
00:09:18.920 Why?
00:09:19.420 You just told him.
00:09:20.020 You've accepted the anthropology that says that a man can be a woman.
00:09:23.780 So then if a man can be a woman, why wouldn't you let that true woman, you know, that true 0.98
00:09:28.080 woman with his big broad shoulders and his big Adam's apple and his hairy chest, why won't 1.00
00:09:31.960 you let that true woman play volleyball with the other gals? 1.00
00:09:36.460 It's not going to hold.
00:09:38.520 So Newsom, he's testing the waters here, trans and women's sports.
00:09:41.720 But I think he's smart enough to realize that he's going to have to go further for that
00:09:46.620 position to be at all coherent.
00:09:48.000 Will the Democrat base let him go further?
00:09:51.300 Not clear.
00:09:52.100 Does the Democrat base want to win elections again?
00:09:54.460 Not clear.
00:09:55.840 It's not just Newsom, though.
00:09:57.020 Ten Democrats in Congress just joined with Republicans to censure one of their fellow
00:10:02.260 Democrats, Al Green. 0.94
00:10:03.380 He's that lunatic, not the singer. 0.90
00:10:05.640 The singer is great. 0.93
00:10:06.540 Talking about Al Green, the congressman.
00:10:08.940 He's tried to impeach Trump like 150 times already.
00:10:11.620 He interrupted the State of the Union, sorry, the joint session address.
00:10:14.860 And he was screaming and carrying on.
00:10:16.400 He was brandishing his cane.
00:10:18.040 He had to be dragged out by the sergeant of arms.
00:10:20.600 Ten Democrats.
00:10:21.400 Want to give them credit here.
00:10:23.620 Ami Barra of California.
00:10:26.100 Ed Case of Hawaii.
00:10:27.660 Jim Costa of California.
00:10:29.260 Laura Gillen of New York.
00:10:30.320 Jim Himes of Connecticut.
00:10:32.080 Chrissy Houlihan of Pennsylvania.
00:10:33.500 Anya Marcy Capter of Ohio.
00:10:35.040 Jared Moskowitz of Florida.
00:10:36.720 Marie Gluzenkamp Perez of Washington.
00:10:39.160 And Tom Swotze of New York.
00:10:42.240 All voted against their fellow Democrat.
00:10:44.360 Why?
00:10:45.640 Because they're reasonable?
00:10:46.880 I don't know.
00:10:47.860 Probably not.
00:10:48.660 Because they're coming over to common sense?
00:10:51.340 No, probably not.
00:10:52.060 I think it's because they realized Democrats just looked absolutely horrible the other night.
00:10:57.540 That it was so embarrassing.
00:11:00.340 Just for an ordinary citizen, not an elected official, just an ordinary citizen.
00:11:04.280 If you're watching that humiliating display by the Democrats, especially by Al Green,
00:11:08.840 you're not going to want to admit that you're a Democrat.
00:11:12.260 Okay?
00:11:12.560 You're going to be much more inclined to say, oh no, I'm an independent.
00:11:15.000 Or who knows?
00:11:15.740 Maybe, you know, actually, I'm kind of with Trump.
00:11:18.560 Pull a Bobby Kennedy.
00:11:19.800 Pull a Joe Rogan.
00:11:20.680 Pull a Tulsi Gabbard.
00:11:21.700 You know, I don't know.
00:11:22.540 I'm out.
00:11:23.080 Whatever they're selling, I don't want it.
00:11:26.560 They're starting to realize, on the night of that speech, when they all showed up with 1.00
00:11:31.200 their stupid signs and screaming and yelling and not standing for American citizens 1.00
00:11:35.480 being returned from prison in Russia, not standing for cute little 13, 1.00
00:11:38.840 year old kids getting nominated or actually being certified as honorary Secret Service
00:11:45.540 agents, not standing for their own policies, no tax on tips.
00:11:49.620 I thought, man, these people haven't learned anything since the election.
00:11:54.700 And that was true at the time.
00:11:57.560 But I think they might have hit rock bottom.
00:11:59.340 I think we might be at rock bottom lib.
00:12:02.740 And some of them are recognizing, man, I got to get to rehab.
00:12:05.480 I got to.
00:12:06.360 All right, I'm done with trans. 1.00
00:12:07.420 All right, one more hit of trans. 1.00
00:12:09.080 There's just one.
00:12:10.380 Oh, all right, let's ride that.
00:12:12.320 Let's ride that abolish police and open borders dragon just one more time.
00:12:15.920 All right, now I'm done.
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00:13:45.040 the illegal aliens that Biden invited into the country.
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00:14:36.320 All right, I'm going to say nice things about Democrats for approximately five more seconds. 0.86
00:14:41.100 Then we'll get back to just pummeling them into the dirt. 0.69
00:14:43.440 But some of them are getting it, and it's not even just the moderate ones.
00:14:46.760 As I mentioned, Gavin Newsom is not a moderate.
00:14:50.100 Just because he's a white guy with gray hair doesn't mean he's a moderate, okay?
00:14:53.480 Just because he doesn't have a bunch of piercings and face tattoos, he's not.
00:14:56.580 But he realizes the Democrats have to moderate.
00:14:58.740 Same can be said of Simone Sanders. 0.98
00:15:00.420 Simone Sanders was an advisor to Bernie Sanders, then an advisor to the Biden campaign, then
00:15:07.980 an advisor to Kamala Harris.
00:15:10.340 She's a true blue left winger.
00:15:12.580 She's worked at very high levels of Democrat politics.
00:15:15.300 She goes on MSNBC with Michael Steele, who was the head of the Republican National Committee,
00:15:20.900 but he's a huge lib.
00:15:22.280 And Simone and Steele agree the Democrats just looked like absolute gutter bums in the Capitol
00:15:31.700 chambers. 0.95
00:15:32.140 I don't know who thought up the bingo signs, but they should be fired. 1.00
00:15:37.140 Michael, this is an indictment, in my opinion, on the Democratic leadership.
00:15:41.620 I talked to a lot of members during the—they were texting.
00:15:46.040 The staff were on my phones, and they were calling.
00:15:48.700 And I think the best way to describe it is the Democratic leadership said they didn't want
00:15:52.960 disruptions, and they wanted people to attend and bring a guest.
00:15:55.660 So they wanted, you know, a little business as usual, and we're fighting back in other
00:15:59.300 ways.
00:15:59.980 There is a palpable disgust, as Claire said, from not just the members, but their constituents.
00:16:05.420 And it's like a pot, as someone described it to me, that's boiling, and it's about to
00:16:09.520 bubble over.
00:16:10.220 If you do not allow the members a space to release valve, it's going to bubble over.
00:16:15.540 And this was a—the members didn't—the visuals are not taken back to House in 2026.
00:16:20.500 There you have it.
00:16:24.340 Okay, you heard it.
00:16:24.860 Michael Steele, I know he's sort of a Republican, but he's really a huge lib.
00:16:27.720 And Simone Sanders, a big Republican operative, is saying, Dems, you are not taking back the
00:16:31.460 House if you keep this up. 0.99
00:16:33.000 Those stupid little signs that are now just memed all over, Rashida Tlaib saying all sorts 1.00
00:16:37.940 of crazy things because they set themselves up to become a meme. 1.00
00:16:41.780 Just a farce.
00:16:43.580 You got Trump coming out, resolving multiple world conflicts, renaming, whether you agree
00:16:49.500 with it or not, renaming bodies of water, making moves to retake the Panama Canal, add
00:16:55.500 new territories to the United States, like Greenland, which the U.S. State Department
00:16:58.420 has been trying to acquire for 150 years, changing the economic order in line with his campaign
00:17:04.420 promises, in line with what people want.
00:17:06.180 He's doing stuff. 0.99
00:17:07.720 And these feckless, ridiculous Democrats are sitting with their little sourpuss on their 1.00
00:17:12.520 face, holding up bingo signs. 1.00
00:17:15.360 It doesn't look good.
00:17:17.000 It was so—fine by me.
00:17:17.960 Again, I'm not upset about it.
00:17:19.300 Keep it coming, guys.
00:17:20.640 You know, the Republican reign will last 1,000 years if you guys keep it up.
00:17:25.340 But some people, some Dems, I think, are realizing something has to change.
00:17:30.440 Now, speaking of learning, President Trump—it was reported yesterday, as I was flying up
00:17:35.340 to New York, that Trump already had a draft of an executive order to abolish the Department
00:17:42.700 of Education, which is fabulous news.
00:17:46.900 Republicans have been campaigning on abolishing the Department of Education since the Reagan
00:17:51.800 administration.
00:17:52.300 Don't forget, the Department of Education was only founded at the end of the Carter administration.
00:17:55.920 I think it was 1979.
00:17:58.340 So it was a very live issue in 1980 and again in 1984.
00:18:02.580 And then all these Republicans are campaigning on abolishing the Department of Education,
00:18:05.940 and none of them do it.
00:18:07.140 And then Trump decides he's actually going to do it.
00:18:10.580 And everyone loses their minds.
00:18:13.380 Some have pointed out that if you really want to abolish it for good, probably you have
00:18:18.340 to get Congress involved in that.
00:18:19.960 The legislature has to make it more permanent.
00:18:23.080 But Trump could do a lot to bring it to the brink of extinction.
00:18:26.500 So Wall Street Journal first reports this.
00:18:29.020 CBS News confirms it.
00:18:30.220 You know, this has been in the works for a little while.
00:18:32.100 What does the Department of Education do?
00:18:36.460 Because you know what the Libs are going to say. 0.76
00:18:37.860 The Republicans are attacking education, and they're attacking public education, and they're
00:18:43.220 going to destroy the ability of young Americans to learn and to better themselves.
00:18:49.640 So what does it do?
00:18:50.500 I think people, they just hear Department of Education.
00:18:52.480 They think it educates people.
00:18:54.280 It does not do that.
00:18:57.020 Department of Education does three things, basically.
00:19:01.460 The Department of Education supports college loans and financial aid.
00:19:07.320 In other words, the Department of Education encourages this blank check system.
00:19:13.220 To American universities that has caused the cost of tuition to soar from single-digit thousands
00:19:20.860 of dollars to now $60,000, $70,000, $80,000 a year, miring students in hundreds of thousands
00:19:27.140 of dollars in debt that they probably won't be able to repay because the quality of the
00:19:30.860 education has become so bad.
00:19:32.820 And because certain universities, without any scruples whatsoever, will just admit basically
00:19:38.320 anyone, even if those students have no business being at a university, and then they'll
00:19:41.900 lower the standards, and then the certificate, the diploma means nothing.
00:19:46.400 So that's one thing they do.
00:19:47.800 That's bad.
00:19:49.640 Okay?
00:19:50.100 It's good for some people to go to some colleges in some circumstances.
00:19:56.280 I'm not an anti-university conservative.
00:19:58.660 Far from it.
00:19:59.340 I'm a great defender of the true mission of real universities.
00:20:02.660 But I think even people who are pretty liberal would recognize the current American university
00:20:09.720 system is completely insane.
00:20:11.260 And a lot of it is driven by the Department of Education.
00:20:13.460 So right there, that's one red flag.
00:20:16.540 Next, the Department of Education collects data and disseminates data that pertain to schools.
00:20:21.980 Okay, we have plenty of think tanks and institutions that can do that.
00:20:24.540 And many of the data that have been collected over the years, in fact, all the data, consistently
00:20:29.900 have shown that since the founding of the Department of Education, American test scores
00:20:33.220 have declined.
00:20:34.620 You'd think the one thing that the Department of Education would be doing is improving test
00:20:39.840 scores.
00:20:40.280 Actually, the opposite has occurred.
00:20:41.880 So there you go.
00:20:42.420 Second red flag.
00:20:44.560 Third thing the Department of Education does, it enforces non-discrimination policies.
00:20:50.320 And what do we mean by non-discrimination policies?
00:20:52.440 Are we talking about, you know, Klansmen burning a cross at your local high school?
00:20:59.780 No, I don't think that really happens.
00:21:01.480 That's not what the Department of Education deals with.
00:21:03.620 When they say non-discrimination policy, they mean they force schools through, dear colleague 1.00
00:21:10.960 letters, they force schools through all sorts of regulations to promote radical leftist ideology.
00:21:18.120 They're talking about LGBTism, being taught in schools, K-12 and beyond.
00:21:25.920 The kind of policies that were roundly rejected toward the very, very top of people's minds
00:21:32.300 at the ballot box in November.
00:21:34.560 The Department of Education does very, very little good, if any good at all.
00:21:39.120 Do you know how many people work for the Department of Education?
00:21:42.560 4,400.
00:21:43.680 4,400 people.
00:21:47.700 $268 billion budget.
00:21:49.760 That's actually a significant chunk of the U.S. federal budget.
00:21:52.340 It's not just a little nothing department where if you eliminate it, you don't save any money.
00:21:56.380 That's a lot of money.
00:21:58.400 You could fund Ukraine for another five years, ten years with that kind of money.
00:22:03.560 No, that's pretty serious.
00:22:07.520 The case for dramatically reducing or just outright abolishing the Department of Ed
00:22:13.220 seems pretty much watertight.
00:22:15.800 Can you make me an argument, other than you're a leftist and you want to promote transgenderism 1.00
00:22:20.080 in kindergarten or whatever, but can you give me a common sense argument that would actually
00:22:24.180 appeal to people for keeping the Department of Education around, for keeping it as it is?
00:22:27.980 I can't think of one.
00:22:30.380 People are learning.
00:22:31.180 They're learning despite the Department of Education.
00:22:34.020 And Europe is learning, too.
00:22:35.340 Major, major news out of Europe and Ukraine and Russia before we get to Romania with the
00:22:40.800 Tate brothers.
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00:23:45.380 The Europeans are learning a little bit. 0.59
00:23:46.920 After President Trump's joint session address, Emmanuel Macron, the leader of France, he came
00:23:55.160 out and he said, Europe cannot remain spectators.
00:23:59.260 Now, before I get into this story, I'm going to be a spectator of my favorite comment of the
00:24:02.100 day from yesterday.
00:24:02.840 That is from GrahamSmith7892, who says, I love how tempted I was to be anxious when I
00:24:09.360 heard that China had threatened us with war.
00:24:11.140 But once I heard the Michael Knowles theme song, all those thoughts went away.
00:24:13.700 I'm so glad to hear that.
00:24:14.460 I'm so glad to hear that I could assuage your fears.
00:24:17.520 I try to.
00:24:18.760 But Padre Pio said, pray, hope, and don't worry.
00:24:22.800 Macron, speaking of war, global affairs, Macron said, Europe cannot remain spectators to the
00:24:29.600 war in Ukraine, that Europe needs drastic rearmament. 0.56
00:24:33.200 He said he wants to believe that the United States will stay by our side, but we have to
00:24:36.580 be ready if that is not the case.
00:24:39.420 He said, the future of Europe does not have to be decided in Washington or Moscow.
00:24:42.320 The threat is returning to the east, and the innocence of the last 30 years since the fall 0.97
00:24:46.100 of the Berlin Wall is now over.
00:24:50.240 So he's saying, look, Trump might not be all in on Ukraine, and so we need to protect ourselves.
00:24:56.920 We need to pay more for our own security.
00:24:58.720 We're not just going to rely on daddy America.
00:25:00.440 That's what Trump has been asking for, for eight years.
00:25:06.340 So Macron's saying, okay, Trump, I'll give you exactly what you want.
00:25:09.040 Now, what is Russia saying?
00:25:11.120 Putin spokesman Dmitry Peskov is so furious at Europe potentially re-arming,
00:25:16.660 re-arming, re-arming, paying more for their security, getting more involved in Ukraine.
00:25:21.140 Russia just came out and said that Macron was extremely confrontational, looking for the
00:25:27.060 continuation of war.
00:25:29.620 It can hardly be perceived as a speech by a peace-minded head of state.
00:25:33.120 France is already ready to use its nuclear weapons for security and so on.
00:25:37.560 This is already such nuclear rhetoric.
00:25:39.400 This is a claim to nuclear leadership in Europe.
00:25:41.940 So it is very, very confrontational. 1.00
00:25:44.360 I will suck your blood. 1.00
00:25:47.000 Russia furious. 1.00
00:25:48.620 Well, hold on.
00:25:49.180 Hold on.
00:25:50.500 I was told that Europe was not going to do what Trump said, couldn't do what Trump said,
00:25:56.400 was going to be furious.
00:25:57.220 We were abandoning our ally.
00:25:58.720 And Russia loved the notion that Europe was going to re-arm.
00:26:02.360 Russia loved that America wasn't going to be the daddy to Europe anymore. 0.57
00:26:05.240 But that's not, actually what we're seeing is the opposite.
00:26:08.100 Trump says, Europe, help to defend yourselves.
00:26:12.020 Macron says, okay, Trump will do that.
00:26:14.140 Russia says, ah, that's not what we want.
00:26:16.300 Stop that.
00:26:17.560 This is terrible rhetoric.
00:26:19.240 This is nuclear rhetoric.
00:26:20.560 The chairman of the International Affairs Committee in the lower house of the Russian
00:26:25.420 parliament, Leonid Slutsky, said that Macron is trying new Napoleonic armor on Versailles.
00:26:31.720 He's comparing Macron to Napoleon.
00:26:33.440 They're both somewhat petite.
00:26:34.500 So I guess there's that.
00:26:35.920 Well, actually, Napoleon isn't French.
00:26:37.360 He was Corsican.
00:26:37.940 But in any case, foreign minister of Russia, Sergei Lavrov, said, unlike his predecessors,
00:26:42.840 who also sought to fight with Russia, Napoleon, Hitler, Lavrov, the Russian foreign minister,
00:26:49.340 is comparing Macron to Hitler.
00:26:51.940 Mr. Macron does not act very diplomatically.
00:26:54.720 He's saying that Hitler and Napoleon were more diplomatic than Macron.
00:26:59.220 Russia is furious over this.
00:27:02.100 Trump gets exactly what he wants.
00:27:04.760 Russia, making quite clear this is not what Russia wants. 1.00
00:27:07.960 The Democrats, who accused Trump of being a Russian stooge, look like even bigger fools 1.00
00:27:12.420 than they did before. 1.00
00:27:14.300 What is this?
00:27:14.980 What you're going to hear from the foreign policy genius experts is that the sober-minded 1.00
00:27:20.900 ones, the stupid ones are going to say, Trump's a stooge for Russia. 1.00
00:27:24.680 Again, I don't see how you read these comments and come to that conclusion. 1.00
00:27:27.940 But the sober-minded ones are going to say, well, this is the dismantling of the American
00:27:33.680 empire.
00:27:34.120 Since World War II, we've been the hegemon in the world. 0.95
00:27:36.620 But certainly, even during the Cold War, we were the leader of the West.
00:27:41.100 And so the European nations were really just U.S. vassal states.
00:27:44.160 And it's good that we paid for their defense.
00:27:45.960 We don't want them having their own militaries.
00:27:48.480 Because we get to call the shots now, okay?
00:27:51.660 I get it.
00:27:53.260 But I don't know that this is really the dismantling of the American empire.
00:27:56.820 I think the American empire was headed for a crash.
00:27:59.360 If we tried to keep things up, if we tried to remain overextended, if we wanted to continue
00:28:02.920 on our course of debt, now it's, what, 125% debt to GDP.
00:28:06.660 If we wanted to continue to import the entire third world, if we wanted to continue to send 1.00
00:28:11.220 our manufacturing even over to our enemies, yeah, then I think empire's fall, that is
00:28:17.160 a persistent rule of history.
00:28:19.300 I think what you're seeing here, what Trump is doing, is not a dismantling of the American
00:28:23.900 empire.
00:28:24.980 I don't think it's that.
00:28:26.320 I also don't think it's business as usual.
00:28:28.400 I think it actually is, I think it's business.
00:28:30.980 I think that's the best way to understand this.
00:28:33.660 If you have a business, if you've ever worked in a business, if you've ever owned a small
00:28:36.440 business, you know, sometimes you have really high times, boom times, and sometimes the
00:28:42.100 business starts to fail.
00:28:44.080 And if you can see the business starting to fail, if you can see that you're going to
00:28:47.100 have a cash problem, say, in six months or 12 months, then you need to start making decisions
00:28:51.800 now that will allow you to get by those really bad times.
00:28:56.600 You need to, you need to plan ahead.
00:28:58.560 You need to sometimes pull in some of your resources, battle down the hatches, prepare for
00:29:05.820 difficult times, so that you can maintain your strength into the future.
00:29:10.560 Because if you don't do anything until the very end, until the moment that you have to,
00:29:15.040 the whole thing is going to come crumbling down.
00:29:16.800 And I think it's no coincidence that Donald Trump is a businessman.
00:29:20.140 And I think he is looking at the American empire like a failing business, because it is
00:29:24.280 like a failing business.
00:29:25.940 And he's saying, okay, look, I think America's greatest days are ahead.
00:29:29.660 I think we're headed for a golden age.
00:29:31.260 I don't want to disassemble this American empire.
00:29:33.720 But we need to restructure this thing, okay?
00:29:36.580 And we've got to really restructure it.
00:29:38.780 We need to get another genius businessman in and start restructuring how the government
00:29:44.320 works and some domestic policy.
00:29:46.120 And then we've got to look overseas at our commitments.
00:29:48.200 We're going to maintain our leadership.
00:29:49.800 We're even going to talk about expanding.
00:29:51.420 We're going to talk about taking back the Panama Canal and taking on Canada, the America's 0.99
00:29:54.660 evil top hat, and Greenland.
00:29:56.220 We're going to project strength, and we're going to plan for growth.
00:29:59.640 But we are going to get our resources in line, and we're going to recognize that if we put
00:30:06.500 all of our chips on, say, Ukraine or something like that, we might not be prepared for other 0.97
00:30:12.660 conflicts that could be more significant, say, with China or someone else.
00:30:17.160 Just a little bit of prudence, a little bit of that business acumen when you actually have
00:30:24.640 to deal with a bottom line.
00:30:25.780 125% debt to GDP.
00:30:27.280 Our politicians haven't thought about serious bottom lines or consequences in a while.
00:30:30.980 Okay.
00:30:31.840 Speaking of international controversies, the Tate brothers.
00:30:36.580 I talked about this yesterday, a little bit, but I was cut off.
00:30:40.480 The Tate brothers, who are the Tate brothers?
00:30:42.280 Just a quick little whirlwind.
00:30:43.480 And these guys, Andrew and Tristan, they're very famous.
00:30:48.140 They became famous because they give young men advice on the internet, and they work out
00:30:53.000 and smoke cigars.
00:30:54.460 I like smoking cigars.
00:30:55.460 They get some things right.
00:30:56.740 But they also say things that are very offensive about women.
00:30:59.740 And they don't promote, they're not leftists.
00:31:02.660 They promote a kind of right-wing view.
00:31:05.000 But they're not conservative, really, in any way.
00:31:07.620 They're not married. 0.81
00:31:09.160 They have been pimps. 0.78
00:31:11.140 They're accused in Romania of sex trafficking, of pimping underage girls, and running a criminal
00:31:17.520 organization.
00:31:19.000 And they've admitted on camera to pimping to, I think, Andrew was filmed or filmed himself
00:31:25.520 beating a young woman, maybe even underage, on camera.
00:31:30.940 Now, the defense was, well, it was consensual. 0.93
00:31:33.380 But for a conservative, I don't care if it's consensual.
00:31:35.860 You don't beat a woman.
00:31:36.680 You don't beat, especially not a really young woman.
00:31:37.920 Good grief.
00:31:38.360 You know, that's completely indefensible.
00:31:41.220 And so, anyway, there are all these cases in Romania.
00:31:44.720 Then they go to Florida.
00:31:46.120 Ron DeSantis and the Attorney General in Florida say, we're going to open an investigation
00:31:49.020 into the Tates for sex trafficking, for pimping, for whatever they've been doing. 0.79
00:31:53.740 Okay. 0.73
00:31:54.300 So, the Tates previously said, we're going to stay in America for a long time.
00:31:57.380 It was a big coup when they were able to leave Romania, come to the States. 0.98
00:32:00.360 Then they just announced yesterday, actually, we're going back to Romania.
00:32:03.100 This is just a little vacation.
00:32:04.100 We're going back to Romania before DeSantis tries to lock us up.
00:32:07.740 The Tates are arguing, and the Tates' defenders are arguing, that people are only trying to
00:32:12.000 prosecute them because of the right-wing things they say, or because they have unfashionable
00:32:17.900 international views.
00:32:18.860 For instance, they're opposed to the state of Israel.
00:32:21.800 So, maybe that's it.
00:32:22.540 Maybe it's just a political lobby that's trying to get them.
00:32:24.600 Okay, whatever.
00:32:25.420 I haven't followed them all that closely.
00:32:27.040 However, I guess even beyond the legal questions, I guess that'll all be sorted out.
00:32:33.900 They'll be prosecuted in Romania, or the UK, or Florida.
00:32:37.380 But my question is this, for the people who are defending the Tates, and for the Tates
00:32:42.420 themselves, putting aside the criminal questions, and if they committed crimes, they'll serve
00:32:49.520 their time, one hopes, have they ever expressed remorse and repentance for those things that
00:32:58.080 they've done?
00:32:59.880 Crimes according to statutes, or just immoral actions?
00:33:03.920 I don't know.
00:33:04.520 I'm asking this sincerely.
00:33:05.400 I don't know.
00:33:05.860 I don't follow their content.
00:33:07.100 Have they ever?
00:33:07.920 I know Andrew Tate identifies as a Muslim now. 0.98
00:33:10.180 Okay, have they expressed remorse for womanizing, for promoting pornography, for beating women 0.75
00:33:20.480 on camera, for, I'm not even saying what they've done is a crime necessarily.
00:33:27.160 Prosecutors are saying, I'm not saying, I don't know.
00:33:29.580 But just, those are very bad things.
00:33:32.720 Now, I'm all for people repenting, turning their lives around.
00:33:36.560 You know, I'm really for it.
00:33:37.460 I don't think anyone is too far gone.
00:33:38.660 But I guess my question for them, and for anyone defending them, is, have they repented?
00:33:45.880 Even if they have, they might still have to pay their debt to society, you know, in a
00:33:49.140 criminal context.
00:33:50.000 But I just need to know, from a cultural perspective, have they expressed regret and remorse and
00:33:58.640 repentance?
00:33:59.140 Have they said, that's bad.
00:34:00.420 Actually, it's good to get married and to have children within wedlock, as is knowable from
00:34:07.700 the natural law.
00:34:08.840 And it's good to engage in virtue.
00:34:12.240 Not just physical virtue, which they obviously have some, you know, physical virtues and excellence
00:34:16.020 and athleticism, but moral virtues.
00:34:18.500 And have they done any of that?
00:34:20.500 That's what I want to know.
00:34:21.440 And I can't get a straight answer from people.
00:34:23.420 I haven't seen evidence that they have, but if they have, great.
00:34:26.100 Show me the evidence.
00:34:27.120 Because if not, then what are people defending?
00:34:29.740 I don't get it.
00:34:30.560 But the Daily Wire, you know, continues to fight.
00:34:33.980 The time is now to take on one of the woke left's biggest accomplishments.
00:34:41.120 That is Derek Chauvin.
00:34:43.140 The cop in Minneapolis was railroaded.
00:34:45.060 The evidence is clear.
00:34:45.880 His trial was a sham, driven by media pressure, political threats, and mob justice.
00:34:49.920 Derek's federal conviction was a disgrace, a political sacrifice to appease the mob.
00:34:54.380 If you are serious about undoing the damage of the last four years, this fight has to be
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00:35:04.640 If he hears from enough of us, if the president hears from enough of us, he might just do it.
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00:35:38.260 Hey, Michael.
00:35:38.880 Slap my bass here.
00:35:40.120 Been a hot minute, but I have some good news.
00:35:42.140 No, I am not signing a record deal and becoming a famous bassist like I always wanted.
00:35:46.380 But for the first time in 10 years, I have worked up the confidence to start dating and found a potential girlfriend.
00:35:51.560 Now I say potential because even though we have been going out for three months, she has said to me that she does not find me attractive, but enjoys my company and wants to continue to see me.
00:36:03.640 This was the result of my last relationship and the girl who friend-zoned me ended up getting married to somebody else.
00:36:10.340 My question to you is how does one get out of the friend zone and convince the other person to see someone as a potential life partner?
00:36:17.020 Considering my options are very limited and my responses on dating sites are about as scarce as Reasons to Vote for a Democrat, also a best-selling book by Michael Knowles, pick up a copy today.
00:36:27.800 I want to do everything in my power to ensure I am not waiting around another 10 years for a candidate to come, nor do I want to break up with this girl with no other options readily available.
00:36:38.460 Thanks.
00:36:41.380 Well, I think you got to start pimping, you know, and take pick-up artist classes.
00:36:44.920 I said, no, you shouldn't do that.
00:36:46.900 I don't know.
00:36:47.260 Maybe I should try out, I should become the new Andrew Tate.
00:36:49.800 Could I do that?
00:36:50.920 I don't know.
00:36:51.420 I don't know if I could pull it off.
00:36:54.060 It's a little unclear from your question.
00:36:55.880 Are you saying that your current girlfriend says that she's not attracted to you, but she wants to keep seeing you?
00:37:01.960 Or are you saying that you had this girlfriend and she wasn't attracted to you and you broke up?
00:37:07.200 It's a little bit unclear.
00:37:08.160 So maybe I'll have to go back and listen to the tape.
00:37:11.920 If it's the former, if the girl says, look, I'm not really that attracted to you, but I'd like the idea of dating you.
00:37:17.840 I don't know.
00:37:18.440 It's a little blunt.
00:37:19.300 It would probably be difficult for my ego to take it.
00:37:21.840 But she is expressing a kind of attraction to you.
00:37:25.140 She's saying, look, it's not like I'm getting the vapors because you're so physically hot, but she is attracted to you, obviously.
00:37:33.260 Now, if it's that there was an ex-girlfriend who said that to you, okay, or a friend who said that to you, how do you get out of the friend zone?
00:37:41.600 You've got to meet new girls, I guess.
00:37:43.740 That's the thing.
00:37:45.760 You're not going to, probably you're not going to convince a girl who has friendzoned you to unfriendzone you.
00:37:52.620 It has happened.
00:37:54.080 Stranger things have happened, but it might be tough.
00:37:57.520 And if she said, look, I'm really not, it's really not going to happen, probably I would move on.
00:38:02.440 So you say, dating sites aren't great, you know, but so what would I do if it were me?
00:38:09.360 I guess I would just think of it very clinically.
00:38:11.640 Where do you meet anyone?
00:38:14.180 You meet people at parties, at the gatherings of your friends and family.
00:38:20.460 Don't date your family, but you can date your friends of family members or friends of friends.
00:38:24.260 You meet people at work.
00:38:26.100 You meet people at social activities.
00:38:29.540 You know, whether you're in a cigar club, probably not going to meet too many women there. 0.68
00:38:33.260 Or if you're in a political club or wherever, meet people there.
00:38:38.720 And then, let's say that that brings you to 10 people.
00:38:41.920 You then have to remember those 10 people also have social circles.
00:38:47.460 And so I would enlist them, you know.
00:38:49.560 Just as you're enlisting me right now to give you advice, I would enlist them to introduce you to a woman. 0.95
00:38:54.480 Because I think real flesh and blood meetings and experiences and relationships are more conducive to results, in my experience.
00:39:03.360 So that's what I would do.
00:39:04.480 You're not going to do it on your own.
00:39:06.360 You know, we're a political animal.
00:39:08.420 So pray about it, of course.
00:39:10.000 That's the first resort.
00:39:11.520 But then I would pray your friends and say, hey, friends, family, co-workers, whoever.
00:39:17.460 Hey, someone needs to set me up.
00:39:21.380 That might work.
00:39:22.960 Next question.
00:39:23.460 Hi, Michael.
00:39:24.960 When St. Athanasius discusses the Pope's defection from orthodoxy during the Arian crisis, he's completely unbothered by it.
00:39:34.940 There's no hand-wringing over infallibility, over obedience, over primacy.
00:39:42.980 It's worth a paragraph of his time in his history on the Arian crisis, and then he moves on.
00:39:49.000 Today, such a defection by the Pope would cause Catholics to freak out over any number of doctrines.
00:39:58.560 How do we as a church get back to the point where we can be as unbothered by papal shortcomings as St. Athanasius was?
00:40:09.500 You have to return either to your physical origins or at least your spiritual origins in the Mediterranean. 0.77
00:40:20.740 That's what you have to do, and I'm only being a little bit cute about it.
00:40:24.080 I once, it's funny, Charlie Kirk asked me this one time, and I was, people were upset because I gave him kind of a cute answer on it, but there's actually a lot of truth to that cute answer.
00:40:33.180 Where Charlie said, you know, the Pope is terrible, and he said all these terrible things, and he couldn't name any of the terrible things.
00:40:39.660 And most people who really freak out about what any Pope, this Pope or any other says, they often can't point to exactly what he said.
00:40:46.040 But there's this sense that, oh no, the Pope's saying terrible things, and this is a huge problem.
00:40:50.700 You say, look, I'm not saying it's not a problem.
00:40:52.560 Even when the Pope says genuinely terrible things, like during the Aryan crisis, people denying the divinity of Christ.
00:40:59.900 But, you know, he's not a totalitarian dictator, the Pope.
00:41:06.280 Okay, and so, you know, the Anglos are very, you know, they take things very, very seriously.
00:41:11.780 But the Mediterranean approach is, oh, what did the Papa say?
00:41:15.620 Oh, okay, well, is it a bit, you just kind of said it to like a journalist?
00:41:19.580 Okay, well, all right, maybe I got a little wax into my ears.
00:41:23.000 I don't know, maybe I didn't quite hear that so much.
00:41:25.520 I don't mean to doubt, it matters if the Pope were to say something that's genuinely contrary to the faith.
00:41:32.760 And really to hammer it home, and the Pope does have a lot of power.
00:41:36.040 But the Church measures her life in centuries and millennia, not in tweets and errant phrases to liberal journalists.
00:41:47.260 It's okay, take a deep breath.
00:41:48.920 It's going to be okay.
00:41:50.580 Next question.
00:41:52.040 Good morning, Michael.
00:41:53.200 I am one of those all-too-rare Southern Baptist women who is opposed to birth control both for health reasons and theological ones.
00:42:00.500 Recently, I have stern to engage in casual conversation with my friends about it to provoke thought about the theological aspects of it that I had never considered until relatively recently.
00:42:11.340 In doing so, I have observed an interesting phenomenon.
00:42:13.700 The men I know are willing to have a thoughtful conversation about the theological ramifications of birth control, but virtually none of the women are even willing to talk about it. 1.00
00:42:23.160 These are pro-life Christian women who love children, but if I even mention that I have been rethinking this issue, they get visibly uncomfortable and very quickly change the subject.
00:42:32.820 Seeing as how this is a topic that you speak about fairly frequently, I was curious if you have experienced the same phenomenon and would love to hear both insight into why you think this may be, as well as any advice for approaching the topic in a winsome manner.
00:42:47.180 Thank you so much.
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