The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 1696 - Lib State Rep Prioritizes WITCHES—Michael Knowles EXPLAINS

00:00:00.000 While most Americans are focusing on grocery prices, safety in their communities, and peace

00:00:04.620 abroad, while internet sleuths today are focusing on the release of the JFK files, thousands of

00:00:10.680 pages of documents have come out. While all that's going on, Democrat legislators have decided to

00:00:16.340 focus on the issues that really matter, like exonerating witches. I'm Michael Knowles,

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00:02:22.000 Folks, look at this beautiful box that you can go to thecandleclub.com slash Michael and order

00:02:28.660 today. It's the Smells and Bells candle. It comes in a beautiful box. I need to get a new Smells and

00:02:33.560 Bells candle because I've burned mine down because I use it just about every single day. Look at that,

00:02:39.400 huh? It smells great right out the box. Save that box. And we're going to light it here with a nice

00:02:44.000 Mayflower lighter. Oh, that's good. Like that. Not too bad. Not too bad at all, folks. Now,

00:02:52.040 Smells and Bells candle, obviously, is to commemorate Lent, which is this penitential

00:02:56.760 season in Christianity. Democrats, meanwhile, are focusing on their preferred religion,

00:03:01.800 which is witchcraft. I'm not being hyperbolic or anything like that. This is really happening

00:03:06.780 in an actual statehouse resolution being put forward by a Democrat delegate, Heather A. Bagnall.

00:03:14.440 She represents an area of Maryland, Maryland, of all places. It's supposed to be the Catholic's 0.98

00:03:18.840 colony. She represents part of Maryland, north of Annapolis. She introduced a resolution in the

00:03:25.820 Maryland General Assembly to exonerate women convicted of witchcraft and even just accused of

00:03:32.740 witchcraft in the 17th century. Now, there's this idea that the Libs put out there that in the 17th

00:03:38.720 century and even prior, people were just going around slaughtering witches left and right.

00:03:43.880 That's not true. I think only one woman actually hanged for being a witch, though plenty of other 0.80

00:03:48.400 women were accused of it. And this woman decides with all of the issues facing America, all of the

00:03:53.840 issues facing Maryland and her constituents, she's going to focus on passing a resolution to declare

00:04:01.640 innocent, or at least to exalt and declare virtuous, all of these witches.

00:04:10.100 This passed an initial committee hearing on March 10th. Even some of her fellow legislators have

00:04:17.320 criticized her and said this is a complete waste of time and totally out of touch. She said, no,

00:04:20.860 no, it's very important. And I actually tend to agree with the Democrat delegate here.

00:04:24.460 There is a coherency, coherence rather, and a consistency to the explicit defense of witches

00:04:32.100 because her words, she's connecting witchcraft to abortion. She says that once Roe v. Wade was

00:04:41.020 overruled, she knew that she had to exonerate these old witches, literal witches. Quote, 0.98

00:04:48.000 I've got a real appetite for it. And the more I talk about it, the more people realize, no,

00:04:51.500 this is serious. This is not just like a flight of fancy. It's relevant today. It's relevant today

00:04:59.100 because she says abortion rights are under attack. In addition to that, she says that transgender

00:05:05.320 rights are under attack and the whole DEI Democrat program. And this somehow relates to witches. And

00:05:11.020 of course it relates to witches. We're talking about witchcraft, which is a pagan religion. And the

00:05:15.820 modern version of witchcraft, Wicca and all the rest of it, is just a neo-pagan religion. 0.97

00:05:19.920 And child sacrifice. And the same women who are most enthusiastic about slaughtering babies 1.00

00:05:27.860 are the women who practice all sorts of weird witchy things. Some in a modest way, you know, 0.98

00:05:33.660 with horoscopes and crystals and all sorts of weird rituals and things. And some in a more overt way,

00:05:38.980 like calling themselves witches. There is a modern witch here, Devin Hunter, who's weighed in on this

00:05:44.080 campaign, says, part of the draw for us to witchcraft is the acceptance and celebration of

00:05:49.920 our personal identities, bodies, bodily autonomy, a love of our planet, and in many cases, healing from

00:05:57.160 past religious traumas. Religious traumas meaning they previously worshipped God. And that was traumatic

00:06:03.100 for them because they weren't able to worship themselves. For example, many of us are women.

00:06:06.360 Many are members of the LGBTQIA plus community. To me, the effect of this campaign from the

00:06:14.140 Democrats is less to exonerate the old witches than it is to indict the current witches. The

00:06:20.320 current witches, namely the abortion supporters and the people who promote all of this crazy stuff. 0.92

00:06:26.620 That's the effect. The effect of this to me is not to say, wow, can you believe back then people

00:06:30.460 thought there was such a thing as witchcraft? The effect of this to me is to realize, oh, wow,

00:06:34.100 there's witchcraft today. Because all this stuff, all this language, we hear about this

00:06:38.400 in the mainstream culture. The mainstream libs say that what matters most to them is

00:06:44.780 their personal identities, their bodies, their bodily autonomy, the love of the planet. Even that

00:06:50.600 witchcraft involves a lot of nature worship. Well, modern leftism involves a lot of nature worship.

00:06:55.580 Witchcraft involves a turning away from the worship of the one true God toward a worship of the self,

00:07:01.020 trying to amass power for the self. Even if you say witchcraft is totally bunk and all these women 1.00

00:07:05.660 are totally out of their minds, whether they lived in the 17th century, the 21st century,

00:07:09.180 that's at least the premise of it. I am going to accrue power to myself to cast spells and control

00:07:15.040 people and put hexes on people and control the world. That is the opposite of true religion, 0.99

00:07:19.560 where in Christianity, we say cupio dissolvi. It's no longer Christ, I who live,

00:07:25.480 but Christ who lives in me. You basically want to put the ego out of it and focus on God and have

00:07:35.000 yourself be a reflection of God, not the other way around, not to make yourself into a God.

00:07:39.820 That's what it is. That's what it always is. My takeaway on it is, oh, wow, golly,

00:07:45.960 there really have been witches throughout history. Because I can see them today, women like this. 1.00

00:07:50.960 Okay. Speaking of old things, very old things. Tom Homan, the deportations are under President

00:08:01.100 Trump, has been shipping all sorts of people. And the judges have tried to stymie him.

00:08:08.540 Democrat legislators have tried to stymie him. Bureaucrats have tried to stymie him.

00:08:12.900 They're throwing all sorts of stuff at the books. So one way that the Trump administration was able

00:08:17.540 to get around the impediments was to declare the cartels foreign terrorist organizations.

00:08:23.460 Even that wasn't quite good enough. So another way to get around an Obama-appointed liberal judge

00:08:28.020 who was trying to stop Trump from deporting Trende Aragua Venezuelan criminals was to invoke

00:08:34.380 the Alien Enemies Act. Now, this is a law from 1798. The Trump administration invokes it

00:08:41.720 and ships the illegal aliens overseas. One reporter, furious about this, asks the border czar,

00:08:49.520 or the deportation czar, Tom Homan, if it's really acceptable to invoke such an old law.

00:08:55.600 And Homan gives the perfect answer.

00:08:58.800 Hold up. Hey, I'm just, you're just waiting for that 2016 era meme, like the spliff to come 0.98

00:09:20.040 down, the stunner shades. Absolutely killer answer. And you know that Tom Homan was ready

00:09:26.520 for that one. And it's a very good answer. That's what the libs are saying. Hold on.

00:09:32.480 Why would you invoke an old law? Tom Homan says, it's not as old as the Constitution. We're supposed

00:09:37.400 to defend that, aren't we? You people won't defend that. But I do. Of course, just because a law is

00:09:44.480 old doesn't mean it loses its force. Just because a law is old, it doesn't expire. It's not like a carton

00:09:51.760 of eggs. And in fact, probably we would do much better as a country if we paid a little bit more

00:09:59.440 attention to some of those old laws. In many ways, the older laws seemed to have a better grasp on

00:10:07.120 real justice than these modern laws that, I don't know, permit the killing of children.

00:10:12.900 Old law, for most of American history, abortion was not permitted. It wasn't really a major public

00:10:19.340 debate. But where it was a debate, it was not permitted. The old law didn't let you castrate

00:10:24.320 little kids. The old law didn't let foreigners invade our country. The old law didn't discriminate 1.00

00:10:30.340 against certain classes. Well, it did discriminate against certain classes for a while. But then we

00:10:35.760 kind of tried to rectify that. And now we've got new laws that are further discriminating against all

00:10:41.320 sorts of classes of people, but especially men and white people. That's not good. Maybe we need to 0.88

00:10:47.260 look back a little bit to the wisdom of the ages. I don't know. Maybe we'll look back to that

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00:12:01.340 people and controversial Trump initiatives, I have got the perfect fake news story for you.

00:12:08.420 Absolutely perfect. This is from NPR. Segregated facilities are no longer explicitly banned in

00:12:18.960 federal contracts. Did you see this? This story was trending yesterday, and then the picture here is

00:12:24.780 waiting room for colored only by order of the police department. Wow, what is Trump doing?

00:12:29.820 What's the story here? After a recent change by the Trump administration, the federal government no

00:12:37.040 longer explicitly prohibits contractors from having segregated restaurants, waiting rooms,

00:12:41.940 and drinking fountains. Whoa, Trump's bringing back racial segregation? That's got to be pretty wild

00:12:48.920 news to the one in five black guys who voted for him, an historic number for Republicans, and to the

00:12:53.380 46% of Hispanics who voted for him, and all sorts of racial minorities. Whoa, why would Trump? I never

00:13:00.660 thought he was a racist or anything. Why would Trump bring back segregation? Oh, because the story is

00:13:07.220 just completely made up, completely made up. It's even more insidious than that. It's not completely

00:13:12.620 made up. It's that it's totally deceptive. This was heard on All Things Considered, one of the premier

00:13:18.720 NPR shows. How do you know it's totally contrived and deceptive? Because even if it is the case that

00:13:27.700 President Trump is streamlining federal contracts, cutting out graft, cutting out abuse, cutting out

00:13:31.620 corruption, even if they take out some line explicitly prohibiting the segregation of water fountains or

00:13:39.900 something, most of these buildings don't even have water fountains anymore, I suspect. The way you know

00:13:44.800 its total bunk is, that's already outlawed. You don't need a line in federal contracts to ban racial 1.00

00:13:54.820 segregation. Racial segregation has been against the law, according to the Supreme Court, since 1954,

00:14:00.900 since Brown v. Board of Education, which was explicitly ruling on segregation in schools, but

00:14:06.720 which struck down the separate but equal doctrine that then was applied to all sorts of public

00:14:12.740 accommodations. There was then the Civil Rights Act of 1964, Title II and Title III, which prohibits

00:14:19.920 racial segregation, separate but equal, different water fountains. So the news agencies, it'd be like

00:14:25.980 saying that I have a contract for my cigar company, Mayflower Cigars. I signed some contracts as I own

00:14:35.380 part of Mayflower Cigars. There'd be a news story that could say, Mayflower Cigars and their contracts

00:14:41.720 do not, they do not explicitly ban racial segregation. Do you know, in the Mayflower

00:14:47.220 Cigar contract, they don't, they don't ban murder. That amazing headline news, well, yeah, why would the, 0.76

00:14:53.500 why would the contract talk about that? We already have laws about that. Why would, why would some

00:14:58.220 federal contractor documents mention something that's already been clarified by the Supreme Court

00:15:04.300 in federal law? This is pure, all, all news in their focus on irrelevant details and on the stories

00:15:12.000 they pick, the stories they, they strike down. All establishment media have a little touch of the

00:15:16.880 fake news, but this is really grade A stuff. Grade A, NPR gets the award this week for the fakest of

00:15:23.580 the news. Now, speaking of major controversial initiatives of the Trump administration,

00:15:28.880 Whoopi Goldberg just accidentally, I think said the quiet part out loud, she stepped on a rhetorical

00:15:35.000 rake that the Democrats broadly are stepping on when she observed that if President Trump can deport

00:15:42.080 criminal aliens, if, if President Trump can deport these people who are breaking the law,

00:15:48.400 then he can deport any one of them.

00:15:49.980 And you just got to keep your eyes open, y'all. Cause if they can just come up and take somebody

00:15:59.060 cause they've made a decision that you are supposed to be that person, any one of us could

00:16:05.580 find ourselves being deported to some country. Don't give them any ideas, girl. Well, listen, 0.99

00:16:11.100 you know, I, I, it is very clear to me that if we don't continue to say we want, listen,

00:16:20.100 I understand you want to clean out all the old, the bad stuff. I get it. But why do you now have

00:16:26.920 access to my personal information? I get what the things you're trying to do. I don't understand

00:16:31.860 why you're taking my stuff, my person, not my personally, but each and every one of you and

00:16:37.480 your constitutional rights of free speech, which, you know, everybody says, you know,

00:16:43.620 you never let us say anything. We're, you know, conservatives. And in fact, you're doing the

00:16:50.580 same thing you are accusing everyone else of doing. And you're doing it in a way we've never seen before.

00:16:56.940 Okay. This is an amazing clip to me. And it, it really exemplifies the modern ethos of the

00:17:03.740 Democrat party. Nothing she said means anything. Nothing that Whoopi Goldberg said in that monologue

00:17:13.700 and that soliloquy actually means anything. She opens up, she says, if Trump can deport criminal

00:17:19.940 aliens, then he can deport any one of us. Or even let's, let's, let's give the most charitable

00:17:26.260 reading we can. If Trump can deport, well, no, it's, he's just talking about criminal aliens,

00:17:30.920 but let's say we're not talking about the face tattoo guys. Let's say we're talking about that

00:17:33.380 guy who was making a nuisance of himself at Columbia. Khalil, Mahmoud Khalil, who's,

00:17:40.400 who's being deported for making a nuisance of himself, maybe committing crimes, but also just

00:17:43.920 being broadly anti-American and, and leading the Palestine protests.

00:17:50.400 Is Whoopi Goldberg a foreign citizen? Is Whoopi Goldberg not an American citizen? I think she's an

00:17:55.960 American citizen. I think all these women are American citizens. Trump can't deport you if you're a 1.00

00:18:00.220 citizen. Trust me, it'd be nice if he could, but, but he can't, it's not going to happen. So that

00:18:05.120 statement doesn't mean anything. If they can deport face tattooed gangsters, they can deport anybody.

00:18:10.140 That just isn't true. Then she says, why is the government getting all up in my personal

00:18:16.160 information? And I assume what she's talking about, what she's alluding to is Elon Musk and Doge going

00:18:22.860 in and cleaning up corruption in the federal government, as many presidential administrations have

00:18:26.160 done. And this, this crazy claim that Elon Musk now has access to our personal information that

00:18:31.420 the government broadly has access to our personal information. The government already has our

00:18:35.960 personal information. If you pay your taxes, if you have a birth certificate, if you get a passport,

00:18:43.700 if you have a driver's license, the government at various levels has your information. Furthermore,

00:18:48.340 on the point of Elon Musk, Elon Musk ran PayPal, 70% of American adults use PayPal. He's got your

00:18:52.400 information. Him personally, from his private business, not even from the government. So what

00:18:56.800 does that mean? The government, she doesn't want the government to have your personal information.

00:19:00.720 Then she realizes that doesn't make sense. So she starts babbling about my personal stuff.

00:19:05.020 Then she says she's losing constitutional rights. What constitutional right? 0.98

00:19:09.340 She's saying foreigners are losing their constitutional rights. They don't even have

00:19:12.000 constitutional rights because they're not American citizens. When we deport some foreigner who's here on 1.00

00:19:16.720 a visa, we're not violating their rights. They have no right to be here. The visa is a privilege.

00:19:21.560 So that doesn't make any sense. And then she says they're losing their right to free speech.

00:19:27.080 But the liberals are the ones who rightly point out that even free speech has limits on it.

00:19:31.460 And by the way, the illegal aliens and the people here who are on a guest visa and all the rest of 0.77

00:19:36.760 the foreigners don't have the same constitutional rights that we do. And some absolute right to free 0.99

00:19:42.920 speech, which even American citizens don't have. Nothing she said makes any sense at all.

00:19:48.660 And I find this to be true with the left usually, and especially right now, because the left right

00:19:56.700 now is rudderless. The left has no leader. There is no leader to the Democrat party. Who's the leader?

00:20:02.380 Kamala? No. Obama? Not anymore. He might've been. Joe Biden? Remember him? I actually,

00:20:07.320 I'm not even joking. I kind of forgot about Joe Biden. Tim Walls? Is he the leader? Gavin Newsom?

00:20:12.200 There is no leader for the Democrats right now. And so they're even more ambiguous in what they're

00:20:19.680 after than usual. But the left broadly, they don't make strong arguments. They don't make

00:20:26.660 persuasive appeals to people. They just have kind of vague insinuations of corruption. But notice there,

00:20:35.860 even in that long diatribe, she doesn't directly accuse Trump of anything with evidence. She's not

00:20:42.920 talking about anything tangible. Democrats weren't talking about very much that was tangible. Other

00:20:47.820 than abortion, they didn't really talk about anything tangible in the election. Maybe that's why

00:20:51.160 they lost. One last point before I move on from the view, but this pertains to the problem of the

00:20:57.860 Democrats not having any leadership. Chuck Schumer, Democrat leader in the Senate, just went on the

00:21:03.520 view to take his lickings because he's come to a deal to continue to operate the government.

00:21:11.360 A lot of left-wing Democrats are very upset with this. Here, the ladies of the view representing the

00:21:16.520 Democrat base, attack Schumer for caving to Trump. And why? Okay. So look, I knew it was a difficult

00:21:25.920 choice and I knew that I'd get a lot of criticism for my choice, but I felt as a leader, I had to do it.

00:21:32.040 Here's why. The CR bill was bad, no question. And it allowed a slush fund, which allowed money to

00:21:39.280 be pushed around. Explain it for the people who don't know what CR means.

00:21:42.660 CR means continue the government spending. Right.

00:21:46.280 A shutdown, the alternative is cut off the government spending. The government shutdown works

00:21:51.240 like this. All government spending is stopped. All. And then the executive branch, Trump,

00:21:59.480 Musk, Doge, and this really evil man people don't know about, Vogt, who's head of OMB, his name is

00:22:05.520 Vogt. What is OMB being? OMB is the Office of Management Budget, which determines the spending.

00:22:11.860 And they could cut off anything they want simply by saying it's not essential. And here's the second

00:22:17.820 part that's maybe just as bad. There's no exit strategy. How do you get out of a shutdown? Guess

00:22:24.500 who determines it? Trump, Musk, Doge. They're the only ones. Say what you will about Chuck Schumer.

00:22:34.040 He's a pretty smart guy. He's wrong about a lot of things, but he's pretty smart.

00:22:37.720 He definitely raised the IQ in that room when he went on The View. And he's trying to explain,

00:22:42.860 as if talking to children, to these hosts, hostesses of The View, why he, as the leader of

00:22:49.920 the Democrats, was willing to take the political hit to agree with Trump and the Republicans in

00:22:54.860 Congress on the continuing resolution. And he says, you think I did this because I thought people

00:22:59.060 would be happy with me? No. You think I did this because I wanted to be yelled at for two weeks? No.

00:23:02.560 No. But I had no alternative. I didn't have the cards. What Schumer is explaining here is what

00:23:09.940 Trump explained to Zelensky in the Oval Office. He said, you don't have the cards. You do not have

00:23:15.160 the cards. You are not in a position to be making the kind of demands that you're making. There is

00:23:19.700 no way out. There's no way for you to enforce your will on Vladimir Putin. Schumer's saying that to

00:23:25.080 the ladies of The View. He says, Democrats don't have any cards. So if we shut down the government,

00:23:28.420 guess what we would be doing? We'd be giving more power to President Trump.

00:23:30.820 And especially now that he's got Elon Musk in there trying to rip apart the corruption in the

00:23:36.280 federal government, especially in the executive branch, they would have a field day. We would

00:23:39.780 be handing them a victory on a silver platter. And Chuck Schumer is totally right about that.

00:23:46.620 But his own party can't understand it. His own party can't understand that they were totally

00:23:52.700 routed in November. They lost the whole government. The Republicans have unified government.

00:23:59.460 And furthermore, the Republicans have a mandate to govern. Trump campaigned on all this stuff

00:24:04.520 with all these people, including Elon Musk. And he won the popular vote. And Chuck Schumer,

00:24:10.560 say what you will about him. He's got a good political gut. He's a good political analyst.

00:24:14.820 And he has to go on The View and explain to Democrats, guys, you don't understand.

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00:25:59.460 What would men do if they begged you for advice?

00:26:01.860 Again, I'm not in the business of telling men what to do, you know.

00:26:05.360 But I think you kind of are.

00:26:06.300 Well, what percent of women do you think are marriageable? 1.00

00:26:08.380 I think you're squirting the issue.

00:26:10.240 People are not going to return to marriage until you make the institution more fair. 0.90

00:26:13.840 Well, what they'll do is they'll return.

00:26:14.860 It doesn't matter what you say. It doesn't matter what I say. You guys have been preaching

00:26:18.540 marriage for a decade. And the rates of marriage have still been going down. Why? Because the cost

00:26:23.660 is too high and the quality of women is too low. How do you fix it? 1.00

00:26:27.580 Do you want to get married?

00:26:28.200 The full episode is available now on the Michael Knowles YouTube channel and on my X channels,

00:26:39.500 as well as, of course, Daily Wire Plus.

00:26:44.440 Now, speaking of intelligent politicians, moving from Chuck Schumer, who's wrong about most things,

00:26:49.200 to J.D. Vance, who is right about most things, J.D. Vance just gave a magnificent,

00:26:57.620 concise explanation of why globalization is bad. Globalism, one of the hottest buzzwords of the last

00:27:06.100 10 years. Opposition to globalism being one of the clearest motivating factors behind President

00:27:14.940 Trump's victory in 2016. Some would say 2020 and 2024. I'm not getting into that. Don't worry.

00:27:22.540 Most people, though, can't quite explain why globalization is bad because they'll hear the

00:27:27.580 usual objections. They'll say, you know, well, look, actually, I know globalization, you know,

00:27:33.300 it upends communities and sometimes jobs are shipped overseas, but it's really great because

00:27:37.380 we get cheap consumer goods and it's inevitable and the world is flat anyway and we got to keep up

00:27:42.640 and there's no alternative and tariffs are bad and we just have to do it. And it's really good and

00:27:47.240 people should stop complaining about it. And the opponents of globalization, they kind of know at a

00:27:52.480 gut level that globalization is bad. The mass migration has harmed their communities, the outsourcing

00:27:56.820 of jobs, the destruction of America's industrial base. They know that those things are bad, but they

00:28:03.640 can't quite articulate why. J.D. Vance provides the reasoning.

00:28:08.300 Because there were two conceits that our leadership class had when it came to globalization.

00:28:14.040 The first is assuming that we can separate the making of things from the design of things.

00:28:19.560 The idea of globalization was that rich countries would move further up the value chain while the

00:28:25.540 poor countries made the simpler things. It turns out that the geographies that do the manufacturing 0.52

00:28:31.020 get awfully good at the designing of things. There are network effects, as you all well

00:28:35.860 understand. Cheap labor is fundamentally a crutch and it's a crutch that inhibits innovation.

00:28:42.580 Every country from Canada to the UK that imported large amounts of cheap labor, you've seen

00:28:47.660 productivity stagnate. I'd say that globalization's hunger for cheap labor is a problem precisely because

00:28:54.800 it's been bad for innovation. Beautifully put, so articulate. He's just totally smacking down all of

00:29:02.920 the arguments that the really smart globalists make. The really smart globalists for decades now

00:29:08.100 have made the argument, look, we're not like some third world country. We've developed. And so

00:29:13.120 we're going to just move up the food chain and we're going to have those poor countries do all those 0.99

00:29:19.120 tasks we don't want to do. It's just a macroeconomic version of explaining why we need an open border so

00:29:24.960 that we can get Guatemalan peasants to pick our grapes for us. Americans don't want to do those 1.00

00:29:29.880 jobs. Americans don't want to manufacture anything. We can just have slaves in China do it. But don't 0.94

00:29:34.740 worry, we won't lose our competitive edge because we're going to do the designing. We're going to call

00:29:40.420 the shots. We're going to be running the companies. And we're just going to have the slaves in China 0.99

00:29:45.640 make the widgets. And we'll keep it like that. But J.D. Vann says, no, hold on. It turns out that

00:29:51.720 the companies that do the building also rather quickly get good at designing. And when we're

00:29:57.800 talking about a country like China, China's going to get really good at designing really quickly 0.98

00:30:01.220 because they're going to steal our intellectual property too. When you do business in China, 0.85

00:30:04.720 you basically have to give the Chinese everything. And there is close coordination between the

00:30:09.640 businesses in China and the Chinese Communist Party. So that doesn't really work. Okay.

00:30:14.280 Well, I'll tell you what, if we use the slave labor in China, okay, maybe they're going to get 1.00

00:30:20.740 good at designing and American companies are going to have to compete after helping to build up these

00:30:24.260 other industrial bases. But at the very least, it's going to free up our time to innovate.

00:30:31.680 Right? And J.D. Vann says, actually, history doesn't bear that out. This is kind of a version of

00:30:37.700 Nancy Pelosi explaining why they had to pass Obamacare. They had to pass this massive healthcare 0.99

00:30:44.240 overhaul because then health insurance would no longer be tied to people's employment,

00:30:47.920 which is an historical circumstance that came about because of a Democrat president, FDR. But

00:30:52.620 that's a story for another time. And when your health insurance isn't tied to your employment,

00:30:56.400 then you're freer to change jobs. You don't need to have any job at all. You know, man,

00:31:00.000 you can be a poet, you can be a novelist, you can be a painter. She said things like this.

00:31:04.520 And a lot of people believed it. They want to believe it. Oh, if I didn't have to work my nine

00:31:10.160 to five, then I could write the great American novel. And the reality of it is, no, you won't.

00:31:16.680 You won't write the great American novel. Most people are terrible poets. Most people probably

00:31:20.020 shouldn't pick up a paintbrush. When you are freed of the basic circumstances of work,

00:31:28.100 that doesn't mean you're going to innovate more. Actually, it means you're going to innovate less.

00:31:32.380 J.D. Vance says, the countries that get addicted to the cheap labor, that doesn't free them up to

00:31:36.140 create new products and imagine a new world. They just get kind of used to it and they get lazy

00:31:39.920 and they get addicted. So that goes away too. And he says, so the reason that we've got to

00:31:44.260 oppose globalization is not just because they took our jobs and it's all right. And we want to build up

00:31:49.800 the American middle class again. And all of those are good things. But he's actually hitting the

00:31:55.100 globalist argument at its strength, not its weakness. The globalist argument saying,

00:31:58.760 we have to be competitive. We need to innovate. We need to build the future.

00:32:02.680 And J.D. Vance says, yeah, yeah. If you want to do that, you have to oppose globalization

00:32:06.480 because the facts don't bear out your theory. This guy is freaking good. This guy is good.

00:32:15.580 And he's good in his own right. And he's really good as part of the Trump administration because

00:32:20.860 Trump understands these problems intuitively. Trump has been on and off campaigning against

00:32:29.320 globalization since the 1980s. Trump has been talking about how great tariffs are and how great

00:32:36.740 building up American industry is for decades. And he knows it intuitively. And sometimes he'll get

00:32:43.120 into the details a little bit, especially when he's talking about trade deals because that's a specialty of

00:32:47.820 his. But often he's talking to the 30,000 foot view, the broad strokes. He's just got an amazing

00:32:53.100 political gut, the best political gut I've ever seen. That's what Trump has. J.D. I don't think

00:33:00.340 understands these problems through his gut. J.D. has gone on an intellectual and political journey

00:33:05.660 and religious journey. He's a religious convert too. I don't think J.D. is primarily a gut politician.

00:33:10.960 I think J.D. is a very smart, educated guy, very disciplined who does the reading. I think J.D.

00:33:16.260 has come to these conclusions through rigorous study. And those two go together really, really well

00:33:22.900 because you've got President Trump who just intuitively gets it in politics. He just has

00:33:30.720 a sense of the right thing 99% of the time. And then J.D. Vance can come in there and fill in all

00:33:38.060 the details and make all of the arguments. It's a very powerful team. And it's very helpful to have

00:33:45.660 both of those, not just both men, but both skills in politics. Now, I've said for a long time,

00:33:52.740 J.D. Vance is part, you know, a political leader who is changing our culture. But just as much,

00:34:00.660 he is a sign of the times. J.D. Vance, a politician who is opposed to globalization,

00:34:07.180 who wants to upend the economic and political and social orthodoxies of the past 30 years.

00:34:11.840 J.D. Vance, who's a convert to Catholicism. J.D. Vance, who comes from Middle America,

00:34:17.720 which he wants to rebuild again. He's a sign of the times. And we're getting more signs of the

00:34:23.260 times, not just from Middle America, but from the coasts. A really, really good sign that I have 0.99

00:34:28.960 predicted. You know how much I hate to say I told you so. We'll get to that in one second. First,

00:34:32.200 though, America's on the comeback. But the culture war is not over. Tomorrow, we are releasing episode

00:34:38.520 two of our five-part series, The Case for Derek Chauvin, The Incident. In episode one,

00:34:43.860 we analyzed the criminal background of George Floyd and the professional record of Derek Chauvin.

00:34:47.680 But tomorrow, we're going moment by moment through the infamous videos of That Fateful Day.

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00:35:14.200 My favorite comment yesterday is from Adam Nifortike, who says, Mr. Knowles, we have the same

00:35:23.260 birthday. I am in excellent company. So I am in excellent company too. I'm so glad to hear that

00:35:30.240 about your birthday. One day after St. Paddy's Day, one day before St. Joseph's Day, happy feast

00:35:35.500 of St. Joseph to everyone. It's good. It's good stuff. And now I'm officially middle-aged.

00:35:41.420 You know, Dante begins the comedy, when in the middle of our life's journey, and he's 34,

00:35:45.040 about to turn 35. I am now 35, the middle of our life's journey, using the psalmist's understanding

00:35:51.120 of a human life as 70 years. Middle-aged, man. Should I have a crisis? Should I buy a Corvette?

00:35:56.900 Should I buy Professor Jacob's Camaro? I don't know. I don't know. But it's all upon me now.

00:36:01.760 Speaking of Signs of the Times, really good news. San Francisco Pride is going bankrupt.

00:36:11.200 San Francisco Pride, the big pride parade in the most pro-Pride LGBT, LMNOP city in America,

00:36:18.280 can't seem to raise any money. This is a new development. San Francisco Pride has never

00:36:25.140 had a problem raising money. This is San Francisco. And yet, San Francisco Gate tells us,

00:36:33.100 several longtime corporate sponsors of San Francisco's Pride celebrations are pulling

00:36:37.040 their funding for their festivities, leaving Pride organizers searching for another way to

00:36:40.720 raise $300,000. So we're not talking about a ton of money, all things considered, certainly not for

00:36:44.960 corporate America. They can't even raise $300,000. In the past four weeks, the article goes on,

00:36:50.520 multiple companies told San Francisco Pride, the nonprofit behind the annual Pride parade,

00:36:54.960 that they would not support the 2025 Pride celebrations. In their communications with San

00:37:00.560 Francisco Pride, the sponsors all cited a lack of funds. That's convenient. Oh yeah, we just don't

00:37:06.300 have any money anymore. But the article says, none of them mentioned the political climate. But Ford

00:37:11.600 noted that it was very abnormal for several multi-year sponsors to suddenly drop their support for the

00:37:18.420 event. You know, I hate to say I told you so. I told you so. I called it. In fact, I called it

00:37:25.440 on the Jubilee podcast. I sat down with 20 or 25 LGBT LMNOP activists. We debated all sorts of

00:37:33.580 questions, not just the low-hanging fruit, like the transgender issues. But I went further and I said 0.87

00:37:39.360 that Pride should be banned. And most people think Pride should be banned because it's obscene.

00:37:43.000 And every year we read about stories of weird naked guys jiggling in front of kids and people

00:37:50.200 committing obscene acts and just taking over downtown with a bunch of gross degeneracy. And no one wants

00:37:55.540 to see that. And I said, Pride parade should be banned. They all gasped. They clutched their pearls.

00:38:01.600 I said, people want that. They want to ban it. Why? Why? People told me I was crazy. Some far right-wing

00:38:09.800 nut because my view of these social issues was about the same as a Democrat would have thought

00:38:17.380 20 years ago. They said that's extreme fascistic, radical. And yet now it's happening, even in San

00:38:22.980 Francisco. The Pride parade can't raise money. Why is that? I'll tell you why. How did I know? How did

00:38:29.960 I get it so right? It's not because I'm Nostradamus. It's because ideas have momentum. That's how.

00:38:37.440 It doesn't take a rocket scientist to predict that in the year of our Lord, 2025, people aren't going

00:38:44.820 to be that into Pride. The Pride parades are going to struggle. And it's not just the political climate

00:38:48.940 of Donald Trump. That's what they're going to try to pin this on. Oh, it's Trump, a second coming of

00:38:53.400 Generalissimo Franco, you know, this authoritarian. No. Trump won the popular vote, okay? And Trump is not

00:38:59.680 particularly authoritarian. He doesn't even seem all that particularly concerned with the social issues.

00:39:05.460 He held up the rainbow flag when he ran in 16. But people don't want this stuff anymore. They

00:39:11.340 don't want the weird guys in leather smacking each other in front of kids on Main Street. They don't

00:39:16.460 want it. There is a cultural movement away from that. The first part was when people turned against

00:39:24.000 transing kids. That was it, transing kids. That you saw that flip. The Commonwealth of Virginia 0.97

00:39:31.220 Red in the election of Glenn Youngkin. You saw that motivate, I think, a lot of the popular vote

00:39:36.100 victory for President Trump. The Democrats had just gone too far. Transing the kids was too far. 1.00

00:39:41.760 But when you start to pull on the thread of a bad idea, the whole heap of bad ideas that has

00:39:50.040 constituted this movement starts to unravel, inevitably. So when you start pulling on the thread

00:39:56.600 of why it's wrong to trans the kids, it's wrong to trans kids because you can't really be the 1.00

00:40:01.200 opposite sex. That's not really how human nature works. Okay, well then maybe we shouldn't trans 1.00

00:40:05.040 the teenagers or even the adults then either. Because, keep pulling, keep pulling, because men

00:40:11.140 and women really are different and the sexes are immutable and those differences are meaningful. 0.66

00:40:15.520 Okay, well if men and women really are different, then maybe gay marriage doesn't make any sense 0.74

00:40:22.400 because marriage is the union of a man and a woman. So if men and women are really different

00:40:27.200 and one can't become the other, then you can't redefine marriage to be the union of two men or

00:40:31.120 two women. Okay, we got to keep pulling on this. Then if men and women really are different and sex

00:40:35.580 really does matter, sexual difference really does matter, then maybe all the weird pride parades,

00:40:39.760 maybe that's just not something worth celebrating. I'm not saying we're going to, you know,

00:40:42.800 deport people who are a little light in the loafers, but maybe we don't need to center this in our

00:40:46.560 society on Main Street. Maybe that's not a good idea. But hold on, we're going to keep pulling on that

00:40:50.620 thread. If men and women really are different, then maybe feminism doesn't make sense because 1.00

00:40:54.680 feminism says that women are basically just men who have been oppressed and have not been allowed

00:41:00.500 to exercise their true virtues, which are masculine virtues, and anything men can do, women can do at

00:41:05.280 least as well. But that obviously isn't true because men and women are different. So hold on,

00:41:09.340 it all unravels. Now the question for us is, how far are things going to unravel for the left?

00:41:16.260 Are we going to go all the way? The left got to go all the way in the other direction.

00:41:20.620 The left got to go from re-centering politics away from the community, away from man as a social

00:41:28.060 creature, toward man as an individual, toward radical autonomy, toward feminism, LGBTism,

00:41:33.680 redefining marriage, transgenderism, transing the kids. They got to take their idea all the way.

00:41:38.400 The question for us is, do we get to unravel it all the way, or will there be another pendulum swing

00:41:43.660 yet to come? What is not controversial, though, what is guaranteed is that, for right now at least,

00:41:50.620 we are unraveling a lot of the sexual revolution. Hookups are down. Porn is down. There are laws

00:41:59.000 being passed in states against pornography. The LGBTism is not nearly as popular as it was 10 years

00:42:06.060 ago. Feminism is kind of out. Trad wives are in. We're moving, okay? How far do we get before the 1.00

00:42:14.600 pendulum turns again? That remains to be seen. Now, speaking of nonsense like pride parades, 0.61

00:42:21.640 there's another fake news story that I have to cover. There's been a lot of fake news that you're

00:42:28.240 probably hearing from your liberal aunt or something, and maybe you don't know how to respond to it.

00:42:32.540 Here's a big one. Trump memo reveals plan to throw Social Security into chaos. I've heard this

00:42:41.280 from liberal family members that said, Michael Trump, he's going to destroy Social Security, or

00:42:46.140 Elon Musk, he's going to send Elon Musk to destroy our Social Security. Oh, this is really scary. Even

00:42:51.620 from fairly moderate or even conservative people, some have fallen for this.

00:42:56.200 This is totally dishonest. Yes, President Trump is going to reform federal programs.

00:43:05.480 No question about it. Yes, Elon Musk, even when it comes to some of the entitlement programs,

00:43:10.800 is cleaning up corruption because there are people who receive these federal benefits who don't deserve

00:43:16.320 them, who don't even exist, perhaps. There is corruption in the government. Elon Musk is cleaning

00:43:22.180 that up. So what has he done to throw Social Security into chaos? He just said you have to

00:43:27.520 prove that you are who you are and you're entitled to these programs. That's it. It's just like when

00:43:35.820 the Democrats say that Republicans don't want people to vote because they have to show an ID when they go

00:43:39.660 to vote. No, no. Republicans are defending the vote and the integrity of the vote by making sure that

00:43:46.180 actual voters are voting and thereby protecting the integrity of everybody's vote. Well,

00:43:51.920 same thing for Social Security. The Democrats have been trying this line for 10 years on Trump.

00:43:55.840 They've been using it against Republicans for many decades, sometimes effectively. They say,

00:44:01.100 Trump wants to cut your Social Security. That is simply a lie. If Trump has been clear about one

00:44:09.460 issue for his entire political career, it is that he does not want to touch your Social Security

00:44:16.180 benefits. In fact, Trump has been so emphatic and consistent on this issue that he's gotten

00:44:21.320 criticism from other Republicans who do want to cut your Social Security. This was an effective line 0.95

00:44:26.700 when the Democrats lobbied it against people like Paul Ryan or Mitt Romney or the Republicans of the

00:44:33.800 Tea Party era who were focused on entitlement reform. It doesn't work on Trump. Totally dishonest

00:44:41.080 on the one hand. And on the other hand, totally misunderstands the political moment.

00:44:46.200 And this is the real key for the Democrats and their propagandists in the news media.

00:44:51.160 If you think that scaremongering about mean old Republicans throwing granny off a cliff is going

00:44:56.860 to work, if you think that fear mongering, the likes of what you see on the Democrat TV shows like

00:45:03.140 The View, the kind of stories that you're getting from NPR and all that Trump is going to bring back

00:45:09.240 segregation or whatever, if you think those are going to work, you are just misunderstanding the

00:45:14.360 political moment. That might have worked 10 years ago. That might have worked with the old Republican

00:45:17.740 coalition. Trump has built a new Republican coalition. Trump is making different arguments

00:45:23.600 than Republicans were making 10 years ago. Trump has different priorities. Trump got elected by

00:45:27.900 different people than the groups Republicans used to rely on when they were losing elections.

00:45:33.580 Democrats haven't adapted to that. So they just sound like an outdated music or something.

00:45:40.100 They haven't caught up. And until they catch up, they're going to have nothing valuable to offer

00:45:46.440 voters. All they're going to do, here's a little tease, all they're going to do is just jiggle around

00:45:51.060 on camera like the Democrat members, the female Democrat members of the House. We'll get to that

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