The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 1706 - Trump's Liberation Day TARIFFS Explained In 5 Mins

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00:00:37.780 The Libs have won a pivotal Supreme Court seat in Wisconsin in a potentially terrible omen for Republicans in the midterm elections.

00:00:45.140 Just hours before, President Trump announces his Liberation Day tariffs that could either inaugurate America's golden age

00:00:54.940 or send us into a crippling recession.

00:00:58.820 I'm Michael Knowles.

00:00:59.480 This is The Michael Knowles Show.

00:01:00.260 Welcome back to the show.

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00:02:09.960 Not a great night last night.

00:02:11.520 Actually, for me, it was a great night.

00:02:13.040 You can tell I'm not in my usual studio.

00:02:14.920 I'm back here at Yale.

00:02:16.480 Anytime I return to my alma mater and I am not tarred and feathered,

00:02:20.880 anytime I am back here and no former classmate or something tries to murder me in my sleep

00:02:27.320 or some professor sneaks in and tries to toss me out a window,

00:02:30.720 it was always a great time.

00:02:32.120 Spoke at YAF to a number of students and some friends from New Haven.

00:02:37.660 So you can check that out on the YAF YouTube channel.

00:02:42.540 And while we were having fun, catching up with old friends, cigars and drinks,

00:02:46.700 the Libs won a crucial Wisconsin Supreme Court seat.

00:02:51.620 This liberal judge, Susan Crawford, won the seat.

00:02:55.780 And this wasn't who cares about a Supreme Court seat in Wisconsin, right?

00:02:59.500 A lot of people do.

00:03:00.680 We do.

00:03:01.260 President Trump does.

00:03:02.180 Elon Musk does.

00:03:03.920 The very highest echelons of the Republican Party were putting a lot of time, effort,

00:03:09.660 money in the case of Elon into this race.

00:03:11.720 And it didn't work out.

00:03:14.060 The reason it matters is because now the Democrats are going to keep their majority

00:03:18.420 in the Wisconsin Supreme Court, which means that Democrats can challenge the current congressional

00:03:24.280 election map, which means that the Libs can rejigger the map so that they can get more seats

00:03:30.740 in the House.

00:03:31.420 They can flip some seats, which means that our extremely slim Republican majority in the House

00:03:36.800 is imperiled by a random night win of a Supreme Court justice in the state of Wisconsin.

00:03:46.280 This might be a bad sign for the midterm elections.

00:03:51.420 Wisconsin, obviously, an important swing state.

00:03:56.260 You know, you don't want to read too much into it.

00:03:58.780 It's an off year election.

00:04:01.100 A lot of people didn't even know this election was going on, despite President Trump and Elon

00:04:04.340 Musk's attempts to raise awareness, get out the vote.

00:04:07.640 There was some good news from some elections last night, which we'll get to in a moment.

00:04:11.780 But we're conservatives here, so we start with all the bad stuff.

00:04:14.920 This could be a bad sign because it just is always the case, virtually always the case,

00:04:20.320 that the party that wins the White House loses the first midterm election.

00:04:25.420 That is a big risk in particular when you're in a political sea change.

00:04:30.360 This is not just going from Reagan to Bush to Clinton to Bush to Obama.

00:04:35.560 This is a more fundamental change in our political order, so things get a little squirrelier and more difficult to predict.

00:04:41.900 Also, there is a pretty decent chance of a trade war and a pretty decent chance of a recession.

00:04:50.500 And I'm not saying that I don't think Trump should implement tariffs.

00:04:53.820 I am pro-tariff in principle.

00:04:56.820 I am not saying that Trump is going to get all the blame if the economy goes into recession.

00:05:00.680 The economy was teetering under Joe Biden.

00:05:03.320 The economy seemed to be artificially buoyed under Joe Biden.

00:05:07.580 Any president coming in would have had a very decent chance of recession.

00:05:11.460 That's even without the talk of the trade wars.

00:05:14.200 And today is the day that we're going to find out about the tariffs and the potential for a trade war.

00:05:19.220 Because it's Liberation Day.

00:05:20.360 Okay, President Trump has announced on Liberation Day he's going to unveil a slew of tariffs, reciprocal tariffs in particular,

00:05:27.240 to punish countries who try to cheat us on trade.

00:05:31.160 And this could either benefit the American economy because the foreign countries lower their barriers to trade.

00:05:39.380 And we get more U.S. goods in there into all these markets around the world.

00:05:43.260 And that's really great for the American producer.

00:05:45.520 Or the countries could say, no way, we're not going to do it.

00:05:50.500 We're not going to play ball.

00:05:51.680 And then we're going to reshore American manufacturing.

00:05:53.680 You've already seen a little bit of that happening in the first two months of the Trump admin.

00:05:57.060 Or you get all these reciprocal tariffs.

00:06:00.420 And the countries just have to pay more to have access to the U.S. market.

00:06:02.900 And we get a ton of money from it.

00:06:03.900 Those are three things that could happen.

00:06:06.880 Now, I mentioned on the show that I recently sat down with the Treasury Secretary, Scott Besant.

00:06:12.640 And I asked, okay, those are great desires, but they conflict with each other.

00:06:17.020 If you get one, you don't necessarily get the other two.

00:06:19.200 If you get some of them, you actually can't get the other ones.

00:06:22.260 So what's the top priority?

00:06:23.800 And his answer, very diplomatically, very intelligently, was we've got to wait and see.

00:06:29.240 April 2nd is the day we're going to wait and see.

00:06:30.860 So high-level administration officials, at the very highest levels, don't really know what this means.

00:06:38.600 I think the tariffs are supposed to be announced at 4 p.m. today.

00:06:42.180 There was reporting yesterday that even top administration officials, as of yesterday,

00:06:46.940 did not know who the tariffs were going to hit, what the tariffs were going to look like,

00:06:51.580 which is very Trumpy.

00:06:52.940 This is his great political skill, is his unpredictability.

00:06:56.260 Unpredictable, even to those advisors who are closest to him.

00:06:59.600 One thing that also happened yesterday, though, with this unpredictable climate,

00:07:04.860 is the state of Israel announced that it would end all tariffs on U.S. imports before Liberation Day.

00:07:12.540 Which is a good idea.

00:07:14.900 That's a smart move, Israel.

00:07:16.540 I think other countries around the world should do that as well.

00:07:18.760 Because if there are, basically, the state of Israel waited until the very last moment, said,

00:07:26.100 okay, I still can't get a read on this guy.

00:07:30.420 I don't want to call his bluff.

00:07:33.460 They went all the way up to the very line and they said, okay, you know what?

00:07:38.060 We're done with tariffs on U.S. goods.

00:07:39.580 Please don't tariff us.

00:07:40.340 And the reaction from a lot of people is, wait a second, Israel had tariffs on U.S. goods?

00:07:46.200 Wait a second, Israel, a state that we fund,

00:07:49.900 Israel, a state that would not exist if the U.S. military didn't protect it,

00:07:54.360 they had tariffs on U.S. goods?

00:07:55.720 It's not just Israel.

00:07:56.900 There's some people who want to single out Israel for every single issue.

00:07:59.060 It's not just Israel.

00:08:00.180 It's like every country on Earth has tariffs on U.S. goods.

00:08:04.980 Where we think, hold on, these are good allies of ours.

00:08:06.820 Hold on, they're good trading partners.

00:08:08.140 Hold on, we have such a great relationship.

00:08:09.280 Wait, India has these massive tariffs on U.S. auto?

00:08:14.240 Hold on, the European Union has massive tariffs on all sorts of U.S. goods,

00:08:18.600 agricultural goods, all sorts of goods.

00:08:20.600 Wait a second, what?

00:08:21.600 We pay for Europe.

00:08:22.540 Europe would not exist right now or would have been conquered by a hostile foreign power.

00:08:27.420 Actually, Europe has been conquered by a hostile foreign power because of mass migration, 0.85

00:08:30.360 but that's a separate point.

00:08:31.860 Europe would look totally different than it does right now,

00:08:34.740 if not for the U.S. military protection,

00:08:36.580 the U.S. military, which is the European military.

00:08:39.280 Are you telling me they're putting tariffs on our goods?

00:08:41.240 So one of the consequences of Trump's unpredictable tariff policy and all his really tough talk on

00:08:48.420 tariffs, one of the consequences that I haven't heard people talk about a lot

00:08:51.900 is just raising awareness that so many other countries are ripping us off.

00:08:58.240 So many other countries have tariffs on U.S. goods.

00:09:02.300 Now, what does that mean for Trump?

00:09:04.840 Does he get all the way up to the line and then back off the tariffs?

00:09:09.200 We'll see.

00:09:09.880 I've told you from the beginning, I have no idea what Trump is doing with the tariffs.

00:09:16.220 And don't just say, well, you know, Michael, you got to get better at your job.

00:09:21.060 You know, you're a commentator.

00:09:22.000 You're a podcast host.

00:09:22.700 You're a pundit.

00:09:23.140 You're supposed to know.

00:09:23.700 Hey, if the Treasury Secretary doesn't know, if Trump's own Treasury Secretary doesn't know,

00:09:28.300 I'm not going to know, okay?

00:09:29.380 And anyone who tells you they do know what Trump is doing with these tariffs is lying to you.

00:09:33.160 I've talked to multiple Trump world figures, administration figures, people around the

00:09:38.500 president.

00:09:39.120 And the ones who tell me they do know what he's doing with the tariffs, they all give me

00:09:42.580 different answers, okay?

00:09:43.820 So they don't, they don't know.

00:09:47.900 And I have said for weeks now, if Trump is serious about the tariffs, he's talking like

00:09:55.480 he's serious, okay?

00:09:56.240 From the campaign, we're going to have a new golden age.

00:09:58.600 We're going to be like William McKinley.

00:10:00.120 Tariffs are my favorite word. 0.99

00:10:02.520 I, you know, he's echoing Abraham Lincoln who said, you give me a tariff, I'll give you

00:10:06.760 the greatest country on earth.

00:10:07.760 But also, Trump is a really good bluffer.

00:10:13.480 So I don't know.

00:10:14.500 And that's the real answer, okay?

00:10:16.100 And anyone who tells you otherwise is lying to you.

00:10:19.320 Speaking of unpredictability, President Trump has just withdrawn his nomination for UN ambassador.

00:10:27.380 Elise Stefanik, a New York congressman who Trump put up for UN ambassador, he withdrew her.

00:10:34.520 He didn't have to withdraw Pete Hegseth.

00:10:35.920 He didn't have to withdraw Bobby Kennedy.

00:10:38.980 He didn't have to withdraw Tulsi Gabbard.

00:10:41.920 He didn't have to withdraw Kash Patel.

00:10:43.420 All of the supposedly controversial nominees, he didn't have to withdraw.

00:10:46.800 Elise Stefanik was a shoe-in for UN ambassador.

00:10:50.900 Why is he withdrawing her nomination?

00:10:53.440 The answer does not bode well for Republicans.

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00:13:02.720 Trump had to withdraw his nominee for U.N. ambassador, Elise Stefanik, because the Republican congressional majority is too slim.

00:13:14.580 Okay, he posted this a few days ago now, but it's an important story.

00:13:17.560 This is a very tight majority.

00:13:19.240 I don't want to take a chance on anyone else running for Elise's seat in the House of Representatives.

00:13:22.860 So, the people, oh, he said it's essential that we maintain every Republican seat in Congress.

00:13:29.980 The people love Elise, and with her, we have nothing to worry about come Election Day.

00:13:33.960 There are others that can do a good job at the United Nations.

00:13:36.360 I totally agree.

00:13:37.380 The U.N. ambassador doesn't really matter.

00:13:39.240 Seems like a cool job, because the job is basically just to showboat around some of the worst people on Earth.

00:13:45.020 And it's not a ton of responsibility.

00:13:47.260 You could plug and play a lot of people in there.

00:13:48.720 At least, Stefanik is a solid hold for a Republican seat in New York.

00:13:54.140 New York, obviously, a very blue state.

00:13:56.400 So, the withdrawal has nothing to do with Stefanik.

00:14:00.080 When President Trump withdrew his first Attorney General pick, Matt Gaetz, it was because Gaetz had baggage and the senators wouldn't vote for him.

00:14:09.040 Here, Stefanik doesn't have any baggage that matters to the senators.

00:14:14.080 It's just that we've got to hold Congress.

00:14:16.580 Congress is looking increasingly tenuous.

00:14:19.500 Trump withdrew Stefanik before the Wisconsin Supreme Court win for the Democrats, the Wisconsin Supreme Court win that could even further imperil the Republican majority.

00:14:29.000 Now, there is some good news.

00:14:30.080 The silver lining from the elections yesterday is that the GOP held onto two seats in Florida in the House.

00:14:36.000 That's the seat held by, formerly held by Michael Waltz, the national security advisor under Trump.

00:14:40.760 And the seat previously held by Matt Gaetz, who, the aforementioned Matt Gaetz, who resigned from Congress after he was nominated for AG.

00:14:47.680 Then Trump withdrew him for AG, or he resigned, you know, he withdrew himself from the AG race, and now he has a TV show.

00:14:53.700 So, a Republican should have won those seats.

00:14:57.180 This is not a huge win for Republicans.

00:15:02.160 It's good.

00:15:02.980 We would have been in a lot of trouble had a Democrat won those seats.

00:15:06.000 But this means that the Republican majority in Congress is real slim.

00:15:11.540 You've got natural headwinds against us in the midterm elections.

00:15:15.360 And if the election last night in Wisconsin is any indication, and if the Liberation Day turmoil is any indication, and if gamblers and betting markets are any indication, Republicans are going to face a tough time in the midterms.

00:15:34.280 Which means we have a closing window for Republican and conservative policies.

00:15:43.080 Trump won his second term. 0.51

00:15:44.140 In principle, he was already a lame duck the minute he was elected to a second term.

00:15:48.380 Now, because Trump is a brilliant politician, and because Trump plays on unpredictability, he keeps floating out to the liberal media that he might run for a third term.

00:15:55.720 Yeah, maybe, I don't know, there are ways to do it.

00:15:57.760 Maybe I'll have a fourth term.

00:15:59.840 Maybe I'll cross the Rubicon and inaugurate myself, Emperor Caesar Trump, and Barron will be Octavian, and he'll fight a war with Mark Antony.

00:16:08.960 I don't know, I don't know who Mark Antony would be in this case.

00:16:11.100 Marco Rubio? Marco Antony?

00:16:13.180 Anyway, my historical analogy is breaking down.

00:16:16.200 He keeps floating this out there so that he doesn't seem like a lame duck, which a second term president necessarily is.

00:16:21.880 This means that Trump is going to rush through policies, done an amazing job.

00:16:30.120 We are tired.

00:16:31.340 I don't know if we're tired of winning, but we are tired.

00:16:33.320 There's been so much good policy that comes out of the first two months.

00:16:36.480 But the window's closing.

00:16:39.380 It ain't going to be here forever.

00:16:41.200 And when Republicans, not when, if, if, I don't want to be too pessimistic, if Republicans lose that majority in the House,

00:16:50.180 okay, maybe we'll get some judges, right?

00:16:52.020 But a lot of that policy that we're looking for, and a lot of the executive orders being codified into law,

00:16:58.460 which allows them to endure past the second Trump term, that's gone nowhere.

00:17:02.200 Now, speaking of Congress, Cory Booker.

00:17:04.960 Democrat Cory Booker, I am Spartacus, a little histrionic, very theatrical.

00:17:11.000 Cory Booker spoke for 25 hours yesterday in the U.S. Senate.

00:17:17.080 This broke the record for the longest Senate floor speech.

00:17:22.200 Blew past my friend Ted Cruz.

00:17:25.160 Blew past, what was it?

00:17:26.940 It's Trump Thurman told the record.

00:17:28.140 You know, he blew past it.

00:17:30.400 However, usually when we cover an event like this, we would say it was the longest filibuster ever.

00:17:37.020 The way this is being covered in the media, it's the longest Senate floor speech ever.

00:17:42.660 Because usually, some people are going to ask, why are senators speaking for hours and hours on end anyway?

00:17:48.220 The reason that they do it is to filibuster legislation.

00:17:52.400 So if there's some law coming down the pike that they don't like, a senator, just a single senator,

00:17:57.200 can get up there and gum up the works, can hold up that legislation,

00:18:01.600 and in so doing, raise popular awareness about the legislation by just speaking forever.

00:18:06.920 As long as he can stand.

00:18:08.300 As long as he can stand in his vocal cords work, he can stand up there and read the phone book.

00:18:11.880 He can read Green Eggs and Ham like Ted Cruz did.

00:18:15.260 He can keep pushing.

00:18:18.540 Cory Booker didn't do that.

00:18:21.020 There was no legislation he was filibustering.

00:18:23.520 The whole process is quite theatrical, but at least it serves an actual legislative function usually.

00:18:29.720 In this case, Cory Booker wasn't serving any legislative function.

00:18:33.000 He was just making a big show of himself.

00:18:35.900 Which is so perfect.

00:18:37.380 It so sums up not only Cory Booker's political career, but just the Democrats right now broadly.

00:18:44.040 It's like decaf coffee.

00:18:46.000 They're decaf coffee.

00:18:46.780 I've said for years on this show, I've said since I think maybe the first episode of my show,

00:18:51.780 that one of the defining features of the left is that they want the appearance of the thing,

00:18:55.660 but not the essence of the thing.

00:18:57.840 So they want marriage, but they don't want sexual difference in babies. 0.98

00:19:02.180 They just want the appearance of marriage.

00:19:05.800 Their Diet Coke is what they are.

00:19:07.460 Their decaf coffee.

00:19:09.120 They don't want the thing that makes the thing what it is.

00:19:12.360 In this case, Cory Booker, he wanted the headlines.

00:19:14.080 He wanted to have the record for the longest floor speech.

00:19:17.280 He wanted to seem, I don't know, like he's Mr. Smith goes to Washington.

00:19:20.400 But he's not actually doing any legislating.

00:19:22.360 He's not even impeding legislation.

00:19:25.640 He's just putting on a play.

00:19:30.400 At least wait until the Republicans have some bill.

00:19:33.380 But what's he going to, this is the big problem.

00:19:34.820 The reason that Cory Booker can't do his big histrionic show to try to launch his next presidential campaign

00:19:39.760 on legislation is because the legislation that Trump is advancing is very popular.

00:19:47.900 What's he going to, he's going to filibuster the Lake and Riley Act?

00:19:50.880 What's he going to filibuster?

00:19:52.120 The tax cuts?

00:19:53.180 No.

00:19:54.480 So he just gives this long speech vaguely about executive orders that he can't impede from the Senate

00:20:01.000 because it's a different branch of government.

00:20:02.240 It has nothing to do with the legislature. 0.99

00:20:05.020 That's really pathetic. 0.95

00:20:05.960 This is my silver lining, is I'm warning you all that the midterms are going to be brutal 0.98

00:20:09.560 and we got a bad sign about it yesterday and, you know, the world is falling to pot

00:20:13.460 and zillions will die and everything.

00:20:15.660 The silver lining here is the Democrats have nothing.

00:20:20.640 Even when they're, not only are they not advancing anything, they're not even stopping anything.

00:20:26.140 Now, speaking of Congress, a rabbi has just testified to federal legislators

00:20:32.580 that it is not enough to be not anti-Semitic.

00:20:38.000 You have to be anti-anti-Semitic.

00:20:41.900 Anti-Semitism is not just an age-old prejudice.

00:20:44.920 It is a contemporary crisis manifesting on campuses across the nation.

00:20:50.740 It is not enough for individuals or institutions to merely claim they are not anti-Semitic.

00:20:55.520 As my father once taught me, it is not enough for people, especially public figures,

00:21:00.480 to be neutral or not be anti-Semitic.

00:21:02.920 One must be anti-anti-Semitic.

00:21:05.800 We must demand the same of our universities and government institutions.

00:21:09.380 This hearing, in my opinion, is an attempt to be just that.

00:21:13.280 Anti-anti-Semitic.

00:21:15.800 So many people, especially on the right, are comparing this guy to Ibram Kendi.

00:21:20.340 Because Ibram Kendi says, it's not enough not to be racist.

00:21:24.820 You have to be anti-racist.

00:21:27.900 And anti-Semitism is this particular form of racism.

00:21:31.360 It's particular to the Jews because the Jews are a tribe.

00:21:34.040 A tribe in the sense that we don't really have any more in modernity.

00:21:38.680 It's both a religious group and an ethnicity, kind of.

00:21:43.320 It's made up of multiple ethnicities, but it's still, there's a physical aspect to it.

00:21:49.760 And a cultural, religious, ideological aspect to it as well.

00:21:54.500 So we just, there just aren't a lot of examples of that.

00:21:57.140 In fact, the Jews might, in many ways, are a singular people and in this way too.

00:22:01.800 So it's, the analogy I think is fair to compare anti-anti-Semitism to anti-racism. 0.59

00:22:08.540 And it's why I think a lot of conservatives are recoiling.

00:22:11.280 But I think, okay, fine.

00:22:13.640 You know, that kind of commentary is totally fine, ideological.

00:22:17.460 On the surface, they have a point.

00:22:18.900 But let's go a little bit deeper for a second.

00:22:22.820 The rabbi is saying, look, there's a lot of anti-Jew stuff going on.

00:22:25.680 It's really kicking off.

00:22:26.600 And I think that's true.

00:22:27.660 Certainly on the internet.

00:22:28.500 The internet isn't always real life.

00:22:29.620 But it's happening on university campuses.

00:22:31.840 There probably has been a tick up in that.

00:22:36.060 I don't agree with this rabbi.

00:22:38.280 I think this rabbi is wrong. 0.98

00:22:39.880 Not only from an abstract ideological perspective, but even from a Jewish perspective.

00:22:45.800 I don't think it is good for the Jews for people to be anti-anti-Semitic.

00:22:53.060 Because the problem that this rabbi, I think, is addressing is that people are blaming the Jews for everything.

00:22:59.560 You know, actually in the phrase of a white supremacist, Sam Francis, who was a very mainstream right-wing columnist.

00:23:06.400 I think he was a syndicated columnist.

00:23:07.600 He worked for the Washington Times.

00:23:09.060 And then he became kind of a white supremacist at the end of his life.

00:23:11.980 Which, you know, puts a little stain on his memory in most quarters.

00:23:15.780 But there was a famous exchange where he was writing some neo-Nazi type guy wrote to him and was complaining that Sam Francis, pretty hardcore fella, didn't blame the Jews enough for enough things. 0.94

00:23:28.180 And Francis' response was, you people, you're so tedious. 0.93

00:23:32.560 You know, you wake up and stub your toe in the morning and you blame the Jews. 0.90

00:23:36.340 So that's what the rabbi is responding to.

00:23:39.700 This kind of ticking up of blaming the Jews for just about everything.

00:23:44.100 And if that is the case, then you don't want people to be anti-anti-Semitic.

00:23:49.740 In other words, the prudential solution to people blaming the Jews for everything is not people thanking the Jews for everything, which is really what that is.

00:24:02.120 Anti-anti-Semitism is, or would that be, philo-Semitism?

00:24:06.580 But the answer to blaming the Jews for everything, thinking about the Jews all the time with regard to every single subject, as some people do.

00:24:14.380 It's all they ever want to talk about.

00:24:15.600 The answer to that is not thinking about the Jews with regard to every single subject and just saying they're good. 0.98

00:24:22.200 No, they're not bad.

00:24:23.300 You guys are wrong for pinning everything on the Jews and saying it's bad.

00:24:26.740 I pin everything on the Jews and say that it's good. 1.00

00:24:28.520 That's not the answer.

00:24:29.320 The answer is, don't think about the Jews 24 hours a day.

00:24:34.300 The answer actually is just don't.

00:24:36.160 The answer is what he's invading against, which is just not being anti-Semitic.

00:24:39.780 It's not, I think it was Mr. Davies' observation that some of the Jews stuff is like, it's kind of like climate change.

00:24:48.600 You know, everything is climate change.

00:24:50.640 And as I pointed out, that makes sense because the Jews obviously control the weather. 1.00

00:24:53.720 So it's kind of like the new climate change, you know.

00:24:57.260 The polar ice caps are melting, it's climate change.

00:24:59.840 The L.A. burned down because they don't have deforestation policies.

00:25:03.260 Oh, it's probably climate change.

00:25:05.300 Oh, actually, the Obama administration screwed up its tax policy.

00:25:10.400 Oh, it's probably climate change.

00:25:11.880 A war broke out in Eastern Europe.

00:25:13.320 I would say it's climate change.

00:25:14.640 You know, it's a similar thing.

00:25:15.920 So the rabbi can be wrong ideologically and in principle or whatever.

00:25:20.000 That's all fine.

00:25:20.620 A lot of other people are talking about that.

00:25:22.080 But prudence is the paramount political virtue.

00:25:24.560 I talk about it a lot.

00:25:25.360 Just even prudentially, very pragmatically for everyone involved, including and especially the Jews.

00:25:30.840 You know, you don't want anti-antisemitism.

00:25:35.240 You don't want anti-anti-anti-anti-anti-antisemitism.

00:25:37.420 You want to just, like, be normal and recognize there are other things in the world to do and think about.

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00:27:06.920 Speaking of anti-Jewish protests, I'm already breaking my rule and continuing to talk about it like that rabbi says I should. 1.00

00:27:15.300 Columbia graduates are tearing up their diplomas to protest the arrest of that anti-Israel activist who had been a Columbia student, then he graduated.

00:27:26.240 I think he's being deported, Mahmoud Khalil. 0.96

00:27:28.920 Here's the demonstration.

00:27:31.140 Free Palestine.

00:27:32.400 Free, free Palestine.

00:27:34.160 Free, free Palestine.

00:27:36.100 SIPA alumni are not proud.

00:27:38.440 We are enraged.

00:27:39.840 Woo! 0.99

00:27:42.400 Woo! 0.99

00:27:43.580 So first of all, the minute I see these super lib girls tearing up their Columbia degree, my first reaction, this is a little bit inside baseball, I bet they went to Barnard. 1.00

00:27:53.840 Okay, Barnard, for those who don't pay attention to these, Barnard was the sister school of Columbia, and it's easier to get into.

00:28:01.700 But you get, technically, you get a Columbia degree if you graduate.

00:28:04.860 And it's full of super lib women. 1.00

00:28:07.280 So first of all, I am not even convinced.

00:28:09.560 I am a Columbia diploma protest truther.

00:28:12.360 I'm not even convinced those are real Columbia degrees.

00:28:15.720 But let's say they were.

00:28:16.540 Let's say these people actually graduated from Columbia.

00:28:18.320 And they're tearing up their diplomas.

00:28:20.940 That's a perfectly understandable and reasonable thing to do, because those diplomas are worthless.

00:28:26.900 This was my speech last night at Yale.

00:28:29.900 It was substantially about how little Ivy League degrees really convey in terms of a person's intelligence and education today.

00:28:40.160 That wasn't always the case.

00:28:41.860 They used to actually suggest something about a person's intelligence and education.

00:28:46.160 Today, though, Harvard is announcing the need for remedial math courses, okay, because Harvard students can't do basic algebra.

00:28:53.860 So it just doesn't signify very much.

00:28:56.560 In fact, the point of my speech yesterday is that the average New Haven resident sitting in Sally's Pizza down the street has a better grasp on reality than the average Yale graduate.

00:29:05.060 That's not pandering.

00:29:06.300 That's not populism.

00:29:07.220 That's a fact.

00:29:08.100 Because the New Haven resident, the average New Haven resident sitting in the pizza shop here, might not have read the phenomenology of spirit in the original German.

00:29:16.080 But that person does know what a woman is. 1.00

00:29:18.320 That person does know that nations have borders.

00:29:20.920 That nation does know that criminals belong in prisons.

00:29:23.720 The average Yale graduate doesn't know any of those things.

00:29:25.860 Doesn't know really basic stuff about what the human person is, how we function in society.

00:29:33.240 And I don't want to knock Yale.

00:29:34.860 I really do love my alma mater, even though it's a little kooky a lot of the time.

00:29:39.000 Columbia makes Yale look like the most reasonable institution in the world.

00:29:43.440 Columbia has totally lost it.

00:29:45.960 So what are they protesting?

00:29:47.620 They're protesting that this guy got deported because he was a grad student and he protested Israel.

00:29:52.460 And the protests were not only protesting Israel, but actually harassing Jewish students.

00:29:56.900 All right.

00:29:57.200 There are real debates.

00:29:58.120 There are serious debates to be had over the state of Israel, over Gaza, over free speech on campus,

00:30:04.200 which is a separate issue, but it's related in this case.

00:30:07.000 Something I think we can all agree on, though, is that those diplomas are worthless.

00:30:12.540 You should tear it up.

00:30:14.140 Nothing lost and nothing gained.

00:30:18.320 Speaking of deportations, you probably heard from your liberal cousin who's posting this all over Facebook and Twitter and Instagram

00:30:25.820 and shouting it to you from the rooftop, that the Trump administration mistakenly deported someone.

00:30:33.220 These mass deportations, the Trump admin mistakenly deported a Maryland father named Kilmar Armando Abrego,

00:30:41.000 mistakenly deported him to El Salvador, and this is the worst thing that's ever happened in the world.

00:30:45.760 I'm not defending that.

00:30:46.800 Assuming this is true, that's a bad thing.

00:30:51.680 I feel for the guy, for sure.

00:30:53.540 And the Trump administration is admitting in a court filing that they did mistakenly deport this guy.

00:31:00.320 The filing comes as a result of this lawsuit over this guy's removal.

00:31:05.700 He's a Salvadoran national who, in 2019, was granted protected status by an immigration judge,

00:31:13.300 prohibiting the federal government from sending him to El Salvador.

00:31:17.640 So they're saying, see, because this one guy who had legal protected status, he was a Salvadoran national.

00:31:23.400 He came here pretty recently.

00:31:24.660 Pretty easy to mistake him for an illegal alien.

00:31:26.520 But he did have protected status, and he was deported, and, you know, that's bad,

00:31:34.440 and that's why we need to stop deporting any illegal alien, including the face-tattooed Satan-worshipping gangsters. 0.55

00:31:38.400 That's what the libs are going to tell you.

00:31:39.840 To me, I look at this and I say, hold on.

00:31:41.520 The best you can find amid a relatively large number of deportations, rapid deportations within two months,

00:31:49.160 the best you can find is one guy who slipped through the cracks?

00:31:52.220 That is not an argument against the mass deportations.

00:31:55.140 That is an argument for the efficiency and effectiveness of it.

00:31:58.600 That's a mark in Trump's favor.

00:32:00.700 You're always going to have some fail rate.

00:32:03.900 And so the libs are going to say, well, this is terrible.

00:32:05.240 We can't tolerate this enforcing of the law, of immigration law, 1.00

00:32:10.120 because one guy accidentally was deported, and it might take a little bit to get him back.

00:32:15.680 Okay, well, let's apply that logic to mass migration.

00:32:18.680 The Democrats have intentionally engaged in a process of mass illegal migration, welcomed the invasion across the border.

00:32:27.740 It was totally preventable.

00:32:29.620 Trump stopped it pretty much on day one, without any new laws, without anything.

00:32:32.860 Biden welcomed these people across the border.

00:32:35.740 And you know who slipped through the cracks there?

00:32:38.000 The guy who murdered Lake and Riley. 0.99

00:32:41.700 The illegal aliens who have murdered and raped and attempted to rape and then murdered many, many innocent young American girls. 0.99

00:32:51.900 Does that mean we should stop mass migration? 0.96

00:32:53.840 I think that's a pretty strong argument, actually, to stop mass migration.

00:32:56.160 Democrats don't want to hear that.

00:32:57.540 You know who slipped through the cracks?

00:32:58.740 The 75,000 Americans a year who were poisoned and killed because of fentanyl that crossed that border illegally.

00:33:05.220 Is that, that's a pretty strong argument for shutting down mass migration.

00:33:09.160 Certainly illegal immigration.

00:33:11.280 Democrats don't want to hear that.

00:33:13.880 What about even less immediately fatal issues?

00:33:20.300 The millions and millions and millions of economic migrants who come across and depress American wages 1.00

00:33:24.940 and cause great injustice to the American worker and cause big cultural problems

00:33:32.000 and make us press one for English and seriously threaten cultural assimilation

00:33:36.360 because we have the highest foreign-born percentage for the population that we've ever had in America.

00:33:41.120 What about, what about that slipping through the cracks?

00:33:43.160 You won't hear Democrats say a peep about any of those things.

00:33:46.280 But one guy who somewhat recently was granted protected status by some immigration judge.

00:33:53.100 That guy, one guy slips through the cracks, we have to stop enforcing all immigration law. 0.69

00:33:58.640 It's totally bogus.

00:33:59.740 It's totally disingenuous.

00:34:01.460 And I feel for the guy, and I hope he gets to come back.

00:34:03.860 I hope it's relatively easy for the guy to come back.

00:34:06.060 Not saying we need to violate the law.

00:34:08.240 But, you know, if you sneak into this country illegally, 0.86

00:34:11.980 it's a dangerous game, buddy.

00:34:15.160 And sometimes bad things are going to happen to you.

00:34:17.240 Maybe, you know, play at your own risk.

00:34:19.000 Yesterday, our colleague Matt Walsh testified before the California Assembly

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00:34:49.000 My favorite comment yesterday is from Naomi Garrett 50, who says,

00:34:53.980 Michael, we need you to do a whole podcast episode in that French accent.

00:34:58.900 Wow.

00:34:59.320 Oh, la la.

00:34:59.760 Did I use a French accent yesterday, Mr. Davies?

00:35:01.640 Did I speak in a French accent?

00:35:03.140 Yeah, unfortunately, you did.

00:35:04.220 I did?

00:35:04.840 Yeah.

00:35:05.200 What?

00:35:05.420 Hold on.

00:35:06.100 I don't even remember what that was in service of.

00:35:09.440 I could also wave the flag of the French army.

00:35:12.840 Am I right?

00:35:14.040 Am I right?

00:35:14.860 It's a white hanky. 0.84

00:35:15.580 My French is so bad, but my accent is so over the top and outrageous. 1.00

00:35:20.480 Some people actually think I speak that language.

00:35:23.760 I do not.

00:35:25.140 Speaking of controversial government actions,

00:35:27.620 there's a bill going through the Colorado legislature,

00:35:32.060 Colorado House Bill 25, 13, 12,

00:35:34.440 that would categorize dead naming that is referring to someone by his name,

00:35:42.500 like the name on his birth certificate,

00:35:43.980 not the name that he makes up for himself later on.

00:35:46.720 It would categorize dead naming as child abuse.

00:35:50.420 The bill, according to its summary,

00:35:54.720 would direct courts that are making child custody decisions,

00:35:58.040 family courts,

00:35:59.560 determining parenting time,

00:36:03.760 you know, how much daddy gets to see the kid.

00:36:06.600 It would instruct them to consider, quote,

00:36:09.020 dead naming, misgendering,

00:36:12.380 or threatening to publish material related to an individual's sex change services

00:36:15.560 as types of coercive control.

00:36:17.860 That is to say, if parents split,

00:36:23.560 if they're even fighting within a marriage,

00:36:25.700 and then they split, 0.98

00:36:27.080 and the lunatic mother wants to trans the kid, 1.00

00:36:30.820 and the father, 0.86

00:36:31.560 we've heard a lot of stories like this are not,

00:36:33.200 this is not an abstract hypothetical thing.

00:36:34.880 This happens.

00:36:36.100 The father says,

00:36:36.860 well, hold on.

00:36:37.120 I don't want you to castrate my son.

00:36:38.540 I don't want you to destroy my kid.

00:36:40.460 Don't, this is, that's horrible.

00:36:42.240 I'm not going to play along with this

00:36:43.940 and pretend that my son is actually a daughter.

00:36:46.000 That would be terrible.

00:36:46.740 And the mother goes to the judge in Colorado and says,

00:36:50.000 hey, my ex-husband is referring to my son,

00:36:54.660 sorry, my child,

00:36:55.920 by his dead name.

00:36:57.740 The father could lose visitation rights.

00:37:00.460 The father could be cut out of,

00:37:01.640 the father could be convicted of child abuse.

00:37:06.740 And it's awful,

00:37:08.100 and the shallow conservative response

00:37:10.200 is going to be to pop a blood vessel

00:37:12.360 and say, this is crazy.

00:37:15.040 But think about it a little bit more deeply.

00:37:16.580 Think about it from the perspective of the libs.

00:37:20.520 Why shouldn't that be child abuse? 0.98

00:37:22.860 Verbal abuse is already considered a form of child abuse.

00:37:26.080 You don't need to just take the belt off 0.91

00:37:27.520 and start snacking your kid across the face 1.00

00:37:28.860 to be accused of child abuse. 0.93

00:37:30.420 Things you say to your kid

00:37:32.680 can be and are considered in many places abusive.

00:37:37.300 In this case,

00:37:38.200 they're saying, look,

00:37:38.760 the child is,

00:37:40.140 the son is really a daughter.

00:37:42.400 And so,

00:37:43.400 it will cause great emotional distress

00:37:46.640 to call that child by his dead name.

00:37:49.980 I mean, it's really cultish,

00:37:50.880 even the phrase dead name,

00:37:52.060 it's kind of like a rebirth,

00:37:53.160 a baptism into the Gnostic fantasy 0.95

00:37:54.780 of transgenderism.

00:37:55.680 But from their perspective,

00:37:57.460 that is verbal abuse.

00:37:58.940 That'd be like calling a child

00:38:00.140 a bunch of bolder words,

00:38:02.280 screaming at the child.

00:38:03.240 It's the same thing.

00:38:05.320 So you can't,

00:38:06.680 it's going to be very tempting

00:38:07.620 for a conservatist to say,

00:38:08.540 hold on,

00:38:09.240 are you kidding me?

00:38:10.220 Using the wrong pronouns or something,

00:38:11.840 that's now child abuse

00:38:12.620 and a father's going to lose custody of his kid?

00:38:14.100 No, no, no.

00:38:15.960 We should accept the premise,

00:38:17.320 yeah, yeah, verbal abuse can be child abuse.

00:38:20.000 But calling your son by his real name

00:38:22.340 is not child abuse.

00:38:23.940 What is child abuse

00:38:26.220 is calling your son by a girl's name.

00:38:29.180 What is child abuse?

00:38:31.660 This kind of gets back to that Ravoie's point 0.97

00:38:33.100 on anti-antisemitism.

00:38:35.160 It's not enough,

00:38:36.640 not just to be,

00:38:38.520 not really pro-transing the kids.

00:38:40.820 You have to be anti-transing the kids. 1.00

00:38:43.400 You need to be pro-having the kids

00:38:45.900 live in accord with reality.

00:38:47.260 We need to have a little bit more spine.

00:38:48.940 We're talking about chopping off various appendages.

00:38:50.740 You've got to have a spine

00:38:51.380 and some other anatomical features too here.

00:38:55.280 In other words,

00:38:55.860 conservatives need to go on the offense.

00:38:57.960 And we need to prohibit,

00:38:59.080 we need to ban transing the kids. 1.00

00:39:00.740 We need to punish parents

00:39:02.180 who would trans the kids.

00:39:03.580 We need to define it as child abuse

00:39:05.780 to trans the kids. 0.76

00:39:07.100 We need to define it as child abuse

00:39:08.820 to refer to the child

00:39:12.680 by the wrong kind of name

00:39:13.940 or the wrong kind of pronouns.

00:39:15.320 We need to do what the libs are doing,

00:39:17.180 but in the direction of justice

00:39:18.760 and goodness and morality.

00:39:20.620 What the libs are doing here 1.00

00:39:21.580 is legislating in the direction

00:39:26.080 of wickedness and injustice

00:39:28.160 and really hideous stuff.

00:39:29.720 We need to do it the other way.

00:39:31.660 We have the wind at our backs.

00:39:33.360 This is a 90-10 issue,

00:39:34.900 95-5 issue here.

00:39:36.640 The vast majority of people agree

00:39:37.980 that transing the kids is hideous. 1.00

00:39:40.120 So let's go on the offensive here. 0.99

00:39:41.740 Let's lock up the lunatic parents, 1.00

00:39:45.200 kids, teachers, adults 0.99

00:39:46.980 who would abuse kids in this way.

00:39:49.200 And I don't know, 0.72

00:39:49.640 let's send them to El Salvador. 0.99

00:39:50.920 You know, let's get that one guy back

00:39:52.100 who wasn't supposed to go to El Salvador.

00:39:53.420 Let's send all these people to El Salvador. 1.00

00:39:54.800 Let's go on the offensive here.

00:39:56.860 Because if we're just playing not to lose,

00:39:59.200 then the minute that political winds change again,

00:40:01.320 the libs are going to go even further.

00:40:03.400 They're going to take kids away 1.00

00:40:04.400 from their fathers

00:40:04.960 because their fathers won't pretend

00:40:06.920 that the kids are the opposite sex. 0.86

00:40:08.600 Because the fathers won't abuse the kids. 0.95

00:40:10.600 Now, speaking of young people and abuses,

00:40:12.480 horrifying piece in the New York Times.

00:40:15.980 That could just be a daily segment.

00:40:17.680 Here's today's horrifying piece

00:40:18.720 in the New York Times.

00:40:20.120 New York Times,

00:40:20.920 this baby was carefully selected as an embryo.

00:40:24.860 Posted by Noor Siddiqui.

00:40:27.000 If you've not heard Noor Siddiqui,

00:40:28.420 Noor Siddiqui is creating lots and lots of human beings, 1.00

00:40:33.340 creating lots and lots of embryos

00:40:34.680 to custom design the perfect baby.

00:40:38.000 In her mind, the perfect baby. 1.00

00:40:39.580 And then we'll just kill all of her other babies. 1.00

00:40:42.480 But we're talking lots and lots and lots. 1.00

00:40:44.600 Because when I was in elementary school,

00:40:45.700 my mom started going blind.

00:40:47.660 Retinitis, pigmentosa,

00:40:48.980 no family history,

00:40:49.680 no treatments, no cure.

00:40:51.120 I got lucky she didn't.

00:40:52.420 It led me to build Orchid Incorporated.

00:40:54.420 So my baby and everyone else's

00:40:56.360 gets to win the genetic lottery.

00:40:58.300 Avoid blindness

00:40:58.900 and hundreds of severe genetic diseases.

00:41:01.080 Today, the New York Times covered the tech

00:41:02.460 we've spent years building.

00:41:03.460 Whole genome embryo screening

00:41:04.880 for hundreds of diseases.

00:41:06.460 Not in theory, not in mice.

00:41:08.380 In humans.

00:41:09.860 In IVF centers.

00:41:10.940 Right now.

00:41:13.580 Okay, so it's the baby store.

00:41:15.140 I talk about how IVF

00:41:16.420 is really bad

00:41:17.700 and even some people will say,

00:41:18.960 well, my niece is from IVF.

00:41:19.920 My child is from IVF.

00:41:20.960 I can't admit that

00:41:22.840 because I love the good

00:41:24.820 that has come about from this process,

00:41:26.240 I can't bring myself to admit

00:41:27.580 that the means of attaining that good

00:41:29.520 was evil.

00:41:30.640 And I understand

00:41:31.360 that's just an emotional problem for people,

00:41:32.760 but this is like really, really evil stuff.

00:41:36.220 The baby store.

00:41:37.100 which is to say

00:41:39.000 the IVF procedure,

00:41:41.180 which usually entails surrogacy

00:41:43.760 or which often entails surrogacy.

00:41:46.320 Because the key here

00:41:48.280 is not even just how evil IVF

00:41:49.840 and surrogacy

00:41:50.480 and the baby industry,

00:41:51.560 baby selling industry is,

00:41:52.960 but all of the euphemisms.

00:41:55.100 Because even conservatives

00:41:56.460 who hear this story

00:41:57.500 probably fell prey

00:42:00.040 to the euphemism trap

00:42:02.240 that Noor Siddiqui has laid here.

00:42:04.540 I got lucky she didn't.

00:42:07.220 It's so that my baby

00:42:08.260 and everyone else's

00:42:09.240 gets to win the genetic lottery

00:42:10.780 and avoid blindness.

00:42:12.240 Isn't that good?

00:42:13.160 The way you're picturing this is

00:42:14.620 she took the sperm and the egg 0.96

00:42:16.820 and she cooked up a baby 1.00

00:42:17.840 and she kind of changed

00:42:19.520 some of the genes

00:42:20.800 so that the baby

00:42:21.580 was going to come out perfect.

00:42:22.620 In other words,

00:42:23.860 you think that what she's doing

00:42:25.220 is something that's totally

00:42:26.640 bioethically licit,

00:42:28.760 which is to repair

00:42:30.240 an injury in a person,

00:42:31.740 even down at the level

00:42:33.400 of the genome.

00:42:34.420 But that's not what she did.

00:42:36.760 What she did

00:42:37.660 isn't to improve anyone's health.

00:42:40.100 She just engaged 0.87

00:42:41.080 in an unnatural kind of selection,

00:42:45.320 a microcosm

00:42:46.360 of the theory of evolution,

00:42:47.800 according to which

00:42:48.380 she made a dozen,

00:42:51.480 two dozen,

00:42:52.480 many dozens,

00:42:53.600 hundreds of human beings

00:42:55.360 and then killed

00:42:56.840 virtually all of her own children. 0.99

00:42:58.880 So she could,

00:43:01.100 as though she had

00:43:01.760 a litter of children

00:43:02.720 and she went through them,

00:43:03.980 she goes,

00:43:04.240 not tall enough,

00:43:05.400 not blonde enough, 0.99

00:43:06.660 a little too ugly, 1.00

00:43:07.900 might be a little too fat. 0.99

00:43:09.940 All of you babies were, 1.00

00:43:11.340 I'm just going to kill 1.00

00:43:11.960 all of you, 1.00

00:43:12.500 my babies,

00:43:13.380 because I've found

00:43:14.640 the one perfect baby.

00:43:17.060 God help that child 0.99

00:43:17.880 growing up.

00:43:18.600 I found the one perfect,

00:43:19.400 and you're the one

00:43:20.040 that I won't murder.

00:43:21.760 That's how that went down.

00:43:22.780 I'm not being hyperbolic at all.

00:43:24.800 I'm not twisting this at all.

00:43:26.160 That's what she did.

00:43:27.140 And through the euphemisms

00:43:31.120 of, oh, it's winning

00:43:31.740 the genetic lottery,

00:43:32.800 oh, we're helping people,

00:43:34.140 oh, this is medical care,

00:43:37.000 this is,

00:43:38.080 you can hear an ambulance siren

00:43:40.280 in the background.

00:43:41.100 It's a fitting time

00:43:42.740 for that to arrive.

00:43:44.540 Absolutely ghastly stuff.

00:43:47.160 Before I go,

00:43:47.660 I can't,

00:43:47.980 this is truly out of a horror movie.

00:43:49.780 She posts about how she does it.

00:43:54.960 Why is she creating 0.97

00:43:55.980 all these IVF babies?

00:43:56.920 She says, 0.54

00:43:57.540 sex is for fun. 0.88

00:43:59.780 Embryo screening is for babies.

00:44:02.160 I said that in the video.

00:44:03.180 People freaked out,

00:44:03.860 but it's true,

00:44:04.380 and it will only get more true

00:44:05.400 as the tech improves.

00:44:06.140 We screen for what matters.

00:44:07.240 Nothing matters more than health.

00:44:08.800 So she's saying,

00:44:09.400 right off the bat,

00:44:10.200 I'm going to separate

00:44:11.000 the procreative

00:44:12.180 from the conjugal act.

00:44:14.300 I'm going to take

00:44:15.240 the sexual revolution

00:44:15.940 to its logical conclusion.

00:44:17.380 Sex is only for pleasure, 0.99

00:44:18.920 for titillating you. 0.99

00:44:20.560 It's only for your own

00:44:21.320 selfish pleasure.

00:44:22.180 It has nothing to do

00:44:23.100 with two people

00:44:24.020 coming together,

00:44:24.880 two people in love,

00:44:25.920 whose love becomes so real

00:44:28.660 that it actually becomes

00:44:29.340 another human being.

00:44:30.280 No,

00:44:30.380 no,

00:44:30.460 no,

00:44:30.560 no.

00:44:31.580 I'm going to go

00:44:32.240 and I'm going to sleep 0.97

00:44:32.740 with someone 0.99

00:44:33.280 or do some sex stuff 0.99

00:44:35.000 with someone 0.99

00:44:35.520 just so that I can feel

00:44:36.540 some pleasure,

00:44:37.260 get a real hit of dopamine,

00:44:38.640 oxytocin.

00:44:39.400 And then I'm going to

00:44:41.700 clinically cook up

00:44:42.560 a bunch of children

00:44:43.360 in a cauldron,

00:44:44.860 in my little witch cauldron,

00:44:46.160 my little witch petri dish.

00:44:47.420 I'm going to cook up

00:44:47.940 a bunch of children.

00:44:48.860 Then I'm going to determine

00:44:50.000 which of my children

00:44:50.900 don't quite please me enough

00:44:52.080 because I don't like

00:44:53.300 the cut of their jib. 1.00

00:44:54.460 And I'm going to kill 1.00

00:44:55.160 those children. 1.00

00:44:55.820 I'm going to murder them. 1.00

00:44:56.840 And then the one 1.00

00:44:57.660 that I think is going

00:44:58.340 to turn out all right,

00:44:59.060 that's the one

00:44:59.420 I'm going to pick.

00:45:01.940 Can't wait for the

00:45:02.660 family Christmas card.

00:45:03.640 You know,

00:45:03.840 doesn't that sound

00:45:04.320 so warm and cozy?

00:45:06.680 Horrifying,

00:45:07.040 dystopian stuff.

00:45:09.900 Not 10 years in the future.

00:45:12.260 Not 100 years in the future.

00:45:13.900 Happening right now.

00:45:15.540 Coming to a baby store

00:45:16.480 near you.

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The Michael Knowles Show - April 02, 2025

Ep. 1706 - Trump's Liberation Day TARIFFS Explained In 5 Mins

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