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00:00:00.000 Are we allowed to talk about the horrific murder of 17-year-old student Austin Metcalf?

00:00:05.680 He's the young man who was stabbed in the heart at a track meet for asking another student to get

00:00:09.500 out of his seat. We will cover that awful story and the debate about the debate. Then a Republican

00:00:15.720 Congress lady teams up with Democrats to be a girl boss, and President Trump sells permanent

00:00:21.200 residency for $5 million a pop. I'm Michael Knowles. This is The Michael Knowles Show.

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00:02:54.960 monastery. Horrific, horrific story out of Texas. This young kid or young guy, but he's still a kid,

00:03:04.980 a 17-year-old. Texas football, high school star, looking forward to college, looking forward to

00:03:11.620 his whole life, was stabbed in the heart and died actually in his twin brother's arms because he went

00:03:19.960 up and asked another kid to move out of his seat. And the other kid said, make me. And the football star

00:03:28.700 took his bag or something to move it out. And the kid sitting in the seat stabbed him in the heart.

00:03:36.380 This is the victim's father speaking to local news.

00:03:41.640 He died in his brother's arms. They were twins, identical twins. And his brother was holding on to him,

00:03:48.020 trying to make it stop bleeding. And he died in his brother's arms.

00:03:52.000 And I rushed up there. And I saw him on the gurney. And I could tell. They said he wasn't

00:04:00.380 breathing. I could see all the blood. I'm not trying to judge. But what kind of parents did this child

00:04:06.540 have? What was he taught? He brought a knife to a track meet. And he murdered my son by stabbing him

00:04:14.620 in the heart. The son, the guy was in the wrong place. They asked him to move. And he bowed up.

00:04:22.060 This is murder. I don't know. I know they have someone in custody. And you know what? I already

00:04:30.260 forgive this person. Already? Already. God takes care of things. God's going to take care of me.

00:04:37.640 God's going to take care of my family. Okay. Now, that reaction has elicited criticism from

00:04:46.140 the internet. Some people say he shouldn't have forgiven this guy. He shouldn't have forgiven him

00:04:49.300 so quickly. He shouldn't be speaking in this gracious way. One thing should be perfectly clear

00:04:54.280 here. We don't criticize fathers one day after their sons are murdered. Okay? This guy is obviously

00:05:02.500 in extreme shock, extreme grief. He certainly has not processed even one billionth of what has just

00:05:10.200 happened to him. And he's trying to speak in a way that is Christian. And he's doing his best.

00:05:15.940 What he is obviously trying to articulate here is the notion that revenge is mine, says the Lord,

00:05:22.200 and I will repay. Their foot shall slide in due time. That's what he's trying to articulate here.

00:05:27.720 Okay? And so, we don't criticize people whose sons were just murdered. There is nothing in

00:05:34.480 that father's reaction that even to discuss the kind of way in which this murderer was raised

00:05:42.720 that suggests, I don't know, letting him off the hook or something like that. Okay? Obviously,

00:05:49.440 the murderer should be at the very least imprisoned for life and possibly put down like a rabid dog,

00:05:56.420 okay, by the state after due process. There's no question about that. But it doesn't mean that

00:06:02.580 one cannot examine the circumstances that led to this point. And that is the part that has become

00:06:09.080 a debate, a debate about this incident because of the obvious fact that a black kid on a hair trigger

00:06:18.620 murdered this white kid over essentially nothing. So, there's a racial aspect to it too. And a lot of

00:06:24.040 people are saying, we can't talk about this. We can't talk about it. When it's a black guy who

00:06:29.480 murders a white guy, we can't talk about it. And that isn't exactly true. The establishment media

00:06:37.000 were not quick to pick up on this story. It mostly took off on the internet. But the establishment

00:06:40.420 media are talking about it now. And we obviously are talking about it. A lot of people are talking

00:06:44.580 about it. If it were a white kid who murdered a black kid, it would be international news. There

00:06:52.520 would be mass protests. Cities would burn to the ground. If it's a black kid murders a white kid,

00:07:00.440 some people will talk about it. If it's a black kid who murders a black kid, no one will talk about

00:07:06.160 it. If it's a white kid who murdered a white kid, that doesn't happen that often. But probably that

00:07:12.200 wouldn't be all that notable. But it is notable, and people actually are talking about it, including

00:07:17.960 the establishment media, because a black kid murdered a white kid. And they're not really

00:07:23.220 talking about the pertinent aspect of this story, what makes it newsworthy. And that is,

00:07:32.060 how many red flags in this kid's life were ignored and why? When the father of the victim

00:07:38.880 says, how was this kid raised? What were his parents like? He's suggesting, I think with fair

00:07:47.820 evidence, that the kid was raised in some kind of terrible home. 70% of black kids are born out of

00:07:53.100 wedlock. I don't know if this kid was born out of wedlock, the alleged perpetrator, but it would be a

00:07:59.460 good bet. How does a kid go off on a hair trigger like that? And how did no one know about it? I bet

00:08:08.500 people did know about it. I bet there were teachers who saw this kid's behavioral problems

00:08:13.140 before. I'm simply basing it off of this incident. I don't know anything about the alleged perpetrator

00:08:18.140 other than that. But I bet teachers saw that. I bet counselors at the school saw that. I bet

00:08:25.140 members of the community saw that. And I bet they looked the other way. Because if you ever punish

00:08:32.860 people of a favored demographic, that could get you in trouble. I bet there were a lot of warning

00:08:38.840 signs here that had to be ignored. Because we live in a culture that has a racial caste system,

00:08:45.980 of course, and says that white people are terrible and all non-white people can do no wrong.

00:08:52.100 We live in a culture in which the bad guys get away with a lot of bad things and the good guys are

00:08:58.680 punished. The best example of this in recent memory is Daniel Penny case, where you have some lunatic

00:09:03.880 who gets on a subway in New York, threatens to kill everybody. This Marine, Daniel Penny, comes up and

00:09:09.900 takes the bad guy down, protects the subway car, takes him down. And then who do the prosecutors go

00:09:15.180 after? They go after the good guy for having the temerity to intervene and stop the bad guy.

00:09:20.680 That's what makes this case notable. Beyond the mere tragedy of it, that's what makes this notable.

00:09:28.460 What red flags were shown before? Because those people, those teachers, those members of the

00:09:33.320 community, the members of the alleged perpetrator's family, they have blood on their hands.

00:09:39.080 The culture, which says that we can never criticize black people, and we all constantly have to

00:09:43.860 criticize white people, and we can never suggest that there are good modes of behavior and bad modes

00:09:48.200 of behavior. The culture that says that it's none of your business if two people get married before

00:09:53.680 they have children, you do you and I'll do me. The culture that mocks the notion of the common good,

00:09:59.360 that all of those things have blood on their hands. That's what makes this a truly political story

00:10:05.360 beyond a horrific local murder story. And that's the part that we should actually be talking about.

00:10:11.680 It pertains to the racial angle, certainly without question, but it's not just the racial angle.

00:10:16.220 It goes a lot deeper than that. That's the part we probably won't be talking about.

00:10:21.880 Most of us won't. Certainly not in the establishment media, even many who are commenting about this on

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00:11:46.600 Speaking of social degradation, there's a Democrat Congress lady,

00:11:51.100 Brittany Pettersson, I think her name is, who is demanding. She walked up to the microphone on the

00:11:57.620 floor of Congress with her fellow congressmen around her carrying a little baby. And she demands

00:12:04.140 that Speaker Johnson violate the Constitution to permit proxy voting. So no longer required that

00:12:12.220 legislators actually show up to cast their vote in the chamber, but they send someone else to do it

00:12:16.760 because sometimes women give birth and they want to stay home with their mothers, but they still want

00:12:21.940 to vote in Congress. And so we need to shred the Constitution, shred hundreds of years of norms,

00:12:27.080 shred the legislative process, because this lady can't bring her baby into Congress, except when

00:12:33.860 she wants to showboat and make a point about how she doesn't want to show up to Congress.

00:12:39.140 Mr. Speaker, I rise today in strong opposition to this rule, which restricts moms and dads from doing

00:12:44.580 their jobs after welcoming a new child. Like so many of our colleagues, it's one of my greatest

00:12:49.280 honors to be a mom. I have two little boys, a son named Davis, who's five, and my little guy here,

00:12:55.540 Sam, who's now nine weeks old. It's also one of my greatest honors to have been elected by my

00:13:00.780 constituents to represent them in Congress. And I can tell you after being a mom here and being only

00:13:07.820 the 13th member to have ever given birth while serving in Congress voting member, I can tell you we

00:13:13.860 have a long ways to go to make this place accessible for young families like mine. When I was pregnant,

00:13:21.380 I couldn't fly towards the end of my due date because it was unsafe for Sam and you're unable

00:13:28.400 to board a plane. And I was unable to actually have my vote represented here and my constituents

00:13:33.120 represented. After giving birth, I was faced with an impossible decision. Sam was four weeks old.

00:13:39.700 And for all of the parents here, we know that when we have newborns, it's when they're the most

00:13:48.240 vulnerable in their life. It's when they need 24-7 care, when taking them even to a grocery store.

00:13:56.440 That's true. So why are you taking them to Congress? Why are you even going to Congress and collecting all

00:14:03.100 those germs incoming? She says she was faced with an impossible choice between caring for her newborn

00:14:11.100 baby and flying to Congress to pursue her personal political ambitions. That's not an impossible

00:14:18.980 choice. That's not a difficult choice at all. At least it shouldn't be. Newborn babies need their

00:14:24.920 mothers. Constituents need their legislators. We don't always feel like we need our legislators,

00:14:31.440 but we do. That's how the government works. That's how we're supposed to make laws in this

00:14:36.120 country according to the Constitution. We do. People need government, actually.

00:14:41.780 Both of those statements are true, and life entails limits and responsibility.

00:14:48.080 A person cannot simultaneously do both of those things. To be a mother to a newborn baby,

00:14:55.220 we're talking days-old baby, you need to be at home with the baby. You need to do what's best for

00:15:02.680 the baby. You need to put your own personal ambitions aside for a second, okay? And to pass

00:15:08.500 laws, you actually can't really do it just by texting from your couch. And you really can't do

00:15:13.700 it just by appointing someone else to be a legislator in your stead. That's not what your constituents

00:15:19.360 signed up for. That's not what the Constitution demands. You do have to go to Washington. And

00:15:26.160 you've got to wheel, and you've got to deal, and you've got to form relationships, and you've got to

00:15:30.100 do that job. And the baby has needs, and the constituents have needs. And you can't do them

00:15:36.760 both at once. What are we going to do? Are we going to install a delivery bed in the cloakroom?

00:15:42.160 We can't have—if we follow the Constitution and do not permit proxy voting,

00:15:46.820 that's the logical conclusion. Because what if there's a vote while this woman's giving birth?

00:15:51.140 She needs to be able to vote, right? So we could install a delivery bed in the cloakroom, or

00:15:55.880 we could ignore the Constitution. We could just make it a regular rule of the U.S. Congress that

00:16:03.140 you don't actually have to show up to vote, or even to wheel and deal, to come to negotiations,

00:16:08.480 to try to form coalitions, to do the actual work of a legislator. You can just do it—you can just do

00:16:13.600 it from your couch. And look, maybe we should just raise the whole Capitol building at that point,

00:16:17.720 because we don't—you don't need to show up. You just do it virtually. We can zoom in

00:16:20.320 to our legislative process, right? We could do that. Or, or, hear me out. Here's my crazy idea.

00:16:27.580 Maybe people who are about to become new mothers can wait until the kids are out of diapers, at least,

00:16:35.980 before pursuing their own personal political ambitions and prioritizing that over the other

00:16:41.800 things that they want in their life, like raising a family. Just an idea. Maybe our legislators,

00:16:47.900 at the very least, can recognize that life requires one to make some choices and respect some limits

00:16:52.920 and fulfill one's responsibilities. That should not be a tough choice. Some people are really

00:16:59.780 mistaken about this. They come out, they say, oh, how good it is that there's a baby in Congress.

00:17:04.080 You know, it's really normalizing babies. And we need more babies in America. And we do need more

00:17:08.260 babies in America. Our birth rate has collapsed. Family is a good thing. Our popular culture

00:17:13.580 speaks of babies as though they were some kind of sexually transmitted disease to be avoided at all

00:17:17.900 costs. So that's true. We do need to normalize babies. But not everywhere. Babies should not be

00:17:25.820 raised on the floor of Congress. It is not appropriate to bring babies to Congress. Congress is a good thing

00:17:34.880 for all of its flaws. It's a good thing that we have a legislative body. And babies are certainly

00:17:39.200 a good thing. But they don't always belong together. I love babies. I have three of my own. I hope to

00:17:45.900 have many more. I also love cigar bars. I don't take my baby to the cigar bar. It is not appropriate to

00:17:54.240 bring babies to every place. There are different spaces for different aspects of your life, okay?

00:18:01.600 Different parts of this complex, beautiful tapestry of human life. And no, being the mother to a

00:18:14.120 newborn baby does not mix with the work of being a legislator. There's a reason that only 13

00:18:21.060 voting members of Congress have ever given birth while serving in that body. Frankly,

00:18:27.180 I'm shocked the number is so high. But this woman, she wants to have it all. She wants to have it

00:18:32.160 all. And so she's teamed up not only with other Democrats, but actually with a Republican, a

00:18:37.900 supposedly conservative Republican legislator to whine to CBS News about how those sexist Republicans

00:18:45.420 won't let mommy simultaneously take maternity leave and be a constantly active, doesn't miss a vote

00:18:54.140 member of Congress. Historically, it's been much more wealthy, you know, older men who serve in

00:19:01.860 Congress. This isn't designed for young families and for young women, especially. Congress was

00:19:06.820 designed and built for old white men to represent themselves. And, you know, it's, we've made a lot

00:19:13.400 of progress since then. We get into it because we're public servants and we care about representing

00:19:17.620 our community. But there should be some accommodations for family things that come up like the birth of a

00:19:24.300 child. It's not like I'm faking, you know, to go party in Cabo, right? Like I'm actually trying to

00:19:29.700 A, recover, but then B, also care for a newborn. That woman, that's Anna Paulina Luna, right?

00:19:35.120 That's a Republican, a supposedly conservative member of Congress who is sitting there. Well,

00:19:40.720 one of her colleagues says, you know, this body Congress is just really, it's only, it's only ever

00:19:45.460 been for those terrible old white men. I hate those old white men. And then we've got a Republican

00:19:50.060 legislator sitting there smiling during that statement with Republicans like this who needs

00:19:53.940 Democrats. And then she says, well, look, it's not like I'm partying in Cabo. You know, the reason

00:20:00.960 that I'm missing votes is because I'm giving birth to my kid. Well, that's good. It's good to give

00:20:06.400 birth to your kid. I'm glad you're doing that. But you, then you need to prioritize that. You need

00:20:12.340 to go get, this is not like a, the kind of job that you, you need to do to feed your family.

00:20:18.880 No one, no one says, you know, golly, it's the bills are getting harder to pay these days. So I

00:20:23.180 have to take a second job as a member of Congress. This is a purely elective, pun intended, position

00:20:29.060 that one takes to pursue one's own political ambition. It's public service. It's supposed to be a

00:20:33.940 sacrifice. You're supposed to be giving up some of your, of your personal ambitions,

00:20:39.660 giving up some money that you could make. I mean, in order to do this job,

00:20:43.740 you got to make sacrifices. And when you're a new mother, you need to make sacrifices for your child,

00:20:50.360 not for your constituents in the best view of Congress and for your own political ambition

00:20:56.160 in the other view. You got to, you got to pick some things. Okay. I don't care if I'm a constituent

00:21:01.640 of one of these members. I don't care if they're missing votes because they're partying in Cabo or

00:21:06.280 because they're nursing their sweet little baby. A job has to be done and you can't, you cannot do

00:21:12.320 everything at once. A person might like scuba diving and a person might like playing the ukulele,

00:21:19.420 but it's not a matter of injustice that a person can't play the ukulele while scuba diving.

00:21:25.840 It just doesn't make sound underwater. Okay. It's just not going to, it's just,

00:21:29.020 those things just don't go together. To hear this line, you know, as these legislators are

00:21:35.780 complaining to CBS news, the Congress isn't designed for young families. Yeah, you're right.

00:21:43.360 You're right. It's not. So I'm not, look to me, if the choice is between having a family and being

00:21:50.620 in Congress, pick the family every day. Congress isn't that cool. I've spent plenty of time around

00:21:54.760 Congress. It's, it's not great. Okay. That's, that is such an easy choice, but Congress is not

00:22:01.340 supposed to be designed for young families. The irony is Congress actually has a very,

00:22:05.300 very extensive daycare system, but okay. You don't want to drop your kid in daycare. You

00:22:09.020 certainly don't want to drop your newborn daycare. Good. I don't blame you. I wouldn't want to do

00:22:12.060 that either, but then, then don't be in Congress. Okay. There are plenty of other people who could do

00:22:18.900 this. Good. It's so, I guess the thing that's really triggered me about this story is that it's

00:22:24.320 not just a Democrat complaining about this, that we've got supposedly Republican conservative

00:22:30.080 legislators. I mean, Anna Paulina Luna quit the House Freedom Caucus over this issue because her

00:22:34.540 colleagues didn't think we should shred the constitution and turn the floor of Congress into

00:22:38.380 a daycare when there's already a daycare in Congress. It's just, oh, good grief. This is,

00:22:45.180 it's, it's making me realize that we talk about the right and the left, but really the debate between

00:22:53.140 the right and the left these days is just between the, the extreme super duper duper far left and

00:22:58.860 the slightly less extreme super duper left. Is there any, are there any conservatives left?

00:23:05.600 Is there anybody with common sense left in the country? I don't know. There's so much more to say

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00:24:37.400 My favorite comment yesterday is from Paul OC 1657, who says, Trump and his press secretary also made

00:24:43.620 it very clear that these tariffs are not a negotiation tactic. That's true, but that's also the kind of

00:24:50.720 thing you would do if you were negotiating. So it's true. I grant it is true that they've said this

00:24:56.480 is not a negotiation tactic. We're serious. We believe in tariffs. But if you're negotiating,

00:25:00.220 that's the kind of thing you say as well. Speaking of President Trump, President Trump

00:25:06.180 has just unveiled the gold card. You've heard of the green card that gives you permanent residency.

00:25:13.200 Trump has now unveiled the gold card. This is a card from our federal government, except it's got

00:25:17.560 Trump's picture on it and his signature. This is the Trump card. And the premise of the card that

00:25:23.560 is driving the liberals crazy is that, well, we have all these debates about immigration and who

00:25:28.540 should come in and who gets deported. If you give five million bucks, if you're willing to invest

00:25:35.320 millions and millions of dollars in America, you just get to stay.

00:25:39.300 Five million. For five million dollars, this could be yours. That was the first of the cards.

00:25:45.800 Do you know what that card is? Gold card. It's the gold card. The trump card, gold card.

00:25:53.780 Who's the first buyer? Me. I'm the first. I don't know, but I'm the first buyer. It'll be out in about

00:26:03.000 less than two weeks probably. Pretty exciting, right?

00:26:09.060 So this is Trump speaking aboard Air Force One. And he says, this is the gold card. And it was a little

00:26:14.440 confusing because it looks like this is merch from the campaign or from his personal collection or

00:26:18.280 something like that. But it's not. This is the new version of a green card. And the libs are going

00:26:22.240 to lose their minds. They're going to say, this is terrible. Trump's allowing people to just buy

00:26:26.220 their way into staying in America. And this betrays his principles. And we should instead allow only

00:26:32.980 peasants from third world countries that are more likely to vote for Democrats. Not these people

00:26:36.900 who are investing millions of dollars. However, this is common sense. When you hear your lib friends

00:26:45.080 and even some of your conservative friends criticizing this initiative, perhaps remind them

00:26:48.820 that similar immigration plans already exist in Austria, Italy, Australia, New Zealand,

00:26:58.260 Switzerland, Canada. The list goes on and on and on. But there's one on there that we should also

00:27:02.860 include. America. We already have this. This plan already exists. This is called the EB-5

00:27:11.700 immigration procedure. And EB-5 just means, as of now, that if you are willing to invest between

00:27:18.380 $800,000 and a little over a million dollars in America, you get permanent residency. So really all

00:27:24.240 Trump is doing is he's vastly raising the threshold, the gold card. Five million bucks you get to stay.

00:27:31.300 And Trump's argument is, five million bucks pretty soon. You had five million up a relatively small

00:27:37.600 number of times. All of a sudden, you're at half a trillion dollars, a trillion dollars. Now,

00:27:41.560 all of a sudden, you can start to fund the government. You can start to pay down national

00:27:45.160 debt even potentially. This is a great example of one of these stories. It's going to be a big

00:27:49.060 headline, crazy Trump idea, terrible, violating all of our principles. What happened to America?

00:27:55.500 And then you realize, oh, we already have it. Trump is just taking a policy that already exists

00:28:00.580 in many countries on earth, including America, and making it smarter. Easy, very easy. Now,

00:28:06.780 speaking of Trump taking pre-existing policy plans and just doing them in his own way,

00:28:14.580 I know that all you're hearing today at the water cooler is about how terrible these Trump tariffs are

00:28:19.620 and how this is a betrayal of America. It's the dumbest thing ever. Trump didn't come up with this

00:28:23.660 idea. This idea has been articulated by plenty of people in relatively recent history, and not only

00:28:32.560 Republicans. Got to give a hat tip to Mays here for finding this video of one Nancy Pelosi from 1996.

00:28:41.860 How far does China have to go? How much more repression? How big a trade deficit and

00:28:49.660 loss of jobs for the American worker? And how much more dangerous proliferation has to exist

00:28:56.080 before members of this House of Representatives will say, I will not endorse the status quo?

00:29:03.240 As I mentioned, it's about jobs, proliferation and human rights. And there are those who say we

00:29:07.940 shouldn't link human rights and trade and proliferation and trade. I disagree. But if we just

00:29:13.140 want to take up this issue on the basis of economics alone, indeed, China should not receive

00:29:19.400 most favored nation status for several reasons that I'd like to go into now. I'd like to call

00:29:25.660 the attention of our colleagues to this chart on the status quo that the business community is asking

00:29:31.400 each and every one of you to each and every one of us to endorse today. Right now, we have a

00:29:37.540 $34 billion trade deficit with China. Put a pause right here. Right there. Right there off the top.

00:29:43.720 Pelosi says there are humanitarian reasons that I don't think that we should give China most favored

00:29:47.780 nation status and we should be a little tougher on trade with China. But forget about that. I'm just

00:29:52.000 going to talk about the economic reasons. Okay, you wait for her to talk about the economic reasons.

00:29:55.220 And the first thing she starts out with is something that the Democrats are now mocking Trump for

00:30:00.380 talking about, namely trade deficits. Right now, the Democrats and the more squishy Republicans,

00:30:04.800 they're saying trade deficits don't matter. This is stupid. Trump's focusing on an economic measure

00:30:09.120 that that's just totally irrelevant. Well, hold on. You guys were talking about it back in the mid

00:30:14.280 90s. And in fact, that's the first thing she leads with $34 trillion trade deficit, which she says is

00:30:19.540 a bad thing. And then she goes on to the way she wants to remedy it. The 1999 95 figure, it will be

00:30:27.140 over $40 billion for 1996. Since the Tiananmen Square massacre, this figure has increased

00:30:34.020 1000% from $3.5 billion then to about $34 billion now. In terms of tariffs, I think it's interesting

00:30:42.640 to note that the average US MFN tariff on Chinese goods coming into the United States is 2%. Whereas

00:30:50.060 the average Chinese MFN tariff on US goods going into China is 35%. Is that reciprocal? On exports,

00:30:59.700 China only allows certain industries into China of US industries into China, and therefore only 2% of US

00:31:07.600 exports are allowed into China. On the other hand, the US allows China to flood our markets with 30,

00:31:14.980 a third of their exports, and that'll probably go over 40%. And it's limitless because we have not placed

00:31:21.380 any restrictions. Put a pause here. This could be a Trump speech. Every word of what Pelosi is talking

00:31:27.660 about here could be a Trump speech. Even down to the word reciprocal. He goes, my favorite word is

00:31:32.100 tariffs. My second favorite word is reciprocal. Right out of the horse's mouth. Is it the horse's

00:31:38.620 mouth? I don't know. Keep going. ...of jobs. This is the biggest and cruelest hoax of all.

00:31:45.780 And it moves on to jobs. We don't have enough time to get into the whole speech. It's worth

00:31:49.740 looking at, though. Kind of makes me think, maybe the parties really do switch sometimes.

00:31:55.360 You know how the Democrats say for years, the parties switched. Whenever it's convenient to

00:31:59.780 claim the Democrats, we claim them. But whenever it's inconvenient to claim the Democrats, like on

00:32:03.820 the Ku Klux Klan or whatever, then we're going to say that was actually the Republican Democrats,

00:32:07.600 because the parties switched. But I don't know. It's not that the parties switch. They don't really

00:32:12.380 just switch. They don't all gather up one day and say, all right, you're going to be the Republicans

00:32:15.740 now. We're going to be the Democrats. It's that the parties evolve. They grow. They develop.

00:32:23.380 They're responding to different inputs. So back in the 90s, the Democrats were much more in tune

00:32:30.120 with labor. The Republicans were not. The Republicans were kind of like rich uncle penny bags.

00:32:35.380 And so they were flattering labor a little bit. Also, the Democrats are constantly prattling on about

00:32:40.620 human rights. So Nancy Pelosi, even though she says off the top, forget about the human rights.

00:32:45.640 Let's just talk about the economics. She's obviously concerned about the human rights. It's pretty much

00:32:48.740 the first thing she talks about there. That would motivate the Democrats to support getting tough

00:32:54.740 on China. At the time, Republicans were all about opening up China. The Republicans now, we're not

00:32:59.500 totally concerned. I mean, we're a little concerned with the slave labor in China, but it's also just we

00:33:04.080 feel like we're getting ripped off and we feel like China's a rising power. In the mid-90s,

00:33:08.240 China was not a huge threat to American hegemony. America had unrivaled hegemony.

00:33:13.740 Now it's a bigger problem. So even Republicans and conservatives who are concerned about America

00:33:18.060 being strong and great and all the rest of it, now we're about to get tough on China.

00:33:22.320 In other words, there are deeper motivations here that do transcend political eras, that do form

00:33:29.220 a through line, even if it looks sometimes like the parties are switching. But at the very least,

00:33:33.620 we can say, the arguments just on the policy, the arguments that the Democrats are making right now

00:33:41.360 against Trump's policies, they would not have made in the mid-90s because in the mid-90s,

00:33:47.180 they were making Trump's arguments. So Democrats, if you want to attack Trump for this,

00:33:50.840 get some better arguments. Before we go, I know I'm running late. I don't care. I've got to get to

00:33:55.320 this Disney show. I told you off the top, it's breaking news. Pull over your car. Disney is putting

00:34:00.440 more gay stuff in their shows. This one from Win or Lose.

00:34:11.960 Frank, it's me. That's right. It's me. You brought me into your word and now I'm here.

00:34:21.560 You're a risk. No. I'm not leaving it to the show.

00:34:25.560 Robert, stop.

00:34:28.020 Okay. Well, I haven't watched this whole show. This is a, I got to give a hat tip here to Alana

00:34:32.360 Mastrangelo from Breitbart for finding this clip. Apparently there's this gay janitor character in

00:34:37.040 the show and I don't know, he's got a thing for the guy who was at home plate and whatever.

00:34:41.220 In this show, Win or Lose, according to reports, they already pulled a trans storyline. So Disney

00:34:46.300 wanted to have a trans storyline in there. And after all the blowback Disney's gotten for the

00:34:50.980 woke stuff, they pulled that one out. And in this show, they actually included a Christian storyline.

00:34:55.760 Apparently there's a prayer that is at least vaguely reminiscent of a Christian prayer. So that's great.

00:35:00.980 However, people don't like the insinuation here of a gay romantic plot line. Okay. And I totally get

00:35:08.880 that. However, conservatives are going to be tempted to criticize this by saying, we, you know,

00:35:14.720 it's not that we're anti-gay or anything. It's just that we shouldn't have any of these kinds of

00:35:20.580 romantic storylines in kids shows. But that's obviously not true. There are always romantic

00:35:27.400 storylines in kids shows and stories and fairy tales. There have to be because romance is a key

00:35:34.700 part of the human experience. It's really close to our nature. So yeah, you know, it's not going to

00:35:41.560 be explicit. It's not going to be obscene, but you know, the Prince Charming is going to kiss Snow

00:35:45.260 White. That's going to happen. There is going to be romance, boys like girls and girls like boys,

00:35:49.780 generally speaking. So if you criticize this, the inclusion of a gay romantic storyline in any

00:35:58.420 kid's program or book or anything, just realize you have to be specifically discouraging homosexuality.

00:36:07.460 And that feels icky to a lot of people because, you know, I'm not saying you got to go like get

00:36:11.660 up on a rooftop and throw them off the top of the roof or something like ISIS. You don't have,

00:36:14.960 no one has to do that. No one has to have animus. No one has to have any particular hostility to any

00:36:19.220 group of people, but you have to be willing to say, no, no, no. We will permit wholesome and

00:36:26.580 respectful heterosexual romantic storylines in kids programming as has always existed and

00:36:31.760 necessarily does because that's just part of human life. Even when you're a little kid,

00:36:35.780 you have a crush on the girl in your class or whatever. We were willing to include that.

00:36:39.980 We are not willing to include the gay stuff because of the specifics of that stuff,

00:36:47.320 not because it involves romance or attraction or anything like that. And a lot of people,

00:36:53.040 they don't want to say that. They don't. It's kind of like the Democrat in Congress. They don't

00:36:57.720 want to make decisions. They don't want to come down and come make, arrive at conclusions

00:37:02.840 that necessarily involve making exclusions of the things that contradict that which we personally

00:37:08.700 and socially have decided. You know, if you're tired of the legacy media lies and getting shouted

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00:37:52.580 puretalk.com slash Knowles. Get a year of Daily Wire Plus for free with a qualifying plan. Take it

00:37:57.620 away. Hi, Michael. I am an Italian-Irish traditional Catholic who loves cigars and is also named

00:38:04.320 Michael, so I think it was my destiny to listen and love your show. My question is, do you think

00:38:10.160 it is easier for women to be holy than it is for men? My points would be that women are naturally

00:38:19.520 more relational and are receivers more naturally. And those are two very big parts of pursuing

00:38:29.780 holiness is receiving God and just general relation with him. Another thing would be that men tend to

00:38:38.000 struggle more with greed, impurity, extreme violence, and things of that sort. And the last point would be

00:38:47.860 that there are more females, saints that have had the stigmata than there are men. That's my question.

00:38:55.500 Thank you for your time and consideration. God bless.

00:38:57.960 Interesting. I hadn't considered that last part. I suppose I'll have to look into that. But broadly,

00:39:02.320 no, I don't think it's easier for women to be holy than men. There might well be more holy women,

00:39:10.120 a greater number of women who are holy than men. But I don't think it's easier for women

00:39:16.020 to be holy. I'm getting tripped up in my language here. Maybe it's easier for women to speak than it

00:39:23.140 is for men. Maybe for me this morning, that's true. The reason is you say, look, men struggle more than

00:39:28.380 women when it comes to lust or when it comes to greed. And yeah, that's true. But women usually

00:39:35.520 struggle more than men when it comes to things like vanity. Women are, in my experience, more easily

00:39:42.880 persuaded and swayed than men are out of their views. Women, well, we all struggle with pride.

00:39:50.260 Women struggle with pride in their own way. Women can sometimes be more practical than men. I think

00:39:56.680 they often are more practical than men. And so they're more focused on the quotidian aspects of

00:40:01.000 life and not on the high ideals of life. Men tend to be more given, I think, to flights of fancy,

00:40:06.460 actually. The women are a little bit more, and we take care of the kids. We got to get the next meal

00:40:10.460 on the table. We got to, hey, come on, buddy, get your head out of the clouds. We got to go really

00:40:14.380 focus on practical stuff. So because of that, sometimes it means that women are maybe more

00:40:19.860 in tune with the practical aspects of religion, but maybe not as much with the abstract or idealistic

00:40:25.680 aspects of religion. So no, I think women have certain special gifts that allow them to be holy

00:40:33.000 that men don't have, but they have certain temptations also that men generally don't have. So

00:40:38.720 men and women can be holy, or they can go very, very wrong, and they need to help each other to

00:40:43.160 get there. You know, this is the point of a marriage. I think this is what Blessed Karl,

00:40:46.840 Emperor Karl, and Empress Zita of Austria-Hungary said when they got married. So now we have to help

00:40:53.960 each other get to heaven. Next question. Hi, Michael. In a recent episode, you mentioned that

00:41:01.300 we ought to talk to AI and ChatGPT rudely, or at very least not like a human being,

00:41:09.100 to help us remember that it is a tool and not an actual human being on the other side.

00:41:15.340 However, we are creatures of habit, and my concern is that if we are treating these chatbots,

00:41:22.680 which interact with us for all intents and purposes the way that other people do,

00:41:26.940 that we will start to treat other people like robots rather than just treating ChatGPT like a

00:41:34.880 robot and humans like humans. So a better way to go about it is just to treat everyone that you

00:41:41.640 interact with and everything that you interact with with courtesy and politeness. Kind of how we

00:41:47.640 interact with others in the comments with politeness as we do in real life. Yeah, just curious for your

00:41:54.860 thoughts on this. Thanks so much. I'm open to the point you're raising. However, you lost me at the

00:42:00.480 end. We have to treat everything with politeness. Do I have to treat my car door with politeness?

00:42:06.020 Do I have to treat my computer, my cell phone? Do I have to treat my baseball with politeness? I can't

00:42:13.600 hit my baseball then. No, no, no. You say we have to treat everyone with politeness. But there,

00:42:17.920 I think you're falling into the thing that we're warning about, which is you're treating the dumb

00:42:23.400 idol of AI as though it were a human person. And that's a bad idea. But I'm with you in the sense

00:42:30.120 that the point, I actually didn't even really make the point. It was my friend Spencer Clavin who made

00:42:33.760 the point that we should be rude to AI. However, we are creatures of habit and we're mimetic creatures.

00:42:41.100 And so if we're rude to this thing that we're already treating as a human being, then we might be

00:42:45.080 rude to human beings as well. So the key is not in the rudeness, but in the recognition that AI

00:42:50.900 is not a person. And whatever gets you there to recognizing that AI is just a dumb machine

00:42:57.720 that you could go take, you could take out your pistol, you know, racket and just blow its face

00:43:05.080 off and you would not be doing anything immoral in any way. I mean, you might be destroying,

00:43:08.600 you'd be destroying property. There'd be something kind of unfitting about that, but

00:43:11.860 there'd be nothing wrong with that. It's just a dumb machine. It's not a person. Whatever you need

00:43:16.640 to do to remind yourself that, do it. Next question. Good morning, Michael. This is Arun.

00:43:22.420 So it's been over five years now since the COVID-19 lockdowns of 2020, and it seems that

00:43:27.420 no meaningful steps have been taken to ensure our civil liberties against another such emergency,

00:43:34.360 either real or perceived. What do you think about the following constitutional amendment,

00:43:40.060 which I think could get some bipartisan support in America? I believe we should amend the constitution

00:43:45.300 to include the words, the right to indoor public dining shall not be infringed for any reason

00:43:52.040 whatsoever. I'm curious as to your take on this proposal.

00:43:56.320 I really like that proposal. That's pretty good. First, there are some other constitutional

00:44:02.200 amendments we're going to have to work on first, obviously repealing the 22nd so that Trump can serve

00:44:06.720 his third, fourth, fifth, sixth and seventh terms. There are a few other. 17th we would definitely get

00:44:12.820 rid of. Maybe some amendments in between. I don't know. But that's a good one. Okay, we'll put that

00:44:19.340 on the docket. We've got, what, three and a half years left. That's a good one. I'm into it.

00:44:23.640 Legislators who are listening, state houses that are listening, keep that in mind. Next question.

00:44:29.500 Hi, Michael. I really appreciate your ministry. I thank you for it. I pray for you almost daily.

00:44:34.800 My question today is regarding Lent. Why is it that you boast for a doctrine of demons? Lent has

00:44:45.560 pagan roots from the weeping of Tammuz, the son of Ishtar. Ishtar, which in cuneiform text says,

00:44:53.800 I am a man, I am a woman, the spirit of transgenderism, basically. And I'm just wondering

00:44:58.800 why, what your thoughts are on that. Why is it that the Catholic church in general is responsible

00:45:06.100 for so many doctrines of demons that aren't biblical? Praying to Mary, for example, confession

00:45:12.440 to a priest. I just am curious as to your thoughts on this. I really appreciate all you do. I love your

00:45:20.740 show. I've watched it daily and I thank you for it. Thank you. Okay. Well, thanks for watching and I

00:45:26.980 appreciate the questions. But I think there's a little confusion in the premises. Lent is certainly

00:45:33.580 not a demonic or in any way pagan ritual. It's a habit of penance in the 40 days leaning up to Easter

00:45:44.780 to mirror Christ's temptation by the devil in the wilderness for 40 days. So it's directly biblical.

00:45:51.940 And it's in fact, directly mirroring the experience of Christ to draw us closer to Christ with voluntary

00:45:59.140 penances and abstention from me and things like that. So nothing pagan, certainly nothing demonic

00:46:05.480 about it. Other than the fact that what we are mirroring is when the spirit leads Christ to be

00:46:10.440 tempted by the devil in the wilderness. We're mirroring that exactly. There's nothing demonic

00:46:15.840 or anything like that about asking for the intercession of Mary, for Mary to pray to God for us.

00:46:21.560 In fact, that comes from the first public miracle that our Lord works is at the wedding at Cana.

00:46:27.740 The miracle that comes about specifically because of Mary's intercession, because the guests at the

00:46:33.700 wedding run out of wine. And so Mary, our Lord's mother, comes to our Lord and our Lord, being a good

00:46:40.820 son who loves his mother and listens to his mother, says, what is it, woman? What is it between you and me?

00:46:45.460 You know, my hour has not yet come. And then what does he do? He does what his mother asks of him.

00:46:49.820 And what does his mother say? He says, do whatever my son tells you. This is beautiful,

00:46:55.040 beautiful example of how the miracle works. Nothing demonic about that. Our Lord gives to

00:47:00.900 all of us, his mother, as our mother, when he says to John, the apostle, when he's on the cross,

00:47:06.100 this is your mother. And he's speaking to all of us there. It's how Christians have always understood

00:47:10.840 that, going back to the earliest days of the church. Confessing sins to priests, that's also from

00:47:16.400 the gospel. When our Lord gives to Peter the keys to the kingdom of heaven and breathes the Holy

00:47:21.480 Spirit on the apostles and says, I give you the power to forgive sins. Whose sins you forgive are

00:47:26.900 forgiven, whose sins you retain are retained. That is a specific power that, as far as I can see,

00:47:34.300 couldn't possibly be clearer. It's not even a kind of vague power. The notion that, you know,

00:47:39.340 if we just preach the gospel to people, that will, in this abstract way, forgive sins.

00:47:43.580 He says specifically, he breathes on them specifically, and he says, you have the power

00:47:48.480 to forgive sins. Not only to forgive sins, but to retain sins. So obviously, it can't just be this

00:47:55.560 general kind of abstract forgiveness of sins, because they also have the power to retain sins.

00:47:59.660 That is to say, the power to loose and to bind. When our Lord says to St. Peter, what you loose on

00:48:04.420 earth will be loosed in heaven. What you bind on earth will be bound in heaven. So anyway, it reminds

00:48:08.240 me of this old line from Fulton Sheen, who said, there are not, I'm paraphrasing, and I'm probably

00:48:13.880 saying it less eloquently. There are not a million people who disagree with the Catholic faith. There

00:48:19.340 are not a hundred people who disagree with the Catholic faith. But there are many millions of

00:48:22.880 people who disagree with a mistaken notion of what they have come to believe the Catholic faith to be.

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