The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 1716 - BLM 2.0 - Metcalf's Attacker BLOWS GoFundMe Money On A NEW HOUSE

00:00:00.000 President Trump threatens to obliterate Harvard, the family of the teenager who allegedly murdered

00:00:05.500 Austin Metcalf is using his GoFundMe money to buy a new house. Where have I heard that before?

00:00:10.740 And Katy Perry officially becomes a space cadet. I'm Michael Knowles. This is the Michael Knowles Show.

00:00:30.000 Welcome back to the show. Really awful news out of Nigeria that basically no one is talking about, 1.00

00:00:41.860 but 51 Christians were murdered in Nigeria on Palm Sunday, media almost entirely silent about it.

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00:01:59.140 family of Austin Metcalf's alleged killer. I smell a little BLM 2.0 here. The bond was set at $1 million

00:02:10.160 for this young man who allegedly stabbed Austin Metcalf in the heart because Austin Metcalf asked him to get

00:02:17.160 out of his chair. Then prosecutors said, we got to keep it this high because of the severity of this

00:02:25.660 crime. The family of the alleged killer raised about half a million dollars on GoFundMe.

00:02:33.980 Why was there a GoFundMe? Why did they raise this money? We'll get to that in one moment.

00:02:37.660 But they raised like half a million dollars for it. And so the prosecutor said, well, you can't say the

00:02:41.360 bond is too high. You've raised all of this money. But the father of Austin Metcalf's alleged killer,

00:02:47.580 said that he was going to use the cash for something else. Namely, he was going to use

00:02:51.940 the cash to buy a nice new house. In his words, I don't want to put words in his mouth. The father

00:02:57.720 quote, disclosed that the cash should be used for security and to help the family move after the

00:03:02.660 threats they have allegedly faced since the killing, according to reporting from the Daily Mail.

00:03:07.820 Okay, let me translate that. The family of Austin Metcalf's alleged killer is upgrading its house

00:03:16.660 using the money that their son received as a reward for allegedly murdering a white teenager.

00:03:25.200 That's what this is about.

00:03:26.160 Race is at the forefront of this case, not just in terms of pointing blame at the alleged killer,

00:03:36.780 but also giving plaudits, giving money, giving support to the alleged killer.

00:03:40.560 Any other two races that you threw in here, you wouldn't have seen a GoFundMe raise this kind

00:03:47.180 of money. This is BLM 2.0. They called BLM buy large mansions for a reason, okay? Seems to me,

00:03:53.020 I've heard this song before. It's from an old familiar score. The father gives away the whole

00:03:58.460 game here inadvertently in what's being reported by the Daily Mail. He says, they've received threats

00:04:04.400 and so they need to move and hire security. If they're hiring security, why do they need to move?

00:04:13.020 If they're going to move, why do they need security? You understand? I understand hiring

00:04:18.520 security. All right, sometimes, believe it or not, there have been a few threats on little old me,

00:04:23.060 your beloved podcaster, and sometimes, though I try to resist it, but sometimes we've had security

00:04:28.020 in my house. Okay, I get that. And that's not cheap and you raise money for that. Okay.

00:04:32.900 But if people know where you live, then you can hire security or I guess you could move

00:04:38.300 and hope that your new address doesn't come out. But if you move so that people don't know where

00:04:44.380 you are, why do you also need to hire security? If you move and you do need to hire security,

00:04:51.120 it's because people know where you move to. So why do you need a new house in the first place?

00:04:55.200 If everyone, if all your enemies, anyone who's motivated to go kill you knows where you are

00:04:59.260 anyway, why do you need a nice big new house with the $500,000 that your kid got as blood money for

00:05:04.100 allegedly murdering a white teenager in our highly racially charged politics? Why do you need that?

00:05:10.660 This is such revoltingly crass exploitation of the murder of a teenager. It is par for the course.

00:05:20.840 This is the BLM playbook, but that's what you're going to see play out. From the moment this news

00:05:25.380 story hit the popular imagination, this became a major racially charged case, not from white people

00:05:34.980 who don't like black people, but rather from the people who are supporting a black kid who was

00:05:40.360 accused of murdering a white kid for the white kid's alleged offense of asking him to move out of 0.98

00:05:45.900 his seat. Get ready, get ready. This case hasn't even really started yet. You are going to get the

00:05:53.260 Al Sharptons of the world, Jesse Jacksons of the world. Now there's a new generation of them.

00:05:58.040 Ibram Kendi, I think he's still around. All the BLM ladies, Patrice Cullors and all them, 1.00

00:06:02.680 they're off in their mansions. They kind of got their bag, but there's going to be a whole new

00:06:06.240 generation of racial hucksters and shakedown artists. It's already started. Speaking of young 1.00

00:06:12.880 people, President Trump is taking on Harvard University. This is a beautiful story and even

00:06:22.460 conservatives don't appreciate how beautiful this is. And some people are actually complaining about

00:06:26.400 it because they can't take yes for an answer. President Trump and his administration have

00:06:33.480 frozen more than $2 billion in grants to Harvard after Harvard refused to comply with policy changes

00:06:42.220 that were requested by the administration. What were the policy changes that were requested?

00:06:48.160 Namely, don't let the keffia-clad foreigners and Hamas sympathizers go around harassing the Jews on 0.96

00:06:55.340 campus. That was it. Harvard couldn't do that. So now Trump is threatening $2 billion in grants, 0.97

00:07:04.100 freezing $2 billion in grants, really, threatening Harvard's tax-exempt status. Don't forget,

00:07:09.200 these big universities are exempt from paying taxes. Trump is saying, yeah, maybe you got to pay

00:07:13.480 some taxes because Harvard's endowment is $53 billion. Harvard's one of the biggest hedge funds in the

00:07:18.040 world. Caroline Leavitt explains the situation. Is this a case of the Trump administration just

00:07:26.660 wielding the state to pummel its enemies through the caprice of the commander-in-chief who's ruling

00:07:32.920 like a tyrant? No. Caroline Leavitt says, all the president is asking is, don't break federal law.

00:07:40.100 Then you can have your federal funding. She says Trump wants to see Harvard apologize for, quote,

00:07:47.280 the egregious anti-Semitism that took place on their college campus against Jewish American students.

00:07:52.620 When she's talking about don't violate a federal law, she's talking about Title VI of the Civil Rights

00:07:58.100 Act. And this is where the case gets really, really interesting. Because conservatives generally

00:08:04.720 hate the fact that the federal government can wield the Civil Rights Act to punish enemies,

00:08:12.440 to obliterate federalism and subsidiarity, to push a usually leftist agenda, to favor certain racial

00:08:21.660 groups, ethnic groups, national groups, sexual groups at the expense of others. Okay. First,

00:08:28.680 first question I want to ask when you're thinking about this. How long have conservatives

00:08:34.420 been prattling on about how the universities are the beating heart of American leftism? That's where

00:08:41.220 the rot really lies. The campus leftists of the 1960s have become tenured radicals, and they're now

00:08:51.520 ensconced in the universities to convince innocent students to hate their parents, hate their country, 0.99

00:08:57.100 become trans pygmy lesbians, and just rip apart all that is normal and traditional about America. 1.00

00:09:04.420 How long have we heard this? I have heard and given speeches for years saying that these 1.00

00:09:11.120 universities, especially the elite universities, are the beating heart of leftism. They indoctrinate

00:09:19.100 the new generations. They're like a Petri dish to show you what the future of the country is going 0.99

00:09:24.420 to look like. Not just a Petri dish to grow the next generation. They're like a looking glass even.

00:09:31.920 So, why don't we want to punish Harvard? Well, because some people are saying that this is,

00:09:39.740 it's annoying that the excuse to go pummel Harvard is anti-Israel activism or even anti-Semitism.

00:09:47.900 I said, why is it? Everyone gets protection except for regular old white people and Christians. 0.96

00:09:56.900 There's been anti-Christian sentiment on Harvard's campus for decades. We don't see anything done

00:10:01.280 about that. Anti-white sentiment on Harvard's campus and other campuses for decades. Calls to

00:10:07.500 abolish whiteness. You don't see the civil rights law coming down on that. How come every group gets 0.93

00:10:12.800 special treatment? Black people get special treatment. Hispanic people get special treatment. 1.00

00:10:16.500 Jews get special treatment. Muslims get special treatment. But what about the white people and 0.96

00:10:20.520 what about the Christians? All right. Yeah, I get it. I get it. I would be all for wielding civil

00:10:25.660 rights law to punish places for discriminating against Christians and white people on the basis

00:10:32.880 of their race. For sure, I would. But can we just take the win? Can we just take the win here? If this

00:10:39.580 is going to be the excuse to pummel Harvard, Harvard, which is one of the leading causes of leftism in

00:10:45.400 America, can we please just take the win? And then work on wielding civil rights law in other ways?

00:10:51.180 I don't know, like tomorrow? Tonight? This afternoon? Can we just take the win? Please?

00:10:59.000 Because there will be a final objection, which the conservatives make. They'll say,

00:11:02.780 we don't want to wield civil rights law. Why not? There was a great book by Chris Caldwell that came out

00:11:08.600 a few years ago, the Age of Entitlement. And the Age of Entitlement claimed that in the 1960s,

00:11:14.720 America created a second constitution, a constitution that was a rival with and in fact

00:11:19.460 superseded in many ways the original constitution of the 18th century, the one written on parchment,

00:11:24.820 you know, we the people in order to form a more perfect union. So I think that's probably true.

00:11:32.860 I think that by obliterating freedom of association, by obliterating equality under

00:11:39.920 the law for all of these different groups, the Civil Rights Act really did create in many ways

00:11:44.420 a parallel constitution. All these branches of the government have their own departments of civil

00:11:48.800 rights, you know, sure, that's all real. So if we're conservatives and we want to live in reality,

00:11:55.560 if we say one of the big differences between conservatives and the left is that we're tethered

00:11:59.180 to reality and the left is off in its utopian fantasies. Okay, then let's accept what the

00:12:04.200 lowercase c constitution, the way that we actually live, the way that we're actually governed,

00:12:08.080 let's accept how that really works and let's use it to our benefit within the confines of the law

00:12:13.540 and in a just and moral way. This is something that Trump gets, that the ideological Republicans

00:12:21.900 and conservatives, you know, conservative movement, capital C, capital M, it's something they don't get.

00:12:27.540 Okay, Trump is just willing to govern according to the way that we're actually governed. And so for

00:12:35.920 him, he doesn't have any particular ideological antipathy to Title VI or to the Civil Rights Act.

00:12:41.200 He's just going to wield it for the common good, according to his lights in a way that is just.

00:12:47.740 So great, let's do it. You're telling me that I get to destroy Harvard University

00:12:55.460 and I seriously pull Harvard University into line. I get to wield the power that people have given us

00:13:03.000 happily. And the only downside is I get to protect students who are pro-Israel and Jews. That's the

00:13:09.480 alleged downside. And for some people, that really is a downside. I don't, I don't, that doesn't keep me

00:13:13.520 up at night. In fact, you might say that's a good thing to not harass a group on campus.

00:13:19.060 But you're saying that the only downside is it doesn't go far enough. How about you take the

00:13:22.740 win today, guys? We could take down Harvard. This is great, man. This is so, yeah, great. If all Trump

00:13:31.760 did was take Harvard down a notch, he would go down as one of the greatest presidents in American history.

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00:14:53.820 Katy Perry has gone into space. She boarded the Blue Origin rocket-looking kind of thing

00:15:04.540 that Jeff Bezos was behind. And she went up with a few other people, Jeff Bezos's wife and

00:15:10.600 Gayle King, I think, from CBS News was there. A bunch of ladies, a bunch of celebrity ladies. 1.00

00:15:16.580 And here is what Katy Perry had to say when she returned to Earth.

00:15:22.000 It is the highest high. And it is surrender to the unknown, trust. And this whole journey is not

00:15:34.440 just about going to space. It's the training. It's the team. It's the whole thing. I couldn't

00:15:42.800 recommend this experience more. This is up there with all the different tools that I've

00:15:49.620 learned in my life from meditation to the Hoffman process. This is up there because

00:15:53.780 what you're doing is you're really finding the love for yourself because you've got to trust in

00:15:59.580 yourself on this journey. And then you're feeling the love when you come down, for sure. And you're

00:16:04.260 feeling that strength. So I feel really connected to that strong, divine feminine right now.

00:16:10.280 By the way, you're such a badass. I love that the month of April, you're like, I'm going

00:16:13.380 to space and I'm launching my tour.

00:16:16.940 What? There's another video of her getting out of the capsule and she kisses the dirt.

00:16:24.500 She was off the ground for 11 minutes. She was in space, technically, for like the blink of

00:16:31.500 an eye. And then she kissed the dirt and she came down and talked about, you know, the strength

00:16:35.620 man and the divine feminine. She essentially took a rollercoaster ride. The reason that 0.98

00:16:42.760 Katy Perry is not technically an astronaut right now is because none of the people in

00:16:47.240 this capsule could actually operate anything. It was all being remotely controlled. So it

00:16:51.460 was cool. They took a very, very expensive, very, very cool rollercoaster ride that technically

00:16:57.320 put them into space. And then Katy Perry comes down and gives this word salad soup of an answer. 1.00

00:17:04.260 And people are making fun of her. People are saying that she should have come up with something

00:17:08.860 better, something more profound to say. No, no, no. People should not make fun of her for

00:17:14.380 this answer. This was the perfect statement to make when she landed. Sincerely, that was the

00:17:21.600 perfect statement for her to make because the accomplishment of Blue Origin was not that Katy Perry

00:17:28.660 went to space. The accomplishment of Blue Origin is that Katy Perry went to space. Do you see the

00:17:37.000 difference? Do you understand the difference here? The accomplishment is not in the hands of these

00:17:43.040 women. These women did nothing. Truly, they could not have possibly done less for this 11-minute 0.99

00:17:51.000 voyage. That's the point. We have gotten so good at space travel. We've become so technologically

00:18:00.560 advanced that we can send these people into outer space. That's what's so impressive. If they loaded

00:18:07.860 up, you know, I don't know, John Glenn and John Glenn still around. I don't think so. Or if they loaded

00:18:13.060 up a bunch of actual astronauts into this capsule, that wouldn't be interesting at all. The fact that

00:18:18.000 they can put a bunch of bubbly, not necessarily the most mathematically or technically advanced

00:18:27.180 lady pop stars into a capsule and have them go to outer space, that's the accomplishment. That is 1.00

00:18:33.640 amazing. That makes me more likely, I probably don't have enough money, but if I had enough money,

00:18:38.860 I probably, that would make me much more likely to sign up for the next Blue Origin. It's Katy Perry

00:18:45.660 proof, man. That's a big, that is a big accomplishment. That's very impressive.

00:18:50.000 Now, speaking of generally ignorant women, there's a woman who was accused of selling 1.00

00:18:55.620 human bones on Facebook Marketplace for as little as $35. Kimberly Shopper, her name's Shopper, 0.98

00:19:03.300 that's kind of funny, 52-year-old woman, not a kid, she's a 52-year-old woman, was charged with

00:19:08.100 trading in human tissue, according to Fox 35. She's a Florida woman. She bought and offered 0.99

00:19:15.380 human bones for sale on Facebook Marketplace. Her business was identified as Wicked Wonderland.

00:19:23.000 She was selling two segments of a skull for $90, a clavicle and scapula for $90 also, a rib for $35,

00:19:30.220 it's a little cheaper if you want to deal, a vertebrae for $35, and a partial human skull

00:19:37.800 for $600 if you're a big spender. Now, where'd that come from? You know, do we need to look into

00:19:45.020 some of the ex-boyfriends of this woman or something? No. The police say that some of the

00:19:49.920 bones found were likely archaeological finds. One was more than 100 years old, another was more than

00:19:55.900 500 years old. This woman was arrested. She was released from jail on a $7,500 bond. I just have

00:20:06.140 one question. Why is this wrong? Why is it wrong to sell human bones? Really old ones, like 500-year-old

00:20:18.260 ones. Why? I think I might start a new segment on the show called Why Is This Wrong? For just stories

00:20:24.480 of things that go on that everyone knows intuitively are wrong that we can't articulate anymore, that we

00:20:32.000 can't explain why these things are wrong because we live in this ideology of liberalism which

00:20:38.800 establishes moral error as its foundation. I think I need to start that new segment because we know that

00:20:45.140 it's wrong. Why? Because, well, one, because you're supposed to properly dispose of human remains.

00:20:54.480 You know, we give human beings burials when they die. We don't just leave them out for the dogs to

00:20:59.860 eat in the street. You have to properly handle human remains. Now, this is a particularly pertinent

00:21:06.460 question for Catholics. These Catholics venerate relics, the relics of the saints. First-class relics 0.96

00:21:11.520 could be a piece of a bone or something like that, a heart. In fact, I possess a first-class relic,

00:21:17.820 just one, the first-class relic of Padraic Pio, recently came into it. I didn't buy it. You're not

00:21:24.060 allowed to buy and sell relics. You're not allowed to sell because human beings are not commodities

00:21:29.620 to be bought and sold. Human remains are not commodities to be bought and sold. Human beings

00:21:34.880 are subjects with rights and a certain dignity. Okay? So even when it comes to the case of relics,

00:21:41.840 which could be 2,000 years old, relics are handled properly with an appropriate kind of respect.

00:21:49.720 They're not just treated like commodities that you sell at a bazaar or something like that.

00:21:54.420 But let's say, okay, we've established this principle that you can't buy and sell human

00:21:59.640 bodies. Well, that means that you can't buy and sell organs. In America, we still don't let you

00:22:04.340 buy and sell organs. In China, they do buy and sell organs. But also that means, if human beings are

00:22:09.920 not commodities to be bought and sold, that means that the IVF and surrogacy industry has got to go.

00:22:15.360 Doesn't it? If human beings are not commodities to be bought and sold, that means that Planned

00:22:20.940 Parenthood executives need to go to jail. Because Planned Parenthood executives have been caught on

00:22:25.100 camera admitting that they sold baby body parts to the highest bidder. And they joked about how they

00:22:30.480 wanted to get really high bids because they wanted to be able to buy a Lamborghini. What about that?

00:22:35.760 This woman's not allowed to sell some 500-year-old clavicle on Facebook marketplace, but Planned 0.99

00:22:41.520 Parenthood executives are allowed to sell babies who were just murdered and who were murdered with 0.92

00:22:45.840 the intent to sell their body parts to the highest bidder? That doesn't make any sense.

00:22:51.320 We know it's wrong. I'm not. Some people will say that. You're right. I guess we should be able to

00:22:56.260 sell bones on the open market. No, no, no. That's not the conclusion. You're right. Your intuition

00:23:00.820 that there is something wrong about buying and selling human remains is right. Now let's take

00:23:06.480 it to its logical conclusion. And that's going to take you into uncomfortable places in modern

00:23:11.180 politics because it's going to require you to contradict some of the premises of liberalism.

00:23:16.380 And it's going to require you to stop engaging in some of the liberal practices. In this case,

00:23:23.180 at the very least, the consequences of abortion, what follows abortions, and IVF and surrogacy.

00:23:28.260 Are you willing to go there? Are you willing to stop being a lib? I don't know.

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00:24:39.900 Speaking of gruesome things, a horrible story that is being reported essentially nowhere.

00:24:46.280 51 Christians were slaughtered in Nigeria on Palm Sunday. In part, I was talking with my team about

00:24:53.080 this earlier. In part, I think the reason that we're not really talking about it, why this doesn't

00:24:58.660 make the news, in part because the media don't care about Christians, but in part because this

00:25:05.780 happens regularly in Nigeria and other places in Africa. But 51 Christians slaughtered on the first

00:25:11.440 day of Holy Week, Palm Sunday. It leads into Holy Week, which concludes with Maundy Thursday,

00:25:18.740 Good Friday, Holy Saturday, Easter Sunday. What a way to start. Islamist Fulani militias attacked

00:25:25.680 two Christian villages in Plateau State, killing at least 51 people. The assault on Ziki Village in

00:25:31.600 Bassa County left homes burned. Entire families slaughtered, reportedly, including women and children.

00:25:36.560 Christians are the most persecuted religious group in the world. Period. Bar none. And Christians are the 1.00

00:25:46.980 group that receive the least sympathy. Period. Full stop. So when we're focusing on the plight of all

00:25:57.320 these different groups, racial, religious, I think that's fine. Some people say we should have no 0.99

00:26:05.560 sympathy for innocent Muslims who are the victims of war. I have sympathy for those people. I think 0.97

00:26:11.540 we can have sympathy for those people. Some people say we should have no sympathy for Jewish students

00:26:16.040 on Harbor's campus who are being harassed. I think we should definitely have sympathy for those people.

00:26:19.720 We should protect those people when we can within our own country. Certainly we should protect them.

00:26:24.400 And we should have sympathy for Christians, the most persecuted religious group in the world.

00:26:29.940 And we should, in a prudential way, from American national policy, seek to protect them even beyond our own

00:26:37.280 borders. We should seek to do things that will help them. We're a Christian country. We are part of, one might say

00:26:46.400 the pinnacle of, Christian civilization. This doesn't even make the news. Not right. 0.98

00:26:54.320 Now speaking of hatreds, President Trump was in the Oval Office with President Bukele, the greatest 0.97

00:27:01.740 leader of Latin America. And they were chatting about all sorts of things. And President Bukele

00:27:08.800 was asking about the strange situation of the media not talking about how the illegal crossings into

00:27:17.860 America dropped basically to zero when President Trump took office. Joe Biden said there's no way to

00:27:22.640 stop the illegal crossings unless we pass some big new law. And then Trump comes in, doesn't pass

00:27:26.960 some big new law, and yet the illegal crossings drop to zero. And Bukele says, this is so weird.

00:27:31.280 Why aren't your media talking about this? Here's Trump's answer.

00:27:35.140 Numbers not in the media.

00:27:36.900 Well, they get out with the fake news, you know, like CNN. CNN over here doesn't want to put them out

00:27:42.180 because they don't like putting out good numbers. They only like putting out because I think they hate

00:27:46.680 our country, actually. We've been listening to a lengthy live press conference inside the Oval

00:27:54.180 Office. I want to start with you. You are at the White House. Before I get to you, I just want to say

00:28:00.100 for the record, since we heard President Trump say in the Oval Office that CNN

00:28:05.340 hates our country. CNN does not hate our country.

00:28:10.420 I love this, this fact check. They can't help themselves. Trump goes out there and he baits

00:28:19.440 them. He says, well, good question, President Bukele. Actually, they don't cover it because

00:28:24.760 I think they hate America, like CNN, they hate America. And they can't, any sensible news

00:28:30.440 organization would just roll its eyes. Oh, here he goes again. Whatever. We're just covering the news.

00:28:36.160 We're going to be honest brokers. We're going to tell you what he has to say. Let me show you the

00:28:39.820 other side. You know, come on, give me a break. But instead, they have to say, fact check.

00:28:47.240 Actually, CNN does not hate America, which is much more likely to make me think CNN does,

00:28:54.740 in fact, hate America. Like the lady protests too much, me thinks. Actually, no, he shouldn't say it

00:29:01.960 because we totally don't hate America. We definitely, are you talking about me? We hate America. What are

00:29:06.260 you talking about? I don't, I'm like the least hating guy of America ever in the whole world.

00:29:12.220 You kind of act in guilty, man. You're kind of acting like a guy who hates America. They can't

00:29:18.320 resist. And this is how Trump leads. For my lifetime, Democrats would do stuff and then Republicans

00:29:26.060 would react to it. And that's just how it worked. I'm not saying at the pundit level, pundits to some

00:29:31.240 degree, obviously, are just reacting to the news usually. I mean, at the politician level,

00:29:36.300 Democrats do something, then we're on defense. And with Trump, he's on offense all the time,

00:29:42.460 even up to the tariffs. It's not just that we're trying to defend ourselves against the left's

00:29:47.600 predations. Then Trump comes out, he goes, hey, we're going to tariff the whole world and potentially

00:29:52.040 send the global economy into depression. And obviously, he doesn't want to do that.

00:29:57.060 But the fact that he is proactive means that they flip the script. For my whole life,

00:30:03.500 the liberal media do stuff and the conservatives react to it. Under Trump, Trump does stuff and the

00:30:11.860 liberal media react to that. Trump, it's the Republican that's leading the show. It's good

00:30:17.900 politics. Now, speaking of the liberal media, Trump is not only triggering them, he is also,

00:30:24.860 it would seem, persuading them. Whoopi Goldberg must have been a chilly day in hell. Whoopi Goldberg on

00:30:31.220 The View makes an impassioned case for why she supports Trump's policy to shut down the Department

00:30:38.340 of Education. What we have to always do, regardless of who you voted for, you still got to pay your

00:30:45.440 rent. You still got to take care of your kids. You still got to take care of your business.

00:30:48.580 And maybe some of what's happening, like, you know, they're trying to take apart the Department

00:30:55.020 of Education. Maybe that is a good thing, because maybe it will force us to make sure that our kids

00:31:01.260 actually get what they need. Maybe it'll force us to go to our state and say, listen, I want to make

00:31:07.720 sure, since you're taking all this money from my taxes, I want to make sure that my kids get exactly

00:31:13.340 what they need. I don't have to wait for the government to do it. We can do it. This is now

00:31:18.260 in our hands. This is in our hands. And it's going to be tough. And nobody wants to do it because it's

00:31:24.840 a bitch. But you know what? If it comes down to your survival, this is what you got to do. You got 1.00

00:31:31.240 to take care of what you got to take care of. And they're telling me that we're going to be right back.

00:31:35.400 Yeah. And actually, did you guys know that since the Department of Education was founded in 1979,

00:31:43.100 the test scores have gone down? Isn't that so crazy? And then some people say the Department

00:31:47.560 of Education exists to make college more affordable. But from the very moment that

00:31:52.200 Department of Education was founded, the cost of college skyrocketed. I mean, it's totally crazy.

00:31:57.300 And yeah, I mean, don't you why should some federal bureaucrat be determining what your kid is going to

00:32:02.540 learn in school when the local communities are obviously much better equipped? Hold on. They're

00:32:06.880 screaming in my ear that they want me to shut up and go to commercial now. I don't know why,

00:32:10.700 though. You know, I just want to make America greater. Good. Oh, wait.

00:32:18.360 Did I just accidentally agree with everything Trump is doing? Well, it's crazy, man.

00:32:23.260 But it isn't crazy. This shouldn't really surprise anyone.

00:32:28.900 Most people agree with Trump's policies. That's how he won the popular vote.

00:32:38.700 And look, it's amazing to hear them admit it. And obviously, the producers of The View are saying,

00:32:43.880 cut away, cut away, shut up. Stop agreeing with Trump. You're not supposed to do that. 0.99

00:32:48.000 Abort, abort. But yeah, if you want to have a popular TV show, if you want to appeal to the

00:32:58.120 opinions of most people, you're going to agree with Trump. Trump has the popular opinions.

00:33:05.740 That's how he won the popular vote. This is not, some of these issues, by the way, are not

00:33:11.040 particularly close. There are certain issues that are a little more controversial. Abortion, say,

00:33:19.340 or I don't know, Israel-Palestine or something, Ukraine, I don't know, something like that.

00:33:25.360 But on the big issues here, it's education, to use what they were talking about. Mass migration. 0.58

00:33:35.060 The economy. American manufacturing made in America. This kind of stuff, it's not close.

00:33:43.480 Paper straws. You know, Trump had that executive order, which is one of my favorite ones so far.

00:33:47.780 It says, we're going to get rid of these stupid paper straws. We're going to bring back plastic straws. 0.99

00:33:51.420 So now the libs have to defend paper straws. Nobody, not even the libs like that. 1.00

00:33:56.160 Trump's views are popular. Even the libs know that. Even Whoopi Goldberg on The View knows

00:34:05.180 most people agree with Trump. I want to give a quick shout out to all of the

00:34:10.720 right now who are here in our chat, live at dailywire.com.

00:34:15.860 Live at the Daily Wire Plus app, I see you. You are seen. You are seen. And I will actually see

00:34:23.340 your comments shortly in the member of Segmentum. Thanks for being here. If you're not in the chat,

00:34:28.060 what are you doing? What are you doing? Join the conversation real-time, unfiltered, with me,

00:34:34.140 the team behind the show, thousands of people just like you. Go to dailywire.com slash subscribe.

00:34:38.600 Become a Daily Wire Plus member right now and chat with us. My favorite comment yesterday is from

00:34:44.940 Jessica Haggerty, Z8X, who says, child sacrifice is only about 3% of what Aztec pagan temples do.

00:34:51.520 Mostly they perform tests and other religious services. Pastor Brandon probably. That's a little,

00:34:57.760 if I had written that, I would not have singled out Pastor Brandon. He's the left-wing pastor who

00:35:02.100 comes on the show sometimes. However, that is kind of the argument that he made. Only 3% of what

00:35:07.560 Planned Parenthood does is abortion. No, no, they really just exist to pass out condoms or something.

00:35:12.280 Ah, I don't think so. I think it's kind of about that. I think the Aztec temples and the pre-Aztec

00:35:20.260 temples in this case that were just discovered in Guatemala with a bunch of bones and remains of

00:35:25.700 four-year-olds and three-year-olds around it, I don't think it was just about keeping time or

00:35:32.320 something. I think that's kind of the defining feature of it. Now, we turn to a little bit of

00:35:41.160 good news. It was tax day yesterday. Hopefully, none of you will be audited or go to jail or

00:35:48.800 anything. The tax code is so complicated. I guess we all could at some point. Some really good news,

00:35:53.960 more than 20,000 IRS employees have offered to resign. So, you know, the IRS had about 100,000

00:36:03.020 employees right when Trump took office. Joe Biden really beefed up the IRS. Of course, Democrats,

00:36:11.620 they love the IRS. They love just any opportunity to go after you, find you, take your money, throw you

00:36:16.280 in jail. So, Trump wins. Between resignations and layoffs, the IRS is on track to lose about a third

00:36:25.380 of its staff this year. Started out with 10,000 to 15,000. Now, you got another 20,000, 22,000.

00:36:32.560 Wow. This year, they could lose a third of their staff. And I say, it's a good start. It's a good

00:36:38.640 start. My question for the Democrats is, they're going to try to make a big deal about this. This is the

00:36:45.240 end of the world. This is the crumbling of our government. Among actual Americans, among people

00:36:51.700 who vote, certainly people who pay taxes, who's going to complain about that? When the libs are 0.98

00:36:58.140 raising a ruckus, oh no, the IRS is losing a third of its employees. Who do you think you're appealing

00:37:03.700 to? What American wakes up at night and says, oh, honey, I just had a nightmare. There were fewer IRS

00:37:12.420 agents. I thought I might not get audited this year, or I might have to, I don't even want to

00:37:20.340 say it. I might have to keep more of my money. Now, what the libs are going to try to say is, 0.87

00:37:25.840 they're going to say, Trump crumbling the IRS. This is about letting billionaires off the hook

00:37:32.300 from paying their fair share. Elon Musk had a great rejoinder to this years ago, before the election,

00:37:37.880 I think it was during the Biden administration, when he said this whole, you know, the IRS needs

00:37:42.960 to beef up to go after billionaires thing. It's such a crock because there are already teams at the

00:37:49.960 IRS devoted to taking Elon Musk's money. You think the richest man in the world doesn't have a point

00:37:59.120 guy at the IRS? It's difficult for me. I'm not the richest guy in the world, and I have relatively

00:38:05.280 simple taxes, and it's difficult enough for me to figure out what I'm supposed to pay, what I'm

00:38:10.140 owed, what I can get back. I always overpay just because I don't want to get caught doing anything

00:38:14.580 wrong. And I am a broke, indigent, street creature compared to Elon Musk. And he says, you think

00:38:26.180 billionaires don't have teams at the IRS devoted to tracking our money and taking it?

00:38:33.000 It has nothing to do. Beefing up the IRS was not about going after Elon Musk. It was about going

00:38:38.120 after you. It was about going after the middle class. It was about going after the people who 0.99

00:38:44.460 did not have all the attention on them at the IRS. And now Trump is saying, see you guys.

00:38:50.200 See you. Who needs you? No wonder Trump's approval rating is really high.

00:38:56.100 We talked about this last week. There was a poll out of JL Partners and Daily Mail which

00:39:02.320 showed that Trump's approval rating not only didn't crater during the tariffs and the stock

00:39:06.600 market collapse and all that, but it actually increased a little bit. Now, some people said,

00:39:11.620 well, forget about that poll because the full effect of the tariffs, the full effect of the stock

00:39:18.060 market volatility was not felt by the time the poll was taken. Okay. Well, there's a new survey

00:39:24.720 from Daily Mail, JL Partners, found that Trump still remains popular with more than half the

00:39:32.460 country. His current approval rating is 54%. That's higher than last time. In fact, 54% is a tie

00:39:42.900 with Trump's all-time highest approval rating.

00:39:49.640 So much for the tariffs killing him. So much for the turmoil and potential war with Iran killing him.

00:39:56.920 So much for the deportations of gangsters killing him. The Libs have tried to make such a big deal 0.51

00:40:01.740 about some guy who might not be an MS-13 gangster, but he still might be. And it's sort of, it's like,

00:40:07.680 I guess, slightly unclear. He's in El Salvador. Oh no, that's going to kill him. Now the walls are

00:40:13.540 closing in. Trump is today. The man who won the popular vote is today as popular as he ever has

00:40:23.780 been in politics. That's after imposing tariffs on like every country on earth. That's after the stock

00:40:34.500 market took a massive hit. That's after the bond market took a massive hit. That's after the media

00:40:40.780 have been going after him left and right. What more can you throw at this guy? This is an example,

00:40:47.720 and I've applied it to him over the years, of what Nassim Nicholas Taleb describes as antel fragility.

00:40:53.600 This guy gets tougher the harder you beat him. Some people are fragile. You know, it's like an egg.

00:41:02.600 You drop it off the counter, it cracks. Some things are tough, like a rock. You drop a rock

00:41:06.660 off the counter, it's probably fine. Some things are anti-fragile. You drop it off the counter,

00:41:11.860 it gets stronger. That's what it seems to be with Trump. Not just with the prosecutions improving

00:41:17.280 his poll numbers, not just with nearly being murdered improving his poll numbers, but even

00:41:20.800 this stuff. People's wallets, in principle, being hit because of his policies, and they still support

00:41:26.780 his policies. And they trust him enough to carry out the policies in a good way, and they support

00:41:30.780 the policies in principle. If I were a Democrat strategist right now, or a Democrat candidate,

00:41:38.980 that number would terrify me. Yikes, man. What can we run on? Now, speaking of approval ratings,

00:41:47.380 a Trump acolyte has really nice approval ratings right now. Vivek. Vivek Ramaswamy,

00:41:52.440 a former presidential candidate, then was one of the founding heads of Doge, then left that to go

00:41:59.540 run for governor in Ohio. Vivek is currently standing at 71% in the Ohio governor's race.

00:42:07.900 This is after President Trump's endorsement. So his lead in the race increased significantly after

00:42:14.500 Trump endorsed him. This is according to internal polling by Tony Fabrizio. By this month,

00:42:20.760 Vivek's lead expanded even more. It went from 52% to 71%. It's a 19-point jump. What's really

00:42:28.100 interesting about Vivek's candidacy is he represents one of two sides of MAGA. I really like Vivek. I'm a big

00:42:39.760 Vivek fan. I'm also friends with people who are on the other side of MAGA. Vivek represents the free

00:42:48.480 marketeer, pro-legal immigration, pro-meritocracy side of MAGA. And he obviously had a ton of support

00:42:57.640 in the presidential contest, obviously has a huge amount of support in Ohio, and he has the support

00:43:03.160 of Donald Trump, the head of MAGA. But what about the other side of MAGA? The ones who aren't totally

00:43:09.740 pro-free marketeer, the ones who are maybe pro-tariff, who are pro-economic protection.

00:43:14.980 What about the other side of MAGA that is not pro-legal immigration? President Trump is pro-legal

00:43:19.920 immigration. He's anti-illegal. He's pro-legal. That's Vivek's stance. But there's a big side of

00:43:26.280 MAGA that wants to reduce all immigration. In fact, according to multiple public opinion surveys,

00:43:32.020 most Americans want to drastically reduce all immigration. That's a different side.

00:43:36.060 It raises questions about what the future of MAGA is when Trump is gone. Is it Vivek Ramaswamy or is it

00:43:49.940 J.D. Vance? I'm not saying those guys have any personal beef or anything, but they represent

00:43:56.320 different sides of MAGA. Is it Elon Musk or is it Steve Bannon? Elon Musk and Bannon seem to hate

00:44:04.020 each other. Bannon has made it his personal mission to destroy Elon Musk and take him out of the White

00:44:08.200 House. Is it Larry Kudlow on the economic side or is it Peter Navarro? Pro-trade or pro-tariff?

00:44:20.220 What is it? What is MAGA? I mean, this, the one Democrat critique of the Trump movement that I

00:44:28.160 think is valid and remains an open question right now is that the movement is about the man.

00:44:35.440 Trump really is a singular figure. There is no Trumpism without Trump. There is no MAGA without

00:44:41.040 other people try to claim the mantle of what true MAGA is. It's Trump. It's really this guy,

00:44:46.280 this political genius who has done things that no other Republican in our lifetimes have been able

00:44:52.820 to do. When he's gone and we now have to judge individual candidates by some more abstract

00:45:03.380 kind of platform or principle or theory, what is MAGA after Trump? I mentioned Steve Bannon. Steve

00:45:12.140 Bannon says we don't have to worry about it because Trump's going to win a third term. We're going to

00:45:14.800 have to get to that tomorrow though because today is woke Wednesday. The rest of the show continues

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