The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 1734 - New Pope Snubs Rainbow Flag

00:00:00.000 Trump is slashing prescription drug prices. Qatar is offering the president luxury jets.

00:00:06.200 The Episcopalians want white people to die in Africa. There's a lot going on. 0.99

00:00:10.820 But before we get to any of it, I just need us to savor this video

00:00:15.320 of the new pope, Leo XIV, snubbing a rainbow flag yesterday.

00:00:22.820 Here is the Holy Father. He's walking in, greeting crowds of people.

00:00:26.440 He's facing his left side, and then he turns to his right side and he's greeting people

00:00:32.940 just as there's a rainbow flag. And then right when he gets past the rainbow flag,

00:00:37.960 then he turns back to the left side. Now, technically, I don't think that was even

00:00:43.700 the LGBT LMNOP flag. I think that was an Italian peace flag. But the public certainly would have

00:00:50.180 confused it for the LGBT flag. And the pope refused to engage with it. Which, taken with the pope's 0.62

00:00:59.260 choice of name, vestments, use of the Latin language, liturgy, etc., etc.,

00:01:08.360 it is making me feel dangerously optimistic. I'm Michael Knowles. This is The Michael Knowles Show.

00:01:14.480 Welcome back to the show. We have the second Democrat presidential campaign out of the cycle.

00:01:40.640 The first one was the one that AOC aired. It's not officially presidential campaign ads,

00:01:47.000 but that's what that was.

00:02:10.640 President Trump made big news yesterday with a major policy initiative. He signed an executive

00:02:24.480 order about it, but he really raised eyebrows when he announced the policy initiative by talking about

00:02:30.640 his super fat friend. I mean, I'll tell you a story. A friend of mine who's a businessman, very, very,

00:02:38.420 very top guy. Most of you would have heard of him. A highly neurotic, brilliant businessman,

00:02:45.640 seriously overweight. And he takes the fat, the fat shot drug. And he called me up and he said, 0.99

00:02:54.820 uh, president, he calls me, he used to call me Donald. Now he calls me president. So that's nice

00:03:00.280 respect. But he's a rough guy, smart guy. Very successful, very rich. I wouldn't even know how

00:03:06.640 we would know this, but because he's got comments. He said, president, could I ask you a question?

00:03:10.340 What? I'm in London and I just paid for this damn fat drug I take. I said, it's not working. 1.00

00:03:17.020 They said, he said, I just paid $88. And in New York, I pay $1,300. What the hell is going on?

00:03:28.760 Okay. So the upshot of this story is, uh, drug prices in America are high relative to the rest

00:03:37.520 of the world. That's the option. That's the thing that Trump is trying to convey here and is conveying

00:03:43.880 very successfully. He could have just said drug prices in America are higher than they are in the

00:03:48.160 rest of the world. But instead he says, I have a friend, very, very fat friend. He's successful,

00:03:53.180 rich, but fat. How fat is he? Oh, he's so fat. He's so fat. His mama said, so he's got this really 0.53

00:04:02.340 fat friend, you know, and he calls me, he says, Hey president. That's what he called him. The

00:04:06.620 president. I don't know if you knew that. Anyway, it's like a Norm Macdonald shaggy dog joke.

00:04:10.240 This is like a Rodney Dangerfield bit. You know, I'll know my doctor, Dr. Vinnie Wombats.

00:04:14.660 And then he says, yeah, yeah. Hey president, you know, I'd take the fat shot. Excuse me. I got

00:04:20.560 to interrupt. It's not working. Why? Why say all of this to introduce an executive order to bring

00:04:30.260 down drug prices, to call attention to a simple fact that drug prices are higher in America than

00:04:34.380 they are in the rest of the world. Because it gets your attention, because it humanizes the issue.

00:04:40.600 Because it, it, it turns policy wonkery into a, an image of real world problems.

00:04:49.040 All the Republicans before Trump, they go out, well, I think it's very important. We need to

00:04:53.520 reduce the cost of pharmaceutical drugs. Pharmaceutical drugs in the United States can

00:04:56.600 cost sometimes 80, a hundred percent, sometimes four or 500 percent more than they cost in other

00:05:02.020 developed nations. And so what we're going to do is boring. Who cares? Because I got this friend.

00:05:08.720 He's so fat. Oh boy. He's so fat. How fat is he? Faith's so fat. He's got moons orbiting around him. 0.96

00:05:16.660 I tell you, I got this friend. So then he gets to the actual executive order. The executive order

00:05:22.120 says that the pharmaceutical prices, pharmaceutical companies must reduce prices 30 to 80 percent in

00:05:29.620 the United States. How's Trump going to do this? Is this just communism? Is this just a command and

00:05:34.980 control economy? Well, hold on. Let's get into the specifics. Trump says, I will be instituting a

00:05:42.080 most favored nation's policy whereby the United States will pay the same price as the nation that 0.90

00:05:48.640 pays the lowest price anywhere in the world. Our country will finally be treated fairly and our

00:05:54.240 citizens' healthcare costs will be reduced by numbers never even thought before. So I love this

00:05:59.320 language, most favored nation status. Because we apply this moniker to different nations around

00:06:04.680 the world for all sorts of different policy initiatives. But Trump is saying, wait, why are

00:06:08.360 we giving other countries more favorable policies than we give to ourselves? Shouldn't we be the most

00:06:16.120 favored nation of our own nation? We can favor other nations too over and above others, but we should

00:06:23.640 be the most favored nation of our own nation. Shouldn't we? He says, big pharma will either abide by this

00:06:30.200 principle voluntarily or we'll use the power of the federal government to ensure that we are paying the

00:06:35.220 same price as other countries to accelerate these price restrictions and reductions. So big pharma is going

00:06:43.060 to cut prices for American customers or we're going to use the government to smash those companies into

00:06:50.240 dirt. Now, how much higher are the prices in America? President Trump yesterday said that some drugs in the

00:06:59.080 U.S. cost 10 times more than they do in other countries. And according to ABC News reporting, this

00:07:07.960 executive order follows Trump's long held view that the U.S. is subsidizing other countries and not

00:07:12.920 getting enough in return. So not just on drugs, but on trade, on all sorts of things, on the military.

00:07:17.620 So what do we make of that claim? That's just true. I mean, I remember studying politics in college and

00:07:26.080 totally banal, anodyne, middle of the road kind of people, many of whom don't even like Trump, were

00:07:32.540 teaching me that the United States subsidizes the cost of drugs everywhere in the world. Because we

00:07:37.800 pay for all the research and development, and then the other guys get to freeload on all of the

00:07:42.200 costs that we pay. So is this a just use of government? Is this just communism and command

00:07:50.540 and control? And is this going to, is this smack in our nose to spite our face? Is this going to hurt

00:07:54.840 us in the long run? Not necessarily. Because the plan does not pressure big pharma just to eat the

00:08:01.240 costs. This is not just a Barack Obama, left-wing, Democrat kind of initiative that tries to pretend

00:08:08.900 that you can pull money out of nowhere. This executive order is going to force other countries

00:08:17.240 to eat the costs. So it's not, it's not this pie in the sky utopian, we can just money appear, make

00:08:22.500 money appear out of nowhere. It's saying, no, no, we're going to make money appear out of the other

00:08:26.200 countries. We're going to stop subsidizing the other countries. Their costs are going to go up,

00:08:30.780 our costs are going to go down. We're generous, we've been very generous to people all around the

00:08:35.140 world, but maybe we've been a little bit too generous. Maybe we've been a little bit prodigal,

00:08:40.460 okay? And we need to, we need to pull it in a little bit. In principle, that is totally different

00:08:47.760 from the left-wing, commie, command and control, utopian, we'll just bring all the prices down and there

00:08:54.000 won't have to be any costs to offset that. No, there will be, and the costs will be borne by

00:08:57.840 the other countries. That's Trump's vision, and that's what got him elected. So if you don't like

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00:10:28.340 Did you? That's why you're looking peppier than I. I'll be real. I didn't, I didn't wake up early.

00:10:34.540 I didn't go to the gym. I barely got a cup of coffee. But if I want to look peppy and beefy like you,

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00:10:44.020 We'll work out after this. It's fine. Speaking of President Trump saving money,

00:10:49.580 biggest supposed controversy of the week. Qatar is offering President Trump, well,

00:10:59.400 is offering the government of the United States, I should say, a luxury jet to be the new Air Force

00:11:06.540 One temporarily because Boeing has taken a really, really long time, way longer than we expected,

00:11:11.900 building the new Air Force Ones. This, we are told, is egregiously corrupt. You're hearing this

00:11:18.760 even by people within the broader MAGA world, even some people who have supported Trump. Now,

00:11:24.640 I think the reason that a lot of people are criticizing this is not so much because it's a

00:11:29.860 plane as because it's coming from Qatar. Because a lot of people don't like Qatar because Qatar

00:11:34.520 sponsors all sorts of bad things around the world. And sometimes Qatar is enemies with nations that

00:11:39.660 other people like and nations that we're allied with. And they don't want us to have alliances

00:11:45.160 with Qatar. And they want to play this country off that country, off this country, off that country. 0.85

00:11:48.860 And it's all a big geopolitical game. And it's not really about the plane. However, there is a

00:11:54.100 legitimate question. I don't think it's much of a concern, but it's a legitimate question about

00:11:58.800 the propriety of the United States government accepting a big gift from a foreign country.

00:12:06.440 Does that come with strings attached? Is this Qatar buying influence? Is this corrupt?

00:12:13.260 The way the deal would work here is the plane would be Air Force One. So the US would kind of

00:12:19.280 refit it, slap some new paint on it, make it Air Force One. And then before the end of President

00:12:24.100 Trump's term, the plane would be donated to the Trump presidential library. So now the alarm bells

00:12:30.700 are really going off. We were saying this is corrupt. Trump's just giving himself a luxury

00:12:33.420 private jet worth hundreds of millions of dollars or more. Here's Trump's take on it.

00:12:39.560 Mr. President, what do you say to people who view that luxury jet as a personal gift to you?

00:12:44.580 Why not leave it behind?

00:12:45.320 You're ABC fake news, right?

00:12:47.060 Why not?

00:12:47.380 Only ABC. Well, a few of you would. Let me tell you, you should be embarrassed asking that question.

00:12:55.000 They're giving us a free jet. I could say, no, no, no, don't give us, I want to pay you a billion

00:13:00.340 or 400 million or whatever it is. Or I could say, thank you very much. You know, there was an old

00:13:07.760 golfer named Sam Snead. Did you ever hear of him? He won 82 tournaments. He was a great golfer.

00:13:12.100 And he had a motto. When they give you a putt, you say, thank you very much. You pick up your

00:13:17.780 ball and you walk to the next hole. A lot of people are stupid. They say, no, no, I insist on 1.00

00:13:22.440 putting it. And then they put it and they miss it. And their partner gets angry at him. You know what?

00:13:28.360 Remember that Sam Snead, when they give you a putt, you pick it up and you walk to the next hole and you

00:13:33.600 say, thank you very much.

00:13:35.080 Respect me, sir.

00:13:35.840 That's great advice. That is some of the best political advice I've heard Trump give. You know,

00:13:43.900 I think Trump has done a tremendous job in both of his terms as president. He's done a tremendous job

00:13:48.340 reshaping the Republican Party. Sometimes when he's articulating what he's doing,

00:13:53.880 it's less persuasive than when he's just doing what he's doing. But there, I think he's articulating

00:13:59.340 it absolutely perfectly. It says you people, you're wringing your hands over this free plane.

00:14:04.220 You know, when you're on the course and someone gives you a putt, say thank you and move on.

00:14:09.760 Just move on. What's the fear here? Well, the fear for some people is that Qatar is going to buy

00:14:17.480 influence with Trump. Will it? I don't know if that's true. Because look at how Trump works

00:14:25.220 with his enemies and with his friends. I'm talking on the geopolitical stage. I'm talking about people

00:14:30.680 like Xi Jinping. I'm talking about people like Zelensky. I'm talking about people like Netanyahu.

00:14:36.140 I'm talking about Vladimir Putin. I'm talking about Kim Jong-un. I'm talking about all of these

00:14:40.480 people. Trump, he has enemies. He has friends. And then sometimes he's really nice to some of his

00:14:48.060 enemies, tries to get a deal done. He calls Kim Jong-un a fat rocket man who's got a little button that

00:14:54.560 doesn't work. And he's really mean to him. And then he goes out and has an in-person meeting. 0.55

00:14:59.940 He's really tight with Netanyahu in Israel. He's got a town named after him in Israel.

00:15:04.480 And then when Israel's not doing what Trump wants him to do, Israel goes on its own.

00:15:09.660 He's polite and respectful to Putin. Then he cuts a minerals deal in Ukraine,

00:15:15.000 drives Putin up a wall because it means that the United States is going to continue to back Ukraine. 0.91

00:15:18.540 I don't think you can really buy Trump off with a private jet. In fact, I don't think Donald Trump

00:15:24.340 needs a private jet. He's been flying on a, what, a 747 for his entire adult life. I think

00:15:30.360 the guy's got money. All right. And then furthermore, there's this claim that, well,

00:15:35.040 Trump is going to keep the plane after he leaves office. And that's the height of corruption.

00:15:38.560 He's not going to keep the plane when he leaves office. The plane will be donated to the Trump

00:15:42.340 presidential library, just like happened at the Ronald Reagan presidential library.

00:15:47.380 There's an Air Force One in the Reagan presidential library in Simi Valley. If you haven't been,

00:15:51.680 I strongly recommend you go. It's very cool. You can go on tours. It's a big, beautiful

00:15:55.140 presidential library. It's, as Trump pointed out, it's one of the reasons that the library is so

00:16:00.300 successful. What do you, do you think that Trump, just at a very practical level, Qatar gives the

00:16:05.600 United States a plane worth, by the way, upwards of $2 billion. Trump actually undersold it there.

00:16:11.500 It's not that it's really worth $2 billion, but it's worth it to us because we pay almost $2 billion

00:16:15.920 per Air Force One jet made by Boeing, even though it takes way too long to make it.

00:16:20.460 So we, the United States gets $2 billion essentially for free. They slap the pant all over it. It says

00:16:26.180 Air Force One on it now. That Air Force One is then donated to the Trump presidential library. Do you

00:16:30.880 think Donald Trump is going to be privately flying around on a plane that is Air Force One?

00:16:36.920 He can't do that. That's not going to happen. They're going to park it at the library and make it a

00:16:41.540 big attraction and make the library a big success. I just can't get riled up about this. I understand

00:16:47.060 why some people are getting riled up. They're getting riled up because they hate Qatar, and they

00:16:51.340 don't want Qatar to have influence. They want other countries to have influence, but not Qatar. Okay,

00:16:55.540 fair enough. That's fine. We're all playing different geopolitical games if we prefer this

00:17:01.080 alliance and not that alliance. We want to cozy up to Saudi Arabia. No, we want to cozy up to Iran. 0.96

00:17:05.480 No, we actually want to appease this guy or that guy. Whatever. I get it. But please do not

00:17:09.920 relieve yourself on my leg and tell me it's raining. Please don't tell me this is about

00:17:13.500 the U.S. government getting a free airplane. It's clearly not about that. Now, speaking of foreign

00:17:20.060 affairs, Trump has just announced a marvelous policy through his deputy chief of staff, Stephen Miller,

00:17:27.320 to accept refugees. You'd say, hold on, haven't we accepted enough refugees? No, no, not the kind of 1.00

00:17:34.660 refugees that the Democrats talk about. Not the economic migrants who are abusing our refugee 1.00

00:17:40.020 system by claiming political persecution where there is none. No, no, we're talking about

00:17:45.000 Afrikaners in South Africa. These are the white people who are targeted by their government,

00:17:50.880 the government which chants, kill the boa, kill the fama, shoot to kill, shoot, shoot, shoot. 1.00

00:17:56.060 These are people who are actually fleeing murder and rape. Small number of people. 1.00

00:18:04.240 Trump is going to admit them. And Stephen Miller articulates why.

00:18:08.540 But what's happening in South Africa fits the textbook definition of why the refugee program 1.00

00:18:13.380 was created. This is persecution based on a protected characteristic, in this case, race.

00:18:19.480 So this is race based persecution. The refugee program is not intended as a solution for global

00:18:25.220 poverty. And historically, it has been used that way. Wherever there's global poverty or

00:18:29.560 wherever there's dysfunctional governments, then the U.S. refugee program comes in, swoops 0.99

00:18:34.680 people up, relocates them to America, and you have multi-generational problems. Even into

00:18:40.840 the second and third generation, you have endemic poverty, you have crime issues, you have integration 1.00

00:18:45.380 issues. The U.S. refugee program in America has been a catastrophic failure. I mean, if you

00:18:51.140 look, for example, at the Twin Cities area, just in terms of markers of educational outcomes, in terms

00:18:59.600 of public safety, in terms of welfare use, I mean, it's been a complete public policy failure. And so

00:19:07.660 this is an example of the president returning the refugee program to what it was intended to be used

00:19:12.060 as. So simple enough, right? He's saying, no, no, it's not that the United States is opposed to

00:19:18.580 taking in refugees. We take in a lot of them. It's just that the program has been abused to classify

00:19:23.460 economic migrants as refugees, and they're not that. The point of the refugee program is to help 0.98

00:19:28.480 people who are seriously being persecuted in a systematic way by their government to get them out

00:19:34.040 of those countries and give them a chance in small numbers. Okay, this totally checks the boxes.

00:19:39.340 But there's this big problem. The Afrikaners are white. That's the big problem. And the Libs don't 1.00

00:19:47.480 want to come right out and say it, but the Libs only want to take in brown immigrants. They don't 1.00

00:19:52.380 want to take in white immigrants. And they even only want to take in brown refugees. They don't 1.00

00:19:57.300 want to take in white refugees. The white refugees can be murdered. They can be raped. They can be 1.00

00:20:00.920 slaughtered. That's totally fine. White people bad, brown people good. Two legs bad, four legs good. 1.00

00:20:08.260 That's what they are saying. Some are saying it more explicitly than others, including the Episcopal

00:20:13.560 Church. The preeminent mainline Protestant Church in America, WASP, Old Blue Blood Central, 0.99

00:20:23.120 the Episcopal Church, would rather stop helping refugees entirely than have to help white refugees

00:20:32.660 from South Africa. According to Sean W. Rowe, the presiding bishop of the Episcopal Church,

00:20:40.260 quote, just over two weeks ago, the federal government informed Episcopal Migration Ministries

00:20:45.040 that under the terms of our federal grant, we are expected to resettle white Afrikaners from South

00:20:48.940 Africa whom the U.S. government has classified as refugees. In light of our church's steadfast

00:20:54.800 commitment to racial justice and reconciliation and our historic ties with the Anglican Church of

00:21:00.120 South Africa, we are not able to take this step. Accordingly, we have determined that by the end of

00:21:06.740 the federal fiscal year, we will conclude our refugee resettlement grant agreements with the U.S.

00:21:11.960 government. How many people are we talking about here? 49 people. Not 49 million. Not 49,000.

00:21:23.520 49 Afrikaners whose lives are threatened, who face rape and murder in South Africa, landed at Dulles

00:21:32.180 Airport. And the Episcopal Church would rather stop helping all refugees than be forced to help

00:21:39.860 even 49 white people threatened with murder. What's the total number in South Africa? 70,000 people.

00:21:47.740 70,000 people applying for refugee resettlement. How many do we take in per year? We take in millions

00:21:56.180 and millions of foreign nationals per year. Most of them illegal. That has stopped now under Trump.

00:22:03.920 But under Biden, millions of illegals per year, unvetted, run by the drug cartels, murderers, 0.98

00:22:12.380 rapists, drug dealers, fentanyl peddlers. But 49 people, at most 70,000 white people from South

00:22:21.020 Africa facing murder. Sorry, that's too much. The left just hates white people.

00:22:30.320 What other conclusion am I supposed to come to? I think it's as simple as that. 0.99

00:22:35.940 They just hate white people. They hate white people. All this talk about the rights of the 1.00

00:22:41.660 migrants and the refugees and the international treaties that allow people to seek asylum.

00:22:45.960 It's all fake. It's all bunk. They don't believe a word of it. They just hate white people. 0.61

00:22:52.440 I shouldn't laugh. It's really sad. But at least we know the terms of the game here. 0.99

00:22:59.300 And I'm not even just talking about the political operative libs who think that they're going to get

00:23:03.400 more in the long run electorally out of a Guatemalan immigrant than out of a South African

00:23:07.380 immigrant. I'm not even just talking about the cold hard political operators. I'm talking about the

00:23:11.160 left-wing NGOs and the organizations that purport to be churches that run migration services. The

00:23:18.180 Episcopalian church just hates white people. Funny because the Episcopalian church is whiter than 1.00

00:23:26.020 the freshly driven snow, so it's a bunch of self-hating white people. But that's it. That's 0.99

00:23:31.300 all it comes down to. I think the next hymn, the next recessional you're going to hear at your

00:23:36.340 Episcopalian service. They go, Paul, please rise for the recessional. Kill the boy. Shoot to kill.

00:23:42.600 Shoot, shoot, shoot. Really disturbing stuff. If not so horrifying, it would be hilarious. 1.00

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00:25:12.480 Freddie O'Connell, is whining about federal immigration enforcement operations going on here

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00:25:20.120 This is a tough moment, and I am heartbroken that today many of our neighbors in Nashville

00:25:27.680 are experiencing fear over family separation rather than the safety we all deserve. The trauma

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00:25:39.860 applicable law to protect anyone who calls Nashville home. What's clear today is that people who do not

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00:25:51.420 Immigration enforcement is a federal responsibility. MMPD officers are not ICE. What's clear is that

00:25:58.060 federal and state authorities are intent on enforcing immigration law. Their approach is not our

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00:26:07.420 partners who make all of our residents feel welcome.

00:26:10.480 We'll be launching a new fund called the Belonger Fund.

00:26:14.480 Whatever. Forget about him. Forget about him. 0.65

00:26:17.260 What's clear is that some people don't really care. They don't share our view of keeping Nashville

00:26:26.240 safe. So they're going to arrest all these criminals. Now, we think the way you keep Nashville

00:26:31.980 safe is by having the criminals running amok. But Trump and the federal government, they think the

00:26:39.220 way that you keep the city safe is by arresting the criminals. So I guess it's just a difference

00:26:44.060 of opinion.

00:26:44.560 Yeah, I guess it is. I guess it is. But he's right that Nashville has absolutely no authority to stop

00:26:52.560 this. And in some ways, I think he's speaking in this, you know, downer kind of way because he wants

00:27:00.880 to save face with his liberal voting base while recognizing from the broader electoral trends show

00:27:07.360 most people want the mass deportations. That's what they voted for. 0.89

00:27:11.420 This is, and you know, I mean, it's really, we have no authority here.

00:27:16.660 This government is just intent on enforcing immigration law.

00:27:20.500 You remember when we were told that democracy is sacred and no one is above the law and this is a

00:27:29.400 nation of laws, not a nation of men. Remember when the libs were prattling on about that?

00:27:33.620 And now they're whining, they're complaining on the brink of tears because the government has the

00:27:39.220 temerity to enforce the law. Now, this is sad. It actually is sad. Because there are going to be

00:27:46.760 some people who are rounded up by ICE who are very sympathetic people. I keep joking that the people

00:27:54.780 ICE is going after right now are face tattooed Satan worshiping gangsters. That is true. But there could

00:28:01.740 come a time when the ICE raids go after just illegal aliens, people who came here illegally, so they did 1.00

00:28:09.180 commit a pretty serious crime, but they don't rob liquor stores and they don't murder and they don't

00:28:14.460 rape and they don't pillage. They're just kind of minding their own business, but they're here 0.85

00:28:17.900 illegally. And some of them are going to be sympathetic figures. And it's actually okay to

00:28:22.840 feel sad for some of them when they get deported or when they have the misfortune of living next to

00:28:28.020 MS-13 or something. So they get lumped in with them too and they're deported. That is sad.

00:28:33.680 It is sad that Democrats put them in this position. It is sad that Democrats at the local level,

00:28:40.740 mayors of cities all the way up to Joe Biden as president, Kamala Harris as vice president.

00:28:45.880 It's sad that they encouraged these people to come into America illegally, put them in a precarious 1.00

00:28:51.960 position because the Democrats believed with justification that doing so would give them

00:28:56.920 a permanent electoral majority. It's sad that now those people are facing the consequences of the

00:29:03.900 thing the Democrats encouraged them to do. That's it. I feel sorry for them. I do.

00:29:08.020 Well, what do you want me to do? What do you want me to do about it?

00:29:14.100 I'm not, I didn't do that. I didn't encourage you to come here. I didn't encourage you to break the

00:29:17.600 law. I didn't insinuate that the law would not be enforced against you. I didn't try to override

00:29:23.680 the constitution with things like executive amnesty. I didn't do any of that. The Democrats did that.

00:29:28.220 You're upset about the deportations? Blame them. They're the ones who did it. They're the ones who

00:29:32.640 created the problem. We're the ones fixing the problem. Now, speaking of Democrat presidents,

00:29:37.320 we have the second Democrat presidential campaign out of the cycle. The first one was from AOC.

00:29:44.440 The second one airing on NBC News, some local affiliate in California. Look at this familiar

00:29:51.300 face. It's school backpacks. In a few months, it'll be Christmas toys. These tariffs punish families

00:29:59.000 and risk ending America's run as the world's greatest economy. Take it from California. We're the ones

00:30:05.520 leading it. We're the ones leading it. Californiafacts.com. Now, this is not technically a

00:30:13.000 presidential campaign ad. This is the governor of California who raised a bunch of money, got a bunch

00:30:19.160 of money out of the state to effectively kickstart a presidential campaign, though in principle it was

00:30:25.200 just to defend California against the predations of the federal government under Trump. It's really

00:30:29.080 just a way to kickstart his campaign. He is airing this ad for two reasons. To carve out turf and to

00:30:41.320 reserve donor money in the eventual presidential race. That's really what it's about. He doesn't need

00:30:46.200 to raise awareness about California. He's not fighting any particular lawsuit with the Trump

00:30:51.100 administration right now. This is about carving out some turf and keeping donor money on the side until

00:30:57.860 he announces a PAC or a campaign so that he can accept that money. But the race has already started.

00:31:04.240 That's what AOC was doing, too. And actually, we played Jasmine Crockett, the new AOC. We played her

00:31:09.680 on the show yesterday saying that the Democrat donors were already really, really excited about

00:31:16.760 a certain white boy, not a woman, not a person of color. And they're obviously talking about Gavin

00:31:21.200 Newsom. Now, Newsom having this space right now does not necessarily bode well for him. I remember I was

00:31:29.340 having dinner with a very successful Democrat back in 2016. And he said, Michael, all the smart money

00:31:37.020 is on Jeb Bush. I don't think so. Oh, yeah, Michael, all the really rich donors, they got their money on

00:31:43.840 Jeb. Obviously, it did not work out very well. But right now, Gavin Newsom is carving out that space.

00:31:51.280 Sometimes it works, as in the case of Mitt Romney, who was the front runner basically for the entire

00:31:56.700 2012 race. Sometimes it doesn't work like Jeb Bush. But it's on. Right now, the race is between Gavin

00:32:04.400 Newsom and AOC. Many others will join in. Now, speaking of incoherence, there is a story just

00:32:15.240 popped up in Sky News. It says, could AI translate animal sounds into words? Tech experts hope so.

00:32:26.380 The proposed system hopes to use AI to recognize a pet's emotional state and then translate it into

00:32:32.120 language. Will you be able to talk to your cat? We'll get to that in one second. First, though,

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00:33:45.000 It was the producers. So if it's a bad one, blame them. But if it's a good one,

00:33:51.520 thank me for having trained them. This is from Blood Splatter Artist, who says,

00:33:57.920 Pope's unearthed comments alarm LGBT Catholics. It's like saying his comments alarm adulterous Catholics. 0.94

00:34:04.880 That's true. Yeah, it's exactly like that. His comments alarm alternately sinful or heretical

00:34:13.140 Catholics. Yeah, well, who knew? Who knew, man? Okay, can you talk to your cat? Are you about to be 0.94

00:34:19.300 able to talk to your cat? A Chinese tech company has revealed it is exploring whether it's possible

00:34:25.240 to use AI to translate animal sounds into human language. It's not. Spoiler alert, it's not.

00:34:35.240 You see these articles pop up a fair bit, and especially with this new rise of AI, this new

00:34:39.980 technological revolution. It's really, you got to give credit where credit's due.

00:34:45.380 Klaus Schwab and the World Economic Forum, much maligned and mostly rightly so, did call the moment

00:34:51.360 that we're living in a fourth industrial revolution. The first industrial revolution was, you know, the

00:34:57.920 mechanization of industry. Then you added to that the assembly line, electricity. Then you added to

00:35:05.620 that another industrial revolution, the third industrial revolution of data. And now we're in

00:35:10.900 the fourth industrial revolution, which is AI, quantum computing, and the melding of biology and

00:35:18.260 technology. We're all going to get chips in our head, that kind of stuff. So it does appear that

00:35:22.460 we're in that moment. In fact, tying this all the way back to the first story of the day,

00:35:26.200 the new Pope, Pope Leo XIV, says that he chose the name Leo in part because we appear to be living

00:35:33.000 through another industrial revolution. And just as Leo XIII, his predecessor, addressed the problems

00:35:39.500 faced by mankind by the first industrial revolution, so too he's going to help us understand these.

00:35:46.060 Well, just as with all of the big technological revolutions, certain people are developing

00:35:53.640 utopian visions because they don't understand how human nature really works.

00:35:58.700 No amount of AI will allow you to talk to your cat because your cat is not capable of language.

00:36:07.200 And notice here the little sleight of hand in the description. The proposed system hopes to use AI

00:36:12.840 to recognize a pet's emotional state and then translate it into language. But language does

00:36:20.540 not merely communicate emotional states. If language, not language, but sounds can communicate

00:36:28.940 emotional states. For instance, if I'm really happy, I might sound like this.

00:36:33.880 If I'm really upset, I might sound like this. That's not language. That's grunting. That's screaming.

00:36:47.460 That's crying. That's shouting. It's not language. Animals can already do that.

00:36:55.040 Language is this. Language is, in the Baca, Euripides tells us that if you talk sense to a fool, 0.97

00:37:04.780 he'll call you foolish. That's language. Language is, justice means giving to each what he deserves. 0.99

00:37:09.740 That's language. Language communicates through signs and symbols, rational ideas. Animals cannot do that.

00:37:19.040 You can outfit them with every computer on earth. The most super-duper Grok 4.0 AI. They will not be

00:37:26.320 able to do that. That's not what they do. So the best that this kind of thing could propose,

00:37:32.700 or could really achieve, rather, is to say that it will translate a pet's emotional state so that

00:37:38.020 when the pet goes, the AI will pop out and say, I'm angry or I'm sad. But that's a translation in the

00:37:48.200 sense that you're actually totally transforming what's really going on in the minds of your pet.

00:37:55.000 But this is also part of the real impulse of the fourth industrial revolution, the AI age,

00:38:01.080 which is to make ourselves into gods. Most clearly articulated by Yuval Harari,

00:38:05.940 the left-wing writer, maybe most famous for talking about this, who wrote a book called Homo Deus,

00:38:10.700 God-man. We will transcend Homo sapiens, we'll become God, and we'll give our dumb creatures even 0.95

00:38:18.860 the ability to speak. Ain't going to happen, Buster. Not how it works. Now, speaking of conversations, 0.99

00:38:26.820 the U.S. and China appear to be on the brink of a trade deal. So last week, Scott Besson floated that

00:38:34.600 just coincidentally, the U.S. and China were going to sit down and try to work out this trade issue

00:38:40.320 that has caused global markets to be convulsing for weeks. The world has been coming to the U.S.,

00:38:48.100 and China has been the missing piece. I was going to be in Switzerland to negotiate with the Swiss.

00:38:55.500 Turns out the Chinese team is traveling through Europe, and they will be in Switzerland also. So

00:39:02.860 we will meet on Saturday and Sunday. And, you know, look, we have shared interest that this isn't

00:39:11.500 sustainable, as I said before, especially on the Chinese side. And, you know, 145%, 125% is the 0.93

00:39:19.620 equivalent of an embargo. We don't want to decouple. What we want is fair trade.

00:39:24.700 So it's clear. Besson couldn't be clear. He says, no, no, no, we don't want to decouple. We don't want

00:39:28.920 an endless trade war. We don't want the markets going up and down forever. We just want

00:39:32.100 a better trade deal. Now news reports are out that the talks went pretty well,

00:39:38.940 and the U.S. and China are going to be announcing a trade deal very shortly.

00:39:43.560 I don't know the details of it. I know that you're going to have partisans fighting over

00:39:49.360 who won the trade war. Yeah, Trump really forced Xi Jinping to the table, and now we got a better deal

00:39:56.460 for the American people. That's going to be one side. The other side is going to say, ah, Trump backed

00:40:00.040 away from most of what he was asking for. And actually, it was all useless because the evaporation

00:40:05.780 of wealth in a short period of time, we didn't really get that many concessions out. The whole

00:40:10.160 thing would have been better if we hadn't done anything in the first place. All right.

00:40:14.020 Fine. Duke it out. I don't care. That's the usual kind of partisan bickering.

00:40:17.680 Politically speaking, what matters about this is if a trade deal is done and satisfactory and the

00:40:26.120 markets like it and everything goes back to a new normal, that means that the market volatility very

00:40:33.500 likely will be a dead issue. The fact that markets have been roiled since Trump's liberation day in

00:40:39.940 the beginning of all these tariffs has caused a market correction. That's true. But everyone expected

00:40:45.320 a market correction before Trump got elected. Everyone thought the market was overvalued to

00:40:50.220 begin with. Everyone was expecting some kind of downturn, if not an outright recession, which

00:40:55.340 certainly would hurt Trump and the Republicans in the midterm elections and maybe in the 2020

00:40:59.420 presidential election. So the political analysis on all this is it is entirely possible, assuming this

00:41:06.900 trade deal gets worked out and the markets like it, that the market volatility will be a dead issue

00:41:13.280 in six months. If that is the case, what are the Democrats going to run on?

00:41:22.600 What is the big issue for the midterm elections? Immigration? No, everyone loves Trump's immigration

00:41:29.700 policy. The economy? If the market volatility is a dead issue, then I'm going to run on that one.

00:41:38.180 Healthcare? That was always a big one for Democrats. Maybe that, oh, except Trump is

00:41:41.180 bringing down drug prices 30 to 80% by forcing big pharma to force other countries to stop getting

00:41:47.860 a free ride. Will it be foreign affairs? The American people seem to prefer Trump's approach

00:41:55.940 to the big conflicts, Ukraine and Russia, Israel, Gaza, than they do to the Democrats. So what are they

00:42:03.340 going to run on? You know what they're going to run on? They're going to run on Trump accepted an

00:42:09.960 airplane on behalf of the US government from Qatar or whatever. What are they going to run on? They

00:42:16.140 have nothing. They have absolutely nothing. That could be a very good sign. I know there's going to

00:42:24.560 be all sorts of, but what about the economics of it? What about the substance of the trade? Yeah,

00:42:28.240 I'm just looking at it politically. Looking at this politically,

00:42:31.640 the White House has played its hand almost perfectly. A good position to be in. That's not

00:42:42.000 bad at all. So we can all whine, but no, but actually, but if you think about it, no, but why

00:42:46.560 this isn't, Mitt Romney wouldn't approve of that. Yeah, whatever. See ya. Doesn't matter. We're

00:42:51.080 looking pretty. As of now, as I said at the top of the show, I know it's very untrad, very

00:42:56.780 unconservative to not constantly believe that the world is about to collapse. But as of right now,

00:43:01.180 I'm feeling dangerously optimistic. Today's Teeheehee Tuesday. The rest of the show continues now. 0.90

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