The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 1743 - Antifa CRASHES Prayer Rally for Children

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00:00:11.320 As liberals whine that President Trump is stripping billions of dollars in taxpayer

00:00:16.220 subsidies away from Harvard University, a Harvard professor has been caught in a scandal

00:00:22.240 emblematic of the era. A celebrated social scientist, one of the most celebrated professors

00:00:29.000 at Harvard, has been fired for manipulating data, for lying, that is, in a study about honesty.

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00:02:16.120 paid for by the American Investment Council. Investmentcouncil.org. This study is just perfect.

00:02:24.720 The timing is just perfect. It all feels providential because providence does govern the course of

00:02:29.500 history. And I guess this is just part of that. While Harvard is whining and shrieking and screaming

00:02:36.620 because Trump is taking $3 billion in federal subsidies away from a university that has a 50-plus

00:02:42.700 billion-dollar endowment, a Harvard professor is fired and stripped of tenure for lying in a study

00:02:50.520 about honesty. It's perfect. It's just perfect. This is the first time since 1940 that a Harvard

00:02:56.740 professor has been stripped of tenure. What happened? This woman, Francesca Gino, a celebrated

00:03:03.180 behavioral scientist at HBS, Harvard Business School, apparently tweaked some data in four

00:03:11.800 studies. This is according to reporting by GHB. And she tweaked the data reportedly, allegedly,

00:03:18.880 because the data didn't totally back up her hypothesis. This woman has authored 140 scholarly

00:03:25.040 papers. This woman has won multiple awards. There were some rumblings a couple years ago about her

00:03:31.880 dishonesty. There was evidence accusing four of her papers that had been published between 2012 and

00:03:37.140 2020 of using fraudulent data. Even earlier in 2021, there was a study on honesty pledges that was

00:03:45.720 definitively retracted due to evidence of data fabrication. A lot of evidence this lady just lied. 1.00

00:03:53.480 And Harvard, while at the one hand saying, we need all this federal money, even though we have a

00:03:58.300 $50 billion plus endowment, we need all these federal subsidies because we stand for truth.

00:04:02.720 We stand for science. We are illuminating the human mind. We are leading. And then on the other hand,

00:04:09.040 they're having to fire professors for dishonesty, even some of their most celebrated professors.

00:04:14.320 Hmm. This woman seems like she really deserves to be fired and stripped of tenure. 1.00

00:04:20.340 How many others are there? I don't think it's just about this woman. This woman might become a 0.93

00:04:24.260 scapegoat. But how long have we heard about the replication crisis in the social sciences? I was

00:04:30.100 hearing about that 15 years ago, 10, 15 years ago, that there's a replication crisis in the social

00:04:35.660 sciences whereby all these papers, scholarly peer reviewed, peer review is a bunch of BS too,

00:04:41.200 by the way. Peer review is just when a professor sends a paper around to her professor friends and

00:04:48.040 then the professor friends get their graduate students to kind of look at a paper or whatever,

00:04:52.560 give it the stamp of approval. But even the peer reviewed papers can't be replicated.

00:04:57.740 That is throughout psychology, throughout the social sciences, all the way up to the top

00:05:01.620 universities, supposedly top universities. Wow. What do you know? It turns out there's fraud.

00:05:06.880 It's funny that there's dishonesty in a study on honesty. I mean, that makes it particularly funny

00:05:12.580 and newsworthy. I don't think that this Harvard lady's dishonesty is all that notable. 1.00

00:05:18.400 In fact, I think this is widespread throughout the academy. It gets back to something we were

00:05:22.920 talking about yesterday. We talked about the commencement speech at the University of Maryland.

00:05:26.700 These graduates have paid a lot of money for their degrees and they've gone through years of what is

00:05:31.780 supposed to be a rigorous education. And their commencement speaker is Kermit the Frog. And I said,

00:05:35.580 that shows you the value of a university education today. I support university education in principle.

00:05:41.320 I'm one of the few conservatives who defends liberal arts education. I think it can be great. I love the

00:05:45.540 university tradition going all the way back to the Middle Ages. But what we have today is not that.

00:05:51.520 And that's true at the University of Maryland. And it's true at Harvard. In fact, wow, it's just

00:05:56.040 occurring to me. This might've been a little Nostradamus moment. You know, I hate to say I

00:05:59.340 told you so. I said, look, we're focusing here on the University of Maryland. I don't think it's much

00:06:03.340 better at Harvard. Bam. Immediately there comes a news story that Harvard has to fire one of its top

00:06:09.440 professors for dishonesty. This is what you're getting. This is your university today. So why are

00:06:17.180 we funding these schools? Why are your taxpayer dollars going to fund these schools when they are

00:06:24.360 not properly educating students? So they're failing in their pedagogical mission. And they're not even

00:06:29.620 producing replicable scientific studies. They're producing BS and nonsense and manipulating data.

00:06:35.840 So they're not even furthering the academic mission of growing human knowledge. And they're not,

00:06:41.680 what are they doing? They're creating sinecures for liberal elites to be insulated from you and from

00:06:48.900 the consequences of their choices and their lifestyles in reality. That's what they're getting.

00:06:55.720 They're getting a cushy club and a perch from which to condescend and express their contempt for most

00:07:03.780 Americans. If they want to do that, fine, I guess, whatever. We should not have to pay for that.

00:07:09.020 Once again, Trump just picks the perfect enemy. And then he gets all of his political opponents to

00:07:14.160 have to defend that really unpopular institution, the indefensible, in this case, Harvard. Now,

00:07:19.440 speaking of universities and speaking of the indefensible, Scott Pelley, who's from 60 Minutes on

00:07:23.800 CBS, he just gave a commencement at Wake Forest University in Carolina. And this was maybe the most

00:07:31.460 tone-deaf commencement address I've ever heard. This made Kermit the Frog look insightful and erudite.

00:07:37.840 Take it away.

00:07:39.340 But in this moment, this moment, this morning, our sacred rule of law is under attack.

00:07:49.280 Journalism is under attack. Universities are under attack. Freedom of speech is under attack.

00:07:59.440 And insidious fear is reaching through our schools, our businesses, our homes, and into our private

00:08:14.600 thoughts. The fear to speak in America. Power can rewrite history with grotesque faults.

00:08:29.420 False narratives. They can make criminals heroes. And heroes criminals. Power can change the

00:08:40.220 definition of the words we use to describe reality.

00:08:45.960 Is this a Saturday Night Live bit? We'll get to the final point in a moment. Is this a Saturday Night

00:08:50.340 Night Live bit? He says, power, this tyrannical, awful power, can rewrite history.

00:08:59.700 Oh, you mean like you guys did with the 1619 Project? We journalists are under attack because

00:09:06.080 the powers are trying to rewrite history. You mean like the New York Times did with the 1619 Project,

00:09:12.720 which said that the American Revolution was fought to defend slavery. A claim so outlandish that even

00:09:18.400 left-wing academic historians shot it down. The New York Times kept funding that 1619 Project.

00:09:24.340 Is that what you're talking about? You big libs, rewriting American history, toppling statues left and 0.91

00:09:31.960 right. Power. These powers that threaten us journalists. The power. They have the ability

00:09:38.520 to turn criminals into heroes and heroes into criminals. Oh, you mean like St. George Floyd,

00:09:42.500 the guys you all marched for and burned the country down for eight months over? I mean,

00:09:47.220 like Michael Brown, this criminal who robbed a liquor store and then charged a cop, grabbed at his

00:09:51.360 gun. That guy, you rewrote him to become a hero. You guys make heroes out of criminals all the time.

00:10:02.040 How have we done that? We want to put the criminals in prison. You guys want to abolish prisons. 0.91

00:10:05.540 And you want to let the criminals run free. Illegal aliens. Criminals, people who have, 0.85

00:10:10.800 the one distinctive thing they've ever done in America is commit a crime. You're turning them

00:10:14.500 into heroes. You call them dreamers. You mean like that? Well, what you don't understand is we

00:10:22.860 journalists who are under threat by the powers that be, we recognize that power can redefine words.

00:10:28.520 Do you mean like that thing I wrote a book on called Speechless Controlling Roots,

00:10:34.340 Controlling Minds? Thank you very much. You guys, you journalists who, I'm just going to use the AP

00:10:39.420 style guide as an example, ban phrases like illegal alien. Not because they're not precise,

00:10:46.120 not because they're not accurate, but because they are contrary to your political agenda.

00:10:51.540 So now we have to call them what? Undocumented Americans? But that's a lie.

00:10:54.540 Okay. Redefine words like woman. And now you redefine woman to mean man sometimes? These

00:11:02.420 people, they want to redefine words like babies. You redefine them as clumps of cells and fetuses

00:11:07.320 and embryos and blastulas and zygotes. And you mean like that? He is accusing Trump, really,

00:11:15.780 and all the conservatives who voted for him, and I guess most Americans, popular vote. You're

00:11:21.220 accusing him of exactly what you have done. Not just you liberals, not just you Democrats,

00:11:26.320 specifically the liberal journalists on whose behalf he's supposedly speaking. And then you want

00:11:32.260 to know the cherry on top. In the same breath, I'm not really making edits here. This goes straight

00:11:37.440 from what he's talking about, about all the threats to free speech. He says this.

00:11:41.060 Diversity is now described as illegal. Equity is to be shunned. Inclusion is a dirty word.

00:11:54.660 He goes from bemoaning. He goes from bemoaning the loss of free speech to defending DEI. DEI,

00:12:02.760 which is the justification for censoring speech. I have personally been disinvited from university

00:12:11.540 campuses on DEI grounds. Specifically at the universities, DEI is used to shut down speech.

00:12:18.800 FIRE, the Foundation for Individual Rights and Education, had a study on this come out somewhat

00:12:23.760 recently about the way in which DEI restricts speech on campus. It's not just on campus, though.

00:12:28.260 It's speech at the office. It's speech in politics. It's speech certainly on social media.

00:12:34.760 DEI is used as a way to censor speech. Now, of course, the real fight over speech is not between

00:12:41.400 free speech on the one hand and censorship on the other. It's a fight between competing standards

00:12:45.100 of norms. But by this guy's own logic, he says we must defend free speech and we must defend the thing

00:12:55.280 that restricts free speech. What a freaking joke. What a joke this man has become. What a joke his 0.96

00:13:03.700 show, 60 Minutes, has become. And also, what a joke the news profession has become.

00:13:12.740 Because the libs have been so dishonest, even in this speech. To say nothing of not knowing the

00:13:18.380 moment, like, hey, buddy, you're there for the graduates to congratulate them on graduating.

00:13:23.540 But unfortunately, they, being American university students in the year of our Lord,

00:13:28.420 2025, are receiving degrees from institutions that have lost their credibility. And so it's all just

00:13:33.940 a big joke. It's all kind of a big joke. Unfortunately. Unfortunately for the people

00:13:39.040 who have paid into it, the taxpayers, the people who have paid their tuition, the people who want to

00:13:42.960 have a normal country. Our elites have failed us. They've succeeded at destroying the institutions

00:13:52.560 that they had stewardship of. And now they're whining and screaming when the people don't want

00:13:57.720 to listen to them anymore. Now, speaking of speech and speaking of left-wing militants,

00:14:06.300 Antifa just came in and shut down a prayer rally. No surprise whatsoever. We'll get to that in one

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00:14:45.780 frontlines, which covered this video. Antifa, is Antifa still around? I guess they are.

00:14:50.820 Some Antifa guys tried to blow me up a couple of years ago. They've tried to blow up a lot of

00:14:54.080 right-wingers. They seem to either be in jail or just have gone home. They're not getting a lot of

00:14:58.420 traction. Well, they showed up to a Mayday USA prayer rally. This was a rally specifically against

00:15:04.400 transing the kids. And they're standing on stage, all of these Christian people,

00:15:10.640 singing sort of nice, happy, evangelical praise songs. And that was too much for Antifa,

00:15:17.100 which decided to attack them.

00:15:18.980 Hundreds of Christian worshipers flooded Seattle's Cal Anderson Park Saturday afternoon

00:15:31.380 to pray for the city and take a stand for traditional family values.

00:15:35.440 You will not disrespect the blood of Jesus Christ!

00:15:42.200 Especially against transgender ideology targeting children, all part of the Mayday USA revival 1.00

00:15:48.280 movement sweeping across the nation. And the Lord says, sound the alarm! Sound the alarm!

00:15:54.680 Lift up your voice!

00:15:55.940 But a time of blessing and praise quickly devolved into chaos.

00:16:00.080 Far-left activists and Antifa militants tried to disrupt the concert.

00:16:08.860 Pushing cops fighting, absolutely insane.

00:16:13.500 Throwing water balloons at the crowd, menacing attendees, and some activists even tried rushing

00:16:19.000 the stage.

00:16:20.640 Okay, so nothing surprising here whatsoever. It's even the Antifa guys, to me, it's all tired.

00:16:25.700 This trans fight, it's all, it's tired. We fought it, we won. We won, okay? 1.00

00:16:30.080 And we had that New York Times story on the show yesterday. Triple trending counties,

00:16:34.040 counties that have moved toward the Republican Party in each, successively, of the last three

00:16:38.740 elections. It's 1,433 counties. It's half the counties in the country almost.

00:16:43.620 Number of counties that have triple trended toward Democrats is like 57. It's basically nothing.

00:16:48.220 Okay, we won. We won on the trans issue. We've convinced people. We won on the immigration 0.96

00:16:52.520 issue. We've convinced people. We still need work at instituting those wins, but we won.

00:16:57.420 It's over. These guys are a joke. It's over. But they're still expressing their anger.

00:17:04.780 And specifically against this prayer rally. I think this really throws it into stark relief,

00:17:08.680 because you heard the singing there. It's just kind of like happy, you know,

00:17:13.540 relatively anodyne evangelical worship music. This is not exactly deus volt, like, you know,

00:17:23.060 crusading to the Holy Land to slay the Saracens, okay? This should be about as inoffensive as it

00:17:28.720 gets. And yet these pro-trans, pro-antifa radical leftists really, really hate it. And that should 0.50

00:17:34.480 not be surprising. The left has always been opposed to the church. That's where the left comes from.

00:17:40.080 The term left and right, it comes from the French Revolution, the National Assembly,

00:17:45.780 where the Catholics and monarchists sat on the right, and the liberals and Republicans and

00:17:53.080 atheists sat on the left. So it's always been about taking down the church. That's what the 0.98

00:17:58.480 French Revolution was chiefly aimed at, aimed broadly at taking down throne and altar, but with

00:18:03.380 special emphasis on altar, the left is always ultimately going to oppose the church. That's

00:18:10.340 just the way it is. That's how it's worked for 250 years now, and it's how it's going to work into the

00:18:15.860 future. And as our political debates become increasingly, clearly religious, expect those 1.00

00:18:23.080 attacks to ramp up. For a while, we could say, oh, it's an attack on classical liberalism. Eh,

00:18:29.640 not really. Oh, the left, their chief object is to attack the Constitution. Yeah, a little bit,

00:18:35.420 not really. It's really what they're after is the church, because what they really hate is not just

00:18:40.580 classical liberalism or the Constitution or our country. They hate God, and that's really what

00:18:47.000 they're after. And they hate God's representatives on earth, and they hate orderly society, which is good

00:18:56.280 and conduces to our natural happiness, as the church helps to lead us toward our supernatural

00:18:59.780 happiness. But that's what they're after, okay? And I think our political debates are becoming more

00:19:05.580 obviously religious. It's not that they're becoming more religious, because human conflict is always

00:19:10.580 ultimately theological, but they're becoming more obviously religious. Joe Rogan is speaking about

00:19:14.900 religion, and the new atheism is passé and deader than disco. And we're just in a more religious

00:19:23.460 moment. The decline of Christianity has leveled off. It's stopped. Decades-long decline has stopped.

00:19:28.440 And so as that happens, expect the attacks from the left to be a little less partisan. Expect the

00:19:33.520 debates to be a little less, you know, R versus D. The R is one. The triple trends are all in our 0.95

00:19:39.240 direction. Expect these debates to become more religious, which ultimately is what they always have

00:19:46.200 been. Now, speaking of morality and child abuse, there's a new study out about the abortion drug.

00:19:55.300 The abortion drug is not just one way that abortions take place. It now accounts for most abortions.

00:20:00.900 On the surface, at least 60% of abortions, I was speaking with a very prominent anti-abortion advocate

00:20:08.960 who's really plugged in, and she seems to think that it's over 75% of abortions are now the abortion drug. 0.97

00:20:16.920 One line that we have heard from the abortion industry and all their lackeys in the Democrat

00:20:20.880 Party for years at this point is that the abortion drug is totally safe. In fact, it's safer than 0.91

00:20:26.680 Tylenol. Here's Dan Goldman, this Democrat member of Congress, parroting this line.

00:20:32.780 24 years ago next week, the Food and Drug Administration approved the use of Mifepristone,

00:20:38.520 authorizing it as a safe and effective means for women to end a pregnancy through medication.

00:20:43.100 In the ensuing two decades, there has been no evidence that it is not effective, nor that it

00:20:50.780 is dangerous in any way. It's actually safer than Tylenol.

00:20:54.600 It's safer than Tylenol. Safer than Tylenol, we'll tell you. Okay, so there's a study just

00:20:59.320 came out from the Charlotte Lozier Institute. It's a peer-reviewed article published in the

00:21:04.820 journal Biotech. So we're told that we have to respect peer review. This is peer-reviewed,

00:21:09.000 and it shows that that claim is totally bogus. There is no evidence whatsoever that the abortion

00:21:14.600 drug is safer for women than Tylenol, and there's a lot of evidence that it's much less safe than

00:21:19.940 Tylenol. It's obviously less safe, by the way, for the baby whom it kills. No surprises again here

00:21:26.340 that the pro-abortion movement would lie, but it does strike me that the pro-abortion movement

00:21:34.380 in particular relies on slogans. Slogans take place all over politics, but the pro-abortion movement in

00:21:41.140 particular relies on slogans, and that the slogans in the pro-abortion movement are just

00:21:47.960 completely false. They are just lies. Everyone sloganeers, and sometimes they stretch the truth, and

00:21:56.200 sometimes it's only a partial view of the truth. But when it comes to the abortion industry,

00:22:00.760 they say, my body, my choice. But of course, the controversial aspect of abortion is not the woman's 0.90

00:22:05.640 body. It's the baby's body, and that's not the woman's body. That's the baby's body. 1.00

00:22:09.020 When they say, the abortion pill is safer than Tylenol, that's just a lie. It's just completely

00:22:15.780 made up. When they say, thousands of women died before Roe v. Wade, annually of abortion, that slogan, 0.77

00:22:22.380 that's just made up. In fact, Bernard Nathanson, the leader of the pro-abortion movement, who then

00:22:27.520 became a pro-life advocate, he was an abortionist himself, he admitted, he said, we just made that

00:22:31.200 number out of thin air, the thousands of people, which is totally made up. Back alley abortions and the 0.95

00:22:35.460 coat hangers and all that. It's just that sort of slogan that this was an epidemic is just totally

00:22:40.800 made up. Not in reality. And when we talk about what Scott Pelley is so afraid of, you know,

00:22:49.740 the 60 Minutes guy in his commencement speech, he says, people are manipulating language to

00:22:54.500 redefine reality. Well, who is most guilty of that? We all use euphemisms to some degree,

00:23:00.060 but there's a big difference between saying that an old woman is a woman of a certain age,

00:23:05.040 which is true, but a soft truth, rather than saying that she's a young man. That's a lie.

00:23:11.120 And when the one political side in particular uses euphemisms to deny and in fact invert the truth,

00:23:19.560 when the abortion industry can barely say the word abortion, never says the word baby just about,

00:23:24.380 has to constantly be using manipulative language, dishonest language, false language to lie about

00:23:33.280 what it's doing. I think it probably shows you that that industry is doing something wrong.

00:23:39.160 That political movement is doing something wrong. They're trying to hide something from people. And

00:23:42.480 right now the people seem to have caught it. And I think the jig is up. And that's why the Democrats

00:23:47.860 are in this terrible, terrible problem right now, which is great news for the country.

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00:27:08.560 I heard from people, they said, Michael, it sold out so quickly. I wasn't able to get my hands on one.

00:27:12.860 Well, Father's Day's here. Christmas is coming up. If you want it, get it. Speaking of abortion, 0.67

00:27:17.880 there's some crazy actress lady. I, well, yeah, she's, I want to be as charitable as I can, 0.85

00:27:23.900 but she sounds kind of crazy when she says stuff like this. I hope that she's more grounded and she

00:27:27.520 becomes more grounded over time when she hears my commentary and what she said, because what she 0.92

00:27:30.700 said is nuts. She was at the Spirit Awards. This is for independent films. And she described how one

00:27:40.640 of the things that keeps her up at night is that in Trump's America, 12 year old girls can't get 0.56

00:27:44.380 abortions. You know, it's very weird to have like a showbiz guy in charge is surreal. I mean, because

00:27:57.120 well, I'm, I'm actually pretty horrified by how strategic and effective this whole thing has been.

00:28:07.700 And, uh, I think there is a real disconnect in all of the noise around like the individuals that

00:28:16.800 are going to be really taking the hits on a individual, like a human basis in the trans

00:28:23.320 community, gay community, black community, you know, uh, women, like when I think of the kids or

00:28:30.040 like the 12 year old girl that can't get an abortion or something, or, you know, that, that's what

00:28:35.340 really like rips me apart. That's what really rips her apart. That a 12 year old can't get an 0.96

00:28:41.200 abortion in America. That's what rips her apart. The fact that 12 year old girls can't be pressured

00:28:48.960 into ripping apart their babies, which of course, by the way, the vast majority of abortions are, 1.00

00:28:55.660 are not 12 year old girls. The vast, well over 99% of abortions are not women who have in any way

00:29:01.260 faced duress or, uh, health issues or anything like that. It's elective abortions. And she says,

00:29:11.360 she just, I don't know, America to her is every 12 year old girl in America. We need two cars in 0.95

00:29:17.800 every garage, a chicken in every pot and an abortion for every 12 year old girl. Ah, that's not my 0.99

00:29:22.700 America. What she says at the end there is just totally nuts. What's interesting is that what she

00:29:28.680 says at the beginning is quite sensible. She says, you know, it's weird to have a showbiz guy

00:29:34.740 in the white house. Donald Trump is a showbiz guy. Donald Trump was number one on network TV,

00:29:41.220 has dominated tabloids for decades, for like 40 years at this point, has been in movies,

00:29:46.960 has been sung about in pop songs and rap songs. And he's just a big pop culture guy.

00:29:53.260 He's a showbiz guy. And she's horrified by how effective he has been. That part is really

00:30:00.780 sensible. And more of Hollywood should have picked up on that, but they didn't, which is fine by me.

00:30:06.720 He's been very effective and he's effective in large part because he's a showbiz guy,

00:30:11.260 because he knows what sells, because he's very good for the ratings, because he speaks to people

00:30:16.740 in a popular way. Not just for the graduates of Harvard, who hear Kermit the Frog giving their

00:30:24.480 commencement addresses and who study all sorts of irreplicable scientific studies, but who

00:30:29.500 nevertheless get jobs in fancy, wealthy enclaves, the only couple dozen, few dozen enclaves that are

00:30:35.700 trending Democrat. Rest of the country trends Republican because of how effective he's been.

00:30:40.820 Democrats don't seem to be able to learn from that.

00:30:43.000 If they were smart, they would try to take some of that juice. If they were smart,

00:30:50.080 they'd try to grab some of that mojo. That's what Gavin Newsom was trying to do when he launched

00:30:53.680 that podcast and then tried to get a bunch of right-wingers to normalize him. So he says,

00:30:58.540 you know, okay, I'm going to sit down with Charlie Kirk. And Charlie Kirk took advantage to nail

00:31:01.840 Gavin on a few things. But what was it? Gavin knew that. Gavin knew Charlie was going to take

00:31:06.740 advantage. He said it's worth it because Trump is popular. He won the popular vote. The people around

00:31:12.400 Trump clearly know something that I don't know. So I'm going to try to talk to Charlie Kirk, who's

00:31:16.240 famously close to Trump, or Steve Bannon, who is the chief strategist in the White House under Trump

00:31:21.580 one. I'm just going to try to get some of their mojo. Whereas the rest of the Democrats insist that

00:31:26.820 50 million Frenchmen must be wrong. It's very effective. According to the polls, Rasmussen has 1.00

00:31:32.620 just come out, say that 50% of Americans finally say the country is on the right track. That doesn't seem

00:31:38.480 super high, I guess, for a lot of people. This is the first time in Rasmussen's 29-year polling history

00:31:44.260 that it has shown that 50% of the country believe that America is on the right track.

00:31:50.500 That's compared to 45% who say it's on the wrong track. That's big. And it has become fashionable

00:31:56.220 to say in the last 15 years that America is becoming more and more polarized. Actually,

00:32:01.720 I'm not sure that's true anymore. America was becoming more and more polarized.

00:32:08.120 Now I think we're becoming less polarized because the country is just becoming more Republican

00:32:12.860 because of the New York Times survey on the triple trend counties, because Trump won the popular vote,

00:32:19.840 because the Democrats don't even know what they're running on anymore. They're getting blown out of

00:32:24.100 the water. The country is becoming less polarized. It's becoming more right-wing. It's becoming more

00:32:29.960 Republican. It's becoming more conservative. Trump, weirdly, shockingly, in the minds of the

00:32:37.520 liberal media, is a unifying figure. Because when you dig in, I'm really taken with the New York Times

00:32:44.100 report, as I think everyone should be. It's great news for us, and the Libs should be pulling their

00:32:49.780 hair out over it. I was talking to sweet little Elisa about it last night. No, I was talking to some

00:32:54.380 of my colleagues around here today about this. I said, well, hold on. Dig into the details. Is it just that

00:32:59.100 he's really gaining among white people? I said, no. According to the Times report, it's like

00:33:04.660 everyone. Everyone seems to be trending more conservative. That's a big win. That's very

00:33:11.520 effective. The left should be scared. The smart ones are trying to adapt. The less prudent ones

00:33:20.040 are doubling down. Like Sam Harris, one of the four horsemen of the New Atheist Movement. Sam Harris

00:33:26.340 really not aging well. I'm not saying that physically. It looks perfectly fine. But his

00:33:31.800 ideas are not aging well. That New Atheism is a joke, man. They went from being the really cool, 1.00

00:33:36.580 you know, so much smarter than everybody guys, to just being the fedora-tipping Reddit atheists.

00:33:40.860 You know, it's just, that's not, it's cringe. It's lame. It's deader than disco. So his one big idea,

00:33:46.220 if you can call it that, is totally passe. And his political affiliation, which is lib,

00:33:51.960 Democrat, defend Biden, Trump's always awful. If only, if only Trump were taken out. 0.51

00:33:58.160 That's passe, too. Here's what he has to say.

00:34:01.100 I think it's, it's quite possible that he was just, just checked out to a degree that,

00:34:07.320 that I did not suspect at the time. But to, to close the loop on this whole scandal,

00:34:12.180 even that is preferable to me and to, I think, many Democrats than having someone who we consider

00:34:21.320 to be genuinely evil, genuinely 100% purposed to serving himself in the office of the presidency.

00:34:29.980 I would rather have a president, I would rather have a president in a coma where the duties of

00:34:35.580 the presidency are executed by a committee of just normal people, right? So that, that's the,

00:34:42.000 and that's the choice that many of us believe was before us. And so therefore, not much materially

00:34:49.620 changes once you reveal just how insane and despicable this cover-up of Biden's infirmities

00:34:57.220 actually was.

00:34:57.780 But Sam, but how you get there matters. And it would be one thing if those people told the American

00:35:03.580 people, Hey, he's not compost mentis. We're going to take it from here. We know what we're doing.

00:35:08.420 We're fine. But that didn't happen. And I mean, just this.

00:35:14.020 It didn't happen though, did it? So I should have mentioned at the top of that, I think you probably

00:35:17.500 intuited it, that he's talking about that the reports have come out that Biden actually wasn't

00:35:22.600 in his right mind. And actually there was a little politburo around him of some top aides and family

00:35:28.820 members, including his corrupt son, Hunter Biden, that were really kind of running the country.

00:35:33.420 And Sam Harris is saying, yeah, but I don't care. I would rather the guy that I want be the face of

00:35:40.400 the government and the government really just be run by a committee of normal people rather than

00:35:44.600 this man that I think is evil, Donald Trump run the country. And in defense of Sam Harris,

00:35:49.980 I get the logic. I would rather a committee of Republicans run the country than a single

00:35:56.740 effective Democrat, certainly. Assuming we're all legal and on the up and up and moral and everything.

00:36:02.980 But the problem here is they didn't have a committee of normal people.

00:36:08.040 They had a committee of people who were totally out of touch with what people wanted,

00:36:12.940 totally out of touch with reality, with what people wanted on immigration, on sexual ethics,

00:36:18.140 on education, on everything. And he says he accuses Trump of just enriching himself or something,

00:36:25.160 turning the government to private interest. That's what Biden did. That's not really what Trump has done.

00:36:30.640 Biden was the one whose son was going around with the open bag to all the most corrupt people around

00:36:35.060 the world taking bribes on behalf of the enrichment of the Biden family. Trump hasn't done that.

00:36:40.920 In as much as Trump's ventures and properties have increased in value over his time in politics,

00:36:46.980 one, he had four years in the wilderness where he was forced to found a technology and media company

00:36:51.160 because he was booted off of the tech and media platforms that he used to speak on. But two,

00:36:56.800 he's totally open about it. He's totally transparent about his business interests.

00:37:00.640 He has longstanding decades-old business interests. And he has sacrificed a lot of that for his political

00:37:07.960 service. He hasn't really enriched himself relatively all that much, certainly compared

00:37:12.900 to other guys like Joe Biden. Joe Biden entered the vice presidency with something like $100,000 net worth.

00:37:18.760 Now he's worth many, many millions of dollars. And Hunter Biden, who really should not have made any

00:37:24.000 money at all, has made many, many millions of dollars. A lot of it recorded on his laptop and

00:37:28.640 on video. And according to his texts and emails, he kicked back a lot of it to the big guy, Joe Biden.

00:37:34.520 So it just doesn't play. And it makes these guys look really bad. I guess we shouldn't be surprised

00:37:43.340 that an atheist would be willing to put morality to the side. But that's what he's saying here.

00:37:51.800 He's saying, yeah, I'd rather just kind of, we all pretend, we all just sort of lie about Biden being

00:37:58.060 mentally sufficient. You know, because you're not really, the constitution doesn't let you have

00:38:02.760 government by a committee in the executive branch. It's supposed to be by a president, but we'll all

00:38:06.500 just kind of lie and we'll all pretend and we'll all have this committee run. Well, the committee is not

00:38:11.540 made up of normal people. It's made up of very corrupt people who are out of touch. And I got 0.87

00:38:15.940 booted out just like a lot of these ideas from the left, the new atheism, this leftism, the coalition

00:38:23.060 of the ascendant, all this stuff has just been booted. My, how quickly things can change.

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00:38:55.280 yesterday is from Linda LJH1 who says, my husband and I both had drunken parents who fought. My parents

00:39:00.880 divorced when I was 11. His stayed married. I envied him for not having to go through a horrible

00:39:04.960 divorce. We both fought like mad to keep our marriage for our kids, and we made it. Thanks

00:39:09.900 be to God. Really beautiful comment. Sorry you both went through bad upbringings, but I hear this

00:39:14.420 sometimes. People will say, we talked about it on the show yesterday. Well, it's better for the kids

00:39:19.840 if the parents divorce, because then the parents will be happy. Better for the parents to divorce

00:39:25.100 than for them to be unhappy in a marriage. That's just not true. It's just not true. There was that

00:39:30.280 study that came out about how parents, first of all, a third of Americans are going to see their

00:39:35.940 parents divorce before they reach adulthood, and how this is now out of UC Merced, how children whose

00:39:44.520 parents divorce before they turn five are more likely to face incarceration, poverty, and death.

00:39:53.380 There's no surprises there whatsoever. I like how you're saying, look, I grew up, it was a bad

00:39:58.660 marriage, and my husband's parents were in a bad marriage, and mine divorced and his didn't, and I

00:40:03.380 envied him. I think that's the reality of it. If a third of Americans are dealing with that, this is

00:40:08.900 an issue whose reckoning has come. Speaking of Biden being out of it, the reckoning that has come from

00:40:18.460 the media here. Jake Tapper co-authored this book with Alex Thompson about how Biden actually wasn't

00:40:27.100 all there. Lights were on, but no one was home. Something that conservatives said, and we were

00:40:30.920 called liars and deceivers and conspiracy theorists by the liberal media, including people like Jake

00:40:37.000 Tapper, and now he's making all this money on this book, Original Sin. So Alex Thompson, who is an

00:40:42.960 Axios reporter who co-wrote the book with Tapper, he seems to be like a pretty straight shooter.

00:40:46.680 And he is just giving out a lot of details that he's uncovered about the Biden administration,

00:40:53.100 namely that the Biden aides felt justified in doing undemocratic things to stop Trump from being

00:40:59.500 reelected. Well, and it did seem like there's so many people who you would have thought would

00:41:04.280 have access to him who didn't because of this inner circle that really much managed his schedule and

00:41:09.320 his time and his access in a way that didn't give a lot of people one-on-one time with him.

00:41:13.440 In the book, you quote a longtime Biden aide basically admitting he shouldn't be running

00:41:17.680 again. They said to you on page 85, he just had to win and then he could disappear for four years.

00:41:23.140 He'd only have to show proof of life every once in a while. His aides could pick up the slack.

00:41:28.420 Who would have been running the White House in a second Biden term? 0.98

00:41:31.780 Well, this person went on to say that when you're voting for a president, you're voting for the aides

00:41:35.400 around him. But these aides were not even Senate confirmed aides. These are a White House aides.

00:41:40.460 These were unelected people. And one of the things that really, I think, comes out in our reporting

00:41:45.360 here is that if you believe, and I think a lot of these people do sincerely believe that Donald Trump

00:41:49.660 was and is an existential threat to democracy, you can rationalize anything, including sometimes doing

00:41:55.060 undemocratic things, which I think is what this person is talking about.

00:41:58.440 And including murder. That's the other part of this that is left unspoken here. But yeah, of course,

00:42:06.120 these guys were willing to do undemocratic things. I mean, the Democratic Party is famous for that.

00:42:10.760 Democrat Party in its own primary has superdelegates, just as one example. They have ways to rig the

00:42:16.600 primary against the desires of voters. Republicans don't have that. Democrats also were caught cheating

00:42:23.380 in the primary between Hillary and Bernie Sanders, giving debate questions to Hillary Clinton ahead

00:42:30.080 of time. So they do this stuff all the time. They're obviously willing to do undemocratic things.

00:42:34.360 Also because the left takes as its enemy the church, and because the left has a little more

00:42:40.700 of a loosey-goosey relationship to morality than many on the right do. Yeah, they're willing to subvert

00:42:47.340 democracy. For sure. But it goes further than that. They say, if you believe that Donald Trump

00:42:55.860 poses an existential threat to democracy and an existential threat to the country, you'd be

00:43:00.120 willing to do some undemocratic things. Yeah, you'd also be willing to kill him, which is really what 0.98

00:43:06.020 happened. Because Trump was nearly killed twice. One time it came really, really close because it 0.99

00:43:11.020 hit him in the ear and nearly blew his brains out on a stage in Pennsylvania. And the Democrats

00:43:16.500 justified that. They justified that before it happened. Joe Biden justified that when he launched

00:43:21.980 his presidential campaign and said he posed an existential threat to the country. If someone

00:43:25.060 poses an existential threat to you, you are justified in killing that person. That would be 0.91

00:43:29.720 self-defense. That was the point of all the rhetoric, an existential threat. Yeah, that the point of that

00:43:37.500 is to create the conditions by which this man either could be taken out through lawfare or could be

00:43:42.440 taken out by a bullet. That's really what it was. And if you have the kind of loosey-goosey morality

00:43:47.600 that the left has embraced in recent years, a consequentialist morality, a utilitarian morality,

00:43:52.660 a morality that says that the ends justify the means, then you can, in your own twisted way,

00:43:58.380 justify any action no matter how immoral. These are people who are willing to kill babies in the womb. 0.57

00:44:03.580 Okay? They're willing to do anything. No surprise. And now we have to all pretend to be shocked. 1.00

00:44:09.500 There shouldn't be. I guess that's the theme of today's show. No surprises. None of this should

00:44:13.460 be surprising to people who have paid attention. This is why, by the way, when people make predictions

00:44:18.680 about what's going to happen, it's not because they have a crystal ball and can see the future.

00:44:24.180 So people are called prophets sometimes, not because they can predict, this is true even of 1.00

00:44:28.980 prophets in the Bible, not necessarily because they can predict the future, but because they can,

00:44:34.040 and my friend, Father George Rutler put this very well, because they can warn of the consequences

00:44:38.820 that will come in the future from denying the truth, that a prophet primarily tells the truth.

00:44:45.560 And the appearance of predicting the future is a derivation of seeing the truth and seeing the

00:44:51.340 consequences of denying the truth. And that's what's happening for the Democrats now. They,

00:44:56.860 in particular, all sides can get a little bit sus in politics, but the Democrats in particular have

00:45:02.640 lied so egregiously, so formally for so long that the chickens are coming home to roost for them.

00:45:10.520 And that's why their ratings are collapsing on their TV networks. That's why people are tuning

00:45:15.220 them out. That's why they're losing elections. That's why the counties are not trending in their

00:45:18.740 direction. They've kept up a lie for a while. Deep philosophical lies, deep anthropological lies

00:45:25.820 about what human nature is. Deep, deep lies about the operation of government, who the effective

00:45:31.180 president is. They've just lied so egregiously, so in your face for so long. They're not going to be

00:45:37.980 able to turn that around overnight. Very happy news. Today's woke Wednesday. The rest of the show

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