The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 1746 - “I'm Not Gay No More”

00:00:00.000 I need someone to explain to me how Jojo Siwa is not today a lesbian. Jojo Siwa is an actress

00:00:07.840 and a singer, apparently. I'm not well acquainted with her work, but she's quite famous.

00:00:12.240 And four years ago, she came out of the closet and declared that she's a lesbian.

00:00:19.180 But today, she's dating a guy. And the guy looks like a guy. He's not even one of these margin

00:00:25.740 cases. So how is that possible? Did she stop being a lesbian? Because I was told,

00:00:32.500 I was reliably informed that that is impossible. The LGBT ideologues told me that sexual orientation

00:00:39.120 is immutable. So was she just wrong when she identified as a lesbian four years ago?

00:00:46.600 Because I was told, I was reliably informed that that's impossible too. The LGBT ideologues say

00:00:54.640 a person cannot be wrong about her sexual identity. That a person's sexual identity

00:00:59.980 is whatever she says it is. And you can't question it. But also, it can't change.

00:01:06.200 So how, I repeat, how is Jojo Siwa not today a lesbian? The LGBT movement cannot explain it.

00:01:17.700 Any way it tries to, it is going to contradict one of its own principles.

00:01:23.080 Which is why, I think, that aforementioned LGBT movement is cratering in popularity.

00:01:30.300 It is collapsing under the weight of its own incoherence. And now, on the first day of Pride

00:01:35.960 Month, one of its top celebrity promoters has decided to switch teams. I'm Michael Knowles.

00:01:41.580 This is the Michael Knowles Show.

00:02:01.500 Welcome back to the show. Secretary of State Marco Rubio is revoking the visas of foreign,

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00:04:43.340 days. This is really tough. You're getting a little bit of corporate pride. Some brands are

00:04:49.620 posting, but then they're immediately downplaying the rainbow stuff. You've got a prominent LGBT

00:04:55.620 actress, singer, lady who's leaving the team, going straight, dating a guy who just looks like a guy.

00:05:03.160 And in Boise, you have Pride being canceled. At least the Pride kickoff being canceled because of

00:05:10.120 low attendance. Here you go. Got it right here. KTVB.com reports Boise Pride cancels June kickoff

00:05:17.920 event due to low attendance despite strong online support. And that's the key here, I think,

00:05:24.260 politically. Organizers said the initiative aimed to increase visibility and create additional

00:05:28.220 opportunities for celebration throughout Pride season, but apparently no one wants to go. I think

00:05:32.680 that's true. I think we reached peak gay sometime in, what would you say, 2019 or so?

00:05:40.720 And as I predicted, it started to unravel. Once you start pulling on the trans kids,

00:05:46.720 it's difficult to stop the momentum of unraveling the whole LGBT LMNOP movement because it all partakes

00:05:53.020 of the same false anthropology. And that includes feminism too. The false understanding of human

00:05:58.860 nature, once you start unraveling that little knot, it just keeps going. But to me, the politically most

00:06:05.380 important part here is this apparent contradiction in the headline. Boise Pride cancels June kickoff

00:06:12.020 event due to low attendance despite strong online support. In other words, there is a chasm between

00:06:20.140 the real world and the internet. And we try to remind ourselves this. We say Twitter isn't real life. And we

00:06:27.020 say, you know, don't believe everything you read on the internet. But people get confused. They get pulled

00:06:32.120 into rabbit holes. They get pulled into distraction on the internet. Devil loves distraction. And it

00:06:38.240 confuses us about what is really going on in reality. I'm not sure if that'll be true tomorrow

00:06:45.520 or the next day or the next day. But at least as of today, Boise Pride's cancellation shows us there

00:06:51.820 is a distinction between what is being said on the internet and what is going on in real life. The

00:06:57.060 internet is still super gay and trans and weird and everything. And real life is not. It is

00:07:05.660 increasingly less so. I think that's true with a lot of political issues though. Things that people

00:07:11.860 focus on all the time on the internet, that still is not really necessarily what moves people's

00:07:18.220 heartstrings in the real world. Positions that people take on various issues on the internet,

00:07:23.740 I don't think are exactly reflective of people in the real world. I think this is borne out by public

00:07:27.500 polling. I think this is borne out by elections. And in this case of LGBT pride, it's a really good

00:07:35.820 sign. The internet can be all rainbows, but reality, people just aren't showing up. Now,

00:07:42.560 speaking of reproductive parts, Michelle Obama has made a curious claim. She just argued on a podcast

00:07:49.740 that reproduction is the least important part of a woman's reproductive system.

00:07:56.940 But women's reproductive health is about our life. It's about this whole complicated reproductive

00:08:07.860 system that does the least of what it does is produce life. It's a very important thing that it

00:08:14.360 does. But you only produce life if the machine that's producing it, if you want to whittle us down to

00:08:22.120 a machine, if the machine is functioning in a healthy, streamlined kind of way. But there is no

00:08:29.260 discussion or apparent connection between the two. There's no connection. Why would you ever think

00:08:37.060 there's a connection between the reproductive system and reproduction? Where'd you get that crazy

00:08:42.020 idea? Reproduction is the least of what the reproductive system does. What would you ask? Why is it called

00:08:49.820 the reproductive system? I don't know. I don't know. I thought it was because that's what it's for.

00:08:57.140 But I kind of see what she's saying. And the philosophical errors she's making, I kind of see

00:09:04.180 how she fell into them. Because from a certain vantage, reproduction is the least thing that the

00:09:12.020 reproductive system does, inasmuch as people aren't constantly pregnant. Now, let's say a woman has,

00:09:18.620 these days, a woman maybe has one kid. In the old days, maybe a woman has four or five kids.

00:09:24.120 Could be six or seven kids. But let's say today a woman has one to three kids on average.

00:09:32.860 That means that for the vast majority of her life, her reproductive system is not actively

00:09:37.340 creating another person. So from that vantage, you'd say, well, that's the least thing that the

00:09:44.880 reproductive system does. But what if I asked you about a guitar? What is a guitar mostly,

00:09:50.920 what does a guitar do? What's the nature of a guitar? What's the essence of a guitar? You would

00:09:56.040 say, well, it's to create music. But no, I'd say, nah, nah, create music. That's the least

00:10:01.220 thing that my guitar does. Most of the time, my guitar is sitting in its case.

00:10:05.640 Well, yeah, I guess that's true. Just from in terms of time, the guitar is mostly sitting in

00:10:12.040 its case. But what a guitar essentially is, is a musical instrument. That's what it's for.

00:10:19.720 It's not for sitting in the case, even though that's what it does most of the time.

00:10:22.980 It's for making music. And a woman's reproductive system is for making babies. And we know things

00:10:30.820 by what they are for. And everything is for something. And that is a fact that we forget

00:10:38.560 in the modern world. We get very philosophically confused, which is why we ignore what things are

00:10:45.060 for. And we use all sorts of things for things that they're not for at all. A very relevant topic

00:10:51.420 during Pride Month. But we need to get back to the old sturdy way of understanding things. Because

00:10:56.340 without that old sturdy way of understanding things, the world doesn't make any sense. And we don't

00:11:00.420 know what we're doing. And we don't know what we are for. And we don't know what life is for. We

00:11:04.380 don't know what political communities are for. And we suffer existential ennui. And we get depressed.

00:11:09.500 And we overdose on drugs and kill ourselves. If taken to its logical conclusion, that's how dark it

00:11:16.160 gets. We need to get back to asking, what are things for? We need to remember, everything is for

00:11:21.180 something. Nothing is for nothing. Things are known by what they are for. And we should use those things

00:11:28.880 for what they are for. So when we ask ourselves, what is the country for? The libs would say,

00:11:36.100 it's whatever we want it to be. And it doesn't have to be for anything. It's just whatever we

00:11:41.660 want. There's not even any such thing as a country, man. But I would say, no, a country is for the

00:11:47.900 common good of its citizens. Okay. Well, if you have the lib view, you understand how we get open

00:11:54.120 borders and knocking down our history and crime on our streets and letting the criminals out of

00:12:00.000 prison. And you understand, if you don't have a sense of what the country is for, you see how you

00:12:03.760 get there. If you know what the country is for, the common good of the citizens, all of a sudden,

00:12:09.180 all the other political issues fall into place. I know there are a lot of people in politics who say,

00:12:15.060 I only want to focus on action. I don't want to focus on philosophy. I don't want to focus on

00:12:18.680 principles. I don't want to focus on this abstract stuff. But if you get, if you go wrong in the

00:12:24.320 first principles, you're going to go wrong in myriad other ways all the way down the line.

00:12:31.840 If we cannot understand, if the former first lady of the United States, first lady,

00:12:36.600 can't understand that the reproductive system is for reproduction, that there's at least a connection

00:12:43.460 between the two, then we are suffering from a serious crisis of ignorance. We are suffering

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00:13:35.340 I got bad news for all the short kings out there. Tinder is implementing a height filter. Yes.

00:13:42.640 I'm sorry. I'm sorry, fellas. Well, I actually have some good news. I think there's a silver lining

00:13:46.960 here. It's being reported. I happily have never been on Tinder. I'm not saying that to brag. I'm

00:13:52.900 very happy about it. But sweet little Elise and I, you know, we were dating before dating apps really

00:14:00.240 became a thing. So I never had to deal with them. Tinder is now making it tougher for all the

00:14:06.460 all the Napoleons of the world out there because they're going to let users set height preferences.

00:14:13.280 Now, right now, it's only Tinder gold and premium subscribers. People pay for Tinder. That's

00:14:18.200 interesting. It's the higher tiers that can access this feature. And it's more a preference,

00:14:26.600 according to the company, than a hard filter. But still, it's going to whittle down the pool.

00:14:32.240 So should the short kings despair? You're not going to be able to even have the opportunity

00:14:38.900 to demonstrate your riz on a Tinder chat because the women are just going to filter you out in the

00:14:44.280 first place. No. Short kings, have no fear. Stay strong. According to the CDC, just 14.5% of men

00:14:55.560 are at least six feet tall. What's the average height? The average height is like 5'9 or something

00:15:01.580 like that. 5'8, 5'9. So it's not, it's only 14.5% of men who are six feet tall. Now, I looked not only

00:15:11.820 at the CDC, but the FDC, which is something that Mr. Davies turned me on to. It's called the female

00:15:17.900 delusion calculator. And you can set all these parameters for like, I want a guy who's six foot

00:15:24.000 three and makes $150,000 a year and does this and went to a top school and blah, blah, whatever,

00:15:31.360 you know, and you set it and you figure out just what tiny percentage of the population actually

00:15:35.600 matches all these women's delusional criteria. So according to the CDC, just 14.5% of men are six

00:15:42.860 feet tall. According to the FDC, under 11.5% of men are six feet tall when you add in the filters

00:15:50.100 that they have to be between the ages of 20 and 40 and unmarried. This is really the unmarried thing

00:15:56.540 I think that does it. So what does that mean for the guys who are under whatever, 6'1 or whatever

00:16:05.420 the women are going to set as their filters? What does that mean for those fellas on Tinder? It means

00:16:10.260 you're going to go through a little bumpy road, but reality will set in eventually because

00:16:16.960 even if the women on these apps are delusional about their dating prospects, reality gets the final

00:16:25.880 say. Reality always gets the final say. This is the great conservative consolation. Reality

00:16:36.380 reasserts itself in the end. So you might, you're going to get fewer matches if Tinder implements

00:16:41.080 this policy. It's probably better not to meet your future spouse on Tinder. I understand that's

00:16:48.100 just how people date today. So I'm not exactly knocking it. I've seen marriages come out of

00:16:51.600 Tinder. I get it. But maybe this is an opportunity to go out there, try to meet, try to meet people

00:16:57.520 the old fashioned way. We got a lot of old fashioned stuff coming back. Don't we? Pride month is out

00:17:05.080 in clothing. You get more classic cuts of clothing or back in. The gods of the copy book headings are

00:17:11.680 returning. Okay. And so maybe you could meet people the old fashioned way, but in any case, hold strong

00:17:18.620 short kings, you will, you'll get your Tinder matches again soon enough. Now, speaking of making

00:17:25.660 children, speaking, speaking of the next generation, Bobby Kennedy Jr. has just made good on a promise

00:17:32.820 that he made to me personally. When I was interviewing him at the white house a month ago, six weeks ago,

00:17:37.700 something like that. I asked secretary Kennedy, I said, Hey, I know we're not supposed to talk about

00:17:42.940 this or whatever, but, uh, is anything going to change about vaccine policy on your watch? You've

00:17:49.060 been very anti-vaccine for much of your public career. Now you're in government, the government's

00:17:54.240 super pro vaccine. You've got a lot of political forces. Are you going to change anything? And his

00:18:01.120 exact words to me were, everything's going to change. Everything's going to change. Then we waited,

00:18:07.980 we waited, nothing really changed. Well, now secretary Kennedy has made good on that promise.

00:18:12.940 Hi, everybody. I'm Robert F. Kennedy Jr., your HHS secretary. And I'm here today with NIH Director

00:18:19.800 Dr. Jay Bhattacharya and FDA Commissioner Dr. Marty McCary. I couldn't be more pleased to announce

00:18:27.440 that as of today, the COVID vaccine for healthy children and healthy pregnant women has been

00:18:33.880 removed from the CDC recommended immunization schedule. Last year, the Biden administration

00:18:40.840 urged healthy children to get yet another COVID shot despite the lack of any clinical data

00:18:46.700 to support the repeat booster strategy in children. That ends today. It's common sense and it's good

00:18:53.500 science. There's no evidence healthy kids need it today. And most countries have stopped recommending

00:18:59.080 it for children. We're now one step closer to realizing President Trump's promise to make America

00:19:05.280 healthy again. This is a great sign. It was always completely insane to give this untested shot,

00:19:13.040 this barely tested shot to pregnant women and little kids. It was completely insane. It was always

00:19:18.280 contrary to any scientific fact that we knew about COVID. But the reason this is a great sign politically

00:19:24.780 is, it shows that Kennedy is really willing to take on entrenched interests. It was unclear, you know,

00:19:32.000 people, they run on one thing, they have a whole public life saying one thing, but the minute they

00:19:37.300 get into power, and it's not even all their fault, the minute that they see the great forces that they're

00:19:43.840 up against, usually they change their tune. Usually they say, look, I got to kind of go along to get

00:19:49.760 along if I'm going to get anything done here. Kennedy is signaling, no, I am going to take on

00:19:54.760 one of the toughest entrenched interests in Washington, the pharmaceutical industry on one

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00:20:49.860 courage it takes to actually make good on a thing you've been promising and campaigning on for years.

00:20:55.400 That is very impressive. Now, speaking of things that came from Wuhan, Secretary of State Marco

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00:22:33.540 Secretary of State Marco Rubio just tweeted out, the U.S. will begin revoking visas of Chinese students,

00:22:42.720 including those with connections to the Chinese Communist Party or studying in critical fields.

00:22:49.660 This is probably long overdue. There are a lot of Chinese students at U.S. universities,

00:23:00.160 especially the top universities, Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Stanford. There's a lot of Chinese

00:23:05.500 students, a lot of foreign students generally. What did Harvard say in their new class? It's

00:23:09.840 something like 31% foreign students. But a lot of them are Chinese, and we have a hostile relationship

00:23:16.400 with the Chinese at the moment, a largely hostile one. And we know that the Chinese have a lot of

00:23:21.780 spies in the United States, and this is a really easy way to get spies in. I was speaking with a

00:23:25.320 spy on the Michael Ann series, Jack Barsky, former Soviet spy who lived in the United States for many

00:23:29.920 years, many decades, actually. And I said, has spying changed much from when you were a spy in the Cold

00:23:37.660 War to today? And he said, oh yeah, it's changed a lot. You don't really need to have these

00:23:42.120 illegal alien spies like we used to because you can just send kids to the universities.

00:23:49.920 Now they'll just go to Harvard or something like that. So Rubio is saying, all right,

00:23:54.380 we're going to revoke these visas for good reason because it's a national security matter.

00:24:00.640 Part of a broader strategy to, one, clamp down on foreign countries preying on our country and

00:24:09.660 taking advantage of us. Two, clamping down on foreigners being in our country, period,

00:24:14.100 because we have massive cultural problems caused by an influx of foreigners. And three,

00:24:19.200 clamping down on the universities is a particularly weak point for our political order because it's

00:24:23.300 where radical ideologies come in. It's where radical sexual behaviors come in and racial hostilities

00:24:28.560 crop up and apparently where spies come to. So it's all really smart stuff. To play devil's advocate

00:24:34.260 here. The argument against rescinding the visas is that foreign students going to our elite

00:24:41.560 universities is one way that America maintains cultural hegemony around the world because of

00:24:46.700 our soft power. We bring in the top students from all around the world. We educate them at our

00:24:51.700 most elite institutions. Then we send them out to do what we taught them to do. And this is a great

00:24:57.540 way that America, as the global empire, can flex its muscle without actually having to send the

00:25:03.160 Praetorian guard to enforce its policies all around the world. I get that idea in theory.

00:25:09.500 I get the argument even of the globalists in theory, which is that America has interests.

00:25:16.340 We want to enforce them all around the world. The problem is what we are actually teaching these

00:25:23.320 people, the supposed interests that we are actually defending, no longer serve the United States.

00:25:27.980 Maybe they used to, they don't today. Because what are these foreigners being taught when they come

00:25:34.680 to Harvard? They're being taught that America's terrible. They're being taught that it was founded

00:25:38.920 by white men and evil racists and terrible sexists and phobes of all sorts. They're being taught that

00:25:45.780 America's empire should be dismantled. They're being taught that America owes something to everyone

00:25:51.760 around the world. They're being taught things that are contrary to American power. Well, the globalists

00:25:58.540 who get America entangled in everything around the world, it'd be one thing if that were serving

00:26:04.400 America's interests. But all it ever seems to do is bleed us dry, throw open our borders, undermine

00:26:10.280 our country, undermine the common good. That's the problem. It's kind of like, I was explaining this

00:26:16.340 once to a member of my family about how, I was talking about religion and politics. And this

00:26:23.980 member of my family is a little more secular, all the rest. And he said, well, Michael, the way you're

00:26:29.780 talking about Christianity and politics, you sound like the Taliban. I said, no, no, no, I'm not like

00:26:34.660 the Taliban. The Taliban are Muslims. In other words, the problem with the Taliban is not that they

00:26:42.300 believe that there's a connection between morality and religion and politics. The problem with the

00:26:47.480 Taliban is they have the wrong morality and religion. Same thing here. The problem with the

00:26:51.740 globalists is not that they think that America should flex its muscles all around the world.

00:26:56.520 Donald Trump wants to annex Greenland and Canada and Panama again. Okay. So it's not that America has

00:27:02.900 interests around the globe and we're going to assert our interests. The problem with the globalists is

00:27:06.580 the kind of stuff they want to implement. That's the problem. And so when Rubio says, all right,

00:27:12.940 we're done with this. This isn't working for us. I think he's totally right. Speaking of the Trump

00:27:18.720 administration and kids, Speaker Mike Johnson, this story is more than a few days old, but it's really

00:27:25.100 important to drive home because you're going to see a lot of stupid talking points from the left in

00:27:29.720 the coming days about how Trump wants to cut health care for children and for poor people and he's

00:27:37.000 cutting Medicaid, whatever. Here is Mike Johnson on what he's discovered about Medicaid.

00:27:43.520 I've said the same. We are not cutting Medicaid in this package. There's a lot of misinformation out

00:27:49.540 there about this, Jake. The numbers of Americans who are affected are those that are entwined in our

00:27:56.000 work to eliminate fraud, waste, and abuse. And what do I mean by that? You got more than 1.4

00:28:01.040 million illegal aliens on Medicaid. Medicaid is not intended for non-U.S. citizens. It's intended

00:28:06.820 for the most vulnerable populations of Americans, which is pregnant women and young single mothers,

00:28:11.840 the disabled, the elderly. They are protected in what we're doing because we're preserving the

00:28:16.720 resources for those who need it most. You're talking about 4.8 million able-bodied workers,

00:28:21.640 young men, for example, who are on Medicaid and not working. They are choosing not to

00:28:26.000 work when they can. That is called fraud. They are cheating the system. When you root out those

00:28:31.060 kinds of abuses, you save the resources that are so desperately needed by the people who

00:28:36.060 deserve it and need it most. That's what we're doing. 1.4 million illegal aliens on Medicaid,

00:28:42.760 a program that is designed only for American citizens and specifically only the most vulnerable

00:28:48.720 American citizens. That's a problem. So when you say, well, the new Trump bill might end up cutting

00:28:54.240 healthcare for all these people. Hold on. It's not cutting healthcare from anyone. It is correcting

00:29:01.220 the way that laws are being enforced to how they're supposed to be enforced. It is correcting a wrong

00:29:08.260 that currently exists in this country. Namely, that the government is violating the law by offering

00:29:15.180 certain resources to people who explicitly are not supposed to have them.

00:29:18.680 But this shows you another deeper pernicious problem with illegal immigration. Namely,

00:29:25.660 we're not going to let people die on the streets. Far from. We're not going to let people die on the

00:29:30.060 streets. We're going to do our best not to let people die on the streets. And we're going to,

00:29:34.880 we're going to, we're not going to let people go hungry. We're not going to let people go without

00:29:38.660 clothes. We're not going to. So when, when you have millions and millions of foreign peasants

00:29:44.340 welcomed into this country, contrary to the law by Democrats, even if it's against the law,

00:29:50.080 we're going to give them healthcare and we're going to give that, we're going to give them a

00:29:53.720 lot of great stuff. And you want to do it too. And we all, at some level, even though we know it's

00:30:00.520 wrong in principle, at a, at a human level and at the level of charity, we're a very charitable

00:30:05.020 country. We're going to do that. So the way to avoid that, the way to avoid further corrupting the

00:30:10.360 law and our political order is not to break the law in the first place, not to throw open our

00:30:18.240 borders and invite foreign criminals into our country in the first place as the Democrats have

00:30:22.940 done. That's the issue. The, the other point on illegal immigration that I want to remind people

00:30:29.680 of right now so that you're not complaining in two months or six months or a year is, I want to

00:30:36.000 remind you and the Republicans need to do a better job of reminding people this. Everything in life

00:30:42.000 has a cost. I think there's some people out there, even on the right, who believe that when we deport

00:30:49.060 11 million illegal aliens, that's just going to make things uniformly better. That's going to make

00:30:55.200 things so much better. And there's going to be all upside and no downside. That is not true.

00:31:00.600 Everything in life comes with a cost. So we are now quite conscious of the costs of illegal

00:31:07.680 immigration, namely American citizens, young girls getting raped and murdered left and right,

00:31:12.360 and the drugs and the fentanyl killing 75,000 people a year, and the cartels getting their clutches

00:31:17.760 into America and the press two for English and all the terrible stuff that's come along with mass

00:31:23.100 migration. We know that, but there have been benefits too. That's, and, and certainly benefits

00:31:31.040 to certain groups and elites, but, but also benefits to people generally. By bringing in millions and

00:31:36.600 millions of illegal aliens, we have imported a class of slave to, at the very least, indentured labor

00:31:42.660 that, that we don't have to pay a lot of money to. So that brings costs down. Costs of things like

00:31:47.900 house cleaning, getting your lawn mowed, getting your grapes picked. It reduces labor costs. That

00:31:54.680 really happened. You could say, well, that's bad. We're just importing a bunch of quasi-slave labor.

00:31:58.560 Yeah, that's what they're doing. But people are enjoying those lower costs. When you deport 11

00:32:02.340 million people, your costs are going to go up. That's true. One of the downsides of, of importing

00:32:08.580 that cheap labor market is it's reduced wages for blue collar workers in America. That's true.

00:32:14.400 True. But other people have benefited from the prices going down because the labor has decreased.

00:32:19.560 Prices are going to go up. There is always a cost to everything. There is going to be some kind of

00:32:23.800 balance. Okay. And so we need to be aware of that going in because the present situation is

00:32:30.320 unsustainable. Part of the reason we've imported millions and millions of people is because Americans

00:32:34.200 aren't having babies anymore. But one of the reasons Americans aren't having babies anymore

00:32:37.760 is because we're importing millions and millions of people. And that's tightened up the labor market

00:32:41.220 and it's made our streets less safe. And it's, it's, it's made housing more expensive and it's

00:32:46.320 discouraged people from having kids. But also one of the reasons that we have mass migration in the

00:32:50.280 first place is because people aren't having kids because they're using condoms and not getting

00:32:53.040 married and engaging in selfish behaviors that are unrelated to mass migration and everything in

00:32:57.340 life has a cost. That's what we have to remember. Because one thing I fear is that when the costs of

00:33:02.640 deportations kick in, if the deportations ever really ramp up, when the costs kick in, people are going to

00:33:07.880 get cold feet and they're going to want to reverse it. Know what you're getting going into it.

00:33:13.180 Everything in life has a cost. And right now it seems to me the costs of mass migration are simply

00:33:18.240 too high. I think we're going to lose our country. So increasing the cost of grapes and getting your

00:33:23.880 lawn mowed and your house cleaned, I think is a worthwhile trade-off for having a country, having a

00:33:30.080 coherent country that is oriented toward the common good, that makes sense, that is a real people.

00:33:35.060 I think it's worth it. But don't think Trump is going to go in and wave a magic wand. You don't

00:33:41.080 wave a magic wand. We didn't elect him to wave a magic wand. We elected him to do hard things that

00:33:45.580 other people are too cowardly and weak to do. But you got to let him do it. You got to be aware of

00:33:50.680 what that's going to look like. There's going to be a little pain going into it. Every day it seems

00:33:54.540 like the world's going further off the rails. This weekend, Ukraine took out over 40 of Russia's

00:33:58.960 strategic bombers in a single drone operation, risking a major escalation if Putin retaliates.

00:34:04.340 Meanwhile, the UK is responding by increasing military spending to their highest levels since

00:34:08.300 the Cold War. And Iran immediately rejected the latest US proposal for a nuclear deal about

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00:34:27.880 Okay. My favorite comment yesterday is from Luisa Johanna Petruska, 3654, who says,

00:34:36.820 I knew with a name like that, I knew this would be the first line. As a Hungarian,

00:34:41.480 I love that you asked Orban those questions. I'm glad our small nation is getting so much

00:34:45.720 recognition lately. Would have loved to meet you. Maybe someday, big fan. Oh, thank you very much.

00:34:49.540 It's very kind. I was really touched, actually, by how many listeners to the show there are in

00:34:53.360 Hungary and Europe more broadly. That was great. I sometimes, even though I know the show has a

00:34:58.720 global reach, I sometimes just think of it as it's, you know, it's mostly Americans, but there

00:35:02.860 are a lot of people from all over Europe who listen. So I appreciate that. And I definitely

00:35:06.240 appreciate Hungary. You know, Orban, it's a very serious man. That's a very thoughtful man

00:35:10.580 who has led the way on a lot of these questions, especially migration. A lot of people don't know

00:35:14.120 this. Hungary has effectively zero migration. Not zero illegal immigration, zero migration, period.

00:35:23.880 And Hungary is a coherent country where, I was saying this to a colleague of mine,

00:35:29.080 I could walk around Budapest at three o'clock in the morning in my boxer shorts with five gold

00:35:33.860 Rolexes on each wrist. No one would look sideways at me, okay? That is a safe place. It's a great place

00:35:40.920 to be. It's a flourishing community, given that it is a small country. Doesn't mean there aren't

00:35:46.680 problems there, problems in all these countries, but it's very impressive. And we could learn a

00:35:51.520 lesson or two from Hungary, no question about it. Now, speaking of the Trump administration taking

00:35:57.540 on entrenched interests, speaking of Harvard, we were talking about Harvard a little bit earlier,

00:36:02.260 President Trump is ramping up his war on Harvard University.

00:36:06.900 And Harvard has to understand, the last thing I want to do is hurt them. They're hurting themselves.

00:36:13.460 They're fighting. You know, Colombia has been really, and they were very, very bad what they've

00:36:19.060 done. They're very anti-Semitic and lots of other things. But they're working with us on finding a

00:36:25.160 solution. And, you know, they're taking off that hot seat. But Harvard wants to fight. They want to show

00:36:31.040 how smart they are. And they're getting their ass kicked. Thank you very much, everybody.

00:36:35.700 Thank you, guys.

00:36:36.600 Thank you, guys.

00:36:37.820 Oh, even that line. I love how he opens it. He says, look, I'm not trying to hurt Harvard.

00:36:42.700 I'm not being vindictive or something like that. I'm just, I'm saying, help me help you.

00:36:50.040 But Harvard won't do it. They want to show everyone how smart they are. And they're getting their

00:36:54.700 A-double-S kicked. Okay. Good night, everybody. That was it. That was the sign-off from the stand-up

00:37:00.480 bit. That was the sign-off from the late night show. That is Trump being a showbiz professional

00:37:05.560 to the way he ended that little set all the way back to casting his perfect enemy, Harvard University.

00:37:13.980 Trump is so good, not only at doing the show, but at casting the show. He's very good at casting.

00:37:20.840 And he casts as the villain in this little show, Harvard. What a perfect enemy for this moment.

00:37:29.480 A populist moment where the GOP has become the party of the middle class and the working class.

00:37:37.060 That wasn't true in my lifetime all the time. When I was a kid, the Republicans were the party of rich

00:37:42.220 Uncle Pennybags. Democrats were the party of the working man. That has flipped. Now, Republicans are

00:37:48.040 the party of your average Joe. And so what does that mean? Your perfect enemy is going to be Harvard.

00:37:53.080 And Trump's going to remind you of why Harvard's the perfect enemy, because they're going to show

00:37:56.740 everyone how smart they are. Oh, they think they're smarter than you. They think they're better than

00:38:01.080 you. Well, guess what? We're kicking their derriere. That's what we're doing. So right. So right. And

00:38:07.780 Harvard is a good enemy because Harvard legitimately produces

00:38:11.640 many, if not most of the elite Democrat politicians, business leaders, deep state

00:38:19.980 apparatchik, NGO leaders, professors. Harvard produces some of the top powerful leftists in

00:38:27.880 the country. So if you have this power center just churning out powerful leftists and you're a

00:38:35.660 conservative politician, you got to go after them. And there are plenty of good justifications for going

00:38:41.320 after them. Trump mentioned the anti-Semitism, the fact that Harvard permitted Jewish students to

00:38:46.500 be harassed by frothing, keffia-wearing Muslims. But there are plenty of people who don't care about

00:38:50.600 Israel, don't care about the Jews, don't care. It's just not a top issue for them at all. And frankly, I don't

00:38:56.480 even think that's the chief reason to go after Harvard. Harvard also, Harvard has not only expressed a

00:39:04.760 hatred of Jews, but also a hatred of white people, men, Christians, America, the truth, God, reason,

00:39:14.300 you know, the list goes on and on. And Harvard has been effective at producing these leftists.

00:39:21.220 So it makes perfect sense to go after Harvard and to use any excuse you can to do it. Even when those

00:39:28.640 excuses are legitimately good justification. Perfect casting, perfect casting for the midterms and

00:39:35.200 perfect casting for 2028 too. Hey guys, who do you want to vote for? Trump or Harvard?

00:39:43.020 Hey, average Joe, whose side are you on? Do you want to be on the side of the Harvard faculty lounge

00:39:49.040 that sneers and looks down at you all the time, calls you deplorable and irredeemable? Or of Trump,

00:39:53.760 that guy who says that you're great and wants to help you and wants you to be rich and successful

00:39:57.500 and have a good family? Which one? Who do you think? Even Bill Maher, who is still a lib. I know

00:40:03.160 there are many conservatives who say, you know, Bill Maher is really on our side now. I don't

00:40:05.860 really view it that way, but he's an interesting guy and he's still a lib and he's a decent bellwether

00:40:11.420 for a certain kind of voter. And Bill Maher says, yeah, Trump's Harvard policy is great.

00:40:19.080 Trump has declared full-scale war on Harvard. And like so many things he does,

00:40:26.380 there's a kernel of a good idea there. I mean, I've been on Harvard long before he was.

00:40:32.260 Oh, you went to Cornell.

00:40:33.980 That's not why.

00:40:37.260 No. It's because Harvard is a factory in a lot of ways that produces smirking faces. Okay.

00:40:45.120 Harvard is an a-hole factory in a lot of ways that produces smirking F faces.

00:40:54.140 Show me the lie. Show me. Fact check. 10,000% true. And Bill Maher, you know, I thought Bill

00:41:03.500 Maher was Jewish. I don't know why I thought that. Maybe because he talks kind of like a New Yorker,

00:41:08.620 L.A. He's an atheist. He's kind of a lib. I don't know why, but apparently he was raised Catholic.

00:41:16.460 He might have a little bit of ethnic Jewish ancestry, but I don't know. Apparently he was

00:41:22.620 Catholic. Now he's an atheist. And he's definitely a big lib and then kind of a libertarian.

00:41:28.020 And he's a, but so even he, even a guy who's pretty different from Trump in most ways, he says,

00:41:35.380 man, I support that Trump policy. Bill Maher is not the only one saying it. Gavin Newsom,

00:41:42.340 the fact that Gavin Newsom launched that podcast and the first guests he invites on are people

00:41:47.220 very close to Trump and tries to make buddies with them and tries to appeal to them.

00:41:52.260 Shows you Gavin Newsom's thinking, shoot, man, I should be more like Trump.

00:41:55.540 I should get on board with Trump. Some of Trump's policies are probably pretty smart.

00:41:59.360 Trump has attacked Newsom personally many times. He says, shoot, I got to be more like Trump. You

00:42:03.220 know why? You know why? Because Trump won the popular vote. And Democrats got so shook by that.

00:42:10.260 They said, yikes, man, we got it. Trump is mainstream. Mass deportations, mainstream.

00:42:16.660 Kicking out Chinese university students, mainstream. Mainstream position, majority position.

00:42:20.820 Attacking Harvard university, mainstream. So what are they going to do? Are the Democrats going to

00:42:27.260 follow the Bill Maher route, the, the Gavin Newsom route and try to be more like Trump? Or are they

00:42:31.660 going to, are they going to double down on being the thing that they have even often admitted is one

00:42:37.780 of their big weaknesses, namely appealing to the Harvard faculty lounge? Trump has set this trap for

00:42:42.920 them. And most of them, as far as I can tell, they're going with Harvard. Okay, good luck.

00:42:47.580 Fine by me. Even CNN is admitting that the people hate Democrats.

00:42:57.220 This is how Americans sort of see the parties, which party is better described as the party with

00:43:03.400 strong leaders. Look at this. Wow. 16% of Americans say Democrats, 40% say that of the Republican

00:43:09.520 party. Now, overall, no party's doing great. Lots of Americans say neither of these qualities apply to

00:43:14.520 either party. But look at how much worse off the Democrats are. A party that gets things done.

00:43:19.200 Only 19% of Americans say that about the Democrats. 36% say it about the Republicans. In fact,

00:43:25.120 the only place that the Democrats are numerically head, party of the middle class. This is basically

00:43:28.660 a tie, though. Yeah. 34% say that of Democrats. 32% say that of Republicans. You see red here

00:43:33.900 is a place that Donald Trump improved his performance from 16 to 20 to 24. Now, he lost some of these

00:43:41.120 counties. He didn't win all of them. But you see how much more red there is than blue.

00:43:46.340 Now, even, it's funny, even as CNN is admitting that the Democrats are just totally cooked,

00:43:53.420 even there, there's a little bit of dishonesty. Because you see in the map,

00:43:57.340 the basic color of the map is a kind of a blue. But it's not really showing. This is based on the

00:44:06.200 same kind of triple trend data that was in that New York Times report. And so, the guy is saying,

00:44:11.920 he's like, look, most of this is red. There's a ton of red. There's very little blue.

00:44:15.660 But even still, CNN is trying to suggest that most of the country or half the country is blue. But

00:44:20.420 that doesn't really show that. Where the enthusiasm is, where the counties are moving,

00:44:25.460 even if the counties didn't officially go one way or the other in any discrete election,

00:44:30.120 the momentum of the country is almost entirely for the Republicans.

00:44:37.940 It's the old Trump tweet, despite the constant negative press, go fefe, despite all the headlines

00:44:42.120 you're saying, Trump's Iran policy, Ukraine policy, immigration policy, people, blah, blah, blah.

00:44:49.040 Yeah. Nah, man. The public opinion polls show, the people are still broadly on Trump's side.

00:44:57.080 And basically, no one is on the Democrat side. And what are the Democrats doing about this? This

00:45:02.300 is going to be my little tease. This will be my tease into Tee Hee Hee Tuesday, because this is

00:45:05.760 pretty hilarious. There's a big Democrat activist, a woman, Olivia Juliana, who is saying, look, we need

00:45:13.960 to appeal to men. We lost, like, all the men. We lost all these different races of men. This is bad.

00:45:20.620 And we've got to appeal to men. And the way we're going to appeal to men is by recognizing that most guys

00:45:25.900 are pro-abortion, pro-LGBT, and pro-BLM. Can I get a fact check on that, fellas? Okay, great. And

00:45:36.740 that's your strategy? Good. Appeal to the Harvard Faculty Lounge and gay black baby killers. Say that

00:45:45.360 that is the only good kind of man and all the... Do that, please. Be my guest. See you at the midterms.

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