The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 1763 - The Pro-Queer Muslim Socialist Victory In New York EXPLAINED

00:00:00.000 The Muslim socialist who just won New York's Democrat mayoral primary and who will almost 0.98

00:00:05.660 certainly be the city's next mayor is awful. He is one of the most repulsive candidates I have 0.98

00:00:12.500 ever seen up for a prominent office. There are a million reasons that we will get into 0.56

00:00:17.620 why he should not be mayor of New York. And conservatives are attacking him

00:00:24.140 for all the wrong reasons. I'm Michael Knowles. This is the Michael Knowles Show.

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00:02:15.800 Zoran Mamdani. He has won the Democrat primary for mayor of New York. He beat out

00:02:22.140 Andrew Cuomo. I guess Andrew Cuomo could run as an independent. You got the Republican

00:02:26.240 Curtis Sliwa, who's a legend in New York, but probably not going to win. Then you've

00:02:30.120 got Eric Adams, who is the current mayor of New York, who is a Democrat, but compared

00:02:34.980 to the other Democrats in New York, he's like a far right-wing fascist, meaning he's at least

00:02:40.320 semi, sometimes kind of reasonable. And he could run as an independent. And so it's a messy

00:02:46.860 primary. But right now, Zoran Mamdani is far and away the favorite to be the next mayor

00:02:54.180 of New York. And the conservatives have decided to focus on the fact that he's Muslim. They

00:03:00.720 say he's Muslim. He's Shiite. He's not just Shiite. He's a 12-er Shiite, just like the Ayatollah 0.98

00:03:06.340 of Iran. Sure. I guess, I guess that, is that kind of true? Doesn't seem totally true

00:03:15.660 because of tweets like this. This one's been making the rounds the last 24 hours. From

00:03:20.360 Zoran Kwame Mamdani, queer liberation means defund the police. Doesn't exactly sound like

00:03:30.180 Saladin, does he? Not exactly Saeed Qutb. You think this is a Muslim radical? You think this

00:03:36.180 is some jihadi? I don't think so. In many ways, it would be better if he were. In many ways, 1.00

00:03:43.260 if this guy were a sincere 12-er Shiite Muslim radical, that would be an improvement over his 0.98

00:03:49.720 actual beliefs. His actual beliefs, which are just kind of run-of-the-mill pinko-ism with a

00:03:57.600 fascination for weird sex stuff. That's it. He's in many ways more assimilated than many right-wingers

00:04:05.440 in America. He's assimilated to liberal culture in New York. Queer, what was it? Queer liberation 0.92

00:04:14.300 means defund the police? Oh, man, that is bad. That is bad. This guy, Zoran Mamdani, strikes me as

00:04:24.940 Muslim in the way that Joe Biden is Catholic, which is to say, he is that thing in as much as it is

00:04:33.360 convenient for advancing liberalism. That's it. Same with Biden. I'm not trying to examine

00:04:40.740 their own self-identity or the way they think about their relationship to religion. I'm looking

00:04:47.400 at Biden. Biden flagrantly ignores non-negotiable aspects of the Catholic faith, ignores them,

00:04:55.160 contradicts them, mocks them. But when it's convenient for him, he makes a big show about

00:05:01.080 being a Catholic. Ignores Catholic teaching, violates important aspects of doctrine.

00:05:09.200 But when it's helpful to advancing his true religion of liberalism, he puts on a good show.

00:05:16.140 I think it's the same thing with Mamdani. Say what you will about the Ayatollah.

00:05:20.060 Yeah. The guy's got nine lives. We almost took him out. He's still sticking around in Iran. Say a 1.00

00:05:26.880 nasty fellow, nuclear program, death to America. But say what you will about him. He doesn't support 0.97

00:05:32.900 queer liberation or defunding the police. I think he likes funding the police. And I think he looks 0.94

00:05:38.240 with a great deal of opprobrium on LGBTism. That's not it. If you want to go after this guy,

00:05:47.660 go after him for his real problems, which is that he's, what's the phrase that people use? 0.99

00:05:52.140 A race communist, a gay race communist. He focuses on the LGBT stuff and the weird racial stuff. 0.99

00:05:59.860 And most important of all, he focuses on class issues. Don't forget, the big issue in the

00:06:06.400 campaign was affordability. And he didn't focus his whole campaign on transing the kids,

00:06:12.600 though he wants to do that. He didn't focus his whole campaign on letting criminals out of prison,

00:06:16.740 even though he wants to do that. He focuses his campaign on soaking the rich and freezing rents.

00:06:23.180 And creating government-run grocery stores to drive down prices from private industry. That's what it 0.81

00:06:30.180 is. In many ways, he's more of an old school leftist than a lot of the woke people. And that

00:06:35.200 could present a challenge because wokeness is repulsive to most voters. Wokeness was taken out

00:06:41.840 back like old yeller and shot in the head during the 2024 presidential election. I think wokeness is

00:06:46.960 deader than disco. But left-wing populism might still have some life in it. And Mamdani is channeling

00:06:56.740 that. And if conservatives miss the real ways to go after him and they pretend that he's Osama bin 0.56

00:07:03.940 Laden or something, it's not going to work. And the guy's going to be mayor of New York.

00:07:07.920 Now, Trump gets it. Trump, after I was writing that, I was just taking some notes for the show

00:07:13.860 today. And I was looking at Zoran. I said, you know, this guy's, he's not, he's really not some,

00:07:18.200 you know, jihadi. He's not, he's not the great imam. He's like a big, crazy leftist.

00:07:26.180 Trump tweets this. He says, it's finally happened. The Democrats have crossed the line. Zoran Mamdani, 1.00

00:07:31.200 a 100% communist lunatic, has just won the Dem primary and is on the way to becoming mayor. 0.99

00:07:36.240 We've had radical lefties before, but this is getting a little ridiculous. He looks terrible. 0.99

00:07:39.840 His voice is grating. He's not very smart. He's got AOC plus three, dummies all backing him. 0.94

00:07:46.860 I think he means the squad, AOC plus three, dummies all backing him. And even our great Palestinian 0.96

00:07:52.600 Senator crying, Chuck Schumer is groveling over him. Yes, this is a big moment in the history of

00:07:57.860 our country. That's the way to go after him. Trump gets it. Trump is not afraid. He's not

00:08:04.920 some squish. He's not afraid to go after Islam when it's appropriate. Trump was accused of the

00:08:12.580 Muslim travel ban. Trump has made plenty of politically incorrect statements about Islam

00:08:17.400 and radical Muslims. He just realizes this guy isn't a radical Muslim. In many ways,

00:08:24.040 it'd be easier to talk to him and reason with him if he were a radical Muslim. At least there 1.00

00:08:27.660 are some points of commonality. At least they believe in God, right? Does this guy believe

00:08:31.200 in God? I don't know. I don't get the impression that he does necessarily. This is it. This is the

00:08:36.580 way to, he's a communist lunatic. That's really what he is. And the pretense that he's a Wahhabist 1.00

00:08:45.640 or something is silly. I get, we have this reflexive impulse to, and it comes really from the early

00:08:54.460 2000s, but this reflexive impulse to oppose Sharia and radical Islam. You don't need to convince me, 0.98

00:09:00.500 man. I'm well aware that Western civilization has been fighting expansive Islam for 1400 years. 1.00

00:09:06.840 No need to convince me of that. But Zoran ain't setting up the caliphate. He's gonna set up

00:09:15.080 bread lines. He's much closer to the secretary general of the communist party than he is to the

00:09:22.160 caliph or the 12th imam. Now, there is a big winner in that primary. And I guess it's Zoran. Zoran's

00:09:28.940 a big winner. But the biggest winner is not Zoran, certainly not the people of New York.

00:09:34.080 It's another New York politician who is now looking at presidential prospects.

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00:10:54.880 The big winner in the New York City mayoral primary, not exactly Zoran, it's AOC. New York Post is

00:11:04.180 reporting. This is a quote from Corbyn Trent, AOC's former spokesman, who is obviously still

00:11:13.000 promoting her quite a lot. It says, it just continues to open more doors. It just broadens her horizons.

00:11:19.440 You can always count on AOC being underestimated for sure. That's a given. AOC came out, endorsed this

00:11:28.520 guy, went to the mat for this guy. You had other Democrats lining up behind Cuomo, and this guy won.

00:11:35.160 The old school Democrat Party, the Bill Clinton wing of the Democrat Party, they lost. The AOC and the

00:11:47.400 squad wing won. This means that AOC's prospects are rising. She's already being floated by her former

00:11:55.300 spokesman here implicitly as a 2028 presidential candidate. And I think she would be a good 2028 1.00

00:12:02.580 presidential candidate. I'm not even, I'm not trying to sigh up her into the nomination because 0.82

00:12:06.540 she'd be easier to beat. I'm, I'm just, I'm just looking at it. If I were advising AOC right now,

00:12:12.040 I would say you should seriously consider the 2028 run. She already floated that. She was prancing

00:12:17.140 around the Midwest and she put out some commercial talking to the voters. I'm just a girl from the

00:12:22.400 Bronx, but you know, I represent you and whatever. She clearly wants to run for president. 1.00

00:12:27.000 But the question right now is, what is AOC's next step? Should she run for president or should

00:12:31.100 she run against Chuck Schumer for his Senate seat in New York? She could do either. Her star is,

00:12:36.300 is rising still. I think she should run for president rather than Senate. And the reason is,

00:12:44.140 it'll be tough to beat Chuck Schumer. Even though Chuck Schumer has made all sorts of missteps and no

00:12:50.400 one totally loves him. He's good. He shows up to everything in New York. I've been to multiple events

00:12:55.080 in New York. I'm a Republican. I've been to multiple events that Chuck Schumer shows up to,

00:12:58.560 even to support Republicans. He's just a good retail politician. He would be a very tough

00:13:04.560 candidate to beat in New York. For the presidential race, it's wide open. Who's she got to beat? 1.00

00:13:12.320 Gavin Newsom? Gavin Newsom's one of the big losers of that New York City mayoral primary.

00:13:16.960 One of the big, big losers. Because Gavin Newsom, especially with his recent pivot to try to appear

00:13:22.720 more moderate, to start his podcast, to try to be friends with Charlie Kirk and Steve Bannon.

00:13:28.400 Gavin Newsom is the Bill Clinton wing, the Tony Blair wing, the, the, the nineties wing of the party.

00:13:37.220 We're the, the Andy Cuomo wing. We're just, we're going to grow together. We're going to be,

00:13:41.880 we're going to, we're going to reach across the aisle. We're going to be abundant. We're going to,

00:13:44.940 yeah, no. Zoran runs. He's, we're going to soak the rich. We're going to eat them.

00:13:48.980 We're going to eat up the millionaires. That's the AOC wing. He won. So who's,

00:13:54.120 who's AOC got to beat right now? To, to be a leader in the Democrat primary,

00:13:57.200 she's got to beat Gavin Newsom. Gavin Newsom is weak. Who else does she have to beat?

00:14:01.740 Pete Buttigieg? Give me a break. Kamala Dunn. Gretchen Whitmer, I guess, is, no.

00:14:09.600 It's open. I'm not saying she would win. She's got some problems, 0.83

00:14:12.400 but I think she'd have a better shot for president than for Senate. If I were advising her, I mean this,

00:14:17.860 there's no, no trick up my sleeve. I'm just, if I were a Democrat operative, I'd say,

00:14:23.080 tell her to run for president. Now, then you got to ask, all right, on paper, I see how she could 0.80

00:14:27.680 win or I know chills up our spine, but does she have the goods? Yeah. I get in theory an AOC like

00:14:35.720 candidate could maybe Zoran Mamdani could win, but could AOC herself go all the way? Well,

00:14:42.020 here's her audition. This is her on camera responding to President Trump, responding to

00:14:48.320 her calls for Trump to be impeached. He wanted to pick a fight with me.

00:14:56.660 Let alone me. And he's going to lose that. So maybe don't send our country into war when the vast

00:15:06.560 majority of Americans, Republican, Democrat, and independent don't want us randomly bombing

00:15:13.420 countries because you're in some type of mood. They're not even briefing Congress. Congress was

00:15:22.280 supposed to have a classified briefing today, and they canceled it last minute. It's giving

00:15:28.220 scrambling. It's giving disorganized. It's giving, they are having problems behind the scenes.

00:15:35.060 And by also not, um, by not even briefing Congress on a bipartisan basis, please understand that this

00:15:44.100 is a, this is Trump's war. This is a Republican war. Um, I mean, I think war is bad, like just in

00:15:52.060 general, but don't let them, you know, don't, don't let them. Okay. Not exactly a Rhodes Scholar,

00:15:59.400 is she? That goes without saying, not the brightest bulb in the pack. Probably didn't

00:16:04.220 get the highest SAT score. Probably didn't do the best on her, on her academic courses. However, 0.90

00:16:10.220 she's got something. So first you have to ask, can a not very intelligent person become president?

00:16:18.720 And in both parties, usually the people who become president are pretty smart.

00:16:22.960 George, just go to the ones in my lifetime. George H.W. Bush, very, very intelligent man.

00:16:30.500 Bill Clinton, very, very intelligent man. George W. Bush was mocked as an idiot, but he's quite an 1.00

00:16:36.560 intelligent man. He, he downplayed his intelligence, but he's, he's pretty smart guy. Barack Obama, 1.00

00:16:42.520 very intelligent guy. Relative. I'm not saying he's going to, you know, solve for Matt's last theorem,

00:16:46.900 but he's, he's relative to politicians, a very intelligent guy. Smarter than your average legislator.

00:16:52.960 Donald Trump, he also, people say he's dumb, obviously very, very intelligent guy. 0.99

00:17:01.520 So could AOC do it? AOC is almost certainly not even close to as smart as any of those people that 0.99

00:17:08.500 I just named. But I left out one president, and that would be Joe Biden. Joe Biden, not the sharpest

00:17:16.620 tool in the shed, even before the senility. Never was the brightest, brightest bulb in the box. I

00:17:24.100 don't know, whatever metaphor you want to use. Not, not super high IQ, one would imagine, but a very

00:17:29.940 effective politician. Got elected to the Senate before he was constitutionally eligible to be in

00:17:34.500 the Senate. Served there for almost half a century. Became VP. Got himself elected president,

00:17:40.180 maybe, at age 150. Very talented politician. What did he have that those other guys did not? He had

00:17:47.240 pathos. He could, he could simper. He could rub your back. He could, you could really feel Joe Biden.

00:17:54.620 And AOC has that. AOC, she connects with people in a way that the rest of the squad cannot, in a way that

00:18:02.140 really no other Democrat can, right now. She, she connects that weird, that face right up against 1.00

00:18:08.360 the camera. And you, you connect with her. She makes you feel something. Whether she makes you

00:18:12.240 feel anger, pity, nausea, whatever it is, you're feeling something. And she has another thing that

00:18:19.040 Joe Biden had. And, and I guess continues to have, if he can still speak, which is she can code switch.

00:18:25.000 She can speak to a lot of different groups. You notice there that, that phrase, the one that stuck

00:18:29.500 right out to me is, um, it's giving disorganized. It's giving, it's giving. AOC is a millennial.

00:18:39.480 She's older than me. It's giving is not millennial slang. It's giving is zoomer slang. A millennial

00:18:47.900 would say, it's giving, if you were to use that phrase, you would say it's giving, and then a noun.

00:18:54.900 So we would say, it's giving disorganized vibes. It's giving a bad juju. It's giving, you would,

00:19:03.520 this is, it seems pedantic, but it's, it's actually crucial to the way that this woman communicates.

00:19:08.520 She, we would, we, we would use a certain idiom. Zoomers, a younger generation than me or AOC 1.00

00:19:15.860 uses phrase, it's giving followed by an adjective. So it's giving disorganized. It's giving sexy.

00:19:21.800 It's giving, whatever. She's speaking like a zoomer. She can do that. Joe Biden had the ability 0.99

00:19:28.420 to do that. He had the ability to, to switch, to use language in a way that, that was quite

00:19:35.080 evocative, that, that had a lot of pathos. Didn't, his rhetoric didn't have a lot of logos,

00:19:40.700 not a lot of logic there, not a lot of logic for AOC, not even a lot of ethos, not a, not a ton of

00:19:46.360 credibility, especially not Joe Biden, or neither Joe Biden nor, nor AOC. I mean, they were both

00:19:51.600 absolute infamous liars. Joe Biden lied about everything. I mean, every plagiarist lied about 0.98

00:19:58.160 so much of his biography, lied about tragedies, lied about everything. And AOC, same thing,

00:20:03.320 lies about her biography, lies about where she grew up, lies about all that stuff.

00:20:06.220 But the one thing they, they have is pathos. I do not bookmark this. Do not underestimate AOC for

00:20:14.080 president 2028. Right now, she is one of the leading candidates for the Democrats. Now, speaking

00:20:21.400 of fights, we can finally, we get to a real important story. The liver king has been arrested

00:20:26.220 for threatening Joe Rogan. Do you know who the liver king is? I kind of remember the liver king.

00:20:31.780 Liver king is this guy. I think Brett introduced him to me. Brett, young, hip, cool zoomer introduced

00:20:39.040 him to me. I didn't, I wasn't paying attention to who he was. He is this like beefcake guy who said

00:20:45.600 that he got all of his muscles because he ate raw animal parts. I'm not even going to say meat

00:20:53.920 because he'd eat things like testicles and all sorts of gross stuff. So that's what he said. He said 0.99

00:20:58.800 he's lived this natural primordial lifestyle and that's how he got all his muscles. It later was

00:21:03.700 reported that he was also using about $11,000 a month in anabolic steroids. But he became popular.

00:21:11.440 Joe Rogan then called him out. It was like, this guy's obviously roided up and his career was

00:21:15.140 destroyed. He later admitted to the steroids and now he's threatening Joe Biden or Joe Rogan rather

00:21:20.160 while holding two guns.

00:21:24.060 Joe Rogan. I'm calling you out. My name's Liberty. Man to man. I'm picking a fight with you.

00:21:31.340 Yeah. I have zero training as you did. So you're a black belt. You should dismantle me. 1.00

00:21:39.120 But I'm picking a fight with you. You'll rule. Whenever you want me to weigh, I'll weigh it.

00:21:45.660 I'll weigh it. I'll weigh 190 this morning. I'll come weigh it. I'll come to you. Whenever you're ready.

00:21:51.640 Whenever you're ready to go.

00:21:53.860 So he got an animal skin on his head. Looks like he's in that Kanye music video.

00:21:57.740 And he's got these two guns. He says, I'm ready for you, Joe Rogan, while shirtless. Now,

00:22:01.560 that's a bit of a threat. He then went further and seemed like he was maybe following through

00:22:06.440 on his threat. We'll get to that in one second. First, what happens when a battle-tester with Green

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00:22:22.640 Protestants and Catholics need to stop bickering and focus on the real enemy. 0.65

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00:22:48.280 Liver King threatens Joe Rogan, but then you think, okay, maybe it's just some idle, stupid 0.99

00:22:53.180 threat on the internet. He then releases this video apparently on his way to go attack Joe 0.99

00:22:59.960 Rogan.

00:23:00.240 Because Joe Rogan, we don't have to make videos to pretend anymore. All of this is happening. We're

00:23:09.580 coming to you. I've challenged you man to man to a fight. Honorable. And we don't have to pretend or

00:23:17.200 make any videos. The world is watching. They'll make the videos for us. And you don't have to hold

00:23:22.860 the camera. You can hold the hand of somebody that you love because what happens next to you,

00:23:28.240 you're going to need to remember that feeling. You're going to need something more than what you

00:23:31.320 did to give you something to fight for. Because I have my family to fight for.

00:23:36.200 That's, and I'll die for him. You know that. And you're a black belt, but you, you, you've never 1.00

00:23:44.080 come across something like this. Willing to die, hoping that you'll choke me out. I pray to God 1.00

00:23:49.740 because that's a dream come true. It feels good. And then the limbs, I'm fighting for my family.

00:23:55.600 So limb, limb, limb, limb, limb, limb. Go ahead.

00:23:57.840 Okay. So this guy is good at getting attention on the internet. So you say, well, maybe it's all

00:24:03.380 just a big performance. Maybe he, he wanted to get arrested. Maybe I don't, but I don't know that

00:24:08.220 he's that good an actor. I'm, I'm starting to think he's just really got a screw loose and he's

00:24:12.480 been driven crazy by some combination of steroids and revenge. And that's the real key to it here.

00:24:21.040 You know, vengeance is mine, saith the Lord, and I will repay that their foot shall

00:24:27.680 slide in due time. Part of the reason that you, you, it's not a good idea to go out and seek

00:24:33.800 revenge for personal slights is the, what's the old expression attributed to Confucius?

00:24:39.880 He who seeks revenge should start by digging two graves. You just end up destroying yourself

00:24:46.400 whenever you, and then there's, there's the even clearer biblical instruction. Vengeance is mine,

00:24:55.480 say it to the Lord, I will repay. This guy could have had it all. Maybe not all, all, but this guy

00:25:02.280 blew up. He was making a ton of money. I think he had some kind of supplement business and he was a

00:25:08.460 fraudster. So he was, he was going to get caught. He was a fraudster and he was exposed by Joe Rogan

00:25:14.700 in part. And at that point you say, okay, well, this guy, he messed up his body. He committed a 0.83

00:25:22.280 pretty serious sin of deceit and fraud, but I'm sure he's still got a bunch of money. He's still

00:25:28.260 got a platform. He could take the lump and do something for good, but it doesn't, it just didn't

00:25:34.420 work out that way. He instead, he tried to pivot. He ate more weird animal parts. He seemed to get

00:25:41.940 angry and spiral into his bitterness. And now he's arrested and now he's, he's got nothing.

00:25:49.480 It's not, there's so many, to me, the, the interesting part of the story is almost not the

00:25:53.640 liver king. It's just how vengeance works and how people, if you, we all do bad things. If you,

00:25:59.560 if you do something bad, if you just acknowledge it to yourself and to God, maybe confess your sins

00:26:03.940 to a priest and then just turn it around. There's, there's almost nothing so terrible you can do

00:26:09.120 that you can't be forgiven for it and just move on. There's, there is literally nothing other than

00:26:13.520 blaspheming the Holy Spirit. And on the other hand, if you refuse to change your mind, if you refuse to

00:26:21.780 admit you did something wrong, look yourself in the mirror and confess your sins and turn it around,

00:26:26.540 then there's almost no sin too slight to destroy your entire life. Not, not a good turn of events

00:26:35.520 fights for the liver king. Now, speaking of fights, you know, there's this reporting in the establishment

00:26:42.920 media that, okay, first the reporting was Trump is a weakling. He's going to let Iran get a nuclear

00:26:50.860 weapon. Then the reporting was Trump is a belligerent maniac and he's going to start world war three 0.65

00:26:56.000 because he won't let Iran get a nuclear weapon. Then the reporting was Trump is, uh, even though the, 0.86

00:27:03.580 the operation was successful, he's going to get a lot of Americans killed because he tried to stop

00:27:07.440 Iran from getting a nuclear weapon. And then when none of those things were true, the reporting became,

00:27:12.800 well, he probably didn't even stop Iran from getting a nuclear weapon. Yeah. Well, he probably 0.51

00:27:16.820 didn't even destroy the, the bunkers. Well, yeah, he probably, it probably wasn't even that good.

00:27:22.060 Nevermind. Look away. So the CIA has just come out and they would never lie to you. No, in this case,

00:27:27.540 I think the CIA probably is, is being pretty straight. Uh, the CIA says this from the director,

00:27:32.480 John Ratcliffe, CIA can confirm that a body of credible intelligence indicates Iran's nuclear

00:27:37.320 program has been severely damaged by the recent targeted strikes. This includes new intelligence

00:27:41.940 from an historically reliable and accurate source slash method that several key Iranian nuclear

00:27:46.020 facilities were destroyed and would have to be rebuilt over the course of years. CIA continues to

00:27:51.840 collect additional reliably sourced information to keep appropriate decision makers and oversight

00:27:56.520 bodies fully informed when possible. We will also provide updates and information to the American

00:28:00.500 public, blah, blah, blah. So the reason I think it's worth believing the CIA here is the reporting

00:28:08.600 that said that Trump didn't really do much to the Iranian nuclear program was ostensibly coming from

00:28:14.960 leaks from the military and the intelligence community. So then if the director of the CIA comes out and

00:28:20.680 says, Hey, hold on, look, we know, you know, you're, you're citing the IC here. You're citing the deep

00:28:25.680 state. Well, Hey, I am the deep state and I'm telling you these facilities were destroyed and

00:28:31.320 the Iranian nuclear program has been severely set back. Then it just blows up that bit of fake news

00:28:36.540 too. So add that one to the pile of the establishment media getting every single thing about this story

00:28:43.140 four weeks, completely wrong, but not to put a cherry on top of that Sunday, defense secretary,

00:28:50.320 Pete Hegseth addresses this directly at the Pentagon this morning.

00:28:55.180 I mean, specifically you, the press, specifically you, the press corps, because you cheer against Trump

00:29:03.180 so hard. It's like in your DNA and in your blood to cheer against Trump because you want him not to be

00:29:09.640 successful so bad. You have to cheer against the efficacy of these strikes. You have to hope maybe they

00:29:17.060 weren't effective. Maybe the way the Trump administration is representative isn't true.

00:29:21.300 So let's take half truths, spun information, leaked information, and then spin it, spin it in every

00:29:30.160 way we can to try to cause doubt and manipulate the mind, the public mind over whether or not our brave

00:29:37.780 pilots were successful. How many stories have been written about how hard it is to, I don't know,

00:29:44.040 fly a plane for 36 hours? Has MSNBC done that story as Fox? There are so many aspects of what our brave men

00:29:52.780 and women did that, because of the hatred of this press corps, are undermined because people are trying 1.00

00:30:00.220 to leak and spin that it wasn't successful. It's irresponsible.

00:30:05.100 100 percent, 100 percent right. And notice here what Pete does. He's not just going after MSNBC and the

00:30:11.000 left-wing outlets. He goes, what about Fox? What about my old employer, Fox, the supposedly

00:30:15.600 conservative outlet? How come none of you guys are focusing on the parts of the story that really

00:30:20.380 matter? You're taking half-truths and non-truths and even the things that have a grain of truth in them,

00:30:25.500 you're spinning them beyond recognition into the land of the farcical. This is the liver king problem.

00:30:34.500 The American press has the liver king problem, which is they have never forgiven Trump for calling

00:30:44.240 out their deceit and their fraud. Trump, more effectively than any president, any politician

00:30:49.520 in my lifetime, pantsed the press. He didn't have to pants them because they were an emperor without

00:30:55.580 any clothes on. Goes out there and he says, you're a fraud, you're liars, you are fake news. 1.00

00:31:01.380 And that attack resonated because it was true. And then what the press could have done at that 0.99

00:31:09.380 point, it's amazing. Providentially follows the liver king story because she didn't even make this

00:31:15.280 connection when I was writing my show notes. But what happened was when the press were exposed and

00:31:23.040 humiliated by Trump, they could have looked in the mirror and said, okay, yeah, we've gotten a bit

00:31:28.780 corrupt. We've gotten things wrong. Yeah. Okay. Whatever. We're going to take our lumps. We're

00:31:33.180 going to turn it around. We're going to do a good job for the American people. We're going to report

00:31:35.940 the truth. We're going to talk about what matters. Okay. We're going to do that. And the press would

00:31:40.360 be looking great right now, but they couldn't do it, could they? They got caught in their fraud and

00:31:46.240 they just, they had to get revenge on Trump. They had to get revenge on the guy who exposed them.

00:31:53.120 And the problem with that is they still have not gotten Trump. And every time they try to get him,

00:31:59.340 it's like Wile E. Coyote with the roadrunner. They just keep humiliating themselves more and more.

00:32:07.660 Just the four or five narratives that we've had over the Iran story, one more ridiculous than the 0.92

00:32:14.600 next, contradicting each other every step of the way, but they have one common thread. They're all

00:32:18.600 just trying to get Trump and they can't because Trump is the roadrunner and he always beats Wile E.

00:32:23.820 Coyote. And Hegseth just has a field day spiking the football on their heads. That's it. Now,

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00:33:54.180 president. I truly believe he will be highly regarded by historians, and I hope I'm around

00:33:57.820 to see that happen. I agree. Let me separate two things. I really like Trump. I bought the MAGA hat

00:34:05.560 in 2016. I voted for the guy for president three times. I like him. I'm a supporter.

00:34:12.640 Let's put that over here for a second. There are presidents that I don't like that I can admit

00:34:18.860 are consequential presidents looked on as formidable, if not magnanimous, by historians.

00:34:28.340 LBJ? I think LBJ was one of the great villains in the history of the United States.

00:34:33.000 But that man was a consequential president. That man matters to American history. Historians

00:34:39.160 certainly agree with that. I agree with that. I don't like the things he did, but I can acknowledge

00:34:44.920 that. FDR, extremely important consequential president, obviously. Did a lot of horrible

00:34:51.320 things. In many ways, ruined the country. But I think that in about 100 years, if America still

00:34:57.960 exists, Trump, without question, will be looked at as an extraordinarily consequential, talented,

00:35:06.120 great president, including by liberal historians, even if they hate him. If they're honest at all,

00:35:12.460 they're going to have to admit, man, this guy destroyed the Bush dynasty, destroyed the Clinton

00:35:18.800 dynasty, reordered the Republican Party, won the highest office in politics the first time he really

00:35:24.040 gave it a try, then got booted out of office because all the election rules changed, and then

00:35:29.840 managed to become only the second president in American history to be elected to a non-consecutive

00:35:34.180 second term, survived two impeachment attempts, survived at least two assassination attempts,

00:35:39.340 one of which came pretty close and blew off part of his ear, and managed to rewrite

00:35:44.580 a lot of domestic policy and a lot of foreign policy. Even if you hate his freaking guts, 0.99

00:35:52.240 how can you not say this is a consequential, great president, great in historical terms? 0.98

00:35:58.260 It's going to be hard. Even the liberal historians are going to have to admit it, I think.

00:36:01.440 Now, what does that man have to say about the Iranian nuclear program? Here he is at the NATO summit.

00:36:08.280 Because I don't think they'll ever do it again. I just don't think they're going to do it. I think

00:36:13.160 they're going to take their oil, they're going to have some missiles, and they'll have some defense.

00:36:18.720 I think they've had it. I mean, they just went through hell. I think they've had it. The last

00:36:24.020 thing they want to do is enrich. They've been trying to do it. By the way, it's hard to enrich.

00:36:29.360 And, you know, when you look at a site like that, very, very hard to build, very, very hard,

00:36:34.520 very expensive. They spent trillions of dollars trying to do this thing, and they didn't come up

00:36:39.320 with it. And we're actually getting along with them very well right now.

00:36:44.240 Okay, so he says his prediction is they're not going to try to get a nuclear weapon anymore.

00:36:49.060 I think a lot of people are going to roll their eyes at that and say, uh, yeah, really? The thing

00:36:53.120 they want more than anything in the world, they're going to stop pursuing that? Clearly, Trump is using

00:36:58.820 a rhetorical device whereby he is engaging ostensibly in description when he's really engaging in

00:37:05.360 prescription. That is to say, saying, well, here's what I think is going on. And when he says, here's

00:37:10.820 what I think, then he just is trying to persuade them to do something. He's trying to will his desires

00:37:16.120 into being. That said, he gives them some reasons. The way that that rhetorical trick works is you give

00:37:23.700 people reasons, and it makes them think, okay, actually, maybe he's got a point. Namely, he says,

00:37:27.580 look, you got a lot of oil, so you have plenty of energy. You don't need to pretend, oh, we need

00:37:32.940 nuclear energy for civilian purposes. Give me a break. You're Iran. You have enough oil. You'll be

00:37:37.900 fine. They have plenty of oil. They just got blown to smithereens. Implicit there is you almost got

00:37:45.260 your entire regime overthrown, and you almost had your capital city glassed. Trump threatened both of

00:37:52.300 those things. So he says, it was bad enough what just happened to you guys. You were humiliated.

00:37:58.040 You had years and years of work blown to smithereens and could have been a lot worse.

00:38:04.540 Let's not forget that. And by the way, that's all the stick. Here's the carrot. We're getting along

00:38:10.880 great now. And so they've been, it's very expensive. They've had a lot of problems with money. Maybe

00:38:16.180 implicit, maybe we'll ease up on some of those sanctions. If you play nice. Implicit is for

00:38:23.680 decades, you've had one foot in the international order, one foot out of the international order.

00:38:27.320 Maybe if you put both of those feet in the international order, maybe I'll hold off my

00:38:31.960 friends, the Israelis who have been trying to topple you. Maybe I'll let you continue to exist. 1.00

00:38:37.580 But you got to play. That's what I think. That's what I would do if I were them. That's what Trump is

00:38:41.640 saying. Is it going to work? I don't know. I'm kind of skeptical, but maybe, maybe. It's certainly

00:38:47.980 a good way to play it right now. And then if we got to go back in in five years, maybe we got to go

00:38:52.440 back in. Now, speaking of government programs, there's a great advertisement that's been airing

00:38:57.900 for a while now, though. It's just come to the attention of the media. This is from the Department

00:39:01.700 of Homeland Security. And it's an advertisement for, it's a commercial selling self-deportation.

00:39:09.600 I'm Kristi Noem, the United States Secretary of Homeland Security. Under President Trump,

00:39:17.120 attempted illegal border crossings are at the lowest levels ever recorded. And over 100,000

00:39:23.180 illegal aliens have been arrested. If you are here illegally, you're next. You will be fined nearly 1.00

00:39:29.620 $1,000 a day, imprisoned and deported. You will never return. But if you register using our CBP Home app

00:39:37.820 and leave now, you could be allowed to return legally. Do what's right. Leave now. Under President

00:39:44.760 Trump, America's laws, border, and families will be protected. Okay, here it is, folks. We're arresting

00:39:53.040 all these people. It's a longer ad. I actually cut off part of it. We're deporting people left and right.

00:39:58.140 And if you deport yourself, maybe we'll let you come back legally at some point. This is the 0.62

00:40:06.800 brilliance of this ad. So the libs are furious about it. Here's The Atlantic reacting to that ad.

00:40:12.340 This is just yesterday. The self-deportation PSYOP. With a repurposed app and free teddy bears,

00:40:19.340 the Trump administration is pressuring migrants to leave PSYOP. I guess it's a psychological

00:40:25.040 operation. It's just, that's not really what I'd call it. I'd call it a carrot. This week has been

00:40:30.440 about sticks and carrots, hasn't it? The only way that both parties have ever thought about illegal

00:40:34.880 immigration is with the stick. We're just going to, other Republicans will say, we'll threaten you.

00:40:40.480 You need to leave right now. We're going to smack you with a stick. Or the Democrats will say, 0.99

00:40:44.860 hey, we're not going to hit you with the stick. That's it. But that's the only, but no one has

00:40:50.320 ever thought about the carrot, which is, hey, we'll incentivize you to leave. Not only threaten

00:40:57.140 you, but also incentivize you. And The Atlantic's furious about this because The Atlantic wants

00:41:00.560 millions and millions of foreign invaders to come into our country, violate all of our laws, 1.00

00:41:04.560 tax our resources, and change our demographics and give Democrats a permanent electoral majority. 0.76

00:41:09.240 That's what they're after. So they say, this is a self-deportation PSYOP. You're telling me,

00:41:13.820 you have a effectively free, peaceful way for illegal aliens to leave and for the law to be 0.89

00:41:23.400 enforced without a single cop putting on his uniform. This is the best way to enforce a basic

00:41:30.880 aspect of American law. And you say, oh, you're grumbling about it. It's a PSYOP. Why? Because

00:41:36.120 you don't want the law to be enforced. Okay. So forget about The Atlantic. I am once again,

00:41:40.420 forgetting about The Atlantic. I'd forgotten about it until a day or two ago. I'm forgetting

00:41:44.440 about it again. Why is this program so smart? Because it could be effective. That's why The

00:41:53.760 Atlantic is writing an article about it. That's why the libs are furious about this in the way

00:41:56.980 they have not been quite so furious about other immigration enforcement programs. They're furious

00:42:02.580 because it could be effective. According to the Center for Immigration Studies, a million illegal

00:42:06.640 aliens have self-deported already. Like this year. A million people. So it's been very,

00:42:13.580 very effective. The libs are frustrated that it's effective. And it's effective because

00:42:17.360 it understands basic human nature, basic incentives. It's got sticks and carrots. Very,

00:42:23.900 very smart policy. Now, speaking of Trump and incentives, this, we're saying a lot of very nice

00:42:31.900 things about our president. He deserves it. He's had a good week and he's done a very good job.

00:42:36.560 But this one, this maybe goes a little far. This is from a journalist at the NATO summit

00:42:42.000 asking the president if he is daddy.

00:42:47.540 This is from Sky News. Mark Rutter, the NATO chief, who is your friend, he called you daddy earlier.

00:42:56.180 Do you regard your NATO allies as kind of children?

00:43:01.640 No, he likes me. I think he likes me. If he doesn't, I'll let you know. I'll come back and

00:43:05.840 I'll hit him hard. Okay. He did it very affectionately. Daddy, you're my daddy. 0.99

00:43:10.840 Do you regard your NATO allies, though, as kind of like children? And they're obviously listening to

00:43:15.280 you and they're spending more. And you're obviously appreciative of that. But do you hope

00:43:21.280 that actually they're going to be able to defend themselves, defend Europe on their own?

00:43:26.960 I think they need help a little bit at the beginning.

00:43:29.460 Trump is such a good showman that when she asks this question, he keeps a perfectly straight face.

00:43:35.780 Your NATO allies, your NATO allies, you're actually the chief of NATO, has called you

00:43:40.680 sweet, cute, lovely little daddy. Daddy, daddy, please lead me in battle, daddy. What do you have

00:43:49.820 to say about that? And Trump, completely straight face. And Rubio is not a TV star. He's not an

00:43:55.500 actor. And he just busts out laughing, of course. And what's notable about this exchange, Trump

00:44:02.280 handles it very well. He keeps a straight face. He lets the reporter get the joke in. It's a funny

00:44:06.600 bit. It goes viral. It's a flattering narrative to have out there anyway. So it's good. It's good

00:44:12.880 that it makes the rounds. And then he kind of brushes off the question. Oh, yeah, we get along great.

00:44:16.640 Like, oh, we get along great. We're good. NATO has problems. Whatever. You know, he just does

00:44:20.060 the Trump thing. But what's notable about this story for the political order is, do you remember

00:44:26.840 where the Trump is daddy meme first came from? A lot of people attribute it to Tucker Carlson

00:44:31.500 in this past campaign. Tucker gave some speech on the campaign. It's kind of like, uh, daddy's back.

00:44:38.280 Um, okay. So finally, we've got daddy, uh, coming home. So it was good. It was a good

00:44:44.660 bit that Tucker did. But it wasn't Tucker who coined that phrase. Goes back further. Goes

00:44:51.080 back, as far as I can tell, the first person to do it was Milo. In 2015, 2016, Milo Yiannopoulos

00:44:56.840 called Trump daddy. And that was so extreme and crazy and wacky and fringe and weird at the

00:45:03.760 time. Now you have a Sky News journalist at the NATO summit. Straight face for most people

00:45:14.240 other than Rubio saying, Hey, uh, Mr. President, are you daddy? Yes, I am. Yes, I am. What

00:45:22.520 a shift, what a difference a decade makes. What, what a successful political movement

00:45:28.060 to, to shift culture and even the world order in this way. We're sitting here at NATO. Yes.

00:45:36.960 Yes, I am. Daddy. Next question. Yes. Okay. Today's theology Thursday. The rest of the show

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