The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 1765 - BREAKING： 82 People Dead As Libs Blame Trump For Texas Flood

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00:00:37.720 It is good to be back.

00:00:39.740 I missed you all.

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00:01:00.720 I go back to the old country, Italia, for one week, and President Trump scores arguably his biggest win ever at the Supreme Court.

00:01:10.120 Certainly his biggest win ever in Congress, and might now get his head carved onto Mount Rushmore.

00:01:15.720 And the craziest part of all those wins is that multiple polls are now showing that Americans are less patriotic today than they've ever been.

00:01:24.900 I'm Michael Knowles.

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00:03:14.060 Before we get to any of the big political stories, I do have to get to these horrific storms in Texas.

00:03:21.840 Obviously, I was out of the country, and I was barely checking my phone.

00:03:26.620 I didn't really want to see all the political news.

00:03:28.540 I'll catch up on it later.

00:03:29.780 But then you saw this horrific storm, massive floods, 82 people confirmed dead so far.

00:03:37.220 That number is almost certainly going to rise.

00:03:39.360 I think there are 40-plus people still confirmed missing.

00:03:43.400 That includes dozens of girls from a Christian summer camp.

00:03:46.760 I mean, just absolutely horrific.

00:03:48.400 So we all pray for everyone and for the rescue efforts and all the rest, for the families, for the dead.

00:03:56.260 One thing we don't do is react in the way that some really prominent people on the left have been reacting, which was totally predictable.

00:04:05.900 But it's repulsive and nauseating, and it gets to a real problem at the heart of liberalism.

00:04:14.360 I'll just use one example.

00:04:15.400 This guy, Kyle Kalinsky, who is a fairly well-known internet person on the left, but he's been around for a while.

00:04:22.520 He writes, with the flooding in Texas and all of those precious little girls dying.

00:04:27.540 What a mocking phrase, all these precious little girls dying. 1.00

00:04:30.880 It's important to remember this was 100% preventable.

00:04:35.060 Elon and Trump slashed the National Weather Service and massively reduced the number of weather balloons in the country,

00:04:40.840 destroying our ability to accurately forecast severe weather events.

00:04:44.260 I've personally experienced forecasts being way off multiple times already.

00:04:47.840 They have blood on their hands, and they should be arrested for the deaths of those little girls.

00:04:50.820 Okay, so none of this is true, really.

00:04:54.340 This was not 100% preventable.

00:04:56.140 We'll get to that in one second.

00:04:57.540 Elon and Trump slashing the National Weather Service, as Michael Schellenberg points out,

00:05:01.220 the National Weather Service got this right.

00:05:03.100 The issue was not the National Weather Service.

00:05:04.800 There do seem to have been errors in sending out alarms at the state level,

00:05:09.520 but there's no evidence that the National Weather Service failed at all.

00:05:14.180 There's no evidence that just now, in the first year of the second Trump term,

00:05:20.020 finally, meteorologists get forecasts wrong.

00:05:23.140 Obviously, that's happened so frequently that it's been a punchline for as long as there have been meteorologists.

00:05:28.820 They have blood on their hands.

00:05:29.840 Listen to the sanctimony, the self-righteousness from this guy, Kyle Kolinsky.

00:05:33.440 100% preventable.

00:05:36.620 Now, we know this isn't true.

00:05:37.760 We know that this can't be attributable to any supposed cuts made under the second Trump term because of Hurricane Harvey.

00:05:47.180 So the confirmed death toll so far in this awful storm is 82.

00:05:51.480 Hurricane Harvey killed at least 68 in 2017, many years before the supposed Elon Trump cuts to the National Weather Service.

00:05:59.000 What would the left, what would Kyle Kolinsky blame that on?

00:06:02.700 Before that, let's go back a little further.

00:06:05.000 Tropical storm Allison killed 55 people in, what was it?

00:06:08.860 That was 2001, I think, right?

00:06:12.120 Well, long before anyone had really considered President Trump a serious presidential candidate.

00:06:16.780 Well, let's go back a little further than that because, you know, the other thing that people are going to blame this on is climate change, global warming, whatever.

00:06:26.120 How about the Galveston hurricane where the storm surges and the floods killed between 6,000 and 12,000 people in 1900?

00:06:33.860 Long before any global warming, climate change, long before any of the things, long before Trump, long before any of the things that the left is going to blame this natural disaster on.

00:06:47.320 A reaction like Kyle Kolinsky's, and I don't mean to just single him out, there have been plenty of people on the left who have reacted this way.

00:06:55.160 This reaction entails a lot of vice.

00:06:59.780 You have to have a lot of personal vice and sin to have this reaction.

00:07:03.980 But ultimately, ideologically, it's about a denial of original sin.

00:07:08.900 That's really what this is about.

00:07:10.180 But the tragedy has to be preventable because the world can't be fallen, because there can't be any such thing as original sin, because there can't be any limits on human potential.

00:07:21.820 We must be able to control everything.

00:07:24.100 We must be able to prevent every bad thing.

00:07:26.780 We must be able to perfect society.

00:07:28.960 It must be true.

00:07:30.080 That is the premise of liberalism.

00:07:33.100 But it's not true because it's a fallen world.

00:07:36.980 And you couldn't have prevented any of these things.

00:07:40.920 Not in 1900.

00:07:42.480 Not in 2001.

00:07:44.220 Not just this past week.

00:07:46.260 Bad things just happen sometimes.

00:07:48.120 And bad things happen to good people.

00:07:50.560 That's called theodicy.

00:07:52.760 And the great thinkers have dealt with this problem for millennia.

00:07:58.160 But modern liberals in particular, modern people generally, but modern liberals in particular, cannot deal with that.

00:08:04.120 Because there cannot be such a thing as original sin.

00:08:07.340 Bad things can't just happen.

00:08:08.580 We must be able to stop it.

00:08:09.720 We are human beings.

00:08:11.340 We have the potential to totally control the world.

00:08:13.320 We can make ourselves gods.

00:08:15.140 That's the theory.

00:08:16.880 And it's false.

00:08:18.220 I remember after that awful shooting at Covenant School here in Nashville, when the trans-identifying person shot up the little kids at the Christian school.

00:08:28.480 There was another one of these guys, like another Kyle Kolinsky, David Pakman.

00:08:33.900 He's another one of these liberal internet guys who doesn't make himself out to be some radical or some fringe person.

00:08:40.680 Makes himself out to be a mainstream person.

00:08:43.480 And he came out.

00:08:44.360 He tweeted out.

00:08:44.840 He said, it's so strange that there was a shooting at a Christian school because they always pray. 1.00

00:08:48.700 Maybe those little kids should have prayed harder and they wouldn't have been killed.

00:08:50.900 That was his reaction of a guy who considers himself a mainstream leftist.

00:08:55.120 And there was the same kind of sanctimony, the same vile, bile in the reaction, but also the same sanctimony as if to just blame Republicans or something.

00:09:09.680 It couldn't just be that bad things happen sometimes.

00:09:14.700 But, of course, you ask all of these people.

00:09:16.780 You ask David Pakman at the shooting in Nashville.

00:09:19.460 You say, well, what would you have done to prevent this?

00:09:21.420 Maybe they would say gun control. 0.88

00:09:22.880 We would pass a gun control law.

00:09:24.000 There's not one gun control law been proposed in the past three decades that would have stopped any of these shootings.

00:09:29.040 You might say prevent trans-identifying people, people who have mental illnesses from getting guns. 0.82

00:09:33.760 He almost certainly wouldn't agree with that.

00:09:36.060 You ask Kyle Kolinsky or these libs.

00:09:38.500 You say, what would you have done to prevent the flood?

00:09:41.420 I would have funded the National Weather Service.

00:09:42.960 There was no problem with the National Weather Service.

00:09:44.980 I would have had more carbon tax credits.

00:09:50.320 I would have had more electric vehicles.

00:09:51.720 You would have had what?

00:09:52.440 You would have had what?

00:09:53.280 Nothing that you've proposed will stop natural disasters.

00:09:58.500 Wouldn't have stopped Hurricane Harvey.

00:10:01.100 Wouldn't have stopped Tropical Storm Allison.

00:10:03.040 Wouldn't have stopped the Galveston hurricane.

00:10:05.180 Wouldn't have stopped any.

00:10:05.960 There has been flooding.

00:10:07.900 There have been natural disasters.

00:10:09.420 There has been evil and sin and death in the world since just almost the beginning.

00:10:19.780 Almost.

00:10:20.600 Since we got booted out of the garden.

00:10:22.340 And there are things we can do, obviously, to protect ourselves, to try to cope and to comfort people who deal with the suffering that life entails.

00:10:33.860 But this ain't it.

00:10:34.880 And what it comes down to is a fundamental error in the modern ideology.

00:10:42.040 Liberalism, most notably.

00:10:45.940 The hubris, the pride to say we can prevent evil.

00:10:52.320 We can just totally stop it.

00:10:54.020 It'll never seep in.

00:10:54.880 We can perfect it.

00:10:56.500 We can save the world.

00:10:57.200 That's the error.

00:11:00.420 And these people certainly can't and none of us can.

00:11:04.100 There's one person who can save the world, and he has.

00:11:07.740 I'll move on.

00:11:09.040 But just one additional terrible reaction to these tragedies.

00:11:13.620 You see this one all over TikTok.

00:11:16.260 People who almost come very, very close to saying that the victims of the flood deserve it.

00:11:27.200 I know I'm probably going to get canceled for this, but Camp Mystic is a whites-only girls' Christian camp. 0.98

00:11:41.160 They don't even have a token Asian.

00:11:43.420 They don't have a token black person. 0.92

00:11:45.480 It is a all-white, white-only conservative Christian camp. 0.91

00:11:51.440 If you ain't white, you ain't right. 1.00

00:11:52.960 You ain't getting in. 0.85

00:11:53.760 You ain't going.

00:11:55.020 Period.

00:11:55.540 And I think that context needs to be said in this matter.

00:12:02.360 It's not to say that we don't want the girls to be found, whatever girls that are missing or whatever right now.

00:12:08.500 But you best believe, especially in today's political climate, if this were a group of Hispanic girls, especially with them being in East Texas, it should be most likely Hispanic.

00:12:20.180 If this were a group of Hispanic girls out there, this would not be getting this type of coverage that they're getting. 1.00

00:12:26.780 No one would give a fuck, and all these white people, the parents of these little girls, would be saying things like, they need to be deported. 0.99

00:12:33.220 They shouldn't have been here in the first place, and yada, yada, yada. 1.00

00:12:35.260 If this is your reaction to a natural disaster, to any kind of tragedy, something's going wrong with you.

00:12:47.960 And if you have any introspection whatsoever, you should recognize that and say, oh, huh, that shouldn't be my reaction.

00:12:54.300 Huh, maybe there's something wrong in the way I'm thinking about things.

00:12:56.580 Because what this girl is doing is part of a broader liberal impulse, which is to make victims into perpetrators and perpetrators into victims. 0.99

00:13:07.240 That's always the case.

00:13:08.220 If an axe-murdering, illegal alien, rapist jaywalker goes out and just starts running people over in the streets and stealing sneakers while he's at it, the left will find a way to make him into the victim. 0.96

00:13:25.220 They'll say, well, he was failed by society. 0.98

00:13:28.100 Well, you know, there's systemic inequality and racism and sexism, and so he is really the victim.

00:13:34.700 And they will, left to their own devices long enough, find a way to make the victims into the perpetrators.

00:13:40.240 Well, they perpetuated a system of white supremacy and capitalism and imperialism, and they lived on the stolen land taken from the Chichaki, Haki, Toctaw Indians. 0.87

00:13:51.180 And so really, they had it coming.

00:13:53.300 They'll always do this.

00:13:55.820 They have this contrarian impulse that goes all the way down.

00:14:00.440 And ultimately, since we're speaking of first things, ultimately what it comes down to is that the devil's the good guy.

00:14:06.580 This is the radical liberal, radical romantic reading of Paradise Lost, which makes Lucifer into the good guy.

00:14:15.900 Lucifer, when he falls from heaven, he says, well, you know, the mind is its own place, and it can make a hell of heaven and heaven a hell.

00:14:20.780 Better to reign in hell than to serve in heaven, which is as clear a summation of the liberal ideology as I've heard.

00:14:28.000 The mind is its own place.

00:14:29.120 We can do whatever we want with it.

00:14:30.320 We don't need to be constrained by anything, not by family, not by tradition, not by morality, not by reality.

00:14:35.420 We can just, we'll just turn it, we'll just make our own worlds.

00:14:39.080 We'll make our own identities.

00:14:40.900 We'll make our own realities.

00:14:43.140 He's really the good, he's the rebel.

00:14:48.300 He's trying to liberate himself from a system.

00:14:50.900 And so anyone who transgresses, anyone who subverts the law or custom, in the liberal inclination, has to be the good guy.

00:15:00.180 And so it's not that this comes from nowhere. 1.00

00:15:01.660 It's not just, oh, look at these dumb, stupid liberals or something. 1.00

00:15:04.280 There is a kind of logic to it, but it comes from the subversiveness, which begins with the premise of liberalism, which is that man will make himself into a god. 1.00

00:15:12.920 We'll forget about god.

00:15:13.920 We'll either deny god altogether, or we'll just ignore him for all practical purposes in our lives.

00:15:19.060 And we'll make ourselves into gods.

00:15:20.900 No kings, no gods, only man.

00:15:23.620 That's what it comes down to.

00:15:24.900 And that's how you get that reaction.

00:15:25.960 And those reactions from the TikToker and Kyle Kalinske and David Pakman the last time there was a horrific tragedy, those reactions are wrong.

00:15:35.300 And if you have that reaction, you're wrong about a lot of things, and you should change your mind.

00:15:39.020 Now, I do want to get to some good stuff.

00:15:44.040 Because there are a lot of big political wins.

00:15:47.900 President Trump had his biggest win at the Supreme Court, maybe ever.

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00:18:26.680 Look, I got to catch up on a week of stuff, so I'm going to have to fly through this, okay?

00:18:29.940 But major, major win for President Trump, Trump v.

00:18:34.380 Casa Incorporated.

00:18:36.040 The upshot of this decision is random district court judges don't get to stop the entire presidential agenda at their whim. 0.81

00:18:44.740 How many district court judges are there?

00:18:46.880 I think something like 700. 0.99

00:18:49.060 And for the past six months, any time a district court judge, some random lib appointed by Barack Obama or Biden or something, any time any of them want to gum up the wheels of Trump's administration, they issue some stupid ruling. 0.98

00:19:01.980 And then they presume to be able to stop the executive branch from its functioning, which is completely ludicrous. 0.79

00:19:08.080 You might as well not have an executive branch if any one of the 700 district court judges can just stop the president from doing whatever he wants.

00:19:15.540 Sorry, can stop the president from doing what he should based on whatever the judge wants.

00:19:20.480 You might as well not have a president at that point.

00:19:22.480 So there's this case.

00:19:23.800 It was broadly about injunctions to stop deportations, but the substance of that doesn't really matter.

00:19:33.200 The upshot is the judges don't get to just push the executive around willy-nilly.

00:19:37.860 Ketanji Jackson, the newest judge on the court, big, big liberal judge from Harvard Law School, as her supporters remind us all the time,

00:19:48.160 she writes, it is not difficult to predict how this all ends.

00:19:55.120 Eventually, executive power will be completely uncontainable and our beloved constitutional republic will be no more.

00:20:03.820 So if the judges don't get to stop the president from enacting his agenda, then we'll lose our constitutional republic.

00:20:11.900 But it actually gets worse.

00:20:12.820 Somehow her dissenting opinion gets worse.

00:20:18.460 She writes,

00:20:19.780 As I understand the concern in this clash over the respective powers of the tour coordinate branches of government,

00:20:24.720 the majority sees a power grab, but not by a presumably lawless executive choosing to act in a manner that flats the plain text of the Constitution.

00:20:31.320 Instead to the majority, here's the kicker.

00:20:33.600 Instead to the majority, the power-hungry actors are, ellipsis, parentheses, wait for it, and close parentheses, ellipsis, the district courts. 0.96

00:20:47.600 Now, I know if you're just driving and listening to this, you might not be able to fully appreciate how stupid this looks in the text of Jackson's dissent. 0.95

00:20:55.120 But this woman, she's a Supreme Court justice. 1.00

00:20:59.960 She went to Harvard, undergraduate and law school.

00:21:02.840 She wrote in a Supreme Court opinion, like any glib, quirky millennial girl. 1.00

00:21:12.980 Instead, to the majority, the power-hungry actors are, dot, dot, dot, wait for it, dot, dot, dot, dot, the district courts.

00:21:21.320 Before we get to one last bit on Justice Jackson, here's what Amy Coney Barrett had to say in response to Jackson's semi-literate dissenting opinion. 0.59

00:21:37.720 Amy Coney Barrett, who sides with the court's majority here and says, yeah, random district court judges don't get to shut down the White House whenever they want to. 0.90

00:21:44.100 She writes, this is so brutal, she writes, we will not dwell on Justice Jackson's argument, which is at odds with more than two centuries worth of precedent, not to mention the Constitution itself.

00:21:57.400 We observe only this, Justice Jackson decries an imperial executive while embracing an imperial judiciary.

00:22:06.620 Rare.

00:22:07.560 So you get the catfight on the Supreme Court, but it's not even fair to call it a catfight.

00:22:12.420 It's like a mangy, little, frowning, furrowed brow cat versus a lion or a tigress or something. 0.97

00:22:22.700 A lioness or a tigress.

00:22:24.520 It is not fair to compare these two people, which is why you get the dismissive opening from Barrett.

00:22:31.440 She goes, we will not dwell on Justice Jackson's dissent, which is completely incoherent and barely functional English.

00:22:40.200 We're not going to dwell, let's just not dwell on that, so as not to embarrass her, as if to say.

00:22:46.880 However, and then she gets to the point, which is really simply stated and not all that catty or nasty, where she goes, Justice Jackson is worried about an imperial executive.

00:22:57.780 Oh, the lawless, tyrannical president without his power circumscribed.

00:23:01.040 Meanwhile, Justice Jackson is embracing an imperial judiciary, where forget about the president who's elected by all the people through the Electoral College, but really can claim national representation.

00:23:13.440 Here, you got just any random district court judge appointed by any kind of president can overrule the president of the United States.

00:23:20.780 Doesn't make a lot of sense.

00:23:21.640 The conclusion from this, one, this was obviously the right decision, 6-3 decision, simple enough.

00:23:29.260 The other conclusion here, though, is that Ketanji Jackson is not the sharpest tool we've ever had in the old Supreme Court shed.

00:23:38.560 Let's put it that way.

00:23:39.680 I'm trying to be charitable, not engage in railing or reviling.

00:23:45.080 I'm just trying to put the issue straight here, not the brightest crayon in the box, not the how many other metaphors are there.

00:23:56.800 When conservatives point this out, the liberals will inevitably respond and say, do you know, you, do you know that Ketanji Jackson has not one but two degrees from Harvard?

00:24:09.880 Oh, yes, she went to Harvard.

00:24:13.240 She was a Harvard undergraduate and then went to Harvard Law School.

00:24:19.380 Yes, that's true.

00:24:21.840 That is an indictment of Harvard.

00:24:25.140 That does not speak to the skills or capabilities of Ketanji Jackson.

00:24:31.660 That merely speaks to the decay of Harvard.

00:24:34.860 Harvard, this woman in her confirmation hearings was asked by Marsha Blackburn, what is a woman? 1.00

00:24:40.260 And she laughed and said, I'm not a biologist.

00:24:44.580 This woman should not be on the Supreme Court. 1.00

00:24:48.880 She does not have the goods to be on the Supreme Court. 1.00

00:24:51.840 Let's put it that way.

00:24:52.680 She doesn't write English well.

00:24:54.940 And as David McCullough, the great Yale historian, points out, to write well is to think clearly.

00:25:00.300 That's why it's so hard.

00:25:01.080 Anyway, she should not be there and she probably shouldn't have graduated from Harvard. 0.97

00:25:07.780 I mean, look, Harvard these days has a remedial math course for its freshmen.

00:25:11.240 So Harvard has been a long time in falling.

00:25:13.500 I love that Trump has declared war on Harvard.

00:25:16.640 But it's not when the libs respond.

00:25:19.380 They say, well, do you know, forget about Jackson.

00:25:21.120 I don't even mean to just only harp on Jackson.

00:25:23.080 When they say, you know, such and such public expert actually went to Harvard or Princeton or such and such.

00:25:29.340 Comes from the National Institutes of Health.

00:25:31.400 Yeah, yeah, yeah, I know.

00:25:32.260 I know that those credentials should mean something, but they don't anymore because people like this come out of them.

00:25:40.500 So the institutions, because of their insane ideology, have compromised their own credibility.

00:25:47.940 So now when you say so-and-so has a double Harvard degree, that immediately makes me suspicious.

00:25:54.580 Okay, that doesn't convey the credibility you think it conveys.

00:25:58.600 That makes me raise an eyebrow.

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00:26:28.340 So big win for Trump on the Supreme Court.

00:26:30.860 Then also a huge win in Congress.

00:26:33.900 The legislative achievement that will occur this year, the only one that could possibly occur really this year, has occurred.

00:26:41.960 Trump's big, beautiful bill has passed.

00:26:43.800 I know some people were opposed to it because it's got a lot of spending.

00:26:47.840 Yep, yeah, that's how bills are passed now.

00:26:51.580 You might not like it.

00:26:52.560 You might think it might be leading us into insolvency.

00:26:54.820 I agree with you that it's leading us to insolvency.

00:26:56.880 But that's just, that is how the government works.

00:26:59.880 You can bang your head against a wall and hate reality, but that's how it works.

00:27:04.800 So as the Treasury Secretary said when I interviewed him, Scott Besson at the White House a couple of months ago, I said, what happens if the big, beautiful bill doesn't pass?

00:27:15.560 What happens if you can't pry enough Republicans to go along with it?

00:27:19.560 And he said, well, then we've failed.

00:27:23.120 This is pass-fail.

00:27:24.360 This is not, okay, we're going to go back to the table.

00:27:26.900 We have basically one shot at this.

00:27:29.420 It's everything we want to get done this year.

00:27:31.600 The funding for the border, the funding for the military, the everything.

00:27:37.040 That making the tax cuts from 2017 permanent, if they didn't, it would be the largest tax increase in American history.

00:27:42.820 We just have to get it through.

00:27:45.180 Either we get it through or there will not be any legislation this year, any meaningful legislation.

00:27:51.120 That's it.

00:27:51.840 And he got it through.

00:27:52.980 Trump made it happen, and it had to happen.

00:27:55.380 And some people are going to bemoan that there's too much spending.

00:27:58.860 And they'll attack this for all sorts of different reasons.

00:28:01.720 They'll say, well, there's too much pork barrel spending.

00:28:04.840 First of all, I don't really think there is pork in this bill.

00:28:07.060 There's a lot of spending, but I don't think there's really pork in this bill.

00:28:09.340 And pork also doesn't matter.

00:28:11.080 John McCain made pork barrel spending.

00:28:13.860 All the little extra add-ons that the congressmen have to put into these spending bills in order to get their votes, to bring back money to their district.

00:28:21.240 All this little pork barrel spending, it doesn't really matter.

00:28:24.120 John McCain made it an issue in 2008 because John McCain supported massive entitlement spending.

00:28:29.740 And if you really wanted to cut the federal budget, the only way you could do it effectively, yes, you take on waste, fraud, and abuse.

00:28:36.180 Trump has done a good job on that.

00:28:37.520 Elon has done a good job on that.

00:28:39.100 Sure, I guess you can cut some pork barrel spending.

00:28:41.020 But really, the only way to do it is entitlement reform.

00:28:43.340 And John McCain didn't want to reform entitlements.

00:28:45.560 So the only way he could position himself as a fiscal hawk was to say, well, I'm going to get rid of pork barrel spending.

00:28:51.640 But it doesn't really matter to the bottom line.

00:28:53.640 And anyway, this bill doesn't really have pork in it.

00:28:55.960 So they'll attack it for that.

00:28:58.400 They'll attack it for not cutting entitlements.

00:29:00.640 But again, it does, in fact, streamline certain entitlements to get people who should not be on these programs, off these programs, to include, for instance, in Medicaid, a very minor work-slash-education-slash-volunteer requirement.

00:29:13.540 When the libs tell you this is going to kick millions of people off healthcare, what they're saying is either it's going to reiterate the illegality of foreign nationals, illegal aliens receiving some of these federal healthcare benefits.

00:29:29.600 But also what they're saying is, you know, it's going to make people who receive massive federal subsidies, it's going to make them at least try to kind of sort of pretend to get a job.

00:29:40.820 Or an education.

00:29:44.100 Or just do literally anything ever.

00:29:47.040 So if that's going to kick people off the entitlement programs, you have to ask yourself, why were they on the entitlement programs to begin with?

00:29:53.260 In any case, it does in some ways streamline that, makes it more efficient.

00:29:56.600 But it's going to be attacked for a million different reasons.

00:29:59.100 It had to happen.

00:30:00.080 It's the only way that Trump could in any way advance his agenda through legislation.

00:30:06.920 If you don't like that, then you can try to structurally change the system.

00:30:12.060 But that is how the government works.

00:30:14.620 To invade against that would be like invading against the notion that we're no longer a yeoman republic as envisioned by Thomas Jefferson.

00:30:22.480 We just, like, sorry, yeah, we also don't live on planet Zebulon 7.

00:30:26.300 But reality is reality, folks.

00:30:27.700 You've got to accept it.

00:30:28.400 If we want to improve it, we have to first accept what reality is and deal within those limits.

00:30:33.740 Now, some people are quite happy with the bill, like my friend and my congressman, Andy Ogles.

00:30:40.780 Andy Ogles is saying that this is such a great bill and Trump has done such a good job.

00:30:46.140 His head needs to be carved on Mount Rushmore.

00:30:49.220 And this is Andy's exact words.

00:30:52.160 I am asking Secretary Burgum, Secretary of the Interior, to put Trump on Mount Rushmore.

00:30:57.520 Given the scale and scope of President Trump's recent achievements, especially the impending enactment of the Big Beautiful Bill, the historic act that will ignite America's golden age, it is essential that we immortalize President Trump's likeness on Mount Rushmore.

00:31:11.280 And he goes on to compare Trump to Washington, Jefferson, Teddy Roosevelt, so on.

00:31:18.800 It's great.

00:31:20.680 You can see there's a picture of it that Andy put out where if you added Trump's head, and not just his head, really his whole bust with the nice, the tie, Brioni suit, if you add it, what it would look like on Mount Rushmore.

00:31:33.360 And everyone is laughing.

00:31:36.140 It's kind of funny.

00:31:37.080 I mean, it's a funny idea.

00:31:40.720 It's not totally crazy.

00:31:42.740 It's not totally crazy.

00:31:43.780 I told you I was in Italy last week.

00:31:44.900 I was seeing friends of mine that I had not seen in 16 years last time I was in Italy.

00:31:49.960 And we're there, and speaking Italian, these friends of mine don't really speak English very much.

00:31:56.120 But they don't pay super close attention to American politics.

00:31:59.160 You know, they're true Italians, but they pay a little bit of attention.

00:32:01.940 And so they were asking me about Trump.

00:32:04.200 And I was explaining my view on Trump to people who don't really pay super close attention.

00:32:10.780 And I said, you know, and these friends of mine had mixed feelings on Trump.

00:32:17.800 I said, how do I explain this to people who don't live in America, who don't follow this closely, who don't feel super tied into this?

00:32:24.420 I said, let me just view it from the historical perspective.

00:32:27.920 Whether you love him or hate him, Trump is an extremely significant figure in American history.

00:32:36.540 Whether you might hate him, you might love him, you might pretend to feel indifference toward him, he is a really significant president.

00:32:44.080 And sometimes when you're living through history, you don't realize how historic it is.

00:32:47.900 But this guy got elected to the top job in the world after having never served in political office and having never really run for president or for any office.

00:32:58.960 A little bit he ran in 2000.

00:33:01.440 This guy took over the Republican Party.

00:33:05.560 He destroyed two political dynasties, the Clinton dynasty and the Bush dynasty.

00:33:09.840 He rewrote a lot of Republican orthodoxy and the Republican platform.

00:33:13.460 He was booted out of office in odd circumstances, went out into the wilderness, became the second president ever to be elected to a non-consecutive second term.

00:33:24.820 After he was shot in the head, happily only blew off a little piece of his ear, and had another assassination attempt on him weeks later.

00:33:33.400 And then he comes back into office, having won the popular vote, as a Republican for the first time in 20 years.

00:33:41.920 That's historic.

00:33:45.020 That's historic.

00:33:46.820 So we can laugh.

00:33:48.480 We can all laugh.

00:33:49.080 It's kind of funny, the picture Andy posted.

00:33:51.120 You know, there's Trump's head right up there next to Lincoln.

00:33:54.700 It's not the craziest thing.

00:33:56.280 So then the question is, what would justify?

00:33:59.600 If you say, well, it's not justified to put Trump's head on Mount Rushmore yet, what would justify it?

00:34:04.060 To me, the clear answer is mass deportations.

00:34:09.920 Some will not want to hear it, but that's the answer.

00:34:13.000 Trump could justify having his head on Mount Rushmore if his legacy is that of a truly transformative president.

00:34:21.800 In retrospect, Clinton, George H.W. Bush, did he matter?

00:34:27.440 Like a little bit, not really.

00:34:29.140 He presided over the fall of the Soviet Union, that's interesting.

00:34:32.120 But no, he's not.

00:34:34.060 George, Reagan seemed transformational.

00:34:36.420 George H.W. Bush, not transformational.

00:34:38.400 Bill Clinton, not really transformational.

00:34:40.180 George W. Bush, maybe a little bit more than Clinton because of the wars, but not really transformational.

00:34:46.660 Barack Obama, a little bit more so, but eh.

00:34:49.600 Joe Biden, certainly not, you know, was barely there.

00:34:51.800 Trump could be, if Trump's legacy is I cut taxes a lot and I made business a little easier, he won't be transformational.

00:35:01.660 He could be a good president, but he wouldn't be transformational.

00:35:04.360 If Trump deports the many millions, possibly tens of millions of foreign nationals who are illegal in this country.

00:35:12.520 If Trump rewrites America's relationship with the world on trade, on war, on immigration.

00:35:19.920 If he does those things, he will be transformational.

00:35:23.200 And love him or hate him, he might deserve a spot on Mount Rushmore.

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00:35:52.120 Okay.

00:35:52.500 My favorite comment, when was this from?

00:35:54.900 You know, we had a lot of content going out all week.

00:35:56.820 I hate to leave you all high and dry.

00:35:59.260 So this was on some video.

00:36:00.600 I don't even know which one.

00:36:02.060 From Kevin Kent, 3663.

00:36:04.020 Your church shouldn't celebrate Independence Day, lol.

00:36:07.200 Meanwhile, my parish prayed for our country and Independence Day at Mass.

00:36:10.160 Yeah, of course you should.

00:36:12.060 This is something really crazy that in modern ecclesial communities

00:36:17.100 and groups that call themselves churches,

00:36:19.060 even though sometimes it's hard to tell if they look like a church.

00:36:21.840 You get all sorts of wacky heresies.

00:36:24.040 But one of them that's quite pervasive is the notion that we shouldn't be patriotic.

00:36:29.400 That somehow patriotism is idolatrous or wrong.

00:36:32.600 That could not be further from the truth.

00:36:34.900 Patriotism is an extension of filial piety.

00:36:40.140 Patriotism is an extension of your love for your family, which is a good thing.

00:36:43.500 And in fact, honoring your mother and father is a commandment from God.

00:36:48.580 And it's virtuous.

00:36:50.560 And patriotism is too.

00:36:53.060 You should love your country.

00:36:56.400 I have much more to say about that.

00:36:58.760 But let's move on because there's too much going on.

00:37:01.840 Maybe we'll get to that before the end of the show.

00:37:03.300 I got to fly through this stuff, folks.

00:37:05.300 A big hiccup here on the question,

00:37:06.880 is Trump, is he going to be a Mount Rushmore president

00:37:08.720 or is he not going to be a Mount Rushmore president?

00:37:10.920 This raised a lot of eyebrows, including my eyebrow,

00:37:13.300 over the week.

00:37:14.180 President Trump floating amnesty for farm workers.

00:37:19.320 Tom Holman.

00:37:21.820 And we're working on legislation right now.

00:37:24.520 Susie, right?

00:37:25.580 We're working on legislation right now where

00:37:27.980 farmers, look, they know better.

00:37:30.180 They work with them for years.

00:37:31.340 You had cases that were not here,

00:37:33.540 but just even over the years where

00:37:35.200 people have worked for a farm on a farm for 14, 15 years

00:37:38.800 and they get thrown out pretty viciously.

00:37:41.280 And we can't do it.

00:37:42.620 We got to work with the farmers and people

00:37:45.160 that have hotels and leisure properties, too.

00:37:47.940 We're going to work with them.

00:37:48.800 And we're going to work very strong and smart.

00:37:51.220 And we're going to put you in charge.

00:37:52.680 We're going to make you responsible.

00:37:54.460 And I think that that's going to make a lot of people happy.

00:37:57.180 Now, serious radical right people,

00:37:59.260 who I also happen to like a lot,

00:38:01.140 they may not be quite as happy, but they'll understand.

00:38:03.560 Won't they?

00:38:04.060 Do you think so?

00:38:05.460 Madam Secretary, look at you with a white hat on. 1.00

00:38:07.880 Do you think they'll understand that?

00:38:09.440 You're the one that brought this whole situation up.

00:38:11.840 Now, notice, notice a relatively subdued response from the crowd.

00:38:16.860 When President Trump acknowledges, he says, look, I love my,

00:38:18.940 we love our radical right people,

00:38:20.620 but they're not going to like amnesty for illegal aliens who work on farms.

00:38:25.140 But, you know, they'll understand, right?

00:38:26.480 And there's a subdued reaction from the crowd.

00:38:28.200 And the reason is this, as I've said before,

00:38:31.060 Trump gets it right 99.7% of the time.

00:38:34.740 But we're not, I'm not just the cheerleading section for Trump.

00:38:38.000 I really like the guy.

00:38:38.880 I really like him a lot, as you know, and have for 10 years.

00:38:41.000 And I think he's done a lot of great stuff.

00:38:42.420 I think this could be a perilous objective for him.

00:38:48.040 I don't, I don't think this is necessarily the right course to go down.

00:38:51.060 I see why.

00:38:51.980 I see why he's going down it.

00:38:53.120 Because he's got friends, especially in the business community,

00:38:55.860 you say, I'm losing all my, I'm losing all my workers.

00:38:58.540 Go after the illegals who aren't workers. 1.00

00:39:00.320 Go after the illegals who are just sucking off welfare. 1.00

00:39:03.580 Go after the workers who are criminals. 1.00

00:39:07.240 Go after the workers with the face tattoos. 0.95

00:39:09.540 Go at, 11 million to 16 million illegal aliens in this country.

00:39:15.560 If you, if you want to actually start to rectify that situation,

00:39:19.320 you can't just deport the ones with face tattoos.

00:39:22.380 You, you do kind of have to deport Abuela. 0.98

00:39:25.880 You do eventually, at least.

00:39:27.140 You can't have just random carve-its.

00:39:29.460 Well, if you work on a farm, as if what?

00:39:31.360 Illegals who work on farms can't commit crimes? 1.00

00:39:33.300 As if they haven't committed crimes?

00:39:34.540 I mean, first of all, there have been farm-working illegal aliens 1.00

00:39:37.020 who have committed horrific crimes like rape in the country.

00:39:39.920 But also, they've already committed a crime by coming over here.

00:39:42.200 And the question is, is this about, is this an issue of justice?

00:39:45.020 Is this an issue of national sovereignty?

00:39:46.500 Well, if it is, then we have to enforce the law.

00:39:49.820 The real error, I think, that, that is lying in wait here

00:39:56.220 is the notion that mass deportations are a radical right issue.

00:40:00.140 They're not.

00:40:01.820 Mass deportations are a majority mainstream political issue.

00:40:06.580 And that's very hard for us to understand

00:40:07.980 because for most of our lives,

00:40:09.540 the two views that you could have of migration

00:40:12.400 were mass illegal migration, mass legal migration,

00:40:15.960 or mass legal migration, but maybe not so much illegal migration.

00:40:19.960 But both of the views you were allowed to hold

00:40:22.260 were much, much more immigration.

00:40:24.140 And that's not what people want.

00:40:25.980 That's not what people voted for.

00:40:27.240 Trump campaigned on mass deportations.

00:40:30.660 Full stop.

00:40:32.000 He campaigned on it.

00:40:32.880 He was clear as day.

00:40:33.740 He didn't lie to anybody.

00:40:35.240 And people voted for that.

00:40:36.600 And he won the popular vote.

00:40:41.080 I understand that the White House

00:40:43.140 is probably getting a lot of pressure

00:40:44.660 from farms, from the hotel industry,

00:40:47.320 from farms which are largely corporate at this point.

00:40:49.400 Very, very few small farms left in America.

00:40:52.720 I think you got to resist that.

00:40:55.680 Most people want mass deportations

00:40:57.940 as a matter of national sovereignty,

00:41:00.200 as a matter of the rights of citizens,

00:41:01.880 as a matter of justice.

00:41:04.460 On this issue in particular,

00:41:05.780 I'd say give the people what they want.

00:41:07.060 Now, speaking of what Americans want,

00:41:08.320 Elon Musk is sick of the Republican Party.

00:41:11.340 He had a little bit of a falling out with his buddy,

00:41:13.040 the former buddy-in-chief has left the White House,

00:41:15.960 and he is now starting a new political party.

00:41:18.200 It's called the America Party.

00:41:20.560 And what does the America Party believe?

00:41:22.900 Elon retweeted this.

00:41:24.760 Says, America's party will be focused on 0.98

00:41:27.260 reduced debt, responsible spending only,

00:41:30.460 modernize the military with AI robotics,

00:41:32.480 pro-tech, accelerate to win an AI,

00:41:34.480 less regulation across the board,

00:41:35.900 but especially in energy,

00:41:37.100 free speech, pro-natalist,

00:41:39.220 centrist policies everywhere else.

00:41:40.660 Are you down for this?

00:41:42.240 And the right is freaking out.

00:41:44.520 They're saying, oh no,

00:41:46.160 you can't start a new party.

00:41:47.620 That's going to destroy the Republican Party.

00:41:49.560 And oh no, this is going to undermine MAGA.

00:41:51.500 And oh no, Elon, please, please, no, no.

00:41:55.500 I'm not concerned.

00:41:57.220 I'm not concerned.

00:41:58.360 I love Elon.

00:41:59.040 He's great.

00:41:59.480 I'm very grateful to Elon

00:42:00.300 for all the good that he has done for our country.

00:42:02.360 I don't, if Elon wants to start his party, it's fine.

00:42:04.740 The party will most likely pull more votes

00:42:07.060 from Democrats than from Republicans,

00:42:08.520 but it probably won't pull very many votes at all.

00:42:10.980 Do you know why?

00:42:11.760 Do you know why?

00:42:13.880 Because there are like zero people

00:42:15.900 who want this in the country.

00:42:17.380 I want some of these things,

00:42:18.780 some like pro-natalism, that sounds great.

00:42:20.540 But there are, this party is essentially

00:42:23.380 fiscally conservative, socially liberal.

00:42:26.500 It's not quite that simple,

00:42:27.760 but that's basically what it is.

00:42:28.740 It's the thing that college kids said 15 years ago.

00:42:31.480 I'm fiscally conservative.

00:42:32.220 I'm actually fiscally conservative, socially liberal.

00:42:34.160 Do you know how many people in the country

00:42:35.700 are fiscally conservative and socially liberal?

00:42:37.260 Zero, zero, that's how many.

00:42:39.140 Statistically, zero.

00:42:40.640 I'm not saying it's like,

00:42:41.540 there's gonna be one guy in the comments.

00:42:42.760 Oh, me, I'm, yeah, you're, okay.

00:42:45.040 Statistically, zero people want this.

00:42:47.000 I have a chart to show you.

00:42:48.360 Let me show you my chart.

00:42:49.960 I came prepared.

00:42:50.600 Where's my chart?

00:42:51.620 I don't see my chart.

00:42:52.720 Here it is.

00:42:53.680 It was my second sheet.

00:42:55.000 Okay.

00:42:55.900 The 2016 electorate.

00:42:57.940 You have here social identity dimension.

00:43:03.140 Most liberal to most conservative.

00:43:04.880 And then you have here the economic dimension.

00:43:08.100 Most liberal, meaning left, most conservative over here.

00:43:14.500 Here is where the Republicans sit.

00:43:17.400 Here is where the Democrats sit.

00:43:20.060 Here is fiscally conservative, socially liberal.

00:43:23.340 This is the America party right here.

00:43:25.380 Okay.

00:43:26.060 No one.

00:43:26.640 There's no one there.

00:43:28.920 You know who's there?

00:43:29.900 You know, every single person who's there has a podcast or a blue check on Twitter.

00:43:35.200 Every single, so it's confusing because you think for a say, you're like, well, all these people I'm seeing on the internet say that they, yeah, but that's a very small sample size.

00:43:44.960 No people are for that.

00:43:49.200 Because it's a contradiction in terms, by the way.

00:43:51.380 Social liberalism creates all sorts of fiscal hazards that, you know, when people are, like, doing a bunch of drugs and engaging in weird sex stuff and being, just broadly being irresponsible.

00:44:02.400 If you're socially irresponsible, you're going to be fiscally irresponsible, too.

00:44:05.160 So that's one of the reasons for it.

00:44:06.700 This will not threaten the two-party system.

00:44:08.340 Trump seems very upset about it.

00:44:09.640 He posted a tweet, I'm saddened to watch Musk go off the rails, it's a train wreck, we're running smooth as a machine, this is a threat.

00:44:16.580 I get it.

00:44:17.340 It's always a threat when anyone comes at you in any way in politics, but I'm not all that concerned.

00:44:24.720 Not all that concerned at all.

00:44:26.240 Okay, last bit to get to, though it's related, is a number of polls that come out around 4th of July on patriotism.

00:44:33.560 And so I'll just, I'll look at Gallup's right now, but there are a bunch that have come out.

00:44:36.520 Some, a little bit contradictory, but broadly speaking, one conclusion we're seeing is Gen Z, Zoomers, are the least proud generation to be American. 1.00

00:44:47.360 You know, I love the Zoomers. 0.92

00:44:49.360 In some ways, I feel spiritually Zoomers.

00:44:51.280 So why, what's going on here with the Zoomers? 1.00

00:44:53.840 Well, there's polarization, first of all.

00:44:55.700 The left Zoomers are really far left, the right Zoomers are really far right. 0.99

00:45:01.000 Most Americans are proud to be American.

00:45:03.240 58% said they're very or extremely proud to be American.

00:45:06.520 You might say, 58%, that's good, that's not good, that's bad.

00:45:08.940 That's a record low.

00:45:10.720 Americans are less patriotic today than they've ever been, basically. 0.90

00:45:13.780 Last year, 67% of Americans said that they're very or extremely proud to be American.

00:45:19.680 This splits on party lines, as you would expect.

00:45:21.940 36% of Dems are very or extremely proud to be American.

00:45:25.100 92% of Republicans are very or extremely proud to be American.

00:45:28.000 From 2021 to 2025, less than half of Zoomers, 41%, and this is adult Zoomers, have been extremely or very proud to be American.

00:45:38.000 That's compared to 58% of millennials.

00:45:39.900 The millennial numbers are higher, but still bad. 1.00

00:45:44.240 Worse than the historic average.

00:45:46.620 71% of Gen X is very or extremely proud to be American.

00:45:49.560 75% of the boomers.

00:45:51.060 And 83% of the silent generation.

00:45:53.140 So why is this?

00:45:54.040 Do people just become more conservative as they age?

00:45:56.500 Maybe.

00:45:57.580 Maybe.

00:45:58.240 I don't know.

00:45:58.860 I think there are still generational gaps that will persist, I think.

00:46:02.100 Is this because America's gotten worse?

00:46:05.180 That's what we hear.

00:46:05.980 That's what you hear from the left and what you hear even from people on the right, including people I respect.

00:46:10.800 They'll say, well, in this country, you used to be able to afford a home on a single income.

00:46:16.180 And you could have a lot of kids and cars and stuff, which is true.

00:46:19.280 The homes were a lot smaller and cheaper, and they only had one car, and you didn't go on lavish vacations, and you didn't go out to eat fancy dinners all the time.

00:46:27.200 But sure, sure, point taken, sure.

00:46:29.460 Wages have stagnated, okay, sure.

00:46:32.060 But that's not why.

00:46:33.840 That's not why people are less patriotic today.

00:46:37.360 It ties in with what we were talking about earlier.

00:46:41.740 Patriotism is a virtue.

00:46:43.940 Love of country is a virtue.

00:46:45.440 It is an extension of filial piety.

00:46:50.100 You know, it's that old dichotomy when people say, well, my country, right or wrong, or my country only when right?

00:46:57.500 What is it?

00:46:58.440 Do you love your country, right or wrong, or do you love your country only when right?

00:47:01.700 The correct answer is right or wrong, it's your country.

00:47:04.460 Do you love your mom when she's wrong, too?

00:47:06.240 You should.

00:47:07.080 Do you love your dad when he's right?

00:47:08.720 You should.

00:47:09.720 Patriotism, like patria, like pater, dad.

00:47:11.860 Dad, it's a patriotism is a virtue.

00:47:15.960 And in defense of the millennials and to an even greater degree the Zoomers, that virtue is mocked in their education from the earliest age. 0.97

00:47:27.140 So they don't know any better.

00:47:28.480 It's not that they're consciously rejecting their education and virtue.

00:47:32.800 They never got it, or they got the opposite of an education and virtue.

00:47:36.700 They're told from the America's awful, it's terrible. 0.65

00:47:39.160 The history books they read on America are Howard Zinn's, execrable nonsense. 0.56

00:47:42.360 So that's what they're taught.

00:47:46.700 And as a result, they're not patriotic.

00:47:49.680 That is a flaw in the individuals.

00:47:52.280 That is a generational and individual flaw.

00:47:54.760 It has nothing to do with America.

00:47:56.760 Plenty of people have been patriots living in countries that are much worse than ours. 0.91

00:48:01.420 If you are not a patriot, that's your problem.

00:48:04.620 And you're doing something very bad, and you should improve yourself.

00:48:07.920 And it's not necessarily your fault.

00:48:09.560 You might have just been taught wrong, but get with the program, kid.

00:48:13.160 It's bad.

00:48:14.740 Love your country.

00:48:15.800 It's your country.

00:48:17.060 Unless you want to be a big lip. 0.97

00:48:18.160 You know, this is what the, as we say on the show a lot, liberalism comes down to screw you, dad. 0.92

00:48:22.400 It comes down to three words. 0.99

00:48:24.020 I hate my dad. 0.96

00:48:25.840 That's what liberalism is.

00:48:27.640 And by extension, that's why you see the decline in patriotism.

00:48:34.140 As the miasma, as the fetid, toxic miasma of liberalism spreads across the horizon, you get the, I hate you, dad, to, I hate you, country. 0.65

00:48:45.240 Because you're not, you weren't, you didn't give me enough hugs, and we didn't play catch enough, and you didn't give me a house and two cars, and you didn't actually, GDP increase, but wages didn't, shut up. 0.99

00:48:56.320 Shut up. 0.98

00:48:57.740 You should love your country, because it's the right thing to do. 1.00

00:49:00.160 How do we turn it around?

00:49:02.740 We educate people into patriotism and other virtues, by the way, which involves not fiscal conservatism and social liberalism.

00:49:11.060 It doesn't involve any liberalism at all.

00:49:12.860 It involves being normal and doing good things and conserving any of the good, the abundant good that we still have in this country.

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