The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 1775 - U.S. Accuses Israeli Settlers of an “Act of Terror” Against Christians

00:00:00.000 Tensions unusually continue to ramp up between the U.S. and Israel as the U.S. ambassador to

00:00:05.860 Israel condemns a settler attack on Palestinian Christians as an act of terror. Then, speaking of

00:00:12.200 fights between people who are usually allies, President Trump is suing Fox News parent company

00:00:17.120 News Corp for $20 billion. But most important of all, your favorite podcaster appears to have been

00:00:24.660 debanked by one of the largest payment processors in the country. And you might be next. I'm Michael

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00:02:22.400 order. That's A-R-M-R-A dot com slash Knowles. Very strange situation going on right now between the

00:02:31.120 United States and Israel. U.S. and Israel, usually very close allies. Officially, of course, still allies.

00:02:36.160 But tensions are mounting. You're seeing a lot of shade getting thrown between the White House

00:02:42.240 and the administration broadly and the state of Israel. On the heels of the Israeli attack on the

00:02:48.400 only Catholic church in Gaza, which killed three Christians, injured 10, including the priest.

00:02:53.520 On the heels of that, the U.S. ambassador to Israel, Mike Huckabee, who is extremely pro-Israel,

00:02:58.960 Mike Huckabee threatened to accuse Israel of being unwelcoming to Christians because apparently

00:03:03.620 evangelical groups in America were having trouble getting visas. On the heels of all of that,

00:03:09.120 the U.S. ambassador to Israel, Mike Huckabee, has called a recent Israeli settler attack on a

00:03:16.360 Palestinian church in the West Bank an act of terror. This was an attack that ended up with the

00:03:22.500 death of a Palestinian American who is apparently a Christian. So Huckabee actually went to visit the

00:03:29.340 Christian town of Teba, where Israeli settlers reportedly started a fire near a cemetery in a

00:03:35.120 5th century church back on July 8th. Huckabee said, it is an act of terror and it is a crime.

00:03:41.720 Those who carry out acts of terror and violence in Teba or anywhere should be found and prosecuted,

00:03:46.380 not just reprimanded. That's not enough. A little apology, a little whoopsie-daisy,

00:03:52.240 a little slap on the wrist, not enough, according to the U.S. ambassador to Israel.

00:03:55.700 They need to be prosecuted for their crimes. The Israeli government has not commented on this

00:04:00.580 incident, but has a habit of denouncing these kinds of attacks. I could be saying,

00:04:04.160 you got to do more than denounce it. You got to go hard against these people.

00:04:08.220 He's asked Israel to, quote, aggressively investigate the killing of this Palestinian

00:04:12.660 American who was beaten to death by Israeli settlers in the West Bank. This is a criminal and 0.98

00:04:17.080 terrorist act. What makes this strange, what makes even my commentary on this strange from last week

00:04:24.780 is Huckabee is a big defender of Israel and even of Israeli settlements, according to reporting.

00:04:32.500 And yet he says, this is completely outrageous. So I discussed the IDF attack on, I guess it was

00:04:38.120 Friday, Thursday or Friday. And I caught a bunch of flack from extremely pro-Israel activists.

00:04:45.820 A bunch of flack, I mean, all the crazy insinuations, you're abandoning Israel, 0.95

00:04:50.300 you don't, you're anti-Semitic or something, completely lunatic stuff. And my reaction to that 0.97

00:04:56.280 is, if Mike Huckabee and I are the enemies of the state of Israel, then Israel doesn't have any

00:05:04.800 friends, doesn't have a single friend on planet Earth. And this is a big problem. These three

00:05:12.660 incidents, all in rapid succession, pose a big, big problem for the Israeli government.

00:05:17.160 Because what you hear, the typical talking points in propaganda, if you call out the attack on the

00:05:24.100 church, which the state of Israel says was accidental, maybe it was accidental, maybe it

00:05:28.180 was a mistake, but it was a big mistake. If it was a mistake, it was a big mistake. Actually,

00:05:31.860 either way, you would say it was a big mistake. The Latin patriarch in Jerusalem doesn't seem totally

00:05:38.140 convinced it was a mistake. The Holy Father has condemned the attack repeatedly and called for peace

00:05:43.480 and an end to the war. The typical response, the talking points is, well, you're condemning an

00:05:51.540 Israeli attack on a church or you're condemning Israeli settler attacks on a Christian community

00:05:57.400 in the West Bank. But why aren't you talking about the Muslim attacks on Christians? And there are some 1.00

00:06:03.680 people who are pathologically opposed to Israel or who don't like the Jews or something, who don't talk

00:06:10.040 about Muslim attacks on Christians. But that ain't me. And that ain't Mike Huckabee. And that ain't a

00:06:16.900 lot of the people who are seriously concerned about these attacks in recent days. I think if I had a

00:06:22.240 nickel for every time on this show that I've mentioned the battles of Poitiers, Lepanto, and

00:06:28.160 Vienna, or any other number of Muslim attacks on Christians going back 1,300 years all the way to

00:06:33.740 the present, if I had a nickel for that, I think I could buy a fleet of private jets.

00:06:37.440 You think Mike Huckabee hasn't called out Islamic terror against Christians? Give me a break. 0.98

00:06:44.160 But that doesn't mean that we can't criticize the government of Israel when it is right and just 1.00

00:06:49.400 to do so. And furthermore, when sometimes people will say, well, why aren't you talking about a

00:06:57.000 Syrian attack on Christians or even a Russian attack on Christians in Ukraine? I'd say, first of all,

00:07:03.240 we do talk about these things. But even so, we regularly kill Syrians, we the United States. 0.97

00:07:09.600 We are currently waging a war against Russia, slaughtering the Russian army through our proxy

00:07:14.980 in Ukraine. We regularly light up the Middle East and blow up Muslim extremists who persecute 0.99

00:07:21.660 Christians. The difference here is Israel is our ally. We fund Israel. We fund the Israeli military. 0.98

00:07:29.120 So it's an apples and oranges comparison. And the United States has every right. The White House,

00:07:35.380 reportedly, has every right to be furious over the attack on the church, accidental or otherwise.

00:07:40.780 The administration, through its ambassador to Israel, has every right to be furious when a

00:07:46.860 Palestinian American is killed in a Christian community by Israeli settlers, has every right to 1.00

00:07:51.100 do that, especially when we're signing the checks. I don't think that the pro-Israeli side is playing

00:07:59.220 this very well. I was looking at a poll last night, CNN poll, so take it with a grain of salt.

00:08:05.240 But support for the war in Gaza at this point, people who believe the Israeli actions are totally

00:08:10.560 justified, it's like 23%. It's dropped to extreme lows. It's down to 52%, even among Republicans.

00:08:17.400 Republicans used to support the state of Israel, 150%. So this is a real problem.

00:08:23.760 I think it's a sign of the times. If you have someone who's broadly supportive of the state

00:08:26.860 of Israel, like me, someone who has, for decades, like Mike Huckabee, been very, very supportive of

00:08:31.340 the state of Israel. If you have the attention of those guys who are saying, hey, you guys are going

00:08:35.920 way too far. We need more than apologies. We need solutions here. This is not working out.

00:08:42.300 When you have the White House reportedly furious that Israel is going into Syria,

00:08:46.520 as the United States is trying to negotiate peace, you are in big trouble. And I think if the Israeli 1.00

00:08:54.660 government wants to survive and thrive and keep on achieving its strategic objectives,

00:08:59.880 it needs to recognize that it's one friend on earth, the United States of America,

00:09:05.540 is trying to help it through some criticism. Because if the state of Israel loses serious U.S.

00:09:14.580 support, what's it got on the international stage? Not good stuff. You do not want Mike Huckabee

00:09:21.840 to be lobbying totally justified rhetorical attacks if you are the Israeli government.

00:09:29.400 Not a good sign. Needs a change of strategy. Okay. Speaking of fights between allies,

00:09:34.500 President Trump is suing the Wall Street Journal, really the parent company, which is also the

00:09:38.720 parent company of Fox News, News Corporation, for $20 billion. Why $20 billion? Because

00:09:46.340 the Wall Street Journal just published this supposed letter from President Trump to Jeffrey Epstein.

00:09:53.080 It's got a drawing of a lady on it. It's got all these kind of enigmatic phrases. Trump said

00:09:58.440 that this was a fake letter and should not be published. Wall Street Journal published it anyway.

00:10:04.460 He said, I'm going to sue. A lot of people said, well, look, if this is a really fake letter,

00:10:09.480 then he could sue. But if it's not fake and he's just threatening it, maybe he's just trying to

00:10:14.320 distract from the news cycle. Well, here you go. He's suing, which means that that opens him up to

00:10:18.240 discovery, which means, seems pretty likely it's a fake letter. Pretty strong evidence that it's not

00:10:24.800 real. Now, what does that mean for the administration? What does it mean for News Corp? What does it mean for

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00:13:45.660 Very strange. You got the U.S. and Israel all tense. You got Trump and News Corporation. I guess

00:13:50.100 that's more. Sometimes President Trump has hit Fox News and the parent company, but very strange

00:13:55.900 to see usual allies fighting. A lot of long-simmering tensions finally boiling over.

00:14:02.780 But speaking of a lot of money, I've got some personal news, which is political news,

00:14:09.680 that I have suspected for many months now, but I wanted to make sure that I had all the facts I

00:14:15.040 could possibly gather. Because this is pretty explosive as far as I'm concerned.

00:14:19.120 I appear, your favorite podcast host, appears to have been debanked by Stripe. Stripe is the

00:14:28.300 largest payment processor by number of merchants in the United States. So this is no minor service.

00:14:34.040 This is a major service. And the way I found out about this was, at this point, eight, nine months

00:14:41.040 ago, I noticed that there was a glitch in the payments that I get from X. So X pays people for

00:14:50.860 tweets. And it's not a lot of money, but you get these little payments every month. And I noticed

00:14:55.000 they stopped coming through. So I didn't pay much attention to it. Again, it's not a ton of money.

00:14:59.420 But I looked into it, and there was some glitch. And then I, I don't know, clicked a button or two,

00:15:03.020 fixed it. Then in January, it happened again. And I reached out to Stripe and, and X. And I said,

00:15:11.300 hey, what happened? My, my payments for my tweets stopped coming through. And Stripe was immediately

00:15:16.040 very, very cagey about it. And they said, well, you have to reach out to X because your Stripe account

00:15:21.740 only works with X. And this is a crucial part to the story to figuring out why I've, I've been

00:15:28.060 deplatformed, debanked from this payment service. Because I have all sorts of business

00:15:32.860 interests, different companies, all sorts of stuff, books. This service is only tied to X.

00:15:41.240 And when I reached out to Stripe, they said, oh, you got to, you got to talk to X. I said,

00:15:45.020 okay, I reach out to X, but X doesn't really get back to me very much. They said, no, you got to

00:15:49.740 talk to Stripe. And they said, no, no, no. Stripe says, you got to talk to X. We sent them a notice

00:15:55.420 back in October about an issue. And so if you want to hear, I said, well, you have the email,

00:16:01.380 just tell me what the email. I said, no, no, we're not going to tell you, but you got to talk

00:16:04.180 to X. So it was this game of ping pong back and forth for months and months and months. I have,

00:16:08.580 I have the receipts for it, of course. And lo and behold, I finally hear from X that the issue is on

00:16:15.660 Stripe's end. And they sent me a link to reasons that Stripe might suspend your account. And I'm

00:16:20.320 looking through and it's all sorts of stuff, you know, gun running, uh, you know, illicit drugs,

00:16:24.880 whatever. I said, okay, none of this is checking out. And then I saw this little portion.

00:16:29.380 It said, businesses that engage in, encourage, promote, or celebrate unlawful violence toward

00:16:35.240 any group based on race, religion, disability, gender, sexual orientation, national origin,

00:16:40.120 or any other immutable characteristic. Now, uh, well, you know, the right gets accused of this

00:16:48.380 all the time. If you think that a man can't be a woman, you're accused of committing an act of

00:16:53.160 violence against, uh, some community that even ontologically doesn't even really exist. Uh, because

00:16:59.840 this account, it's actually a pretty good case study for this because the account only pertains

00:17:05.280 to my use of X, which is a speech platform, a platform to express opinions, not to run guns or

00:17:12.000 something like that. Because of that, it would seem quite likely though the payment server won't,

00:17:17.680 won't, uh, be forthright about this. It would seem quite likely that I was, that I was debanked

00:17:24.240 for my political opinions. I, I suppose political opinions, it could have been my religious opinions.

00:17:29.160 There's been a ton of anti-Catholic persecution in recent years, the Biden administration sending 0.56

00:17:34.160 jackbooted thugs to spy on churches, calling Catholics extremists and, and radicals. So it could

00:17:40.360 have been that. I don't know why. Could it be, uh, one opinion that I've expressed that caught a lot

00:17:45.560 of flack was, and, and defamation from major news outlets was when I said that, uh, the ideology of

00:17:51.640 transgenderism has to be eradicated from, from public life. Was it that? I don't know. I'm only 0.98

00:17:55.520 speculating, but if I say men can't become women or something like that, it's just stating a basic 0.60

00:18:00.740 fact of anthropology, the fact of the Christian faith, the fact, I don't know what it is, but what

00:18:07.820 I do know is this story doesn't only pertain to me. Uh, Stripe, the fact that they're being so cagey

00:18:14.020 about it suggests to me, they just don't want to admit what is a big political liability. But I know,

00:18:18.960 I know that the Republicans are back in town. I know that the Republicans now control the entire

00:18:23.660 government. I know that debanking is a major political issue. For goodness sake, Stripe,

00:18:27.580 this payment processor, debanked the Trump campaign back in 2021. So this wouldn't be the first time

00:18:32.920 that a conservative or Christian or any other politically incorrect group were debanked based

00:18:39.720 on their views. But I know that there are a lot of Republicans back in Washington DC whose job it is

00:18:45.460 to look into issues like this. And so if I were Stripe, I would be cagey about this too, but this

00:18:50.220 would appear to be a very unjust act that could involve potentially millions and millions of

00:18:56.980 Americans. If you are a conservative, if you're a Christian, if you're just a normal person who holds

00:19:03.820 normal political views that everyone agreed on until five minutes ago, you are at risk of being

00:19:09.220 debanked by the largest payment processor by number of merchants in the entire country.

00:19:15.440 And until we get an answer from them, maybe it was just a mistake. You know, everyone likes to,

00:19:20.460 oh, it's just a whoopsie daisy. Until we get an answer from them, I don't see how we can conclude

00:19:25.360 otherwise. And the very fact that I've waited now, not just six, really more like eight or nine months

00:19:31.200 doing everything I could to get an answer on this, I don't think they can accuse us of being hasty or

00:19:36.040 rash. And I think that maybe some people in Washington DC are going to have to have a look

00:19:40.300 into that because this is a big, big political problem. If normal people are being debanked for

00:19:46.320 having normal views, that's a very urgent problem that should probably rise to the attention of the

00:19:51.500 people whose job it is to look into it. Okay. Speaking of financial problems, this is really

00:19:55.880 crazy. This is much more troubling than my being debanked by Stripe. One in three dinks

00:20:02.380 go into debt for their pets. What's a dink? A dink is a person who is dual income, no kids. 0.95

00:20:09.640 You think of the typical coastal urban millennial couple, you know, they're not ready to have kids.

00:20:16.260 They might not even get married, but they, you know, they have their fur babies or something. 0.52

00:20:20.940 Really crazy story out of USA Today. There was a, let me see, let me see, let me see exactly. I have

00:20:26.740 so many crazy stories today. Here we are. Okay. So according to a new Insurify survey,

00:20:34.340 68% of dink pet parents say that they've made financial sacrifices to cover essentials for their

00:20:40.740 furry friends. That includes, I kid you not, taking a second job, stopping savings contributions,

00:20:49.620 so no longer saving any money, and skipping medical care for themselves to pay for their,

00:20:57.000 their dogs and cats. Dink couples who were surveyed spent an average of $1,906 per year 1.00

00:21:05.360 on pets, which is a lot cheaper than raising a kid. According to raising a kid, it's a,

00:21:10.560 or according to, to reports of actual parents, it's about 23 grand a year to raise a kid.

00:21:15.480 Okay. So 2,000 bucks is a, is a steal, but again, you're getting a dog, not a kid.

00:21:23.180 The people surveyed said they would spend up to $5,004 for life-saving treatment and up to $2,835

00:21:29.780 per year to care for a pet's chronic health condition. It's a lot of scratch. 34% said they

00:21:36.800 worked extra hours or took a second job to cover costs. And 33% said they took on credit card or loan

00:21:43.400 debt to pay for their dog. 29% stopped contributing to savings. 24% delayed other paying other bills.

00:21:51.560 15% stopped personal medical care. Okay. Now, why, why do they do this? According to the survey,

00:22:00.280 39% of these people plan to have children someday. So it's 39% at least aren't planning on remaining

00:22:07.100 childless forever and investing all their money in their dogs. 17%, however, said raising kids is too

00:22:12.700 expensive ever to have them. 17% of people who go into debt for their, for their chihuahua say that

00:22:19.500 kids are too expensive and they're not going to have them. 15% said they never want kids, period.

00:22:26.580 And why? Well, 29% say they prefer a lifestyle that allows more freedom.

00:22:30.700 They're only, you're free if you go into debt to pay for your poodle, but you're not free if you

00:22:37.100 have a beautiful child who you can raise, who will, who will still grow and flourish and might

00:22:42.240 take care of you someday. 22% said they need to improve their financial situation before having

00:22:46.780 kids. There are many people who feel that way and I totally get it. But only 5% of these people

00:22:52.660 cited medical or fertility issues as the reason they don't have kids. So it's easy to look at these

00:22:57.300 people and say, look, they can't have kids. They're suffering infertility. The cat or the dog

00:23:01.340 is the second best thing. Why be so harsh on them? Because virtually none of them are dinks for that 1.00

00:23:07.160 reason. Only 5%, 95% are dinks and potentially going into debt for their chihuahuas. Not because 0.95

00:23:16.440 they're infertile, not because they really want to have kids, but can't. What is this about? You'd have 0.80

00:23:21.380 to be out of your freaking mind to go into debt for your wiener dog. Why are they doing it? Because 0.98

00:23:28.480 they have a good impulse and the good impulse is to sacrifice for a creature that they love.

00:23:33.140 The problem is the impulse has been fundamentally disordered by our decadent culture. Some people

00:23:40.160 seem to think this is really nice and evidence of altruism if you're willing to go into debt for

00:23:44.760 your poodle. Not true. Fur babies, the whole fur baby phenomenon, people referring to their pets as

00:23:51.540 children, referring to themselves as parents when they own a dog or a cat, that is not evidence of

00:23:56.960 altruism. That is a fundamentally selfish phenomenon. And you see it a little bit in the numbers here,

00:24:01.620 where they say, eh, you know, it's too expensive to have kids. Eh, I want to have freedom. You know,

00:24:05.360 I want to be able to go to brunch and go on European vacations, and that's too hard with kids.

00:24:10.480 Fur babies are a selfish phenomenon. Having children is a selfless phenomenon. 0.77

00:24:17.560 Having children, not only is having children selfless in the sense that you have to sacrifice

00:24:21.040 a lot for your kids, having children is selfless in the sense that it is patriotic. It is your civic

00:24:26.440 duty. You need to close your eyes and think of America, okay, when you're in the process of making

00:24:31.080 a child, because it is your duty to have a country that has children that can perpetuate into the 0.94

00:24:35.480 future. It's also wonderful on a personal level and a sublime experience and enriching in every way.

00:24:41.300 But it is also conducive to the common good. You can't have a country if people don't have kids.

00:24:45.740 And a lot of people aren't having kids right now, and they're replacing kids and their natural 0.99

00:24:49.820 desires for kids with little chihuahuas that they push around in strollers and they take a second job

00:24:53.900 for. That is selfish. Fur babies are entirely indulgent, self-indulgent, because it gives you a

00:25:02.800 little bit of the feeling of having a kid, a little fraction of an iota. But if you don't

00:25:06.640 have kids, then you don't realize. It gives you a little fraction of an iota of the feeling of having

00:25:10.540 a kid with none of the responsibility. If the dog gets run over by a car, you're going to have a bad

00:25:15.660 weekend, but then you'll be fine. You'll move on. None of the responsibility and none of the payoff.

00:25:21.040 They don't really do anything. People love their dogs. People love their cats. It's kind of nice.

00:25:25.600 They make your household a little more lively, but they don't really do anything beyond that.

00:25:29.840 Having children does something. Having children echoes throughout the ages and the generations

00:25:33.960 makes the country strong. This is a big problem. Not everyone gets to have kids. 5% of these people

00:25:40.960 suffer infertility, and that's a terribly painful thing, and I get it, and they should have their 0.99

00:25:44.920 dogs, and they should love their dogs. The 95% who are choosing puppies over kids are screwed up in 0.85

00:25:50.880 the head, and they need to go to therapy, and they should probably go to confession, and they need to 0.98

00:25:54.800 get their life in order, and then they need to go into the boudoir, and they need to close their eyes

00:25:58.080 and think of England, and they need to close their eyes and think of America, and they need to have

00:26:01.160 kids, and they're going to have a better life for it. Okay. Speaking of disordered behavior, horrible

00:26:05.960 story out of the New York Post. We were mentioning the Diddy Escort earlier. Another porn star has died,

00:26:12.720 and this should cause reflection on the whole industry. We're going to get right back to my

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00:27:47.660 from a health care provider. Really sad story out of the New York Post.

00:27:52.660 Porn's tragic curse. Kylie Page, seventh X-rated star to die of drug-related causes in the last three

00:28:00.900 years. So Kylie Page is apparently a 28-year-old who's in pornography, found dead in her home. Looks 1.00

00:28:09.180 like an overdose, I guess. Or maybe it was suicide. No, no, it was an overdose. In the last three years,

00:28:16.440 at least six female porn actresses have succumbed to the deadly lifestyle, be it direct suicide or

00:28:22.540 indirect suicide through drugs and various poisons. And this is nothing new. You might not have ever

00:28:27.920 heard any of these names or any of these people, but you've heard this story a billion times.

00:28:32.840 Another spate of porn actors and actresses dying. I interviewed a male porn actor. This was a couple

00:28:39.460 years ago now, Josh Broom. And he said, oh yeah, of my, I had 30 some odd friends in the industry,

00:28:44.620 and like 28 of them are dead or something like that. It's a very deadly industry. And so I guess

00:28:51.440 my question is this, you don't need to know anything about this and you should not know anything

00:28:55.920 about this industry to be able to look at that, look at that number, look at those statistics and

00:29:02.780 say, hold on, something is really wrong here. In what other field of work would we tolerate these

00:29:10.100 kinds of numbers without serious regulation? You look at football, one football player gets CTE.

00:29:16.320 All of a sudden you've got massive regulations in professional football, you had all sorts of new

00:29:20.880 gear and protection, and you've got parents calling to ban the sport for kids. Because a handful of

00:29:26.740 football players get their heads knocked around a little bit. In pornography, you have just a constant

00:29:32.120 slew of stories of very young people, people in their twenties dying from suicide and drugs because of

00:29:38.440 this hideous, awful, satanic industry. And yet that industry is basically wholly unregulated.

00:29:45.060 It used to be heavily regulated. It used to be effectively banned because we've had obscenity

00:29:49.400 laws in this country since before the founding of this country. They're still on the books. We

00:29:53.060 could still prosecute people for them. And in fact, the Bush administration, the second Bush

00:29:56.560 administration, the end of its second term, did prosecute a pornographer for obscenity at the federal

00:30:01.840 level. So we could do it. It wouldn't be that hard. There's been bipartisan support in Congress

00:30:06.440 in the 90s and the 2000s with the support of the president to restrict this stuff, struck down by

00:30:13.360 lunatic judges. But how can you, just from a workplace standpoint, just from a labor relations

00:30:19.740 standpoint, how on earth can you allow an industry like this where all the most famous people in it

00:30:26.820 end up killing themselves one way or another? How do you allow that to go on unmolested, pun intended?

00:30:33.260 How do you allow that to go on unregulated? We wouldn't tolerate this in manufacturing.

00:30:38.240 We wouldn't tolerate this in sports. We wouldn't tolerate this in anything.

00:30:42.500 But we tolerate it in this degenerate, disgusting industry that screws up the lives of the people

00:30:49.060 who are in it and, no less, screws up the lives of all the people who use it. It's just pure poison. 0.90

00:30:54.420 The fentanyl of glittering images. Crazy stuff. And I think any legislator who is not a complete

00:31:02.760 freak pervert needs to get on this right now. Any federal regulator or state regulator, for that

00:31:08.200 matter, who isn't just a complete pudding-brained pervert needs to get on this right now and heavily

00:31:15.040 regulate this industry and ideally regulate it out of existence. You've seen some good movements on this

00:31:19.580 recently. A lot of states, really just conservative states. The Democrat-run states,

00:31:25.560 seems like they've got an abundance of perversity there in the government, so they don't regulate it.

00:31:30.780 But the conservative states have and have made great strides at eradicating porn from those states.

00:31:37.700 Even just by saying that there has to be age verification so little kids don't look at it.

00:31:42.780 You get the porn companies and say, hold on, you're telling me we have to make sure that little

00:31:47.560 children aren't viewing our product. We'd rather stop doing business in the state altogether,

00:31:51.260 which tells you everything you need to know about those companies.

00:31:54.520 Yeah, let's get on it, guys. We wouldn't tolerate it in any other field, any other industry.

00:32:00.400 Shouldn't tolerate it here. Okay, speaking of threats to health, the White House at the end of

00:32:03.720 last week, I meant to get to this last week, but it's an important story to get to.

00:32:06.620 Not because of the story itself, but because of what it says about

00:32:09.120 the two sides of politics in America. The White House announced that President Trump

00:32:14.720 has a minor age-related leg condition.

00:32:19.740 On another note, I know that many in the media have been speculating about

00:32:23.780 bruising on the president's hand and also swelling in the president's legs. So in the effort of

00:32:29.620 transparency, the president wanted me to share a note from his physician with all of you today.

00:32:34.560 In recent weeks, President Trump noted mild swelling in his lower legs. In keeping with routine medical

00:32:41.140 care and out of an abundance of caution, this concern was thoroughly evaluated by the White

00:32:46.380 House Medical Unit. The president underwent a comprehensive examination, including diagnostic

00:32:52.620 vascular studies. Bilateral lower extremity venous Doppler ultrasounds were performed and revealed

00:33:00.500 chronic venous insufficiency, a benign and common condition, particularly in individuals over the

00:33:07.860 age of 70. Importantly, there was no evidence of deep vein thrombosis or arterial disease. Laboratory

00:33:15.820 testing included a complete blood count, comprehensive metabolic panel, coagulation profile, D-dimer,

00:33:24.000 B-type natriotic peptide, and cardiac biomarkers. All results were within normal limits.

00:33:30.920 Okay, okay, compare this. Obviously, we pray for President Trump's health. Luckily,

00:33:35.840 this is not a serious affliction, but nevertheless, we'll make sure he's very healthy and lives a long

00:33:41.420 time. Compare this to the Biden administration. So President Trump has a little bit of swelling in

00:33:49.140 his legs. That's basically what the issue is. He has a little bit of swelling in his legs.

00:33:53.220 And the White House press secretary comes out after some speculation about people looked,

00:33:56.740 his leg looked a little bigger, says, hey, the president has this vein issue in his legs.

00:34:01.300 It's totally common for people who are over the age of 70, and it's not particularly threatening,

00:34:07.040 but it's being treated right now. Here are all the specifics on it. Here are all the tests that

00:34:10.260 have been run. Here's what it means. Here's what it doesn't mean. Here's everything. It goes on and

00:34:13.960 on and on with all this medical jargon. At a certain point, you say, okay, I got it. I got the,

00:34:16.940 but she wants all of the information out there. Meanwhile, Joe Biden's head had melted,

00:34:22.900 and he was drooling, and he couldn't say his own name when he was president. And the White House

00:34:26.780 physician comes out and says, he's in great shape. He's terrific. No serious health problems

00:34:33.060 whatsoever. We later find out President Biden almost certainly had cancer, known cancer at

00:34:38.280 the time he was president. It is completely implausible that President Biden would be

00:34:42.180 diagnosed with advanced, easily detectable cancer so short after he left the White House.

00:34:49.920 Obviously, that was known when he was president, which is almost certainly why Kevin O'Connor,

00:34:54.800 the White House physician under Biden, pled the fifth against self-incrimination when he was asked

00:34:58.900 whether or not there was a cover-up of Biden's health. Compare those two things.

00:35:04.000 President Trump has a minor leg swelling issue. The White House completely transparent tells you

00:35:08.980 everything you need to know about it. President Biden's head didn't work anymore,

00:35:13.280 and he had cancer. The White House lies. Big, big difference. So refreshing to see this.

00:35:19.240 And it gives us the opportunity to pray for President Trump's health. And we're glad to know that

00:35:23.140 he's got this issue under control, and it's being monitored. And it's a reminder that the

00:35:27.080 president has doctors around him 24-7. So the Biden cover-up is totally implausible, ridiculous, 0.97

00:35:33.040 probably smart for that position to plead the fifth so he doesn't go to jail. 0.67

00:35:37.560 Absolutely, absolutely the right thing to do. Great, great, great stuff. It's not great that

00:35:43.500 President Trump has a minor health issue, but great stuff that we're seeing this kind of

00:35:46.980 transparency. Okay, now we got to turn to Capitol Hill because there's a Republican on Capitol Hill.

00:35:50.760 No bueno, really bad stuff. You got Republicans win unified government running on mass deportations

00:35:58.220 because of a sequiar of the illegal aliens coming into this country. And what are the liberal 0.94

00:36:04.000 Republicans on Capitol Hill do? They take that as an opportunity to demand a mass amnesty of the

00:36:09.260 illegals. You can't expect anything else than for Capitol Hill Republicans to snatch defeat from the 1.00

00:36:17.400 Joe as a victory. We'll get to that in one second. First, there's a lot happening in the news right

00:36:21.120 now. There's only one place you're getting the real story, and that's Daily Wire Plus. The most

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00:36:37.480 Friday. Join a community of people with the same values, the same beliefs, the same common sense as

00:36:41.400 you. Head on over to dailywireplus.com to join now. My favorite comment on Friday is from ATWLR7320.

00:36:51.120 Love how the guy dives under the seat and leaves the woman to fend for herself. Such a gentleman. 0.95

00:36:55.200 I suppose this is referring to Coldplaygate, the former CEO of Astronomer. There's an update there.

00:37:01.020 I don't know if we'll have time to get to it, but it's not a long story. The guy who got caught

00:37:04.900 cheating at the Coldplay concert, he's resigned. He's been pushed out of his job. Yes, though,

00:37:09.380 you're right. He dives under, leaves the woman to fend for herself. It's amazing. The man who's 0.94

00:37:14.920 cheating on his wife, the mother of his children, with the HR lady at his office, brazenly openly at

00:37:20.680 a concert, turns out he's not the most chivalrous fella in the whole world. Shocking. Shocking. Okay.

00:37:27.280 Turning to Capitol Hill, the Trump administration, the Republicans get elected with the popular vote

00:37:33.620 on mass deportations. Mass deport, not just the face-tattooed gangsters, Abuela and the Gardner.

00:37:39.780 We're talking 11 to 16 million illegal aliens in the country. That's a conservative number.

00:37:44.460 The popular vote, people of all backgrounds, Hispanic, black, women, all these backgrounds,

00:37:51.100 vote. They say, we want to boot these people out of the country. So, of course,

00:37:55.580 Republican Congressman Maria Salazar is pushing for mass amnesty.

00:37:58.900 President Trump, sir, the same God who saved you from death in Pennsylvania one year ago and who put

00:38:09.820 you back in the Oval Office against all odds is the same God Almighty who millions and millions are

00:38:16.720 begging to for some type of dignity, not amnesty. Sir, I believe that you could be for immigration what

00:38:24.060 Lincoln was for slavery and Reagan was for communism. You are a businessman who understands

00:38:29.960 our economy needs a reliable working force in areas where other Americans don't participate.

00:38:36.120 You stopped Iran on its tracks. You stopped China from eating our lunch. You took the economy, 0.98

00:38:43.260 economic oxygen away from Maduro and you signed the BBB the day that you said you were going to sign it.

00:38:49.700 Mr. President, you have been called to do this, to fix this 40-year mess with just one signature.

00:38:58.140 Yours.

00:38:59.340 Mr. President, you have been called to do this. You remember like six months ago and eight months ago

00:39:06.080 when you got elected running on no amnesty ever and mass deportations and all the people called on you

00:39:13.180 to deport all the illegals. Well, that's why I concluded that you were called on to give all of 1.00

00:39:19.660 them amnesty. Does this lady's brain work? Did she pay attention to what happened in November? 1.00

00:39:27.640 I am not calling for amnesty. I'm calling for dignity. And dignity entails amnesty, by the way.

00:39:35.820 That's what you have to get the dignity. You have to do all the amnesty, but that's not amnesty.

00:39:39.640 I'm not calling for amnesty. I'm calling for dignity and then amnesty or rather dignity by

00:39:44.960 way of amnesty. Good grief. Good grief. These people, just this woman is awful. 1.00

00:39:51.960 This woman is absolutely awful. And any Republicans who associated with her might as well be Democrats. 1.00

00:39:58.880 This is just absolutely pathetic. But then you think it's bad enough. This woman's saying God 1.00

00:40:04.520 demands that you violate the law, violate your promises to millions of Americans, most of whom

00:40:10.340 voted for you. Not only did she say that you're going to be Lincoln for giving amnesty to a bunch

00:40:16.900 of criminals, millions of criminals is the same thing as freeing the slaves. Now, really laying it on

00:40:24.200 thick. Not only did she say this is about dignity, this is about America and defending America and

00:40:29.840 American values. And how am I going to prove it? By speaking a foreign language.

00:40:33.920 No, no, no. No, no.

00:40:55.920 Listen, what I'm discussing on the Dignity Act is entirely about the American interest and

00:41:07.380 defending American values as American as apple pie and Abraham Lincoln. And that's why I'm going

00:41:13.220 to speak a foreign language. I like the Spanish language. It's a fine language. I don't speak it.

00:41:20.420 I speak Italian, touch of French, love Latin. I have no xenophobic hostility toward foreign

00:41:28.260 languages. But just a little bit of political advice. If you're trying to convince Americans

00:41:35.620 of something, at least for now, we'll see if she gets her mass amnesty, I guess the national

00:41:39.220 language could be Spanish. But if she doesn't, when you're trying to convince Americans of something,

00:41:44.940 don't speak a foreign language. What's the matter with you, woman? Good. What an awful, 1.00

00:41:49.200 awful congressman. Is she out of her mind? The one smart thing she did here is she tried to flatter 1.00

00:41:55.400 Trump into doing this. She decided not to run against Trump, but to say, no, listen, Mr. President,

00:42:02.260 you need to violate all of your campaign promises to the millions and millions of people who voted

00:42:06.920 for you because that's really what they want you to do or whatever. And God wants you to do it,

00:42:11.800 to violate the law and break your promises. But other than that, everything about this is wrong,

00:42:17.540 completely insane. That woman should be thrown out of Congress. What a joke. What a joke. 1.00

00:42:23.920 ¿Cómo se dice joke? How do you say joke in Spanish? I don't know. Now, let's turn from the

00:42:29.780 Republicans to the Democrats. Obama has come out of the woodwork to give some advice to his wayward

00:42:36.700 party. And his advice is to toughen up. This comes, reportedly, from a private fundraiser in New

00:42:42.640 Jersey. Obama said that the only way Democrats are going to win is by toughening up. He says,

00:42:48.300 I think it's going to require a little bit less navel gazing and a little less whining and being

00:42:52.460 in the field positions. And it's going to require Democrats to just toughen up. This is according to

00:42:57.760 reporting from CNN remarks exclusively obtained by CNN. You know, don't tell me you're a Democrat,

00:43:03.160 but you're kind of disappointed right now. So you're not doing anything. No. Now is exactly the time

00:43:08.800 that you get in there and do something. Don't say that you care deeply about free speech. Then

00:43:12.820 you're quiet. No. You stand up for free speech when it's hard. When somebody says something that

00:43:18.000 you don't like, but you still say, you know what? That person has a right to speak. What's needed now

00:43:22.700 is courage. I love this. The left, the Obama left talking about the importance of free speech.

00:43:27.400 It's the people who relentlessly tried to censor us and continue to try to censor us. Now,

00:43:32.640 we need to stand for free speech. What is he saying? What he's really saying is

00:43:36.960 all this woke stuff isn't working and you need to toughen up. All the people who are demanding,

00:43:42.180 he's like 10 years late to the party on this, but all the people who were demanding safe spaces and

00:43:46.780 censorship, you need to toughen up kids. You need to get with the program. This isn't playing. The

00:43:50.920 extreme wokeness is not playing. Okay. There are plenty of Democrats who have said this. It's not

00:43:55.620 really resonating in the party. Obviously the party, which is elevating Zoran Mamdani and AOC at the

00:44:00.200 moment, one for mayor of New York, one for president. But I guess the question I have for Obama

00:44:04.680 is who do you think unleashed the wokeness? Who do you think unleashed the heavily racial identity 0.62

00:44:14.760 politics that abandons the classical liberalism for the natural conclusion of liberalism, which is

00:44:21.280 this kind of selfish grunting politics of pure personal interest? Who did that? Who was the guy

00:44:30.120 who lit the White House up in rainbows to celebrate the redefinition of marriage from the Supreme Court?

00:44:35.680 Who was the guy who promoted transgenderism? Who was the guy who attacked the Cambridge police 0.64

00:44:43.560 because of the Henry Louis Gates affair? Most people probably don't even remember that one.

00:44:47.860 A terrible race baiting from Barack Obama insinuating that the Cambridge police were racist

00:44:52.680 because this lunatic professor was trying to break into his own home and they didn't know who he was.

00:44:56.940 No one knows who this guy is. Who was the guy who said cool clock Ahmed when a kid brought what looked 0.87

00:45:05.760 like a bomb into school and in order to grandstand on the supposed terrible crime of Islamophobia

00:45:11.600 decided to make a national issue out of it? It was Obama. Obama's the guy who inaugurated

00:45:18.160 wokeness. He was the first woke president. And now the chickens are coming home to roost, kid. Sorry.

00:45:25.560 Sorry. That's what happens. Totally being hoisted with his own petard. Because here's what he wants.

00:45:32.140 And this is what all the liberals want. Here's what the squish Republicans want too. And they need to 0.86

00:45:35.140 take note. What Obama wanted to do was take liberalism this far but no further. That's what

00:45:42.660 he's saying. When he was inaugurated, he said, we got to fundamentally change America. I want to take

00:45:49.640 liberalism much, much further than it's gone before. That's what that phrase meant. She says,

00:45:54.540 I want to take liberalism much, much further. I don't just want to permit homosexuals in the military. 1.00

00:45:59.660 I want open transsexuals in the military. I want to light the White House up in rainbows. And I want 0.99

00:46:06.800 to redefine marriage. And I don't just want to have a kind of politically correct racial political

00:46:12.560 order. I want radical race baiting all the time. And I'm going to say that some kid Trayvon Martin

00:46:18.500 looks like me. Why? Because he's black. I want to start BLM under my presidency. But I want to only go 1.00

00:46:25.600 this far. I don't want to trans the kids. I don't want necessarily race riots all over the streets

00:46:32.820 if it's going to hurt Democrats. I want to take liberalism this far but no further. And it doesn't

00:46:36.920 work. It doesn't work because ideas have a momentum of themselves. And so the example I've

00:46:42.700 used frequently, which is an apt example, I think, is when you begin with feminism, with the premise

00:46:47.340 that men and women are not complementary but identical, when they're interchangeable, they're

00:46:51.740 exactly the same. Anything a man can do, a woman can do, and vice versa. It is inevitable that left 1.00

00:46:58.240 to its own progression, you're going to end up with transing the kids. It's inevitable. These men 1.00

00:47:04.320 and women are basically the same. Why can't a man become a woman? If it's true, if that's a part of 0.97

00:47:07.840 human nature, then why can't it be true for a little kid? Why does it only become true when you

00:47:12.280 turn 18? It doesn't make any sense. And so Obama's trying to do something that's impossible. And

00:47:16.520 unfortunately, there are a lot of Republicans who want to do this too. They say, if only we could get back to

00:47:19.440 the 90s. If only we could get back to that halcyon era of extremely advanced liberalism, but that

00:47:26.600 wasn't totally woke. Not going to happen. So Democrats are hurting because of this. Republicans

00:47:31.880 should not fall for that trap. As I frequently say on the show, we don't want to go back to 2012.

00:47:37.020 We want to go back to 1220. Now, you can't actually go in reverse and we want to keep modern

00:47:42.280 dentistry or whatever. But we want to rethink the premises that have led us to this insane,

00:47:48.940 ugly moment in our political order. Okay. Speaking of, really important story. President Trump

00:47:54.820 finally calling on the Washington Redskins and the Cleveland Indians to change their name back. 1.00

00:48:01.500 Whatever the new stupid name is, like the Washington football team, or I don't know what 1.00

00:48:04.760 it's called. And the Cleveland Guardians. It's really Cleveland Indians. Trump's taking that on. 1.00

00:48:09.720 We don't have time to get to it today. We're going to have to get to that tomorrow because

00:48:12.180 it's Music Monday. The rest of the show continues now. You do not want to miss it. Become a member.

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