The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 1791 - Trump's Takeover of Washington D.C. Explained in 5 Mins

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00:00:30.000 He's done it. The madman has actually done it, sort of, kind of.

00:00:38.900 In response to skyrocketing crime, President Trump has sort of taken over Washington, D.C.,

00:00:45.920 which has always belonged to the federal government.

00:00:50.160 The libs are calling the move dangerous and authoritarian

00:00:54.180 in between ducking the bullets that are flying all around D.C.

00:00:57.820 But the supposed takeover is about a lot more than just protecting people from criminals.

00:01:04.560 This is the natural conclusion of MAGA,

00:01:08.180 the one-nation Trumpism that upended decades of what we called conservatism.

00:01:13.280 I'm Michael Knowles. This is The Michael Knowles Show.

00:01:14.660 Welcome back to the show.

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00:01:38.540 My friend Lila Rose got in trouble yesterday for saying men don't need sex. 0.98

00:01:42.280 A lot of men. A lot of men don't like hearing that.

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00:01:48.380 We'll get to what that means momentarily.

00:01:50.120 First, though, the takeover.

00:01:51.600 We have to get to the takeover of Washington, D.C.

00:01:55.200 Trump's been threatening it.

00:01:56.520 The libs have been quaking.

00:01:57.900 They've been shrieking.

00:01:58.980 They've been terrified of authoritarianism.

00:02:03.180 And then he took over the federal district, sort of.

00:02:07.180 Here he is.

00:02:08.140 I'm announcing a historic action to rescue our nation's capital from crime, bloodshed, bedlam and squalor and worse.

00:02:18.940 This is liberation day in D.C.

00:02:22.400 And we're going to take our capital back.

00:02:25.580 We're taking it back under the authorities vested in me as the president of the United States.

00:02:31.400 I'm officially invoking Section 740 of the District of Columbia Home Rule Act.

00:02:37.000 You know what that is?

00:02:38.860 And placing the D.C. Metropolitan Police Department under direct federal control.

00:02:44.800 And you'll be meeting the people that will be directly involved with that.

00:02:48.580 Very good people, but they're tough and they know what's happening.

00:02:55.860 And they've done it before.

00:02:57.540 In addition, I'm deploying the National Guard to help reestablish law, order of public safety in Washington, D.C.

00:03:05.580 And they're going to be allowed to do their job properly.

00:03:07.780 The madman, the lawless, authoritarian, the fascist, the usurper, tyrant, our Napoleon is invoking an authority that comes to him from the current law governing D.C., which is the D.C. Home Rule Act, which allows him to take over the police departments.

00:03:30.100 When crime gets out of hand, which it obviously has, you can just look at the crime stats going all the way up to 2023. 0.57

00:03:35.460 And then even though it looks like there's a little tick down after 2023, there's a D.C. commander who's under investigation for cooking the books and actually hiding the fact that the crime is still really high.

00:03:44.540 And it's all so tiresome.

00:03:49.140 The liberal response is it's so tiresome.

00:03:51.520 Trump is not even saying I'm going to assert my constitutional authority and the authority derived from the practice.

00:04:00.100 That is grounded in the Constitution, that the federal government runs the federal district, which is District of Columbia.

00:04:06.260 No, he's actually pointing to the law that gave D.C. Home Rule in the first place.

00:04:11.300 From the founding of the country until 1973, the federal government ran D.C. directly.

00:04:17.260 And that authority was vested in Congress.

00:04:19.820 Article 1, Section 8, Clause 17 says that Congress controls D.C. in all cases whatsoever.

00:04:26.140 Then for over 100 years, for 102 years before the D.C. Home Rule Act, the president would be involved to appoint governors and mayors of Washington, D.C.

00:04:36.080 Then in 1973, Congress and the president, President Nixon passed the D.C. Home Rule Act that says, okay, D.C. residents will get a little bit more say in their local government.

00:04:46.740 But we still own it.

00:04:47.960 We still run it at the highest level because of the Constitution.

00:04:51.740 And even that act says that the president has the right to take over the police departments, which he's doing.

00:04:57.100 He's authorizing the National Guard, which he, of course, has the right to do.

00:05:02.220 This is entirely legal.

00:05:04.540 This is entirely common sense.

00:05:07.660 As far as I'm concerned, this doesn't go far enough because I think we should repeal the D.C. Home Rule Act.

00:05:12.200 But whatever, that would be a distraction for the administration right now.

00:05:14.900 There's not enough appetite for it.

00:05:16.040 Okay, fine.

00:05:17.240 But I think it should go further.

00:05:18.440 And actually, President Trump seems to think it should go further, too, because he said that this might extend even beyond the federal district.

00:05:27.100 We have other cities that are very bad.

00:05:30.940 New York has a problem.

00:05:32.920 And then you have, of course, Baltimore and Oakland.

00:05:36.320 We don't even mention that anymore.

00:05:37.780 They're so far gone.

00:05:40.100 We're not going to let it happen.

00:05:41.300 We're not going to lose our cities over this.

00:05:44.300 And this will go further.

00:05:46.540 We're starting very strongly with D.C.

00:05:49.340 And we're going to clean it up real quick, very quickly, as they say.

00:05:52.880 Okay, now this is the part that is genuinely somewhat radical.

00:05:58.940 This is the part that the thing that libs are saying about Washington, D.C. 0.96

00:06:03.480 is ridiculous and shows their ignorance of the Constitution or their assumption that the people who are listening to them are extremely ignorant of the Constitution. 0.94

00:06:11.780 But suggesting, okay, we're also going to send National Guard. 0.95

00:06:16.880 We're also going to have a federal takeover of places like Oakland and elsewhere, Baltimore.

00:06:24.440 These are two failed cities.

00:06:25.960 Notice, we're not even talking about Chicago and New York and Los Angeles and even San Francisco.

00:06:31.240 San Francisco really does seem like a failed city now.

00:06:33.420 But we're talking about cities that are even worse in terms of crime, in terms of danger, in terms of social breakdown.

00:06:40.760 Baltimore, Oakland, this does go further.

00:06:45.640 And there are going to be people, including squishy types, who have supported Trump who say, this is too far.

00:06:51.760 This is too far.

00:06:52.620 This is an aberration.

00:06:53.600 This isn't what we voted for.

00:06:54.740 This isn't MAGA.

00:06:55.660 And to you, I say, yes, it is.

00:06:58.760 This is, in fact, what MAGA has always been about.

00:07:01.280 This is the apotheosis of MAGA, because MAGA is a new, updated, improved American form of an old conservative concept, which is one-nation conservatism.

00:07:17.040 One-nation conservatism is most closely associated with the 19th century British Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli.

00:07:24.400 But you've seen it crop up in different forms in different places throughout the years.

00:07:27.820 One-nation conservatism.

00:07:29.680 This is part and parcel of Trump's working-class appeal.

00:07:35.120 What does Trump have that Mitt Romney didn't have before him, and John McCain didn't have before him, and George Bush had to some degree, but not totally, and Bob Dole didn't really have, and George H.W. Bush didn't really have, and no one had in any real degree since Ronald Reagan.

00:07:49.700 He has working-class appeal.

00:07:51.480 Well, part of that working-class appeal is a re-understanding of conservatism, not a total innovation, not an upending or a betrayal of conservatism like the Never Trumpers and the Squishes would say, but a return to a more traditional type of conservatism.

00:08:08.120 One-nation conservatism, that's really what this is about, and one-nation conservatism is different from what we've called conservatism for the past, I don't know, 25, 30 years or so.

00:08:17.980 Now, in that it is more paternalistic, in that it is more focused on noblesse oblige, in that it is more focused on the real day-to-day practical concerns of ordinary Americans from the elite levels.

00:08:34.600 It's not denying that there are elites, it's not President Trump throwing on a Timex and a hoodie and pretending to be one of the blue-collar workers.

00:08:42.680 He's not doing that.

00:08:43.500 He's wearing his Brioni suits and his gold watches, and he's clearly an elite, but he's an elite who cares about ordinary Americans, and that coalition has existed before.

00:08:56.560 That is what one-nation conservatism is, but it's not based on a denial of reality.

00:09:01.680 It's saying, no, no, I am privileged, yes, I've done very well, I'm very successful, and I want to share in that.

00:09:08.400 We don't want to have two nations, a nation of the haves and the have-nots, of the rich and the poor, of the elites, and the lower classes. 0.51

00:09:15.160 No, no, we have one nation, we're all Americans, we all bleed the same red blood of patriots.

00:09:19.260 That's a line from Trump in the first term, and he's never changed his view on it.

00:09:22.920 And one of the clearest instantiations of that is on cleaning up crime in the cities.

00:09:32.380 Trump was pilloried in the first term, actually when he was running the first time, because they said, why are you running for president?

00:09:37.640 He said, because I want you to have good, clean, good, clean, safe neighborhoods.

00:09:41.200 And the abstract, ideological, individualistic, liberal, libertarian, beltway conservative types said, this is a terrible bastardization of conservatism.

00:09:54.400 The president has nothing to do with neighborhoods.

00:09:57.300 He just needs to set macroeconomic policy.

00:10:02.200 He just needs to focus on things like occupational licensing reform.

00:10:06.440 He just needs, he shouldn't be involved and on the ground.

00:10:09.100 And he says, no, what are you talking about?

00:10:10.920 What are you talking about?

00:10:12.540 Yeah, you don't care about some of these neighborhoods and some of these failed cities like Baltimore and Oakland, and yes, our nation's capital, Washington, D.C.

00:10:20.940 But you know why you don't care about it?

00:10:22.280 Because you don't have to live there.

00:10:23.520 Because you live in your nice suburbs, and you live in your nice big house, in your gated community.

00:10:29.480 And yeah, you don't, that's part of the reason why you people hate gun rights, is you don't need guns.

00:10:34.720 Because you have security, and you live in secure neighborhoods.

00:10:37.080 But what about the Americans who don't have those privileges?

00:10:40.900 No, we're not going to just forget about them.

00:10:44.560 This is a big shift, and it's one that I've cheered on from the beginning, which is a shift away from this hyper-atomized, individualistic, liberal conception of politics toward social solidarity, toward the common good.

00:10:59.800 This is the apotheosis of that.

00:11:02.800 This is not an aberration.

00:11:03.940 This is not just a weird quirk of Trump.

00:11:05.420 This is not an example of his authoritarian impulse coming out over and above his ideology.

00:11:11.160 This is what MAG is about.

00:11:13.660 This is one-nation Trumpism.

00:11:16.960 And it's a very good thing.

00:11:19.660 There's another reason.

00:11:21.060 There's one more reason that Trump speaks to as to why this federal takeover of D.C. is important, and why we should look at the other cities, too.

00:11:28.460 We'll get to that momentarily first, though.

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00:12:46.000 Why does it matter if the nation's capital is full of crime, and Democrat members of Congress are getting carjacked at gunpoint,

00:12:57.420 and the granddaughter of the then-sitting President Joe Biden is getting carjacked in a Secret Service vehicle in Georgetown,

00:13:04.640 and I spent a lot of time in D.C.

00:13:07.420 I've seen this stuff firsthand.

00:13:08.820 This is a failed and failing city.

00:13:10.800 Why does it matter?

00:13:11.760 Here, Trump explains with the precision of a real estate developer.

00:13:19.380 He said, you know, my father always used to tell me, I had a wonderful father, very smart,

00:13:24.100 and he used to say, son, when you walk into a restaurant and you see a dirty front door, don't go in,

00:13:32.760 because if the front door is dirty, the kitchen's dirty also.

00:13:37.300 Same thing with the capital.

00:13:38.620 If our capital's dirty, our whole country is dirty, and they don't respect us.

00:13:44.660 So it's a very good question, actually.

00:13:46.620 So true.

00:13:47.900 It's folksy, it's understandable, and it's 100% true.

00:13:51.920 If the front door's dirty, the kitchen's going to be dirty, too.

00:13:55.400 If our nation's capital is disordered, our country is going to be disordered,

00:14:01.520 because the capital is a symbol of the country, and it happens to be where the federal business takes place,

00:14:07.600 and we just can't tolerate it.

00:14:09.500 This is an even clearer example of this kind of one-nation conservatism, this social solidarity,

00:14:18.600 even than its analog in the 90s, which was broken windows policing.

00:14:23.400 Broken windows policing, popularized by Mayor Giuliani in New York,

00:14:27.260 said, we're not going to ignore these ghettos, these bad neighborhoods anymore. 1.00

00:14:31.880 We're not going to ignore the seemingly minor crime.

00:14:34.640 You know, there's a broken window.

00:14:36.740 Because if you allow that to just exist, if you allow that to be the image that people have of their neighborhood,

00:14:43.460 crime is going to fester.

00:14:44.660 We're not going to tolerate that.

00:14:45.920 We're not going to tolerate the little stuff.

00:14:47.480 We're not going to tolerate the broken windows.

00:14:49.120 And in D.C., we're not going to tolerate the carjackings, and we're not going to tolerate the vagrants and the homeless,

00:14:55.020 and we're not going to tolerate that, because it's only going to get worse,

00:14:58.000 and it's going to encourage that kind of disorder around the country.

00:15:02.620 The more individualistic kind of conservatism, the libertarian conservatism, the neocon conservatism,

00:15:09.800 the obscure political monikers are the right-wing version of gender pronouns.

00:15:13.100 So whatever you want to call it, that more atomized individualistic conservatism says,

00:15:19.080 well, you know, who cares?

00:15:20.800 It's up to D.C.

00:15:21.660 D.C. has home rule at the residence.

00:15:23.260 If they want to live in squalor, let them live in squalor.

00:15:25.880 It's that kind of conservatism that says, you know, New York City,

00:15:29.620 supposed to be the greatest city in our country.

00:15:31.420 New York City wants to elect a Muslim socialist who supports queer liberation in Palestine or whatever, 1.00

00:15:37.160 a total lunatic. 0.99

00:15:38.700 Well, let them, you know, just let them. 1.00

00:15:41.140 Who cares?

00:15:41.700 That's their problem.

00:15:42.680 Or let's say you zoom in on New York.

00:15:45.600 Oh, there's that bad neighborhood with the gangs and that.

00:15:48.140 Well, that's their problem.

00:15:49.840 Tell them to pull themselves up by their bootstraps. 0.81

00:15:52.700 Or alternately, let them deal with the consequences of their actions.

00:15:56.740 Maybe they'll come to their senses eventually.

00:15:58.500 No.

00:16:00.120 Why do we care?

00:16:01.140 Why do we care?

00:16:01.780 Because it's one of our neighborhoods.

00:16:04.500 Because it's part of our country.

00:16:05.700 Because we're a country.

00:16:07.340 And we shouldn't just be divided into lots of little countries.

00:16:10.540 We're one country.

00:16:12.680 And we shouldn't be totally divided by social classes, the haves and the have-nots.

00:16:16.260 That's not sustainable.

00:16:17.460 That's not sustainable because there's no peace and there's no safety in the palace when there's turmoil in the cottage.

00:16:25.580 Okay?

00:16:25.860 The libertarians, the ideologues, they don't like to hear that.

00:16:29.400 But it's true.

00:16:30.960 You need social solidarity.

00:16:33.800 We care about our country.

00:16:35.100 We care about our countrymen.

00:16:36.180 So this brings me to a story.

00:16:38.740 This is so fitting.

00:16:40.460 I'm glad I waited on this.

00:16:42.300 This is a story I wanted to talk about last week.

00:16:44.060 And I said, you know, it doesn't seem urgent.

00:16:46.540 It doesn't seem, it's an interesting story.

00:16:48.480 And it gets to one of my theses about Trump.

00:16:51.060 But it's kind of shoehorned.

00:16:52.420 I don't know if people are going to totally take to it.

00:16:55.160 But I don't, and now it completely fits.

00:16:58.800 Trump last week donated his paycheck.

00:17:02.440 And in Trumpian fashion, he talked about this at great length on Truth Social.

00:17:06.580 He posted, I am proud to be the only president with the possible exception of the late great George Washington to donate my salary.

00:17:12.080 My first paycheck went to the White House Historical Association as we make much-needed renovations to the beautiful people's house.

00:17:18.880 Great improvements and beautification is taking place at the White House at levels not seen since its original creation.

00:17:23.840 Make America Great Again.

00:17:25.420 And he even posted a picture when he went into the White House Historical Association, which has a little shop in the White House.

00:17:30.980 And he's looking, and Trump is such a good marketer.

00:17:34.080 He's just ABC, always be closing.

00:17:37.420 He picks up the White House Christmas ornament, and they post it.

00:17:40.260 All the good little merch that I'm sure sales are going to go through the roof right now at the White House Historical Association.

00:17:46.300 But he donates it.

00:17:47.360 He donates his salary to that.

00:17:48.540 And he's donating money to improve things at the White House, to install two new big, beautiful flagpoles on the north and south lawns, to help build a beautiful state ballroom.

00:17:58.060 It is embarrassing that we can't hold big state dinners at the White House.

00:18:01.340 Because the White House, you know, if you've ever visited, if you've ever taken a tour, if you've ever been there for any reason, one thing that'll strike you is it's very small.

00:18:10.440 Because it was built a long time ago when people were smaller and the scope of the country was smaller.

00:18:15.160 And so Trump wants to keep things up to size in a tasteful way.

00:18:20.020 But he wants to keep making America great again.

00:18:23.020 And he's raising money and he's donating his own money to do it.

00:18:26.020 He's not making taxpayers pay for it.

00:18:28.740 He's donating his salary.

00:18:31.420 We haven't seen that in our lifetimes.

00:18:33.140 We've actually never seen that since Washington.

00:18:36.500 Why?

00:18:37.560 Well, is it because George Bush wasn't rich?

00:18:39.580 George Bush was very, very rich.

00:18:41.660 George W. Bush and his dad, George H. W. Bush, were both very, very rich. 1.00

00:18:45.940 Clinton and Obama became very, very rich because they're crooks and they're corrupt. 0.98

00:18:49.920 But they were not totally rich when they entered the White House. 0.99

00:18:53.780 But the Bushes were at least. 0.79

00:18:56.300 Why didn't they donate their salaries?

00:18:58.000 Well, I don't know.

00:18:59.180 I don't want to speak to them.

00:19:00.180 You know, they're fine men in their own ways.

00:19:01.680 But I think it's because there's been a shift.

00:19:05.560 This kind of sense of paternalism, noblesse oblige, President Trump, Tucker called him daddy, you know, daddy's home.

00:19:13.220 That was the election.

00:19:14.600 That kind of language would not have been popular 20 or 30 years ago.

00:19:19.060 It would have been viewed as politically incorrect.

00:19:21.340 It would have been viewed as undemocratic in some way for the president to donate his salary.

00:19:26.200 No, no, the president must receive his salary because he's just like anybody else.

00:19:30.080 The Bushes are just like anybody else.

00:19:33.280 There's something kind of waspy to that.

00:19:35.520 You know, the really, really rich guy wears a Timex or something, you know, wears, he has rips in his sweaters.

00:19:41.420 And there's something very waspy about that.

00:19:42.760 But there's something also quite traditional and quite conservative about recognizing that in one's social state, wherever it may be, at the top or the bottom of the socioeconomic spectrum, one has certain obligations.

00:20:00.080 And they're different.

00:20:00.800 If you're a really, really rich guy, they're different than if you're not a really rich guy.

00:20:04.600 And both can contribute, but you contribute in different ways.

00:20:07.080 And I think Trump's paternalism, Trump's donating the salary, building renovations to the White House at his own expense, hawking the merch from the White House Historical Association, that it's a contending with reality.

00:20:28.620 And it's saying, no, look, we really have, the left actually has a point.

00:20:32.140 We do have a little too much inequality here.

00:20:34.360 It's creating a problem.

00:20:35.180 Even if it doesn't tug on your heartstrings, you're no bleeding heart liberal, the palace isn't going to be safe and peaceful if there's turmoil in the cottage.

00:20:45.180 And I've been very, I've been blessed and I've worked hard and I've done all these things and I've become the man, Donald Trump.

00:20:52.720 And I'm, I am going to give back.

00:20:54.640 I do have an obligation to give back.

00:20:56.160 It's not just greed is good.

00:20:57.620 Let them pull themselves up by their bootstraps. 0.99

00:20:59.360 I earned everything I made.

00:21:00.560 It's no, no, no.

00:21:01.040 I do have an, I have a social obligation.

00:21:02.720 Which gets to an even deeper point about politics.

00:21:05.540 The liberal, libertarian politics says we are born as individuals, primarily with rights.

00:21:10.600 And conservatism says, no, we're not really primarily individuals.

00:21:13.320 We're born into the context of a family, not primarily with rights, but with duties.

00:21:17.880 This is great stuff.

00:21:19.260 This is really, really great stuff.

00:21:21.620 Nature is healing.

00:21:22.860 I love it.

00:21:23.360 Now, the social solidarity point also ties in with one of the biggest issues of the Trump movement, which is one of the biggest issues right now.

00:21:33.440 And people haven't really made this connection, but it's immigration.

00:21:36.740 As Trump is asking the Supreme Court to allow the administration, according to reports, to racially profile, racially profile, linguistically profile, the libs up in arms.

00:21:49.360 How dare you ask the courts to allow you to violate the law and discriminate by what?

00:21:58.480 We'll get to that in one second.

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00:22:33.820 The whole point, people, a lot of people haven't made this connection.

00:22:38.020 The whole point of immigration restriction, at the very least of stopping illegal immigration, that's kind of where Trump is.

00:22:46.020 Doesn't necessarily want to restrict legal immigration, does want to stop illegal immigration.

00:22:50.260 That's where a lot of the country is.

00:22:51.940 Many people on the right, myself included, want to go further and think that we need to restrict all immigration, dramatically restrict all immigration.

00:22:59.900 But the whole point of that, the left doesn't get.

00:23:02.020 The left thinks it's about you don't like brown people or you don't like Mexicans or, I don't know, you don't like the Spanish language or you don't like tacos or you just, you have an irrational animus toward foreigners.

00:23:12.840 You're a xenophobe.

00:23:14.100 It's not what it's about.

00:23:15.080 What it's about is something that the left pretends to advocate and pretends to understand but doesn't, which is social solidarity.

00:23:21.680 If you flood a country with foreigners, people who speak a different language, who have different customs, different habits, a different understanding of government, if you do that, you're going to lose your country. 1.00

00:23:30.980 And it's going to be unfair to people on a whole host of levels.

00:23:34.840 It's going to be unfair to the working class.

00:23:36.060 It's going to lower their wages. 0.97

00:23:37.240 It's going to be unfair to ordinary people trying to live in their neighborhoods when you import a bunch of crime because the gangs control the border.

00:23:45.340 It's going to be, it's just not right.

00:23:48.100 And it frays social solidarity.

00:23:50.440 So this is how the San Francisco Chronicle is reporting on the latest Trump immigration moves.

00:23:58.780 The Trump administration asks SCOTUS, the Supreme Court, to allow profiling in immigration raids.

00:24:07.040 Profiling.

00:24:07.880 What kind of profiling?

00:24:09.160 Opens up.

00:24:09.720 The Trump administration is asking the court to allow officers to arrest suspected illegal immigrants in Southern California because of how they look, what language they're speaking, and what kind of work they're doing.

00:24:24.600 Factors that federal judges have found to be baseless and discriminatory.

00:24:29.540 Can you imagine that?

00:24:31.460 That racist Trump, Tom Homan, Stephen Miller, Kristi Noem. 0.96

00:24:37.280 They, they're going to go out and arrest illegal aliens based on how they look and how they sound and what they're doing. 0.96

00:24:47.660 And you're not allowed to do that, apparently.

00:24:49.760 So then let me ask you a quick follow-up question to the San Francisco Chronicle.

00:24:55.900 On what basis are we supposed to arrest them?

00:24:59.220 If you're not allowed to consider how they look or how they sound or what they're doing.

00:25:07.280 On what basis do we arrest the illegal aliens? 0.93

00:25:13.000 Based on how they smell?

00:25:15.620 Based on what senses are left?

00:25:19.200 Based on how they smell?

00:25:20.640 Based on how they feel?

00:25:22.140 Do we have to feel the texture of their skin, of their hair?

00:25:26.560 Is that on what basis, if we are not allowed to consider how they look, sound, and what they're doing, on what basis do you arrest illegal aliens?

00:25:35.380 Well, no, you need to, you need to just know that they're illegal aliens.

00:25:45.080 Because that's what the left is saying.

00:25:46.280 Well, how do you distinguish between the legal Hispanics and the illegal ones? 1.00

00:25:50.360 First of all, you can.

00:25:51.880 Because they do look a little different, and they do sound a little different, and they're doing different things.

00:25:59.600 Generally, they might have the same skin color or whatever, but there's more to it than that.

00:26:04.640 But what, are we just supposed to, well, you have to know, you have to have a, I don't know, I don't even know what their argument is.

00:26:12.140 If you're not allowed to profile, that's just one of the, it's one of the P words, profile, prejudice.

00:26:18.780 It's, they're words that are used as scare words that when you really think about what they mean, there's really nothing wrong with them at all.

00:26:25.640 But prejudice can be bigoted if you, if it's irrational, but we all make prejudgments.

00:26:30.940 You wouldn't get out of bed in the morning if you didn't operate based on prejudgments.

00:26:34.780 Profiling.

00:26:35.260 What do you think a cop does?

00:26:36.480 What do you think the job of a cop is?

00:26:39.040 The cop's job is to profile, to distinguish between criminals and non-criminals, and then to pursue the criminals.

00:26:46.840 That's the whole job.

00:26:49.060 Maybe the article will tell us something, will it?

00:26:51.620 Goes on.

00:26:52.760 Last month's ruling by U.S. District Judge Maim Frimpong, upheld by the Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals,

00:26:59.300 quote, threatens to upend immigration officials' ability to enforce immigration laws in the Central District of Columbia,

00:27:03.880 according to the DOJ's Solicitor General.

00:27:06.680 This court should end this attempted judicial usurpation of immigration enforcement functions.

00:27:12.480 And then, furthermore, just to allay any fears that anyone might have,

00:27:16.720 quote,

00:27:16.960 No one thinks that speaking Spanish or working in construction always creates reasonable suspicion that someone's an illegal alien.

00:27:26.200 But in many situations, such factors, alone or in combination, can heighten the likelihood that someone is unlawfully present in the United States.

00:27:34.760 Of course.

00:27:36.480 Of course.

00:27:37.280 If someone doesn't speak a word of English, it doesn't look like he knows where he's going or what he's doing,

00:27:45.280 or it looks like it's his first time in America,

00:27:47.960 and he's working in a job that illegal aliens can get.

00:27:52.120 He's not working as the CFO of J.P. Morgan.

00:27:56.260 He's not working in a job that requires you to show your papers.

00:27:59.900 He's doing all those things.

00:28:03.360 And he's a young, fighting-age man, which is what most of the illegal aliens are, 0.98

00:28:06.940 because they're economic migrants, not actual refugees.

00:28:09.260 If all of those things check out,

00:28:12.620 mightn't it be reasonable in a country that has effectively had open borders,

00:28:17.280 sometimes explicitly had open borders,

00:28:19.100 in recent years because of Democrat administrations,

00:28:22.140 with conservatively 11 to 16 million illegal aliens in the country,

00:28:25.000 don't you think it might be reasonable to ask Jose if perhaps he's not here legally?

00:28:34.120 And if not, this is, I'm being totally straight here.

00:28:38.560 This is to the libs and the squishes who are watching.

00:28:43.420 What's the alternative to take on illegal immigration?

00:28:47.640 And the answer is, you don't.

00:28:50.640 The alternative is stop enforcing immigration laws.

00:28:53.280 Stop enforcing the immigration laws or we're going to call you a racist.

00:28:57.100 That's it.

00:28:58.180 And the Trump administration says, yeah, that's not going to work anymore. 0.97

00:29:01.620 Okay, speaking of stereotypes, do men need sex? 0.56

00:29:06.980 My friend Lila Rose, she got in a lot of trouble yesterday. 0.96

00:29:09.980 And look, she was seeking the trouble, obviously.

00:29:11.980 She was being provocative in the way she posted this clip. 0.99

00:29:14.840 But the clip had the caption, men don't need sex.

00:29:19.080 A lot of the fellas, they raised their eyebrows, didn't they?

00:29:21.860 They said, uh, excuse me? 0.95

00:29:25.500 Men don't need sex. 0.98

00:29:26.600 Here is the point that Lila made.

00:29:29.320 Not just in the caption, which was really what was going viral,

00:29:32.580 but in the actual clip speaking to one of her podcast guests.

00:29:36.780 Can we all talk about Father Mike Schmitz?

00:29:38.460 I showed him to a girlfriend who's not Catholic and she's like, wins mass. 0.96

00:29:42.740 What about the man needing sex? 0.99

00:29:43.920 That's just a cultural narrative that basically says men are like animals 0.99

00:29:47.920 and they have to be able to do this sexual thing. 0.93

00:29:49.640 Otherwise, they're going to go crazy and the reality is there's whole vocations that are celibate.

00:29:53.400 And these are virile men.

00:29:54.640 Men's men. 0.84

00:29:55.220 Some of the most masculine men I know are priests.

00:29:57.260 We need food.

00:29:58.120 We need air to breathe.

00:29:59.180 We don't need sex.

00:30:00.240 It's a gift.

00:30:01.020 Of coming together.

00:30:01.800 And it's designed to bring life into the world.

00:30:03.540 I think the sexiest thing about a guy is like their self-control.

00:30:05.960 And my husband has amazing self-control.

00:30:08.300 So after baby number four, when we started practicing NFP,

00:30:11.840 it was like we couldn't do it sometimes when we wanted to.

00:30:14.060 And that kind of made things a little steamier.

00:30:15.520 Like, not going to lie.

00:30:16.820 It's hard on him too.

00:30:17.900 Don't get me wrong.

00:30:18.600 People will say, well, oh, do you just do other things for your husband?

00:30:22.700 Okay.

00:30:23.240 Okay.

00:30:23.560 So this clip has been criticized for any number of reasons.

00:30:27.640 And when you go point by point, though,

00:30:31.120 you have to wonder if the criticism is totally valid.

00:30:34.960 So I want to get this out of the way at the top.

00:30:37.460 Because this is a very, very important point

00:30:39.380 that legitimately some women don't seem to understand. 1.00

00:30:44.960 Married men need sex. 1.00

00:30:48.800 That's part of the deal. 1.00

00:30:50.380 Women, listen to me. 1.00

00:30:52.340 Women, hold on. 1.00

00:30:54.280 If you're distracted right now,

00:30:55.920 if you're just listening while you're doing some other activity,

00:30:59.860 stop.

00:31:00.520 Put down what you're doing. 1.00

00:31:01.900 Ladies, you owe your husband sex. 1.00

00:31:05.400 You owe it to him. 0.97

00:31:06.320 It's called the marital debt.

00:31:07.740 You have to do it.

00:31:09.400 Not all the time.

00:31:10.640 I'm not saying you can never have a headache.

00:31:12.340 I'm not saying that there are not moments in a marriage

00:31:15.480 when actually you're not able to have sex,

00:31:17.140 which I think is the point Lila's actually making.

00:31:19.320 The clip is being criticized for all sorts of other reasons.

00:31:22.020 Because at the top,

00:31:23.240 the podcast guest makes a joke about how

00:31:25.440 Father Mike Schmitz is an attractive guy.

00:31:27.560 He's a handsome guy.

00:31:28.260 Everyone's made that joke.

00:31:29.060 Everyone's pointed it out.

00:31:29.700 He's one of the most popular podcasters in the country.

00:31:32.920 Come on.

00:31:33.640 People have made that joke before.

00:31:36.440 Then they say,

00:31:37.500 well, we don't want ladies going on podcasts 1.00

00:31:39.300 talking about their marital lives.

00:31:41.340 And I kind of agree with that.

00:31:42.480 But anyway, that exists.

00:31:44.460 And what are people really upset about here?

00:31:48.880 I think the point Lila's making is crucial.

00:31:52.060 And the reason people are getting angry at her 0.99

00:31:54.180 is because you kind of have to pick your enemy here.

00:31:58.960 Is the enemy to attack feminism, 1.00

00:32:02.640 which says that wives don't owe their husbands sex? 1.00

00:32:05.820 Maybe. 0.64

00:32:06.560 That's a problem.

00:32:08.260 Or is the enemy the sexual revolution,

00:32:11.600 which says that we are not rational creatures,

00:32:14.520 that we can never abstain from sex,

00:32:17.420 and that because sex is such a biological imperative,

00:32:22.480 we should engage in all of the attendant vices

00:32:26.740 that go to the sexual revolution.

00:32:28.440 That's the point Lila's obviously taking on.

00:32:30.380 And that's crucial.

00:32:31.320 That's totally right.

00:32:32.940 She's 100% right about that.

00:32:34.260 So if we clear off the top that wives, 1.00

00:32:38.340 yes, you have to sleep with your husbands, 1.00

00:32:39.520 and you have to do it probably more than you do.

00:32:41.860 If we just clear,

00:32:43.140 if we just set that one off for a second,

00:32:45.500 yes, we all agree on that now.

00:32:47.940 Think about the point Lila's making.

00:32:49.480 She's saying men don't need sex. 0.99

00:32:53.120 Look at priests.

00:32:54.880 Priests are celibate and have vocations.

00:32:56.840 To disagree with that point,

00:32:58.840 you're going to fall into the liberal modern trap

00:33:01.760 of denying the celibate priesthood

00:33:05.220 that has existed for 2,000 years.

00:33:07.540 You're going to deny religious vocations. 0.53

00:33:10.420 You're going to deny a lot of things

00:33:11.960 that you don't want to deny.

00:33:13.000 You're going to give up a lot of things

00:33:14.220 that you don't want to give up,

00:33:15.740 that I certainly don't want to give up.

00:33:17.040 But beyond that, in marriage,

00:33:20.920 there are going to be periods

00:33:21.900 when you have to abstain.

00:33:24.740 During childbirth, say,

00:33:26.200 or for some period of time after childbirth,

00:33:28.860 or maybe even right before childbirth,

00:33:30.440 you're going to have to abstain.

00:33:33.080 If you can't abstain,

00:33:35.920 if you don't have any self-control whatsoever,

00:33:38.240 then the options are going to be

00:33:40.140 weird sex that has been generally discouraged

00:33:44.380 and viewed as grave mortal sin

00:33:45.500 by the church for 2,000 years,

00:33:47.040 or contraception. 1.00

00:33:49.460 Okay, or are you going to use contraception?

00:33:51.120 Is that what we're going to do now?

00:33:52.480 Conservatives for condoms? 0.95

00:33:53.860 Is that it?

00:33:54.700 Conservatives for the pill

00:33:55.660 and the patch and the ring

00:33:57.620 and conservatives for vasectomies

00:34:00.680 and tubal ligation?

00:34:01.720 Is that what we know?

00:34:05.060 It's a very important point.

00:34:06.780 And because we live in such

00:34:08.200 an overly pronounced feminist kind of age, 1.00

00:34:13.600 people are only hearing the first part.

00:34:15.920 But just knock that one down for a second.

00:34:18.980 Yeah, yeah, yeah.

00:34:20.280 Wives, come on. 1.00

00:34:22.180 You know, let's go.

00:34:22.840 Hold up your end of the bargain.

00:34:24.340 Put that aside for a second.

00:34:25.440 I don't think the issue with our age

00:34:29.600 is that we're under-sexed, generally.

00:34:32.440 I think we're certainly overstimulated.

00:34:34.900 We're in a pornified culture.

00:34:36.860 And when you start to fall for these traps,

00:34:40.820 you're going to lead yourself to a place

00:34:42.080 where you as a conservative

00:34:43.380 are calling to abol...

00:34:44.920 Now, some people do want to abolish

00:34:46.260 the celibate priesthood.

00:34:47.020 I certainly don't.

00:34:48.020 But where you as a conservative

00:34:49.840 are going to be calling

00:34:50.460 to abolish the celibate priesthood, 0.57

00:34:52.000 to promote sterilization,

00:34:54.100 to promote contraception,

00:34:55.880 to promote not being open to life,

00:34:59.740 to promote not having kids,

00:35:01.220 to promote all sorts of things

00:35:02.960 that are pretty liberal.

00:35:04.900 We need to deal with that.

00:35:08.260 That's how the devil gets in there.

00:35:09.700 The devil is really good

00:35:10.820 at screwing people up 0.98

00:35:12.380 and causing them to stumble on sex.

00:35:14.440 It's not that sexual sins

00:35:15.440 are the worst sins.

00:35:16.140 They're not the worst sins.

00:35:17.020 But they're probably

00:35:18.020 the most prevalent sins.

00:35:19.580 And they're the most prevalent sins

00:35:20.700 because sex is a very important part

00:35:22.400 of human nature.

00:35:24.060 I think people are criticizing Lila

00:35:25.320 because they think she's saying

00:35:27.300 sex isn't important. 0.77

00:35:28.320 I think she's saying the opposite.

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00:36:15.860 My favorite comment yesterday

00:36:17.200 is from Benjamin Haney,

00:36:18.320 Y41,

00:36:19.160 who says,

00:36:19.820 I hate conservatives, 0.83

00:36:22.000 but I really hate liberals, 0.98

00:36:24.400 says Matt Stone.

00:36:25.340 Matt Stone,

00:36:25.840 one of the creators of South Park.

00:36:27.400 There, you understand South Park.

00:36:28.720 Yeah, I know.

00:36:29.180 I thought the South Park thing

00:36:30.360 was great.

00:36:32.700 People were trying to say,

00:36:34.120 oh, Cartman is

00:36:35.040 Charlie Kirk,

00:36:37.460 or this,

00:36:37.840 or they're attacking Charlie.

00:36:38.800 Charlie took it in stride,

00:36:39.800 though, of course.

00:36:40.320 But it's not even that.

00:36:41.400 It's that Cartman is Cartman.

00:36:44.340 And he eventually,

00:36:45.080 as part of the joke,

00:36:45.620 he gets a Charlie Kirk haircut.

00:36:46.920 But it's Clyde.

00:36:48.440 Clyde is the one

00:36:49.380 who's everyone on the right.

00:36:52.380 He says,

00:36:53.260 what is a woman? 1.00

00:36:54.120 There's the Matt reference.

00:36:55.760 He sells vitamin supplements.

00:36:58.480 There's the Alex Jones reference. 0.53

00:36:59.620 He goes after the Jews.

00:37:00.740 There's the Nick Fuentes reference.

00:37:01.940 He says,

00:37:02.380 prove me wrong.

00:37:03.060 There's the Charlie Kirk reference.

00:37:04.540 On and on and on.

00:37:05.420 There were actually

00:37:05.760 a number of others in there.

00:37:07.900 And a lot of other people

00:37:09.360 on the right.

00:37:09.840 And the whole thesis is,

00:37:13.000 you stole my shtick.

00:37:14.280 The whole thesis is,

00:37:15.260 in many ways,

00:37:16.460 this season of South Park

00:37:17.440 is less a joke about Trump

00:37:19.280 and even less a joke

00:37:20.200 about the right-wing podcasters

00:37:21.220 than it's a joke

00:37:22.060 about South Park

00:37:23.000 and where the culture is now,

00:37:25.860 30 years after South Park

00:37:26.800 was created.

00:37:27.400 Okay.

00:37:29.020 Totally related point

00:37:30.080 to what we were just talking about.

00:37:33.040 Gen Z is reportedly 0.78

00:37:34.860 becoming celibate.

00:37:37.840 A little weird.

00:37:38.340 They're all into 0.89

00:37:38.840 really weird sex stuff 0.95

00:37:39.720 like their sexual identities,

00:37:40.880 but apparently

00:37:41.260 they're celibate.

00:37:43.000 This according to,

00:37:44.800 where is it?

00:37:46.040 Yes.

00:37:46.700 Times of London.

00:37:49.000 No sex please,

00:37:49.860 we're celibate.

00:37:50.740 Why Gen Z 1.00

00:37:51.340 have ditched hookup culture.

00:37:53.420 Dating app fatigue

00:37:54.280 has resulted

00:37:55.040 in an increasing number

00:37:56.060 of Gen Z women

00:37:56.840 considering celibacy.

00:37:58.460 Ruby Conway concluded.

00:38:00.980 Okay.

00:38:01.260 And you go,

00:38:01.600 it's worth reading.

00:38:02.640 I'm just going to read

00:38:03.380 the first paragraph.

00:38:04.260 My friends and I

00:38:05.800 were at a party

00:38:06.380 sprawled around

00:38:07.260 a table drinking wine

00:38:08.460 listening to a girl

00:38:09.780 we didn't know

00:38:10.540 confidently proclaim

00:38:11.460 her status as celibate.

00:38:13.160 Openly and unabashedly,

00:38:14.660 she told us about the chaos

00:38:15.860 her sexual encounters

00:38:16.720 had brought her in the past.

00:38:18.640 Now,

00:38:19.220 she had quit sex.

00:38:20.900 Or rather,

00:38:21.600 she had quit

00:38:22.000 the self-destructive choices

00:38:23.060 she made

00:38:24.000 when driven by sex.

00:38:25.360 She wore her celibacy 0.95

00:38:26.680 like a crown.

00:38:28.120 So,

00:38:28.760 there's got to be

00:38:29.660 a corrective here

00:38:30.400 right at the top.

00:38:31.240 Well,

00:38:32.900 this whole thing

00:38:33.560 I think is a corrective.

00:38:35.020 There has to be

00:38:35.440 a correct shun though

00:38:36.400 to the thesis

00:38:37.040 and to the headline.

00:38:38.260 Namely,

00:38:38.840 it's not that these people

00:38:40.140 are celibate.

00:38:41.580 It's that they are

00:38:42.440 deciding temporarily 0.99

00:38:44.120 not to go a whore 1.00

00:38:45.680 in all the time. 0.99

00:38:46.940 That's really what

00:38:47.700 they're talking about here,

00:38:48.600 right?

00:38:48.760 They're not saying

00:38:49.520 I'm taking a vow

00:38:50.140 of celibacy.

00:38:51.500 Either I am a virgin

00:38:52.940 or I,

00:38:54.480 after some,

00:38:55.080 you know,

00:38:55.580 brief sexual encounters

00:38:56.460 I'm now going to be

00:38:57.820 celibate

00:38:58.860 for the rest of my life.

00:38:59.760 They're just saying

00:39:00.120 I'm going to like 1.00

00:39:00.880 quit a whore in for, 1.00

00:39:02.240 I don't know, 1.00

00:39:02.800 like a few weeks

00:39:03.680 or something.

00:39:04.820 Or longer,

00:39:05.640 or months,

00:39:06.040 or even over a year.

00:39:07.140 But it's,

00:39:07.640 it's a reaction

00:39:09.440 to something.

00:39:11.180 This is a corrective

00:39:12.540 to the sexual revolution.

00:39:14.060 That's what's really going on.

00:39:15.800 Notice,

00:39:16.280 she says,

00:39:16.840 you know,

00:39:17.040 I've had these chaotic, 0.83

00:39:18.180 awful sexual encounters

00:39:19.120 in the past. 0.78

00:39:20.400 Now I'm quitting sex.

00:39:21.600 I think a lot of people,

00:39:24.160 when you really dig

00:39:25.220 into the sexual revolution,

00:39:27.160 you'll find

00:39:27.940 the propaganda

00:39:30.140 doesn't match

00:39:30.720 the reality.

00:39:31.760 A good example

00:39:32.400 of this is,

00:39:32.940 if you ever 0.91

00:39:33.320 talk to a lesbian, 1.00

00:39:36.820 a so-called lesbian,

00:39:38.200 they,

00:39:38.620 a lot of times

00:39:39.420 you talk to lesbians, 1.00

00:39:41.140 they have

00:39:41.900 had encounters

00:39:44.300 with more men

00:39:45.300 than most

00:39:47.320 straight 0.70

00:39:48.620 identifying women.

00:39:50.080 This is anecdotal,

00:39:51.240 but it's correct.

00:39:52.340 Just,

00:39:52.680 if you notice that

00:39:53.460 the sexual revolution

00:39:55.860 is not about

00:39:56.640 one orientation

00:39:58.320 or another orientation

00:39:59.500 or a true identity

00:40:00.540 or the relation

00:40:01.240 of the soul

00:40:01.740 to the body

00:40:02.240 or whatever,

00:40:02.640 it's mostly just about

00:40:03.840 like crazy, 0.99

00:40:05.160 promiscuous, 1.00

00:40:06.180 weird, 0.84

00:40:06.780 bizarre, 0.99

00:40:07.300 perverted sex stuff. 0.99

00:40:09.620 And because it's perverted, 0.99

00:40:11.760 because it divorces 0.67

00:40:13.360 sex from

00:40:14.620 its natural order

00:40:15.960 and from its telos,

00:40:17.420 from its purpose,

00:40:18.300 which is the sort of thing

00:40:19.060 that Lilo was talking about,

00:40:20.780 because of that,

00:40:21.840 it's unsatisfying.

00:40:22.820 And it leaves people

00:40:24.240 sex-austed, 0.77

00:40:25.180 to use a phrase, 0.69

00:40:25.920 and it even leads

00:40:27.480 some Gen Z 0.60

00:40:28.100 to say we want

00:40:28.820 to be celibate now.

00:40:30.220 That's just a corrective.

00:40:32.140 That's a corrective

00:40:33.080 to the sexual revolution.

00:40:35.660 And

00:40:36.180 as is so often the case,

00:40:40.380 this was natural,

00:40:41.620 this had to happen.

00:40:42.500 You cannot get

00:40:43.420 through such a

00:40:44.480 pornified, 0.95

00:40:45.220 insane, 1.00

00:40:46.220 perverted, 1.00

00:40:47.880 transed out, 1.00

00:40:48.840 wacky culture.

00:40:49.780 You can't,

00:40:50.180 you just can't stay

00:40:51.140 in that space

00:40:51.880 forever.

00:40:52.820 It has to be a corrective.

00:40:54.680 So now there's

00:40:55.080 going to be a corrective.

00:40:55.860 But virtue is the mean

00:40:56.940 between two extremes.

00:40:58.460 That's what virtue is.

00:40:59.620 And so the answer

00:41:00.740 is not 0.94

00:41:01.520 we need a ton more sex 0.99

00:41:04.780 or we need a ton less sex 0.99

00:41:06.020 or whatever

00:41:06.380 that kind of false debate is.

00:41:09.720 The real answer is 0.99

00:41:10.860 you need sex 0.93

00:41:11.380 in its proper place, 0.94

00:41:12.320 in its proper order,

00:41:13.220 with its proper ends,

00:41:14.180 done in the proper way.

00:41:16.220 That's just,

00:41:18.040 that could be

00:41:18.740 the definition

00:41:19.240 of a virtuous form

00:41:20.760 of any activity.

00:41:23.400 This is in fact

00:41:24.480 analogous to the way

00:41:25.580 we were discussing

00:41:26.640 free speech

00:41:27.240 five years ago.

00:41:29.220 Back then,

00:41:29.780 we were saying,

00:41:30.120 we need way more free speech.

00:41:31.620 We need way more speech.

00:41:32.540 We need less speech.

00:41:33.900 We need censorship.

00:41:34.880 I said,

00:41:35.080 it's a false debate.

00:41:36.440 What you need

00:41:37.020 is the right kind of speech

00:41:38.460 done for the right purpose

00:41:39.860 in the right way.

00:41:42.060 In fact,

00:41:42.340 a way to think about lying,

00:41:43.460 this is not an original view.

00:41:44.580 A friend of mine

00:41:45.120 observed it,

00:41:46.000 though I forget

00:41:47.700 exactly where it came from,

00:41:48.800 so I can't give attribution.

00:41:49.960 He said,

00:41:51.360 when you lie,

00:41:52.280 it's kind of like

00:41:52.860 contraceptive speech.

00:41:54.700 It's like a condom

00:41:56.000 for words.

00:41:57.440 Why?

00:41:57.960 I was lying

00:41:58.560 like a condom for words

00:41:59.420 because

00:41:59.960 you're cutting off

00:42:02.000 the actual purpose,

00:42:03.680 the end,

00:42:04.240 the telos

00:42:04.840 of speech.

00:42:05.860 The purpose of speech

00:42:06.680 is to convey the truth.

00:42:08.120 When you lie,

00:42:09.720 you're perverting it.

00:42:11.200 You're cutting it off.

00:42:12.260 You're sterilizing it

00:42:13.200 from its natural end.

00:42:15.400 That's what people need.

00:42:18.860 This is why

00:42:19.560 they're taking it

00:42:20.400 all the way back

00:42:21.080 to the top political issue.

00:42:23.080 This is why

00:42:23.820 Trump's version

00:42:27.120 of conservatism

00:42:27.920 is so popular now

00:42:28.820 is because it's

00:42:29.760 not an ideological extreme.

00:42:32.200 We need total freedom,

00:42:33.760 understood in the

00:42:34.600 licentious liberal way.

00:42:35.620 We need totally free,

00:42:36.260 do whatever you want,

00:42:37.060 have no care for anybody else.

00:42:38.660 Greed is good.

00:42:39.740 Go get yours.

00:42:40.480 Go get your nut. 0.65

00:42:41.300 That's how South Park puts it.

00:42:43.820 Versus the left-wing version.

00:42:45.040 We need

00:42:45.620 complete control

00:42:47.340 and domination

00:42:48.080 over everything

00:42:48.860 and we need

00:42:49.640 absolute perfect equality.

00:42:51.180 We're going to live

00:42:51.560 in a Harrison-Bergeron

00:42:52.940 dystopia

00:42:53.680 where we handicap

00:42:54.860 anyone who's

00:42:55.540 in any way exceptional.

00:42:58.660 No.

00:43:00.180 No.

00:43:01.320 No thanks.

00:43:02.780 That apparent debate

00:43:04.120 between freedom

00:43:04.780 and equality,

00:43:05.460 that is a false debate.

00:43:07.820 That's a false dichotomy.

00:43:10.160 We want to live

00:43:11.180 in a good country.

00:43:12.360 That's what we want

00:43:13.400 for all of us.

00:43:15.040 To enjoy the common good.

00:43:17.300 The poor

00:43:18.140 and the rich

00:43:19.020 and the tall

00:43:20.320 and the short

00:43:20.880 and the black

00:43:21.540 and the white

00:43:22.240 and the southern

00:43:23.820 and the northern

00:43:24.540 and the western

00:43:25.100 and the eastern.

00:43:25.420 We all want to have

00:43:26.200 a good country.

00:43:26.680 We're going to have

00:43:26.940 one good country.

00:43:27.720 Okay?

00:43:28.660 And so it matters.

00:43:30.220 It matters when

00:43:31.380 our nation's capital

00:43:32.400 is falling into disrepair

00:43:33.480 and it matters

00:43:35.020 when other cities

00:43:35.620 are falling into disrepair too.

00:43:37.500 We're going to

00:43:38.120 all rise up together.

00:43:40.560 We live in society.

00:43:41.680 We're a social creature.

00:43:43.300 We're going to all

00:43:44.000 survive together

00:43:44.760 and thrive together

00:43:45.760 and flourish

00:43:46.460 and propagate our country,

00:43:49.240 have kids in a literal way.

00:43:50.620 We're going to survive

00:43:51.280 or we're going to die

00:43:52.220 together.

00:43:53.760 That's how it goes.

00:43:54.580 That's the Trump vision

00:43:55.340 of politics, I think.

00:43:57.280 That's the conservative

00:43:58.140 vision of politics

00:43:59.200 and it's our only shot

00:44:00.580 in politics.

00:44:02.120 Okay.

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The Michael Knowles Show - August 12, 2025

Ep. 1791 - Trump's Takeover of Washington D.C. Explained in 5 Mins

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