The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 1801 - Trump's Flag-Burning Ban Is A Litmus Test

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00:00:30.000 President Trump just issued an executive order to prosecute people

00:00:35.460 who burn the American flag, and the reaction is probably

00:00:39.560 the single greatest litmus test for conservatism I've seen in my lifetime.

00:00:44.480 I'm Michael Knowles. This is the Michael Knowles Show.

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00:02:28.420 This is the litmus test, folks.

00:02:30.620 This is one of those.

00:02:32.140 It separates the wheat from the chaff,

00:02:35.100 the conservative from the mere libertarian.

00:02:36.920 President Trump in the Oval Office signs an executive order

00:02:43.220 to prosecute people who burn the American flag.

00:02:46.360 And what the penalty is going to be,

00:02:51.040 if you burn a flag, you get one year in jail,

00:02:54.920 no early exits, no nothing.

00:02:58.000 You get one year in jail.

00:02:58.900 If you burn a flag, you get...

00:03:00.760 And what it does is incite to riot.

00:03:03.180 I hope they used that language, by the way.

00:03:04.740 Did they?

00:03:05.140 Yeah, incitement is interesting.

00:03:05.940 Incite to riot.

00:03:07.540 And you burn a flag, you get one year in jail.

00:03:09.880 You don't get 10 years, you don't get one month.

00:03:12.180 You get one year in jail, and it goes on your record.

00:03:15.660 And you will see flag burning stopping immediately.

00:03:18.060 Now, first of all, we should all be able to agree at the end.

00:03:23.900 You will see flag burning stop immediately.

00:03:27.580 But well, actually, you know what?

00:03:28.760 Maybe we won't all agree on that.

00:03:30.260 Even that is going to be one of these wheat from chaff tests

00:03:35.360 to distinguish the conservative from the mere libertarian.

00:03:39.740 Because they come at things from different premises.

00:03:42.680 One, the libertarians have this idea

00:03:47.000 that if you ban something, you get more of it.

00:03:50.060 It's a little bit of the...

00:03:51.000 I don't mean to be too tough on our libertarian friends

00:03:53.040 and our classically liberal friends,

00:03:54.360 but there's a little bit of magical thinking that goes on

00:03:56.640 with all of liberalism,

00:03:57.540 because liberalism is based on false premises

00:03:59.180 about human nature.

00:04:00.320 One of those is, if you ban something,

00:04:02.520 you'll get more of it.

00:04:04.400 They say, for instance,

00:04:06.860 the real way to reduce marijuana usage

00:04:09.140 is to legalize all of it.

00:04:11.500 They have this idea that when you legalize something,

00:04:13.460 when you decriminalize something,

00:04:14.880 you could get less of it.

00:04:15.980 But when you ban something, you get more of it.

00:04:19.900 Because, I don't know,

00:04:20.680 people are just really naughty or something like that.

00:04:22.740 But that's not how it works.

00:04:24.460 The classical idea, the conservative idea,

00:04:26.840 the idea that has existed and been proven correct

00:04:29.020 from classical antiquity to the present

00:04:30.960 is that when you ban something,

00:04:34.540 you get less of it.

00:04:35.540 And when you subsidize something,

00:04:37.220 you get more of it.

00:04:38.780 That's how it works.

00:04:39.840 But let's get to the meat of the EO.

00:04:43.900 Trump says that he's going to prosecute people

00:04:46.220 who burn the American flag.

00:04:48.480 In fact, I have the text of the EO right here.

00:04:51.020 It says,

00:04:52.280 our great American flag is the most sacred

00:04:53.880 and cherished symbol of the United States of America

00:04:56.320 and of American freedom, identity, and strength.

00:04:59.080 Fact check, true.

00:05:00.020 It's not the most sacred symbol in America.

00:05:02.920 Probably you would say the crucifix

00:05:04.480 is the most sacred symbol in America

00:05:06.160 or some other image of Christ,

00:05:08.860 a god, truly a godly, sacred image.

00:05:11.640 But the most sacred and cherished symbol of America

00:05:14.340 is the flag.

00:05:15.760 Fact check, true.

00:05:18.180 Notwithstanding the Supreme Court's rulings

00:05:19.740 on First Amendment protections,

00:05:21.000 which we'll get to in a moment,

00:05:22.160 the court has never held

00:05:23.580 that American flag desecration

00:05:25.540 conducted in a manner

00:05:26.780 that is likely to incite imminent lawless action

00:05:29.920 or that is an action amounting to fighting words

00:05:33.240 is constitutionally protected.

00:05:35.800 And he cites Texas v. Johnson from 1989,

00:05:37.980 which we'll get to, as I mentioned, in a moment.

00:05:40.520 So notice what he's saying here.

00:05:42.160 He's saying, yes, the Supreme Court

00:05:43.760 has already ruled relatively recently

00:05:45.940 to outlaw laws that ban flag burning.

00:05:52.500 But the Supreme Court has never ruled

00:05:54.960 that American flag desecration

00:05:57.800 that is conducted in a manner

00:05:59.080 that is likely to incite imminent lawless action

00:06:01.480 is protected.

00:06:02.780 That is not.

00:06:03.320 So he's setting up where he's saying,

00:06:04.700 look, I'm not intentionally creating a fight

00:06:06.760 with the Supreme Court here.

00:06:08.620 I am going to prosecute flag burning

00:06:11.140 in a way that is allowed by the Supreme Court,

00:06:13.340 even after the Supreme Court

00:06:14.620 overruled laws that ban flag burning.

00:06:17.700 And then finally, the EO is much longer,

00:06:19.680 but just the final point I mentioned on it.

00:06:21.700 He says, my administration will act

00:06:23.740 to restore respect and sanctity

00:06:25.860 to the American flag and prosecute

00:06:27.760 those who incite violence

00:06:28.880 or otherwise violate our laws

00:06:30.540 while desecrating the symbol of our country

00:06:32.360 to the fullest extent permissible

00:06:33.900 under any available authority.

00:06:36.380 This is really great.

00:06:37.980 I love this.

00:06:39.040 I saw someone on social media say,

00:06:40.520 I haven't seen any actual Trump supporters

00:06:42.140 who are defending the CEO.

00:06:43.400 Well, you got one here, buddy.

00:06:44.780 I'm your huckleberry.

00:06:45.880 I love this executive order.

00:06:48.520 Trump gets it.

00:06:49.540 Trump gets it in a way

00:06:50.800 that many self-styled conservatives,

00:06:53.280 most self-styled conservatives in my lifetimes

00:06:55.340 don't get it.

00:06:56.460 The depths of this man's conservatism

00:06:58.240 go a lot deeper than many people

00:07:01.780 who call themselves principled movement conservatives.

00:07:04.700 What he's saying here is not a direct challenge

00:07:06.640 to the court,

00:07:07.220 but it obviously will be open to legal challenges.

00:07:10.080 I hope there are legal challenges

00:07:11.320 because the Supreme Court rulings

00:07:13.340 from 1989 and 1990 respectively

00:07:16.080 that overturned laws

00:07:18.300 banning the burning of the American flag

00:07:20.460 were wrongly decided.

00:07:22.120 And we'll get to how that is in a second.

00:07:23.980 So this in a way is akin to more of a hate crime law.

00:07:26.580 It's like a hate crime law for the right.

00:07:28.460 The left has its hate crime laws

00:07:30.140 that allows them,

00:07:31.860 it doesn't give them the first opportunity

00:07:33.940 to prosecute their enemies.

00:07:35.640 Their enemies, as us,

00:07:38.400 will commit a crime

00:07:40.140 and then the left will use hate crime laws

00:07:42.260 to jump the charges up a little bit.

00:07:44.540 This is kind of like hate crime laws for the right.

00:07:46.540 It's much more justifiable

00:07:47.640 than the left-wing hate crime laws.

00:07:49.140 They're saying, look,

00:07:50.720 if you are inciting a riot,

00:07:53.680 if you are inciting imminent lawless action,

00:07:56.840 if you are engaging in fighting words

00:07:59.200 and you're burning an American flag on top of that,

00:08:01.680 well, we're going to prosecute you

00:08:03.000 to an even fuller extent

00:08:04.620 and we will put you in jail for a year.

00:08:06.460 I really, really like this.

00:08:08.700 Have I made it clear how much I like this?

00:08:10.960 I want to focus in though

00:08:11.800 before we get to the Supreme Court decisions

00:08:13.720 that are at the heart of this battle.

00:08:15.940 Notice the word that keeps popping up here.

00:08:17.900 It's sacred.

00:08:19.520 It's the most sacred symbol of America.

00:08:23.280 We're going to restore sanctity

00:08:25.020 to the American flag

00:08:26.480 and we're not going to let people

00:08:29.480 desecrate this symbol.

00:08:31.040 The Supreme Court has never held

00:08:32.400 that flag desecration

00:08:33.780 is protected in this or that manner.

00:08:37.140 Notice the word sacred,

00:08:38.680 the sense of the sacred.

00:08:40.400 This is key.

00:08:41.240 This is something Trump gets,

00:08:42.480 that conservatives used to get,

00:08:44.240 that modern people don't get.

00:08:45.800 One of the chief problems

00:08:48.860 of our political era

00:08:50.960 is we have lost the sense

00:08:52.920 of the sacred.

00:08:55.860 Why uphold any law?

00:08:57.300 Let me ask you that.

00:08:58.300 Why do I care

00:08:59.360 what is in the Constitution?

00:09:01.820 The whole battle is supposed to be

00:09:03.100 over what is constitutional

00:09:04.060 and what is not.

00:09:04.660 Does the Constitution permit

00:09:05.720 burning of the flag?

00:09:06.680 Does it not permit

00:09:07.260 burning of the flag?

00:09:08.000 This whole thing.

00:09:08.460 Why do I care

00:09:09.280 what the Constitution says?

00:09:11.920 Why does it just some piece

00:09:12.740 of parchment with ink on it?

00:09:13.980 Why do I care?

00:09:16.160 Because, one,

00:09:17.120 because I'll be put in jail

00:09:18.020 if I don't, maybe.

00:09:18.880 Maybe.

00:09:19.240 We can duke it out

00:09:19.920 over what it means.

00:09:20.680 Why do I care at all?

00:09:22.580 In a larger, abstract sense,

00:09:24.680 why do I care?

00:09:26.260 Because we hold

00:09:27.240 that the Constitution

00:09:28.440 is sacred.

00:09:30.440 That there is something sacred

00:09:31.500 about the founding

00:09:32.620 of our country,

00:09:33.600 about our political order.

00:09:35.540 We hold it in reverence.

00:09:39.120 Maybe not the reverence

00:09:40.100 that we hold for God.

00:09:40.880 I'm not saying we worship it

00:09:41.960 as we worship God,

00:09:42.660 but we hold it to be

00:09:43.480 kind of sacred.

00:09:44.760 You know, your grandpa dies,

00:09:46.620 and your grandpa leaves you

00:09:47.620 his watch or something.

00:09:48.880 I don't know.

00:09:49.300 Grandpa leaves you

00:09:49.860 his World War II medals.

00:09:51.020 Grandpa leaves you

00:09:51.560 his favorite leather jacket.

00:09:53.080 And you treat those things

00:09:54.560 differently than you would

00:09:55.700 treat other objects,

00:09:57.240 even objects that

00:09:58.500 superficially look the same.

00:10:00.180 Because it was your grandpa's,

00:10:01.960 you treat it with

00:10:02.540 a little more respect.

00:10:03.520 You hold it in a kind of reverence.

00:10:05.240 You treat it in a way

00:10:06.160 where it's kind of sacred.

00:10:08.380 We do it because

00:10:09.120 we love our grandpa.

00:10:11.180 And love of country,

00:10:12.700 patriotism,

00:10:13.440 is an extension

00:10:14.320 of the love of your family,

00:10:15.840 of filial piety.

00:10:17.640 Okay?

00:10:18.860 That's why we hold it

00:10:19.880 with a kind of respect.

00:10:20.660 Because this is what

00:10:21.440 holds us all together.

00:10:23.560 It's what allows us

00:10:24.580 to have some peace

00:10:25.660 so we can exist,

00:10:26.860 we can flourish

00:10:27.560 in a way that is conducive

00:10:28.680 to the common good of all.

00:10:29.680 Okay.

00:10:30.980 We have lost a sense

00:10:32.180 of the sacred.

00:10:33.020 But the sacred is at the heart

00:10:34.260 of these fights.

00:10:35.480 Texas v. Johnson.

00:10:39.320 That's the case.

00:10:40.340 That's the case

00:10:41.100 that all of the liberals

00:10:42.460 are going to be citing.

00:10:43.620 And it's the case

00:10:44.220 that even many

00:10:44.860 well-meaning,

00:10:46.020 self-styled conservatives

00:10:46.880 and all the libertarians

00:10:47.920 are going to cite.

00:10:48.780 And they are specifically

00:10:49.880 going to cite

00:10:51.340 Antonin Scalia's view.

00:10:53.880 Because Antonin Scalia

00:10:55.120 voted with the majority

00:10:57.240 in Texas v. Johnson,

00:10:58.820 the case

00:10:59.340 that overturned laws

00:11:01.560 banning the burning

00:11:03.040 of the American flag.

00:11:03.840 And this is the argument

00:11:05.440 that Antonin Scalia

00:11:06.660 made in his own words.

00:11:10.120 Why you believe

00:11:11.500 that people who burn

00:11:12.260 the flag in America

00:11:12.980 should be allowed

00:11:13.480 to do so,

00:11:14.660 and yet you personally,

00:11:16.140 if you had the chance,

00:11:17.100 would send them all in jail?

00:11:19.040 Yeah, if I were king,

00:11:20.100 I would not allow people

00:11:21.600 to go about burning

00:11:22.320 the American flag.

00:11:23.660 However,

00:11:24.200 we have a First Amendment

00:11:25.240 which says that

00:11:28.080 the right of free speech

00:11:30.040 shall not be abridged.

00:11:31.260 and it is addressed

00:11:32.760 in particular

00:11:33.960 to speech

00:11:35.180 critical of the government.

00:11:36.680 I mean,

00:11:36.860 that was the main

00:11:37.440 kind of speech

00:11:38.100 that tyrants

00:11:39.180 would seek to suppress.

00:11:41.240 Burning the flag

00:11:41.960 is a form

00:11:42.940 of expression.

00:11:44.400 Speech doesn't just mean

00:11:45.420 written words

00:11:47.960 or oral words.

00:11:48.640 It could be semaphore.

00:11:50.880 Burning a flag

00:11:51.780 is a symbol

00:11:52.420 that expresses an idea.

00:11:54.300 I hate the government.

00:11:55.740 The government is unjust.

00:11:57.000 Whatever.

00:11:57.980 Okay.

00:11:59.520 That's the argument

00:12:00.380 that Scalia made.

00:12:01.180 That's the one

00:12:01.820 that the squish conservatives

00:12:02.960 and the libertarians

00:12:03.780 are going to cite.

00:12:04.880 And Antonin Scalia,

00:12:05.860 though a great man

00:12:06.640 who got most things right,

00:12:07.800 got this one wrong.

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00:13:37.640 I love Antonin Scalia.

00:13:40.200 He's one of my favorite

00:13:40.920 political figures

00:13:41.700 of my whole lifetime.

00:13:43.620 He's a conservative

00:13:44.500 Catholic of Italian descent.

00:13:46.160 I feel a great deal

00:13:46.860 of kinship

00:13:47.500 with Justice Scalia,

00:13:48.800 the late great man.

00:13:50.740 But no man.

00:13:52.200 No mere mortal

00:13:52.880 is perfect.

00:13:54.680 And Scalia,

00:13:55.720 he got 99.7%

00:13:57.420 of things right.

00:13:57.940 He got this one wrong.

00:13:58.940 This is one of the few

00:13:59.740 examples he got wrong.

00:14:01.300 Texas v. Johnson.

00:14:02.260 The first question

00:14:04.780 you have to ask yourself

00:14:05.700 is

00:14:08.280 if it's so clear cut

00:14:11.100 that the Constitution

00:14:11.900 protects burning

00:14:12.720 the American flag,

00:14:13.840 how come nobody

00:14:14.920 figured it out

00:14:15.580 before 1989?

00:14:18.100 You know,

00:14:18.300 a country's founded

00:14:18.900 200 years before that.

00:14:20.960 The country has roots

00:14:22.000 dating back

00:14:22.820 some 300,

00:14:24.940 what is it,

00:14:25.300 360 years before that?

00:14:27.560 369,

00:14:28.280 70 years before that?

00:14:29.960 How come they only

00:14:30.620 figured it out

00:14:31.460 that the American tradition

00:14:33.220 and specifically

00:14:33.980 the Constitution

00:14:34.960 from the late 18th century

00:14:36.780 bans

00:14:37.460 or rather

00:14:39.140 permits

00:14:40.340 the burning

00:14:40.960 of the American flag?

00:14:43.100 How come they only

00:14:43.660 figured it out in 1989?

00:14:44.960 Is it possible

00:14:46.040 that our perception

00:14:48.580 had simply changed

00:14:49.740 by 1989?

00:14:51.320 That this isn't

00:14:51.840 the view of Adams

00:14:52.500 or Madison

00:14:53.080 or Jefferson

00:14:53.660 or Washington,

00:14:54.480 but this is the view

00:14:55.320 of modern people,

00:14:57.020 even modern people

00:14:57.680 putatively on the left.

00:14:58.920 Next question

00:14:59.420 you got to ask yourself,

00:15:00.080 why is it that 48

00:15:00.960 out of 50 states

00:15:01.720 had laws

00:15:02.320 banning the burning

00:15:03.440 of the American flag?

00:15:05.260 If it was so obvious,

00:15:06.480 if it's so clear

00:15:07.200 that this is what they're,

00:15:07.940 and how come that was

00:15:08.460 only challenged

00:15:09.120 by 1989

00:15:10.040 successfully?

00:15:11.780 Really strange.

00:15:13.020 Then the last thing

00:15:13.800 you got to ask yourself,

00:15:15.320 Texas v. Johnson

00:15:16.000 was a 5-4 decision.

00:15:17.700 It was a very,

00:15:18.640 very close

00:15:18.940 Supreme Court decision.

00:15:20.820 How come

00:15:21.700 the majority,

00:15:24.340 which said

00:15:24.840 you can burn the flag,

00:15:26.540 was made up

00:15:27.240 of all the court's

00:15:28.520 liberals

00:15:28.860 plus Scalia.

00:15:31.060 And the minority,

00:15:32.780 the dissent,

00:15:34.360 was made up of

00:15:35.480 all the court's

00:15:36.560 conservatives

00:15:37.000 minus Scalia.

00:15:38.560 In other words,

00:15:39.380 everyone's going to be

00:15:39.960 citing Scalia on this,

00:15:41.520 but Scalia was the weird one.

00:15:43.260 If you take Scalia

00:15:43.980 out of it,

00:15:44.500 it was all the liberals

00:15:45.420 say the Constitution

00:15:46.700 demands,

00:15:47.360 we must allow flag burning.

00:15:48.660 All the conservatives

00:15:49.520 say,

00:15:50.460 led by Rehnquist,

00:15:51.560 who is an amazing jurist,

00:15:53.080 say the Constitution

00:15:54.500 does in fact allow states

00:15:56.560 to pass laws

00:15:57.700 against burning

00:15:58.180 the American flag.

00:15:59.060 What did Rehnquist say?

00:16:00.660 Since he's a conservative

00:16:01.940 icon who led

00:16:02.920 the conservative

00:16:03.440 wing

00:16:04.760 and dissented here.

00:16:06.700 He said,

00:16:07.220 the American flag then

00:16:09.040 throughout more than

00:16:10.800 200 years of our history

00:16:11.980 has come to be

00:16:13.280 the visible symbol

00:16:14.300 embodying the nation.

00:16:15.880 It does not represent

00:16:17.200 the views of any

00:16:17.820 particular political party

00:16:19.020 and it does not represent

00:16:19.880 any particular

00:16:20.580 political philosophy.

00:16:21.880 The flag is not simply

00:16:22.880 another idea

00:16:23.500 or point of view

00:16:24.220 competing for recognition

00:16:25.320 in the marketplace

00:16:26.000 of ideas.

00:16:27.320 Millions and millions

00:16:28.120 of Americans

00:16:28.640 regard it with an

00:16:29.340 almost mystical reverence.

00:16:30.740 So people are going to say,

00:16:31.740 Trump,

00:16:32.120 he's constitutionally illiterate.

00:16:33.580 Trump,

00:16:33.860 he's betraying conservatism

00:16:35.180 or whatever.

00:16:36.480 Trump's executive order

00:16:37.600 is almost identical

00:16:39.620 to the great

00:16:41.220 Chief Justice Rehnquist's

00:16:43.060 dissent

00:16:44.220 in the case

00:16:45.660 that is at the heart

00:16:46.620 of this whole controversy.

00:16:49.080 Are you going to call

00:16:49.660 Rehnquist a dummy?

00:16:50.500 Are you going to say

00:16:50.980 Rehnquist is constitutionally

00:16:52.300 illiterate?

00:16:52.600 Are you going to say

00:16:52.880 Rehnquist wasn't conservative?

00:16:53.880 Give me a break.

00:16:55.660 This man is a pillar

00:16:57.560 of American conservatism

00:16:58.780 and jurisprudence.

00:16:59.600 He was the Chief Justice

00:17:00.280 of the Supreme Court.

00:17:02.260 But he says,

00:17:03.200 he says,

00:17:04.240 Pace Scalia,

00:17:05.360 I know,

00:17:05.840 I understand your view.

00:17:07.900 You're saying

00:17:08.620 that this is obviously

00:17:09.520 political speech

00:17:10.300 and expresses

00:17:10.820 a political point of view.

00:17:13.020 Opposition to the government

00:17:14.100 say.

00:17:14.680 Yes,

00:17:14.960 I understand that,

00:17:15.920 but that's actually

00:17:16.440 not what it's doing.

00:17:18.040 Because the flag

00:17:18.940 doesn't just represent

00:17:19.800 the government

00:17:20.400 or a certain kind of regime

00:17:22.220 or a certain political party.

00:17:23.540 He says,

00:17:24.040 that's not what

00:17:24.820 the symbol means.

00:17:25.980 It is the visible symbol

00:17:27.380 that embodies our nation.

00:17:29.180 It's not the symbol

00:17:29.780 of the Republican Party.

00:17:31.200 It sometimes seems that way

00:17:32.240 because Democrats

00:17:32.900 hate the American flag

00:17:33.700 because they hate our country.

00:17:34.380 And the Republicans

00:17:35.620 love the American flag.

00:17:36.740 Democrats would just rather

00:17:37.520 wave the gay thing

00:17:38.200 or whatever.

00:17:38.780 But it is,

00:17:40.260 in principle

00:17:41.380 and explicitly,

00:17:42.200 the symbol

00:17:42.540 unifying our whole nation.

00:17:44.160 In other words,

00:17:44.660 it's not merely

00:17:45.100 partisan political speech.

00:17:47.120 It is

00:17:48.640 a symbol

00:17:49.980 of the whole political order

00:17:51.060 and in a way

00:17:51.640 it's above

00:17:52.120 the political order.

00:17:54.020 The self-perception

00:17:55.440 of America

00:17:56.020 can change.

00:17:57.380 But this is a symbol

00:17:58.360 of America

00:17:59.100 as herself.

00:18:01.020 America per se.

00:18:02.540 Okay.

00:18:03.660 Millions of Americans

00:18:04.520 regard it with an almost

00:18:05.160 mystical reverence.

00:18:06.460 This is

00:18:06.940 in a society

00:18:07.920 that is largely

00:18:08.740 secular

00:18:09.580 and economic

00:18:10.920 and materialist

00:18:13.000 and

00:18:13.780 it has a low

00:18:15.980 but solid grounding.

00:18:17.300 This is one of those things

00:18:18.460 that is sacred

00:18:19.180 and all societies

00:18:19.920 need things to be sacred

00:18:20.800 because you need something

00:18:21.640 that you revere in common.

00:18:23.500 You need something

00:18:23.920 to make you cohere.

00:18:25.380 That is especially true

00:18:26.280 in a nation

00:18:26.720 that does not have

00:18:27.620 a unified ethnicity,

00:18:28.940 does not have a unified

00:18:29.980 true religion.

00:18:31.100 You know,

00:18:31.320 we're talking about

00:18:31.920 the civic religion.

00:18:32.700 that does not have

00:18:33.920 much unity at all.

00:18:36.020 You need to have a symbol

00:18:37.020 to hold you together.

00:18:38.200 Okay.

00:18:38.560 Rehnquist goes on.

00:18:40.120 I cannot agree

00:18:40.880 that the First Amendment

00:18:42.480 invalidates the Act of Congress.

00:18:44.140 There's an Act of Congress,

00:18:45.060 right,

00:18:45.240 that says that

00:18:46.080 there's a

00:18:47.800 you can

00:18:49.400 be prosecuted

00:18:50.800 for burning the American flag.

00:18:52.040 I cannot agree

00:18:52.940 that the First Amendment

00:18:53.640 invalidates

00:18:54.540 the Act of Congress,

00:18:56.400 the laws of 48

00:18:57.680 of the 50 states,

00:18:58.700 which make criminal

00:19:00.180 the public burning

00:19:00.900 of the flag.

00:19:02.740 Beyond Rehnquist,

00:19:04.020 John Paul Stevens

00:19:04.860 had a great point on this.

00:19:07.220 He compared

00:19:07.840 the burning

00:19:09.500 of the American flag,

00:19:10.860 permitting the burning

00:19:11.480 of the American flag,

00:19:12.400 to permitting bulletin boards

00:19:14.040 on the Washington Monument.

00:19:15.820 You know,

00:19:16.040 the Washington Monument,

00:19:16.740 you know,

00:19:16.880 sticks up like a needle,

00:19:18.220 obelisk in Washington, D.C.

00:19:20.120 We have free speech,

00:19:21.160 don't we?

00:19:21.860 We support free speech.

00:19:23.160 We support political speech,

00:19:24.680 especially political expression.

00:19:26.020 Well,

00:19:26.480 that's,

00:19:26.940 talk about a political symbol.

00:19:28.280 You're not going to put

00:19:29.100 a bulletin board on there?

00:19:31.200 Why not?

00:19:32.580 Stevens writes,

00:19:34.140 a bulletin board,

00:19:35.480 permitting a bulletin board

00:19:36.420 on the Washington Monument

00:19:37.340 might enlarge the market

00:19:39.240 for free expression,

00:19:40.540 but at a cost,

00:19:42.320 I would not pay.

00:19:44.800 Yes,

00:19:45.400 we support

00:19:45.960 the expression of ideas,

00:19:48.000 but not anywhere

00:19:49.580 under any circumstances

00:19:50.880 in any mode.

00:19:51.740 There are limits on that.

00:19:53.800 These things are circumscribed.

00:19:55.620 Of course.

00:19:56.740 And if we do not,

00:19:57.960 in some way,

00:19:58.700 have a taboo

00:19:59.380 on destroying

00:20:00.600 the very symbol

00:20:02.100 of the country,

00:20:02.920 not a symbol

00:20:03.540 of one political partisan view

00:20:05.100 or some other partisan view

00:20:06.240 or one policy or another,

00:20:07.880 but we're talking about

00:20:08.400 the whole country,

00:20:12.120 then how do we have a country?

00:20:14.260 What is holding us together?

00:20:16.360 This is the notion

00:20:18.580 that Chesterton explains.

00:20:19.660 Chesterton famously writes,

00:20:21.340 there is a thought

00:20:22.080 that stops thought

00:20:22.720 and that is the only thought

00:20:23.380 that ought to be stopped.

00:20:24.040 It is an incoherent act

00:20:26.540 to burn the American flag

00:20:27.700 because you are relying

00:20:28.700 on the supposed freedoms

00:20:31.000 promised by the United States

00:20:32.340 to destroy the United States.

00:20:33.880 That is incoherent.

00:20:35.320 And we are supposed

00:20:35.920 to be logical.

00:20:37.080 We are not merely

00:20:37.960 grunting baboons,

00:20:39.980 advancing pure will.

00:20:41.260 Last point on this.

00:20:43.280 You look at the majority opinion.

00:20:44.520 I mentioned to you,

00:20:45.120 it was all the liberals

00:20:45.740 plus Scalia

00:20:46.320 saying you can burn the flag.

00:20:48.400 It was all the conservatives

00:20:49.200 minus Scalia

00:20:49.840 who said

00:20:50.300 that you can't burn the flag.

00:20:53.280 Who are those liberals?

00:20:54.600 You have Justice William Brennan.

00:20:56.620 Brennan was the leader

00:20:57.720 of the court's liberal wing.

00:21:00.360 He authored the opinion.

00:21:01.820 You have Thurgood Marshall.

00:21:03.540 Thurgood Marshall

00:21:04.140 was so thoroughly liberal

00:21:05.540 that he tried

00:21:06.380 to make taxpayers

00:21:07.260 pay for abortions.

00:21:08.460 Luckily,

00:21:08.680 he was shot down on that.

00:21:11.400 Harry Blackmun.

00:21:12.560 Who's Harry Blackmun?

00:21:13.580 He wrote the opinion

00:21:14.660 in Roe v. Wade.

00:21:16.000 You want to talk

00:21:16.580 about liberals.

00:21:18.460 Anthony Kennedy.

00:21:19.660 Anthony Kennedy

00:21:20.280 wrote the opinion

00:21:20.920 in Obergefell,

00:21:22.040 which was just romantic poetry

00:21:23.420 to redefine marriage.

00:21:26.580 And Scalia.

00:21:27.220 Again,

00:21:27.740 please don't think

00:21:28.960 I'm beating up on Scalia.

00:21:30.420 I adore the man.

00:21:31.600 Talk about people

00:21:32.180 we hold in reverence,

00:21:33.760 veneration.

00:21:34.440 I adore the man.

00:21:35.500 But he was not a demigod.

00:21:37.720 He was a mere mortal.

00:21:38.980 Sometimes he rarely

00:21:40.000 got things wrong.

00:21:41.060 He got this one wrong.

00:21:43.540 And nature is healing.

00:21:45.100 And Trump is on

00:21:47.580 the right side of this.

00:21:48.340 And conservatives

00:21:48.780 should get on

00:21:49.180 the right side of this.

00:21:51.100 We are not.

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00:21:53.680 ought to view free speech,

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00:22:13.980 for the first time

00:22:15.720 in almost half a century.

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00:23:32.660 New York Times

00:23:33.680 lamenting.

00:23:36.660 You can hear

00:23:37.160 the teardrops falling

00:23:38.260 in this article.

00:23:40.020 Immigrant population

00:23:41.200 in the U.S.

00:23:41.720 drops for the first time

00:23:42.460 in decades.

00:23:43.000 An analysis of census data

00:23:44.360 by the Pew Research Center

00:23:46.180 found that between

00:23:46.900 January and June,

00:23:47.900 the foreign-born population

00:23:48.800 declined by nearly

00:23:50.100 one and a half million.

00:23:52.300 Huge, huge number.

00:23:53.300 So, I remember,

00:23:54.080 I read to you back in March,

00:23:55.800 I think it was,

00:23:56.940 a study from the Center

00:23:58.200 for Immigration Studies

00:23:59.180 that showed that there

00:23:59.900 seems to have been

00:24:00.600 a drop of about a million

00:24:01.700 foreign-born

00:24:02.420 in the United States

00:24:03.440 just in the first

00:24:05.040 three to five months

00:24:06.120 of the year

00:24:06.600 since Trump

00:24:08.420 took office again.

00:24:09.800 Then,

00:24:10.380 I read you another one

00:24:11.260 a few weeks ago,

00:24:12.440 said this is jumping

00:24:13.100 even higher.

00:24:14.340 A little over 2 million,

00:24:15.480 1.6 million illegal aliens

00:24:16.700 dropped out of the workforce.

00:24:17.660 Well, now,

00:24:19.060 they're not identical numbers,

00:24:20.560 but they're in the ballpark.

00:24:21.620 Pew Research

00:24:22.160 and the New York Times

00:24:22.960 finding the same thing.

00:24:25.100 In June,

00:24:26.780 the country

00:24:27.560 had 51.9 million immigrants.

00:24:30.120 that was down

00:24:32.500 from 53.3 million

00:24:34.260 six months earlier.

00:24:35.340 Now,

00:24:35.540 that includes

00:24:36.400 legal immigrants

00:24:38.060 and illegal aliens.

00:24:42.260 This is good news

00:24:43.340 for many,

00:24:45.440 for political reasons,

00:24:46.400 for certain economic reasons.

00:24:49.780 But,

00:24:50.440 this also shows you

00:24:51.560 a shift in the politics.

00:24:52.820 So,

00:24:52.980 I think the shift

00:24:54.120 from

00:24:55.160 traditional conservatism,

00:24:57.260 which said things like,

00:24:58.520 you should not be able

00:24:59.160 to burn the American flag,

00:25:00.660 48 out of 50 states agreed,

00:25:02.120 the federal government agreed,

00:25:03.280 that had been the case

00:25:04.560 for much of American history.

00:25:06.500 There was a shift

00:25:07.420 away from that

00:25:08.200 toward this libertarian

00:25:09.780 proceduralism.

00:25:10.720 Well, you know,

00:25:11.360 I might not like

00:25:12.080 burning the American flag,

00:25:14.080 but by golly,

00:25:15.560 I can't find

00:25:16.300 a strict liberal reason

00:25:17.540 to oppose it,

00:25:18.280 so I don't want

00:25:19.120 to be an authoritarian,

00:25:20.440 so I don't want

00:25:21.600 to tell people

00:25:22.020 what to do,

00:25:22.940 so who decides?

00:25:25.440 We'll just let it all be,

00:25:26.900 this licentious

00:25:27.780 kind of government.

00:25:28.540 There was a shift

00:25:29.340 away from

00:25:30.500 traditional conservatism

00:25:31.480 toward

00:25:31.960 kind of libertarian

00:25:33.500 infused

00:25:34.280 license,

00:25:35.800 libertinism,

00:25:36.600 in the 80s,

00:25:38.000 90s,

00:25:38.500 into the 2000s.

00:25:40.560 Probably reached

00:25:41.400 its peak

00:25:41.980 around the

00:25:43.080 Tea Party era.

00:25:44.020 There's much to recommend

00:25:44.700 the Tea Party era,

00:25:45.360 but they got that thing

00:25:46.000 wrong too.

00:25:46.720 Then,

00:25:47.300 we've moved away

00:25:48.500 from that,

00:25:49.120 toward a,

00:25:49.980 back toward

00:25:50.720 a more

00:25:51.120 substantive

00:25:52.320 conservatism.

00:25:53.420 Same thing here.

00:25:54.880 There used to be

00:25:55.820 a healthy

00:25:56.580 skepticism

00:25:57.660 of mass migration

00:25:58.560 for most

00:25:59.080 of the 20th century.

00:26:00.600 For actually,

00:26:01.100 really,

00:26:01.400 most of American history,

00:26:02.400 I suppose you'd say,

00:26:03.160 immigration was

00:26:03.940 severely restricted.

00:26:05.780 This notion

00:26:06.380 that America's

00:26:07.080 always had

00:26:07.400 totally open borders

00:26:08.480 and has been

00:26:09.040 begging for the

00:26:10.100 poor huddled

00:26:10.660 masses yearning

00:26:11.480 to be free

00:26:12.000 because of that

00:26:12.380 stupid socialist

00:26:13.180 poem on the

00:26:13.740 Statue of Liberty,

00:26:14.520 which was a gift

00:26:15.120 from post-revolutionary

00:26:16.100 France.

00:26:16.540 Why are we paying

00:26:16.980 attention to what

00:26:17.460 they tell us to do?

00:26:18.580 Anyway,

00:26:19.260 that's a myth

00:26:20.260 that does not

00:26:21.680 accurately represent

00:26:22.640 most of American history,

00:26:24.180 the deepest strains

00:26:25.100 in American history.

00:26:26.100 For most of history,

00:26:27.160 we've said,

00:26:27.680 look,

00:26:27.940 we don't have all

00:26:28.620 that much against

00:26:29.180 immigrants.

00:26:29.760 It's not like we

00:26:30.380 hate people

00:26:30.900 just randomly,

00:26:32.360 but we're a country

00:26:33.480 and so you've got

00:26:34.000 to control who comes

00:26:34.840 in and we've got

00:26:35.300 to make sure

00:26:35.740 that people are

00:26:36.480 well-assimilated

00:26:37.160 and we don't lose

00:26:37.760 the American identity.

00:26:40.100 Then we shifted

00:26:41.080 into this proceduralism

00:26:42.860 where there were

00:26:44.680 two views you were

00:26:45.360 allowed to have

00:26:45.760 on immigration.

00:26:46.980 Flood the country,

00:26:48.120 legal, illegal,

00:26:48.860 we don't care.

00:26:49.420 That was the liberal

00:26:49.860 view.

00:26:51.060 And the supposedly

00:26:52.000 conservative view

00:26:52.740 was flood the country,

00:26:54.460 but make sure

00:26:55.040 it's done legally.

00:26:57.220 Listen,

00:26:58.040 we are absolutely

00:26:59.180 fine with the same

00:27:00.320 substantive outcome

00:27:01.420 that the Democrats want,

00:27:02.600 but we want you

00:27:03.360 to fill out

00:27:03.780 a different form first.

00:27:05.380 Okay,

00:27:05.660 what's very important,

00:27:07.660 flood the country

00:27:08.260 with people

00:27:08.620 who don't speak

00:27:09.040 a lick of English,

00:27:09.800 who compete

00:27:10.800 for wages

00:27:12.260 with blue-collar

00:27:13.740 Americans,

00:27:14.460 who move into

00:27:15.640 their own

00:27:16.240 ethnic segregated

00:27:17.200 enclaves

00:27:17.760 and disrupt

00:27:18.400 American unity

00:27:19.080 and social solidarity,

00:27:19.900 who also have

00:27:21.280 ties to gangs

00:27:22.640 and all sorts

00:27:23.620 of crime

00:27:23.940 and are a drain

00:27:24.580 on resources.

00:27:25.380 But just make sure

00:27:26.920 you fill out

00:27:27.400 that paperwork

00:27:27.880 first, okay?

00:27:29.960 But now there's

00:27:30.980 a third option,

00:27:31.820 which is actually

00:27:32.420 the more traditional

00:27:33.000 option.

00:27:33.900 And it's to say

00:27:35.960 we don't want

00:27:36.800 any illegal immigration

00:27:37.720 and we want to

00:27:39.600 drastically reduce

00:27:40.580 legal immigration

00:27:41.300 too.

00:27:41.760 Not because we

00:27:42.340 hate Nicaraguans

00:27:44.020 or something,

00:27:44.640 not because we

00:27:45.220 hate Tibetans,

00:27:46.180 but because

00:27:46.900 we have a huge

00:27:48.200 record high

00:27:49.100 foreign-born

00:27:49.600 percentage of

00:27:50.100 the population

00:27:50.640 and we're

00:27:51.860 having a breakdown

00:27:52.540 of social solidarity

00:27:53.560 and we just

00:27:54.420 need to chill

00:27:54.880 for a little bit.

00:27:56.320 It's not you,

00:27:57.300 it's us

00:27:58.020 protecting our

00:27:58.600 own country.

00:27:59.380 That's what's

00:27:59.940 come back.

00:28:01.240 That's a shift

00:28:01.900 once again

00:28:02.400 away from

00:28:03.060 procedural norms

00:28:04.500 into substantive

00:28:05.560 goods.

00:28:06.620 That's happening.

00:28:07.520 This is very

00:28:07.940 good news.

00:28:10.120 Some people,

00:28:12.100 some radical

00:28:12.700 left-wing

00:28:13.040 organizations

00:28:13.560 are very upset

00:28:14.440 about this.

00:28:14.980 they hate

00:28:16.280 the deportations,

00:28:17.000 including the

00:28:17.420 self-deportations

00:28:18.240 and the reduction

00:28:19.760 in the people

00:28:20.300 who are trying

00:28:20.620 to flood

00:28:20.880 into our

00:28:21.220 country.

00:28:22.540 Notably,

00:28:24.020 the most

00:28:24.520 famous or

00:28:25.260 infamous

00:28:25.880 deportee,

00:28:26.800 Kilmar

00:28:27.300 Abrego

00:28:27.900 Garcia.

00:28:29.160 I won't

00:28:29.480 belabor the

00:28:29.980 point,

00:28:30.260 Kilmar

00:28:30.500 Abrego

00:28:30.800 Garcia

00:28:31.080 is this

00:28:31.420 guy who

00:28:32.040 apparently

00:28:32.520 beat his

00:28:33.500 wife and

00:28:33.920 there was

00:28:34.140 a protection

00:28:36.060 order taken

00:28:36.660 out against

00:28:37.160 him and

00:28:37.860 he was

00:28:38.620 found by

00:28:39.040 multiple

00:28:39.320 judges to

00:28:40.300 likely have

00:28:40.960 associations

00:28:41.420 with MS-13,

00:28:42.820 a violent

00:28:43.560 gang,

00:28:44.200 a satanic

00:28:44.740 gang,

00:28:45.220 actually.

00:28:45.800 He was

00:28:46.100 in this

00:28:46.360 country

00:28:46.600 illegally

00:28:46.980 in the

00:28:47.240 first place

00:28:47.820 and he

00:28:48.540 was deported

00:28:49.140 and the

00:28:49.580 libs lost

00:28:50.000 their minds

00:28:50.380 over it.

00:28:51.280 And

00:28:51.440 Democrat

00:28:51.920 Senator

00:28:52.220 Chris

00:28:52.420 Van

00:28:52.600 Hollen

00:28:52.860 from

00:28:53.040 Maryland

00:28:53.380 ditched

00:28:53.980 all of

00:28:54.160 his

00:28:54.260 constituents,

00:28:54.880 all of

00:28:55.020 his

00:28:55.120 actual

00:28:55.480 taxpayers,

00:28:56.680 voting

00:28:57.000 citizens,

00:28:57.960 ditched

00:28:58.240 them to

00:28:58.500 go check

00:28:58.940 out his

00:28:59.220 boyfriend

00:28:59.600 in El

00:29:00.480 Salvador

00:29:00.800 and they

00:29:01.120 had a

00:29:01.300 romantic

00:29:01.620 lunch

00:29:01.900 date

00:29:02.080 together.

00:29:03.400 Chris

00:29:03.560 Van

00:29:03.720 Hollen

00:29:03.860 would

00:29:04.000 wake

00:29:04.140 up in

00:29:04.320 the

00:29:04.400 middle

00:29:04.540 of

00:29:04.640 the

00:29:04.680 night,

00:29:04.880 cold

00:29:05.060 sweat,

00:29:05.740 Kilmar!

00:29:07.520 Kilmar!

00:29:08.600 Honey,

00:29:14.740 he goes

00:29:20.760 down and

00:29:21.200 I thought

00:29:21.400 that was

00:29:21.620 weird

00:29:21.900 enough,

00:29:23.340 but now

00:29:23.680 I realize

00:29:24.160 I don't

00:29:25.700 even know

00:29:26.100 what they

00:29:26.440 were talking

00:29:26.860 about at

00:29:27.180 that lunch

00:29:27.500 because

00:29:27.680 Kilmar

00:29:28.040 Abrego

00:29:28.360 Garcia,

00:29:28.880 who's

00:29:29.160 awaiting

00:29:29.400 deportation

00:29:29.980 to Uganda,

00:29:31.020 just held

00:29:31.440 some rally,

00:29:32.840 so lax are

00:29:33.540 our immigration

00:29:34.220 rules in

00:29:34.660 this country,

00:29:35.400 held a rally

00:29:35.840 and this

00:29:36.400 freaking

00:29:36.800 guy does

00:29:37.820 not speak

00:29:38.340 English.

00:29:40.200 Thank you

00:29:40.800 to my

00:29:41.120 family,

00:29:41.960 my wife,

00:29:44.200 Jennifer,

00:29:44.740 my

00:29:46.040 hermano

00:29:46.500 Cesar,

00:29:47.540 my

00:29:48.980 mother

00:29:49.300 Cecilia,

00:29:50.880 and

00:29:51.400 all

00:29:51.640 my

00:29:51.860 family.

00:29:53.340 Thank you

00:29:54.080 to my

00:29:54.600 life

00:29:54.840 partner

00:29:55.200 and

00:29:55.660 wife,

00:29:56.160 Jennifer,

00:29:57.000 to

00:29:57.200 my

00:29:57.380 brother

00:29:57.660 Cesar,

00:29:58.840 to

00:29:59.220 my

00:29:59.360 mother

00:29:59.620 Cecilia,

00:30:01.020 to

00:30:01.780 my

00:30:01.960 children,

00:30:02.860 to

00:30:02.960 my

00:30:03.100 nieces

00:30:03.320 and

00:30:03.520 nephews,

00:30:04.220 to

00:30:04.340 all

00:30:04.580 of

00:30:04.720 my

00:30:04.880 family.

00:30:06.920 Gracias

00:30:07.240 a

00:30:07.580 casa,

00:30:08.540 mi

00:30:08.700 segunda

00:30:09.140 casa,

00:30:11.480 a

00:30:11.600 mi

00:30:12.180 sindicato

00:30:12.900 SMART,

00:30:13.460 a

00:30:14.320 todos

00:30:14.540 los

00:30:14.760 pastores,

00:30:15.920 a

00:30:16.100 todas

00:30:16.280 las

00:30:16.520 iglesias,

00:30:17.980 organizaciones,

00:30:19.660 y mis

00:30:19.960 equipos

00:30:20.420 legales.

00:30:21.580 Thank you

00:30:22.240 to

00:30:22.400 casa,

00:30:23.240 my

00:30:23.460 second

00:30:23.760 home,

00:30:24.920 to

00:30:25.340 my

00:30:25.520 union,

00:30:26.260 SMART,

00:30:27.080 to

00:30:27.700 all of

00:30:28.020 the

00:30:28.160 organizations,

00:30:29.340 all of

00:30:29.680 the

00:30:29.840 faith

00:30:30.080 leaders,

00:30:30.800 all of

00:30:31.140 the

00:30:31.260 partners,

00:30:32.180 and

00:30:32.380 my

00:30:32.540 legal

00:30:32.780 team.

00:30:34.520 Gracias,

00:30:35.760 gracias.

00:30:36.460 This

00:30:36.620 guy

00:30:37.140 has been in

00:30:38.400 this country

00:30:38.820 illegally,

00:30:39.420 I think,

00:30:39.760 for 14

00:30:40.620 years.

00:30:41.820 He is

00:30:42.280 the

00:30:42.620 poster

00:30:43.100 child

00:30:43.680 for

00:30:44.380 illegal

00:30:44.740 immigration,

00:30:45.380 put up

00:30:45.580 by the

00:30:45.860 Democrats.

00:30:47.880 He's the

00:30:48.480 best one

00:30:49.000 they could

00:30:49.240 find.

00:30:50.820 Yay,

00:30:51.280 he says

00:30:51.580 plausible

00:30:52.400 gang

00:30:52.780 associations,

00:30:53.960 looks like

00:30:54.280 he beat

00:30:54.540 his wife,

00:30:55.580 but this

00:30:56.240 is it.

00:30:56.560 He's the

00:30:56.900 face,

00:30:57.640 they're

00:30:57.860 going to

00:30:58.180 bat for

00:30:58.600 Kilmar.

00:30:59.360 This

00:30:59.580 is the

00:30:59.880 guy.

00:31:01.500 He

00:31:01.980 never

00:31:02.240 learned

00:31:02.600 English.

00:31:03.060 He

00:31:03.160 doesn't

00:31:03.440 appear to

00:31:03.920 know a

00:31:04.380 single

00:31:04.800 word of

00:31:05.960 English.

00:31:06.340 While

00:31:08.940 we're

00:31:09.100 talking

00:31:09.300 about

00:31:09.460 executive

00:31:09.760 orders

00:31:10.040 and

00:31:10.180 laws,

00:31:11.280 forget

00:31:11.600 about

00:31:11.940 him

00:31:12.280 beating

00:31:12.480 his

00:31:12.680 wife,

00:31:13.240 forget

00:31:13.460 about

00:31:13.740 the

00:31:13.900 MS-13,

00:31:14.700 forget

00:31:14.820 about

00:31:14.980 the

00:31:15.080 human

00:31:15.260 smuggling

00:31:15.600 charges.

00:31:17.660 If

00:31:17.980 you're

00:31:18.100 in this

00:31:18.340 country,

00:31:18.760 I have

00:31:19.180 a great

00:31:19.420 deal

00:31:19.560 of

00:31:19.680 sympathy

00:31:19.860 for

00:31:20.140 foreigners

00:31:20.940 who were

00:31:21.260 invited

00:31:21.540 into this

00:31:21.920 country

00:31:22.120 by

00:31:22.280 Democrats

00:31:22.660 and

00:31:23.100 they

00:31:23.200 don't

00:31:23.280 know

00:31:23.380 what

00:31:23.500 to

00:31:23.600 do

00:31:23.720 and

00:31:23.800 they've

00:31:23.920 been

00:31:24.020 here

00:31:24.140 a while.

00:31:24.320 I

00:31:24.440 actually

00:31:24.880 have

00:31:25.000 a

00:31:25.060 great

00:31:25.200 deal

00:31:25.340 of

00:31:25.440 sympathy.

00:31:25.720 I'm

00:31:25.820 making

00:31:25.960 some

00:31:26.140 jokes

00:31:26.340 now.

00:31:26.500 I

00:31:26.860 feel

00:31:27.140 bad

00:31:27.320 for

00:31:27.440 them.

00:31:28.480 I'm

00:31:28.840 not

00:31:28.980 saying

00:31:29.120 I

00:31:29.240 feel

00:31:29.340 bad

00:31:29.540 enough

00:31:29.680 to

00:31:29.780 let

00:31:29.880 them

00:31:29.960 stay,

00:31:30.400 but

00:31:30.500 I

00:31:30.600 feel

00:31:30.740 bad

00:31:30.920 for

00:31:31.060 them.

00:31:32.740 If

00:31:33.140 you're

00:31:33.300 in

00:31:33.400 this

00:31:33.560 country

00:31:33.900 for

00:31:34.360 14

00:31:34.800 years,

00:31:35.440 I don't

00:31:35.640 care if

00:31:35.840 you're

00:31:35.920 the

00:31:36.020 most

00:31:36.260 law-abiding

00:31:37.000 citizen

00:31:38.020 I

00:31:38.220 can

00:31:38.340 imagine,

00:31:39.540 non-citizen

00:31:40.060 I can

00:31:40.340 imagine,

00:31:41.020 if you're

00:31:41.560 in this

00:31:41.740 country

00:31:41.920 14

00:31:42.220 years,

00:31:43.600 you

00:31:43.800 never

00:31:44.060 even

00:31:44.400 try

00:31:45.040 to

00:31:46.040 learn

00:31:46.280 a

00:31:46.520 word

00:31:46.760 of

00:31:46.920 English,

00:31:48.080 that

00:31:48.940 should

00:31:49.140 be

00:31:49.360 automatic

00:31:49.980 deportation.

00:31:51.940 I

00:31:52.360 don't

00:31:56.500 should

00:31:56.680 be

00:31:56.860 automatic

00:31:57.520 deportation.

00:31:57.880 What

00:31:58.240 a level

00:31:59.700 of

00:31:59.940 disrespect.

00:32:01.940 What

00:32:02.380 disrespect

00:32:02.960 for our

00:32:03.400 country?

00:32:03.760 Who

00:32:03.900 supports

00:32:04.440 this?

00:32:04.700 I'll

00:32:04.780 tell

00:32:04.900 you

00:32:05.020 who.

00:32:05.760 It's

00:32:05.940 not

00:32:06.180 most

00:32:07.560 Democrat

00:32:07.940 voters.

00:32:08.740 Democrats

00:32:09.220 double down

00:32:09.700 on this.

00:32:10.120 They're

00:32:10.140 going to

00:32:10.400 lose

00:32:10.920 every

00:32:11.160 county

00:32:11.480 in

00:32:11.620 the

00:32:11.740 country.

00:32:12.900 You

00:32:12.920 heard

00:32:14.800 he said

00:32:15.060 Kaza.

00:32:16.480 He

00:32:16.720 said,

00:32:17.260 I want

00:32:17.500 to thank

00:32:17.780 Kaza.

00:32:18.320 Kaza is

00:32:18.800 like my

00:32:19.140 second

00:32:19.460 home.

00:32:21.000 Kaza is

00:32:22.140 this radical

00:32:22.800 anti-American

00:32:23.540 group that's

00:32:24.020 been around

00:32:24.380 for decades,

00:32:25.160 hates

00:32:25.320 the

00:32:25.500 country,

00:32:26.580 America's

00:32:26.980 always

00:32:27.200 wrong.

00:32:27.680 Other

00:32:27.800 countries

00:32:28.080 are always

00:32:28.480 great.

00:32:29.160 It

00:32:29.260 exists to

00:32:29.940 subvert

00:32:30.280 our

00:32:30.440 laws.

00:32:30.860 He

00:32:31.140 says,

00:32:31.360 these

00:32:31.480 are my

00:32:31.700 guys,

00:32:32.040 Kaza.

00:32:33.680 Gracias,

00:32:34.440 gracias,

00:32:35.100 Kaza.

00:32:38.080 I hope

00:32:39.040 he's the

00:32:39.380 face for

00:32:39.920 the midterms.

00:32:40.780 This is

00:32:41.000 it.

00:32:41.160 This is

00:32:42.120 the best

00:32:42.540 they could

00:32:42.860 muster.

00:32:44.880 And it's

00:32:45.700 actually kind

00:32:46.360 of a knock

00:32:46.860 on Republican

00:32:47.440 operatives that

00:32:48.040 we didn't

00:32:48.320 figure this

00:32:48.680 out beforehand.

00:32:49.700 This should

00:32:50.180 have been

00:32:50.620 day two

00:32:51.080 of reporting.

00:32:52.800 Their

00:32:52.920 number one

00:32:53.420 guy doesn't

00:32:54.000 speak English,

00:32:54.740 tells you

00:32:55.140 everything.

00:32:55.580 Now,

00:32:56.180 here's the

00:32:56.500 related story,

00:32:57.420 and here's

00:32:57.660 another reason

00:32:58.880 it's really

00:32:59.400 good news

00:32:59.900 that we're

00:33:00.400 seeing a

00:33:00.660 reduction in

00:33:01.100 overall

00:33:01.500 immigration,

00:33:02.240 migrants

00:33:02.480 leaving the

00:33:03.100 country.

00:33:04.980 Even the

00:33:05.660 New York

00:33:05.860 Times is

00:33:06.320 admitting

00:33:06.620 the Democrats

00:33:08.440 might be

00:33:10.200 set up for

00:33:10.800 a generational

00:33:11.980 political

00:33:12.640 loss,

00:33:13.600 a shift

00:33:14.300 to

00:33:14.800 congressional

00:33:15.360 apportionment

00:33:16.360 and a

00:33:17.800 shift of

00:33:18.120 the electoral

00:33:18.520 college that

00:33:19.620 might

00:33:20.040 completely

00:33:21.680 obstruct

00:33:23.320 them in

00:33:23.840 winning the

00:33:24.140 presidency

00:33:24.500 again.

00:33:24.820 They'll

00:33:24.940 have to

00:33:25.160 totally

00:33:26.060 rethink

00:33:26.560 their

00:33:27.020 coalition

00:33:27.520 and

00:33:27.960 their

00:33:28.100 path

00:33:28.340 to

00:33:28.440 the

00:33:28.540 presidency

00:33:28.980 because

00:33:29.740 of

00:33:30.420 shifts

00:33:30.920 in

00:33:31.940 population.

00:33:32.400 I'm sure

00:33:33.340 you've

00:33:33.560 noticed we've

00:33:34.000 been rolling

00:33:34.300 out a lot

00:33:34.640 of new

00:33:34.840 content at

00:33:35.340 Daily Wire

00:33:35.700 Plus,

00:33:36.180 Journey to

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00:33:37.420 Dr. Jordan

00:33:37.860 Peterson's

00:33:38.300 Answer the

00:33:38.620 Call,

00:33:39.240 my new

00:33:39.600 four-part

00:33:39.980 series,

00:33:40.440 The Pope

00:33:40.640 and the

00:33:40.860 Fuhrer,

00:33:41.220 just to name

00:33:41.600 a few,

00:33:42.260 and there's

00:33:42.960 plenty more

00:33:43.540 on the

00:33:43.760 way.

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00:33:54.200 just the

00:33:54.560 entire

00:33:54.820 Daily Wire

00:33:55.180 crew

00:33:55.440 debating

00:33:55.780 live,

00:33:56.260 clashing

00:33:56.520 over the

00:33:56.820 biggest

00:33:56.980 stories of

00:33:57.400 the day

00:33:57.680 and it's

00:33:58.260 going to

00:33:58.420 get loud.

00:33:58.920 Plus,

00:33:59.700 that night

00:34:00.120 we'll be

00:34:00.420 announcing

00:34:00.720 even more

00:34:01.340 coming to

00:34:01.740 Daily Wire

00:34:02.020 Plus.

00:34:02.400 What I'm

00:34:02.620 telling you

00:34:02.980 is,

00:34:03.900 do not

00:34:04.340 miss what's

00:34:04.840 coming next.

00:34:05.400 Go to

00:34:11.900 comment

00:34:12.100 yesterday

00:34:12.420 is from

00:34:12.660 Sharon

00:34:12.960 Biz-Riguez

00:34:13.820 who says,

00:34:15.360 when talking

00:34:15.840 about AI,

00:34:16.600 a lot of

00:34:16.940 people put

00:34:17.320 emphasis on

00:34:17.880 intelligence

00:34:18.360 rather than

00:34:18.840 artificial.

00:34:19.440 So true.

00:34:20.500 They only pay

00:34:20.860 attention to

00:34:21.220 the eye.

00:34:21.640 You know,

00:34:21.760 it's artificial,

00:34:22.480 it's not

00:34:22.820 really

00:34:23.180 intelligence.

00:34:24.920 But we

00:34:25.100 don't know

00:34:25.320 what,

00:34:25.520 we think,

00:34:25.980 because we

00:34:26.380 think we're

00:34:26.720 just robots.

00:34:28.220 We think

00:34:28.840 that the

00:34:29.120 robots are

00:34:29.580 humans because

00:34:30.080 we think

00:34:30.460 that we're

00:34:30.700 no better

00:34:31.020 than robots.

00:34:33.020 We don't

00:34:33.580 realize that

00:34:34.120 intellection,

00:34:35.160 that thinking,

00:34:36.580 is not a

00:34:37.500 physical process.

00:34:39.220 That the

00:34:39.720 intellect is

00:34:40.200 actually an

00:34:40.660 immaterial

00:34:41.100 substance.

00:34:41.580 But that's

00:34:41.940 a story

00:34:42.160 for another

00:34:42.480 time.

00:34:43.280 Here's a

00:34:43.620 story related

00:34:44.240 to the

00:34:45.100 migration

00:34:45.540 reduction.

00:34:48.880 New York

00:34:49.140 Times,

00:34:49.620 very,

00:34:49.920 very upset

00:34:50.380 how the

00:34:51.780 Electoral

00:34:52.020 College could

00:34:53.520 tilt further

00:34:54.060 from Democrats.

00:34:55.120 Huge,

00:34:55.660 really long

00:34:56.040 story in

00:34:56.420 the Times.

00:34:57.200 It's got

00:34:57.540 four authors.

00:34:59.940 Just read

00:35:00.560 you a little

00:35:00.780 of it.

00:35:01.420 The year

00:35:01.800 is 2032,

00:35:02.820 studying the

00:35:03.280 Electoral

00:35:03.580 College map.

00:35:04.580 A Democratic

00:35:05.180 presidential

00:35:05.760 candidate can

00:35:06.360 no longer

00:35:06.800 plan to

00:35:07.240 sweep New

00:35:07.620 Hampshire,

00:35:08.120 Minnesota,

00:35:08.660 and the

00:35:08.860 Blue Wall

00:35:09.280 battlegrounds

00:35:09.960 of Michigan,

00:35:10.460 Pennsylvania,

00:35:11.000 and Wisconsin.

00:35:11.580 And win

00:35:12.160 the White

00:35:12.440 House.

00:35:12.640 That's the

00:35:12.920 current path

00:35:13.300 to victory.

00:35:14.660 Okay,

00:35:15.060 you win

00:35:15.740 Minnesota,

00:35:17.540 whatever,

00:35:17.840 you win

00:35:18.060 the battlegrounds,

00:35:20.240 and you're at

00:35:20.680 the White

00:35:20.940 House.

00:35:21.200 That's what we

00:35:21.580 were all

00:35:21.880 waiting on in

00:35:22.420 the 2024

00:35:22.880 race.

00:35:23.380 That's what

00:35:23.520 we were

00:35:23.600 looking at

00:35:23.860 in 2020

00:35:24.240 and 2016.

00:35:25.320 That could

00:35:26.320 change.

00:35:26.720 A victory

00:35:27.040 in the swing

00:35:27.420 state of

00:35:27.720 Nevada would

00:35:28.180 not help

00:35:28.520 either.

00:35:29.060 That is the

00:35:29.520 nightmare

00:35:29.760 scenario many

00:35:30.480 Democratic

00:35:30.860 Party

00:35:31.160 insiders see

00:35:31.720 playing out

00:35:32.260 if current

00:35:33.380 U.S.

00:35:33.720 population

00:35:34.240 projections hold.

00:35:36.080 After every

00:35:36.860 decennial census,

00:35:38.280 every 10

00:35:38.620 years, like

00:35:39.900 the one

00:35:40.180 coming up

00:35:40.560 in 2030,

00:35:42.360 congressional

00:35:42.720 seats are

00:35:43.200 reallocated

00:35:43.880 among the

00:35:44.740 states based

00:35:45.200 on population

00:35:45.740 shifts.

00:35:46.620 Those seats

00:35:47.020 in turn affect

00:35:47.580 how big a

00:35:48.200 prize each

00:35:48.700 state is

00:35:49.360 within the

00:35:49.900 electoral college

00:35:50.580 or how a

00:35:51.380 candidate actually

00:35:51.960 wins the

00:35:52.320 presidency.

00:35:53.420 In the next

00:35:54.220 decade, the

00:35:55.680 electoral college

00:35:56.280 will tilt

00:35:56.820 significantly away

00:35:57.820 from Democrats.

00:35:58.460 This is part

00:35:59.840 of the reason

00:36:00.280 why the

00:36:00.600 Democrats are

00:36:01.440 trying to

00:36:01.960 change the

00:36:02.700 way that

00:36:02.960 American

00:36:03.280 presidential

00:36:03.700 elections have

00:36:04.240 been conducted

00:36:04.680 from the

00:36:05.020 founding of

00:36:05.320 our country

00:36:05.620 onward.

00:36:06.280 They realize,

00:36:07.320 shoot, if we

00:36:07.840 play fair and

00:36:08.300 square, we're

00:36:08.600 going to lose.

00:36:10.180 Deeply

00:36:10.660 conservative

00:36:11.120 Texas and

00:36:11.740 Florida could

00:36:12.700 gain a total

00:36:13.240 of five

00:36:14.000 congressional

00:36:14.560 seats, and

00:36:15.740 the red

00:36:16.040 states of

00:36:16.520 Utah and

00:36:17.240 Idaho are

00:36:18.500 each expected

00:36:19.160 to add a

00:36:20.340 seat.

00:36:22.480 What is this

00:36:23.180 about?

00:36:23.380 This is about

00:36:23.720 populations

00:36:24.240 moving, but

00:36:24.780 in different

00:36:25.320 ways.

00:36:25.680 Texas and

00:36:28.420 Florida are

00:36:28.920 going to

00:36:29.100 gain congressional

00:36:29.700 seats.

00:36:30.880 Take illegal

00:36:31.680 immigration out

00:36:32.480 of it for a

00:36:32.880 second.

00:36:34.600 They're going

00:36:35.180 to gain seats

00:36:35.740 because people

00:36:36.200 are leaving

00:36:36.540 New York and

00:36:37.740 California and

00:36:39.220 Chicago and

00:36:40.300 all of these

00:36:40.860 liberal places,

00:36:41.520 and they're

00:36:42.000 moving to

00:36:42.840 Tennessee and

00:36:44.200 Florida and

00:36:44.920 all the

00:36:45.160 conservative

00:36:45.520 states.

00:36:47.160 This is not

00:36:47.640 even...

00:36:48.540 One of the

00:36:49.360 ways in which

00:36:50.200 Democrats have

00:36:50.780 tried to

00:36:51.120 swell their

00:36:51.740 numbers and

00:36:53.380 gain an unfair

00:36:54.820 advantage in

00:36:55.280 the electoral

00:36:55.600 college and

00:36:56.160 Congress is

00:36:56.880 by importing

00:36:57.480 illegal aliens

00:36:58.280 into the

00:36:58.640 country because

00:36:59.900 congressional

00:37:01.100 apportionment is

00:37:02.600 based on total

00:37:03.800 population.

00:37:04.880 That's not

00:37:05.400 just citizens,

00:37:06.280 that's everyone,

00:37:07.720 including illegal

00:37:08.380 aliens.

00:37:08.800 So if you ship

00:37:09.360 millions of

00:37:09.800 illegals into

00:37:10.320 blue states,

00:37:11.080 that's going to

00:37:11.660 increase their

00:37:12.160 representation in

00:37:13.000 Congress.

00:37:13.740 Their votes are

00:37:14.120 going to matter

00:37:14.540 more than the

00:37:16.080 votes representing

00:37:16.880 actual citizens,

00:37:18.220 and it's going to

00:37:19.380 affect the

00:37:19.780 electoral college.

00:37:20.800 The problem is,

00:37:21.800 even with all of

00:37:22.520 that, you're

00:37:24.340 having people

00:37:24.900 moving into the

00:37:25.580 red states,

00:37:26.840 Texas and

00:37:27.620 Florida.

00:37:28.260 Now, Texas has

00:37:28.920 plenty of illegal

00:37:29.560 aliens, sure,

00:37:30.400 fair enough, but

00:37:31.420 we've had a lot of

00:37:32.160 illegal aliens in

00:37:32.940 California, a lot

00:37:33.680 have moved to

00:37:34.100 New York, a lot

00:37:34.940 have moved to

00:37:35.440 the blue cities,

00:37:36.460 and a lot have

00:37:37.340 moved to swing

00:37:37.760 states, and even

00:37:39.020 so, so many

00:37:41.660 people, so many

00:37:42.420 citizens are

00:37:43.080 fleeing those blue

00:37:43.920 states, coming to

00:37:45.100 the red states.

00:37:45.700 I myself did it.

00:37:46.780 I was born a

00:37:47.560 New Yorker.

00:37:48.380 I lived in Los

00:37:49.560 Angeles for a

00:37:50.140 long time, but

00:37:51.440 now I hang my

00:37:51.980 hat in Tennessee.

00:37:54.100 So much of

00:37:54.820 that, because of

00:37:55.840 how much the

00:37:57.000 libs have blown

00:37:57.840 it, people are

00:38:00.040 moving to the

00:38:00.460 red states, the

00:38:00.940 red states are

00:38:01.380 going to gain in

00:38:01.880 power, and the

00:38:02.940 Democrats are

00:38:03.740 going to have to

00:38:04.060 fundamentally change

00:38:04.860 their strategy to

00:38:05.760 win the

00:38:05.980 presidency, which

00:38:07.080 is why they

00:38:08.220 could either try

00:38:08.980 to fix their

00:38:09.420 states, they

00:38:10.220 could either try

00:38:10.740 to keep their

00:38:11.100 populations in,

00:38:11.860 they'd probably

00:38:12.140 build their own

00:38:12.860 Berlin Wall if

00:38:13.500 they could to

00:38:14.220 keep their

00:38:14.500 populations locked

00:38:15.280 in, but because

00:38:17.060 they're not going

00:38:17.460 to actually fix

00:38:17.920 their own states,

00:38:18.320 what they're

00:38:20.600 going to

00:38:20.780 whine and

00:38:21.140 complain about

00:38:22.160 Trump prosecuting

00:38:24.520 people according

00:38:25.420 to a traditional

00:38:26.460 American principle

00:38:27.160 that you're not

00:38:27.540 allowed to burn

00:38:27.880 the American

00:38:28.220 flag, or at

00:38:29.900 the very least

00:38:30.260 that states are

00:38:30.680 allowed to pass

00:38:31.060 laws against

00:38:31.460 burning the

00:38:31.760 American flag.

00:38:32.340 They're going

00:38:32.600 to whine and

00:38:33.040 complain about

00:38:33.480 constitutionality

00:38:34.200 there, then

00:38:34.540 they're going

00:38:34.780 to try to

00:38:35.120 upend the

00:38:35.860 way that the

00:38:36.260 constitution tells

00:38:37.020 us to elect

00:38:37.400 presidents, because

00:38:39.200 they can't win

00:38:39.740 fair and square.

00:38:41.360 This is watching

00:38:42.620 the chickens come

00:38:43.220 home to roost.

00:38:43.940 10, 15 years

00:38:44.720 ago, 20 years

00:38:45.400 ago, people were

00:38:47.540 saying, man,

00:38:48.000 these Democrats

00:38:48.500 are really

00:38:48.820 blowing it in

00:38:49.260 their cities,

00:38:49.780 their cities and

00:38:50.340 their states, and

00:38:50.860 there's murder, and

00:38:51.460 the high taxes are

00:38:52.460 crazy, and you

00:38:52.880 can't do business, and

00:38:54.300 the Democrats

00:38:54.760 thought they could

00:38:55.380 get away with it

00:38:55.900 forever.

00:38:57.080 Now the chickens

00:38:57.780 are coming home to

00:38:58.380 roost, they might

00:38:58.800 not be able to

00:38:59.240 win the presidency

00:39:00.880 anymore.

00:39:01.660 Okay, very

00:39:03.300 important story I

00:39:04.340 have to get to

00:39:05.060 before we go.

00:39:06.260 Snoop diggity

00:39:06.940 doodog, D-O-double-G,

00:39:09.140 not the most right-wing

00:39:10.820 Republican out there.

00:39:11.900 I don't think he's a

00:39:12.500 huge fan of Trump.

00:39:14.140 He's said very nasty

00:39:15.000 things about

00:39:15.620 President Trump

00:39:16.240 before, not

00:39:17.540 exactly a cultural

00:39:18.720 warrior for the

00:39:20.940 right, and yet he

00:39:22.360 just went on, was

00:39:23.640 it the Giving, It's

00:39:24.640 Giving podcast, and

00:39:26.900 he went on to

00:39:27.820 complain about all

00:39:28.820 the lesbians in

00:39:29.860 Lightyear by

00:39:30.680 Pixar.

00:39:30.980 I took my

00:39:33.860 grandson to see

00:39:34.880 what was the

00:39:37.000 movie with

00:39:37.460 Buzz Lightyear.

00:39:39.480 Toy Story?

00:39:40.440 Not that one, but

00:39:41.320 Oh, the new

00:39:41.900 Buzz, the Lightyear.

00:39:43.940 I think it was

00:39:44.200 called Lightyear.

00:39:44.360 Yeah, with Kiki

00:39:44.840 Palmer's in that

00:39:45.700 movie.

00:39:45.940 Okay, okay.

00:39:46.300 She plays like

00:39:46.980 the daughter.

00:39:48.060 So we're watching

00:39:48.720 it, and the lady,

00:39:51.920 which is Kiki's

00:39:52.600 mama, they move on

00:39:54.880 into the space years,

00:39:55.800 they move down the

00:39:56.440 line, and they're

00:39:56.860 like, man, she had a

00:39:58.520 baby.

00:39:58.860 baby with a

00:40:01.020 woman.

00:40:02.260 One of my

00:40:02.640 grandson, in the

00:40:03.860 middle of the

00:40:04.200 movie, like, Papa

00:40:05.420 Snoop, how does she

00:40:06.140 have a baby with a

00:40:06.940 woman?

00:40:07.300 She a woman.

00:40:08.500 Oh, I didn't come

00:40:10.740 in for this shit.

00:40:11.200 I just came and

00:40:11.780 watched the movie.

00:40:13.620 Hey, man, watch the

00:40:14.360 movie.

00:40:14.840 Uh-uh.

00:40:15.920 They just said she

00:40:17.780 and she had a baby.

00:40:19.120 They both women.

00:40:20.000 How does she have

00:40:20.940 a baby?

00:40:22.220 Shh.

00:40:23.060 The movie ain't

00:40:23.840 over with.

00:40:26.220 So it's like, I'm

00:40:27.400 scared to go to the

00:40:28.020 movies, man.

00:40:28.480 Like, y'all throwing

00:40:29.180 me in the middle of

00:40:29.800 shit that I don't

00:40:30.400 have an answer for.

00:40:32.760 What was your, what'd

00:40:33.760 you tell them?

00:40:34.540 Watch the movie.

00:40:35.800 Eat this popcorn.

00:40:37.140 Shh.

00:40:38.500 You said, we don't

00:40:39.380 know.

00:40:39.860 We don't know.

00:40:40.920 It threw me for a

00:40:42.020 loop.

00:40:42.220 I'm like, what part of

00:40:43.300 the movie was this?

00:40:44.220 These are kids that we

00:40:45.360 have to show that at

00:40:47.620 this age.

00:40:48.360 Like.

00:40:49.280 That part?

00:40:50.140 They're going to ask

00:40:50.840 questions.

00:40:51.440 Yeah.

00:40:52.380 They're going to ask,

00:40:53.300 I don't have the answer.

00:40:54.440 Yeah.

00:40:55.580 And I don't even know

00:40:56.660 the answer that's

00:40:57.280 rehearsed.

00:40:57.880 What am I supposed

00:40:58.480 to say?

00:40:59.400 Is this, is this, is

00:41:00.860 this, is what was

00:41:02.060 the lady used to be

00:41:03.620 a, did.

00:41:05.040 I got questions.

00:41:06.220 Now I got questions.

00:41:07.140 And I was just there

00:41:08.300 to go to sleep and

00:41:09.400 watch the movie.

00:41:10.600 And they woke me up.

00:41:11.880 I'm in there.

00:41:13.980 Huh?

00:41:15.860 They just said that

00:41:17.040 she and she had a

00:41:18.860 baby.

00:41:19.580 How?

00:41:20.020 They both women.

00:41:20.880 Oh, man.

00:41:22.460 Yeah.

00:41:22.660 Eat your popcorn.

00:41:24.260 Here, eat your popcorn.

00:41:25.140 I want to talk about

00:41:25.860 this.

00:41:26.200 I don't even know

00:41:27.000 what the answer would

00:41:27.900 be if I wanted to

00:41:29.120 explain it.

00:41:32.220 When the libs lose

00:41:33.600 Snoop Dogg, they've

00:41:35.140 lost too much.

00:41:37.560 I made this point the

00:41:38.480 other day with the

00:41:39.260 state of Israel,

00:41:39.940 whatever Israel was

00:41:40.760 doing.

00:41:41.340 I said, look, guys,

00:41:42.340 there were actually a

00:41:42.820 few things, I think.

00:41:44.040 And I said, I'm

00:41:44.600 broadly supportive of

00:41:45.720 the state of Israel.

00:41:46.440 I have, I have like the

00:41:47.360 least popular opinion on

00:41:49.080 Israel of anyone on

00:41:50.420 earth, which is that I

00:41:51.560 don't accept the

00:41:52.360 historical or religious

00:41:53.340 claims of Zionism, but I

00:41:55.540 also recognize we've

00:41:56.520 been fighting Muslim

00:41:57.840 expansionists for 1,400

00:41:59.120 years, and I'm broadly

00:42:02.100 supportive of the state

00:42:03.140 of Israel, but with

00:42:05.680 significant caveats and

00:42:07.220 nuances.

00:42:08.640 So I said, when you're

00:42:11.540 losing me, you've got a

00:42:13.180 big problem because I'm

00:42:16.040 pretty supportive.

00:42:17.640 So if I'm the enemy, you've

00:42:19.200 got a big problem.

00:42:19.880 So you see this

00:42:21.640 sometimes, Snoop Dogg is

00:42:23.680 a reliable liberal

00:42:25.020 Democrat, okay?

00:42:26.180 He is reliable.

00:42:28.800 When you're losing him

00:42:29.920 because you're pushing

00:42:30.740 lesbianism in a kids

00:42:31.880 movie, you've just lost.

00:42:33.820 You've now lost so much

00:42:35.180 of the electorate.

00:42:36.800 This is why I think that

00:42:38.240 transing the kids was

00:42:39.540 maybe the big issue of

00:42:41.460 2024.

00:42:42.120 People are going to

00:42:42.420 laugh at me when I say

00:42:43.040 that.

00:42:43.480 They say, oh, it was

00:42:43.940 the inflation, oh, it

00:42:44.780 was the immigration, oh,

00:42:45.780 it was the economy.

00:42:47.180 No, I mean, I don't know

00:42:48.120 about that.

00:42:48.640 I actually don't know

00:42:49.260 about that.

00:42:49.500 I've been talking to a

00:42:50.320 lot of Republican

00:42:50.980 operatives on the ground

00:42:52.280 since the election

00:42:53.160 onward.

00:42:54.340 They tell me, you know,

00:42:55.020 big shift in our

00:42:55.840 polling is when we

00:42:56.500 started focusing on that

00:42:57.520 men and women's sports

00:42:59.300 issue or transing the

00:43:00.560 kids or the bathrooms

00:43:01.440 or whatever.

00:43:01.840 Why?

00:43:02.340 Why?

00:43:03.360 Is it just because of

00:43:04.240 the church lady, oh,

00:43:05.040 won't someone please

00:43:05.680 think of the children?

00:43:06.560 I think it was just

00:43:07.120 that.

00:43:08.160 Because it showed that

00:43:09.160 the Democrats had

00:43:09.900 totally lost the

00:43:10.560 common sense.

00:43:11.420 And so Snoop Dogg's

00:43:12.220 there.

00:43:12.840 He wants to just like

00:43:13.740 smoke his pot and wrap

00:43:16.020 his wrap and be a huge

00:43:17.900 lib.

00:43:18.420 Except, whoa, now,

00:43:20.240 you're making me explain

00:43:21.480 weird lesbian stuff to

00:43:22.920 kids.

00:43:23.300 And hold on, I can't

00:43:24.960 even explain it.

00:43:25.900 Because how about Snoop's

00:43:27.280 grandkids question?

00:43:28.380 The question is, how do

00:43:30.540 two women have a baby

00:43:31.360 together?

00:43:31.680 I guess they could adopt.

00:43:35.320 I guess that's one answer.

00:43:36.560 You could adopt.

00:43:38.120 But how do they do it

00:43:39.400 beyond adopting?

00:43:41.220 Well, grandson, well, let me

00:43:45.300 explizzle, grandson, how the

00:43:47.480 lesbizzles make some

00:43:48.940 kizzles.

00:43:49.620 They go to the baby store

00:43:51.700 and they buy a man's

00:43:54.540 spermizzle.

00:43:55.540 And then they go, they

00:43:58.160 look through the booklet

00:43:59.920 of all the donizzles and

00:44:03.060 they pick the one that they

00:44:04.400 think is the bestizzle.

00:44:06.320 And then, I don't know,

00:44:07.760 it's like the only Snoop

00:44:08.800 thing I can recall.

00:44:09.880 Anyway, he and then what

00:44:12.020 they do is they get a

00:44:13.260 turkey-basedizzle.

00:44:14.720 I'm not going to get, I

00:44:15.720 don't want to be too

00:44:16.240 specific.

00:44:16.940 I'm just kind of trying to

00:44:17.800 imagine how, probably

00:44:19.180 actually even forget about

00:44:20.300 the turkey-basedizzle for a

00:44:21.340 second.

00:44:21.760 What they'll probably do is

00:44:23.080 they'll give it to some

00:44:23.980 extremely unethical

00:44:25.700 scientizzle and he'll

00:44:27.500 probably take a petri

00:44:28.740 dizzle and he'll mix the

00:44:31.140 embrizzles in the dish and

00:44:33.140 then he'll make like a

00:44:33.860 billionizzle of them and

00:44:35.460 then he's going to lock

00:44:36.200 them all in a

00:44:36.760 refrigerizzle indefinitely

00:44:38.480 until he kills them.

00:44:39.440 Like, that is so

00:44:40.300 horrifying.

00:44:43.040 And that's if you think

00:44:44.300 about it.

00:44:45.260 Most people can't even

00:44:46.100 get that far.

00:44:48.340 The Dems lose in Snoop.

00:44:50.960 They lose the culture.

00:44:52.020 The Dems, the best

00:44:53.500 example that they can

00:44:54.700 come up with of illegal

00:44:55.820 immigration is Kilmar

00:44:56.740 Abrego-Garcia doesn't

00:44:57.880 know how to say hello

00:44:58.560 and go by in English.

00:45:00.460 You're losing the

00:45:01.300 culture.

00:45:02.740 The Democrats can't even

00:45:03.820 keep people locked up in

00:45:04.860 New York and California to

00:45:06.140 maintain their

00:45:06.700 congressional apportionment

00:45:07.840 and their electoral

00:45:08.920 college.

00:45:10.160 I can't even say

00:45:11.060 advantage anymore, but

00:45:11.940 their electoral college

00:45:12.940 ballast because everyone

00:45:15.800 wants to move to the

00:45:16.520 red states.

00:45:17.080 You lost, guys.

00:45:17.920 You just lost.

00:45:18.640 And the Republican

00:45:21.860 argument moves on from

00:45:23.660 the defensive posture of

00:45:25.360 the procedural norms toward

00:45:26.560 greater substantive goods

00:45:27.820 with greater confidence

00:45:28.800 because of the improbable to

00:45:31.660 some, but I think at this

00:45:33.400 point quite well

00:45:34.060 established, conservative

00:45:35.680 political clarity of

00:45:36.740 Trump.

00:45:37.500 Simple as, okay, today's

00:45:39.020 Tee Hee Hee Tuesday.

00:45:40.120 The rest of the show

00:45:40.720 continues now.

00:45:41.920 You do not want to miss it.

00:45:42.780 Become a member.

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00:45:44.220 Has a check out for two

00:45:44.800 months free on all annual

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00:45:55.720 Oh.

00:46:01.660 Oh.

00:46:02.720 Oh.

00:46:02.760 Yeah.

00:46:03.000 Oh.

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The Michael Knowles Show - August 26, 2025

Ep. 1801 - Trump's Flag-Burning Ban Is A Litmus Test

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