The Michael Knowles Show - September 03, 2025


Ep. 1806 - Trump Blows Up a Boat Full of Venezuelans


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Jasmin Crockett is the new AOC. She's hip, edgy, and she has a new accent. And she's a Democratic congresswoman from Texas. Today's episode of I Am Politics is a mashup of all three of those things.

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00:00:30.000 President Trump blows up a boat full of Venezuelan drug runners. 0.98
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00:02:57.780 Okay, actually the biggest story I want to get to, but there's so much to talk about.
00:03:02.260 So much to talk about today.
00:03:03.560 So many very, very good stories.
00:03:05.280 But my favorite one of all is from Jasmine Crockett.
00:03:09.400 You know Jasmine Crockett?
00:03:10.440 She's the new AOC.
00:03:11.760 She's the new young Congress lady, Democrat, edgy, throwing haymakers. 0.99
00:03:18.580 She's young.
00:03:19.660 She's hip. 0.98
00:03:20.180 She's cool.
00:03:21.200 Well, Jasmine Crockett, if you haven't heard of her before, she, as of two weeks ago, in
00:03:30.440 an interview on CBS News Texas.
00:03:32.960 She sounded like this.
00:03:35.520 Democratic Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett of Dallas, thank you so much and welcome back
00:03:39.460 to I Am Politics.
00:03:41.180 Absolutely.
00:03:41.820 Thanks for having me.
00:03:42.680 You bet.
00:03:43.060 So let's talk about this redistricting battle here in Texas that has certainly reverberated
00:03:48.080 across the country.
00:03:49.780 How do you see this shaking out?
00:03:52.100 I think that you're going to see Texas ram it through because that's what Texas does with
00:03:58.280 no input whatsoever from the members.
00:04:01.120 And when I say the members, I mean even the Republican members.
00:04:03.920 This map was not created by the Republicans in the House.
00:04:07.080 And so this is a map that was sent down from up in D.C. somewhere.
00:04:11.180 And so I think that that map is going to pass.
00:04:14.300 I think that they are overplaying their hands.
00:04:16.960 I don't think that they're actually going to win five seats.
00:04:20.220 Okay, blah, blah, blah, whatever.
00:04:21.720 It doesn't actually matter what she's talking about.
00:04:23.600 Just you heard how she was speaking.
00:04:27.300 Pretty articulate.
00:04:28.880 Not totally the received pronunciation of the king's English, but she just she's just
00:04:33.180 talking like a normal person.
00:04:34.740 She's talking like you.
00:04:36.240 She's talking like me.
00:04:37.700 She's just she's just speaking normally.
00:04:39.520 Yesterday, Jasmine Crockett went viral for speaking a little differently. 0.55
00:04:49.360 Maybe because these people, they are crazy because they always talk about how Christian 1.00
00:04:53.100 they is. 0.96
00:04:53.960 Yeah, I don't know how many of them on that side are getting divorced because they getting 1.00
00:04:58.140 caught up sleeping with their co-workers, staffers, interns, all the things.
00:05:02.780 Yeah, you ain't got to believe me.
00:05:04.060 Just go Google.
00:05:04.800 You'll find some of it.
00:05:05.800 I'm telling you, and the wives is being messy and petty. 1.00
00:05:09.060 They putting it in the divorce.
00:05:10.780 I'm like, oh, that's got to be true because your lawyer would know that they're going to
00:05:14.020 lose it.
00:05:14.620 If this is just the scene from Airplane, you know, this scene from Airplane where the guys
00:05:19.140 are talking jive and then the white lady walks up and she has to translate the jive from 1.00
00:05:24.660 like normal talk to jive talk.
00:05:26.360 That's just that's just what what Jasmine Crockett did. 1.00
00:05:29.160 And she's playing all the parts.
00:05:31.960 Well, yes, the Republicans are redistricting, and I find that really, really abhorrent.
00:05:37.240 And we are going to work very hard to stop that and impede their progress.
00:05:42.520 You know what I was talking about, jive turkey?
00:05:45.500 That's right.
00:05:46.360 You see, in the first one, she sounds like a legislator, and in the second clip, she sounds 1.00
00:05:53.560 like she's auditioning for Tyler Perry's Big Medea's House 15, also to play all of the 0.99
00:05:59.040 parts, I guess. 0.98
00:06:00.180 This is really, really silly, really silly. 0.98
00:06:04.380 And yet, everybody is making fun of her. 0.97
00:06:06.960 And just like they all would make fun of Hillary Clinton, when Hillary Clinton would go out
00:06:11.720 and talk like a regular Methodist Wesleyan graduate one day and then go out and say, you
00:06:15.580 know, I don't feel no way is tired.
00:06:18.660 I've come too far.
00:06:21.060 I've been to the mountaintop when she's speaking to a black audience and people would make fun
00:06:25.360 of her and say she was code switching. 1.00
00:06:28.620 This is one of the chief skills of a politician.
00:06:32.800 I hate to defend Jasmine Crockett here, and I'll make fun of her again in a second.
00:06:39.040 But on this point, at least, what Jasmine Crockett is doing is just a clunky, exaggerated
00:06:44.500 version of her job, of what a politician is supposed to do. 1.00
00:06:48.500 What a politician is supposed to do is be able to speak to disparate groups and bring them
00:06:54.280 together to form a coalition to gain political power and then effect political change.
00:06:59.680 That's what a politician does, especially in a Democratic country.
00:07:04.260 So she does it.
00:07:05.220 Trump does that, too.
00:07:06.320 The difference is Trump is much less clunky about it and seems much more authentic because
00:07:09.980 he doesn't literally change his voice.
00:07:13.020 Trump can go in and speak to a room of billionaire, multi-billionaire industrialists.
00:07:20.700 He can go speak to a room of like wacko, weirdo, Silicon Valley tech zillionaires.
00:07:26.160 And he can also go speak to a bunch of construction workers and blue-collar workers and people who've
00:07:30.520 been out of work for a long time.
00:07:32.080 And he can speak to all of them using the same voice, the total, regular, normal Donald
00:07:37.780 Trump voice.
00:07:38.380 But he is appealing to them in different ways by offering different policies, by giving
00:07:44.840 different rationale for his policies.
00:07:47.080 So he's just a lot better at it.
00:07:49.080 But what he's doing is basically what Jasmine Crockett does, too.
00:07:51.580 So all of that said, this is degrading.
00:07:56.740 We look at this kind of thing.
00:07:57.720 We say, man, this is really degrading for our country because it's not even just that she's
00:08:03.240 changing her accent.
00:08:04.460 She's changing the way that she uses the English language, meaning she says, I is talking about
00:08:10.880 and they is saying, and it's this degraded patois, this contrived patois creole type language
00:08:19.740 that just isn't, is just simply wrong.
00:08:24.700 It's just simply incorrect.
00:08:26.180 And it's a kind of a sign of the times.
00:08:27.580 Because in a country such as ours, one of the fears, one of the fears of the framers of
00:08:34.720 the Constitution is that we would degrade from being a united country, albeit with diverse 1.00
00:08:40.560 localities, into just an assemblage of factions, each vying for their own interests that can
00:08:46.900 barely speak to one another with no concern for the common good, merely interested in their
00:08:51.120 own selfish desires.
00:08:52.920 And that is reflected in the language.
00:08:54.560 If we don't have a common language, if we don't commonly know how to make nouns and verbs
00:08:58.800 agree, then we're in a really bad spot because we can't speak to each other.
00:09:02.980 And if you can't speak to each other in self-government, then you can't persuade one another.
00:09:07.380 And if you can't persuade one another, then you can't actually govern.
00:09:11.040 And it's almost worse with Jasmine Crockett because she knows that the phrase they is is
00:09:16.960 not correct, but she's choosing to say it anyway, which is really bad.
00:09:25.260 It's a kind of, it's not just even a natural degradation that comes with taking democratization
00:09:32.200 to its extreme, it's, it's, it's intentional, it's contrived, it's, it's really, really bad.
00:09:39.780 So then combine those two thoughts.
00:09:42.060 This is the job of a politician.
00:09:43.920 This is really degrading.
00:09:44.980 What, what is the inescapable conclusion?
00:09:47.380 The inescapable conclusion is that something has happened to our political order that has
00:09:52.220 allowed it to degrade.
00:09:53.200 And, and the reality is, if, if you can't use the English language even somewhat properly,
00:10:02.540 I'm not saying you don't get a word wrong every day, but if you, if you don't have a
00:10:05.920 grasp on the English language, you should not be involved in government.
00:10:11.400 You should not, you should not be, you shouldn't vote.
00:10:15.320 You know, they always say you have to all vote.
00:10:16.900 Everyone needs to vote.
00:10:17.640 The most important thing is that everyone, but not really.
00:10:19.360 If you don't know anything, if you're not, if you're not capable of, of even the most
00:10:23.600 basic competencies that, that would be an expected of an adult, then you shouldn't vote.
00:10:29.360 It's okay.
00:10:29.820 Not everyone has to vote.
00:10:31.920 Kids don't vote. 0.92
00:10:33.060 Non-citizens don't vote. 1.00
00:10:34.220 Not everyone has to vote, but you should not.
00:10:37.000 But, but if, if we are simultaneously demanding this mass democratization to the point that
00:10:42.880 people like Nancy Pelosi want to lower the voting age, lower the voting age to 16, then you're, 0.85
00:10:49.360 you're going to get to a spot where in order to appeal to the greater number of people who
00:10:53.620 have been brought into, to a constant act of participation in the democracy, you'd have
00:10:58.460 to degrade everything.
00:10:59.900 That was a fear.
00:11:00.920 That was one of the fears of the framers.
00:11:02.380 That has been a fear of people in democratic governments forever.
00:11:06.460 Not good.
00:11:07.500 Everyone's making fun of this clip of Jasmine Crockett because it kind of sounds like she's 1.00
00:11:11.460 stupid or something. 1.00
00:11:12.300 She doesn't know how to speak. 1.00
00:11:12.840 It's worse.
00:11:13.940 It's worse than that.
00:11:14.980 She does know how to speak English.
00:11:16.240 She can speak English in a perfectly normal way.
00:11:19.760 She's choosing not to.
00:11:21.460 She thinks it's to her political benefit not to.
00:11:23.840 She might be right.
00:11:24.800 That's much scarier.
00:11:26.000 Okay.
00:11:26.800 Speaking of people who don't speak English very well, a group of Venezuelan drug runners 1.00
00:11:32.680 just got blown up, exploded off the face of the earth by President Trump.
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00:12:18.500 Another clip that went viral, but puts a little more of a smile on your face than Jasmine Crockett
00:12:24.460 doing her best impression of speaking jive.
00:12:26.740 There's a boat from Venezuela run by Trende Aragua, a vicious, vicious gang, now designated
00:12:36.360 as a foreign terrorist organization.
00:12:37.960 They're running drugs into America. 0.82
00:12:39.940 And then you're looking at this boat through what looks like a military scope.
00:12:44.660 It says unclassified at the top.
00:12:46.760 And you say, well, hold on.
00:12:47.680 What exactly?
00:12:48.780 It doesn't look like an IMAX camera.
00:12:50.200 What are we looking at here?
00:12:52.300 And oh, there we go.
00:12:54.420 There it is.
00:12:55.380 Okay, if you're only listening to it now, it explodes and it catches fire and then you
00:13:02.100 see it start to sink.
00:13:05.180 Trump then tweeted about this and he said, earlier this morning on my orders, U.S. military
00:13:10.260 forces conducted a kinetic strike against positively identified Trende Aragua narco-terrorists in
00:13:15.880 the Southcom area of responsibility.
00:13:18.380 Trende Aragua is a designated foreign terrorist organization operating under the control of the
00:13:22.320 Nicolas Maduro, of Nicolas Maduro, leader of Venezuela, responsible for mass murder, drug
00:13:28.240 trafficking, sex trafficking, and acts of violence and terror across the United States
00:13:31.820 and Western Hemisphere.
00:13:33.080 The strike occurred while the terrorists were at sea in international waters, transporting
00:13:37.460 illegal narcotics heading to the United States.
00:13:40.040 The strike resulted in 11 terrorists killed in action.
00:13:42.460 No U.S. forces were harmed in the strike.
00:13:45.680 Please let this serve as a notice to anybody even thinking about bringing drugs into the
00:13:50.320 United States of America.
00:13:51.340 All caps, beware.
00:13:53.040 Thank you for your attention to this matter.
00:13:55.040 Followed by 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11 exclamation points.
00:14:05.400 That's emphatic.
00:14:06.280 Like, this is really good stuff.
00:14:09.720 One, you have, what, 75,000 to 100,000 Americans poisoned every year by fentanyl, just by fentanyl.
00:14:15.600 We're not talking about any of the other drugs.
00:14:17.160 There's a foreign terrorist organization.
00:14:19.000 They smuggle people. 1.00
00:14:20.760 They rape people. 1.00
00:14:21.640 They kill people. 1.00
00:14:22.640 Everything Trump said. 1.00
00:14:24.400 These are bad hombres.
00:14:27.200 And they were headed to the United States to do more damage to the American people. 0.95
00:14:32.740 So it is very, very good that President Trump blew them up.
00:14:37.740 It's also very, very good that President Trump aired this video and posted about it and put 11 exclamation points afterward, just for emphasis.
00:14:47.120 Because of two things.
00:14:51.420 It shows you what the U.S. military is for.
00:14:55.100 And it shows you what military strikes themselves are for.
00:15:00.260 It really all comes down to this question, what's it for?
00:15:03.020 You know, we're so used to seeing these clips.
00:15:04.720 And even here, it's kind of jarring to hear this kind of language when it comes to drug runners in Latin America.
00:15:09.980 Because we only hear these phrases, kinetic strike, killed in action, terrorists.
00:15:15.860 We think about jihadis when we hear those words.
00:15:18.940 We think about people in the Middle East and we see videos from Afghanistan or Iraq or something.
00:15:23.320 It's very jarring for us to see videos from Venezuela or from international waters headed to the United States.
00:15:30.540 Wait, hold on.
00:15:31.220 The U.S. military is conducting operations here in the Western Hemisphere.
00:15:37.460 They're not supposed to be here.
00:15:38.560 They're supposed to be on the other side of the world in some sandpit fighting wars of empire in the Middle East. 0.93
00:15:44.740 What are they doing on our doorstep?
00:15:46.400 Well, this is what the military is for.
00:15:49.000 The U.S. military can do a lot of things, including secure the global order, even in places on the other side of the world.
00:15:56.740 But what it's most immediately for, what it's most directly for is protecting our country.
00:16:00.900 If we are not protecting our country from the mass poisoning that groups like Trendy Aragor are bringing in, if we're not protecting the borders of our country, well, we're not protecting our country at all.
00:16:14.640 Well, that's the shift from Biden to Trump.
00:16:17.640 That's the shift, actually, from our political order over the last quarter century to Trump, to this kind of new thing that we're in, is we would always think about defending America just on the other side of the globe.
00:16:29.860 Trump's saying, hey, how about we try to defend our country here first?
00:16:33.580 Let's just, I'm not saying we can't do it on the other side of the globe.
00:16:35.620 Let's just, let's just figure out if we can, like, have a border.
00:16:39.560 Let's just maybe stop the mass poisoning of our people first, and then we'll go think about Iraq or whatever. 0.99
00:16:46.900 So that's what the U.S. military is for.
00:16:49.660 But Trump's post actually gets to an even deeper point about what military strikes are for, what war is for.
00:16:56.980 Do you know what war is for?
00:16:58.860 War is for peace. 0.89
00:16:59.980 I know it sounds, people are so used to reading some quotes from George Orwell that they think that sounds Orwellian.
00:17:06.400 They think that sounds crazy to say that war is for peace.
00:17:09.580 That is what war is for.
00:17:11.800 When we talk about just war, there are just wars and unjust wars.
00:17:15.640 To have a just war, part of having a just war, is aiming at peace.
00:17:20.980 It's not that no war is justified.
00:17:22.800 That strike yesterday was definitely justified. 1.00
00:17:24.600 But it has to be for peace, for order.
00:17:31.200 And that's what I really love about him posting this.
00:17:34.420 And the last line there, he goes, just take notice, everyone.
00:17:37.520 We're going to do this to you.
00:17:39.020 Hey, other Trendyaragwa narco-terrorists. 0.91
00:17:42.200 Hey, MS-13.
00:17:43.940 Hey, all these other guys right south of our border.
00:17:46.280 We see you.
00:17:47.620 We have, like, giant drones everywhere.
00:17:51.040 We see you.
00:17:51.860 We can basically count the hairs on your head. 0.99
00:17:54.100 And we're going to blow you off of the earth without any warning whatsoever other than this
00:17:59.920 true social post. 0.90
00:18:01.020 You are warned.
00:18:02.880 That's very good.
00:18:03.900 Because that video alone will reduce the number of drugs and people who are being smuggled into
00:18:09.440 the country.
00:18:09.960 That video alone.
00:18:10.980 I mean, you've seen it already to date, even before this video, that new migration into the
00:18:15.100 United States, new illegal migration has dropped essentially to zero.
00:18:18.980 No new laws.
00:18:20.260 None of the stuff Joe Biden and the Democrats were demanding.
00:18:22.220 Trump just enforced the law.
00:18:24.100 That the illegals responded to incentives.
00:18:27.800 Now they got a much bigger incentive.
00:18:30.400 Don't come into the country and you won't get exploded. 0.98
00:18:33.160 Probably.
00:18:34.980 Really good stuff.
00:18:36.120 Really, really good stuff.
00:18:37.120 And I'd love to see the Democrats object to it.
00:18:39.340 No, you can't deploy U.S. military resources to protect our country.
00:18:44.240 No, you need to send them to the other side of the world.
00:18:48.060 No, no, no.
00:18:48.620 You can't.
00:18:49.060 You can't.
00:18:49.360 No, no, no.
00:18:50.380 You can't.
00:18:50.760 How dare you blew up the poor trend of Aragua narco terrorists. 1.00
00:18:55.880 Won't somebody please think of the narco terrorists?
00:18:59.700 Yeah.
00:19:00.480 Okay.
00:19:01.680 Good luck.
00:19:02.400 Good luck running with that one.
00:19:03.320 Now, speaking of President Trump and death, President Trump yesterday addressed something
00:19:09.980 that, you know, certainly should have been top of mind, namely his own death, which supposedly
00:19:15.680 took place over the weekend.
00:19:16.660 Something completely different, but about a big viral social media trend over the weekend.
00:19:23.280 How did you find out over the weekend that you were dead?
00:19:27.580 You see that?
00:19:28.700 No.
00:19:29.160 People didn't see you for a couple of days.
00:19:30.660 1.3 million user engagements as of Saturday morning about your demise.
00:19:35.900 Really?
00:19:36.360 I didn't see that.
00:19:37.420 You know, I have heard it's sort of crazy, but last week I did numerous news conferences,
00:19:42.740 all successful.
00:19:43.560 They went very well, like this is going very well.
00:19:46.660 And then I didn't do any for two days.
00:19:49.160 And they said, there must be something wrong with him.
00:19:52.180 Biden wouldn't do him for months.
00:19:53.780 You wouldn't see him.
00:19:54.880 And nobody ever said there was ever anything wrong with him.
00:19:57.760 And we know he wasn't in the greatest of shape.
00:20:00.380 No, I heard that.
00:20:01.140 I get reports.
00:20:02.760 Now, you knew I did an interview that lasted for about an hour and a half with somebody.
00:20:07.320 And everybody saw that was on one of your competitors.
00:20:11.740 Yeah, yeah, yeah.
00:20:12.780 I'm not dead.
00:20:14.040 Everybody used to go away.
00:20:15.320 I go make a sandwich.
00:20:16.160 I go away for one hour.
00:20:17.440 I go make a sandwich.
00:20:18.320 Everyone says I'm dead.
00:20:19.580 You've seen me more than my predecessor.
00:20:22.000 And yeah, I'm alive.
00:20:23.000 Of course.
00:20:24.000 Of course.
00:20:26.260 The guy, I have not been up close and personal with Trump often.
00:20:32.020 I've been a supporter of his for a long time.
00:20:34.200 I've watched him closely on TV.
00:20:35.240 But I've been in the same room as that guy like three times or something ever.
00:20:40.220 And I was really up close for the first time just a week or two ago.
00:20:44.420 And it's so apparent he has much, much more energy than the people around him.
00:20:50.420 Everyone knows.
00:20:51.120 Even his haters, if they're being honest, they know that.
00:20:53.300 And back under Biden, even Biden's biggest supporters knew that this guy had pudding in his brains.
00:21:01.080 Okay, that this guy was just not there.
00:21:02.700 The lights were on, but no one was home.
00:21:05.820 And so Trump, he goes, oh, yeah.
00:21:07.140 Well, I was surprised to read that I'm dead.
00:21:09.720 But nope, still alive.
00:21:10.960 Sorry.
00:21:12.180 Sorry, you guys are wish casting.
00:21:14.240 You tried to arrest me.
00:21:15.220 It didn't work. 0.99
00:21:15.760 You tried to kill me. 0.74
00:21:16.640 That didn't work. 0.89
00:21:17.400 You tried to investigate me.
00:21:20.700 That didn't work.
00:21:21.400 You raided my home.
00:21:22.380 That didn't work.
00:21:23.320 You accused me of collaborating with the KGB.
00:21:26.560 That didn't work.
00:21:27.340 None of it.
00:21:27.840 So now you're just wish casting, wishing that I'm dead.
00:21:30.040 Well, I'm not dead.
00:21:31.200 Now, Trump said something even funnier over the past few days.
00:21:34.320 This one, it actually didn't go as viral as I expected it to, but it's really, really funny.
00:21:40.260 President Trump was doing an interview with The Daily Caller's Reagan Reese.
00:21:43.760 And he was asked about the war in Gaza.
00:21:47.060 And he did this compliment sandwich where he said, Israel's really great.
00:21:53.280 And he ended it with, Israel's really great.
00:21:54.820 And in the middle, he said, you know, Israel used to control our Congress. 0.66
00:21:58.080 We'll get to that momentarily first.
00:22:00.540 I want to tell you about the latest Michael and.
00:22:03.080 One of the latest Michael and's is Michael and near-death experiences.
00:22:07.720 What really happens when you die?
00:22:10.000 Are near-death experiences just hallucinations or are they glimpses of eternity?
00:22:14.520 In this episode of Michael and I sit down with the great Lee Strobel to explore this very question.
00:22:19.860 Check out this teaser.
00:22:20.500 I was watching from the ceiling of the room in the hospital as they were trying to resuscitate my body.
00:22:28.240 They were able to resuscitate her body.
00:22:30.060 Her spirit returned to her body.
00:22:31.520 And she said, by the way, see the ceiling fan?
00:22:34.220 There's a sticker, a red sticker on the top of one of the blades.
00:22:38.360 Sure enough, on the top of the blade, here's a sticker just as she described it.
00:22:41.740 What do you do with that?
00:22:42.620 That tells me that when the Bible talks about the fact that when we die, our spirit separates from our body,
00:22:47.780 at least for some period of time, when a person is clinically dead, they're still conscious.
00:22:52.900 When you have these, not just near-death experiences, but even just broader, numinous experience,
00:22:57.580 you think you encounter an angel.
00:23:00.700 What's it mean?
00:23:01.300 Michael, there is a certain percentage of people who go through a near-death experience who have a hellish experience.
00:23:08.220 What have you heard?
00:23:16.460 Watch a full episode right now on the Michael Knowles YouTube channel for the uncensored ad-free version.
00:23:21.820 Subscribe to Daily Wire Plus.
00:23:25.840 Speaking of holy things, we turn to the holy land.
00:23:29.180 Because President Trump, he was doing an interview, great, great interview from Reagan Rees at the Daily Caller.
00:23:36.780 And wide-ranging, really good questions, really good answers from Trump.
00:23:40.980 And he had this to say, I'm going to read it verbatim.
00:23:45.780 Israel is amazing because, you know, I have good support from Israel.
00:23:49.280 I have.
00:23:49.820 Look, nobody has done more for Israel than I have, including the recent attacks on Iran, with Iran, wiping that thing out. 0.97
00:23:55.920 We, that plane, wiped them out like nobody ever saw before. 0.92
00:24:00.740 You know, we got back and CNN was trying to say, well, maybe it wasn't complete, and it turned out totally complete beyond complete.
00:24:07.080 So I'm just, pause right there.
00:24:08.860 In the very first part, he goes, I love Israel.
00:24:11.040 Israel's great.
00:24:11.660 I have great support from Israel.
00:24:13.280 I've done more for Israel than anyone, including the attacks on Iran.
00:24:17.340 So he's saying here, it's like, look, I love Israel.
00:24:20.600 Israel loves me.
00:24:21.580 Israel's so great.
00:24:23.100 We attacked Iran for Israel. 0.99
00:24:25.740 And he said, wait a second.
00:24:27.580 Usually what they say is, this is totally for us, and Israel might benefit, but it's totally for us. 0.82
00:24:31.780 He's saying, no, no, no, Israel really wants us to.
00:24:33.660 And look, the entire world benefits from Iran not getting a nuclear weapon.
00:24:37.200 That is without question.
00:24:38.100 It's not merely Israel that benefits from it.
00:24:39.880 But Israel most immediately benefits from it, because Israel is the sworn and immediate enemy of Iran, and Israel's a lot closer to Iran than the United States is. 0.55
00:24:49.220 And that's apparently Trump's opinion.
00:24:50.780 He goes, I've done so much for Israel, like that bomb strike on Iran.
00:24:54.620 It was a great bomb strike. 0.83
00:24:56.080 It worked out very well.
00:24:57.380 The entire world benefited.
00:24:58.680 It wasn't just Israel, but already he's opening that up.
00:25:02.020 Okay.
00:25:02.680 He's saying, hold on.
00:25:03.680 He sounds like both the most pro-Israel and the most anti-Israel person.
00:25:07.440 How is he managing both?
00:25:08.480 He goes on.
00:25:10.320 If you go back 20 years, I mean, I will tell you, Israel had the strongest lobby in Congress of anything or body, and of any company or corporation or state that I've seen.
00:25:21.160 Israel was the strongest.
00:25:22.900 Today, it doesn't have that strong a lobby.
00:25:24.600 It's amazing.
00:25:27.260 He goes, there is a time they had the strongest lobby of anyone, any company, any state, any anything.
00:25:33.160 But he keeps it going.
00:25:34.920 There was a time where you couldn't speak bad.
00:25:37.080 If you wanted to be a politician, you could not speak badly. 0.59
00:25:40.120 But today, you know, you have AOC plus three, and you have all these lunatics, and they've really, they've changed it. 0.58
00:25:45.600 You're too young to know this.
00:25:46.700 But if you go back 15 years, probably that's when it started, right?
00:25:49.140 Israel, you would understand this very much.
00:25:52.300 Israel was the strongest lobby I've ever seen.
00:25:56.500 They had total control over Congress.
00:25:59.060 And now they don't, you know, I'm a little surprised to see that.
00:26:02.240 And people, they forgot about October 7th.
00:26:04.160 You know, October 7th was a truly horrible day because I've seen the pictures.
00:26:06.880 Wow.
00:26:07.560 This is an amazing interview.
00:26:09.160 And it's not even amazing because of what he's saying about the state of Israel.
00:26:13.820 That's, the state of Israel happens to be the subject of this amazing display of rhetorical and political skill, which is what I'm most interested in.
00:26:24.480 I'm somewhat interested in the state of Israel and the Israel-Palestine conflict.
00:26:28.640 I'm certainly interested in the Holy Land and the Holy Sites and American, I am somewhat.
00:26:32.500 But to me, it's the skill of this whole thing because it's like, who said it?
00:26:39.320 The most pro-Israel guy ever who has a town in Israel named after him or the person who most hates Israel or Greta Thunberg or Hamas or someone like that.
00:26:49.640 It was, Israel has total control over Congress. 0.91
00:26:53.300 Who said it?
00:26:54.380 Which one was it?
00:26:55.680 Was that David Duke?
00:26:57.400 Was that the head of the Klan?
00:26:59.700 Or no, it was Trump who has a town named after him in Israel.
00:27:03.500 They had, look, they had total control over Congress.
00:27:05.740 And he says they don't anymore.
00:27:09.360 This is the other.
00:27:10.120 So, on the one hand, he says, oh yeah, Israel had an insane amount of control.
00:27:13.720 They would fly all the politicians out to Israel.
00:27:15.480 They would donate to their campaigns.
00:27:17.880 And they don't anymore.
00:27:18.860 Which means that, the skill here is, he can defang a political issue.
00:27:26.860 He can cut to the heart of it.
00:27:27.860 He can diffuse an explosive political issue.
00:27:31.000 So, no, should people take this very seriously, the Israeli influence in America?
00:27:35.320 They take it, fair enough.
00:27:36.620 I mean, you should be aware of all the lobbies on Capitol Hill.
00:27:39.400 But what he says is, you know, they had a lot of control.
00:27:43.500 And now they really don't.
00:27:44.860 So, the people who have these really fantastical views of, you know, the state of Israel just
00:27:50.200 pulling the puppet strings on America and American democracy being a total illusion, whatever.
00:27:56.580 He goes, no, no, no, no, no.
00:27:57.820 They don't have that control anymore.
00:27:59.420 Look at how public opinion has dropped.
00:28:01.220 Look at how members of Congress have responded.
00:28:04.320 You now have pretty overtly anti-Israel members of Congress, certainly on the Democrat side,
00:28:10.140 where that's become more or less the mainstream position.
00:28:13.300 Even on the Republican side, where support for Israel was even higher.
00:28:16.700 He goes, yeah, yeah, no, they had it, but they don't anymore.
00:28:20.220 Which means that they don't have some kind of hegemonic lock on America.
00:28:23.240 Which means that the truly fanatical, frothing Israel haters, they weren't right.
00:28:28.900 But also the people who say that Israel has no influence on American foreign policy,
00:28:34.280 they're not right either, because the Israel lobby was really, really strong.
00:28:37.860 And I love Israel, says Trump.
00:28:42.160 And look, I love Israel.
00:28:44.020 It's just an amazing dance.
00:28:46.720 It is an amazing ability to cut through this issue,
00:28:50.880 grant premises to two sides who seem totally opposed,
00:28:55.440 even maintain support from your foreign ally Israel,
00:29:00.940 while essentially threatening your foreign ally Israel and saying,
00:29:04.620 yo, you got to get with the program because support in America is totally dropping,
00:29:07.700 and Congress hates you, and I'm the only one who's protecting you now,
00:29:10.820 so do what I say.
00:29:12.420 Whoa, man.
00:29:14.460 That is skill.
00:29:15.440 And in the context of what he is substantively saying,
00:29:18.960 it's even more impressive.
00:29:21.140 Because what he's saying here is, man, 10, 15 years ago,
00:29:23.400 you couldn't say anything negative about Israel.
00:29:27.740 Yeah, these, man, this was the issue.
00:29:30.980 And now, but don't worry.
00:29:33.180 I'll help you.
00:29:34.000 Don't worry.
00:29:34.360 I'll protect you.
00:29:35.260 Because I'm really popular, and you're not popular anymore,
00:29:38.380 and Congress hates your guts, and they're the bad cop. 0.71
00:29:41.340 And I'm willing to say that you had a lot of influence.
00:29:44.720 And hey, let's be cool.
00:29:48.940 How about you trust your Papa Trump?
00:29:51.080 That's what he's saying.
00:29:51.800 It's really impressive.
00:29:53.240 He has this ability.
00:29:55.220 It's the ability of a diplomat.
00:29:57.560 But with a little more thumos to it, you know, 0.52
00:30:00.820 a little more verve, a little more leadership,
00:30:03.040 he has the ability to just diffuse that issue,
00:30:06.480 cut to the heart of a political issue,
00:30:08.480 establish a coalition, establish some consensus,
00:30:11.960 and move forward.
00:30:13.240 Incredible stuff.
00:30:14.120 Now, speaking of control, there were eight people killed in Chicago over the weekend.
00:30:21.080 Eight people.
00:30:23.040 Awful.
00:30:24.480 Fifty-eight people were injured, were shot in Chicago over the weekend.
00:30:28.820 This is a major American city.
00:30:32.200 Those numbers are way, way too high.
00:30:35.200 So President Trump has announced from the Oval Office that he's going to Chicago.
00:30:38.800 The regular military, which we're willing to do, we have to.
00:30:45.460 And after we do this, we'll go to another location and we'll make it safe also.
00:30:50.260 We're going to make our country very safe.
00:30:51.840 We're going to make our cities very, very safe.
00:30:54.560 Chicago is a mess. 0.99
00:30:55.460 You have an incompetent mayor, grossly incompetent. 0.99
00:30:58.720 And we'll straighten that one out probably next. 0.98
00:31:01.060 That'll be our next one after this.
00:31:03.380 And it won't even be tough.
00:31:05.540 And the people in Chicago, Mr. Vice President, are screaming for us to come.
00:31:11.120 They're wearing red hats, just like this one.
00:31:13.720 But they're wearing red hats.
00:31:15.800 African-American ladies, beautiful ladies, are saying, 0.99
00:31:19.760 please, President Trump, come to Chicago.
00:31:22.580 Please.
00:31:23.060 So for those of you only listening, he's wearing a hat.
00:31:28.040 It looks like a MAGA hat, but it says Trump was right about everything.
00:31:31.940 He's sitting, no tie, the vice president, no tie,
00:31:36.040 sitting in the Oval Office wearing a red hat that says Trump was right about everything,
00:31:40.540 saying that he's going to invade the city of Chicago.
00:31:42.740 Because the women, everyone's begging. 1.00
00:31:45.320 They're screaming for us to come in.
00:31:47.840 Maybe it really is MAGA country.
00:31:49.600 Maybe Jussie Smollett was right.
00:31:51.260 They're screaming for it.
00:31:52.360 And J.D. Vance in the back, sir, of course, of course, they're screaming.
00:31:55.760 They're screaming.
00:31:57.000 African, beautiful African-American women.
00:31:59.800 And the person who's not laughing is the governor of Illinois, who is now opposing this and who is making an argument that it is going to persuade the Democrats and the libs and the squishes and the weaklings in the Republican Party.
00:32:20.120 And it should not persuade them.
00:32:22.560 Because Trump is showing you something, not just about how the political structure of the country works, from the federal government to the states to the localities.
00:32:30.940 He's showing, he's actually giving a lesson in morality.
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00:33:13.880 My favorite comment yesterday.
00:33:15.880 Okay, now, I didn't pick this comment.
00:33:17.980 I didn't pick it today.
00:33:19.140 Okay, the producers picked it.
00:33:20.560 We're going to see if I agree with it.
00:33:22.060 It's from Hard Boiled Entertainment.
00:33:25.500 So, apparently, people think I'm dead.
00:33:27.520 Paul McCartney, first time?
00:33:29.640 Yeah, it's okay.
00:33:31.720 It's okay, I get it, because they thought, in the 60s, they thought Paul McCartney was dead.
00:33:34.760 It's not, it's weak.
00:33:36.020 It's kind of a weak comment.
00:33:37.180 It's fine, it's innocuous, totally inoffensive, but not funny.
00:33:41.520 It's not my favorite.
00:33:44.660 Anyway, J.B. Pritzker, governor of Illinois.
00:33:49.140 Had this to say to Trump's threat to go in and restore order to Chicago.
00:33:55.020 I refuse to play a reality game show with Donald Trump again.
00:34:03.640 What I want are the federal dollars that have been promised to Illinois and Chicago for violence prevention programs that have proven to work.
00:34:13.400 That is money that Illinois taxpayers send to the federal government, and it's an insult to any and every citizen to suggest that any governor should have to beg the president of any political party for resources owed their people.
00:34:31.740 I'd like to ask a question of my own, and it's one the press should be asking as well.
00:34:39.080 When did we become a country where it's okay for the U.S. president to insist on national television that a state should call him to beg for anything, especially something we don't want?
00:34:54.080 Have we truly lost all sense of sanity in this nation that we treat this as normal?
00:35:01.160 Okay, man, my first take is just, wow, man, this guy is so much more boring than Trump.
00:35:07.200 He's so much more or less compelling and persuasive.
00:35:09.900 But, okay, that's the show business.
00:35:12.320 I have that on the mind because of Jasmine Crockett's little dance routine from the top of the show. 0.99
00:35:16.320 He then says, you know, we send tax money to the federal government, and we want to get it back on our terms, not on the federal government's terms, and that's our right or whatever. 0.68
00:35:24.540 That's just ridiculous.
00:35:25.600 That's not true. 0.84
00:35:26.820 When you're demanding federal resources, you've got to play ball with the federal government.
00:35:29.960 Those aren't your dollars, actually.
00:35:32.360 You've sent them to the federal government, and the states do get federal dollars in certain ways, but you have no right to that.
00:35:37.800 So that's constitutionally illiterate.
00:35:41.100 But let's get to the heart of the matter.
00:35:42.460 He says, we don't want you to come in here and clean up Chicago.
00:35:48.760 We don't want that.
00:35:50.580 We don't want you here.
00:35:52.320 And if we don't want it, that's that, and you can't do it because we don't want it.
00:35:56.040 Dad, I don't want to eat my broccoli.
00:35:58.280 Stop telling me to eat.
00:35:59.440 I don't want to.
00:36:00.640 Sometimes you've got to eat your broccoli, and sometimes you've got to listen to your father.
00:36:05.100 Not on every matter all the time.
00:36:07.860 There are limits on what your father can tell you to do.
00:36:10.820 But a lot of the time, on important matters, you have to listen to your father, and you have to eat your broccoli.
00:36:19.160 And it doesn't matter whether you want to or not, you little child.
00:36:23.220 This, what J.B. Pritzker is articulating is the consent-based morality, not just consent-based, the consent-exclusive morality, which says that good and bad, right and wrong, is determined strictly by whether or not I want it.
00:36:41.820 That's what the liberals believe.
00:36:43.160 And what Trump is saying is, no, no, no, we can't have 58 people getting shot in a major American city over a single weekend.
00:36:52.620 We can't have eight people murdered in a single American city over the weekend.
00:36:57.760 Not going to happen.
00:36:59.600 We're going to restore order.
00:37:00.960 I don't care what you want, J.B. Pritzker.
00:37:05.420 I don't even care what you want, residents of Chicago.
00:37:08.060 Now, Trump is couching his going into Chicago by saying, look, they're all begging for it.
00:37:13.360 They want me to come.
00:37:14.380 Beautiful black women want me to come to Chicago. 1.00
00:37:16.760 They do.
00:37:17.220 They beg.
00:37:18.040 Yes, sir, Mr. President, they do.
00:37:19.440 Yeah, they do.
00:37:21.440 But that's a secondary point.
00:37:23.940 It's not the consent.
00:37:25.360 It's not the wishing that justifies the federal government coming in to restore order to Chicago.
00:37:31.360 It's the murders.
00:37:33.520 It's kind of like that Norm MacDonald bit about Bill Cosby. 0.90
00:37:38.180 People say that Bill Cosby's hypocrisy was the worst part.
00:37:41.880 I don't think that was the worst part. 0.99
00:37:43.280 I think it was the raping. 0.91
00:37:44.720 That was the worst part of what Bill Cosby did. 0.98
00:37:47.200 Same here.
00:37:47.660 It's not the consent.
00:37:49.320 It's not the willing that justifies these kinds of actions.
00:37:52.380 It's all the murders.
00:37:53.520 There is a federal government for a reason.
00:37:57.880 Federal government carries out a number of functions, and one of the functions of the
00:38:00.920 federal government is filling in when the states cannot control their territories, and
00:38:05.220 when the state is there for when the cities cannot control their territories.
00:38:08.240 When the cities and states fail, as Governor Pritzker is pointing out, the federal government
00:38:12.160 has not only a right, but a responsibility to intervene.
00:38:16.380 And no one gives a damn what J.D. Pritzker thinks about it.
00:38:18.800 If J.D. Pritzker, if his opinion really mattered, he would probably have done his job, huh?
00:38:25.680 If J.D. Pritzker had the sort of judgment and opinion that mattered, he would be the
00:38:30.660 sort of person who did his job.
00:38:32.720 But because he failed, I especially don't care what he has to say about this.
00:38:37.400 And Trump is, it would be easier if the Illinois authorities invited the federal government.
00:38:41.160 It would just make it a little simpler.
00:38:42.240 Trump said that in the cabinet meeting last week.
00:38:44.200 But it doesn't really matter.
00:38:46.300 Now, speaking of burning things down and liberal disorder, Burning Man has just concluded.
00:38:52.760 You know Burning Man?
00:38:53.780 I didn't realize how long Burning Man has been going on.
00:38:56.640 Burning Man is when all these hippies go to the desert and do a bunch of drugs and have
00:39:01.260 sex with each other for a few days in the end of summer. 0.97
00:39:04.460 And then they light effigies on fire and engage in bizarre pagan rituals.
00:39:08.620 So I thought this thing had been going on for, I don't know, 20 years or something.
00:39:11.680 It's been going on since 1986.
00:39:16.760 The event brings some 70,000 to 80,000 people to the desert and they all do stuff they shouldn't
00:39:25.260 do.
00:39:25.660 So something going viral out of Burning Man, I've never been, you'll be surprised to hear,
00:39:30.840 is that the famous orgy dome, which is what it sounds like, it's just, it's a dome they
00:39:37.080 build in the desert and then people go and have orgies in it. 0.82
00:39:39.480 But the orgy dome collapsed.
00:39:42.600 The wind took it down.
00:39:44.500 You can check it out in the Daily Mail or on TikTok.
00:39:50.860 Ah, the orgy dome.
00:39:56.340 Ah, the memories. 0.97
00:39:58.180 They should substitute the song.
00:39:59.400 It should be like, another turning point across.
00:40:02.160 Oh, yes.
00:40:04.460 Oh, the sweet, sweet memories we made in the orgy dome.
00:40:06.800 Anyway, a wonderful gust of wind took that one down. 0.94
00:40:10.960 But the orgies were not the most depraved thing to take place.
00:40:13.280 ABC News reports, there is a homicide investigation going on because Pershing County Sheriff's Office
00:40:19.100 responded to reports on Saturday night of a man lying in a pool of blood.
00:40:22.540 And he is a deceased white adult male.
00:40:27.000 While the effigy was burning and everyone was worshiping this bizarre burning idol, there
00:40:32.880 was a guy lying in blood who is now investigating as having been murdered.
00:40:36.480 What is Burning Man?
00:40:38.280 I actually didn't know the answer to that.
00:40:40.320 I mean, I know what it is because I can look at it.
00:40:42.300 But I didn't know what they said it was, what the founders, what the party goers say it was.
00:40:46.860 And they say that it is an event focused on community, art, self-expression, self-reliance.
00:40:58.720 So they don't have big acts come.
00:41:00.300 They try not to sell stuff.
00:41:01.660 It's just this hippie, commie thing where it's just all about us and all about our self-expression.
00:41:06.480 And it's not about laws or the economy.
00:41:10.780 It's certainly not about morality.
00:41:12.480 It's not about marriages. 0.58
00:41:13.300 You can go with your wife to the orgy dome and pretend you're not married. 0.87
00:41:19.200 It's just this description is really perfect because it reminds you that Burning Man is
00:41:26.160 not something new.
00:41:27.440 It's not new in the sense that it's been going on since 1986, but it's not even new in 1986.
00:41:34.540 All these, I have some millennial friends and associates who have been to Burning Man.
00:41:39.720 And they all think it's this really new thing.
00:41:41.360 Wow, we've just discovered something really cool, man.
00:41:45.220 You're such a square, man.
00:41:46.980 You're locked up in your rigid life. 1.00
00:41:48.980 You don't understand what it's like to go to the desert and just go to the orgy dome and burn a giant, 0.95
00:41:54.680 weird, demonic-looking effigy.
00:41:58.100 Actually, this is the kind of thing that's been going on a lot longer than 1986.
00:42:03.440 This is the kind of thing that's been going on since antiquity.
00:42:07.580 This is exactly what every ancient pagan Bacchanal was. 0.53
00:42:12.280 This is exactly what the Israelites were doing in the desert with the golden calf. 0.74
00:42:16.140 I know if the last time you read the story of the golden calf, you know, Moses goes up the mountain
00:42:20.660 and the Israelites just instantly start worshiping an idol.
00:42:23.320 Well, if the last time you read your Bible or heard the story was when you were a kid,
00:42:26.660 you'd probably think that what they were doing was they built a golden idol
00:42:29.700 and then they were just kind of bowing down in front of it or something.
00:42:32.220 That's what I thought when I was a kid.
00:42:34.980 That's not what they were doing.
00:42:36.520 I don't know.
00:42:37.620 Do you know what they were doing? 0.79
00:42:38.860 They were doing like weird sex stuff and they were doing weird, violent, gross, abusive things.
00:42:46.280 And they were, I don't know that they had any drugs, but if they had the kind of stuff
00:42:50.820 that was furnishing Burning Man, you know, I don't know, tabs of acid or whatever,
00:42:55.660 they would have been doing that too.
00:42:57.220 They were just doing Burning Man, okay?
00:43:01.820 And were worshiping an idol like the people at Burning Man.
00:43:04.960 It's called Burning Man.
00:43:05.900 That's the idol they worship.
00:43:06.840 They light a man on fire and they worship him.
00:43:09.480 There's nothing new about that at all. 0.91
00:43:13.020 This is what every crazy pagan festival has always been. 1.00
00:43:16.180 And we've returned to that somewhat.
00:43:18.480 And the people who go there are probably not the kind of people you want to emulate.
00:43:25.160 And the society that that leads to is probably not the society you want to live in.
00:43:31.120 And if you want an alternative, as I think increasingly people do,
00:43:35.580 then you got to turn away from the Burning Man.
00:43:38.860 And you got to turn away even from the constituent parts of the Burning Man.
00:43:42.140 The orgy tents and all the drugs and the communism.
00:43:46.820 And most crucially, the self-expression.
00:43:50.460 Because this is where it really comes home.
00:43:54.340 Community art, self-expression, and self-reliance.
00:43:58.840 Notice the only word that's repeated here is self.
00:44:01.900 Self, self, self, I, me, mine.
00:44:05.680 Me, me, me, doing whatever I want.
00:44:07.400 Self, self, self.
00:44:08.280 That's what this comes to.
00:44:09.220 That's really what all pagan festivals come down to.
00:44:12.420 Giving free reign to selfish desires rather than doing what you're supposed to do.
00:44:17.160 And that's just liberalism.
00:44:19.380 And it hasn't worked.
00:44:20.800 And people are sick of it.
00:44:21.980 And we need an alternative.
00:44:23.120 And we need a few more gusts of wind to tear down the rest of the orgy domes. 1.00
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