The Michael Knowles Show - October 02, 2025


Ep. 1827 - JD Vance Destroys Democrats With One Post


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52 minutes

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757

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00:00:00.000 Republicans have spent the past week claiming that Democrats are shutting down the government
00:00:04.160 in order to give health care to illegal aliens. Democrats have spent the last week
00:00:09.540 calling that claim a total lie. So Republicans pointed out exactly where and how Democrats are
00:00:17.520 shutting down the government to give health care to illegal aliens. Now, Democrats are admitting
00:00:22.820 that, yes, they are shutting down the government to give health care to illegals, but it's not that
00:00:27.500 big a deal, which, of course, is the final stage before the complete flip flop when we can expect
00:00:32.960 Democrats to admit that, yes, they're shutting down the government to give health care to
00:00:36.660 illegals. And that's a very good thing. I'm Michael Knowles. This is The Michael Knowles Show.
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00:04:29.300 if you blinked over the last day, you missed an amazing somersault by the Democrats over this issue
00:04:38.740 of the government shutdown. Democrats shut down the government. Republicans did not want to shut
00:04:43.640 down the government. You look at polling. Really, no one has a majority that wants to shut down the
00:04:47.620 government. But Democrats, much, much more likely, what was it? Something like 45% of Democrats were
00:04:52.080 okay shutting down the government, at most 49, and only 5% of Republicans wanted to shut it down.
00:04:58.080 Makes sense. Republicans have unified government. They have no incentive to shut down the government.
00:05:02.060 They're also no longer too infected by libertarianism. So they don't want to just
00:05:07.120 totally destroy the government, get rid of the government. They want to wield the government.
00:05:10.380 That's the claim from the left, don't forget, is that Trump is using the government too much.
00:05:14.720 So this is a Democrat shutdown. Why are they shutting down the government?
00:05:21.060 Republicans claimed that it was because they want to give health care to illegals.
00:05:24.240 Here we have the Democrats denying that claim. The Democrat leader in the House of Representatives,
00:05:29.020 Hakeem Jeffries, saying that claim is a lie.
00:05:32.860 Under current law, undocumented immigrants are already ineligible for Medicaid, the ACA exchanges,
00:05:39.780 and for SNAP benefits. Not a single undocumented immigrant in this country gets a dime
00:05:46.680 in federal taxpayer dollars for any part of comprehensive Medicaid coverage. Not one.
00:05:55.020 Not one. Not one undocumented immigrant gets government health care in this country.
00:06:01.300 Sheldon Whitehouse, Democrat senator, similarly denied it. He tweets out,
00:06:05.300 health care for illegal aliens is the new immigrants are eating cats and dogs in Springfield.
00:06:09.060 The Republican playbook is simple. Make up a baseless lie. Repeat it every chance you get.
00:06:14.700 Hope and pray that everyone blames Democrats for the crises you created.
00:06:19.300 Okay, so he's saying the shit's a Republican shutdown. No evidence of that, of course. And then
00:06:23.720 also, there's no such thing as health care for illegal aliens. It's a baseless lie. So in response,
00:06:32.280 the vice president tweeted out just simply an image from the New York State of Health website
00:06:40.680 showing new health insurance option for undocumented immigrants over 65.
00:06:47.220 And you might be tempted to say, well, that's just the New York State health site. That's not
00:06:51.260 the federal government health site. No, no, no. Keep reading.
00:06:55.900 The new insurance is through Medicaid managed care plans with a carved out fee for service pharmacy
00:07:01.720 benefit. So sure, it's being administered by the states, but this is coming from Medicaid. This
00:07:06.440 is coming from federal dollars. Ro Khanna, Democrat congressman, then has to follow up. And this is
00:07:16.220 absolutely delightful. It's pretty embarrassing, but absolutely delightful. He says, okay, okay, fine.
00:07:24.220 Yeah, we are shutting down the government over giving health care to illegals, but only a little tiny
00:07:28.840 little bit. In terms of health care, the reality is they're just not being honest. The amount of
00:07:36.920 money that actually is going towards people who are undocumented is such a small portion of the
00:07:44.520 Medicaid cuts or the Affordable Care Act, if at all. And so we can argue that point, but the reality that
00:07:51.440 even the vice president would acknowledge that anyone who looks at the numbers will acknowledge
00:07:55.080 just 90 to 95% of the funding we're talking about is talking about funding for American citizens.
00:08:01.320 Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. So Hakeem Jeffries, Democrat leader in the house, the leader of this
00:08:09.460 guy in this guy's party comes out and says, this is a complete lie. Not one illegal alien is getting
00:08:16.260 any of this federal health care money. And then Ro Khanna comes out. He goes, yeah,
00:08:20.660 these Republicans are being so dishonest. I mean, we are shutting down the government to give illegals
00:08:25.120 health care, but it's a small, it's an infinitesimally small amount. Okay. Let me,
00:08:31.040 let's just go with that for a second. Okay. It's an, what are you talking about? It's 0.01%
00:08:36.020 is going to illegal aliens. What is it? Point? Let's, let's give them the benefit of the,
00:08:41.780 let's say 0.1% even. No, he comes in, he says, I mean, it's like 90% of it's going to American
00:08:49.520 citizens anyway, 90%. So hold on, you're, you're, you Ro Khanna are telling me 10% of the healthcare
00:08:56.980 dollars up for debate here are going to illegals. First, you told me earlier yesterday, you all told
00:09:03.520 me not one penny is going to a single illegal alien. It's a made up baseless Republican lie.
00:09:11.700 Now you're telling me it's 10% and 10%, that's really nothing. That's what it's like a rounding
00:09:16.680 error. Are you kidding me? This is the Democrat. This is Ro Khanna. He's a Democrat Congressman.
00:09:24.100 I'm not even going to play for you. The, the clip from what was it? The 2020 presidential race
00:09:29.880 when, uh, you have all the Democrat candidates on stage, all of them, how many were there? 15 or
00:09:35.820 something. And the moderator asked the question, say, how many of your, of you have a healthcare
00:09:40.360 plan that would include free, you know, government healthcare for illegal aliens? Every single hand
00:09:47.320 goes up. So we know that they want this in the abstract. They then claimed they were not advocating
00:09:53.340 for this in concrete policy. Now you have Ro Khanna admitting, okay, yes, so we are. The thing that we
00:09:58.960 said, the things that the Republicans said, that was true. And when we said that, that they were lying,
00:10:04.000 it was actually we that were lying, but it's not a lot. It's really small. It's like a really tiny,
00:10:08.320 small amount. It's only like 10%. It's only like 10%. So this looks really bad for Democrats and in
00:10:17.680 their defense, they probably just had no idea what they were talking about. That is to say, yes,
00:10:23.300 they wanted to give healthcare to illegal aliens. They, they didn't realize, I think a lot of them
00:10:29.340 that that's actually what they were shutting down the government to do. I'm sure very few of them
00:10:33.060 actually read the bill. They don't, you know, these guys don't know the difference between a man and a
00:10:36.620 woman. I don't think they know all that much about legislation. Then when it turned out that
00:10:42.040 the Republicans were right, when JD Vance proved that with a single tweet, then they had to backtrack
00:10:47.020 and they said, okay, yeah, all right, fine. All right. Yeah, we are shutting down the government
00:10:50.940 to give healthcare to illegals, but it's like, it's a tiny little bit. So now Jeffries has to go back.
00:10:56.260 He goes on CNN with Jake Tapper, Jake Tapper, a Democrat. And he's gotta, he's gotta both admit that
00:11:04.360 the Republicans were right while also calling the Republicans liars.
00:11:08.460 But they talk about the provisions and it's right here, subtitle E, and this has to do with the
00:11:13.740 repeal of healthcare subtitle changes and specifically what it is. They, they're, how they characterize it,
00:11:19.260 characterize it is you want to give health insurance to undocumented immigrants. I understand that's not
00:11:25.400 really an accurate depiction, but what it does do is. It's a lie. It's a lie. But what you support
00:11:32.240 does bring back funding for emergency Medicaid to hospitals, some of which does pay for undocumented
00:11:39.640 immigrants and people who don't have health insurance. And also there is this provision
00:11:43.560 and it's not about undocumented immigrants. It's about people with asylum seekers and people with
00:11:48.460 temporary protected status, et cetera, et cetera, but about their ability to get Medicaid. So they're
00:11:52.620 non-citizens. They're not undocumented. They're not illegal. Why even include that in a bill
00:11:58.440 knowing that they're going to seize right upon that and use that as a message?
00:12:04.840 I just love it. I love it. I love it. I love the whole dance that we just saw. That's my favorite
00:12:11.780 ballet. Nutcracker out, whatever Jake Dapper just did there on CNN. That's my new favorite ballet.
00:12:18.440 Hey, so, um, the Republicans, you know, I mean, I know, I know they're such jerks. They're such
00:12:23.960 liars and I hate them and everything. Yeah. Yeah. They, they're bad. Yeah. Anyway,
00:12:28.300 Hakeem, I know they're really bad and they're liars and they, so they're characterizing, um,
00:12:33.620 your position as trying to shutting down the government to give healthcare to illegals.
00:12:38.320 And that's, I know that's like totally unfair and everything. Yeah. That's a total lie. Yeah. Yeah.
00:12:43.860 No, I know though. I know though, but, uh, you, that is, you do that actually, that is exactly what
00:12:49.620 you do. Like it says here, I Hakeem Jeffries am shutting down the government to give healthcare
00:12:54.440 to illegals. Like it says it in like subsection five. So, uh, like, uh, why is it, could you maybe
00:13:00.640 change the language a little bit? Why, why do you have to, why do I have to defend that?
00:13:06.520 There, I know they're liars, but why are they totally right? Why are they completely right
00:13:10.980 about everything they said? And you guys are liars. Can you please stop doing that? So it's not so
00:13:16.780 hard for me on CNN to defend you. That's what he's saying. L O freaking L. I, I have no take
00:13:25.160 other than that. These, these Democrats, man, they cannot win for losing. It is pathetic.
00:13:32.860 The government shutdown is profoundly unpopular with everyone, including Democrat voters.
00:13:40.280 They shut it down. They own the shutdown. Not one Republican is trying to shut down the government.
00:13:47.360 The Democrats shut it down because they're losing on every single issue with the exception of abortion,
00:13:55.600 with the exception of, uh, climate change, these issues that like just don't really matter all that
00:14:01.820 much. They're even tied on so-called defensive democracy. Like the one big issue the Democrats are
00:14:08.280 still beating Republicans on is healthcare. So I get the process. They're saying, all right,
00:14:12.760 we got to distract from crime in Democrat cities. We got to distract from our failure on migration.
00:14:17.580 We got to distract from this. We got to distract from our false predictions on the economy. We got
00:14:21.140 to distract, distract, distract. So I know what we're going to do. We're going to shut down the
00:14:24.360 government. That'll distract. And then we're going to refocus the debate on healthcare, which is like
00:14:28.700 the one issue that we're still beating the Republicans on. And I know what we're going to do.
00:14:32.640 We're going to, we're going to make it a referendum on giving illegal face tattooed gang bangers,
00:14:38.660 your taxpayer dollars for doctor visits. I know that's a great idea, isn't it?
00:14:44.860 You actually had a lane Democrats and you completely blew it. And then, then you said,
00:14:51.060 okay, well, I'll tell you what, we'll just lie about it. Cause we have a lock in the media. So
00:14:53.700 there's no way that'll ever get out. And then I guess they realize the media are decentralized
00:14:58.220 now. And the truth does get out on social media and independent media. And so then you got even
00:15:04.120 Jake Tapper, Mr. Democrat establishment CNN saying, yo, Hakeem, why are you doing this to me? Why are
00:15:12.600 you? Incredible. Incredible. Thank you. Where do I donate to Hakeem Jeffries? Where do I donate to
00:15:18.080 these congressional Democrats who are somehow doing the Republicans work for them? Okay. Speaking of
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00:17:12.240 Papa Leone, the Holy Father is in the news for a couple reasons. One, because he was at some
00:17:19.860 environmental event and he blessed ice and people are very upset at him for this. And I don't know
00:17:25.080 why. I mean, I suppose it looks a little odd to bless ice, but you know, popes and priests
00:17:31.080 generally bless water all the time. We have holy water. It's a sacramental the minute you enter a
00:17:34.840 church. So I don't know. To me, that seems like a tempest in a teapot. The more substantive comment
00:17:40.380 from the Pope that has raised eyebrows is when he was asked about this scandal in Chicago. And just to
00:17:45.840 catch you up if you haven't followed it, the Archdiocese of Chicago said that it was going to
00:17:53.180 give a lifetime achievement award to Dick Durbin. Dick Durbin, major Democrat legislator who supports
00:18:01.020 killing babies. And this is a big problem. This is a big problem because as John Paul II
00:18:08.000 explained so beautifully, but as Catholics have understood forever going back to the apostolic
00:18:13.020 age and the D.K, it's wrong to murder babies. So you can't do that. There were other religious
00:18:18.020 traditions. There are other groups that include baptized Christians, ecclesial communities that
00:18:24.280 are fine with killing babies. But the Catholic Church, 2000 years, consistent, you can't kill babies.
00:18:29.600 And this is a non-negotiable issue. There are certain issues where reasonable minds can disagree,
00:18:34.260 but on this issue, sorry, you can't do it. So it's a little weird for the Cardinal of Chicago,
00:18:40.500 Blaise Cupich, who is a rather liberal prelate, to consider giving a lifetime achievement award to
00:18:47.700 this infanticidal politician. And happily, and to his credit, Dick Durbin said, okay, I'm not going to
00:18:54.340 take it. Amid the controversy, he said, I'm not going to accept the award. That was the right thing to do.
00:18:57.880 Well, glad to see it. Good job on Dick Durbin. He should change his political views,
00:19:01.760 certainly on infanticide, but at least in that small matter, good job on him.
00:19:05.720 Very strange for Cardinal Cupich to be offering this. So the Holy Father was asked to weigh in
00:19:11.020 on it. And here are his remarks off the cuff.
00:19:13.020 I'm not terribly familiar with the particular case. I think that it's very important to look
00:19:21.460 at the overall work that a senator has done during, if I'm not mistaken, 40 years of service in the
00:19:29.200 United States Senate. I understand the difficulty and the tensions, but I think, as I myself have
00:19:36.120 spoken in the past, it's important to look at many issues that are related to what is the teaching of
00:19:41.720 the church. Someone who says I'm against abortion, but says I'm in favor of the death penalty is not
00:19:47.380 really pro-life. So someone who says that I'm against abortion, but I'm in agreement with the
00:19:54.960 inhuman treatment of immigrants who are in the United States, I don't know if that's pro-life.
00:19:59.900 So they're very complex issues. I don't know if anyone has all the truth on them, but I would
00:20:06.460 ask first and foremost that there'd be greater respect for one another and that we search together
00:20:12.300 both as human beings, in that case, as American citizens or citizens of the state of Illinois.
00:20:19.260 Okay. Now, right off the bat, I know that there are many people who want me to come out with some
00:20:25.760 sizzling hot take to totally own the Pope with facts and logic or something like that.
00:20:31.400 And though it pains me to disappoint you, that will not happen. I'm a Catholic. I'm a mackerel snap
00:20:39.000 and papist. And I think as a matter of not only Catholic discipline, but in the 2000 year tradition
00:20:44.600 of the church, it is good to have respect for priests, for prelates, for the Holy Father, to have
00:20:52.140 obedience, a kind of filial piety. That's a good thing, actually. It's contrary to our liberal and
00:20:58.560 lowercase d democratic egalitarian age. I know it's contrary to all that, the hyper-individualism
00:21:04.240 that typifies modernity, but too bad. We don't do that. We speak in a respectful way.
00:21:10.340 On this show, we speak in a respectful way about the Holy Father, even if he says things that are
00:21:16.000 raise eyebrows, even if he says something that's wrong, because don't forget that the Pope is
00:21:20.300 fallible, except when he's infallible. So let's get to the point that he's making here. He says,
00:21:25.360 look, yeah, I basically don't want to smack this Democrat senator too hard. And probably the subtext
00:21:34.180 is, I don't want to needlessly go after this cardinal, this particularly troublesome cardinal
00:21:40.260 in Illinois, where this issue was probably being resolved behind the scenes anyway. And Durbin said
00:21:46.320 he wasn't going to get the award, and there was going to be a denunciation by the bishops. And so
00:21:49.220 there was a lot of stuff going on behind the scenes. Then he comes out and he makes the point
00:21:53.500 that it's actually an issue here. He says, look, plenty of people support the death penalty and
00:21:58.040 they call themselves pro-life. So, you know, pro-life, it's a much bigger issue than just
00:22:01.920 abortion. You can't support the death penalty and be pro-life. And the point I would observe here is,
00:22:09.060 I suppose by a certain definition of pro-life, I suppose that's true, right? I mean,
00:22:15.840 with a sufficiently broad definition of the term pro-life, I guess, you know, if I kill a spider,
00:22:22.060 I might not be considered pro-life. Because pro-life is not a term of theology. Pro-life is not a moral
00:22:29.500 category. Pro-life is a political slogan. And it can be useful as a political slogan. I think it's
00:22:34.600 useful. I use the slogan. But that's what it is. It's a political slogan. And so I think we should be
00:22:40.340 more precise about this. The objection to what was going on in Chicago is that a prince of the
00:22:46.720 church was going to give a lifetime achievement award to an infanticidal politician. And that is
00:22:51.400 wrong. And it was right for the senator to say he wasn't going to accept it. And it was right of the
00:22:58.620 bishops to denounce this award from this cardinal, Blaise Cupich. That was all good. Abortion is a
00:23:06.540 different kind of issue from other issues. So when it comes to the death penalty, for 2,000 years,
00:23:13.640 just about, I don't know, 1,990 years, the Catholic Church was generally in favor of the death penalty.
00:23:26.040 Beginning, okay, 1,950 years or something, so 1,970 years. Now, beginning with the pontificate of
00:23:32.200 John Paul II, St. John Paul II, the church began to say, okay, look, in principle, the death penalty
00:23:37.980 is okay. But in practice, it really should not be done. It should not be carried out. Because as a
00:23:43.960 prudential matter, now with modern technology and modern social order, we can protect the public
00:23:50.100 from criminals sufficiently with prisons, and they're not going to escape. So we just don't
00:23:54.480 practically don't need to carry it out that much. But in principle, there's nothing wrong with it.
00:23:58.040 And it was important that John Paul II made this point because, one, many popes had actually
00:24:05.040 personally carried out the death penalty. Blessed Pius IX oversaw some 500 executions in the papal
00:24:11.100 states. He was asked for a reprieve for the last execution. He said, I do not want to grant a
00:24:15.240 reprieve. I cannot grant a reprieve, okay? We see in the writings of St. Paul that the civil
00:24:21.660 authority does not bear the sword in vain. That's in inerrant scripture. In the letter to the Romans,
00:24:28.980 we see doctors of the church defending capital punishment. So the church cannot say the capital
00:24:35.320 punishment is intrinsically evil. And so when Pope Benedict comes around after John Paul II,
00:24:41.000 Pope Benedict says, look, I personally oppose the death penalty as a judgment of my own. But that
00:24:46.740 is not to say that the death penalty is intrinsically evil. The church cannot contradict
00:24:51.060 herself in this way. And so he said, reasonable minds can differ on the death penalty. Pope Francis
00:24:57.320 elevated this a step further. He said that the death penalty is morally inadmissible,
00:25:02.160 which is a confusing phrase, but it's a precise phrase in the sense that he is avoiding saying it's
00:25:08.340 intrinsically evil because he can't do that. That's not how doctrine develops. The Catholic
00:25:13.140 church cannot contradict herself, cannot contradict 2,000 years of magisterial teaching, cannot
00:25:17.720 contradict sacred scripture. So that was, again, a prudential measure. And Pope Leo here obviously
00:25:24.520 opposes the death penalty and is making this point on the slogan pro-life. Okay. Unlike this matter,
00:25:32.480 which again is not a contradiction in as much as for 2,000 years, the church has said that the death
00:25:37.800 penalty is permissible in certain conditions. And then more recently, they're focusing on those
00:25:43.920 conditions and saying, well, because certain conditions exist today, you know, we don't
00:25:49.280 advocate carrying it out. Okay. Unlike the death penalty, where reasonable minds apparently can
00:25:55.680 disagree, going all the way, really going all the way back to Genesis, I think this is something that
00:26:00.980 people mistake about the death penalty. They think that the conservatives are in favor of capital
00:26:05.660 punishment because we're mean and bloodthirsty or something, when in fact, it's the opposite.
00:26:11.980 They think that we don't respect human dignity. In fact, it's the opposite because the original
00:26:18.000 scriptural basis for the death penalty goes back to the early chapters of Genesis, which say,
00:26:22.180 whosoever sheds the blood of man, by man shall his blood be shed, for man is made in the image and
00:26:26.640 likeness of God. So it's precisely because human beings have a kind of dignity that we see capital
00:26:31.640 punishment. Okay. Unlike that issue, there is no question for 2000 years, consistently going back
00:26:41.380 to the didache and further back, that the church has said that it is wrong to murder babies in the
00:26:49.000 womb, outside the womb, it's wrong to murder human babies. And so I just think if we're discussing the
00:26:55.580 finer points of morality and theology, I guess this political slogan doesn't, doesn't necessarily
00:27:01.540 work. It's not, it's not precise. It's not helpful. So, okay, let's, we'll just be clear about it.
00:27:08.440 The church should not be giving lifetime achievement awards to infanticidal politicians,
00:27:12.200 in my humble opinion, as a layman. I guess clear, I think most bishops probably agree with that.
00:27:19.180 It's simple, simple enough. And the church can offer prudential judgments about certain policies,
00:27:27.480 although when those policies get into questions of efficiency or the competency of the state,
00:27:33.380 sometimes that falls outside of the church's own competency. And so therefore, sometimes those are
00:27:39.680 less weighty opinions than on matters of morals and faith, ex cathedra. In any case,
00:27:49.180 we don't need to, you don't need to own the Pope with facts and logic. You don't need to do any,
00:27:53.740 that's not, I don't think that's the right attitude. I don't think that's the right corrective
00:27:57.260 to our spirit of hyper-individualism and hyper-egalitarianism and all the rest. We just say
00:28:03.480 it's wrong to kill babies. The church should not do that. And when it comes to the death penalty,
00:28:07.980 I suppose the, I suppose the reasonable mind of Pope Benedict persuades me about, about how reasonable
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00:29:34.240 I don't want it to fall by the wayside or be buried under the other news.
00:29:40.280 Trump comes out. He says, there's a connection between Tylenol and autism, Tylenol and neurological
00:29:45.760 developmental disorders. The libs are furious. They say, that's not true. This is medical
00:29:51.480 misinformation. This is terrible. How dare you? And then Trump points to, he says, well, hold on. No,
00:29:56.760 no, it's not just, I didn't just make that up. I got that from Harvard. I got that from Mount Sinai.
00:30:01.300 I got that from Johns Hopkins. I got that from Columbia. I got that from a lot of other medical
00:30:05.100 institutions. I even got it from Tylenol. And then the, the, the right started posting this tweet
00:30:10.440 from Tylenol in 2017 saying, we don't recommend pregnant mothers, uh, you know, take our product.
00:30:18.640 So you see, by 2017, they already knew. Well, actually now it turns out Tylenol acknowledged
00:30:25.680 the potential autism connection almost 10 years earlier than that.
00:30:31.300 This is a calling to the Daily Caller. Leslie Schur, the head of the division of Johnson & Johnson
00:30:37.380 that monitors the side effects of drugs already on the market, received an alert in 2012 about
00:30:43.000 concerns, uh, about concerns about acetaminophen and autism from a concerned father. So you already
00:30:50.940 in 20, excuse the number, it wasn't 2008, it was 2012. So five years earlier than, than was previously
00:30:56.160 reported. This is just like the healthcare for illegals claim. This is just like it. They say,
00:31:03.780 no, no, no, it's not true. It's not, it's a lie. It's a lie. It's a lie. Then when you show them
00:31:09.200 dispositive proof, the narrative starts to change, they say, okay, well, no, it's true, but it's not
00:31:12.460 a big deal. It's just not, no, it's not that big a deal. Next, I don't know. Now they're going to be
00:31:17.340 prescribing Tylenol to every pregnant mother. So you need to give your child neurological disorders.
00:31:22.920 Speaking of acknowledging wrongdoing, really good story coming out of YouTube.
00:31:29.080 YouTube has just settled with President Trump for almost $25 million. YouTube will pay,
00:31:36.800 not to President Trump directly, but to groups that President Trump has identified,
00:31:40.640 $25 million almost, for censoring him. Remember, YouTube thought they could get away with it.
00:31:48.860 They thought when Trump looked like he was out politically, all the big tech platforms got
00:31:53.680 rid of him. The payment processors debanked him. The prosecutors tried to throw him in prison.
00:32:00.300 The feds raided his house. They tried to demonstrate to kick him off the ballot. But then Trump came back
00:32:05.900 and there's no substitute for victory. Now they come groveling again. YouTube has settled with
00:32:13.140 Trump. They're not formally admitting fault, though they have admitted that the Biden administration
00:32:19.340 was pressuring them to censor conservatives. YouTube will give $22 million to the nonprofit
00:32:26.260 Trust for the National Mall to help fund the construction of the White House State Ballroom
00:32:31.160 at Trump's behest. It will also give an additional $2.5 million to a group of his supporters,
00:32:38.360 including the American Conservative Union, which puts on CPAC. This is the way. So first of all,
00:32:45.300 notice Trump is not personally enriching himself here. That's what the libs always claim. He is
00:32:50.960 personally enriching himself. Trump is the richest president in American history. He was very,
00:32:55.120 very rich before he became president. Unlike Barack Obama, who goes in penniless and shortly
00:33:03.060 after he leaves the presidency, he's a very rich man. Unlike Bill Clinton, who was a debtor actually
00:33:09.380 in the White House and then somehow magically becomes a very, very rich man after he leaves the
00:33:14.380 White House, shaking down people all around the world to take bribes for his wife's presidential
00:33:18.660 campaign. Unlike those guys, unlike the Democrat politicians, Trump really didn't need the money.
00:33:23.040 And even here is saying, YouTube, you got to pay. You have to pay to be punished for your very,
00:33:30.160 very bad behavior that was dangerous to our political order. So you're going to pay a lot
00:33:34.200 of money. You're going to pay $24.5 million. You're not going to pay it to me personally.
00:33:38.400 We're going to make you fund this important new ballroom at the White House. And you want to talk
00:33:45.420 about the art of the deal. Trump said he's going to beautify the White House. He's donated personally
00:33:51.500 nice big flagpoles on the North and South lawns. He says, we need this ballroom because we were not
00:33:55.980 able to host state dinners. And he doesn't make the taxpayer pay for it. And he personally doesn't
00:34:03.040 have to pay for all of it, at least. He's going to shake down this corporation and say, you acted
00:34:07.500 badly. You're going to be punished. And I am going to make you do the right thing by giving your money
00:34:13.760 to public works. This is good. We're not quite at the point of Caesar Augustus finding Rome in dirt
00:34:21.860 and leaving it in marble, but we're getting pretty close. Speaking of setting higher standards,
00:34:26.740 the Secretary of War, Pete Hegseth, has just caught a lot of flack because he gave a speech to generals
00:34:33.860 saying that we need high standards in the military. And if this means that we have to prioritize
00:34:39.620 military readiness over social engineering, so be it. If this means that four foot 11,
00:34:45.840 90 pound women don't get to be Navy SEALs, that's just the price we have to pay for being able to
00:34:52.140 defend our country. But when it comes to any job that requires physical power to perform in combat,
00:34:59.360 those physical standards must be high and gender neutral. If women can make it, excellent. If not,
00:35:06.760 it is what it is. If that means no women qualify for some combat jobs, so be it. That is not the
00:35:14.420 intent, but it could be the result. So be it. It will also mean that weak men won't qualify because
00:35:22.760 we're not playing games. This is combat. This is life or death. As we all know, this is you versus
00:35:29.460 an enemy hell-bent on killing you. To be an effective, lethal fighting force, you must trust that the
00:35:36.440 warrior alongside you in battle is capable, truly physically capable of doing what is necessary under
00:35:44.060 fire. You know, this is the only standard you would want for your kids and for your grandkids.
00:35:52.320 Apply the War Department golden rule, the 1990 test and the E6 test. And it's really hard to go wrong.
00:35:58.940 Beautifully stated. Really, this is exactly the right thing for Pete to be saying. This is as bold
00:36:06.060 as it is possible to be in politics. I want to point out, in principle, it actually doesn't go far
00:36:12.520 enough. Because what Pete is saying here is, look, we just need gender neutrality. What the libs were
00:36:19.340 saying was we need to lower the standards so that we can have more women in combat. We so want women
00:36:24.900 in combat that we need to lower military standards, make our military fighting force less lethal,
00:36:30.720 less ready in order to socially engineer and advance our ideology that men and women are the
00:36:36.220 same even though they're not. And so what Pete is saying is he's got the more conservative version.
00:36:41.980 He says we need gender neutrality. And if women can't meet the standards, which most of them will
00:36:45.660 not, then they don't get to fight. And if women can meet the standards, all the better. But if they
00:36:50.020 can't, you know, they're not going to be in combat, which is a huge improvement. But it's worth pointing
00:36:56.000 out. I think the ideal here is, call me old-fashioned. I don't think we should be sending
00:37:02.280 our women, our wives and our daughters to go get blown up by jihadis. Call me old-fashioned. I guess
00:37:09.040 call me a sexist, I guess. I think it is wrong for a country to do that, to send women into combat.
00:37:15.260 Even if some women want to go into combat. Because I don't think that consent and the
00:37:21.820 individual will and individual autonomy is the be all and end all of morality. And I think it is
00:37:26.480 just kind of wrong to send our wives and our mothers and our daughters to go be stabbed and
00:37:34.020 shot at and beaten and murdered by, killed, I should say in war, by terrorists and the worst people on
00:37:41.360 earth. I think that's wrong and we shouldn't do that. Because I don't think that there's really
00:37:45.880 neutrality in gender. I think men and women really are different. And we all admit that when it comes
00:37:51.960 to the trans issue, or at least when it comes to transing the kids. But then we don't want to admit
00:37:56.020 it when it comes to other issues sometimes, like marriage or like combat. Then we're back to being
00:38:04.460 liberal. Then we're back to gender neutrality. So the ideal here, I think, is to say, no, no,
00:38:09.500 let's not blow up our wives and our mothers and our daughters, actually. But I want to be totally
00:38:15.520 clear. I am in no way criticizing what Pete said. The only politically palatable version
00:38:23.420 of restoring sanity to our military right now is this. I'm not trying to read Pete's mind. I don't
00:38:31.500 know. This might just be his total belief. And if so, that's fine by me. That's great.
00:38:36.440 But this is, without question, the only way to start to restore some sanity.
00:38:43.100 And when you're talking about democratic politics, you have to appeal to most people.
00:38:48.020 And so when you're just talking about most people, forget your ideal view of things for
00:38:51.880 a second. When you're saying, do you at least agree with this? Can anyone disagree with what
00:38:58.800 Pete said? Which basically comes down to, we need high standards in the military and we
00:39:03.340 need to prioritize strength and lethality over gender ideology. Can anyone disagree with
00:39:10.440 that? I guess, look, 20% of Americans maybe disagree with that. The hard left disagrees with
00:39:15.280 that. 70, 80% are going to be on his side. How can anyone disagree? Yet again, you have
00:39:22.760 the Trump administration taking the right side of an 80-20 issue. Let the Democrats say otherwise.
00:39:29.460 Let the Democrats say, no, forget about military readiness. Forget about military coordination.
00:39:35.700 Forget. We need to stop placing so much emphasis on defending our homeland and protecting the men
00:39:42.240 that we're sending into battle by making sure that there's cohesion and everyone's up to snuff because
00:39:47.300 you're only as strong as your weakest link. No, no, forget. We got to stop prioritizing that
00:39:50.720 because we need to advance the causes of feminism or gender ideology.
00:39:54.240 Let the Democrats campaign on that. Please be my guests. You're great. Campaign on that and
00:40:00.320 health care for illegals. And we'll see you at the ballot box in the midterms. Now, speaking of women
00:40:05.760 with low standards, Anna Navarro just spouted some absolute nonsense on CNN at our friend, the
00:40:13.060 albeit somewhat liberal, Brad Palumbo. We'll get to that momentarily first though.
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00:41:03.340 annual subscriptions. My favorite comment yesterday is from HenryVaughn8192. He's channeling his
00:41:11.880 inner Jamal Bowman. Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will make us binge eat.
00:41:19.960 Jamal Bowman, who says that diabetes and heart disease in the black community are caused by
00:41:25.700 people saying the N-word, which means that it's predominantly caused by other black people,
00:41:31.160 I guess. Okay, all right, that's fine. That's one take, I guess. Speaking of dubious claims,
00:41:37.260 Anna Navarro, that liberal woman from The View, goes on CNN and she got into a debate with Brad
00:41:44.640 Palumbo. For those of you who don't know Brad Palumbo, Brad Palumbo is a libertarian and he and
00:41:49.700 I have debated, we debated actually at the University of Pittsburgh on transgenderism. And he's a very nice
00:41:55.100 guy. He's pretty liberal, but still would probably call himself a Republican or, you know, at least
00:41:59.260 libertarian. So you got two people who were substantially liberal, at least in the classical
00:42:05.580 sense, who were arguing on the liberal cable network. What could they possibly be arguing
00:42:10.760 about? Well, Anna Navarro's problem is not so much with Brad's philosophy as it is with the fact that he
00:42:16.540 is a white man. Also, I want to respond to you saying that I was hyperbolic when I talked about
00:42:23.280 a reign of terror. No, it might be hyperbolic for you as a white man. Oh, it's certainly not
00:42:29.080 hyperbolic for me as a Latino. No, I'm not being racist. No, I'm not dismissing your opinion. I am
00:42:36.520 telling you that what Latino, the Latino community, the brown community in America. Okay, well, let me
00:42:42.300 speak with my voice. I mean, you said I was being hyperbolic. Let me respond. You're being a white man
00:42:48.240 as an insult? When you invoke it to dismiss my opinion. Being a white man as an insult? When you
00:42:52.280 invoke it. Do you think Latinos are living under circumstances that other people may not be right
00:42:59.160 now in this country? We're about to have a whole conversation about that very thing. But I just
00:43:04.560 want to make a point that, Brad, all she's saying is that her view of the situation is different from
00:43:09.620 yours. I don't think that's an insult. She basically said, I'm wrong because I'm a white man.
00:43:13.820 Yes, correct. She said, I see it differently from you, which is not an insult. It's not,
00:43:20.420 and it's also not a racial insult. It's also not an explanation why I'm wrong. But we have a lot more
00:43:24.020 to discuss on this very topic, so we'll have some time. What an absurd little mediation at the end.
00:43:29.340 She's just saying that her opinion is different from yours. No, that's not what she said.
00:43:32.740 She was insinuating, as our culture always does at this, that not only is his opinion different
00:43:40.760 because he is a white man, but it is less valid, less pertinent, ought to be valued less because
00:43:49.220 it is overvalued, because the marginalized voices of the Latino women have not been heard. That's the
00:43:54.200 only reason to invoke these kind of racial and sexual categories. He comes out and he says,
00:43:58.360 you know, I think you're just being hyper. I don't even remember the issue. I guess it's Iran or
00:44:01.000 something. He goes, I just think you're being a little hyperbolic in your language. He goes,
00:44:04.240 now listen here, you gringo, listen here, you white devil man. I am as a beautiful,
00:44:12.040 vibrant Latina woman. You will listen to me, not you, you white devil.
00:44:16.400 That's what she, and that's not quite verbatim, but it's pretty close. And I think any honest
00:44:22.940 observer, including on the left, will know that when Ana Navarro comes out, she goes,
00:44:27.360 hey, listen, you white man, you white man. She's not saying white man.
00:44:31.000 As a term of praise. And she's not saying that he has a white man opinion as even as a neutral kind
00:44:38.680 of term. She's saying, no, no, no. You have your erroneous white man opinion. Let me tell you my
00:44:46.420 correct Latina woman opinion because I, I am a brave, proud Latina woman. You'll shut your mouth,
00:44:54.560 Bradley, Braddon, Palumbo. Palumbo sounds almost, almost Hispanic, but I think it's Italian.
00:45:01.100 In any case, there's been a vibe shift on this, right? Does that work anymore?
00:45:08.220 Shut up, white man. I am a, you must listen to the brave, proud Latina woman from The View.
00:45:15.160 I don't think that works for anyone. I don't think it works for anyone. Hey, here's the proof that that
00:45:18.800 doesn't work for anyone. The Democrats ran, as they typically do in 2024, a campaign against white
00:45:27.920 men, you know, kind of making fun of white men, joking about the, you know, boring, dopey white men
00:45:34.560 for Kamala or whatever, you know, and Kamala is this, you know, proud, brave woman of color,
00:45:39.580 and she makes fun of Tim Walz for not eating spicy foods or something. You know, it's all the kind
00:45:44.660 of typical stuff. It can be perfectly mild, but nevertheless, it's, it's the same kind of language
00:45:49.900 we've heard from Democrats for decades. And they run against the white man, slightly orange, but he's
00:45:54.860 considered the white man. And what happens? Not only does Trump win a decent, a large portion of the
00:46:00.960 white male vote, but he also wins an increasing number of black people, almost half of Hispanics.
00:46:07.060 He wins 40% of women under 30 and even higher percentages of the older women.
00:46:11.640 I just don't think that works. I think that, I think what Anna Navarro is doing, that's like
00:46:15.740 real mid-2000s energy and 20-teens energy. That is not post-2020 energy. Even Brad Palumbo,
00:46:23.140 who is very moderate, who is very polite, who, you know, he's a real nice guy. And even he says,
00:46:29.900 hey, cut it out, knock it off. I don't, you're not going to shut me up. You're going to call me a
00:46:34.040 white man. You think that's going to shut me up? Sorry, not going to work, honey. Sorry, Chiquita.
00:46:38.420 Not today. Now, speaking of racial politics, another one of these people, another one of these liberal,
00:46:49.860 largely identitarian TV babblers, Ta-Nehisi Coates, took to the New York Times opinion podcast to
00:46:58.240 reflect on the Charlie Kirk assassination. And how did he reflect on it, as you can expect,
00:47:04.380 in the worst way possible? He concluded that Charlie Kirk was a hater.
00:47:10.040 I don't take any joy in saying this, but we sometimes soothe ourselves by pointing out that
00:47:18.420 love, acceptance, warmth, that these are powerful forces. I believe they are. I also believe hate
00:47:24.780 is a powerful force. I believe it's a powerful, powerful, unifying force. And I think Charlie
00:47:31.380 Kirk was a hate monger. You know, I really need to say this over and over again. I have a politic
00:47:36.740 that rejects violence, that rejects political violence. I take no joy in the killing of anyone,
00:47:43.460 no matter what they said. But if you ask me what the truth of his life was, you know,
00:47:49.600 the truth of his public life, I would have to tell you it's hate. I would tell you, I'd have to tell
00:47:55.320 you it is the usage of hate and the harnessing of hate towards political ends.
00:48:00.840 That's the takeaway. That's the left's takeaway. As we've seen from the beginning,
00:48:04.060 this will be largely the subject of my speech tonight at the Harvard Law School,
00:48:07.580 which is the left has learned nothing. They, at best, have minimized the political assassination
00:48:14.040 of Charlie Kirk and frequently have celebrated it. And you're seeing this once again. Ta-Nehisi Coates,
00:48:22.280 who, if you're not familiar with him, is a terribly unimpressive person. His career has been impressive.
00:48:26.700 But it's impressive because he doesn't have any of the underlying skill or insight to justify his
00:48:34.320 career as a supposed public intellectual. He's never had an interesting idea. He is not. Really,
00:48:41.020 I think the reason that he has been successful is he has a funny name and a funny voice. And so he
00:48:46.700 plays the role of a pundit or a public intellectual. But listen even to that analysis. His analysis is,
00:48:54.080 yeah, if you, he says ax. He actually says ax. He says, if you, if you ax me what Charlie Kirk's
00:49:00.480 legacy is, I would say that he's a hater. That's, that's the best you got. First of all,
00:49:08.820 it's preposterous on its face because Charlie was a real nice guy who was always generous,
00:49:12.180 always gracious in debates. He was always, in fact, he was murdered because he was trying to
00:49:15.460 reach out to people who don't like him and let them have their, say their piece and exchange ideas.
00:49:19.840 So the point he's trying to make is preposterous. But even just, even just the point generally,
00:49:27.620 even if you're making about someone else, yeah, he's a hater. Oh, wow. Brilliant. Golly,
00:49:34.580 are you going to put that in a book? I feel like I'm in the presence of, you know, Nietzsche or
00:49:39.520 something. I, wow, this is amazing. Jean-Paul Sartre, is that, was that you? Wow. At least, you know,
00:49:44.620 the, the, the liberal and left-wing philosophers of the 20th century, you know, they might've been
00:49:51.100 wrong about a lot of stuff, but at least they were kind of interesting. Foucault, Derrida,
00:49:55.020 these are kind of interesting people. The Frankfurt School, very interesting people. But this,
00:49:59.120 what is this? Yeah, he's a hater. Wow. Oh boy, here's, give me a, give him, give that man a
00:50:05.800 MacArthur genius grant. Wow. Incredible. And I guess then my conclusion, much, much as I would conclude
00:50:11.900 with Anna Navarro is. Look, I get why people used to care what these guys had to say, because it was
00:50:16.840 very fashionable to play to racial and sexual hatreds, notably against white people and white,
00:50:24.840 and men in particular. That was very fashionable for the 2000s and the 20-teens. I think that's
00:50:30.220 over. I think those days are over. What does Charlie Kirk say that was hateful? Men and women
00:50:36.560 are different. We should judge people on, you know, character, colorblind. I don't, what,
00:50:42.920 what, what did Charlie Kirk say? It was so hateful, even by this guy's standards. He can't give an
00:50:48.080 example of it. It's just that he was a Republican. He was a conservative. I just think who cares with
00:50:54.240 it? Does anyone care? Ta-Nehisi Coates had a moment, at least among a certain class of bourgeois
00:50:59.340 liberals. Does anyone care anymore? I don't know. I think we've just kind of moved on past that,
00:51:04.080 which is a good thing. I think that's reflected in the poll numbers, and I think it's why the
00:51:07.960 Democrats are scrambling. I think it's why they can't win for losing. They don't know which way
00:51:11.260 to turn. Oh, we're going to campaign on racial and sexual animosities. Oh, shoot, that didn't work,
00:51:16.880 and we actually lost the groups that we were attempting to appeal to. Okay, we lost increasing
00:51:21.100 numbers of them. Okay, we're going to, let's just shut down the government. Yeah, we're going to,
00:51:25.680 that'll, oh, shoot, that didn't work for us either. Okay, we're going to focus on healthcare. Oh,
00:51:28.880 man, but our view on healthcare is unpopular. Oh, we're going to, we're going to minimize political
00:51:33.600 violence, and in some cases celebrate. Is that going to, no, no, I don't know. Need to try
00:51:38.440 something new, guys. You got to put on a new act. All right, today's Theology Thursday. The rest of
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