The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 1834 - Trump Ends The War In Gaza

00:00:00.000 Breaking news this morning. After two years, the Israeli hostages are finally home.

00:00:05.360 The war in Gaza is over. President Trump is getting a standing ovation at the Knesset for

00:00:11.060 ending it. And still, the Nobel Committee refuses to give the man his peace prize.

00:00:17.460 I'm Michael Knowles. This is The Michael Knowles Show.

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00:02:04.380 of one. Big day, folks. First of all, I woke up, I was a little salty because today is a federal

00:02:11.460 holiday. And the federal holiday, it's not Indigenous Peoples Day. It's not just Monday,

00:02:17.580 October 13th. It is Columbus Day, the day that we celebrate the man who discovered America,

00:02:23.980 the brave Italian explorer. It's a federal holiday. And the anti-Italian discrimination

00:02:29.860 at the Daily Wire and many other companies has got to stop.

00:02:34.540 Even though, frankly, I would have come into work anyway today because there's so much to talk

00:02:40.520 about. I love celebrating Columbus. And there was this breaking news. What immediately cured my salt

00:02:45.300 this morning was I wake up, a little bit of a nail biter. We're waiting. The hostages were supposed

00:02:51.380 to be released yesterday. We're waiting. We're waiting. I'm updating my news. Did it happen?

00:02:55.720 Did it happen? Did Hamas make good? Did Trump end this war? Did he actually end this war? And

00:03:01.640 the answer is yes, he did. The 20 living hostages were released. Hamas, after lying, 0.65

00:03:10.540 after deceit, after stalling, after pulling all this out for two years since they took the hostages,

00:03:15.840 they finally were made to release the hostages. This after President Trump said, hey, Hamas,

00:03:22.400 I'm giving you one last chance or I'm going to blow you off the face of the earth. And they did it.

00:03:25.780 So it was not a stall tactic. And it was not merely a stall tactic. They actually released the

00:03:30.340 hostages. That was the last serious remaining card that Hamas had to keep the war going. I guess 0.74

00:03:37.020 they do still have the remains of the dead hostages, which they're supposedly going to be

00:03:41.920 releasing later today or tomorrow. Again, we'll see. Even if they hold the remains of the dead

00:03:47.280 hostages ransom, for all intents and purposes, the war is over. President Trump ended the war.

00:03:54.580 Israel acknowledges that President Trump ended the war. The Nobel Prize Committee will not

00:03:59.020 acknowledge that. We'll get to that momentarily because there's even a fun little caveat to that

00:04:02.800 story. But Trump did it. He did it. He said he would do it. His haters on the left and on the right,

00:04:10.960 his haters who were pro-Palestine, pro, I don't know, maybe some were pro-Israel. Israel was pretty

00:04:17.980 pretty pro-Trump. But all these guys all over, they said he couldn't do it. He wouldn't do it.

00:04:22.540 And he did it. And he got a standing ovation at the Knesset. And he did take a little bit of a

00:04:29.160 victory lap. Going all the way back, you remember 10 years, we were told that Donald Trump is a

00:04:34.600 maniac. He's a cowboy. He's a loose cannon. He's going to cause wars all over the world. He's going 1.00

00:04:39.220 to usher in World War III. Here's what he said. Good to say it. But when you settle eight wars in

00:04:49.660 eight months, that means you don't like war. Everyone thought I was going to be brutal. In

00:04:54.140 fact, I remember Hillary Clinton during a debate. She said, look at him, look at him. He's going to

00:04:59.380 go to war with everybody. And actually, she said, he's got a personality that's all about war. No,

00:05:05.960 my personality actually is all about stopping wars. And it seems to work. It seems to work.

00:05:12.560 But it also means there's name change and our attitude that we're not going to go into a war.

00:05:24.300 But if we do, we're going to win that war like nobody has ever won a war before. We will not

00:05:30.540 be politically correct. But we're not going to be there. And I think, as you mentioned-

00:05:36.560 There you have it. There you have it. They said my personality was for war.

00:05:42.720 And I think my personality is for stopping wars. It's not just over the past two years

00:05:48.120 since the Israel-Gaza war broke out on Joe Biden's watch during the little interregnum when

00:05:53.020 they booted Trump out of office. It's not just during this time that they've said I'm pro-war.

00:05:58.680 They've been saying this for 10 years. How many wars do I need to stop before you realize

00:06:01.820 that my interest is in making peace? It's a real subversion of the liberal media expectation of

00:06:08.380 Trump. What's the other thing they say about Trump? They say he's a megalomaniac. He takes

00:06:11.860 credit for everything. He's all about retribution. He never forgives his enemies.

00:06:17.180 Here's the next thing President Trump said about peace in the Middle East.

00:06:21.760 And then you're going to add a man named Marco Rubio, who is also here.

00:06:27.260 And I have a prediction that Marco will go down, I mean this, as the greatest secretary of state

00:06:55.040 in the history of the United States. I believe that. I believe it.

00:07:05.560 And he and I, you know, we really fought it out. You remember, he was tough. He was nasty.

00:07:12.140 Who the hell thought this was going to happen, Marco, right? And now I'm saying he's going to go 0.92

00:07:16.800 down as the greatest. He will. He was always, he was always smart and sharp and people respect him.

00:07:24.480 And then we have somebody.

00:07:28.140 This in some ways is the most, I won't say shocking because it doesn't shock me,

00:07:35.100 but I think it's going to shock most people. The most shocking news of the day,

00:07:39.000 even beyond the Israel war ending, even beyond the hostages being released.

00:07:42.840 Trump sharing credit, saying, you know, it's really not all me.

00:07:47.180 How about the secretary of state who negotiated the end of this war?

00:07:50.840 This guy, Marco Rubio, not just any secretary of state. He's not just sharing credit with any

00:07:56.180 staffer that he's got. He's sharing credit with the guy who ran against him for president in 2016

00:08:02.000 and who ran a nasty campaign. Remember, he made the little hands joke. He was insulting Trump's

00:08:06.260 masculinity. And Trump says, you're going to go down as the greatest secretary of state ever.

00:08:11.300 And you were always sharp and you're always great. This subverts people's expectations.

00:08:16.300 Again, not my expectation because I think I've had this guy's number almost from the beginning.

00:08:21.640 Maybe it's because I'm a New Yorker. Maybe, I don't know. Maybe it's because I've got a little

00:08:26.080 bit of a wider political imagination. And I think a lot of you do as well.

00:08:29.200 Now, this should have been obvious. A lot of this stuff should have been obvious.

00:08:35.340 The wrongness of the establishment media and the political left should have been obvious from the

00:08:41.560 beginning. But even just getting down to what Hillary accused him of, you like Trump and you're

00:08:46.700 going to get more peace. That's, well, he was going to cause more wars. Why?

00:08:50.320 It was very simple. We had been doing something for many, many years. And then Trump came in and

00:08:59.540 legitimately represented a change. His enemies were right about that. When his enemies came in

00:09:04.040 and said, Trump is something totally different that we've seen in our lifetimes. They were right

00:09:08.720 about that. Trump's enemies on the left said that. The Republican establishment said that. They all

00:09:13.820 agreed. Trump represented something different. The error they made is they said,

00:09:20.320 Trump represents a break. He represents something totally different. And therefore,

00:09:25.140 you're going to get more of the same. Hold on. Wait, wait, wait.

00:09:29.200 That doesn't follow. That's a non sequitur. But that's what is meant when Hillary Clinton says,

00:09:34.960 if you elect Trump, you're going to get a lot of war. Hold on. It's you people who have given us a lot

00:09:41.040 of war. It's you people. You, Hillary, as Secretary of State, certainly not the best Secretary of State

00:09:47.000 in American history. It's you, Barack Obama. It's you, George Bush, for that matter. It's you,

00:09:53.140 Bill Clinton. If you guys all represent something, broadly speaking, and then Trump represents

00:09:59.860 something totally different, then it follows that if you guys have all brought us a ton of war

00:10:06.440 all over the place. Going back before 9-11, Daily Wire has a new series out on the USS Cole.

00:10:13.980 An intelligence failure and a failure of the Clinton administration to respond to the USS Cole

00:10:18.920 that allows 9-11 to happen, that gets us into war in Afghanistan, that then they get us into war in

00:10:23.420 Iraq, then they get us into war in Libya, then they support the collapse of Egypt, then, then, then, 0.83

00:10:28.080 then, then, for 20 years. You guys did that. With you guys, we got more, more, more war. If Trump

00:10:34.880 represents something legitimately different, then of course you should expect that he's going to give

00:10:40.060 you peace. And yet somehow, somehow, these people don't get it. The Nobel Prize Committee doesn't get

00:10:46.980 it. However, the Nobel Peace Prize winner does, which puts egg on the face of all the committee

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00:12:05.080 that Trump is not going to get the Peace Prize. He's been campaigning for it. A lot of his supporters

00:12:09.720 have been campaigning for it. He's ended a bunch of wars. They won't give it to him. They gave it instead

00:12:13.980 to a Venezuelan political activist, Maria Corina Machado. Okay, probably most people don't know

00:12:22.140 anything about Maria Corina Machado. She was an activist against the Maduro regime. Maduro is

00:12:26.960 the left-wing dictator of Venezuela and seems that he lost the last election, but he held on to power

00:12:33.880 anyway and she gets the prize. This as President Trump is increasing his attacks on Venezuelan drug

00:12:41.540 runners, as there are even rumors that we might go to war in Venezuela. Rumors that just remain,

00:12:46.800 you know, in the periphery and the commentariat. But nevertheless, there's obviously a real tension

00:12:50.700 heating up between the United States and Venezuela. What do we think about Maria Corina Machado 0.99

00:12:56.140 getting this award? I, for one, think it's great because the Nobel Committee was not going to give

00:13:02.140 it to Trump. Hopefully, we'll force them to next year. But here's how she reacted to the prize.

00:13:07.200 I dedicated this award to the Venezuelan people and President Trump because I believe that's

00:13:15.160 absolutely fair. We, the Venezuelan people, are absolutely grateful to President Trump for the

00:13:19.140 way he has supported democracy and freedom in the Americas. Oh, I love her. Give her a second one.

00:13:26.080 We should give her some prize. America should give this woman some prize just for that line alone. 1.00

00:13:30.980 Trump comes out. He says, hey, have you seen all the wars I've ended?

00:13:35.300 You see, I ended the war in the middle. It is pretty good, right? Come on. I should get the 0.99

00:13:39.540 Nobel Peace Prize. And then all the libs on the Nobel Committee say, we're not going to give you

00:13:44.040 the Nobel Peace Prize. We're not. Actually, we're going to give the Nobel Peace Prize to someone else.

00:13:50.460 And then someone else comes along. It was like, I dedicate this to Trump.

00:13:54.680 And the Nobel Prize Committee says, no, no. Wow, that was a reverse Uno card. I think by the

00:14:01.360 transitive property of accolades, President Trump just won the Nobel Peace Prize.

00:14:07.500 He got, he at least got a share of it. Great. It's, in a way, it's funnier than him actually

00:14:12.760 getting the prize. They're just like, oh, we have to, it's so obvious we should give it to Trump,

00:14:18.320 but I don't really, I really don't want to. I can't do their silly Norwegian accents. 1.00

00:14:22.480 So I really don't want to. So what do we do? I know, we'll just give, we'll give it to this 0.95

00:14:26.280 Venezuelan lady, right? Don't the Hispanics, they hate Trump, don't they? She's like, totally love

00:14:31.080 Trump, man. Here you go. I don't know why she sounds like a cholo. But anyway, I think it's 1.00

00:14:35.660 great. She's terrific. And it's wonderful that she recognized Trump's role, even in that.

00:14:41.740 Now, I think even the libs are going to have to admit, this is a big deal. Some are quibbling.

00:14:49.840 They say, well, Trump isn't really responsible for ending that war in, where was it? Between

00:14:56.260 India and Pakistan. India and Pakistan were going to work out a deal after increasing fighting and

00:15:01.140 bombing raids and all the rest. And so he really shouldn't get credit for that. Or he shouldn't

00:15:06.200 get credit for, what was it? Something like Serbia or something, or Thailand. I don't know.

00:15:10.380 Anyway, there were a lot of little skirmishes kicking off. He shouldn't really get, well,

00:15:15.040 what about Israel-Iran? It was pretty good. And this, I think, if the Knesset gives you a

00:15:20.220 standing ovation, it says you're responsible for ending this war. I think you got to admit Trump

00:15:24.360 did it. Jonathan Capehart of MSNBC, Big Lib on the Big Lib cable network, goes on another liberal

00:15:33.300 network, PBS, and admits what his multiple audiences do not want to hear. Trump got this done.

00:15:45.040 Look, I'm going to say something that I have never said before and that this audience has

00:15:50.800 never heard me say before. Kudos to the president. I think we are at this point because the president

00:15:56.820 was single, he was focused, single-mindedly focused on getting something, getting a deal

00:16:03.380 done, getting the hostages out. The hard part comes after he leaves the region, after we get past

00:16:14.120 phase one, assuming we get the 20, the Israeli hostages released, the 20 who are presumed alive

00:16:20.620 after the 2,000 Palestinians are released by Israel.

00:16:26.440 Okay, it's a slight correction to Jonathan Capehart here, even, and good on him for admitting reality,

00:16:32.020 but he says, okay, so the war has ended after two years and the hostages have been released and all

00:16:37.920 the things that people said were not going to happen, they did happen. But now is when the hard

00:16:42.580 part comes. I think that part was pretty hard. I think that was pretty hard, wasn't it? Because the

00:16:52.060 war kicked off on Joe Biden's watch, on the watch of the liberals when the Democrats had the government,

00:16:56.980 and they couldn't prevent it from happening, and then they couldn't resolve it for years.

00:17:05.340 And then Trump comes in, and he resolves it pretty quickly. This is the intractable place,

00:17:14.900 the Middle East, in the Holy Land in particular. And it took him about eight months, and then he

00:17:21.940 solved it. He fixed it. That was very hard. That was very, very hard. You guys couldn't do it. He

00:17:29.880 did it. Now, he's right. There's more hard stuff to follow, of course. And I have to say, good on

00:17:36.220 Capehart. He's on the other side. He is with the most liberal cable network. He's on PBS. So, okay,

00:17:43.860 good on him because what this means is there is no room for confusion. This was all Trump and Rubio and

00:17:51.120 the whole administration, but it was all the Trump admin. And it was extremely impressive.

00:17:57.480 You hear that, Nobel Committee? You hear that? You hear that, Hillary Clinton? You hear that,

00:18:01.420 Democrats? It's not close. Sometimes in politics, we say, well, it's a little ambiguous. And it was

00:18:08.020 this and that. Did Reagan really win the Cold War? Or was it really Gorbachev? The Nobel Committee

00:18:11.740 wanted to say it was all Gorbachev. This was all Trump. It was just all Trump. He did it.

00:18:21.880 Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. This is a great cause for celebration. Okay. Speaking of the Jews, 1.00

00:18:26.320 Jerry Nadler has accused Bobby Kennedy Jr. of anti-Semitism. This was a few days ago. I don't

00:18:33.980 want to let this go, though. Jerry Nadler, who is one of the more cartoonish members of Congress,

00:18:39.040 liberal Democrat from New York. Nadler tweets out. I'm not going to give you the context. I'm just going

00:18:45.020 to read you the tweet, okay? And I want you to try to guess the context. He says,

00:18:49.680 this is an anti-Semitic remark. I call on all my colleagues on both sides of the aisle to clearly

00:18:57.140 denounce it. He split the infinitive. Listen, that's the least of it here.

00:19:01.960 What was the anti-Semitic remark? Here we go. Some libawful Democrat lobs this accusation of

00:19:08.880 anti-Semitism. What is it about? Immigration? Is it about taxes? Is it about space lasers? What's

00:19:19.920 it about? What did RFK say? Do you have your guess? Here it is.

00:19:28.280 There's also just, there's many, many other confirmation studies. There's two studies that

00:19:35.880 show children who are circumcised early have double the rate of autism. And it's highly likely

00:19:41.520 because they're given Tylenol. So, you know, none of this is this positive, but all of it is stuff

00:19:47.780 that we should be paying attention to. He said that babies who were given Tylenol

00:19:54.840 have a higher rate of autism. And that is an anti-Semitic remark.

00:20:00.940 RFK, citing studies from Harvard, Johns Hopkins, Mount Sinai, not exactly a Gentile institution,

00:20:11.000 last I checked. Columbia, on and on and on, says actually when you give Tylenol to babies in utero

00:20:19.780 and really little babies, they have a higher incidence of autism and other neurological

00:20:24.020 developmental issues. And for this, Jerry Nadler says, it's an anti-Semitic remark. Why? Because,

00:20:31.440 he says, one of the reasons that little babies are given Tylenol is because they're circumcised.

00:20:36.740 And Jews are circumcised. Therefore, ergo, anti-Semitism, QED. 0.79

00:20:44.320 More than half of American baby boys are circumcised. And that's down, actually, in recent years.

00:20:51.780 Used to be, in the mid-90s, it was like 68%. The vast majority of American boys were circumcised.

00:20:59.040 Not because they're Jews. 2.4% of American baby boys are Jews. That number is pretty steady. 1.00

00:21:07.300 The vast majority, statistically, all of the boys in America who are circumcised

00:21:11.760 are not Jews. They're Gentiles. Now, why are they circumcised? It's not because Christianity 0.94

00:21:16.480 makes you circumcised. It's because America is a Protestant country. And so we come from, 0.87

00:21:21.380 or was a Protestant country. Increasingly, we're a Catholic country. That's a discussion for another

00:21:24.560 time. But we were founded by a bunch of Puritans and separatists and Brownists and pilgrims.

00:21:29.240 And they had some eccentric rituals. And one of which is they would circumcise. So there's

00:21:36.420 nothing wrong with circumcising somebody. There's nothing wrong. It looks like there might be some

00:21:40.700 health benefits to it. As long as you're not doing it for some religious reason. St. Paul says you

00:21:45.180 don't need to be circumcised anymore. Baptism is now your circumcision. But if you just do it for a 0.95

00:21:49.300 cultural reason or something, there's nothing wrong with it. It's all, basically all Gentiles 1.00

00:21:55.840 in America. How is that anti-Semitism? There are very few people who are more philo-Semitic than I

00:22:01.440 am. I'm from New York. I don't know. I like the ancient nomadic tribe. I know now it's very

00:22:09.260 fashionable to hate the ancient nomadic tribe, but I like them. But baseless accusations of anti-Semitism

00:22:17.620 at Bobby Kennedy Jr. for parroting some Harvard study on Tylenol. That, it does not, it does not

00:22:25.920 help the tribe. Okay. It's not, that's not, Jerry Nadler, you are not helping any situation.

00:22:32.140 And maybe, maybe don't give the little kids Tylenol if you're going to do the snip. Okay. I don't know.

00:22:38.860 I don't know. I'm not a medical doctor, but, but I am, I am a political observer. And I would say

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00:26:01.640 going until Massachusetts Department of Children and Families pulled their license last spring.

00:26:07.260 Foster family must accept a child's assertion of their LGBTQIA plus identity, address children by 0.88

00:26:14.300 their names and pronouns, and support gender neutral practices regarding clothes and physical appearance.

00:26:20.260 We had asked, is there any sort of accommodation? Can you waive this at all? We will absolutely love

00:26:26.460 and support and care for any child in our home, but we simply can't agree to go against our Christian

00:26:32.140 faith in this area. And we're ultimately told, no, you must sign the form as is or else you will be

00:26:39.180 delicensed. Do you see the irony here too? The reason that they took these kids in, these are foster

00:26:47.020 parents. These aren't parents who are adopting newborn babies. There are about 34 couples who

00:26:52.540 want to adopt a newborn baby for every newborn baby put up for adoption. Demand vastly outstrips supply.

00:26:59.100 We're talking about the market, as we now do, I guess, for newborn babies. For foster parents,

00:27:06.180 younger kids, teenagers who are in orphanages and state institutions who then go to live with them,

00:27:13.100 supply vastly outstrips demand. Okay. So this couple says, we are Christian. And because of our

00:27:23.500 Christian faith, we feel called to do what most people don't want to do. And that is taking these

00:27:29.460 kids who need a home. We're going to do that. And the state of Massachusetts came in and said,

00:27:33.940 okay, that's great, but you're not allowed to be Christian anymore. Yeah, you can do that. 1.00

00:27:40.020 But if you do this, if you do this thing that your faith has impelled you to do,

00:27:43.840 you have to stop being Christian or we're going to take your kids away. 1.00

00:27:47.420 Because it's not possible to be Christian and affirm the LGBT identity. You can't do it. I know 1.00

00:27:53.740 there are all sorts of flavors of religion that identify as Christian, they call themselves Christian,

00:27:58.660 but the church's teaching on this subject in particular is pretty clear going back about 2000

00:28:04.040 years. You just can't have it. Can't do it. So they say, well, we're not going to renounce our

00:28:10.720 faith for anything, but it's particularly crazy to renounce our faith in order to do the thing that

00:28:18.980 our faith has impelled us to do. Massachusetts says, okay, too bad. And we'll go find some gay 1.00

00:28:22.860 couple to give the kids to. Sorry. We're not going to allow the kids to be raised Christian. 1.00

00:28:27.780 That's what the state of Massachusetts is saying. We will not allow foster children to be raised in 1.00

00:28:34.040 a Christian household, which is obviously religious discrimination. And beyond religious discrimination,

00:28:41.020 it's obviously wrong. All sorts of ideas, they call themselves religion. Some true, some false. But

00:28:48.800 in this case, it's so obviously wrong. You have to raise a kid in an LGBT LMNOP household or affirming 1.00

00:28:57.840 household. Can't raise them in a Christian household? That's crazy. What this reveals, though, 1.00

00:29:04.040 is the absurdity of the left's argument when they accuse us of trying to enforce our morality on others.

00:29:12.780 Why do you care? Why do you care? That's what they always say. I actually really enjoyed going on the

00:29:20.600 show. I was on Adam Friedland's show. He was this left-wing comedian. We had a great conversation.

00:29:25.500 You can catch it on his YouTube channel. But one of the moments where the interview got kind of spicy

00:29:31.460 is when he was really hitting me on the trans stuff. And he said, well, why do you care?

00:29:38.020 Why do you care? I don't care about this. I said, oh, great. If you don't care, then cut it out.

00:29:42.900 The left was the aggressor on this issue. They're the ones who forced the guys in the

00:29:46.140 girls' bathrooms. They're the ones who forced the rainbow flags all over the public square. 1.00

00:29:49.860 And so we responded to that. But if you're saying you don't care, oh, great. Wonderful.

00:29:55.080 Oh, then I guess we're in agreement. You don't care. So give it up. Shut up about the LGBT stuff. 1.00

00:30:00.660 Get the stupid rainbow flags out of the streets. Get the men out of the girls' bathroom. 1.00

00:30:04.600 Great. You don't care. Because you don't care. We do care about morality. So good.

00:30:09.060 But then I guess we're in agreement. I say, well, no. I mean, when I say, why do we care? I mean,

00:30:15.320 Christians need to shut up. It's basically what the left is saying. They don't really mean it. What 0.99

00:30:19.120 do you care? It's funny. Adam actually cut out part of the interview where we were talking about

00:30:24.740 the transgender ideology. I said, do you think it's true? He said, well, I just don't care. I said, 1.00

00:30:29.520 I didn't ask if you care. I asked if you think it's true. And they cut that part out of the

00:30:33.340 interview because obviously people care. You should care. And also, I think most people on

00:30:40.960 the left know that it isn't true. They know that the transgender thing is fake. They know a lot of 1.00

00:30:44.480 the LGBT stuff is fake. But the most charitable read I can give is they think it's nice. They think 1.00

00:30:52.880 it's nice to lie to people. I think that's sincerely what most of them think. And so they

00:30:58.060 say, stop making us answer questions of truth and falsehood. Can't you just be nice? Why do you

00:31:03.720 care? It's like, well, you care a lot. And I think the truth is good and will set you free. And I think

00:31:08.120 falsehood is bad. I think lying is bad. And I think it's disrespectful. And I think it leads you into

00:31:12.780 misery. But one thing I think we should all be able to agree on is we all care. We all care.

00:31:20.560 And there will be some kind of moral framework for the law. So it's either going to be ours or it's

00:31:29.900 going to be yours. And it doesn't even have to feel that personal because that's kind of the way

00:31:34.160 the left views it. It's just factions vying for dominance over the other. That's not how I think

00:31:40.220 about morality. I think the only way that we can come to, I don't know, a peaceful resolution for

00:31:47.260 the law is to think about the law as something objective that can be arrived at through reason.

00:31:54.540 That is the premise of self-government. That is what our founding fathers thought and our framers

00:31:57.940 thought. And so that's where this question about truth and falsehood comes from.

00:32:04.260 Is it true? Let me just ask you, especially there are plenty of liberals and left-wingers who watch the

00:32:08.220 show. Let me just ask you, do you really think, when we're talking about trans or whether we're

00:32:14.200 talking about marriage, do you really think men and women are exactly the same? So similar that 0.99

00:32:24.220 a union of two men is the exact same as the union of two women? Is the exact same as the union of a 0.84

00:32:33.340 man and a woman? Do you really think that? Do you really, well, I just don't care. I just want people

00:32:38.400 to do it. That's not what I asked. That's not what I asked. What do you think? It's just us gals. 1.00

00:32:46.740 It's just you and me. Come on. It's just you and me. What do you think? You know it's not. You know

00:32:53.160 it's not. Well, it doesn't mean that I want to enforce it in the line. Hold on. You know it's not

00:33:00.460 true. You know it's a lie. You think it's some kind of noble lie. You think it's some kind of

00:33:06.600 comforting lie, but it's a lie nonetheless. Let's go further. Do you think it's good to enshrine lies

00:33:15.160 into our laws? What do you think? I just, I don't care. I don't. What do you think? No, probably not,

00:33:26.040 right? Probably not. Well, what's the worst that could go wrong? Well, okay, here's one example.

00:33:31.680 Christian parents who take in these orphans that who no one else wants to take in, 0.69

00:33:36.040 they're told they can't anymore because the state will discriminate against them and force them to

00:33:40.440 stop being Christian if they want to keep their kids. That's like one example of how things go 1.00

00:33:45.520 wrong when you enshrine lies into law. Women getting raped in bathrooms by men who are allowed to go in 0.96

00:33:50.860 there. That's another thing that goes wrong when we enshrine lies into laws. Girls losing their 1.00

00:33:55.080 scholarships and their trophies when we allow men to compete against them in sports and we pretend

00:33:59.280 they're all the same. That's another thing that goes wrong. A mass increase in anxiety, depression,

00:34:05.600 and suicidality as we encourage the LGBT LMNOP identity with a special focus on the T. That's 0.99

00:34:10.820 another thing that goes wrong. Suicide rates remaining practically the same before and after

00:34:15.580 the transgender procedures that destroy people's bodies. That's another thing that, need I go on? 1.00

00:34:20.880 Need I go on? Because we could be here all day. I think most people know the truth. I think most

00:34:29.700 people know, even if they don't want to admit it, like my left-wing comedian friend on that show

00:34:34.360 in the part that was cut out. I know most people don't want to admit it. I think most people know

00:34:40.100 that a man can't really be a woman. Most people know that there's something a little bit odd

00:34:44.580 about, you know, a couple of fellas or a couple of chicks. And it's a little bit weird, right? It's

00:34:50.420 not, let's just say not exactly the same as a man and a woman. I think most people know that.

00:34:55.820 The only question is, will you have the courage of your convictions to actually say the thing that

00:35:01.600 you know to be true and further to behave that way in public and in politics and put that into the

00:35:09.920 law, put truth into the law instead of lies? Will you have the courage to do that? That's the question.

00:35:17.720 Here's a little warning if your answer to that part is no.

00:35:21.760 The other people will have the courage to put lies into the law. The other people will have the

00:35:27.000 courage to try to force you to lie. The other people will have the courage, a dubious kind of

00:35:31.960 courage, but a courage nonetheless, to force you to renounce your faith if you want to perform an act

00:35:36.580 of charity. They will do it. So someone's going to, someone's going to do it. Is it going to be you

00:35:43.760 on the side of the good stuff and the true stuff, or is it going to be the other side? But it's,

00:35:48.360 it's inevitable that there's going to be some moral framework in the law because it's going to be

00:35:54.360 inevitable that people care because you're human beings and we're social creatures and we're inclined

00:35:58.160 to live in society. So we care. That's just, that's how it works. Speaking of moral issues

00:36:02.280 and the rainbow stuff, even the liberal media admitting some good news from the Supreme Court

00:36:08.220 on a so-called, this is a really loaded phrase, conversion therapy.

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00:36:41.100 Do not miss it. Go to dailywire.com and join today. My favorite comment on Friday is from

00:36:46.920 the Drummer's Workshop, Norm's Music. Wow, of course. How many, we should do an analysis.

00:36:52.520 What percentage of my favorite comments? Because I don't really look at the names generally.

00:36:56.540 I just pick my favorite comment. What percentage of them are from this one commenter,

00:37:01.260 among the zillions of comments on these videos, this one, the Drummer's Workshop,

00:37:05.060 Norm's Music, who says, in 1492, Columbus sailed the ocean blue. In 2025, Trump should receive the

00:37:11.900 Nobel Prize. That's true. It's a near rhyme. It's at least asinant. That's a good one. NPR is admitting

00:37:18.180 that conservatives are probably about to win a big case at the Supreme Court. Remember I told you

00:37:24.980 a week or two ago, I said the Supreme Court is hearing this case on so-called conversion therapy.

00:37:30.240 There's this Christian therapist in Colorado. It's always Colorado for some reason. She's there

00:37:36.520 and patients come to her and they say, I have these unwanted sexual urges and intrusive thoughts

00:37:42.800 and desires and stuff. And I want ways of coping with them. And she's not allowed to help them

00:37:49.880 because there's a ban on so-called conversion therapy. And what's weird about this is if a

00:37:57.220 patient went in and said, hey, I'm straight, but I want to be gay. I don't know. They'd probably put

00:38:04.560 it differently. They'd say, hey, they'd probably phrase it in this really liberal way. They'd say,

00:38:08.880 hey, I'm in a bourgeois and oppressive romantic construct. And I want to explore my sexuality and

00:38:16.720 my identity. And I don't know, whatever. That's what they say. But the bottom line would be,

00:38:20.700 if a patient walked into a shrink and said, I want to go from straight to gay,

00:38:24.720 there would be nothing wrong with that. I'll put it in even more concrete terms.

00:38:29.500 If a boy walked into the shrink and said, I want to be a girl. I think I am a girl.

00:38:35.440 There would be nothing wrong with the shrink saying, okay, Sally, well, let's explore that.

00:38:39.600 What color dresses do you like? But if patients walked in and wanted to

00:38:44.580 go the other way, that would be illegal. The psychologist could lose his or her license.

00:38:51.820 Which means that there's no ban on conversion therapy. Boy can walk into a shrink and say,

00:38:57.900 I want to be a girl. And the shrink not only can convert him, but is actually kind of obligated

00:39:03.700 to convert him. So that conversion therapy is totally fine. It's just the other kind of conversion.

00:39:08.980 Converting in the other direction, you're not allowed to do. Which is obviously viewpoint

00:39:13.480 discrimination. And even NPR is admitting this. Even NPR covering the oral arguments in the Supreme

00:39:18.420 Court case says, Supreme Court seems highly doubtful of limits on conversion therapy for minors.

00:39:25.220 So just the highlights here. This evangelical therapist in Colorado says that her free speech

00:39:33.400 rights are being violated because she's not allowed to give advice in one direction, 0.99

00:39:37.880 but she is in the other direction. Justice Alito, very solid, maybe the most solid guy on the court,

00:39:43.980 says, this looks like blatant viewpoint discrimination, as we just said.

00:39:49.840 That was the conservative read. I think if you're even semi-literate, you have to recognize it's

00:39:55.280 obviously viewpoint discrimination. Now, what is viewpoint discrimination? It's what it sounds like.

00:39:59.840 It's when you favor, you permit one viewpoint to the exclusion of other viewpoints in public life,

00:40:08.440 which according to our present jurisprudence, you're not allowed to do. There's actually a

00:40:12.480 deeper discussion about that and what viewpoint discrimination even means. And I take it on

00:40:16.120 a lot in my book, Speechless, Controlling Words, Controlling Minds, which you can get wherever great

00:40:22.360 books are sold. But in any case, according to the law, as it is now, you're not allowed to have

00:40:27.100 viewpoint discrimination. And Alito says, this looks like viewpoint discrimination.

00:40:32.280 Ketanji Jackson, who is the Supreme Court justice who was befuddled by Senator Blackburn's

00:40:39.060 question, what is a woman, during her confirmation hearing. She said, I'm not a biologist. She laughed.

00:40:43.480 She said, I don't know what a woman is. She's two degrees from Harvard. Ketanji Jackson disagreed with 0.50

00:40:50.340 Alito. I'm not sure if she was able to form a coherent sentence or argument, but she disagreed with

00:40:55.260 him in any case. And she's on the side of the ban, according to the reporting. However,

00:41:02.180 this isn't just a conservatives on one side, liberals on the other side issue.

00:41:05.420 Even Justice Elena Kagan, who was dean of Harvard Law School, who is a huge lib, 0.57

00:41:10.240 but is intelligent at least. She seems to be on the side of Alito here and on the side of the

00:41:18.740 evangelical therapist who says this is viewpoint discrimination. She said, quote,

00:41:22.180 let's just assume that we're in a normal free speech land rather than in this kind of doctor

00:41:26.460 land. And if a doctor says, I know you identify as gay, and I'm going to help you accept that. 0.81

00:41:30.940 And another doctor says, I know you identify as gay, and I'm going to help you change that. 1.00

00:41:35.020 And one of those is permissible and the other is not. That seems like viewpoint discrimination.

00:41:40.060 Almost the exact scenario that I just mentioned.

00:41:43.080 The reason I love this story is, one, it's good for the law. It's good for a conservative

00:41:53.440 culture. It's good for the rights of therapists. It's good for the rights of patients, for that

00:41:56.800 matter. But also, you know how much I hate to say I told you so? I called this one years ago,

00:42:03.640 years ago, when all, even the conservatives were saying, well, I oppose, I'm certainly opposed to

00:42:08.320 conversion therapy. They thought it was like Mike Pence hooking you up with electrodes to,

00:42:12.360 you know, a car battery or something. I don't know, whatever the libs made us think it was.

00:42:15.760 And I thought about, even the phrase for a second, I said, wait, wait, this is obviously a 1.00

00:42:21.840 polemical, stupid slogan because all therapy is conversion therapy. Because the whole point of 1.00

00:42:30.420 therapy, maybe not how it's actually practiced, but the whole point in principle is that you go in

00:42:35.400 to change your ideas and behavior. You say, I have ideas and behavior that are distressing me.

00:42:42.360 And I'm going to go see this psychologist to change them, to convert from one set of ideas

00:42:47.520 and behavior to another. So if you were actually to outlaw so-called conversion therapy,

00:42:52.420 you would be outlawing the practice of clinical psychology, which is why it's simply a political

00:42:58.940 slogan. It's just a polemical phrase. And it looks like that phrase has outrun its usefulness.

00:43:05.300 You know, Steven Pinker at Harvard, he has this phrase that he coined, the euphemism treadmill,

00:43:13.260 where he says, we have all of these terms that we use, these happy, clappy slogans,

00:43:18.900 not merely to soften harsh truths, like you call an old woman, you call her a lady of a certain age.

00:43:24.680 You know, that's not a lie. It's just kind of softening a harsh truth. You don't call her an

00:43:28.200 old hag or something. But with the left, they use these euphemisms to lie about the truth. 1.00

00:43:36.940 So they'll say, you know, a criminal is a justice-involved person. That's the opposite

00:43:40.260 of what it is. They'll call a man a trans woman. That's not softening a truth. That's just lying, 0.98

00:43:46.040 right? That's the opposite of it. And the same thing here, conversion therapy.

00:43:50.360 This is trying, it's not a euphemism. It's sort of the opposite of a euphemism. It's a

00:43:55.260 disphemism. It's a, you know, it's trying to make a reality seem worse than it actually is.

00:44:01.800 But it's run out because eventually people figure out what the score is. They say, hold on,

00:44:07.140 an undocumented dreamer, future American, whatever. They're actually, it's just like a 0.99

00:44:12.320 face-tattooed gangster. It's an illegal alien. Oh, huh. And then you have to come up with a new 0.96

00:44:15.880 euphemism. Well, they're going to have to come up with a new disphemism here. They're going to have

00:44:20.000 to come up with a new scare slogan because I think people realize that the jig is up.

00:44:25.420 Now, speaking of dubious laws, I love this. I cannot go before I get to this one.

00:44:30.200 Gavin Newsom, Patrick Bateman himself over there in California wants to be the next Democrat nominee

00:44:34.280 for president. Newsom is trying, he's doing this schizophrenia act. Speaking of psychological

00:44:40.820 conditions, he's doing the schizophrenia act where on the one hand, he wants to seem like the moderate.

00:44:46.900 He's going to be the Bill Clinton figure in this race as the left has gone so woke.

00:44:50.820 And so he's going to try to be friends with Charlie Kirk. He's going to try to be friends

00:44:53.840 with Steve Bannon. He's going to reach across the aisle and have conversations. That's one side.

00:44:59.420 Then on the other side, he's going to, through his press office, justify the potential assassination

00:45:06.780 of Stephen Miller by calling him the same phrase that Charlie Kirk's killer called him. 0.99

00:45:11.780 You're a fascist. On the other hand, he's going to be the mayor of San Francisco who performs so-called 0.95

00:45:18.300 gay marriages before it's legal. He's going to be this super lib. So what is he? Is he the moderate? 0.73

00:45:24.440 Is he the super lib? He's trying to have it both ways because he knows he can't win the primary if

00:45:28.400 he's not a super lib, but he can't win the general if he's not a moderate at this point because the

00:45:32.800 left has gone so far and the right has taken over the common sense. Sometimes political radicals

00:45:38.100 actually can win general elections, but for the left right now, that can't happen because they've

00:45:41.660 ceded so much of the culture, so much of the center ground, so many of the demographics that

00:45:45.560 they used to rely on. Okay, so what is Newsom doing now? He's done the moderate thing a little bit.

00:45:49.800 Now he's trying to bolster his left-wing bona fides. He has signed a law creating an office of

00:45:56.680 reparations for slavery in California. A couple years ago, he got this ball rolling. There were going

00:46:02.820 to be reparations for slavery. Now, mind you, there is currently no program for reparations for

00:46:08.460 slavery, but there is now an office to distribute the reparations that don't exist for the program

00:46:14.740 that does not exist. That's not even the funniest part. The funniest part is, I don't know how many

00:46:22.400 of you are history buffs. California was admitted to the union as a free state.

00:46:31.140 There was never slavery in the state of California. Furthermore, California, go dig back to your ninth

00:46:39.660 grade history. California was admitted to the union in the compromise of 1850. The admission of

00:46:48.100 California to the union was one of the chief causes of the civil war, which was fought not entirely,

00:46:55.560 but to a significant degree to abolish slavery over the question of slavery.

00:47:02.200 If there is one place on earth, not just in America, on earth, that should not feel any historical

00:47:11.040 guilt or responsibility for slavery, it is the state of California. So of course,

00:47:15.740 they lead the country in establishing an office for reparations. You couldn't make it up. A Hollywood

00:47:23.640 screenwriter in California could not make it up. For Newsom, the profound ignorance that it would take

00:47:34.280 to do this, or the profound cynicism and low estimation of his own constituents, which is worse.

00:47:42.200 I don't know. I don't know. But ignorance is a cause of slavery. Ignorance and lack of discipline,

00:47:48.160 those are the two causes of true slavery. Because the truth makes you free. We were talking about

00:47:51.560 that earlier.

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