Ep. 1842 - BREAKING： China Pushes Muslim Communist To Take Over New York
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TikTok is a vehicle for foreign propaganda into the United States, and a new report suggests that it comes from the government of China. Michael argues that China has a backdoor into subverting American politics, and that it s time to kick them off the ballot.
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The Muslim communist, who is likely to be the next mayor of New York, has racked up a lot of
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big endorsements in his race to destroy America's greatest city. But a new report from the New York
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Post suggests that he has earned the most important one yet, previously undisclosed,
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and that would be from the government of China. I'm Michael Knowles. This is The Michael Knowles Show.
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Welcome back to the show. So much to get to. Amazing stuff, not the least of which is that
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a TikToker took off her nose ring and her life changed. We'll get to all of that first, though.
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We'll see. Big story, splashy, New York Post. TikTok has been promoting Zoran Mamdani. TikTok,
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owned by China, propaganda vehicle into the United States, is pushing an anti-American Muslim
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communist who fights for queer liberation, who's going to destroy New York City. I have no doubt
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that that is all true. I have no doubt that that is all true, okay? And there are problems with TikTok.
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TikTok is a vehicle for foreign propaganda into the United States. That's true. That's all true.
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But one of the reasons that conservatives haven't totally jumped on board with beating up TikTok
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is because the other guys, the domestic players, are also propagandists pushing left-wing candidates
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and ideas against our interests. That was a problem. If you wanted to get conservatives to rally against
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TikTok, and many of them did, but many, especially younger conservatives, did not. If you really wanted
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them to rally against TikTok, then you need to give us a better alternative than Facebook and Instagram
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and Google and YouTube and all these places that, though they've course corrected a little bit
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since the election, have been very bad for conservatives. If there were a great domestic
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alternative, I guess X is providing that, but if there were a really, really big domestic alternatives,
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then we could say, all right, get rid of the Chinese propaganda TikTok. We don't need that.
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But the direct competitor to TikTok is Instagram Reels, and Instagram and Facebook historically have
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been very bad to conservatives. So if you're an American conservative, you're looking at that,
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you say, look, man, I don't like the Chinese Communist Party, but if we boot them out of the country,
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if we really bring the hammer down on them, all we're doing is empowering our domestic opponents
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who increasingly look like domestic enemies because they encourage our murder, and they celebrate our
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murder, and at the very least, they prosecute our politicians, and they try to kick them off the
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ballot, and they try to throw pro-life grannies in jail, and it's just, I'm not doing that.
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Okay, I recognize the geopolitical problem of this. You don't want your greatest geopolitical
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adversary, China, to have a backdoor into subverting American politics. I have no doubt
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that's exactly what they're doing. But you know why else Zoran is leading in the polls?
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Because of mass migration. That's not China's fault. That's not TikTok's fault. The Democrats did that,
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and the squish Republicans let that happen. And I'm not just talking about illegal immigration,
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just mass migration generally. He plays well in New York with a lot of the migrant communities.
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You know why else Zoran is leading in New York? Because of our terrible education system
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that the libs took over decades ago, and that they had used to pump a bunch of anti-American
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ideas into our heads. Not all that different from what TikTok's doing. You know why else Zoran is
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leading right now? Because of a political order run by the left for decades that has turned people
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against their own country and encouraged them to tear down statues of the founders and builders of
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our country, like George Washington. That wasn't just China. That wasn't just TikTok. Okay? So,
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yeah, I don't want China doing that. But please spare me the selective outrage. I'll make you a deal.
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I would be happy to boot, not even just have a deal with TikTok, you know, in a way that
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protects American interests a little bit more. I'd boot the whole thing out of the country.
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If you guys would also agree, you guys, not you guys, you guys are very intelligent and handsome
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and understand what's going on. I'm talking about the left. Yeah, great. Okay, now you're upset because
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Momdani's creating problems. You're like the kind of centrist damn establishment left. Yeah,
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all right, let's boot TikTok out. If you will also stop the mass migration, if you will also fire all the
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terrible teachers and take the power away from the communist teachers union, and if you will also
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stop your political leaders from turning people against their own country, if you'll do all that,
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all the other big long-term problems that have contributed to the Muslim socialist who's about
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to take over America's most important city, then we should also get rid of TikTok too. And it'll be a
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big handout to Facebook, but that's fine, whatever. If you're not going to fix all those problems,
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sorry, I just can't believe that you're serious. All of a sudden, recognizing the threat from China
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now. We got identical threats from our opponents here in the United States. And if they're not going
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to do anything about it, all right, whatever, so be it. Speaking of foreigners, here's a clip that's
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been going viral right now of a couple of illegal aliens going on the Caleb Hammer Show. It's a popular
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podcast to talk about debt. Here's just a little taste of what they racked up.
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Well, you guys also have debt. How much debt do you guys have? Oh, yeah.
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Over $100,000 of debt that's not even the house. Literally, wow, $130,000 of debt that is not the
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house. So they rack up a huge amount of debt. This thing goes way, way longer. They talk about
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hundreds and hundreds of thousands of dollars in debt. By the way, they have decent jobs,
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but they're gaming the system. They're illegal aliens. So you got to wonder how,
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if they're paying taxes, maybe not so much. No intention to pay back any of this debt.
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And that's not the worst part. Everyone's really offended at that part. Everyone's really offended.
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that clip is the illegals racking up their debt and taking their handouts and this, that, and the other
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thing. The worst part to me is that they felt confident to go on the show. That, to me, is the
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most dispiriting part of the whole thing. They know that our immigration enforcement historically in the
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last several decades has been such a joke. They know that half of the country's political order
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wants them to break the law, actively wants to stop law enforcement from arresting them,
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that they can just go on a show, brag about how they broke our laws, brag about how they're here,
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show their faces, brag about all of the problems they're creating for our country, and they know
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that very likely they will face no consequences for it. Now, you could say, I know what you're going to
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say. You're going to say, well, look, they're obviously not the most rational people. They're
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racking up all this debt, and they don't have enough money to pay for it, and maybe they're not
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totally rational. Maybe they're super rational because they realize they're never going to be
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held to account for this, but put them aside for a second. How many times in the last 15 years
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have you seen illegal aliens get up on stage at some rally to protect the dreamer, future,
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future, American, undocumented, American, Americans? How many times people get up there,
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they say, I'm undocumented. They're confessing to a crime, and they're inviting law enforcement
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to come arrest them, and they know. They're mocking you. They're mocking all of us. They're
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saying, you're not going to do it. You're not going to arrest me. If you do, it'll get gummed up in
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the courts, and the Democrats are going to try to have my back, and it's so deeply offensive,
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which is why every time this happens now, from now until the end of this term, which is all
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we're guaranteed, frankly, from now until the midterms, which could shift the political power
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in the country, though I don't think it will right now, the administration has to not just
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deport a lot of people, and they've done a lot better on the deportations than they're getting
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credit for, because a ton of the deportees are self-deporting, and that's showing up in labor
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statistics, that's showing up in studies from immigration hawks, from the Center for Immigration
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Studies. So the administration is doing a good job, and a much better job than their critics
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are admitting from the right on deportations, but the problem is they have to deport the high-profile
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people, because they have to establish deterrence. They need to make clear that if you show your face
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in public, and you have the temerity to admit that you're here illegally, and to demand a bunch of
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stuff, you're going to be first in the line to get out of the country. You can't treat these people
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the same way that you're treating all the other illegals. Yes, I know they're prioritizing the
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face-tattooed gangsters and the terrorists. Yeah, you've got to prioritize these people,
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because it's very psychically damaging to see illegal aliens mock your country, mock your whole
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system, and get away with it. Got it. They need to... I'm sure Tom Homan's already taken a look at
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that video. Everyone saw it if they were on social media, but they've got to go. They've got to leave.
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Speaking of America's interactions with foreigners, an unbelievable scene that it seems unrelated to
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something we were just talking about. I think it's totally related. Do you remember I said on the
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show yesterday, the day before, I said, quoting Cardinal Manning, I said, there is a time to come
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that will reverse the confident judgments of men. Many of our big political obstacles that we seem to be
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struggling with are actually just failures of political imagination. We're just so dispirited.
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We just feel like nothing can change. It's just, this is it. This is the way it's always going to
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be. And I said, guys, things can change very quickly. Civil wars have started for less than some of the
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things we've been looking at. We obviously want to avoid that. We want a healthy restoration of our
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political order. I'm going to give you a scenario. You tell me if you think this seems like it would
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have been likely or unlikely or impossible even a year or two ago. Here's a scenario.
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The King of England, who is the leader of the Church of England, which broke away from the Catholic
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Church 500 years ago, goes and prays in the most famous chapel of the Vatican. Goes to the Pope
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to go pray with the Pope. And you might say, that would have been impossible. And
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the Pope that he's praying with is an American monarch. The King of England, head of the Anglican
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my Anglican friends out there. I think there are still some Anglicans. No, I can name a couple
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Anglicans at least. I know it's tough. It's tough these days with the bishopresses and all the rest
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of it. The fact that King Charles would do this very excellent thing and go to the Pope, go to the
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Sistine Chapel, pray with the Pope is really good. And I think any reasonable person would have to
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conclude this as a tacit acknowledgement that Anglicanism has not totally worked out. And you
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know, by the way, the Anglican ecclesiology, I'm not going to pretend to be some expert on it,
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but it is at least a little more open in principle to being in communion with Rome despite some of the
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political fights of the 16th century, despite certain kings of England maybe kind of wanting
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to chop their wives' heads off. And look, it's water under the bridge. He did it. He went to Rome
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because Anglicanism is not a vital force. And as a religious spirit continues to reawaken,
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and we're seeing this in just about every social scientific data point we can find,
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I don't think it's going to be Anglicanism exactly that gets the big boost. Look, I have great
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respect for my Anglican friends. It's twice the liturgy, half the guilt a lot of the time,
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but this is a big sign. And on top of that, is this the first time ever that a British monarch
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has met with an American monarch? Because Pope Leo is an American. So he's an American citizen,
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but he's the monarch of the Holy See. He's an actual monarch of a country and an American citizen.
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It's kind of weird. I don't know how it works out with taxes. There have been a few of these other
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occasions where like a guy who had American citizenship or who was born here becomes the
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king of some, you know, far flung Pacific Island or something. But this is weird. This might be the
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first time. Maybe it's not the first time, but it's pretty notable historically, which means that
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for the broader point, maybe you're not Anglican, maybe you're not Catholic, maybe you're not all
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that religious. The fact that this could happen, a thing that five or 10 years ago would have been
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thought completely impossible for a whole host of reasons, reminds you, we can change things.
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Things do change. Actually, things change very rapidly in politics. And this is at the highest
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level because the Holy Spirit is on the move in the world. And at a lower level, because human
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beings have the free will to cooperate with God's grace and to do a whole lot of things. We actually
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can change things because polities are just you and me, kid. That's what countries are. Yes,
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there's constitutions and creeds and there are mountains and oceans. But you know what countries
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really come down to? They come down to people. They come down to you and me and everybody else.
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And when we want to do stuff, we can, if we have the vision and the courage to do so. Okay.
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Turning away from peace and love, I want to get to what the Democrats are up to because the Democrats
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just went to Los Angeles. Democrat legislators went to Los Angeles. We're there with a former
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Democrat legislator, Karen Bass, another communist, like an actual card carrying communist some decades
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ago. He's now the mayor of Los Angeles, to announce a program to track ice.
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I shared this with the mayor. Over the course of the next couple of weeks, the oversight committee
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will be launching on their website a master ice tracker where we're going to be essentially
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tracking every single instance that we can verify that the community will be able to send us
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information on. They're going to put the ice master tracker on their website.
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Let me ask you something, which you just heard there from the Democrats. Let me ask you,
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what's that for? What's that for? Because they said it in a really boring way,
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and we're going to have a master tracker on our website that people can go to look when ice is
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coming. What does that mean? What's that for? There are only two things that can be for.
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I'm going to give the most charitable view. The most charitable view, ignoring the reality of
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Democrats in politics right now, just being as gracious as I can be, is that Democrat federal
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officials working with local officials are undermining law enforcement, undermining cops who are enforcing
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the most basic of American laws, namely who can come in, namely the border, which literally delineates
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the country. You have Democrats who are so lawless, who are so tyrannical or would be tyrannical if the
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people would give them the power that they demanded, who are so irrational that they would undermine
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law enforcement, kicking out murderers and rapists and gangsters and terrorists. That's the best thing
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I can say about them. Because you know the more likely reason that they're putting this website up
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is to encourage violence against ICE, because there's been a lot of violence against ICE.
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That's why ICE has to wear the masks now. And then Democrats like Gavin Newsom in California try to
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pass laws that force the ICE members to take their masks down. It's the one mask that Gavin Newsom
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doesn't like. Gavin Newsom made us put masks on two-year-old babies for years. Oh, we were all
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about masks when we had to hide from the Wu flu, contrary to scientific data. But now that federal
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law enforcement are trying to protect themselves and their families from being doxed and harassed and
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murdered, now they got to take the masks off. And now there's going to be a website put up,
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not by Antifa, not by some fringe left-wing group, by the Democrats in Congress, federal law enforcement,
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or sorry, federal legislators, the lawmakers who are undermining federal law enforcement
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and threatening them. And the contextual evidence for that is they have been minimizing and excusing,
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and in some cases celebrating, the murder of a center-right civilian for over a month now.
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And that's just one example. There have been many, many more examples. I'm actually going to be at
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the Senate in a few days. I'm going to go down for a committee hearing to testify about left-wing
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political violence. So stay tuned for that. I'm very, very grateful to Senator Schmidt and the
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Republicans in the U.S. Senate for taking this issue seriously. First, though, speaking of Democrat
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meltdowns, I want to get to MSNBC, Mika Brzezinski, because the excuses that they're making for their
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political unpopularity are getting so delicious. Take a listen to this take on Abigail Spanberger,
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the Democrat running in Virginia, who is struggling a little bit politically right now because she has
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endorsed a man who called for his Republican opponent to be murdered and for his children to be murdered.
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This woman, she'll still probably get it, but she hit a couple rocks. Here is MSNBC's explanation as to why.
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It really is incredible when you have Abigail Spanberger, Mikey Sherrill, her background,
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all the different jobs that she has held in the military, and also like Alyssa Slotkin. I mean,
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my God, these women are incredible. And to them, I would say fight, fight, fight, because we need them.
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Yeah. We need them. And leading. And Mikey is like, she's doing a ton of interview. You know,
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when I talked to them, when I was in the car, you know, it was this car she'd gone from interview
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to interview to talk to talk to. But, you know, you still see the anxiety. Yeah. Cheryl did have
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a few missteps in her campaign, but she still has, as you say, about a five or six point lead per
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polling. Spanberger is leading Virginia a little bigger than that, but, you know, both still competitive
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races here heading into the last couple of weeks. But, but to Mika, to Molly's point,
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I mean, this is something that a lot of Democrats are grappling with right now is they've elect,
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they've nominated women two of the last three elections for the presidency, lost both. There
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are some who say, well, we can't do that again. The stakes are too high. But of course that does
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fall into the same misogynistic trap. Other countries have no problem electing women.
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Other countries have no problem electing women. Other countries, those good countries have no
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problem electing women. This country, Abigail Spanberger is struggling because people don't
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want to elect a woman. My brother, my sister, my sister, Mika, Abigail Spanberger is running against
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a woman. It's, does Mika Brzezinski not know that? The race in Virginia is between two women
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for governor. It's Winsome Sears on the Republican side and Abigail Spanberger on the Democrat side.
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Last I checked, Winsome Sears is a lady. This reminds me, there was a time, this was years ago
00:24:15.580
at this point, when, I think it was David Webb, he was hosting a radio show and he brought on this lady,
00:24:21.420
black lady to come on the show. She's a liberal, liberal Democrat. So she goes on and says,
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they're getting some heated argument. She's losing the argument. She goes, well, you're only saying
00:24:31.620
that because of your white privilege. Now this was a radio show and Webb starts laughing. He's
00:24:36.600
laughing because the lady didn't know that David Webb is a black guy. And so she's completely losing
00:24:41.560
the argument. She got nothing. She goes, well, you're just a dirty honky. I hate you, whitey.
00:24:45.920
Death to whitey. You're white privilege. And then Webb has to laugh. He's like, man, you don't even know
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I'm black. So the only reason Abigail Spanberger is having a tough time, the only reason these Democrats
00:24:56.040
are having a tough time is because people don't like women. No, they're voting for the other
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woman. Maybe, maybe we'll see. I'm actually, I look, I hope it works out in Virginia. I'm not,
00:25:06.020
not totally holding my breath. Okay. One quick thing that I have to get to before we get to the
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mailbag. Great, great news. A TikToker took off her nose ring. Okay. I posted a video about men not
00:25:19.040
liking me and the comment section is just absolutely frying me at the moment. But the amount of people that
00:25:24.260
brought up my nose ring is wild. And then someone said I look like a Democrat because of the nose
00:25:29.180
ring. So I'm taking it out. I just want to see. I just want to see because I don't take this thing
00:25:33.140
out. I just want to see. Oh my God. My light is so bright. I have a feeling I'm not going to be able
00:25:38.600
to put this back in. And oh my God. Oh, I got it. Oh, I like it. God. Sorry. Bad reaction. Bad
00:25:52.880
reaction. I like the no nose ring. Oh my God. I'd never thought I'd say that.
00:26:04.560
Yes, you can do it. You can do. I'm so in this line of work, you don't always feel like you're
00:26:13.320
making a difference. You know, you know, you don't always know if your message is getting out
00:26:16.540
there, but I released my very profound investigative report on the link between girls wearing the bull
00:26:23.340
nose ring. I'm not even talking about the little side one, which can be kind of cute. Sometimes I'm
00:26:26.340
talking about the bull one right in the middle, that and being totally crazy. I released my very
00:26:31.640
deep report. You can catch it on YouTube. What was that? Two weeks ago or something. And already
00:26:35.740
it's bearing fruit. And it's true. She looks better without the nose ring. She looks better.
00:26:40.520
She feels better. There is, if we want to really get deep into it, there actually is a connection
00:26:45.520
between your physical state and your emotional and psychological and spiritual state. There actually
00:26:51.300
is because we're incarnate creatures because we're like the animals and that we're bodies, but we're
00:26:55.420
like the angels and that we're sensitive souls. And anyway, there is actually a great deal of depth
00:26:58.980
that we can get to, but look at that. And you can change. People say, oh, I'm too far gone.
00:27:03.480
I've just, we were talking about this the other day with the boomers and the divorce. Sometimes
00:27:06.520
they say, oh, I'm too far gone. No, it's never too late. It's never too late. You can have five face
00:27:13.020
tattoos, three bull nose rings. You could have been doing OnlyFans for 150 years. That'd be pretty rough
00:27:18.780
by the end of that career. You could be, you could have all these problems. It's never too late. Now
00:27:24.100
that can really screw you up. It's going to be hard to dig out of all that stuff, but it's never
00:27:28.980
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00:28:00.480
My favorite comment yesterday is from the drummer's workshop, Norm's Music, says the left went from
00:28:04.140
no electoral college to no branches of government. That's really amazing, isn't it? That was a fast one
00:28:11.420
they pulled. We need to get rid of the electoral college. And then why? Well, because we win the
00:28:17.340
popular vote. Okay. Then what happens? They lose the popular vote and the electoral college and the
00:28:22.960
presidency and the House and the Senate and the Supreme Court. They say, all right, we need revolution
00:28:28.640
in the street. We need to, I know, I know. That's how it works. Because the election is only legitimate
00:28:34.120
if they win. That's what they mean by our democracy. Okay. Finally, we've arrived at my favorite time of the
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Hey, Michael, this isn't a question so much as just thoughts about what you were talking about with the
00:28:58.820
boomers. You know, I was thinking, how did they come to be so strange and off-kilter? And I wonder if it
00:29:07.360
doesn't have to do with the Great Depression and several wars back to back and their fathers coming
00:29:13.980
back broken and messed up and distant. Not trying to run interference for them, but I just wonder,
00:29:23.740
because we know all these statistics about kids doing better with single fathers than single mothers,
00:29:30.320
I just wonder if the boomer generation is all screwed up because their dads were all screwed
00:29:37.600
up. Anyway, take care. Thanks for the show. God bless. It's a great point. Yes, of course.
00:29:46.700
Yeah, remember, I'm a conservative. I'm not one of these arch libertarian types who thinks we're all
00:29:51.840
individuals and Pache Kamala Harris, we just fell out of a coconut tree or something like that. I know,
00:29:56.700
I think that's true. That's why I'm not so hard on the boomers. I was a little tough on them the
00:30:01.480
other day because I said, the reason that you're seeing problems and social turns among boomers and
00:30:11.860
Gen X, sorry, Gen Z and millennials, Gen Z and millennials are actually, they're the ones
00:30:15.980
leading church attendance now. The boomers still not really going back to church. I said, it's the same
00:30:20.600
reason. It's because the boomers got divorced. And because they got divorced and continue to get
00:30:25.620
divorced at the highest rates of any generation ever in recorded history. Because of that, they believe
00:30:30.540
that they can't overcome their sin. They just feel alienated from the church because marriage is an
00:30:35.020
image of Christ and his church. And the Zoomers and the millennials have had to deal with the fallout
00:30:41.200
from all those divorces. And so they recognize that there's some disruption to the social order and
00:30:45.340
this is not how things are really supposed to be. And that's, I think, is pushing them. I understand
00:30:48.820
that's all psychobabble, but that's why I'll grant your psychobabble about the boomers. Yeah, maybe,
00:30:52.700
I don't know, maybe their dad didn't hug them enough or something. I mean it, maybe they did. I
00:30:55.600
don't know. That's tough. That's why, you know, we're all, we're all humans, man. We all, we have
00:31:02.080
human solidarity. We all come from the same parents, Adam and Eve. So I don't beat up really on one
00:31:06.580
generation or the other, but different generations screw things up differently in this fallen world.
00:31:11.680
And it means that you have to, you know, you gotta, you gotta figure it out. You gotta, you gotta
00:31:19.260
improve. You don't need to be afraid to improve. Okay. Next one. Hey, Michael, big fan of the show.
00:31:25.660
I've been listening to you for about three years now while stationed overseas in Japan. So every
00:31:30.340
time I get to listen to you in the morning, it's probably evening, wherever you're at.
00:31:34.440
I had two questions. My first question was, do you believe in the rapture? And if not, why not?
00:31:41.220
My second question was, what is the creme de la creme? Three years to this day, I still don't know
00:31:48.020
what that is or what it means or how it came about. So if you could shed some light into that,
00:31:54.720
I would appreciate it. Thanks for what you do. Happily, thank you for your service. First of all,
00:32:00.420
I'm honored that you've made it through this show for years and the creme de la creme. That's a very
00:32:04.220
pretentious way of saying all of you, all of you, the best, the very best. Other people, you know,
00:32:10.580
who they listen to other shows, they read it there, they read other books there and they're okay.
00:32:14.600
They're kind of the hoi polloi, but you, the yodek, chum de la creme. As to your question on the
00:32:19.280
rapture, I believe in the antichrist. I think there will be an antichrist and there's a spirit of
00:32:25.260
antichrist and many antichrists. I believe in the apocalypse. I believe in the second coming.
00:32:30.660
I believe in the resurrection of the dead and the life of the world to come.
00:32:35.620
But the rapture is a more specific, I won't even say just Protestant notion because it's a very
00:32:41.740
particular kind of Protestant notion. Traditionally, most Protestants do not believe in the rapture.
00:32:48.420
But as I understand it, in the 19th century, the notion of a rapture before the tribulation,
00:32:55.460
where all the elect will just be sort of beamed up to heaven, that really came about in the 19th
00:33:01.400
century. And it was popularized by John Nelson Darby. And it was popularized as a footnote in
00:33:06.220
the Schofield Bible, which has gotten a lot of attention in commentary recently. And so that's
00:33:11.080
a very modern idea. Now, an idea can be modern and true. But in this case, I'm not really persuaded
00:33:18.100
by it. I hold to the view, traditional view held by Catholics and mainline Protestants and
00:33:26.300
the Eastern Orthodox. Okay. Do we have time to get to any more? Mr. Davies doesn't want me to get to
00:33:36.480
Hi, Michael. Huge fan of the show. Love watching you every day. I'm just wanting to know your thoughts
00:33:43.500
on Halloween. I've been seeing a lot of Christians lately saying that they don't celebrate it because
00:33:50.460
the origins of Halloween and that it's Satan worship and things like that. It's personally
00:33:55.760
one of my favorite holidays. And so I just wanted to get your thoughts on the holiday.
00:34:01.840
No, Halloween's great. It can be great. It can be bad too. But Halloween's great. It comes out of
00:34:06.900
Christianity, really, because it's the night before All Saints Day. So it's great. You know,
00:34:12.100
it's perfectly fine. But there's a big but to this. I think you should take your kids trick-or-treating
00:34:17.180
and it's lovely. But I would not go in for all the occult stuff because there is weird occult stuff
00:34:23.260
on Halloween. You know, people suddenly dress like demons or witches or stuff. I wouldn't do that.
00:34:28.340
I would have a little more wholesome costume. On the secular side, you know, dress your kid up like
00:34:32.480
he's Aaron Judge or something. And if you want to have a little more religious appeal, dress your kid
00:34:37.200
up like a saint or, I don't know, biblical figure or something. That's kind of fun. I wouldn't go in for,
00:34:41.660
don't dress up like the devil or anything. Don't do, you know, don't do that on a Tuesday either.
00:34:45.940
You know, don't just don't just don't do devil stuff. Generally, it was good advice. But in terms
00:34:50.700
of dressing up and having fun and going out and eating candy, it's good. It's good. And it has
00:34:54.900
actually has a religious foundation. Okay. No membrum segmentum today. I'm sorry to say I'm still
00:34:59.080
in Central Europe, but I'm coming back. I will be back. And we will have the membrum segmentum again
00:35:04.980
wonderful to be with you as always. I will see you on Monday in Nashville. I'm Michael Knowles.
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00:36:02.940
I don't think that's right. Well, hold on. That's not as crazy. I just want to say I agree
00:36:06.800
with that. I totally disagree with it. I have to say that. Friendly Fire, October 29th, 7 p.m. Eastern.
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The Friendly Fire should stop across the board. You mean the show.