The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 1848 - If Mamdani Wins, New Yorkers May Need to Learn Arabic

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00:00:30.120 which might elect its first Muslim communist mayor,

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00:00:38.680 The elections in New York, in New Jersey, in Virginia, and elsewhere

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00:01:05.420 I'm Michael Knowles.

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00:01:26.840 Will the real Zoran Mamdani please stand up?

00:01:30.480 Who is Zoran?

00:01:32.000 Is he a radical leftist?

00:01:33.240 Is he a Muslim?

00:01:33.980 Does he sound like a millennial New Yorker?

00:01:36.820 Does he sound like some kind of Ugandan?

00:01:38.500 That's not a good Ugandan accent.

00:01:39.640 We'll get to Zoran's ever-changing accents momentarily.

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00:03:17.340 So, Zoran, a chameleon, a political chameleon who might take over New York,

00:03:23.000 though the polls are tightening dramatically.

00:03:24.960 I'm not going to say it's a dead heat.

00:03:26.440 It's not true.

00:03:27.120 But with the momentum, it really might end up being a dead heat by the end of today.

00:03:31.440 Voting is tomorrow.

00:03:33.200 Zoran makes his last pitch to New Yorkers.

00:03:37.260 Here's the commercial.

00:03:37.960 I think many people are going to look at that and say,

00:04:05.940 wow, that's AI, those racist Republicans are making Zoran seem like a foreigner,

00:04:12.160 only appealing to foreigners, doesn't speak English.

00:04:15.880 It's not AI.

00:04:17.080 That's a real ad.

00:04:17.820 That's a real ad.

00:04:18.580 And he made it to appeal to foreign-born New Yorkers, New Yorkers,

00:04:23.380 can you even say New Yorkers, who they don't primarily speak English.

00:04:27.540 He's appealing to Arabic kind of memes and customs and behaviors and language.

00:04:33.380 And you know what, kids?

00:04:36.600 That's politics.

00:04:38.560 People are really attacking him for this.

00:04:40.440 And they say, he's not in the melting pot.

00:04:42.400 And he's a hyphenated American.

00:04:43.980 And we shouldn't behave this way.

00:04:47.080 And he shouldn't be appealing to these voters.

00:04:48.540 Well, you know what?

00:04:49.140 Appealing to these voters might very well get him elected mayor of New York,

00:04:52.320 even as a Muslim communist.

00:04:53.480 So that's politics.

00:04:56.600 Politics is appealing to people based on real or perceived similarities.

00:05:03.640 That's what politics is.

00:05:05.860 It's been going on for a long time.

00:05:08.540 It's been going on with the Irish and the English and the Italians and the Jews and the Mexicans and everybody.

00:05:15.820 And now it's going on with the Arabs.

00:05:17.600 And you know why?

00:05:18.200 Because we imported a bunch of people from the Middle East and South Asia and parts of Africa.

00:05:25.060 And if you don't like that kind of politics, then don't import people from those areas.

00:05:29.160 But don't demand that politics be something other than it is.

00:05:34.060 If you're upset that Zoran Mamdani is not campaigning on apple pie and fireworks on the 4th of July,

00:05:41.920 if you're upset that he's not campaigning on traditional aspects of Americana,

00:05:46.220 or at the very least traditional aspects of being a New Yorker,

00:05:49.660 I don't know, New York Yankees, pizza.

00:05:53.600 If you're upset by that,

00:05:55.520 then, well, I guess we shouldn't have imported the rest of the world.

00:05:59.580 But when you import the rest of the world and you tell them not to assimilate,

00:06:03.460 and you do it in such huge numbers that really they couldn't assimilate anyway,

00:06:06.900 then don't expect them to campaign in any other way.

00:06:11.440 I think the Zoran campaign is a big wake-up call,

00:06:15.360 not just to the right, but to the center and to parts of the center left,

00:06:19.220 to say, oh, yikes.

00:06:21.020 We thought this mass migration was fine.

00:06:23.500 We thought everyone would just assimilate.

00:06:25.380 We thought, I'm talking to the cynical Democrats here,

00:06:27.700 we thought that we could just bring them in and take their votes,

00:06:30.580 and it wouldn't affect our way of life at all.

00:06:32.580 But now, it feels like we're walking around Karachi.

00:06:36.740 Hmm, maybe that's not ideal.

00:06:39.220 It's not just the foreigners, though.

00:06:41.620 Zoran Mamdani would not be mayor of New York without the foreign-born vote.

00:06:44.860 That's simply a fact.

00:06:46.080 Cuomo would be the mayor of New York if you took out foreign-born voters.

00:06:50.460 But it's not just the foreigners.

00:06:52.960 It's also liberal white ladies like this.

00:06:57.700 One of the reasons I moved here is because I wanted to be surrounded by people who are not like me.

00:07:03.840 I wanted to hear seven different languages every day when I walk down the street.

00:07:08.900 And I'll speak for myself personally.

00:07:10.900 I hope that our next mayor will be somebody who can protect our way of life here in New York

00:07:18.880 and protect and fight for the things that we want

00:07:22.680 and stand up to those who want to take things away from us,

00:07:27.600 those who want to defund us.

00:07:29.620 And because all of those things will make all of our current problems so much worse,

00:07:34.140 I want to have somebody who will stand up to what might be coming for us.

00:07:39.520 Okay.

00:07:40.800 She checks almost every box.

00:07:43.420 The short kind of silly haircut, wearing a men's jacket,

00:07:47.780 describing how she moved to New York from somewhere else.

00:07:52.220 She was dissatisfied with her hometown.

00:07:55.560 You know, her hometown, it just wasn't creative enough for her.

00:07:58.880 It's too conformist, man.

00:08:00.660 She wanted to move to New York to be with her real people.

00:08:04.980 You know, she just wants diversity.

00:08:07.140 She wants to walk down the street here in seven different languages.

00:08:11.360 You know, maybe a little sex in the city.

00:08:13.720 At the very least, we're going to live like in Friends.

00:08:17.320 Oh, when she was a kid, she watched all those episodes of Friends, a big city.

00:08:20.560 She just knew that was for her.

00:08:22.460 Not her stuffy hometown with her dumb dad.

00:08:25.780 And all, and the safety of suburbia.

00:08:30.220 No, absolutely not.

00:08:32.940 And then what?

00:08:33.600 She goes on and she says, she's describing her choice for mayor.

00:08:39.740 She just speaks in a bunch of platitudes.

00:08:42.300 I just want someone to defend us and our way of life.

00:08:45.500 What is our way of life?

00:08:46.420 Our way of life is diversity.

00:08:47.420 And I want to stop the bad things and do the good things.

00:08:52.500 She is apparently, and I know that I'm engaging in a little bit of psychobabble here, but forgive me.

00:09:00.940 Her answer, I won't say her.

00:09:02.940 Her answer is both frivolous and resentful.

00:09:06.860 And that typifies liberal politics, especially the liberal politics of bougie-looking white women, both frivolous and resentful.

00:09:18.340 There is the politics of the supposedly aggrieved minority, which is mostly resentful.

00:09:24.660 There is the politics of like hippie children that's mostly frivolous.

00:09:30.460 Hers is a little frivolous and resentful.

00:09:33.020 And I'm not sure which one is more dangerous.

00:09:36.860 I am someone who spent the first 24 years of his life in and around New York, within a commuter train ride of Grand Central Station, okay?

00:09:51.280 From the time I was born to I moved to California at 24.

00:09:58.200 And this happens all the time.

00:09:59.980 There are these people that they move into New York, and they just have this sitcom image of New York, this TV show image of New York.

00:10:05.560 And they move in from all around the country, and increasingly, they move in from all around the world, which is why the foreign-born vote is probably going to elect Zoran Mamdani mayor, if the polls don't tighten more today.

00:10:16.240 But the thing about that view, the thing about the sitcom view of New York, is that it's a sitcom, it's TV, it's Hollywood, it's divorced from reality.

00:10:27.500 You know what they don't show that lady on Sex and the City?

00:10:30.060 You know what they don't show that lady on Friends?

00:10:31.700 They don't show a Guatemalan illegal alien lighting a woman on fire in the subway, okay?

00:10:37.860 They don't show what happens when far-leftists are elected mayor, and the city falls to pot, and there's crime everywhere, and people are getting murdered everywhere, and you can't go to Times Square, and you've got to elect Rudy Giuliani, and it takes 10 years to fix the city.

00:10:52.260 They don't show you that.

00:10:53.260 But that's what's going to happen, and this lady is going to be the first person to flee.

00:11:02.900 Frivolous and resentful.

00:11:06.240 Only a frivolous culture could even consider electing Zoran Mamdani.

00:11:11.860 Only a resentful culture would actually do it.

00:11:14.200 But who are they electing if they elect Zoran?

00:11:17.960 Who is Zoran Mamdani?

00:11:20.700 We'll get to the ever-changing Zoran first, though.

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00:12:31.140 So, a clip has come up of Zoran Mamdani, not that long ago.

00:12:37.220 You know, he's got a beard in this video.

00:12:38.980 It's not like he was 12 years old.

00:12:41.420 He's got a beard in this video.

00:12:42.780 He's on some radio station, Kaya FM 95.9.

00:12:46.820 Listen to the likely future mayor of New York.

00:12:49.180 You know, I'm from Uganda, but I also grew up in New York.

00:12:54.100 In New York, you don't really, you know, you go out, some guys are very hesitant to dance.

00:12:59.840 You know, if they're not grinding, they're just standing.

00:13:02.160 In Kampala, you will just not find that.

00:13:04.540 Okay, here is Zoran speaking like five seconds later.

00:13:09.120 I will be your Democratic nominee for the mayor of New York City.

00:13:15.900 That's impressive.

00:13:16.680 You know, people would knock Hillary Clinton because she'd go out on the trail and she'd

00:13:21.560 speak like, wah, wah, wah, wah, wah, wah.

00:13:23.800 Yes, that's my best Hillary impression.

00:13:25.860 But then every so often, if she was speaking to a black crowd or a southern crowd, she'd pull

00:13:29.640 off that, you know, I don't feel no way as tired.

00:13:33.440 I've come too far.

00:13:35.740 And it was implausible.

00:13:37.660 Zoran is much more persuasive.

00:13:41.280 Oh, well, you know, the thing about, I can't do whatever, I guess that's a Ugandan accent.

00:13:44.940 The thing about people is they don't want to dance.

00:13:48.300 And now I'm just doing a Sepp Gorka impression.

00:13:49.920 I don't know.

00:13:50.160 I can't do it.

00:13:50.680 I can't do it.

00:13:51.260 He can do it, though.

00:13:53.360 He can do an ethnically ambiguous kind of Ugandan African slash South Asian accent.

00:14:02.120 And then he can do a pretty persuasive New York accent.

00:14:05.080 And we don't know who we're getting.

00:14:08.460 All politicians, to some degree, do this.

00:14:10.040 I really don't even knock them forward.

00:14:11.180 It's one of the skills of being a politician is you are able to speak to different groups

00:14:14.540 of people.

00:14:15.040 And you're so gullible in a way.

00:14:17.960 You're so in tune with what people are feeling, with the pathos of the demos that you don't

00:14:24.340 even notice when you code switch.

00:14:25.940 I actually don't even knock politicians for it.

00:14:27.720 I think it's more a feature than a bug of being a politician.

00:14:30.000 You're supposed to do it in a way that doesn't make you look two-faced and duplicitous.

00:14:34.080 But it is part of the job.

00:14:38.340 Who are they getting, though?

00:14:40.700 Are they getting the Muslim extremist?

00:14:43.800 Are they getting the LGBT queer liberation extremist?

00:14:47.720 He's tweeted about that.

00:14:48.840 Are they getting a communist?

00:14:50.180 Are they getting a New Yorker?

00:14:51.380 Are they getting a Ugandan?

00:14:52.280 Who are they getting?

00:14:53.360 Who are they getting?

00:14:54.120 We don't know.

00:14:55.900 We might soon find out, though.

00:14:57.680 And it's pretty scary to think about.

00:14:59.220 So scary that President Trump is weighing in on his hometown's mayoral race.

00:15:05.940 And he's doing something that many people did not think would be possible.

00:15:10.500 He's kind of endorsing a Democrat.

00:15:15.020 But what if Mondami becomes mayor?

00:15:16.860 It's going to be hard for me as the president to give a lot of money to New York.

00:15:22.940 Because if you have a communist running New York, all you're doing is wasting the money

00:15:27.800 you're sending there.

00:15:28.620 So I don't know that he's one.

00:15:30.660 And I'm not a fan of Cuomo one way or the other.

00:15:32.980 But if it's going to be between a bad Democrat and a communist, I'm going to pick the bad

00:15:39.000 Democrat all the time, to be honest with you.

00:15:41.520 So what Trump is describing here is the Buckley rule.

00:15:45.220 Named after William F. Buckley Jr., a great man who said that in any election you should vote

00:15:51.760 for the most right viable candidate.

00:15:56.080 The candidate who is most to the right but could still plausibly win a race.

00:16:00.040 And right now in the New York mayoral race, you have Zoran Mamdani leading,

00:16:03.020 followed by Andrew Cuomo, a terrible governor of New York, terrible Democrat, just awful.

00:16:08.040 Lit up the Freedom Tower in pink to celebrate killing babies like horrible, horrible politician.

00:16:15.260 Lied about COVID.

00:16:17.640 Tried to pretend that he was the great hero of COVID.

00:16:20.540 COVID got run out of the party and run out of office on punitively on a sexual harassment scandal.

00:16:25.480 But it was really just because of his embarrassing performance in the actual job.

00:16:29.200 He's just awful.

00:16:31.300 I'm clearly not doing a great job at motivating the get out the vote effort for the Cuomo campaign.

00:16:35.740 But the only other candidate is Curtis Sliwa, who's a great guy.

00:16:40.740 I really like Curtis Sliwa.

00:16:41.760 He is the founder of the Guardian Angels.

00:16:45.060 The guys who was in the 70s, 80s would go onto the subways when crime was really spiking in New York

00:16:50.960 and clean it up as civilians.

00:16:52.940 And they're great.

00:16:53.620 I mean, he's a great guy.

00:16:54.720 But he's not going to win.

00:16:56.720 And so Trump is coming out and he's saying, look, Sli was not going to win.

00:17:00.000 So I guess I would vote for Cuomo.

00:17:02.860 He's essentially an endorsement of Cuomo.

00:17:06.220 I'm glad I'm not in New York right now that I don't have to make that choice.

00:17:09.840 But there are two schools of thought on this, especially from the right.

00:17:15.780 The one is, yeah, democracy is the theory that the common man knows what he wants and deserves to get it good and hard.

00:17:22.040 Let those New Yorkers suffer, this Muslim communist.

00:17:24.540 He's going to destroy the city, serves them right, screw them.

00:17:27.760 That's why I moved out of New York.

00:17:29.240 They're going to realize the error of their ways.

00:17:30.880 Maybe they'll come around.

00:17:31.780 Even if they don't, who cares?

00:17:32.980 That's one school of thought.

00:17:33.900 The other school of thought is, actually, we don't want a communist running New York, America's greatest city.

00:17:42.880 Actually, that would be bad for us because our cities are part of our country.

00:17:47.480 And we don't want that.

00:17:49.000 I do care for my fellow Americans and I would like to visit New York at some point.

00:17:52.900 And I don't want a communist there.

00:17:54.340 And of the two, you know, I tend to lean more toward the latter.

00:18:00.160 I am not libertarian.

00:18:02.160 I'm not individualist.

00:18:03.600 I don't want to watch parts of the country burn just to prove a point.

00:18:06.600 I'm not one of these people who wants to lose in a principled way because then we can prove how right we were.

00:18:12.780 I want to win.

00:18:13.460 I want to win.

00:18:14.320 I want the good guys to get more power and to do more good with the power.

00:18:17.880 And I want the bad guys to lose power.

00:18:20.260 And I recognize that politics is a practical art.

00:18:23.820 It's not a theoretical science.

00:18:26.520 It's practical.

00:18:28.300 And sometimes you got to play the hand you're dealt.

00:18:32.980 Now, I'm going to stop short of what Trump did.

00:18:37.260 Trump came out and he basically said I'd vote for Cuomo.

00:18:39.540 I'm going to stop short of that.

00:18:40.700 I just can't bring myself to do it.

00:18:42.460 And I take it as one of the great strokes of providence that I don't have to make that decision.

00:18:47.380 But I don't want New York to burn.

00:18:49.420 And there's no question.

00:18:50.200 If the entire Curtis Sliwa vote voted for Cuomo, Cuomo would clobber Mamdani.

00:18:57.140 It wouldn't be close.

00:18:58.840 Now, you might say, forget about that.

00:19:00.280 Because Mamdani is going to win anyway.

00:19:02.520 And I want to show that Republicans actually have some juice in New York.

00:19:06.580 Okay, I would agree with that if the polls were not closing.

00:19:10.360 It's pretty tight.

00:19:11.740 There is a world in which Mamdani is not the next mayor of New York.

00:19:14.800 I'm not saying it's likely, but it's possible.

00:19:16.920 Another race that's closing up, it's legitimately a dead heat,

00:19:20.600 is the New Jersey gubernatorial election.

00:19:23.820 This is, I don't even know what the Democrats' name is.

00:19:26.140 What's her name?

00:19:27.040 Mikey Sherrill versus Jack Ciattarelli.

00:19:30.260 Ciattarelli is about as good as you're going to get in a blue state like New Jersey or New York.

00:19:37.160 You know, he's a little squishy on certain issues as a Republican, but he's really strong on others.

00:19:41.500 He's really strong on others.

00:19:42.660 And you've got to grain on a curve a little bit in these states,

00:19:45.020 because if you run the most rock-ribbed right-wing Republican,

00:19:47.920 he's going to get blown out of the water.

00:19:49.660 By New Jersey standards, this guy's pretty good.

00:19:52.980 This guy's more than pretty good.

00:19:54.280 And it's a tied race.

00:19:56.040 It's 50.2, the Democrat, to 49.3.

00:20:01.260 Obviously, well within the margin of error.

00:20:04.100 How is that going to happen?

00:20:07.900 Because don't forget, guys, we won the presidency last year.

00:20:11.260 So what happens, usually when one party wins the presidency, then in the midterms,

00:20:17.380 or even in certain elections before the midterms, they get blown out of the water.

00:20:20.700 That's just the way things swing.

00:20:22.980 That's what everyone was expecting.

00:20:24.400 That's what all the genius political consultants are expecting to happen in the midterms next year.

00:20:29.340 And the thing that I've been trying to hammer home for over a year now,

00:20:32.480 really for considerably longer than that, is that past is not precedent.

00:20:39.500 You cannot, prior performance is not indicative of future results, okay?

00:20:44.160 Because we're kind of through the looking glass.

00:20:48.320 Trump is serving a non-consecutive second term.

00:20:51.120 We've only seen that happen one other time in American history.

00:20:53.280 The Democrats tried to imprison him four different times and justified his assassination,

00:20:58.700 which very nearly occurred one time, and less nearly, but still almost occurred a second time.

00:21:04.940 We are in a completely new world, okay?

00:21:11.800 And we might win the New Jersey governorship.

00:21:15.560 And who knows?

00:21:17.060 The Republican's not going to win the mayoralty in New York,

00:21:19.860 but the far-left candidate might get blown out of the water.

00:21:22.380 And who knows?

00:21:23.280 Maybe the Republicans will hold the House in the midterms.

00:21:25.900 And maybe the Republicans will hold the Senate.

00:21:27.860 And maybe politics has just changed.

00:21:31.400 Why?

00:21:31.940 Why could that have happened?

00:21:35.400 Obviously, certain facts on the ground have changed.

00:21:39.200 The prosecutions and the fact that Biden was senile and everyone lied about it,

00:21:43.420 and so on and so forth.

00:21:45.160 The cumulative effect of that is that the Democrat Party's reputation is as bad today,

00:21:52.200 actually considerably worse, than it has been in my lifetime.

00:21:55.440 Don't take my word for it.

00:21:56.920 Listen to CNN.

00:21:59.040 Democrats at this point are historically divided.

00:22:02.380 It is a complete and utter mess.

00:22:04.560 It is messier than a hoarder's basement.

00:22:06.600 What are we talking about here?

00:22:07.760 The national early poll leader, 25% plus.

00:22:11.020 Normally, that's where Democrats are.

00:22:12.720 Biden was at 25% plus in 2020.

00:22:15.180 Hillary Clinton was in 08 and 16.

00:22:16.900 Gore was in 00 and 04.

00:22:18.240 At this particular point, there is no one,

00:22:20.900 no one in the Democratic race for president who's polling at 25% plus.

00:22:25.500 The water is quite warm.

00:22:27.300 If you're a Democrat potentially thinking about running in 2028,

00:22:30.920 jump right in.

00:22:31.940 Because at this point, there is no front runner.

00:22:36.340 Is that, what do you think,

00:22:38.960 is that because how people view the Democratic Party right now,

00:22:42.200 is that contributing to this?

00:22:43.540 Yeah, I think that that is in large part of what's going on,

00:22:46.540 is one of the reasons why there is no front runner,

00:22:49.260 nobody wants to put anybody up at the top of their ballot list,

00:22:52.160 is because at this particular point,

00:22:53.760 the Democratic brand is in the basement.

00:22:55.940 It is total and complete garbage in the mind of the American public.

00:22:58.920 Total and complete garbage in the mind of the public.

00:23:03.120 So says the CNN pollster.

00:23:07.920 Look at the approved, disapproved.

00:23:10.880 They're underwater by 26, 30 points in all of the major polls.

00:23:16.020 They don't have a candidate for president.

00:23:20.200 320 million Americans, something like that.

00:23:22.620 Who knows how many illegals in the country?

00:23:24.880 And they can't find one person.

00:23:26.980 Notice, in the numbers cited there,

00:23:30.680 it's not that it was always the eventual nominee

00:23:33.640 who was leading the pack,

00:23:35.720 who was at 25% by this time in the election cycle.

00:23:38.480 It was Gore 2000, but also Gore 2004.

00:23:40.820 It ended up going to John Kerry.

00:23:42.460 It was Hillary in 08, ended up going to Barack Obama.

00:23:45.320 Then it did go to Hillary in 16.

00:23:48.640 But it was Biden, and Biden ultimately did get it.

00:23:53.040 But at least they had someone.

00:23:55.660 It'd be one thing if they said, you know,

00:23:57.160 the leading candidate right now is Bernie.

00:23:59.060 You know, isn't that for Bernie?

00:24:00.560 He's just too old, and he's probably too radical,

00:24:03.020 and there's no chance.

00:24:04.660 But you say, well, at least they have someone.

00:24:06.220 At least there's some cohesion to their party.

00:24:07.940 At least there's some direction.

00:24:09.100 At least there's some leadership.

00:24:10.100 They don't have any of that.

00:24:11.200 They don't have any of that.

00:24:12.980 And why?

00:24:13.540 Because they followed their slogans to their logical conclusions,

00:24:22.600 and their logical conclusions were deeply unpopular.

00:24:24.920 A lot of this, a lot of this is still the hangover

00:24:30.480 of the Democrats embracing sexually mutilating children.

00:24:36.620 I know that was like a really hot cultural issue

00:24:39.120 that we all talked about ad nauseum,

00:24:40.760 and then the Democrats kind of backed off it,

00:24:42.640 and now it seems almost dated because we won the issue.

00:24:45.080 We did win the issue.

00:24:46.240 Don't forget how we got here.

00:24:47.780 The Democrats said they wanted to sexually mutilate children

00:24:52.480 based on the New Age spiritual belief,

00:24:56.820 Gnostic notion that a boy can really secretly be a girl.

00:25:00.240 The Democrat Party embraced that.

00:25:02.980 The whole party at every level,

00:25:06.100 all the way up to the most supposedly moderate mainstream people.

00:25:10.200 And I'm just using that as one particularly egregious example,

00:25:14.000 but you can see it on a whole host of issues.

00:25:16.360 The Democrat Party broadly embraced the notion

00:25:19.360 that borders are evil and we need to flood the country

00:25:21.980 with face-tattooed Guatemalan gangsters, okay?

00:25:25.740 And they said that to middle America.

00:25:27.680 They said that to Peoria.

00:25:28.580 They said you're a racist and evil

00:25:29.860 if you don't want a bunch of Venezuelan killer drug dealers

00:25:33.280 coming into your daughter's school.

00:25:35.420 They said, all of them said that.

00:25:38.260 They, on issue after issue, said white people are evil.

00:25:43.160 They said men are evil.

00:25:44.220 They just said that.

00:25:45.500 They said that basically explicitly.

00:25:47.860 And now, believe it or not, their brand is in the doldrum.

00:25:51.460 Why is CNN admitting this?

00:25:53.800 I'll tell you.

00:25:54.340 Is it because CNN got honest all of a sudden?

00:25:55.760 I don't think so.

00:25:56.280 I mean, I don't know.

00:25:56.660 I get a kick out of this pollster.

00:25:57.720 Maybe he's more honest than most of them there.

00:26:00.700 But I'll tell you why they're saying this.

00:26:01.920 Because CNN suffered its own kind of reputational collapse

00:26:05.500 after 2024 election.

00:26:07.640 After the 2024 election, their ratings collapsed,

00:26:10.500 as did the other left-wing networks' ratings.

00:26:12.100 Why?

00:26:13.060 It's not because conservatives tuned out.

00:26:14.800 It's because the left tuned out.

00:26:16.200 And the left tuned out because they got lied to.

00:26:18.660 Because they realized that what was being aired on those networks was worthless.

00:26:22.800 So they brought some consequences to the networks.

00:26:26.100 The networks have no other choice.

00:26:27.260 What else are they going to say?

00:26:28.060 So they're now entertaining, trying to grapple a little bit with reality.

00:26:34.200 And the reality is absolutely brutal for the Dems.

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00:30:06.400 Democrats have one last trick.

00:30:07.840 One last trick as their brand is in the gutter,

00:30:11.380 as they don't have any front runner candidates,

00:30:13.440 as one of the best candidates they can field

00:30:15.020 as a Muslim communist.

00:30:17.100 The trick is to stop Trump

00:30:20.300 from tightening up election integrity.

00:30:24.280 President Trump, to hear the Democrats talk about it,

00:30:27.000 Trump is instituting poll taxes

00:30:29.440 and banning everyone who isn't rich uncle penny bags

00:30:32.980 from casting a ballot.

00:30:34.220 What is Trump actually doing?

00:30:35.880 It's a pretty modest request.

00:30:39.720 Trump wants proof of citizenship

00:30:44.060 to be a requirement

00:30:45.760 for voting in federal elections.

00:30:49.540 That's it, not even state elections,

00:30:50.600 not even local elections.

00:30:51.440 He's not even saying

00:30:53.500 that illegals can't vote in those,

00:30:54.720 they should not vote in those elections,

00:30:55.900 but he's not saying

00:30:57.460 that he has the power really to stop it.

00:30:59.780 All he's saying is so modest.

00:31:01.080 He's saying,

00:31:01.700 hey, can we,

00:31:03.220 when it comes to federal elections,

00:31:05.420 can we require just like

00:31:07.680 some proof that you're actually a citizen?

00:31:11.140 And a federal judge has said no.

00:31:16.320 U.S. District Judge Colleen

00:31:18.140 Collar-Cotelli in Washington, D.C.,

00:31:21.600 sided with the Dems

00:31:22.740 against President Trump's

00:31:25.620 executive order on voter ID,

00:31:28.540 ruled that proof,

00:31:29.400 this proof of citizenship directive

00:31:30.780 is an unconstitutional violation

00:31:32.960 of the separation of powers.

00:31:34.620 Listen to the reasoning here.

00:31:35.920 It's an unconstitutional violation

00:31:37.600 of the separation of powers

00:31:38.600 because, quote,

00:31:41.320 our Constitution assigns responsibility

00:31:43.040 for election regulation

00:31:44.040 to the states and to Congress.

00:31:45.820 This court holds

00:31:46.620 that the president lacks the authority

00:31:48.160 to direct such changes.

00:31:51.020 Okay.

00:31:51.560 So you see,

00:31:52.500 it's the best argument

00:31:54.400 that the left can make

00:31:56.200 as to why

00:31:56.920 the federal government

00:31:59.380 can't say that you need

00:32:00.320 to be a citizen

00:32:00.840 to vote in federal elections.

00:32:02.380 And the best argument

00:32:03.660 is that purely on procedural grounds

00:32:05.720 to say,

00:32:07.300 well, really,

00:32:07.720 it's supposed to be the states

00:32:09.440 and at the federal level,

00:32:10.760 at least Congress

00:32:11.740 that directs these changes.

00:32:13.320 And since the directive

00:32:15.640 is coming out of the White House,

00:32:17.380 technically speaking,

00:32:18.540 you know,

00:32:19.040 that might be outside the bounds

00:32:20.500 of the Constitution or something.

00:32:23.680 It's still a stupid argument.

00:32:25.480 It's still complete nonsense.

00:32:27.160 But it's the most plausible version.

00:32:30.760 However,

00:32:31.680 that's like saying

00:32:33.060 that the president

00:32:33.980 has no right

00:32:35.440 to require

00:32:36.160 that squares

00:32:36.820 have four equal sides.

00:32:39.900 You see the difference?

00:32:41.080 It's not

00:32:41.580 that the Trump White House

00:32:42.960 is changing

00:32:45.260 the way elections

00:32:47.060 are to be conducted.

00:32:48.160 Exactly.

00:32:50.920 The Trump White House

00:32:52.120 is merely clarifying something

00:32:54.380 that is intrinsic

00:32:56.100 to voting.

00:32:58.420 Much as having four equal sides

00:33:00.640 is intrinsic

00:33:01.440 to the nature

00:33:02.760 of a square.

00:33:05.460 Trump is not saying

00:33:06.600 that if you want to vote

00:33:08.080 in federal elections,

00:33:08.680 you have to wear

00:33:09.060 a blue polo shirt

00:33:10.140 to the polls.

00:33:10.840 That would be a change.

00:33:11.860 That would be at,

00:33:13.180 all he is doing

00:33:14.040 is clarifying

00:33:15.120 that you have to be

00:33:16.240 a citizen to vote.

00:33:20.200 There is nothing wrong

00:33:21.940 with him saying that

00:33:22.760 or doing that.

00:33:23.960 There is nothing special

00:33:25.140 about Congress

00:33:25.800 that says that only Congress

00:33:27.180 can make that observation.

00:33:31.940 Adrian Vermeule,

00:33:32.880 a much-cited thinker,

00:33:34.460 he's a law professor

00:33:36.580 at Harvard,

00:33:37.680 one of the only normal ones.

00:33:41.100 He's frequently mentioned

00:33:42.500 on this show

00:33:42.920 because he had

00:33:43.260 a great response to this.

00:33:44.260 He said,

00:33:44.700 the reason that this judgment

00:33:46.940 is stupid

00:33:48.020 has nothing to do

00:33:49.020 with this or that

00:33:50.800 interpretation

00:33:51.320 of the positive law.

00:33:52.400 It's because this judgment

00:33:54.080 contradicts the nature

00:33:55.840 of a republic.

00:33:57.180 If you can't,

00:33:59.240 if a polity

00:34:01.000 cannot state

00:34:04.620 that only its citizens

00:34:05.800 can vote in an election,

00:34:07.180 then the polity

00:34:08.640 is not in any meaningful sense

00:34:11.020 a real political community.

00:34:13.920 Because then foreigners

00:34:15.220 can vote.

00:34:15.940 There's really nothing

00:34:17.260 holding it together

00:34:18.060 as a political community.

00:34:20.900 Really,

00:34:21.620 it's a clever judgment,

00:34:23.280 but it's a dumb judgment.

00:34:25.660 Yes,

00:34:25.860 the president

00:34:26.400 has the right,

00:34:27.760 even though he's not

00:34:28.320 a member of Congress,

00:34:29.420 even though he's only

00:34:30.160 the president

00:34:30.560 of the United States,

00:34:31.380 popularly elected

00:34:32.080 as a Republican

00:34:32.520 for the first time

00:34:33.040 in 20 years,

00:34:35.340 even he has the right

00:34:36.960 to observe

00:34:37.780 and to clarify

00:34:39.020 that only citizens

00:34:40.480 get to vote

00:34:40.940 in federal elections.

00:34:43.000 He even has the right

00:34:44.280 to say that

00:34:45.600 squares must have

00:34:47.080 four equal sides.

00:34:47.760 This is their best shot.

00:34:51.140 And I think,

00:34:51.860 you know,

00:34:52.080 the Democrats

00:34:52.440 have told us for years

00:34:53.100 voter fraud is fake

00:34:54.840 and it's not real.

00:34:55.900 And we say,

00:34:56.580 oh, good,

00:34:56.840 if it's not real,

00:34:57.460 then let's require

00:34:58.240 proof of citizenship.

00:34:59.180 And they say,

00:34:59.360 well, no, no, no,

00:34:59.700 we can't have that.

00:35:02.980 Previously,

00:35:03.300 they were still up

00:35:04.260 on certain issues

00:35:04.920 or they still had

00:35:05.500 certain charismatic candidates.

00:35:07.240 Barack Obama,

00:35:08.920 he might be the last one

00:35:10.320 they had.

00:35:10.680 No, they've had some others.

00:35:12.280 And on certain issues,

00:35:13.220 they were doing well.

00:35:13.860 Now,

00:35:14.200 they're on the wrong side

00:35:14.880 of virtually every 80-20 issue.

00:35:16.400 They don't have any candidates.

00:35:17.560 They don't have any frontrunners

00:35:18.680 for 2028.

00:35:20.080 They've got nothing.

00:35:20.700 The only thing they have

00:35:21.680 is voter fraud right now.

00:35:22.840 And federal judges

00:35:23.840 are doing their very best

00:35:24.880 to keep it in place.

00:35:26.900 Now,

00:35:27.780 speaking about the Democrats

00:35:29.620 having trouble

00:35:30.120 connecting with voters,

00:35:32.200 I'm going to show you a post

00:35:33.320 that is shocking

00:35:35.080 but not surprising.

00:35:36.420 This is from Planned Parenthood.

00:35:38.600 Posted just a picture.

00:35:40.020 Looks like a fun,

00:35:41.560 you know,

00:35:42.040 retro,

00:35:43.000 hippie,

00:35:43.580 60s picture.

00:35:44.840 And it says,

00:35:45.780 it's a,

00:35:46.260 it's roughly

00:35:47.380 in the shape

00:35:47.980 of a woman's

00:35:48.880 pelvis.

00:35:50.940 It says,

00:35:51.640 you can get

00:35:53.340 as many abortions

00:35:54.940 as you need

00:35:56.120 and want.

00:35:58.280 Planned Parenthood,

00:35:59.160 standing 10 toes down.

00:36:00.720 It's got a salute sign.

00:36:02.820 You can get

00:36:03.420 as many abortions

00:36:04.220 as you need

00:36:04.780 and want.

00:36:05.400 This is a change

00:36:06.680 to left-wing messaging

00:36:08.020 on abortion,

00:36:08.800 which used to sound

00:36:09.920 like this,

00:36:11.060 care of Hillary Clinton.

00:36:12.920 We can support

00:36:14.220 a woman's right

00:36:15.500 to choose

00:36:16.180 that makes abortion

00:36:17.820 safe,

00:36:18.500 legal,

00:36:18.880 and rare

00:36:19.480 and reduces

00:36:20.860 the number

00:36:21.720 of abortions.

00:36:22.960 Do you remember that?

00:36:23.660 Some of our listeners

00:36:24.340 are going to be too young.

00:36:25.340 They're not going to,

00:36:25.720 they were but a glint

00:36:26.320 in their father's eye

00:36:27.040 when Hillary Clinton

00:36:28.160 was running for president

00:36:29.480 in 08.

00:36:30.340 And this was her line.

00:36:32.100 Abortion should be safe,

00:36:34.160 legal,

00:36:34.520 and rare

00:36:36.060 trying to find

00:36:38.600 this middle ground

00:36:39.360 on abortion

00:36:39.980 to say,

00:36:40.500 no,

00:36:40.600 we defend legal abortion,

00:36:41.820 but we don't like abortion.

00:36:44.380 So we don't want there

00:36:45.380 to be a lot of abortion,

00:36:46.300 but we need it to be legal

00:36:47.380 and we need it to be

00:36:48.700 easy,

00:36:50.320 you know,

00:36:50.800 safe to say.

00:36:53.740 And the problem

00:36:55.080 with that view

00:36:55.780 is that it never

00:36:56.960 made any sense

00:36:57.660 and it was always

00:36:58.560 going to lead

00:36:59.200 to the Planned Parenthood post.

00:37:01.400 Women can have

00:37:01.920 as many abortions

00:37:02.620 as they want.

00:37:03.820 Just a reminder,

00:37:04.720 girls,

00:37:05.320 you can go out

00:37:06.160 and kill as many kids

00:37:06.860 as you want.

00:37:07.580 And, you know,

00:37:07.920 the reason why

00:37:09.140 is that ideas

00:37:10.320 themselves

00:37:11.700 have momentum.

00:37:13.860 And the idea

00:37:15.000 that was embraced

00:37:16.360 by Hillary Clinton

00:37:17.160 is that it's okay

00:37:17.880 to kill your kid.

00:37:19.800 It's okay

00:37:20.460 to kill your kid.

00:37:21.920 There's nothing

00:37:22.580 really wrong with it.

00:37:24.200 And she added

00:37:25.020 a little coda to it.

00:37:25.880 She said,

00:37:26.240 but you shouldn't

00:37:26.940 do it too often.

00:37:28.960 But the coda

00:37:29.840 contradicted

00:37:30.520 the thesis

00:37:31.900 that she was advancing.

00:37:33.400 Namely,

00:37:33.760 that it's okay

00:37:34.160 to kill your kid.

00:37:34.800 There's nothing

00:37:35.140 really wrong with it.

00:37:35.960 It should be legal.

00:37:36.980 And it should be accessible.

00:37:38.540 It should be safe.

00:37:40.300 Simple.

00:37:40.960 Efficient.

00:37:42.120 But rare.

00:37:44.540 But easy.

00:37:46.020 And definitely legal.

00:37:48.540 Because that was unstable,

00:37:50.500 it was always

00:37:51.540 going to get to that point.

00:37:52.580 Either

00:37:52.900 it was going to

00:37:55.020 cease to be legal

00:37:55.740 or it was going to

00:37:56.140 cease to be rare.

00:37:58.000 And now you've seen

00:37:59.240 the sides clarified.

00:38:01.060 The conservatives

00:38:01.680 having overruled

00:38:03.060 Roe v. Wade

00:38:03.540 now are very clear

00:38:05.080 this should not be legal

00:38:06.020 at virtually any stage.

00:38:07.660 And the libs are saying

00:38:09.300 it should not be rare.

00:38:10.160 Okay.

00:38:10.300 I mention this

00:38:13.100 one because it's abhorrent

00:38:14.600 and you should see

00:38:15.640 these people

00:38:16.020 for what they are.

00:38:16.620 Whenever someone says

00:38:17.220 I think abortion

00:38:17.760 should be safe,

00:38:18.320 legal,

00:38:18.460 and rare.

00:38:18.800 I'm personally

00:38:19.260 opposed to abortion

00:38:19.960 but I think

00:38:20.740 it needs to be legal.

00:38:21.700 What they're saying is

00:38:22.460 I'm fine with

00:38:24.020 murdering little babies

00:38:25.260 but I'm too much

00:38:26.480 of a coward to admit it.

00:38:28.380 That's all they're saying.

00:38:30.200 I'm actually worse

00:38:31.280 than Planned Parenthood

00:38:32.280 because at least

00:38:32.920 Planned Parenthood

00:38:33.380 is telling you

00:38:33.900 what they really think.

00:38:34.840 Namely that it's cool

00:38:35.880 to kill as many kids

00:38:36.700 as possible.

00:38:38.480 And the Hillary's

00:38:39.320 of the world

00:38:39.680 and the Mario Cuomo's

00:38:40.720 of the world.

00:38:41.280 That line,

00:38:42.080 I'm personally opposed

00:38:42.940 to abortion

00:38:43.400 but I think

00:38:44.220 it should be legal.

00:38:45.020 That was Andy Cuomo's

00:38:46.040 father who came up

00:38:46.880 with that line.

00:38:48.020 The guy who is

00:38:48.800 the best hope

00:38:49.620 to avoid a Muslim

00:38:50.480 communist in New York.

00:38:51.440 It shows you

00:38:51.800 how pitiful

00:38:52.540 the situation

00:38:53.120 in New York is.

00:38:54.680 But in any case

00:38:55.620 it never made sense

00:38:58.100 and it was always

00:38:58.660 going to end up this way.

00:39:00.140 I mention it

00:39:01.120 not only to point

00:39:01.900 that out about abortion

00:39:02.680 but to remind you

00:39:04.660 that holds true

00:39:05.300 of other issues as well.

00:39:06.560 And there's something

00:39:07.080 that I've been

00:39:07.600 pointing out for 10 years.

00:39:09.200 When all the genius

00:39:10.400 right wing pundits

00:39:11.400 and the thought leaders

00:39:12.240 and the politicians

00:39:12.980 said,

00:39:13.560 oh abortion's over.

00:39:14.840 Or sorry,

00:39:15.320 the marriage issue is over.

00:39:17.220 We lost.

00:39:18.200 Move on.

00:39:19.420 Oh you heard this

00:39:20.020 from Republicans

00:39:20.640 from so-called

00:39:21.240 conservatives

00:39:21.760 even so-called

00:39:22.260 principled conservatives.

00:39:23.500 Oh we lost.

00:39:24.900 You know we're going

00:39:25.380 to adopt a libertarian

00:39:26.420 view on marriage now.

00:39:27.420 You can redefine it

00:39:28.220 however you want.

00:39:28.900 It's not my business.

00:39:29.740 Don't make me pay for it.

00:39:32.100 We lost.

00:39:33.020 It's over.

00:39:33.540 And I was one of the people

00:39:34.780 who said,

00:39:35.180 you know actually

00:39:35.940 I don't think we did lose.

00:39:37.580 I mean we've

00:39:38.160 had a setback

00:39:39.180 but marriage

00:39:40.580 is not just

00:39:41.340 some aspect

00:39:42.640 of the positive law.

00:39:44.580 Marriage is not just

00:39:45.580 some fad.

00:39:46.240 it's the pre-political

00:39:48.380 institution,

00:39:49.140 the building block

00:39:49.800 of all of politics

00:39:50.820 and part of

00:39:52.640 human nature

00:39:53.640 and the natural law

00:39:54.820 because man is inclined

00:39:55.620 to live in an ordered

00:39:56.300 society and we're

00:39:57.080 a coupling creature.

00:39:58.620 So I don't think

00:39:59.460 it's just going to go away.

00:40:01.860 And I think

00:40:02.580 when people

00:40:03.820 recognize

00:40:04.660 the conclusion,

00:40:06.420 the logical conclusion

00:40:07.780 of the absurd idea

00:40:09.340 of same-sex marriage,

00:40:10.840 they're going to return

00:40:11.460 to normal.

00:40:11.960 That was my thesis.

00:40:13.300 You know how much

00:40:13.780 I hate to say

00:40:14.160 I told you so.

00:40:15.780 But look what's happened.

00:40:17.680 You've seen a collapse

00:40:18.920 in support

00:40:19.420 for same-sex marriage.

00:40:20.240 I think approval

00:40:20.660 of same-sex marriage

00:40:21.280 is now at 54%.

00:40:22.240 It's still quite high

00:40:23.100 but it's way down

00:40:24.260 from what it was.

00:40:25.260 Why?

00:40:27.180 Because ideas

00:40:27.760 have their own momentum.

00:40:29.520 So the feminist idea

00:40:30.480 that men and women

00:40:30.980 are the same

00:40:31.500 led to the

00:40:32.200 gay rights movement

00:40:33.500 so-called

00:40:34.100 that said that men

00:40:35.020 and women are the same

00:40:35.740 which led to

00:40:36.340 redefining marriage.

00:40:37.120 It said that men

00:40:37.540 and women are the same.

00:40:38.460 So if men and women

00:40:38.960 are the same

00:40:39.340 then a man and a woman

00:40:40.400 in a union

00:40:41.060 is the same

00:40:41.700 as a man and a man

00:40:42.680 is the same

00:40:43.080 as a woman and a woman.

00:40:46.540 And I think

00:40:47.440 a lot of people

00:40:48.040 would have been

00:40:48.440 happy to stop there

00:40:49.320 but the ideas

00:40:50.280 have momentum.

00:40:51.280 And so the idea

00:40:51.860 kept going.

00:40:52.380 It said well

00:40:52.620 if men and women

00:40:53.060 are the same

00:40:53.540 then a man

00:40:54.440 can become a woman.

00:40:55.200 That's the transgender idea.

00:40:57.080 If men and women

00:40:57.800 are the same

00:40:58.380 and a union

00:40:59.100 of two men

00:40:59.540 is the same

00:40:59.980 as a man and a woman

00:41:00.660 then two men

00:41:02.240 need to be able

00:41:02.940 to have a baby.

00:41:05.160 Now two men

00:41:05.860 can't have a baby together

00:41:06.840 if you took

00:41:07.320 seventh grade biology class

00:41:08.480 you know that.

00:41:09.560 So that means

00:41:10.140 that two men

00:41:10.680 in order to have

00:41:11.100 their equal rights

00:41:11.800 because they're married.

00:41:13.160 They're married

00:41:13.580 just like

00:41:13.960 even though matrimony

00:41:14.900 comes from the word mater

00:41:15.780 which means mother

00:41:16.860 and there are no mothers

00:41:17.980 involved.

00:41:18.420 No they're married

00:41:19.100 just as surely

00:41:20.680 as Jim and Sally

00:41:22.240 down the street

00:41:22.700 are married

00:41:22.940 so they have a right

00:41:23.720 to a baby

00:41:24.180 and so we need

00:41:24.680 to open some baby stores.

00:41:26.180 And we need

00:41:26.620 to create a market

00:41:27.360 for men

00:41:28.480 to buy the eggs

00:41:29.220 of women

00:41:29.660 and then

00:41:30.320 gestate a baby

00:41:31.540 in another woman

00:41:33.360 and then intentionally

00:41:34.520 create a child

00:41:35.040 to deprive him

00:41:35.520 of his natural mother

00:41:36.320 and we have to do that

00:41:39.780 for them to have

00:41:40.240 their equal rights.

00:41:41.660 And then once

00:41:42.080 the kid comes out

00:41:42.800 we need to let the kid

00:41:43.540 pick his sex

00:41:44.420 and become the opposite sex

00:41:45.580 and we need to sexually

00:41:46.500 mutilate the kid.

00:41:48.340 All of that

00:41:49.140 comes from the same idea.

00:41:51.340 And so I pointed out

00:41:51.980 when the

00:41:53.260 transing the kids thing

00:41:54.560 was the straw

00:41:55.300 that broke the camel's back

00:41:56.160 really destroyed the Dems' reputation.

00:41:57.840 I said we're not just

00:41:58.700 going to stop there.

00:42:00.200 Now that the idea

00:42:00.940 is moving in the other direction

00:42:01.760 the momentum is going to continue

00:42:03.040 in the other direction.

00:42:04.760 Do not be surprised

00:42:05.700 when Obergefell is overruled.

00:42:08.260 Do not be surprised.

00:42:09.200 You should celebrate

00:42:09.820 but regardless

00:42:11.280 even if you like Obergefell

00:42:12.520 even if you like

00:42:13.420 the notion of same-sex marriage

00:42:14.520 do not be surprised.

00:42:15.720 Okay.

00:42:16.860 Speaking of nasty feminism

00:42:18.220 Wanda Sykes has said something

00:42:19.620 quite ugly

00:42:21.460 and probably illegal

00:42:22.920 at the Power of Women Awards.

00:42:24.840 We'll get to that momentarily first.

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00:44:28.420 My favorite comment

00:44:29.960 on Friday

00:44:30.760 from Jesse

00:44:31.320 8A10

00:44:32.500 Excellent

00:44:34.060 excellent timing

00:44:34.980 because we're talking

00:44:35.660 about the Power of Women Awards

00:44:37.100 which is also the

00:44:38.260 dinner

00:44:38.960 to which

00:44:39.960 Sydney Sweeney

00:44:41.420 wore the translucent dress

00:44:42.680 said

00:44:43.920 that dress

00:44:44.780 that dress

00:44:44.820 is not conservative

00:44:45.860 at all

00:44:46.380 yeah

00:44:47.700 no

00:44:47.920 look

00:44:48.260 again

00:44:48.600 I'm not

00:44:49.200 I'm not saying

00:44:51.780 that showing up

00:44:53.320 half naked

00:44:54.140 to dinner

00:44:54.660 is like

00:44:56.560 would make

00:44:56.980 Russell Kirk smile

00:44:57.920 you know

00:44:58.260 I'm not saying

00:44:58.760 it's the conservatism

00:44:59.600 of your grandparents

00:45:00.220 I'm just saying

00:45:02.300 that

00:45:02.660 in an age

00:45:04.980 so

00:45:05.600 so fallen

00:45:06.680 as ours

00:45:07.360 so

00:45:07.980 perversely

00:45:09.020 left

00:45:09.420 left wing

00:45:09.980 as ours

00:45:10.560 relatively

00:45:12.480 it is kind

00:45:13.260 of conservative

00:45:13.860 because Sydney Sweeney

00:45:15.240 is

00:45:15.660 very good looking

00:45:17.700 not grotesque looking

00:45:18.920 like the people

00:45:19.420 on the left

00:45:19.760 make themselves to be

00:45:20.600 and she is

00:45:21.900 highlighting her

00:45:22.900 shall we say

00:45:23.460 very feminine features

00:45:24.780 which is quite

00:45:25.480 politically incorrect

00:45:26.240 and she is

00:45:27.520 actually a Republican

00:45:28.420 reportedly

00:45:29.200 she's a registered

00:45:29.940 Republican

00:45:30.460 and

00:45:31.140 and she's saying

00:45:32.880 the power of women

00:45:33.660 lies to

00:45:34.920 to a large degree

00:45:35.540 in their bodies

00:45:36.100 it's biological

00:45:37.200 it's maternal

00:45:38.000 which is true

00:45:38.660 so that's my

00:45:40.580 Straussian reading

00:45:41.460 of the Sydney Sweeney dress

00:45:42.580 not

00:45:43.340 look I'm not saying

00:45:44.360 yeah it doesn't need

00:45:45.120 to go

00:45:45.560 in the compendium

00:45:46.980 of great conservative

00:45:47.740 thought next to

00:45:48.500 Edmund Burke

00:45:48.960 and De Nozio Cortez

00:45:49.760 okay I'm just saying

00:45:50.580 it's more right wing

00:45:52.920 than the other stuff

00:45:53.560 okay so at the power

00:45:54.860 of women awards

00:45:55.720 Sydney Sweeney

00:45:57.600 was not

00:45:58.080 not the only person

00:45:59.000 speaking

00:45:59.460 would that she

00:46:01.760 had been

00:46:02.220 but Wanda Sykes

00:46:03.140 showed up

00:46:03.600 Wanda Sykes

00:46:04.240 a comedian

00:46:04.960 of sorts

00:46:05.860 very left wing

00:46:07.200 she gets up there

00:46:08.000 and she just goes off

00:46:09.800 on how much

00:46:11.180 she hates hiring

00:46:12.040 men and white people

00:46:13.140 I don't want to be

00:46:15.340 up front with you

00:46:16.700 if when

00:46:17.320 it comes to a position

00:46:18.580 and I look on

00:46:20.020 the paper

00:46:21.000 and they

00:46:21.600 they right there

00:46:23.080 or she might be

00:46:24.400 right here

00:46:25.060 and he's up there

00:46:26.660 I'm hiring a woman

00:46:27.600 and

00:46:28.160 that's

00:46:29.120 that's just how

00:46:29.820 I operate

00:46:30.880 and I'll be honest

00:46:34.500 if she's a black woman

00:46:35.620 oh

00:46:35.900 I ain't

00:46:36.420 I ain't

00:46:36.720 you

00:46:37.180 girl you got the job

00:46:38.560 girl you got the job

00:46:39.620 so what she's

00:46:42.240 describing is

00:46:42.920 literally illegal

00:46:44.020 though it happens

00:46:45.200 a lot

00:46:45.640 and it is

00:46:46.960 what DEI is

00:46:47.960 but

00:46:49.100 I guess she's

00:46:50.540 trying to tell a joke

00:46:51.360 but I think she's

00:46:52.060 being pretty serious

00:46:52.800 there

00:46:53.040 I don't

00:46:53.360 I don't think

00:46:53.820 she's just kidding

00:46:54.520 I think she's

00:46:55.600 serious about that

00:46:56.320 and

00:46:56.860 can I say

00:46:58.000 something

00:46:58.340 controversial

00:46:59.000 can I say

00:46:59.980 something

00:47:00.380 that could

00:47:00.720 get me

00:47:00.980 in trouble

00:47:01.400 it's kind of

00:47:05.080 human nature

00:47:05.620 I don't know

00:47:07.420 that she's

00:47:07.880 totally

00:47:08.300 it's

00:47:08.740 it's illegal

00:47:09.520 what she's

00:47:09.960 talking about

00:47:10.540 but

00:47:11.980 I get it

00:47:12.780 it's human

00:47:13.880 nature

00:47:14.240 it is human

00:47:15.980 nature

00:47:16.380 to

00:47:17.720 like people

00:47:18.820 who are

00:47:19.120 similar to you

00:47:19.780 this is

00:47:21.800 complicated

00:47:22.220 by problems

00:47:23.140 of mimetic

00:47:23.660 desire

00:47:24.180 by the

00:47:24.540 rivalries

00:47:25.060 between

00:47:25.320 brothers

00:47:25.660 between

00:47:26.000 it's not

00:47:26.340 the be all

00:47:26.900 and end

00:47:27.120 all

00:47:27.220 of the

00:47:27.380 story

00:47:27.560 but broadly

00:47:28.340 speaking

00:47:28.940 I'll just

00:47:29.460 this is a fact

00:47:30.580 of politics

00:47:31.160 we cooperate

00:47:32.560 better with

00:47:33.420 people who

00:47:34.060 are like

00:47:34.620 us

00:47:35.100 and that's

00:47:36.360 all she's

00:47:36.720 saying

00:47:36.980 she's saying

00:47:38.400 I prefer

00:47:39.220 women to

00:47:40.080 men

00:47:40.380 and black

00:47:41.060 people to

00:47:41.560 white

00:47:41.740 people

00:47:42.040 and I

00:47:43.040 prefer

00:47:43.320 black

00:47:43.720 women

00:47:44.020 most of

00:47:44.460 all

00:47:44.680 and even

00:47:45.520 if there

00:47:45.920 is someone

00:47:46.300 who is

00:47:46.720 more

00:47:46.940 qualified

00:47:47.360 for the

00:47:47.680 job

00:47:47.880 on paper

00:47:48.320 more

00:47:49.380 impressive

00:47:49.840 in an

00:47:50.800 interview

00:47:51.120 I will

00:47:52.060 pick

00:47:52.380 the person

00:47:53.060 who is

00:47:53.360 more like

00:47:53.820 me

00:47:54.200 than the

00:47:54.800 person

00:47:55.100 who is

00:47:55.320 more

00:47:55.500 different

00:47:56.100 from

00:47:56.320 me

00:47:56.540 that's

00:47:57.760 what she's

00:47:58.060 saying

00:47:58.300 and that

00:47:58.880 is human

00:47:59.320 nature

00:47:59.680 it's human

00:48:00.560 nature

00:48:00.860 so what

00:48:02.460 where does

00:48:02.760 that leave

00:48:03.100 us

00:48:03.360 does that

00:48:04.160 mean that

00:48:04.600 you know

00:48:04.800 white people

00:48:05.220 should just

00:48:05.520 hire white

00:48:05.860 people

00:48:06.140 black people

00:48:06.640 should just

00:48:06.900 hire black

00:48:07.240 people

00:48:07.560 and women

00:48:07.860 should just

00:48:08.140 hire women

00:48:08.540 or whatever

00:48:08.940 no

00:48:09.520 I don't think

00:48:10.780 so I don't

00:48:11.140 think that would

00:48:11.480 be most conducive

00:48:12.180 to human

00:48:12.500 flourishing

00:48:12.880 however

00:48:14.600 what it means

00:48:16.360 what it means

00:48:16.380 is that we

00:48:16.760 need to

00:48:17.000 establish

00:48:17.340 some

00:48:17.820 basis

00:48:18.480 of similarity

00:48:19.920 in the

00:48:20.380 country

00:48:20.700 that's

00:48:21.440 really

00:48:21.600 what that

00:48:21.880 means

00:48:22.200 the only

00:48:24.520 way

00:48:25.000 to

00:48:25.840 grapple

00:48:26.620 with the

00:48:27.200 obvious

00:48:27.820 fact of

00:48:28.360 human

00:48:28.580 nature

00:48:28.880 that

00:48:29.100 Wanda

00:48:29.380 Sykes

00:48:29.740 is

00:48:29.940 unwittingly

00:48:30.540 describing

00:48:31.000 namely

00:48:32.140 that we

00:48:32.480 like

00:48:32.720 people

00:48:33.100 we're

00:48:33.900 inclined

00:48:34.300 to like

00:48:34.780 people

00:48:35.040 who are

00:48:35.300 similar

00:48:35.600 to us

00:48:36.080 the only

00:48:37.000 way

00:48:37.380 to

00:48:37.840 grapple

00:48:38.240 with

00:48:38.420 that

00:48:38.640 in a

00:48:38.960 diverse

00:48:39.280 nation

00:48:39.700 is

00:48:40.000 well

00:48:40.180 one

00:48:40.520 maybe

00:48:41.100 to

00:48:41.520 put

00:48:42.380 some

00:48:42.740 official

00:48:43.480 pressures

00:48:43.940 on

00:48:44.180 uniformity

00:48:44.840 like

00:48:45.180 reducing

00:48:45.680 mass

00:48:46.000 migration

00:48:46.460 and

00:48:46.960 reducing

00:48:47.600 all of

00:48:48.080 the push

00:48:48.380 for

00:48:48.520 multiculturalism

00:48:49.480 and all

00:48:49.860 the rest

00:48:50.080 of it

00:48:50.340 but

00:48:51.540 even

00:48:52.440 just

00:48:52.940 within

00:48:54.160 the people

00:48:54.680 who are

00:48:54.900 already

00:48:55.080 here

00:48:55.300 we need

00:48:56.960 to

00:48:57.300 focus

00:48:57.860 on

00:48:58.140 areas

00:48:58.500 of

00:48:58.680 unity

00:48:58.960 we

00:48:59.760 need

00:48:59.940 to

00:49:00.100 push

00:49:00.360 for

00:49:00.800 a

00:49:01.700 greater

00:49:01.940 religious

00:49:02.400 cohesion

00:49:02.940 certainly

00:49:03.720 and we

00:49:05.120 need

00:49:05.240 to

00:49:05.320 exclude

00:49:05.620 people

00:49:05.940 who

00:49:06.100 undermine

00:49:06.440 the

00:49:06.640 religious

00:49:06.880 foundation

00:49:07.280 of

00:49:07.440 the

00:49:07.540 polity

00:49:07.820 we

00:49:09.180 need

00:49:09.680 to

00:49:09.960 push

00:49:10.320 for

00:49:10.680 more

00:49:10.960 common

00:49:11.520 behaviors

00:49:12.320 and

00:49:13.200 habits

00:49:13.680 and

00:49:14.500 common

00:49:14.780 culture

00:49:15.140 which

00:49:16.240 has

00:49:16.400 frayed

00:49:16.740 with

00:49:16.960 the

00:49:17.160 decentralization

00:49:17.900 of

00:49:18.080 culture

00:49:18.280 and

00:49:18.380 the

00:49:18.440 advent

00:49:18.620 of

00:49:18.760 social

00:49:18.980 media

00:49:19.280 we

00:49:20.080 need

00:49:20.320 to

00:49:20.540 push

00:49:20.820 for

00:49:21.000 more

00:49:21.200 uniform

00:49:21.500 standards

00:49:22.140 the

00:49:22.720 left

00:49:22.880 tried

00:49:23.080 to

00:49:23.180 do

00:49:23.280 this

00:49:23.460 with

00:49:24.380 the

00:49:24.500 woke

00:49:24.640 standards

00:49:24.980 the

00:49:25.140 people

00:49:25.320 overwhelmingly

00:49:25.800 rejected

00:49:26.300 it

00:49:26.460 that's

00:49:26.800 why

00:49:26.880 the

00:49:27.000 Democrats

00:49:27.280 are

00:49:27.440 in

00:49:27.500 the

00:49:27.580 doldrums

00:49:27.920 now

00:49:28.060 our

00:49:28.680 opportunity

00:49:29.240 we

00:49:29.580 should

00:49:29.720 not

00:49:29.840 take

00:49:29.980 the

00:49:30.080 wrong

00:49:30.220 lesson

00:49:30.460 from

00:49:30.620 this

00:49:30.820 what

00:49:31.880 we

00:49:32.040 have

00:49:39.180 across

00:49:40.080 all

00:49:40.440 demographics

00:49:40.880 you

00:49:41.080 saw

00:49:41.200 movement

00:49:41.460 to

00:49:41.620 the

00:49:41.720 right

00:49:41.880 because

00:49:42.140 of

00:49:42.260 the

00:49:42.360 woke

00:49:42.520 lib

00:49:42.680 standards

00:49:43.000 we

00:49:43.620 need

00:49:43.800 to

00:49:43.920 offer

00:49:44.180 our

00:49:44.480 own

00:49:44.660 standards

00:49:45.020 that

00:49:45.200 are

00:49:45.300 good

00:49:45.580 our

00:49:46.320 own

00:49:46.500 standards

00:49:46.880 like

00:49:47.280 good

00:49:48.280 is to

00:49:48.520 be

00:49:48.660 pursued

00:49:49.000 and

00:49:49.200 evil

00:49:49.400 avoided

00:49:49.760 like

00:49:50.200 beautiful

00:49:50.840 things

00:49:51.200 should

00:49:51.420 be

00:49:51.560 promoted

00:49:51.880 and

00:49:52.060 ugly

00:49:52.320 things

00:49:52.540 should

00:49:52.700 be

00:49:52.800 discouraged

00:49:53.260 like

00:49:53.700 the

00:49:53.860 truth

00:49:54.160 should

00:49:54.420 be

00:49:54.540 protected

00:49:54.940 and

00:49:55.380 falsehood

00:49:56.140 should

00:49:56.260 be

00:49:56.380 discouraged

00:49:56.860 like

00:49:58.740 we

00:49:58.880 shouldn't

00:49:59.120 celebrate

00:49:59.480 it

00:49:59.620 when

00:49:59.720 people

00:49:59.920 are

00:50:00.040 assassinated

00:50:00.620 just

00:50:01.540 for

00:50:01.720 being

00:50:02.240 our

00:50:02.400 political

00:50:02.660 opponents

00:50:03.060 we

00:50:04.120 need

00:50:04.260 to

00:50:04.380 offer

00:50:04.620 different

00:50:05.100 standards

00:50:05.500 and

00:50:05.680 different

00:50:05.880 taboos

00:50:06.140 that's

00:50:06.440 what's

00:50:06.540 going

00:50:06.620 to

00:50:06.680 bring

00:50:06.800 people

00:50:07.020 along

00:50:07.220 that's

00:50:07.700 what's

00:50:07.840 going

00:50:07.920 to

00:50:08.000 create

00:50:08.200 common

00:50:08.640 areas

00:50:09.220 like

00:50:09.600 similarities

00:50:10.160 that

00:50:11.700 are

00:50:12.220 the only

00:50:12.480 way

00:50:12.620 to

00:50:12.720 overcome

00:50:13.100 the

00:50:13.500 very

00:50:13.980 real

00:50:14.260 aspects

00:50:14.600 of

00:50:14.740 human

00:50:14.920 nature

00:50:15.140 that

00:50:15.280 Wanda

00:50:15.480 Sykes

00:50:15.740 is

00:50:15.900 describing

00:50:16.280 one

00:50:16.740 last

00:50:16.920 point

00:50:17.100 before

00:50:17.280 we

00:50:17.440 go

00:50:17.620 John

00:50:18.760 Stewart

00:50:19.080 liberal

00:50:20.640 comedian

00:50:21.240 kind

00:50:22.440 of

00:50:22.640 political

00:50:23.000 commentator

00:50:23.740 host

00:50:24.280 of the

00:50:24.440 daily

00:50:24.600 show

00:50:24.840 John

00:50:25.980 Stewart

00:50:26.180 just

00:50:26.380 made

00:50:26.560 a

00:50:26.720 great

00:50:27.040 point

00:50:27.340 he

00:50:27.820 was

00:50:27.940 speaking

00:50:28.200 at

00:50:28.340 the

00:50:28.440 New

00:50:28.560 Yorker

00:50:28.880 and

00:50:29.020 he

00:50:29.100 was

00:50:29.220 actually

00:50:29.720 punching

00:50:30.160 left

00:50:30.580 he

00:50:31.400 was

00:50:31.520 hitting

00:50:31.800 the

00:50:31.980 New

00:50:32.120 Yorker

00:50:32.480 from

00:50:32.660 the

00:50:32.800 left

00:50:33.080 and

00:50:34.560 he

00:50:34.960 pointed

00:50:35.600 out

00:50:35.960 that

00:50:37.060 he

00:50:37.180 has

00:50:37.360 family

00:50:37.700 members

00:50:38.060 who

00:50:38.220 are

00:50:38.320 on

00:50:38.440 the

00:50:38.560 right

00:50:38.780 and

00:50:39.920 he

00:50:40.120 described

00:50:40.700 how

00:50:40.880 he

00:50:41.100 thinks

00:50:41.500 the

00:50:42.580 left

00:50:42.740 should

00:50:42.900 interact

00:50:43.240 with

00:50:43.400 them

00:50:43.620 I've

00:50:45.540 got

00:50:45.680 people

00:50:45.940 in

00:50:46.100 my

00:50:46.260 family

00:50:46.640 that

00:50:46.860 are

00:50:46.980 to

00:50:47.140 the

00:50:47.320 right

00:50:47.600 of

00:50:47.780 Attila

00:50:48.100 the

00:50:48.340 hun

00:50:48.560 and

00:50:48.720 when

00:50:48.880 people

00:50:49.100 tell

00:50:49.360 me

00:50:49.500 how

00:50:50.040 can

00:50:50.280 you

00:50:50.420 platform

00:50:50.920 that

00:50:51.860 person

00:50:52.320 on

00:50:52.560 your

00:50:52.740 show

00:50:53.060 I

00:50:53.300 go

00:50:53.480 I

00:50:53.880 platform

00:50:54.340 my

00:50:54.720 uncle

00:50:55.100 every

00:50:55.480 Thanksgiving

00:50:56.220 and

00:50:58.360 by

00:50:58.600 the

00:50:58.740 way

00:50:59.060 I

00:50:59.640 love

00:50:59.980 him

00:51:00.280 he's

00:51:01.600 a

00:51:01.740 three

00:51:02.040 dimensional

00:51:02.480 human

00:51:02.920 being

00:51:03.380 who

00:51:03.820 has

00:51:04.020 qualities

00:51:04.580 that

00:51:04.980 I

00:51:05.080 really

00:51:05.580 admire

00:51:06.080 things

00:51:07.140 about

00:51:07.520 him

00:51:07.660 and

00:51:07.980 we've

00:51:08.320 lost

00:51:08.660 that

00:51:09.000 we've

00:51:10.080 lost

00:51:10.340 the

00:51:10.520 ability

00:51:10.920 to

00:51:11.620 love

00:51:12.240 people

00:51:12.800 because

00:51:14.420 we

00:51:14.820 litmus

00:51:15.320 test

00:51:15.780 at

00:51:16.300 every

00:51:16.820 point

00:51:17.300 at

00:51:17.740 every

00:51:18.200 in

00:51:18.540 every

00:51:18.940 single

00:51:19.340 moment

00:51:19.780 this

00:51:21.140 is

00:51:21.280 great

00:51:21.500 this

00:51:21.660 is

00:51:21.800 a

00:51:21.960 really

00:51:22.180 beautiful

00:51:22.640 clip

00:51:22.960 from

00:51:23.200 Jon

00:51:23.520 Stewart

00:51:23.880 I

00:51:25.380 love

00:51:25.980 the

00:51:26.320 way

00:51:26.520 he

00:51:26.760 says

00:51:27.220 I

00:51:27.480 love

00:51:27.700 him

00:51:27.920 too

00:51:28.120 because

00:51:28.300 he

00:51:28.400 doesn't

00:51:28.760 do it

00:51:28.980 in

00:51:29.060 the

00:51:29.160 glib

00:51:29.380 way

00:51:29.540 that

00:51:29.700 liberals

00:51:29.940 sometimes

00:51:30.240 do

00:51:30.400 they say

00:51:30.660 occasionally

00:51:31.840 on the

00:51:32.280 rare

00:51:32.440 occasion

00:51:32.800 that

00:51:32.980 you

00:51:33.060 hear

00:51:33.180 a

00:51:33.280 liberal

00:51:33.460 say

00:51:33.720 I

00:51:33.960 got

00:51:34.120 some

00:51:34.280 right

00:51:34.460 wingers

00:51:34.760 in

00:51:34.860 my

00:51:35.000 family

00:51:35.340 but

00:51:36.040 we

00:51:36.220 love

00:51:36.480 him

00:51:36.720 it's

00:51:39.500 usually

00:51:39.960 with

00:51:40.180 this

00:51:40.420 air

00:51:41.220 of

00:51:41.500 I'm

00:51:41.840 just

00:51:42.020 barely

00:51:42.400 holding

00:51:42.720 on

00:51:43.040 but

00:51:43.280 I

00:51:43.780 don't

00:51:49.780 really

00:51:50.200 hard

00:51:50.600 he

00:51:50.740 just

00:51:50.900 really

00:51:51.180 screws

00:51:51.640 up

00:51:51.820 Thanksgiving

00:51:52.120 every

00:51:52.580 year

00:51:52.860 but

00:51:53.080 this

00:51:55.000 year

00:51:55.220 at least

00:51:55.500 we'll

00:51:55.700 endure

00:51:55.940 it

00:51:56.120 that's

00:51:56.420 usually

00:51:56.680 how

00:51:56.960 it

00:51:57.080 sounds

00:51:57.320 that's

00:51:58.900 not

00:51:59.020 what

00:51:59.140 Jon

00:51:59.260 Stewart

00:51:59.460 said

00:51:59.720 he

00:52:00.420 said

00:52:00.520 I

00:52:00.580 got

00:52:00.700 people

00:52:00.940 in

00:52:01.060 the

00:52:01.180 family

00:52:01.360 to

00:52:01.500 the

00:52:01.580 right

00:52:01.700 of

00:52:01.780 the

00:52:01.880 hunt

00:52:02.280 you know

00:52:02.520 I

00:52:02.640 platform

00:52:03.400 my

00:52:03.680 uncle

00:52:03.820 every

00:52:03.980 Thanksgiving

00:52:04.260 and by

00:52:04.580 the

00:52:04.640 way

00:52:04.760 I

00:52:04.980 love

00:52:05.320 him

00:52:05.600 I

00:52:06.840 love

00:52:07.120 you

00:52:07.260 can

00:52:07.380 there's

00:52:07.600 a

00:52:07.700 kind

00:52:07.820 of

00:52:07.900 ferocity

00:52:08.380 to

00:52:08.660 his

00:52:08.860 description

00:52:09.420 so

00:52:10.460 I

00:52:10.580 love

00:52:10.780 him

00:52:19.780 that's

00:52:21.380 a

00:52:21.520 sincere

00:52:22.000 take

00:52:22.700 I

00:52:22.980 love

00:52:23.240 I

00:52:23.440 believe

00:52:23.960 he

00:52:24.120 loves

00:52:24.340 his

00:52:24.480 uncle

00:52:24.680 I

00:52:25.060 don't

00:52:25.300 believe

00:52:25.520 when

00:52:25.640 you

00:52:25.700 hear

00:52:25.780 that

00:52:25.900 oh

00:52:26.100 got

00:52:26.680 some

00:52:26.940 right

00:52:28.540 wingers

00:52:28.860 in

00:52:28.960 our

00:52:29.060 family

00:52:29.300 we

00:52:29.480 love

00:52:29.680 them

00:52:29.780 don't

00:52:30.080 we

00:52:30.280 I

00:52:31.900 don't

00:52:32.140 believe

00:52:32.360 that

00:52:32.500 those

00:52:32.680 people

00:52:32.980 love

00:52:33.820 the

00:52:33.920 right

00:52:34.060 wingers

00:52:34.260 I

00:52:34.440 do

00:52:34.620 believe

00:52:34.860 it

00:52:34.940 with

00:52:35.060 Jon

00:52:35.200 Stewart

00:52:35.460 so

00:52:36.080 why

00:52:36.280 is

00:52:36.400 it

00:52:36.480 so

00:52:36.620 striking

00:52:36.960 it's

00:52:39.480 not

00:52:39.720 striking

00:52:40.140 because

00:52:40.400 people

00:52:40.740 don't

00:52:40.980 speak

00:52:41.180 that

00:52:41.360 way

00:52:41.520 anymore

00:52:41.860 the

00:52:43.560 right

00:52:43.920 still

00:52:44.360 thinks

00:52:44.900 that

00:52:45.080 way

00:52:45.240 the

00:52:45.460 right

00:52:45.660 still

00:52:45.920 acts

00:52:46.260 this

00:52:46.440 way

00:52:46.680 overwhelmingly

00:52:47.840 almost

00:52:48.560 without

00:52:48.880 exception

00:52:49.400 no

00:52:51.200 right

00:52:51.500 winger

00:52:51.840 disinvites

00:52:52.880 the

00:52:53.160 left

00:52:53.380 wing

00:52:53.560 family

00:52:53.880 member

00:52:54.140 from

00:52:54.340 the

00:52:54.460 holiday

00:52:54.740 it

00:52:55.060 just

00:52:55.340 doesn't

00:52:55.800 happen

00:52:56.140 no

00:52:57.740 right

00:52:58.080 winger

00:52:58.320 speaks

00:52:58.740 about

00:52:58.980 the

00:52:59.120 left

00:52:59.400 in

00:53:00.220 the

00:53:00.300 way

00:53:00.380 the

00:53:00.500 left

00:53:00.620 speaks

00:53:00.880 about

00:53:01.080 the

00:53:01.200 right

00:53:01.380 this

00:53:02.600 is

00:53:02.760 borne

00:53:03.000 out

00:53:03.160 by

00:53:03.340 social

00:53:03.620 scientific

00:53:03.940 data

00:53:04.180 we've

00:53:04.340 been

00:53:04.420 talking

00:53:04.620 about

00:53:04.760 it

00:53:04.840 for

00:53:04.920 years

00:53:05.200 the

00:53:05.400 left

00:53:05.540 is

00:53:05.680 much

00:53:05.840 more

00:53:05.980 likely

00:53:06.180 to

00:53:06.480 cancel

00:53:07.600 friendships

00:53:08.080 with

00:53:08.420 right

00:53:08.620 wingers

00:53:09.000 over

00:53:09.200 politics

00:53:15.240 when

00:53:17.020 John

00:53:17.260 Stewart

00:53:17.440 says

00:53:17.640 we

00:53:18.080 don't

00:53:18.600 speak

00:53:18.800 that

00:53:18.960 way

00:53:19.080 anymore

00:53:19.260 we

00:53:19.540 don't

00:53:19.780 speak

00:53:19.980 this

00:53:20.120 way

00:53:20.240 with

00:53:20.380 love

00:53:20.700 I

00:53:21.120 think

00:53:21.500 if

00:53:22.960 he's

00:53:23.080 being

00:53:23.240 honest

00:53:23.440 with

00:53:23.580 himself

00:53:23.820 he

00:53:24.040 would

00:53:24.240 recognize

00:53:24.580 that

00:53:24.740 we

00:53:24.880 is

00:53:25.020 referring

00:53:25.280 to

00:53:25.440 the

00:53:25.560 left

00:53:25.780 and

00:53:27.000 it's

00:53:27.120 a big

00:53:27.280 problem

00:53:27.580 because

00:53:27.980 I

00:53:28.480 don't

00:53:28.600 have

00:53:28.700 any

00:53:28.820 control

00:53:29.120 over

00:53:29.340 that

00:53:29.560 John

00:53:29.860 Stewart

00:53:30.060 might

00:53:30.240 have

00:53:30.320 some

00:53:30.460 control

00:53:30.720 over

00:53:30.860 that

00:53:30.980 I

00:53:31.140 don't

00:53:31.240 have

00:53:31.340 any

00:53:31.440 control

00:53:31.700 over

00:53:31.860 that

00:53:32.040 I

00:53:32.840 can

00:53:32.960 do

00:53:33.040 my

00:53:33.180 best

00:53:33.420 I

00:53:33.580 try

00:53:33.780 to

00:53:33.880 persuade

00:53:34.100 people

00:53:34.400 I

00:53:34.640 can

00:53:34.840 try

00:53:35.220 to

00:53:35.340 go

00:53:35.480 into

00:53:35.720 left

00:53:35.980 wing

00:53:36.240 areas

00:53:36.820 like

00:53:37.120 some

00:53:37.500 left

00:53:37.680 wing

00:53:37.820 podcast

00:53:38.440 or

00:53:38.580 whatever

00:53:40.380 podcast

00:53:40.900 or

00:53:41.020 something

00:53:41.140 and I

00:53:41.660 can

00:53:42.020 do

00:53:42.160 my

00:53:42.340 best

00:53:42.700 to

00:53:42.860 make

00:53:42.980 a

00:53:43.100 case

00:53:43.300 but

00:53:43.520 ultimately

00:53:43.940 the

00:53:44.820 left

00:53:45.020 has

00:53:45.260 to

00:53:45.380 decide

00:53:45.640 are

00:53:45.800 they

00:53:45.920 going

00:53:46.040 to

00:53:46.240 come

00:53:46.740 to

00:53:46.860 Thanksgiving

00:53:47.140 or

00:53:47.380 not

00:53:47.540 are

00:53:47.660 they

00:53:47.780 going

00:53:47.980 to

00:53:48.140 disinvite

00:53:48.520 people

00:53:48.760 from

00:53:48.920 the

00:53:49.040 holidays

00:53:49.320 or

00:53:49.500 not

00:53:49.660 are

00:53:49.800 they

00:53:49.920 going

00:53:50.120 to

00:53:50.280 de-platform

00:53:50.900 their

00:53:51.340 friends

00:53:51.600 and

00:53:51.760 relatives

00:53:52.060 or

00:53:52.240 not

00:53:52.900 Stewart

00:53:54.140 saying

00:53:54.360 man

00:53:54.560 someone's

00:53:55.140 really

00:53:55.480 broken

00:53:55.840 here

00:53:56.120 that's

00:53:57.980 introspection

00:53:58.760 that's

00:53:59.320 more

00:53:59.460 powerful

00:53:59.920 introspection

00:54:00.500 I think

00:54:00.960 all the way

00:54:01.840 down to

00:54:02.200 it

00:54:02.340 echoes

00:54:02.620 the

00:54:02.840 wisdom

00:54:03.060 of

00:54:03.200 St.

00:54:03.380 Paul

00:54:03.580 who

00:54:03.740 says

00:54:03.940 if

00:54:04.080 we

00:54:04.220 have

00:54:04.500 all

00:54:04.620 the

00:54:04.720 virtues

00:54:04.980 but

00:54:05.140 we

00:54:05.220 don't

00:54:05.320 have

00:54:05.440 love

00:54:05.700 we're

00:54:05.900 nothing

00:54:06.180 but

00:54:06.400 clanging

00:54:07.020 symbols

00:54:07.500 you get

00:54:10.140 the CNN

00:54:10.520 poll

00:54:10.760 you get

00:54:11.080 the fact

00:54:11.360 that

00:54:11.480 there's

00:54:11.640 no

00:54:11.760 leader

00:54:11.940 on

00:54:12.100 the

00:54:12.200 left

00:54:12.360 you

00:54:12.480 get

00:54:12.600 the

00:54:12.720 fact

00:54:12.940 that

00:54:13.160 New

00:54:13.360 York

00:54:13.560 is

00:54:13.860 about

00:54:14.580 to

00:54:14.780 head

00:54:14.900 to

00:54:15.020 the

00:54:15.120 doltrums

00:54:15.520 either

00:54:15.620 way

00:54:15.840 and

00:54:16.620 you

00:54:17.320 hear

00:54:17.480 that

00:54:17.620 from

00:54:17.740 John

00:54:17.960 Stewart

00:54:18.280 who

00:54:19.060 was

00:54:19.160 a

00:54:19.240 New

00:54:19.340 Yorker

00:54:19.620 in

00:54:19.740 New

00:54:19.860 York

00:54:20.020 and

00:54:20.100 New

00:54:20.220 Jersey

00:54:20.440 you

00:54:21.500 say

00:54:21.620 oh

00:54:21.820 man

00:54:22.080 this

00:54:22.280 is

00:54:22.520 real

00:54:22.940 this

00:54:23.740 is

00:54:23.880 something

00:54:24.160 spiritually

00:54:24.980 is

00:54:25.240 broken

00:54:25.540 something

00:54:25.780 essential

00:54:26.160 is

00:54:26.360 broken

00:54:26.580 on

00:54:26.740 the

00:54:26.820 left

00:54:27.000 maybe

00:54:27.260 they'll

00:54:27.360 figure

00:54:27.560 it

00:54:27.680 out

00:54:27.800 maybe

00:54:28.980 they

00:54:29.140 won't

00:54:29.400 I

00:54:29.540 hope

00:54:29.660 they

00:54:29.760 do

00:54:29.860 figure

00:54:30.060 it

00:54:30.140 out

00:54:30.240 though

00:54:30.360 today's

00:54:30.800 music

00:54:31.040 Monday

00:54:31.280 the

00:54:31.440 rest

00:54:31.600 of

00:54:31.700 the

00:54:31.780 show

00:54:31.900 continues

00:54:32.260 now

00:54:32.440 you

00:54:32.560 do

00:54:32.680 not

00:54:32.800 want

00:54:32.920 to

00:54:33.020 miss

00:54:33.140 it

00:54:33.240 become

00:54:33.420 a

00:54:33.540 member

00:54:33.680 use

00:54:33.880 code

00:54:34.040 Knowles

00:54:34.260 Canada

00:54:34.460 WLA

00:54:34.800 as

00:54:34.940 at

00:54:35.040 checkout

00:54:35.320 for

00:54:35.880 two

00:54:36.040 months

00:54:36.180 free

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The Michael Knowles Show - November 03, 2025

Ep. 1848 - If Mamdani Wins, New Yorkers May Need to Learn Arabic

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