The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 1870 - Somalis Built America？

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00:00:27.400 A lot of surprising lessons have emerged from the left over the past few days.

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00:00:38.440 It turns out that our 400-year-old country, the United States of America,

00:00:43.840 was actually secretly built by Somalis who came here in the 1990s.

00:00:49.280 I learned that one from Democrat Congress Lady Pramila Jayapal.

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00:01:02.500 And then finally, a lesson from Jake Tapper.

00:01:05.100 The very, very black man arrested for planting the January 6th pipe bombs 0.87

00:01:10.260 is actually secretly, deep down, a white guy. 0.77

00:01:14.900 I'm Michael Knowles.

00:01:15.920 This is The Michael Knowles Show.

00:01:31.500 Welcome back to the show.

00:01:36.980 The apotheosis of this conversation about immigration, about identity, about sovereignty,

00:01:44.080 specifically about Somalis, comes in the form of a video of Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Fry 0.84

00:01:49.540 trying desperately to choke down disgusting Somali food. 1.00

00:01:54.360 It's my favorite video on the whole internet right now. 0.69

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00:03:15.760 Don't believe your lying eyes. 0.97

00:03:19.700 The man who you thought was a black man arrested after five years for planting the pipe bombs 0.96

00:03:25.940 in front of the DNC and the RNC on January 6th.

00:03:28.580 That man, according to Jake Tapper, is actually secretly white.

00:03:33.560 Capital attack.

00:03:36.620 Brian Cole Jr., a 30-year-old white man from the DC suburbs, is charged with transporting

00:03:41.880 an explosive device in interstate commerce and with malicious destruction by means of

00:03:48.340 explosion.

00:03:49.020 CNN observed local and federal law enforcement outside his home.

00:03:52.720 There he is.

00:03:53.720 There is the guy.

00:03:54.380 Now, the picture, for those of you watching, the picture of the smiling, very, very obviously,

00:03:59.320 phenotypically black man, that picture that's there was not actually being shown by CNN.

00:04:05.960 CNN just wanted its viewers to believe what Jake Tapper was saying, which is that he was

00:04:09.360 a white guy.

00:04:09.760 This does remind me of the killing of Trayvon Martin.

00:04:13.220 Trayvon Martin, this young black guy who was killed in an altercation that became very

00:04:18.100 controversial with this guy, George Zimmerman.

00:04:19.840 And it was reported everywhere, not just by Jake Tapper, not just on CNN, but everywhere

00:04:24.400 in the liberal media.

00:04:25.660 I think it was, what was this, 2012?

00:04:26.960 It was reported that George Zimmerman, the killer of Trayvon Martin, was a white guy.

00:04:34.080 And then, days, weeks later, pictures of George Zimmerman emerged.

00:04:39.220 And George Zimmerman was the most Hispanic-looking guy you've ever seen in your entire life, just 0.99

00:04:44.880 a big, giant, cholo-looking guy, and doesn't look really even slightly white. 0.97

00:04:50.860 Not nary an octoroon white was George Zimmerman, or at least did he look?

00:04:55.780 He was so obviously Hispanic.

00:04:57.280 And what did all of the establishment media do?

00:04:59.960 They said, well, he's a white Hispanic.

00:05:02.360 A white Hispanic? 0.84

00:05:03.400 Oh, and these are different groups.

00:05:04.380 It's like a white black. 0.66

00:05:05.260 I guess you can be biracial, but you told me he was a white guy.

00:05:08.700 He's obviously a Hispanic guy.

00:05:10.620 Now you're trying, you say, well, we weren't wrong.

00:05:13.240 We just, he's a white Hispanic.

00:05:14.540 The dark Hispanics are the ones that are really good and pay their taxes and are wonderful

00:05:21.240 and unobjectionable. 0.95

00:05:22.540 But the moment a Hispanic commits a crime, or not even a crime, even just commits a controversial 1.00

00:05:27.040 killing, then he becomes white. 0.99

00:05:29.460 Because white, in their parlance, just means bad. 1.00

00:05:31.960 It's just a bad guy. 0.98

00:05:33.040 So in that way, I guess Jake Dapper is right. 0.98

00:05:35.260 The guy who planted the January 6th pipe bombs, he might be black as the heart of the Congo. 1.00

00:05:40.200 But because he did something bad, something that's inconvenient for the liberal order, 0.99

00:05:44.520 he is white. 0.92

00:05:45.300 He is, in fact, he has to be white. 0.98

00:05:47.380 Because white people have to do the bad stuff, and non-white people have to do the good stuff. 0.96

00:05:51.020 People were surprised by this. 0.96

00:05:53.120 A CNN panelist sounded off, said that a lot, not just her, but a lot of people were shocked 0.53

00:05:58.600 that the January 6th pipe bomber was a black guy. 0.69

00:06:02.160 Maybe he put a bomb at the DNC because he believed the Democrats stole the election 0.95

00:06:08.000 because Republicans and conspiracy theorists pushed that, and he put the bomb at the RNC

00:06:12.900 because the vice president, who was about to be sworn in, was going to ride by that area.

00:06:20.760 There are many scenarios that the prosecution will have to play out this case.

00:06:24.780 But I'm just going to say the thing out loud that I think everyone is not saying

00:06:28.760 and is actually surprised, and why I think Janine Pirro is actually saying it.

00:06:32.320 I think the fact that this man is a black man is surprising to people.

00:06:35.660 I think people thought this was going to be a white man that did this.

00:06:38.820 They were going to be able to say he was a part of the progressive left.

00:06:41.100 And the fact that there's a black man that is saying,

00:06:42.960 I, too, was susceptible to conspiracy theorists that the president

00:06:46.260 and conservative podcasters were pushing that this election was stolen

00:06:51.100 is a fact that they were not expecting, and now everyone is on their heels

00:06:55.500 and they're trying to spin it.

00:06:56.600 And I think that might be also why you think, let's not believe his actual story right now.

00:07:00.900 He's trying to get both sides.

00:07:02.220 Okay, what I'm supposed to say now, what I, a right-wing political commentator,

00:07:09.420 am supposed to say, a podcaster, what I'm supposed to say is, 0.90

00:07:12.500 this is horribly racist of this woman. 1.00

00:07:14.700 This is horribly racist. 0.99

00:07:15.800 She assumed it would be a white guy, and then it was a black guy. 1.00

00:07:18.140 What a racist woman. 1.00

00:07:19.020 That's what I'm supposed to say. 0.98

00:07:20.260 And if I were appealing to race hustling, what I'm supposed to say is,

00:07:24.220 what are you talking about? 1.00

00:07:24.860 Black guys are way more violent than white guys. 1.00

00:07:26.800 Of course, it was a black guy. 1.00

00:07:30.320 But can I say something without everybody getting mad? 0.60

00:07:34.060 I actually agree with that lady.

00:07:36.740 And you do too.

00:07:38.040 You do too.

00:07:39.620 And it makes sense that you do too. 0.77

00:07:41.160 We were all kind of surprised it was a black guy. 0.93

00:07:44.000 Allegedly a black guy.

00:07:45.120 Yeah, I think we were all surprised. 0.99

00:07:46.660 Because this is the sort of crime that is usually committed by a white guy. 0.98

00:07:52.320 It's the sort of crime that is usually committed by a white leftist. 0.98

00:07:55.680 So she there, she's trying to spin it all up.

00:07:57.620 She's trying to make him seem like he's a right winger.

00:08:00.240 Now, he might be.

00:08:01.420 We don't know really very much about him.

00:08:03.240 We do know that his family is involved in very left-wing businesses

00:08:06.020 opposing the Trump administration.

00:08:08.460 We do know that he committed an act of anarchist terrorism,

00:08:12.920 which is overwhelmingly associated with the left.

00:08:16.000 So I have some ideas.

00:08:18.960 However, she's trying to spin it and say, no, no,

00:08:22.480 this isn't the stereotypical person who commits this crime.

00:08:24.780 And I guess that's true. 0.89

00:08:26.480 The stereotypical person who commits this crime is a white leftist, 0.94

00:08:29.680 like the weather underground.

00:08:30.980 The stereotypical person who commits this crime is the Antifa guy who threw an

00:08:34.440 explosive at my event at University of Pittsburgh, who's in federal prison right now.

00:08:39.080 It's true. 0.87

00:08:39.860 It's not that white people are violent and black people are not violent.

00:08:42.560 Obviously, if you just look at crime statistics, 0.99

00:08:44.680 black guys are much more likely to commit violent crime. 0.98

00:08:48.160 But it's usually not this kind of violent crime. 1.00

00:08:50.460 The real kind of crazy domestic terrorism stuff is more likely to be white guys, 0.99

00:08:56.880 specifically white leftists. 0.98

00:08:58.640 So it's weird.

00:08:59.400 Okay, I'm going to get credit where credit's due.

00:09:01.240 Okay, she makes a good point.

00:09:02.600 I was surprised as well.

00:09:05.960 Can I say that?

00:09:06.920 And now everyone's going to be mad.

00:09:08.000 Now, speaking of black men, Ilhan Omar just went on CBS Face the Nation.

00:09:12.480 And she was asked about the White House's comments that the Somalis don't really assimilate and they

00:09:19.320 should assimilate.

00:09:20.660 And she came to the conclusion that asking Somalis to assimilate to American culture is Nazism.

00:09:30.980 I want to ask you something else that the architect of the president's immigration policy, Stephen Miller, said.

00:09:39.440 On Thanksgiving Day, he posted,

00:09:40.900 no magic transformation occurs when failed states cross borders.

00:09:44.600 At scale, migrants and their descendants recreate the conditions and terrors of their broken homelands. 1.00

00:09:50.400 What do you make of this argument of failure to assimilate and sort of ruining America?

00:09:55.540 How do you understand this?

00:09:58.800 I mean, when I think about Stephen Miller and his white supremacist rhetoric, it reminds me, yes,

00:10:06.100 it reminds me of the way the Nazis described Jewish people in Germany.

00:10:12.540 Somali, we are in this country as Americans.

00:10:15.000 Yeah.

00:10:15.220 We are citizens.

00:10:16.200 We are productive part of this nation and we will continue to be.

00:10:22.300 So, the thing I notice about her answer is even beyond the ridiculous claims, 0.93

00:10:31.680 Stephen Miller is a Nazi, this right-wing Jew in the Trump administration who just wants to deport 0.99

00:10:37.340 criminals. 1.00

00:10:38.100 He's a Nazi for doing that. 0.96

00:10:39.880 Beyond the Somalis, they contribute to America. 1.00

00:10:43.300 They don't.

00:10:43.800 They're net takers.

00:10:44.740 They're not productive.

00:10:45.720 They're counterproductive to America because they defraud our welfare system to the tune of a

00:10:52.180 billion dollars.

00:10:52.960 And then when they're not defrauding the welfare system, they're just using the welfare system

00:10:56.560 in a, I guess, legitimate way, but they're still taking resources from the country.

00:11:01.260 But beyond those two things, the most notable part about her answer is she never actually

00:11:07.300 refutes Miller's point.

00:11:08.920 Miller's point is that the Somalis don't assimilate.

00:11:12.380 That's what he's saying.

00:11:13.700 She goes, here's a Nazi and Somalis are great and they're productive and they add to the economy.

00:11:17.840 And, but you never, but do they assimilate?

00:11:20.400 Do they assimilate Ilhan?

00:11:22.300 Even Ilhan Omar doesn't totally assimilate.

00:11:24.400 She's, she dresses differently than Americans do. 1.00

00:11:27.680 And actually in some ways, the way she dresses is more tasteful than the way that some Americans

00:11:31.100 do.

00:11:31.220 I'm not even knocking it on the substance.

00:11:32.700 I'm just pointing out they don't assimilate. 1.00

00:11:34.580 The Somalis don't assimilate. 1.00

00:11:36.180 And it's not just them. 0.97

00:11:37.400 We don't just beat up on the Somalis.

00:11:38.980 A lot of immigrant groups don't assimilate.

00:11:42.100 And that's bad.

00:11:44.340 And part of the proof that that's bad is that the Democrats don't even answer the question

00:11:49.040 because the Democrats don't want them to assimilate either.

00:11:51.440 And at the very least, they know that they do not.

00:11:55.440 Here's, here's a little bit more proof.

00:11:56.960 And it's my absolute favorite video going around the internet right now. 0.97

00:12:02.000 Now, this is a Minneapolis mayor, Jacob Fry, who has to suck up to the Somalis because

00:12:11.000 they're the people who elect him because they conquered Minneapolis. 0.96

00:12:13.720 So Jacob Fry, he goes out there. 0.96

00:12:15.640 He tries to babble out a few words of Star Wars language every now and again to suck up 0.97

00:12:20.320 to the Somalis. 0.98

00:12:21.280 He'll stand there as the Somali Minneapolis police official starts saying that they're

00:12:27.280 going to fight the Trump administration, federal law enforcement, ICE.

00:12:30.520 But he says it like,

00:12:32.180 And then Jacob Fry doesn't understand a lick of this, but he's just kind of nodding along.

00:12:39.120 Yes, oh yes, we love whatever you're saying in Somalian.

00:12:42.440 We totally agree.

00:12:44.420 Yes, go live long and prosper.

00:12:47.500 He said, it's not even the right one that anyway.

00:12:49.920 So he goes, he has dinner at some Somali restaurant and he's sitting there eating out

00:12:56.040 of paper plates and whatever kind of flatware they've assembled thrown together in the Somali 0.99

00:13:02.040 restaurant.

00:13:02.500 He's sitting next to some Somali guy and he puts on one of the least persuasive performances 1.00

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00:14:56.620 Let's get back to the table.

00:14:58.560 Without further ado, Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Fry trying to choke down whatever

00:15:03.640 is exactly meant by the phrase Somali food.

00:15:09.700 He's got one bite in his mouth.

00:15:18.040 He's got the spoon and the tell that this is gross is, well, one, he looks like he's about

00:15:25.440 to retch.

00:15:25.980 He's going to toss his cookies or whatever.

00:15:27.960 I don't think Somalis make cookies, but whatever he's eating, he's going to toss it. 1.00

00:15:32.120 And he's sitting there and he's got this spoon and he's going, and then he just uses his spoon

00:15:39.120 like he's a little toddler who doesn't want to eat his vegetables.

00:15:41.560 He's using a spoon to just move the food around in the bowl.

00:15:46.160 He never once takes another bite.

00:15:49.280 He's, but he's, man, the less active his mouth is at taking another bite, the more active his spoon

00:15:54.260 is he's moving around.

00:15:56.560 He does the okay sign.

00:16:02.260 Oh, Ahmed, you, there's this guy sitting next to him just grinning ear to ear.

00:16:08.060 And you can't tell if it's because he, he's enjoying the fact that he thinks Jacob Fry

00:16:13.680 is, is enjoying the Somali food.

00:16:16.040 Or if he's enjoying the fact that Jacob Fry obviously hates it, he gets a kick out of

00:16:20.560 the power dynamic here, but whatever it is.

00:16:24.460 Oh, Ahmed, you've, you've done it again.

00:16:30.340 Yes.

00:16:31.260 Good.

00:16:32.420 Just, just isn't the word.

00:16:34.740 Oh boy.

00:16:35.920 I, oh yes.

00:16:37.080 Hello.

00:16:38.280 Would you like another bowl, Han Solo?

00:16:41.600 Oh no, no, please, Ahmed. 0.98

00:16:43.120 I, I couldn't possibly have another bite.

00:16:45.660 No, couldn't do it.

00:16:50.220 Absolutely humiliating for Jacob Fry.

00:16:53.620 Couldn't happen to a nicer guy, but this is, this is a warning.

00:16:58.020 Some of us conservatives are going to look at this and say, ha, take that Minnesota.

00:17:02.680 Minnesota, you guys are libs.

00:17:03.940 You're the only state that voted against Reagan in 84.

00:17:06.300 You've been libs for a long time and you get what you deserve.

00:17:09.880 The fact that you've been overrun by Somalis, yeah, you deserve that. 1.00

00:17:13.980 And the fact that you have to undergo this humiliation ritual, Jacob Fry, where you're 0.98

00:17:18.280 eating this Tatooine slop and you have to choke it down with a pained smile on your face.

00:17:24.920 That's what you deserve.

00:17:25.740 That's coming to a town near you.

00:17:27.920 That's coming to a city near you because of the sheer scope of mass migration.

00:17:34.740 The largest movement of people in recorded history has been the movement of people into

00:17:38.500 the United States since 1965.

00:17:40.400 That was true 10 years ago, by the way.

00:17:42.880 All the more so true today as the migration has kept up.

00:17:45.580 One of the big problems about migration is they don't just stay in the first place that 0.98

00:17:50.420 they land.

00:17:51.800 So it's a Minnesota problem right now.

00:17:54.080 It's going to be everywhere else problems soon enough for a couple of reasons.

00:17:57.480 One, people move and this is a country and you're able to move from one state to another

00:18:00.500 state.

00:18:01.260 And two, because the native population of the United States across races, it's not even

00:18:05.780 just a white person problem.

00:18:07.360 Across what races, the native population of the United States doesn't have kids and the

00:18:12.000 immigrants have a ton of kids.

00:18:13.080 So it's going to shift the demographics even more.

00:18:16.600 And this round of immigrants doesn't assimilate that well. 1.00

00:18:20.500 There are always problems of assimilation, even in the best of circumstances.

00:18:24.380 You know, early 1920s, where there's really no welfare and where there's rampant discrimination

00:18:29.880 against immigrant groups and where those immigrants come here, especially you think of

00:18:33.940 the Irish had previously come and then the Italians, the Jews, people from Southern

00:18:40.000 and Eastern Europe coming in and they say, hey, no, we're not speaking Italian in our

00:18:43.860 home.

00:18:44.360 We're not speaking.

00:18:45.120 Get rid of the Yiddish. 1.00

00:18:45.980 We're not.

00:18:46.480 We're going to assimilate. 0.99

00:18:47.400 We have to.

00:18:48.260 We're going to be in trouble in this country.

00:18:50.080 Obviously, we're not in that situation anymore.

00:18:52.240 Now, the predominant culture says don't assimilate. 1.00

00:18:54.960 Our culture sucks. 0.99

00:18:55.880 Your culture is awesome. 1.00

00:18:57.140 Pass me more of that cantina gruel that Jacob Fry is choking down.

00:19:01.580 The other reason, though, I think that the clip has gone viral, other than how funny it

00:19:08.000 is to watch him choke it down, is because the last desperate argument for mass migration,

00:19:14.060 the last one, they say, oh, these guys, they're not committing any crime.

00:19:17.340 You say, first of all, all the illegal ones, by definition, are committing crimes.

00:19:20.300 And two, they actually do commit a lot of crimes.

00:19:22.000 And actually, the ones who come across the border, they all work with the cartels.

00:19:25.260 And so, no, they do commit a lot of crime.

00:19:27.520 Okay, well, they don't really use welfare resources. 0.58

00:19:30.240 Yes, they do.

00:19:30.900 They use way more welfare resources than the native population in the United States. 0.77

00:19:34.960 And in a lot of cases, they just defraud the system to the tune of a billion bucks

00:19:37.660 to send it to a Somalian terror group called Al-Shabaab.

00:19:41.300 So, no, they do.

00:19:42.200 They're not a net positive for the American economy.

00:19:46.260 It's difficult to make the argument they're a net positive.

00:19:48.680 Okay, well, what's the final desperate argument?

00:19:51.540 They say, but the food. 0.81

00:19:54.220 Yes, your sister might have been raped on the street, and your home might have been broken

00:19:58.760 into, and you can't walk out at night after 8 p.m., but have you ever had an authentic

00:20:03.360 street taco?

00:20:04.320 Oh, golly, isn't it so great?

00:20:06.820 Even tacos, I was like, I'll take it or leave it.

00:20:09.180 I don't really care about tacos.

00:20:10.040 But it takes like two immigrants into a country to get the food. 1.00

00:20:17.100 You don't need 50 million people to get a taco.

00:20:20.900 It takes one guy to make a taco, and then that guy can teach other people here.

00:20:25.100 And you don't need, so even if you do like, I'm lukewarm on tacos, but even if you really

00:20:31.340 like tacos, you don't need this many migrants. 1.00

00:20:34.060 You need like two of them.

00:20:35.220 But the funniest thing about this clip is, even that argument falls flat. 0.92

00:20:40.900 Because no one likes Somali food, because it's gross. 1.00

00:20:43.760 I was talking to an associate of mine the other day, who's a Kurd. 0.64

00:20:47.840 He's Iraqi, but he's from Kurdistan.

00:20:50.920 And we're talking, we actually in Nashville, there are a lot of Kurds.

00:20:52.840 And Kurds make great food.

00:20:54.780 A lot of people from the Middle East, the Levant, make really good food.

00:20:58.300 I don't want it all the time, but I'll eat it.

00:21:00.020 I'll get into a nice kebab, a nice little shawarma.

00:21:02.320 Okay, Indian, I love Indian food.

00:21:05.260 I know you're not supposed to say this on the right. 0.67

00:21:07.780 You're not supposed to, you have to hate Indians now. 1.00

00:21:09.200 I really like Indians. 0.68

00:21:10.020 I really like Indian food.

00:21:12.260 I like all that.

00:21:13.400 I like Chinese food.

00:21:14.380 I like Thai food.

00:21:14.940 I like all, no one likes Somali food.

00:21:19.700 Nobody likes it.

00:21:21.240 So even that argument, okay, now we take that away.

00:21:23.300 So then the question, which I posed on the show last week,

00:21:26.860 why are we taking these people in?

00:21:30.600 Why?

00:21:31.360 And the only argument, the only argument is we feel bad.

00:21:37.360 We feel bad for them, which comes out of a good place, a place of Christian charity.

00:21:43.140 It's misplaced because we're doing the wrong thing about that.

00:21:46.260 But okay, I get it.

00:21:47.540 We feel bad for them and we feel bad about ourselves.

00:21:50.460 We believe erroneously in most cases that we have wronged every people of the world.

00:21:56.460 That we've committed some crime and our penance is that we need to open our borders and lose our country.

00:22:00.700 And you can kind of make the plausible argument when it comes to Latin America, kind of.

00:22:07.200 Again, I don't find it persuasive, but you can kind of make it, okay, yeah, we took some lands that were previously controlled by the Spanish.

00:22:13.960 And okay.

00:22:14.220 Anyway, you can't make it with Somalia. 0.99

00:22:18.040 You could kind of make the argument with Afghanistan. 0.97

00:22:20.020 Well, we went into Afghanistan.

00:22:20.880 Again, I think it was totally justified.

00:22:22.680 Or Iraq. 0.58

00:22:23.340 But you can't make it with Somalia. 0.99

00:22:24.520 We've only ever tried to help Somalia and they've never contributed anything to our country. 1.00

00:22:27.740 So why do we take him in?

00:22:29.160 The only reason, the only reason is guilt.

00:22:36.360 Now, this has led to a major change in President Trump's view of immigration.

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00:22:46.160 This has been the big issue, specifically Trump's big issue since 2015.

00:22:50.180 Over the weekend, he radically changed his stance on immigration towards something that I have been calling for for many years.

00:22:59.400 And some other conservatives who are particularly a little more rock-ribbed have been calling for for many years.

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00:25:58.620 President Trump has just radically changed his immigration position.

00:26:05.040 And no one's talking about it.

00:26:07.120 Trump posts on Truth Social an image of a block of text that was not original.

00:26:13.340 It had been tweeted out by Geiger Capital.

00:26:17.520 But Trump just takes this block of text and tweets it.

00:26:21.460 What does the guy say?

00:26:24.900 Says, a century ago, President Calvin Coolidge signed into law the Immigration Act of 1924.

00:26:29.140 He stated plainly, new arrivals should be limited to our own capacity to absorb them. 0.98

00:26:32.480 America must be kept American. 0.99

00:26:34.160 For this purpose, it is now necessary to enact a policy of restricted immigration.

00:26:37.820 The 1924 Act passed the House and Senate with overwhelming support.

00:26:40.580 Democrats and Republicans agreed.

00:26:42.480 It introduced new tight immigration quotas.

00:26:45.420 New visa requirements.

00:26:46.400 The border patrol outright banned immigrants from certain countries that we viewed as incompatible with our culture.

00:26:51.080 It dramatically reduced the number of people coming into the country.

00:26:53.500 Provided an opportunity for the recent great wave of immigrants to assimilate.

00:26:56.780 By the 40s and 50s, American society thrived with a booming economy, rising middle class, common culture, and limited immigration.

00:27:03.280 The act was in place until 1965.

00:27:06.760 Since then, we have experienced decades of historic immigration, both legal and illegal. 0.87

00:27:11.320 Today, we have higher levels of foreign-born than the early 1900s by both raw number and percentage of the population.

00:27:18.100 This mass immigration has also included vastly different cultures than the mostly European immigrants we accepted then.

00:27:23.640 It's obvious that we once again need to make a national policy shift, and it should be bipartisan.

00:27:28.460 It's time for another Immigration Act. 0.99

00:27:30.160 So it's not that Trump wrote that, but he just posted that block of text without any further comment, as if to say, I endorse all of this text.

00:27:41.420 And it's really crucial because there are three views you can hold on immigration.

00:27:47.300 One is the liberal view.

00:27:49.000 It's held by the left and by the Chamber of Commerce Republicans, which is we need more illegal immigration.

00:27:56.700 We don't want to do a thing about illegal immigration.

00:27:58.960 The only thing we want to do is give him amnesty, encourage even more of it.

00:28:02.880 We want illegal immigration, and we want legal immigration. 0.92

00:28:06.440 Then there's the, I'll call it what, the proceduralist conservative answer.

00:28:13.420 This is kind of squishy, but this was GOP orthodoxy for decades, which is we got to do something about illegal immigration.

00:28:22.100 But we just want him to come here legally.

00:28:26.360 Oh, some people would go further.

00:28:27.740 They would say, you know what, I want to stop illegal immigration, and I want more legal immigration than ever. 0.96

00:28:33.900 So it's not, the problem's not the immigration, it's just how you do it.

00:28:37.260 It's not the substance of what's happening, it's the procedure to get there.

00:28:41.740 And by the way, that position was Trump's position.

00:28:47.140 President Trump campaigned on that.

00:28:49.120 This was one area where I disagreed with President Trump on the campaign trail.

00:28:54.080 You know, obviously, people are going to have disagreements.

00:28:56.980 President Trump, he gets it right 99.789% of the time.

00:29:00.640 But on certain things, I've been pretty blunt about my disagreements with the White House.

00:29:04.980 In the first term, I disagreed with the First Step Act.

00:29:07.100 A few other things around the IVF, a few other things along the way.

00:29:09.600 But that was the Trump position, and I think it was probably the only politically salient position.

00:29:15.440 In fact, had I been advising the Trump campaign, I was not.

00:29:18.420 But had I been advising the Trump campaign back in 2016, I might have told him to endorse that position.

00:29:22.880 Because that was probably the most based position, the most right-wing, you know, conservative position you could hold at the time.

00:29:30.200 We want to stop illegal, but we want more legal immigration. 0.99

00:29:33.780 But there was always the elusive third position, which is the conservative position.

00:29:40.080 Which is, hey guys, it's not just the procedure.

00:29:42.860 Okay, it's the substance.

00:29:45.160 We just have too many immigrants from places that are too incompatible with the United States. 1.00

00:29:51.200 And we're not assimilating them at all.

00:29:53.760 And we just need to stop it.

00:29:56.900 I mean, this is my position on immigration.

00:29:58.880 I don't hold an eternal, for all times, ideological position.

00:30:02.980 We either need lots of immigration, or we need to totally cut immigration off entirely. 1.00

00:30:07.600 My view of this issue, like my view of virtually all issues, puts prudence first as the paramount political virtue.

00:30:14.400 It says, look, sometimes it's fine, or maybe even good to have immigration. 0.97

00:30:18.960 And sometimes it's bad.

00:30:22.420 And you know what?

00:30:24.040 In the 19-teens, you're going to have one immigration policy.

00:30:27.440 And in the 1920s and 30s, you're going to have a different immigration policy.

00:30:31.520 And it kind of just depends on the circumstances on the ground.

00:30:34.160 Because politics is a practical science.

00:30:37.280 It's the art of inclusion.

00:30:38.460 And now, I think we are very clearly at a place where we need drastically less migration of all sorts.

00:30:45.600 And Trump just endorsed that view.

00:30:48.840 That is radical.

00:30:51.600 Now, I think that's where most people are.

00:30:53.200 I think most people, not most people on TV, not most people in Congress, but most actual Americans.

00:30:58.560 If you talk to most actual Americans, that's where they are. 0.96

00:31:01.680 They say, it's just crazy, man.

00:31:02.900 You know, I can't, I don't, I get on the train, I walk down the street, I don't hear English.

00:31:08.280 And people are forming their own little enclaves.

00:31:11.540 They're not assimilating.

00:31:12.580 They are trying to get one over on the native population here. 0.75

00:31:15.860 In some cases, they're succeeding, defrauding us to the tune of a billion bucks.

00:31:19.200 It's too much.

00:31:19.840 It's too much.

00:31:21.060 It's creating social solidarity problems.

00:31:22.920 We've got to stop it.

00:31:24.500 Trump endures that.

00:31:25.520 He should be greatly encouraged in that.

00:31:27.400 And we should be encouraged that he did that.

00:31:28.880 And we should keep it up.

00:31:31.400 This is the conservative position now.

00:31:34.320 Okay.

00:31:34.700 I think it was the conservative position, you know, even before, even when President Trump

00:31:37.880 was a little more liberal on immigration.

00:31:40.800 But now there's no question.

00:31:42.620 That's where the base is.

00:31:43.940 That's where the president is.

00:31:45.640 And that's where everyone else all along the way should be as well.

00:31:48.960 Liberals absolutely horrified by this.

00:31:50.920 Because the liberal line is that immigrants built this country.

00:31:54.460 We're a nation of immigrants.

00:31:56.000 Immigrants built this country.

00:31:57.260 You would even hear many conservatives say this for years.

00:32:00.920 And Pramila Jayapal, Democrat Congress lady, she's taken that argument to its logical extreme. 0.84

00:32:07.600 And I think she's exposed it for being false.

00:32:11.140 She comes out and she says, immigrants built this country.

00:32:14.580 Somalis, who are immigrants, Somalis built the United States of America.

00:32:19.820 The majority of Americans across the country, regardless of political party, know that immigrants

00:32:27.840 from all over the world, Somalia, India, wherever they're from, Latin America, Africa, that immigrants

00:32:34.120 have built this country and make this country what it is today.

00:32:38.980 Somalis got here in the 1990s. 0.99

00:32:40.880 So, I think, like, literally the first ever Somali on American soil, I think that person got here in the 1920s.

00:32:52.600 There were a handful, I mean a handful of Somalis in this country.

00:32:57.540 There were none.

00:32:58.160 There were exactly zero before the early 20th century.

00:33:04.440 1607, Jamestown, 1620, the Mayflower, to 1920s, not one Somali here.

00:33:14.800 And yet, amazingly, the country was built over those years.

00:33:18.880 But then there were essentially no Somalis until the 1990s.

00:33:22.160 And then you had this flood of Somalis coming over.

00:33:25.800 And they have never built anything in America.

00:33:28.380 They've only taken from America as a group. 0.90

00:33:32.480 Not even knocking individuals, just as a group.

00:33:34.740 They've never contributed anything.

00:33:37.060 And the country was obviously not built by them.

00:33:41.000 The country was not built by plenty of immigrants.

00:33:43.520 In fact, the immigrant groups that started coming here in the 1960s,

00:33:47.540 the mid to late 1960s, South Asian, a lot more Middle Eastern, African.

00:33:55.720 Those groups, I don't think we could say they built America.

00:34:00.060 Because America was built before then.

00:34:02.780 You know, we beat the British twice.

00:34:05.820 We came through a brutal, bloody civil war.

00:34:09.820 We then conquered the Western Hemisphere.

00:34:12.480 And then we won two world wars.

00:34:14.780 And conquered most of the globe before any of them ever got here.

00:34:23.120 So how would you say they built America?

00:34:26.340 All of our institutions, our universities, our government institutions,

00:34:30.580 our cultural institutions, Hollywood, the news media, everything.

00:34:34.840 Coca-Cola, Henry Ford.

00:34:36.580 All of that stuff was built before any of them got there.

00:34:38.480 So how could you say they built America?

00:34:40.560 And in the case of the people who got here since the 1960s,

00:34:44.140 everything's basically gotten worse since then.

00:34:47.000 Social solidarity is afraid.

00:34:48.680 We've fallen almost immediately.

00:34:50.260 We fell below replacement birth rate.

00:34:51.880 So we're literally a dying country.

00:34:53.860 Marriage collapsed.

00:34:55.020 Divorce soared.

00:34:56.520 Abortion soared.

00:34:57.440 We started killing a million of our own citizens a year.

00:34:59.880 Innocent little babies.

00:35:01.220 I don't know.

00:35:01.840 Things haven't.

00:35:02.840 Trust in institutions has collapsed.

00:35:04.900 Happiness has collapsed.

00:35:07.160 Things have gotten a lot worse.

00:35:08.500 So if you say, well, it was immigrants built that.

00:35:10.200 You say, well, I wouldn't be bragging about it, buddy.

00:35:13.740 But then it gets down to a deeper myth that we're told about the country.

00:35:17.640 And it's part of this self-hating part of it.

00:35:20.000 You know, this gets back to what we were talking about.

00:35:21.100 Why are we taking all these Somalis in to defraud us and commit crimes and stuff? 1.00

00:35:24.820 Well, because we feel bad. 0.64

00:35:25.820 And we feel bad for other people, which is a good thing.

00:35:27.960 We should have charity, which has to be rightly ordered.

00:35:30.840 But we also feel bad about ourselves.

00:35:32.180 We have a disordered hatred of ourselves.

00:35:34.960 And this manifests in the idea that immigrants built our country.

00:35:38.200 The settlers, Jamestown, Plymouth, the pilgrims, the colonials, the brave men who fought the American Revolution, the 19th century.

00:35:48.200 Yeah, they did nothing. 0.99

00:35:49.420 If they did anything at all, they suck. 1.00

00:35:51.040 They were slavers. 1.00

00:35:52.440 For a few of them were slavers. 0.98

00:35:53.720 But they were awful. 0.96

00:35:54.660 They were terrible.

00:35:55.320 Immigrants built this country.

00:35:56.920 That's part of the lie.

00:35:57.700 But it just isn't true.

00:36:00.920 And I think those guys, the founding fathers, the men before the founding fathers, the settlers, those guys deserve a lot of credit.

00:36:09.120 It gets to a deeper criticism.

00:36:12.260 Sometimes they'll say, well, you know who really built this country?

00:36:15.220 Even before the immigrants, it was the slaves built this country. 1.00

00:36:18.220 And that isn't true either.

00:36:22.360 Throughout history, all societies at some point, all areas of the world have had slavery.

00:36:29.880 Many still have it today.

00:36:32.060 If you look at ancient Sparta, there was a whole class of slaves called the Helots.

00:36:36.860 Would anyone, would any historian look back and say, well, it was the Helots who built Sparta?

00:36:41.700 You know what defined Sparta?

00:36:43.380 You know what made Sparta, Sparta?

00:36:46.000 The Helots, the slaves.

00:36:47.400 No.

00:36:50.120 When you look at Russia, Russia had serfdom, a form of slavery until very recently.

00:36:56.600 Would anyone say, oh, yes, the distinguishing feature about Russia, that which gives Russia its culture, its religious culture, its music culture, Tchaikovsky, Tolstoy, Dostoyevsky, Turgenev?

00:37:09.040 No, it was none of those guys.

00:37:10.380 It was the serfs. 0.99

00:37:11.460 They built Russia. 0.89

00:37:12.760 No.

00:37:14.180 Obviously, they contributed.

00:37:15.320 Would you say the great cathedrals that were built, the great monuments, the great works of art and sculpture, Bernini?

00:37:22.640 Would you say, no, actually, you know who really built all those cathedrals?

00:37:25.520 It was like the random stonemason.

00:37:27.300 No.

00:37:27.560 They contributed.

00:37:29.060 That's important.

00:37:29.840 But no, the thing that gives it its form, the civilization, its distinguishing features, it's not just the worker bees.

00:37:36.280 We're all worker bees to some degree.

00:37:37.640 And it's these great men whose names you know who had great thoughts and great visions and who gave these institutions shape.

00:37:47.680 And a big part of the political shift in America is we always understood that.

00:37:54.440 And we try to give credit where credit's due and bring people in and include people and make life more equitable.

00:38:00.980 But we still defended the guys who built our civilization.

00:38:04.320 And then also right around the 1960s, that changed.

00:38:07.840 And we started to vilify them.

00:38:11.140 And we started to hate ourselves as a consequence.

00:38:13.280 And we are palpably losing our country as a result.

00:38:16.600 So you have to fix that.

00:38:19.340 You don't want to have an excessive love of your own excellences.

00:38:23.160 That's pride, which is not only a deadly sin.

00:38:25.340 It's the deadliest of the deadly sins.

00:38:27.980 It's the original sin.

00:38:30.020 Likewise, you don't want to have an excessive contempt for oneself.

00:38:35.380 You want to have a proper love for yourself.

00:38:38.880 And happily, in this case, that proper love for yourself is in accord with the historical facts.

00:38:45.040 We can be nice to Somalis, but we should not be suicidally nice to Somalis. 1.00

00:38:50.160 And we should not pretend that Somalis built America. 0.77

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00:40:31.400 My favorite comment yesterday is from, or this is on Friday.

00:40:35.080 This is from Dr. Calibration7984, who says, he's quoting me.

00:40:39.040 He says, there are a lot of sailors in the Knowles family.

00:40:41.240 I was talking about how a lot of my family was in the Navy.

00:40:43.280 There are a lot of sailors in the Knowles family, he writes.

00:40:45.860 All of Michael's light in the loafers proclivities have been explained.

00:40:50.720 I can make this joke.

00:40:51.960 I'm a crayon eater.

00:40:55.120 That's it.

00:40:55.620 I really walked into that one.

00:40:56.920 You know, I know I've got a little tap dancing training.

00:41:00.340 I play the ukulele every now and again.

00:41:02.500 And I, I, you know, some of this is, I'm Italian, but you know, there's a fine line

00:41:07.640 between Italian and a little bit, I don't know, flamboyant. 0.97

00:41:11.060 I get it.

00:41:11.780 I get it.

00:41:13.320 But I walked right into that when I pointed out that there's a lot of Navy in it.

00:41:16.340 But I tell you what, my heroic grandfather was a Navy captain.

00:41:21.380 The guy had six kids.

00:41:22.580 We had a family reunion over the weekend.

00:41:24.020 Six kids is pretty good.

00:41:25.100 That's beating the allegations.

00:41:27.620 This is the crayon eater.

00:41:29.880 It's a word for Marines.

00:41:30.960 Did you know that?

00:41:31.400 Did you know that?

00:41:32.120 Okay.

00:41:34.340 Speaking of immigration, one last point on immigration.

00:41:37.840 Then I want to get to Sidney Sweeney.

00:41:39.620 I want to get to the important issues.

00:41:42.520 There's a national security strategy.

00:41:44.000 It was published in November.

00:41:45.500 And the national security strategy looked at NATO, our NATO members specifically looked

00:41:49.680 at Europe and pointed out that Europe is quickly losing its European identity.

00:41:55.280 This is just from the national security strategy.

00:41:57.100 Over the long term, it is more plausible, more than plausible that within a few decades at

00:42:01.040 the latest certain NATO members will become majority non-European.

00:42:05.940 As such, it is an open question whether they will view their place in the world or their

00:42:09.580 alliance with the United States in the same way as those who signed the NATO charter.

00:42:12.800 When NATO was established after the Second World War, you got all these allies who say, well, look, we are part of the West.

00:42:20.900 We're not in alliance with Russia, which was the other global power at the time.

00:42:26.300 We're certainly not in alliance with China, which was a backwater. 0.99

00:42:28.900 We're not in alliance with India, which was also a backwater. 1.00

00:42:31.480 We're European.

00:42:32.880 We're Western.

00:42:33.720 So America is the strongest country in the West right now.

00:42:36.240 And we're going to have this broad Western alliance led by the United States.

00:42:39.660 It's part of the character of our civilization.

00:42:43.200 Well, what happens when all those Westerners are gone? 1.00

00:42:47.120 What happens when those Europeans are gone? 1.00

00:42:48.740 Not all of them, but what happens when they lose their majority in their own countries?

00:42:53.120 Let's say, let's just put ourselves in the 1950s and 60s.

00:42:56.020 Let's say that all of a sudden, France, all the French went away and they were replaced by Russians. 0.99

00:43:00.820 Well, would it make sense for France to be in NATO at that point?

00:43:03.320 Well, NATO was the American-led coalition against the Russian-Soviet-led coalition of the Warsaw Pact.

00:43:10.280 No, they would switch because you'd switch the people out.

00:43:12.860 And so it wouldn't matter that you still had the Champs-Elysees and you still had the Eiffel Tower and you still had tasty baguette.

00:43:18.360 Well, you wouldn't have baguette for long, I guess.

00:43:19.700 You'd have borscht or something.

00:43:21.180 But if you switch out the people, you switch out the country. 0.75

00:43:25.740 So it wouldn't make sense for them to be in NATO.

00:43:27.420 Well, okay, if we look ahead a few decades, a lot of these NATO countries won't be European anymore.

00:43:32.060 That's a threat to NATO.

00:43:33.320 It's a threat to the United States.

00:43:35.640 NATO at least doesn't make sense.

00:43:36.840 So, national security strategy says our broad policy for Europe should prioritize reestablishing conditions of stability within Europe and strategic stability with Russia.

00:43:46.860 Enable Europe to stand on its own TV.

00:43:49.000 Cultivating resistance to Europe's current trajectory within European nations.

00:43:53.900 You know, build up the businesses and the markets.

00:43:58.120 Encourage Europe to take action, to combat overcapacity, whatever.

00:44:01.480 We want Europe.

00:44:03.160 The key line here is cultivating resistance to Europe's current trajectory, meaning to stop being majority European.

00:44:13.440 Shawshank Joshi, who is defense editor at The Economist, mocks this.

00:44:19.240 He invades against this U.S. national security strategy.

00:44:22.920 He says, Trump's national security strategy, make Europe white again.

00:44:28.400 And he quotes this line.

00:44:29.440 You know, it's going to become majority non-European. 0.95

00:44:31.480 There's a real and more stark prospect of civilizational erasure.

00:44:34.560 He's quoting from the national security strategy.

00:44:36.200 He says, this is awful.

00:44:38.600 He's implying that Trump national security strategy is to make Europe white again.

00:44:46.780 Shouldn't it be?

00:44:49.120 Shouldn't Europe be white? 0.98

00:44:51.300 What we mean by white is European.

00:44:53.580 They're synonymous.

00:44:56.120 He's saying his strategy is to make Europe European again.

00:44:59.800 Yeah, we probably should, shouldn't we?

00:45:04.460 Obviously, if we went in and said, hey, some African country is going to become white now, not black. 0.91

00:45:10.720 Well, actually, that happened.

00:45:12.560 It happened to varying degrees, you know, in the colonial projects up through, you know, the protests against apartheid and all the rest.

00:45:19.200 And we were told, no, that's wrong.

00:45:20.960 You can't replace the native population. 1.00

00:45:22.400 And yet here, the economist defense editor seems to be implying that we have to replace the native population of Europe.

00:45:32.480 Or it's racist or something.

00:45:36.720 It seems to me pretty obvious that Europe should remain white. 0.99

00:45:39.340 It should not become, you know, a hotbed of Islam or something.

00:45:42.880 The Muslims have been trying to conquer Europe since the 7th century. 1.00

00:45:45.100 They got pretty close starting in the 8th century, 732, Battle of Poitiers, Battle of Lepanto, Battle of Vienna, the conquest of Iberia.

00:45:55.160 You know, they've been trying it for a really long time.

00:45:58.100 And now they might succeed.

00:46:00.760 So isn't, if we can agree, if we can agree that Europe maybe should keep Europeans in it, then let me take this to the next level. 0.81

00:46:11.020 What about America?

00:46:12.880 Would it be bad?

00:46:14.320 Let me ask you this. 0.98

00:46:16.360 Would it be bad if there were no white people left in America? 0.99

00:46:21.540 America was founded by white people who made alliances with Indians, who then later brought African slaves, who then later took in certain migrants who were less obviously white and not Northern European.

00:46:32.280 And okay, well, yeah, sure.

00:46:33.640 It was white people.

00:46:35.220 And then it was well over 90, 95% white or more for the vast majority of its history.

00:46:41.840 And since 1965, that's changed.

00:46:45.000 So I'm not saying it's got to remain 95% white or it's got to return to being 95%.

00:46:48.680 But let me just ask you, would it be bad?

00:46:53.500 Would you, could you conclude it would be bad if every single white person were out of America? 0.56

00:47:00.420 Because over time we took in the vast majority of migration being not white and then the white people, the native population here didn't have kids at above replacement birth rate.

00:47:10.960 And so they're just someday, many decades from now, there were no white people left in America. 0.83

00:47:15.700 Would you say that would be bad?

00:47:18.380 That nobody left in America had any connection genetically as a matter of family tradition, as a matter of common culture to the founding stock of the country that like built the whole country?

00:47:32.040 Would that, would that maybe not be a great thing?

00:47:34.220 You see how, you see how modestly I'm trying to frame this question?

00:47:37.000 Because I think most people of all backgrounds, immigrant, non-immigrant, white, black, yellow, red, everybody in the middle.

00:47:43.600 I think everybody would agree that would be probably not great, probably not advisable.

00:47:49.460 So it would be like a little wrong, not quite fitting about that.

00:47:52.420 Okay, well then that means that the conversation over national quotas and what kind of immigration we're taking in, nationally, ethnically, everything in between, that means that that is a legitimate question.

00:48:06.120 Now, obviously, that was how we talked about immigration until, in fact, even today, but certainly until 1965 and even today.

00:48:12.940 You're just not supposed to admit it anymore.

00:48:14.640 But if, if one admits that it would be bad if not a single white person were left in America, then it means that we really are having that conversation.

00:48:22.840 So then what's the number?

00:48:24.340 Then what's the number?

00:48:25.740 Today it's 60%, used to be, you know, 99%, whatever.

00:48:29.860 What's the number?

00:48:31.260 Very, oh, people don't want to have that conversation.

00:48:34.500 But, and you wouldn't really have to have the conversation so urgently if there were not an active policy in the United States, now over decades,

00:48:41.200 of the mass importation of people who are not particularly connected to the historic American culture and political tradition.

00:48:49.860 Okay, speaking of race, I know I'm running late.

00:48:52.260 I don't care because this ties in too perfectly and it's a, it's a real, it's a real knife in the heart situation.

00:48:58.820 Sydney Sweeney, you remember.

00:49:00.900 Sweet Sydney Sweeney.

00:49:02.500 She did that jeans ad and the joke was Sydney Sweeney's got great jeans because she's hot. 1.00

00:49:06.720 She's physically attractive, which comes a little bit from diet and exercise, 0.56

00:49:10.480 but she's just, you know, some people are just born hotter than others. 1.00

00:49:12.760 I don't know.

00:49:13.120 And she's just a Hollywood starlet. 1.00

00:49:14.440 Makes sense.

00:49:15.820 So Sydney Sweeney has great jeans. 1.00

00:49:17.000 And they never said, that's racist.

00:49:18.380 Now they wouldn't have said it if it were a hot black girl, but because it was a hot white girl, they did say it.

00:49:22.580 You're not allowed to say that.

00:49:23.600 You're not allowed to talk about beauty when it comes to like white people like Sydney Sweeney. 0.95

00:49:27.540 And you remember her response after months and months of non-traversy.

00:49:31.200 Her response when asked by this GQ journalist was this.

00:49:33.960 The president tweeted about the jeans ad or truth socialed about the jeans ad.

00:49:40.440 And that just seems to me like a very crazy moment for anyone.

00:49:48.700 And I wondered what that was like.

00:49:53.140 It was surreal.

00:49:54.440 It was surreal.

00:49:56.140 Wasn't the liberal journalist, wasn't that bad?

00:49:58.760 I mean, what was that like?

00:50:02.060 And then Sydney Sweeney just dead eyes, cold blood, stares right into her soul and goes, it was surreal.

00:50:09.880 And she goes on further.

00:50:10.840 The journalist says, well, I want to give you the opportunity to talk about this thing that's causing you a lot of problems.

00:50:16.040 And Sydney Sweeney says, yeah, when I want to talk, I'll talk.

00:50:20.940 And it was great.

00:50:21.960 We all loved it because she didn't back down.

00:50:24.540 And there are reports that she's a registered Republican and all the rest.

00:50:27.300 Well, nothing gold can stay, my friends.

00:50:32.460 She tells People Magazine, I was honestly surprised by the reaction.

00:50:35.080 I did it because I love the jeans and I love the brand.

00:50:36.840 I don't support the views some people chose to connect to the campaign.

00:50:41.540 Many have assigned motives and labels to me that just aren't true.

00:50:45.120 Anyone that knows me knows I'm always trying to bring people together.

00:50:47.220 So she apologizes.

00:50:49.620 This is a kind of implicit, it's not a full apology.

00:50:52.160 She says, I love the jeans, I love the brand.

00:50:53.760 But she says, people are ascribing these views to me.

00:50:56.280 Now, again, are they talking about these funny memes where they're saying she's like a Nazi now?

00:51:00.120 You know, she said like an Aryan goddess or something.

00:51:02.080 Okay, yes, she's not.

00:51:03.140 I don't think Sydney Sweeney is a Nazi or anything like that.

00:51:05.760 Or is she disavowing this broader association with the American right?

00:51:11.140 Here's where the line that gets me.

00:51:12.680 She goes, I'm against hate and divisiveness.

00:51:14.760 Yes, of course, we all are.

00:51:17.340 And the left primarily promotes that.

00:51:19.100 And that's evident in the social scientific numbers, you know, about disowning family members and supporting political violence.

00:51:24.680 And they support it.

00:51:25.260 But they use that language.

00:51:26.480 You don't really hear this from the right.

00:51:27.600 Stop hate.

00:51:28.440 Stop hate.

00:51:28.800 It's always the left-wing organizations that use this.

00:51:31.000 Be kind.

00:51:31.580 Stop hate.

00:51:32.240 Don't divide us.

00:51:32.940 And she starts using that language.

00:51:35.280 In the past, my stance has been to never respond to negative or positive press.

00:51:38.060 But recently, I've come to realize that my silence regarding this issue has only widened the divide, not closed it.

00:51:42.800 So I hope this new year brings more focus to what connects us instead of what divides us.

00:51:45.800 All right, so this is liberals in Hollywood telling her she's got to change strategy. 1.00

00:51:51.280 And they're exploiting her, and she's getting bad advice.

00:51:54.440 I get why she's doing it.

00:51:55.580 I'm speculating, but I think the reason she's doing this is because her recent movies have bombed.

00:52:00.000 So she had this movie in November of this year.

00:52:03.000 It only made $1.31 million at the box office.

00:52:05.700 Christy, August was a flop.

00:52:08.040 This movie, Americana, half a million bucks reportedly.

00:52:10.800 And also in August, Eden, a million bucks.

00:52:14.340 Echo Valley was not released at the box office, but it had low streams, I guess, in June.

00:52:18.840 These are movies I'd never heard of until this morning.

00:52:20.740 So obviously, they didn't do very well.

00:52:23.360 And I think probably it's publicists and Hollywood Libs saying,

00:52:25.980 hey, you're getting crushed because you did that jeans ad, and you need to come out and apologize.

00:52:30.240 And that's why these movies are bombing.

00:52:31.880 And I don't think that's true.

00:52:33.240 I don't think that's true.

00:52:33.960 I have this.

00:52:34.440 Here we go.

00:52:34.880 Don't take my word for it.

00:52:35.680 Take the New York Times.

00:52:36.880 25 movies, many stars, zero hits.

00:52:38.820 Hollywood falls to new lows.

00:52:40.180 It's been a brutal three months for dramas and comedies.

00:52:42.740 This is from November, 2025.

00:52:44.160 So the movies are bombing.

00:52:45.460 And it's not Sidney Sweeney's fault.

00:52:48.640 It's the movie's fault.

00:52:49.520 It's not Sidney Sweeney doing a commercial that was an excellent commercial and got a lot of attention.

00:52:53.840 It's the movies that are bombing.

00:52:55.400 And there's an irony here.

00:52:56.840 Because I bet what's happening is these Libs in Hollywood are telling Sidney Sweeney, 0.95

00:52:59.580 someone sent her this video.

00:53:01.020 She needs to hear this.

00:53:02.600 Someone's telling her in Hollywood, your movies are bombing because people associate you with the right now.

00:53:08.080 And that jeans ad was a mistake, and you need to apologize for it.

00:53:11.160 And she comes out and does this kind of tepid, slight apology, and she takes their advice.

00:53:15.060 And ironically, I think the reason her movies are bombing is because all the movies are bombing because the liberals no longer have the cultural dominance they once did. 0.99

00:53:24.940 The cultural dominance of the left was expressed by the hit movies, by the common culture.

00:53:30.280 The fact that those don't really exist anymore proves to you that the left has lost its cultural hegemony, which is good.

00:53:38.060 Now, we need to build something in its place.

00:53:39.380 That's good.

00:53:40.660 But now you've got these Libs. 0.95

00:53:41.920 It's this desperate grasp, this last gasp to say, hey, no, no, no, hold on.

00:53:46.020 We can still force Sidney Sweeney to toe the line.

00:53:48.640 We'll give you your hit movies back.

00:53:50.140 You can't.

00:53:50.640 The liberals won't give you your hit movies back.

00:53:52.460 There are no hit movies anymore.

00:53:54.560 Don't fall for it, Sidney.

00:53:56.440 Don't fall for it.

00:53:58.480 I read that.

00:53:59.260 The minute I saw that headline from people, I said, oh, no.

00:54:02.760 Nature's first green is gold, her hardest hue to hold.

00:54:05.200 Her early leaf's a flower, but only so an hour.

00:54:08.360 Then leaf subsides to leaf, so Eden sank to grief, so dawn goes down to day.

00:54:13.640 Nothing gold can stay.

00:54:14.720 I know it's a fallen world.

00:54:16.060 People are going to squish a little bit, but you don't have to, Sidney.

00:54:19.100 They won't give you your hit movies back.

00:54:21.600 Hold firm.

00:54:23.460 It's a Faustian bargain.

00:54:24.980 Don't do it.

00:54:26.220 Wow, huge story.

00:54:27.040 One of the main stories I wanted to talk about today.

00:54:28.460 I don't have time.

00:54:29.460 Someone opened fire on Tim Pool's house.

00:54:31.340 How's that for a teaser?

00:54:32.000 We'll get to that tomorrow.

00:54:33.340 Today is Music Monday.

00:54:34.100 The rest of the show continues now.

00:54:35.220 You do not want to miss it.

00:54:35.940 Become a member.

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00:54:39.000 All of this is an illusion.

00:54:54.860 An echo of a voice that has died.

00:54:59.340 And soon that echo will cease.

00:55:00.840 They say that Merlin is mad.

00:55:14.900 They say he was a king in Dovid, the son of a princess of lost Atlantis.

00:55:25.280 They say the future and the past are known to him.

00:55:30.040 That the fire and the wind tell him their secrets.

00:55:34.060 That the magic of the hillfolk and druids come forth at his easy command.

00:55:39.440 They say he slew hundreds.

00:55:44.600 Hundreds, do you hear?

00:55:46.400 That the world burned and trembled at his wrath.

00:55:52.660 The Merlin died long before you and I were born.

00:55:58.640 Merlin Emrys has returned to the land of the living.

00:56:04.480 Vortigin is gone.

00:56:06.380 Rome is gone.

00:56:07.020 The Saxon is here. 0.76

00:56:10.900 The Saxon Hengist has assembled the greatest war host ever seen in the Island of the Mighty. 0.98

00:56:15.540 And before the summer is through, he means to take the throne.

00:56:20.100 And he will have it.

00:56:21.600 If we are too busy squabbling amongst ourselves to take up arms against him.

00:56:26.520 Here is your hope.

00:56:28.040 A king will arise to hold all Britain in his hand.

00:56:31.920 A high king.

00:56:32.760 He will be the wonder of the world.

00:56:34.420 You.

00:56:38.300 To a future of peace.

00:56:42.780 There will be no peace in these lands till we are all dust.

00:56:45.880 Men of the Island of the Mighty.

00:56:48.220 You stand together.

00:56:51.840 You stand as Britons.

00:56:54.880 You stand as one.

00:56:56.320 Count them down!

00:56:58.920 Great darkness is falling upon this land.

00:57:02.980 These brothers are our only hope to stand against it.

00:57:05.460 Not our only hope.

00:57:10.160 They say Merlin slew 70 men with his own hands.

00:57:14.380 And Gathay, he slew 500.

00:57:18.460 No man is capable of such a thing.

00:57:21.280 No mortal man.

00:57:22.260 No.

00:57:23.460 To be.

00:57:24.720 Tomorrow is aödity.

00:57:24.880 No man.

00:57:25.800 No.

00:57:26.160 No.

00:57:26.460 No.

00:57:27.060 I'm sorry.

00:57:27.800 No.

00:57:28.160 No.

00:57:28.440 No.

00:57:29.020 No.

00:57:29.040 No.

00:57:29.780 No.

00:57:30.240 No.

00:57:32.860 No.

00:57:33.780 No.

00:57:34.860 No.

00:57:35.700 No.

00:57:36.080 No.

00:57:38.140 I forgot Montm himself.

00:57:38.380 What and to do another.

00:57:39.660 All that means?

00:57:40.140 No.

00:57:40.200 There are norage donatedjas.

00:57:40.700 Yeah.

00:57:41.160 No.

00:57:41.280 No.

00:57:42.220 No.

00:57:42.460 No.

00:57:43.040 No.

00:57:43.380 It's exactly right.

00:57:44.480 All that means.

00:57:45.080 Oh.

00:57:45.880 No.

00:57:46.060 No otro.

00:57:46.480 That means morally got.

00:57:47.100 No.

00:57:47.640 No.

00:57:48.340 No.

00:57:49.960 No.

00:57:50.080 No.

00:57:50.680 No.

The Michael Knowles Show - December 08, 2025

Ep. 1870 - Somalis Built America？

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