The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 1877 - Protecting Non-Binary Assassin？ Brown University Deletes Records

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00:00:28.280 Brown University is quickly deleting its digital record

00:00:31.620 of a they-them pro-Palestine leftist student with a Muslim name.

00:00:36.080 But the school wants you to stop asking questions about him or her or they-them or whatever.

00:00:43.020 The school wants you to know that they've identified the real killer

00:00:47.120 that ended the lives of two promising young students,

00:00:50.160 including one of the only conservatives on campus.

00:00:52.800 And the real killer, they contend, has nothing to do

00:00:56.360 with the person who pulled the trigger.

00:00:58.260 I'm Michael Knowles.

00:00:58.940 This is The Michael Knowles Show.

00:01:14.580 Welcome back to the show.

00:01:19.920 Did you know that Jasmine Crockett has identified the chief cause of violent crime in America?

00:01:25.820 She has.

00:01:27.780 And you're probably guessing that it's white people and you would be right. 1.00

00:01:32.720 We'll get into how Jasmine Crockett arrives at those numbers first, though.

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00:03:00.800 The Brown University shooting investigation has been completely boggled.

00:03:05.860 I mean, it's just, it's a disaster.

00:03:09.040 It's a disgrace.

00:03:10.880 No one seems to know anything.

00:03:13.220 However, internet sleuths have pointed out that there was a guy, a student from Brown,

00:03:19.820 who was listed all over the Brown website, whose pages are just coming down now.

00:03:24.060 And he's a guy with a Muslim name who identifies as a they, them, 0.98

00:03:28.620 who's a pro-Palestine activist, who wears the keffia, 0.90

00:03:31.260 who talks about all sorts of sexually deviant stuff, who, shall we say, fits the profile.

00:03:37.100 We talked about this on the show yesterday, maybe Monday too.

00:03:42.240 There's two kinds of terrorism in the United States today, really around the West. 0.96

00:03:46.620 It's the radical leftist terrorism and it's the Muslim terrorism. 0.98

00:03:50.160 And that's pretty much it. 0.99

00:03:51.640 That's pretty much it.

00:03:52.600 They would have you believe, they, the political elites, 0.92

00:03:55.200 would have you believe that the real terrorism is from the white supremacists. 0.60

00:03:59.080 We'll get to that momentarily. 0.97

00:04:00.080 They would have you believe that the real terrorism comes from the Christian fundamentalists or something.

00:04:04.860 It's just not true.

00:04:05.740 It's not true at all.

00:04:06.600 That basically never happens.

00:04:09.580 Even the Atlantic Magazine had to admit terrorism is a left-wing problem right now.

00:04:13.760 And there's substantial overlap between the radical leftists,

00:04:17.220 the trans-tifa type guys, and the jihadis.

00:04:21.520 And the reason I don't want to say this they, them's name from Brown, 0.94

00:04:26.720 and the reason I don't want to show you a picture of this they, them, is we really don't know.

00:04:30.140 And I want to be much more responsible than the liberal media are.

00:04:33.140 Don't forget, Brown already, when they thought it was a white guy, they arrested this guy.

00:04:36.560 They leaked his name.

00:04:37.280 They leaked his photo.

00:04:38.040 They ended up leaking the wrong white guy's photo.

00:04:39.940 Then they leaked another white guy's photo.

00:04:41.600 And then it turns out it wasn't that guy at all and they released him.

00:04:44.040 But I don't want to be as irresponsible in the other direction as the establishment media are.

00:04:48.280 However, it is pretty weird that as this investigation is ongoing,

00:04:52.300 Brown takes down this page of the Muslim-named, they, them,

00:04:56.420 kafia-wearing, matches the profile of all the terror attacks.

00:05:01.020 Don't forget that the first confirmed casualty in this shooting was one of the only Republicans on campus.

00:05:08.140 And some of the reporting says that she was specifically targeted.

00:05:10.640 Okay, so what does Brown have to say about that webpage coming down?

00:05:16.100 Some webpages for students or faculty have been taken down.

00:05:19.700 Is that a response to any external threats to anyone in the community?

00:05:24.620 We have been working very closely with law enforcement to provide them with

00:05:29.820 all of the internal to Brown information that they need to do this investigation.

00:05:35.540 It's their investigation, they're the professionals.

00:05:37.460 So we're providing information.

00:05:39.020 We're not in the job of reviewing it for them.

00:05:42.680 I know nothing about webpages being taken down as part of this.

00:05:47.020 It's the first I've heard of it.

00:05:48.520 Yeah, you know nothing about anything, lady, apparently. 1.00

00:05:50.900 Apparently, the leadership of Brown knows nothing about anything.

00:05:53.580 The leadership of Brown was asked why the alarm didn't go off when the shooting began.

00:05:57.240 Leadership of Brown comes out and says,

00:05:58.660 oh, the alarms aren't supposed to go off when there are shooting events.

00:06:01.340 And then one of the reporters responds and says, actually, on your website, it says that the alarms

00:06:05.640 are supposed to go off in shooting events.

00:06:07.420 And the leadership of Brown says, oh, well, oops.

00:06:09.540 Yeah, well, anyway, I don't know anything about that.

00:06:11.420 Now, this woman's asked, hey, how come this one Muslim named, they, them,

00:06:16.100 Keffia-wearing, leftist, queer, whatever, how come all the internet references to this person are off your website?

00:06:24.020 And she says, look, we're cooperating with law enforcement.

00:06:26.380 We're giving them what they need, giving them what they need.

00:06:28.780 Do they think the internet is like a chest of drawers?

00:06:32.300 Like if you want to hand over this information to the police, you need to take it down from the internet.

00:06:37.660 Well, we can't have it on the internet.

00:06:38.900 We got to give it to the police.

00:06:39.840 That's not how the internet works, lady. 0.73

00:06:42.340 And so you can just point them at that.

00:06:43.740 The question isn't what are the police looking at?

00:06:45.600 The question is why is Brown University removing references to a student who may or may not be implicated in this?

00:06:50.960 We don't know because Brown won't tell us anything.

00:06:53.640 He certainly, he or they or them, or I don't know what it is, certainly fits the profile.

00:06:57.940 But we don't, I don't know if this person's connected at all.

00:07:00.960 But you won't tell me.

00:07:02.060 And now you're stonewalling and you're evading the question.

00:07:05.320 You say, well, we're working with the police.

00:07:06.840 I'm not talking about the police.

00:07:07.900 What are you doing?

00:07:09.060 Why did you take the student's profile down?

00:07:12.840 Then the president of Brown makes clear what her agenda is, which is she says, look, you need to stop asking these questions, okay?

00:07:20.980 You need to stop asking questions about who may or may not have pulled the trigger because the real killer of these students had nothing to do with the person who pulled the trigger.

00:07:30.160 I want to begin by thanking the many law enforcement agencies who continue to work around the clock on this case.

00:07:37.660 It's very impressive.

00:07:38.740 I also want to thank the mayor and the governor for their continued support.

00:07:43.200 The primary point that I wanted to address before we get to questions is that Brown is deeply committed to the safety and security and well-being of our community.

00:07:53.380 And I've been deeply sad to see people questioning that.

00:07:57.540 We understand that as time goes on, there is maybe a natural instinct to assign responsibility for a tragic event like this.

00:08:07.880 Anxiety and fear is very natural.

00:08:10.460 But the shooter is responsible.

00:08:13.860 Horrific gun violence took the lives of these students and hospitalized others.

00:08:18.120 And it's deeply sad and tragic that schools across the country are targets of violence.

00:08:24.480 Brown is no exception. 0.97

00:08:25.960 Hold on.

00:08:27.080 I want you all to know that we take the safety of students very, very seriously.

00:08:34.380 And you all want to find out what caused the shooting.

00:08:39.540 But I'm here to tell you that, okay, fine.

00:08:42.520 I mean, the shooter bears some responsibility, but really it was just gun violence.

00:08:49.560 That's the conclusion she reaches.

00:08:51.840 Okay, I mean, maybe I have to pay a little lip service to the shooter individually, not as a member of a group.

00:08:57.940 Yes, it's true that all the terrorism is committed by Muslims and leftists, but it has nothing to do with Islam or leftism. 0.57

00:09:03.860 Please stop implicating ideologies in this.

00:09:06.360 It's strictly individuals.

00:09:07.860 Everyone needs to be judged as an individual, unless we're talking about Christians or men or white people. 0.81

00:09:12.960 But everyone else needs to be judged as individuals.

00:09:17.060 And really, it's not even the shooter.

00:09:18.860 It's guns.

00:09:20.360 It's the guns. 1.00

00:09:22.180 We, I know you all, you rubes, you bitter, clinging, Bible-thumping, idiot rubes, 1.00

00:09:27.120 who don't even have a degree from Brown University, technically an Ivy League university. 1.00

00:09:33.820 You went, you don't, you don't understand because you didn't go to Brown, you passionate hoi polloi.

00:09:42.260 But you're not supposed to assign blame after a crime.

00:09:46.360 No, no, no.

00:09:47.460 And anyway, we should blame the guns.

00:09:49.580 Wait.

00:09:51.820 Do we seek to place blame or not?

00:09:56.160 No, we shouldn't place any blame on anyone or anything, but actually it was the guns.

00:09:59.480 Okay, well, hold on.

00:10:02.180 If you're going to say it's the guns, then you say we should place some blame.

00:10:05.080 And we do need to place some blame because the only way that you can protect students,

00:10:08.780 which you say is your mission, is to figure out what caused the shooting in the first place.

00:10:14.880 And you're not being forthright.

00:10:17.260 You're evading questions.

00:10:18.600 You're not answering. 1.00

00:10:20.000 You're playing dumb. 0.99

00:10:20.760 Maybe you are dumb, but you're not answering why information about certain students who fit the profile. 1.00

00:10:25.760 There are reports out that before the student opened fire in what is reportedly a targeted killing, 0.99

00:10:32.400 the student shouted, Alahu Akbar.

00:10:34.120 We don't know if that's true or not.

00:10:35.040 We don't know because we're getting stonewalled by Brown and by the police,

00:10:37.740 and the police don't seem to know anything either.

00:10:40.860 But I faced this same issue when I was testifying on political violence just a month ago before the Senate.

00:10:47.740 The Democrat ranking member on the Senate said,

00:10:50.040 we shouldn't seek to play the blame game here over political violence.

00:10:55.740 I mean, yes, it's entirely leftists targeting right-wingers, but we shouldn't play the blame game.

00:11:00.280 It's really, it's both sides, and it's irresponsible to play the blame game.

00:11:03.140 I said, the only way you can solve a problem is if you identify where the problem's coming from.

00:11:07.960 So when you say don't play the blame game, you're pretending to some moral high ground.

00:11:13.880 It's not a moral high ground.

00:11:15.020 It's deeply immoral because what you're saying is we're not going to solve the problem, 0.99

00:11:17.860 and we're going to keep killing you. And we're going to let the radical Muslims and the radical 1.00

00:11:22.280 leftists, who in practice are difficult to differentiate, especially when it's the radical 0.96

00:11:27.640 queer leftists who are wearing the kefi is chanting the Islamic chants. It's very difficult 0.98

00:11:32.000 to separate the two. But when it's them committing all the violence against us,

00:11:36.320 then it's very easy for you on the left to say, oh, it's no big deal. Let's not play the blame game.

00:11:40.180 Yeah, because what that's going to redound to is more persecution of our side.

00:11:45.600 Anything better from the cops? Hey, Rhode Island cops, you're going to give us any more

00:11:50.140 information than this feckless and apparently dishonest President of Brown?

00:11:54.460 The video that we showed you came from inside the building, and that's all we have at the moment.

00:11:59.000 That's all we have at this moment.

00:12:00.520 Inside the building, though?

00:12:02.400 I'm sorry.

00:12:03.060 It's from the outside.

00:12:04.220 From the outside? So do you have video?

00:12:07.320 Yes.

00:12:08.320 Both inside and outside. I'm sorry, just outside. That's all we have, not inside.

00:12:12.440 I'm sorry, just outside.

00:12:14.240 Are they going to be released anytime soon unless they're inside the building?

00:12:17.940 That was released already. That was the outside of the building. We already released that.

00:12:21.380 Let me just jump here and clarify.

00:12:25.740 Hold on, let me just clear things up.

00:12:27.880 This guy actually comes in.

00:12:30.240 Look, this is an Ivy League campus.

00:12:32.560 This is supposed to have really good security, cameras everywhere.

00:12:35.660 For goodness sakes, you have cameras probably all over your house in the middle of nowhere.

00:12:40.280 We have cameras all over 7-Eleven.

00:12:42.080 You don't have cameras all over a place where there are a ton of students in a prestigious and wealthy university?

00:12:46.260 He says, oh no, well, the problem is we had the cameras inside.

00:12:51.440 I mean, I know, sorry, I mean, the cameras were inside and outside.

00:12:55.900 I mean, oh no, sorry, the cameras were actually on the outside.

00:12:59.720 And I don't, where am I? Where am I? What are we talking about?

00:13:03.100 What day is it? Where? Hello?

00:13:05.640 And then this, I don't know, this other guy, Stevie, oh, let me try to clarify.

00:13:09.320 They don't know anything.

00:13:11.580 They let the shooter get away.

00:13:14.200 And now they're fumbling over themselves, I think quite clearly, because of ideology.

00:13:21.000 When it looked like the shooter was a blonde-haired white guy,

00:13:26.160 oh, they were tripping over themselves to release that guy's photo.

00:13:29.500 They were so excited.

00:13:32.360 Then they fumbled it, apparently because of incompetence.

00:13:36.180 And then they said, oh, it was some other guy.

00:13:38.900 But he was still at least arguably white.

00:13:41.600 So they said, okay, it's this guy.

00:13:44.980 And then they had to release that guy.

00:13:47.900 Now, they either really don't know, and they don't know how to work security camera footage,

00:13:52.340 and they just don't know anything.

00:13:54.000 They don't know the difference between inside and outside.

00:13:56.400 Or they think that they know who the guy is, but he doesn't fit that ideological narrative.

00:14:02.740 He's not a white guy.

00:14:03.540 He's not a straight, white, right-wing guy, which is what they were all obviously hoping for.

00:14:10.200 And if the shooter really is any of the identity groups in this person whose profiles have come down from Brown,

00:14:18.460 Muslim, queer, leftist, activist, anarchist, whatever.

00:14:24.560 However, if that's true, it seems from all of the available evidence, they will do everything to suppress that.

00:14:32.260 Now, speaking of crime and identity politics, Jasmine Crockett has a novel theory about which group commits most of the violent crime in America.

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00:15:47.240 Who commits most of the violent crime in America?

00:15:51.700 If you were tuning into, you weren't tuning into CNN.

00:15:54.180 If you were walking through an airport and CNN was on, you heard Jasmine Crockett say this.

00:16:00.880 This is very simple.

00:16:02.160 We, right now, have a white supremacist that is sitting in the White House. 0.81

00:16:07.520 He is backed up by other white supremacists. 0.92

00:16:10.260 And if you really want to know who the criminals are in this country, you can Google it. 0.78

00:16:14.100 You don't have to trust me. 0.99

00:16:15.540 But the people that commit 80% of the most violent crimes in this country are white supremacists. 0.93

00:16:21.620 Yet, for whatever reason, they sit and they serve at the pleasure of the president. 0.94

00:16:26.180 They are the ones that were there on January 6th, tearing our democracy down physically.

00:16:32.180 And now we have them tearing us down right here from within.

00:16:36.000 Okay, so this is not a new clip.

00:16:38.260 It's resurfacing because Jasmine Crockett is now running for Senate. 1.00

00:16:43.520 And this clip was from earlier in the year.

00:16:45.940 And obviously, it's quite relevant now because crime has ticked up, because the terror attacks have ticked up, because the terror is coming from the left, because violent crime is a big problem in the cities that Trump has sought to suppress.

00:16:55.500 And so she says, well, hold on, this is all misplaced. 0.90

00:16:59.760 Most violent crime in America is committed by white supremacists. 0.88

00:17:04.660 So this is not merely a claim of, I don't know, of preference. 0.94

00:17:09.820 This is not a claim of supposition, a gut feeling.

00:17:14.120 This is the sort of thing that we actually can test.

00:17:16.200 So I went to the FBI statistics.

00:17:19.300 And even, take out the supremacist part.

00:17:21.000 Is it the case that most violent crime is committed by white people generally? 0.89

00:17:27.720 Sort of, sort of.

00:17:30.200 But when you consider it proportional to the relative white, black, Hispanic, or the other population, it's much, much lower.

00:17:37.300 So according to the FBI statistics, 59.4% of violent crime is committed by white people.

00:17:43.960 Now, white people are 60%, a little over 60% of the population.

00:17:47.380 So it's lower than the proportion of white people in the population.

00:17:51.680 But wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait.

00:17:52.620 There are a lot of lies in these statistics. 0.95

00:17:54.800 So 59.4% of violent crime committed by whites. 0.99

00:17:58.200 36.2% committed by black people. 0.97

00:18:01.340 Now, black people are only about 12% of the population. 0.99

00:18:04.300 So much, much higher proportion of violent crime being committed by black people. 1.00

00:18:08.360 Then 2.4% being committed by Indians, feather not dot. 0.99

00:18:12.580 And 2% being committed by Asians.

00:18:15.200 Now, you notice there is a demographic group that is missing here.

00:18:20.580 The demographic group being Hispanics.

00:18:23.480 Where are the Hispanics? 0.99

00:18:24.840 You add up all these numbers, you get to 100%.

00:18:26.420 So where are the Hispanics?

00:18:29.420 The Hispanics are largely classified as white for the purpose of crime statistics.

00:18:36.660 Notice Hispanics are not uniformly classified as white.

00:18:39.920 Hispanics are not, and you might say, well, look, there are blacker Hispanics and whiter Hispanics. 0.90

00:18:46.380 Hispanics of more Spanish origin, Hispanics of more African origin, Hispanics of more indigenous origin.

00:18:50.880 Yeah, yeah, that's all true.

00:18:51.700 But put all of that aside.

00:18:53.860 Regardless, when it comes to crime statistics, Hispanics are largely classified as white.

00:18:58.980 When it comes to university admissions, Hispanics are never classified as white.

00:19:04.520 Ever.

00:19:05.020 It doesn't matter how, they could be lily white, they could be straight out of Barcelona.

00:19:10.460 Barcelona, quick little pit stop in Havana, on the way up to America, they are not classified as white.

00:19:16.340 In other words, when it is advantageous for Latinos as a group to be classified as white for the purpose of hiding crime statistics, they are. 1.00

00:19:27.700 And when it is advantageous for them to be classified as non-white, they are classified as non-white, as in the case of affirmative action and university admissions. 0.96

00:19:35.200 So even that, Jasmine Krakit says, most of the crime is committed by white supremacists.

00:19:39.120 You say, okay, what's, what, 59 or so percent?

00:19:41.540 Even that, though, a huge chunk of that, we don't know what percentage, is not white people by many metrics in America.

00:19:50.340 Okay, then furthermore, let's get to her real claim, which is white supremacists.

00:19:54.140 How many white supremacists are there in the country?

00:19:55.980 Like four?

00:19:57.740 I assume at this point, the vast majority of people who belong to white supremacist organizations are FBI agents.

00:20:03.820 It's like, there's 10 people in the Klan group, and nine of them are federal agents, and one of them is Bubba.

00:20:10.160 Poor Bubba, who got lured to the, he was probably invited by the FBI, but they just don't exist.

00:20:15.280 So then you look, even where there are these gangs, they're mostly prison gangs, like the Aryan Brotherhood, and they mostly just kill each other. 0.99

00:20:24.080 But I looked at this data set, and according to the statistics, white supremacists account for well under 0.1% of violent crime in the United States.

00:20:33.180 So statistically, zero.

00:20:35.440 So in other words, Jasmine Crockett, completely wrong about this.

00:20:39.380 And probably people who observe that will be derided as racist, or playing identity politics, or something, or whatever.

00:20:45.600 However, we have to keep this principle in mind.

00:20:51.720 We have to keep this principle in mind when we're talking about the terror attacks that were foiled on New Year's Eve,

00:20:57.620 terror attacks that just took place at Brown University in Sydney, Australia.

00:21:01.200 We talk about violent crime generally.

00:21:02.640 It is very important to identify where the problem is coming from.

00:21:07.220 Not out of cruelty, not out of hatred, not out of bigotry, not because we hate the leftists and want to round them all up and send them to camps,

00:21:15.520 not because we hate black people or these people or that people,

00:21:19.360 but because clarity is charity, and you can only fix a problem if you identify where the problem is coming from.

00:21:24.820 And you want to fix the problem for everyone, even for the perpetrators.

00:21:29.100 It's the idea of a rehabilitative criminal justice system.

00:21:33.320 Okay, speaking of racial politics, a very sorry scene took place in the U.S. Capitol.

00:21:38.560 Statue of Robert E. Lee was just removed from the Capitol.

00:21:42.400 This has been a process that's been building for years and years and years, since BLM.

00:21:46.600 So they take down the statue of General Lee, one of the greatest Americans ever to live,

00:21:50.600 and they replaced the statue of General Lee with a statue of civil rights icon, Barbara Rose Johns.

00:22:01.660 I say civil rights icon because that is how this is being reported everywhere in the liberal media,

00:22:07.420 even in some of the conservative media.

00:22:09.720 Civil rights icon, Barbara Rose Johns.

00:22:11.940 Quick test.

00:22:13.000 Hold on.

00:22:13.680 Don't Google it.

00:22:16.420 Who's Barbara Rose Johns? 1.00

00:22:18.720 You don't know.

00:22:19.660 I don't know.

00:22:21.100 I looked at her Wikipedia page today.

00:22:22.880 I still don't really know.

00:22:24.260 Nobody has ever heard of this woman, ever.

00:22:26.440 No one.

00:22:27.920 No one.

00:22:28.460 And I know there's this impulse, especially among people who want the approval of the liberal,

00:22:34.360 coastal, intellectual, credentialed, institutional elites.

00:22:37.440 I know there's this impulse to say, no, of course I've heard of that person.

00:22:40.080 Oh, yeah, yeah, no, I've totally, of course I've heard of it.

00:22:42.080 Who hasn't heard of Juneteenth?

00:22:43.120 Yeah, of course.

00:22:43.680 Oh, I've been, my family's been celebrating Juneteenth for, you know, like 100 years.

00:22:47.060 What are you, oh, yeah, of course I know what that is.

00:22:48.360 Oh, yeah, Barbara Rose Johns.

00:22:49.740 Yeah, of course I know.

00:22:50.980 Who's Barbara Rose Johns? 1.00

00:22:52.840 You've never heard of her.

00:22:54.540 She's not an icon.

00:22:56.400 The left is trying to make her into an icon by iconoclasm taking down the icon of General

00:23:05.600 Lee, who, as an icon, stood for something and stood for something very good.

00:23:11.280 Do you know what he stood for?

00:23:12.880 He stood for reconciliation among Americans who had such bitter divisions that they went

00:23:18.400 to war with each other.

00:23:20.160 And General Lee, after defending his countrymen, General Lee, after not even really defending

00:23:27.120 slavery, which was obviously an important issue in the Civil War.

00:23:29.780 But General Lee, who famously said that he celebrated the end of slavery.

00:23:38.920 He rejoiced that slavery was over.

00:23:42.500 General Lee, who would have happily given up all of his slaves if it were up to him.

00:23:47.380 And he fulfilled what Abraham Lincoln called for, which was malice toward none and charity

00:23:53.340 for all.

00:23:54.460 And they took him down.

00:23:55.880 And now there's a new icon, this woman that no one's ever heard of.

00:23:59.200 And this new icon stands for what?

00:24:02.800 Victory of the oppressed over the oppressor.

00:24:06.880 Victory of the unknown.

00:24:08.400 The very fact that no one knows who she is is actually part of her iconography.

00:24:12.400 The victory of the unknown person over the great man of history.

00:24:19.200 Victory of the modern progressives over the traditions of America, over the traditional

00:24:24.720 American nation.

00:24:27.080 And I can't tell you the surprise and disappointment I felt when I read Glenn Youngkin's take on this.

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00:24:35.120 I think he's a good, he's been a good governor in Virginia.

00:24:38.000 I like him.

00:24:38.540 And I know that he's the governor of a blue commonwealth.

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00:25:58.680 You have a total desecration of American history.

00:26:00.640 You have the statue toppling of one of the greatest Americans ever to live, to put up

00:26:07.320 this woman that no one's ever heard of as merely a stand-in to spit on the tradition 1.00

00:26:13.460 of America and say it all used to be terrible, but finally we've overcome our awful oppressors.

00:26:18.000 And here's what Glenn Youngkin has to say.

00:26:19.580 Today we gathered in Emancipation Hall of the U.S. Capitol to dedicate the Barbara Rose

00:26:23.140 Johns statue to honor her legacy as a trailblazer and ensure her story of courage and conscience

00:26:28.420 is a story for generations to come.

00:26:31.080 Okay, blah, blah, blah.

00:26:32.660 Here's the kicker.

00:26:34.240 You can't tell the story of Virginia or the story of how our nation overcame segregation

00:26:39.380 without telling the story of Barbara Rose Johns.

00:26:46.360 You can't tell the story of Virginia without telling the story of Barbara Rose Johns.

00:26:52.740 We've done a pretty good job of it for the last 300 years.

00:26:56.540 No one ever heard of this woman before yesterday.

00:26:59.200 You cannot convince me that anyone, possibly including the people who put her statue up

00:27:05.300 yesterday, no one had ever heard of this woman.

00:27:08.660 You can't, we were doing a pretty good job telling the story of Virginia before yesterday.

00:27:13.960 Frankly, we were doing a better job of telling the story of Virginia in years past, before

00:27:19.000 the recent spate of statue toppling and spitting on our ancestors.

00:27:21.760 You can't, he's a Republican, Glenn Youngkin.

00:27:26.420 I don't mean to invade.

00:27:28.420 I get it.

00:27:29.140 There are political exigencies when you're a Republican governor in what is generally a

00:27:34.060 blue commonwealth.

00:27:34.960 I get it.

00:27:35.560 Look, it's easy for me to pontificate.

00:27:38.320 I don't have to go win the votes of moderates and Dems, and I get it.

00:27:42.260 But bro, what on earth are you talking about?

00:27:45.180 This is, this has taken political stretching of the truth into the realm of the truly absurd.

00:27:52.940 You can't tell the story of Virginia without telling the story of Barbara Rose Johns.

00:27:57.700 I forgot her name in between the last time I was complaining about this and this most recent

00:28:04.640 statement, which was a time span of about 32 seconds.

00:28:08.780 What's her name?

00:28:09.700 Hey, hey, pop quiz.

00:28:12.700 Maybe if you're watching this, you see it on the screen.

00:28:14.620 But if you're listening, pop quiz, what's the lady's name? 0.77

00:28:18.200 I bet some of you don't.

00:28:19.200 It's Barbara Rose Johns.

00:28:21.520 Oh, it's all just so tedious.

00:28:23.300 Now, in stable countries, I want to be totally fair.

00:28:28.560 I want to be as fair as I can be.

00:28:30.180 In stable countries, stories change.

00:28:33.440 Stories about our heroes, our ancestors, our lore, our mythology, they change over time.

00:28:39.420 That's true.

00:28:40.260 That's necessary.

00:28:41.440 That's part of how human culture develops.

00:28:44.040 So our understanding of George Washington today is a little different from the founding

00:28:50.260 father's understanding of George Washington is a little different from the 19th century

00:28:55.780 understanding of George Washington.

00:28:57.840 That's certainly that's true.

00:28:59.780 Myths and legends develop over time.

00:29:02.120 George, why he cut down a cherry tree and he could not tell a lie.

00:29:06.560 Absolutely.

00:29:07.440 Absolutely.

00:29:08.220 These things change.

00:29:09.940 However, in stable countries, the stories that we tell about our heroes just kind of develop.

00:29:16.360 It's like the stories of the saints.

00:29:17.360 And these heroes of American history are just secular or civic saints.

00:29:22.100 But the stories of the saints, there are real saints.

00:29:24.540 These saints really lived.

00:29:25.760 They really did real things.

00:29:26.780 A lot of them were martyrs for the faith.

00:29:28.260 And then legends develop about the saints, you know, slaying dragons and things like that.

00:29:34.220 It's not that the legends totally undermine the real history of the saints.

00:29:40.240 They really develop out of the real history.

00:29:43.100 They color in the real history, but they don't undermine the truth of it.

00:29:47.360 That's what happens in stable countries.

00:29:49.600 You get some legends and myths and the stories we tell about the heroes change.

00:29:53.020 In revolutionary countries like we live in right now, the heroes themselves change.

00:30:01.160 Today, think about this.

00:30:04.380 When I was a kid, we learned about the midnight ride of Paul Revere.

00:30:07.100 Probably many of you did too.

00:30:10.860 People learned about the midnight ride of Paul Revere from the revolutionary era when it was news all the way up through probably about 20 years ago.

00:30:19.820 Now, if you polled 100 kids under the age of 25, you said, who's Paul Revere?

00:30:28.120 How many of them would have any idea?

00:30:31.020 Not just how many of them would have their stories differ a little bit and different.

00:30:33.980 No, no.

00:30:34.140 How many of them would even know who that person is?

00:30:35.880 They probably wouldn't.

00:30:36.480 Because these heroes of American history are not merely having their reputations changed or even damaged.

00:30:43.020 They're being erased.

00:30:44.240 They're being pulled down.

00:30:45.900 Like the Taliban blowing up the Buddha statues.

00:30:48.620 That's what the left is doing here.

00:30:51.800 Think about Ike Eisenhower.

00:30:52.780 Ike Eisenhower was a moderate Republican president.

00:30:56.200 War hero of World War II.

00:30:58.220 Country loved him.

00:30:59.200 Presided over really probably the greatest era of peace and prosperity ever in the United States.

00:31:03.780 Here's what Dwight Eisenhower had to say about Robert E. Lee.

00:31:09.140 I think there are a good many of you people here, both photographers and representatives of the press,

00:31:14.820 have been going into my office for the past four and a half years, occasionally.

00:31:19.140 No doubt you've noticed that on the wall there are the prints of four men.

00:31:23.380 Men that I consider in my book are about the four top Americans of the past.

00:31:31.680 They are Franklin, Washington, Lincoln, and Lee.

00:31:36.440 And anybody who ever tries to put me in any other relationship with respect to General Lee is mistaken.

00:31:44.320 There you have it.

00:31:45.900 Ike Eisenhower, as moderate, as beloved an American as ever there was, for now,

00:31:52.780 says General Lee was one of the greatest Americans ever to live.

00:31:55.920 That was long after the Civil War.

00:32:00.180 It's not that that was in the heat of the moment.

00:32:02.180 That was long after the Civil War.

00:32:04.460 Almost 100 years after the Civil War.

00:32:07.720 And now, 70-ish years after that, his statue can't even stand.

00:32:16.260 He's a symbol of hatred.

00:32:17.260 But what that tells you is that something recent radical, not in response to events of the past,

00:32:24.980 something modern and revolutionary is taking place.

00:32:29.520 And it's being cheered by some Republicans. 1.00

00:32:31.620 Pathetic, pathetic. 1.00

00:32:32.880 Okay, speaking of these radicals, I told you about the New Year's Eve plot in Los Angeles. 1.00

00:32:37.480 There was, the FBI foiled this plot where a bunch of leftists who were aping the slogans of the Islamists.

00:32:45.820 It's always the ones you most expect.

00:32:48.580 They were going to blow up L.A. on New Year's Eve, and four of them were arrested.

00:32:53.620 Now, there's been a fifth arrest.

00:32:55.260 Who is this person?

00:32:56.620 The person's name is Micah James Lignon.

00:32:59.340 He was arrested in Louisiana Saturday.

00:33:01.520 He was tied to chats with suspected members of the terror group Turtle Island Liberation Front

00:33:08.260 and the spinoff group that was planning the attack.

00:33:10.440 This guy went by Kateri the Witch on the group chats and Dark Witch She slash Her.

00:33:19.460 So he's a tranny, and he was apparently a Trantifa extremist. 0.99

00:33:24.840 Trantifa and a portmanteau of trans, transgender and Antifa. 0.94

00:33:31.520 This ties back to the political assassination.

00:33:35.500 There have been so many this year, haven't there?

00:33:36.880 The one that affected all of us the most, and that is the assassination of Charlie.

00:33:42.780 We're getting ready for AmericaFest just this week, which TPUSA is valiantly continuing to put on

00:33:49.140 under the leadership of Charlie's widow, who, among all the other awful things she's going through,

00:33:52.840 has to run this organization and put on this event, which is Charlie's legacy,

00:33:57.020 and I know he would have loved it.

00:33:57.900 Any time there is an assassination of a major political figure, conspiracy theories crop up.

00:34:06.200 It's true with Kennedy, true with McKinley, true with, I don't know, it's true. 0.97

00:34:10.140 It happens all the time.

00:34:12.760 One reason that I have consistently shot down some of the conspiracy theories around the

00:34:18.540 assassination of Charlie is that it's always the ones you most expect.

00:34:22.680 One reason that I in particular, the moment it happened to, I was supposed to give a speech

00:34:28.580 with Charlie 12 days after he was killed, and then I ended up doing it.

00:34:31.780 It was me in an empty chair, and a lot of the speech was a memorial to Charlie, and also focusing

00:34:37.740 on the radical leftist, trans-loving, sexually deviant person who did it, all the way through 0.67

00:34:46.980 up until today, part of the reason that I have never for one second doubted that it was a

00:34:53.160 leftist, trans-identifying, LGBT, whatever person, is because these are the people who

00:35:00.400 always do the terrorism in America. 0.93

00:35:03.380 Sometimes it's the Muslims, sometimes it's a Venn diagram intersection of the Muslims and 1.00

00:35:09.120 the leftist sex freaks, but it's always them. 0.99

00:35:12.320 It's always them, is the thing. 0.97

00:35:15.060 I've experienced this personally when I was giving a talk at the University of Pittsburgh.

00:35:18.580 I mentioned that.

00:35:19.060 That was the subject of my Senate testimony about a month or so ago.

00:35:22.580 I was another one of these Antifa freaks, and it's just, it's always them.

00:35:26.760 It's just always them.

00:35:28.660 And so, I'm one that, in the abstract, likes to entertain conspiracy theories, because I

00:35:33.680 think they're the sign of an active mind, and they can be kind of amusing when you go

00:35:36.820 through history.

00:35:37.360 However, when we're talking about urgent events, recent events that involve people who are very

00:35:43.400 close to us, that we actually know personally and have relationships with, to me, the bar

00:35:48.860 to entertain those kinds of things is much, much higher, because it causes real pain to

00:35:52.120 people.

00:35:52.620 And the bar has to be much, much higher when there is so much evidence in support of, it's

00:35:59.820 the leftists, it's the sex freaks, it's the tran-tifa, it's the people who always do 0.95

00:36:04.900 this, this guy, Micah James Lanyon, Kateri the Witch, Dark Witch She-Her, Tran-tifa Extremist, 0.96

00:36:13.160 Justice for Palestine, it's all the same stuff that we always hear from these people.

00:36:18.640 Oh, gee, no way.

00:36:19.800 So, actually, the one aspect of a conspiracy around the assassination of Charlie that I think

00:36:25.400 also a lot of us have been quite open about entertaining from the beginning is, this guy

00:36:31.580 was in group chats, this guy had this text thread with his trans furry boyfriend or whatever.

00:36:37.900 You're telling me none of them knew about this?

00:36:39.900 I don't know.

00:36:40.360 I mean, look at the New Year's Eve plot.

00:36:42.320 These guys talk.

00:36:43.100 These guys plan things.

00:36:44.680 That happens.

00:36:46.460 But in our modern age, we're not allowed to have prejudice.

00:36:51.140 We're not allowed to have hunches. 0.59

00:36:53.380 We're not allowed to trust our gut.

00:36:55.300 But one of the great insights of conservatism is that your gut is usually right.

00:36:59.760 Not always.

00:37:00.700 It has to be conditioned by justice and scrutiny to reason and all of these other things.

00:37:05.720 But your gut's usually right.

00:37:07.100 That's one of the big dividing lines, I would say, between a conservative disposition and

00:37:11.060 a liberal and leftist disposition.

00:37:13.360 It's the liberals and leftists to say, don't trust your gut.

00:37:16.220 Don't think it's the people you expect to have done it.

00:37:18.680 Don't rely on what has always happened in the past.

00:37:21.280 And it's the conservatives who say, you know, look, precedent is not a guarantee that something

00:37:27.160 will happen in the future.

00:37:28.320 But past performance is not necessarily a guarantee of future success.

00:37:31.260 But often it is.

00:37:34.420 Okay.

00:37:35.480 Speaking of the left making the country worse, Zoran Mamdani has a novel theory on how to

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00:39:36.360 My favorite comment yesterday is from Live Love Llamas, who says,

00:39:41.620 The Providence shooter, the Providence rather, can't identify a shooter on camera, but go

00:39:46.340 five miles an hour over the speed limit and they produce a 4K glamour shot of my license

00:39:50.380 plate.

00:39:50.640 Yeah, weird, isn't it?

00:39:52.240 Weird.

00:39:53.560 They might be incompetent.

00:39:55.240 Never underestimate the incompetence of Ivy League University administrators and police

00:40:00.120 forces that have been weakened by leftism.

00:40:02.440 But they might also be covering something up.

00:40:06.380 The photos of the first white guy suspect, those things leaked faster than they could utter

00:40:11.260 the guy's name.

00:40:14.140 Now, these other people, you don't hear so much about them.

00:40:17.480 Zoran Mamdani, mayor-elect of New York, he has a theory on how to deal with the spiking

00:40:24.400 crime that has occurred under the leftist mayoral administrations in recent years.

00:40:29.460 And let's see if this checks out.

00:40:31.640 We made five bus routes free in New York City.

00:40:35.520 When we made those bus routes free after a year, assaults on bus drivers dropped by 38.9%.

00:40:41.400 On the bus drivers?

00:40:42.320 On the bus drivers.

00:40:43.080 Because unlike the train, the act of fare collection on the bus happens on the bus.

00:40:48.420 Yeah, it's their job, yeah.

00:40:50.220 And bus drivers and unions have shared anecdotally that about 50% of assaults happen around the

00:41:00.000 fare box.

00:41:00.500 So when you eliminate the fare box, you make for a safer experience for the bus driver,

00:41:06.660 for everyone on the bus.

00:41:07.340 Yeah.

00:41:08.300 So the problem is that on the buses, these violent criminals, these repeat criminals,

00:41:14.040 keep coming up, and they don't want to pay their two bucks, so they assault the bus driver.

00:41:18.940 That's the problem.

00:41:19.960 You want to protect the bus driver and the passengers on the bus from the violent criminals

00:41:23.740 who are terrorizing the city.

00:41:25.340 Zoran Mamdani's solution is to stop making them pay the $2, and then maybe they'll stop

00:41:32.920 beating everybody up and killing people. 0.66

00:41:34.300 Now, another solution, of course, would be to arrest the criminals, but Zoran Mamdani says 0.80

00:41:41.520 prisons don't help reduce crime.

00:41:45.060 Zoran Mamdani says punishing criminals doesn't reduce crime.

00:41:48.580 So what you have to do is be really, really nice to criminals.

00:41:50.760 You have to give the criminals what they want.

00:41:52.280 So, for instance, if you want to reduce burglaries, if you want to reduce murders during burglaries,

00:42:00.240 you know, the burglar comes in, the couple's there, and he murders them.

00:42:04.160 That happens a fair bit.

00:42:06.040 Well, the way that you reduce murders during burglaries is not arresting the murderers and

00:42:10.180 the burglars.

00:42:10.720 It's by making sure that everyone keeps all their jewelry in the front hall so that when

00:42:14.780 the burglars get in, all the valuables are there, and they don't have to go to your

00:42:17.620 bedroom and kill you. 1.00

00:42:18.820 Problem solved. 0.99

00:42:19.560 Actually, it's an apt comparison because the New York City government runs terrible deficits

00:42:26.940 and relies on federal funding for like 10% of the city budget.

00:42:31.340 And then when you factor in grants, specifically grants to transportation, they rely on $100

00:42:34.760 billion a year of federal funding.

00:42:36.880 So they're robbing the taxpayer blind, further robbing the taxpayer blind by letting these 1.00

00:42:41.800 degenerate criminals ride the bus for free, two bucks at a time, starts to add up. 0.83

00:42:45.880 But it's like saying that we're going to reduce murder during rape by telling the victims not

00:42:51.960 to resist.

00:42:53.280 We've got, hey, I've got the Zoron solution.

00:42:55.560 Yes, sometimes rapists murder their victims, but I've got the solution.

00:42:59.140 We're not going to arrest the rapist murderers.

00:43:01.400 We're going to just tell the rape victims to stop resisting, and then maybe they won't 0.97

00:43:04.740 get murdered. 0.90

00:43:05.120 Buckle up, New York. 1.00

00:43:09.000 This is going to be brutal.

00:43:10.800 And I'm a New Yorker by birth, by upbringing.

00:43:14.180 I lived the first 24 years of my life within an hour or two of New York City, spent a lot

00:43:20.900 of time in the city.

00:43:22.320 Boy, oh boy, it is going to get bad.

00:43:24.800 However bad you think this guy is, it's going to be a lot worse.

00:43:28.820 Now, there's an alternative theory of criminal justice.

00:43:31.640 The one is be really nice to the criminals, and maybe they'll stop attacking you.

00:43:37.620 The other theory is arrest the criminals and arrest them the first time they offend, arrest

00:43:43.340 them on the relatively minor offenses so they don't go on to the bigger offenses, and arrest

00:43:46.640 them when they're young.

00:43:47.560 Here is a Pennsylvania sheriff who, I don't know, we should put him in charge of federal

00:43:51.620 law enforcement, I think.

00:43:52.680 Sheriff Grady Judd in Pennsylvania.

00:43:54.960 This is everything that they stole.

00:44:01.100 And guess what?

00:44:03.700 As we've said before, you can't go any place, any time, that you're not on a camera.

00:44:12.480 So Dick's Sporting Goods knows that they're stealing because they're watching this systematic,

00:44:19.400 organized theft ring called a football team.

00:44:23.360 I don't know if these all were starters or not, but I can tell you that we were finishers.

00:44:31.800 We arrested them.

00:44:33.260 In Polk County, Florida, we'd lock you up for stealing, for being a thief.

00:44:39.720 So this is part of a football team.

00:44:45.500 This is also the thoroughbred thieves, and it's their choice.

00:44:49.720 And for the coach, you're way off base here, buddy, way off base. 1.00

00:44:56.060 You're the ultimate loser. 0.98

00:44:58.000 If you'd been coaching these kids upright, if you knew where they were, if you didn't 0.99

00:45:02.940 allow them to Uber away, they would have played in a ballgame Saturday night.

00:45:08.960 I love this.

00:45:09.940 I misspoke.

00:45:10.380 I said it was Pennsylvania.

00:45:11.100 It's Florida.

00:45:11.560 Of course, it's Florida.

00:45:12.280 I should have known.

00:45:12.840 And this coach says, oh, you know, these kids who are stealing all this stuff, these

00:45:18.780 kids, you know, look, you got to go easy on them.

00:45:21.180 Just let them off the hook.

00:45:22.240 It's no big deal.

00:45:23.220 We want them to play in the ballgame.

00:45:24.780 And this sheriff comes out and he says, man, coach, you're totally wrong.

00:45:29.480 I mean, one, you're being selfish.

00:45:31.460 And you're saying that you guys winning this ballgame is more important than protecting

00:45:35.840 society.

00:45:37.560 But at a deeper level, you're being selfish, even with regard to the kids.

00:45:41.880 And this is the false mercy of the left.

00:45:45.480 This is the false mercy of Zoran Mamdani, where he says, you know what we got to do to

00:45:49.400 the thieves?

00:45:49.880 We got to not punish them.

00:45:51.460 To the assailants, to the murderers, to the criminals, we got to not punish them.

00:45:55.960 And if we don't punish them, that will be really nice for the bad guys.

00:46:01.480 This is an argument, I mentioned this book before on the show, that was taken on millennia

00:46:06.280 ago in Plato's Gorgias, which is the question of, is it charitable to wrongdoers not to punish

00:46:14.000 them?

00:46:14.820 And the answer is no.

00:46:17.140 It's bad for them not to punish them, because it will encourage them to continue doing bad

00:46:25.240 things.

00:46:25.960 Which will be bad for them.

00:46:28.520 It will destroy their souls.

00:46:30.560 It will probably destroy their material flourishing, too.

00:46:33.880 It's just bad.

00:46:34.620 It's a bad lesson.

00:46:35.960 If you want to stop violent crime, if you want to protect people, if you want to reform

00:46:40.840 criminals, you have to punish them, even over the small stuff, even and especially when

00:46:48.060 they're young.

00:46:49.300 This used to be common sense.

00:46:50.700 Now we forget about it.

00:46:51.680 Okay, speaking of young people, one story I alluded to yesterday that I really want to get

00:46:55.180 to.

00:46:56.180 Very important HUD report.

00:46:57.620 This is from the Department of Housing and Urban Development.

00:47:00.980 This report has just come out on why housing is no longer affordable.

00:47:08.040 This is from Secretary Scott Turner, who I interviewed a little earlier this year.

00:47:12.300 This was how Mamdani won, isn't it? 0.95

00:47:14.980 Mamdani says he ran on affordability, specifically housing affordability.

00:47:18.160 This is the left's new line.

00:47:19.580 We got to address housing unaffordability.

00:47:22.640 Trump is running on deport the foreigners, the illegal aliens, and the left is running on

00:47:28.320 housing affordability.

00:47:29.320 And what's so amazing about those two issues is the fact that the left let in all the foreigners

00:47:36.400 is actually the cause of the unaffordability.

00:47:38.620 According to this HUD report, the two-thirds of rental demand growth in recent years has

00:47:47.500 been on account of foreign-born people in the country.

00:47:50.380 Two-thirds of rental demand growth.

00:47:52.340 The reason that you, young people especially, but people of all ages, can't pay your rent

00:47:58.660 is two-thirds predominantly because the left let all these foreigners into the country.

00:48:06.180 Not just the three million illegals a year that Biden welcomed in, but the million legal

00:48:10.760 immigrants a year that the United States has welcomed in, that the left has encouraged 1.00

00:48:13.860 for decades.

00:48:15.180 That's why your rent is high.

00:48:17.040 The reason that the Democrats might be able to win, at least in the blue cities, on the

00:48:21.460 affordability crisis is because of the affordability crisis that the Democrats caused.

00:48:26.920 Two-thirds of it.

00:48:29.660 It's not just finger-pointing.

00:48:31.220 You're the reason for the affordability crisis.

00:48:33.240 No, you're the reason for the affordability crisis.

00:48:34.960 No, no, no.

00:48:35.840 The affordability crisis comes down largely to food, the prices of which were driven up

00:48:41.860 chiefly because of Joe Biden's inflation and because of welfare fraud, which we learned

00:48:46.140 during the government shutdown, and housing especially, and the housing crisis, the unaffordability

00:48:53.160 crisis in housing is caused overwhelmingly by mass migration.

00:48:58.480 You want to solve affordability?

00:49:01.460 Mass deportations.

00:49:03.340 That's it.

00:49:04.200 That's your answer.

00:49:05.060 That's the Republicans' answer.

00:49:07.020 I think the young people especially get this.

00:49:09.120 Maybe some of the older millennials, Gen X boomers need to get the message too.

00:49:12.940 This is it.

00:49:13.460 Okay, speaking of foreigners, Jasmine Crockett just said the quiet part out loud.

00:49:17.280 She said we need illegal aliens in the country because, quote, we done picking cotton. 1.00

00:49:21.580 We don't have time to get to that.

00:49:22.780 I really wish we did.

00:49:23.620 We might have to get to that tomorrow because today is Woke Wednesday.

00:49:26.060 The rest of the show continues now.

00:49:27.520 You do not want to miss it.

00:49:28.320 Become a member.

00:49:28.740 Use code Knowles Canada.

00:49:29.480 Be really.

00:49:29.760 You have to check out for two months free on all annual plans.

00:49:32.440 All of this is an illusion.

00:49:48.380 An echo of a voice that has died.

00:49:52.820 And soon that echo will cease.

00:49:54.300 They say that Merlin is mad.

00:50:12.360 They say he was a king in Dovid.

00:50:16.020 The son of a princess of lost Atlantis.

00:50:18.760 They say the future and the past are known to him.

00:50:24.580 That the fire and the wind tell him their secrets.

00:50:27.940 That the magic of the hillfolk and druids come forth at his easy command.

00:50:34.220 They say he slew hundreds.

00:50:38.060 Hundreds do you hear?

00:50:39.880 That the world burned and trembled at his wrath.

00:50:42.880 The Merlin died long before you and I were born.

00:50:52.060 Merlin Emrys has returned to the land of the living.

00:50:57.920 Portigan is gone.

00:50:59.740 Rome is gone.

00:51:01.660 The Saxon is here. 0.76

00:51:04.380 Saxon Hengist has assembled the greatest war host ever seen in the Island of the Mighty. 0.99

00:51:08.980 And before the summer is through, he means to take the throne.

00:51:11.940 And he will have it.

00:51:15.060 If we are too busy squabbling amongst ourselves to take up arms against him,

00:51:19.680 here is your hope.

00:51:21.520 A king will arise to hold all Britain in his hand.

00:51:25.380 A high king.

00:51:26.560 He will be the wonder of the world.

00:51:29.440 You.

00:51:31.840 To a future of peace.

00:51:36.340 There'll be no peace in these lands till we are all dust.

00:51:39.340 Men of the Island of the Mighty.

00:51:42.460 You stand together.

00:51:45.140 You stand as Britons.

00:51:48.340 You stand as one.

00:51:49.800 A great darkness is falling upon this land.

00:51:54.680 These brothers are our only hope to stand against it.

00:52:00.760 Not our only hope.

00:52:03.640 They say Merlin slew 70 men with his own hands.

00:52:07.800 And Gathay, he slew 500.

00:52:11.880 No man is capable of such a thing.

00:52:14.880 No mortal man.

00:52:15.720 No.

00:52:16.280 No likable.

00:52:17.800 Noка.

00:52:18.560 No mercy.

00:52:19.500 No.

00:52:19.680 No.

00:52:20.720 No.

00:52:24.740 No.

00:52:25.340 No.

00:52:26.320 No.

00:52:26.520 No.

00:52:26.980 No.

00:52:27.340 No.

00:52:28.560 No.

00:52:28.880 No.

00:52:29.600 No.

The Michael Knowles Show - December 17, 2025

Ep. 1877 - Protecting Non-Binary Assassin？ Brown University Deletes Records

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