The Michael Knowles Show - January 27, 2026


Ep. 1899 - Why Is It Only Minneapolis？ Why Is It Always Minneapolis？


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The power went out in my house last night, and I had to stay in the house with my kids. It's cold in here, but it's not as bad as it could have been. I talk about how I managed to stay warm and cozy.

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00:00:00.000 Minnesota Governor Tim Walz compares face-tattooed rapists to Anne Frank.
00:00:05.220 Kanye West apologizes to Jews and lots of other people.
00:00:09.380 And Virginia Democrats propose a law that would ban immigration enforcement from polling places.
00:00:16.580 What a weird thing to do.
00:00:19.200 I'm Michael Knowles. This is the Michael Knowles Show.
00:00:30.000 Welcome back to the show.
00:00:43.240 Wonderful to be with you in these new circumstances.
00:00:46.160 I'm very, very sorry.
00:00:47.740 Yesterday, you know, the show went up a little bit late.
00:00:50.600 And it went up late because I lost power.
00:00:53.420 My house got down to about, what was it, 45 degrees, screaming children.
00:00:58.600 That was the worst part. It was really me having to deal with those screaming children.
00:01:02.740 And the power was out, so I couldn't do my show.
00:01:05.280 I jerry-rigged it. I MacGyvered it on my cell phone.
00:01:08.580 Natural light. But then there was no internet.
00:01:11.160 So I was uploading it. It took a thousand hours to upload.
00:01:15.380 I expected the episode to come out during the third Barron Trump administration.
00:01:19.880 But we got it up, finally.
00:01:21.420 And then I was rescued by my buddy Witt.
00:01:24.700 A nice Catholic boy, as you can see from his beautiful crucifix here.
00:01:28.920 So I'm broadcasting from Witt's studio.
00:01:31.680 He saved us, both the family, and we can stay in heat now and eat and drink and shower.
00:01:39.240 But more importantly, I can be in a podcast studio.
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00:03:16.160 Tim Walls.
00:03:17.960 Amid all the chaos in Minneapolis.
00:03:20.940 It always seems to be Minneapolis, doesn't it?
00:03:23.100 It only seems to be Minneapolis amid all the chaos, the leftists going out, rioting, obstructing
00:03:30.360 law enforcement, conspiring with state officials.
00:03:34.320 We'll get to that.
00:03:35.700 Then the law enforcement operatives and officers shooting some of these lunatics, justifiably
00:03:41.880 so, necessarily so.
00:03:44.140 Nevertheless, a giant powder keg.
00:03:45.840 And amid all of this, Tim Walls, the man who was almost one heartbeat away from becoming
00:03:50.220 the second woman president, comes out and he compares the face-tattooed rapists and the 0.59
00:03:58.240 murderers and the drug traffickers and all these foreign criminals to Anne Frank. 0.99
00:04:04.280 We have got children in Minnesota hiding in their houses, afraid to go outside.
00:04:11.740 Many of us grew up reading that story of Anne Frank.
00:04:16.160 Somebody's going to write that children's story about Minnesota.
00:04:18.720 And there's one person who can end this now.
00:04:24.540 A very salient comparison, except, of course, that Anne Frank was a little girl who died in
00:04:32.280 a concentration camp.
00:04:34.340 And what's going on in Minneapolis is that some of the worst kinds of criminals, along with
00:04:42.140 lots of other criminals who have broken the most basic laws of our country, are actually
00:04:48.820 fine.
00:04:49.460 Like, basically nothing is happening to them.
00:04:51.320 But crazy white liberals are sometimes getting into scraps with law enforcement and threatening
00:04:57.540 them and getting shot on their behalves, on the behalves of all of the criminals.
00:05:01.740 What they want is George Floyd 2.0.
00:05:09.560 That's what they want.
00:05:10.880 They want George Floyd 2.0, and they're going to get George Floyd 2.0.
00:05:15.360 Unfortunately, I think it is working to some degree.
00:05:18.660 I'm monitoring.
00:05:19.780 You know, I have liberal friends.
00:05:21.060 I grew up in New York, went to a very liberal college, lived in Los Angeles.
00:05:24.080 I have a mixed political family.
00:05:25.980 I'm monitoring it, and they're buying it.
00:05:28.160 And it's just, it's 2020 all over again.
00:05:32.000 Trump is president, which is part of why this is happening, is because the libs feel powerless,
00:05:36.120 because they lost the national election.
00:05:37.720 They want to do something, and so what are they going to do?
00:05:39.860 They're going to riot.
00:05:40.800 It's like a little toddler.
00:05:42.000 They're going to throw a big temper tantrum, except in this case, what they're going to
00:05:45.560 do is break laws, create anarchy in the streets, threaten people, endanger lives, harbor
00:05:51.080 criminals, and all the rest of it.
00:05:52.500 And they think they're going to get the same outcome they did in 2020.
00:05:54.840 Because, don't forget, 2020 worked.
00:05:59.620 The George Floyd riots worked. 0.96
00:06:02.440 We lost, well, did we lose?
00:06:04.900 Trump did not remain in office in 2021, for a variety of reasons that we don't need to
00:06:10.360 rehash now.
00:06:10.940 In any case, as a practical political matter, it did kind of work, didn't it?
00:06:15.960 And that's what they're counting on again.
00:06:18.620 What they're counting on is that they can go back to that old playbook, and Trump isn't
00:06:23.980 going to bring down the hammer that much.
00:06:25.640 And I hope the administration is getting the message.
00:06:28.660 I trust that they are, but if they do what was done in 2020, you're going to get the same
00:06:36.600 result.
00:06:37.680 And what happened in 2020?
00:06:38.900 In 2020, you had this massive lockdown.
00:06:41.460 You had this chaos throughout the country.
00:06:43.480 It was this perfect opportunity.
00:06:44.840 Trump on the back foot.
00:06:45.920 Here, you don't necessarily need that.
00:06:47.160 You're not on the brink of a presidential election.
00:06:49.280 I guess you have the midterms coming up, though that's less important.
00:06:52.320 And you're in a kind of situation where, it seems to me, you've got to do the opposite.
00:06:58.820 You've got to come down, bring down the hammer, and call people's attention to the fact that
00:07:03.960 this has happened before.
00:07:05.100 Because the top question in people's minds should be, why is it always Minneapolis?
00:07:09.660 And the lieutenant governor of Minnesota seems to be giving us that answer.
00:07:12.580 Lieutenant Governor Peggy Flanagan has now been identified, reportedly, as one of the
00:07:19.100 administrators of the anti-ICE signal chat.
00:07:21.980 We talked about this on the show yesterday.
00:07:24.140 There's this signal chat that is allowing all of the anti-ICE people to coordinate with
00:07:28.560 each other and to show up and say, hey, I doxed that ICE officer's car. 0.99
00:07:33.120 Hey, I doxed that not ICE officer, but just some civilian that I don't like's car.
00:07:36.880 And hey, they're going to come to arrest the rapist down here, so we've got to block
00:07:40.140 them.
00:07:40.580 And hey, we need to stop the traffic.
00:07:42.060 And hey, this, that, and the other thing.
00:07:43.880 And it's not just lunatics, and it's not just bored white women in their 30s and 40s. 1.00
00:07:49.900 And it's not just like weird guys who have nothing else going on, who hate their dads,
00:07:55.320 who want to feel like they need meaning in their lives.
00:07:57.240 It's all those kinds of people.
00:07:59.540 It's also state officials.
00:08:01.560 We talked about this yesterday on the show.
00:08:03.700 There's a Minnesota state rep who's helping to coordinate some of this stuff.
00:08:06.760 Obviously, Tim Walls, as governor, has been verbally encouraging these sorts of riots from behind
00:08:13.060 his wrought iron fence.
00:08:14.100 Hey, you, go out there.
00:08:15.080 Yeah, go get yourself killed.
00:08:16.440 That's a sacrifice I'm worth making.
00:08:18.180 And let's go.
00:08:19.020 Hey, come on out.
00:08:19.740 Just, hey, get in their faces.
00:08:21.100 Grab their guns, maybe.
00:08:21.920 That's a great idea.
00:08:23.340 That'll probably stop the investigation into my conspiracy to commit fraud.
00:08:28.100 You got him doing that.
00:08:29.160 You got Klobuchar saying, we need ice out now.
00:08:31.240 You got Jacob Fry with his whiny millennial, you get ice.
00:08:35.380 Get the F out of here.
00:08:36.780 Get the F out of here, ice.
00:08:39.420 Forget about the supremacy clause of the Constitution.
00:08:42.060 You got all that going on.
00:08:43.520 But then, at a more tangible level, there are reports that the lieutenant governor, Peggy
00:08:49.520 Flanagan, who you're probably not that familiar with, most people are not, she also went viral 0.84
00:08:55.160 for wearing a shirt that said, protect trans kids with a knife.
00:08:59.780 And I don't, does the knife represent chopping off the kids' genitals?
00:09:03.860 Or does the knife represent stabbing the people who oppose the transgender ideology?
00:09:09.120 I don't know which is worse, actually.
00:09:11.360 Either way, it's always the ones you most expect.
00:09:14.780 This woman is one of the admins of the anti-Ice Signal Chat.
00:09:19.260 This means two things.
00:09:21.600 One, this woman could be criminally liable for these deaths. 0.89
00:09:26.860 If this woman was actively conspiring in these insurrectionist operations to obstruct law 0.99
00:09:36.600 enforcement, to grapple with the police, to aid and abet criminals, she could be criminally 0.97
00:09:42.640 liable for the consequences of those actions, which now include two deaths.
00:09:47.280 Beyond that, what this means is that we have an answer to our question.
00:09:53.120 Why Minneapolis?
00:09:54.160 Why is it always Minneapolis?
00:09:55.580 Why is it only Minneapolis?
00:09:57.440 Because it's a political operation.
00:10:01.420 And I made this point when Charlie was killed.
00:10:05.380 Remember, after Charlie was killed by the same kind of person who always tries to kill the
00:10:11.060 conservatives, sexually deviant, radicalized, young leftist, shows up.
00:10:16.700 I mean, these are people who've shown up to campuses multiple times.
00:10:20.520 When that guy assassinated Charlie, allegedly, when he assassinated Charlie, a lot of people,
00:10:28.540 I think, as a coping mechanism or a way to grieve, said, well, you know what?
00:10:32.800 That will never work because we're only going to be stronger now and we're going to be more
00:10:36.040 unified.
00:10:36.620 And you've struck one of us down, but you're, we're only going to.
00:10:39.460 And I thought, look, I hope that's the case.
00:10:41.040 I hope we win.
00:10:41.620 And I hope we take some inspiration, but the reason that people do assassinations is because
00:10:48.140 they work.
00:10:49.640 If they didn't work, people wouldn't keep doing them.
00:10:53.840 Some Serbian nationalist, some loser, nobody in the middle of nowhere committed an assassination
00:11:02.040 against a little known archduke.
00:11:04.800 And it set the world into the greatest calamity ever to befall Europe. 0.87
00:11:11.920 A war so massive that it extended beyond Europe and we call it a world war.
00:11:16.740 Assassinations work.
00:11:17.660 That's why people keep doing them.
00:11:19.040 Well, it's the same thing for this, these kinds of riots.
00:11:21.040 Why on earth would Tim Walz be encouraging this unrest in the streets?
00:11:24.700 Gee, I don't know.
00:11:25.520 Cause it works for his political party.
00:11:27.020 It has in the past.
00:11:28.780 Why would Peggy Flanagan, Amy Klobuchar, Jacob, why would they do it?
00:11:32.940 Well, cause it has worked for them.
00:11:34.460 And so the task before us now is to make this one not work.
00:11:38.680 How do you make it not work?
00:11:40.920 Well, the strategy last time was basically let, let Minnesota burn.
00:11:45.520 And there, there are many people on the right, especially the more libertarian right, but people
00:11:49.780 on the right generally will say, you know what, let them deal with the consequences of
00:11:52.940 their own actions.
00:11:54.220 Minnesota's having problems.
00:11:55.160 Great.
00:11:55.380 That's why I left those kinds of states, those blue states.
00:11:58.420 And they can pay their high taxes and have to deal with their fraudulent Somalis and their 1.00
00:12:02.780 riots in the streets.
00:12:03.500 I'm going to be here breathing the free air of Texas or Tennessee.
00:12:06.760 Sure.
00:12:07.360 Yeah.
00:12:07.660 I breathe the free air.
00:12:09.000 It's a very cold air right now, but I breathe it.
00:12:11.680 But that's not how a country operates.
00:12:14.460 You have to have order.
00:12:16.760 A point I made after Charlie died too.
00:12:18.560 We want the free exchange of ideas.
00:12:20.280 We want a healthy culture of debate and deliberation.
00:12:22.660 That's true.
00:12:23.020 To get to that, you don't just double down on free speech and the abstract.
00:12:27.140 You need order.
00:12:27.980 You need limits.
00:12:28.860 You need rules.
00:12:29.500 You need standards.
00:12:30.180 And you need to put a lot of people in jail.
00:12:32.420 You need to punish people when they undermine that.
00:12:35.540 So what is called for here, I think, is just bringing the hammer down on Minneapolis.
00:12:40.120 It's so much worse up there than even you think it is.
00:12:44.860 I know there are liberals who listen to the show, and I'm greatly appreciative of that.
00:12:47.820 There are people who are more politically moderate or neutral or independent.
00:12:52.060 Sure.
00:12:52.180 But even for the right-wingers, it's so much worse up there than you think.
00:12:56.600 This report just came out, hat tip to Tyler O'Neill, that city's church invasion, when the radical mob of leftists came up storming the church, going in, stopping the service, getting up in the faces of the kids and the parishioners.
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00:14:58.180 According to this court report out of Minneapolis, during the city's church invasion, which was itself illegal and a violation of federal law, at the very least because of the FACE Act.
00:15:10.640 The FACE Act, which is the Freedom of Abortion Clinic Entrances Act.
00:15:16.640 It's an abortion factory law to protect the abortionists from having to deal with people praying in front of their abortion facilities. 0.69
00:15:24.160 And the only way they could get it passed, because it's so hideous, it's so evil, was to say, okay, well, you know, as a little olive branch, we'll also use this act to stop people from invading churches during services.
00:15:38.260 Though it's basically never used to prosecute people who attack churches.
00:15:41.900 It's only used to stop people from generally peaceably demonstrating at abortion factories.
00:15:46.680 In any case, according to the court documents, agitators blocked the stairs so that, quote, parents were unable to get to their children at Sunday school.
00:15:58.540 So it's not just people going in, Don Lemon there, hey, this is our First Amendment right.
00:16:03.220 I'm just here as a journalist, this is their First Amendment right, getting up in the pastor's face.
00:16:07.140 No, no, no.
00:16:07.500 This mob blocks the stairs so the parents couldn't get to their kids.
00:16:13.160 Then at least one of these guys goes up to a kid, starts screaming at the little kid, says, quote,
00:16:18.420 Do you know your parents are Nazis?
00:16:20.520 They're going to burn in hell?
00:16:22.940 To a little kid in church.
00:16:24.820 Then William Kelly, who's one of the ringleaders of this outfit, he says,
00:16:29.360 This ain't God's house.
00:16:30.880 This is the house of the devil.
00:16:33.460 Leftists calling God the devil.
00:16:35.220 Wow.
00:16:35.340 The problem with the radical leftists, it's the evil.
00:16:40.080 The evil is a big problem of it.
00:16:42.300 But just below that problem, the secondary problem is how uninspired it is, how unoriginal it is.
00:16:49.380 They've been doing this since the French Revolution.
00:16:51.340 And they say, Oh, you know, God, you know, actually, God is the devil.
00:16:56.420 Hey, you know what you think is good?
00:16:58.040 That's actually bad.
00:16:59.720 Wow.
00:17:00.300 Oh, snaps. 0.55
00:17:01.100 Wow.
00:17:01.380 I never thought of it that way.
00:17:02.440 You're really making me see the world in a new and original way.
00:17:05.340 So they're saying this.
00:17:06.200 And then another agitator, according to the court docs, quote, continued to scream in the faces of young children while they were crying.
00:17:14.080 While they were crying.
00:17:15.980 Now, plenty of people are going to hear that.
00:17:18.060 They're going to be shocked.
00:17:18.820 I guess you should be shocked.
00:17:19.700 Many people are going to be surprised and you should not be surprised.
00:17:25.060 You should not be surprised.
00:17:27.720 One, because these people are kind of loony.
00:17:29.520 Two, they're prone to outrageous activism.
00:17:32.380 The reason you should not be surprised that they would do this, that they would invade a church, they would block off parents from getting their kids, they would shriek in the faces of kids, say your parents are going to hell and shriek in the kids' faces while they're crying.
00:17:43.460 Do you know why you should not be surprised?
00:17:44.700 These people murder babies. 0.99
00:17:49.720 Do you remember that?
00:17:50.760 It's slightly unrelated.
00:17:52.600 And that's not unrelated.
00:17:53.700 It's a tangential issue.
00:17:54.960 I know we're supposed to be talking about immigration here, but I just want to remind you that 100% of the people who are invading the churches and yelling at the kids and the parents and all that, 100% of them openly, avowedly celebrate in a kind of bloodlust, Dionysiac festival, the murder of innocent babies.
00:18:17.560 That's the kind of people we're talking, yeah, they probably would shriek at a little kid. 0.95
00:18:23.840 Yeah, they probably would interrupt church.
00:18:25.640 Yeah, they probably would blaspheme and call God the devil.
00:18:28.480 They probably would do that.
00:18:30.100 You know who we're talking about, right?
00:18:31.800 There's some people, I don't know, they think it's the 90s or they think that it's some, I don't know, whatever nostalgia tells them, nostalgia history after a few drinks, whatever their nice saccharine memories tell them it used to be like in this country.
00:18:45.360 They kind of forget the depths of evil that we're talking about here at the heart of the spirit that animates this political movement, a political movement that does not always express the fullness of that depraved spirit, but nevertheless is motivated by it.
00:19:06.480 If you are surprised by this kind of behavior, that's on you.
00:19:10.340 Now, I'm not just inveighing against these people and just beating them up.
00:19:16.140 You have to come to a conclusion from this.
00:19:18.880 If you think that we're just going to be nice, and well, if we just bring the temperature down, let's just bring the temperature down, you know, that it's going to improve, you're deluded.
00:19:29.260 If you think that there's some nice middle ground to meet between the people who would go out and sacrifice their lives and the lives of others to stop law enforcement from arresting rapists and murderers who don't even have the right to be in this country, you're mistaken.
00:19:46.700 The only way – this is politics 101.
00:19:51.480 The only way that you're going to improve the situation here is by discouraging the bad behavior and encouraging good behavior.
00:20:00.540 And I know there's some people of the liberal bent, especially on the right-wing side of the more libertarian bent, who don't believe that incentives and disincentives work the way that they do.
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00:20:14.580 They say, you know, actually, man, if you want drug use to go down, you should legalize all the drugs, man.
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00:20:24.420 And you look at them and you say, well, will you do fewer drugs?
00:20:27.640 You're like, not me, man. 0.57
00:20:28.400 I'm going to do all the drugs.
00:20:29.680 You say, well, all the – all right, wait.
00:20:31.600 But why – if you have more of something and you encourage its proliferation, what would lead you to the conclusion that you will have fewer people using that, fewer times per day or per year?
00:20:44.080 And they say, I don't know, man.
00:20:46.560 Same thing with abortion. 1.00
00:20:47.900 They say, well, if you really want fewer abortions, you should legalize abortion. 0.98
00:20:51.740 People make this argument.
00:20:53.260 Someone made this argument on Barfad the other day.
00:20:54.960 If you really want fewer abortions, you've got to legalize abortion. 0.96
00:20:59.220 Then it'll be really safe.
00:21:01.040 So first of all, well, that's a whole other rabbit hole because in the year before Roe v. Wade, the number of legal abortions versus illegal abortions were both relatively small.
00:21:09.940 But the rates of death from each of them were basically the same.
00:21:13.680 So there's really very little evidence that a legal abortion is safer than an illegal abortion.
00:21:19.280 Anyway, I'm getting distracted.
00:21:21.440 No, you don't get fewer abortions when you legalize it. 1.00
00:21:24.440 Before Roe v. Wade, we had very few abortions. 0.99
00:21:27.540 And then Roe v. Wade happened and abortion was legalized throughout the country and abortion skyrocketed.
00:21:32.520 All of that to say, economics 101, sociology 101.
00:21:36.660 When you punish a certain behavior, you get less of it.
00:21:40.600 When you encourage or permit other behaviors, you get more of them.
00:21:45.820 So in this case, what do you do?
00:21:47.840 You've just got to bring the hammer down on these people.
00:21:51.100 We say a very sad fact of public life is that assassinations work.
00:21:55.060 That's true.
00:21:56.060 We say a sad fact of public life is riots work.
00:21:58.880 That's true.
00:21:59.560 You know what else works?
00:22:00.540 Arresting people.
00:22:02.180 You know what else works?
00:22:03.540 Keeping people in prison for a really long time.
00:22:06.260 You know what else works?
00:22:07.380 Mandatory minimum sentences.
00:22:08.560 You know what else works?
00:22:11.560 The federal government invoking the supremacy clause and the Insurrection Act when need be.
00:22:18.740 And in this case, if the situation in Minnesota does not merit invoking the Insurrection Act, I don't know what does.
00:22:25.420 The governor explicitly referred to Civil War, 1863, and then he threatened to call up the Minnesota National Guard to fight the federal troops.
00:22:37.980 The lieutenant governor is in the signal chats conspiring to undermine federal law enforcement.
00:22:46.100 It would appear, according to reports, allegedly getting people killed along the way.
00:22:53.260 If you want less of this behavior, you have to discourage it.
00:23:00.320 It seems simple enough.
00:23:01.340 Now, speaking of strange Democrat behavior, the Democrats are proposing a bill that would prohibit immigration enforcement from 40 feet within a polling place.
00:23:14.180 So ICE, if ICE has to go out there, there's nothing the Democrats can do to stop it, but they're proposing a specific law that says within 40 feet of a polling place of an election, immigration enforcement is not allowed.
00:23:28.100 I saw this going around on social media, and I looked at it.
00:23:31.580 I said, oh, no.
00:23:33.460 My beautiful, gullible right-wingers.
00:23:35.840 You know, look, I'm a right-winger.
00:23:38.080 I'm rock-ribbed red.
00:23:41.320 I love them, but sometimes they're gullible.
00:23:44.180 This cannot be real.
00:23:46.420 And I looked up the bill.
00:23:47.500 We'll get to that in one second.
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00:25:03.420 Alfonso H. Lopez, state legislator in Virginia, proposes HB 1442, 2026 regular session.
00:25:16.460 It's a bill that, well, I'll just read this verbatim from the text of the bill.
00:25:20.720 Quote, prohibits any person from performing any act for the purpose or in furtherance of enforcement of federal immigration laws within 40 feet of any building or part thereof used as, one, a polling place, two, a meeting place for the local electoral board while the electoral board meets to ascertain the results of an election, or three, the place for a recount.
00:25:45.580 What an odd law to propose.
00:25:47.600 What an odd, I feel like Bart Simpson, you know, what an odd, huh?
00:25:53.760 Why would they, because I was, hold on, you know, you, you watch the news, you read, you read things, you're smart.
00:26:01.880 I was told that illegal aliens never, never under any circumstances vote in our elections.
00:26:10.020 That's a deranged right-wing crazy conspiracy theory, right?
00:26:13.560 Yeah.
00:26:13.880 So, and then, okay, sometimes we catch people doing it, but it's so rare, and never mind, and there's nothing to see here, and pay no attention to the man in the sombrero behind the curtain.
00:26:24.280 Okay.
00:26:24.480 But now, what they would say, what they would say, what the libs would say, if they even admitted that occasionally in the illegal votes, they'd say, well, it's not widespread.
00:26:34.180 Okay.
00:26:35.980 Then why would you propose this law?
00:26:37.580 Because what's so brazen about this law is that it does not merely imply that illegals vote sometimes, which is a massive scandal in itself.
00:26:48.980 What this law implies is that their voting is so widespread, it is so commonplace, that ICE could just launch a raid on any random polling place, and they would catch illegals.
00:27:04.140 Now, you might say, well, look, maybe ICE launches the raid on the polling place, but they don't get anybody.
00:27:12.280 Well, if they don't get anybody, then there's no reason to prohibit it.
00:27:16.060 It's not like ICE is going to drag off the people who have their IDs.
00:27:19.200 Well, I guess you don't need an ID anymore to vote.
00:27:20.880 Okay, well, maybe there's that.
00:27:23.560 This is a confession.
00:27:26.320 And I got to thank Alfonso Lopez.
00:27:28.280 He's, by the way, this isn't even just some complete wacko.
00:27:30.480 Some of the state legislators are a little wacky.
00:27:32.080 Some of them are great.
00:27:33.400 Look, some of my best friends have been state legislators, but a lot of them are wacky.
00:27:38.240 This guy, though, he might be wacky, but he's a real guy.
00:27:41.740 He's been a significant figure in the Democrat National Committee.
00:27:45.620 He's worked at the Small Business Administration under Barack Obama.
00:27:50.260 Now he's a state legislator.
00:27:52.720 Why is he doing it?
00:27:55.060 Because illegal aliens. 0.98
00:27:56.720 I'm just inferring this from the Democrats.
00:28:00.080 If you don't like what I'm saying, blame them.
00:28:02.720 He's doing this because he has concluded that illegals voting is a widespread phenomenon.
00:28:09.940 And that if immigration law were enforced, even at the polling place, or the specificity here, it's comical. 0.75
00:28:16.620 Not just at the polling place, but also at a meeting place for the local electoral board while the electoral board meets to ascertain the results of an election.
00:28:24.540 Now we've got illegals on the electoral board or in the place of a recount.
00:28:30.680 They would round up so many illegals. 0.95
00:28:32.560 Democrats would never win another election.
00:28:34.220 All right, well, when they're telling you what they're doing, how about we respond?
00:28:41.640 But the way Republicans want to respond is, by golly, by golly, can you imagine?
00:28:46.660 Can you imagine if we did that?
00:28:48.580 Can you imagine if the shoe were on the other foot?
00:28:50.600 Oh, boy, would we have a hearty laugh about that?
00:28:54.460 Oh, boy, howdy, would we would get an earful if we ever tried that?
00:29:01.740 Huh.
00:29:02.660 And you guys are trying.
00:29:03.780 Yes, they are.
00:29:04.520 They are.
00:29:04.920 Can you imagine if the governor of a red state ever led an insurrection and commanded his subjects to obstruct law enforcement and sacrifice themselves like liberal kamikazes, like leftist jihadis?
00:29:18.980 By howdy, can you imagine if we ever did that on our side?
00:29:22.580 Boy, golly, they, oh, we would never hear the end of it.
00:29:28.580 No, they would kill us if we did that.
00:29:31.900 They're trying to kill us now, actually.
00:29:33.700 They try to assassinate us.
00:29:36.400 Their sitting officials conspire in signal chats to assault us on the street, civilian and law enforcement alike.
00:29:45.520 So what are we going to do about that?
00:29:48.960 We, not being vigilante terrorists, want to work within the framework of justice and the law and civil society in accordance and furtherance of the common good.
00:30:01.820 Well, then the way we have to do that is by enforcing the law.
00:30:05.740 I don't want to sound like a broken record, but you have two options in society.
00:30:08.880 At a time when tensions are running high, when one side is calling for private violence, that's the left.
00:30:16.240 You have two options.
00:30:19.460 Three options, I guess.
00:30:21.340 You can either surrender and let them kill you all, destroy your society, or the other two options are you can respond with your own private violence, which is generally speaking unjust, or you can respond with state violence.
00:30:36.280 State violence is the just alternative.
00:30:40.800 That's why we have the state, is for violence.
00:30:43.500 We have the state so that the civil authority, which does not bear the sword in vain, can enforce the law so that you don't get all the vigilante violence.
00:30:51.420 But if we go weak on these points, and a lot of it has to do with migration, a lot of it does seem to come down to Minnesota.
00:30:57.300 But if we go weak, if we back off, if we say it's a little too hot, we don't want to touch it, we're afraid for the midterms, whatever.
00:31:03.980 If we back off, you will only get more private violence, and it will only be because of Republican cowardice.
00:31:10.060 Speaking of Democrats getting a little bit kooky, getting a little bit, if not violent, violent adjacent, a Florida anesthesiologist has gone viral for refusing to provide medical care to Republicans.
00:31:25.220 We'll get to that momentarily first, though.
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00:32:50.600 Got to give a hat tip here to Libs of TikTok, as ever. 1.00
00:32:54.400 Eric Martindale has gone viral.
00:32:56.900 He's an anesthesiologist in Florida.
00:33:00.420 He has said that he will not provide his anesthesiological care to Republicans.
00:33:09.900 Now, for me, listen.
00:33:13.380 If I want Democrats to put me to sleep, I would just listen to a Hillary Clinton speech. 0.92
00:33:18.320 Am I right?
00:33:19.320 I don't need...
00:33:20.160 Am I right?
00:33:20.700 Hey, come on. 0.77
00:33:21.480 I'll be here in this studio probably all week because it's going to be very chilly here in Nashville.
00:33:29.360 But this is actually, you know, joking aside, a grave violation of medical ethics.
00:33:35.680 And this guy's got to be punished.
00:33:37.760 You know, I don't want to sound...
00:33:38.720 I don't know.
00:33:39.040 Maybe it's because I've been locked up.
00:33:41.300 The power has been out.
00:33:42.180 I've been getting him up.
00:33:42.780 But I don't mean to sound totally like Franco here.
00:33:45.220 But we got to...
00:33:45.760 You got to bring the hammer down, guys.
00:33:48.600 You don't...
00:33:51.220 A Democrat does not have the right to withhold medical care from a Republican.
00:33:58.740 Whether he's an anesthesiologist or whether he's a heart surgeon.
00:34:01.580 He doesn't have the right to do that for a number of reasons.
00:34:05.340 One, because the medical professionals are licensed.
00:34:07.780 So this guy should lose his license simply for the threat.
00:34:10.320 I don't even care if he's ever refused a Republican patient.
00:34:13.380 He should lose his license simply for the threat.
00:34:16.040 And I believe the excellent attorney general of Florida is already looking into doing just that.
00:34:21.640 That goes without saying.
00:34:23.340 But furthermore, the reason we can't tolerate this stuff is because it is contrary to the medical profession itself.
00:34:30.420 First, medical professionals are supposed to take the Hippocratic Oath.
00:34:33.940 Though apparently a lot of them do not anymore.
00:34:36.100 It's optional, I guess.
00:34:37.040 But second of all, you cannot have a medical system when...
00:34:44.600 Wow, actually, it occurs to me now I made this point after Charlie died.
00:34:49.000 A lot of this is chickens coming home to roost given the liberal reaction to Charlie's death.
00:34:54.680 And the fact that one of them killed him.
00:34:56.160 You cannot have a medical system in which half your patients think that the nurses or doctors might kill them.
00:35:07.400 If you have a medical system in which leftists get away with refusing care to Republicans, only grudgingly giving care to Republicans, maybe joking about harming Republicans, you can't have a medical system.
00:35:26.660 You can't have an education system that way.
00:35:28.460 That's why all those teachers should have been, and in some cases were, but a lot of cases they were not, fired for celebrating Charlie Kirk's death.
00:35:36.340 I can't send my kids to a school if I think there's a 50-50 shot the teacher wants to murder them.
00:35:41.540 In order to save the education system, you have to fire those teachers who would do that.
00:35:46.680 In order to save the medical system, you have to fire medical professionals like this guy.
00:35:50.840 I'm reminded of a Reagan getting shot in the 80s, and he is wheeled in.
00:35:56.700 You know, he could have died.
00:35:57.980 And he turns to the surgeon who would go on to save his life, Joseph Giordano.
00:36:02.360 And he said, I hope you're a Republican.
00:36:05.640 Well, well, I hope you're a Republican.
00:36:08.480 He's bleeding out on the table.
00:36:09.820 I hope you're a Reagan.
00:36:11.020 Always great with the line.
00:36:12.280 I hope you're a Republican.
00:36:14.320 And the surgeon said to him, Mr. President, today we're all Republicans.
00:36:18.940 The beautiful line.
00:36:20.280 And coincidentally, providentially, I know for a fact that that doctor was not a Republican.
00:36:27.520 Because I knew the doctor's son a little bit in New York, obviously many years later.
00:36:32.060 And he said, oh, yeah, my dad wasn't a Republican.
00:36:34.920 But you had this sense of unity, Mr. President.
00:36:36.880 Of course, today we're all Republicans.
00:36:38.160 Today we're all Reagan supporters, sir.
00:36:39.800 You know, and I'll do my – and he helped save his life.
00:36:43.160 Imagine today our degraded culture.
00:36:45.300 And by the way, that was just the 80s.
00:36:46.400 It's not like, you know, the 80s were like the high point of glam rock and AIDS.
00:36:49.240 You know, this wasn't exactly, you know, the Victorian era.
00:36:51.880 And still it was so much more dignified than our culture today.
00:36:57.980 You know, today Reagan gets shot.
00:36:59.480 The president's wheeled in.
00:37:01.940 And you have some, you know, pink-haired, eunuch-looking sort of ambiguous in every way nurse practitioner anesthesiologist. 0.52
00:37:11.180 He's like, I'm not operating on you.
00:37:14.020 I hated your tax cut.
00:37:15.960 Just think, well, we don't have a country anymore.
00:37:17.840 Whatever.
00:37:18.780 Get me to Greenland.
00:37:20.200 Get me out of here as quickly as I can.
00:37:22.740 Now, speaking of unhinged behavior, unhinged and then maybe back to hinged behavior, Kanye West.
00:37:30.420 Ye, the artist formerly known as Kanye West, published a letter in the Wall Street Journal.
00:37:36.280 And he published it as an advertisement, not exactly as a letter.
00:37:42.060 But it looks like a letter.
00:37:44.360 It says, to those I've heard by Ye, formerly known as Kanye West.
00:37:47.980 And it's an apology specifically to the Jews because he was a little rough on the ancient nomadic tribe, I think. 0.68
00:37:54.720 But he was rough on a number of people in different groups.
00:37:57.840 And what does he write?
00:37:59.440 He says, 25 years ago, I was in a car accident that broke my jaw, caused injury to the right frontal lobe of my brain.
00:38:04.640 And at the time, the focus was on the visible damage, the fracture, the swelling, and the immediate physical trauma.
00:38:09.340 The deeper injury, the one inside my skull, went unnoticed.
00:38:11.960 So he's saying, look, I had a head trauma.
00:38:13.800 It wasn't properly diagnosed.
00:38:16.300 But then this led to serious damage to my mental health and led to my bipolar type 1 diagnosis.
00:38:22.620 Bipolar comes with its own defense system.
00:38:24.260 Denial.
00:38:24.720 When you're manic, you don't know you're sick.
00:38:26.520 You think everyone else is overreacting.
00:38:27.980 Once people label you as crazy, you feel like you can't contribute anything meaningful to the world.
00:38:32.860 Yeah, that's largely true.
00:38:34.680 It's a deadly diagnosis in terms of the life expectancy.
00:38:40.840 It's shortened by 10 to 15 years on average.
00:38:44.120 This is on par with severe heart disease, type 1 diabetes, HIV, and cancer.
00:38:48.100 Scariest thing is how persuasive it is when it tells you you don't need help.
00:38:51.840 I lost touch with reality.
00:38:53.920 Things got worse the longer I ignored the problem.
00:38:56.280 I said and did things I deeply regret.
00:38:59.100 He goes on.
00:39:00.200 He specifically talks about the Jews.
00:39:02.860 He was a little bit rough to the tribe of Abraham. 0.61
00:39:07.280 He says, I regret and am deeply mortified by my actions in that state.
00:39:12.640 I'm committed to accountability, treatment, and meaningful change.
00:39:15.100 Does not excuse what I did, though.
00:39:16.140 I'm not a Nazi or an anti-Semite.
00:39:18.020 I love Jewish people.
00:39:19.240 I gravitated toward the most destructive symbol I could find, the swastika, and even sold shirts, bearing it. 1.00
00:39:23.420 One of the difficult aspects of having bipolar is that all these disconnected moments, some of which I can't recall, lead to poor judgment, and it feels like an out-of-body experience.
00:39:31.600 Okay, so there are going to be a lot of people who say, not good enough.
00:39:35.120 Now, he goes on.
00:39:35.740 He says, am I asking for sympathy or a free pass, though I aspire to earn your forgiveness?
00:39:39.560 I write today simply to ask for your patience and understanding as I find a way home.
00:39:46.120 I am not purporting to read Kanye's mind.
00:39:50.580 I don't, you know, me, I don't listen to a lot of pop music to begin with.
00:39:54.280 But I will say I called at least part of this apology.
00:39:58.500 When he did the Hitler song, you know, the hit, they don't understand the things I said on Twitter.
00:40:07.000 And, you know, he actually just went viral the other day because of some live streamer thing.
00:40:10.560 And I played this, so I did a reaction or a criticism of the song.
00:40:14.940 And I said, you know, everyone's calling this a Nazi song, but I don't think it's a Nazi song.
00:40:19.820 In some ways, it's an anti-Nazi song.
00:40:22.880 Because I said, just listen to the lyrics.
00:40:24.440 Everyone's just shocked by the lyric.
00:40:26.780 All the, they don't understand the things I say on Twitter.
00:40:29.760 All my, I'll say ninjas.
00:40:31.120 All my ninjas, Nazis, all my ninjas, Nazis, ninja, Heil Hitler is the lyric.
00:40:36.760 And it goes on and on and on.
00:40:38.140 And everyone says, oh, he's a Nazi, this is a Nazi song.
00:40:41.420 But I said, well, listen to the lyrics.
00:40:43.060 And the lyrics are, you know, he lost his kids and his life's falling apart and he's spiraling.
00:40:47.540 And he's in one of these manic episodes, clearly is what he's describing.
00:40:50.460 And he gets to the end and says, yeah, well, now I'm the villain.
00:40:54.340 Now I'm the villain.
00:40:56.780 Heil Hitler. 0.96
00:40:57.900 And he goes on to describe himself being Hitler.
00:41:00.420 And I said, that's a crucial lyric.
00:41:02.540 Because he's not saying, and now I've seen the light.
00:41:04.980 And now I'm the real good guy.
00:41:06.420 And now I'm Superman.
00:41:07.640 Heil Hitler. 0.96
00:41:08.580 He's saying, now I'm the bad guy.
00:41:10.940 Now I'm the villain.
00:41:12.680 Heil Hitler. 0.96
00:41:13.240 Which it doesn't take an advanced degree in logic to know that what he's saying is the Nazis are the bad guys.
00:41:20.020 And I'm a bad guy now.
00:41:21.120 So Heil Hitler. 0.92
00:41:22.380 That totally jives with what he's saying in this letter here.
00:41:25.900 He's saying, I gravitated toward the most destructive symbol I could find.
00:41:29.220 I don't know.
00:41:30.260 Kanye might love the Jews. 0.86
00:41:31.280 He might hate the Jews.
00:41:32.140 He might feel indifferent toward the Jews.
00:41:33.780 I don't know.
00:41:35.100 I'm not purporting to know that.
00:41:37.100 What I am claiming, though, is I think the primary thing that drove him in a manic state or in just a kind of creative, bizarre world state, towards something like a swastika, toward the absolute incarnation of evil in our modern conception of the world.
00:41:56.380 It is that it is the taboo.
00:42:02.400 It is the symbol of destruction, the most evil thing imaginable.
00:42:06.780 We live in a world in which even the devil is not the devil.
00:42:11.300 Hitler could be the devil, but the devil is not the devil. 0.57
00:42:14.820 As I've mentioned before, you know, we live in this kind of bizarro inversion world where, you know, the Christian view is that there's the incarnation of absolute good and evil is a privation of the good. 0.79
00:42:23.820 We, in our modern, materialist, secular, pagan culture, we think there is no good.
00:42:29.540 There's just the incarnation of evil.
00:42:32.440 And I guess that's Hitler. 0.89
00:42:34.140 And goodness is just the privation of Hitler-ness, Hitlerdom, Naziness. 0.95
00:42:40.740 You're only good in as much as you're not a Nazi.
00:42:43.380 All of this language coming out of Minnesota is just you're a Nazi, you're a Nazi, you know, you're a Nazi. 0.59
00:42:47.060 You know, I've pointed out Kanye is clearly an excellent pop musician.
00:42:53.820 I don't listen to a lot of pop music, but he's clearly an excellent pop musician.
00:42:58.240 And that's what he's doing.
00:43:00.360 He's touching an artistic taboo.
00:43:02.020 He might also hate the Jews.
00:43:03.120 I don't know.
00:43:03.520 Or he might.
00:43:04.040 You can take him at his word in the Wall Street Journal.
00:43:05.640 Maybe he loves the Jews. 1.00
00:43:06.400 I don't know.
00:43:07.020 That's not my making more of a point about art and culture.
00:43:09.880 When he says, in my manic state, I was driven toward the most destructive symbol I could imagine, and that was a swastika, I have to believe him because our whole culture agrees with that. 1.00
00:43:22.240 And when he says, yeah, I'm a villain, I'm going to play the villain now by doing this, kind of makes sense.
00:43:29.300 A lot of people are going to say he's just being cynical.
00:43:31.780 But again, a lot of these people acknowledged he was bipolar back then.
00:43:37.100 And I tend to read this.
00:43:38.960 I don't know if he's got some other angle here.
00:43:42.700 Maybe he's got an album or something coming out.
00:43:44.360 But I read the words.
00:43:47.180 It reads pretty real to me.
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00:44:28.260 Okay.
00:44:29.160 Speaking of art, this is a little different than songs about Hitler.
00:44:32.380 There's a story that just came out, which I love this story so much.
00:44:37.740 The world's oldest cave art has been discovered in Indonesia.
00:44:43.900 The cave art goes back at least 67,800 years.
00:44:49.020 This, according to research published in the journal Nature by a team of Indonesian and Australian archaeologists.
00:44:57.600 What did they find?
00:44:58.880 The same sort of thing that we find in the caves in France and Spain.
00:45:02.780 Handprints in the negative, stenciled, probably using red ochre.
00:45:08.460 Red ochre, very, very important part of human art and culture.
00:45:12.340 All these really interesting theories about the role of red ochre in like female cosmetic coalitions and reproduction.
00:45:19.500 And anyway, that itself could be a Michael and episode of three hours.
00:45:23.460 But nevertheless, you've got all this art going back a long, long time.
00:45:29.480 The new discovery is more than 15,000 years older than previous art found in the Sulawesi region by the same team.
00:45:38.160 What does this tell us?
00:45:41.300 It tells us something very important about anthropology, and it's not an original insight.
00:45:45.080 It's an insight from our old pal G.K. Chesterton.
00:45:49.060 Chesterton in Everlasting Man, which is not even my favorite book of his.
00:45:53.660 C.S. Lewis liked it a lot.
00:45:54.620 It's not even my favorite book of his.
00:45:56.140 But he makes this observation that when we talk about cavemen, we're told that there's this guy, this big brute,
00:46:03.980 who carries a club, who goes out and finds some woman to rape.
00:46:07.600 He clubs her over the head, drags her back to his cave, has his way with her,
00:46:11.340 drags his knuckles on the ground like a big, fat, dumb, violent idiot. 0.97
00:46:15.900 Now, if you want to find big, fat, dumb, violent idiots, look at Minnesota in 2026.
00:46:20.940 You don't need to look at the Sulawesi region back in 15,000 years ago, or in this case, 68,000 years ago.
00:46:29.420 But what do we know about the caveman?
00:46:32.740 Well, Chesterton tells us.
00:46:35.500 He says, the only thing we know about the caveman, we know from the pictures that we find on the caves
00:46:42.540 in France and Spain and Indonesia, I guess.
00:46:45.920 These little pictures of animals, a little bit of nature, handprints.
00:46:50.320 In other words, the only thing we know about the caveman is that he was an artist.
00:46:56.340 That's all we know about him.
00:46:59.620 And we have this impulse to flatter ourselves, to say that all the people who came before us
00:47:05.100 were less moral than we are, and they were stupider than we are, and they were just dummies,
00:47:11.460 and we figured it all out.
00:47:12.500 And we do this with the founding fathers, and we do this with even our grandparents and our parents,
00:47:19.060 and we do this certainly with the great men throughout the history of Western civilization.
00:47:23.800 But you can take that all the way back.
00:47:26.560 And as tough as we are on Thomas Jefferson these days, we are much tougher on the caveman.
00:47:31.880 We don't even seem to consider him as human.
00:47:34.960 And yet all we know about the caveman is that he was an artist.
00:47:41.280 And judging by the standards of modern art, he was probably a better artist than most of the artists that we have today.
00:47:48.000 Okay, speaking of decorations, at least one last point before we go.
00:47:52.980 I'm just so happy to be in a podcast studio again.
00:47:55.140 I could be here for three hours.
00:47:56.160 Caroline Leavitt, at the White House, was asked about the raids in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
00:48:05.020 Ice out now!
00:48:06.900 This is awful!
00:48:07.820 Tom Holman is a terrorist sending in all these...
00:48:11.260 And Caroline Leavitt pointed out,
00:48:14.700 Tom Holman is actually a decorated law enforcement officer.
00:48:19.480 In fact, Tom Holman received a medal from President Barack Obama.
00:48:23.940 This is a Washington Post headline from nine years ago, 2016.
00:48:29.800 Meet the man the White House has honored for deporting illegal immigrants. 1.00
00:48:33.180 And I would remind everyone in this room that it was former President Barack Hussein Obama
00:48:36.760 who awarded a medal to Mr. Holman.
00:48:39.180 So he's obviously very qualified.
00:48:41.200 He has the full trust and faith of the president.
00:48:43.620 He will continue to have these meetings in the hopes that
00:48:46.560 ICE and local law enforcement can cooperate and work together
00:48:50.460 to have successful immigration enforcement, as we've seen.
00:48:53.320 in almost every other state across the country.
00:48:56.860 Well, well, well.
00:48:59.080 Tom Holman, under the Obama administration,
00:49:02.560 wonderful, great career, civil servant, law enforcement officer,
00:49:06.140 wonderful guy, commended by the president himself.
00:49:08.340 And then he became a fascist overnight.
00:49:12.120 Can you imagine?
00:49:14.160 Or he's just doing his job.
00:49:15.720 Or maybe he's doing his job.
00:49:18.100 And now he's allowed greater freedom to actually accomplish his job.
00:49:23.240 But Obama awarded a guy who helped to lead deportations.
00:49:27.340 So what exactly is going on here?
00:49:30.840 The left doesn't know what point it's making.
00:49:32.600 And the right doesn't know how to respond.
00:49:34.720 Because this is the problem.
00:49:37.840 This is the confusion.
00:49:38.820 With one of the dumbest lines we hear about Obama.
00:49:42.780 And I'm sure you've heard this before.
00:49:44.580 They called him the deporter-in-chief.
00:49:47.860 You ever hear this line?
00:49:48.660 This is like the dumbest.
00:49:50.000 This is, you know, on Facebook,
00:49:53.440 your cousin, your kind of boomer cousin,
00:49:56.360 on level of political analysis.
00:49:59.160 They called him the deporter-in-chief.
00:50:03.160 What point do you think you're making here?
00:50:06.200 First of all, to quote Kanye West,
00:50:08.480 who is they, though?
00:50:09.800 What do you mean they?
00:50:11.520 Who is they?
00:50:13.580 They, I think, is supposed to refer to the media.
00:50:18.320 Or the, is it supposed to refer to the media in a neutral way?
00:50:23.020 The Democrats, in a negative way, they were angry.
00:50:26.340 They accused him of being the deporter-in-chief.
00:50:28.640 Does that they refer to Republicans
00:50:30.480 who were happy that Barack Obama,
00:50:33.340 who called Obama the deporter-in-chief?
00:50:36.500 I don't think anybody seriously
00:50:38.780 considered him the deporter-in-chief.
00:50:41.200 I think this was a narrative
00:50:42.980 that the Democrats had to whip up under Obama
00:50:46.800 because Americans want the illegals deported.
00:50:50.800 That's how Trump won the popular vote in 2024,
00:50:53.440 running in large part on mass deportations.
00:50:56.600 Mass deportations.
00:50:58.640 So this idea that Obama was the deporter-in-chief
00:51:01.480 was this cheeky little way
00:51:05.220 to bail him out of a tight political spot of saying,
00:51:07.380 well, you know,
00:51:08.580 you think Obama's opening up the border
00:51:10.380 and going soft on illegals
00:51:11.500 and waving his magical wand for executive amnesty
00:51:14.140 that even he admits is unconstitutional.
00:51:15.800 But, you know, actually, you know,
00:51:17.620 actually, though, he's the he's actually kind of like the deporter-in-chief.
00:51:22.640 Oh, is he?
00:51:23.640 How is that?
00:51:24.300 How do you figure?
00:51:24.880 Because I thought he gave millions of illegals amnesty
00:51:27.380 against the Constitution in his words.
00:51:31.880 Well, no, but actually, like, actually,
00:51:34.160 when you think about it,
00:51:35.160 he turned away like 300,000 illegal aliens.
00:51:39.540 He deported them.
00:51:40.540 Well, hold on.
00:51:41.160 Did he deport them or did he turn them away?
00:51:43.200 Because this was also the slate of hand
00:51:44.680 with the deportations.
00:51:46.420 They say Trump only formally deported
00:51:47.980 550,000 illegal aliens
00:51:49.920 in his first year of his second term.
00:51:52.120 And that's probably true,
00:51:53.300 though I think there were a lot of self-deportations.
00:51:55.000 You see this in labor data.
00:51:56.740 But let's say that's true.
00:51:58.860 And they say, well, Obama deported 300,000.
00:52:00.620 Not really.
00:52:01.380 He just turned them away at the border sometimes.
00:52:04.460 So let's say that every one of those 300,000 deportations
00:52:07.380 were legit.
00:52:09.280 That's basically just him at the border saying,
00:52:11.380 OK, we're not going to let as many of you in right now.
00:52:13.920 Well, Trump has done that.
00:52:15.520 He just shut the border down entirely.
00:52:18.140 So how many of those,
00:52:19.160 add all of every one of those people,
00:52:20.740 actually many more,
00:52:21.820 because Joe Biden allowed that number
00:52:23.360 to increase dramatically by an order of magnitude, in fact.
00:52:26.220 By his last year.
00:52:28.540 Add that on all the way to the top.
00:52:31.040 And you get to the real problem for the libs,
00:52:34.100 which is,
00:52:36.680 what do you think about illegal immigration?
00:52:40.060 Just between you and me.
00:52:41.360 You and me, we're here.
00:52:42.700 It's just us privately.
00:52:44.180 Do you want to deport the illegals 1.00
00:52:45.760 or do you not want to?
00:52:47.940 You don't want to, right?
00:52:49.340 You don't want to.
00:52:51.020 But you want to convince moderate voters
00:52:54.720 in certain states that you do want to,
00:52:57.360 but just not in the way that Trump is doing it.
00:52:59.940 But the way Trump is doing it
00:53:01.400 is basically just going after rapists
00:53:03.320 and face-tattooed people.
00:53:04.560 And sometimes other illegals get caught up in that
00:53:07.100 because it's impossible not to.
00:53:08.660 But like,
00:53:10.120 he's actually being a little moderate
00:53:12.200 about the deportations.
00:53:13.560 A little too moderate for many conservatives.
00:53:15.400 So what do you really want?
00:53:19.740 You don't want to deport them
00:53:21.360 because you want them to steal elections for you.
00:53:23.480 That's why Virginia is going to try to pass a law 1.00
00:53:25.700 prohibiting immigration enforcement at polling places.
00:53:30.160 That's why the governor of Minnesota
00:53:32.620 is trying to start a civil war
00:53:34.760 to stop deportations in his state.
00:53:37.860 You don't want a single illegal,
00:53:40.180 no matter how many kids they raped, 0.99
00:53:42.080 no matter how many grannies they murdered, 1.00
00:53:43.520 no matter how many face tattoos they have,
00:53:46.500 you don't want one single illegal out of this country.
00:53:49.300 You are willing to sacrifice
00:53:50.640 every single deluded white woman in her middle ages 1.00
00:53:53.340 to stop even one of them
00:53:55.860 from being kicked out of this country.
00:53:57.800 But you realize that is completely insane
00:54:00.720 and treasonous.
00:54:03.320 And so you have to pull this BS,
00:54:05.720 well, actually they called him the deporter-in-chief.
00:54:07.760 Can we just be honest?
00:54:09.560 You don't even have to be honest when you go on TV
00:54:10.980 because I know you won't be.
00:54:11.760 But just between me and you, right?
00:54:15.480 So what you're saying,
00:54:16.360 I love this bit from Caroline
00:54:17.820 because she's just shoving it back in their faces. 1.00
00:54:21.180 But I know their answer.
00:54:22.760 The reality of it is simple enough.
00:54:24.040 Yeah, they wouldn't have given him that award.
00:54:26.600 They only did it as a kind of an olive branch
00:54:29.680 to the normal people
00:54:30.720 while they carry on their political program,
00:54:33.400 which we see on the streets all around us
00:54:35.660 increasingly is radical.
00:54:36.980 Okay, much more to say,
00:54:39.640 but I've overstayed my welcome
00:54:40.860 in this beautiful podcast space.
00:54:42.420 So hopefully the ice starts melting.
00:54:44.460 It probably won't be.
00:54:45.160 So I'll be broadcasting here
00:54:46.340 until at least halfway through
00:54:47.480 President Vance's first term.
00:54:49.080 I'm Michael Knowles.
00:54:49.720 This is The Michael Knowles Show.
00:54:50.960 See you tomorrow.
00:54:51.440 What was it like, Merlin?
00:55:06.980 To be alone with God?
00:55:13.480 Is that who you think I was alone with?
00:55:15.320 Merlin, I knew your father.
00:55:22.020 I am yet convinced that he was not of this world.
00:55:27.120 All men know of the great Taliesin.
00:55:30.500 You are my father.
00:55:31.700 Other gods should war for my soul.
00:55:34.840 Princess Garrus,
00:55:36.360 savior of our people.
00:55:40.280 I know what the bull god offered you.
00:55:42.820 I was offered the same.
00:55:44.260 And?
00:55:46.420 There is a new power at work in the world.
00:55:48.520 I've seen it.
00:55:50.540 A god who sacrifices what he loves for us.
00:55:53.300 We are each given only one life, Singer.
00:55:56.020 No.
00:55:57.160 And we're given another.
00:56:00.980 I learnt of Yazoo the Christ. 1.00
00:56:03.280 And I have become his follower.
00:56:05.160 He's waiting on a miracle.
00:56:06.680 And I think you can give him one.
00:56:08.720 Trust in Yazoo.
00:56:10.060 He is the only hope for men like us.
00:56:12.620 Vader Britain never rests in the hands of the great light.
00:56:16.040 Great light?
00:56:17.160 Great darkness?
00:56:18.580 Such things mattered to me then.
00:56:21.080 What matters to you now, mistress of lies?
00:56:24.600 You.
00:56:26.260 Nephew.
00:56:26.760 The sword of a high king.
00:56:33.560 How many lives must be lost before you accept the power you were born to wield?
00:56:41.320 Circling to the promises of a god who has abandoned you.
00:56:44.580 I cannot take up that sword again.
00:56:47.440 You know what you must do.
00:56:51.040 Great light, forgive me.
00:56:52.140 The time has come to be reborn.
00:57:02.800 The time has come to be reborn.