The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 1901 - BOMBSHELL VIDEO： Alex Pretti Caused Chaos Before Being Killed

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00:00:24.500 Bruce Springsteen just released a pseudo-60s protest song exalting Renee Good and Alex

00:00:30.500 Preddy.

00:00:31.300 And speaking of Alex Preddy, new video emerges of Mr. Preddy spitting on cops and smashing

00:00:37.600 their vehicles weeks before he was killed after starting another altercation with law enforcement,

00:00:43.260 which leads to a conclusion that I haven't seen anyone else point out yet, but it's a

00:00:47.520 crucial point.

00:00:48.220 If the cops had just arrested him and locked him up for the crimes that he was committing

00:00:55.040 two weeks ago, Alex Preddy would be alive today.

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00:03:00.120 Just want to take a moment.

00:03:02.540 We're back in the studio.

00:03:04.200 I'm very happy to be back in the studio.

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00:03:12.760 power out.

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00:03:18.300 It's good to be back.

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00:03:31.020 Nature is healing.

00:03:32.220 Nashville is still Mad Max, but nature is healing.

00:03:35.860 And I guess that's of a piece with what's going on around the country.

00:03:40.440 Nature is enacting here in Nashville what lunatics are enacting on the streets of Minneapolis.

00:03:46.560 So there's a video going around.

00:03:48.480 After one of these incidents that the left wants to make a cause celeb,

00:03:52.920 especially officer-involved killings, officer-involved shootings,

00:03:56.240 you analyze all the footage.

00:03:59.420 Did Renee Good's tire turn exactly eight micrometers to the left? 0.98

00:04:04.320 Was she driving this way?

00:04:05.480 Was she?

00:04:05.800 When did she hit the accelerator?

00:04:07.880 Did Alex Brady, was his gun in his waistband or was it slightly out of his waistband?

00:04:12.200 Was, well, here is a much more relevant video, frankly, than any of those Monday morning

00:04:18.880 quarterbacks going over all the footage to see exactly frame by frame when the cop could

00:04:23.600 have shot, which is frankly irrelevant to the actual case.

00:04:28.040 Here's a video from a couple weeks earlier, reportedly, purportedly, of Alex Preddy harassing

00:04:35.800 federal agents, screaming at them, spitting on them, and smashing in one of their car rear lights.

00:04:42.080 This is a moment the news movement filmed on January 13th in Minneapolis, showing a man

00:04:49.060 who appears to be Alex Preddy interacting with federal immigration agents 11 days before

00:04:54.360 Border Patrol shot and killed him.

00:04:57.140 Our footage was analyzed by the BBC, whose facial recognition technology confirmed his

00:05:02.360 identity to a 97% degree of accuracy.

00:05:05.120 On the morning of January 13th, our team received a tip that federal agents were blocking a street

00:05:12.620 at the corner of East 36 and Park Avenue in Minneapolis.

00:05:16.520 We arrived around 10.15 a.m.

00:05:19.500 We saw observers shouting at the agents as they walked back to their vehicles.

00:05:23.740 When they started driving away, the man kicked their taillight.

00:05:27.720 An agent then got out of the vehicle, grabbed him, and pushed him to the ground.

00:05:31.560 Okay, so we don't know for certain if this is him.

00:05:38.000 I guess it's being reported that it's him.

00:05:40.480 This is from the news movement, I think, is the source here.

00:05:44.080 Now, in the age of AI, you can never trust any video at all anymore.

00:05:47.240 But we do know that Alex Preddy had been going out and harassing law enforcement before this.

00:05:51.940 We know he had a conversation with his parents about this.

00:05:54.160 His parents warned him to be careful not to become aggressive to the agents.

00:05:58.780 So let's just say this is him.

00:05:59.880 Let's just say the reporting is accurate.

00:06:02.120 This is him.

00:06:02.960 And he was, in fact, doing the same sort of stuff he was doing the day he was shot a couple of weeks prior.

00:06:08.860 Spitting on federal officers, kicking in the rear light of their car, 0.99

00:06:15.780 just behaving like a general nuisance, anarchist, lunatic. 0.98

00:06:20.160 Let's say that were the case. 0.98

00:06:21.340 And then he's taken down.

00:06:22.440 But what's amazing, and I haven't seen a lot of people point out,

00:06:29.680 had Alex Preddy just been arrested and locked up for those multiple criminal actions that are in that videotape,

00:06:37.520 he would be alive today.

00:06:39.240 And this is the lesson from all these kinds of riots, not just after Renee Good or before Renee Good because of the ice raids,

00:06:47.960 not even just George Floyd, all of them, all of these kinds of riots.

00:06:52.580 If the law were enforced on the smaller matters, the bigger tragedies, the greater sad incidents would never come about.

00:07:04.440 That's the key here.

00:07:05.940 This is why I mentioned, I think it was on the show yesterday,

00:07:08.560 I said the most charitable thing we can do for these people is to lock them up.

00:07:13.520 The most charitable thing we can do for these people who are engaging in such disordered behaviors,

00:07:17.880 blocking traffic, endangering their children in order to protect face-tattooed rapists from Venezuela in the middle of Minneapolis. 0.63

00:07:26.420 The most charitable thing we can do for these people is to arrest them and lock them up. 0.57

00:07:30.080 They are a danger to society.

00:07:31.840 They are certainly a danger to themselves.

00:07:33.620 They don't seem to have a particularly strong grasp on reality, and they're breaking a lot of laws.

00:07:40.840 And when you don't enforce the law on the smaller matters,

00:07:44.820 by the way, I don't think spitting on federal officers and then kicking in their taillights,

00:07:48.560 I don't think that's exactly a small matter, but it's a relatively small matter compared to,

00:07:54.480 I don't know, taking a swing at a cop, pulling a gun on a cop, driving an SUV into a cop.

00:07:59.120 If the law were enforced on the small matters,

00:08:01.740 you wouldn't have to get into those provocative situations on the big matters.

00:08:06.380 That's the point.

00:08:07.060 I've pointed out since the Renee Good shooting and obviously Alex Preddy,

00:08:12.980 it's sad, it makes me sad that these people put themselves in this position.

00:08:16.280 I'm not happy that they're dead.

00:08:18.080 Both of those cases were completely justified.

00:08:20.260 There's no question.

00:08:21.380 In both cases, the cops were totally in the right.

00:08:23.720 These people were totally in the wrong.

00:08:25.120 They made a thousand bad decisions in the lead up to putting themselves in that position, 0.70

00:08:28.900 where the main thing they could have expected was to be shot in the face.

00:08:31.800 All of that is completely true.

00:08:35.020 If you are on the side of losing sleep every night because these people who were either threatening

00:08:42.240 or driving their SUVs into federal agents were shot,

00:08:45.020 if you're one of these people who's really upset about this,

00:08:47.800 there was only one thing that could have happened that would have stopped them from being killed.

00:08:51.700 And that is if the federal agents were able to enforce the law,

00:08:58.100 if local police were allowed to enforce the law in a more rigorous way early on.

00:09:04.440 Had Renee Good not been allowed to park her car in the middle of the street, 0.77

00:09:08.080 had these mobs not been allowed to just sit around and try to protect face-tattooed gangsters,

00:09:13.820 you wouldn't have been in this situation in the first place.

00:09:15.840 Now, this is not stopping the libs from trying to make these two people,

00:09:20.340 Renee Good and Alex Preddy, the cause celeb, the George Floyd of 2026.

00:09:26.680 Bruce Springsteen can always count on him as lib as they come,

00:09:31.560 as quick as they come to capitalize on major news events.

00:09:37.080 Bruce Springsteen, he came out with that album, The Rising, right after 9-11.

00:09:40.980 Now he's got a protest song, Streets of Minneapolis, about the two lefties who were shot.

00:09:52.480 Through the winter's ice and cold.

00:09:56.360 I'm not going to make you listen to the door.

00:10:01.260 A city of flame fought fire and ice.

00:10:05.620 Neath an occupier's boots.

00:10:08.660 An occupier's boots.

00:10:09.980 King Trump's private army from the DHS.

00:10:14.320 Guns belted to their coats.

00:10:18.640 Came to Minneapolis to enforce the law.

00:10:23.260 Or so their story goes.

00:10:27.380 Against smoke and rubber.

00:10:28.700 They weren't enforcing the law?

00:10:30.440 What is he suggesting?

00:10:32.020 In the dawn's early light.

00:10:36.440 Citizens stood for justice. 0.74

00:10:39.980 By protecting face-tattooed foreign rapists. 1.00

00:10:45.200 And there were bloody footprints. 0.98

00:10:48.940 We gotta protect MS-13.

00:10:53.740 Somalis deserve all your taxpayer dollars to send to Al-Shabaab. 1.00

00:11:01.440 Okay, so sorry, I know you didn't get to hear those words here at the end.

00:11:06.260 The final verse is, and two dead left to die on snow-filled streets, Alex Preddy and Rene Goode.

00:11:12.000 Just want to get to the lyrics here.

00:11:14.240 No one should be paying this song as much attention as I am paying it, but I don't know, I can't resist.

00:11:17.840 The thing about Springsteen is when it comes to the 60s folk protest character, he's a fraud.

00:11:25.000 He's not really that guy.

00:11:26.220 He hit the scene too late.

00:11:28.340 I kind of like Springsteen.

00:11:29.880 Thunder Road's a great song.

00:11:31.080 He's a decent songwriter.

00:11:33.140 But he showed up too late.

00:11:34.820 So his debut album was 1973.

00:11:37.440 It was after Woodstock.

00:11:38.900 It was after the 60s.

00:11:40.040 But he really, he wants to be Bob Dylan. 0.96

00:11:42.660 And so he writes this ridiculous song. 0.90

00:11:44.900 Let's just get to two stanzas. 0.98

00:11:48.940 Through the winter's ice and cold.

00:11:51.400 Ice, get ice.

00:11:52.560 It's a double entendre.

00:11:53.640 It's a play on words.

00:11:55.320 He's practically the bard, Bruce Springsteen. 0.99

00:11:58.320 Down Nicolette Avenue, a city of flame fought fire and ice.

00:12:04.280 Wow.

00:12:06.040 Neat an occupier's boots.

00:12:07.800 An occupier's boots.

00:12:09.840 That's an interesting phrase.

00:12:11.140 Because what he's referring to is federal officers.

00:12:15.700 So the first thing that's really funny is right off the bat, the way he's framing this,

00:12:21.220 this could be a Confederate song.

00:12:23.740 I mean, I guess maybe not with the winter's ice.

00:12:25.400 Well, maybe.

00:12:25.820 Some parts of the South get pretty chilly, including Nashville.

00:12:28.460 He's launching it from the beginning from the perspective of a Confederate who's seceded from the Union.

00:12:35.080 I mean, this could just as easily be a song about the war of Northern aggression and the tyrant Abraham Lincoln.

00:12:40.900 What do you mean an occupier's boots?

00:12:42.880 To call the federal agents occupiers is to say that the federal government has no place in Minnesota,

00:12:47.740 which is to say that Minnesota has seceded or is leading an insurrection against the United States, which they are.

00:12:53.680 I agree with that.

00:12:54.480 But it's amazing that Bruce Springsteen would admit it.

00:12:57.040 Then he says, King Trump's, that's like so boomer.

00:13:00.280 It's so, the no, the no Kings protest is the boomiest, cringiest political movement, if you can call it that, in my lifetime. 1.00

00:13:09.620 And he, oh, it's bad.

00:13:11.840 That's, that's not his best songwriting.

00:13:14.940 King Trump's private army, private army from the DHS.

00:13:20.080 Hold on.

00:13:20.420 The DHS is, stands for the Department of Homeland Security, the department being a department of the federal government.

00:13:31.020 So say what you will, you might not, look, you, I guess Bruce Springsteen doesn't like the federal government now.

00:13:36.620 He liked the federal government a year ago when it was being run by his party, but now he doesn't like the federal government.

00:13:41.000 Whatever you think about it, though, you can't call it a private army.

00:13:44.320 It's a public army.

00:13:46.140 You can't have a private army from the DHS.

00:13:48.360 You can have a private army from Mar-a-Lago.

00:13:50.200 You can't have a private army from the DHS.

00:13:51.720 So, again, Bruce Springsteen, you know, not a, not a ton of brain cells banging around in there between the ears.

00:13:59.160 Guns belted to their coats, came to Minneapolis to enforce the law, or so their story goes. 0.71

00:14:06.180 What were they doing?

00:14:07.300 What else were they doing?

00:14:09.020 Or so their story goes.

00:14:10.720 What, what is the insinuation here?

00:14:12.560 What else are they doing?

00:14:13.440 Are they there to rob people?

00:14:16.180 Are they there to, I don't know, commit insider trading?

00:14:20.100 Are they, what are you, are they there to get an ice cream cone?

00:14:22.160 What do you think they're there to do?

00:14:24.100 Yeah, they're going to enforce the law.

00:14:25.400 So their story, are you saying that the law is not the law?

00:14:27.920 Are you saying that removing illegal aliens from the country is not part of the law?

00:14:33.460 What is your argument?

00:14:34.320 I mean, it's so confused.

00:14:36.520 And I think this is part of the narrative confusion over Minneapolis for the left broadly.

00:14:39.680 Is the, are the federal agents occupiers from a distant government or are they a private army?

00:14:46.940 You're, you're mixing your metaphors.

00:14:48.940 It doesn't work.

00:14:50.640 Then, all right, just one more, just one more stance.

00:14:52.640 I promise.

00:14:53.440 Again, smoke and rubber bullets in dawn's early light.

00:14:55.420 Citizens stood for justice.

00:14:56.720 What do you mean by justice?

00:15:01.520 Federal agents have come in to remove foreign criminals who have no right to be in this country. 1.00

00:15:07.460 Is your argument, is Bruce Springsteen's argument actually that the face tattooed gangsters do have a right to be in the country? 0.63

00:15:16.660 Or that it is just, the people that DHS is arresting, by the way, are like wife beaters, murderers, rapists.

00:15:23.600 Is the argument, forget the fact that they're foreign. 0.87

00:15:26.540 Is the argument that murderers and rapists and drug dealers and wife beaters shouldn't even be arrested?

00:15:33.480 They shouldn't even be brought to trial?

00:15:35.260 Is that the argument?

00:15:36.240 Citizens stood for justice.

00:15:37.940 By what, driving their SUVs into cops and kicking in their taillights?

00:15:41.760 Their voices ringing through the night and there were bloody footprints where mercy should have stood. 0.80

00:15:46.020 Mercy should have stood?

00:15:48.380 Mercy, is his argument that it would have been merciful to let Renee Goode run over the cop? 0.54

00:15:53.600 Is his argument that it would have been merciful to let that lunatic Alex Preddy pull a gun out?

00:15:59.460 A gun with two magazines, a gun that he apparently never carried before as he was picking fights with cops?

00:16:05.780 That's mercy?

00:16:06.580 How is that mercy?

00:16:08.040 And two dead left to die in the snow-filled streets, Alex Preddy and Renee Goode.

00:16:12.280 Yes.

00:16:12.700 And part of the reason they died is because of propaganda like this that poisoned their brains and convinced them that reality is not what it is.

00:16:21.740 What does he mean?

00:16:26.280 They're trying, as I said, they're trying so, so hard because they knew that the Summer of Love worked for them in 2020.

00:16:32.800 They knew that in the year of R. Floyd, they knew that those BLM riots worked for them politically. 0.51

00:16:37.000 So they're doing everything they can to bring it about again.

00:16:40.360 That's why you had Tim Walz there from behind his iron gate.

00:16:43.140 Yeah, go out there.

00:16:44.360 Go out.

00:16:44.780 Hey, make sure you guys go out there and pick fights with federal agents. 0.68

00:16:47.780 Some of you are probably going to get shot in the face, but it'll help me politically, and then I won't have to worry as much about my fraud scandal.

00:16:54.820 Thank you.

00:16:55.740 Go get them.

00:16:57.180 So you have Tim Walz doing that from the governor's mansion, Jacob Fry from the mayor's office, and then Bruce Springsteen from the pop culture.

00:17:05.480 Okay, but, you know, it doesn't take a PhD in literary criticism to go through these words and realize it doesn't make sense.

00:17:13.940 It doesn't make a lot of sense, and I don't think it's totally going to resonate, and we have some polling on that, actually, that backs that up.

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00:18:26.840 Speaking of Tim Walls, by the way, Tim Walls just went on Anderson Cooper's show on CNN.

00:18:30.360 And boy, oh boy, did he change his tune on the federal government in Minneapolis.

00:18:36.580 First of all, the meeting with Tom Holman, how did that go?

00:18:38.680 What are your thoughts on that?

00:18:39.980 Well, Tom Holman's a professional, which is a lot more than Bovino and Christy Noem.

00:18:46.020 But look, I think the thing we said is we're very clear about this, that we need these folks out of Minnesota.

00:18:52.420 And we need justice for Renee Good and for Alex.

00:18:57.000 And those were things that we came with.

00:19:00.060 Yeah, so we, yeah.

00:19:01.340 Well, I sat down with Tom Holman, who's the, is that, I don't know, it's not a perfect Tim Walls, but I think it does capture something about the man.

00:19:08.260 Says, yeah, I sat down with him and he's a professional.

00:19:11.600 Hold on, you're telling me the face of Trump's deportations, he's a professional, I can work with this guy, yeah.

00:19:21.560 He's much better than Greg Bovino.

00:19:23.320 So they're trying to make this guy, Greg Bovino, who was the commander at large of Border Patrol, they're trying to make him the fall guy for all of this.

00:19:29.120 That's what Walls is desperate to make seem like the big concession.

00:19:32.580 But it's kind of silly to say that's the big concession that Walls won something here.

00:19:35.860 Because, okay, you reassign Greg Bovino and you bring in the guy who is even more closely associated with mass deportations.

00:19:42.040 That doesn't make a lot of sense.

00:19:43.080 He says, yeah, and Holman's a lot better than Christy Noem.

00:19:46.540 All right, Christy Noem's still the head of DHS.

00:19:48.500 So you're still dealing with her too?

00:19:50.660 Yeah, we've been clear, we need ICE to leave Minneapolis.

00:19:54.000 Yeah, well, it's not going to.

00:19:55.320 Actually, like, the face of it just showed up, just came to Minneapolis.

00:20:00.320 That was the end of your bargain.

00:20:02.160 At the end of all of your wheeling and dealing, you had the face of ICE travel to Minneapolis to keep it up.

00:20:10.220 And we need them out of here.

00:20:12.420 And we need, so they've got to leave, right?

00:20:15.340 I don't know what Trump said to this guy.

00:20:17.840 I don't know what Trump said.

00:20:19.400 This guy was 1863 posting, like, a week and a half ago.

00:20:23.020 This guy was threatening to call up Minnesota National Guard to fight federal agents.

00:20:29.120 He explicitly invoked the American Civil War.

00:20:31.520 And now all of a sudden, oh, I really like Tom Holman.

00:20:35.020 Yeah, he's really great.

00:20:36.040 And yeah, I want, I mean, I don't, obviously, I don't want any of the deportations.

00:20:39.780 But it's okay, I can work with that guy.

00:20:41.620 Anyway, please, please let me go home now.

00:20:44.120 I don't know what Trump said to that guy.

00:20:45.820 I don't know if it pertained to the Insurrection Act.

00:20:49.900 I don't know if it pertained to the financial fraud and crimes that Tim Walls allegedly seems to have apparently been involved in.

00:20:57.300 Whatever it is, though, scared that guy straight.

00:20:59.640 And it is real hard to scare Tim Walls straight.

00:21:03.320 Turning Tim, scaring Tim Walls straight is a real tough thing to do.

00:21:06.080 But it looks like Trump did it.

00:21:06.980 Okay, so how is Trump playing with the rest of the country?

00:21:10.100 According to Rasmussen, we're all waiting because you hear the left and then the panic hands.

00:21:15.520 They say, oh, no, this is really bad.

00:21:16.960 This is really bad.

00:21:17.820 Trump needs to, he doesn't, we need to think about the optics in Minnesota.

00:21:21.600 And Americans support Trump's deportations by plus 10 points.

00:21:27.220 It's great.

00:21:28.120 Trump's support among Hispanics is going up right now.

00:21:30.640 Looks like majority support right now.

00:21:32.920 And then among Americans broadly, support for deportations is now plus 10.

00:21:39.360 Now, what's a little weird about these numbers is, okay, you got plus 10.

00:21:45.480 We love the mass deportations.

00:21:47.940 And yet 55% of voters favor removing ICE agents from Minnesota.

00:21:53.220 34% want to keep the ICE agents in Minnesota.

00:21:56.220 Trump's base wants to keep the ICE agents in Minnesota, 68 to 29.

00:22:01.160 But the traditional GOP, whatever that is, I guess like Mitt Romney types, they favor withdrawing ICE, 47 to 39.

00:22:09.760 Obviously, Democrats want to withdraw ICE.

00:22:11.280 So what does that mean?

00:22:11.960 What it means is Americans love the mass deportations in the abstract, but they get the feels sometimes when they see the pictures.

00:22:24.440 So they love the idea of it.

00:22:25.940 They want to get rid of these people, mass deportations, including Abuela, but especially the face-tattooed gangsters.

00:22:32.000 But they don't like seeing nasty pictures.

00:22:34.680 And so it's a war of pictures.

00:22:36.240 It's a picture war.

00:22:37.640 And how do you fix that?

00:22:40.020 Well, Trump has already dipped his toe into this, more than dipped his toe into this.

00:22:42.960 But it bears repeating because it is an important part of the strategy.

00:22:46.840 In order to, because you don't have to win Americans over on the point of mass deportations right now, you're in a better position.

00:22:54.240 What you have to do is just present good pictures to people to make them feel good about the thing that they already agree with with their intellect.

00:23:03.040 You just got to go Bukele. 0.99

00:23:04.460 You got to go full Bukele, right? 1.00

00:23:05.740 This is why Bukele, when he was rounding up all of the gangsters, he didn't just round them up and say, okay, you know, I've put them into prison now.

00:23:13.940 And they're going to, you know, have their due process. 0.80

00:23:16.260 No, no, he made these videos of them with all their crazy tattoos looking like a bunch of demon bugs.

00:23:21.840 And he was running them around and, like, whipping them. 0.72

00:23:24.520 And, I mean, it was hardcore, man.

00:23:27.220 These were scary videos.

00:23:28.520 If you were a guy with face tattoos, you would have been.

00:23:31.080 Do we have it?

00:23:31.600 Yeah, here.

00:23:32.080 Let me see a Bukele video.

00:23:33.300 Okay.

00:23:35.740 That's the good stuff.

00:23:39.740 There we go.

00:23:40.440 That's what I want to see.

00:23:42.220 Yeah.

00:23:43.220 Just running around.

00:23:44.480 Basically being humiliated.

00:23:46.100 And for a purpose.

00:23:47.580 No one's going to feel bad for the guys with the face tattoos.

00:23:51.620 And, again, listen, I'm not knocking all guys with face tattoos.

00:23:54.340 But no one's feeling bad for these guys.

00:23:56.420 That's just what we have to do.

00:23:57.660 The Bruce Springsteens of the world are going to pretend that ICE is showing up in Minneapolis to slaughter.

00:24:05.200 That wonderful nurse, Alex Preddy, never had a harsh word to say about anybody. 1.00

00:24:10.700 Definitely never spit on federal agents and kicked in their taillights.

00:24:13.600 Definitely never put himself in a bad situation.

00:24:15.360 Took his gun to town to pick fights with cops.

00:24:17.180 No, no, no.

00:24:17.860 They just went to shoot that Renee Good. 0.99

00:24:21.100 That woman who, she wasn't even mad.

00:24:25.240 She drove a car into a cop, but she wasn't even mad.

00:24:28.320 Just a sweet little dove.

00:24:30.220 But that's not what happened.

00:24:34.600 Both of those guys.

00:24:35.460 I'm not even saying Alex Preddy and Renee Good are like the worst of the worst.

00:24:38.500 They were deeply confused people who made tons of bad decisions.

00:24:42.260 But they should not be the face of this.

00:24:44.820 You know who should be the face of this? 0.99

00:24:47.540 Jorge the rapist. 0.98

00:24:48.980 You know who should be the face of this? 1.00

00:24:50.600 Pedro the murderer.

00:24:51.680 That's who's got to be the face of this.

00:24:53.920 You know who should be the face of this?

00:24:55.400 Abdi the financial criminal who funded al-Shabaab with taxpayer dollars.

00:24:59.020 That's who needs to be the face of this.

00:25:01.580 This is good news for the administration.

00:25:03.480 They've won the issue.

00:25:05.300 Now they just have to win the pictures.

00:25:06.960 Now, you know who else likes Trump beyond most Americans on most policies?

00:25:14.920 Barb's vindicated again.

00:25:16.140 It would be Nicki Minaj.

00:25:17.100 We'll get to that momentarily first.

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00:26:25.420 Switching gears a little bit to an economic policy that I love.

00:26:28.900 President Trump announced his Trump accounts policy, family policy, great new social program

00:26:37.940 that is designed to give kids a head start, teach financial literacy.

00:26:43.540 And who shows up to announce it with him?

00:26:46.320 Nicki Minaj.

00:26:46.900 Uh, well, I don't know what to say, but I will say that, um, I am probably the president's

00:27:00.620 number one fan.

00:27:05.180 And that's not going to change.

00:27:08.500 And the hate, or what people have to say, it does not affect me at all.

00:27:15.380 It actually motivates me to support him more.

00:27:19.440 And it's going to motivate all of us to support him more.

00:27:22.520 We're not going to let them get away with bullying him and, you know, the smear campaigns.

00:27:27.620 It's not going to work.

00:27:29.500 Okay?

00:27:30.460 He has a lot of force behind him, and God is protecting him.

00:27:37.540 Amen?

00:27:38.140 Amen.

00:27:38.480 Love her, love her.

00:27:48.120 This lady went from, you know, the occasional supportive tweet to on the stage at America 0.96

00:27:54.460 Fest with Erica Kirk to now announcing this great new economic policy with the president.

00:27:59.360 Says, I'm his biggest fan.

00:28:02.320 Barb's vindicated yet again.

00:28:03.820 What is the Trump account?

00:28:06.320 I was hoping to make it to Washington, D.C. for the announcement of the Trump accounts.

00:28:11.640 Nature had other plans.

00:28:13.720 The Trump accounts mean that every kid born between last year and the end of 2028, every

00:28:21.800 kid gets a thousand bucks in a federal account.

00:28:25.380 Thousand bucks in a federal account.

00:28:26.840 You can deposit up to $5,000 per year if you want to maximize growth.

00:28:32.720 That is after taxes.

00:28:35.880 Employers can contribute tax-free up to $2,500 per year if they want to as an employee benefit.

00:28:42.960 By age 18, what does this mean?

00:28:46.160 If you, unfortunately, I don't qualify.

00:28:47.800 My kids are just outside the age range.

00:28:50.280 I should have gotten some lobbyists just to move the date a little bit on that. 0.98

00:28:53.780 That's okay.

00:28:54.060 I just have to have more kids.

00:28:54.920 This means that by age 18, a kid who just gets the Trump accounts, $1,000, they would

00:29:03.280 have $5,800 in their account.

00:29:06.080 Now, that's with the parents contributing nothing.

00:29:09.080 If the parents contributed $250 per year, they would have almost $21,000 by the time they

00:29:15.880 turn 18, just for $250 a year.

00:29:18.760 If the parents contributed the federal max, $5,000 per year, this kid would have $304,000

00:29:24.560 estimated by the time he turned 18.

00:29:28.120 This is just a wonderful, wonderful idea.

00:29:31.720 It was kicked off with support from the Dell family.

00:29:34.660 The Dell family made like a billion-dollar, multi-billion-dollar donation to get this all

00:29:40.340 started.

00:29:41.200 They brought in lots of other companies.

00:29:43.000 Visa, BlackRock financial institutions have come in.

00:29:46.860 Everybody supports this thing.

00:29:48.280 So why am I mentioning it?

00:29:49.260 One, it's great if you're having kids now or in the near future.

00:29:52.940 Sign up, get the account.

00:29:53.940 It's going to be terrific.

00:29:55.320 I think it's really good.

00:29:56.400 I strongly support family policy.

00:29:58.100 I think it's an existential matter for the country to encourage people to have kids, 0.99

00:30:01.680 to support young families.

00:30:03.140 I think politically it's very, very important.

00:30:05.860 When it comes to the electoral stuff, though, here's the reason I bring up the story is,

00:30:11.600 hey, Democrats, find something bad to say about this.

00:30:16.160 What's wrong with this?

00:30:17.340 Tell me what's wrong with this.

00:30:19.260 You know, I mean, you know, you have these friends, you have these relatives.

00:30:23.900 Anytime Trump does anything, Mr. Trump, would you like chocolate ice cream or vanilla?

00:30:29.960 I'll have chocolate.

00:30:30.740 I had chocolate.

00:30:32.420 Yeah, of course he did.

00:30:33.820 I hate chocolate.

00:30:35.540 Huh?

00:30:36.320 What?

00:30:38.080 Mr. Trump.

00:30:39.780 Yes.

00:30:42.740 Your tax policy is going to give everybody more money.

00:30:46.960 Yes, that's right.

00:30:47.900 Yeah, I hate having more money.

00:30:49.420 They just find something negative to say about anything.

00:30:52.760 What's bad about this?

00:30:55.100 Can you find anything bad to say about this policy?

00:30:57.760 This is my challenge to the Democrats in the comments who are watching this right now.

00:31:01.800 Find me one bad thing to say about this policy.

00:31:03.880 I don't think you'll be I don't think you'll be able to.

00:31:08.000 And that should give you pause.

00:31:09.540 That should give you pause on all the other Trump policies, which are overwhelmingly popular.

00:31:13.840 Ask yourself, why are they popular?

00:31:14.960 When Bruce Springsteen says, it's the occupier's boot.

00:31:19.440 Hey, guess who elected the occupiers? 0.86

00:31:22.840 Most Americans.

00:31:24.820 Hey, Bruce, most people voted for this.

00:31:28.100 For this.

00:31:28.640 Well, for the Trump accounts, maybe.

00:31:31.260 But for the mass deportations, they voted for Trump specifically for this.

00:31:37.000 Who's the vigilante?

00:31:40.240 Who's the insurrectionist?

00:31:41.480 Who's the occupier in this case?

00:31:43.120 It would be the left.

00:31:43.780 Okay, speaking of kids, very gross story.

00:31:50.600 An IVF company is now letting couples pick the best baby that they have and discard the rest. 0.53

00:31:58.600 So this is from Nucleus IVF.

00:32:02.540 Do we have it here?

00:32:03.800 Yeah.

00:32:04.220 Here we go.

00:32:04.540 Nucleus IVF.

00:32:05.940 They post, they say, every parent wants to give their children more than they had.

00:32:11.680 For the first time in human history, Nucleus adds a new tool to that commitment.

00:32:15.140 Welcome to Nucleus Embryo.

00:32:17.400 And it shows you all of your embryos that you make through IVF.

00:32:20.340 And the way you do that is the woman undergoes a very invasive, painful, dangerous procedure.

00:32:25.480 And then gets the eggs out.

00:32:27.740 And then the man commits a disgusting and gravely disordered and sinful action in a little room with a nurse outside.

00:32:34.240 And then some scientists in a laboratory mix the two up.

00:32:40.160 And sometimes they get it wrong and they accidentally create kids whose parents have never even met each other.

00:32:44.140 Whoopsie-daisy.

00:32:44.680 They can just throw them out, though.

00:32:46.420 And anyway, then they create these embryos. 0.71

00:32:48.640 And then what this IVF company does is it puts all the embryos in a nice app.

00:32:53.300 And it says, all right, this kid is going to probably, it's all probabilities, but it's probably going to be a boy.

00:32:58.480 Probably going to have brown eyes and blonde hair. 1.00

00:33:04.240 And then this other baby is going to be a girl.

00:33:06.520 Might have a little bit of a higher IQ.

00:33:09.260 Going to have maybe blue eyes.

00:33:12.380 And anyway, now you get to pick.

00:33:14.880 And you can pick the embryo you want.

00:33:17.440 And then you can discard the rest.

00:33:19.480 Which means you can give your children more than you had.

00:33:24.640 Dead siblings.

00:33:27.920 That's what you can, that's the thing that this IVF company is allowing you to give to your children is dead siblings.

00:33:34.060 So I don't know, if you had dead siblings, then you're not giving your children more than you had.

00:33:37.840 But if you did not have dead siblings, then you are, in fact, giving them something more than you had.

00:33:43.100 According to the reporting here from LifeSite News, couples who signed up with Nucleus IVF Plus are presented with an electronic menu of up to 20 embryos they had conceived.

00:33:54.200 Allowing them to view the sex of each baby, their anticipated hair and eye color, and predictions about the height and IQ of each, as well as their risk for various diseases.

00:34:02.540 The company notes that all these characteristics are only framed in terms of probabilities.

00:34:05.660 They can't make any guarantees.

00:34:06.820 Okay, so what does this really come down to?

00:34:10.380 Nothing new. 1.00

00:34:12.180 What it's probably going to be used for is just to kill retarded people. 1.00

00:34:15.600 To kill people who might have a chance of being retarded. 1.00

00:34:18.580 It's really probably about that more than it's about the blonde hair and the blue eyes. 0.99

00:34:22.080 Is my baby going to have a likelihood of a genetic anomaly?

00:34:27.940 Is my kid going to be retarded? 1.00

00:34:29.400 Well, I don't want a retarded kid, so I'm going to kill my retarded kid. 1.00

00:34:31.720 That's basically what it comes down to. 1.00

00:34:33.880 And the libs will see this and they'll say, Michael, it's so offensive that you said retarded. 0.99

00:34:37.440 And I say, well, you know, I find it pretty offensive that you kill retarded people. 1.00

00:34:41.160 That you cheer for that. 0.99

00:34:43.800 That you would create whole companies for that.

00:34:45.900 But people already do that.

00:34:47.580 Iceland, famously, said that they had exterminated Down syndrome.

00:34:51.300 But there's no cure for Down syndrome. 0.77

00:34:53.600 What they meant is they had exterminated all the Down syndrome people by killing them in the womb. 0.58

00:34:59.220 So we already do that. 0.86

00:35:00.860 That's what a lot of abortion entails. 1.00

00:35:04.120 It's just killing retarded people. 1.00

00:35:05.540 Or actually people, the irony of it is in many cases, probably most cases, 0.96

00:35:09.620 that people wouldn't have even been retarded. 0.99

00:35:11.200 But nevertheless, the doctors convinced them of that.

00:35:13.100 And then it's about, you know, picking the kid that we want to be, I don't know, the tallest, the most good-looking, whatever.

00:35:23.120 Again, we do that to some degree already in IVF.

00:35:27.600 The people who use IVF, they're already paying doctors to say, I think this embryo looks the healthiest.

00:35:31.860 So we're going to try this one.

00:35:32.760 And then we're going to freeze or discard all the other siblings.

00:35:35.460 The main point here is none of this is all that interesting.

00:35:42.260 It's very evil.

00:35:43.900 It's really horrifying.

00:35:45.560 But it's also pretty boring.

00:35:47.280 We already do all this stuff. 0.89

00:35:50.200 Humans have been killing retarded people since antiquity all over the world. 1.00

00:35:55.280 Humans have been selecting for sex in their births forever.

00:36:01.180 Not just in modern IVF, but in ancient pagan cultures, they would leave girls, little girl babies often, 0.71

00:36:06.360 out to just be exposed or throw them off a mountain or something.

00:36:10.000 There's nothing all that new.

00:36:10.980 It reminds me of what a priest once said.

00:36:13.700 He was in a homily, though it might have been in a private conversation.

00:36:16.060 He said, you know, it's funny.

00:36:17.040 People, they think their sins are really interesting.

00:36:19.940 Your sins are not interesting.

00:36:21.280 He said, I hear confessions hours a day, and I've heard it all.

00:36:25.380 It's all the same stuff.

00:36:26.360 It's like the same four things, basically. 0.95

00:36:28.660 Your sins are very boring.

00:36:30.180 Virtue is interesting.

00:36:33.600 Charity is interesting.

00:36:34.560 Love, grace, those are interesting.

00:36:37.600 Sin, it's all, they're like, you hurt someone, you're self-indulgent, you're prideful, you do.

00:36:47.620 You know, it's like, I don't want to get too graphic on it, but it's like the same four acts that basically you just do all that.

00:36:52.460 That's not that interesting. 0.99

00:36:53.360 We have an amazing new product that will allow you to kill your retarded kids and try to make your other kids look better. 1.00

00:37:02.320 And if their siblings are uglier, you can kill them, too. 1.00

00:37:06.240 Wow. 1.00

00:37:06.940 Wow, boy.

00:37:07.500 Never heard of that before.

00:37:08.400 Okay.

00:37:08.680 Speaking of making babies, the New York Times had a piece.

00:37:11.320 I really want to get to it.

00:37:12.200 I let my wife have an affair. 1.00

00:37:14.300 Do I have to console her now that it's over?

00:37:16.920 This is a piece in The Ethicist.

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00:38:20.440 My favorite comment.

00:38:21.180 Oh, you know what?

00:38:21.680 I did not pick this comment.

00:38:24.680 So we're going to see if I actually really like it.

00:38:26.480 It's from Kevin Smile.

00:38:28.120 It says, Michael looks particularly Italian in this video.

00:38:32.200 Is this from the show yesterday?

00:38:33.260 You know, it's very funny.

00:38:34.280 I can't help but notice when I'm on the road, I get all these compliments.

00:38:37.900 I say, Michael, the lighting looks really good.

00:38:39.760 I'm in some studio somewhere else.

00:38:41.800 Or even yesterday, someone said, I was in my buddy's, you know, makeshift studio.

00:38:45.080 I said, Michael, the lighting looks really good.

00:38:46.940 It's so much better than usual.

00:38:48.060 You're looking really good here.

00:38:48.880 I think, hold on.

00:38:49.720 How come in the, like, cardboard studios that I end up using on the side of the road when I'm traveling, how come we get all the compliments for that?

00:38:57.200 But then here in my main studio, do I not look as good in my main studio?

00:39:01.740 You tell me.

00:39:03.140 You let me know.

00:39:05.940 Okay.

00:39:06.980 I let my wife.

00:39:07.960 No, I'm not saying this.

00:39:09.640 I want to be very clear before this gets clipped out.

00:39:12.880 Kwame Anthony Apaya, the New York Times ethicist, is responding to a note that he got.

00:39:19.980 I let my wife have an affair. 1.00

00:39:21.280 Do I have to console her now that it's over?

00:39:22.660 Okay.

00:39:22.900 And I'll just read a little bit of it.

00:39:24.440 This guy teaches philosophy at NYU.

00:39:26.700 I've been married for many years.

00:39:28.220 I still love and care deeply about my partner.

00:39:32.140 Gay. 0.98

00:39:32.460 No, loving and caring is good. 1.00

00:39:34.680 But calling your wife your partner is definitely, definitely gay. 0.99

00:39:39.560 Over the past year, she had an affair, and I knew about it from the beginning. 0.92

00:39:42.960 She said that she needed it, and then it gave her vitality, that she enjoyed a sexual freedom she had longed for, and that she felt it was wrong to do this in secret and without my consent.

00:39:50.300 And I agreed.

00:39:52.160 What she said made sense to me.

00:39:55.780 She convincingly assured me this was no threat to our relationship.

00:40:00.100 At the same time, I always suffered when she was away with her affair partner and could not find a way to take this easily.

00:40:08.020 She recently decided to break it off because of the overall emotional burden for both of us.

00:40:12.160 While she was grieving about it, I feel relieved.

00:40:15.320 And then he says, basically, should I feel bad for my wife that she broke up with her boyfriend?

00:40:20.300 Here is from the ethicist.

00:40:25.060 Now, if I were the ethicist at the New York Times, my response would be, no, what is wrong with you?

00:40:31.660 Seek help from maybe a therapist, certainly like a priest or an exorcist.

00:40:40.740 Seek help.

00:40:42.360 You should not feel bad.

00:40:44.220 You should feel bad about your wife's affair, but not that you don't need to help her grieve.

00:40:48.840 Okay.

00:40:49.020 He says, we don't have voluntary control over our emotional responses, at least not in any straightforward way.

00:40:57.400 You're glad she's sad.

00:40:59.500 Neither of you can simply choose to feel otherwise.

00:41:02.100 And from what you say, it sounds as if she gave up the affair for you and for her relationship with you,

00:41:06.200 just as you consented to it for her and for your relationship with her.

00:41:11.240 You most likely felt you had little choice in acquiescing to what she wanted.

00:41:14.360 And in time, she may have felt that she had little choice about acquiescing to what you clearly wanted.

00:41:19.920 Your partnership would not have gone well, you perhaps thought, if you had withheld your consent.

00:41:24.220 It would not have gone well, she perhaps thought, if she had persisted.

00:41:27.080 Beneath the velvet of sweet reasonableness lurked the edge steel of unspoken ultimatums.

00:41:30.820 Okay, that one line, that's the only reasonable part of this entire response.

00:41:36.900 But while your sense of relief is unsurprising, maybe you could help her deal with her loss out of gratitude for her belated acknowledgement of your needs.

00:41:44.740 Solace is one of the gifts of marital love.

00:41:47.220 Consoling someone you love when they're in pain doesn't require that you share in the pain.

00:41:50.340 Okay, then he's like, go to a counselor.

00:41:53.240 So he actually got that part right too.

00:41:55.040 Notice what's missing.

00:41:57.320 Notice what's missing in all of this.

00:42:00.860 Any sense of objective reality.

00:42:04.720 Do you notice that in the question to the ethicist and in the ethicist's response?

00:42:10.300 There is not even the pretense that there is any such thing as an objective moral order.

00:42:15.900 Much less an objective moral order that is actually conducive to our happiness.

00:42:23.520 Which is why it's all so preposterous.

00:42:26.740 This guy is supposed to be the ethicist.

00:42:29.040 This guy is supposed to be giving advice on good living.

00:42:32.840 On right and wrong.

00:42:35.120 He doesn't even believe in right and wrong.

00:42:37.680 From what I'm reading, I see no evidence that he really believes in right and wrong.

00:42:41.060 The guy writing in, the cuckold, says, you know, my wife wanted this.

00:42:49.160 And I just, it made sense to me.

00:42:51.880 I mean, it's all about consent.

00:42:54.040 And then the ethicist says, yes, you did consent.

00:42:56.960 And you consented.

00:42:59.200 And you felt that you had to consent.

00:43:02.360 And she felt that she had to consent.

00:43:04.220 And you consented.

00:43:05.080 And now you can be consensual.

00:43:08.500 This is the state of modern ethics.

00:43:10.480 This is the state of modern morality and philosophy in public life and newspapers.

00:43:16.740 It's also kind of tawdry.

00:43:18.240 You can tell the New York Times clearly just wants to become like a tabloid.

00:43:20.700 But they'd have to make it seem really smart and, you know, thoughtful and everything.

00:43:25.960 This is all pretty easily resolved.

00:43:28.780 Hey, my wife wants to have an affair. 1.00

00:43:30.780 So I told her no.

00:43:32.680 And I told her to seek help.

00:43:34.200 And I explained to her why that question itself is deeply disordered.

00:43:39.380 And how she clearly has profound spiritual and psychological problems.

00:43:44.300 And she needs to work through those. 0.61

00:43:46.780 The end.

00:43:48.040 That would be how that would go in real life.

00:43:50.000 If this were serious advice.

00:43:52.260 Or, hey, yeah, I let my wife have an affair. 1.00

00:43:54.920 What do you think about that?

00:43:55.660 Oh, you did something wrong.

00:43:57.580 That was a bad idea.

00:43:59.400 You chose wrong.

00:44:00.700 You chose the wrong thing, not the right thing.

00:44:02.780 There's a right thing to do and a wrong thing to do.

00:44:05.240 But we're not allowed to say that.

00:44:08.400 Because modern liberalism has infected our minds and our consciences.

00:44:13.020 And we just think that consent is all that matters.

00:44:16.380 Even on the right, many people think that.

00:44:18.740 Well, you know, as long as the guys are consensual.

00:44:21.040 As long as it's consenting adults, what do I care?

00:44:23.180 That is a right-wing reaction that you hear pretty frequently.

00:44:29.280 And with a right like that, who needs a left?

00:44:33.680 If the ethicist can't acknowledge that there is right and wrong,

00:44:38.720 what's the point of having an ethicist?

00:44:42.060 What is the ethicist for? 0.97

00:44:46.000 Just encouraging cuckolds down the road to further humiliation. 0.94

00:44:50.700 It's not that complicated, guys.

00:44:53.600 You know, it's amazing.

00:44:54.380 Like you read these people, you read this ethicist,

00:44:57.020 and then you read like Socrates in Plato.

00:45:01.380 And you think like, wow, the Socrates in Plato

00:45:03.900 seems just like a normal guy with common sense.

00:45:07.140 And then you read like a professional ethicist philosopher, 0.96

00:45:10.240 and they read like absolute inscrutable, jargony lunatics.

00:45:15.800 You think, you know, I think I'm sticking with Socrates.

00:45:19.240 I think I'm sticking with Aristotle.

00:45:21.320 Before we go, before we go,

00:45:25.200 oh, there are two things I want to get to.

00:45:27.880 But I'll pick one.

00:45:29.480 I want to get to Michelle Obama talking about how black women

00:45:31.760 never articulate their pain.

00:45:33.140 But I'm going to get to the Democrat candidate for Ohio Attorney General.

00:45:36.880 This would be Elliot Forehand, who is running on this platform.

00:45:39.680 Hi, this is Elliot Forehand, candidate for Ohio Attorney General. 0.99

00:45:46.400 I want to tell you what I mean when I say that I am going to kill Donald Trump.

00:45:53.740 I mean I'm going to obtain a conviction rendered by a jury of his peers 0.99

00:45:59.340 at a standard of proof beyond a reasonable doubt,

00:46:03.200 based on evidence presented at a trial

00:46:05.960 conducted in accordance with the requirements of due process,

00:46:10.220 resulting in a sentence duly executed of capital punishment. 1.00

00:46:16.120 That is what I mean when I say that I am going to kill Donald Trump. 1.00

00:46:23.260 Okay, Mr. Reddit. 0.99

00:46:24.520 Okay, got it.

00:46:25.640 You're a big tough guy.

00:46:26.860 I get it, Mr. Flannel Reddit.

00:46:28.640 Okay, with the hair parted.

00:46:30.220 I can't help but notice the hair is parted on this side.

00:46:32.440 That might imply something.

00:46:34.040 But okay, you're a big tough guy.

00:46:35.960 Elliot Forehand for Attorney General.

00:46:37.580 He's a Democrat for Attorney General.

00:46:40.240 He's being all cute. 1.00

00:46:41.500 I'm going to kill him. 1.00

00:46:42.680 I want him dead. 1.00

00:46:43.580 I want his blood running into the sewer. 1.00

00:46:46.020 But I'm going to do it legally. 0.64

00:46:47.800 What capital offense has Trump committed?

00:46:49.740 I couldn't possibly say. 1.00

00:46:51.720 But I want to kill him. 1.00

00:46:54.780 This, of course, after Democrats nearly did succeed at killing him. 1.00

00:46:58.400 Came within one twentieth of an inch of blowing his brains out on national television.

00:47:01.820 Other assassination attempts, of course, as well. 0.99

00:47:06.480 Is this guy just an attention-seeking lunatic? 0.99

00:47:08.960 He certainly is that. 0.99

00:47:09.900 But is he just that?

00:47:10.980 Or is he representative of a broader trend on the left?

00:47:14.980 You tell me.

00:47:15.880 September 2024, Rasmussen poll.

00:47:17.680 28% of Democrats said we would be better off if Trump had been assassinated.

00:47:22.080 24% said they weren't sure.

00:47:25.080 So you have 52%.

00:47:27.320 52% of Democrats, according to a Rasmussen poll not that long ago, most Democrats said

00:47:35.080 we would be better off if Trump were assassinated.

00:47:37.420 Manhattan Institute, July 2024, 33% of Democrats agreed with the statement, I wish Trump's assassin 0.79

00:47:43.040 had not missed.

00:47:43.900 NCRI survey, April 2025, 48% of left-leaning respondents said it would be at least somewhat

00:47:51.040 justified to assassinate Trump. 1.00

00:47:55.360 This guy, you know, he's a big jerk and a joke and all the rest of it. 1.00

00:47:59.200 Though he served in the Ohio House of Representatives. 1.00

00:48:01.700 He's not just a total lunatic, fake AG candidate. 0.88

00:48:04.580 He's like a real politician in Ohio who's won elections. 0.96

00:48:09.420 But more importantly, he's not just an aberration here.

00:48:13.900 Many, if not most, Democrats agree with that. 0.97

00:48:18.240 They want Trump dead.

00:48:19.560 Why do they want Trump dead?

00:48:22.320 I don't know.

00:48:23.000 They don't like giving a thousand bucks to American kids every year.

00:48:25.920 They don't like enforcing the basics of immigration law.

00:48:28.380 They don't.

00:48:30.680 The people who would celebrate Trump's death would celebrate your death too if they knew

00:48:34.800 what you really believed.

00:48:36.680 That's one of the conclusions of Charlie's assassination.

00:48:39.880 These people, your coworker, that girl you went to school with,

00:48:43.060 that maybe some distant family member, maybe a not so distant family member.

00:48:47.120 The ones who celebrated Charlie Kirk's assassination, many of them.

00:48:51.100 The ones who would celebrate Trump's assassination, many of them.

00:48:55.400 They would celebrate your assassination too if they knew what you really believed and if you

00:48:59.500 had a shot to actually achieve political change.

00:49:02.820 This is a little different from what we've been dealing with in the past.

00:49:09.040 This is not just, oh shucks, you know, Reagan and Tip O'Neill fight it out during the day

00:49:12.440 and then they have a drink at six.

00:49:13.400 For the doomers and the people who say we need to disengage from the political order and Trump's

00:49:21.720 not doing enough or whatever.

00:49:24.940 If those people come back into power, what do you think is going to happen? 0.99

00:49:30.960 They want you dead. 1.00

00:49:32.740 They have told you repeatedly they want you dead. 1.00

00:49:35.340 They continue to tell you they want you dead. 0.81

00:49:37.260 I hope that motivates you for the midterms.

00:49:42.080 Okay, today's Theology Thursday.

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00:50:01.260 What was it like, Merlin, to be alone with God?

00:50:07.260 Is that who you think I was alone with?

00:50:16.420 Merlin, I knew your father.

00:50:18.860 I am yet convinced that he was not of this world.

00:50:23.960 All men know of the great Taliesin.

00:50:27.080 You are my father.

00:50:28.540 The gods should war for my soul.

00:50:31.700 Princess Garrus, savior of our people.

00:50:37.260 I know what the bull god offered you.

00:50:39.780 I was offered the same.

00:50:41.760 And?

00:50:43.260 There is a new power at work in the world.

00:50:45.360 I've seen it.

00:50:47.400 A god who sacrifices what he loves for us.

00:50:50.100 We are each given only one life, Singer.

00:50:52.860 No.

00:50:54.000 We're given another.

00:50:57.860 I learnt of Yazoo the Christ. 1.00

00:51:00.120 And I have become his follower.

00:51:02.020 He's waiting on a miracle.

00:51:03.140 And I think you can give him one.

00:51:05.660 Trust in Yazoo.

00:51:06.920 He is the only hope for men like us.

00:51:09.880 Fate of Britain never rests in the hands of the great light.

00:51:12.900 Great light.

00:51:14.020 Great darkness.

00:51:15.460 Such things mattered to me then. 0.70

00:51:17.880 What matters to you now, mistress of lies? 0.94

00:51:21.660 You. 0.99

00:51:23.120 Nephew.

00:51:23.600 The sword of a high king.

00:51:30.400 How many lives must be lost before you accept the power you were born to wield?

00:51:38.160 So clinging to the promises of a god who has abandoned you.

00:51:41.420 I cannot take up that sword again.

00:51:44.300 You know what you must do.

00:51:47.880 Great light, forgive me.

00:51:49.000 The time has come to be reborn.

The Michael Knowles Show - January 29, 2026

Ep. 1901 - BOMBSHELL VIDEO： Alex Pretti Caused Chaos Before Being Killed

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