The Michael Knowles Show - March 16, 2026


Ep. 1932 - The Oscars Take A Swing At TPUSA


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56 minutes

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10,242

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819

Misogynist Sentences

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Hate Speech Sentences

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00:00:00.000 A viral column encourages women not to have children based on a highly scientific survey
00:00:05.320 of Reddit. We will get into the supposed epidemic of parenthood regret.
00:00:10.900 Then, good news and bad news. The bad news is the Iran war and high gas prices will likely drag on
00:00:17.980 for weeks, not just based on layman analysis that's coming from the administration.
00:00:23.700 The good news, after Iran, we are likely taking Cuba and Mayflower will get some
00:00:28.560 new cigar blends. That should be great. Finally, the Oscars apparently happened last night. I did
00:00:35.240 not watch, but I saw the clips. You might have to if you didn't. Conan O'Brien took the opportunity
00:00:41.180 at the show to invert reality. I'm Michael Knowles. This is the Michael Knowles Show.
00:00:58.560 Welcome back to the show. Is the CIA investigating Tucker Carlson for being an Iranian spy?
00:01:14.240 That is, that's the claim that Tucker is making on his show. It sounds kind of like a right-wing
00:01:19.880 madlib, you know, a right-wing new media madlib. Is the blank, is the Mossad surveilling Alex Jones
00:01:28.520 for being a Club of Rome spy? Is that you could fill it in with almost anything? But Tucker is making
00:01:34.960 the claim quite seriously. It doesn't make a lot of sense to me. And I wonder, I'm not saying this is
00:01:42.240 totally made up. I just wonder how many layers of misinformation from how many places in the
00:01:49.700 government, multiple governments, media organizations, is coming out in this. We will investigate whether
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00:03:21.180 See site for details. I want to start with the Oscars. I didn't watch it. Did you watch it?
00:03:26.040 The ratings are not out yet. We don't know how many people watch the Oscars. Reflexively,
00:03:30.980 we had gotten used to saying, you know, once again, nobody watched this stupid show.
00:03:34.800 And that had been true all the way up through 2021. From 2015, or even earlier through 2021,
00:03:43.160 the ratings of the Oscars kept declining. You used to have in the 90s, you'd have 50,
00:03:47.060 55 million people watching the Oscars. Then it dropped down to, I think, 10 million. I think that
00:03:51.000 was the lowest number we ever saw. Then it started to tick back up again. We don't have the ratings
00:03:54.540 yet. I certainly didn't watch it. I didn't watch any of the movies that were nominated.
00:03:57.860 I watched part of the Korean movie because it was recommended to me for the kids. And so I started
00:04:06.340 to watch it. I didn't even finish the Korean movie. What was it called? I'm not performing. I just don't
00:04:11.860 remember. Demon Hunters, K-pop Demon Hunters. That was the only one that I even watched a part of this
00:04:16.840 year. But in any case, Conan O'Brien took the stage and he riled up the American right with this joke
00:04:24.860 about TPUSA. I should warn you, tonight could get political, okay? And if that makes you
00:04:32.380 uncomfortable, there's an alternate Oscars being hosted by Kid Rock. Now, it's at the Dave and Buster's
00:04:39.080 down the street. A lot of tickets for that. Some of the right got upset about this joke.
00:04:46.940 I liked it. I like the joke. I think it's pretty funny. I really liked it. And one of the many
00:04:54.620 frustrating consequences of Charlie's assassination is that everybody is presuming to speak for him.
00:05:03.440 Here's what Charlie would have thought about this. Here's what Charlie would have thought
00:05:06.080 about that. Here's why Charlie Kirk would have supported my precise ideological and political
00:05:11.420 agenda. And I find the whole thing disgusting and I endeavor never to do it, even when I'm quite
00:05:17.840 confident of what Charlie would have thought about this or that. However, when it comes to jokes
00:05:22.700 about TPUSA or about Charlie or about some of what we're doing here on the right, I can't help but
00:05:29.360 remember that when South Park put Charlie in the show as a character, there was the Charlie Kirk Awards
00:05:38.380 and then Cartman became Charlie. Charlie loved it. He took it as a badge of honor. I think I totally
00:05:45.280 agreed with him. I think it was a badge of honor. And so when I see this joke, major, major comedian,
00:05:51.060 major, major talk show host and Oscars host making a joke about TPUSA and TPUSA's cultural impact from
00:05:58.800 the stage of the Oscars, I think that's awesome, man. I love that. That's great. The only thing worse
00:06:05.360 than people talking about you is people not talking about you when it comes to politics. I think it's
00:06:10.280 great. One, it's a clever little joke. And two, the import of that joke is that TPUSA matters.
00:06:20.760 That halftime show, when they put on the alternative halftime show, that mattered. It got everybody
00:06:25.900 talking. It did bonkers ratings, tens of millions of views. It mattered so much that the Oscars is going
00:06:34.240 to make a joke about it. And the joke might be that the alternative halftime show didn't matter,
00:06:38.600 but the very fact that they're talking about it means it did matter. I love that joke. I think
00:06:42.360 it's great. I love that Conan O'Brien made it. I think it's very much within the standards and
00:06:48.140 norms of these kinds of jokes. And I think it only bodes well for TPUSA and the conservative movement
00:06:53.100 at a time that the conservative movement could use it. Conan made a stupid joke after that. Conan made a
00:07:00.100 joke about elites, pedophiles, and the Brits. And the joke fell flat for a simple reason. Here's the joke.
00:07:14.340 It's the first time since 2012, first time since 2012 that there are no British actors nominated for
00:07:22.480 best actor or best actress. Yeah. British spokesperson said, yeah, well, at least we arrest
00:07:29.540 our pedophiles. So we got that going for you. Okay, so there's a little bit of a good joke in
00:07:37.040 there. There's a little bit of razzing Hollywood there. Because you're saying, yeah, the joke is
00:07:43.500 that there are a lot of pedos in Hollywood. That's the surface level of the joke. Now, the way a lot of
00:07:49.180 people are interpreting that, I think, is that it's a joke about Jeffrey Epstein. And Jeffrey
00:07:55.400 Epstein didn't only pal around with guys from Hollywood, but he palled around with elites in
00:07:59.840 politics and business. And the Democrats are using the Epstein scandal, which you will recall was a
00:08:05.140 Democrat scandal over 10 years ago when it started. They're using that to become a scandal about Donald
00:08:09.840 Trump. And you have a lot of Democrats and libs baselessly, completely without any evidence
00:08:16.100 whatsoever, accusing Trump of being a pedophile. So I think the way it was understood and interpreted
00:08:21.620 was not just a joke about Hollywood. It was a Trump joke. But the reason it's a dumb joke
00:08:26.960 is because the Brits actually don't arrest their pedophiles. They don't. The Brits allowed the
00:08:35.480 grooming gangs in England, the Pakistani grooming gangs, to go on for over 25 years. There were
00:08:42.280 thousands and thousands of victims. It's actually not possible to know how many victims there were
00:08:48.220 because the police and the political authorities turned a blind eye to it, knew about it, turned a
00:08:53.800 blind eye to it for decades, so long that we actually can't know how many thousands of young
00:09:00.260 girls were victimized by specifically migrants. So we can't know. So the reason the joke falls
00:09:06.860 flat. Again, I'm way looser on comedians. I don't take it personally when the lib comedians
00:09:12.540 go after the conservatives. But this one falls flat because it's not true. It's not grounded in
00:09:17.480 reality. And for comedy to work, it's got to be grounded in reality. Okay. Now, speaking of foreign
00:09:22.380 affairs, we turn from the Brits to the Iranians. The war is still going on. There's been some
00:09:30.860 misunderstanding. Is the war over? Did we already win? Are we just getting started? The administration
00:09:36.720 was putting out both of those messages simultaneously. And as I pointed out on the show
00:09:41.200 last week, that's not necessarily a contradiction. To say the war is almost over, we've achieved
00:09:47.720 most of what we want to achieve, but also we've only just begun, means we want this to wrap up
00:09:54.400 soon, but we have the capacity to go on for months or years. So it's no surprise that the White House
00:09:59.940 is saying one thing. The Department of War is saying another thing. Those actually do harmonize.
00:10:04.160 They're not necessarily in conflict, but we all want the war to be over. I think a lot of that
00:10:10.140 messaging on, yeah, the war is basically over coming out of the president. I think that's because
00:10:15.040 the war is unpopular. It's the most unpopular war at launch that we've ever had for all sorts
00:10:20.960 of reasons that are really beyond President Trump's control. But nevertheless, even the right wing,
00:10:26.660 even the GOP base is kind of split on this war. And so we want it to be over. We want to win.
00:10:32.020 We recognize that there's a lot of good to come out of getting rid of the Iranian regime,
00:10:35.820 but we want it to be over. The administration coming out now and saying, actually, hold your
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00:11:59.700 slash Knowles. How much longer is the Iranian war going to go on? Here is Energy Secretary Chris Wright.
00:12:07.400 How long should Americans expect for gas prices to be high? Are we talking weeks? Are we talking
00:12:13.540 months? Or just don't know at this point? Yeah, I think that this conflict will certainly come to
00:12:19.840 the end in the next few weeks. Could be sooner than that, but the conflict will come to the end in
00:12:24.740 the next few weeks, and we'll see a rebound in supplies and a pushing down of prices after that.
00:12:31.040 But yes, we were very aware, very aware that we would have short-term disruption. We would cause
00:12:37.180 some, we would cause a little bit of increased prices on Americans. Prices today are still far
00:12:43.660 below what they were in the Biden administration, where they were begging, bartering, and bribing
00:12:49.360 Iran to behave better. We had $5 gasoline in the middle of the Biden administration. We hope we
00:12:55.840 don't get there this time, but at least this increase in gasoline prices is for something
00:13:01.340 that's going to change the geopolitical situation in the world forever. Crucial point here. And
00:13:08.460 people, I don't know, they're just, they're stuck in their abstract ideology, and they're not seeing
00:13:13.800 the pragmatic effects of all of this. So gas, oil prices this morning, when I checked,
00:13:20.080 right before this show, $96 a barrel. That's up substantially from where they had been even just
00:13:25.380 some days ago. It was $75, then it vacillates to $85. Last week, it got up to $115, then it came down
00:13:32.160 sub $100. As of this morning, it was just slightly under $100. But the Strait of Hormuz is closed.
00:13:38.180 There's also conflicting reporting, because it's war, and there's the fog of war,
00:13:41.140 and there's a ton of misinformation. There's conflicting reporting on whether or not the
00:13:45.840 White House anticipated that the Iranians could close the Strait of Hormuz. Because in fairness,
00:13:49.960 they don't usually do this. It's a pretty big move to close off the place that 20% of the world's
00:13:57.800 oil moves through. So the Iranians decided to close the Strait of Hormuz. Now the United States
00:14:03.600 is saying, well, we're going to have US Navy vessels and maybe other NATO vessels escorting oil
00:14:07.400 through so we can get the oil moving again. But just given how long the Strait has been closed,
00:14:12.600 probably oil should be higher than it is. I think I'm no financial genius.
00:14:16.720 And even if they were to reopen the Strait now, the effects on oil prices would go on for a little
00:14:23.340 bit longer. And so it's a sign that not only that there are going to be some real costs,
00:14:29.260 especially in terms of domestic politics to the war, but it's a sign that the Iranians are
00:14:34.800 viewing this as an existential threat and they're going to play every card that they have.
00:14:39.280 So that's a big worry. The question is, are we going to buckle? Who's going to win this game
00:14:46.740 of chicken? Because what Chris Wright said there at the very end is absolutely right. What Chris Wright
00:14:52.140 said there at the end is, look, we're going to have some short-term pain, but if we can recalibrate
00:14:57.820 the Iranian regime, the payoff in the long term is going to be inestimable. And I think he's totally
00:15:04.700 right about that. There is a reason that the United States has made it a point of grand strategy since
00:15:09.220 1953 to put a friendly regime into Iran. Iran is the destabilizing force. In the Middle East,
00:15:16.960 Iran has one foot in the international order, one foot outside of the international order.
00:15:20.300 Iran is buddies with our enemies, true for many decades at this point.
00:15:23.680 Iran really matters. If you could flip it and you could create an alliance of the Gulf states with
00:15:33.700 Israel, with American interests broadly, you cut off the head of the snake in Iran. This would be
00:15:39.680 great for oil prices. It would be great for stability in the region, investment in the region. We could
00:15:44.480 focus our attention elsewhere onto more serious adversaries. All of that could be great.
00:15:49.180 But what if we don't? If we don't, if the Iranian regime survives and you replace Ayatollah Khamenei
00:15:58.440 with another Ayatollah Khamenei, albeit an Ayatollah Khamenei who's even angrier than the first one
00:16:03.840 because we just killed his dad and most of his friends and family. And according to one report,
00:16:07.600 at least blew off one of his legs. That's not great. And if the Iranians can conclude from this war
00:16:15.880 that when they close the Strait of Hormuz, America will back down, well, now Iran can just do that
00:16:22.080 whenever it wants. Anytime we threaten their ballistic missile program, anytime we threaten
00:16:28.180 their nuclear program, anytime we threaten any of their interests, they can say, all right,
00:16:30.840 we're going to close the strait and you're not going to be in it long enough to force us to reopen it.
00:16:34.520 So it's, as I said from the beginning of this conflict, this is a massive, massive risk.
00:16:40.060 Trump loves risk. He takes a ton of risk, but this is a massive, massive risk. If it works out,
00:16:45.960 it will achieve many American grand strategic goals that we've had for many decades.
00:16:50.980 If it doesn't work out, this will be one of the great blunders. It could tarnish President Trump's
00:16:57.500 legacy to the degree that George Bush's legacy was tarnished. It's a big risk. So if I had been on the
00:17:04.200 NSC, as I've said many times, I would have made the arguments against striking Iran, not because of
00:17:09.400 ideology, not because I'm a pacifist, not because I'm an isolationist, but just because I would have
00:17:13.580 thought the pragmatic effects of it were going to be too tough. Now, I only have public information.
00:17:18.540 Obviously, the government had classified information. However, now that President Trump
00:17:23.300 is in it, now that he made the call, he has a very, very good record on foreign policy,
00:17:28.300 a better record than any president in my lifetime. I trust the president quite broadly,
00:17:33.620 especially when it comes to foreign policy. But also, it's worth pointing out before everyone panics,
00:17:37.940 what Chris Wright said here, that I think scared the markets, and I think it's scaring a lot of
00:17:42.440 people in the MAGA coalition. What Chris Wright said is, this war is probably going to go on for
00:17:46.540 another few weeks. That is within President Trump's timeline that he gave at the very start of the
00:17:52.660 war. He did not go in and say, this is going to be Venezuela, and it's going to be over in 88 minutes.
00:17:57.400 He said, yeah, it's going to be about five weeks. We are now slightly over two weeks into it.
00:18:01.660 Chris Wright on Sunday, yesterday, says, yeah, it's going to go on for another few weeks.
00:18:05.700 That is still within Trump's timeline. And so as you're hearing this from someone who is
00:18:09.920 quite skeptical of going into Iran, I have said from the beginning, Trump has a plan.
00:18:18.120 I'm not going to freak out even in week five. I'm certainly not going to freak out in week two.
00:18:21.900 I'm not going to freak out in week five. I'm going to wait at least until week six.
00:18:25.980 If you want to freak out in week six, I think you're justified in doing so.
00:18:29.460 But as of now, there really is no contradiction coming out of the administration on Iran.
00:18:35.000 Okay, speaking of Iran, Tucker has just made a startling claim. Tucker came out,
00:18:42.580 I think he posted this yesterday, maybe the day before. He says that the CIA has been surveilling
00:18:49.540 him to build a case against him, to prosecute him as some kind of Iranian spy.
00:18:56.640 So the other day I found out that the CIA is preparing some kind of criminal referral against
00:19:03.860 me, a crime report to the Department of Justice on the basis of a supposed crime I committed.
00:19:10.320 What's that crime? Well, talking to people in Iran before the war. They read my texts.
00:19:17.240 So the crime under consideration apparently would be the Foreign Agent Act or something like that,
00:19:23.460 acting as an agent of a foreign power. Okay, it goes on. I think Tucker gives about a two-minute
00:19:28.800 explanation here. But this is pretty startling. For starters, he is admitting that he was texting
00:19:36.020 the Iranians. Now, before everyone says that he's next in line to be the Ayatollah or something,
00:19:42.660 Tucker makes a good point. He says, look, I'm a journalist. I've been interviewing all sorts of
00:19:46.600 people for many, many years. It used to be the case that American journalists would go and interview
00:19:52.860 Osama bin Laden or go and interview Vladimir Putin, which Tucker did. But Tucker's not the only guy who's
00:19:58.440 interviewed Vladimir Putin or go and interview all sorts of hostile leaders. So there's nothing in
00:20:02.640 itself wrong about a journalist texting the Iranians. I guess it depends on the substance of those text
00:20:08.400 messages. But that part is already established. The question then is, is the CIA investigating Tucker
00:20:14.660 for committing some kind of crime? And I guess when it gets to the substance of the text messages,
00:20:19.920 was Tucker colluding with the Iranians or something? And it doesn't really make sense to me.
00:20:26.020 And here's why it doesn't make sense. You're going to have all sorts of people.
00:20:29.000 There are going to be people who hate Tucker saying he's a foreign agent. He's bought and
00:20:32.040 paid for. And you're going to have people defending Tucker saying he would never do any such thing.
00:20:36.500 You know, he's as patriotic as apple pie. And I just take your personal feelings and affection out
00:20:42.820 of this for a second and just look at the accusations, starting with the accusations from
00:20:47.220 the people who hate Tucker. They say he's bought and paid for by whom? By the Qataris and the Arabs.
00:20:55.380 That's been the claim. That's been the chief line of attack against Tucker for how many months now?
00:21:01.220 He's bought and paid for by the Qataris and by the Arabs. He was just speaking in Saudi Arabia,
00:21:07.060 what, a month and a half ago? Why would a guy who's bought and paid for by not only the Qataris,
00:21:15.620 but even especially the Arabs, why would he be working for the Iranians? It doesn't take a foreign
00:21:21.360 policy genius. It doesn't take Count von Metternich to realize that the Arabs and the Iranians don't like
00:21:28.520 each other. Qatar has this very interesting position in the international order because
00:21:33.380 Qatar has decent relations with just about everybody. Qatar has decent relations with
00:21:40.720 the state of Israel and Hamas. And Iran, we've got a kind of pragmatic relationship,
00:21:46.960 but Qatar is a Gulf state. And Qatar has a good relationship with the United States.
00:21:51.140 We have a good military relationship with Qatar. And so, okay, you say Qatar is this very strategic
00:21:56.360 location. Works as a kind of buffer, almost neutral state. But then what about the Arabs?
00:22:03.500 How can you explain to me how Tucker would be cozying up to the Saudis, but also working for
00:22:12.280 the Iranians? And also he's a Russian spy and also this, that, and the other thing. It doesn't
00:22:17.840 make sense to me. And so I have no doubt that Tucker has heard this from someone. Maybe he got it from
00:22:25.180 high up. Who knows? You know, Tucker knows a ton of people. He's got a ton of access. Maybe that's
00:22:29.900 the case. But then, I don't know, the whole thing seems crazy to me. Could you imagine the DOJ
00:22:34.900 prosecuting Tucker? Maybe. I mean, we've prosecuted, look, the United States government has prosecuted
00:22:40.540 journalists before, and there's all sorts of espionage. And I don't know, I mean, I guess it's
00:22:44.500 possible. The story just doesn't make sense to me. To me, it's just, I just wonder how many layers
00:22:50.080 of misinformation and disinformation are going on here. We are in the midst of a war, like a real
00:22:57.680 hot war with missiles flying, with Marines being shipped in potentially for ground forces in Iran
00:23:04.680 after a major attack on the Iranian nuclear facilities. And in the fog of war, there is a
00:23:11.000 ton of propaganda. At this point, I think X, Twitter, is like 70% foreign and domestic propaganda.
00:23:21.180 I don't know how many organic comments are really there anymore. And so I just suppose with anything,
00:23:26.960 I said this the minute the war kicked off. I said, needless to say, anything you hear about this war
00:23:32.040 in the next 48 hours should be taken with a grain of salt. Well, you couldn't even extend that.
00:23:35.920 Over the weekend, I found out that Bibi Netanyahu was dead, and then I found out he was alive again.
00:23:40.680 I found out Ali, not Ali, Mojtaba, the son of Ali Khamenei, the new Ayatollah. I heard that he was
00:23:48.280 dead, then he's not dead, but he's missing a leg. And Tucker's an Iranian spy, but he's also a Qatari
00:23:53.240 spy, and he's probably a Saudi spy. And I take all of it with a grain of salt. This goes right back to
00:24:02.000 my general strategy with the Trump administration's view on the Iran war. I have my views. As
00:24:10.280 most of us did, I think, about invading Iran. I had my own views. I had my own preconceptions.
00:24:16.020 I had my own priors. Now we've invaded. The war's on. We want to win it. We need to win it.
00:24:23.040 I'm giving it five weeks. I start freaking out on week six. Very strange, though. I mean,
00:24:28.160 some of the claims being made just don't, they just don't make any sense. No surprise. Propaganda
00:24:33.700 flies around in times of war. Okay. Now, another reason that we need to win the war in Iran
00:24:38.900 is so that we can go to Cuba, and I can get really good blends for Mayflower cigars.
00:24:45.500 The blends we have are already the best, but I want to make blend four, blend five, blend six.
00:24:51.060 I want some of that sweet Cuban tobacco that the Cubans don't know how to use anymore.
00:24:54.500 And it looks like Cuba is amenable to that for the first time in, what, 60 years?
00:24:59.200 The Cubans are seriously considering relations with the United States.
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00:26:25.660 Cuba is on fire, my friends. Ever since, Cuba's so on fire, I have to readjust my earpiece so that
00:26:32.580 I can make sure I hear the dulcet Spanish tones of the president of Cuba. Cuba is on fire because
00:26:39.980 they don't have any money and they don't have any oil. And the reason they don't have any money and
00:26:43.180 they don't have any oil is because of President Trump's brilliant military operation in Venezuela,
00:26:47.540 Venezuela, which not only rebuffed Russia and China, and Iran actually, but also rebuffed Cuba,
00:26:55.360 which was heavily reliant on Venezuela. In fact, a lot of the people who were killed in the Venezuela
00:26:59.140 attack were Cubans, were Cuban mercenaries who were sent over there. So Cuba's in real trouble.
00:27:04.940 The Communist Party headquarters in Moron, Ciego de Avila was burned early on Saturday.
00:27:12.280 There have been 10 consecutive nights of nationwide protests. There have been hundreds of protests
00:27:17.800 around the island. It's broken all recent records. So much so that the president of Cuba had to come
00:27:23.440 out and make a major, how did he put it? A speech, quote, to address matters of national and international
00:27:32.900 significance. Here is what, you know, we have it, I think, only in Spanish, right? You can at least see
00:27:39.960 the president's mouth moving. There are international factors, says the president, that have facilitated
00:27:46.080 these talks. And the talks with the United States intend to identify the bilateral problems that need
00:27:53.340 a solution, bilateral problems, meaning America wants Cuban cigars, among other things, and Cuba
00:28:00.940 wants to continue to live. Cuba wants to be able to power their homes and feed themselves.
00:28:08.220 And the president says this is a very sensitive process that is being approached with responsibility
00:28:11.780 and great sensitivity. So it looks like we're getting Cuba. Don't you forget, we have already
00:28:19.220 possessed Cuba, I think, three times over the last 130 years. So it would not be a great break with
00:28:26.440 American tradition for us to have control of Cuba, not necessarily as the 51st state, though I would
00:28:31.120 kind of like it because Cubans are pretty conservative. I wouldn't want to acquire all of the
00:28:35.220 Latin American states. Some of them are a little too lib and socialist, but Cuba, the Cuban people are
00:28:39.960 terrific. But maybe you do a Puerto Rico kind of thing, a protectorate, or who knows? Who knows what
00:28:44.860 happens? Maybe you just open up relations and we can blend some new cigars there. But this is very
00:28:53.420 likely to happen. And I'll tell you why it's very likely to happen. Here's my rule of thumb on this.
00:28:59.160 Who's the president of Cuba? Can you tell me right now without looking it up? I'm not, this isn't,
00:29:04.760 I wouldn't have known this necessarily. It would have taken me a long time to remember. Who's the
00:29:09.000 president of Cuba? You don't know. Nobody knows. His name, I do know now. His name is Miguel Diaz
00:29:16.140 Canal. But he's not a Castro. The regime is just spent. It's not that Trump's action in Venezuela
00:29:24.920 destroyed the Cuban regime. It's that the Cuban regime was on the brink of collapse and Trump,
00:29:28.980 he went like this. He just kind of blew it over and it's falling down. This is like Reagan in the
00:29:34.260 Cold War. Reagan's great insight into the Soviet Union in the Cold War was that they were already
00:29:39.320 weak. And all the foreign policy geniuses who were arguing for a detente and better relations,
00:29:45.800 they didn't really buy that. But Reagan knew they were already weak. And if you just kind of blew
00:29:50.580 hard on them, you just say, you know, like poked them just a little bit, they would collapse. And that
00:29:55.860 is exactly what happened. Once again, for those who are critiquing Trump or think that this is a
00:30:03.320 flight of fancy or a digression from the MAGA movement or whatever, it has been an aspect of
00:30:10.060 U.S. grand strategy to regain control over Cuba, at least friendly relations with Cuba, since 1959.
00:30:19.200 With Iran, you could say it's been our mission since 1979. Though really, I think you have to
00:30:24.000 backdate it to 1953 because that was when the CIA coup occurred and we got rid of the socialist
00:30:28.640 Mosaddegh and we strengthened the Shah. But in any case, Trump's foreign policy is fulfilling
00:30:36.500 goals of the United States that we have had since the 1950s that other presidents have not been able
00:30:43.480 to do. That's very impressive. This is not a return to Bushism. This is not a return to Clintonism
00:30:50.900 or Obamaism or even really Reaganism. This is going back to America's golden age. Most people
00:30:57.740 would say America's peak, America's peak of strength and confidence and resilience was probably
00:31:04.100 in the 1950s. Trump is fulfilling goals that we have had from the perspective of grand strategy
00:31:10.840 since the 1950s. He could be a truly transformative president if it works. If it doesn't work,
00:31:17.500 he'll go down in disgrace. But if it does work and he's got a good record, he could be truly
00:31:22.760 transformative. Some people are asking, why is Trump focused so much overseas? Why isn't he
00:31:28.300 focused on more domestic matters? I mean, I think he's doing a lot of good domestically, but I'll tell
00:31:32.220 you why. Because overseas, he doesn't have to deal with federal judges. Overseas, he doesn't have to
00:31:37.220 deal with Democrats because he has a lot more control over what he does overseas. Now, there is a fear
00:31:43.940 that if the Iran operation goes sideways, and there are a hundred different ways, a thousand
00:31:49.720 different ways it could go sideways, that that would really mess up the Republicans for the
00:31:53.560 midterms. And the House Republicans are saying, there's a good shot. We're going to expand our
00:31:58.320 majority in the midterms. I just sat down with the Speaker of the House last week. He said that.
00:32:03.660 Exclusive interview on the channel and on Daily Wire. The Republicans say, well, look,
00:32:09.860 we've deported a lot of Democrat voters. So actually, we're going to have a decent chance.
00:32:13.700 Look, the Democrats still have low favorable numbers. So maybe the Republicans' numbers have
00:32:17.840 dropped, but the Democrats are still very unfavorable, and their candidates are lunatics.
00:32:20.760 So we're actually going to do very well. Okay. There is, though, an alternative theory
00:32:24.820 that one of the reasons that Trump is making all of these bold moves now is that the Republicans
00:32:32.420 have a one-vote majority, effectively, in the House. The party in power always loses the House.
00:32:39.860 In the first midterm after the presidential elections, always, with almost no exception.
00:32:46.220 One-vote majority, give me a break. And so there is this alternative theory that the reason President
00:32:52.060 Trump is making these massive moves abroad right now is that he's written off the midterms.
00:32:58.200 I'm not getting that from any inside sources at the White House. That's just pure speculation.
00:33:03.140 But it does kind of make sense. Because if you're going to lose the House majority
00:33:09.080 by two seats or 20 seats, it doesn't really matter. It's going to mean that the Democrats are going to
00:33:16.620 come into power, and they're going to have subpoena power, and they're going to create all sorts of
00:33:20.200 stupid investigations. They're probably going to impeach Trump. It's going to, whether it's two seats or
00:33:26.400 whether it's 20. So if you're already going down in the midterms, I'm not saying that's going to
00:33:31.580 happen. I'm not saying even that's what Trump's thinking. But this is one way to make sense of
00:33:35.840 Trump's massive moves overseas, Venezuela, Iran, Cuba, is to say, look, man, if I'm going to have
00:33:42.420 to deal with these crazy Democrats after the midterms anyway, might as well do some real good
00:33:46.500 in the meantime. Might as well go down like a legend. Might as well achieve some American priorities
00:33:52.000 that we've had for 70 years and get my names even further ensconced in the history books than they
00:33:57.080 already are. Best case scenario, we win in Iran, we take Cuba, we get some new blends of Mayflower
00:34:04.680 cigars, and we win in the midterms. Would that it were so simple. I'd be thrilled, and it's possible
00:34:10.200 that it happens. But at the very least, it does make, if you're staring down the barrel of, look,
00:34:15.200 we're going to lose the House anyway. Might as well make some big moves. Why not? Why not take
00:34:20.940 some big swings? You're going to have the same consequences either way. Okay. Now, speaking of
00:34:25.700 Latin America, horrific story coming out of New York. And I think this actually, this messaging
00:34:30.740 will help Republicans in the midterms. A Honduran national who was deported four times from the
00:34:38.320 United States has just thrown an elderly Air Force veteran onto subway tracks. How many stories like
00:34:45.760 this do we need to hear? We'll get to that story in a second. And then Eric Swalwell might not be able
00:34:49.280 to run for governor in California. Eric Swalwell, who is absolutely insufferable. One of the goofiest
00:34:56.620 Democrats there is. He is the front runner in the Democrat primary now, and therefore in the race
00:35:02.380 for governor. But one weird reason why he might actually be ineligible to run. Folks, if you are
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00:35:58.640 Some say the bubbles in an aero truffle piece can take 34 seconds to melt in your mouth.
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00:36:13.740 I didn't pick my favorite comment yesterday. I told the producers, I said, well, I was too busy
00:36:19.500 today. I've been juggling a lot of things. I was down at a great cigar show over the weekend,
00:36:23.660 woke up at three o'clock in the morning, flew down to the Great Smoke in Florida,
00:36:27.940 had a very, very difficult workday smoking cigars and hanging out with great people.
00:36:32.160 Then my flight was delayed. I got back in midnight then. I've been working a lot,
00:36:37.080 smoking a lot of cigars. Anyway, I didn't have time to pick the comment today. So what did the
00:36:40.900 producers pick? They say the best comment is from Professor Jacob. Okay. Says, I love it when I tell
00:36:49.480 Michael to pick a comment and he doesn't listen. You know what? I always have to judge the producer's
00:36:57.160 comments. I love that comment because I love that too. And poor Professor Jacob, he's running the
00:37:02.300 show today because Mr. Davies is still on his three-week brokeback ski trip over here. It's
00:37:06.840 unbelievable. I carry this company on my back, one cigar at a time, and everyone else gallivanting
00:37:16.340 about. But I appreciate that Professor Jacob is there and he picked a good comment.
00:37:19.120 A Honduran national deported four times from the United States. This just pushed an elderly Air
00:37:27.460 Force vet onto the tracks of the New York City subway. You can read about it in the local news.
00:37:33.440 You're not going to see a lot about it in the national news. This guy was arrested on Tuesday
00:37:38.340 for pushing a, he is a 30-year-old man. Oh no, sorry. He pushed two people, a 30-year-old man and an
00:37:44.620 83-year-old man onto the tracks. This was unprovoked. This guy is a serial criminal,
00:37:50.600 four-time deportee. According to the deputy assistant secretary of DHS, Lauren Biz,
00:37:56.580 he should never have been able to walk our street star. Minnocent Americans were praying
00:37:59.840 for their families. You know, he's probably get off the hook. He's probably already eating
00:38:04.560 dollar slice pizza right now, receiving various taxpayer subsidies. He's probably living it up at
00:38:09.820 the Roosevelt Hotel, where the illegal aliens for years have been able to get better accommodations
00:38:15.240 than most actual taxpaying New Yorkers. The reason this story matters is not that it's shocking or
00:38:22.440 surprising. It's not man bites dog. This has been happening for a long time.
00:38:28.700 This is directly attributable to Mayor Zoran Mamdani and Governor Kathy Hochul.
00:38:34.000 Mamdani and Hochul and all the Democrat mayors and governors of sanctuary cities and states
00:38:42.020 are aiding and abetting these crimes. They are actively encouraging these crimes because
00:38:49.560 the sanctuary cities and states refuse to cooperate with federal immigration enforcement
00:38:54.720 and they refuse to turn these criminals over to ICE. According to the current policy in New York City,
00:39:02.640 this guy, if he is sent to prison, if he is, will be allowed to get out and run free in New York
00:39:13.180 afterward. When ICE shows up to say, we want to pick this guy up and deport him for the fifth time,
00:39:18.720 New York will say, no, we will not hand him over to you. We will protect the guy who threw the 83-year-old
00:39:24.340 Air Force vet into the subway tracks, the guy who's got a rap sheet a mile long, who's broken our laws
00:39:29.100 countless times. Only way to stop him from doing it's probably capital punishment at this point.
00:39:37.500 Right now, he wouldn't get back into the country because President Trump closed the border. But
00:39:40.760 the next time you get a Democrat president, he's going to open the border wide open again. This
00:39:43.920 guy's going to walk back in. The mayors and the governors, Mamdani, Hochul, and the rest of them
00:39:51.080 are actively working with this guy. They have blood on their hands. Every woman that these people light
00:39:59.300 on fire in a subway car in New York, every throat that these people slash, every crime these people
00:40:05.480 commit is on their hands. And that's not hyperbole. They are, I mean, they are very practically, very
00:40:12.580 literally protecting these people from federal immigration enforcement. They are keeping them in
00:40:17.640 the country, holding them, holding them tight when federal immigration enforcement tries to force
00:40:22.140 the law. But furthermore, we have to recognize about illegal immigration that every single crime
00:40:30.600 that the illegals commit here is needless, is gratuitous, is preventable. Every single one.
00:40:38.080 The libs like to come out and they say, well, actually the illegal aliens commit much less crime
00:40:41.800 than the native born population. First of all, that isn't true. Then they try to hone in and say,
00:40:44.840 well, actually the illegal aliens commit much less violent crime than the native born population.
00:40:48.960 You can make some arguments for that, but they're pretty weak arguments.
00:40:52.640 But it's all missing the point. We have to deal with the crime that the native born Americans
00:40:59.120 commit. We have to deal with it. We don't have an option. We can't strip them of citizenship.
00:41:03.740 In some cases we would like to, but we can't. So that's baked in. You're right. That's not preventable.
00:41:09.340 Every single illegal who's here, who commits any crime, whether we're talking about rape and murder,
00:41:13.480 or whether we're talking about jaywalking and tax evasion, every single one of those crimes was
00:41:17.400 preventable. And therefore, the people who are fighting tooth and nail to keep those illegals
00:41:23.020 in this country, even the convicted criminals, felons, murderers, every single one of those
00:41:30.540 people has blood on their hands. And you got to run against every single dem on this.
00:41:35.740 This is one way to run against Eric Swalwell in California if he is allowed to run.
00:41:39.660 But it's very unclear if he's allowed to run. Eric Swalwell
00:41:43.140 is apparently not a California resident. This is the claim being made by a conservative activist,
00:41:51.720 Joel Gilbert, who observes that Eric Swalwell is not actually a resident of California.
00:41:57.900 Now, according to the California Constitution, Article 5, Section 2, the governor shall be an elector
00:42:03.020 who has been a citizen of the United States and a resident of this state for five years immediately
00:42:08.740 preceding the governor's election. Swalwell doesn't live in California, reportedly. Swalwell lives
00:42:14.840 in Washington, D.C. Because that is where Fang Fang lives. No, that's not fair. There's Fang Fang.
00:42:23.300 We have a picture of Fang Fang. Swalwell is so goofy, and he has certainly been compromised by foreign
00:42:31.980 spies. And he's made a fool of himself on television many times. But that's not the attack here.
00:42:40.080 That's the way conservatives attack him. And Joel Gilbert has levied this attack. But this attack's
00:42:44.760 being backed up by Democrats, too. Tom Steyer, who wants to be governor as well, billionaire,
00:42:48.500 he's backing up this attack. This is pretty real. He doesn't live in California by all appearances.
00:42:55.240 He lives in D.C. And you know what? I'll go further. I'm trying to be very nice to Swalwell here.
00:42:58.800 I like that he doesn't live in D.C. I don't like that congressmen have to maintain residency in
00:43:06.320 their states. I don't really like that. Because it splits up families. That's actually why. One of
00:43:12.960 the reasons that I don't want to run for Congress, there are a few reasons I don't want to run for
00:43:16.220 Congress, but one of the reasons I don't want to run for Congress is you're away from your family
00:43:20.980 five days a week for much of the year. And then when you're supposed to be back with your family,
00:43:27.640 you usually have to go out and campaign anyway. And then even the times that Congress isn't in
00:43:31.100 session, you got to hit the road, campaign for other candidates. And so you're away from your
00:43:35.140 family most of the time. And one way that this was remedied previously is you'd be elected to
00:43:40.780 Congress, and then you would move your family to Washington, D.C. And by the way, when you live
00:43:44.640 in Washington, D.C., and you spend a little time around the other congressmen, it actually is
00:43:50.120 conducive to getting things done. You don't want to become a victim of the swamp, but likewise,
00:43:56.220 you can't actually accomplish anything if you don't speak with people, if you don't spend any
00:44:00.040 time with them. So I actually like that Swalwell moved to D.C., but he can't be governor. He can't
00:44:05.560 be governor if he lives in Washington, D.C. The Constitution is very clear. He is in actual
00:44:12.160 legal trouble right now. Now, they might get around it because if I were Swalwell, the argument I'd be
00:44:18.060 making is, hey, look, 13% of the California population isn't even citizens. Forget about residents.
00:44:24.640 They're not even citizens, 13%. And most of those who will be voting, obviously, will be voting for
00:44:30.980 Eric Swalwell. So you'd say, what does it matter if I live here? 13% of these Californians aren't
00:44:35.000 even American. But the Constitution says what it says. We might have a new frontrunner soon,
00:44:42.380 which will be very sad for me because then Eric Swalwell will be out of the news cycles and I'll
00:44:45.960 have less content. Speaking of voting and demographics and elections, the Save America
00:44:55.040 Act. The Save America Act, a new version of the Save Act, is up. The House has passed multiple
00:45:00.960 versions of this. The Senate is holding it up. Now, I thought that Republicans controlled the White
00:45:05.900 House and the House of Representatives and the Senate. So you'd think it'd be easy for us to pass
00:45:10.860 basic conservative legislation. No. The Save Act defends voter ID. The Save Act says you have to
00:45:18.640 prove that you're eligible to vote if you want to vote. The vast majority of Americans support this.
00:45:24.180 The vast majority of Democrats support voter ID. This is some of the most popular policy in the country.
00:45:32.520 And it will fail because the Republicans don't want to take it up. The Democrat politicians
00:45:39.540 hate voter ID. Democrat voters love voter ID. Democrat politicians hate voter ID. Democrat
00:45:44.800 politicians hate voter ID because voter ID prevents them from rigging elections. That simple as.
00:45:54.420 But now you have the Senate majority leader who says, look, I can't bring it because we don't have
00:46:01.040 60 votes. We have a majority, but we don't have 60 votes. And so the only way to bring it is to either
00:46:06.040 nuke the filibuster, which we don't want to do because it's a big part of the Senate,
00:46:08.560 or we could have a talking filibuster. But then the Democrats could offer all sorts of amendments
00:46:12.140 to the bill. And some of the amendments might be slightly popular. And then they're going to bog
00:46:15.840 down this bill. And there's going to be all sorts of terrible stuff in it. So it could kill the bill
00:46:19.640 that way. And either way, it's going to bog the Senate down for months. And I get the arguments.
00:46:25.120 But you've got to put yourself in the shoes of the voters. The voters say, look,
00:46:29.740 we elected Republicans to everything in 2024. We elected Republicans to everything in 2024 for a few
00:46:38.300 reasons. For mass deportations, for the economy, but for a renewed sense of government. The Democrats
00:46:51.700 were so manifestly corrupt. A lot of people had questions about the 2020 election, and they proved
00:46:57.460 those suspicions in 2024 when they elected Trump with the popular vote. And then they're going to
00:47:01.960 look at this and they're going to say, Republicans can't even pass legislation that is approved by the
00:47:09.120 overwhelming majority of both parties. What? Why? Why can't they? Listen to Chuck Schumer.
00:47:15.580 Just listen to what Chuck Schumer has to say about the SAVE Act.
00:47:18.920 Yes, but their bill isn't voter ID number one. It is about voter registration. It makes it,
00:47:27.500 it allows ICE to kick tens of billions of people off the rolls, off the rolls. And they don't tell
00:47:37.660 them until election day. And you show up and you say, you're not registered anymore. You're not
00:47:42.340 registered here. You're not on the rolls. What an odd thing to say. Why would voter ID legislation
00:47:52.860 permit ICE to kick all these people off the voter rolls? Was that a little Freudian slip? Was slick
00:48:02.140 little Chuck Schumer losing his touch here? The Republicans say we need the SAVE America Act
00:48:07.780 in order to stop illegals from voting. The Democrats previously said illegals do not vote. Now,
00:48:15.440 of course, we've caught illegals voting many, many times. We've caught illegals voting for
00:48:19.140 themselves to win public office multiple times. Just last year. But now Chuck Schumer is saying we
00:48:26.460 can't have the SAVE America Act because then ICE would kick millions of people off the voter rolls.
00:48:30.140 What an odd thing to say. Almost as if Republicans were right all along, there was a reason why the
00:48:35.000 overwhelming majority of voters in both parties support voter ID. And the only people who don't
00:48:39.020 support are the crook Democrat politicians who rely on illegals to elect them. You know,
00:48:43.860 the story I want to get to is one of my top stories of the day. It's this viral column.
00:48:48.640 It's my lead story. This viral column. Okay, I have to get to it. It's my lead. Look,
00:48:53.340 I don't care that I'm running late. Deal with it. Deal with it, Daily Wire producers.
00:48:58.100 We have to get to it. There's a really, I'll get to it quickly though. Very stupid column.
00:49:04.080 I regret having children. It's in the cut by New York Magazine. It was going bonkers.
00:49:09.260 Here is just the pitch of it right at the top. Sooner or later, everyone has to decide whether
00:49:13.360 to give up lazy weekends, disposable income, and overall peace of mind to have a baby instead.
00:49:17.100 For many of those on the fence, one anxiety looms large. What if I make the wrong choice?
00:49:21.900 Parent regret is more common than you might think.
00:49:24.180 The Reddit page, the rregretfulparents subreddit alone, gets around 70,000 weekly visitors who
00:49:32.260 anonymously commiserate. Though stigma makes it hard to admit in real life. Below, three moms of
00:49:37.300 young children talk about why they wish they could go back to their old lives. First off the top,
00:49:43.580 turning to Reddit to find samples of well-balanced, mentally stable people is like going to visit the
00:49:51.900 pygmies to put together a basketball team. You are setting yourself up for failure right off the
00:49:56.540 top. But maybe there are some people who regret having kids. And they found, what, three people
00:50:03.540 to be interviewed for this article? A 34-year-old Rhode Island mother of a six-year-old and a three-year-old.
00:50:09.280 I gave up everything I liked about my life to make children fit into it.
00:50:14.160 When my husband and I were dating, his deal breaker was having kids.
00:50:17.060 I didn't feel the same way, but I didn't see life without children as an option.
00:50:21.860 The whole point of marriage is to have children. Some people don't get to have children. Infertility
00:50:28.260 is a cross that some people bear. It's a fallen world. But the purpose of marriage is the procreation
00:50:37.580 and education of children. A good of marriage is the mutual support of the spouses. That's great.
00:50:42.620 That's wonderful too. But the point, the telos of marriage is having kids. She says, yeah,
00:50:46.080 it's weird. My husband said that the only reason he would want to get married is to have kids. Isn't
00:50:49.740 that so weird? I remember telling my husband, I'm worried. I love our life now. And I'm not sure
00:50:56.260 what it's going to look like with the child. He told me it's going to get better. I was the executive
00:50:59.920 of a nonprofit, which was a stressful but fulfilling job. I was worried about my career, but I thought
00:51:05.960 there are working moms everywhere. People do this. Then I had my first baby. Okay. So right off the
00:51:10.540 bat, I'm not going to get through. I mean, some of these get really dark, but right off the bat,
00:51:14.280 this woman says, look, I was worried because I liked my life and I feared what would happen if I
00:51:20.400 did the next thing in life. This reminds me of C.S. Lewis. I forget which book it was. You know,
00:51:26.040 he has so many great ones, but in it, he said that a child loves chocolate and thinks chocolate is the
00:51:32.500 greatest thing in the world. And if you were to tell this child, you know, there are actually even
00:51:38.460 better things in the world. There are even, let's say it's like a teenager or something. You know,
00:51:42.780 not to make it creepy. I forget C.S. Lewis's exact wording. You said, you know, look, chocolate's
00:51:46.860 great, but you know, there's actually this thing called sex and it's even better than chocolate.
00:51:51.300 In the mind of the child, the child couldn't fathom that. And the child would actually follow
00:51:56.120 it up and say, well, does sex involve chocolate? Because if it's the greatest thing, it must involve
00:52:01.080 chocolate. And it's really, you just can't make the child understand. He just has to grow up and
00:52:05.660 then he'll understand it. That's like this woman. She said, the greatest thing in life
00:52:10.360 is going to brunch, sleeping in, going to brunch on Saturdays, getting a little too drunk,
00:52:17.880 you know, wasting the rest of the day, eating takeout and going to bed. That's just the best
00:52:22.760 thing in life. And you say, you know, there's actually something better. There's something
00:52:27.640 better called having children, having a family, growing a family. And she would say, well, does that
00:52:32.460 involve getting too drunk at brunch? It must, because that's the greatest thing in life. That's the
00:52:36.600 greatest thing in life. This woman, she says, you know, I was running, I was the executive of a
00:52:40.460 nonprofit, a stressful but fulfilling job. And that's the greatest thing in the world is being
00:52:45.140 the stressed out executive of a nonprofit. And you say, actually, there's something better in life.
00:52:50.580 There is something better. Having kids, having a family. You say, well, does having kids, having a
00:52:55.080 family involve being a stressful executive of a nonprofit? I said, look, I love podcasting.
00:53:00.220 I love selling cigars. I love doing politics. I love it all. That's not all there is to life.
00:53:07.880 And you can't know until you know. Some of these stories get really, really dark.
00:53:12.440 Really? I mean, one of them involves a mother just saying, yeah, I'm going to leave. I'm leaving
00:53:15.180 my children. I'm divorcing my husband, giving the kids to my husband. I don't, this is the end of a
00:53:21.160 dollhouse by Henry Gibson. This is sick stuff. Just saying, yeah, I'm just going to abandon my kids.
00:53:25.140 I want to go have, I want to go fornicate and have brunch and go work as a middle manager at
00:53:32.060 the widget factory for Mr. McGillicuddy. I want, that's what I want. I want to go back to, I want
00:53:35.320 to regress. I don't want this. Sorry, kids. Sorry if I'm traumatizing you. Sorry if I'm breaking my
00:53:40.020 public vows. But, you know, I got to go get drunk and sleep around and work in an office. So, bye.
00:53:47.960 It's very, very sad. Very, very dark. Who is this article for? I'll tell you. And I haven't seen a lot
00:53:53.160 of people talking about this. This article purports to be for the mothers who regret having, maybe the
00:53:58.920 fathers too, who regret having children. That's not who this article is for. This article is for
00:54:04.600 the growing number of millennial women who never had kids and who are regretting that. They're getting
00:54:13.940 pangs of regret and frustration with that. And this article is copium for them. And I really, really feel
00:54:24.360 for these women, some men too, but especially the women who were told their entire lives don't date
00:54:33.080 seriously. Don't go sleep around. Go, you know, have casual hookups. Make sure you prioritize your
00:54:39.920 career over everything. Don't ever try to have ties of family. Just be independent for your whole life.
00:54:46.420 You're exactly like a man. Behave exactly like a man does. They were told this their whole, all these
00:54:51.040 feminist lives their whole life. And they woke up roughly around age 30 and realized it sucks.
00:54:56.800 They realized they were lied to. Even if they don't, they're not totally conscious of it, they have
00:55:01.600 certain hints that they were lied to that things aren't really working out. They freak out. It freeze
00:55:06.700 their eggs. Companies are now passing all these kinds of policies that, but it's a deeply ingrained
00:55:12.320 problem. And there are two things you can do here. When you've, everybody screws up and everybody
00:55:17.980 is misled and every, this is what happens in a fallen world. You can either recognize the problem,
00:55:24.260 say, shoot, that was wrong. Let me do my best to fix it now. Let me at the very least do my best to
00:55:30.160 help other people not fall into the same areas that I've fallen into. We all do this. Whatever the
00:55:34.180 problem is, we all do this to some degree. You can either go that way or you can go the New York
00:55:39.480 magazine way and you can deny the problem. You can just deny it and say, no, I'm not feeling what
00:55:44.280 I'm feeling. I'm not desiring what I'm desiring. Actually, do you know a lot of women on Reddit
00:55:49.700 actually hate having kids? Having kids probably sucks. And you can just, but ultimately because
00:55:55.660 we're rational creatures and because there is an objective reality and because the natural law is
00:56:00.760 written on every human heart, that's not going to work. That kind of denial is ultimately not
00:56:07.080 going to work. Very sad cope. I view this article not as the sign, not as a bad omen of an avalanche
00:56:16.200 of worse social outcomes and behaviors. I view this really as the last gasp of a failed ideology of
00:56:22.680 feminism, a recognition that women actually want more. And it's going to take more than a few
00:56:30.100 Reddit comments to convince them otherwise. Okay. I know I ran late, but it's Music Monday. The rest
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