The Michael Knowles Show - March 26, 2026


Ep. 1940 - Oklahoma Democrats： Let's Turn Your Dead Granny Into Fertilizer!


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00:00:41.920 as an opportunity to legalize the composting of human bodies. Turning family members into mulch
00:00:49.620 is not typically what we think of as a kitchen table political issue. But I suppose literally
00:00:54.920 it is. If you live in Oklahoma or in 14 other Democrat controlled states, you could soon be
00:01:01.860 eating fruits and veggies that sprouted from granny's rotted corpse. We will get to the
00:01:07.760 political and religious confusion that has led to human composting. And then speaking of religious
00:01:13.260 confusion, the Church of England, the Church of England is officially for the first time ever
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00:03:33.900 America. Human composting, I dare say, is a bad way to grow food. Here we have an Oklahoma
00:03:40.160 legislator discussing the debate thank you mr speaker representative i just gotta ask do you
00:03:49.200 believe you really believe that human remains or even my favorite subject human poop are okay
00:03:55.620 as compost or fertilizer do you really believe that in this situation yes
00:04:00.180 yes i do so that's a shaw for oklahoma you can go follow him he asked that question so that there's
00:04:08.980 no confusion. You hear this story, you say, surely there's some misunderstanding. Surely
00:04:13.520 they're not talking about grinding granny into mulch so that I can grow tomatoes or something
00:04:19.100 like that. No, that's exactly what they're talking about. Then you have to ask yourself,
00:04:25.100 okay, I don't know very much about agriculture. I'm not a farmer. Is that normal? Is that
00:04:30.520 something we've done, we've ever done in America? No, your intuition would be correct.
00:04:36.300 that's not something that we've normally done in america in fact the first state to legalize
00:04:42.520 human composting was washington state in the year of our lord 2020 so it's a little over five years
00:04:51.800 old now 14 blue states in america obviously all blues all states run by democrats are the ones
00:05:01.380 that have legalized human composting. Why? How has this happened? This is one of those great
00:05:08.540 political, I mean, it's a bad political issue. It's super gross and horrifying and inhuman
00:05:12.660 and suggests that our civilization is on the very brink of collapse. But it's one of those
00:05:19.440 great political issues in the sense that it shows you the connection between deep philosophical
00:05:24.860 principles, anthropological principles, religion, and practical politics. I know there are a lot
00:05:29.960 of people who are more kind of meat and potatoes politics people. Not granny tomatoes, but meat
00:05:35.940 and potatoes. And they say, look, I don't want to hear all this highfalutin, nerdy philosophy.
00:05:41.320 I don't want to hear about John Locke or Aristotle. I don't need too much religion with my politics.
00:05:47.620 Okay, can we just have a normal country? Can we just get some, can we cut taxes and have, well,
00:05:51.520 Well, I agree, the political nerds, they're sometimes a little annoying, but you can't do regular normal politics without religion and philosophy.
00:06:04.340 Because politics rests on a moral order, even, well, obviously it rests on a moral order, but it rests on moral principles, our understanding of the moral order.
00:06:15.320 And that presumes all sorts of things about who we are, human beings, about where we fit into the
00:06:22.500 world, how we can come to know anything, what existence even is. And ultimately, when you get
00:06:28.040 down to it, it gets down to religion. All human conflict ultimately is theological, as Cardinal
00:06:33.360 Manning tells us. And this is a clear example of that. Because let me ask you, ordinary, well,
00:06:39.780 not you maybe, but the ordinary liberal, not all that seriously religious person just kind of goes
00:06:46.940 about his day. What's wrong with composting granny? What's really wrong with it? You could
00:06:55.740 probably tell me what's wrong with it. You could probably tell me that this is contrary to human
00:07:00.680 dignity, that this diminishes our own humanity, actually, when we treat our corpses in this
00:07:07.740 disrespectful sort of way. That actually we treat the body with some kind of reverence because we
00:07:14.660 recognize that human beings have dignity and we want to treat them with reverence. And we recognize
00:07:18.740 that human beings are not merely spirits flitting in outer space, but that we are in a real way our
00:07:22.740 bodies, not merely souls imprisoned by some husk that is evil, but we are in a real integrated way
00:07:30.160 our bodies. And this teaches us something about our place in the world. It allows us to think
00:07:35.460 about what happens after we die, it leads us to think about what comes next, potentially even the
00:07:40.780 resurrection. Yes, the resurrection of the body, which is what we have believed in traditionally
00:07:45.240 in the West, once known as Christendom. You could probably tell me all that, but the ordinary lib
00:07:51.400 for whom morality begins and ends with, well, was it consensual? That kind of lib can't tell you
00:07:59.560 why it's wrong. We all know it's wrong because we all have something that the bioethicist Leon
00:08:04.260 Cass described as the wisdom of repugnance. We all know, to use an example, I think I mentioned
00:08:10.100 this earlier in the week, as an example of this very same principle. We all know that it's wrong
00:08:14.420 for a brother and sister to get married. We all know that's wrong. But if you take all the
00:08:19.820 externalities out of it, if you say the brother and sister are 65 years old, they're not going
00:08:24.520 to have kids, there aren't going to be birth defects, but they are going to bump uglies and
00:08:29.340 get married and share a house, and it's just gross, right? And it's just gross and is obviously
00:08:33.520 immoral and certainly should be illegal. We all say that, but if your whole moral
00:08:38.020 understanding begins and ends with, well, was it consensual?
00:08:44.680 Now you're not able to articulate a reason why that's wrong.
00:08:48.220 So if granny says she wants to be ground up into mulch, shouldn't she be allowed to do it?
00:08:54.040 You know, you do you. It's a free country, right? Now, of course, the people who gave us our free
00:08:58.740 country, the founding fathers, the framers, the settlers, none of them would have been okay with
00:09:02.960 grounding up granny into mulch. They all would have probably vomited at the very thought of that.
00:09:08.340 But this is where liberalism and the liberal understanding of freedom has led us to.
00:09:13.480 Now let's take it a step further. Beyond the political moral reasoning, we used to think of
00:09:19.260 things including consent, but beyond consent, there's more to morality than mere consent.
00:09:23.900 And now we ask, well, why would granny want to be turned to mulch?
00:09:27.460 I don't want to be turned to mulch.
00:09:28.860 I don't want to be ground up and thrown into a garden when I die.
00:09:31.500 I would like to be buried in a coffin, maybe a mausoleum.
00:09:34.360 I don't know, depending on how extravagant my family feels.
00:09:36.640 But I definitely don't want to be thrown out to the dogs, and I don't want plants to spring from my body for you to eat.
00:09:43.960 So why would granny want to?
00:09:47.360 Because we no longer broadly practice the religion that treated the body with reverence.
00:09:53.900 Now, if people have any religion at all, it's some kind of woo-woo, abstract, new-age nature worship.
00:10:01.580 And that's what this is.
00:10:02.940 This is a nature cult.
00:10:04.900 The idea that some good can come from my body.
00:10:07.900 I'll never be resurrected.
00:10:09.100 There is no heaven.
00:10:09.860 There is no hell.
00:10:10.600 Imagine there's no heaven.
00:10:13.100 But, you know, some good can come of it.
00:10:15.140 If a little flower springs from my corpse, in that way, man, it's kind of like I'm living on, you know?
00:10:23.900 When I take a dirt nap and turn to worm food, man.
00:10:27.820 So that's a religious point of view, and that's inescapable.
00:10:31.680 And our political order reinforces or suppresses various religious views.
00:10:35.840 That's inescapable.
00:10:37.040 So the question is, what kind of culture do you want to live in?
00:10:39.120 You want to live in the Christian culture that gave us our country and all the glories of our civilization
00:10:42.720 and led us to be the greatest country in the world and led to so much flourishing?
00:10:46.320 Or do you want to be like a bunch of primitive, knuckle-dragging nature worshipers
00:10:51.600 who are ghastly pagans who turn their granny into food.
00:10:56.160 What do you want to be?
00:10:57.760 You can say, well, I don't want to choose.
00:10:59.540 Freedom of religion, do whatever you want.
00:11:01.140 You do you.
00:11:01.660 Well, okay, that is a decision.
00:11:04.020 That's the kind of liberalism that led us to mulchifying granny.
00:11:07.880 Which do you want to live in, really?
00:11:09.580 Have the courage to tell me.
00:11:10.860 You know the answer.
00:11:11.640 Have the courage to tell me.
00:11:12.540 You want to live in the Christian civilization.
00:11:14.220 Okay, well, let's act like it.
00:11:16.080 And let's limit people's choices,
00:11:17.880 especially when those choices are super duper gross.
00:11:20.080 Speaking of confusion, the Church of England now has an archbishopress as its clerical leader.
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00:12:51.600 For the first time ever, the leader, the clerical leader of the Church of England,
00:13:00.960 the monarch is actually the leader of the Church of England, but the clerical leader,
00:13:05.000 the Archbishop of Canterbury, is a lady.
00:13:09.360 I solemnly commit myself before you to the service of the Church of England.
00:13:16.160 the Anglican Communion and the whole Church of Christ throughout the world.
00:13:23.800 That together we may proclaim the gospel of Christ
00:13:27.900 who reconciles us to God and breaks down the walls that divide us.
00:13:35.680 Let us greet our newly installed Archbishop.
00:13:39.980 i'm such an anglophile i love the uk but man the brits are cooked this is just there's the lady
00:13:50.140 sitting there pretending to be the archbishop of canterbury just all smiles let's cheer on a lady
00:13:56.180 who is the now look i'm not i'm not a theologian the vast majority of you listening to this are
00:14:02.460 not theologians. Did you catch the one problem with this installation? You see the one problem
00:14:10.700 with this person being the Archbishop of Canterbury? She's not a bishop, and she's not a bishop
00:14:19.860 in part because she's not a priest, and she's not a priest because she's not a man.
00:14:27.040 Because she might be a nice lady, she has a nice accent, she seems perfectly lovely.
00:14:32.460 But what she's definitely not is the Archbishop of Canterbury because ladies can't be priests.
00:14:39.720 And I know that there are various Protestant denominations that think that ladies can be
00:14:44.640 priests. There are plenty that do not, but some do. There's a wide diversity among Protestantism,
00:14:50.280 but they can't be. They can't be for a few reasons. One, in the Bible, all of the priests
00:14:58.600 in the Old Testament and in the New Testament, all of them are men.
00:15:04.960 And I guess that could just be an accident, that could just be a quirk,
00:15:09.740 but I don't really think it is. The 12 apostles are men. Our Lord socialized with women. He held
00:15:16.660 women in very, very high esteem. Catholics believe and traditional Protestants believe
00:15:21.760 that Our Lady is assumed bodily into heaven, that she was conceived without sin,
00:15:29.020 She's the very queen of heaven.
00:15:31.100 It's no knock on ladies.
00:15:32.300 We love our ladies, folks, and we especially love our lady.
00:15:35.140 We have our lady right here.
00:15:36.480 Someone gave me a little Mary statuette to go next to the Christ statue.
00:15:40.360 In any case, ladies can't be priests.
00:15:45.080 What are the odds, as our Lord is choosing the apostles,
00:15:47.820 what are the odds that he would have just accidentally only picked men?
00:15:53.300 You know, 50-50 chance for the first one,
00:15:55.420 and then another 50-50 chance for the second.
00:15:57.460 and second, pretty soon you get down to an infinitesimal likelihood that it was all just
00:16:02.540 an accident. Then Judas betrays our Lord, and they cast lots to figure out who will replace
00:16:06.940 Judas. And guess what? A man, there was two men who were up for it, and one man got it, Matthias.
00:16:13.720 Then you have Paul on the road to Damascus. He's another man. And then all the priests for the
00:16:18.140 entire history of the church, all men. But then also, furthermore, it's in scripture. 1 Timothy
00:16:22.740 2.12 says, I permit no woman to teach or to have authority over men. She has to keep silence,
00:16:27.200 speaking of women teaching in the churches, in the synagogue. And in any case, it can happen.
00:16:33.040 So I don't mean to beat up on this lady too much, but this is the consequence of liberalism.
00:16:40.260 We were previously talking about political liberalism, which ties into religion,
00:16:44.040 and this is theological liberalism to the point that now you have, they say it's the first
00:16:48.500 archbishopress of Canterbury in 1400 years. First of all, that seat is not really the same seat
00:16:54.160 that existed 1400 years ago, but even if you just date it back about 500 years, that's not valid.
00:17:00.860 That's not valid. And so, I don't think this is going to bode very well for the Church of England,
00:17:07.580 which is already collapsing. It's already in free fall in terms of membership and participation,
00:17:11.820 and I think this will only accelerate that, which in the long run maybe is okay. Who knows? Maybe
00:17:19.380 even Rome will get some of those churches back. We'll find out. In any case, speaking of religion
00:17:23.880 and politics. There's a major, major pro-Iran rally at the birthplace of our constitution.
00:17:31.520 This is in Philadelphia. So it's not just pro-Iranian people. It's not saying, you know,
00:17:36.340 we want to free the Iranian people. This is pro-Islamic Republic. This is pro-Mullahs,
00:17:40.900 pro-Ayatollah, and anti-American. This, as the Iran war is in its third week.
00:17:48.180 until we have done everything in our power to bring the united states to its knees let us not
00:17:55.840 lose sight of the enemy for every u.s military base that crumbles and for every u.s sovereign
00:18:02.780 who returns home in the casket we'll cheer
00:18:06.420 Okay, so there are a fair number of people here, a bunch of weirdos marching in defense
00:18:35.700 of the Iranian regime, against the American regime, saying they celebrate the death of
00:18:38.720 American servicemen and want the destruction of America. So I think the question that's on most
00:18:43.420 reasonable people's minds is, why are they here? Why are these people here?
00:18:51.700 I'll tell you why, which is that the Supreme Court made it difficult to arrest people for
00:18:56.880 speech, which the free speech absolutists cheer on. I point out, I actually think it was a little
00:19:03.120 smarter. I think the earlier Americans actually had it right on the free speech issue. But
00:19:07.540 regardless, it used to be relatively easy to arrest people for this kind of seditious activity
00:19:12.700 and even to denaturalize people. And then the Supreme Court weakened the ability to
00:19:17.780 denaturalize people. But does this mean that we just have to tolerate this? You have a bunch of
00:19:23.400 Islamic radicals in America openly celebrating the death of American soldiers calling for the
00:19:28.280 destruction of the American government, and we just have to take it? Why can't we just round
00:19:32.500 these people up and at the very least arrest them, if not denaturalize them or deport them
00:19:37.020 if they're not citizens already. I'm sure we can do that. I'm sure these people have all committed
00:19:41.040 a bunch of crimes. I don't think it'd be that hard to find a crime to pin on them. I would much
00:19:44.340 rather do it in an open, transparent way and say, you are being seditious, and therefore I'm going
00:19:50.700 to arrest you for that and ideally denaturalize and deport you. But even if we have to do it a
00:19:55.660 trickier way, which is just to find out all the other crimes that they've committed, we should do
00:19:59.000 it, right? We cannot tolerate this. It just feels so weak. We feel so helpless and vulnerable.
00:20:05.140 And this is where I'm really a glass half full kind of guy. This is where I think there is
00:20:10.100 a silver lining, even amid all of the debate over the Iran war.
00:20:15.240 The Iran war is quite controversial. Most Americans are opposed to it.
00:20:19.380 Most Republicans today are for it. I think that support is a little soft, such that,
00:20:24.980 And well, basically, those people are all in the position that I am with regard to President
00:20:29.180 Trump, which is we trust the guy. He's got a really good record. He's got a lot of credibility.
00:20:33.020 And so if it wraps up, it could be a great foreign policy feat, or at the very least,
00:20:36.360 it could be pretty good. But if things start to go south, I think those 90% numbers are going to
00:20:40.880 crater. And it's a very controversial war. This, however, is an unambiguously good thing to come
00:20:48.720 of the Iran war, which is it shows us the enormity of our immigration problem. The fact that any of
00:20:55.760 these people are permitted in the United States is a national disgrace. It is a scandal. And we
00:21:01.380 should muster all of the resources available to us at the federal government to get all of those
00:21:05.900 people out of the country. If all we can do is arrest them for something, great. Do that. They
00:21:13.000 shouldn't be on the streets. They're clearly a danger. But ideally, just get them out. We don't
00:21:16.860 want them. They're bad for the country. They have no ultimate right to be here. Liberal jurisprudence
00:21:22.300 has given them a lot of excuses to stick around the country over the last 100 years. But whatever
00:21:26.960 we can do, get them out. People who hate the country and who are actively seeking its destruction
00:21:32.680 and who are openly seditious should not be here. And the Iran war, regardless of what you think
00:21:38.880 about the Iran war, is giving us an opportunity to identify that problem. Another reminder too,
00:21:44.960 for those who are skeptical of the Iran war.
00:21:46.880 I know there are plenty of people
00:21:47.640 who are skeptical of it.
00:21:50.360 Maybe who would say they outright oppose it?
00:21:53.860 The legitimate way to express skepticism
00:21:56.560 or disapproval of the Iran war is not that.
00:22:00.160 I think there are plenty of people who say,
00:22:01.600 well, actually, I don't think that the costs of this war
00:22:03.900 are really worth the potential benefit.
00:22:05.740 I don't think the benefit is all that likely.
00:22:07.120 I don't think we're going to have regime change.
00:22:08.720 Actually, I think the tyrant we deposed
00:22:10.060 might not be as bad as the tyrant we end up getting.
00:22:11.820 And here's why it might damage American prestige
00:22:13.900 and the petrodollar.
00:22:14.740 And now, okay, there are all sorts of great discussions to have.
00:22:17.920 That is still, though, beginning from the premise that we want America to succeed.
00:22:23.540 That we don't like the Iranian Islamic regime that we've been fighting for 50 years.
00:22:28.060 That we are on our own side.
00:22:31.460 That line from Robert Frost, I'd love to go back to it.
00:22:33.620 A liberalist one who can't take his own side in a quarrel.
00:22:36.220 That's the position.
00:22:38.260 If you find yourself, probably not yourself,
00:22:43.300 But if you find yourself listening to people who are in favor of the Islamic regime, who are suddenly very favorable toward Islam as a religion, toward Islamic law, if you find yourself in that position where your opposition is actually to the United States, to American victory, where your support is really for longtime enemies of the United States, not even just 50-year enemies, but like 1,400-year enemies of the United States, something's gone wrong.
00:23:13.300 can't be having that certainly not on the right or in the middle you do get that from some
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00:24:59.700 not just the weirdos and the wackos. I should clarify that. It's not just the unknown weirdos
00:25:05.520 and wackos who are now openly advocating for the destruction of the United States,
00:25:11.900 siding with our Islamic enemies and opposing the United States. You're also getting that
00:25:17.500 from some prominent weirdos and wackos, namely Hassan Piker, who had this to say.
00:25:23.400 Literally doesn't matter. He can prep with whoever he wants. He can prep with Benny Morris if he
00:25:27.380 wants. There is no, there is no, what you support terrorism? Question mark. No, I don't. I don't
00:25:33.360 support the state of Israel and I don't support the state of the United States of America.
00:25:38.040 There you have it. There you have it. And this frankly, I think is the most persuasive
00:25:43.980 argument to be broadly supportive of the state of Israel. And Israel is a real hot button issue
00:25:49.080 has been for, well, for like 70 years, but especially for the last couple of years.
00:25:54.060 people make all sorts of arguments for why they support Israel or don't support Israel.
00:25:59.380 They make arguments from scripture, which I don't buy that novel theology. They'll make
00:26:05.000 arguments from nationalism, the ideologies of nationalism and Zionism. I don't buy those
00:26:09.960 arguments either. Do you know the most persuasive argument to me that Israel is broadly worth
00:26:16.500 supporting? The Hassan Pikers of the world hate it. That's the most, I know you're not supposed
00:26:23.320 to appeal to authority or the opposite of authority in this case, I guess. But to me,
00:26:27.680 that's kind of what works. The fact that Greta Thunberg really hates Israel and really likes
00:26:34.700 radical Islam in the Middle East, that signals to me, to my simple brain, I'm a simple man,
00:26:42.260 that signals to me, I probably am on the opposite side. Because look what he does here. Look what
00:26:48.580 Hassan Piker does. He says, I don't support the terrorist state of Israel. Okay, all right.
00:26:52.300 There are all sorts of reasons to criticize the state of Israel.
00:26:54.560 I get it.
00:26:54.940 Whatever.
00:26:56.100 It says, just like I don't support the terrorist state of America.
00:27:00.160 Oh, okay.
00:27:00.960 All right.
00:27:01.180 That's what we're doing.
00:27:01.920 That's what we're talking about.
00:27:03.380 You're saying the reason you oppose Israel is because Israel's like America?
00:27:06.800 Oh, then I guess I like Israel because I like America because I like my country.
00:27:10.000 This is it.
00:27:10.520 The pro-Muslim stuff really codes left.
00:27:15.980 It codes left.
00:27:16.960 And it codes left because Islam has an intention with, and sometimes outright it were with,
00:27:21.840 the West for 1,400 years. And the leftists hate the West because they hate their countries because
00:27:27.680 they hate their dads. And so they, because they hate themselves ultimately, and they hate God.
00:27:31.780 So they side with enemies, even if the enemies of the West disagree with them ideologically,
00:27:39.920 which is how you get queers for Palestine or whatever. In any case, I don't like the way
00:27:45.240 this guy's talking, Hassan Piker. And I mentioned after Charlie Kirk died, and after he was
00:27:52.060 murdered by a leftist, and after the left broadly excused, justified, and even celebrated Charlie's
00:28:01.620 murder, I said, we don't need to just double down on the free marketplace of ideas. That's what a
00:28:07.760 lot of people were saying on the right, classical liberals. I said, guys, that doesn't make any
00:28:13.560 sense. You can't have a free marketplace when bandits keep coming in and shooting up the
00:28:18.860 marketplace. Marketplaces require rules and regulations. I said, we need to get tough on
00:28:25.020 this stuff, guys. This is not, the law is a teacher. And so when people are calling for
00:28:28.900 violence, Hassan Piker has called for violence against conservatives multiple times, pretty
00:28:32.380 explicitly. He should already have been prosecuted. But this kind of stuff, look, he's seditious. He
00:28:39.400 shouldn't be in the country. If there is a way to denaturalize him, that should be done.
00:28:43.560 and if there's a way to prosecute him, I'm sure there is. He just admitted to a crime on air
00:28:50.980 like a week ago because he went down to Cuba and very directly and explicitly violated US law
00:28:56.960 by staying at one of the government hotels. It's the one thing you're told not to do when you go
00:29:01.920 to Cuba. So anyway, he should be prosecuted. I know that the free speech absolutists and the
00:29:07.100 liberals and the classical liberals and libertarians are going to disagree with that,
00:29:11.140 But I don't see the alternative, guys.
00:29:14.480 You know, the laissez-faire attitude that leads to a religious indifferentism, a political quietism that abandons institutions and issues political power.
00:29:26.600 That has let the left take over our country so that you have pro-Mullah people chanting in the street.
00:29:33.600 You have Philadelphia, the birthplace of the Constitution, death to America.
00:29:36.440 You get this somewhat popular left-wing streamer calling America a terrorist state, brazenly violating U.S. law.
00:29:46.440 The only way they're going to stop doing that is if the government comes in, if the law comes in and makes them stop.
00:29:53.900 Need a little muscle in the law, I think.
00:29:57.240 A little less laissez-faire, a little muscle.
00:29:59.220 A little less invisible hand, a little more visible hand.
00:30:01.820 Can we, I support the visible hand of the law and the state and punishment for crimes.
00:30:09.680 Speaking of Muslims on the left and in public life, this actually, this story has really nothing to do with religion at all, but it's just, it involves Zoran Mamdani.
00:30:18.340 He did something and it makes me cringe as a New Yorker.
00:30:22.040 You know, I am a New Yorker by birth, by upbringing.
00:30:25.080 I lived, what, half my life in New York?
00:30:28.760 A little, eh, yeah.
00:30:31.820 yeah I actually lived most of my life in the tri-state area within a train ride to the city
00:30:36.220 and he did this thing that's so that's like the worst of New Yorkers he posts a picture
00:30:41.500 of an iced coffee at some kind of bodega or corner store picture of an iced coffee in a
00:30:50.220 plastic cup with a cup holder and a straw and he says nothing like it nothing like what it's
00:30:59.420 It's a picture on a counter where they're selling chewing gum underneath, and it's in front of a coffee machine and a cashier.
00:31:07.440 And it says, nothing like it.
00:31:12.060 On the contrary, on information, in fact, there are many things like that.
00:31:18.620 Not only is that not unique, that is one of the most common objects in America.
00:31:25.020 An undistinguished cup of coffee that you buy at a convenience store.
00:31:28.920 That is one of the most basic. It is a ubiquitous commodity in America.
00:31:34.540 There is nothing unique to it. And New York, my fellow New Yorkers, this actually makes me feel
00:31:39.740 better about Mom Donnie because he's behaving like a New Yorker, albeit an annoying New Yorker.
00:31:44.840 The New Yorkers like to claim that everything is special. And some things genuinely are better in
00:31:51.620 New York. The pizza is better. There's good pizza elsewhere in the country. But some things are
00:31:57.080 better. Some of the foods, some of the bars, though they're more expensive. Some of the bagels
00:32:02.060 are better in New York. Better bagels in New York than in Palookaville. That's true.
00:32:07.500 Chinese food's better in New York than in most places. Okay. But a cup of coffee?
00:32:12.920 It's the same. A convenience store? Run by Pakistanis or Guatemalans? That really,
00:32:19.900 increasingly, you can get that anywhere in America. It's really, ah, it just,
00:32:24.200 I don't I don't really have a point I don't have a conclusion I just it makes me like Zoran
00:32:33.060 Mamdani even less than I already did and it's confusing me because in this case I what is
00:32:39.220 leading my dislike what previously made me dislike him is he's so unlike real New Yorkers but in this
00:32:44.200 way it makes me think he actually is kind of a real New Yorker nothing like it I guess it's yeah
00:32:48.580 it's that preening superiority that sometimes is merited in New York when we're talking about
00:32:53.140 We're talking about certain food, certain parts of culture, but there's nothing like it.
00:32:58.620 You know, I have these, I have friends.
00:32:59.580 I still have a lot of friends in New York.
00:33:01.960 And they say, oh, how could you move out of New York?
00:33:04.860 Oh man, I love spending $8,000 a month to live in a shoebox where it's garbage day every
00:33:10.200 single day where my roommate is a rat.
00:33:13.400 I can't raise kids.
00:33:15.040 I can't afford anything.
00:33:16.780 And I have criminals stealing my stuff and hassling me on the subway when they're not
00:33:21.060 lighting women on fire there.
00:33:22.040 how could you leave now truly there's nothing like that in in the developed world in the third
00:33:28.440 world we people are set on fire on trains a lot but it but how could you you how else could you
00:33:35.680 get a cup of coffee at the convenience store gee i don't know i don't know that's crazy let me see
00:33:39.700 if there's any convenience is there any coffee in tennessee i think there might be ah can i say
00:33:46.740 the good thing i actually do have a point to make on this after that whole rant the good the point
00:33:51.040 The good thing that Mamdani is getting to here is that there's no place like home.
00:33:56.340 That's really the nice thing.
00:33:57.780 There's nothing that differentiates that cup of coffee from anything else.
00:34:01.520 Other than it's home.
00:34:03.180 Other than you get it at home.
00:34:04.420 That's a beautiful thing.
00:34:07.820 The meaning of that cup of coffee is in part from the real world,
00:34:12.180 and it's in part constructed by our minds.
00:34:15.180 And that's good.
00:34:16.380 And we should, the lesson we should take from Mamdani's stupid, trivial coffee post
00:34:20.360 is that it's nice to love your home.
00:34:24.360 The philosopher Roger Scruton called this oikophilia,
00:34:26.600 love of one's home.
00:34:28.760 And we should focus our immigration conversations.
00:34:33.920 We should focus our cultural protection,
00:34:36.700 our even religious conversations
00:34:38.900 around that observation.
00:34:40.640 People like their homes.
00:34:42.340 And something very conservative is
00:34:43.540 we want to conserve our home.
00:34:45.660 We like the things that are near to us.
00:34:48.540 Do you see why we don't want to flood the country
00:34:49.860 with foreigners? Do you see why we don't want to upend all of our traditions? You think that a
00:34:54.900 stupid cup of coffee is so special to you. Now think about all the things that are truly unique
00:34:58.900 about our culture. Momdani, there's a lot of depth, weirdly, to Momdani's trivial coffee post.
00:35:03.700 Okay, speaking of tri-state mayors, we got a new candidate for the Democrats in 2028. He's running,
00:35:11.740 whether you like it or not. The Passion of the Christ is now streaming on Daily Wire Plus with
00:35:15.980 Easter in just 10 days. Feels like the right time to talk about why the film still matters.
00:35:21.220 Matt Walsh, Isabel Brown, and I will be sitting down for a real conversation about it, what it
00:35:25.820 meant then, what it means now. And a few of you will be in the room with us, not just watching,
00:35:29.940 but truly sitting physically and being part of the conversation. If you join DailyWire Plus right
00:35:34.960 now, you will be automatically entered. If you're already a member, congrats, you're already entered.
00:35:39.420 Details are at dailywire.com slash passion. My favorite comment yesterday is from Gabriel
00:35:44.180 Rafael Baez, 8034 says, I didn't pick this one. The producers picked this one. We'll see if it's
00:35:49.520 good. Gazanel has now since met the judge of all. He now knows when life begins. He knows the source
00:35:57.060 of life now for sure. I think he always probably knew though. I don't think you can chop up a lot
00:36:01.460 of babies and not know the reality of abortion. I think some women who are led into abortion
00:36:05.120 either don't really know or at least convince themselves that they don't know. They try to
00:36:10.920 turn away from it. But I think the abortionists know. I think it's pretty clear that they know.
00:36:17.240 Speaking of tri-state mayors, we have a new candidate for president
00:36:20.960 running. That would be former Newark mayor, current New Jersey senator,
00:36:27.720 Cory Booker, giving this glowing profile on CBS Sunday morning.
00:36:32.760 The best mayor ever. Thank you, brother. Thank you. Appreciate you so much.
00:36:37.260 Love you, man. Thank you for that.
00:36:39.020 Oh, my God.
00:36:40.580 Do you have a crystal ball? Is he going to run?
00:36:42.760 You got no choice.
00:36:43.480 There will be no announcement here.
00:36:45.120 I'm gobsmacked, man.
00:36:46.180 New Jersey Senator Cory Booker hasn't been the mayor of Newark since 2013.
00:36:51.480 Gracias por todo.
00:36:52.700 But when he walks around his neighborhood, you'd never know it.
00:36:56.320 How did you know that you could go right up to your senator and give him a hug?
00:37:00.260 Because it's him and he's always like that.
00:37:02.720 You're still the mayor no matter what, right?
00:37:04.880 So the best compliment people give me is when they call me mayor.
00:37:08.840 What are the odds?
00:37:10.980 That wasn't a Cory Booker campaign video.
00:37:13.680 I mean, it was effectively, but that was CBS Sunday morning.
00:37:17.080 They're just going to go walk around Newark where, you know,
00:37:19.940 some 10 years ago or 13 years ago, now Cory Booker was mayor.
00:37:23.220 They're just going to walk around, walk around the old neighborhood.
00:37:25.060 Oh, and what do you know?
00:37:26.200 Just out of the blue, a constituent comes up with socks that say Booker 2028.
00:37:32.400 And then all these other people come up.
00:37:34.240 So we love you, Cory Booker. You're the best. We hope you run for president. What are the odds?
00:37:41.620 Surely no one tipped those people off. Surely they weren't planted there with props
00:37:45.560 for CBS. Why was CBS doing that profile anyway, by the way?
00:37:49.860 And why is Booker leaning into this mayor thing? He's not mayor. He's a senator. It's way cooler
00:37:56.280 to be a senator than mayor, right? Well, not if you're running for president.
00:37:59.560 very booker typically is smart so he can see things he can he can come to interesting
00:38:09.660 conclusions in theory but he's just too clunky and weird to actually carry it off he can't really
00:38:16.560 execute on his grand political designs but he's intelligent he's a smart guy so he gets it he says
00:38:21.380 hold on the president is an executive so being a senator doesn't really prepare you for being
00:38:26.420 president. But a mayor is an executive. This is why traditionally being a governor or even a mayor
00:38:31.100 was a better launching point if you wanted to have a presidential career. So you know what I'm
00:38:34.860 going to do? I'm going to go back to this town that I was mayor of, and I'm going to have everybody
00:38:38.300 talk about what a great mayor I was. And then I'm going to say it's the greatest compliment in the
00:38:41.680 world to be a mayor. It's too clunky about it. It's too obvious that this was a setup.
00:38:46.280 Even down to trying to pander to Hispanics, someone comes up, hey, holo, hola, Cory Booker.
00:38:53.600 And he's, oh, it reminds you of that at the time at the presidential debate where Curry
00:38:58.820 Booker wanted to pander to Hispanics and his jumbled, pathetic Spanish came out.
00:39:05.060 He tried.
00:39:05.860 It was so sad.
00:39:07.180 But he's trying to pander to them.
00:39:08.460 And he doesn't really speak Spanish that well because he goes, well, I just want to say
00:39:12.700 to all the Hispanics out there whose votes I want, donde esta la biblioteca?
00:39:22.080 Gracias.
00:39:23.600 Vota por mi, el plizo. Gracias. Thank you. Thank you. It just didn't work at all. But you see
00:39:33.640 why it would work. Oh, well, if I speak Spanish, maybe that'll appeal to Hispanics. Yeah, it would
00:39:37.800 if you could do it convincingly. If I lead CBS News all around my old neighborhood and they just
00:39:43.320 randomly asked me to run for president, that could look really good. Yeah, if it didn't look so
00:39:46.520 clunky. Anyway, he's running. He's running. That's funny. I hadn't really considered that,
00:39:52.660 but I should because he ran last time. He didn't do very well, but he wants to be president. He's
00:39:57.220 wanted to be president forever. He's a total showboater. He's not a master of self-promotion
00:40:03.020 in that he's kind of bad at it, but he does it a lot. He does it really glaringly. So that race
00:40:07.280 is going to be 500 people. Everyone is going to run because the Democrats don't have a message.
00:40:13.260 They're not unified. For all the problems among the Republican electorate right now,
00:40:17.020 the problems are magnified by a thousand among the Democrats. They have no idea what they believe.
00:40:21.000 they don't have a clear leader. They have all sorts of racial and sexual problems because
00:40:26.980 they're hung up on those woke ideologies. They don't know what to do. They clearly want to elect
00:40:31.760 just an old white guy, but they have to be feminist and racial and all that. So you had
00:40:37.040 USC canceling the California gubernatorial debate because it was too white,
00:40:41.400 but the people who were polling high were white. So the voters wanted the white person,
00:40:44.640 but they don't want to admit they wanted the white person. And the whole thing is going to be
00:40:47.360 hilarious. And Booker certainly will not be president, but he will be very funny to watch.
00:40:52.740 So, gracias. Gracias, Mayor Booker. Andale, andale. Speaking of the horse race for president,
00:41:02.440 I don't know if you've noticed this. I've noticed this recently. There's a lot of anti-J.D. Vance
00:41:08.360 campaigning going on. Have you noticed that? Not among ordinary people, but among the political
00:41:14.520 operatives among the squishes and never Trump, especially, and all the kind of less savory
00:41:23.520 elements of the Republican Party. And there's been a lot of anti-Vance campaigning in the media,
00:41:29.140 on social media. They clearly don't like Vance. And this has been clear for a while because
00:41:34.400 the vice president, who I'm no secret, I'm a great admirer of, is quite conservative.
00:41:40.920 He's very thoughtfully conservative.
00:41:42.260 He's very intelligent.
00:41:43.340 He was clearly selected as the heir apparent by President Trump because he was picked for a non-consecutive second term.
00:41:49.860 So when he was picked, unlike when most presidents pick their running mates, where you say, okay, you got two terms ahead of you.
00:41:55.480 In this case, he was picked knowing this was going to be the end of the line for President Trump.
00:42:00.680 And so the vice president is all the more important.
00:42:04.220 And the never-Trumpers didn't like that.
00:42:07.000 The squishes in the party, the people who backed other people in the front rooms, they really didn't like Van.
00:42:10.540 Vance. So I've noticed all this anti-Vance campaigning. I think that's part why you're
00:42:16.680 seeing a lot of pro-Rubio for president activity going on right now. Don't forget,
00:42:22.400 Trump has effectively endorsed Vance and Rubio has endorsed Vance. So among the administration,
00:42:27.720 there's total unity. Among the operatives and the different factions of the GOP,
00:42:33.040 they're trying to split these guys apart. So you've seen a lot of pro-Rubio. I mean,
00:42:37.200 it's an avalanche of pro-Rubio and pro-Rubio for president propaganda that's been coming out
00:42:45.320 from very, I don't even think it's coming from the Secretary of State's office. He's a little
00:42:49.460 busy running a bunch of wars and becoming El Comandante of Cuba and all, but from various
00:42:53.740 factions of the GOP. And yet, what has that done to the polling? People have noted they made a lot
00:43:00.800 of hay out of the fact that Vance's numbers have decreased a little bit, and Rubio's numbers have
00:43:07.400 increased a little bit. And that's what they want the headline to be. But then I look at this poll,
00:43:10.580 this is from JNL Partners, reported in Daily Mail, just came out a day or two ago.
00:43:16.240 Right now, national GOP primary, 2028, J.D. Vance, 50%, Marco Rubio, 17%.
00:43:26.020 that's with the plus three and the minus three. Ron DeSantis comes in at 9%,
00:43:31.220 Haley at 4%, Cruz at 4%, Vivek Ramaswamy at 2%. So after this big push in a news cycle
00:43:41.660 dominated by foreign affairs, all of which has gone relatively well so far, and the Venezuela
00:43:47.420 operation was just immaculate, all of this where the vice president doesn't have all that much of
00:43:52.000 a public role. The secretary of state is really helping to lead the show. Even after all of that,
00:43:57.700 all of this concerted campaign, you're telling me that the worst they could do
00:44:00.860 is leave the vice president at 50% in a national GOP primary with Rubio at 17%. He's the number
00:44:07.280 two guy. DeSantis at number three at 9%, all the rest in low single digits. Guys, there is unity
00:44:15.380 in the administration. There's unity in the party at the electoral level. But by the way, then you
00:44:20.220 say, well, what happens when you take out Haley and Cruz and Vivek and DeSantis head to head?
00:44:24.360 According to this poll, which is supposed to be bad for the vice president, it's 62% JD,
00:44:28.800 27% Marco Rubio in a fictitious matchup because Rubio has already endorsed JD.
00:44:34.600 Silly stuff, guys. You're going to see a lot. You're going to see a lot of battles take place.
00:44:39.980 Obviously, we've seen a lot of them taking place among the podcast class for over some issues that
00:44:45.200 do pertain to politics, over some issues that are just completely far flung and irrelevant
00:44:48.980 from actual practical politics,
00:44:50.960 a lot of personality battles.
00:44:52.380 So you see that.
00:44:53.560 You're going to see it play out
00:44:54.320 with the operatives and the activists.
00:44:56.240 But among the actual electeds and voters,
00:44:59.440 a lot of unity here.
00:45:01.400 This is good news.
00:45:04.220 I mean, it's not good news
00:45:05.760 if you want this to be
00:45:06.740 a 50-person Republican primary,
00:45:08.880 like we're going to see with the Democrats.
00:45:10.660 But if you want there to be some unity,
00:45:12.340 some real shot to do something
00:45:15.180 to carry on the legacy moving into 2028,
00:45:17.380 these are good numbers.
00:45:18.260 Okay.
00:45:18.980 I really want to get to the Exorcist Summit that just took place at the Vatican.
00:45:26.140 But I don't have time because I got to go.
00:45:28.840 I got to go.
00:45:29.280 And I'm sorry to tell you, there will be no member of segmentum today.
00:45:33.320 I have got to go on.
00:45:36.440 I've got a number of speeches and there's going to be CPAC coming up.
00:45:39.620 I'm going to be at Grove City College tonight.
00:45:41.340 I'm Michael Knowles.
00:45:42.240 This is the Michael Knowles Show.
00:45:48.980 Thank you.