The Michael Knowles Show - May 01, 2026


Ep. 1965 - Viral JP Morgan Exec Story Explained in 5 Mins


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00:00:27.820 A lawsuit goes viral for its lurid claims that a beautiful J.P. Morgan bankress
00:00:34.820 sexually assaulted a schlubby Indian man.
00:00:37.960 And the story is a great measure of our BS detectors and the pornification of society.
00:00:43.480 Then, conservatives allege that a new film adaptation of George Orwell's Animal Farm
00:00:47.940 betrays the novel's original anti-communist, pro-capitalist message,
00:00:53.460 revealing that basically no one on the left or the right understands Animal Farm.
00:00:58.700 And finally, the Supreme Court's decision on racial gerrymandering might achieve the impossible,
00:01:04.100 namely allowing Republicans to win the midterms.
00:01:08.120 I'm Michael Knowles. This is The Michael Knowles Show.
00:01:23.460 Welcome back to the show. Alex Jones is finally shutting down InfoWars after a massive lawsuit
00:01:34.640 and all sorts of attempts for years and years to shut it down. InfoWars, RIP. We'll get to what
00:01:41.400 that means for politics, any lessons that we can take from that. First, though, biggest political
00:01:46.140 takeaway. Guys, you know, sometimes we can take the win. I know conservatives are always supposed
00:01:51.700 to be mopey and despairing and saying the West is lost and all is going down the tubes. But
00:01:57.000 this Supreme Court win in Louisiana versus Calais was a really big deal because it said that the
00:02:04.120 Libs can't racially gerrymander. They would be violating the Constitution, the 14th and the 15th
00:02:10.080 Amendments, if they were to draw congressional districts based on racial discrimination.
00:02:15.840 The Libs argued that that's what the Voting Rights Act demanded that they do. The Supreme
00:02:19.740 Court ruled six to three. The Voting Rights Act says no such thing. And furthermore, what the
00:02:23.960 Democrats were doing was unconstitutional. All of this right up on the political primaries.
00:02:29.620 The primary in Louisiana, I think, is May 16th. So it's really, really coming up. But the governor
00:02:35.400 of Louisiana says we're going to redraw the congressional maps anyway. We're now getting
00:02:38.420 politicians coming out of my own state of Tennessee. President Trump posting about a
00:02:43.920 conversation that he just had with the governor of Tennessee. He said, I had a very good conversation
00:02:48.020 with Governor Bill Lee this morning, wherein he stated that he would work hard to correct the
00:02:52.700 unconstitutional flaw in the congressional maps of the great state of Tennessee. Likewise, all of
00:02:59.160 the other political representatives of Tennessee have promised to do so. This should give us one
00:03:03.340 extra seat, one extra seat just in Tennessee, and help save our country from the radical left 0.99
00:03:07.780 Democrats and their country destroying policies of high tax, open borders, transgender mutilization.
00:03:14.520 I like that neologism.
00:03:16.420 Defunding the police, ICE, Border Patrol, no voter ID, soft on crime, and so much more.
00:03:21.740 Thank you, Governor Lee. Push hard.
00:03:23.500 So I love this, especially as it pertains to my own state of Tennessee.
00:03:27.000 But notice, you pick up one seat in Tennessee, and then maybe you pick up another seat in another state that redistricts to get rid of the unconstitutional racial gerrymander.
00:03:38.920 Maybe you pick up another seat in another state.
00:03:40.780 We don't know how many states are going to redraw their lines quickly enough for it to affect the midterms.
00:03:48.300 But you could be looking at over half a dozen seats that go to the Republicans as a result of this Supreme Court decision.
00:03:57.980 And all of a sudden, I was having flashbacks.
00:04:01.000 You remember just about a month ago, I sat down with House Speaker Mike Johnson, a man I greatly admire.
00:04:07.040 And we're sitting there, and I think Mike Johnson's a straight shooter.
00:04:10.780 So I asked him, I said, how are you guys feeling about the midterms? This is all on camera. You
00:04:14.080 can go check the tape. And he says, Michael, I think we're going to win. I think we're going
00:04:18.080 to expand the majority. I said, you know, listen, I don't want to call anybody a liar here. I don't
00:04:24.860 want to call anybody delusional. Look, I know it's kind of your job to say that if you're the
00:04:30.160 Speaker of the House, but I don't know, I'm a little bit skeptical. This is a tough political
00:04:35.620 environment. Obviously, the party that is in power usually loses the first midterm. I don't
00:04:41.560 know about that. He seems so confident. I said, he's a smart guy, good politician. Okay, whatever.
00:04:49.740 And then, fast forward. I don't know if this is what was in his mind, but it is amazing. You get
00:04:56.120 the Supreme Court decision. The Supreme Court says, in that beautiful majority opinion by Alito,
00:05:00.660 with a separate concurring opinion by Justice Thomas that goes even further than Alito,
00:05:07.180 saying, yeah, we're not doing the racial discrimination and the gerrymandering.
00:05:10.240 All of a sudden, OK, yeah, Democrats have a lot of momentum at their backs,
00:05:13.780 just given the nature of the midterms.
00:05:16.080 But if we're flipping seven seats, Republican, just automatically,
00:05:21.420 if the governors and state houses can do their jobs and redistrict in time for the elections,
00:05:25.760 if you get an automatic seven seat advantage or more,
00:05:29.720 we just don't know how many it could be. Sure, you've got this razor thin, essentially one seat
00:05:35.960 majority in the House right now. If you add seven to that, all of a sudden, Democrats, look, they
00:05:40.460 could retake the House, no doubt about it. But all of a sudden, that takes a lot of wind out of their
00:05:44.880 sails. This is really big. And it's very important right now because the White House is facing
00:05:50.560 major uncertainty. The way this breaks down is that the Iran war is very, very unpopular.
00:05:58.640 The Iran war could be over by the midterms.
00:06:00.580 I mean, the fighting in the Iran war is over and actually was over within the six-week
00:06:04.080 time frame, four to six weeks that Trump had promised.
00:06:06.680 But now we're in this tenuous ceasefire where the Strait of Hormuz is still closed.
00:06:09.860 It could cause cascading economic and political effects.
00:06:12.560 The actual firing of missiles could kick off again.
00:06:15.420 We don't know.
00:06:16.140 It's really uncertain, and Americans really don't like the war.
00:06:18.640 It's less popular than the Vietnam War.
00:06:21.160 So you have that on one side.
00:06:22.660 Big challenge for Republicans.
00:06:23.960 On the other side, you have literally everything else that Trump has done, which is very popular.
00:06:30.380 The deportations, great jobs numbers. CNBC was just giving the president plaudits on that.
00:06:36.960 Obviously, record high stock market, law and order, prosecuting the bad guys, freeing the pro-life
00:06:42.660 grannies, ending woke, ending the transgender nonsense, on and on and on. Everything that
00:06:48.600 Trump has done is really, really good and really, really popular. Other than you have this political
00:06:53.460 football of the Iran war, which, if it resolves happily, is a major foreign policy victory,
00:06:58.320 but it threatens to overwhelm the whole legacy. Anyway, in an uncertain political environment
00:07:03.140 like that, if the states can do their job and redistrict in time, in accordance with the
00:07:09.440 Supreme Court's ruling, I'm going to feel a lot better about the midterms with a seven-point
00:07:14.940 advantage. Now, speaking of political power, revolutions, apparently there's a new movie
00:07:22.560 version of Animal Farm. Animal Farm is a short little novel. You probably read it in seventh
00:07:28.200 grade or something. It's by George Orwell. And I haven't seen the new movie. I think Angel Studios
00:07:33.140 put it out. I haven't seen it yet. I tried to get a screener. I still haven't gotten a screener,
00:07:36.680 so I haven't watched it. And there's this big debate that's broken out, even on the right,
00:07:41.780 where some people are promoting the movie, because conservatives generally like George Orwell.
00:07:46.380 We like to quote George Orwell.
00:07:48.500 We quote 1984.
00:07:50.200 We quote Animal Farm.
00:07:51.460 We quote his essay Politics in the English Language.
00:07:54.200 We use the adjective Orwellian.
00:07:57.700 It's become an adjective.
00:07:59.020 I think this pope actually, Pope Leo, was the first pope ever to use the adjective Orwellian.
00:08:03.840 So anyway, we like Orwell.
00:08:06.500 We quote Orwell.
00:08:07.960 We talk about Orwell.
00:08:08.700 I'm not certain that many people have actually read Orwell or know very much about Orwell
00:08:14.200 because you have some people going out there saying, this is great, a movie about Animal Farm.
00:08:19.080 Go see it. It's going to be awesome. And then other people on the right saying, don't promote
00:08:24.800 this movie. This movie betrays the original message of Animal Farm. Animal Farm originally
00:08:32.100 is a pro-capitalist, anti-communist movie, or book, rather. And this movie is anti-capitalist.
00:08:40.800 it's a leftist movie it's a betrayal of George Orwell's vision and I don't I haven't seen the
00:08:46.720 movie apparently it takes a lot of liberties and I don't know I don't even know if I will go see it
00:08:50.280 but what I am taking away from the whole debate is that nobody understands George Orwell
00:08:57.160 nobody understands Animal Farm because no matter what the new movie does no matter uh what how it
00:09:04.340 changes the story or if it's anti-capitalist or whatever it's got it's got a bunch of libs in it
00:09:08.820 and directors and whatever. No matter any of that, Animal Farm is not a pro-capitalist book.
00:09:17.940 Animal Farm is about the Russian Revolution. Animal Farm is about a fight within the left.
00:09:24.800 It is a fight between communists. You have the character Old Major. He represents Lenin.
00:09:30.140 Then you have the character Napoleon. He represents Stalin. Then you have the character
00:09:34.060 Snowball, who represents Trotsky. And the only sort of plausibly good guy among all of those
00:09:41.600 is Snowball, Trotsky, whom a lot of disillusioned communists in the West exalted as the good guy
00:09:48.720 and Stalin as the bad guy. George Orwell was a socialist. George Orwell said that everything
00:09:53.760 he has written has been in furtherance of democratic socialism as I understand it, he said.
00:10:00.660 And so it gives him a little wiggle room because you say, well, you didn't understand democratic
00:10:03.600 socialism very well, because socialism's awful. But Orwell supported the commies in the Spanish
00:10:09.980 Civil War. He was a man of the left. And Animal Farm has nothing to do with capitalists. Spoiler
00:10:15.680 alert, if you haven't read the novel, the conclusion of Animal Farm is that the communist
00:10:21.740 revolutionaries under Stalin were just as bad as the capitalists or the royal family, you know,
00:10:30.740 the original regime that was overthrown, the American capitalists. But the conclusion is not
00:10:37.380 that the capitalists are good and the communists are bad. The point of Animal Farm, mapping closely
00:10:43.100 on how the left saw the Russian revolution, is that some of the communists were good, but the
00:10:48.160 good communists lost to the bad communists, and the bad communists are basically just as bad
00:10:53.100 as the capitalists. They're no worse. They're no better. And the reason the right has embraced
00:11:01.300 Animal Farm and George Orwell generally is because Orwell was anti-totalitarian and the
00:11:05.320 modern left is quite totalitarian. So there are some similarities here. But I don't know. I'm not
00:11:11.480 going to lose sleep over Animal Farm. I think people just totally misunderstand Orwell. And
00:11:17.480 it's a fine book, but it's like a fine book to read when you're in eighth grade. It's not
00:11:21.520 It's not War and Peace.
00:11:23.020 It's not Anna Karenina.
00:11:25.940 And whether or not there's some live movie about it, okay, whatever.
00:11:29.040 That's fine.
00:11:29.600 I don't need to worry about that.
00:11:30.860 We all should pay closer attention to what these works actually mean.
00:11:35.900 Because I love Orwell.
00:11:36.680 It's great to quote Orwell.
00:11:37.780 But it's even better to quote actual conservatives, traditionalists, and classical politics.
00:11:43.400 Okay, enough of a rant about a movie that I haven't even seen.
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00:13:23.780 If you've been on social media over the past 24 hours, you've seen this story.
00:13:28.660 It has gone viral based on a lawsuit filed by a kind of schlubby-looking Indian guy
00:13:33.920 who says that his superior, who is a rather attractive woman, sexually harassed him.
00:13:42.560 I can't read all of the claims.
00:13:45.120 It reads like a Dear Penthouse letter or worse. 0.94
00:13:48.460 This is a family show, but it involves this woman just demanding sex,
00:13:54.880 this very good-looking banker woman demanding sex from this kind of schlubby Indian guy.
00:14:00.100 And the language is very vulgar. She apparently would just constantly offer to do him various lewd favors. She would apparently say terrible things about his wife. I think the line from the lawsuit was she said she was showing off her, what's the technical term, gazumbas to this banker. 1.00
00:14:21.640 And she said, I bet your fishhead Asian wife doesn't have cannons like these. 1.00
00:14:28.900 So really nasty, racist, lewd accusations.
00:14:34.260 And anyway, after everyone was sharing this story all around for 24 hours, it turns out it's completely made up.
00:14:40.740 Just completely made up.
00:14:45.000 Chirayu Ranu, who's the Indian guy who filed the lawsuit, filed it under the pseudonym Jondo.
00:14:50.200 He didn't want his name on it.
00:14:51.640 He accused his 37-year-old executive director of turning him into her sex slave by drugging.
00:14:56.480 Oh, yeah, she apparently drugged him with, like, date rape drugs
00:14:59.100 and then threatened to slash his bonus if he didn't sleep with her. 0.71
00:15:03.760 So the woman hits back with a statement to the Post via her lawyer saying,
00:15:07.680 Lorna categorically denies the allegations.
00:15:09.360 She never engaged in any inappropriate conduct with this individual of any kind
00:15:12.780 and has never even been to the location where the alleged sexual assault supposedly took place.
00:15:18.160 Furthermore, a J.P. Morgan investigation found this woman was not the superior to this guy.
00:15:24.500 So the claims that she would withhold promotions or bonuses were impossible.
00:15:28.960 J.P. Morgan conducted a relatively quick investigation, found no basis for any of this.
00:15:33.780 And then the guy apparently pulled his lawsuit, allegedly for corrections, but then it was never refiled.
00:15:40.480 So this story is a lot of fun.
00:15:42.300 One, because it's sort of titillating, juicy.
00:15:44.280 but the real reason it's a great story is because it is a good test of your BS detector.
00:15:52.060 When I saw this story, I said, you know, that's very lurid. I'm not sure I should even be reading
00:15:56.340 this story, but I said, I don't know. It doesn't ring true to me. Color me a little bit skeptical.
00:16:06.320 As you read the claims, they read like a kind of a fan fiction, like a wish casting on the part of
00:16:12.560 a schlubby guy who's got a hot lady working at his bank. So it's a good test of one's BS detector.
00:16:18.980 And all of our BS detectors are a little bit off. They've been skewed by social media algorithms
00:16:23.420 and they've been skewed by a popular culture that denies basic aspects of the truth. I mean,
00:16:28.640 let's not forget to, not to beat a dead horse, but to use the example that was clearest in our
00:16:33.600 culture for the past five years, half the culture told us that a man can be a woman and looked at
00:16:41.020 us with a straight face and made us say that, tried to make us say that. So obviously the BS
00:16:45.500 detector is a little bit off. Furthermore, this is proof that everyone's brain has been melted
00:16:53.960 and turned into a thick, lumpy goop by pornography. If you believe, I'm not reading,
00:17:02.260 this is a family show, we're not doing that to your brains, but if you read the claims that this
00:17:06.920 lawsuit made before it was retracted. You just say, women don't talk like that. Now look, our 1.00
00:17:14.500 culture being pornified means that I guess maybe there are some women who talk like that. Maybe 1.00
00:17:19.600 there are some women who are aping male desires in order to, but generally speaking, no, the stuff 1.00
00:17:26.780 that you read in that lawsuit was something out of like a cheap porn film. That's not something 1.00
00:17:33.120 that actually happens. It's what guys want to believe women will say to them.
00:17:41.700 Not to put too fine a point on it, no lady has ever referred to her uppermost assets as 0.99
00:17:50.600 cannons, ever. Not once, not once in history has a woman seriously referred to those anatomical
00:17:57.300 features as cannons. That's the sort of thing a guy, especially a guy who maybe is a little less
00:18:01.400 familiar with the English language, a guy who maybe is of Indian extraction, would think that
00:18:06.460 she would say. When you are constantly misperceiving, misinterpreting the world, when you
00:18:13.580 constantly have ill-formed preconceptions, especially about the opposite sex, that is a good
00:18:21.620 time to, one, turn off the pornography, obviously, and two, sit back for a second, reconsider your
00:18:29.580 priors i think of this politically the people who told us for five years with a complete straight
00:18:34.720 face that you had to put a hanky over your face to prevent the spread of a virus told you that
00:18:39.320 the covid vaccine had no deleterious effects whatsoever that it would protect you from
00:18:43.840 getting covid and then when that wasn't true as protect you from transmitting covid then when
00:18:47.720 that wasn't true to protect you from hospitalization that was kind of unfalsifiable
00:18:51.140 the culture that told you that a man can be a woman all these people who looked at you and said
00:18:54.920 absolutely a man can be a woman how dare you suggest otherwise as all of these things have
00:18:59.300 come crumbling down with a million other examples, you need to step back and you need to readjust all
00:19:05.300 of your priors. And you need to tune out the penthouse playboy lawsuits. Just, I don't know,
00:19:13.960 everybody needs to detox, desensitize. Go on a spiritual retreat. Okay, just get your
00:19:21.940 mind out of the gutter and your mind away from the screens, other than the screen when you watch
00:19:26.200 this show. OK, speaking of unbelievable stories, I teased this story yesterday. You know how much
00:19:33.520 I hate to say I told you so. When Viktor Orban was booted out of Hungary, Viktor Orban, who was
00:19:40.460 the conservative prime minister standing up to the liberal globalists in Brussels of the European
00:19:44.820 Union who wanted mass migration, he was the only one who said we're not taking migrants.
00:19:48.600 And Brussels colluded to boot him out of office. And the way they did it was by backing this guy
00:19:55.240 Peter Majar, who said that he was even more right-wing than Orban. And his victory was heralded
00:20:03.040 by Hillary Clinton, Gavin Newsom, the head of the European Union, on and on and on. Alex Soros,
00:20:11.120 the son of George Soros. They were all really excited when this guy won. So that gives you a
00:20:14.840 good sign that this guy's maybe not the most conservative person in the world, or at least
00:20:18.980 he won't fight for real conservative policies. But you had some people, including right-wing
00:20:24.480 pundits in America saying, no, guys, actually, this is super duper genius 5D chess. This new guy
00:20:32.460 who the entire global liberal elite just backed to replace Victor Orban, this guy is secretly
00:20:38.200 even more based than Orban. Guys, this is secretly a big win for us. And I said, you don't, how can
00:20:44.140 you possibly believe that? You probably believe that the hot JP Morgan bankress was assaulting 1.00
00:20:48.460 the schlubby Indian guy. That's obviously not true. And now we have evidence that much as I
00:20:56.400 hate to say I told you so, I told you so, Hungary is about to wave the rainbow flag. Okay, we'll get
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00:22:39.580 story coming out of hungary uh five seconds after they oust orban uh there's going to be a gay tv
00:22:47.640 channel in hungary orban kept a lid on all the lgbt stuff orban uh got rid of all the pride
00:22:54.220 demonstrations orban said that hungary was going to be an illiberal democracy this shocked the
00:23:02.300 global elite illiberal democracy he's a fascist he's a nazi he's undermining democracy he said
00:23:07.780 no, no, no, no, I'm not undermining democracy. Orban won many times. He was prime minister for
00:23:12.540 16 years. He was clearly an expression of democracy. But for the libs, when they say
00:23:19.680 democracy, they really mean liberalism. Liberalism is a political ideology. Democracy is just what
00:23:25.120 most of the people want. So those two things don't necessarily have anything to do with each
00:23:28.980 other. But for the left, they're identical. So when Orban came out, he said, we're going to have
00:23:33.280 illiberal democracy. They view this as a contradiction in terms. There's nothing
00:23:37.160 contradictory about it. Orban said, we're not doing any weird gay stuff. We're not flooding
00:23:41.420 the country with migrants. We're going to ground our country on Christianity, which is the bedrock
00:23:47.180 of the country, the country that was founded by St. Stephen a thousand years ago. This is why
00:23:52.960 the sovereign in Hungary is the crown of St. Stephen. So on the National Day parade, they
00:23:59.900 would put a cross in the air. It was really, really beautiful stuff. They oust Orban. Five
00:24:06.040 seconds later, you get gay TV. According to the owner of this channel, I won't try to
00:24:10.100 pronounce it in Hungarian, it's called Rainbow TV. Adult content will be made available on
00:24:16.620 the channel along with LGBTQI cultural and gastronomic content. So I don't know, some
00:24:23.240 frou-frou tasting menus or something, plus a bunch of weird sex stuff. Obviously, this
00:24:29.560 was going to happen. The only way that the globalists, the liberals, could win in a
00:24:34.220 conservative country like Hungary was by running a conservative candidate. So he ran on all this
00:24:39.200 stuff. I'm going to be even more right wing than Orban. I'm going to do all this. But he who pays
00:24:43.500 the piper calls the tune. And this guy had the backing of Brussels. And now it appears that he's
00:24:48.920 going to do Brussels bidding. I hope that I'm proven wrong about this. I hope that this guy
00:24:53.280 tells the EU to go stuff it. I don't buy it. I don't see it happening. And all of those
00:25:00.560 right-wing pundits, even the right-wing pundits, who said, no, guys, actually, secretly, this is
00:25:06.720 awesome. This is a moment where we say, okay, we've got to reexamine our priors. Are we? Is our
00:25:12.940 judgment really intact? Did you believe the J.P. Morgan story? Hold on, guys. Take a step back
00:25:18.060 here. It's amazing. Political punditry is the only job where you can consistently be wrong about
00:25:23.100 everything and then show up to work the next day and no one cares. Political punditry and sports
00:25:27.540 commentary. Those are the two. You'll be wrong about everything and you get to keep your job.
00:25:31.020 It's crazy. Okay. Speaking of foreign relations, President Trump has made a very important
00:25:36.780 announcement. I consider this personally a very important announcement. Trump is lifting the
00:25:41.640 tariffs on scotch whiskey. And I'm a scotch man. Look, I'm in Kentucky right now. We just had a
00:25:46.480 great Mayflower event last night for the Kentucky Derby. I'm getting ready to place my bets. I know
00:25:51.620 I'm supposed to drink bourbon. I live in Tennessee. I'm a scotch man. I love scotch.
00:25:55.400 I like rye I even like bourbon but I'm a scotch man so great news Trump says in honor of the king
00:26:02.420 and queen of the United Kingdom we have just left the White House soon headed who have just left the
00:26:06.540 White House soon headed back to their wonderful country I will be removing the tariffs and
00:26:10.180 restrictions on whiskey having to do with Scotland's ability to work with the Commonwealth
00:26:14.260 of Kentucky on whiskey and bourbon two very important industries within Scotland and Kentucky
00:26:19.660 so he says I'm great news I like the king so much I'm going to lift the tariffs on scotch
00:26:24.820 provided that you lift your tariffs on bourbon.
00:26:28.600 So there's a little deal-making going on here.
00:26:30.680 People have wanted to do this for a long time
00:26:32.400 in that there had been great inter-country trade,
00:26:37.380 especially having to do with the wooden barrels used
00:26:39.540 because a lot of scotch and foreign whiskeys
00:26:43.220 are made using bourbon barrels.
00:26:45.340 So there's a lot of interplay.
00:26:47.380 The king and queen got me to do something
00:26:49.320 that nobody else was able to do
00:26:50.800 without hardly even asking.
00:26:52.260 That's the key line.
00:26:53.120 much as I care about scotch and bourbon. That's the key line here for us. The king and queen
00:26:57.880 got me to do something that nobody else was able to do without hardly ever asking.
00:27:04.220 A wonderful honor to have them both in the USA, President Donald J. Trump.
00:27:09.320 The takeaway here is that a monarch was able to get better diplomatic results
00:27:18.960 than an army of bureaucrats and technocrats, a monarch over tea was able to get more effective
00:27:30.260 diplomacy accomplished than the entire foreign ministry and the trade representatives and all
00:27:36.160 the bureaucrats of the UK and the US for that matter. And I shouldn't even just say a monarch
00:27:41.940 because in America, we have this natural aversion to monarchy in large part because of a liberal
00:27:47.740 history that we've been given of the American Revolution, which was not anti-monarchical.
00:27:51.500 It was a war of independence. But we almost had a formal monarch in America. That proposal was
00:27:56.200 on the table. Ultimately, Hamilton was overruled. But instead, we got a president who is like a
00:28:04.060 monarch. And that's not even a dirty word. The M word. We have the N word. That's the M word.
00:28:08.900 But it doesn't have to be a bad word. The president, practically speaking,
00:28:13.540 is a much more powerful monarch than any monarch who currently reigns today.
00:28:19.600 Without question. There's no question about that.
00:28:22.400 But this means that you had essentially two monarchs speaking to each other.
00:28:26.820 In the American government, we have the monarchical element.
00:28:29.140 We have the democratic element.
00:28:30.540 We used to have an aristocratic element in the Senate.
00:28:33.480 We still have it to some degree, I guess, in the Supreme Court.
00:28:36.040 But we have this mixed regime.
00:28:38.280 The UK, to some degree, has that too, though.
00:28:40.060 They very much weakened the aristocratic element.
00:28:42.460 they've basically abolished it in the House of Lords. They've really weakened the monarchical
00:28:45.980 element, and that's been building for hundreds of years now, and it's essentially run by the
00:28:51.100 Parliament. But nevertheless, you have these two monarchs, and they get something done.
00:28:56.540 And I think it's ironic, or maybe I'll call it paradoxical, that on the 250th anniversary of
00:29:02.520 the American Revolution, a war in which my ancestors fought, you know, I love the American
00:29:07.540 Revolution. I love the great men who gave us our country. I don't mean to diminish 1776 at all.
00:29:14.680 But history did not begin in 1776. And I think there's a greater appreciation, as our country
00:29:22.840 ages, of the civilizational foundations on which our country is built. You read about this a lot
00:29:29.740 in the Federalist Papers. The Founding Fathers were keenly aware of this. We seem to have forgotten
00:29:33.440 it somewhere along the way of the 20th century, and we're beginning to rediscover it. You saw that
00:29:37.060 beautiful essay from the State Department came out about a year ago, in which the author referenced
00:29:43.100 the wellsprings of our country. Aristotle, Thomas Aquinas, you know, people that you don't usually
00:29:51.140 hear referenced, but they obviously form part of the basis of our civilization. And I think we're
00:29:57.840 beginning to recognize, call me a crypto-monarchist here, but I think people really get this. I think
00:30:04.160 Trump obviously gets this, that we don't want a tyrant. We don't want a dictator. We don't want
00:30:09.680 an autocrat. We don't want any of that stuff. But what we do want is a figure who can rise above 0.99
00:30:17.060 party politics, who can unify the country, who can speak to the more dignified elements rather
00:30:23.660 than the merely efficient elements of our politics. And the way we try to do that is with
00:30:29.980 the president. Increasingly so. But that role was traditionally filled by a king. And it's very
00:30:36.280 funny that the libs who say, well, no kings, they're all giddily taking selfies with the
00:30:40.080 king of England. They don't really mean no kings. What they mean is no tyrants, no autocrats,
00:30:44.540 no dictators. But that's different. Trump is neither of those things either. But Trump is
00:30:49.600 kind of a king in that way. You know, he is kind of the king. He's filling that role and I'm here
00:30:53.580 for it. Well, let's see how the third and fourth and fifth terms go before we finally weigh in on
00:30:58.760 Okay. Big exclusive story to Mary Margaret Olihan of the Daily Wire. We've covered the anti-Christian bias that you saw from the Biden administration, from a lot of Democratic administrations, go back to the Obama administration.
00:31:14.420 But we're getting it even more clearly right now. According to this exclusive, the Biden DOJ, an employee of the Biden DOJ, was texting around about how he would like to imprison any nun wearing the traditional habit.
00:31:33.820 So here's the line. Let's read it. This is Molly Gaston, assistant U.S. attorney, says, I just noticed for the first time the nuns near the Oath Keepers in one of the New York Times photographs.
00:31:48.440 So trying to argue that the nuns are secretly, you know, these right-wing extremists.
00:31:53.680 And you saw this come out from the DOJ.
00:31:55.920 The DOJ partnering with the SPLC comes out and says that the Catholics are radical extremists, potential domestic terrorists.
00:32:03.980 Said basically the same thing about concerned parents who didn't want to chop off their kids' genitals.
00:32:07.920 So you see this in the text. 0.99
00:32:09.180 Look at the nuns next to this radical right-wing group.
00:32:12.880 Joseph Cooney, another DOJ guy.
00:32:14.320 I know.
00:32:16.040 Molly, I would like to take a special assignment of finding and prosecuting them, the nuns.
00:32:22.280 Joseph Cooney, I'm with you, although I'd like to prosecute any nun who still wears the head habit.
00:32:27.280 Ha ha ha ha ha.
00:32:28.700 Ha ha ha ha ha.
00:32:30.720 That's kind of a funny joke from a liberal.
00:32:33.000 That is, that's kind of a funny joke from a liberal who hates the church, who hates, you know, it's a secular lib joke.
00:32:38.880 It's kind of ha ha ha, tee hee hee, until the government's actually doing it.
00:32:44.320 And the problem is, these guys worked for the Justice Department that actually did that, that actually put out missives categorizing Catholics as terrorists and actually sent jackbooted thugs to spy on Catholic churches.
00:33:00.500 In fact, I'm pretty sure I had a personal experience of this.
00:33:03.600 I haven't talked about that publicly, but I'm pretty sure I ran into a Fed around these times at a church asking around about people.
00:33:12.440 so this was happening then the doj lied about it uh then we found out that this was that this
00:33:18.820 directive went out to field offices around the country all this after joe biden as vice president
00:33:23.320 was suing nuns now you have the trump administration no longer partnering with the left-wing groups
00:33:30.880 going after the nuns now you have the trump administration indicting that left-wing group
00:33:34.420 encouraging religious liberty freeing catholic political prisoners what a difference an election
00:33:40.800 makes. Okay, I said I would get to it. I'll get to this really quick point. Alex Jones
00:33:45.500 is shutting down InfoWars. After years and years, this was the preeminent conspiracy content show,
00:33:55.140 network, juggernaut of a media company. Then Alex Jones made this claim that the Sandy Hook
00:34:01.900 shooting was fake, and the parents of the kids sued him and bankrupted him to the tune of like
00:34:07.480 a thousand bazillion gajillion dollars. Just a crazy ruling that effectively bankrupted the
00:34:15.720 company. They've been fighting it for years. The Onion, the left-wing satire,
00:34:19.520 supposedly your left-wing satire company, tried to buy it. I think they finally succeeded.
00:34:24.000 So now after all the lawfare, InfoWars has gone down. Here's Alex Jones saying goodbye.
00:34:31.720 And all glory goes to Jesus Christ and our Heavenly Father that leads, guys, and directors.
00:34:35.760 we are, commit ourselves to God
00:34:38.260 in this holy fight
00:34:39.540 and we are committed
00:34:41.240 and if God stands with us, who can stand
00:34:43.780 against us? And that's how I close out.
00:34:45.900 So I salute you all.
00:34:47.700 One of the crew, the hell we've been through
00:34:49.680 has only made us stronger. Let me ask
00:34:51.920 you, would you have any other way?
00:34:54.080 Are you not stronger now
00:34:55.740 in this fight? Yeah!
00:34:58.200 I salute this crew and all
00:34:59.880 the viewers and listeners to this fight
00:35:01.660 and I commit myself to Jesus Christ's hands.
00:35:04.380 Amen.
00:35:06.760 God bless the InfoWars!
00:35:08.940 You are the InfoWars. It lives forever.
00:35:11.460 We're going to play Frank Sinatra Blue Eyes
00:35:13.140 and come back with the great Tom Renz and then Jay Dyer to close this out.
00:35:18.780 God bless you all. That's it.
00:35:21.200 The next phase starts. The real war begins now.
00:35:25.860 All right, so that's it. Ave Atque Valle InfoWars.
00:35:30.940 I can't help but find Alex Jones lovable.
00:35:34.460 He's a lovable guy.
00:35:35.640 He's endearing.
00:35:36.720 He's not.
00:35:37.300 Look, what he did that got him in this hot water is indefensible.
00:35:41.540 I think what he did was very wrong when he was saying.
00:35:43.760 And he maybe sincerely believed it, that the Sandy Hook shooting was fake or a hoax.
00:35:50.320 But nevertheless, this caused a lot of pain to the families of the kids.
00:35:53.720 And so, look, he was sued for this, and he lost his company.
00:35:58.100 And you can find him very lovable and endearing, kind of feel sorry for him.
00:36:02.700 He's going to go out. He'll be fine. He'll go do another company.
00:36:05.000 He's a media genius. He is the absolute king of all conspiracy content.
00:36:10.300 He's the best to ever do it. He'll be fine, I suspect.
00:36:13.960 But we should take a political lesson here.
00:36:16.660 The political lesson is lawfare works.
00:36:22.900 And, you know, a lot of times the conservatives only understand that lesson in a defensive posture.
00:36:28.180 These liberals are wielding lawfare against us and we need to stop it.
00:36:32.180 this is not fair. They shouldn't be doing this. And they need to understand this in an offensive
00:36:36.740 posture. The conservatives have bought a cynical liberal line that all of politics is just about
00:36:44.020 open debate and the free marketplace of ideas and blah, blah, blah. And that's not true.
00:36:47.920 I wrote a book about that. It's called Speechless, Controlling Words, Controlling Minds.
00:36:51.560 You can get it anywhere. You're a little slow today, guys. Maybe it's because of the time delay
00:36:55.500 on my travel. Nevertheless, they bought this idea that you should never engage in lawfare.
00:37:01.440 Lawfare is great. Lawfare is awesome. Lawfare works. The law is a teacher.
00:37:06.540 Politics is not merely downstream of culture. Politics also informs culture, and it works.
00:37:13.120 This was the saddest, one of the saddest conclusions after we saw the reaction to Charlie Kirk's assassination.
00:37:21.260 One of the really sad conclusions that no one wanted to admit is that assassinations work.
00:37:24.920 That's why people keep doing them.
00:37:25.960 so we i don't know we've denied this especially the libertarian side has denied this how incentives
00:37:32.940 work how sticks and carrots work and so bringing it away from terrorism into just the rule of law
00:37:38.440 and lawfare that works when you want to shut somebody up and there is a legal basis for
00:37:45.200 shutting that person up you do it in courts you do it with lawyers you do it with the government
00:37:52.560 Some of that seems icky to conservatives who don't want to get their hands dirty in real politics
00:37:57.780 Take a lesson from that
00:37:59.380 Whether you love Alex Jones, whether you don't like him
00:38:01.780 He's very lovable
00:38:02.440 Again, I don't know how you could really hate Alex Jones
00:38:04.120 But regardless, forget about Infowars
00:38:06.040 Just the lesson from all of this is
00:38:08.140 Let's do some lawfare
00:38:10.680 The Trump administration is doing it very, very well right now
00:38:12.760 Let's follow that lesson
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00:38:51.880 My favorite comment yesterday is from the drummer's workshop Norm's Music,
00:38:55.420 who says ABC better put a tarp out for Kimmel's final monologue.
00:38:59.340 Yes, that's true.
00:39:00.400 If they do can him.
00:39:02.080 Which, again, I sort of hope they do,
00:39:03.460 speaking of bringing consequences to bear for people.
00:39:07.360 Also, again, people keep pointing out,
00:39:10.660 I said that some years ago, in reference to something totally different,
00:39:14.300 I said that comedians shouldn't be fired for telling jokes.
00:39:16.320 And then I said, Jimmy Kimmel obviously should be fired.
00:39:18.680 So if we're going to treat that as a syllogism, the only conclusion we can reach is that Jimmy Kimmel is not a comedian.
00:39:24.900 Underscored by Drummer's Workshop at Norm's Music's Point, which is that he needs a tarp.
00:39:30.320 He's just crying all the time.
00:39:31.700 And so let's hope he cries a little bit more on his show.
00:39:34.900 Finally, finally, we've reached my favorite time of the week when I get to hear from you in the mailbag.
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00:39:45.120 Take it away.
00:39:46.320 Hi, Michael. This is Megan from the Creme de la Creme coming to you with another dating question.
00:39:51.140 I was recently talking to a guy who told me that he likes to listen to YouTube videos of stories,
00:39:59.920 like romance stories of single dads basically getting rescued by billionaire women. Sort of
00:40:07.940 like a weird reverse pretty girl scenario, which totally gave me the ick. But then I realized that
00:40:15.340 I like to read Amish romance novels because I'm fascinated with Amish culture and I know that they will not get graphic.
00:40:24.060 So my question is, in general, as good Christian people, is it inappropriate for us to be reading romance novels of any kind?
00:40:32.640 And more specifically, is this guy really icky or is it just me?
00:40:38.080 Thanks as always, Megan.
00:40:42.360 Was that question a Mad Lib?
00:40:44.480 Was that like a, I love to listen to blank Amish romance novels, and he listens to blank
00:40:52.840 divorced dads. That's, wow, that's, there's so much, so much to unpack in that question.
00:41:00.660 First off, let's take it in reverse order. Is it wrong for Christians to read romance novels?
00:41:06.620 It depends. I mean, look, the word novel comes from the word romance, like in the romance
00:41:13.940 languages. We just call them romances. That's what a novel is. So I don't know. Is it okay to read
00:41:21.800 some trash paperback that's essentially pornography? Probably not. Is it okay to read
00:41:26.940 Wuthering Heights? Yeah, I think it is. Wuthering Heights has a little steaminess. There's a sex
00:41:32.620 scene in there that most people miss. But you can read romances, I think. But romances are a little
00:41:40.720 dangerous. So you're right to realize there's spiritual danger. Don't forget, in the fifth
00:41:44.680 canto of the Divine Comedy, Paolo and Francesca, the adulterous lovers, blame their affair on the
00:41:53.640 fact that they were reading a romance. They were reading Galahad. Anyway, you should be careful
00:42:00.560 about it, but if you're reading Amish romances, that's probably about as wholesome as it gets
00:42:05.780 for that tier of literature. Now, to the related but separate question of, should that guy give
00:42:12.020 you the ick? Yes, he should. That's weird. That's really weird. First of all, he's not even reading
00:42:16.900 the romances. He's listening to them on YouTube, which is not cool. It's like, if you're going to
00:42:23.400 read something, if you're going to do a thing, do the whole thing. Like, trashy romance novels,
00:42:29.900 that's a thing. What he's doing, it's like decaf coffee. You know, it's like the thing without the
00:42:34.740 essence of the thing. He's doing trashy romance novels on YouTube, like the audiobook of trashy
00:42:39.340 romance novels. First of all, that should give you the ick right there. Second of all, the reason it
00:42:42.520 should give you the ick is not just because it may or may not be pornography. I don't know if it is.
00:42:47.880 The reason is it's inverting the male and female roles. To be pursued is the role of the woman. 0.99
00:42:55.560 To pursue is the role of the man. One time out of a thousand, maybe that gets a little jumbled,
00:43:00.600 but generally those are the rules. To be the provider is the role of the man. To be provided
00:43:08.160 for is the role of the woman. Again, that's not always the case. Some women are the breadwinners.
00:43:11.440 There's always Lady Thatcher out there, but generally that's the rule. To be rescued 1.00
00:43:17.080 is the role of the woman. To do the rescuing is the role of the man. So the fact that his fantasy,
00:43:24.440 which obviously appeals to the Praurian interest to some degree at least, is to by every
00:43:30.400 measure be in the place of the woman, not even just one or two, but like by every single measure
00:43:35.700 to be in the place of the woman and have the woman in the place of the man, that should throw up red
00:43:40.160 flags. That's, that's trans, that's trans behavior. Don't be surprised if he starts wearing your
00:43:46.260 dresses. Anyway, don't even get that far. I don't know that if I were in your shoes, I maybe would
00:43:51.920 not go on the second date. Next one. Hey Mike, my name is Brian Rucca and I have been reading the
00:43:57.780 gospel every week in anticipation of practicing before getting to the pew. And this week, Jesus
00:44:05.140 tells the disciples that he is the way and the truth and the light. No one comes to the Father
00:44:13.620 except through me. If you know me, then you will also know my Father. From now on, you do know him
00:44:20.620 and have seen him. And to that, Philip replies, Master, show us the Father, and that will be
00:44:27.700 enough for us it always amazes me at how flawed the apostles are throughout the gospels and i was
00:44:35.800 curious if you have a take on that if that's in there to to help it relate to us as flawed humans
00:44:42.780 or what is the goal of showing us that because i know personally it helps me feel better about
00:44:50.260 myself because these guys were jesus's closest friends companions and followers and even they
00:44:56.440 still had trouble wrapping their head around the mystery of Christ?
00:45:01.780 Thanks, and keep up the great work.
00:45:04.760 Really, really good question.
00:45:06.320 I remember when I reverted to the church
00:45:08.280 after 10 years of practical and sometimes explicit atheism,
00:45:13.940 I said, you know, I should probably read or reread the Gospels.
00:45:17.160 That's probably a good idea.
00:45:18.280 And I opened it up, and I was immediately taken by the reality of it all
00:45:21.480 and how kind of funny it is sometimes
00:45:26.340 sometimes that our Lord, you know, when he's talking to the apostles, he'll tell them the
00:45:32.280 truth. He'll show them the truth. And then they'll just say, like, the dumbest thing you've ever
00:45:37.340 heard. And he'll say, how much longer do I have to be with you people? Why am I, I'm God. I created
00:45:43.180 the cosmos. And now there's, there's obviously a lesson there for all of it because his love is
00:45:48.920 infinite. And, you know, he loves his apostles and he loves you too. But that line is so funny.
00:45:52.780 he says, I'm the way, the truth, and the life. Whoever has seen me has seen the Father.
00:46:00.260 Whoever has seen me has seen the Father. You have now seen the Father. And what does Saint Philip
00:46:05.300 say? Immediately he says, oh, cool. Hey, so when can we see the Father? He says, how long have I
00:46:11.840 been with you, Philip? How long have I been with you? Do you not hear the words coming out of my
00:46:16.740 mouth? It's very difficult to hear the words. It's very difficult, especially when we're, look,
00:46:21.680 We're in this veil, this double darkness into which we're born, which is ignorance and sin.
00:46:27.080 And especially as we find ourselves deeper and deeper into sin, it's hard to hear the words of our Lord.
00:46:35.080 You know, our Lord can overcome even the worst ignorance and the worst sin.
00:46:40.200 But that's the state in which we find ourselves.
00:46:43.740 And so, yes, that is for us to relate.
00:46:46.920 That is because it's reality.
00:46:49.000 The other reason it's related in the Gospels is because it happened.
00:46:51.280 and that's how the world really works
00:46:52.560 and you relate to it
00:46:53.940 not just because you find yourself
00:46:55.180 to be a flawed person
00:46:55.920 but also because
00:46:57.100 it's just how the world is.
00:46:58.800 You relate to it
00:46:59.540 because it rings true
00:47:00.420 because it is true.
00:47:01.440 Okay.
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